However, unintentionally, Greg had touched upon a part of the trouble.

Dinner, that Sunday, at the Darrin cottage, had been unusually tempting, and Dave had eaten heavily.

For that reason, when he had joined the crowd in the early afternoon, Dave had felt just a bit sluggish.

The walk out into the country had roused his digestion a bit, and had left him in just that state where he could contentedly lie on the grass and doze half of the time.
On this bright Sunday all six of our Grammar School boys had attended church and Sunday school as usual.

Then, the day being so fine, they had met and gone away on this tramp, which had ended in a "resting match" on the cool grass under the shade of trees.
All of our readers are familiar with these six fine American boys.
Our readers were first introduced to Dick & Co., as Prescott and his chums were locally known, in the first volume in this series, "_The Grammar School Boys Of Gridley_." Therein the reader made the acquaintance of six average American boys of thirteen, and followed them through their sports and adventures---which latter were many and startling indeed.
In the second volume of the series, "_The Grammar School Boys Snowbound_," the same six were shown at winter sports just before Christmas.