"One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four!" Catching the rhythm, Dick & Co.

put in some good strokes, their paddling becoming faster and stronger.

A length and a half of the interval was closed up.
"Porky-poo!" ordered Hartwell.
Answering, the Preston High School boys paddled as though fury now possessed them.

They held the pace, too.
"Hit it up hard, now," Dick commanded.

"One, two, three, four!" Never had Gridley responded more nobly on any field of sport or other contest than now.