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[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by Jawxs Exvensow, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. 0.}
Vou. VIII. 7 Pubtisner
Tue Younc CouRIERS:
Ten Days on Snow-Shoes.
BY WALTER A. MORRIS,
AUTHOR OF “JOE, THE CALL BOY,” “THE CLOWD'S
PROTEGE,” “KIRK SHELDON’S MINE,”
“BEYOND THE ROCKIES,” ETC,
CHAPTER IL.
THE PROPOSITION.
Harry Grant, who thought because he
had just celebrated his sixteenth birthday
that he was very nearly a man, was lying
under the blankets with but little more
than the tip of his nose visible, and try-
ing to muster up sufficient courage to
jump out of bed in order to make his toi-
let, for he knew that the thermometer
registered at least ten degrees below zero
in the open air, when a loud and peremp-
tory call was heard from the lower floor.
If Harry had been at home, he might
have been tempted to linger longer amid
the grateful warmth; but he was avisitor
at the house of Mr. Alfred Jessop, a
prominent lumber . dealer in Bangor,
Maine, and therefore it would ill become
him to disregard such an urgent sum-
mons. ©
Fred. Jessop, a schoolmate of Master
Grant’s, and about the same age, slept in
an adjoining room with his fourteen-year-
old brother. Tom; but as Harry could
hear no sound from that quarter, he right-
ly concluded that his friends had already
gone down stairs, and he dressed himself
with the greatest possible haste.
When, after a delay of not more than
ten minutes, one-third of which time was
spent in breaking the ice that had formed
in the water-pitcher, he went into the
dining-room, he found Fred and Tom in
the highest’ state of excitement, while
Mrs. Jessop appeared to be trying to in-
duce her husband to make some change
in a plan that he evidently had already
formed.
“Oh, Harry!” cried both the boys, al-
most in the same breath. And then Fred
held his hand over his brother’s mouth to
insure silence, while he said, hurriedly,
“Father has got to send some one up to
Lobster Lake, and he’s going to let us go [
if we think we can tramp the fifty miles
in ten days.” .
Harry looked a trifle bewildered, and
Tom, having succeeded in escaping from
his brother’s grasp, said, in explanation :}
“Lobster Lake is just east of the up-
per end of Moosehead Lake. Itis there
that father has a gang of men at work,
and—”
“And he must get a message to the boss
of the camp inexactly twelve days, count-
ing this as one,” interrupted Fred. “Ie
has been having some kind of a Jawsuit
- about the stumpage, and the court has is-
sued an injunction against his taking tim-
ber from a certain locality.”
Again Harry looked bewildered, and
again Tom volunteered an explanation.
N.W.
and SPRUCE Sts,
corner NINTH
PHILADELPHIA,
TERM
DECEMBER 25, 1886.
“Instead of buying the land, lumber- | chop on the disputed stumpage, and then
men purchased the right to cut the tim-
ber, and that is called stumpage. If fa-
there will be trouble.’
“We are to go in the stage as far as
ther can’t get word to Mr. Parsons, the | Greenville,*and from there travel on snow-
man in charge of the gang, before the
first day of the month, the loggers will
shoes nearly the entire length of the lake.””
Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad
begin, according to orders given when | ,.* The
they ‘went into the woods last fall, to | story treats, | “Y ‘Ne Mime Of which this
“paE TWO BOYS SEIZED
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No. 4.
“Why can’t you ride?” asked Harry,
in astonishment.
“There isno road on the lake except
the tote-path, and that only runsa short
distance above Mount Kineo. Besides,
however good a chance there may have
been to ride, the snow-storm that we
have had during the last three days
would have ruined it entirely. It isn’t
likely that a horse could get from Green-
ville to Moose Island in a week. But, say,
will you go? It'll bea regular lark, for
5 . ;
THE DRAG-ROPE, AND ADVANCED WITH A SHORT-LIVED COURAGE BORN OF DESPERATION,”
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