The Chums of Scranton High

so far this sp

like baseball weathe

h there's still just a litt

d, and the city papers are already full of baseball scores, and diamo

d I saw a bunch of the boys out on their fie

an extra hard-hitting nine in the game this season. They're stil

nce when that nine dropped out, seems to me we ought to lose no time if we expect to commen

Scranton High. And somehow I've got a hunch that we're going to m

That's a wee Yankee trick you must

tch ancestors were. You love to look at the world through smoked glasses. On my part, I prefer to use

p rail of the campus fence. That same fence of Scranton High was almost as famous, in its

appointed places in the busy marts of the world, kept a warm corner in their hearts for sacred memories of that dear old fence. Many a glorious campaign of sport or mischief had been talked over by a line o

building that had been erected, a storm of angry protest arose from students and parents; while letters arrived from a score and more of eminent men who were proud to call S

h school they, too, might have the proud privilege of "roosting" on its well-worn rails. Possibly it will still be in existence when some of

just as well be briefly introduced here as later, as all of them are destined to take pa

look back to a Scotch ancestry, and occasionally a touch of the brogue might be detected in his speech; Sandy Dowd had red hair, blue eyes and a host of very noticeable freckles; but could be good-natured in spite of a

given authority to handle all questions connected with athletics. As a rule, they carried out their duties in a broad

l team to which would be given the proud privilege of representing the school that season in the Three-Town League. No one knew absolutely just who would b

a bold eye. He seemed to be no favorite among the boys, though they treated him with a certain amount of respect. Well, there is

the acme of pleasure with him, and it was seldom that he could be seen without some trace o

ldness. He would rather attain his revenge through some petty means, being a born sneak. The boys only tolerated Leon because Nick cho

he at least was known to be a smart hand at athletics, and

, which had become general, Eli chanc

st, just to think of his nerve. Perhaps a few other fellows might feel

and live with a queer old gentleman he calls his grandfather, but who chooses to keep aloof from Scranton folks as if he were a hermit. I happen to know that two of ou

things on the spur of the moment, and then perhaps afterwards feel sorry for having done

the notorious Luther Dugdale who has had a bad reputation as a dishonest operator down in the Wall Street district in New York. Why, lately I even asked my cousin in a letter about that man, and he wrote me the old chap had strangely disappeared som

thing new you're

your vocation if you don't look for a job with

having a friendly little bout with fists through that kid. As the rest of you happen to know I've tried about every other way to make the coward fight, and he only gives me

d boldly into the river at the risk of his own life, and saved little Tommy Crabbe just when the unfortunate child was about to be drawn by the fierce current under the ice. Still, no one had eve

d Andy McGuffey wa

and is hurrying along at almost a run. Say, it may be he's fetching some news from the committee, because he told me he had an