25c TJie Home of the Wolverene and Beaver. 



And now, Paul Gresham, it were best to call to 

 remembrance every trick of ^\•re3tling that the 

 gymnasium taught, or you will hardly escape from 

 the sinev.y arms that are pressing you to the dusky 

 breast with a grip like that of an angry bear. 

 Under the vice-like pressure the very ribs of the 

 young man seem to yield, and a lengthened resis- 

 tance is plainly impossible. But docs the Indian 

 know the Cornish back-throw with which Johnny 

 Treglowin vanquished the town bully in an Oxford 

 row, and which Johnny had taught Paul ? No, 

 With an adroit movement the Englishman obtained 

 a shift of position, and another moment saw the 

 Indian pitched head foremost into the trampled snow. 



To stoop for the rifle, which had been knocked 

 from his grasp at the commencement of the 

 struggle, was the young man's first impulse ; and, 

 luckily, a moonbeam glinting on the barrel revealed 

 its whereabouts. Now he thought himself safe, 

 and his fingers Avandered to the lock, with whose 

 touch he was so familiar ; it was strange, he had 

 picked up the Indian's empty musket. 



But there was no time to rectify the error, and 

 Paul was just able to club the weapon before his 

 antagonist sprang forward to renew the attack. In 

 desperation he swept the gun round with the full 

 strength of both arms, and the Indian, confused 



