The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant

o come, and spoil our pr

t between now and the game with Belleville on Saturd

ille, tells the truth, both his club and Allandale are stronger than last year. Besides, I hear they ha

more work at the bat.

isfied with

oved a whole

nd fast ones, under the watchful eye of our field captain, Hugh Morgan here, that several other fel

is honest praise on the part of his fellow students of Scranton H

een campus, with its historical fence, behind them, and were on their way h

cipal of the Scranton schools under Dr. Carmack (who was also county supervisor, with dominion over the Allandale and Belleville schools), had consented to act as coach t

inkaid and Horatio Juggins in the bunch that started off from the school grounds in

imself, in answering to the calls for Smith, would always call out "Just S

admirer of Lord Kitchener, who had recently lost his life on the sea when the vessel on which he had started for Russia was sunk by a G

g balloon fliers out in right field with wonderful celerity, consisted

a rally was needed to pull the Scranton boys out of a bad hole. Thad had always been a close chum of the captain of the team, Hugh Mor

ade to his mother, the nature of which the new reader can learn if he wishes, by securing the first volume of this Series. In so doing he will also learn how on one momentous occasion the peace-loving Hugh was brought face to fa

ame to the corner that was nearest his home. Boy

s going to have corned beef and cabbage for noon today. That's said to

ee bowls of it every time. Then it's also a baking day, so there'll be fresh bread rolls, as brown on the outside as nuts in November. Whew! I just can't ho

l boy is generally ferociously hungry by the time two in the afternoon comes around; although at intermission, around eleven in the morning, in Scranton High they were given an opportu

o separate, "suppose you drop over and join me. I've got an errand out a short distance i

s though even the recollection after months had passed caused him to have tender memories of the pain he had endured. "Lucky it wasn't my right wing that got the crack, Hugh, beca

long, owing to our keeping continually at practice every afternoon this week. She gets her fresh sweet butter from

off, doubtless smelling in imagination the fine warm lunch h

riosity shop, for the walls were fairly covered with college pennants, and all manner of things connected with athletic sports, as well as pictures that indicated a love for fishing and gunning on the part of the young occupant; but every illustration was well chosen, and f

hat recent spell of rain was quite cool and invigorating, Indeed, once Thad even deplore

a few teams to overdo things, and lose their best gait in too much work. He says one more test ought to put the proper fighting spirit in us, and that he feels confident we'll be keyed up to top-notch speed

," they started back. Thad proposed that they take a roundabout route home, just for a change; and this small thing was fated to bring them into

head the fire must be in that direction. There's no house in that quarter that I remember, Hugh. There, now can see smoke

t one chap hanging over it. Don't you see he's a Weary Willie of a hobo, who's getting his dinner ready w