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T. HAVILAND HICKS SENIOR

BY J. RAYMOND ELDERDICE

TO MASTER LLOYD ELDERDICE

CONTENTS

    I. HICKS—WILD WEST BAD MAN
   II. "LEAVE IT TO HICKS"
  III. HICKS' PRODIGIOUS PRODIGY
   IV. QUOTING SCOOP SAWYER'S LETTER
    V. HICKS MAKES A DECISION
   VI. HICKS MAKES A SPEECH
  VII. HICKS STARTS ANOTHER MYSTERY
 VIII. COACH CORRIDAN SURPRISES THE ELEVEN
   IX. THEOPHILUS' MISSIONARY WORK
    X. THOR'S AWAKENING
   XI. "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL"
  XII. THEOPHILUS BETRAYS HICKS
 XIII. HICKS—CLASS KID—YALE '96
  XIV. THE GREATER GOAL
   XV. HICKS HAS A "HUNCH"
  XVI. THANKS TO CAESAR NAPOLEON
 XVII. HICKS MAKES A RASH PROPHECY
XVIII. T. HAVILAND HICKS, JR.'S HEADWORK
  XIX. BANNISTER GIVES HICKS A SURPRISE PARTY
   XX. "VALE, ALMA MATER!"

T. HAVILAND HICKS, SENIOR

CHAPTER I

HICKS—WILD WEST BAD MAN

  "Oh, a bold, bad man was Chuckwalla Bill—
  An' he lived in a shanty on Tom-cat Hill;
  Ten notches on the six-gun he toted on his hip—
  For he'd sent ten buckos on the One-way Trip!"

Big Butch Brewster, captain and full-back of the BannisterCollege football
squad, his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowdedinto a
narrow bunk, shifted his vast tonnage restlessly. He was dreamingof the
wild and woolly West, and like a six-reel Western drama thrown onthe
screen in a moving-picture show, he visioned in his slumbers avivid and
spectacular panorama.

The first lurid scene was the Deserted Limited held up at atank station in
the great Mojave Desert by a lone, masked bandit who winged thedreaming
Butch in the shoulder, the latter being an express guard whoresisted.
After the desperado, Two-Gun Steve, had forced the engineer torun the
train back to a siding, he had ordered Butch to vamoose. Quitenaturally,
then, the collegian next found himself staggering across the aridexpanse,
until at last, half dead from a burning thirst, seeking vainlyfor a
water-hole, the vast stretch of sandy, sagebrush-studded wastesshimmered
into a gorgeous ocean of sparkling blue waters. Then, as hecollapsed on
the scorching-hot sand, helpless, the cool water so near,suddenly the