DICK PRESCOTT, KNIGHT ERRANT That day of enforced tie-up was followed by three days of hard hiking.

The Gridley High School boys showed the fine effects of their two vigorous, strenuous outings.

Each had taken on weight slightly, though there was no superfluous flesh on any of the six.

They were bronzed, comparatively lean-looking, trim and hard.

Their muscles were at the finest degree of excellence.
"We set out to get ourselves as hard as nails," remarked Dave, as the boys bathed in a secluded bit of woodland through which a creek flowed.