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TOM HAS AN IDEA “W ant to buy an automobile, son?” Tom Benton smiled and shook his head. “All right,” pursued the man good-naturedly. “I saw you looking at it, and I didn’t know but you might be wan…
AND SO HAS WILLARD T hat ought to have settled the matter; but, although Tom, refusing comfort from his mother, went to bed telling himself that it was going to be the paper mill after all, somehow …
MR. BENTON SAYS YES M r. Benton was at his desk, in the little, partitioned-off office, and the boys quite filled the tiny space. Perhaps Tom’s father had been thinking about the plan since the even…
JIMMY BRENNAN REPORTS I f you will look at your map of Rhode Island you will discover that the northern portion of that small but important state consists of the county of Providence, which, unlike …
THE BARGAIN IS SEALED T here wasn’t much chance for conversation on the way back, for it lacked only fifteen minutes of school time and the high school was a good mile and a quarter distant. Once on…
WILLARD GOES ON STRIKE “I ’m afraid,” observed Willard, laying his brush down and straightening some of the kinks from his back, “that there’ll be more gnats and flies on here than paint. Wonder how…
JERRY TO THE RESCUE B illy was a rather stocky boy of sixteen, with a cheerful countenance and a pair of steady gray eyes. He was a junior in high school and had played on the team for two years. En…
TOM LEARNS TO RUN THE ARK O n the following Tuesday morning the expressman backed up to the Bentons’ and lowered two heavy wooden cases to the sidewalk, subsequently trundling them up the short driv…
“CAB, SIR?” T he company started with a cash balance of four dollars on hand. Jimmy had been paid, although he had expressed his entire willingness to wait a couple of weeks for half of his money. M…
THE FIRST PASSENGER D iscouragement didn’t last long, however. After they had dropped Jerry and Teddy they turned back into Linden Street and stopped at a sign painter’s. After some bargaining the p…
