Produced by Al Haines

THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH

At Ice Hockey

BY

DONALD FERGUSON

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.

CLEVELAND, O. NEW YORK, N.Y.

Copyright, MCMXIX

by

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.

Printed in the United States of America

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THE COMMERCIAL BOOKBINDING CO.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. GOOD TIMES COMING II. A BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP III. GIVING NICK A CHANCE IV. THE HOCKEY MATCH WITH A SCRATCH SEVEN V. THAD BRINGS SOME STARTLING NEWS VI. NOT GUILTY VII. TURNING A PAGE OF THE PAST VIII. OWEN DUGDALE'S ANNOUNCEMENT IX. AN ADVENTURE ON THE ROAD X. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS XI. A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE XII. TIP SATISFIES HIS CRAVING—AND LOSES XIII. THE LIVELY GAME WITH KEYPORT'S SEVEN XIV. ENCOURAGING NICK XV. WHERE THE SPARKS FLEW XVI. AT THE DEACON'S FIRESIDE XVII. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY XVIII. IN A SAFE HARBOR AT LAST XIX. MEETING BELLEVILLE'S STRONG TEAM XX. NICK MAKES GOOD—CONCLUSION

THE CHUMS OF SCRANTON HIGH AT ICE HOCKEY

CHAPTER I

GOOD TIMES COMING

Hugh looked at the big thermometer alongside the Juggins' front dooras he came out, and the mercury was still falling steadily.

"It's certainly a whole lot sharper than it was early this morning,
Thad. Feels to me as if the first cold wave of the winter had struck
Scranton."

"The ice on our flooded baseball field, and that out at Hobson'smill-pond ought to be in great shape after a hard freeze to-night,Hugh."

"We're in luck this time, chum Thad. Look at that sky, will you?Never a cloud in sight, and the sun going down yellow. DeaconWinslow, our reliable old weather prophet blacksmith, who alwayskeeps a goose-bone hanging up in his smithy, to tell what sort of awinter we're going to get, says such a sign stands for cold and clearto-morrow after that kind of a sunset. Red means warmer, you know."

"I only hope it keeps on for forty-eight hours more, that's all I cansay, Hugh. This being Thursday, it would fetch us to Saturday. Iunderstand they're not meaning to let a single pair of steel runnerson the baseball park, to mark the smooth surface of the new ice,until Saturday morning."

"Which will be a fine thing for our hockey try-out with the scratch
Seven, eh, Thad?"

"We want to test our team play before going up against the boys ofKeyport High, that's a fact; and Scranton can put up a hard fightingbunch of irregulars. There are some mighty clever hockey players inand out of the high school, who are not on our Seven. I guess thereought to be a pretty lively game on Saturday; and there will be ifseveral fellows I could mention line up against us."

The two boys who had just left the home of a schoolmate named HoratioJuggins were great friends. Although Hugh Morgan had seemed to jumpinto popular leadership among the boys of Scranton, soon after hisfolks came to reside in the town, he and Thad Stevens had becomealmost inseparables.

Indeed, some of the fellows often regarded them as "Damon andPythias," or on occasions it might be "David and Jonatha

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