Football -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction
“You’re quite wrong then,” answered Rusty earnestly. “To the eager
and inquiring mind nothing is useless. Anyhow, you shut up and let me
tell this. Sandy and I wandered through the metropolis side by each,
admiring the soaring edifices and the homes of ease and luxury. And as
we strolled, we talked. Maybe I talked more than Sandy did, but that’s
neither here nor there. Among other things I said was this: ‘They’re
charging fifty cents to see the game this afternoon, Sandy, and that’s
too much. Not that I’m going to pay it, though. I’m going to see it
for nothing.’ Of course that interested Sandy tremenjously, for Sandy
doesn’t mind spending money any more than a Scotsman! He wanted to
know how I was going to do it; did I have a pass or what. ‘Don’t have
to have a pass,’ I told him. ‘Maybe you’ve noticed that one of the
dormitories is right close to the field? Well, if you happen to have a
friend there whose room is on the back, you don’t have to spend your
good money. You just sit in the window up there quite comfortably and
look right down on the field. Of course, you’re not as close as you are
in a stand, but you can see everything that goes on and you’re saving
a big old half-dollar. And a half-dollar is a lot of money about the
middle of the month!’ Sandy agreed cordially to that sentiment and said
he wished that he knew someone in one of those dormitories. I said,
yes, it would be nice if he did, and looked at my watch, remarking that
I mustn’t be late for my engagement. Then we happened on a candy store
and I stopped and looked in the window and said something about the
caramels looking nice. I could see Sandy struggling mentally and I kept
on looking at the caramels. He tried to edge off, but I wouldn’t edge.
So finally he said in a weak little voice that he guessed he’d get a
few and we went in and he bought a quarter of a pound for fifteen
cents. Then we strolled on and ate the caramels, and after a bit I said
sort of thoughtfully: ‘Look here, Sandy, if you’d like to see the game
with me I guess it would be all right. My friend is a mighty nice sort
and I don’t think he’d mind if I brought you along.’”
“What friend?” asked Dick, puzzled.
“My friend in Wallack Hall,” replied Rusty, with a grin. “Wallack’s the
dormitory that looks like a tomb and has ivy all over it.”
“Oh,” said Dick uncertainly. Blash made a derisive noise in his throat
and Stanley chuckled.
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