Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 40: what you’re looking at

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42 THE: FOREST ‘MONSTER. the beast, his ungainly body so strangely striped and ringed, and its appearance: so singular as to be almost indescribable, For a minute the three men looked at it in silence, and then Teddy .0’ Moleny removed his coonskin cap aoe made a low obeisance. © 4) “ What's that for: ” aiked Black Tom. “T s'lute him, jist as the gintry in Tipperary used to s’lute me when they saw me ridin’ byon meown jackass, that belonged »to another man, » The baast is. Sap aes? Bt long. as he uses ome in»tlie shtyle of last night.” 5 6. “You'd better keep cl’ar of him, 80 ions! as you can.” ., .“ I islian’t bother him, nor. ee too much on his oil nature.” sai Sh thar, he goes. 7% - From his high elevation came the faint sound of his peculiar oars; and then the’ ag agp ei about; and was ipennetietey lost to: view. “ Thar’s no tellin’ whar he'll, naxt tise up,” said Stebbins, as the three moved forward.again, “No; and I don’t believe when we meet. him again, ‘that -welliget-off ‘so easy as ‘before,” replied Black Tom.. The gold-hunters were now in a sort of deep cafon or rent in the mountain, through Which ran a small a stream of icy- clear water. It was this same rivulet that had displayed. the golden: particles to. old: Stebbins, but it was at a point higher up, before it entered into this wild region, and it was now the intention of the three to follow up the stream for a con- siderable distance, searching: oe for on same ue" metal that had drawn them hither. | In prospecting thus, it was: evident-that it. was n shecioniaiy to keep a good look-out; and, as Teddy manifested such an appreciation of the nameless brute, that task was deputized to -him, while the others were to scrutinize the bed of the small stream for what bad caused them to halt in this place: ‘For several hours the party made their way up the tiny brook without discovering the first indications’ of gold; yet, they were not discouraged by the fact, ie wid knew there was plenty of it in the neighborhood. Tney had ulmost reached the spot where they liad seen it a few montlis. before, when Stebbins, who was slightly in GoOnmcooOoks.corn