Full-Back Foster
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Barbour Ralph Henry. Full-Back Foster
CHAPTER I. MYRON ARRIVES
CHAPTER II. SO DOES JOE DOBBINS
CHAPTER III. THE “IMPOSSIBLE FELLOW”
CHAPTER IV. MYRON DECIDES TO STAY
CHAPTER V. ON THE GRIDIRON
CHAPTER VI “A. T. MERRIMAN”
CHAPTER VII. WITH THE AWKWARD SQUAD
CHAPTER VIII. JOE TALKS SENSE
CHAPTER IX. MYRON LOSES HIS TEMPER
CHAPTER X. THE CHALLENGE
CHAPTER XI. MYRON MISSES AN ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER XII. ELDREDGE REJECTS A SUBSTITUTE
CHAPTER XIII. MYRON CHANGES HIS MIND
CHAPTER XIV “CHAS”
CHAPTER XV. THE PLAN
CHAPTER XVI. CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER XVII. A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XVIII. MYRON GETS HIS CHANCE
CHAPTER XIX. DOCTOR LANE INTERVENES
CHAPTER XX. ANDY TAKES A JOURNEY
CHAPTER XXI. AN EARLY MORNING CALL
CHAPTER XXII. MYRON COMES BACK
CHAPTER XXIII. REINSTATED
CHAPTER XXIV. EDDIE APPLIES THE BRAKE
CHAPTER XXV. FALSE COLOURS
CHAPTER XXVI. BEHIND THE STAND
CHAPTER XXVII. FULL-BACK FOSTER
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Myron didn’t know who “that Hoyt guy” might be, but he was sure that he or some one else had made a horrible mistake. Why, this big, good-natured, badly-dressed boy was the roughest sort of a “roughneck,” the identical type, doubtless, that his mother had spoken of so distastefully! Myron viewed him during a moment of silence, at a loss for words. The newcomer had removed his tattered hat and was now struggling with a jacket that, far too tight in the sleeves, parted reluctantly from the moist garments beneath. But it came off finally and the boy tossed it carelessly to a chair and stretched a pair of long arms luxuriously ere he sank onto it. “That train was like a furnace all the way, and the ice-water gave out at Hartford,” he said. “Well, here we are, though. What’s your name? Mine’s Dobbins; Joe Dobbins, only they generally call me ‘Whoa.’”
“My name is Foster,” replied Myron rather weakly.
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“Sure,” grinned Joe. “Anything to oblige, Foster.” He had already dropped his feet, and now he drew his suspenders over his shoulders again and slipped his feet back into his shoes. “Don’t guess I’ll ever get on to the ways of the best circles, Foster. I’m what you call an Unspoiled Child of Nature. Well, what did the guy in the Office say? I’m betting I was right, kiddo.”
“And don’t call me ‘kiddo’! You know my name. Use it.”
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