"And Songbird worked so hard over it, too! Thus doth genius receive its reward.

Songbird, if I were you, I'd give up writing poems, and go turn railroad president, track-walker, or something like that." "You boys are simply horrid, don't you know!" cried Tubbs, and, pushing his way through the crowd, he walked to the other end of the boat.
"Being away from school hasn't done Tubby any good," was Fred Garrison's remark.

"He thinks he's the High Tum-Tum, and no mistake." "Don't fret, he'll be taken down before the term is over," came from Larry Colby.
"That's true," added another pupil, who had been taken down himself two terms before.

"And when he hits his level he'll be just as good as any of us." The time on the steamer passed quickly enough, and after several stops along the lake, the Golden Star turned in at the Cedarville landing, and all of the Putnam Hall cadets went ashore..