Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 31: what you’re looking at

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A horde of mounted Blackfeet, or a dozen grizzly bears, could not have created greater consternation. Old Stebbins and Black Tom, as will be remembered, had been conversing about the =f, ‘creature, and their minds were full of | it. Instantly they leaped _ to their feet, and stared’ out in the gloom. | “Whar is he?” demanded Black Tom. . “Close behint me,” replied the eae een ranning areas to the opposite nee of | yen jt. Somsh See rs } thas r he somes | Lhe tke eek hate position side by Pg had stood by each other in many fearful and dangerous scenes, and neither would desert the other at this _ a Tom irks he ana his companion caught sight of the hi id throagh: the ‘bushes ‘straight to- ward them. — i quite slow ily, and at’ intervals pan orth that: ves veigh ed “ strange, cayernous nett Lorn front its appearance e was ‘appalling in the exe Tis. - vast. size, its mouth in latitude re- sembled that of ator.- As it ‘advanced, the fi light ge SSgae full in, appa ad sly. beitier of the | of eae iva . Sa a hat if ere Be ing sien ati could, not prove invulnerable to” such an ‘atta ere unexpecteilly deprived of this_ great. advantage, seeing be Black Tom Whispered to his q Companion : * Aim under the throat, and maybe we'll Teach its heart.” No more than a dozen feet separated | men ‘and beast, when “the former hy egunaued drew their guns oO their shoulders, _ took a quick but sure Bh They might: as ‘well os ried their ‘bullets in the solid oak pea qe ie call the good that was accomplished, i bmp g ay. have been caused by the . 9784 Wud'y i lsare! ninity 2 dove iw sonnet . CGonmmicloooks.aconn