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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. 71 of the savage spectators of these remarkable events. If any doubts had theretofore existed in their benighted minds concerning the supernatural powers of the White Hermit and his terrible Wind Specter, they were now forever dis- sipated. , After stupidly gazing aloft for some time, their. super- stitious terrors at last assumed a maniacal or idiotic form of demonstration, and they began to hop around in a sort of bug-a-boo dance, yelling and shrieking at the top of their lungs, and crying out at intervals, ‘“Booglebooby! Boogle- booby!” when one of their number would drop. upon the ground and roll about in the dust, tearing up the grass tufts, and foaming at the mouth. ee ‘“‘No more ballast at present!’ cried the professor, rub- bing his hands. ‘‘Weare already rising rapidly enough.” t CHAPTER IX. THE SPOILER TRACKED AT LAST. The war-song dies on the Indian’s tongue, His dusky cheek through its war-paint pales, As, by the fierce tempest urged along, The Wind Specter sails, And glowering over his thunder-ear, The White Hermit hurls his curse afar. ‘Well, now, thzs is the worst I ever did see,” said Sam, looking over the car, with a serene smile. ‘‘Rube, my boy, how do you like it down there?” | Rube Tenyck, who had twisted himself around and grasped the rope, so as to look up at the car, only rephed by a feeble cry and a horrible-grin. Before he could make any other intelligible reply he brushed against the topmost branches of a lofty tree, and, clutching at the. branches, hung on till the grapnel tore from its fastenings in the breech, and let him go crashing down through the foliage. But he reappeared upon the ground a moment later, more frightened than hurt. ‘Now, professor,” said Sam, to whom little Fayaway had been earnestly and pleadingly whispering, ‘had we not better have this poor squaw on board with her young “un? She’s in a devilish uncomfortable position, and may give Gomicbooks (ele)