A League of Three: Boy's Detective Stratagems — page 32: what you’re looking at

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A LEAGUE OF THREE, CHAPTER IV. MADIE ENTERS THE GREAT CITY AND ENCOUNTERS AW ADVENTURE. Our hero’s robust health and strength had stood him well in hand under the circumstances, and he felt proud of his achievements. He was not what may be called a goody-goody fellow, one of those chaps who are so g that they are good for nothing—on the contrary he was a iad who enjoyed fun, even when it was obtained through a little mischief. He was neither hateful nor malignant in his temperament, but he was, all in all, a lively fellow, and, as our readers have learned, couragevus and active. Owing to the charge of having set a barn on fire Madie did not take a train at the point he had originally in- tended. He wasaware that the telegraph could travel faster than man or train, and he feared he might be arrested under conditions where escape would be impossible. He traveled all day, and at night entered quite a town. He wus passing along, when suddenly a potato came hurtling through the air and struck him square on the ear, and upon turning he beheld three young fellows, of about his iown age, standing in front of a cigar store. They were ‘laughing, and one of them called out: “Hello, country. Did it hurt?” It is strange how there are degrees in all the relations of fife. The young fellows who fired at Madie considered him a countryman. Well, these same lads in a larger city would be looked upon as countrymen themselves, and so on until the great city is reached. Madie was mad, but he kept cool; he did not mean te ENMU pook ma a | 4 " ) Eom, i” La B ai, d et 2 Lee