Dayton tribune. (Dayton, Oregon) 1912-2006, February 26, 1925, Image 2

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    day it's truth. Deicrulx. iti the night
I'd spring up thinking he was tu the
room, and then I would go blind like
I did on the dsy he sailed away and
By DOLIOLAS MALLOCH
left me nt the Horae Shoe Shoal.
"Something seemed to have pulled
me to IHuemud Bay. It waa the last spot
HIM wns his greatness; he com
I expected to find him. and when the
old lugger caught my eye I couldn't
hlned
Vision and Judgment, fact and desumi
believe that he wns still on her. When
away and followed, gradually closing
CHAPTER XIV—Continued.
McKns of the coni hulk told me thnt Ills was the truly balanced mind.
By LEROY WALLINGFORD
Copyright by Irving Bachelier
In upon his quarry. When they were
—14—
he still run her, I nearly went ernsy,
Not skeptical, nor yet extreme.
well
away
from
the
fire.
Jack
earns
Their mission finished, that evening ।
nnd the hours between then and sunset
No thinker quicker cuught the gleam
Jack and Solomon called at General I his company had captured a number of close and called, “Bill I"
Of new born stars In humun skies.
were years of misery.
The sentln«*! stopped and faced
Washington's headquarters.
"I pulled ovsr after nundown, and
And yet he tested star nnd stream.
The price of * drop of
men In a skirmish.
be-
“General. Doctor Franklin told us ' “Captain, you have done well,” said about.
imetlrnee high, though
It was dark when I came under the On earth nnd heave* kept hla eyes.
"You've forgotten something," said
to turn over the bosses and wagons to the general. "1 want to make a scout
bown Things seemed to be coir Ing
dltlona In th
you," said Solomon. “He didn’t tell of you. In our present circumstances Jack. In a genial tone.
my way at last. When I started to ’liila was his greatness: lie could be
that thara ara only a faw million
"What Is it?”
us what to do with ourselves 'cause It's about the moat Important. danger­
Leader and comrade, master, man;
quarta of corn derivativ« laft In
climb the chains every smell that
"Your
caution,"
Jack
answered,
with
tha lea cheat The war haa nothin«
•twasu't nec'sary an' he knew IL We ous and dltficuit work there Is to be
(drifted over Horae Shoe Shoul came He wore the robe of dignity,
to
do
with
thia
caae.
bls pistol against the breast of his en­
want to enlist."
With human brotherhood his plan.
to me again, and my bruin started to
done here, especially the work which emy. “1 shall have to kill you Tf you
| “For what term?"
He was the first American.
dig
out
all
the
pretty
little
pictures
Solomon Blakus undertook to do. call or fall to obey me. Give me the
HALMEIIN moved hurriedly out
“Till the Britlah are licked."
thut he used to paint about the times A pattern for a nation now.
There Is no other In whom I should rifle and go on ahead. When I say gee
of
the
path
of
u
wave
that
“Tou are the kind of men I need." have so much confidence. Majo* Bart­
Ills soul ns large as heaven's span,
swept proudly over the dump we would have In Lonsdale atreoL I
go to the righty haw to the left."
said Washington. “I shall put you on
Illa heart ns tender as Its dew.
felt good, Delcrolx.
lett knows the pure of the Une which
murk
made
by
Its
predeeeas<»r.
So the capture was made, and on the
acout duty. Mr. Irons will go Into my
“I got a ahock when I touched the
Colonel Blnkus traversed. He will be way out Jack picked up the sentinel and the waves gurgled pleasantly us If
regiment of sharpshooters with the
going,out that way tomorrow I should who stood watting to be relieved and moused ut the beui-hcomber's haste. deck. A woman rone out of the shallow This win his greatness: Washington
rank of captain. You have told me of
Met strength with strength, yet could
like you, sir, to go with him. After took both men into camp.
The movemftht aroused Delcrolx, and und caught me by the arm. 'Doctor r
his training In Philadelphia."
be kind
she asked, and before I could answer
one trip I shall be greatly pleased If
he
followed
the
example
of
his
partner
From documents on the person of
So the two friends were enlisted
you are capable of doing the work one of these young Britishers It ap­ by rolling over the hot sand as the tide she was leading me dawn the atnira Without the look of weakness one
and began service In the army of
Who firmness, gentleness, combined.
to the cabin, the stairs thut I hud
alone."
peared .that General Clarke was In crept stealthily In.
