Sink or Swim (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sink or Swim

"Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote."

These words were declaimed in a clear, ringing voice from the platform of the Vernon high School. The speaker was a boy of fifteen, well-knit and vigorous, with a frank, manly expression and a preposessing face. His dark intellectual brow, and his attitude, as he faced his schoolmates, was one of ease and unconscious grace. His eye flashed as he declaimed with appropriate emphasis the patriotic extract which commences in the well-known words quoted above. He had learned the orator's secret - to be in earnest - and he carried his audience with him.

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