CHAPTER XI.
ALL READY TO RACE, BUT----- On the landing stage at the Hotel Pleasant a group of girls stood on the following Tuesday morning.
"Wouldn't Dick and Dave and the rest of their crowd enjoy this lake if they were here with their canoe ?" asked Laura Bentley.
"Yes," agreed Belle Meade.

"And very likely they'd win some more laurels for Gridley High School, too.

Preston High School has a six-paddle canoe here now, and Trentville High School will send a canoe crew here in a few days.

Oh, how I wish the boys could manage to get here with their war canoe!" "It seems too bad, doesn't it," remarked Clara Marshall, "that some of the nicest boys in our high school are so poor that they can't do the ordinary things they would like to do ?" "Some of the boys in Dick & Co.

won't be poor when they've been out of school ten years," Laura predicted, with a glowing face.
"I don't believe any of them will be poor by that time," agreed Clara.