THE EARTH-STOPPER 



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say, these bothersome people are not wanting me. He takes 

 them as coolly as the "Artful Dodger" would take a police- 

 man in quest of a comrade with whom he has not been doing 

 " business" lately. 



Here is old Foxfix himself, we declare, doing the electric 

 telegraph with his cap, rejoicing the hearts of a now despond- 

 ing ireld. 





