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Excerpt from The Forest Castaways
Though tall for seventeen and, on the whole, compactly built, his face at present revealed a little too much cheek-bone, a lit tle too sharp a chin for even a lean man in the best condition. His deep-set eyes were perhaps partly responsible for his generally underfed appearance, but he could not justly claim that such a detail, even if it prejudiced Dr. Fitz, the school physician, affected the gymnasium scales. The im partial steel arm stubbornly refused to allow him to shove the balance-weight be yond one hundred and nine. And at the close of the base-ball season, he had weighed one hundred and thirty-one.
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