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The High School Boys in Summer Camp

CHAPTER II
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But Mr.Eades merely smiled, and said he was satisfied if I was." "I'll bet he'd have gone to a two hundred dollar price," declared Hazelton.

"Dick, weren't you sorry, afterwards, that you didn't hold out flat for two hundred dollars ?" "Not I," young Prescott answered promptly.

"If I had been too greedy I'd have deserved to lose altogether, and very likely I would have lost.

Fellows, I think we can be well satisfied with the price we've obtained." "I am!" declared Dave Darrin promptly.

"We've realized a hundred dollars above my wildest dream." Incidentally it may be mentioned that Mr.Eades found, from his friends, that he had a prize, indeed, in the fine old war canoe.
The grounds committee of another country club offered two hundred and fifty for that same canoe a month later.
"Now, fellows," Dick went on, "suppose we leave here and decide how we're to lay out this money for our summer camp ?" The vote was carried instantly.


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