Beadle's Dime Novels No. 213: Squatter Dick — page 16: what you’re looking at

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is SQUAMTER Bick. * Upon the night in question, business was to be transacted, and all the members had been notified of the fact. At the south-western extremity of the island, a luge tree had dcen uprooted so as to fall across the water, the branches resting upen the opposite sidet [This Tid been done with so much care that it appeared t be ihe 5 work of some lenpest, or the hand of time, rather than of man, ‘as was the cuse,. Thus a aly ‘pidge was aasinved to the island. as hole sere a] A dark, shadowy figure glided okt intothe moonlight and op i tes lerlissiti# tothe iMwdl /Whear near the cen treé*he paustd av’the-sound- of a low diss dike thy of H smite When Wistarbed From its rest. tows: av difficult polft to pass, a’ huge limb having Leen ‘broken: off by the fal, and the splintéed ‘stimp almost barring the way. Ounthe ef of 1his8a few limbs were clustered tovether, closely ‘en- perae rs gw lroaglln ay aot ie with ‘a etenpreplearsli of nk VG AVUILS i GS 2itey wate) *°Tt wits frome’ Hiisicovert that the Was stiuididal....19!e% Ao “UTie Mah spoké ha Fowlenet iro seems b a elie “ «ThelCrew fis low tonight 2? 60 vd Dabauvuoewwe alis ns . retinBled “a deep vole) frome the: eunieatw rates od Lereste1 bir boteaq oved tiiziar ont “ee Gree George and’ Mat Keedy.”» Mid ualivedese 2a.alouen — Ow 33 8 Yaa fists enn otads Woue iui - Jong Dhius ~The Black Band plays tomiCrrOw” Heh se Low ee Ae, vite iggy ie 3wol oi! Hommel tgdt 2gel. bersotoo : Spite that: slit hold-éf the stump, stiging Wimself- under and Around’! then stoud ‘upon the treetrunks 4 rrodd “ Who" is Tadlock Ms Opt 1 eae Ki Ee of low 5 Most of iene I'll be in n ane wib yids 20 | Diy "swiftly along the ‘bridge, and across the ino pe, then entering the bushes, ie ‘stood!in front ofa ee We-Hotse: Giving a peculisr knock, en alow Whistle, the dior Wis’ opened, arid hermeppeniie Bae." HE band hii heavly’ all gdthered, over thirty being the captain, as Mat Keedy was styled, arose from feat Ste TAM t fitb16) Arousal whiF et they were wf ringed, and’ spoke ‘ay follotes2"" Ui wen tite Then stout bertect spats © Gentlemen —for we are afl Uiflerien, even Hf the white cCommiclooolks.conn