"Dick, if you'll stay here and attend the store I'll step around to Mr.
Ripley's office and speak to him about it.

Then I'll go over to the bank and see Bert's father." "Don't, dad; please don't," begged the boy.
"It seems to me that such action is highly necessary," maintained Mr.Prescott.
"I hope you won't do it, dad.

The best way to treat boys' rows is to let them settle among themselves.

If you interfere in this matter, dad, I shall get a name among other boys for running to my father for protection.

That will turn the laugh on me all over town.