Tom Slade on a Transport Part 24

But one little hint may be given now, which perhaps throws some light upon his future history. Some months after this momentous night Mrs.

Silas Archer, whose husband had a farm with a big apple orchard in the vicinity of Temple Camp, received a small box containing a little piece of junk and a letter in a sprawling hand. And this is what the letter said:

Dear Old Mudgie:

"Wish I was home to get in the fall russets. They don't have any decent apples over here at all. Stand this piece of wire on the whatnot in the sitting room and show it to the minister when he comes. It's part of a German barbed wire fence. I kept it for a souvenir when I escaped from Slops prison. You won't find that name on the map, but n.o.body can p.r.o.nounce the real name. You don't say it--you have to sneeze it. I had a bully time in the prison camp and met a feller that used to go to Temple Camp. We escaped together.

"Send your letters to the War Department for we're with Pers.h.i.+ng's boys now and they'll be forwarded. Can't tell you much on account of the censor. But don't worry, I'll be home for next Christmas.

Give my love to dad. And don't use all the sour apples when you're making cider.

"Down with the Kaiser! Lots of love.

"ARCHIE."

THIS ISN'T ALL!

Would you like to know what became of the good friends you have made in this book?

Would you like to read other stories continuing their adventures and experiences, or other books quite as entertaining by the same author?

On the _reverse side_ of the wrapper which comes with this book, you will find a wonderful list of stories which you can buy at the same store where you got this book.

_Don't throw away the Wrapper_

_Use it as a handy catalog of the books you want some day to have. But in case you do mislay it, write to the Publishers for a complete catalog._

THE TOM SLADE BOOKS

By PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH Author of "Roy Blakeley," "Pee-wee Harris," "Westy Martin," Etc.

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"Let your boy grow up with Tom Slade," is a suggestion which thousands of parents have followed during the past, with the result that the TOM SLADE BOOKS are the most popular boys' books published today. They take Tom Slade through a series of typical boy adventures through his tenderfoot days as a scout, through his gallant days as an American doughboy in France, back to his old patrol and the old camp ground at Black Lake, and so on.

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Author of "Tom Slade," "Pee-wee Harris," "Westy Martin," Etc.

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In the character and adventures of Roy Blakeley are typified the very essence of Boy life. He is a real boy, as real as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is the moving spirit of the troop of Scouts of which he is a member, and the average boy has to go only a little way in the first book before Roy is the best friend he ever had, and he is willing to part with his best treasure to get the next book in the series.

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THE PEE-WEE HARRIS BOOKS

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Author of "Tom Slade," "Roy Blakeley," "Westy Martin," Etc.

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All readers of the Tom Slade and the Roy Blakeley books are acquainted with Pee-wee Harris. These stories record the true facts concerning his size (what there is of it) and his heroism (such as it is), his voice, his clothes, his appet.i.te, his friends, his enemies, his victims.

Together with the thrilling narrative of how he foiled, baffled, circ.u.mvented and triumphed over everything and everybody (except where he failed) and how even when he failed he succeeded. The whole recorded in a series of screams and told with neither m.u.f.fler nor cut-out.

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