"When we are paid a thousand dollars a month apiece we expect to do an honest day's work six days in every week." "Ah, then, to-morrow, perhaps we will talk about the work.

And now, if you will pardon me, I will go inside for a few minutes in order to see about some business matters." Readers of the "_Grammar School Boys Series_," the "_High School Boys Series_" and of the preceding volumes in the present series, will feel that they are already intimately acquainted with Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, a pair of young civil engineers who, through sheer grit, persistence and hard study had already made themselves well known in their profession.
In the first volume of the "_Grammar School Boys Series_," Dick Prescott and his five boy chums, Greg Holmes, Dave Darrin, Dan Dalzell, Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton, were introduced under the name of Dick & Co.

These six chums, standing shoulder to shoulder, made a famous sextette in school athletics.

Their start was made during their grammar school days, when they had many adventures and did much in the field of junior sport.

Their high school life, as set forth in the series of that name, was one of athletics, mixed with much study and efforts to find their true paths in life.