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Title: You Can Search Me

Author: Hugh McHugh

Release Date: June 13, 2004 [eBook #12607]

Language: English

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YOU CAN SEARCH ME

BY HUGH McHUGH

AUTHOR OF

"JOHN HENRY," "DOWN THE LINE WITH JOHN HENRY,"
"IT'S UP TO YOU," "BACK TO THE WOODS,"
"OUT FOR THE COIN," "I NEED THE MONEY,"
"I'M FROM MISSOURI," ETC.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON H. GRANT

1905

CONTENTS

JOHN HENRY GETS A PARTNER

JOHN HENRY GETS A SUFFICIENCY

JOHN HENRY GETS BUSY

JOHN HENRY GETS A SHOCK

JOHN HENRY GETS EXCITED

JOHN HENRY GETS A SETBACK

JOHN HENRY GETS A SURPRISE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"BRING US A PLAIN OMELETTE AND ONE DISH OF PRUNES."

TWO AND A HALF POUNDS OF IRON LANDED ON MY INSTEP

"YOU BETCHER SWEET"

THE ANSWER WAS A CREAM-COLORED HORSE WHICH LOOKED AT ME SADLY

A PRETTY HOT LINE OF GOODS, EH?

I WAS SO SURPRISED I DROPPED THE EGG

CHAPTER I.

JOHN HENRY GETS A PARTNER.

"Seven weeks and then the wedding bells will get busy for you, eh,
Bunch?" I chuckled.

"Surest thing you know," my old pal Jefferson replied, somewhat
dolefully.

"I must dig up a few old shoes and have a plate of cold rice
pudding on the doorstep," I went on. "It's going to afford me a
bunch of keen delight to soak you in the midriff with a rusty
patent leather and then push a few rice fritters in under your coat
collar, believe me!"

Bunch tried to pull a smile, but his face didn't feel like working,
and the finish was a mournful sigh.

"John," he said, after the waiter had crowded the sizz-water into
the wood alcohol, "I'm a plain case of shrimp!"

"Oh, sush!" I said; "you'll get over that, Bunch. Isn't it a hit
how we young fellows begin to warm wise to ourselves the moment we
get a flash of the orange blossoms. We think of the beautiful
little lady we are leading to the altar and then we think of the
many beautiful souses we have led by the hand, and we begin to ask
ourselves if we are worthy. Before we can get the right answer the
preac