None of us has fallen in love with Buck Badger!" "We'll be bub-bub-bub-beat worse than any old drum!" grunted Gamp.
"Everlastingly thumped!" wailed Danny.
"I don't know that I can get up enough interest to do much good on first," grumbled Bruce, who was as little pleased as any one.
"What's the use of going to the trouble of playing when you know at the start that you're to be defeated ?" "Look here, Bruce!" said Merriwell firmly.

"I don't want to hear you talk that way! We are not going to be beaten.

We will wallop Abernathy's men, and don't you worry.

We can do it all right!" "Isn't that the crack team of Hartford ?" demanded Diamond.
"Yes.

Nothing better over there, I think." "Then there will be no dead-easy business about it.