Beadle's New Dime Novels, No. 49 — page 57: what you’re looking at

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—> —_— THE PERILS OF THE PRAIRIE. 64 ehargsd with terrible thunder, would overshsdow her, and she seemed sinking, sinking, into an awful’ abyss. Thus dreaming, she awoke, and the first object that met her sight was a black, shaggy form standing over her. It was some time before she could remember where she was; then she started with an inward shudder of terror as she recognized that black form standing over her to be that of a bear—per- aaps the same that had caused her separation from Mist Stump. . Poor Mabel ; her situation indeed was critical. She dared not, she could not, cry out nor move a muscle. The brute stood so close that she could feel his hot breath in her face— see the sharp, white fangs and the glaring eyes in which she could. see her own motionless figure mirrored. Her terror was intense, and she was about closing her eyes in despair, when suddenly the bear turned and walked off into the - forest. _ breathing a prayer of thanks to the great Protector, she sprung to her feet and would have fled, but at that moment a fo.m glided out of the undergrowth and confronted her. It was a hideous savage, in war-paint ! Mabel would bave attempted to escape, but, almost the sam¢ instant that the savage disputed her passage, she Saw a black hand thrust down from the low foliage overhead, seize the savage by the scalp-lock, and quickly a man dropped from the thick foliage upon the astounded savage. Then she heard a dull thud, thud, thud, followed by an unearthly yell from the Indian, whose body the next moment fell lifeless to the ground; and ere the bewildered Mabel had time for a thought, Egypt, the negro hunter, stood before her. “Egypt! sbe exclaimed, with a mingled feeling of surprise and joy. “I's de chile, Miss Mapel,” the darky replied. “ How in the world came you here ?” “De Lor only knows; dis nigger don’t. Guess de Ingings run me here. Awful time, Mfss Mapel. De woods full ob Ingings.” ____ “How long have you been in this tree, Egypt ?” _““Ebber sence a long time, Miss Mapel. I see’d de big = and I war ’fraid to breaf fear he hurt you. ~- Dat’s why conmiclooolkks.conn