In the Sunk Lands — page 94: what you’re looking at

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

IN THE SUNK LANDS. 81 The heavy charge cut off all but three inches of his tail. I-did not blame him a bit when he gave several sharp yelps, and then dropping his ears and the injured member, took the back track at astonish- — ing speed. ‘* Walk up yere slow, an’ mind you keep the muzzle o’ that weepon pinted t’other way !’’ brought me to my Senses. Knowing the character I had to deal with I complied. ‘You air a moughty peart young rollers said the owner of the brawny hand that took my rifle from my halfreluctant grasp. “Got any more shootin’ irons about you ? ”’ [ had not. ‘But you air not half so smart as I took you to be,” went on the man, stepping out of the bushes, “‘ air you wouldn’t have kim sailin’ down yere behind what’s now a bob-: tailed dorg hke you did !”’ I know I blushed. He was our friend of the night before, but his appearance was entirely changed. His face, hair and clothes were covered with mud, and the way he looked at me was little.short of ferocious. 6 Gomicbooks: cc