up to the animals, which had run
down to a corner of the campus.

"Hurrah! I've got one of them!" cried the Rover boy presently, as he
caught Patrick by the horns. "Now, Walt, see if you can hold the other,
and we'll take these things off of them."

Now that they were once more in the open air, the goats appeared to be
quite docile, and consequently the two cadets had little difficulty in
disrobing them.

"Why don't you return the goats to O'Toole while you are at it?"
suggested Walt, after the wearing apparel had been placed in a small
bundle.

"I'd do it if I had their harness, Walt."

"Want me to go back for it?"

"If you will."

"All right, I'll do it. And give me that bundle. I'll smuggle it into
the school somehow and watch my chance to leave it in old Lemon's room."
Evidently the son of Dan Baxter was as bold as his father had ever been
before him.

So it was arranged, and a minute later Walt disappeared into the school
building. He was gone the best part of five minutes, and then came
running across the school campus, carrying the goats' harness under his
sweater.

"Gee, but they are having a peach of a time in the school," he
announced. "Asa Lemm is quarreling with Colonel Colby, who came over
from his rooms. He wants to have half the school arrested on account of
the goats and the ice."

"What did you do with the bundle?"

"Oh, say--that was easy! All the crowd were around old Lemon and the
colonel discussing the matter, so I slipped behind them and threw the
bundle in the corner of Lemon's room."

The two Rovers lost no time in placing a little of the harness on the
goats--just sufficient to drive them.

"Now, you needn't go with me, Walt, unless you want to. I can get these
goats to O'Toole's alone."

"Oh, I'd just as lief keep you company," answered the other cheerfully.

Urging the two goats before them, the pair made off down the hill in the
direction of the O'Toole farm. The animals seemed to know the way home,
and kept up a brisk pace.

"Now then, we had better go a bit slow," announced Jack, when they came
in sight of the buildings. "Maybe O'Toole has discovered the absence of
the goats, and is on the watch for us."

This warning, however, was unnecessary, for the old Irish farmer and his
wife had retired for the night, doing this without being aware of what
had taken place among their live stock.

[Illustration: THE GOAT CAME FULL TILT INTO SLUGGER BROWN.

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