Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous VentureCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous Venture
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
“Maybe we haven’t got some girls up in town buffaloed,” grinned Hallie.
“When we get paid we toss a coin to see who is to spend his money first.
The one that wins goes uptown and sees the crowd. Our salaries aren’t
fat and they don’t last forever, but when the first one of us begins to
run low, the other one steps into his shoes, and then our citizen
friends think that there is only one of us and that one is there with
considerable dough.”
Each of the boys holds in his voice the smooth drawl of the South. One
can’t tell the difference between the tones. There is something uncanny
in the similarity of the two smiles. Their lips go back in exactly the
same fashion and four eyes twinkle alike. They smile often, too, for to
them the resemblance is life’s one grand joke. Each weighs 149 pounds;
wears an eight shoe, a 14-3/4 collar, and the same size hat.
One or two of the men have discovered that one of the twins has a small
piece chipped from one of his front teeth.
“That would be a hot one,” observed an old sergeant: “Who goes
there--Woodcock? Halt and uncover tooth.”
Farmer Finds Hornets’ Nest.
C. E. Demurr, a farmer living near the Kansas-Oklahoma line, found a
hornets’ nest on the Chickaskia River, and believing it empty, took it
home for an ornament in his room.
Demurr thought nothing more of it until the next day, when he heard a
buzzing sound. The hornets, which had been awakened from their stupor by
the fire, left the nest and made things lively about the Demurr home for
the next few hours. All efforts to dislodge the “bald heads” were
unavailing until the room doors were closed and the fire permitted to
burn out. The hornets became benumbed with the cold and were easily
killed.
A Smart Youngster.
Two women whose husbands are members of the faculty of Oberlin College
went to call on the new professor’s wife. They were shown into a room
where the small daughter of the house was playing. While awaiting the
appearance of their hostess, one of the ladies remarked to her friend,
at the same time nodding toward the little girl. “Not very p-r-e-t-t-y,
is she?” spelling the word so that the child should not understand.
Instantly, before there was time for the friend to reply, came the
answer from the little girl: “No, not very p-r-e-t-t-y, but awfully
s-m-a-r-t.”
The Original Rattlesnake Flag.
Pennsylvania’s State museum, at Harrisburg, has just received one of the
most precious of the historic relics housed there. It is the original
rattlesnake flag of the Revolutionary War, the oldest banner
representing what is now the United States.
The flag was donated by the heirs of Samuel Craig, of Westmoreland
County, who died six years ago. One of the forbears of the Craigs
carried it in the early days of the Revolution.
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