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Adventures Of Wise 0y Boy Detective Who Tried Find Out Who Stole His Mothers M

Their, for he was filed with wonder at his
sons smartness and marveled that so
clever a boy had ever gotten into the
Gwynne family.
II haven't considered that as yet" re-
piled Guy. u have been too busy think
ing out what he was like to plan to catch
him."
He then went out 70 the pasture and
studied the tracks again,
He soon found more OF the queerly-
shaped imprints, and when the ground
was soft or muddy he saw them very
plainly and they looked more like bear
prints than ever. As he was bending over
one OF them and measuring it with 1T
tie foot-rule, for that is always used to
measure footprints, he heard a rustic
and started up in alarm.
He saw a man with frowzy red beard
and very ragged clothes looking az him
out Of the bushes.
What are you looking for, sonny?''
asked the man, whom Guy took for
tramp.
Il am looking for a Polypuss,' replied
Guy.
what the Henrietta is a PolypuEs7
asked the man with the red whiskers.
creature which had been robbing them,
and how he had figured 1t all out that II
was a big blrd-beast.
''And do you ever expect 70 ind that
thing2" asked the man.
II can keep on looking for It." replied
Guy firmly
We'll, that's right. You can't DO any
thing bettern that. knowed a Teller dat
found an iron nut in de road and he
made up his mind ter find automobile,
so he KEEP on lookin and finally he found
it. Fust he found a wheel, den a axle,
den another wheel, den de body, an 50 on
till he had II all I tink I've seen dat
bird you're lookin' fer, myself" said the
man, and then he told Guy that the bird
sometimes came down in the woods where
he lived.
What might be your manner" asked
Guy.
MY name might be Albert Edward
Fitzmaurfce, but It amt. It's plain Pink
whisker Pete, and I live yonder in that
place with Hungry Alec, the Swede."
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HIS IS The WAY THE HOHOKus LOOkED ~ GUY

while Alec lay nearby. also asleep and
snoring like a bull believing, with a cigar
stump in his mouth. Not far away lay
an empty whisky bottle and the summer
air was tainted with the aroma Of its
contents.
Guy cried out in alarm.
Wake up! Wake up! The Hohokus
has been here while you were asleep"
They did not stir, but when he called
again and again Alec turned over and said;
"Whazzer matter?'
Guy told him that the Hohokus had
come while they had slept, and showed
him the empty bottle near by.
Gosh darnr' said Alec. Il told brother
pete 10 watch out, cause 1 was sorter
sleepy. an now the deTn thing has been
here an got away with all that whisky
and gin. I'll bet a dollar"
He woke Pete up with great difficulty
and scolded him for not keeping watch.
Pete was somewhat cross at being dis
turbed. and called Alec names which sur
prised Guy, for he didn't think mission
aries should do that
Then he asked Alec what they had bet
ter do now. Alec replied, yawning:
"Nothin' dom to-day. It's too late, for
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Pete. 1T never smoke, so can't tell
whether them cigars are good or not"
Hungry Alec was taken with a choking
at, which made his face as red as a beet,
but Peter did not seem to be worried about
him. Under any other circumstances Guy
would have thought that Alec was chok.
Ing with laughter which he was trying to
restrain, but in such q serious matter as
the capture Of Hohokus no missionary
could laugh, he was sure. Finally Alec
said:
Il used TO smoke when I was young.
but when became missionary / stopped
1t. However, remember all about it. and
III try one Of them cigars and see if IT is
good enough ter tempt the Hohokus. who
Is very pertickler, indeed" He lighted a
cigar and stretching himself out at full
length in the grass smoked for some time
with great enjoyment.
Il think I'll just learn how to smoke,
too, said Pete. after watching his part
ner awhile. "'Tain't right, but I'd like
to know how It tastes" He also smoked
with apparently as much pleasure as Alec
for some time, while Guy waited pa
tiently.
