[The High School Boys in Summer Camp by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe High School Boys in Summer Camp CHAPTER II 16/17
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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