STORIES FOR BOYS [Illustration: “I never saw a King,” Gordon remarked, “and I’m sure I never expected to see one sitting on a log in the rain.”] STORIES FOR BOYS BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1915 COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS. [Illustration] THIS BOOK OF BOYS’ STORIES IS DEDICATED TO MY BROTHER C. BELMONT DAVIS WHO WAS A BOY ABOUT THE SAME TIME I WAS CONTENTS. PAGE THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING 1 MIDSUMMER PIRATES 88 RICHARD CARR’S BABY 117 THE GREAT TRI-CLUB TENNIS TOURNAMENT 130 THE JUMP AT COREY’S SLIP 166 THE VAN BIBBER BASEBALL CLUB 177 THE STORY OF A JOCKEY 184 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. “I NEVER SAW A KING,” GORDON REMARKED, “AND I’M SURE I NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE ONE SITTING ON A LOG IN THE RAIN,” _Frontispiece_ PAGE “ABOUT TIME TO BEGIN ON THE GOATS!” 44 TO THE NORTH TOWERED THREE MAGNIFICENT HULLS OF THE WHITE SQUADRON, 86 “WHICH DO I THINK WILL WIN?” SAID THE VETERAN BOAT-BUILDER OF MANASQUAN, 96 AS THE TWO PRESCOTTS SCRAMBLED UP ON THE GUNWALE OF THEIR BOAT, THE DEFEATED CREW SALUTED THEM WITH CHEERS, 112 HE TOOK A LARGE ROLL OF BILLS FROM HIS POCKET AND COUNTED THEM, 198 THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING. The Old Time Journalist will tell you the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He will hold that the only way to start is as a printer’s devil, or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains.