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Title: On With Torchy

Author: Sewell Ford

Illustrator: Foster Lincoln

Release Date: December 13, 2005 [EBook #17301]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: "Well if I ever! Look where your shoulders come!" says
Vee.]

ON WITH TORCHY

BY

SEWELL FORD

AUTHOR OF

TORCHY, TRYING OUT TORCHY, ODD NUMBERS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY

FOSTER LINCOLN

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1913, 1914, by

Sewell Ford

Copyright, 1914, by

Edward J. Clode

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. CHANCING IT FOR VEE
II. PULLING A SLEUTH STUNT
III. WHEN IRA SHOWED SOME PEP
IV. TORCHY BUGS THE SYSTEM
V. BREEZING BY WITH PEGGY
VI. GLOOM SHUNTING FOR THE BOSS
VII. TORCHY IN ON THE DRAW
VIII. GLADYS IN A DOUBLE BILL
IX. LATE RETURNS ON POPOVER
X. MERRY DODGES A DEAD HEAT
XI. THE PASSING BY OF BUNNY
XII. THE GLAD HAIL FOR TORCHY
XIII. AUNTY FLAGS A ROSY ONE
XIV. CUTTING IN ON THE BLISS
XV. BEING SICCED ON PERCEY
XVI. HOW WHITY GUNKED THE PLOT
XVII. TORCHY GETS A THROUGH WIRE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"WELL, IF I EVER! LOOK WHERE YOUR SHOULDERS
COME!" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"BY GORRY!" EXPLODES IRA AS HE GETS HIS FIRST GLIMPSE

SISTER HAS LANDED A SMACK ON HIS JAW

BELIEVE ME, IT WAS SOME ARTISTIC MAKEUP!

"AH, FLUTTER BY, IDLE ONE!" SAYS I

THEN MY ARM MUST HAVE SLIPPED--AND THE SIDE
CLINCH WA'N'T DISTURBED

WE WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF PRACTISIN' THE SIDEWISE DIP,
WHEN WHO SHOULD SHOW UP BUT THE HAPPY BRIDEGROOM!

WE WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDST Of THE SCRIMMAGE WHEN IN WALKS VEE

ON WITH TORCHY

CHAPTER I

CHANGING IT FOR VEE

Say, what's next to knowin' when you're well off? Why, thinkin' you
are.

Which is a little nugget of wisdom I panned out durin' a chat I had not
long ago with Mr. Quinn, that I used to work under when I was on the
door of the Sunday sheet, three or four years back.

"Hail