II think the cigars are all right" said
Ike. after awhile. I've thought out the
plan an it's complete. Wen now lay the
trap"
He rose. and with the others following
went to a deep hollow in the woods and
placing the whisky, gin and cigars on a
stump, said:
Nov you, my son, go away over yon-
der by that rise O. ground an watch out
along the road, an Pete, you take your
station over by that cornheld while III
go into the deep woods. If any Of yer see
him or even hear anything suspicious,
yell out and rush fer where the noise
comes from. Be very careful, fer he 5
drefiy sly and'H steal up and git the bait
right under our noses eff we don't watch
out"
Guy went where he was directed and
watched carefully all the afternoon. but
he never heard noise nor saw anything
but q flock OF crows and a grounding,
and when the sun was almost gone over
the western hills he walked over to where
he had left Plnk-whisker Pete. He found
that missionary fast asleep under tree,
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few moments, and then exclaimed:
Il have it! It's quite plain that he's
fond Of tobacco, so mebbe he'll bite at
beer OF whisky even quicker. Well just
lay a trap for him. You go down 10 Hard
rock Corners and buy two bottles OF
whisky one bottle of Tom Gin and a lot
Of good five-cent cigars for bait, and
we'll put 'em over yonder in the woods
and when he comes after EN- Pete and
will lasso him and bind him hand and
foot Then we'll tote him to the village
and exhibit him for twenty-five cents adj
mission, and you can have half the money
and 'tother half is to go to the Hobo
Mission"
Guy was delighted. and hurrying home
he opened his bank. which contained four
dollars and sixty-five cents, with which
he went at once to Handbook Corners and
purchased the bait, the whisky, gin and
cigars. He got back to the tumble-dowu
shanty within an hour, and the two mis-
sionaries showed by their smile how
pleased they were with the energy he had
displayed Pete took the bundle and
opened il.
eve will certainly land him with these
persuaders before tomorrow night" said
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heard the most terrible roaring and crash.
ing.
He's a-tryin' ter break loose" said
Pete, AN Alec is in there a-subduin' him
He's lathered him most cruel, he has. but
he's still as Obstreperous as ever, an /
don't think wen overcome him"
I brought my fathers revolver" said
Guy, and II you think it better III 20 in
and shoot him" He didn't dare TO 20 I'm
but he remembered that Sherlock HOLMES
always shot, after he had carefully load.
ed his revolver just before he thought,
he'd need It,
Gimme de gun" said Pink-whisker
and I'll go in and subdue him, but I'm
not kill him. We want ter exhibit him In
town
We went in and the roaring increased
and It seemed as If the Hohokus was
tearing him to pieces. By-and-bv he
came out and said: We've got him under
control, and he's as tame as you'd want
now. He's a-comin' out all by himself
an it's a good thing we didn't shoot him
cause, after all, he's a human bein' like
US, only half-wild. Went wild when Ia
was a baby, an has lived on grass and
roots ever since. He's harmless enough
now an wants ter go in the show bust
ness, fer the cause O. Hello Missions"
Then out came the creature. It looked
Ike a man and yet more like a wild beast
A great tuft Of straw-cOlored hair SUP
mounted its head and straw crept out OF
the rags that half covered its body. It's
face was all concealed by mass Of hair.
straw and leaves. Guy looked at its elias
tic legs, but while they were quite long
they seemed like ordinary hairy legs and
not capable Of stretching for twenty feet
The creature came close to him, and said
in a hOarse voice:
More whisky. MOrsr'
You've had enough" said Pets you
can't have another fingerfUL"
II bought another bottle said Guy.
where is ft?' asked the thing, In a
voice very much like Alec's. but Guy new
er noticed that, for, like all detectives,
he did not see what was right before his
nose.
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4 Mystery at Last

In the quiet little village Of HardTocks
II was very rare that anything happened
more important than dog-hght. so there
was not much chance, 1t seemed. for him
20 distinguish himself and he felt very
sad.
He often wished that he lived in New
York. where they have a murder every
day and a robbery or some other import
ant crime every fifteen or twenty minutes,
and then he felt people would soon see
what he was made Of, and Guy Wynne,
the sleuth, would be known from Maine
70 Alaska and be as famous as Abe Hum
mel
Now, II is always the unexpected that
happens every time, and right I'm Guys
home Il happened. One morning his
mother made a big dish Of hasty-pUdding,
Of which he was very fond, and she set
e, as usual. on the kitchen window-sin
to cool OF She paid no more attention to
It. but went about her ironing in the laun-
dry. She saw nobody enter the back yard,
but when she went to get the hasty-pud-
ding the bowl was almost empty. She
called Guy and asked him II he had eaten
that great bowlful Of pudding but he said
that he had not even seen II, being busy
reading mick Carriers Latest Ruse"
He went into the yard and looked in
the soft, sandy soil for footprints, but
the sand was as smooth and undisturbed
as ever, and It had been swept by his
mother that day. He searched all about
and beyond a sort OF depression in the
grass in the pasture, Just over a stone
wall and fully fifteen feet from the
kitchen window, there was nothing to
show that anything had been near. Some
thing with wings and nothing that went
afoet must have taken the mush, he was
now convinced. he puzzled ali day over
the problem.
The next day his mother made preserves
and she left the kitchen window open and
a kettle OF Jelly standing there on the
table, but recollecting what had hap
pened she removed It to the second floor
and placed It on table by the window.
