The Knights of the White Shield / Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play

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Table of

e list of prohibitions posted up ag

ere; but what does it mean when it says no one but the 'treasury' must climb the ladder and go up in

rack from ear to ear. "Why-why,

la? Yes, I knew that; you told me

n dip

y will steal your money. You may be assure

There goes a man and a h

raction, and they quickly surrounded the organ-grinder. He owned a remarkable monkey, the boys thought, especially when he mounted

on!" cr

said his master.

spectacles appeared

her," said the

a very nimble spring for the spout, something besides a shadow would have fallen upon him, even the broom itself. This was now seen at the window, and Aunt

y is very smart, Aun

ke him an honorary me

ht enough,

e an honorary member if-if-a monkey i

with sorrow of the unexpected and total loss of their money! Charlie, as "treasury," had gone

was in it?" inqu

cen

might lose

it was poor consolation. Ind

e any mark o

ottom, though-though-'t

at the device really was, and its charac

o and a few mouthfuls of steak, he then rushed from the house to report the loss to th

is to be done?" as

dy k

and all take a look,"

very curious eyes were directed toward the depths of the "cupelo," but t

it!" sho

und it,"

d face b

't, Pip!" ex

ou tha

t I knew what ha

p. "But what ha

o make sure that no one outs

I think Tim T

think so?" inqui

Tyler go down the lane after school, an

?" asked

wide in wonder

him. That's where

the world, and then they did not care to think of it. They had not f

ssion came up at once,

the dipper away fr

president go

the mothion

f the intended honor. "Presidents don't do t

not here now; he went home a moment ago. Then, of course,

" said boy

No amount of coaxing could prevail upon, him to approach the dreadful dragon t

ort made

t, and Tim may be hanging roun

o the club, and ent

e," he said, an

ter Street at the same time, and

oss," said Charlie,

one d

club has lost i

dip

, where we ke

O

money h

w m

cen

hem; s

we know wh

ow cert

, and the feller is jus

ve done something you were never guilty of, that is worse still. I don't think it fair

thought of it

u are right

she said: "Stop one moment. Whoever that boy i

Charlie. "Tim Tyler's

ng several cottages, and then a fish-house, where several men were splitting and salting fish. All

Wort, "and there is his boat.

stood upon the stairs leading down into the doc

im's nose and put on his boat, it wo

boat. Young Tim was in another part of the d

the bottom of the boat. "Now is my chance," thought Wort. He reach

t. "Let me turn it over and see if there is a mark on

you meddlin' with that pr

ked his bare arms and rested them on his hips, they looked like the

to tell the club his ill-success, and that their d

laimed to the disconsolate cir

a troubled face toward the barn, for no monkey came

nder, as he reached the

monkey?"

u sheen my le

y,

e circle to find out if any one had see

amented the gr

as badly as that of his missing assistan

find-my-

president, "we wi

g into corners, shouting, yelling, and stirring up the neighborh

nd returned, meeting in t

a very formal way. But where was the president? He was no more to be found t

es Sid,"

hen, seeing the boys at the window,

made a discovery! It

, but turned and speedily w

of Sid's legs disappearing round the corner of the house. They hurried after him, down the lane, then up a little passage-way

pointing as he spoke. "The

ed round his neck, swung the dead monkey! In th

m to his master's wrist. In his peregrinations over various roofs, he had examined the cupola, and reaching a paw through an opening where a slat chanced to have been removed, he had abstracted the property of the club. Whatever money was in the dipper had been spilled hopelessly as marbles in the sea. Attempting to come down by a spout from the last barn-roof visited, he was entangled in the cord that

ild of the sun. The organ-grinder was notified, and then a grave was dug for his dead property under the leafiest apple-tree. Charlie furnished a box, and