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"What are you ah doing here, may I inquire? But please," he added hurriedly, "don't call me Buttertub, and don't say I have a wife and children, when I haven't." And Tubbs looked around to see if anybody had overheard Tom's remark. "We go to school here," said Dick as he shook hands. "Brill College." "Well, I never!" gasped the tall dude. "Brill, did you say?" "That's it," put in Sam.
So with both feet when he attempted, ever so cautiously, to move them. He was bound hand and foot, and with cruel tightness, for with that tiny slipping of his muscles there set up all through him such a tingling and aching as was almost unbearable. His head seemed a lump of lead, glued to whatever it lay upon, and big as a buttertub.
"Tell me who did it, and I'll soon settle with him." "Who rolled over the buttertub?" asked Tom solemnly. "One peanut reward for the first correct answer to this absorbing puzzle. Please don't all raise your hands at once." "I believe you did it, Tom Rover!" bellowed the rich youth. "I? Never, Tubby, my dear boy. I never rolled over a buttertub in my life. You've got the wrong number.
"I am sure I am going to win," put in William Philander Tubbs. "I am perfect in every kind of a drill." "Good for Buttertub, the perfect man!" sang out Tom. "Billy, you ought to have your picture done in oil, to hang alongside of Washington's, in the library." "Don't you dare to call me Buttertub, or Billy either, you rude thing!" snorted Tubbs, and walked away in outraged dignity.
Fine lot of girls there, waiting to see you, Philliam Willander." "William Philander, please. So there is a girls' school here, eh? That's ah very nice. Yes, I like the girls I always did. But, Tom, please don't call me ah Buttertub. I think it's horrid, don't you know." "All right, Washtub, anything you say stands still," answered Tom cheerfully.
"All right, we won't charge you for sitting on it," came from the back of the crowd. "My right name is " "Barrel, but they call me Tubbs for short," finished another student. "Hurrah, Tubby is discovered at last." "Don't blush, Washtub! you don't look half as pretty as when you're pale." "If you feel warm, Buttertub, go out and sit on the thin ice.
And sure enough, it was Tubbs, the most dudish pupil Putnam Hall had ever known, and one with whom the cadets had had no end of fun. "My dear old Buttertub, how are you?" called out Tom loudly, and caught the new arrival by the shoulder. "How are you, and how is the wife, and the eight children?" "Why ah is it really Tom Rover!" gasped Tubbs. He stared at Tom and then at Dick and Sam.
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