In return Billy watched Archie scribble.

"How's this?" Archie asked, at last.

Billy listened to the reading.

"Will that fetch 'em aboard?" Archie demanded, anxiously.

"It would _my_ mother," said the astonished Billy. "_I'd_ fetch her,
bet yer life!"

They laboriously set up the handbill and triumphantly struck it off:

kANDY FOR KIdS

X

Boys Gi_r_ls and Ba_b_ies co_m_e Ab_o_ard
the

"sPOT CAsH"
Yo_u_ Get Perfectly P_u_re Pepper_m_int
if yo_u_ bring yo_u_r

:o: P_A_REnTS :o:
_W_E LOVE K_I_Ds KIdDIES A_N_D
KiDLE_T_S

_Topsail, Armstrong, Grimm & Co._

"That'll fetch 'em, all right!" Archie declared. "Now for the
concert."

Billy had another shock of surprise. "Th-th _what_?" he ejaculated.

"Concert," Archie replied. "You're going to sing, Billy."

"Me!" poor Billy exclaimed in large alarm.

"And Skipper Bill is, too," Archie went on; "and Bagg's going to
double-shuffle, and Bobby North is going to shake that hornpipe out of
his feet, and Jimmie Grimm is going to recite 'Sailor Boy, Sailor
Boy,' and I'm going to do a trifling little stunt myself. I'm Senor
Fakerino, Billy," Archie laughed, "the Greatest Magician in Captivity.
_Just_ you wait and see. I think I'll have a bill all to myself."

Archie scowled and scribbled again with a result that presently made
him chuckle. It appeared in the handbill (after some desperately hard
work) in this guise:

tO-NIGHT! tO-NIGHT!
O_n_ Boa_r_d t_h_e
"SPOT CASH"

----SENOR FAKE-erino----

Will Fully F_oo_l the F_oo_lish
:o: DOn'T :o:
Be F_oo_lish _a_nd Fully F_oo_led by
Credit Tr_a_ding

TRADE FOR CASH ***

ABOARD _the_
*** "SPOT CASH"

It was late in the afternoon before the last handbill was off the
press; and Billy Topsail then looked more like a black-face comedian
than senior member of the ambitious firm of Topsail, Armstrong, Grimm
& Company. Archie was no better--perspiring, ink-stained, tired in
head and hands. But the boys were delighted with what they had
accomplished. Ther