"That's right!" said Livingstone.
"No, sir, old man; I don't believe it has," confessed Van Dorn, with some reluctance at doing justice to his own conception.
Barrifield looked from one to the other with large expectancy in his eyes.
"Let's hear it," he said anxiously.
Perner unfolded the paper and glanced at the tables about them to see that no one was listening. Then he began to read in a low, earnest voice:
"CASH PAID FOR NAMES!
"TWENTY-FIVE CENTS FOR EACH!
"The proprietors of the 'Whole Family,' the greatest and most magnificent weekly paper ever published, make to the whole English-speaking world the following unheard-of offer.
"I got that style of eloquence from Frisby's advertisements," Perner paused to explain. "It catches 'em, you know." The others nodded. Perner continued:
"To any one, old or young, in any part of the globe, who will send us a list of twenty names of men or women, boys or girls, likely to be interested in the most beautiful, the most superb, illustrated family weekly ever published, we will send our marvelous paper, the 'Whole Family,' for four consecutive weeks free of charge, and we will pay the sender