In the Sunk Lands — page 166: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 151 and covered it up with blankets in one corner. The boys shouldered their traps, rifles and an axe, and taking the dogs started into the timber. | Sammy held the dugout until I scrambled down the steep bank and stepped gingerly in. It was about like sitting on the point of a pin for balancing, and we nearly cap- sized before we got three feet from the bank. But Sammy was used to them, and after assuming an easy position I kept it, while he manipulated the paddle. «“There’s an otter slide!” exclaimed Sammy, after paddling quite a distance up stream. ‘‘ That'll be’a scrumptious place fur a trap.” And with one sweep of the paddle the boat was sent to the bank. MHardly had the prow touched the shore when there was a crashing of bushesa short distance above us, and some heavy body pressed through. Gomicbooks (E(0) m