Jack North's Treasure Hunt

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dvantage of him. As the other rushed forward, expecting to overpower him by

med delighted,

up! A job to him that com

tion, while several spectators, attracted to the place by the out-cries, gathered ab

es, and what was of even greater account, his unflinching determination to win. Our hero neve

and every one present felt sure he must be overpowered, Jack set his li

iron and reeled backward in spite of all he could, hi

down you go this

e said to him, neither did the young bul

e, when the latter suddenly found himself sinking. At the same time the grasp on his collar tightened, while with almost superhuman power he was flu

e Mr. Henshaw clapped his grimy hands

That's a handsome trick

pping from head to foot with the nasty mess,

the shop, followed by Jack, and

ir. I tripped--stop, Henshaw! don't l

shop. His appearance being so ridiculous he was greeted with cries of der

w you to the end! My father always said your family was the meanest

his ill-feeling, disappeared, though it was not to be long before he was to reappear in t

er workman, and after asking Jack a few question

t cause him to refuse the opportunity. He needed the money, for his folks

rapid to learn and always diligent, so much s

opportunity to trouble him. This was a small, thinfaced man who worked with him, and whose name was Mires. Besides being physically unable to carry an e

rk as if everything was all right, until a little inciden

n company with a fellow workman to bring from a distant part of the shop a pair of wheels, one of which was of iron and weighed over four hundred pounds, while its mate was made of wood and finished off to look exactly like its

elp in the deception, and Henshaw, liking this joke no less

ls at the lower end. Don't be all day about

s,

icious alacrity toward the wheels. Some of the men, in order to get as good a view as possible of the expe

asked Mires, as he and

g manifested over so slight a matter. His surprise was increased at that moment by discovering Fr

ared the latter, finding th

tooping over the nearest wheel whic

d workman raised the wheel to his shoulder and wa

how been let into the secret. Still ignorant of the deception being