"No, sir! I made a wager that I could chase that car right off of Main Street! And I won the bet," Dick added proudly.

"You all saw me do it!" Then, while the man who had asked the question reddened under the laughter of his companions, Prescott strolled slowly back up Main Street to watch for the next car bearing the "Tottenville" sign.
"Good morning, Prescott," came a greeting from Lawyer Ripley, just then coming out of a store.

"How did you young men enjoy that collapsible canoe ?" "That canoe, sir?
It made the vacation trip a perfect one.

But were you the one who sent it, Mr.Ripley ?" "Yes," assented the lawyer, "though acting as agent for another.
You remember how much Mr.Page wanted to do for you boys, after your splendid work for him last summer?
Mr.Page wanted to do something for you this summer, and he and I hit upon the collapsible canoe as a remembrance so simple and inexpensive that you young men were quite likely to accept it." "Mr.Ripley," begged Dick earnestly, "will you accept the very best thanks of us all for that canoe?
And will you please convey our deepest gratitude to Mr.Page?
We couldn't have had anything that would have delighted us as much." Readers of the preceding volume of this series are well aware of the reason of Mr.Page's great gratitude to Dick & Co.
The next Tottenville car that came along had Dick Prescott for one of its passengers.
This narrative, however, has been finished.

That trolley, to Tottenville really belongs to the next and final volume in this series, which is published under the title, "_The High School Boys' Training Hike; Or, Making Themselves 'Hard as Nails_." This new story will be found to contain the full record of a most wonderful vacation jaunt taken by six young champions of the Gridley High School football squad.
Yet this jaunt did not consist wholly of training work, for Dick & Co.