However, Frank kept at him, finally offering to let Robinson himself decide.

At length Robinson "bit," and a small wager was made.
"Now," cried Bandy, "go ahead and prove that woman was made before man.
You can't do it." "That's dead easy," smiled Frank.

"I know you will readily acknowledge that Eve was the first maid." "No, I'll be hanged if--" Then Robinson stopped short, for he saw the point, and the others were laughing heartily and applauding.
"The first maid!" he muttered.

"Oh, thunder! What a soft thing I am! You have won, Merriwell." The turkey began to give out a most delicious odor, and the boys snuffed the air with the keenest delight.

How hungry they were! How jolly everything seemed! There was not one of the party who did not feel very grateful to think he was living that night.
At last the turkey was done.