Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

sturbed his dreams at night, he would not have taken one step toward Mr. Warren's house before morning, had he not been urged on by the hope that the sheriff would be

ve hundred after I get 'em, Joey?" said

e habit of spending his money as fast as he got it, and the boy fully expected to see th

it," said Joe, after a little hesitat

e's got more'n his share already. What be y

afe there, and if I am careful of it, it will last me until I get through going to school.

ic at once. "I never thought of that. But what sort of business?

making a living," began Joe; but his father in

ut it?" he demanded. "He never had

ey, and I may do it yet, if you don't decide to go into it. The new road that is coming through here is bound to bring a good many people to the Beach, sooner or lat

siness I've been looking for, Joey, and it's an easy one, too. Of course, I can let all my boat

g?" inquired Dan, who

ng cord wood, to pay you for the mean trick you played on me this morning. You see what you made by it,

, "and they will cost you between three and four hundred dollars; but you would have en

ke the rest of 'em, won't I?

to have it there. He is going to bust it up some way or 'nother, and I'm just the man to help him, if he'l

e could think of nothing else. He forgot how determined and vindictive Dan was, and how

if he were left out in the cold, but what could be done for so

o the porch, where he found his employer sitting in company with the sheriff and both Uncle

anted to know just how the capture of robber number two had been brought about, and while Joe was t

d not put his hand into his pocket and pu

any detective work to be done in this county, Bob and I will volunteer to do it. We can catch more crim

id that was the way the thi

, "and to-morrow we will go to work in e

ied that

obber of yours have a gun of any descrip

N

just that much out of pock

s become

e other had yours; but the robber Brierly captured says that the weapon impeded his flight, and so he threw it away. Whereabouts he was in the hills whe

stood at the foot of the steps that led to the porch, ke

f that I'm powerful anxious to see th

n earnest in his endeavors to attract the boy's notice, that the officer saw

the rewar

to get it now. "That's what I'm here for. You have got the bugglars in your

haven't got it. I have never ha

anded Silas, who wondered if the officer

est and conviction of the burglars. They have been arrested, and their conviction

long will

the rest by the men who lost the jewelry and things that were found in that valise, you will get

Silas, who was very much disapp

usiness?" inqui

ep a boat-house d

ou a piece of ground big enough for a garden, and you can set yourself up in business in good shape, build a nice hou

ing about Dan?"

. He's a strong boy, a first-rate hand with a boat, knows all the best fishing-grounds on the lake, and would be just the fellow

He's a lazy, good-for-nothing scamp, Dan is, a

d make an honest living," said the sheriff. "By-the-way, Silas, I guess you ha

ere on the point of taking to his heels. "I ain't got

n those dogs ever since you got hold of them, and I should have been after them long ago if I had known

ill attend to it for you, and you will not have t

d him that the gentleman did not intend that his fath

u take care of the money you earn, instead of spending it at Hobson's bar, you can live well during the winter. If the reward is not paid over to yo

begin to take some interest in him, the sheriff will have a word or two to say about those setters. I ca

ever have the reward paid

f so much money. Joe can get his any time he wants it, for

loud, T

g, we had better be going home. Come over bright and earl

other supply of provis

bade him good-night, and l

nd then Silas, who began to have a vague idea that he

t me up in business?" Silas almost shouted. "Looks to me like he'd 'p'inted himself my guardeen, and that he means to keep a tigh

r. Warren's intention, Joe's mother would be likely to re

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but they hear

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to have to whip a big boy like

rieve you half as m

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dden in polite society?

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your bread ni

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of England

rs bring fort

ob: "Robert, dear, what do

Umbrellas,

ound here very sociable?" aske

esponse. "Only a moment ago I met a b

"I was very near going to t

that,

n to me, and if I could only have spe

Bobby, take your medicine n

want to take my

rt, if you don't take your medicine at once, yo

d-fashioned doll which has the following words work

is doll for f

u see the o

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between the active, passive and neuter verbs. It is a picture of a father whipping his boy. The father is acti

taking Willie's cake away from him? D

always ought to take m

t a patient, to old physician): "W

"No; I would ad

ies the sire

ent teach

answers, "w

exper

, you take this medicine and

it yourself, and I will g

Cipher walked into the dentist'

shape. My head aches all the time,

fully. "I see; big cavity in it; must be

apologized and went out, and told it all

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ited States was established at Boston in 1724;

int Military Academy was fully detailed in No. 12 of the last volu

tes Gazette, founded in 1771, and still published in Philadelphia. 2. There may be some curios

mile northwest of that city, of which it forms a suburb. A noble museum of antiquities is sit

o the direction of the plumb-line; and when it is desired to ascertain the altitude of any specified loca

os. 18, 27, 47, 48, 49 and 50 of Vol. III. The process of making the "killing bottle" is too lengthy to b

any boy of average intelligence will have no difficulty in mastering them in a comparatively short time. A very i

the vegetable world. Some plants contain free sugar, and still more contain starch, which can be converted into sugar. The b

y at Annapolis, Md. The limit of age for those enlisting on the government training ships is from fifteen to eighteen years. Both of these

t he is considered the first blacksmith of which there is any record. Respecting the tools used by him there is no mention made by historians. Jabal, anot

ss physician, who will prescribe some blood-purifying compound for the relief or cure of the trouble. In our younger days, a mixture of molasses, cream tart

y. The fabled founder is the Sphinx of Egypt, who, the mythologists inform us, propounded the first enigma. 2. It is an invariable custom to notify our rea

be used afresh. Fifty-two degrees of cold is thus easily obtained, and the machines used for the purpose can produce several tons of ice each day in the hottest countries. Much

ts striking fire with steel (from the Greek pyr, fire), and it was used for kindling powder in the pans of muskets before gun-flints were introduced. Iron pyrites is commonly of a bright brass-yellow color, and is found crystallized in cubes, dodecahedrons

there are two binding-posts, and to one of them is joined a wire from the battery; a small file is fastened to the other; the key is closed, and then the other wir

Department. The fee on any registered matter, domestic or foreign, is fixed at ten cents on each parcel or letter, to be affixed in stamps, in addition to the postage. The money-order sy

e-power. It is very light, weighing but 121? pounds. Several successful experimental trips have been made in this machine, and the inventors claim that by using all the battery power, they were enabled to navigate against the wind. They may

? inches, G. W. Hamilton, October 3, 1879; without weights, 10 feet 10? inches, M. H. Johnson, September 4, 1884. Running hop-step-and-jump. 48 feet 8 inches, T. Burrows, October 18, 1884; standing hop-step-and-jump, with weights, 40 feet 2 inches, D. Ander

sually facing right, with a plow below it, and the legend is "Nova C?sarea." The date is placed in several positions. On the reverse is a shield, with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" around the border. In ordinary condition, these coppers are worth from ten to

h packages had been sent by friends, or by special messengers. 2. The precise time of the invention of the telescope, as well as the name of its inventor, is unknown. Prior to the end of the thirteenth century, glass lenses were in use for the purpose of assisting the eye in obtaining distinctness of vision. Ga

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