St. Nicholas (serial) (1920) (14587219117)

Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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a lowvoice. He was a true comrade and a brave man. Then, at a muttered command from the shu-man, he directed the digging of two shallow gravesin the soft sand at the foot of the cliff. There inthe twilight of the shadowed canon, guarded byeverlasting gates of living rock, with the singingbrook at his side and the bear-claw on his breast, BOY SCOUTS IN THE NORTH; OR, THE BLUE PEARL 1115 they buried Saanak, the Whale-killer, with hisfoeman at his feet. It was a somber and silent party that continuedthe journey. \\ ith weapons in their hands, pre-pared to fight for their li\ cs at a moments notice,they followed the winding trail, while Alunak andAkotan went ahead as scouts. As the day wore Its the same beast that our great-great-grand-dads used to call a painter before the Revolu-tion, and be more scared of than they were of thewolf and the bear, although its about as harmlessas a lynx, went on the old man. Harmless, hey, objected Will. How aboutthat one w hich jumped me back in the bog?
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A TAWXY STREAK HAD SHOT DOWN FROM A.\ UPPER LEDGE on, there was no further sign of the Kenaitze andthe canon widened out into a broad valley flankedby mountain-ranges. Once out again in broaddaylight and freed from the haunting sense ofdanger, the spirits of the whole band rose. Jud,especially, tried to cheer up Will and Fred, whohad been sobered and saddened by their firstexperience with sudden death. Weve all got to go sometime, he said. Thegreat thing is to quit ourselves like men whilewe live, which was as near to preaching as Judever came. Then the old man began a long dis-course on the mountain lion, the same animal asthe cougar and the panther and the most widelydistributed of all the American cats, being foundas far south as the Argentine. Well, returned Jud, when he saw you pick-in flowers and huntin birds-nests in a bog hethought you were wrong in the head. Hed neverhave taken that chance with anybody else. An-other thing about the mountain lion, hurried onJud, before Will c