"Is there any further business to come before the meeting?"
inquired the presiding officer.
"The boys at Webbington had a company three or four years ago,"
said Joe Barry, "and they used wooden guns."
"Wooden guns!" exclaimed Wilbur Summerfield disdainfully. "You
won't catch me training round town with a wooden gun."
"I would remind the last three gentlemen that their remarks
should be addressed to the Chair," said the presiding officer.
"Of course, I don't care anything about it, but I think you would
all prefer to have the meeting conducted properly."
"That's so!" exclaimed several boys.
"Then," said the chairman, "I shall call to order any boy who
addresses the meeting except through me."
"Mr. Chairman," said Frank, rising, "as to the wooden guns, I
quite agree with the last speaker. It would seem too much like
boy's play, and we are too much in earnest for that. I have
thought of an arrangement which can be made if the Selectmen will
give their consent. Ten or fifteen years ago, longer than most of
us can remember, as my father has told me, there was a militia
company in Rossville, whose arms were supplied and owned by the
town.
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