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Then these West Point men strolled over to quarters to get into togs. As they were to play subs. they did not need to be as early at togging as the members of the team. Out on Franklin Field thousands and thousands of Americans, from the President of the United States down, waited impatiently for the excitement of the day to begin.
Grace Dodge was not, as yet, well on the way to recovery, but Dick Prescott, with his strong will power, and the grit that came of Gridley athletics, was now togging hastily to play in the great game -though he had not, as yet, returned to school after his disaster. Out near the grandstand the band crashed forth for the tenth time. Gridley High School bannerets waved by the hundreds.
"Poor old Dick!" sighed Darrin one day, as the members of the squad were togging to go on to the field. "Why?" Dan demanded. "Because, in spite of myself, I find that I am making a personal matter of the whole business. Dan, I'm obliged to be candid with myself. It has come to the point that it is Prescott and Holmes that I want to beat!" "Same case here," Dan admitted readily.
"No," replied Dr. Bentley hesitatingly. "It might be a greater crime to keep him off the gridiron today. Men have been known to die of grief." Probably a football player never had more assistance in togging up for a game. Those who couldn't get in close enough to help Dick dress growled at the others for keeping them out. "You seem uneasy, Coach," murmured Captain Wadleigh, aside. "I am."
Of course you are going to make good, but talk will sound better after deeds." Most of the fellows who were togging were uneasy. They wanted, with all their hearts, to win this day's game. First of all, the game was needed in order to preserve their record for unbroken victories.
And what a rueful countenance the young captain of the team displayed! "Suffering Ebenezer, man, but what has happened?" gasped Dave. All the other Gridley youngsters stopped half way in their togging to listen for the reply. "Nothing much," grunted Dick. "Yet it came near to being too much. A man bumped me, as I was getting on the car, and drove me against the iron dasher.
Truth to tell, Drayne still intended to play, but he wanted to teach these fellows a lesson. He intended to make them beg, from Wadleigh down, before he would go on to the finish of his togging. Drayne knew when he had the advantage of them. "Don't be a fool, Drayne," broke in Hudson hotly. "Or a traitor to your school," added another. "Be a man!"
Wouldn't mind togging up in kilts just to give the Prince of Wales a run for his money." For the sake of giving prominence to it, this paragraph was put in a fancy border and let into the middle of the sheet of newspaper, so the Chicago people evidently attached some importance to the capitulation of the worthy captain, and I hope that by this time he has had many thousands of cracks at the golf ball and that his handicap is low.
This was what "the message of Emerson" meant to Westley, and the novelty of it had seemed to justify what he called "togging up," after a hard day's work at the slaughter-house. If, then, he listened to Mrs. Potts at first with wonder-widening eyes, amazed at Mr.
I'm no petticoated Paul Peel, but I can see enough beauty in the curves of that velvety body to lift it up and bite it on its promptly protesting little flank. And there's unclouded glory in occasionally togging him out in spotless white, and beholding him as immaculate as a cherub, if only for one brief half-hour. It's the transiency of that spotlessness, I suppose, which crowns it with glory.
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