: The monster-hunters by Rolt Wheeler Francis - Paleontology Juvenile literature

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here. It's a good thing for you that you're so far ahead in your school work."

Perry looked up surprisedly.

"How's that?" he asked.

His father smiled quietly.

"I saw your headmaster the other day," he answered. "You don't suppose you'd have had any chance to go if I found that you had been neglecting your school work during the winter, do you?"

"But the exams?"

"Are all arranged. The headmaster said your term marks were high enough to let an average examination pass you easily. The questions are to be given me in a sealed envelope, I shall hand them to your uncle, and at some convenient time, probably on board ship, you're to do the exams and your uncle will forward them to the school with a letter saying that they were done in his presence and without any assistance from him. A certain percentage is to be taken off for irregularity, but unless you fall down hopelessly on the papers, I feel sure that you will pass for the year."

"You've thought of everything, Father," rejoined the boy, gratefully.

"Well, son," was the response, "it's up to you to make the most of it. The arrangements are a little sudden, but you can be ready in a couple of weeks, can't you?"

"I could be ready in half an hour," Perry exclaimed enthusiastically.

"That's rather precipitate," his father commented, as they turned into the street leading to the office, near the corner where the two generally parted, "we won't ask anything as rapid as that. But two weeks from to-day, you're to start for New York, and there you'll board the steamer for the Mediterranean. It's a great chance for you, my boy."

During those two weeks Perry walked on air. He was the envy of all his boy chums and by the time he was ready to start he had been asked for so many fossil remains by his boy friends that he would have had to discover a prehistoric cemetery in order to fulfill all the requests. But the boy had been thoroughly trained not to make promises he could not keep, and thus he saved himself from many an awkward refusal later.

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