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LOST FARM CAMP

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Title: Lost Farm Camp

Author: Harry Herbert Knibbs

Release Date: January 21, 2011 [EBook #35034]

Language: English

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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

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,

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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

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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”