CHAPTER		PAGE
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]
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"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]

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