CHAPTER XIII.
"THE OATH OF THE DUB" For a full week the boys and girls of Gridley H.S.scoured the town, trying their fortune everywhere that money was supposed to lurk.
The great Thanksgiving game was coming on.

Gridley was to play the second team of Cobber University.

This second team from Cobber had beaten every high school team it had tackled for the two preceding years.
Gridley, in this present year, had not met with a single defeat in a total of nine games thus far played.

In six of the games the opponents had not scored at all.
But could Cobber Second be beaten?
The Cobber eleven was one of the finest in the country.

Even the second team was considered a "terror," as its record of unbroken victories for two years testified.
So much awe, in fact, did Cobber Second inspire among the high school teams that Gridley was the only outfit to be found that dared take up the proposition of a Thanksgiving Day game with the college men.
"Gridley can't win!" the pessimists predicted.
Even the heartiest well-wishers of Gridley H.S.felt, mournfully, that too big a contract had been undertaken.
Dick & Co., however, under the inspiring influence of their leader, were all to the hopeful.
"We'll win," Dick proclaimed, "because Gridley needs the game.
When Gridley folks go after anything they won't take 'no' for an answer.