CHAPTER XX
MORRIS CALLS IN THE DOCTOR
Nearly the entire school accompanied the
team to Lesterville. The distance was short
and the journey could be made inexpensively
on the trolley line. Besides, football enthusiasm
was by now rampant. The Benton victory
had rekindled dampened patriotism and the yellow-sided
cars which sped across country in the wake of
the Varsity's special were filled to the limit with excited
and noisy partisans. Lesterville was a manufacturing
town and the Lesterville High School had
an unfortunate but not undeserved reputation for
roughness in its athletic contests. Dick, who had
conducted the baseball team there in the summer,
recalled the unpleasantness that had occurred on
that occasion and hoped that to-day's meeting would
pass without similar incident. He looked for a vic-
