prevent my talking. Trust Elf for
making sure--Oh, look, girls!"

Every head turned.

A big red pung was coming toward them at top speed. It was crowded with
more boys than could be seated, and those who stood carried long poles.
From the top of each pole a broad, gayly colored streamer waved. As the
pung passed a big boy in the center shouted: "Three cheers for the
Glenmore girls!" and they were given with a will.

"How do they know that we are Glenmore girls?" said Elf.

"Three cheers for the 'What-you-call 'em' boys!" screamed Betty, and
even Arabella added a faint "Hurrah!" to the general clamor.

Two of the boys produced a pair of cymbals, but while they were clashing
Betty brought forth a huge gong and nearly stunned those near her with
the noise that she made as with all her might she smote it.

"Hoo_ray_!" shouted a small boy.

"Hoo_raw_!" howled Valerie Dare, and no one could have decided which
laughed the harder, the pung-load of boys, or the lively girls in the
Glenmore sleigh.

"Yo'-all behave like tomboys," commented Marcus. "Lor', but Mis' Marvin
would 'a' been some s'prised ef she'd been here ter hear ye carry on."

"Well, if Miss Fenler had been here she'd have had forty fits," cried
Vera Vane, "but, Marcus, what they don't know won't worry them, and you
needn't tell them."

"And Marcus, you can forget all about the racket before you get home,"
said Elf.

"Shore, Miss, I's got a powerful short mem'ry. Gid 'ap!"

"Dorothy Dainty cheered as loud as any of us," said Arabella
Correyville.

"Well, why shouldn't she?" Patricia asked.

"Oh, she's always so--oh, I don't know,--correct, I guess is what I
meant to say," responded Arabella.

"I like fun as well as any one does," said Dorothy who had overheard the
remark.

"Oh, but Dorothy, you aren't even the least bit rude," declared Valerie.

"It's not rude to cheer," Dorothy said with a laugh. "I think we were
very polite to return their salute."

"Nancy Ferris cheered, too," said a girl who had been very quiet during
the hubbub.

Nancy laughed.

"I cheered because Dorothy did," she said, "but, Betty, how did you get
that gong in here without any one noticing it?"

"It was under this long coat," said Betty, "and I'll tell you all how I
happened to bring it.

"Monday, when I was down in the village, I met a boy that I know, and he
told me that over at the boys' private school in the next town they'd
heard about our sleigh-rides, and