Washington.
His was the truly balunced mind
Orders were delivered and Jaek re­ command of a brigade behind the lines, , The silence w as Intense. It seemed been up and down ten thousand times
A letter from Jack to his mother
ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mid­ which Jack had been watching and to rise out of the panting oceun, n before. I knew then thut it was he. That none could flatter nor defame |
dated July 2S. 1775. la full of the camp
To glory and ambition blind.
dle-aged fanner-soldier, who had been rubbing.
smothering Influence that choked the She took me up to the bunk, and there He won. unaought. n deathless name.
color:
he
was
tossing
In
a
fever
und
curelng
on scout duty since July. They left
“General Charles Lee Is In command
When Jack delivered hla report the weird notes of the wood pigeons and tn ull the dialects of Polynesia.
camp together next morning an hour
of my regiment." he writes, "lie Is a
chief called him a brave lad and said: hushed the cicadas that sent shrill,
“The doctor stunt suited me when
rough, slovenly old dog of a man who j before reveille. They had an unevent­
"It is valuable Information you have needle-like noises from the green I saw the condition he was In. The
ful day. mostly In wooded fiats and
vines
musses over which the lawyer
seems to bark at us on the training '
woman hadn't slept for three nights,
ridges, and from the latter looking brought V. me. Do not speak of It Let crept like a living net.
ground. He has two or three hunting
me warn you, captain, that from now
so I sent her away. und sut down to
across with a spy-glass Into Brutelaml.
your
"Go
on.
”
murmured
Delcrolx
;
dogs that live with him In his tent and
on they will try to trap you. I’erhapa,
as they called the country.held by the
pauses would lead anyone to think you watch him. Somebody has sutd that
also a rare gift of profanity which Is
British, and seeing only, now and then, even, you may look for daring enter­ were making up the yarn us you went the world Is only u kraal, und It
with him everywhere—save at head­
prises
on
that
part
of
their
Une."
seemed like It to me Just then Some
an enemy picket or distant camps
quarters.
The general was right. The young along.” He spoke Irritably, as If the times us 1 watched him I forgot all
About
midday
they
sat
dowh
In
a
silence
that
flung
Itself
upon
them
each
"Today I saw these notices posted In
thicket together for a bite to eat nnd scout ran into a most daring and suc­ time that Chalmers stopped talking about the hunt of the previous ten
camp:
cessful British enterprise on the twen­
months and thought we were back
IS IT KISSAM?
hud upset his nerves.
“ 'Punctual attendance on divine a whispered conference.
piling that black-lip shell Into the
“Blnkus. as you know, hud his own tieth of January. The snow had been
The
sun-tanned
features
of
hi«
com
service Is required of all not on actual
swept away In a warm ruin and the
lugger nt the reef.
way of scouting," said the major. "He
HERE seems to he much difference
duty.'
ground had frozen bare, or It would panion wrinkled into a cynical sneer.
“About midnight he became con-
was
an
Indian
tighter.
He
liked
to
get
“Perhaps I am making It up." he
“ 'No burning of the pope allowed.'
of opinion and uncertainty concern
not
have
been
possible.
Jack
had
got
ecloua,
and
then
he
made
a
motion
for
inside
the
enemy
lines
and
Ite
close
an
’
said, quietly. “Sometlmes- sometimes
“ 'Fifteen stripes for denying duty.’
Ing the surname Klssatn. However,
to
a
strip
of
woods
In
a
lonely
bit
of
wuter.
It
wus
In
it
bottle
on
the
table,
watch 'em an' tnebbe hear what they
“ Ten for getting drunk.’
country near the British lines and was when I tell It to anyone like I nui and It was us warm ns Torres Strnits then' Is no uncertainty concerning the
" Thirty-nine for stealing and de­ were talking about. Now an' then he climbing a tall tree to take observa­ telling It to you, 1 wonder If I didn't on n midsummer day. Would you have fact that the family
founded In
would surprise a British sentinel and
sertion.’
tions when he saw a movement on the read it In a book years ugo, and Just given 1dm
You this country by one John Kissmil,
disarm
him
an'
bring
him
Into
camp.
”
“Rogues are put In terror, lazy men
He stopped fooled myself into the belief thut It wouldn't I Well. 1 didn't like to give born In UM4. who mude bis home tn
Jack wondered that his friend had ground beneath http.
are energized. The quarters are kept
and
quickly
discovered
that
the tree huppened to me."
so I offered to sell It to him. Itu-hlng. I. I It la not known where
He puused for an Instunt nnd mois­ It to him,
clean, the food Is well cooked and In never spoken of the capture of prison­ was surrounded by British soldiers.
