[Frontispiece: "Here's my father, or the police!"]

THE ADMIRABLE TINKER

CHILD OF THE WORLD

BY EDGAR JEPSON

Illustrated by
Margaret Eckerson

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMIV

Copyright, 1904, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, March, 1904
Third Impression


COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Here's my father, or the police!" . . . . . . . Frontispiece

He surveyed himself with an excited curiosity.

"I can't hold him!"

He poured comforting assurances of safety into her ears.

"She was quite out of control for a good five minutes."

"To-night reflect on your misdeeds. To-morrow
we will treat of your ransom."

The pursuit was lively, but short.

It was his first essay as coiffeur.

As a battering-ram against the first and second buttons
of his waistcoat.

"Hold it back!" screamed Tinker.