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.”