Klondike Kit's Chum, or, A Hot Strike on Vulture Hill — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

a ee I > 2 « 4 ff a , wn . * a - id As ¥ » » 7 s —— - ( = ‘ec ! é. ? . a \ ..» « > a -9f | Issued Weekly. ,—By Subscription, $2.50 per year. a =z No. 8. i z Entered as Second Class Matter at the Nv Y, Post Ofice, STREET & SMITH, 81 Fulton Litered according to Aci os Congress, in the year 1898, in the Office af the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. NEW WORK, July 16, 1898. KLONDIKE KIT’S CHUM; A HOT STRIKE ON VULTURE HILL. Price, Five Cents, . By the Author of ‘‘KLONDIKE KIT.” CHAPTER I. A DUTCHMAN IN DISTRESS—BILL AND THE BEAR—THE SHOT FROM THE SHORE. ™ 4 ““Hellup! hellup)?.~ , Bottleneck Bill was engaged in catch- ing drift on the Yukon ‘support for sluice boxes. | - He employed a. riata for the purpose, and was deftly noosing logs from the shore, and hauling them in, hand over Hand... 5 The words that open this chapter, evi- dently voiced by some one i distress, ‘reached his ears so- suddenly” that he al- his fingers and.go swishing down the river, lowed the lariat to Slip ough" fs fast to a snag. - “Hellup, somepody ! Safe me quick or I vas a goner!”? Bill looked up the streain just as a raft floated into sight around a bend. | It was a small, shaky-looking raft, and had a dirty little canvas tent pitched at the rear and a mast and sail forward. tobe used asa BE PATRIOTIC—WEAR A BUTTON... At the top of the mast hung a Dutch- man, Clamoring loudly for assistance. He was dressed in a short fur jacket, baggy trousers of inarmnot skin, and had a little flat derby hat on his head and big fur boots on his feet. His weight, concentrated at the mast, threw the front end of the raft danger- ously down into the water. ‘““What’s bothering you, cried Bottleneck Bill. ‘ “Ach, safe me, safe me!’’ howled the Dutthy ?”’ Dutchinan, pulling a red bandanna hand- kerchief from his pocket and waving it wildly. ‘‘Hellup, I say, or I vill pe tead so quick as nefer vas !?? ~ = She: -down, shouted back Bill, ‘“Vas you goin’ to leaf me to tie like a trap mit a ratin it?” groaned the Dutch- man. : oF , u~ oy blooming ijut,”’ ‘fand pole in!” ~~ “"What ails you ??’ yelled Bill, ‘Vat ails me, is it? You dink’I shtay up here for fun und dot I vas blayin’ mit myself? Hellup, hellup!” Age et ae