Mark Tidd, Editor
Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
ILLUSTRATIONS
[Plunk and tallow were there looking dilapidated and frightened]
[We went to selling papers as hard as we could, and before noon we were cleaned out]
[“Huh!” says the second man, and we recognized him as the man with the black gloves]
[Jethro just rushed at us and grabbed a-holt of Rock, rough-like]
CHAPTER I
“Binney,” says Mark Tidd to me, “the Wicksville Trumpet is b-b-busted.”