Part 19 (2/2)

”I shall be sorry to have you go, Master Porter,” said the principal of the academy ”But I can understand how you feel about your father and sister, and it will perhaps be better for you to go in search of them than to sit down here and be on pins and needles over it;” and Doctor Clay s to London!” cried Phil, when he heard the news ”Wish I was going, too!”

”So do I, Phil,” answered Dave ”We'd have as good a time as we did on your father's shi+p in the South Seas”

”I aer His heart was set on going to England with his chu away once an to plan a celebration for hi of the Gee Eyes, for Dave's benefit,”

said Sam Day; and so it was voted

The Gee Eyes, as anization that had existed at Oak Hall for a long time The words stood for the two letters G and I, which in turn stood for the naely for fun, and this fun consisted mainly in the initiation of new members

At one tianization called the Dare Do Anything Club, but this had been broken up by Doctor Clay because of the unduly severe initiation of a small boy, named Frank Bond, who had almost lost his reason thereby Now Gus had applied for membershi+p in the Gee Eyes and had said that he would stand for any initiation they offered

”I have half a mind to take Plum up,” said Phil Lawrence, as the Honorable Muck-a-Muck, otherwise president, of the club ”He deserves to be put through a strong course of sprouts for what he did to Frank Bond”

”All right, I as, as the secretary, under the high-sounding title of Lord of the Penwiper ”But ill have to ask the others first”

A canvass was ht, after which the club was to celebrate the departure of Dave in as fitting a style as the exchequer of the organization permitted Plum was duly notified, and said he would be on hand as required ”And you can do anything short of killing rin

”It will ot Frank Bond off his mind yet” Which statement was true Plum and Bond had made up, and the former bully now did all in his power to aid the small, timid fellow in his studies and otherwise

The club ht ht and about twenty members were present, all attired in their red robes and black hoods with yellow tassels As before, some of the members had wooden swords and others stuffed clubs Around the boathouse were hung a number of pumpkin lanterns, cut out in imitation of skulls

For the initiation of Gus Plum one of the clubslowly and impressively as the fors and Sam Day

”Hoopra! hoopra! Dilly dall!

Here's the victim, see him fall!

Hoopra! hoopra! Dilly dees!

Down upon his bended knees!

Hoopra! hoopra! Dilly deet!

Bind his hands and bind his feet!

Hoopra! hoopra! Dilly dive!

Let us cut him up alive!

”Punch him, crunch him, smash hiroan and let hierel was sung thehim with their swords and clubs

Then of a sudden he was tripped up, bound hands and feet, andwas tied over his head, so that he could not see a thing, although the bag had holes in the rear, so that he would not be suffocated

”To the river with him!” caood”