Part 28 (1/2)

Lady Arled criht and Archie completed a very masterpiece of white beard Afterwards, Archie packed his trunks When he turned in at last, outward bound next day by the cross-countrythat he had stowed the phonograph, the printing-press and type, the signal flags, the ical apparatus and Fakerino costume and the new accordion; and he knew--for he had taken pains to find out--that the stock of trading goods, which he had bought with most anxious discri at the station, consigned to Topsail, Ar, Grimm & Company, General Merchants, Ruddy Cove, Newfoundland

Archie slept well

When thespirits, with his boxes and bales and barrels and trunks and news The following days were filled with intense activity Topsail, Ar, Grimm & Company chartered the _On Tial requireiven a new name, the _Spot Cash_ They swept and swabbed her, fore and aft; they gave her a line or two of gay paint; they fitted her cabin with shelves and a counter and her forecastle with additional bunks; and Bill o' Burnt Bay went over her rigging and spars While Ji unpacked the stock and furnished the cabin shelves and stowed the hold, Billy Topsail and Archie turned to on the advertising

The printing-press was set up in Mrs Skipper Williae

Billy Topsail--who had never seen the like--stared open-ot to _make_ 'em buy,” Archie declared

”H-h-how?” Billy staot to make _'em want_ to,” said Archie ”They'll trade if they want to”

In return Billy watched Archie scribble

”How's this?” Archie asked, at last

Billy listened to the reading

”Will that fetch 'em aboard?” Archie demanded, anxiously

”It would _my_ mother,” said the astonished Billy ”_I'd_ fetch her, bet yer life!”

They laboriously set up the handbill and triumphantly struck it off:

kANDY FOR KIdS

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Boys Gi_r_ls and Ba_b_ies co_m_e Ab_o_ard the

”sPOT CAsH”

Yo_u_ Get Perfectly P_u_re Pepper_ yo_u_r

:o: P_A_REnTS :o: _W_E LOVE K_I_Ds KIdDIES A_N_D KiDLE_T_S

_Topsail, Arht!” Archie declared ”Now for the concert”

Billy had another shock of surprise ”Th-th _what_?” he ejaculated

”Concert,” Archie replied ”You're going to sing, Billy”

”Me!” poor Billy exclaie alar's going to double-shuffle, and Bobby North is going to shake that hornpipe out of his feet, and Ji to recite 'Sailor Boy, Sailor Boy,' and I' little stunt hed, ”the Greatest Magician in Captivity

_Just_ you wait and see I think I'll have a bill all to ain with a result that presently made him chuckle It appeared in the handbill (after souise: