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FOUR AFOOT
Each Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
- Double Play.
- Forward Pass!
- The Spirit of the School.
- Four in Camp.
- Four Afoot.
- Four Afloat.
- The Arrival of Jimpson.
- Behind the Line.
- Captain of the Crew.
- For the Honor of the School.
- The Half-Back.
- On Your Mark.
- Weatherby’s Inning.
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, NEW YORK.
FOUR AFOOT
BEING THE ADVENTURES OF THE
BIG FOUR ON THE HIGHWAY
Author of “The Half-Back,” “Behind the Line,”
“Weatherby’s Inning,” “On Your Mark,”
“Four in Camp,” etc.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1910
Copyright, 1906, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published September, 1906
IN MEMORY OF PLEASANT HOURS
TO THE READER
Many of you who followed the adventures of Nelson,Dan, Bob, and Tom, as narrated in a previousstory, Four in Camp, have very kindly professed awillingness to hear more about this quartette of everydayboys, and the author, who has himself grown ratherfond of the “Big Four,” was very well pleased to takethem again for his heroes. It seems now as thoughthere might even be a third volume to the series—butthat will depend altogether on how well you like thisone, for, as of course you understand, the author is writingin an effort to please you, and not himself. And ifhe doesn’t please you, he would be very glad to have youtell him so, and why.
If you go to searching your map of Long Islandfor the places mentioned in this story you will be disappointed.They are all there, but, with one or twoexceptions, under other names. You see, it doesn’t doto be too explicit in a case of this sort. Mr. WilliamHooper, for instance, might seriously object were youto stop in front of his house and remark, “Huh! there’s[viii]where old Bill Hooper lives, the fellow that wouldn’tgive the