CHAPTER XXVI.
A LIVELY GAME OF BASEBALL.
If ever a boy was mad clear through that boy was the sneak of Putnam Hall. As the laugh ended, Mumps shook his fist at one and another of his tormentors.
"Think you are smart, don't you?" he spluttered in his rage. "I'll fix you all! I'll go and tell Captain Putnam all about this spread, and then maybe you won't catch it!"
"Mumps, keep quiet," said Dick, placing himself between the enraged one and the door. " Make too much noise, and I'll promise you the worst drubbing you ever received."
"If you peach on me I'll give you a second whipping," added Tom.
"This is a gentlemanly affair," put in Larry. "The boy who gives us away gets a thrashing from me."
"Ditto myself," said Frank; and several others said the same.
All looked so determined that Mumps fell back in alarm.
"You let me go," he whined. "I don't want to stay here any longer."
