We want to give you and Holmes at least a bully two-column write-up." Dick's cheery look suddenly changed to one of mild alarm.
"Do you want to do me a big favor, Mr.Pollock ?" "Anything up to a page, my boy, and you know it," replied the editor heartily.

"We still regard you as one of the 'Blade' family." "The favor I'm going to ask, Mr.Pollock, is that you don't give Greg and myself a write-up." The editor looked so hurt that Prescott made haste to add, earnestly: "Please don't misunderstand me, Mr.Pollock.

But you simply cannot imagine the trouble that a fine write-up in a home paper may make for a cadet.

If I were a plebe, now, the upper classman would get hold of the write-up, somehow, and they'd make me read it aloud, at least a hundred times, while upper classmen stood about and congratulated me on being such a fine fellow as the paper described.

As Greg and I are now second classman, we couldn't be hazed in quite that way.