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THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN

think we care to look at any to-day. If you could put us on the track of the one we saw, we might get that, and then we could buy others of you." He added this as a bait to the trader.

"Well, I'm very sorry, but I can't, for the life of me, think of the name of the man who took that old chair," declared the dealer. "But if it was a spinning wheel now, or something in Mission, I could——"

"Come on, fellows," interrupted Tom, sadly. "I—I guess we don't want anything to-day."

"Now I've got a real gem in Louis the Fourteenth," went on the man eagerly.

"No," said Phil, decidedly.

"Or early Flemish."

"Nothing doing," declared Sid.

"Or a Colonial sideboard and a warming pan—a warming pan is dead swell in the room of a college lad."

"No, we don't——" began Tom.

"Let's jolly him along," whispered Frank Simpson. "We want to get on the trail of that Hebrew. Now if we buy say, a warming pan, of this man, he may give us more information..

"Right!" whispered Tom, eagerly. "Why didn't I think of it myself? Of course! We do need a warming pan," he went on, winking at Phil and Sid, who at first thought their chum was out of his mind. Now if we could get a nice cop-