Chapter I: Front Matter

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SHORTY McCABE ON THE JOB

by

SEWELL FORD

Author of Shorty Mccabe, Side-Stepping with Shorty, Etc.

Illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

Copyright, 1913, 1914, 1915, by Sewell Ford Copyright, 1915, by Edward J. Clode All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Wishing a New One on Shorty 1
II. A Few Squirms by Bayard 18
III. Peeking in on Pedders 32
IV. Two Singles to Goober 49
V. The Case of a Female Party 65
VI. How Millie Shook the Jinx 81
VII. Reverse English on Sonny Boy 100
VIII. Gumming Gopher to the Map 115
IX. What Lindy Had up Her Sleeve 131
X. A Case of Nobody Home 150
XI. Under the Wire with Edwin 165
XII. A Fifty-Fifty Split with Hunk 182
XIII. A Follow Through by Eggy 198
XIV. Catching up with Gerald 217
XV. Shorty Hears from Pemaquid 233
XVI. Scratch One on Bulgaroo 251
XVII. Bayard Ducks His Past 267
XVIII. Trailing Dudley Through a Trance 285
XIX. A Little While with Alvin 304

ILLUSTRATIONS

"It might give us some clew," says I, "as to
what him and your paw has a run-in about" Frontispiece

FACING PAGE
"I wouldn't have anything happen to you
for the world," says I 8

"Now see hea-uh, Mistuh Constable," says he,
"I wouldn't go for to do anything like that" 60

"Say, I'm a bear for Paris" 97

"Now, friends," he calls, "everybody in on the chorus" 124

"What's the idea," says Mabel, "wishin' this
Rube stuff on us?" 157

He sidles up to the desk and proceeds to make
some throaty noises 199

Blamed if Dudley don't have the nerve to tow
Veronica into the next room, stretchin' on
tiptoe to talk in her ear 298

SHORTY McCABE ON THE JOB