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"The water's just fine for swimming to-day," ecstatically remarked Tom Reade, as he came up, blew the water from his mouth and took a few strokes. "In fact, the water's too fine." "Too fine?" queried Dave. "How so?" "Why, it makes a fellow feel so fine," retorted Tom, "that I'm afraid it will make us all winners, and then there won't be any glory for either school."
There were other contests between the Hilltop boys alone, and the Rocky Hills alone, as well as between teams made up of both camps, the winners being about evenly divided and the best of good feeling prevailing. In the final motor-boat race Jack Sheldon won by several lengths, his opponent saying with a smile: "Well, I did push you a bit, Sheldon, but you left me a long way behind for all that.
At times the gambler in him would assert itself and he would tell the lucky winners, wrathfully, how the stock he wished to buy but couldn't the week before had risen 18 points.
The lower deck hums with fear that after all it will not taste that toothsome hippo chop, for the man who has caught the rope is as nearly as possible jerked flying out of the canoe when the strain of the Eclaireur contending with the hippo's inertia flies along it, but his companion behind him grips him by the legs and is in his turn grabbed, and the crew holding on to each other with their hands, and on to their craft with their feet, save the man holding on to the rope and the whole situation; and slowly bobbing towards us comes the hippopotamus, who is shortly hauled on board by the winners in triumph.
Wells Fargo! It was the old Wells Butterfield Co. again. The first winners in the struggle were the last. The railroad came. Men said that the day of adventure was over. But this adventure has not ended yet. While this story was being written another pioneer died on that overland mail route.
In each of these events the Pollard boats were the winners. At the moving targets the Day Submarine took second place away from the Rhinds boats; in the other events the Rhinds craft came in second, though rather close to the records achieved by the Pollard submarines. Farnum was elated, of course. So were his young officers.
Tom received a handsome silver cup and Miss Nestor a gold bracelet. "Now I want all the contestants, winners and losers, to come up to my house and have lunch," invited Mr. Hastings. As Tom and the balloonist strolled up the walk to the handsome house Andy Foger passed them. "You wouldn't have beaten me if my spark coil hadn't gone back on me," he said, somewhat sneeringly.
Nolan tries to get me off the chain onto a showing leash, but he shakes so, he only chokes me. "What is it, Miss?" he says. "What is it?" "The Winner's Class," says Miss Dorothy. "The Judge wants him with the winners of the other classes to decide which is the best. It's only a form," says she. "He has the champions against him now." "Yes," says the gentleman, as he hurries us to the ring.
At the end of the final round, however, Dave's team had a clean balance of ten counts over the combined records of the Pickets, the winners showing a total of ninety-five successful throws out of a possible one hundred and twenty.
They are the symbols of victory, labels of the winners; it is the fame attaching to them that is worth any price to their holders; that is why the man whose quest of honour leads through toil is content to take his kicks. No toil, no honour; he who covets that must start with enduring hardship; when he has done that, he may begin to look for the pleasure and profit his labours are to bring. An.
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