Beadle's Dime Novels No. 138: Tim, the Scout — page 34: what you’re looking at

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36 TIM, THE scour. “Sure an’ I’ve seen him, and ye spake the truth, an’ nc lie. The fellow is hard to bate. I don’t want to mate bim. But do ye know that he is Miss Lizzie’s soldier ?” “What! the pretty girl we saw the other day ?” “ The same.” “ He had better keep out “a my way,” said the other, eyi- dently annoyed by the information. “That reminds me that I must take some measures for the pede of that family. I will keep my word to the pretty girl.’ Taking outa note-book and pencil, he dashed off a few hurried lines upon a leaf. This he tore out and folded. “Can you read?” he asked. | “ Not a letther,” said Tim ; and this was probably the first truth he had told during the day. “Phat would I do wid learning to rade? Lave that to Miss Lizzie and the likes ay her. .Would I go now ?” “Yes; take this to the girl as you go down, the river, You will inform her of the particulars. Say that I told you about it, as of course it will not do for you to tell that you have been here. Avoid that Lewis. Tell her that the danger is imminent—that, before a week has passed, the savages will be on the war-path, and then it will be next to impossible to save her. How fur is it from the cabin to the camp of Har- rison ?” E “ About fifteen miles.” “Tell her that the best plan will be for thes to go to the camp. Or, if she will accept my escort, and prefers Canada, I will undertake to see her and her family safe in Malden. I should consider that the safest . course, for sone of the hot- heads among our warriors will cross the river the moment they have Se the war-post, and might get in n between, Hier and the army.” rans “Where shall I meet you when I come back ? : mi q won't come to Prophet’s Town.” ne “T can’t quite understand your reason ‘for being so m afraid of Tecumseh. The Prophet is more likely. to an injury. He is the most crafty old fox I ever saw.” “T don’t like him any betther than I do his big brother,” said Tim. ‘But where will I meet you?” “Tn three days go to the opening in the woods where we comicbooks.conm u