Mark Tidd Editor Author:Clarence Budington Kelland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Harper Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select f... more »rom more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER in ""PHE t-trouble with this business," says 1 Mark, when we were back in the office, "is that we haven't m-much workin' capital." "What's workin' capital?" Plunk wanted to know. "It's money you have to keep your b-business runrrin'. Right now we have to buy ink and p-paper and things. We aren't t-takin' in enough money to do it, and to pay rent, and such like. All we've got is f-fifty dollars, and that's got to do. Ma says so. She says dad can t-throw away so much money, but not another cent; and if we can't make this p-paper pay on what we've got, why we can just up and b-bust." " Um!" says I. "I guess we better get a wiggle on us, then." "C-can't get many subscribers before the f-first paper comes out, but we'll print f-f-five hunderd of 'em, anyhow. Cost money, but we got to do it." "How'll you get rid of 'em?" Tallow wanted ko know. "Sell 'em," says Mark, sharp-like. "We'll each take a bundle and sell 'em on the s-s-street like in the cities. Get more money out of 'em, too. Subscribers get f-f-fifty-two copies for a dollar and a quarter. We'll sell 'em for three cents -- and folks 1l buy 'em, too. Won't come down with a year's subscription right off, but they'll dig up t-t-three cents just so's they can make fun of what we're doin'." "Got to have some news for the paper," I says. "Yes," says Mark. "We've got a start. There's the story about Henry Wigglesworth being dead, and about that boy. Probably the will will be r-r-read this week, too. But we've got to go after l-little things for p-p-personal items." "How d'ye know when a thing's news?" says Plunk...« less