Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 13: what you’re looking at

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FICTITIOUS ADVENTURES. i1 ‘As I was saying, then, Mr. Never-miss, when you inter rupted me, we started for hum through the blinding snow- © storm, dad walking before me to keep the snow off. He needn’t have taken that trouble though, ’cause I was able to Gq it myself.” “ How was you able?” “ You see the snow-flakes was all as large as the rim of your hat, and I bein’ small, dodged them the same as I would dodge one of your bullets if you should send it after me.” “Smart boy, you; ’spect you'll soon tell me of some great shot your old man made.” * “I’m coming to that; have patience. It will be interest- ing enough when I get to it; so please don’t interrupt me agin. As I’s saying, we started for hum through the blinding snow-storm, dad carrying his rifle over his shoulder. He hadn’t shot any thing yet, but he did before we got hum. I s’pose we'd walked nigh onto an hour or so, when what do you suppose took place.” - “TI spose you got Aum,” replied the hunter, accenting the last word with a sneer. | “No, sir; no such thing. We came right back to the spot from where we started. Yes, sir, we did, and had to start over agin through the snow that came down faster than ever. And now it commenced blowing like a hurricane. I remem- ber it blowed so, my daddy had to put some stones in his pocket to keep from being blowed away, and his coat-tails flapped in the wind like a sail that had been split by a tornado. I tell you, Mr. Never-miss, that was a regular snorter, was that blow.” “ How was it that you wasn’t blowed away ?” “TI hung in so close under the old man’s lee, that the wind didn’t git a chance at me, Otherways I s’pose I would have been carried out to sea, and never heard of afterward.” “ An all-fired pity, then, that the wind didn’t git a chance at you. I know one man in these parts that would have been glad, had you been carried to the north pole by it.” , “A man who makes such wonderful shots as I’ve seen just now, isn’t apt to want to see others about,” said the peddler, meaningly. “Though he can’t help it sometimes. But, that ain’t neither here nor there. We're talking about shooting, comicldooks.conn