Then he began to tear away his beautiful necktie and to recklessly rumple his gorgeous shirt front.
"This is awful!" he exclaimed.

"Where are the things coming from?
The air is full of them! Wow! Another struck me in the arm!" Lew Veazie was rolling over and over.

Their outcries attracted the attention of Merriwell and his friends, and also the attention of a number of others who had come upon the grounds.
"What are those idiots up to ?" grumbled Hodge, who had no patience with the antics of the Chickering set.

"They've been making fools of themselves ever since they came out here.

Awhile ago, they were recklessly burning powder and hurling shot all round.