DICK & CO.

GIVE FOOTBALL A NEW BOOST By recess the feeling had quieted down.

Dick Prescott was only a freshman, but it is safe to say that he was the most popular freshman who had ever "happened" at Gridley H.S.
However, the noisy spirit of welcome had spent itself Dick & Co.
were given a chance to go away quietly by themselves and talk over their own affairs.
Fred Ripley appeared to be the only unhappy boy in the lot.

He kept to himself a good deal, and the scowl on his face threatened to become chronic.
Recess was nearly up when Thomp and Captain Sam Edgeworth, of the eleven, approached Dick & Co.

A nod from Edgeworth drew Prescott away from his chums.
"Prescott, as you know, we don't usually allow freshmen to mix much with us in the athletic line.