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`` We 've got to keep busy if we want to keep ahead of some of the other fellows in this town , '' said Joe . `` Lots of the fellows at High have got the radio fever bad , and are out to beat us at our own game . I guess we can show them where they get off , all right , but we may have to hustle some to do it . I heard Lon Beardsley at noon to-day boasting that he was going to be the first fellow in Clintonia to receive signals from Europe . I asked him what kind of set he intended to do it with , and he said he had been working on one all summer , and was putting the finishing touches to it now . '' `` He ought to have something pretty good , if he 's been working on it that long , '' commented Herb . `` If one of us had been working on a set all summer , I think we 'd have had it done before this . ''