The Project Gutenberg EBook of The House of Torchy, by Sewell Ford

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The House of Torchy

Author: Sewell Ford

Illustrator: Arthur William Brown

Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21882]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUSE OF TORCHY ***

Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

[Illustration: "'Don't!' says Vee. 'You'll spill the coffee.'"]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

THE HOUSE OF TORCHY

BY
SEWELL FORD

AUTHOR OF
TORCHY, TRYING OUT TORCHY, SHORTY MCCABE, Etc.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Copyright, 1917, 1918, by
SEWELL FORD

Copyright 1918, by
EDWARD J. CLODE

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Torchy and Vee on the Way 1

II Vee with Variations 12

III A Qualifying Turn for Torchy 25

IV Switching Arts on Leon 44

V A Recruit for the Eight-three 60

VI Torchy in the Gazinkus Class 79

VII Back with Clara Belle 96

VIII When Torchy got the Call 114

IX A Carry-on for Clara 134

X All the Way with Anna 152

XI At the Turn with Wilfred 172

XII Vee Goes Over the Top 193

XIII Late Returns on Rupert 214

XIV Forsythe at the Finish 232

XV The House of Torchy 250

XVI Torchy gets the Thumb Grip 272

XVII A Low Tackle by Torchy 288

XVIII Tag Day at Torchy's 307

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

THE HOUSE OF TORCHY

CHAPTER I

TORCHY AND VEE ON THE WAY

Say, I thought I'd taken a sportin