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How's the soup?
gpt
How's the Student Council?
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What do you know about the Student Council?
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Oh, I heard--something, replied Rosemary.
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Was Frank Fenton unfair, Jack?
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Well, he doesn't think so, said Jack,
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I suppose you girls have been gossiping and you might as well get the story straight,
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I hope the Gray boys and the others will shovel snow, she cried impulsively.
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I don't give a fig for the old dramatic fund, Jack.
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I do, said Jack.
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It's all right to turn the snow money into the fund and I've nothing to say against that. But when the Student Council kicks because five boys out of forty-eight want to keep what they earn, and they know they are putting themselves through school, I think it shows a contemptible, small spirit and I told Frank so to-night. You see, Rosemary, he went on a little more calmly,
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he said forcibly if inelegantly,
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But can't the Student Council make you back down and appoint others? asked Rosemary, glowing with excitement.
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I thought the S. C. could do anything in high school, Jack.
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They are pretty powerful, her companion admitted,
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But it can't be very pleasant for the boys,
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You've said it, confessed Jack gloomily.
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I had a second fight there, for after the fellows heard the Student Council was raising a rumpus, they said they would get off my team and let others take their places. Norman said he guessed they could get independent jobs shoveling snow after school hours.
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Could they?
gpt
I suppose they could, but they won't if I have anything to say about it, declared Jack with what Doctor Hugh called his
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expression.
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I was told to appoint a snow cleaning team and I've done it, and by gum my nominations stand. If the Student Council doesn't like 'em, they can appeal to the faculty--and they'll get what's coming to them! The town Council doesn't give a hoot where the money goes, all they want is to have the snow cleaned away. I told the fellows if they walked out, they made me just five short, for I wouldn't appoint anyone in their places. If they want to see the Sophomore class fall down on the job, all right. You watch my twelve names go through!
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any unfair demands. So, as Jack had foreseen, his nominations were allowed to stand and the next afternoon, forty-eight laughing, shouting boys reported to Bill McCormack, bluff and kindly member of the Eastshore Common Council who would, in a larger municipality, have been called
gpt
Streets and Highways Commissioner
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Bill