FRANK MERRIWELL AT YALE,



CHAPTER I.

TROUBLE BREWING.


"Here's to good old Yale--drink it down!
Here's to good old Yale--drink it down!
Here's to good old Yale,
She's so hearty and so hale--
Drink it down! Drink it down! down! down!"

From the open window of his rooms on York Street Frank Merriwell heard
the distant chorus of a rollicking band of students who had been having
a merry evening in town.

Frank had passed his examinations successfully and had been admitted as
a student at Yale. In order to accomplish this without taking a
preparatory course at Phillips Academy, he had found it necessary to
vigorously "brush up" the knowledge he had acquired at the Fardale
Military Academy which was a college preparatory school.

Professor Scotch, Frank's guardian, had been of great assistance to him,