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Title: The Chums of Scranton High
Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight

Author: Donald Ferguson

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THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH

Or

Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight

by

DONALD FERGUSON

[Frontispiece: "Are you through?" demanded, Hugh sternly.]

The Goldsmith Publishing Co.
Cleveland
Made in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A FENCE WITH A HISTORY
II. THE BOYS OF OLD SCRANTON
III. HUGH SHOULDERS A HEAVY TASK
IV. IN FOR A FROLIC
V. THE TRAGIC AFFAIR ON THE ROAD
VI. MAKING A GOOD JOB OF IT
VII. CALLED OUT FOR PRACTICE
VIII. THAD MAKES A DISCOVERY
IX. JUST BETWEEN CHUMS
X. A VISITOR FROM BELLEVILLE HIGH
XI. HUGH'S PETS IN DANGER
XII. THE TRAP
XIII. A COLD RECEPTION
XIV. NICK AS A GAP-STOPPER
XV. PRETTY POLLY UNDER SUSPICION
XVI. THE RESCUE AT HOBSON'S MILL-POND
XVII. LITTLE BRUTUS AND HIS "COLLECTION"
XVIII. A STRAIGHT DRIVE FOR THE TRUTH
XIX. HUGH REACHES HIS GOAL
XX. LOOKING FORWARD--CONCLUSION

THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH

CHAPTER I

A FENCE WITH A HISTORY

"The best day so far this spring, fellows!"

"It feels mighty much like baseball weather, for a fact, Otto!"

"True for you, K. K., though there's still just a little tang to this
April air."

"What of that, Eli? The big leagues have opened shop all over the
land, and the city papers are already full of baseball scores, and
diamond lore. We ought to be getting busy ourselves in little old
Scranton."

"Allandale High is practicing. Sandy Dowd a