Beadle's Dime Novels No. 96: Little Moccasin — page 59: what you’re looking at

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A NEW. PATH. 61 to camp in the. shortest possible way, and with the least pos- sible waste of time and strength. It was well on toward daybreak when he. nenched the end of his journey, and he was almost ready to drop with weari- ness, disappointment and vexation, as he stole into the lodge without disturbing the boys, and dung himself down upon the first vacant spot he could find on the floor, and was soon so soundly asleep, that even the crowing of Charley, at the first signs of daybreak, followed by the yelping of the dogs and the deep thunder-growl of Tiger, did not disturb him. CHAPTER VI. THE — PLOT THICKENS, Tan next day being just what Gage and his whole crew had been waiting for, to. break a new-path leading to a prodi- gious accumulation of logs, all cut of the proper length, and lopped. and trimmed, and partly stripped of their bark, to guard against the worms, the men were all turned, loose.into the woods, with Juba and Charley leading off and whooping like mad. Their teams were in capital order, which, down- east, means that the cattle were in a condition to take off any thing they were hitched to. By the new path, now ‘to be opened, half a day’s teaming. might be sayed, and some of the largest and handsomest timber ever cut in whe woods of Maine secured for the spring freshet. Having made all his arrangements, aiid. given particular directions about lodging the Jogs where there would be no hindrance when the tumultuous waters they depended upon should come rushing and tumbling through the hollows and ravines, Gage took the earliest opportunity for stealing off with Fletcher, where they might have a talk together, upon a business now getting to be more important for Gage than even his lumbering operations. Having. wandered a. long way. off, without er observed, Gage seated himself on a huge burnt log for awhile, and then, ~ eomicbooks. com