Guy was stu pondering over the puzzle
Of the loss OF the hasty-pudding when his
mother came 70 him In great excitement
and said: "Oh, Guyi Now the jelly has
gomez He sprang up and rushed to the
back room. Sure enough, almost all the
Jelly was gone, and much Of the crimson
Juice was spilled upon the window sill as
81 some great creature had been clawing
st out and splattered Il over IN its haste.
AS the window was fifteen feet from the
ground Guy was amazed and more than
ever convinced that some flying animal
was the marauder.
he measured the distance from the sill
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to the ground and from the roof to the
sill, just as the great Sherlock Holmes
does, and gathered some Of the jelly to
examine with his eighty cent microscope.
Ihen he looked for tracks, but there was
nothing but the depression in the grass
IN the pasture, and here he did find this
time something that seemed to be foot
prints, but certainly not human ones, as
they were too big and too sprawly, so TO
speak. Somehow they looked more ike
prints Of big fiat feet ike a bears, but no
bear could have crossed the sandy yard
without leaving trail, nor could ne have
reached up to the second story. so he had
to give UP the bear theory and go back
to the winged animal. The prints in the
grass might be Of some sort OF foot like
that Of a reptile. and he brought to mind
the pictures he had seen Of giant reptile
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what do you do for living?" asked
Guy.
The man looked hard at him for min
ute. and then replied:
we are missionaries, and we're here
studying how to convert the Hoboes."
What are the Hoboes7" asked Guy
Oats a bloodthirsty tribe of savages
on the Weary river, and so terrible dat
no missionaries amt dared to go to them.
We are going dere and dey'H most prob
ably eat US, fer dey's cannibals."
Can you speak the Hobo language?''
asked Guy, very much interested.
Cert. My pard, he's written a Hobo
dictionary. He dreams in Hobo" said
Pink whisked Pete with gusto. He s
been studyin' Hobo all over the world
since he was knee-high to a grass-hop-
per-" Pink-whisper then invited Guy to
go with him to his home and meet Hun
cry Alec, and Guy followed him through
the bushes until they came to a tumble
down little house that was long ago de-
serted by a family Of the name Of Coon.
They found Alec asleep in the sun by the
door, and when he suddenly awoke on
hearing them coming he started to run
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birds Ike the PterodactyI and their
clawed feet. He soon became convinced
that some such bird-beast had robbed
them Of the Jelly, and from his measure
ments he judged It must be fifteen or
twenty feet high. II must have reached
clear to the window from this spot in the
grass over the stone fence.
He set to work studying his books on
ancient and extinct animals, and pretty
soon he got a good idea Of the beast he
needed to explain all the circumstances,
but il was a mixture Of many Of the
things in the books. He made a drawing
Of It on big sheet Of paper and showed
it to his father, who soon became con-
WINGED that this was what was stealing
things from them.
what Is It's manner" asked Mr..
Gwynne, after he had studied the picture
for a long time and taken IN all the points
Of the beast.
II call it the Predatory Polypuss," re-
piled his son, proudly; and I consider
that II belongs to the family Of SiIurian
Saurfan-Gallinips, and / invented the
name myself. Now propose to catch the
thing"
How will you do that?' asked the IA
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Took Guv,s Money!

i've got IT," said Pete, land III keep
It until you get over what ais you"
IT had no money to buy more" said
Guy. THAT is. no more Of my own
money. What I have is papa's"
How much have you got?" asked Pesa
anxiously.
Eleven dollars" said Guy.
That's Just what we need" said Pete,
"for the Hobo Mission Fund. Fork 1t
over"
Its my papa's," said Guy, and be
don't approve Of foreign missions"
Pete said naughty word and tripped
Guy up with his foot, and then while be
held him the HohOkus went through his
pockets and took the eleven dollars
While they were dividing the money the
straw and leaves fell of from the face Of
the Hohokus, and Guy saw that 1t was
Hungry Alec and not a wild man. Then
he began to suspect that all wasn't right
and think ne had made a mistake. but be
was sure Of that when they tied his arms
and legs with a rope and took him into
the shanty and laid him on the floor.
Goodbye" said Pete. I'VE are now
going to depart, to convert the Hoboes,
and YOU lay here and think Of the good
you've done to the cause. When far away
IN tropic lands well think Of thee. We've
taken something to remember you by
Then take that" said the voice Of
Robbie Clayton, and big club landed on
the ton Of Pink-whisker Pete's bald head
and he laid down like a dead duck. Alec
uttered a wild yell and tried TO jump out
Of the back window Of the hut, but about
fifteen boys grabbed him, and when he
was hauled back he looked more Ike the
wild man than ever.
Robbie Clayton had followed Guy and
saw him meet the Hobo missionary
Blowing his whistle he summoned his
brave band Of forty Brigands, for some
how all these bad boys are in command
Of a lot Of other lads, and they all sneak
ed after the men, who, Of course, as
they were not amateur detectives they
saw at once were just plain tramps, ana
they surrounded the house In silence.
