Leather-Clad Tales of Adventure and Romance, No. 38 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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

IN THE SUNK LANDS. 19 glass-doored gun-case, containing our ar- senal. The drawers underneath were filled with shot, empty and loaded shells, and the paraphernalia forloadingthesame. Powder we bought as we needed it, being strictly prohibited from keeping it in the house. On the right a young library sprouted out, reaching from the floor to very near the ceiling, and from one end of the room to the other. It had already reached nine hundred and forty volumes, and numerous hints were thrown out to the household that another room would be acceptable. Mineral and coin collection cases found places between the windows. A large, oreen baize table had the center of the room, and from the ceiling above it hung a low swinging lamp. Magazines and periodicals filled the rack underneath, and the cards and boards of different games crowded the drawers. Easy-chairs occupied the rest of the available space. A ferocious looking wild cat and a sage hen looked down from above the gun-case. The cat had lost an eye, and the sage hen a great many feath- ers ; but Treve refused to take them down, as they were a present from an uncle a Gomicbooks (E(0) im