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the part in great shape, and he thinks he's the great man rising to the occasion. To-morrow he is to give his 'opinion.'"
The group laughed again—went to bed laughing.
IV
They had originally intended to keep it all to themselves, but they now decided that such a course would be selfish; it was too good to keep. And before noon of the next day all of the class were enjoying it, though some of them disapproved, for the reason that Jere was so earnest and conscientious and devoted to the honor of the university. But that, of course, was where the fun came in for "mere boys*' like Preston Brown and Reddy Armstrong.
Meanwhile Jeremiah was telling the whole class about it, too, from his point of view.
"He hasn't fully made up his mind," Reddy reported, "just what he will make you all do. He has decided merely to work up popular sentiment to-day. We are to
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