We want to get them on our side; for if they promise to go in with us every boy in the settlement will do the same." "That's what makes me so mad every time I think of those Gordons," exclaimed Bob, spitefully throwing down a stick which he had been cutting with his knife.

"Every fellow about here, except you and me, is ready to hang on to their coat tails and do just what they do.

One would think by the way they act that they belonged to some royal family.

They don't notice me at all.

They've had a crowd of boys in that shooting-box of theirs every spring and fall since I can remember, and I have never had an invitation to go there yet.