Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Hockey -- Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
CLOTHES CLEANED AND PRESSED
=Special Reductions for February=
Trousers Cleaned 25 Cents Trousers Pressed 10 Cents
Coats Cleaned 35 Cents Coats Pressed 20 Cents
Suits, including Waistcoats, Suits Pressed 35 Cents
Cleaned 60 Cents
Overcoats in Proportion
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T. TUCKER, 22 WHITSON HALL
Lack of trade didn’t worry Toby as much as it would have had he not
won that scholarship, but he was glad when, that same evening, young
Lingard knocked apologetically and presented himself and four articles
of apparel to be cleaned and pressed. There was the same suit that Toby
had toilsomely freed from its adornment of green paint, and an extra
pair of trousers. This time the suit was spattered with some red-brown
stuff, the nature of which Tommy Lingard was at a loss, or pretended
to be at a loss, to explain. Toby frowned over it and finally said it
looked like iron rust, but Lingard expressed doubts.
“Well, I dare say it will come out,” said Toby. “Most everything does
except acid. Fellows ruin their things at chemistry and then wonder
why I don’t get the spots out of them. I’ll have these ready to-morrow
evening. By the way, Lingard, you never paid me for the last job, you
know.”
“Didn’t I really?” The boy’s voice expressed the greatest surprise, but
Toby wasn’t fooled. “H-how much was it?”
“Seventy-five,” answered Toby, referring to his memorandum book.
“I’m sorry, really.” Lingard searched his pockets and finally produced
a crumpled dollar bill from some recess, and Toby tried to dig up a
quarter in change. But sixteen cents was the best he could do, and he
was on the point of suggesting that the quarter be applied on the new
account when he remembered the hockey fund. He crossed to the bureau
and pulled the little box from its concealment and abstracted two
dimes and a nickel. Lingard was deeply interested in the gas-stove
when Toby came back――Toby had just finished pressing a pair of his own
trousers――and didn’t turn around until Toby spoke.
“Here you are, Lingard. Twenty-five cents. Much obliged. Will you come
for these or shall I leave them in your room?”
“I’ll come and get them, thanks, Tucker. To-morrow evening, you said?”
“Yes, any time after nine. Good-night.”
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