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If I do I 'll take along the scalps of a few sophomores ! '' They continued to work on him for nearly an hour , but were unable to get off more than a certain portion of the paint . Harry was still grotesquely decorated when the boys arrived at the conclusion that further scrubbing with the materials at hand was useless . Then Frank went out and rang up a druggist who had gone to bed , for it was after midnight . He told the man the sort of scrape his friend was in and offered the druggist inducements to give him something to remove the paint . The druggist said it could not be paint , but must be some sort of staining , and he gave Frank a preparation . Frank went back and tried the stuff on Harry .