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subdued the obese one completely. The other spectators were all laughing at him now and he slunk away.

Recovering his equanimity, Harold repeated his roundhouse wind-up and hurled the ball swiftly at the negro's head. The latter had been paying attention to the argument in front of him and was for the moment off his guard. The result was that Speedy's shot struck him squarely on the crown of his head. The ball bounced nearly back over the counter. The proprietor of the booth frowned and muttered with displeasure at the negro. Then he summoned a professional smile to his hard face and held out the cigar box to our marksman. Speedy picked out a cigar.

"I'll take it home to Pop," he assured Jane.

He used up the other five balls also. But now the negro, smarting both from Speedy's rifle-like delivery and his boss's scolding, was more agile. He successfully ducked the remaining missiles. Jane and Harold soon moved on to more worlds to conquer.

Speedy insisted upon buying his pretty consort an ice cream cone at this point, although she protested that it would spoil their lunch. It was warm and she really welcomed the cone, but she knew Speedy's finances were in a low state of health so that even this small expenditure was important.

They rode upon a modern variation of a carousel which gave one the illusion of being in a horse race, with jaunty jockey caps supplied for the price of admittance. They were swung aloft in the huge