disgusted brother. "'Me 'n' Beany'd been swimmin'. We went down
to the old water hole where the springboard is, and some cloze
was sitting the bank. We saw a man in the water, an' we watched
him. Say, he could swim, he could! He could just live in the
water. Well, we took off our cloze by-en-by, and went in, and
pretty soon he come out. He never noticed us any more'n if we
wasn't there; only he come out a good ways from us and walked
back where was his things, without lookin' our way. But we seen
him; his lip was twisted sort of funny, and made him look like a
grin. We'll, he dressed like a streak, and stalked off; and
Beany whispered, 'Where did you get that coat?' but seems we
didn't like to yell it right at him. He had a funny look. So we
swam and by-en-by we come away too."

"You forgot what we found," reminded Beany. "When we came where
his cloze had been we found two papers. One was just a plain
paper in a plain envelope, and the other was a card written all
up, something about admit bearer to all parts of fairgrounds. I
suppose he is going to show something at the fair next week.
Anyhow he'll have to get another, because Porky lost it out the
hole in his pants pocket goin' home. And the other paper--"

"Wait till you get to it, can't you?" said the other twin,
glaring fiercely at himself, or so it seemed to the boys
watching. "We ain't come to that. But we seen the coat all
right. Well, we got on our wheels and started home."

"I had the paper in my pocket," interrupted Beany.

"Yes," said Porky simply. "Beany's pants was new. We come along