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Thelittle, swift,

desperate, searching looks fro

nervously about, like weasels in a trap "Close up there tight," said

Harkless, sharply "Don't let theit no square treatae, belied the plaintive passivity of his

tone "We been running no skin Wy d'ye say we gotter give up our own

otter prove it was a skin We risked our money fair"

"Prove it! Come up here, Eph Watts Friends," the editor turned to the

crowd, s, "friends, here's a man we ran out of town once, because he

knew too ain and

he's here to stay He'll give us an object-lesson on the shell game"

"It's pretty simple," remarked Mr Watts "The best way is to pick up the

ball with your second finger and the back part of your thumb as you

pretend to lay the shell down over it: this way" He illustrated, and

showed several -froid; and

as he made plain the easy swindle by which ry and threateninghis voice a little, "what a simple

cheat it is--and old as Pharaoh Yet a lot of you stood around and lost

your own money, and stared like idiots, and let Hartley Bowlder lose