The High School Freshmen; or, Dick & Co.’s First Year Pranks and Sports by Hancock

It isn’t all play in a High School. A vast amount of study has to be mastered. There are nerve-racking examinations. It is a tremendously busy life despite its sport.
So here we would better take leave of Gridley H.S. so far as this volume is concerned.
It was soon known that, had not Dick & Co. taken their little walk the robbers would have gotten away with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in cash.
As it was, however, all four men were in the police toils, and they were presently sent to the penitentiary, where they are serving long terms.
The bank directors did vote to reward the H.S. boys as individuals, but Dick & Co. and all the upper classmen refused to accept anything for their own pockets.