Show CITY HICK FALLS SOMETIMES Human nature being human nature the city man falls for the faker as often often of of- ten as as' as the country man man indeed indeed much ofte oftener er because the vast majority majority ma ma- ma-I ma of fakers operate operate- in the cities I INo No Now them thero John is-John Muller of Philadelphia Phila Phila- Philadelphia 1 I delphia delphia- population n sixteen n or or seventeen seventeen sev sev- enteen hundred thousand John answered answered answered ans ans- one of those correspondence school detective ads that gives you youl ou l lessons in plain and fancy detecting and in a month or two he acquired a diploma badge pair pail of handcuffs and instructions for the war pre-war price of Thus equipped Detective lrI Muller ller ent y out in in disguise and found a bunch of amateur baseball fellows in ina a park quarrelling with the umpire Muller took the field and attempted i to settle the dispute according to rule 21 but was advised ed by o one le of the players to beat it He then produced his badge as advised advised advised ad ad- in Lesson 9 when another player play play- er slammed him on the nose Other members followed suit The amateur detective reached for his his' handcuffs but no one would wear them When a policeman reached the scene it was plain that something had gone wrong with the correspondence school detecting Finally the officer rescued Muller Miller from underneath a pile and took him to the cooler for safe fo keeping and renovation Anybody with brains ca can 1 learn to tobe tobo tobo bo be a good detective but nobody did id it itin itin itin in three months and very few in three years |