"Well, that was the idea in the first place," answered Roy, "but Mr. Cobb thought we'd better have a regular rink. It's hard to play without boundaries because your puck gets away from you and you have to chase it all around the shop. Then, too, Mr. Cobb says that half the time the ice would be too rough or too much broken up to allow of playing on it. We've figured it up and think the outside cost of the whole thing, rink, pump, goals and sticks won't be much over eighty dollars." "How you going to raise it?" asked one of the audience. "That's what we've got to decide on," said Roy. "I suppose we couldn't get nearly that much by subscription?" Several shook their heads, and, "I don't believe we could," said Chub. "But we might get half of it. If every fellow gave a dollar--" "Seems to me," said the boy who had raised the question, "that the fellows who make the team ought to do the subscribing." "I don't think so," said Jack. "If we made the football and baseball teams pay all their expenses I guess we wouldn't have them very long. It ought to be worth a dollar to every fellow here to have a good hockey team." "That's so," assented Chub. "Well," went on Roy, "I wanted to hear what you'd say about it, but I didn't think we could get the money that way, not all of it, I mean. So I thought of another scheme. Why couldn't we get up an entertainment of some kind and charge admission. How would that do?" "Great!" "Swell!" "Fine and dandy!" "Chub can sing 'The Old Ark's A-movin'!" "Cole can do his card stunts!" "Cut it out, fellows," said Jack. "Let's get the matter settled; it's getting late." So they got down to business again and Jack, Chub and Roy were formed into an Entertainment Committee. After that Roy took the floor again. "How many of you fellows will come out for practice?" he asked. Practically every hand went up. "How many have played hockey?" Twelve hands. "All right. We'll divide into two teams, first and second, and as fast as the fellows on the second show that they can play well they'll get onto the first. We probably won't be able to begin work on the ice until after Christmas Recess. But as soon as we can get some money we'll send for goals and sticks and pucks. Then we'll put one of the goals up here on the floor and practice shooting. Later we'll have another meeting, after practice has begun, and elect a captain and a manager. And as soon as we get the manager we'll send a challenge to Hammond. Now you fellows give your names to Chub Eaton before you go out, and watch for notices on the board in School Hall."