Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Football stories; School sports -- Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
“We call it scouting. It’s quite legitimate. They do it, and we do it,
just as all the schools and colleges do, and they’ll expect us to have
scouts there to-morrow just as we expect them to have scouts here. In
fact, I think I’d tell them that you’re from Wyndham. Maybe they’ll get
you a good place to see from.”
“That’s one difficulty,” said Loring. “I’ll have to go over by
automobile, and I suppose I couldn’t get near enough to see much
without getting out.”
“Unless they’ve changed their arrangements there,” replied the
instructor, “you are allowed to park on one side of the field, and if
you got there early enough you could pretty near have your choice. I’ll
see about a car――”
“No, please, sir! Wattles will attend to that. I’d a great deal rather
not have you or any one pay for anything, Mr. Babcock.”
“But, Deane, the Athletic Association is perfectly able to stand the
expense, and it’s only fair that it should. An automobile will cost
twenty dollars or so, I imagine, and there’s no reason why you should
pay it.”
“I’d rather, if you don’t mind, sir,” Loring persisted.
“Well, suit yourself. I’ll see you again on Friday and we’ll talk it
over before you go. By the way, you’d better have some one with you,
hadn’t you?”
“I’ll take Wattles, sir. Good night, and thanks for bothering with that
play.”
“If it works as I hope it’s going to, Deane, thanks will be going the
other way. Good night.”
The second cheer meeting――there had been one on the eve of the Toll’s
game――was held Thursday after study hour, and some new songs were
tried out――Mr. Parks at the piano――and some old ones were resung.
And, of course, there was a good deal of enthusiasm and noise. There
was another and even more demonstrative affair Saturday evening, at
which Mr. Babcock and Mr. Clendenin, who was Chairman of the Athletic
Committee, and Captain Dave spoke, but before that other events
transpired.
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