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Johnnie found his father at work in the barn. "What shall I do?" Johnnie asked him. "I can't catch Twinkleheels. I've been trying for about an hour. And he won't let me get near enough to him to grab him." Farmer Green laughed. "He's a rascal," he said. "You'll have to coax him with something to eat. Put a few handfuls of oats in the four-quart measure and hold it up so he can see it.
"What are those marks?" asked Dave Darrin deeply interested. Tom Colquitt hesitated, glancing at young Mr. Hibbert. "Tell 'em," nodded the young man of the four-quart hat. "The young man we are seeking," replied the detective, "will have a brownish mole over his right shoulder blade and a reddish mark to the left of his breast bone. The boy was born with those marks.
Running to the barn, he caught up Twinkleheels' halter and snatched the four-quart measure off the top of a barrel. "I won't stop to take any oats to-day," Johnnie said to himself. "I'll fool Twinkleheels. It will be a good joke on him when he puts his nose into the measure and finds it empty." Johnnie Green hurried to the pasture. At his first whistle Twinkleheels pricked up his ears.
Just a moment, please!" "It's the man in the four-quart silk hat," Tom whispered, as the five chums baited and turned. "Man?" echoed Darry, though also in a whisper. "Humph! Hibbert looks more like a boy who has run away from home with his father's wardrobe." Certainly, as he hurried toward them, Mr. Hibbert did look youthful.
"Well, then, sir, your man also wears a four-quart silk hat, and a long black coat that makes you think of a neat umbrella covering," Tom went on. "And lavender trousers," supplemented Greg Holmes. "Always wears these things, you say?" questioned the stranger. "He has, so far," Dick nodded. "Mr.
"You'd better keep the halter behind you, when you get to the pasture," Farmer Green said. "If Twinkleheels saw it he might not come oats or no oats." Johnnie Green chuckled. Clutching in one hand the four-quart measure with a taste of oats in it, and holding the halter carefully behind his back, Johnnie Green walked slowly towards Twinkleheels.
One June when he was shingling the old barn he engaged me to pick him some wild strawberries. When I came in the afternoon with my four-quart pail nearly full he came down off the roof and gave me a silver quarter, or two shillings, as then called, and I felt very rich.
Just then the miller went down stairs to the meal-trough; I heard his feet on the steps, and not thinking much what I was doing, ran into the mill, and taking the four-quart toll-dish nearly full of corn out of the hopper, carried it out and poured it into the trough before the horse, and placed the dish back before the miller came up from below.
Alonzo Hibbert, minus his four-quart hat, and wearing a flat straw hat instead, as well as light clothes and silk negligee shirt, came in advance of Tom Colquitt, the man from Blinders' detective agency. Still to the rear of them was a third man, slightly bent and looking somewhat old, though there were no gray streaks in his light brown hair. "How do you do, boys?" called Mr.
"Had to go after him with a four-quart measure, didn't ye? or did he let ye corner him?" "Mr. Euston caught him for me," she said, laughing, but coloring perceptibly, while John's face grew very red. "I think I will run on and join my sister, and Mr. Lenox can drive home with you. Good bye, Mr. Harum. I shall be glad to have Kirby whenever it is convenient.
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