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In fact, the term would close in another week, so Bob would miss little instruction by taking the cruise. The first lad Bob met was Ted Neefus. His chum hurried up to him and Inquired: "Did he hurt you very much?" "Who?" "Your father." "My father? What do you mean?" "Didn't he give you a good walloping for that joke?" "No. Not a bit of it. I'm going on a sea voyage with Captain Spark." "Honest?"
They found the mill master, Tom Neefus, in earnest conversation with Mr. Dodge. "You saw the rascal do it?" asked Snap's father. "I certainly did," replied Tom Neefus. "I started to catch him, but then I came back to put out the blaze. I made up my mind it would be better to stop the fire than catch the man, even though he was such a villain." "Who's a villain, father?" asked Shep.
It was a great temptation to indulge in pranks, but he reflected that if he got into any more trouble he might not be allowed to take the sea voyage. "And I wouldn't want that to happen for the world," he said to himself. "Still I know a couple of dandy jokes I could play before I go. Maybe I might get Ted Neefus to do 'em, but I don't believe he could do 'em as good as I can."
"The man who started this fire." "Did a man start it?" asked the boy, while several others drew closer to listen. "So Mr. Neefus says. He caught the fellow at the office desk. In a corner the fellow had thrown a pile of shavings and saturated it with oil. As he ran away he threw a handful of lighted matches into the shavings and they caught instantly."
The consequences never gave him a thought or worry. So, as he could think of nothing sufficiently "funny" to do, he remained quiet. But all the while he was looking about to see if he and his boon companion, Ted Neefus, could not perpetrate some prank that would be "worth while." "Things are awful slow," complained Ted one afternoon as he and Bob walked home from school.
Women in long white aprons were hurrying to and fro, getting ready to serve the meal. Bob followed his parents and the captain into the edifice. "Is everything all ready?" asked Ted Neefus in a whisper as he approached Bob. "Don't come near me," was the cautious answer. "Folks'll suspect if they see us together." So Ted quickly glided away and was lost in the crowd.
But in the morning his good resolutions had lost some of their power, like many others made during the night. That day in school Bob snapped several of the paper crackers, and in consequence was kept in. However, his mother was visiting a neighbor, and when he came home late that afternoon she did not see him. That evening Ted Neefus called for Bob. They were chums of long standing.
"He was evidently looking for money or something of value." "Did he get anything?" "Nothing, so far as Mr. Neefus knows. The safe was locked up, I believe." The strong-box mentioned stood in a corner of the office, and the fire had swept all around it. It was quite hot, but after some more water had been poured over it the master of the mill threw it open.
He'll turn it off before much runs out." This may seem rather a puzzle to my young readers, but if you have patience you will soon understand what Bob meant, though I hope none of you will follow his example. As Bob walked along he met another lad about his own age. "Hello, Bob," greeted Ted Neefus. "Where you goin'?" "Store." "What store?" "Bill Hodge's." "What fer?" "Lard."
Bob hurried away, and soon he, Ted Neefus, Will Merton, Sam Shoop and some other chums were placing the chairs at the long tables. "Is it all ready?" asked Ted in a hoarse whisper. "Hush, can't you!" cautioned Bob. "Do you want to give it away?" All was in readiness for the grown folks to sit down. They would eat first, then the tables would be set anew and the young people would have their turn.
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