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The door was unlocked, and they passed into the yard. "Let us take Peleg Snuggers into our confidence," whispered Tom. "For a quarter I am certain he'll let us have one of the captain's nags." "You can test him if you wish," answered Dick, who was doubtful. Peleg Snuggers was found in the harness room' shining up some buckles by the aid of a stable lantern.
"He insisted on stopping here in spite of all Snuggers could do to stop him." "And what did he say?" asked the captain anxiously. "Oh, he was in a terrible rage, and threatened to sue my father because, as he put it, we had driven him from earning a good living.
"Stop the team!" was the cry. "The horses are running away!" It was true, the team was running away. One of the horses was a spirited animal and he now had the bit in his teeth. The boys in the rear of the turnout looked back, to see Peleg Snuggers still lying in the highway. The stage belonging to Pornell Academy had turned down a side road. "Can't you stop them, Andy?" asked Jack Ruddy.
"Hi, don't you do nuthin' of the kind," cried Peleg Snuggers, in new alarm. "My feet are warm enough!" But there was no help for it, and in a twinkling off came his shoes and his socks followed. "I ain't a-goin' to have my feet warmed!" groaned the utility man. "You are worse nor heathens! Lemme go!" He struggled violently, but the cadets placed him on the grass and sat on him.
"Fenwick, find Snuggers and send him to me at once." "Yes, sir." "And don't say a word of this to any one," added the teacher, as the sneak hurried off. It took Mumps fully five minutes to locate Peleg Snuggers. Wondering what was wanted, the general utility man hurried to the teacher's apartment. "I want you to get my set of teeth," said Josiah Crabtree.
The moisture cleared away, revealing the face of the utility man in a bit of looking-glass! "Oh, you're tremendously smart, you are!" muttered Snuggers, and walked off. But he was not half as angry as he had been a few minutes before. "Battalion, fall in. Attention! Carry arms!" It was several days later, and the cadets were out for their first parade around the grounds.
"Nor I but we'll hear of them, nevertheless, mark my words. The Baxters won't leave us rest. They are a hard crowd, and Buddy Girk is just as bad," finished Tom. It was the opening of the spring term at Putnam Hall Military Academy, and the three Rover boys had just come up from Cedarville in the carryall, driven by Peleg Snuggers, the general-utility man of the place.
"I am told they are fastened to the chandelier in Room Eight. Get a ladder and get them down immediately. And do it as quietly as you can." "Yes, sir," answered Snuggers, and left to do the errand. "Teeth on the chandelier!" he murmured, "Wot an idee! Bet some o' the cadets did thet trick! How funny he did look without his grinders in!"
"Oh, you must come," was the cry, and in a moment more Peleg Snuggers was surrounded. "Let us march him around on our shoulders," went on Tom. "Peleg loves that, I know he does." "Don't, neither!" cried the general-utility man. "Now, Tom Rover, you just let me alone." "We'll carry you around for your rheumatism, Peleg. You've got rheumatism, haven't you?" "No, I haven't."
"Snuggers, what have you to say?" "I can't say anything, sir. I was taking care of the horses, sir," answered the hired man meekly. "I will find out who fired the cracker before I have finished with you," growled the head assistant. "Get down and march into the Hall." "Gracious, what have we struck now?" whispered Fred to Dick. "Is this Captain Putnam?" asked Dick, without answering his chum.
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