Tip Top Weekly No. 52: Frank Merriwell's Dash — page 9: what you’re looking at

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6 FRANK MERRIWELI’S DASH. ‘*He said he was.” ‘Well, let’s talk about another mat- ‘*Was what?” ter,’? said Bruce. ‘‘The tournament at “‘Convinced that you hed.” Madison Square Garden ts right upon us. This provoked a laugh. When the) Are you on for anything, Merriwell?” laughing had ceased, Griswold sagely ob-| ‘‘Yes,’? answered Frank, ‘I shall take served : part in several contests.’ “It is remarkable that man isthe only| ‘‘How about the mile run?’ questioned animal that can lie standing up.”” Diamond. , ‘“‘Say, you chaps,’ called Frank, ‘‘drop| ‘‘I believe Yates isin for that,’’ said this sort of chatter, and answer my ques-: Merriwell. tion. How many of you are in for spend-| ‘‘That’s something I want to speak to ing the summer vaction in a bicycle trip: you about,’’? drawled Bruce. across the continent?” | ———— ‘You'll have to excuse me,’? said CHAPTER III. Griswold, as he followed Stubbs’ example |! and lighted a ciagrette. ‘‘1’m going down! to Bar Harbor, and play tennis on my| Frank was rather surprised, as Brown- BROWNING’S DETERMINATION. vacation. ”’ ing had taken very little interest in. ath- “T can’t endure tennis,’? drawled |letics of late. During his early days at Browning. Yale Bruce had been a pusher in athletic ‘T should say not. Too much exertion matters, being at that time an athlete for you.”’ himself, as he kept himself-in form and “It ig not that. I don’t like to be|held back the threatening development around where others are playing it.”’ of flesh by the severest sort of training. ‘Don’t? Why not?” But Bruce could not continue to resist ‘‘Because it so noisy.”’ the temptations of his appetite, and it be- “Noisy? Christmas! How do you make|came more and more difficult for him to that out?’ - jkeep in trim. Aslong as he was a fresh- “Why, you can’t play it without ajman he had done so, but when he became racket,’’ said Browning. a sophomore he gradually abandoned the Griswold staggered and clutched at|struggle. | his heart. | Still he had remained active asa leader, ‘What papers have you been reading ?’’ |and had been known. at one time as ‘‘the he gasped. King. of the Sophomores.’’ His final Diamond spoke up for the first time: jeffort at training had been when he put *¢7}] tell you what Pll do, Merriwell— | himself in condition to meet Merriwell in I'll go on this bicycle trip across the cou-|a four-round hard-glove contest. tinent, if I can secure my mother’scon-| ‘The bout had been pronounced a draw, sent.” but Browning afterward acknowledged “Will you?’ cried Frank, eagerly. |that he must have been knocked out had ‘Then see her as soon as possible. I {it continued to a finish.. couldn't ask for a better fellow than you.| From that time Browning’s interest in Harry thinks he can go, and that .makes|athletic matters waned. three of us. We'll do the trick, even! He lost ambition in that line, and he if we-can’t get another fellow. Is it|soon became so overburdened with flesh S amaeaaal agreed ?”? that nothing save a question of. life or “Tt is agreed if I can get my mother to!death could have induced him to go into agree to it,’’ assured Jack. training. COnicloooks (SO)