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Swiftly he ran, dodging among the catclaw and the prickly pear like a half-back carrying the ball through a broken field. His objective was the place where the arroyo opened to a draw. At this precise spot Steelman had located his derrick. The tower no longer tapered gauntly to the sky.
"And what a body he has! He would make a great half-back." "Poor Ranald! I hope he will make a great and good man," said his aunt, with a ring of sadness in her voice. "Why poor, auntie?" "I'm sure I do not know," she said, with a very uncertain smile playing about her mouth.
For man is essentially the first of the "game" animals and beneath fine clothes there nearly always beats a heart ready, quite suddenly, to snatch the fearful joy of battle. Von Holzen did not disappoint him, but came flying on silent feet, like some beast of prey, from the darkness. Cornish had played half-back for his school not so many years before.
"Well, for one thing, to go to school," was Jack's amiable response. "Go to school! Why why, you've already had the best of educations! Exeter Yale not to speak of private tutors!" "And what did I learn? That is," he added, "over and above being a fairly decent half-back and learning how to spend money u'm pretty thoroughly." "I trust," said Mrs.
And then, when, finally, the first and second lined up for a twenty-minute scrimmage, he saw the coveted place again filled by the substitute half-back and found himself sitting, blanket-wrapped, on the bench! Tracey Black, catching his eye between periods, smiled sympathetically.
He lived with Dr. Fulton as office boy and general helper and the doctor was clothing and educating him. Charlie was half-back of the school football team, a famous player and a great favorite. The girls flirted with him. The boys were jealous of his favor. Even in the snob-ridden High School there was here a hangover of the pure democracy of childhood.
Then he was holding Roberts off as best he could, neck and hip, and Kendall, the 'varsity right half, was cutting in. With a lunge, Clint pivoted around Roberts and tackled hard and firm as the half-back came through.
The back and half-back of the Archangels were tearing down on her just as she was within reach of the ball. Hughes leaned forward with a loose rein, and cut it away to the left almost under Kittiwynk's foot, and it hopped and skipped off to Corks, who saw that, if he was not quick it would run beyond the boundaries.
"'What changeling is this? I demanded in a loud voice, for the being that twisted in my grip was two or two hundred years old. "'Lay him down, you monster! clamoured the nurse, as I held the squirming bundle by both hands. It was a task and I'm very strong. A superhuman strength waged against my muscles; but I was an old football half-back at the university, so I conquered the poor little devil.
What though the Scots, like demons suddenly released from hell, the half-back Cameron most demon-like of all, rage over the field, driving the Welshmen hither and thither at will, the gods deny them victory; it is for Wales that day! In the retreat of their rubbing-room the gay, gallant humour which the Scots have carried with them off the field of their defeat, vanishes into gloom.
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