Legends of the Shawangunk (Shon-Gum) and its environs, including historical sketches, biographical notices, and thrilling border incidents and adventures relating to those portions of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivan lying in the Shawangunk region . vn, he kneAV he Avoidd not have time to raise 142 Legends of the Skawangicnk. the ponderous weight, and all would yet be lost. It was a forlorn hope at thebest. What is that object looming up directly in his path ? It is the the door ! the door ! The shadows of the forest render the vision indis-tinct. He cannot tell whethe
Legends of the Shawangunk (Shon-Gum) and its environs, including historical sketches, biographical notices, and thrilling border incidents and adventures relating to those portions of the counties of Orange, Ulster and Sullivan lying in the Shawangunk region . vn, he kneAV he Avoidd not have time to raise 142 Legends of the Skawangicnk. the ponderous weight, and all would yet be lost. It was a forlorn hope at thebest. What is that object looming up directly in his path ? It is the the door ! the door ! The shadows of the forest render the vision indis-tinct. He cannot tell whether the door is shut or raised. It appears to beshut. A few more steps wiU decide. Ah-eady he hears the panting of thebrutes at his heels, and expects each moment to feel their sharp claws in hisflesh. There is a mist before his eyes. He feels that liis strength is moment, and—Thank God, he cries, the dooi is raised. AVith awild energy begotten of despair he tears the temfied child from liis breast,thrusts her through the opening, touches the spindle and down comes the pon-derous door witli a thud. Then seizing an overhanging hmb he s^vung himselfup out of reach just as the jaws of the foremost wolf came together as hesnapped after his JESSIE MITTEER AX0 THE BEAR-TRAP. Now that the necessity for immediate exertion no longer existed, the re-action was so great that Mr. Mitteer feared he would fall from the tree fromsheer exhaustion; to prevent such an occmTence, he tied himself seciu-ely ^ithhis cravat and handkerchief. AH night long the wolves perambulated aboutthat bear-trap and tree, and made the night hideous with their howhng. Itwas a night ever to be remembered by both father and child. They were suffi-ciently near to one another to converse, so they could cheer each other dmiugthe long and tedious honrs The trap in which little Jessie lay was built so strongly that the largest bearcould not get out after it had once spning the door. The father had told h
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