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books themselves were in no sense great. But Laddie was great in
every sense; and his life-story could not be marred, past
interest, by my clumsy way of telling it.
People have written in gratifying numbers asking for more stories
about Lad. More than seventeen hundred visitors have come all the
way to Sunnybank to see his grave. So I wrote the collection of
tales which are now included in "Further Adventures of Lad." Most
of them appeared, in condensed form, in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Very much, I hope you may like them.
ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE "Sunnybank" Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LAD
CHAPTER I. The Coming Of Lad
In the mile-away village of Hampton, there had been a veritable
epidemic of burglaries--ranging from the theft of a brand-new
ash-can from the steps of the Methodist chapel to the ravaging of
Mrs. Blauvelt's whole lineful of clothes, on a washday dusk.
Up the Valley and down it, from Tuxedo to Ridgewood, there had
been a half-score robberies of a very different
order--depredations wrought, manifestly, by professionals;
thieves whose motor cars served the twentieth century purpose of
such historic steeds as Dick Turpin's Black Bess and Jack
Shepard's Ranter.
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