“Swell chance of your missing it,” scoffed Tom.
“Everybody knows you’re slated for full-back.”
To another message, Drake’s name was signed:
“Hurrah for the blue. Be back for football in the Fall.”
“A decided football flavor in your telegrams to-day,” grinned Dick.
“Well,” said Bert, “win or lose, I’ll be there with both feet.”
“You’d better have both of them with you, for a fact,” drawled Tom. “You couldn’t do much without them.”
And when a few months later, the football season opened, Bert’s promise was fulfilled. How swift those feet of his proved to be in getting down the field, how mighty in kicking a goal, how powerful in every stirring feature of the glorious game, will be told in
“BERT WILSON ON THE GRIDIRON.”