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Title: The Admirable Tinker
Child of the World

Author: Edgar Jepson

Illustrator: Margaret Eckerson

Release Date: August 8, 2006 [EBook #19010]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[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

CHAPTER

I. SIR TANCRED'S QUEST
II. THE FINDING OF TINKER
III. TINKER ACCEPTS HIS NAME
IV. THE TRAINING OF TINKER
V. TINKER'S BIRTHDAY BLOODHOUND
VI. THE RESCUE OF ELIZABETH KERNABY
VII. THE STOLEN FLYING-MACHINE
VIII. THE BARON AND THE MONEY-LENDER
IX. TINKER INTERVENES
X. TINKER'S FOUNDLING
XI. TINKER FROM THE MACHINE
XII. TINKER BORROWS A MOTOR-CAR
XIII. TINKER MEETS HIS OLD NURSE
XIV. TINKER TAKES SEPTIMUS RAINER IN HAND
XV. TINKER ASSERTS THE RIGHTS OF THE EMPLOYER
XVI. TINKER DISOWNS HIS GRANDMOTHER
XVII. TINKER AND THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE

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.

Over these agreeable occupations they talked.

And she paused to let the splendour of the gift sink in.

It's time these lubbers walked the plank.

THE ADMIRABLE TINKER

CHAPTER ONE

SIR TANCRED'S QUEST

"It is,"