human
How can Jack spoil things?
gpt
It's like this, she began.
human
My brother told me. The Student Council had a letter from the Eastshore Common Council, saying they wanted volunteer snow workers among the high school boys. And the S. C. called the presidents of the four classes together and told them to go ahead and get the workers, twelve from each class.
gpt
Well?
human
Well, echoed Fannie disagreeably.
gpt
The boys made out their lists and when Jack read his he had asked the two Gordon boys, Jerry and Fred, and Eustice Gray and Norman Cox and Ben Kelsey. And Will says the president of the Student Council was simply furious.
human
Why was Frank Fenton furious?
gpt
Oh, do be still! Fannie tried to squelch the younger girl.
human
Frank was mad, of course, because the S. C. counted on having all the snow money for the dramatic fund. They want to put on a play this spring and Will says they haven't a cent in the treasury. And now Jack Welles goes and spoils a perfectly splendid chance to earn a lot of money.
gpt
That's the third or fourth time you've said that about Jack, cried Rosemary, stung into speech at last.
human
What has he done to spoil anything? I don't see.
gpt
Why I should think you would, said Fannie, while Nina nodded sagely.
human
The Gordon boys and Eustice and Norman and Ben are as poor as can be; they want the money for themselves, and Will says they jumped at the chance to earn it. Don't you see, it will keep that much out of the dramatic fund, and Jack could just as well have appointed boys who could have been glad to turn over the money to the school. Will calls it a disgusting lack of class spirit.
gpt
There's nothing the matter with Jack Welles' class spirit, Fannie Mears! she cried.
human
I should think you would be ashamed to repeat anything like that, I don't care who said it.
gpt
Well I'm not the only one who said it, or Will, either, declared Fannie, rising as the warning bell sounded.
human
The president of the Student Council told him what he thought of him, all right.