Beadle's Dime Novels No. 96: Little Moccasin — page 35: what you’re looking at

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a it ~XOUNG. NIMROD. , 87 “*He must be able to navigate a log as if it were a canoe, and be as indifferent to cold and wet as a muskr at, >” continued Gage, still reading from the book. “ ‘He uses a few efficient tools—a lever, commonly of rock-m aple, six or seven feet long, with a stout spike in it, strongly fer uled on, and a long spiked pole, with a screw. at the. end of the. spike, to make it hold. The boys along shore Jearn to walk on floating logs, as_ city boys on sidewalks.’ .There—read for yourself, and you will find your questions all auswered on the best authority,” added Gage, at the same time laying the book on the stranger’s knee, . “ But, I say, Cap’ n Gage—where. the plague. is our pur- veyor, think you °—and J uba—where is he?” asked Perry, _ Gage looked troubled. This was the tenth day since two of their party, Fletcher and Juba, had .gone off on,a hunting expedition ; and up to this hour, nothing had been heard of them. MS Shak had not the ereateat confidence in Fletcher.” said Gage in reply—‘ if I did not, know him, to be the very. best hunter in all,this part of the world, and thoroughly acquainted With all the hiding-places of the great nor thern wilderness, I should begin to feel rather, anxious about him,” “ But the heavy; snow, and. the sudden thaw, and the raing we have had, like anotlier deluge, day after day, must be too much for a frame like his,” urged Perry, 2. “ A-frame like his! Why, my. dear § sir, that delicately- fashioned young man, looking more, like a woman. than. like what he is, will stand anore hardship, and come out further ahead i in a death-grapple, than either of us—ay, than any of us, except the major.” “ The land !” exclaimed Charley, hiding his face behind his next neighbor, and yelping like a puppy-dog. “He has the strength and lightness of a leopard; and al- ways reminds me in the play of his muscles, under strong. ex- citement, of the elephant’s trunk, or a boa- constri¢tor—so lithe and. playful, and yet so dangerous.” “T have heard of him before, > said the major, “ He was taken fora divinity student at first, being 80 gentlemanly and delicate, and so. they called him Miss Nancy, But when they knew more of him, and saw what he was capable of, and 96 2 comicbooks.com