Show r adventurers CLUB 4 r w I 1 f cave man ilan stuff by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter Y I 1 VL VE got ot a yarn here lads ads and lassies classies las sies that is just an another otIler n IL tion of the fact that you dont have to go to tile the far corners corn world to find adventure this yarn cornes comes to us from donald ad A and by golly the adventure don ran into I 1 is S too strange to have ib where but right Z 1 here in our own amazing united states att 11 1 1 never expect c pact this sort of thins thing to happen it appen in darkest aft afi wild and woolly asia it just happen in europe Ell rope aadi cut but it did happen right in poston boston in the year 1017 and chavia whir isi Bort adams can prove it don Is a carpenter and hes done work all over new E 3 he hopes though that he never has to do another job for anYbody y wha even remotely resembles that big stiff he ran up against in boston bos doti don will never forget his name but relaying it on to you is a job hi I 1 want to tackle because that birds bonicker mo nicker was about two feet lung 18 aki of as and ks its and neither don nor I 1 can pronounce it anil only two the whole world outside of einstein could spell it IL ww more muscles than letters in his name the fellow himself was about as big as his name and two or three Us r as hard to get along with ile he been in this country very long IOBE M M spoke darned little english don adams know very much about ki i he had a carpentering job to be done and don went to work and did it 1 loth it was a contract job and the price agreed upon was a hundred ari ai seventy five dollars don finished it up in about three weeks and that if ing that time he hardly ever saw the big fellow fe although hit his wife ij 14 eleven children were home most of the time when he was all through don gave his bill to the mans wife expecting to receive his money before long don waited a couple of weeks but no money came then he began blit short of dough and went around to the hie big fellows house to see what yu matter ue he rapped at the door and the big fellow himself opened it IL what you want he said as don stepped into the hall ball this was a reception but no tea party the big fellow was scowling darkly ile he stood facing don doa with hi is out thrust his arms held out from his sides in a menacing attitude dolga quite know what to make of it it why he said ive come for my money without saying a word the big fellow picked up a chair raised it high in the air and brought it down on dons head don reeled ani fill to the floor the chair had caught him a nasty wallop it if I 1 know what hot is coming says don 1 I can generally manage to hi care of myself but the thing happened so unexpectedly that I 1 lam 0 A standing over me with a knife in his hand chance I 1 got to my feet again frightened and surprised surp I 1 started to call ab help and immediately the chair crashed down don on me again this time don tried to dodge the chair lie turned so that it mimi head but it hit him in the shoulder and knocked him down again ing cama over him but he lose consciousness from what A hat seemed to be a great distance away he be heard the bl roaring at him get out of this house he was bellowing and if you ask to money again I 1 cut your head off and burn you up in the stove don struggled to rise managed to prop himself up on one zwia tu 1 I looked at him lie he says and could see him dimly stanch on with a long iong curved knife to in ills his liand hand I 1 was so overcome by ear W thought I 1 must surely collapse I 1 cr crawled allied to the door got crazily to W and tried to go out the door but the door as locked loc keil don would have sold his life cheaply dpn don looked at that door with the blank stare of a fazed man heffs y have given a nickel then for ills his chances of getting out of 0 that boada hoist t then from somewhere outside lie he heard some one yell wait a minute buddy ill help iou and a that point don collapsed and fell to the floor 1 I cant remember much after that don says two broke down the th door and nabbed the big fellow and then everall averytt q with a wand went black th the next thing I 1 knew I 1 was in my own bed my wife taking care of me to he k bad nn for three weeks doti don lay in that bed unable to walk alien cred enough so that lie ile could hobble about a bit he was the big fellows trial just give him another chance at that GUY V and that was where the big stiff got a swell smell taste of just ice the TO yi J L bil mil just did a little figuring liguri ng adding up ill dons bill I 1 arid and ills his doctors the added some more for the suffering lie he had caused don and mauet made pay it and andico ann and on top of that he sent him to prison for a year well all he hopes is that if he ever runs into the big bruiser ag has a chance to get set before the hostilities start starl acet one only conj it may sound unbelievable that yun yara of dons but its g many strange and 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