Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 54
s second, theother was third. Score: Greenville, 13; Lake-rim, 5. And now came a Hundred-yard Dash. Therewere no preliminary heats to be run off, and alldepended on this one fraction of a minute.Lakerim had its hopes bent upon Pretty, andhe crouched over the line like a lynx; but hisears were so… … on till Sawed-OfF ran out andheaded him off at the fifty-yardmark. But he had spent hisfirst strength, and when the pis-tol was actually fired, he waslate in that all-important thing,the start. It was beautiful to see himrunning. Wavering neither tothe right nor to the left, hesped like an arrow…
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