It would cost the boy something, but he would gain his money's worth in experience.
After a few days the sign painter answered the letter.

He would relinquish the three signs in the glen for a payment of fifty dollars each, with the understanding that no other competing signs were to take their place.

Kenneth promptly mailed a check for the amount demanded and early next morning started for the glen with what he called his "eliminators." These "eliminators" consisted of two men with cans of turpentine and gasoline and an equipment of scrubbing brushes.

Parsons, the farmer, came over to watch this novel proceeding, happy in the possession of three crisp five-dollar notes given in accordance with the agreement made with him.

All day the two men scrubbed the rocks faithfully, assisted at odd times by their impatient employer; but the thick splashes of paint clung desperately to the rugged surface of the rock, and the task was a hard one.