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INQUISITIVE BILLY AND HIS COUSIN GIBB.
BY RICHARD BARRY.
The only way to prove whether this story is true or not is to find theProfessor (who could tell you all about it) and the Quartermaster (whoclaims to have been an eyewitness), and ask them; or to believe the talethat Billy Schreiber, Jun., and his cousin, Gibson Peters, II., tell,without any proof at all. But the two young gentlemen say they reallyand truly had this adventure, and that it honestly happened on theFourth of July.
The Professor had rented the old Hope farm because it was the loneliestplace on Long Island; and although he had lots of business on hand, forsome reason he did not wish to be caught working at it. Perhaps he wasbashful, and did not wish anybody to see him in his shirt sleeves. Atall events, he took great precautions.
Now the way