In the Sunk Lands — page 227: what you’re looking at

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210 IN THE SUNK LANDS. Sammy, ‘‘fur ef the young feller’s very big he'll fight like blazes! We'd better lock the dogs up or they’ll make him all the worse.” Both of which suggestions were acted upon. With our rifles, an axe and the lariats we repaired to the bear trap. The inmates were growling and the large one made another attack on the sides of the trap, but of course without avail. “The first thing,’ said Sammy, ‘‘is to stick a rifle through a crack an’ borea hole in the bigone. Who'll do it?” ‘I'd rather you'd give it a chance,’ mur- mured Bob. ‘Yes,’ replied ‘Treve,_ sarcastically. ‘‘Wed rather let it out so it could chase ~ us up a tree and probably kill one of us as the other did a dog.” ‘Shoot it right where it is,” I put in hastily. | No one seemed anxious to perform the task, so Treve finally proposed that Joe should do it. Every one but Joe was — satisfied. After a great deal of poking around and ecomicbooks.co Th