HUGH'S PETS IN DANGER "Rotten luck, Hugh, to have that practice game called off this afternoon just because it rained a little.

The ground wasn't drenched very much, and we could have done some work, anyhow.

But it's too late now." Thad was on the way home from school on Wednesday afternoon when he said this.

He had hastened and overtaken the other a block or so away from the campus.

Already the rain had stopped.