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THE GALLEON
"Hurt me? Well I sh'd say
not. I was just playin' with
him. It's a good thing fer Pin-
key old man Husk came up
when he did, I was just warmin
up."
"Yer nose was blee4in'," said
Bubb quietly.
"Yes, it was bleedin' a little,"
responded Tubby, as if he had
just remembered it, "but to, tell
ya the truth, my arm was kinda
bad today; I sprained it yester-
day on the trapeze. It's worse
now."
"When ya goin' to fight him
again ?"
"Can't right away, my arm
hurts like the deuce, but wait
till it's O. K. again, just wait!"
"Well, I reckon you ought to
anyhow, he started it."
"And I'll finish it," said Tub-
by mysteriously, and his brow
wrinkled with thought.
Suddenly he was seized with
an inspiration.
"Say, Bub," he exclaimed fill-
ed with the enthusiasm of his
idea, "we'll pull a good" one on
ole Pinkey, what say? Are you
with me?"
"What?" inquired the other,
mildly interested.
"Oh, I dunno, I aint' got it all
worked out yet, but it'll be a
good un. We gotta make him
miss Madge's party, see, are you
with me?"
Bub was interested in any-
thing that promised good sport.
"Sure, how'll we do it?"
"Wait, lemme finish thinking.
We'll get this all worked out to-
gether"."
The result of their combined
thought was that one hour lat-
er they left together, their fac-
es aglow with delicious anticipa-
tion. In Tubby's hand were two
folded pieces of brown paper.
One of these he deposited~ in a
tobacco box which was thenhidden in the privet hedge. The
other he gave to Bub with the
parting admonition:
"Be sure to keep it hid till
we're ready to use it. See ya
tomorrow."
"Yeh, so long."
The next day Tubby was all
self-confidence. He was careful
to avoid Pinkey's company, but
any reference to the fight was
laughed off with some casual
remark about the favor that
Mr. Husk had unwittingly done
Pinkey in bringing the combat
to an untimely end. So success-
fully did he carry off his pose
of unruffled complacancy that
some of the smaller boys began
to consider him the real hero of
the fight, and the more auther-
tic account of the combat was
actually discredited by many
who had not been spectators.
Pinkey for his part was not in-
clined to 1-,rag and made few re-
ferences to the fight. He was
very well satisfied with himself
and felt that Tubby had prob-
ably had enough.
As soon as the class had as-
sembled, Tubby began to show
fast work. He opened his at-
tack with two chocolate bars
followed by a bombardment of
skillfully dispatched notes. Celia
was conquered temporarily at
least. Her undivided attention
was Pinkey's for the morning.
Incidentally she consented to ac-
company him to the party.
Pinkey did not have a look in.
He had not reckoned on such
audacity as Tubby displayed
and was caught unprepared.
His futile efforts to capture the
fair damsel's attention fell pain-
fully flat.
That afternoon Tubby and
Bub met, as per arrangement.
They started off down the
street, keeping close together
and conversing in undertones18
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