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Beadle's Dime Library No. 627

1890 · Free to read

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About this issue

The Bald Hornet of the Ozarks by Jos. E. Badger, Jr., continues in this October 1890 issue. Owen Price and Rob Kendrick, camped in the Ozarks, are startled by mysterious buzzing sounds that prove to be Mossback Mose Hunter, a gigantic, intoxicated mountaineer who performs elaborate impersonations of a bald hornet and snapping turtle before firing revolvers indiscriminately. After his wild display, Mose collapses dramatically. Price initially suspects apoplexy, but Kendrick examines him and concludes he has been poisoned with an unidentified drug, not simply drunk. The two men must wait for Mose to regain consciousness to learn what antidote might save him, uncertain whether they witness a murder in progress.

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