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Excerpt from Captain Fair-and-Square Four boys boarded the stage at the Fairview post office - Carlson, captain of the eleven; Neale, captain of the nine; Wally Hamilton, who played football indifferently well, and Buddy Jones. Carlson, Neale and Hamilton climbed aboard with noisy shouts to a red-haired boy standing in the road. He took a cigarette from his mouth and waved it at them. "Don't take in any wooden money," he advised. Carlson laughed. "Say, this will be the biggest lark ever. So long, Carrots." "So long," answered the boy. "I'll be watching for you." The stage rolled away on its five-mile trip to Iron-town. Buddy Jones edged close to the others. Carlson nudged Neale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.