In the Sunk Lands — page 225: what you’re looking at

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208 IN THE SUNK LANDS. CHAPTER XIX. A TROUBLESOME PET—WOLVES ! I HURRIED forward and saw that the door. was indeed down. An angry growl and furious scratching inside told that some- thing was in there. Then Bob, Joe and Treve came running up bearing torches, and by holding a toreh on one side of the trap, and peering through the cracks on the other, we could see the huge black form. ‘* There’s two 0’ em!” shouted Sammy, ecstatically. ‘*A big one and a leetle one.”’ | ‘* Nothing less than a battering ram can break that trap,” said Bob. ‘“ No, sir-ee! They’re fastenough. We kain’t do nothin’ in the dark ; so we'll let ‘em stay there tillmornin’. Baie yourself — all you wanter,’’ he continued, as the bear EomIcbooks.co