The high school boys' training hike - or, Making themselves "Hard as nails" (1913) (14566478137)

Identifier: highschoolboystr00hanc (find matches)
Title: The high school boys' training hike : or, Making themselves "Hard as nails"
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving), 1868-1922
Subjects:
Publisher: Philadelphia : Altemus
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
ou want to see Gridley High School winmore laurels in sports and athletics ? askedanother girl. Yes, assented Miss Bentley, and Id liketo see the boys here, anyway, whether they wona canoe race or not. Theres a crew canoe putting off from theother side now! announced Belle Meade. Thats probably Preston High School,said Laura. Have the Preston boys a war canoe, too?asked one of the girls, shading her eyes withher hand, and staring hard at the canoe acrossthe lake, some three quarters of a mile away. Someone at the hotel said the Preston boyshave a cedar and canvas canoe, Laura replied. Thats a birch-bark canoe over yonder,declared the girl who was studying the distantcraft so intently. I can tell by the way thesun shines on the wet places along the sidesof the canoe. The other girls were now looking eagerly. Wait a moment, begged Clara, and, turn-ing, sped lightly to the boathouse near by. Shereturned with a telescope. Hurry! begged Laura Bentley as Clarastarted to focus the telescope.
Text Appearing After Image:
Hurrah! Gridlej High School!121 m KEW YOJU PJRLIC UBBARY CANOE CLUB 123 You take it, proposed Clara generously,passing the glass to Laura. Laura soon had the telescope focused. Hurrah, girls! she cried. t Thats the warcanoe from Gridley, and Dick & Co. are in it. She passed the glass to Belle Meade, who tookan eager peep through it. Hurrah! Gridley High School! Hurrah! chorused the other girls. Their voices must have traveled across thewater, for Prescott, at the stern of the warcanoe, suddenly gave a couple of strokes withhis wet, flashing paddle, that swung the prowaround, driving the canoe straight in the di-rection of the landing float. Hurrah! Gridley High School! Hurrah!called the girls again, giving the high schoolyell of the girls of that institution of learning. In answer a series of whoops came over thewater. Theyre coming at racing speed! criedLaura. Which shows how devoted the bovs of our V high school are to the young ladies/ laughedBelle. Within a few minutes the can