Beadle's Dime Novels No. 310: Foghorn Phil — page 51: what you’re looking at

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@ x WHAT PHIL FOUND. 53 of dull, giowing orbs appear from the black depths of the shrubbery before them, and back of these they can see a round, black, hairy object. What it is, they can not tell; but they can see that those fiery orbs are coming closer and closer, and now may God protect them, for they can feel the hot, fetid breath of the unknown upon their blanched, terri- fied faces ! “* CHAPTER IX. | AFFAIRS AT THE ISLAND. »- Wr will now return and look after the Big Horn Traders whom we left on the island in the Missouri, in imminent, peril. _ Foghorn Phil and Colonel Aylesworth did not wait for a third figure to drop “ from the clouds,” as the scout expressed it, but pushed their way boldly across the island toward their siceping comrades, The two unknown intruders vanished in an feted when the heavy, unguarded footsteps of Phil were heard. Where they went to, the scout did not see, nor was it his intentiou to search them out before he had aroused his companions. Phil was soon among the prostrate forms of the traders, all of whom were rolled up in blankets and buffalo-robes. Bend- ing over one of the sleepers, he was about to wake him, when to his surprise and indignation, he discovered it was the form —Of an Indian / A moment's reflection told him how the savage had got there. He was one of the two he had seen drop from the leaning tree, and to elude discovery while others were coming the cunning knave had thrown himself, wrapt in a blanket, on the ground among the traders, doubtless supposing that the boldness of the act would not be suspected, and his form Would be overlooked as one of the traders. Phil straightened up and drew his long hunting-knife half- from its sheath, but upon a second thought he returned the blade to its Keeping! He resolved to make further investi- fations before he raised an alarm that might precipitate un- ; Conniclooolkks.comn)