Yet, as our readers know, Dick and his friends found many a quiet way to boost local interest and pride in High School athletics.

Dick & Co.

also indulged in many merry and startlingly novel pranks.
Dick secured an amateur position as space reporter on "The Blade," the morning newspaper of the little city, and was assigned, among other things, to look after the news end of the transactions of the Board of Education.

The "influence" that young Prescott secured in that way doubtless saved him from having grave trouble, or being expelled when, owing to Dr.

Thornton's ill-health, Abner Cantwell, a man with an uncontrollable temper, came temporarily to the principal's chair.