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VARIOUS PRIZES, GRATIS.
Full particulars in No. 6.
“THE BODILESS LEGS WALKED SLOWLY ACROSS THE PATH.”
With a thick bough, which Tim had torn from the tree, he took deliberate aim, and dealt his enemy a tremendous thwack on the skull, when half-way up the tree, and knocked him down again.
This trick Master Tim had played several times with great success; but ere long two skeletons essayed to climb up after him.
For a few moments they amused themselves with firing at Tim with their pistols.
This was very pleasant sport for them, but quite the contrary to Tim, who jumped about as nimbly as a squirrel, and after many attempts successfully hid himself in the upper part of the trunk!
“I’m safe now,” thought he; but to his horror he heard his grim pursuers climbing up and probing the rotten trunk with their swords every yard as they ascended.