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"It might give us some clew," says I, "as to what him and your paw had a run-in about."


SHORTY McCABE
ON THE JOB BY
SEWELL FORD AUTHOR OF
SHORTY McCABE, SIDE-STEPPING WITH
SHORTY, ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY
F. VAUX WILSON NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1913, 1914, 1915, by
SEWELL FORD Copyright, 1915, by
EDWARD J. CLODE All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Wishing a New One on Shorty[1]
II.A Few Squirms By Bayard[18]
III.Peeking in on Pedders[32]
IV.Two Singles to Goober[49]
V.The Case of a Female Party[65]
VI.How Millie Shook the Jinx[81]
VII.Reverse English on Sonny Boy[100]
VIII.Gumming Gopher to the Map[115]
IX.What Lindy Had Up Her Sleeve[131]
X.A Case of Nobody Home[150]
XI.Under the Wire with Edwin[165]
XII.A Fifty-Fifty Split with Hunk[182]
XIII.A Follow Through By Eggy[198]
XIV.Catching Up with Gerald[217]
XV.Shorty Hears From Pemaquid[233]
XVI.Scratch One on Bulgaroo[251]
XVII.Bayard Ducks His Past[267]
XVIII.Trailing Dudley Through a Trance[285]
XIX.A Little While with Alvin[304]

ILLUSTRATIONS

"It might give us some clew," says I, "as to what him and your paw had a run-in about."[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
"I wouldn't have anything happen to you for the world," says I.[6]
"Now see hea-uh, Mistuh Vonstable," says he, "I wouldn't go for to do anything like that."[62]
"Say, I'm a bear for Paris."[94]
"Now, friends!" he calls, "everybody in on the chorus."[127]
"What's the idea," says Mabel, "wishin' this Rube stuff on us?"[158]
He sidles up to the desk and proceeds to make some throaty noises.[198]
Blamed if Dudley don't have the nerve to tow Veronica into the next room, stretchin' on tiptoe to talk in her ear.[298]