In the Sunk Lands — page 287: what you’re looking at

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270 IN THE SUNK LANDS. good there to run the risk of finding new fields. Mr. Jimmerson undertook to teach Brute some tricks and thus enhance his value. We learned afterward that the cub grew considerably larger, and rebelling one day, knocked his tutor through a two inch plank door, whereupon the latter grew disgusted and sold him to a showman for forty-five dollars, which he forwarded to the X. T. C. Q@uartette and would listen to no refusal on our part to take. Sol Dunlap ferried us over Maumelle Lake. We noticed he said’ nothing about ‘them air Simpsons,’ when he saw the young lady accompanying us. Jim Mills received Loafer reluctantly, but was apparently well pleased at the fact that he had not been compelled to provide for him for a month. Gomicbooks.c