"
"Not unless they come back sooner than we expect."
"We can stop them from coming back in a hurry."
"I don't see how."
"Over yonder is their boat. We can tow that along. When they find
the boat gone they'll have to walk around the end of the lake, and
that will take a long time."
"So it will. Do you think it is safe to take the boat now?"
"We can wait a little while."
They waited, and at last, thinking the coast clear, pulled the other
craft from the bushes and tied it to the stern of their own boat.
Then they wound up their lines, for they had been fishing, and lost
no time in rowing to their camp, where they had left their cronies
lolling in the sun, smoking cigarettes and playing cards.
"Hullo! where did you pick up the boat?" asked one of the other
boys.
"It belongs to the Snap Dodge crowd," answered Ham Spink. "Boys, we
have got the chance of our lives to get square with that crowd now,"
he added.
Matters were speedily explained, and all of the dudish boys present
voted it would be just the thing to go over to the other camp and
"make a mix of it," as they expressed it.
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