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The Chums of Scranton High Or, Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Chums of Scranton High, by Donald Ferguson
Title: The Chums of Scranton High
Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
Author: Donald Ferguson
Release Date: June 14, 2006 [eBook #18587]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
[Frontispiece: "Are you through?" demanded, Hugh sternly.]
THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH
OR
Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
BY
DONALD FERGUSON
THE GOLDSMITH PUBLISHING CO.
CLEVELAND
MADE IN U. S. A.
COPYRIGHT, 1919
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | A FENCE WITH A HISTORY |
| II. | THE BOYS OF OLD SCRANTON |
| III. | HUGH SHOULDERS A HEAVY TASK |
| IV. | IN FOR A FROLIC |
| V. | THE TRAGIC AFFAIR ON THE ROAD |
| VI. | MAKING A GOOD JOB OF IT |
| VII. | CALLED OUT FOR PRACTICE |
| VIII. | THAD MAKES A DISCOVERY |
| IX. | JUST BETWEEN CHUMS |
| X. | A VISITOR FROM BELLEVILLE HIGH |
| XI. | HUGH'S PETS IN DANGER |
| XII. | THE TRAP |
| XIII. | A COLD RECEPTION |
| XIV. | NICK AS A GAP-STOPPER |
| XV. | PRETTY POLLY UNDER SUSPICION |
| XVI. | THE RESCUE AT HOBSON'S MILL-POND |
| XVII. | LITTLE BRUTUS AND HIS "COLLECTION" |
| XVIII. | A STRAIGHT DRIVE FOR THE TRUTH |
| XIX. | HUGH REACHES HIS GOAL |
| XX. | LOOKING FORWARD--CONCLUSION |
THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH
CHAPTER I
A FENCE WITH A HISTORY
"The best day so far this spring, fellows!"
"It feels mighty much like baseball weather, for a fact, Otto!"
"True for you, K. K., though there's still just a little tang to this April air."
"What of that, Eli? The big leagues have opened shop all over the land, and the city papers are already full of baseball scores, and diamond lore. We ought to be getting busy ourselves in little old Scranton."
"Allandale High is practicing. Sandy Dowd and I saw a bunch of the boys out on their field after school yesterday, didn't we, Sandy?"
"That's right, we did. And I understand Belleville expects to put an extra hard-hitting nine in the game this season. They're still sore over the terrible drubbing Allandale gave them last summer."
"Since Scranton has now become a member of the Three-Town League, taking the place of Lawrence when that nine dropped out, seems to me we ought to lose no time if we expect to commence practicing. That same Allandale team swept the circuit, you remember, like a hurricane."
"We've plenty of good material, fellows, believe me, right here in Scranton High.