Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 22: what you’re looking at

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i fess a “CHAPTER III... - TEDDY c'DomERTY's BNCOUNTERS In will be remembered. that. upon the appearance of the _ strange animal, during the precedi ng spring, one member of the “party, (Teddy O'Doherty.) was asleep, and. failed. to. see it. But he beard enough of it continually. It -was_ described and conjectured, upon again. and again in his hearing, until he came to look upon it as an old acquaintance ; but having never sel eyes upon it himself, he attached litle credit 10 th a egpounits and parngee , was a bear or something ae er lookin’ every obsarved w nna ify wove me; buta ee ag ate. Babody dive _ afeard of” ‘So, when. a short distance from the camping-ground of his "friends, he left them and. started. in quest of the antelope, ~he had, no jhougys of the. dreaded creature that had ent ao in this no a ut made its home so near vat a salen othe | Big vn 1 camp, and the lapel stam “not increase the aie The sun was low in the horizon, but, looking westward, “Tea eddy ate _ of the ‘faint, column of smoke tbat, had i tigy r Siggy woaf git feabbing He paused a, moment “ z ome he concluded, “ and Serpup eqhaiped down _ rather ‘hg hoc in Tipper, aod e, when she sot on one si et ta, PRO, and I on other. # will e° apd rodooce ‘myself,’ — The intervening ground was Tery favorable a a recon- noissance, and he moved along with little fear of being dis- covered. It was fully dark when he reached the strange Comchooks.com