"I'm with you!" agreed Bob. "But maybe we could play a trick on him first. He's played so many mean ones on us."
"Now don't start anything," advised Frank, who was more quiet than either of his two chums. "If we begin, the blame will be on us. "We'll let Jed alone if he lets us."
"He doesn't seem to be going to do anything," added Sammy. "Maybe he's going to behave better this term."
"I hope so," returned Frank. "Well, let's go in. Doesn't our room look dandy, since they fixed it up after the fire?"
"I should say so!" cried Sammy. "And Miss Williams brought a fine lot of pictures for the walls. It's more like the parlor at home than a classroom."
"Yes, and Miss Williams isn't like some teachers, either," went on Frank. "She's as kind as can be."
The three boys strolled toward the schoolhouse, which had opened for the Fall term after some delay, caused by a fire. Now the building, in some parts, was altogether new, and all the rooms had been redecorated and painted. The structure had also been made larger.
"Well, I'm glad, in some ways, that school's begun again," said Sammy. "Though vacation was lots of fun."
"Yes, we can have some good times in school," agreed Frank.
"And there's that clubroom your father fixed up in the barn for us," put in Sammy. "That sure was good of him, Frank. We can have fun there, if we can't at school. And I'm going to do a lot of training in our club gymnasium, too, this winter."
"Huh! You train!" laughed Frank. "First we know you'll be off to the mountains, looking for more buried treasure."
"Aw, you're always casting that up!" grumbled Sammy.
