“What posse?” Cy called.
“I thought mebbe you’d caught up with that beast from Costello’s. That you, Hiram? Taint no reg’lar leo-pod is it?”
“Reg’lar as church goin’; look on ’em yourself.”
Harry Donnelle just stood there smiling. Then he said, “Have a look; it won’t cost you a cent.”
After the man had looked and Harry had told him all about it, he hauled out of his overalls a newspaper and said, “Lookee here.”
We all crowded around him and Harry held the lantern so we could see the paper.
“Jest fetched it from Kingston,” the man said.
Then Harry began reading out loud. This is what he read, because I pasted that article in our hike record book:
WILD ANIMAL AT LARGE
INFURIATED LEOPARD ESCAPES FROM VISITING