If you want the shack pulled down and hauled away, you and your friends continue to tantalize this inoffensive little boy the way you have been.

If you want to keep it, be polite and invite him in." "But--" "That's ALL, I said!" Sam was crushed.
Next day he communicated the bitter substance of the edict to the other members, and gloom became unanimous.

So serious an aspect did the affair present that it was felt necessary to call a special meeting of the order after school.

The entire membership was in attendance; the door was closed, the window covered with a board, and the candle lighted.
Then all of the brothers--except one--began to express their sorrowful apprehensions.

The whole thing was spoiled, they agreed, if Georgie Bassett had to be taken in.