Then a bright thought struck him.
"Don't I look a little pale, Jack ?" "You look as if a month's vacation in the autumn would be acceptable; but the fact is, Fred, I never saw you look better than you do this minute." Fred sighed.
"I am afraid I can't work that on father.

He's too good a doctor for me to worry him about my health." "How about _me_ ?" Fred shook his head.
"You look as strong as an oak knot, and you are, too; no, we can't make them think we are in need of a month in Wyoming.

We shall have to try another tack.

Now, there is no doubt that if we spend the month of September putting in extra work on our studies, we can stand the following month in laying off.

We shall come back with new vigor and appetite, and soon catch up with our class." "There isn't a particle of doubt about that, but it still remains that we must convince our fathers that it will be a wise course to send us away from home.