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18 & c 1N O O wall with = crayon soit = oe be Sa Iwas watchin’ in thi ra ives it to Parle: re > ral ates of Ow | same manner. Some are crushed and
*: Cp u some Ament ha { 5 ROTIIAY thove 1 | na . Sale ; gi} I aves ne : : 3 Sto Is I hve Lessons know | wounded, and others take it as a mat-
Sy § ag 3 sold. On the Whatnot | val} a Whack clear over the white [that an “encrier” is simply French |ter of levity, They are all alike mn
3 was Hereoptioon views of the Chicago | Picket fence across the street. for inkstand. But there's nothing |one respect. On being arrested their
d A COMPLETE NOVELETTE By Onev Fred Sy ae won Id’s fair, an’ a glass globe full of | 1 See Hard Faced Mike bendin’ ove: Simple about the revived vogue of | first thought is to regain their liberty
i : . weet sand that some relation on a visit [With his arms rigid, as if he himseif [Parisian encriers that all of us are las quickly as possible, and they want
c- I'd picked up with Hard-Faced Mie “M-hm,” says Hard-Faced Mike. with | Roa Dik east had brought as a reil © | Was doin’ the runnin’. : I couldn’t have [bringing home. No, Indeed, they are | 0 know if the offense is bailable, and
of out in the North Dakota Fras i i a Rrowid! tok a : 3 Be, Som Shadows. Over on the dusty road a on Sagan Pants. jo yon oe ie ds a Sonning Phy eomplionted Wik ll lone s handeman
= f vind seen Rite off ani on or a 4 os York or ih 16 ad, _ Whi lumber-wagon goss rumblin’ along, an’ - is wae a lounge that s¢ q It wes in their own lingo, and we the comlorts of home as a latest modei | A few years ago a good many col-
1 hile We wax both toi = ; i 2: ; ; Shear shy. t's the gang in|I could see Hard-Faced Mike YecoL eho the Springs was broken, an’ a only got the evenin air echo of it. limousine, with hot and cold running boys from one of the city’s uni-
as 2A ¢ ound Chi- | Swimmin’, lected the rumble—g farmer drivig’ crocheted tidy was coverin’ a place Fhe next thing we knew, instead |ink, one candle power light, and 4 sities were arrested when they de-
cago barrel-houses, and in the spring| “You old fool,” I says, “do you ex-|home from town. * [where the upholstery had been worn |Of the kid runnin’ on around the bases |Place for everything and everything molished windows, furniture rock ry
yf we'd shipped out together for a rail |pect any of that bunch ahead there Seventeen years had Sildents dros. through. he figures the game over an’ comes |in its place for fascinating correspond and glassware ta Basta " fn
1, road construction job in Montana. know you?” 1 honestly believe ne ped off of Hard-Faced Mike: 2 — “Some fancy place in its day,” 1 | laughin’ and all out of breath plump | ence. rant in an AEM 0 hreal # gt
$= It was in Miles City that Hard- [didn’t think long enough but what enteen-year growth of stales and fog comments. “Do we go in and ‘jungle’ [into the doorway in front of us. The encriers are of china with gilt | freshman dinner. They had, a WE
7- Faced Mike runs onto some ac-|at first he figured he was just about|the minute cleared AWAY fro hia here for the night?” | Hard-Faced Mike steps aside fo» |metal finishings, and the most attrac- | called it, a good natured battle with:
r quaintance of his in a pool hall, and |to run into his old gang! eyes, and his heart was Pond hard “I'm takin no chances,” answers him just in time. tive are cop.es of not actually an-|the cops, and they were 5 n priser
n right away he wants me to beat it A few rods farther and we was [against the seventeen-year-thick OL Hard-Faced Mike. “I want to drop About this time the woman lights |tiques. Fitted according to size with [ers to the Staton house dice red on by
& tack to Iowa with him. He'd argued [able to lock down on the naked forms lous about it. > * down and see old man Harlow about |the lamp, and we finds the kid, white- [one or two inkwells, they are equipped their comrades. At the station hous
i ne nie Betti of Bl 2 Hite Junetion gavortiy In the water. The far- The cynical squint was all gone as settlin’ the thing ap for me, and be Angired cheeked, blinkin’ at us out ot |besides with a stick of sealing wax, [they displayed considerabl levity.
Lefore pullin’ into a certain tank town. |inland “erick” had widened at thoe|he followed the antics of the voung gone. He lives in that unpainted [his pale-blue eyes. a small candle and a flaunting quill [When they were arraigned later in tha
and we was hittin’ the dusty road be-|=pot to a distance, I should say, of|savages in the dinky. oricls atid He shack under the poplar trees at the Through the open doorways comes [pen all in a matching tint, a seal whos: Night Court, and when what they re
f twdan the Iowa cornfields when I got |about 15 feet. There was a slippery | tened to the new Kind of fingo they bottom of the hill. The tallest pop-|the mellow notes of some kind of a|handle is of the same china as the |garded as heavy fines were im 0 ed
out of him wily he was so anxious to [place close to the dark-green water babbled when thoV came ont oc iri lar's the one I shot the crow out of |night-bird, high in the quivering leaves | encriers, a vencil and a depression Jon them by the Magistrate a ad
“make” the town, and yet so all-fired [that was being used to dive from and bank to dress. “| with a catapult. It's just the kind of [of the poplars, an’ there drifts in the | full of gold dust for drying the quil: | mitted that the joke was on th altar
sneaky about it. there was lumps of wearin’ apparel “Can you pick ’em all out?” I a deal that'll appeal to old man Har- [smell of iilacs that was about all in |after use. all, and that being arrested wos not
“I aint been back here for 17|scattered around the big walnut tree |“the old gang?” "llow. He'll still be livin’ alone, and |for the summer. The vellin" and| The whole effect is so antiquely or- [all that it was cracked up to ve
vears,” he explains, pullin’ the rim |near the bank. He didn’t answer. He was watchin’ let him see a little extra in it and he’ll | laughin’ out on the hill comes ec hoed |tistic and charmingly convenient The next indignity of being arrested
of his black hat down over his eyes Of course the faces bobbin’ around [the kid with comic his ‘whitish be willin’ to keep as mum as a clam |back from way, way off on the dark [that it tempts to a mad attack of |is the police search the prisoner
as an automobile zipped past us. 3ut |in the water was none of em familiar hair, that had mode the dive trom about my bein’ here.” prairie. writer's cramp. especially as most [which takes place before a desk Lien:
i I don’t feel like takin’ any chances of [to Hard-Faced Mike, and into none of |the bank. > There was a half a block of vacant The boy blinks at me and then at {fetching stationery in enchanting | tenant after the prisoner has had his
3 being recognized.” ‘em came any sign of recognition or You could ses the kid's Tasoles lots that was bein’ used for a pasture [the woman and then at Hard-Faced colors, smartly monogramed as the |pedigree taken and his name entered
- “What was it?” I asks. “What's |welcome. When we come and stood ripple beneath his shoulders that Tho on the side of the hill that we walked | Mike. seal is engraved, is an accompanying |in the station house blotter. Like tha
a the constable in the town ahead here above ’em on the edge of the bank particularly sunburnt on top. Shon he along by on the way down to old man | Sizin’ up Hard-Faced Mike, I could [adjunct to the encrier. arrest, prisoners take this experience
h apt to pick you up for?” they cut out their barterin’ just long [used his arms to brush his hair back Harlow’s. T reckon Hard-Faced Mike [see plain enough that he'd never It certainly is a far cry from the |cifferently. Their pockets are stripped
3 He didn't answer for a minute— [enough to make sure we wasn't too smooth, like the gent's in the collar had walked down that old plank side- [dodge cinders with me on the blind [typewritten form to the encrier forn |clean of everything, and their money,
just shifted his hot black coat to his|near their clothes to steal em, and|advertisements. His clothes wasn't walk a thousand and one times [bas gage again, nor keep me company |of correspondence, but you may rest [valuables and belongings are placed in
a other arm ay1 kept poundin’ along |then kidlike, they lost interest in us. much when he came to put ‘em or hurrying out after supper to join the [on freight-train “rods.” You could see sured if you just choose one or ihe [sn sealed envelope which is returned
a’, in the dust vith those clumsy shoes To them we was just a couple of |but somehow there was a college hoy gang; pickin’ his way along, barefoot, [he'd found “home” and was goin’ to |other you are sure to write right. to them when their cases have been
of his. old men, that was all—rank outsiders [hang to his narrow-legged pants. on some errand to the five blocks be- stick. - - acted upon and disposed of.
“She was a hired girl that worked “How does she 100k?” I asks. You could notide his volce, when yord Main street; saunterin’ along it The woman had been quick to read ~ age . The first thing that the policeman
> in the neighborhood,” he grumbles| “I can almost step across it,” poohs|he joined in the babble, hadn't fully | °F An evenin’ when he had become bi | him, too. 1 he Humiliation of who institutes the search looks for is
> finally. “She wrote me a letter about )Hard-Faced Mike. got past the stage of havin’ a break and sassy enough to be a loafer in It was she who finally started the ~ = . a weapon—a penknife or sharp instru
i her troubles while I was down a “I guess your old gang is gone |in it. front of the restaurant; takin’ it that [explainin’. Gettino Pinched ment—with which a prisoner might do
Chickamaugua with the militia con [scattered by now,” I says. “What It seemed so allfired easy for that morning on the way to the depot in “It was mistake what I'd always : 5 himself harm Policemen are sup-
pany for the Spanish-American war. {|was the freckle-faced kid's name then, [sane to laugh, but there was mighty his hine first-sergeant uniform. told you,” 3 says to the kid. “Your ae : = ; = to “frisk” their prisoner for concealed
o fooled her. I didn’t come back with [and the one that was afraid to go in|few of their jokes that we had the We got to the row of poplars an’ [pa wasn't dead: he 1 Baling “rrosied i Matters nos how weapons the first thing on placing
> the rest of the boys that fall. After |deep, and the one that always stayed [key to. We was like foreigners in a |'V&Ked through the vegetable garden,| “No,” I finishes, seein’ she was trivial the offense may be—is an ex them under arrest. This is always
] gettin’ that letter IT didn’t intend to |in until his lips was blue? Where are |<({range country. The gang's “who- to knock at old man Harlow’s door. | {umblin’, “it was just that his soul had perience that Bo one relishes. The dona by & carci) policeran. ‘Thots
e ever come back, but Hank Bayles telis [they now-—runnin’ corporations, or|cares about-you” attitude seemed to|'®ile we was waitin’ for him to come | gone to sleep.” mere thotghs 18 Tepuinani, Yeting are, however, careless policemen who
r- me out there in Miles City about the |doin’ time, or in a place where there (sort o’ hurt Hard Faced Mike. They to the door—and we had to wait a - . big city like New York many persons do mot always take this precaution.
1- cld man havin’ dropped off. The otd|2in't no coolin’ water like this?” had stolen his old haunts as if he ana |10ng time—I see that the swimmin’ ore arrested nightly for » great vo Such policemen have been shot, stab-
a man had a place here, and I'm goin'{ Hard-Faced Mike tilted his black [his gang had never originally ruled |!0l¢ gang had come out on the vacant You May Write Your Per Flety OF offenses of lish and low de bed and mortally wounded by prison-
to cash in on it and go back and buy [felt hat on the back of his head un-|over ’em. block for an evenin’ of “work-up,” a > . gree: oe : ers who, on being escorted to a sta-
a share in Hank's pool hall.” til the sun that was goin’ down struck He watches ‘em wistfully when feller bein’ allowed to stay at bat sonal Letters With d SL The prolessional criminal usually tion house, have unexpectedly drawn
= Well, it was all out in a breath. [him straight in his squinty eyes. At [they flies out down the path that takes till he was caught out and then the | Ts, ut displays little emotion on being ar- a hidden weapon and attacked them
How he’d been livin’ the past 17 years [times I had an idea that by the way |’em over the dusty road toward town, | ext feller gettin a whack at the ball. I ypewriter rested, even when the erime is of » before they fully realized what was
n was written all over him. He had the |the sun hurt his eyes perhaps he was |stoppin’ every now and then to pick When the kitchen door finally opens en serious nature, A burglar ‘who has faptcning. Occasionally; when prison-
3 hobo way of carryin’ his coat; there gotin’ in nesd of o holt attempt to|green gooseberries, or to throw a 3 Washi 20 old ie ¥iio ovened re By MargaretiRone 5 IA ge yan a i 68 he ers are searched at stations, daggers
: was the bo dent in his limp-brimmed |straighten his damp hair. His hair [stick at a squirrel. it was a woman with whitish hair ani . — penite nhl explained this philosopki or loaded automatic pistols are
black hat, the bo twist in his mouth | was gettin’ thin on top. Wo sat on the bank of the erick pale-blue eye | Nowadays, when the modern maid | cal attitude by saying that when a man brouzht to Heht
1- when he talked, and the suspicious bo “Come on,” he says. long time after the gang had drifted All in a glance I could see she had |takes hor ben hand, I's usally » Srbarke 07:5 life uf erime ha assis Old offenders take the search much
squint to his eyes. Lookin’ at that swimmin’' hole [out of sight between the low-branched |COMe over from north Iurope in the typewriter. She has found she can |the risks that go with it, and when ho as they do the arrest. They hold their
¢ 4 “This has got to be a great coun- [Wasn't makin’ no more difference to [plum and choke-berry trees. Grooves |St€erage as a young girl, and had hi: gush and goo and protest and promise | falls into the toils of the police it isl, 144 above their heads, and at times
% : try through here,” I remarks, glancin® [him than if it was just the dusty road [in Hard-Faced Mike's brain that had |Straight for her acquaintances in the [quite as effectively, twice as legibly [all a part of the game. a the officer to go through their
” over the June-high cornfields. “I hope [We'd left. He was dulled, Hard-Faced |been cobwebbed over for seventeen |Middle west, where she'd pitched in and three times as convincingly by from ples #0, he realized, to be sent clothes, and these old offenders , hav-
the old man left you quite a place. |Mike was. He'd got through takin’ |years was suddenly gettin’ active. right away washin’ other folk’s dishes. | machine. Besides, it does save such wo the river? Yor 4 tam of years, hu! ing had painful experiences in the
So vou was one of the soldier boys, |interest in things. “What you thinkin’ about?” I asks |She Was a robust-lookin’ person, but |a lot of valuable time for her shop- [if a fellow took such an experience past, seldom carry an incriminating
eh?” “Come on,” he says again. And what do you suppose that old the pink goes out of her cheeks when | Ping, matineeing, bridging and Red too much to heart he would be better evidence on their persons, so that 1
“It was just an acre or two and Jut just as we started to go, a|barrel-house bum answers? she sees who's at the door. Crossing. Not nearly so many seric-|if he gave up the life altogether. He, tle which may be used against them is
the house,” he mumbles, “but Hank |naked form rushed past us ,and reach “1 wonder who's playin’ wid the old Hard-Faced Mike stammers around | comic lovers’ quarrels and complica- | for his part, had been arrested 50 often | vealed by the search. The police.
M seemed to think it would bring me [in’ the edge of the “crick” bank, zip-|red carnelian now,” he says, “the|for a while and then he explains that | 1ONS arise therefrom, either In the Joma was used to it, and on being |} over now and then zet the better
ty penty enough to buy an interest in |ped head first into the dark green |cne I used to win marble games with [he wants to see Mr. Harlow. old days, when Percy or Clarence mis arres ted his chief concern was whether of them. On such occasions the erimi-
8 with him. There's an old guy who s[water. When I looked up at Hard-|back of the school-house? Hank Klein The woman look down at the Med all soris of wild things from th e cond “hogs the vase” or not, or gel nal is caught off his guard and some-
i livin’ in the neighborhood who'll be |Faced Mike I saw him turned ready [und the McNeill kids an’ Jim Wirt an’ [freshly serubbed floor. The room bacl undecipherablo potheoks of her chir- (Off With % ent Sengonce, which pr times incriminating evidence is found
: glad to close the deal with me provid’ |» go but his head was lookin’ back [Earne Sopere always thought that ‘ca-|of her was dark. There was a clock | 2%! why, it was frightfully upsetting ented. 2 Slenty in these days when on his person.
i he gets his rake-off big enough and |waitin’ for the the kid to come up. nick’ was charmed. An’ then there |tickin on the mantel Many a erossed love was caused by an |! as disposition on the puri of -
i he’s the kind, too, who'll keep mum “ll he d d!” says Hard-Faced |was that catapult I made. I hunted When she answers I see that she's tneressed T, and an undotted I iE jos "te hold a man’s past record a : Lia ; .
about me bein’ around here” Mike. “That's the very stunt I used |all spring to find the right kind of |20t a trace of accent. “Mr. Harlow ioned many a moist one ainst him and give him the limit. I'he island of Java is of ‘ahout the
“I see,” 1 says, “you're anxious t> to do myself when Hank Klein anda crotch, and I picked a whole flour-|ain’t here no more,” shi a “He! Lovers reaily owe an awful lot t ha Some such criminals as this man gme area as Ireland, hut its popula-
soe this old zuy who's strong for firet [the MeNelll kids and Jim Wirt and | scek full of maple seeds to pay for |over in the cemetery.” the typewriter Oftentimes ke [nevertheless often weaken consider: [1100 1S SIX times greater.
tortencen, And Youre frst ae. . | Earne Sopere didn’t das't.” tlie Tibhors. but I pected a ciow with “Ol, if he pin't here no more,” says not, they even owe for it. It is not pot | abl under a severe police grueling,
about not seein’ this hired g The kid that had just made the dive |it out of the top of one of old man |Hard-IFaced Mike, “why, we won't ORIy 2% a complete love latter wrien, jand nse i of thei ene and Poise Don’t Sell ¥ Old Ti
“Just playin’ safe,” Hard-Faced Was no more than up out of the water | Harlow’s poplar trees.” bother.” however, that the typewriter is now | Some, after being arrested, though De our : res
Mike assures. “She really didn’t have | than he started to duck the kid near He don’t say anything for just a But he dian’t hurty away from ho the thing [for all sorts of personal outwardly calm, betray extreme ner Send Yoem To Us by Penedls
i nothin’ on me. Hardly anybody had [est him. TI don’t know that I can de |minute, and then he goes on: door. An old couple was comin’ alonz | “OT pondence the 1520 maid, wife or | vousnes n other ars, such as smok- Yoo By 1 Xpeit o”
k ever seen us together; we'd always [scribe the kid that made the dive, ex- “lI guess 1 told you back in the [the board sidewalk on their way down | ow pressed, or rather pounded, fing one Cigar or cigretic after ab Re-treading, Double-
taken the back streets. See that cour: |cept that he had “youth” written ail [road,” he says, “about the crowd that [town, and Hard-Faced Mike steps into |! into service. She uses the smartem |other. Others, on fhe contrary: grad] treading or Val Ni7ir
house tower and the water works’ [over him in circus poster letters. |was down to the depot platform that [the kitchen just in time before (hey Stationery in severe gray, cream or | jokes, converse or fli cosy li If Soci] teas ng
standpipe stickin’ out above the [There was a cowlick in his whitish {mornin’ when Company D left to take [See him. I follows on in. There was | White, expensive of texture and large [Among this clas: are those who, on} them in trade for any size oo
maples there? That's the burg. We'll | hair that the “crick” water hadn’t [part in the Spanish-American. The |a washtub by the window, some Ze, Yin Suave Shes | findine themselves Ma Dtep ? wg Yon want
cut through these here wooas. It's |plastered down the wetness just glis |band was playin’ and the town was |cookin’ and flat-irons on the stove, ana | [© atch A legible mono: i [ose their appetites. If they have not | Slig ily req Frep od ives
i just as close, and I ain't stuck on |tened on his tanned skin, and he was [crowded around the depot, clear back [the dishes was set out on a red taple | Mitial is embossed in a color whic 2 be ake for Some Hme Mey Are igs ro td : .
i passin’ any more of those d——n auto | shakin’ the drops out of his blue eyes |as far as Shane's coal-shed, and some | cloth. the typewriter ribbon must shade u pin food be bronght to them. Double 1 het Pane
riohilas." like a retular fiver animal. of ‘em was standin’ on top of hos y Offers vs exch ume of the kitchen 0 Oh, it is all very chic and eff cic on rsons arresed for the first time | ture proof Tire M: Xperts in our
You see, there wasn't much of a I was lookin’ over at Hard-Faced|cars. Yowd outght've seen us goin'|chairs that had the bird's egg blue dnd the best of all easily r+ are Reval Samp np abn lov! si HY ITY DREADING
d home-comin’ thrill in Hard-Faced | Mike and he was starin’ at where the [aboard in our blue uniforms, with the [paint on ‘em practically scoured off, "CWVeSt typewritten frsselosy foamatoldo not Teniise Wie satlonsness of ihe 3 i Ww further informatic
| Mike's system. Henry Klagge, the |Kid had come up in the water. Some |heavy equipment rolled in blankets it was up to Hard-Faced Mike to |’ ail. : predioame ne, and others are prone to | All Work ( wel i
d alderman who owned the barrel houss {how his eyes had lost their squint; [over our shoulders. I was the first [say something. “How is everythings’ Dont for a minute think, though, ex: wiih Noitwo p a bo BE I L TIRE & REPAIR CO.
i in Chicago where we'd hung out most | there was a dreamy look in ’em. {f|gsergeant. Everybody was cryin’ and weakly. thiyg ove ore to be Tro forever mor |i ng attested for Wie sume oitenss 2 2485 Oakdz : x ADELPHIA, PS
i of the winter, had given my partner | You've been around with a guy long |carryin’ on and the fellows was all| The woman goes over to the stove irom the Ihe Rowing Bnencerion or | j : :
: his name, and it was a good one. Here | YOU can pretty near read the thoughts | givin’ the girls brass buttons off their [and tests the he of a flat-iron with heavy black bach Bons Serint RE or Fug Ney
i he was within a mile of his old home | Sometimes, coats to be turned into hatpins. We'd |a quick slap of her forefinger. I guess |CPistles of Yore. Phey = HL, einer) Stoy’s Handy Capper and Spread 7 )
i town and he merely looked tired, Do you know what Hard-Faced Mike |been loafin’ around town dressed in [there was a washin’ had to be deliv UP the 1920 mail bags with all dif or fu yall hive Rattles oiont 2 Week | 2s
dusty and disgusted, was imaginin’? He was imaginin’ [our uniforms all week, and say—we |ered that night. aSsoried accompanying nar torn] i Vi in for 1920 ’
You could see plain enough that that the dark-green water was creep | were some strong with the girls. “The Norton’s have got clear on by of perfumed se aling ax Bobs, old 2 gross caps; hardwood ‘mallet CLEVEL. AND
the cool, green cornfields, shimmerin’ |i, lukewarm cool, about his own | “Down at Des Moines they camped [now,” she sa pioity soon. “ven |liOR0STaMS, violent: tints and exciting io 0, PR es 35¢. per
in the sun, that we'd walked through |tanned and sunburnt self, an, his toes |us in the cattle barns on the State |can get out without bein’ seen.” Shapes. i BT i 75 Te Light weight Motorcycle, ready
had been just cornfields without the [had left his clumsy black shoes an’.|fair grounds, and finally they shipped | Hard-Faced Mike does go and open Trae to type, if tie 1920 Iomale Plce i hold pe for immediate delivery, numerous «
cool green and the shimmer. He |in fancy, they was wrigglin’ again in jus on down to Chickamaugua. Earue [the Kitchen door again, an’ his openin fet he iro io Hje typewriter sho per 0 ig the a me, a nd IMproyvetonts » 75 miles on one gal :
wasn't hearin’ the finches singin’ in |the slimy creek bottom among the |Sopere and a bunch of us was out on [the door lets in a full whiff of thai TOYonts 0 thy oLner gxireme and goes using wooden mallet or hammer, Er us Gall pag sss ! $ Mac ne ii
