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One afternoon, at a football game, he came up to her on the grandstand, shook hands with Jermain Fiske, whom he had flunked innumerable times in algebra, and remarked in his most acid voice that he wished to congratulate the young man on being the perfect specimen of the dolichocephalic blond whose arrival in Sylvia's life he had predicted years before.
At the end of the greenhouse the judge had set up a grandstand, an amphitheatre of benches to hold some five or six thousand pelargoniums in pots a splendid and famous show. People came to see his geraniums in flower, not only from the neighborhood, but even from the departments round about.
"You close your trap!" exclaimed Pale Face Harry savagely; then, to Madison: "Go on, Doc it's up to you." "No," said Doc Madison coolly, "it's up to you. You've got to try, and if you can't stop altogether you can make yourself scarce when you feel the fit coming on you won't have to climb up on the grandstand and cough in people's faces, will you?"
Lynde got first prize for homemade butter and cheese. So Avonlea was pretty well represented, wasn't it? Mrs. Lynde was there that day, and I never knew how much I really liked her until I saw her familiar face among all those strangers. There were thousands of people there, Marilla. It made me feel dreadfully insignificant. And Miss Barry took us up to the grandstand to see the horse races. Mrs.
"Corking crowd, eh, Bruce?" said Nipper Knapp, who stood watching the bank of faces in the grandstand. "You bet it is. Say, we'll have to do our finest. Not a hitch to-day, fellows," said Bruce. "Right-o," asserted half a dozen members of the troop enthusiastically. Then every one became silent, for the director of the carnival had taken the center of the field.
"If I go, I'll take you along, Johnny!" exclaimed Douglas. "See if I don't!" "You sure are crazy, Doug!" laughed Jimmy. "I like the old boy," insisted Douglas. "He and I had better go up and see Jude rake in the prizes." "Right now every prize has been doled out to the regulars," cried Jimmy. "But you should care, Jude! You'll have the grandstand with you, every minute, if the judges aren't."
The tradition was growing rapidly that the proper thing was to invite the "town-girls" to the college proms and dances, and to sit beside them in the grandstand during football games.
No, he's down at the stables or else he's sneaked in through the kitchen; the way he did that other time when he made a grandstand exit after I'd ventured to lecture him on his general rottenness. Remember how worried about him you were, that time; till we found him sitting in the kitchen and pestering the maids? He " "But that time, he was only sulky," said the Mistress.
It was in a broad unfenced stretch of valley bottom on the outskirts of town and a grandstand had been erected there for the Firemen's Tournament in the spring, so well remembered by the "smoke-eaters" of Quarry Troop. A deep woods stretched along the west side of the field and Otter Creek formed the southern boundary, while the highway to St. Cloud ran across its northern extreme.
The halfback went over the goal line. The Kiowa delegation didn't know whether to go crazy with joy or disgust. Our end of the grandstand clapped its hands pleasantly. Down in the Faculty box one or two of the professors, who hadn't forgotten everything this side of the Fall of Rome, wiggled uneasily and got a little bit red behind the ears. The teams changed goals and Rearick kicked off again.
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