Freddy Plays Football by Walter R. Brooks

Author:Walter R. Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Overlook Press

Chapter 11

The Plutarch Mills game caused a lot of talk, and sports writers all over the country commented on it. Some were pro-pig and some were anti-pig. Some said, what of it?—if a pig could be admitted to school, and could keep up with the children in his studies, why should he be debarred from free participation in athletics? Others said, what is the country coming to, when our school games are degenerating into brutal contests with wild animals, like the ancient Romans? But the national committee, which makes the football rules, decided to wait and see. “It will be high time to make a ruling,” the chairman said in an interview in The Times, “when elephants and tigers are introduced into the game. Then of course we shall have to take steps.”

During the next few days Freddy received letters from four colleges, asking if he planned to continue his education beyond high school, and hinting that scholarships might be available. But Freddy didn’t pay much attention to them, for soon Mr. Bean would get his money from the bank. And the only plan he had been able to think up was such a desperate one that none of his friends thought that he ought to try it. But he did try it anyway.

He knew that Mr. Bean had already signed all the papers, promising to pay the money back, and that the money would be ready for him at the bank Friday morning. To keep Mr. Bean from getting to the bank early, Hank was to pretend to be too lame to make the trip to town; and to prevent Mr. Doty from driving his car in, the mice had gnawed holes in the two rear tires. So Freddy stayed at the Centerboro Hotel Thursday night, and very early Friday morning he went out and saw Weedly.

“Instead of going to school today,” he told his cousin, “I want you to get down to the Busy Bee, in your school clothes. Be there as soon as the store opens, and go in and walk around where everybody can see you. I want a number of people to think that I am in the store all this morning. Stay till about eleven, then beat it home and hide your clothes. Got that?”

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