Show adventurers 7 CLUB cave man stuff stub by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter VE got a yarn here lads and lassies classies las sies that is just another 1 f tion of the fact that you dont have to go to the far corners of the world to find adventure this yarn cornes comes to us from donald adams and by golly the adventure don ran into is too strange to have anywhere but right here in our own amazing united states nea never ver expect this sor sort t of thin thing to happen in darkest africa or in wild and woolly asia it just happen in europe cut but it did happen right in boston in the year 1017 1917 and more don adams can it don Is a carpenter and hes done work all over new england H he hopes though that he never has to do another job for anybody who even remotely resembles that big stiff he ran up against in in boston don will never forget his name but relaying it on to you Is a job I 1 dont don t want to tackle because that birds bonicker mo nicker was about two feet long and run full of as and ks and neither don nor I 1 can pronounce it and only two people in the whole world outside of einstein could spell it more muscles than letters in his name the fellow himself was about its as big as his name and two or three times as hard to get along with lie ile been in this country very long and he spoke darned little english doti don adams know very much about him but he had a carpentering job to be done and don went to work and did it for him it was a contract job and the price agreed upon was a hundred and seventy five dollars don finished it up in about three weeks and during that time he hardly ever saw aw the big fellow although his wife and eleven children were home most of the time when lie was all through don gave his bill to the mans wife and left expecting to receive his bis money before long don waited a couple of weeks but no money came then he began to get short of dough and went around to the big fellows house to see what was the hie matter he rapped at the door and the big fellow himself opened it what you want he said as don stepped into the hall this was a reception but no tea party the big fellow was scowling darkly ile he stood facing don with his chin out thrust his arms held out from his sides in a menacing attitude don quite know hatto make of 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 and fell to the floor the chair had caught him a nasty wallop if I 1 know what Is coming says don 1 I can generally manage to take care of myself but the thing happened so unexpectedly that I 1 have it a standing over me with a knife in his hand cliance chance I 1 got to my feet again frightened and surprised I 1 started to call for help and immediately the chair crashed down on me again this time don tried to dodge the chair lie ile turned so that it missed ills his head bead but it hit him in the shoulder and knocked him down again A sick feeling cam him but he be lose consciousness from what seemed to be a great distance away he heard the big fellow roaring at him get out of this house he was bellowing and if you ask for 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 elbow 1 I looked at him lie he says and could see him dimly standing over me with a long curved knife in his hand I 1 was so overcome by fear that I 1 thought I 1 must surely collapse I 1 crawled to the door got crazily to my feet and tried to go eo out the door but the door was locked don would have sold his lite life cheaply don looked at that door with the blank stare of a dazed man ne have given a nickel then for his of getting out of that house aliv then from somewhere outside he heard some one yell walt wait a minute buddy ill help you and a that point don collapsed and fell to the floor 1 I cant remember much after that don says two policemen broke down the door and nabbed the big fellow and then everything went black the next thing I 1 knew I 1 was in my own bed with a doctor and my wife taking care of me for three weeks don lay in that bed unable to walk when he be had recovered enough so that he could hobble bobble about a bit he be was summoned to attend the big fellows trial just give him another chance at that guy and that was where the ba big stilt stiff got a swell taste of justice the judge just did a little figuring liguri ng adding up dons bill and his doctors doctor s bill then he be added some more for the suffering he had caused don and made the ble big fellow pay it and on top of that he sent him to prison for a year and don well all he hopes Is that if he ever runs into the big bruiser again he has a chance to get set before the hostilities start it may sound unbelievable that yarn of dons but its only one of the many strange and thrilling adventures that are happening in america every day C service |