A classmate named Stewart Snyder , a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt , a rusty black bow tie , and the green-and-purple class cap , grumbled grumble to her as they walked walk behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards , “ These college chumps make me tired .

CHAPTER ONE PLAYING PILGRIMS " Christmas wo n't be Christmas without any presents , " grumbled grumble Jo , lying on the rug .

“ All I get is fifty for it , ” he grumbled grumble ; “ an ' I would n't do it over for a thousand , cold cash . ”