SWICKEY SHOOTS THE BEAR

LOST FARM CAMP

BY

HARRY HERBERT KNIBBS

Author of “Overland Red”

ILLUSTRATED BY HAROLD JAMES CUE

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1912,

BY HARRY HERBERT KNIBBS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

TO GRETCHEN

Over a height-of-land the trail

Wanders down to an inland sea

Where never a keel nor a mirrored sail

Has ruffled its broad tranquillity,

Save a golden shadow that fires the blue

When I drift across in my birch canoe....

CONTENTS

  1. [Swickey Shoots a Bear]
  2. [Lost Farm Folk]
  3. [Much Ado about Beelzebub]
  4. [The Compact]
  5. [A Midnight Adventure]
  6. [Tramworth]
  7. [The Book and the “Specs”]
  8. [Smoke Finds Employment]
  9. [Jim Cameron’s Idea]
  10. [Barney Axel’s Exodus]
  11. [That Green Stuff]
  12. [“Us as don’t know Nothin’”]
  13. [David’s “Real Good-Bye”]
  14. [The Flight of Smoke]
  15. [Boston]
  16. [The Man in the Street]
  17. [News from Lost Farm]
  18. [A Consultation]
  19. [Piracy]
  20. [Home for Christmas]
  21. [The Traps]
  22. [“Red” Smeaton’s Love Affair]
  23. [A Confession]
  24. [Rivals]
  25. [On the Drive]
  26. [David’s Return]
  27. [“I Want Dave”]
  28. [Complications]
  29. [Smoke’s Last Stand]
  30. [Just Fun]
  31. [The Bluff]
  32. [Hoss Avery’s Tribute]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Swickey shoots the Bear]

[“Where be they?” she whispered]

[“Here’s your game,” he said hoarsely]

[“I didn’t know, Swickey—I thought—there was someone else”]