If you could be there, over a Saturday and a Sunday, we'd have time to show you a lot about the life there.

You'd feel acquainted from the start, for lots of the fellows of our class have heard about you.

You'd get a great reception." "Gridley must seem dull, after your life in the West," mused Cadet Holmes.
"Oh, I don't believe there's any place where you get excitement all the time," declared Tom.

"And there's no place so dull that it doesn't have a little excitement once in a while." Bang! bang! bang! sounded several sharp explosions of firearms out in the street.
"There's some, right now!" muttered Greg, jumping up.

"Come along!" Bang! bang! bang! As they ran forward toward the door of the ice cream place the young men saw people fleeing in frantic haste along Main Street.
Five or six of these fugitives darted into the ice cream place.
As they did so, Chief of Police Simmons backed into the same doorway.