Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 159: what you’re looking at

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

Stebbins one sweltering evening in w=. July, seating himself on the front steps of ‘Pat McGoogle’s cut price grocery store, ‘“‘ I’m a goin’ ter make another trip up to Central Greenland for the rest o’ the summer.” ‘““How’re you going to git there? It’s quite a ways, ain’t it?’” asked Link Brown. ‘IT dunno jest how, Link, I was thinkin’ o’ rentin’ one o’ them driverless planes from | the. Ariel Jitney Company in Chicagy, an’ flyin’ a straight line fer my old hangout, but I’m afeered they ain’t got a machine with a tank big enough to carry gas fer: the round trip. It took me an’ Barney three years to git back from there before airvplanes was invented.” “Ef they ain’t got the right kind of a machine, I’m goin’ over to Montauk on Long Island an’ buy a ticket to St. John’s, 4.F this hot spell continners,” said Mr.. By A. D. TEMPLE ~ Newfoundland, from the Northern. Hydro- plane Transportation Company “on their local accommodation plane thet stops fer freight an’ passengers: at Boston, East Machias an’ Halifax, an’ from there runs a through express to St. John’s; there’s a line o’ planes runnin’ from there to So’th Green- land carryin’ tourists for the summer trade to a hotel on Baffin Bay, whar they keep "em on ice durin’ the hot weather. When I git thar I reckon I ken hire a plane to. take me the rest o’ the way.” “You musta got up pretty near the North Pole, weren’t you, Josh? pen to be cruising around that far north?” asked McGoogle. “Sure we was! We was sitooated in the Syms’s Hole kentry, thet the scientific sharps use ter say started at the foot o the Pole, but when me an’ Barney was up at the Pole itself we didn’t find a sign of 1 788 | - — COMIC LOO 3} How’d you hap- CO