Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 26: what you’re looking at

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33°. THE FOREST MONSTER. him-a coward, and seeking by every.means imaginable to bring him back.. Had it not been that he was so heavily loaded, he would have sought to follow and bring him to terms; but the Irishman scarcely, had time to rise to his feet, when the man had vanished. . “ Jist me luck!” he growled, as he sunk back again to finish his rest. “I once. walked, siven. miles to attind the wake of Micky McMaghaghoghmoghlan, and whin,I got there, found he hadn’t died at all; and so, whin I.was felicytaterin’ mesilf. -» on a fight wid this. impudent spalpeen, he walks.away, widout exchanging a crack of the head. wid.me.; Bad; luck to him! but [ll have a muss wid somebody, if,it’s wid old Stebbins or... Black Tom, and then [ll be sure to get. odioete eam pienie Sf of better ner not fightin’ at all, at.all.”), 0 sl. drieie FP Teddy, was about to resume, his walk, when subCiiten sort 5 something like the bark of a dog, caught his ear. | > Re: the dooce is that?” he exclaimed, staring. about “ Who's got, dogs. in, this part. of the world ?”, is inquiry was answered by a sight of; the creature. itself,» He saw a large, clumsy-looking animal, with an’ immense bead — and a most frightful-looking. body, spotted and. striped in’ the .. most terrible manner, coming straight toward him. ecrites “ Begorra ! but it’s.the divil,” was. the. Irishman’s conclusion, as he sat like. one transfixed,staring avit,. “It’s the divil him-. self, dressed up. in. his. bist soot, and going: te the circus.” ' It can not be said that Teddy was particularly frightened, for he had his loaded gun in_his possession, and with that he was justified in having confidence indiix powatr af altar and defense, wna & toclile > 2a ie But, suddenly bh e recalled, a item he had. naebes the | strange monster that haunted this portion of the: North-West. - “ It’s worse nor the. divi ” he muttered, “ fur it's that, be the howly. Vargin !” at This discovery eaused the icin, econ little trepidation, ! but, at the same time, he was rather pleased that he sho 1 to have ah opportunity to try his gun upon it. 4 Indeed, as the nameless beast sintinuedn Saddemelnal vance, his appearance would have struck terror into the, heart of any one. The fantastic, extraordinary hue of its body and legs, the immense tail curved over the back, and its ponderous at Tee Aiicz? lypsdoertis vot 4 conmicloookks.comn