I came to ask your help in a trick we boys want to play on one of our number." "Sho! you don't say so.

That aint exactly in my line." "I'll tell you all about it.

There's a chap at our school--the Academy, you know--who's awfully stuck up.

He's all the time bragging about belonging to a first family in Boston, and turning up his nose at poorer boys.

We want to mortify him." "Just so!" said Abner, nodding.