I should have been sorry that I had men- 
tioned the old farmhouse had I known that by 
doing so I was putting an idea into the heads 
of those boys which was later to result in giving 
them the worst scare of their lives. 
This night chanced to be the time set by the 
club for the initiation of anew member. At nine 
o clock he arrived and was brought in with his 
coat off and his hands tied behind him. He 
was a boy about sixteen and tall for his age. 
The things I noticed most about him were that 
his neck was long, his hair was red, and he had 
a funny little “cow lick” that made his hair 
stand straight up at one place on his forehead. 
Without telling all the things they made the 
poor fellow do, and some of them were very 
funny indeed, I will pass on to what took place 
at the end of the initiation. 
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It was the president of the club who stated 
what was to be the supreme test that the can- 
didate must undergo. 
*“And now, Willard Young,” he began, in a 
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