CONCLUSION Five rather contemptuous pairs of youthful eyes surveyed Dick & Co.

as their outfit plodded on its way.
"Aren't they a mucker looking outfit ?" demanded one voice from the car.
Then the automobile shot ahead again.
"Phin Drayne! Humph!" said Darry rather scornfully.
Phin Drayne is no stranger to the readers of the "_High School Boys Series_," who will recall Phin as the "kicker" who, at the game on the Thanksgiving before, had sulked and refused to go on the field, hoping to induce the other members of the Gridley High School gridiron team to coax him to play.

Thus Dick, though suffering at that time from injuries, and forbidden to play, had been forced out onto the field to help win the great game of the season.

Of course a kicker like Drayne did not like Prescott.
Dick worried but little on that account.
"There! they are coming back," Greg announced.

"They are grinning at us again." "If they keep on grinning," threatened Darry, "we'll sic Danny Grin onto them.