Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Bases full!

The Wyndham forwards had swept down the rink, successfully eluding Wolcott’s defense, and now Captain Cooper slid the puck gently to the left as the enemy point checked desperately, and from the audience, for the moment forgetting chilled feet and numbed fingers, the shout cam...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

The Wyndham forwards had swept down the rink, successfully eluding Wolcott’s defense, and now Captain Cooper slid the puck gently to the left as the enemy point checked desperat...

2. CHAPTER II

As though realizing that, with the end of the hockey schedule, his services were no longer needed, King Frost retired three days after the Wolcott game. Wyndham awoke to find a...

3. CHAPTER III

Rather hard luck for you, after listening to prosy descriptions of Clif, Tom and Loring, to have Wattles come on the scene! But Wattles may be disposed of more briefly. Wattles...

4. CHAPTER IV

Well, that first fortnight of work for the baseball candidates _was_ a good deal like drudgery. As Tom said, it wasn’t so hard, but it was blamed monotonous. Led by Coach Connov...

5. CHAPTER V

After that, while they walked up the curving drive, between rows of leafless trees, Tom was unusually silent. Nearing West Hall, Clif suggested continuing on and paying a call o...

6. CHAPTER VI

By Wednesday the second――or the “Tuskers,” as the first surreptitiously called it――was doing rather better. Neither Frost nor Purdy yet had anything much to offer, and they yiel...

7. CHAPTER VII

The first team defeated Granleigh High School in a slow game marked by many errors on both sides and then played Murray School and lost, 7 to 2. Murray had a field day with the...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Across the diamond, Clif and Jack Cooper stood together in a group of five fellows waiting to bat, and Clif, turning his gaze away from a moment’s contemplation of Loring and Mr...

9. CHAPTER IX

They reached school well before Loring. He didn’t return until nearly four, revealing that even a “Rolled Rice” can have tire troubles. After greetings and a few questions had b...

10. CHAPTER X

The gong warning them of study hour rang and Clif and Tom departed. Somewhat more than an hour later, however, they were back again. Naturally Mr. Cooper was the subject of conv...

11. CHAPTER XI

They tried to give the appearance of persons hurrying to the station to catch a train, but, since Tom was hatless and frequently applied a handkerchief to his flushed face, the...

12. CHAPTER XII

Tom roomed with Billy Desmond, a second class fellow. Billy was both a football and crew man, this spring rowing at four on the School eight. The baseball team played away from...

13. CHAPTER XIII

By general consent Wattles was not informed of the incident of the suicidal Ford. It would, as Loring pointed out, only upset him to learn of it. Loring tried very hard to thank...

14. CHAPTER XIV

The first hadn’t been getting along very well of late. It had lost to Greenville, won from Cupples and then, last Saturday, had been again defeated, at Clear Lake, by Peebles Sc...

15. CHAPTER XV

The Broadmoor game brought the first week of June to an end. Extremely warm weather held New England, and warm weather, as usual, produced a let-up of scholastic ambition in man...

16. CHAPTER XVI

Highland School was defeated, 6 to 4, at Highland, on Wednesday, in a loosely played game in which errors on both sides accounted for most of the tallies. Frost was in the box f...

17. CHAPTER XVII

Monday found the school deep in examinations, with anxious countenances everywhere in evidence. Practice didn’t commence until four o’clock, and games with the second were cance...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

Possibly the school janitor remained behind in Cotterville that Saturday, but certainly every one else connected with Wolcott Academy made the journey to Freeburg. Oh, well, of...

19. CHAPTER XIX

The Triumvirate were seated under the maples on the lawn. It was Sunday afternoon, and the hot weather continued, although there was rather more life in the air than there had b...

20. CHAPTER XX

The gathering of the Triumvirate in Loring’s room that Monday evening was rather gloomy for awhile. Tom’s news affected them all. Loring was so disturbed by it that presently To...

21. CHAPTER XXI

Returning from Cotterville, Tom alone of the four occupants of the car was downcast. Loring had discounted the defeat, Mr. Cooper accepted it with cheerful philosophy and Wattle...

22. CHAPTER XXII

Graduation Day was all that it should have been as regarded weather. The morning was warm, but there was a fresh breeze from the southwest that stirred the maples along the vill...

23. CHAPTER XXIII

So Jeff nodded, wound up and pitched, and the Wolcott left fielder met the ball with his bat and sent it right back over Jeff’s head and the trouble began. A reddish-haired lad...