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Title: Fred Fearnot's New Ranch
and How He and Terry Managed It

Author: Hal Standish

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Originally published in Work and Win, An Interesting Weekly for
Young America, July 4, 1919

FRED FEARNOT'S NEW RANCH

and

How He and Terry Managed It

by

HAL STANDISH

CHAPTER I.

FEARNOT AND OLCOTT AT FREEDONIA.

Fearnot and Olcott remained in Wall Street after the great excitement
occasioned, by Fred's sudden change of front, when he turned from a bull
to a bear in the market, quietly waiting for another chance to make a
deal.

All the brokers in the Street had nothing else to talk about for the
time being but that singular event, and it became well known that the
brokers who had been attempting to crush him the second time narrowly
escaped being themselves completely ruined.

Although Fred and Terry didn't reap the benefit of the change as much as
they expected, they made a neat little sum, and Broker Bellamy, who had
been Fred's most persistent enemy, was so badly crippled that many
brokers thought he was completely ruined.

His two nephews, thinking that Fred had been too harsh with their uncle,
hired a couple of thugs to give him a good beating, but the news of
their intention having reached Fred's ears, Terry kept inside the
typewriter's room an hour after the close of business for some time.

One afternoon the thugs entered the room and the leader fell into Fred's
terrible grip, and he squeezed his ribs so fiercely that several of them
were broken. The wounded slugger's pal was roundly thrashed, too, by
Terr