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DISCOVERIES IN THE BARN. It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, an…
A SUDDEN DEPARTURE. The man upon whose sleeping form Job had stepped in the haymow sat up and looked about him in a half-puzzled fashion, mechanically brushing the loose particles from his hair and …
FATHER AND SON. It is not likely that anything whatever remains standing now of the Whipple house. It must be a dozen years ago that I shot a black squirrel as it whisked its way along over the ridg…
THE "MEANEST WORD." Mose Whipple had lifted his head in apprehensive inquiry at the sound of the footsteps outside the door of the cabin. He sprang to his feet when the sharp knock on the …
THE DEPUTY MARSHAL. As soon as Job Parshall heard the sound of firearms outside the Whipple cabin, he darted to the nearer of the front windows, scratched away some of the thick frost from one of it…
A HOME IN THE WOODS. The pursuit of Mose Whipple had to be postponed, as it turned out, whether the deputy marshal relented or not. It was late, for one thing, before Moak returned from his quest a…
ANOTHER CHASE AFTER MOSE. Asa Whipple and the deputy marshal gazed in a dumbfounded way at each other through a cruel minute of silence, broken only by the echoing strokes of Job's axe out in t…
THE VALLEY OF DEATH. The rising sun lifted its first curved rim of dazzling light above the dark line of distant treetops just as the brigade band began a new tune—"The Faded Coat of Blue."…
LAFE RECONNOITRES THE VALLEY. On the river road below the tannery, away back in New York State, there stood for many years a small house, always surrounded in summer by sunflowers and hollyhocks and…
THE BOUNTY-JUMPER. When Lafe Hornbeck looked into the countenance of the strange man who appeared thus unexpectedly before him in the deserted breastwork, it needed no second glance to tell him that…
