Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 218: what you’re looking at

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fF Tee - . 6 208 IN THE SUNK LANDS. CHAPTER XIX, A TROUBLESOME PET—WOLVES ! I HURRIED forward and saw that the door. was indeed down. An angry growl and furious scratching inside told that some- thing was in there. Then Bob, Joe and Treve came running up bearing torches, and by holding a torch on one side of the trap, and peering through the cracks on the other, we could see the huge black form. ‘« There’s two 0’ em!” shouted Sammy, ecstatically. ‘*A big one and a leetle one.”’ ‘* Nothing less than a battering ram can break that trap,” said Bob. ‘No, sir-ee! They’re fastenough. We kain’t do nothin’ in the dark ; so we'll let ‘em stay there tillmornin’, fica yourself all you wanter,” he continued, as the bear Eomichbooks.com