The Huge Hunter

laimed Mickey McSquizzle, with so

iphat, naow if that d

broke loose, wi

f Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie. Several miles to the north, something like a gigantic man could be s

s. At such times, its colossal proportions were brought out in full relie

ke issued either from its mouth or the top of its head, while it was drawing behind it a sort of carriage, in

for a few minutes, to view the singular apparition; for such a thing had scarcely been dreamed of at that day, by

waging, wid his ould wife howlding the reins!' exclaimed Mick

same direction. 'It seems to me,' he added, a moment later, 'that there's somebody

h! do ye hear that

ked around, as if about to flee in terror; but the curiosity of the Yankee restrained him. His practical eye

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toward the two men, and with the black smoke rapidly puffing f

restrained by the coolness of Ethan, who kept

intervening space. It was yet several hundred yards distant, w

ow, that man is sitting in the

whin I'm so frightened entirely t

Bal

added the next moment, 'am I shlaping

h his hat cocked on one side, a pipe in his mouth, and the two reins in his hands, j

d a little hump-backed, bright-eyed boy, whose eyes sparkl

en it came to a dead halt, and the grinning 'Baldy,' as he was called, (from his h

ne under yit. How'd you gi

rst sight of the locomotive, observing which, the boy (at a suggestion from Baldy), gave a string in his hand a twitch, whereupon the nose of the wonderful thing threw out a jet of ste

ow! Hain't you ever heard anyt

the crather blows its nose? It must have a

r, with a pair of fearful eves, and a tremendous grinning mouth. A whistle-like contrivance was trade to answer for the nose. The steam chest proper and boiler, were where the chest in a human being is generally supposed to be, extending also into a large knapsack arrangement over the shoulders and back. A pair

ted imitation of a vest, in which a door opened to receive the fuel, which, together with the

was caused which turned it in that direction, and the same acted on the other side. A small rod, which ran along the right s

e room for the play of the delicate machinery within. Long, sharp, spike-like projections adorned those toes of the immense feet, so that there was lit

lf with the external appearance of this piece of mec

of the giant; the hissing valves in the knapsack made themselves apparent, and the top of the

draft, and of shutting it off when too great, which could sc

black, with a pair of white stripes down its legs, and with a face which

ceedingly corpulent, swelling out to aldermanic proportions, whi

ing arranged, so that when necessary it could be securely covered. To guard against the danger of upsetting it was

f this wonderful steam man, as it appeared