
"The High School Boys' Fishing Trip" from Harrie Irving Hancock. American chemist and writer (1866-1922).

Reproduction of the original: The High School Boys' Fishing by H. Irving Hancock

Harrie Irving Hancock (January 16, 1868 - March 12, 1922) was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the...

Reproduction of the original: The High School Boys' Fishing by H. Irving Hancock


Excerpt: ...they blew up," retorted Tom Reade. "They were surely the loudest I ever heard. I don't believe anything but the heaviest cannon could make as much noise." "Whoever touched off fireworks like these," uttered Dave, "didn't care a hang whether or not he set the woods...






"Hello, Timmy " "'Lo, Reade." "Warm night," observed Tom Reade, as he paused not far from the street corner to wipe his perspiring face and neck with his handkerchief. "Middling warm," admitted Timmy Finbrink. Yet the heat couldn't have made him extremely uncomfortable, for Tom...