News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-03
,ne or two of the best specimensY'

."Of course | did, and | want you to
take the check. You need some gloves
or things. don't your
whats the reason I~can't earn a
check of my own" asked Freeda sud-
denly.
Girls can't do literary work." was
on Edwards tongue in the excitement
of his newborn authorship, but the
recollection of the editors caution stop
ped him. He looked at Freeda rather
obviously, however, and Freeda read
his skepticism concerning girls as writ
ers.
"What would you say if l received a
$40 check some time for an articleT"
81 should say, Good for your But
l didn't know that
Didn't know whatP' asked Freeda
promptly.
why, the girls in Hope don't ever
read the daily papers. They don't
know where Manila is. | heard one of
the girls ask another one the other day
if Manila was off the coast of Guinea"
"Ned Blake, that's a piece of fiction"
"No, it isn't" said Edward, with n
grin. IT'S a fact that college girls
don't read the daily papers, and they
don't talk about anything in the dining
room but the boys or their lessons or
the teachers or something like that"
concluded Edward, rather tamely. He
was always a shy person in the COM
pany of the girl students and in the
habit of criticising them rather deeply.
Some of what you say is true. We
a change it perhaps. What would
you say to a rival literary circle of
girls who had more articles accepted
and paid for than yours? Girls are
smart as boys with the pen"
Edward looked his doubts.
well print all the bona fide articles
you girls have accepted and paid
for in the college journal and pay you
81 apiece for them BESIDES" he said,
making the offer on the strength of
his editorship.
"Done!" exclaimed Freeda, laughing.
Edward went away feeling sure that
Freeda herself would do something,
for he had great admiration for her
and genuine pride and affection in his
thought of her. But his doubts
amounted almost to positive convic-
tons that a girls literary circle could
not be made to succeed.
All of his experience came to him
after his second football trial. He had
finally yielded to the pressure early
in the fall term and had gone into the
team as right tackle, where he was
doing magnificent work. In the first
game that was played with a rival col
lege he had distinguished himself by
making a field goal by a difficult play
that had not been attempted for years.
The students were wild over it. The
enthusiasm could not have been high
er if he had captured Aguinaldo by per-
sonal combat. The girls worshiped
Edward Blake, the silent, and, after
the mysterious fashion of girls, admir-
ed him all the more apparently because
he paid no attention to any of them.
And then came IN event that put the
whole question of college athletics be-
fore Edward in a new light and stirred
up Hope college with an internal war
that rivaled the n across the sea.
succeeded Reynolds was a good fellow,
a fair student and a young mar with
plenty of means. He could afford to
devote all his leisure time to football,
because he was not obliged, as Edward
was, to work his way through college.
And that was one factor in the trouble
that now arose between Edward and
the rest Of the team.
In making out the schedule of games
with other college teams at a distance
the captain arranged for a six days
tour, Hope college team to play four
games in that time. They were to
start Monday morning and get back to
Raynor the following Sunday after
noon.
When the schedule of games was
first talked of, Edward objected on ac-
count of the time it took from college
work.
"Why can't we arrange all the games
necessary nearer home? If the game is
the main thing, l don't see what we
make by going such distances and TAX
ing so much time from the studies.
Besides, | have my paper route. IT
will be hard to arrange to leave that
with any one else. | could fix it for a
day or two, but not for a whole week
very well. Besides, it's too much to
make up all the studies. | don't have
the time that most of you fellows
have"
ooh. pshaw, Blake! Even old Quad
will pass a football player through on
exams. Burroughs same as said at
last university game that he would
guarantee to pass all the fellows in
his division If they won the game.
Burroughs was a tutor in German
who was an old football player him
self
Besides, old man." said the captain,
"the president likes to have the team