Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 205: what you’re looking at

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IN THE SUNK LANDS. 195 9 “We kain’t run through yere,” said Sammy, ‘‘so we'll have to be keerful. We'll find the b’ars in the thickest parts, — where the tops of the canes lap on each other.” Then he pressed into the canes and we followed, while the dogs scrambled and _tore on all sides. We had to keep pretty —elose to Sammy, for the canes close up behind so quickly without leaving a trail, that we would be compelled to stop and listen to locate him if we allowed him to get out of sight. Three hundred feet we went, when we came to where a young growth was spring- ing up, reaching only to our shoulders and rising like a mountain ahead. Along these we went comparatively easily. ‘‘ When do we change cars ?’’ asked Treve. ‘Soon as we find a bear,” I replied. “An we got him right yere!” ex- claimed Sammy, crowding through a tall srowth and coming out in an open space, in the center of which arose a mound of canes ten feet high. ‘What on earth is that?’ demanded Joe. EoOmichbooksre