"You're too stiff and sore to-night.

Some people, myself included, don't realize that fifteen-year-old boys haven't the bodily stamina of men of twenty-five.

You did a splendid bit of work this afternoon, and now you're entitled to your rest." "We'll get over there, somehow," Dick promised.
"No; you won't.

Don't you try it.

The Gridley visitors would be brutes to try to drag you out to-night.