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`` I 'm not very keen about it , myself . '' `` I think jail would be a better place for him , '' suggested Jimmy . This met with the unqualified approval of everybody except Herb , and then the boys set to work on their new radio set . As this was Saturday evening , they had no lessons to prepare , and they worked steadily until ten o'clock . They wound transformers until Jimmy declared that it made him dizzy even to look at them , and when the time came to stop work they all felt that substantial progress had been made . They agreed to meet at the theater the following Monday evening , to witness the opening performance of the show in which their friends Larry Bartlett and Tim Barcommon were performing , and then said good-night and started homeward to the accompaniment of a cheerful whistled marching tune . There was much excitement among their classmates the following Monday , as they had all heard about the show and most of them intended to go .