On these excursions he was generally joined by a weak-minded boy named Hurdy, who was usually willing to do whatever Flapp desired done.
One day, just before the election for officers was to come off, Lew Flapp called Ben Hurdy to him.
"I am going down to Cedarville this evening," he said.

"I want you to go along and invite Jackson and Pender and Rockley." "Going to have a good time ?" asked Ben Hurdy.
"Yes and you can tell the others so, and tell them if they know some others who want a good time, and can keep their mouths shut about it, to bring them along.

But mind, Hurdy, we want no blabbers." "All right, Flapp, I'll get the right fellows," answered Ben Hurdy, and ran away to fulfill his questionable errand..