Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy

d Jimmieboy.

it?" aske

mieboy. "Unless you are your twin b

I am back again just as I appear to be, and I've ha

t?" asked

father, whose cigars hadn't come, and then tell your father what wasn't so-that the cigars hadn't been ordered-for the grocer. After that, just as I was leaving, the cook came to the 'phone and asked me to tell your Aunt Susan's cook that her cousin in New York

come back I haven't got to stop enjoying myself in the

th a smile. "I rather enjoy tha

bster had just gone o

hair and make room for me. There-that's it. Now let's see what's on next. Oh yes. Here comes the Jug

d the Imp at this p

our eyes up

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and a Ma

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that was promised, and when Jimmieboy, just to test the resources of the wonderful hat, asked the Clam to bring out three dozen jam tarts, the Clam brought out the three dozen jam tarts-only the

Jimmieboy, as the Clam bo

Book will tell,"

ook r

all have t

essing

and set our

ing on h

is done, he

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reat crea

who wish to

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l pay the

sand is

o the North Pole,

in your pocket?" queried

y iron bank," said Jimmieboy; "

WOULD BE F

but when he got you there he would tell you you could stay there until you paid the other $9999

that at the Pole

my twenty-eight seal-skin sacques and sixty-seven mufflers, so I decided to build

r, for he was a little awed by the Imp

. "It lit, but before I could touc

hat he did not exactly know whether the Imp meant him to believe all he said or not. It did him no particular good, though, to scrutinize the Imp

h the glass bulb that marked 4006 below zero, and fell eight miles more before it even began to slow up. It was so cold that some milk I carried in a bottle was frozen so hard that it didn't thaw out for sixteen months after I g

charges so much to take peopl

gs to warm him up, that really it costs him nearly as much as he gets to make the trip. I don't belie

Jimmieboy. "What d

English word meaning jamful

ith what?" que

course. What did you

an one passenger at a

ty-five in an emergency, and fifty at a pinch," said the Imp. "But see here, we are losing a lot of cir

wha

the finest comic actor you ever saw. His imitation of a party of sharks off manni

said Jimmieboy, looking wistfully at the Imp. "B

on't understand n

sharks off manning

a man fishing?"

es

n catch men just as easily as men can catch sharks, and the S

ck to that page in the book, and have

ng that even suggests dogs, are not allowed here. Why, if the other Imps who own this Library with me knew that I had even mentioned dogs they would suspend me for a week. But, my dear boy, we really must stop talking. This time we missed the Crab with th

said t

d the Imp. "Did

mmieboy. "What

re other things quite as well worth seeing here. I'll tell you what we'll do-I'll find the Pixyweevil Poetry Book, and