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73 | IN THE SUNK LANDS. direction he had gone ; but it required bet- ter eyes than ours to trace him. The men huddled together for a con- sultation, and the dogs, scattering, started up a couple of rabbits and were away in a jiffy. | ‘‘ Have you got that hat with you, Joe? ” I whispered. For a reply he pulled it from his pocket and handed it to me, then was again ab- sorbed in the various methods of conduct- ing the hunt discussed by the men, ~ I called Boose, and letting him smell the hat, ordered him to ‘‘ Go find !” He wagged his tail, trotted around with his nose to the ground until he struck the place where the man had gone through, and then dropping on his haunches he gave ut- terance to that doleful wail we had heard before. He had found the scent. I glanced at the men. They were too deeply interested in their plans to hearany- thing short of a gun, and the rest of the quartette were in the same state. I gripped my rifle and started toward Boose. He uttered a faint yelp and started €omicbooks.co