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Owen Johnson. The Eternal Boy
The Eternal Boy
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE AWAKENING OF HICKEY
II
THE GREAT PANCAKE RECORD
THE RUN THAT TURNED THE GAME
THE FUTURE PRESIDENT
FURTHER PERSECUTION OF HICKEY
MAKING FRIENDS
THE HERO OF AN HOUR
THE PROTEST AGAINST SINKERS
BEAUTY'S SISTER
THE GREAT BIG MAN
Footnote
THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MR. BALDWIN
THE MARTYRDOM OF WILLIAM HICKS
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Owen Johnson
Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey
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"A dead loss!"
With each succeeding week Hungry Smeed comprehended more fully the enormity of his offence in doing nothing and weighing one hundred and six pounds. He saw the new boys arrive, pass through the fire of christening, give respectable weights and go forth to the gridiron to be whipped into shape by Turkey and the Butcher, who played on the school eleven. Smeed humbly and thankfully went down each afternoon to the practice, carrying the sweaters and shin-guards, like the grateful little beast of burden that he was. He watched his juniors, Spider and Red Dog, rolling in the mud or flung gloriously under an avalanche of bodies; but then, they weighed over one hundred and thirty, while he was still at one hundred and six—a dead loss! The fever of house loyalty invaded him; he even came to look with resentment on the Faculty and to repeat secretly to himself that they never would have unloaded him on the Dickinson if they hadn't been willing to stoop to any methods to prevent the House again securing the championship.
