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The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics By: H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922) |
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E text prepared by Jim Ludwig The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics or, Dick & Co. Make Their Fame Secure By H. Irving Hancock CONTENTS CHAPTERS
I. A Jolt on a Quiet Day
II. The Vanishing Man
III. Dick Marches His Nine On
IV. The Story of the Uniforms
V. North Grammars Play Real Ball
VI. Setting With a Teaser
VII. Ted Teall Faces the Storm
VIII. Two Rivals Plan Dire Revenge
IX. Hi Martin Tries to Make Terms
X. "Babbling Butt in"
XI. Ted Feels the Flare Back
XII. The North Grammar Captain Grilled
XIII. "Big Injun Heap Big Noise"
XIV. "Crazy as a Porous Plaster"
XV. Bluffing Up to the Bug Game
XVI. "Ted's Terrors" Full of Fight
XVII. Dodge and Ripley Hear Something
XVIII. Hi's Swimming Challenge
XIX. Dave Darrin Flashes Fire
XX. Arranging the Swimming Match
XXI. Old Dut Gives Wise Counsel
XXII. Hi Hears Something Elevating
XXIII. Who Won the Swimming Matches?
XXIV. Conclusion
Chapter I A JOLT ON A QUIET DAY
"There's just one thing that I keep thinking about on a day like
this," Dave Darrin sighed contentedly. "What's that?" Tom Reade wanted to know. "Supper?" Darrin turned, favoring Reade with a flash of disgust from his
large, dark eyes. "I'm still waiting for the information," insisted Tom after a
short pause. "You may as well wait," retorted Dave. "You wouldn't understand
what I feel, anyway. Any fellow who can keep his mind on supper,
on a grand June day like this " "I imagine that you'll keep your mind on the meal when you reach
the table," predicted Tom, grinning. "That'll be time enough," Dave rejoined. "But I'm not going to
profane the woods, on a perfect June day, by thinking of kitchen
odors." "Say, aren't you feeling well?" asked Tom gravely. "That's just the point, I guess," broke in Dick Prescott, with
a light laugh. "Dave is feeling so extremely well and happy " "Now, you're shouting," Darrin assented. "But it's no use for
poor Reade to ponder over the glories of nature. All he can think
of is the region bounded by his belt." "Glories of nature?" repeated Reade. "If that's what you're talking
about, why didn't you announce your subject earlier? Yes, sir;
nature is at her greenest best to day. Just look off through
that line of trees, and see how the light breeze moves the tops
in that field of young corn, and " "Corn?" flared Dave. "Something to eat, of course! Tom, you're
hopeless when it comes to the finer things of life. You ought
to have been born in a pen, close to a well filled trough. Corn,
indeed!" "This country would probably be bankrupt if there were no corn
crop, and you'd be digging hard for a living, instead of being
a lazy schoolboy," retorted Reade, with an indulgent smile. "Let
me see; how many hundred million dollars did Old Dut tell us the
annual corn crop brings in wealth to this country?" All of the other boys, save Dave, glanced at Tom, but all shook
their heads. Statistics do not mix well in a Grammar School boy's
head. "Oh, well, it was a lot of money, anyway," Tom pursued his subject.
"I wouldn't mind having all the money that the American corn
crop brings." "So you could buy the fanciest kinds of food, I suppose?" jeered
Dave Darrin. "Never mind, Darry; if I had a lot of money I'd buy you the biggest
and softest mattress I could find, so that you'd have nothing
to do but lie off by yourself, look up at the green leaves and
dream your summers away. That lying on your back and looking
up at the sky is what you call reverie, isn't it?" "Quit your kidding!" ordered Dave. "Is it reverie?" asked Harry Hazelton, "or just plain laziness
that ails Dave?" "Laziness, of course," laughed Tom. "Dave, I guess Harry has
more sense in naming things than any of us. Yes; that's it!
And Dick thought it was merely poetic temperament." "Temperament? What's that?" grinned Dan Dalzell. "Is that what
you get in June by adding up the column of figures in the thermometer?" To signify his lack of interest in the talk, Darrin rolled over
on his side, turning his gaze away from the other boys... Continue reading book >>
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