1'hnt Is, some nuthorl-
recognise me till 1 told him lie was born
He
didn't
ers.
plentiful supply, but the British over
One of them, who stood with a raised tened his dry lips.
'Ten drops of water In ex- ties say that he was horn In Englund,
the
price.
"He
was
a
modest
man.
”
said
the
"That's a He!” he cried shnrply,
tn town are said to be getting hungry.”
while others say he wus u native of
rifle, called to him:
turning suddenly upon his companion change for u pearl,’ I said, mid then Amsterdam. Holland. nnd others have
Early in August a London letter yoang scou'.
"Irons.
I
will
trouble
you
to
drop
he
began
to
underutand
thnt
Fate
hud
“He didn't want the British to know
as If lie would destroy the doubt occa
was forwarded to Jack from Philadel­
It that be was a Huguenot from Mont
your pistols and come down at once."
run him up against something."
phia. He was filled with new hope where Solomon Blnkus was at work,
peller, France. It would be Interest­
Jack saw that he bad run Into an sloned by his Inst remark. "This Is
Delcrolx
laughed
grimly.
"A
stHT
and
I
guess
he
was
wise,"
said
the
as he read these Unes:
ing for some member of the Klssmu
ambush. He dropped his pistols and the truth! 1 never think that 1 rend price," he murmured.
"Dearest Jack: I am sailing for major. “I advise against taking the came down. He had disregarded the it, not this yarn. Delcrolx! 1 know
fnmlly to trace to Its source em-h one
“
Stiff
I"
shrieked
Chalmers.
“
Was
It
Boston on one of the neat troop ships chances that he took. It ain't neces­ warning of the general. He should that—that this thing—Where did I
of these traditions.
stiff?
You
have
no
imagination.
Why
sary.
You
would
be
caught
much
to join my father. So when the war
have been looking out for an ambush. stop? Oh, 1 remember! Well, our It waa a bargain sale price after what
The fact thut the Klaauma were al­
ends—God grant it may be soon—you sooner than he wns."
A squad of five men stood about him three Kling divers muzzled the slit I had suffered!
ways strong”suplH>rlers of the English
That day Bartlett took Jack over
near
the
Horse
Shoe
Shoal
for
weeks,
will not have far to go to find me.
with rifles In hand. Among them was
"He refused to buy for two hours, or Episcopal church certainly suggests
Perhaps by Christmas *time we may Solomon's trail and gave him the lay Lionel Clarke, his right sleeve empty. und we piled black-lip shell Into the and then hl» thirst got the better of that they were English rather than
of
the
land
and
much
good
advice.
A
be together. Let us both pray for
“We’ve got you at last—you d—d hold by the ton. God. It wns rich! him. I didn’t think he hnd the grit Hollanders, though there ure some In
We'd sit of a night on the deck of that
that Meanwhile, I shall be happier young man of Jack’s spirit, however, rebel!" said Clarke.
stances of families of Dutch name
old lugger while the smell of half the that he showed then. His Ups were having become devoted Episcopalians.
for being nearer you and for doing is apt to have a degree of enterprise
"I
suppose
you
nee-1
some
one
to
black,
and
bls
curses
Just
rnn
Into
a
and
self-confidence
not
easily
con­
world's nations drifted over the tropic
what I can to heal the wounds made
swear at," Jack answered.
long gurgle because his tongue couldn’t •Sometimes the fact that the head of
by this wretched war. I am going to trolled by advice. He had been travel­
“And to stioot at." Clarke suggested. seas, and we'd drentu of what we'd do hack them Into word lengths. Then 1 the family married women of that
with
out
profits.
He'd
do
the
picturing
be a nurse in a hospital. You see the
“I thought that you would not care
put up the price. ’Five drops for n church led to the future alliance of
truth is that since I met you, I like
for another match with me," the young — ‘.hat's why I hated him so much pearl.’ I asld. and he nodded his head the family with that church.
all men better, and I shall love to be
scout remarked as they began to move afterwards.
toward a black box In the corner of the
It Is also recalled thut the Klaaama
“I remember those nights. The dark
trying to relieve their sufferings. . . ."
away.
cabin, and let me see that the key wus were strong Tories In the Revolution,
ness
Just
snesked
down
from
Asia
like
It was a long letter but above Is as
"Hereafter you will be treated like
under his pillow.
u fact that has been cited In proof of
much of It as can claim admission to
a rebel and not like a gentleman," a drifting blanket, nnd the yell of
‘There were 57 beauties In the little the English origin of the fnmlly. But
Javanese from the prahu fleet would
these pages.
