There'll be several races, a rowing race, a canoe race, a swimming race and so on; we haven't made up the program yet." "Are you going to have any refreshments ?" Pee-wee demanded.
"We don't allow refreshments on the island," said Townsend.
"Shall we let them do it ?" Pee-wee asked.
"Positively," said Townsend; "I don't see how we can stop them, as long as they keep outside of the three mile limit.

The referee won't do any harm.

All he does is to see that the racing is fair as they round the limit." "We're the limit, hey ?" vociferated Pee-wee.
"You said it," laughed the fellow from Edgemere.
"All right," said Pee-wee, "you can do it." It was not until the Alligator Patrol sat around their camp-fire that night that the possibilities of this participation in the athletic events began to unfold in the seething mind of our hero.

He had stood somewhat upon his dignity with the committee because he did not want to hold the island too cheap in their eyes.
Moreover, though he was for Bridgeboro, once, last and always, his attitude was uniformly combative toward older boys, high school boys in particular, and toward high schools generally.

He would be chary of the privileges he granted to these "big fellers" whom he knew so well how to "handle." But in the light of the camp-fire he saw visions of huge war profits in these impending combats.