CHAPTER I

“Binney,” says Mark Tidd to me, “theWicksville Trumpet is b-b-busted.”

“Well,” says I, “it’s been cracked for quite aspell. It hain’t been tootin’ loud enough tonotice for a year.”

“Used to be a g-good newspaper once,” saysMark.

“Yes—once,” says I, “but not more ’n once.That hain’t any record. If I’d been gettin’ outa paper fifty-two times a year for twenty yearsI bet I could ’a’ made more ’n one of those timesa good one.”

Mark looked at me sudden out of his littleeyes that had to sort of peek up over his fatcheeks. “Binney,” says he, “you hain’t as uselessas I

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