Part 1 (1/2)
The Outdoor Chu Game
by Captain Quincy Allen
CHAPTER I
GLORIOUS NEWS
”hello, there, _Red Rover_! Coside!”
”What's the row, fellows? This dandy breeze is too good to be wasted loafing”
”Frank's co like a streak!”
”Yes, and reat news!”
Will Milton and Jerry Wallington sat in the double canoe, that with flapping sails pointed its stem into the wind; while their chu all his schoolmates as Bluff, manipulated the dainty fifteen-foot cedar craft in which he had been speeding over the surface of Caet boat, constructed on the sa down before the wind, and presently brought up alongside the other craft
It contained a single young fellow, upon whose frank and open face rested a broad s news
”What makes you look so happy, Frank? Evidently you've heard that your exae next year for yours,” ree of envy in his quivering voice
”Right for you! But that is only the beginning of ht Jerry by the ar to catch his breath
”Well, I should say you were, and with even better honors than poor me
Now, the rest of you fellows, don't look that way It's all right, I tell you,” went on the bearer of news, trying to control his own voice, but succeeding only a little better than Jerry
”Say! do you h, after all?” exclaimed Will
Frank nodded his head enthusiastically
”Careful, now, you wild Indians! Just remember that you're in canoes that can be upset easily, and unless you want a ducking out in the middle of the lake, restrain your enthusias in the world, cli over the stern of a canoe with all your clothes on,” he warned them
”But is it really true?” pleaded Will ”Have I crawled through decently?
Well, I'ether a while longer, in college, but hty well pleased”
Will's mother was a rich , and as he had only a twin sister, Violet, for who, the tere more than ordinarily dear to Mrs Milton
”Well, fellows, let's give one ood fortune,” said Jerry, his face beaht; for the chule one been left behind on the following year, when the college terret
”Hip, hip, hurrah! Hurrah! hurrah! Tiger!”
No doubt, many persons ashore, who heard that lusty shout co over the clear water of the beautiful little lake on which the town of Centerville was located, wondered what the burst of enthusiasm meant