Dick Prescott is caught whispering in the eighth-grade room of the Central Grammar School and has to explain himself to the principal, “Old Dut”. Out of school, Dick, Dave Darrin and their friends form Dick & Co., raise money for football uniforms, follow a mysterious cab, make a discovery by the river and stand up to the troublemakers Dexter and Driggs.
The first of Hancock’s Gridley books, which follow the same boys through high school and into the army and navy. Download the free EPUB.