`` You are now , and I 'll see that you keep so , '' he said , as he stripped the bed and carried off the pillows . `` I do n't care . What a jolly day ! '' and Jack took a little promenade to finish the rousing process . `` You 'd better hurry up , or you wo n't get your chores done before breakfast . No time for a ` go as you please ' now , '' said Frank ; and both boys laughed , for it was an old joke of theirs , and rather funny . Going up to bed one night expecting to find Jack asleep , Frank discovered him tramping round and round the room airily attired in a towel , and so dizzy with his brisk revolutions that as his brother looked he tumbled over and lay panting like a fallen gladiator . `` What on earth are you about ? '' `` Playing Rowell . Walking for the belt , and I 've got it too , '' laughed Jack , pointing to an old gilt chandelier chain hanging on the bedpost . `` You little noodle , you 'd better revolve into bed before you lose your head entirely . I never saw such a fellow for taking himself off his legs . '' `` Well , if I did n't exercise , do you suppose I should be able to do that -- or that ? '' cried Jack , turning a somersault and striking a fine attitude as he came up , flattering himself that he was the model of a youthful athlete . `` You look more like a clothes-pin than a Hercules , '' was the crushing reply of this unsympathetic brother , and Jack meekly retired with a bad headache . `` I do n't do such silly things now : I 'm as broad across the shoulders as you are , and twice as strong on my pins , thanks to my gymnastics . Bet you a cent I 'll be dressed first , though you have got the start , '' said Jack , knowing that Frank always had a protracted wrestle with his collar-buttons , which gave his adversary a great advantage over him . `` Done ! '' answered Frank , and at it they went . A wild scramble was heard in Jack 's room , and a steady tramp in the other as Frank worked away at the stiff collar and the unaccommodating button till every finger ached .
A clashing of boots followed , while Jack whistled `` Polly Hopkins , '' and XXXXX declaimed in his deepest voice , `` Arma virumque cano , Trojae qui primus ab oris Italiam , fato profugus , Laviniaque venit litora . ''
Frank Jack Rowell clothes-pin collar-buttons day earth first gymnastics shoulders