PLEBE PRESCOTT'S FIRST FIGHT "We'd better get on hand early," advised Greg.

"You want to take plenty of time about stripping for the fight.

It would be throwing some of your chances away, Dick, for you to strip and prepare hurriedly, and step into the ring all flustered." "You think I'm going to lose, don't you, Greg ?" demanded Prescott grimly.
"Oh, I hope not," protested Cadet Holmes staunchly.
"But you think so, just the same," smiled Dick.

"Now, Greg, do you remember the old Gridley High School spirit?
Do you remember that our coaches told us to enter every battle on gridiron or diamond with the firm conviction that we couldn't be beaten?
That's the old Grid.

spirit that has been stealing over me the last few hours." "It's a mighty good spirit to take into a fight," nodded Anstey.
Yet he, too, felt grave doubts that Prescott could come out of the approaching fight anything but a mass of pounded pulp.