Racine, Wisconsin
Printed in U. S. A.
JOE STRONG, THE BOY WIZARD
CHAPTER I
JOE SOLVES A PUZZLE
“How did he do it? That’s what I’d like to know.”
“So would I. It sure was a queer trick all right—and it looked so easy, too.”
“Well, I’ve tried to guess, but I can’t. The more I think of it the more I believe that the professor really is a magician, in a certain way.”
“Pooh! It couldn’t be anything like that! It was just a trick, like all the others he did. But I’d like to know how to do it.”
Four boys sat under the shade of a big willow tree in a grassy meadow on the bank of a stream. They were earnestly discussing something, the import of which may be gathered from their talk.
“I tried to do the trick after I got home last night,” confessed Harry Martin.