Alas! Peter Johannes had forgotten to remove his mask on leaving the house!
Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. Pope.
70. _The Professor Sees Through It_
When Hawkins said, ‘it’s twenty minutes after six’ and ‘it’s a quarter to eleven,’ Fordney knew he was not a railroad man.
No railroad worker _ever_ speaks of the time in any other manner than, ‘it’s six-twenty’ and ‘it’s ten-forty-five.’
_Ask the next conductor!_
There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a well-established custom. Joseph Anderson.
71. _The Kidnapers’ Cleverness_
The express package contained a carrier pigeon.
A bird of the air shall carry, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. Ecclesiastes.
Transcriber’s Notes
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--Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.
--In the text versions, delimited italicized text by _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's Minute Mysteries, by Harold Austin Ripley