Robbie waited long enough to ses what
they would do, for although no one Liked
Guy, they were sorry for him, ana tneA
he let Pink-whisker have &c.
The Brigands carried the tramps down
10 the Jail. and the constable got dollar
a head for them from the county treas
urer. But they took the eleven dollars
from them before they gave them up 10
the constable, so Guys father lost noth-
ing. -.--
WALT NcDOUGALA
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the Hoholus takes to the deep woods at
shutdown. Tomorrow you come around
again an bring some more whisky an
Wen try It again. an 1 do hope Pete will
keep a better watch when / feel sleepy
fer I'm the oldest an it's his duty. /
must 80 in the house an go to sleep again,
fer the night air IS bad fer my tOnsils.
So Guy went home, as it was now dark,
and told nobody about his experience with
the missionaries, but in the morning when
they found that a can Of milk had disap-
peared and some clothes that the hired
girl had left out on the line all night by
mistake also had vanished, he told Robbie
Clayton Of his meeting with the two mis-
sionsries and the awful HoholIus they had
tried to watch, and Robbie only laughed
and went away, while Guy went to the
store and got another bottle OF whisky
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EfF ways called wise Guy Dy the
NJ boys and girls In the village OF
~ Hardrocks because he was con-
tinuaIly studying out the reason
Tor things that everybody else was salts
fed 10 let alone
His mind was always at work on some
problem such as the question whether
ish ever sleep and when they do, or how
the merry cricket makes his cheerful
music and things like that and this gave
his face a thoughtful look. His father
said one day while sitting in the tavern
discussing tho prohibition question:
That boy Guy is a natural-born deteo-
tive and he'll be another Sherlock Holmes
as sure as shooting. ne was always that
way, even when he was a very small boy.
Once the cat ate all the cream and Guy
Just tracked her by her footprints till he
found her. And long after that we had
a cur dog named Buster that useter steal
the eggs right out of the nests. As no
body IN the house ever ate eggs, Percy
thought e all out that il must be the
ornery dog. and sure enough, when he
got to watching him. he caught Buster
doing It. That there dog would walk
right spang up TO a hen on her nest,
shove her of with his nose and march
away with the egg as If he owned 1t"
Then the father OF Robbie Clayton, who
was the bad boy Of the village. spoke up
and said:
That's nothing at all Ny boy Is Just
as smart. When my wife missed bottle
OF quinine-and-iTon she never expected to
learn where Il went, but my son Robbie
suspected that the cat had drank Il and
he got big magnet and placed 1t along
side Of her and sure enough, she was just
drawn right to it and stuck there for
hours. for she was so full OF iron that
she couldn't get away"
"Git out!' said Mr. Gwynne; You are
only EARNING I was telling the plain
truth about Guy. He's a real genius when
Il comes to detecting, / tell you, and l
expect great things from him"
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away, but stopped when Pete called to
him.
He's always thinkin Of them savage
Hoboes. even when he's asleep. and hes
powerful scared Of Them" said Pink
"nisker. He allus has EN- on his mind. d
m afraid he'll make but a poor mis-
sionary, said Wise Guy.
You're right" replied Pete I'm anul
a-teilin' him that, but it's no use. lie
am got no more spirit than a mouse
Eae's only good for a Horrible Example
I guess
Flnk-whisker Pete then introduced Guy
70 hungry Alec and related all that Guy
had told him about the strange bird-beast
All or which seemed to interest Alec i'm
mensely' but he said nothing until the
story was done, when both he and Pete
laugned so hard that the boy was afraid
they had Mysteries. Then Alec said that
ne thought Guy was entirely mistaken
ana that he was certain that he knew
just what had robbed them.
The T6{sUiag HohOkus
He said that instead Of a bird 1t was a
Hohokus, q rare beast, something re-
semoling man in that it had arms and
legs but Its legs were so long, perhaps
fifteen to twenty feet in length and very
elastic, so that by stretching them out
ne could reach clear to the top Of house
He had seen a Hohokus, the very first
one he had observed in twenty years
asleep in the tall grass only the day be-
fore, he declared, and its head, which was
covered with red hair, was all smeared
with what he thought was blood then
but which he was now sure was only cur.
rant jelly He believed that It was al.
most impossible to catch the beast ex-
cept by some very clever trick, but he
was willing, before he and his partner
left Hardrocks upon their mission to con.
vert the criminal Hoboes, to assist GUY
in any way he could.
Guy was very much depressed to learr
that he had been mistaken, but the cur.
rant-jelly that was smeared on the heao
Of the Hohokus convinced him that hi
had been in error, snd he asked Hungry
Alec If he could think of plan to catch
the beast Alec thought very hard for g
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