The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf

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Barbour Ralph Henry. The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf

CHAPTER I. THE BOY IN THE STRAW HAT

CHAPTER II. STATION ROAD AND RIVER PATH

CHAPTER III. OUTFIELD WEST

CHAPTER IV. THE HEAD COACH

CHAPTER V. A RAINY AFTERNOON

CHAPTER VI. THE PRACTICE GAME

CHAPTER VII. A LETTER HOME

CHAPTER VIII. THE GOLF TOURNAMENT

CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING CALL

CHAPTER X. THE BROKEN BELL ROPE

CHAPTER XI. TWO HEROES

CHAPTER XII. THE PROBATION OF BLAIR

CHAPTER XIII. THE GAME WITH ST. EUSTACE

CHAPTER XIV. THE GOODWIN SCHOLARSHIP

CHAPTER XV. THE BOAT RACE

CHAPTER XVI. GOOD-BY TO HILLTON

CHAPTER XVII. THE SACRED ORDER OF HULLABALOOLOO

CHAPTER XVIII. VISITORS FROM MARCHDALE

CHAPTER XIX. A VARSITY SUB

CHAPTER XX. AN OLD FRIEND

CHAPTER XXI. THE DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XXII. BEFORE THE BATTLE

CHAPTER XXIII. HARWELL VS. YATES–THE FIRST HALF

CHAPTER XXIV. HARWELL VS. YATES–A FAULT AND A REQUITAL

CHAPTER XXV. THE RETURN

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Traveling north by rail up the Hudson Valley you will come, when some two hours from New York, to a little stone depot nestling at the shoulder of a high wooded hill. To reach it the train suddenly leaves the river a mile back, scurries across a level meadow, shrills a long blast on the whistle, and pauses for an instant at Hillton. If your seat chances to be on the left side of the car, and if you look quickly just as the whistle sounds, you will see in the foreground a broad field running away to the river, and in it an oval track, a gayly colored grand stand, and just beyond, at some distance from each other, what appear to the uninitiated to be two gallows. Farther on rises a gentle hill, crowned with massive elms, from among which tower the tops of a number of picturesque red-brick buildings.

Then the train hurries on again, under the shadow of Mount Adam, where in the deep maple woods the squirrels leap all day among the tree tops and where the sunlight strives year after year to find its way through the thick shade, and once more the river is beside you, the train is speeding due north again, and you have, perhaps without knowing it, caught a glimpse of Hillton Academy.

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"Saved? Why, I'm dead broke this minute. And I owe three bills in town. Don't tell any one, because it's against the rules to have bills, you know. Anyhow, what's the good of saving? There's lots more." It was March's turn to stare.

"What do you spend it for?" he asked.

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