Left End Edwards

Left End Edwards, by Ralph
Henry Barbour

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Title: Left End Edwards
Author: Ralph Henry Barbour
Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea
Release Date: February 24, 2007 [EBook #20650]
Language: English
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LEFT END EDWARDS

[Illustration: The "Forward Pass"]

LEFT END EDWARDS
BY
RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
AUTHOR OF
THE HALF-BACK, ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES M. RELYEA
[Illustration]
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Made in the United States of America
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I FATHERS AND SONS 3
II OFF TO SCHOOL 13

III STOP THIEF! 24
IV OUT FOR BRIMFIELD! 40
V NUMBER 12 BILLINGS 51
VI CLUES! 62
VII THE CONFIDENCE-MAN 73
VIII IN THE RUBBING ROOK 86
IX BACK IN TOGS 98
X "CHEAP FOR CASH" 112
XI "HOLD 'EM, THIRD!" 125
XII CANTERBURY ROMPS ON--AND OFF 142
XIII SAWYER VOWS VENGEANCE 157
XIV A LESSON IN TACKLING 170
XV STEVE WINNOWS SOME CHAFF 182
XVI MR. DALEY IS OUT 202
XVII THE BLUE-BOOK 212
XVIII B PLUS AND D MINUS 225
XIX THE SECOND PUTS IT OVER 235
XX BLOWS ARE STRUCK 251
XXI FRIENDS FALL OUT 267
XXII STEVE GETS A SURPRISE 285

XXIII DURKIN SHEDS LIGHT 297
XXIV THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE 309
XXV TOM TO THE RESCUE 323
XXVI AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF 334
XXVII STEVE SMILES 346
XXVIII THE CHUMS READ A TELEGRAM 360

ILLUSTRATIONS
The "Forward Pass" Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Steve slipped on the tiling and fell sidewise into the water (page 166)
80
"Lift!" instructed the quarter-back. "Lift me up and yank my feet out
from under me! Use your weight and throw me back!" 178
It was Steve, Steve on his back, with only his head and shoulders above
the water 324

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CHAPTER I
FATHERS AND SONS
"Dad, what does 'Mens sana in corpore sano' mean?"
Mr. Edwards slightly lowered his Sunday paper and over the top of it

frowned abstractedly at the boy on the window-seat. "Eh?" he asked.
"What was that?"
"'Mens sana in corpore sano,' sir."
"Oh!" Mr. Edwards blinked through his reading glasses and rustled the
paper. Finally, "For a boy who has studied as much Latin as you have,"
he said disapprovingly, "the question is extraordinary, to say the least.
I'd advise you to--hm--find your dictionary, Steve." And Mr. Edwards
again retired from sight.
Steve, cross-legged on the broad seat that filled the library bay, a seat
which commanded an uninterrupted view up and down the street,
smiled into the open pamphlet he held.
"He doesn't know," he said to himself with a chuckle. "It's something
about your mind and your body, though. Never mind." He idly fluttered
the leaves of the pamphlet and glanced out into the street to see if any
friends were in sight. But it was Sunday afternoon, and rainy, and the
wide, maple-bordered street, its neat artificial stone sidewalks
shimmering with moisture, was quite deserted. With a sigh Steve went
back to the pamphlet. It bore the inscription on the outer cover:
"Brimfield Academy," and, below, in parenthesis, "William Torrence
Foundation."
"What does 'William Torrence Foundation' mean, dad?" asked the boy.
Again Mr. Edwards lowered his paper, with a sigh. "It means, as you
will discover for yourself if you will take the trouble to read the
catalogue, that a man named William Torrence gave the money to
establish the school. Now, for goodness sake, Steve, let me read in
peace for a minute!"
"Yes, sir. Thank you." Steve turned the pages, glanced again at the
"View of Main Building from the Lawn" and began to read. "In 1878
William Torrence, Esq., of New York City, visited his native town of
Brimfield and interested the citizens in a plan to establish a school on a
large tract of land at the edge of the town which had been in the

Torrence family for many generations. Two years later the school was
built and, under the title of Torrence Seminary, began a successful
career which has lasted for thirty-two years. Under the principalship of
Dr. Andrew Morey, the institution increased rapidly in usefulness, and
in 1892 it was found necessary to add two wings to the original
structure at a cost of $34,000, also the gift of the founder. Dr. Morey's
connection with