Jack and His Seven Foes — page 44: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

JACK AND HIS SEVEN FOES. 3d The Swaggerer understood naviga- Thirst parched their tongues, hunger tion, and how to accept the heavens asa | pained their stomachs. guide, while they were all ignorant “How far have we to go?” asked men. Jim Black. His tools, and once willing tools, but ‘Fifteen miles or so more, I reckon,” now in their secret hearts his foes. replied the Swaggerer, ‘‘and then we And yet, if complete success had | come to the Washington Settlement.” crowned their villainous work, they “Fifteen miles!” snarled — the would have looked up to and admired Panther, and the rest groaned aloud. : him. It was not remorse but fear that “Those who don’t like to do it,” said governed their thoughts. the Swaggerer, ‘‘ can stop here. There was not one there that did not | _, By-and-by—an hour later, perhaps—- Jim Black looked back, and saw that the deserve the fate of Dunmore. Ra ye | PS BS ay x wegen. are aa in the There were two specks on the horizon. scales OL equity, they deserved worse. ‘““What are they ?”’ he asked. Mercy would have been thrown away They all stood in a row, shading on such wretches. They would have | their eyes with their hands, accepted it gladly, of course, but in The specks were moving, something security would have laughed at him who living was coming AS Ua Re er. showed it. “Tt can’t be that accursed pair?” The morning found them still upon | said the Swaggerer. their way—a great plain behind, and a ‘“< But it 1s,’’ cried Jim Black. misty horizon. And they gazed into each other’s They had nothing to eat or drink, and | faces with eyes that told of the terror the plain was barren. ' ‘that lay in their fast-beating hearts. LG2tDr WGI W209 D9 OD INO 19 CD72 EDD CPD D9 OPI WD D2 (D2 09 CO WD + + CHAPTER XIII. THE TWO SPECKS ON THE HORIZON—IN AMBUSH—AN AWFUL MISTAKE. THE cowardice of the six rogues was “See those bushes yonder? Suppose very extraordinary. It showed how the | we hide there, and let fly into the pair wrong-doer can be influenced by fear of | as they come up?” the being he has wronged. “Try your luck with Jack,” said the The Settler, however, speedily shook | Swaggerer, ‘‘and confound the man. it off. We can settle him afterwards.” ‘We are six to two,” hesaid; “‘ why “Oh, dear, why can’t we go on?” should we run away ?” groaned the Sneezer ; “it seems to me “To you reckon those fellows?” the | —atchew |—that—atchew!—it seems—” Panther asked, pointing to the Pantaloon “Oh, dry up,” growled Jim Black, and the Sneezer. taking up a stone about the size of a ‘“‘Reckon that the two are one,” said | cricket-ball, and hurling it at him. the Settler, ‘‘ and say that we are five.” The Sneezer stepped nimbly aside, The Swaggerer made a motion with | and the stone caught the Pantaloon, his hand to imply that odds did not | who had turned round to look at the matter. bushes, 1n the small of the back, and he This young Jack is to be feared,” he ' went down as if he had been shot. said ; ‘‘ he has a charmed life.” “Ever in the way, old man,” said ‘A charmed grandmother!’ growled | Magson the Lifter; ‘“ up we get again.” the Settler; “if you were of my way He laid hold of him by the trousers, of thinking, you would stand and kill | and jerked him to his feet, getting an him.” angry snarl for his pains. ‘Shall we play wolf and skulk?” | Noclown ina pantomime could have suggested Sam Silky, the Panther. done it better, and no pantaloon have “What do you mean ? ” responded more characteristically. COMICIOOKS.COM