Clarke answered.
sting the silence like a whip. Ever hag, and I laid them out near the this might be explained In another
“Wno but she could write such a
“What do you mean?"
water bottle ao that he could see thnt way. The Klsanms were from the first
letter?” Jack asked himself, and then
“I mean that you will be standing, listen to the cities calling In the night, I was acting honest. I measured out persons of prominence In Queens coun­
Delcrolx?
Clink
of
glasses,
kid
’
s
prat
­
he held It to his Ups a moment. It
blindfolded against a wall."
five drops of the warm liquid and gave ty. Long Island, nnd Intermarried with
tle. sound of shoes on the pavement,
thrilled him to think that even then
’That kind of a threat doesn't scare
Hewlett,
and the laugh of women—It Just gets It to him, then 1 put one of the pearls the Whitehead,
she was probably In Boston. In the
me,” Jack answered. “We have too
tent where he and Solomon lived when
Into your breast like an Iron bund und back Into the bag mid put the bag Into Trendwell, Combs. Van Brunt. Vander­
many of your men In our hands.”
twists your heart strings till you choke my pocket. He bought again In five bilt nnd other prominent families tn
they were both in camp, he found the
minutes, then he bought ten dropa In nnd about New York city.
scout. The night before Solomon had
for breath.”
CHAPTER XV
* A big wave slipped forward quietly one lot, and then fifteen, and then
slept out Now he had built a small
Semple—There Is no doubt that this
twenty. Ever hear of wuter going at
and slopped over the bare feet
fire in front of the tent and lain down
Is derived from an earlier form of sur­
I
was
honest.
I
only
In Boston Jail.
two beachcombers, and I>elcrulx cursed thut price? But
on a blanket, having delivered hla re­
name. St. Paul. This sort of contrac­
Jack was marched under guard
took the price I had fixed, and
M they rolled out of Its path.
port at headouarters.
tion of a saint's name was quite usual.
an
extra
large
pearl
Into the streets of Boston. Church
there
was
when,
"It was on one blazing hot day In
‘‘Margaret Is in Boston," said Jack
Holland -At first sight you might
measure to make up
bells were ringing. It was Sunday
1
gave
1dm
good
September that he cut loose,” con­
as soon as he entered, and then stand­
suppose that the first to bear this
morning. Young Clarke came with
for
It
tinued
Chalmers.
“
I
pulled
across
to
ing In the firelight read the letter to
name was a native of the Netherlands,
the guard beyond the city limits. They
“I cautioned him against extrava­
a whaleboat on the other side of the
his friend.
but It Is un English name derived
had seemed to be very careless tn the
reef, and coming back I was Just gance when he bought a spoonful of from a small place In Lancashire
"Thar Is a real, genewine, likely
control of their prisoner. They gave
lift,
and
I
thought
he
the
stuff
In
one
dreaming
of
wheat
fields
nnd
orange
gal,” said the scout
called Holland.
him every chance to make a break for
groves two thousand miles away us 1 would expire In an apoplectic tit. He
“I wish there were some way of
liberty. Jack was not fooled.
Maud—This Is clearly n metronymic.
spluttered
that
much
that
he
lost
half
stuck the oars Into that sea of melted
getting to her," the young man re­
Is a surname derived
T see that you want to get rid of
glass. Then I sort of woke up and of his purchase, and he hnd to repent That Is to sny. It
marked.
me,” said Jack to the young oflher.
from the mother rather than from the
the
order.
No
goldfield
shanty
ever
looked
around.
The
old
lugger
was
“Might as well think o' goln' to h—I
“You’d like to have me run a race
squelching down the sens, nnd that did a trade like mine that night In father.
an’ back ag’ln," said Solomon. “Since
with your bullets. That is base in*
Lowe—This Is usually a German-
swine wus rushing round helping the Bluemud bay. D'ye think I was get­
Bunker Hill the British are like a lot
gratitude. I was careful of you when
Jewish name nnd. of course, Is from
ting
a
good
return
for
thut
pull
after
Klings
to
spread
more
cloth.
ing
alone
for
three
days
when
he
felt
o' hornets. I run onto one of ’em to­
we met and you do not seem to know
the word meaning lion In German.
