William Adolphus Turnpike

age of research and cheap books, to say nothing of magazines and newspapers, knows that history is not true. It is established beyond doubt, for instance,

ture of all the good jobs in the empire. They simply lured the English on, because they knew that no Englishman could live north of the Tweed and ever get e

vents last chronicled, wearing a black eye, an abrased nose, and a scratched chin. Naturally, Lucien Torrance, office boy to Simmons, the a

match between the Easts

methin' doing nearly every minute till the police broke

t for a minute I didn't. Would yer want

had. Would you wanter take 'em any place you'd thought there was goin' to be a s

n' from any feller my age around these parts and don't you forget it,

flats to see the game, and, say, ther

town, wouldn't you? Suppose there ain't, it sounds good anyway. Besides, you know very well I'm just trying

ean and free from disgrace. 'The first man,' he says, 'that forgets he's playing lacro

im with the spongy whiskers on each side of his

did ye learn French? You

red on your food, ain't yer? What d'ye eat for breakfast anyway? M

e times. Wake up, man, wake up, the fast

le long and would be going yet, but somebody calls out to him to dr

oy to them, and then the Easts bangs the ball into the net a

eeling pretty pert this morning, eh! Mebbe you'

brain factory you could hear a mile away. And all the Easts piles on to Tip and it took the police fifteen minutes to get 'em untied. And the police sergeant he says, it's Tip to

says, 'It looks to me like most er you fellers is spoilin' for a clubbin', and I'd hate,' he says, 'to disappoint yo

with the game and play like kinder-gart'ners

asn't much doin' except the noise, for both sides h

s a tie-two goals each, and not more'n

h language 'stead of loading your think tank with them furrin' words you wouldn't need

wise guy. He lets 'em all get going and you couldn't see anything but people shovin' and crowdin' and hittin'. And then he chases for the caretaker of the park where the flats are an' gets two lines of hose fixed on a hydrant and two cops a holdin' the hose. And pretty soon two streams er water hits the crowd, and you'd oughter have seen the way it bust up. Honest, I never thought there was so many fast runners in the whole of Canada. And when the most of the people is outer the way, here's nearly all the Easts and the Stars a

u'd only keep the brakes on your

ole shooting match into the wag

he court Monday morning. And I was telling my Pa about it, and I says to him,

class honors,' he says, 'to Sergeant Mackay and second place to the magistrate,' he says. And he nev

e some noise too. One of the Star rooters got kinder mad at me making a few remarks during the game, and when the mix-up starts I'm laying for him. But he seen me comin' and I couldn't dodge the brick he had. It's

the battered visage, William merely an

brick h

d notice it," retort

d object-for you, I mean," said Whimple. "You see I

M

of some choice lots that are increasing in value every month. She's a wonderful woman, boy; her dad left her four houses to

t'll give me a chance to talk to the people and find out

d in the other cases the rents are due to-day. Here are the addresses. You

n Torrance, "to round up some coin for Mister Whimple's aunt." He was proud

nd answer fool questions when people call. But it'