title: The Bridge Student Text: Volume 1 -- For Beginning Players
author: Frank Stewart and Randall Baron
description: "A Great Method of teaching: it's simple, yet complete."
  -- Easley Blackwood, inventor of bridge's most popular convention
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  CHAPTER I. THE BOY IN THE STRAW HAT.
  
  CHAPTER II. STATION ROAD AND RIVER PATH.
  
  CHAPTER III. OUTFIELD WEST.
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE HEAD COACH.
  
  CHAPTER V. A RAINY AFTERNOON.
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE PRACTICE GAME.
  
  CHAPTER VII. A LETTER HOME.
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE GOLF TOURNAMENT.
  
  CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING CALL.
  
  CHAPTER X. THE BROKEN BELL ROPE.
  
  CHAPTER XI. TWO HEROES.
  
  [CHAPTER XII. THE PROBATION OF BLAIR.](The%20Half-
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  [CHAPTER XIII. THE GAME WITH ST. EUSTACE.](The%20Half-
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  [CHAPTER XIV. THE GOODWIN SCHOLARSHIP.](The%20Half-
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  [CHAPTER XV. THE BOAT RACE.](The%20Half-Back_split_001.html#filepos244349)
  
  [CHAPTER XVI. GOOD-BY TO HILLTON.](The%20Half-
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  [CHAPTER XVII. THE SACRED ORDER OF HULLABALOOLOO.](The%20Half-
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  [CHAPTER XVIII. VISITORS FROM MARCHDALE.](The%20Half-
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