“Do you know how those little puffs the lugger?
day. He .fired at me an’ didn't hit a the need of more exciting action. That
It”
"He swilled the lot away Inside About a hundred yenrs ng», when Ger­
of nlr race round In the tropics? ’God’s
thing but the air an’ run like a scared night he crossed the Charles river on
“I know how well you can shoot"
breaths' the Orang Lauts call 'em. three hours, und when he saw the lust man Jews were required by Inw to
rabbit. Could 'a' killed him easy but the Ice in s snowstorm and captured a Clarke answered. “But you do not
They hit a boat every five minutes pearl go he lost consciousness again adopt a definite surname, many took
I kind o’ enjoyed seeln' him run. He sentinel and brought him back to know how well I can shoot.”
and leave a stillness after them that nnd started to babble about the profits names of animals nnd birds, ns Adler,
were like chain llghtnln' on a greased camp.
“And when I learn, I want to have a
Soon after that the daring spirit of
gives you a cold shiver. Well, the that he made on the trip when I had Engle, Hirsch, Hart and Wolf.
pole—you bear to me.”
fair chance for my life."
(® by McClur« N»w,p«p«r Syndleat« )
lugger wns getting those little whiffs the half share. I left him then. I
“If the general will let me, I’m go­ the youth led him into a great adven­
----------O-----------
Beyond
the
city
limits
young
Clarke,
now
nnd
then,
so
I
put
after
h«
r.
I
tip-toed quietly up the stairs and
ing to try spy duty and see If I can ture. It was on the night of January
can feel that pull now. Every ray of slipped down the chains into the boat.
get Into town and out again," he pro­ fifth that Jack penetrated the British who was then a captain, left them,
lines in a snowstorm and got close to and Jack proceeded with the others.
the yellow sun went through my hack Half way across the bay I ran Into a
posed.
£*he Young Lady
The streets were quiet—Indeed al­
like a poisoned arrow, and the reflec­ dingy carrying the doctor from the
“You keep out o’ that business,” an outpost in a strip of forest. There
CP Acrow the Way
most
deserted.
There
were
no
chil
­
tion on the oily waters blinded me. He mission schooner, nnd I was so darned
said Solomon. “They's t>o many that a camp fire was burning. He came
dren
playing
on
the
common.
A
crowd
could have potted me with a gun at pleased over the night’s business that
know ye over In town. The two close. His garments had been whitened
times when I gained on the boat, but I directed him to the lugger which his
Clarkes an’ their frier Is an’ Colonel by the storm. The air was thick with was coming out of one of the churches.
he didn't. He Just raced round spread two Kanaka boys had been trying to
Hare an' his friends, an' Cap. Preston, snow, bls feet were muffled In a foot In the midst of It the prisoner saw
Ing more cloth, and Just when 1 thought And for the previous three hours.
an' a hull passle. They know all of It. He sat by a stump scarcely Pyeston and Lady Hare. They were
there was a chance of getting aboard, Then people tell you there Is no such
'bout ye. If you got snapped, they'd twenty feet from the fire, seeing those so near that he could have touched
one of those little puffs would get thing as luck.”
stan’ ye ag’ln' a wall an put ye out o’ In Its light, but quite invisible. There them with his hand as he passed. They
tangled up In the sails, and the old
Delcrolx burled his legs In the warm
the way quick. It would be pie for he could distinctly hear the talk df the did not see him. He noted the name
lugger would roll away like a drunken sand nnd sat looking out to sen.
the Clarkes, an' the ol' man Hare Britishers. It related to a proposed of the church and Its minister. In a
few
minutes
he
was
delivered
at
the
wouldn’t spill no tears over It. Cap. evacuation of the city by Howe.
“What did you do with the loot?” he
thing.
“I'm weary of starving to death In Jail—a noisome, lll-smelllng, badly
“I don't know how far I followed naked, after a long pause.
Preston couldn't save ye. that's sartln.
him. After a time I couldn't see, but
No, sir, I won't Tow It. They’s plenty this God-forsaken place,” said one of ventilated place.
"The loot?” cried Chalmers, "1
The yard was an opening walled In
them. "You can't keep an army with­
I kept on pulling. I wns blinded with went down to Peterson's—Oh, what’s
o’ old cusses fer such work.”
the glare from that red painted ocean, the use of telling now. The loot?
