The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, April 09, 1904, Page 16, Image 16

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y JJMsWiyTanwniPrrttgeriiortf one adventure
wfon FTUmpmar8 uid another J? tnU'vou last time' hvw f escaped from.
tKs Cl'dftuiit it rhV deaerr. ami trailed fur liiime in my airship. Wrlh I.
Kaifn'ricmw rerj far out to c Ik fore I nw JiccTir island; with s great big
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i t-OF COURSE VjES" Kail m e lai (hat meant, and clambered
4mm ihe rope ladder li have loot-A Mti near hf told me that the
lint of ba island offered great rewards f the death of a moniter aee.
acrpent an J an ettocmoue flying dragon, that were eating up all hit subjects.
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L ' J-"!WW''TCinnBtE'Kg tmnr.how-- mV w-t
rriFpam ofr eamr Muiroiing out of the water. I dropped my tine right
fa iiwn vi iw pinvuinirMjr ming. anu quicd a a nasn tne goat wai mapped
wanJ iwalldwed; grappling iron and all.: He didn't even atop to taste it.
hut gun down -. .-'!-, .-fry - .....
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t jci dropped in oh the kinif anJ tolJ him I wnuU riA tht. iitanil of thtt
monaten. if he would ffiVt me a vuat at a eiiw m uimiIuii- tar lult
lie had a goat brought our. and 1 mUl "on tn tie it nn my anchor line jun
mrrc j lie ynippiing noon. '. .' . ; Ly.'- -v .. s - i - c . ....
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ever beard ot. . A aoon aa h bait wai made fast f aailed up, in the air t
watch for that peaky aeaetpent.. I had a long wak before I aa aomcthjo "
down In the water approachinrf the wtand.': ' -' ' .
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- 6HE PULLEO'AT THE r.ne hard that f wat afraid be would
iwallow the airahip next, to I ttartid W up n the air and alowly pulkd thf
natrjr looking thing uut f he
I could oniy-drag it along the water and the ground. t r
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i1 ri "'t" r" 1 fkled 10 Piec it had lew cS
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tmture'Traftip nrthfair, and coming toward ua. . . r.T. t
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I EVERYBODY DROPPED FIAT en the tround like chick-..
akeered by a hawk, and ! ran up the ladder into the ship andatartcd full
ipeed for Mft Dragon. My,- but he wai a whopper'. You tee, I expected
to drop on him one of thoae aticka of dynamite the japuic Spy had Jefc
"Stfheifi lof rlght over bimTl let go of the dynamite. : v s ' t ;
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Birr. GEE fJTiKEV;R touched him. and orae than that. I
to$t my balance and tumbled head over hecla out of the ship. I wai ao aure
1 ai 'a goner, I dUii't dare tpril ihy ccautttitf bumpeagarnaometririjg
prrtrv Mlid. artd found myaelf atttini; im the dra-ron'i back.
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HADNT FALLEN very -far, vand a more akeered than
hurt Thedragon aailed all around the atrahip. and didnVicem to know
) wack it or not ; Aibratsed ndefifWiia4der
within reach, and you bet I grabbed it and held on for dear life. V . '
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akcdaddle out of there.I made atraiuht Jor.a bank f.r loudi iand Mii
Dragon gave chase. He wai juit about to match me out of the ihip aa we
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as the machine could tear, and when I came out of it there wai no dragon
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