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TIIliEE HARDY MOUNTAINEERS 



^'-XY 1 choose that deer with 

 the smoke coming out of 

 liis nose?" said Dodo to 

 Rap, as he was turning 

 over the pictures the next 

 Siiturday evening. " I 

 don t understand one bit 

 ai)ont tlie different horns, 

 — tlie cow's tlaat stay on 

 and the Deer's liorns tliat fall off. ' 



" Doctor R(iy says we must ask Nez for the story to 

 that picture. I am looking to see if I can find any 

 cousins of the farm animals ; it seems as if there must 

 be s!)me. Vcs. here are two, — a Sheep with monstrous 

 horns and a white Goat ! " 



" Oh, uncle ! daddy ! " called Dodo, " we have found 

 wild relations of Xanny ISaa and Cxirney ! "" 



'• Yes," adch'd Kap, " and heside in the Sheep picture 

 there is Hilly Goon's cousin, a great fat Bear." 



"Sn you have come to tliree of our famous 'big 

 game' fourfoots in a bunch," said INIr. Blake, "and I 

 suppose you want me to take you hunting to-night. 

 Very well, we will go, only you must put on stout 



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