"Hush!" cautioned Cora. "We are to have nothing to do with boys
on this trip."

She laughed at her own assertion.

"Nothing more to do with them?" asked Belle. Bess kept her
machine within talking distance.

"Till the next time," replied Cora, throwing in the second speed
gear. "But we will certainly have to hurry now. What on earth do
you suppose Walter will do with that ram?"

"What on earth do you think the ram will do with Walter?" replied
Ray.

"He paid the farmer three dollars for him, and the man declared he
could have him for nothing," said Belle. "Now, that three dollars
- "

"Would have bought orchids," interrupted Cora, teasing Belle for
her sentimentality.

"Cora," spoke Hazel suddenly, "did you hear what Ed said to Jack
about Paul's hold-up?"

"The forbidden topic," interrupted Gertrude. "Hazel, you don't
want to lose the sheepskin for insubordination, do you?"

"But, Gertrude, please," begged Hazel quite seriously, "I really