Front matter
Reading edition
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
Swickey Shoots a Bear
Lost Farm Folk
Much Ado about Beelzebub
The Compact
A Midnight Adventure
Tramworth
The Book and the “Specs”
Smoke Finds Employment
Jim Cameron’s Idea
Barney Axel’s Exodus
That Green Stuff
“Us as don’t know Nothin’”
David’s “Real Good-Bye”
The Flight of Smoke
Boston
The Man in the Street
News from Lost Farm
A Consultation
Piracy
Home for Christmas
The Traps
“Red” Smeaton’s Love Affair
A Confession
Rivals
On the Drive
David’s Return
“I Want Dave”
Complications
Smoke’s Last Stand
Just Fun
The Bluff
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”