The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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38 : THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. leaning with folded arms upon a long rifle, stood a man of striking appearance. His figure was large, yet not clumsy. His shoulders were broad and noticeably square, and his arms were both long and heavy. IHrom his face, which was full of determination, one would have taken him to be about thirty years old. » A brown mustache was the only hair growing upon his face. His attitude was easy and natural, and his whole appearance was picturesque in the extreme. The animal designated ‘‘Vixen,’’ in response to her master’s call, was sitting upon the ground at his feet, looking up into his face with an expression of intelligence and affection. Dan looked from one to the other of his new acquaintances with a question- ing glance, but finally his eyes settled fixedly upon the strange brute which had been wooing back his lost consciousness. _ It was an odd-looking beast, and the detective could not remember having seen its like before among all the long list of family pets he had at different times in his life come in contact with. It could scarcely have been more than two feet and a half in length, and when standing, was about twelve or fourteen inches high. Its body was covered with long fur, the main color of which was a grayish yellow, offset by small spots of a darker hue. These spots, instead of being scat- tered at random over the whole body, were so dis- tributed as to form a series of broken stripes. The animal’s head was shaped something like that of an ordinary house-cat, its only differences being in- creased size, and a thicker, blunter formation, The ears were large, and pointed straight upward. At (ele) comicbooks