eside?" hailed a South Grammar boy.

"I don't know that I want to, either," Prescott answered, with a smile.
"But some one has to start the meeting. As soon as you come to order you
can choose any one you want for presiding officer. All I'm trying to do
is to get the thing started. Come to order, please."

"I'll meet you on Main Street any Saturday you like, Hi Martin!" called
Ted belligerently.

"I wouldn't go out of my way to meet anything like you," shot back
Martin.

"Order! Order!" insisted Dick. "Come to order, fellows!"

By the aid of his chums and a few other friends, and a great deal of
"sh! sh!" all through the crowd, Dick at last got the meeting into a
semblance of quiet.

"Now, as I said before," Prescott went on, "all the reason I had for
taking the chair----"

"Where is it?"

"What did you take it for?"

"----was to get the meeting started," Dick went on. "Now that we're at
least as quiet as some of the very small boys here will allow us to be,
suppose you nominate some one to preside over this meeting."

"Dick Prescott is good enough for us," sang out several Central Grammar
boys.

"Hi Martin!" came from the North squad.

"Ted Teall!" insisted the South boys.

"Well, whom do you want?" insisted Dick patiently.

"Dick Prescott!" "Hi Martin!" "Ted Teall!"

"Don't waste time trying to choose a chairman, Dick," advised Dave.
"Just hold on to the job yourself, and try to get something through the
meeting."

But a clamor went up on all sides that lasted fully a minute.

"Mr. Chairman!" shouted Tom Reade as soon as quiet came.

"Reade," acknowledged Prescott, with a bow in Tom's direction.

"Will you kindly state the object of the meeting?"

"The object of the meeting," Prescott went on, "is to see whether each
of the three Grammar Schools in this town is able and willing to
organize a football team. The object, further, is to see whether we can
form the three teams into a league and play off a series of games for
the championship this fall."

"Who's going to run the league?" demanded Ted Teall.

"That's for this meeting to decide," Dick answered. "I would suggest
that each school nominate a committee of three to represent it in a
council of nine made up from the three schools. That the council choose
a chairman and that the council have full charge of league
arrangements."

"Is Hi Martin going to be in that council?" called a South boy.

"I presume so, fellows," responded the cha