The pranks, the fights, the victories and achievements of that first year in high school had done much to shape the characters and mould the minds of all six of our boys.
The present narrative deals with all that happened in the vacation after Dick Prescott and his friends had finished their freshman year.

The summer now lay before them for whatever might come to them in the way of work and pleasure.

Though none of the six yet knew it, the summer was destined to bring to them the fullest measure of wonder and excitement.
And now let us get back to Dick & Co., that we may see just what befell them.
"Pshaw! There comes Fred Ripley," exclaimed Harry Hazelton.
"And he probably has a few ten dollar bills in his pockets," remarked Greg Holmes, rather enviously.

"He will buy something." Fred Ripley, as readers of "The High School Freshmen" remember, was the son of a wealthy local lawyer, and a bitter enemy to Dick Prescott and his friends.
"Fred just came here to buy something and then look at us with his superior smile," grunted Hazelton.

"What do you say if we all walk away before the bidding begins ?" "Then Rip would grin," returned Tom Reade.