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The Half-Back

The Half-Back

Ralph Henry Barbour

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1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de edición:
2006
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Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781421814940

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Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 'How’s craps, Country?' 'Shut up, Bart! he may hear you.' 'What if he does, ninny? I want him to. Say, Spinach!' 'Do you suppose he’s going to try and play football, Bart?' 'Not he. He’s looking for a rake. Thinks this is a hayfield, Wall.' The speakers were lying on the turf back of the north goal on the campus at Hillton Academy. The elder and larger of the two was a rather coarse-looking youth of seventeen. His name was Bartlett Cloud, shortened by his acquaintances to 'Bart' for the sake of that brevity beloved of the schoolboy. His companion, Wallace Clausen, was a handsome though rather frail-looking boy, a year his junior. The two were roommates and friends.

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