DICK AND LARRY FRESHMEN [Illustration: Eight straight times he carried it toward Rockford’s goal] DICK AND LARRY FRESHMEN BY FRANCIS LYNDE _Author of_ THE DONOVAN CHANCE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE AVISON NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1922 COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY BOYS’ LIFE Printed in the United States of America [Illustration] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BRIDGE SCRAP 1 II. THE OFFISH WORM 22 III. THE LAME DOGS 43 IV. DICK’S DROP-OUT 62 V. THE RED-WAGON SCHOLARSHIP 78 VI. A NEW ROOM-MATE 85 VII. IN WHICH DICK MIXES IT 97 VIII. HOW LARRY CHANGED HIS MIND 107 IX. IN TIME OF FLOOD 113 X. AT THE SIGN OF THE SAMOVAR 126 XI. IN WHICH LARRY HAS A HEADACHE 141 XII. FRIENDS IN NEED 156 XIII. THE GREEN CAP BONFIRE 170 XIV. “WESTWARD HO!” 185 ILLUSTRATIONS Eight straight times he carried it toward Rockford’s goal _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Sophomore front line was buckling for the second time 18 “Will you peel your coat?” 58 Dazed and bewildered, he sat up and tried to make out where he was 152 DICK AND LARRY: FRESHMEN I THE BRIDGE SCRAP They were not twins; they were not brothers or even relatives. For that matter, at the moment when their train was clattering over the last few miles of the long journey from the far-western home-land to the college town where they expected to spend the next four years, the joint name by which they were to be known at the take-off had not yet been coined. But, as everybody knows, there is no accounting for college nicknames. They are handed you right off the bat, and that’s all there is to it.