"Talk up!" To have refused plain orders from a first classman might have been serious.

Dick knew better.

Clearing his throat he related all he could recall of how the plot came to be hatched.

Nor was Dick glory-hunter enough to give himself any more credit than he did his partners.

In his brief account the freshman spread all the credit for the invention equally over the six members of Dick & Co.
"'Twas a great thought, and carried out like a campaign," declared Ben Badger.