It's Fletcher's idea; he wants to start a new magazine.

Eastfield, who edits _The Ronleian_, is Maxton's cousin; so Maxton's going to interrupt and get some other fellows to do the same.

I'm going to be part of the opposition," added the youthful "Rats," beaming with delight, "and I have got a whole heap of paper bags I'm going to burst while Fletcher's speaking." The "old lab," as it was called, was a small brick building which stood on one side of the asphalt playground.

A new laboratory having recently been fitted up elsewhere, the former one was, for the time being, unused.

It was not more than about fifteen feet long by seven or eight feet wide; and as "The Happy Family" mustered in force, the place was crowded to overflowing.