Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV CONCLUSION "7" OU'VE kept the police hounding me, Y but now I can have my innings!" Tim went on gruffly. Dick tried to roll over out of the way of that swinging club. "Here, don't you try to crawl out, or I'll stop your wandering," Tim warned him, and Prescott sat up again. "You've kept the police hounding me day and night," Tim went on. "Some mistake there," Dick informed him. "You've made the wrong guess. I'm not the chief of police." "No; but you've kept them posted about me, and chasing me," the brute continued. "You broke up my ghost-show, just when I was ready to make some money out of it. You've kept the police moving after me ever since. I've been dodging them day and night!" "At all events they didn't seem able to find you," jeered Prescott. "That wasn't your fault," snarled Tim. The plain truth was that Tim had been suffering from an overdose of imagination. Since what he described as the breaking up of his ghost-show Tim had imagined that every man he saw was a plain-clothes policeman in search of him. But the fact that Tim had been suffering from a delusion only did not lessen his resentment any. "Those policemen will get me yet," Tim continued, pausing before the two seated boys and glaring down at them ferociously. "I know I can't escape. I won't care much, either, now that I've met with you two hoodoo boys. When I'm through getting square with you, I'll be ready to go and take my medicine with Bink, like a man." "After you get through getting square with us?" repeated Greg. "Yes; do you know what I'm going to do with you?" demanded Tim, crouching forward, holding his club poised and glaring into Greg's eyes. Young Holmes did not answer. It is no reflection on his bravery to state that, at this moment, his courage was well-...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Grammar School Boys in the Woods or, Dick & Co.'s Trail Fun and Knowledge. To get started finding The Grammar School Boys in the Woods or, Dick & Co.'s Trail Fun and Knowledge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2012
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The Grammar School Boys in the Woods or, Dick & Co.'s Trail Fun and Knowledge
Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV CONCLUSION "7" OU'VE kept the police hounding me, Y but now I can have my innings!" Tim went on gruffly. Dick tried to roll over out of the way of that swinging club. "Here, don't you try to crawl out, or I'll stop your wandering," Tim warned him, and Prescott sat up again. "You've kept the police hounding me day and night," Tim went on. "Some mistake there," Dick informed him. "You've made the wrong guess. I'm not the chief of police." "No; but you've kept them posted about me, and chasing me," the brute continued. "You broke up my ghost-show, just when I was ready to make some money out of it. You've kept the police moving after me ever since. I've been dodging them day and night!" "At all events they didn't seem able to find you," jeered Prescott. "That wasn't your fault," snarled Tim. The plain truth was that Tim had been suffering from an overdose of imagination. Since what he described as the breaking up of his ghost-show Tim had imagined that every man he saw was a plain-clothes policeman in search of him. But the fact that Tim had been suffering from a delusion only did not lessen his resentment any. "Those policemen will get me yet," Tim continued, pausing before the two seated boys and glaring down at them ferociously. "I know I can't escape. I won't care much, either, now that I've met with you two hoodoo boys. When I'm through getting square with you, I'll be ready to go and take my medicine with Bink, like a man." "After you get through getting square with us?" repeated Greg. "Yes; do you know what I'm going to do with you?" demanded Tim, crouching forward, holding his club poised and glaring into Greg's eyes. Young Holmes did not answer. It is no reflection on his bravery to state that, at this moment, his courage was well-...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Grammar School Boys in the Woods or, Dick & Co.'s Trail Fun and Knowledge. To get started finding The Grammar School Boys in the Woods or, Dick & Co.'s Trail Fun and Knowledge, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.