In the Sunk Lands — page 177: what you’re looking at

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162 IN THE SUNK LANDS. CHAPTER XV. CAPTURED BY SWAMP ANGELS. For obvious reasons it is best to follow Bob, Joe and Treve when they started out with their traps, axe andrifles. The Quar- tette’s custom of relating what happened during a separation makes me as familiar with what transpired on this trip as though _ I were along. They went into the timber on the north side of the cabin. Joe took the lead. ‘‘ We'll blaze the trees,” said he, ‘* so we - won’t have any trouble in finding our way — back, and wherever we set a trap well make a cross.” ‘‘ Exactly,” said Bob, as he sliced a piece of bark offa tree. ‘‘ There is a starter.” A little farther on, in sight of the first, they blazed another, and here Joe thought EomIicbooks.co