Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 15: what you’re looking at

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—~ _ THE ‘Two ‘HUNTERS. Stet matin! ? tent? of wild animals, : and above all with the daring ‘and treacherous Blackfeet—those dreaded red-skins of the North- West, with whom the hunters ‘and _trappers are compelled. to _ wage unceasing ‘warfare, 3 and who are more. feared than any " tribe that the white me encounter, So these veteran prairie-men orrpeet with all their caution a piri their senses on the alert for. “sign ” of their old oe Tar hae * who Se, down somet times e. the sweep of the vind, and who had the. ean trait, after being ae ‘whipped, of not staying whipped. _ from. their ponies, old Stebbins. walked back to Sena gute, ACER a carefully 1 made . cae around it. cag oe AR.° per ef eae ee view was rok obstructed ‘in ayaa vi ~ “Tired ind ravenously hungry as he was, he moved cautiously and made his tour of | observation as complete as it was possible _ to make Prax ly he turned about and joined his. compan- “jon, who had ey Ltn Eygaly fons asaya We ae saat cane | Sete “nr 4 i indubitabl ce ey, were nei borhood; acre ae x bare, osed a 30, far as s the trappers were Ager Wie us made aware that was a dark, ‘ing as Sor. in the horizon, which might rise, and sen Sas “dead! eadly lightning. Looking to the westward, Stebbens saw a wooded ridge a hundred reds or so distant, which shut off any further view in Comilchbooksrcom