“You will win,” said Harry, confidently. “I shall try my best,” returned Jerry.
Si Peters and his friends smiled broadly whenever they came over to Lakeview.
“Jerry Upton won’t be in it after the first quarter,” said they.
The race was to be a mile, half a mile each way, the turning point being a well-known rocky island scarcely fifty feet in diameter.
Jerry kept at his practice steadily until the great day for the race arrived.
