Run to Glory

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Run to Glory!  (1989) 
by William Sears
Illustrated by Shirley Gitchell Johnson

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Chapter 1. “He’s a wizard! Everybody knows that.”
Chapter 2. “This is real life, son, not the movies.”


The First Furlong!

Chapter 3. “The unvarnished and unshellacked truth.”
Chapter 4. “See to it, Clevenger!”
Chapter 5. “Tiny bubbles in the water.”
Chapter 6. “I’ll make that cripple pay.”
Chapter 7. “Watch my smoke.”
Chapter 8. “This horse will bring you nothing but grief, Sam.”
Chapter 9. “I was provocated.”
Chapter 10. Grandfather throws in the buggy.
Chapter 11. Ebony bowls over the mayor, the crowd—and especially Her Honoress, Minnie Raffodil
Chapter 12. Beautiful! Beautiful !
Chapter 13. “Peterson’s! Anderson’s! Gunderson’s! Ours!”
Chapter 14. “Of course he’s dying!”
Chapter 15. Mr. Raffodil offers to sweeten the pot.
Chapter 16. “A whole teepee full of famous, secret Indian cures.”
Chapter 17. The Wizard of Odds.


The Second Furlong!

Chapter 18. “Simmer down.”
Chapter 19. “Man the leeches!”
Chapter 20. “God bless these bloodsuckers, every one! If they’re here!”
Chapter 21. “The Perfect Retribution.”
Chapter 22. “Do you know the nesting-place of the eagle!”
Chapter 23. “I shouted out: Hooray!”


The Third Furlong!

Chapter 24. “Show-off time!”
Chapter 25.
Chapter 26. Crisis Sunday!
Chapter 27. “Whoa! Whoa! You darned horse!”
Chapter 28. “Don’t tickle a horse under the tail with a racing whip!”
Chapter 29. “Maple Street! Elm Street! Washington! Hickory! Home!”
Chapter 30. “Who’s that handsome young race driver, so brilliantly controlling that fierce-looking huge red stalliont”
Chapter 31. The doomed vehicle.
Chapter 32. “Ahooouuuaah! Ahooouuuaah!”
Chapter 33. “Over the river and through the woods with Grandfather’s horse I go!”
Chapter 34. Hundreds of eyewitnesses for my grandfather!
Chapter 35. Needed: A ton of hatching and plotting.
Chapter 36. All’s well that ends.
Chapter 37. The Town Marshall pried them apart.
Chapter 38. “It’s lonesome in the barn when no one talks to anybody.”


The Fourth Furlong!

Chapter 39. “Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”
Chapter 40. “Thunderbolt!”
Chapter 41. “We’ll have to outfox him.”
Chapter 42. The Whitewash Brush.
Chapter 43. Two Snakes in the Grass.
Chapter 44. The Marvelous Mystery Mile
Chapter 45. The Seven Furlong Swindle
Chapter 46. “Put on your gas mask.”
Chapter 47. Kicked in the Tropic of Cancer
Chapter 48. “Indian wrestle me for the seven furlongs, Sam.”
Chapter 49. “Chapter and Verse: A mile and a half!”
Chapter 50. “Everybody knows my word is good, Sam, but put yours in writing.”
Chapter 51. Buckshot Agate!


The Fifth Furlong!

Chapter 52. “You did what!”
Chapter 53. “Number four: You were a mug.”
Chapter 54. County Fair!
Chapter 55. Fire!
Chapter 56. “Prank, my eye. This is a crime!”


The Sixth Furlong!

Chapter 57. “A feeling in my bones.”
Chapter 58. A “real genius.”
Chapter 59. “Hatch and plot.”
Chapter 60. The mysterious hayrack.
Chapter 61. At Dawn’s Early Light
Chapter 62. The Tamarack Road in the midnight moonlight.
Chapter 63. The Hayrack!
Chapter 64. The Star!!
Chapter 65. Captured!
Chapter 66. Help! Murder! Police!
Chapter 67. “Easy-Street”
Chapter 68. “I know I’m not worthy, God, but how about it anyway?”


The Seventh Furlong!

Chapter 69. “Bedlam!”
Chapter 70. “Hurray for Green Valley!”
Chapter 71. Two Giants: Midge Kelly and Short-Stuff Farley.
Chapter 72. “Open Sesame!”
Chapter 73. “We’ll ride shotgun!”


The Eighth Furlong!

Chapter 74. Roadblock!
Chapter 75. Over the bridge: And into the river.
Chapter 76. “Look at that clock, Hiawatha. We’ve still got a fighting chance.”
Chapter 77.
Chapter 78. Arrested!


The Ninth Furlong!

Chapter 79. “This horse is my prisoner.”
Chapter 80. “Listen to the whale talking to the minnow.”
Chapter 81. “In a Pig’s Eye!”
Chapter 82. Taps for Margie Kelly’s Bicycle.
Chapter 83. Blockade!


The Tenth Furlong!

Chapter 84. Four minutes to go!
Chapter 85. Zero Hour.


The Eleventh Furlong!

Chapter 86. “Too late!”
Chapter 87. “Please Grandfather, give Hiawatha his chance. He’s earned it!”
Chapter 88. “Stomp on ‘em, Hiawatha!”
Chapter 89. Can the old grey mare perform a miracle?
Chapter 90. “We performed miracle after miracle.”
Chapter 91. “We’re the good guys.”


The Twelfth Furlong!

Chapter 92. The Old Man of the Mountains
Chapter 93. GO!
Chapter 94. Horse Racing Love-Talk
Chapter 95. The Old Coot’s Grandson.
Chapter 96. Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Chapter 97. The Arsenal of Dirty Tricks
Chapter 98. “Pull away! Pull away!”
Chapter 99. “If this isn’t heaven, I don’t want to die!”
Chapter 100. Buckshot Agate waved, “Goodbye, Horsie!”
Chapter 101. “This one is for all the marbles!”
Chapter 102. “Ahooouuuaaah!”
Chapter 103. “Here comes the big red horse!”
Chapter 104. Photo Finish!
Chapter 105. “My public is calling.”
Chapter 106. “It would be a dull old world without you, Sam.”
Chapter 107. “Grandmothers are a lot smarter than you think.”
Chapter 108. The tunnel of love is a Ferris wheel.
Chapter 109. “Why not! We’re the good guys!”
Chapter 110. Sweet summer’s end.