[Frank Merriwell at Yale by Burt L. Standish]@TWC D-Link bookFrank Merriwell at Yale CHAPTER XXI 6/10
"It is really awful!" "And to think Merriwell should have done it.
It would have served him right if that spring gun had filled him with shot!" "Excuse these few tears!" exclaimed Blossom, who had secretly opened a bottle of beer and saturated his handkerchief with the contents. He now proceeded to wring the handkerchief in a highly dramatic manner. "Go ahead," laughed Frank.
"Have all the sport you like over it, but I feel easy in my mind." Some one proposed not to eat the turkey at all, but there was a dissenting shout at that.
Then the bird was taken down into the cellar by three of them and stripped of its feathers.
A pan and necessary dishes had been borrowed of Mrs.Harrington, and there was a roaring hard-wood fire in the open grate. Harry officiated as cook, and set about his duties in a manner that showed he was not a novice, while the other lads looked on with great interest, telling stories and cracking jokes. Merriwell offered to bet Robinson that woman was created before man, but Bandy was shy, scenting a sell.
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