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Frontier Stories

CHAPTER VII
10/20

Oh, you're listenin', are you?
Stop! SIT DOWN! "I discovered it by accident," continued the voice of Brace when all was again quiet; "it was hidden as only a squirrel or an Injin can hide when they improve upon nature.

When I was satisfied that the girl had been in the woods, I was determined to find out where she vanished, and went there again.

Prospecting around, I picked up at the foot of one of the biggest trees this yer old memorandum-book, with grasses and herbs stuck in it.

I remembered that I'd heard old Wynn say that Low, like the d----d Digger that he was, collected these herbs; only he pretended it was for science.

I reckoned the book was his and that he mightn't be far away.


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