Show STUDENT Li El cies of the mullet which is sometimes caught in the river One of the boys remarked that the fish should have been starved to death weeks ago but as he was still alive and active they proceeded at once to his capture It was late in the afternoon when they caught him and as one of the boys remarked they “had had enough smell to last them for one day On the way up the street with their capture they passed old Jim’s meat market and at his suggestion left the sucker and carried away a silver half dollar Ten minutes later Grow the hardware man passed the same shop on his way home saw the fish and being fond of that kind pur- chased it and departed This was on Saturday On Monday the Jones kids played “hookey” from school carried some lime to their pot hole and proceeded to find out what had happened since a year A half hour later an excited pair of kids met the city marshal and told him an incredible story Nevertheless after promising the ago & —J "IS 41 kids broken necks if they were “fooling” him he went to investigate One look into the pot hole and he rushed to hunt up the coroner- and incidentally collected a In the bottom among the rocks old irons etc was a more or less ground up human skeleton to which shreds of bleached flesh still clung in places The sucker’s unstarved confinement was explained “In the jaw of the mutilated skull was a bridge of gold teeth on a heavy platinum frame The bleary eyed stranger had finished peculiarly To his ankles a large lava boulder was fastened with a piece of “extra pliable steel rope” for which Grow was the “sole western agent” The body had been started with this weight to the reputed unmeasured depths of the great crevice but had lodged in the Jones crowd boys’ pot hole “And GrowV piece de resistance ’ at his Sunday dinner had been the great sucker from the Jones boys’ pot hole nicely baked “I missed my train” Dauber |