g much better than he had been able to do, Reff

cold in here anyway. I'm going back to the sc

etter than he is on the ba

w, so he is!" was Hogan's comment.

e'll like it muc

s right. Reff Ritter w

lter?" he asked of Mumps,

old boathouse,"

a s

as my readers may imagine, smoking amo

ette myself," said Ritte

end his new friend, and so he agreed to go along. They soon made their way to whe

moment later, an

he said. "All

d have been cold, only the cadets had found a charcoal stove, and this was bu

an Baxter to Reff Ritter. "Sit d

ttes. He offered one to Mumps, and the toady lit it. Then Ritter lit

like," he observed. "Qui

winter time," answered the bully of Putnam

am must be do

e

smoked ever since I was eight years

cigarettes," went on Reff Ritter

Dan Baxter, after a pause. He brought

that?" as

ht it down a

I got used to drinking it when I was over in Europe. You

all of the boys assembled drank a portion.

boy," said Baxter to his toady. "D

for the best part of half an hour. The

!" cried Paxton, in ala

d and the boys listened. They heard somebody mo

ps, in a trembling voice. "I th

advice was followed without delay. They saw somebody running

eir troubles with Pepper, Jack, and Andy Snow. The bully of the Hall wanted to get even with Pepper for the trouble o

owd determined to play some tricks on

-new," said Coulter, an

it," said Baxter. "And we'll d

lows of the other boys. The heat of the boys' heads would gradual

ed pillows, and from the roof of an addition to the academy procured the necessary snow, which they stuffed into the pillow-cases, next to the feathers. Then

hunk of snow on the upper edge of the dormitory door, leaving th

to go to bed. They did not, however, go straight to their dormito

m," whispered Paxton, from a corne

s old Crabtree,

ard their room!" cried G

e pushed upon the dormitory door. Down came the big chu

ered Josiah Crabtree. "Who is

were full of snow and some snow had gone down in

all the cadets in the vicinity, and s

s the

taking a snow bat

ll that snow

his?" demanded the assistant te

cannot," was

rmitory when down came this s

ry, Mr. C

villainous! Somebo

now nothing ab

efit," put in Pepper. "We were about

A sill

catch it, Mr. Crabtree?

eat draught through this hallway, as you can feel. Then you do not know who

Dan Baxter and his cronies took go

fore several snowballs had been thrown, one catching Mumps in the neck and another landing on Reff Ritter

and his chums were in the dormitory and the door had been closed. "If

know who is guilt

er and hi

how they hung back and

dy. "That's why I soaked

ear," said Pepper. "But I say, fe

questioned Hogan. "Sure an' it would be jus

ook around," suggested Jack. "It won

eld up h

pen suddenly. Outside he found Ritter, Baxter, and Coulte

" cried Pepper

ered the bully of the s

another time,"

ell too," ad

he others enter their dormitory a

d Andy, and dove into his pi

Snow!" s

n my pillow too. Say, we just got this in time. It would have melt

ookin' at this now!" And he held up three icicles he had disl

s were disposed of, and the snow was likewise cleaned away. They then made a

last. "But what a mess this would have

going to do," said

me from several

e Baxter crowd back,

instantly agr