We can't do it by looking pale and weak, for we can't look pale and weak.

We must fix on something else or it's no go." "Why not fall back on what we first talked about ?" "What's that ?" "Make your father think it will be a prudent thing for him to send you out there to look after his property." "Suppose I should convince him on that point, how about _you_ ?" "You will need some one to look after you, and I'm just the fellow." "We are both satisfied in our own minds; in fact we were from the first; but our fathers are very hard-headed men." Now, a couple of boys may be very shrewd, but it often happens that their parents are a good deal shrewder, a fact which my young readers will do well to remember.
Unsuspected by Jack Dudley and Fred Greenwood, their parents read on the instant the momentous problem which assumed form in the brains of their sons.

When the younger signalled to his chum to follow him out of the room, the two gentlemen understood what it meant as clearly as if they overheard all the conversation that followed.

Waiting until they were beyond hearing, Doctor Greenwood looked at his friend and remarked, with a smile: "They are hit hard." "No doubt of it; their hearts are set on making a visit to the ranch, and it would be singular if it were otherwise.

We can feel for them, for we were once boys." "Yes, John, and it's longer ago than we like to recall.