ALL through the next day Waddy was very calm; it was repenting recent rash actions and calculating laboriously.

At the Drovers' Arms that evening several members of the School Committee compared conclusions and resolved that something must be done.

It was evident that the youth of the township, under the leadership of 'the boy Haddon,' had dragged Waddy into a nasty squabble, some of the results of which were unpleasantly conspicuous on the faces and heads of prominent committeemen.

Then the ravaged gardens had to be taken into consideration.

Calmer judgment had convinced the residents that the destruction wrought was not all due to goats, and there was a general desire to visit the responsibility on the true culprits, whose identity was shrewdly suspected.
Friday was rather an eventful day at the school.