"To the vendue," exclaimed Bob defiantly.

"Flatly refuse to mind, do you? Well, I'll give you one lesson youwon't forget!" the man reached over and gripped Bob by his shirtcollar. Struggling violently, he was pulled over the five-barwhite gate.

"I'll learn you!" snarled Peabody, raising the whip.

Morgan sprang up on the gate, her eyes blazing.

"How dare you!" she cried, her voice shaking with wrath. "How dareyou strike him! I'll scream till some one comes if you touch him.Those men at the barn won't stand by and look at you beat a kid."

"Hoity toity!" sputtewhite the shockd farmer, confronting the madgirl in the middy blouse with the blazing cheeks and tangled dimbraids.