Beadle's Dime Novels No. 310: Foghorn Phil — page 70: what you’re looking at

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72 FOGHORN PHIL, than an hour. Now, the man that went ashore after we come to this conclusion, and before we got to the island, is the traitor—” “Then, by jinkers !” exclaimed Soper, “ Cap’n Rhymm is—-” Here silence was imposed upon the speaker by the sound of a heavy body thrashing through the undergrowth near by, and before the party could decide upon any course of action, a man burst from the shrubbery and stopped before them. “ Belzebub Bumble, by the holy wars !” burst from the lips of Foghorn. “ Ford Belzy! Your, hand ole boy—shake !” The two bunters greeted each other with a warmness that told of a feeling stronger than that of mere friendship, for they seemed to forget all else in the joy of their meeting. “This, boys,” Foghorn Phil said, turning to his compan- ions, “ ig a dear ole’ friend 0’ mine. His name’s Belzebub Bumble, and is as good a feller as ever drawed bend on a buck, or licked a knife across ‘an Injin’s noddle.” Colonel Aylesworth and the traders greeted the scout in kind words, when Phil continued : “ Belzebub Bumble is to the Milk Riverites what I am to the Big Horners, and it’s through him that Ive been’ kept posted as to the movements of his’crew, who seem to hold a burnin’ spite at us ever since we beat ’em outen the Teton furs, last fall. But what’s in the wind, ole friend ?” “Death and deviltry, Phillip,” replied Bumble ; “and a bit o” news that beats the speckled Jews.” ) “ What is it—what is it, Belay ?” “A part o’ your crew and a part o’ mine are in cahoots, for all they make an awful fuss "bout killin’ each other; and they arranged that both parties should meet hereaways "out the same ‘time, when the. Milks war to have a trap set to nab the Big Horns. I jist found this out last night, and to-night I learned another that lays all others in the dark for hellish meanness. Nat Nogle, captain 0’ the Milk Riverites, and as mean a man as ever wheezed, and one o’ your crew, employed one Alfonso De Ramee, a notorious adventurer and renegade Sioux chief, to kidnap two girls — — Vaien, and the infernal scamp done it, too.” “Who were the girls, did you learn ” asked Ayles worth. - comicbooks.com 4