Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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

74 IN THE SUNK LANDS. and each carried a rifle or gun as his taste dictated. ‘“What’s the furse ? ’’ demanded the fore- most, a short, heavy set man, with black eyes and unkempt hair. He wore a suit that was half cloth and half buckskin, and three thirds dirt, and seemed an important _ personage. 93 ‘Hanged ef I know, ‘*T didn’t see nothin’.”’ ‘“Me, neither,” affirmed a third, who, from his looks, I judged to be half Indian and half rascal. He was tall and straight, with a sallow, greasy countenance, and the rifle he leaned on was along, old-fashioned affair. : ‘Now, who wuz hit?” demanded Mr. Jimmerson, holding me against one of the supports of the porch until he should be answered. “Why, the man who held us up on the other side of Maumelle Lake, and has got your fourteen hundred in his pocket!” ‘ Jehosaphat! Why didn’t you say so afore you spoke? Scatter out, men; we 90t to ketch him !”’ But the men never moved. ~ crowled a second. comicbooks.co