For a time Jack abandoned the Idea, out meat or vegetables. I've eaten fish by the main structure and its two
wings and a wooden fence some fif­
and every time I dipped the oars I D—n It, It was mine I I couldn't hold
but later, when Solomon failed to re­ till I'm getting scales on me.”
“Colonel Riflington says that the teen feet high. There wusTt ragged,
screamed In agony. Once I was quite It, though. What did 1 do with It?
turn from a scouting tour and a re­
near. I could hear him yelling nt the You're an Idiot, Delcrolx. You're an
port reached camp that he was cap­ army will leave here within a fort­ dirty rabble of "rebel" prisoners,
among whom was Solomon Blnkus all
crew, then he seemed to understand Infernal Idiot!” He stood up and
tured, the young man began to thin'; night." another observed.
It was Important Information which out for an airing. The old scout had
from my actions that I couldn't see. brushed the sand from his tattered
of that rather romantic plan again.
and he stopped talking, und all I trousers, then turned and swung down
He had grown a full b ard; hla skin had come to the ear of the young scout. lost flesh and color. He held Jack's
could henr wus the creaking of the the trull towards the cluster of huts
was tanned; bls cloth s were worn The talk was that of well-bred Eng- hand and stood for a moment without
speaking.
ropes as the old tub got the wind near which the beche-de-mer fleet lay
and torn and faded Ills father, who llshmen who were probably officers.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
“We ought not to speak of those
again.
had visited the camp bringing a sup­
at anchor.
“I wns picked up by a trepang-laden
ply of clothes for hla son, had failed, matters aloud,” one of them remarked.
Hit Letton Went Wrong
proa bound for Macassar, and that kept
“Some d—d Yankee may be listening
at first, to recognize him.
Wrong Ideat About Doga
The teacher was trying to Impress
me three months off his trail. It was
December had nrrived. The general like the one we captured.”
Many people pamper their dogs
“He was Amherst's old scout,” said on the children how Important had
three months of hell* for me. Then I
was having his first great trial in
started out to bent the coast from against colds. If a dog has not had
keeping an army about him. Terms another. "He swore a blue streak been the discovery of the law of grav­
Thursday Island to Cape Otway In distemper care In this respect Is ad­
of enlistment wore expiring. Cold when we shoved him Into Jail. They itation.
"Sir Isaac Newton was sitting on
search of him, and every day made me visable, but ordinarily dogs are not af­
weather had come. The camp was un­ don't like to be treated like rebels.
fected by the germa of colds. Another
the ground looking at the tree. An
comfortable. Re^ ments of the home­ They want to be prisoners of war.”
more eager.
A young man came along with his apple fell on bls h^ad, and from that
“I thought I saw him a score of curious belief Is that a dog's ailments
sick lads of Nev r.ngtand were leav­
he discovered gravitation. Just think,
times. The swine’s face sprang from can be contracted by human beings.
ing or preparing to leave. Jack and a rifle on his shoulder.
"Hello, Bill!” said one of the men. children,” she added, “Isn't that won­
my brain onto the heads of people that This Is true only In the case of certain
number of young ministers in the serv­
The young lady across the way says
derful ?"
didn't resemble him In the slightest. skin troubles. Even more curious la
ice organized a campaign of persua­ "Going out on post?”
The Inevitable small boy replied:
"I am, God help me," the youth an­
Ever have that happen to you? At the belief that In what are known as sho supposes the shipping Interests
sion and many v ore prevailed upon
Keppel Bay I clutched a pearling skip­ the "dog days"—the first fortnight In will get on their feet before long
to ro-enllst. But hundreds of boys swered. “It’s what I'd call a h—I of “Yea, miss, an' If he had been Bittin'
In school lookin’ at his books ho
per who had a beard like his, and I August—a dog Is liable to go mad. now, since It’s definitely settled that
were hurrying homeward on the frozen a night.”
The sentinel passed close by Jack on wouldn't never have discovered noth­
got a knife In the ribs for my foolish­ There Is no cause for such a superstl- they don’t have to pay any subsidy.
roads.
(® by McClurs »'«wipapar Syn-Ucst«.)
ness. I.piit.hU» .«
times a tiua.
Ono day Jack was sent for. He and his way to his post. The latter crept in’.”
In the Days of Poor Richard
By IRVING BACHELLER*
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