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Excerpt from Fairview Boys at Light-House Cove: Or Carried Out to Sea "Last day of school; hurray!" "No more lessons! No more books!" "Nothing but fun, from now on! I say, Frank, catch Sammy; he's going to fall!" Three boys were standing together in the school yard, making merry over the coming of the Summer vacation. The last one who spoke was a jolly-looking lad, with a gleam of mischief in his eyes. Suddenly he put out his foot, caught it around the ankle of one of his companions, and gently pushed him over backwards. "Catch Sammy, Frank!" he cried, and the other boy grasped the toppling one just in time. "I told you so!" cried the fun-loving lad, as he sprang to one side. "Look here, Bob Bouncer, what do you mean by that?" demanded the one who had been pushed, as he stood upright again. "What did you do that for?" and he started toward his companion. "Oh, it was only a joke," answered the one who had been called Bob Bouncer. "I wanted to have some fun. 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.