In the Sunk Lands — page 32: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. | 21 same resemblance is sometimes embarrass- — ing for me, for Treve possesses a terrible tendency for getting into mischief, and 1 is an ordinary occurrence for me to be col- lared by someirate citizen and read a lecture a yard long for something Treve has done. He is a big, blue-eyed, black-haired boy, witha countenance thatis continually smil- ing. Heisa little over seventeen, and forty- five-minutes younger than I am ;.but this priority on my part, somehow, he fails to recognize. ‘lreve owns an Irish setter over which he makes big pretensions, but which, notwithstanding, flushes the game before you could hit it with a rifle. Joseph B. Miller is the third member of the X. T. C. Quartette. Judicial Joe, we sometimes call him, one reason being that he is studying law, and the other that he carries avery solemn countenance—a direct contradiction to his disposition, for a more lively and amiable companion cannot be found. Joe can get in, and get out—by means of his countenance, mentioned before—of more mischief in a given time than any person I know, not excepting Treve. Heis the crack shot of the quartette, EGomicbooks (E(0) m