Only one of the ten boys of the freshman class who
were invited attended. Eight girls of the same class were invited,
but only two of them accepted. Laura Bentley decided, at the
last moment, against attending.
Within ten days two important games came off between the Gridley
H.S. and other crack high school teams. Gridley won both.
"It would be cheeky in me to go to the game, when I'm suspended---hardly
a H.S. boy, in fact," Dick explained to his partners. "But you go.
"No, sir!" muttered Greg Holmes.
"Not if you feel that you can't go," protested Harry Hazelton.
"Dick & Co. go together, or not at all."
Gridley H.S. won both games by the skin of their teeth.
"We can't succeed much longer without our mascots," Thompson declared
impressively before all the members of Dick & Co. The six freshmen,
walking along the street together had been rounded up and haled
into the store where the football squad held its "club" meetings.
"Humph! I'd be a poor mascot for any body," muttered Dick. "I
haven't been able to bring even myself good luck."
"You just come to a game once, all six of you," begged Ben Badger.
"Then you'll see how we can pile up the score over the enemy!
Don't let it get out of your heads that you're our real, sure-thing
mascots. Why, if it hadn't been for you six youngsters we probably
wouldn't be playing football any more this season."
Other members of the squad tried to ply their persuasive powers,
but all in vain.
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