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132 I'll see you later and give you his letter. I guess they're wanting you now."

The St. John's team was coming out of the athletic house. It was time to be returning to the field.

The second half revealed on both sides a less cautious and conservative style of play, and was, by contrast with what had gone before, sensational.

At the beginning, little Eastman caught the ball on the kick-off, and ran it sixty yards down the field, dodging and squirming out of the very arms of the St. John's tacklers; and St. Timothy's went delirious with joy.

Then the next moment the hero of this brilliant run, too excited perhaps by his achievement, fumbled the ball, and a St. John's player fell on it. St. John's lined up in a formation that bewildered St. Timothy's, quickly executed a trick, and sent their left half-back and left tackle skirting along one side of the field for a forty-yard run.

They lined up quickly and tried the trick again; but Herrick's mind had solved it, and