Adventure Magazine, December 10, 1924 — page 23: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

DECEMBER Blonds piders A Complete Novelette Ly CHARLES BEADLE Author of “‘The Lost Cure,” “The Land of Ophir,” etc “Nine little pussyfooters sitting on a knoll! Singing songs of hate! One drank to ‘with Vol! Then there were eight!” N THE hot, twittering East Af- rican heat even the raucous birds and a shrilling cricket stopped politely to listen to the strange song of the white man. The vocalist, lying beneath a giant Mbuli tree, sighed conten- tedly and began anew: “Eight little pussyfooters staggering down the street! Chanting psalms to Heaven! One swigged synthetic gin! Then there were seven!” “Aw, quit it, Tony! You give a man the Copyrighi, 1924, by the Ridgway Company in the United States and Great Britian. willies!” bawled a voice from within a green tent. ‘Huh!’ sneered another man, squatting under the flap cleaning a rifle. “Mr. West- lake oughta bin the big noise in the Metro- politan an’ he’d ha’ pulled down more irc men than ever he will hunting elephants I'll tell the world!”’ “You're a nice guy, Alick,’’ retorted Tony, leaning on his elbow, “but you lack culture. You should have taken a course with a correspondence school before you left and then you might have appreciated me. Anyway I’m going pot-hunting and try my hand at soothing the savage breast.” He rose to his feet, shotgun in hand, a lithe figure in khaki shirt and shorts. All rights reserved. 1 CoMmiclhoo 5}