In the Sunk Lands — page 238: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 221 supply was limited, for we kept the meat ‘out in the cold, and found it all the better for it, and the short round left in the cabin — - would not last a great while with two hun- ery boys. Then we lay and watched Brute and the fire, and listened to the wolves trotting about outside, and for any sound of the others. | Some of our four-footed friends seemed to be satisfied, but stayed to watch those who were not, so we had company. I was firmly resolved not to sleep a wink ; but when I returned to consciousness, Bob was snoring by my side, and a faint streak of light struggled through a crack in the door. | ‘“ Bob, Bob!’’ I ealled. ‘‘ It is daylight, and Treve, Joe and Sammy have not come yet!” ‘‘ Then they're not here,” he returned, drowsily. “Of course they’re not, and it is our place to hunt them up. Where do you suppose they can be ?”’ — * Down paying their respects to Jim Lacy, may be.”’ GOmMmICDOOKS:¢