How Dick & Co.

played a huge joke, and several smaller ones upon their enemies, is described in that volume.
In this present volume will be recounted all that befell Dick & Co.

in August after completing their junior year in Gridley High School, just as the preceding or third volume dealt with the happenings of July of that same summer.
After that first halt Dick & Co.

plodded on for another hour.
But Prescott, noting that Hazelton was still on the driver's seat of the camp wagon, blandly inquired: "Harry, if you sit up there, lazily holding the reins, how do you expect to get your share of the training work of this hike ?" "Perhaps I'd rather have the comfort than the training work," laughed Hazelton.
"That will never do!" smiled Dick.

"Suppose you climb down and let Danny Grin take your place at the reins until the next halt.
I suspect that Danny boy already has a few pebbles in his shoes, and that he'll be glad enough to look over the world from the driver's seat." "I'm willing to sacrifice myself for the good of the expedition, anyway," sighed Dalzell, as Harry drew rein.