r the rapidly disappearing wagon, then, stoopi

dn't hit him if you wanted to, and you wouldn't want to

to throw at him. I just happened to see this lying on the ground and picked

pper, all excitement. "It l-lo

ied Donald. "I never sa

lose look at it

of the size of the early copper cent, fo

der full sail," remarked Rand, "with the nam

ebster Credit Current' a

ng about wrecking the Constitution, I suppose," added Rand. "This side

suddenly ej

admitted Donald, "but

k, as Hamlet says," laughed Ra

then?" dema

," replied Rand, "but I will ask Unc

them," stammered Pepper, looking alon

e this?" a

ar," replied Pepper,

more?" cal

t y

ough they looked long and carefully

per, when they had finally given up the hunt and sat

nd and a bag of money in the other, and around the edge are the words, 'I take the responsibilit

," he continued, handing t

very curious about t

urious how they got

that, either," went on Donald. "Why sho

d, "only I don't see why they should b

ald. "Somebody probably dropped

eve that they grew here. But who dropped

Donald, "he'll make a

s. I'd like to know the history of these and how they came here, but I don't suppose I ever shall.

hat do you think he was doing with

ng them to dredge for clams. But, speaking of cl

d Pepper, starting off on a run

somebody say breakfast?" at the same time starting to get out of the locker the va

her. "We don't need ail that stuff. What do you think you are going to do, get up a banquet? If

be any novelty about that. The dish-was

any more of them than the re

ulated Pepper. "Well, maybe you don't use any more," ad

ide the door and an alert-looking, brown-haired, brown-eyed boy, wi

g to get here in time, but I see I struck it at the

e began to think you weren't comi

x up to the plank that served as a table. "Pass me some of those biscui

f you eat as fast as you talk or talk as fast as

and talk afterwards," and this he would do, notwithstanding the