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BEADLE’S POCKET Library

Copyrighted, 1885, by BEADLE AND ADAMS. Entered at the Post Office at
New York, N. Y., as Second Class Mail Matter. March 18, 1885.

=Vol. V.= $2.50 a Year. Published Weekly by Beadle and Adams, NO. 98
WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. Price, Five Cents. =No. 62.=




WILL SOMERS, THE BOY DETECTIVE.


BY CHARLES MORRIS.

[Illustration: “SHALL I LAY YOU OUT A PIECE OF THIS? IT’S DOG CHEAP.
JUST LOOK AT THAT STUFF.”]

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Will Somers, THE BOY DETECTIVE.

BY CHARLES MORRIS.




CHAPTER I. LOOKING FOR WORK.


“Got any opening 