"If the snobs don't want to play with any of us on the team, then we don't want to play if _they_ come in." "Gently, gently!" urged Dick.

"Think of the honor of your school before you tie your hands up with any of your own mean, small pride.

Our whole idea must be that Gridley High School is to go on winning, as it has always done before.

For myself, I had hoped to be on the eleven this year.

Yet, if my staying off the list will put Gridley in the winning set, I'm willing to give up my own ambitions.