You second team fellows will know what hustling means when he takes hold of you, Thayer." Clint smiled and looked politely interested, but the subject was not continued, for at that moment, Amy, who had been craftily biding his time, reached out and pulled Still's chair over, and in the ensuing confusion the gathering broke up.

On the way along the Row, Clint asked Amy about the mysterious "Boots." "His name is Boutelle," explained Amy.

"We call him 'Boots' for short; a sort of a _last_ name." Amy chuckled gleefully.
"What's the joke ?" asked Clint.
"Didn't you get it?
_Last_ name; see?
'Boots'-- last!" "Oh!" "Thank you! I was afraid I'd have to explain it for you in a _foot_-note." "What's he do?
Coach the second ?" "He do.

And he's a mighty nice chap, 'Boots' is.

The fellows were quite crazy about him last year.