Crofton Chums

Crofton Chums

Huh! Poke folded them carefully and then tossed them in the general direction of the closet. Id hate to tell you, Gil, what they stood me. But theyre good for ten years; anyhow, thats what the tailor man said. Those[4] trousers, Gil, will descend from generation to generation, down through the ages, likelike A mortgage, suggested Gil Benton, helpfully, as he turned again to the view of autumn landscape framed by the open casement. Just under the window, beyond the graveled path, the smooth turf descended gently to the rim of the little river which curved placidly along below the school buildings barely a stones throw away. (Joe Cosgrove, baseball captain, had once engaged, on a wager, to place a baseball across it from the steps of Academy Hall, and had succeeded at the third attempt. As Academy stands farthest from the stream of any of the buildings, Joes throw was something of a feat, and many a perfectly good baseball had been sacrificed since by ambitious youths set on duplicating his performance.) The Academy side of the river was clear of vegetation, but along the farther bank graceful weeping willows dipped their trailing branches in the water and threw cool green shadows across the surface. Beyond, the willows gave place to alders and swamp-oaks and basswood, and then, as the ground rose to the rolling hills, maples, already showing the first light frosts, clustered thick.[5] Here and there the white trunks of paper-birches showed against the hillside. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 60894
Author: Barbour, Ralph Henry
Release Date: Dec 10, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Relyea, C. M. (Charles M.), 1863-1932