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THEVA ALECENNY “SURPAIS£. Reprinted and Now Ready! Part 4 of “The Halfpenny Surprise,” Containing the four Splendid and Complete Stories—Red Wolf, the Pirate; The Arctic Wanderers; A Traitor in the Camp: a Nihilist Story; The Buccaneer’s Hoard; and a BEAUTIFUL COLOURED PICTURE. Price TWOPENGE only. Of all Booksellers. e ° e 66 99 Division 1 of “THE HAbFPENNY SURPRISE, ° Who Killed Peter Trueman? The Bush Bandit, Bound in Coloured The Skeleton Island, Hawkeye, the Detective, Cover, Among the Chinese Pirates, The Ghost’s Secret, vale Anak, the Anarchist, In the Valley of Death, and containing The pcteces ce nee, Bee yee ce adows of Fate, e Doom o eadly Hollow, THIRTEEN SPLENDID The Wandsworth Mystery, and STORIES: FIVE COLOURED PLATES. Price SIXPENCE only. Now Ready. Order of your Bookseller. No. 21 of ““THE HALFPENNY SURPRISE,” ready on Friday next, March 22: will contain the grandly-written and beautifully-illustrated story, THE FOUR CONSPIRATORS. This will prove a tale of great sensational interest. Please order No. 21 as early as possible. ‘‘THE HALFPENNY SURPRISE”’ is becoming more popular and widely known every week. Kindly ask your friends to become subscribers. Reprinted and Now Ready, Parts1, 2,430 HALFPENNY SURPRISE.” PART I. contains the Four Splendid and Complete Stories: ‘‘Who Killed Peter Trueman?” “The Bush Bandit,” ‘Skeleton Island,” and “Harwy Hawkeye, the Detective,” Pages of Comic Illus- trations, Surprising Bits, &c., &., and TWO COLOURED PLATES. PRICE IWOPENCE. PART II. contains the Four Grand Stories: ‘‘Among the Chinese Pirates,” ‘‘The Ghost’s Secret, or the White Terror,” ‘‘ Anak the Anarchist,” ‘‘In the Valley of Death,” ind TWO COLOURED PLATES, PRICE TWOPENCE. PART III. contains the Five Grand Stories, Bound in Coloured Wrapper: The House of Mysterious Deeds; Dead Man’s Chart, or a New Year’s Surprise; Shadows of Fate, or the Story of a Mysterious Crime; The Doom of Deadly Hollow; The Wandsworth Mystery; and a LARGE AND MAGNIFICENT COLOURED PICTURE, PRICE TWOPENCE. THE PARTS AND QUARTERLY DIVISIONS MAY BE ORDERED OF ANY BOOKSELLER IN THR UniTep KIN@pon. The following Numbers of “THe « HALFPENNY « SURPRISE” Are now Ready, and will be kept in Stock. Order of your Bookseller :— No. 1. Who Killed Peter Trueman ? No. 10. Dead Man’s Chart. No. 2. The Bush Bandit. No, 11. Shadows of Fate. No. 3. The Skeleton Island. | No. 12. The Doom of Deadly Hollow. No. 4. Hawkeye, the Detective. No. 13. The Wandsworth Mystery. No. 5. Among the Chinese Pirates. No. 14. Red Wolf, The Pirate. No. 6, The Ghost’s Secret. No, 15. The Arctic Wanderers. No. 7. Anak, the Anarchist. No. 16. A Traitor in the Camp. No. 8. In the Valley of Death. No. 17. The Buccaneer’s Hoard. No. 9. The House of Mysterious Deeds. 8. Vidamo, the Doomed. No. 18. No. 19. False Lights. IMPORTANT NOTICE,—Questions on any subject interesting to “the readers of the “ Halfpenny Surprise,” will be answered under the heading of CORRESPONDENCE, in the ‘BOYS OF ENGLAND,” Published Every Friday, containing 24 pages of splendid Stories, and numerous Illustrations. One Penny. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, EDWin J. BRETT, at 173, Fleet Street. E.C.—March 15, 1895. comiclooks.corn