the sumac bushes on the roadside, | crawfish and boodsuckers. the train platform singin’ ‘On the [game of work-up out on the pasture | 1°07 ill pens ang sealing wax ac Be or fwo S110 when ap information, A Nikln XY
and the woods we was gettin’ to was The ripples just before the spot |Banks of the Wabash Far Away’ when |lots. It was the kind of a game that cesgories of shay kGtoran orn complies 3 > rile tl SIT ot aa Distributors for Philadelphia and
awakenin’ no more memories than a | where the crick widened, had started |we rode across the river in the moon- [darkness couln’t interfere with until letter Vrije. Phore ate Ro hale way | per, corrugations up State o New Jers)
3 rabbit. The eipression on his dusty [to sing a song again for Hard-Faced |light, and then after we got in Geor- [it got so pesky dark you couldn't gag | MOGSUTS for her, wh Si Manufactured By Haverford Cycle Co.
and Sweaty and sun-peeled face as|Mike, and when a snakefly came gia everybody started gettin’ letters |the bali. Hove yom 3 Higls fe Bon your Sai NY SH A pi hin i 503 N The Rowen of Res! Rutpning 3
{ we climbed through the barbed wire | floatin’ along to dip down to the {from home, and I—" Ever hear the echo of kids playin’ home? If you are just back from 3 : bhi a os J Marit 811 Philadelvhis
\ fence to get into the woods showed [troubled waters and skim on to lose “You got that one from the hired |like that on the edge of a small town —
how the callouses had layered about |itself in the cattail reeds on the oppo-|girl,” I finishes. on a summer evenin’? It's a peculiar
his heart. cite shore, Hard-Faced Mike had even The old squint comes into his eyes [kind of an echo that only vouth can ASK FOR THE
It took an effort for him to crawi|seen the red design on the insecl's [again. make. Just a “once over” at Hard- 99
through the barbed wire fence, too, |yelow wings. “I didn't have to come back with the | Faced Mike, and I knows how many ANT-BREA
EB and he must have laughed at that The overhangin’ willows was castin’ | boys that fall,” he mumbles. . “I|times his kid voice had been a part
§ same dinky barricade as a kid. It|mysterious shadows on the smooth |guess I showed her and everybody [of that same kind of an echo on the World's Greatest S ark Plue
i made me think of the way the sport |surface of the crick just above the |that. 1 guess I proved to her that I [same pasture lots. > oo p 5
b fighters in the bout that leaves them | swimmin’ hole, and lookin’ up, Hard: |wasn’'t quite so easy.” Mabbe part of it was his voic COMPARED TO OTHERS, IT’S LIKE THE MAZDA
I a “has-been.” Faced Mike could see a hawk circlin’| After a while he looks over the |echoing back down seventeen years. LAMP TO THE TALLOW CANDLE
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underbrush that had got in his way, [come back from the shadowy pockets |me brings enough to buy that share |dyin’ evenin’ breeze. That fain leaking cylinders
when he stopped short at the sudden beneath the law-branched plum ard |in the pool hall,” he says. “Come on, 'breeze was comin’ from “somewhere The "KANT BREAK” is being Sdobted by the leading con-
sound of a voice. His bloodshot eyes |choke-cherry tress. IT want to see old man Harlow.” out West,” and Hard-Faced Mike was Sens Ci Pont sh S Ts = » the nos : reR on Spark plug
took on more squint. He was leary I saw Hard-Faced Mike crop down | By the time we got to the edge cf | seein’ that “out West” not as he'd der an ume pas motor od an
about runnin’ into anybody; we was on the bank, an’ for the first time he |town and into his old neighborhood | recall seen it, but as he'd imagined Dealers and Salesmen Wanted :
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