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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ength and half an inch thick, turned uptightly at the end, and were really little sledson which the men walked and slid along. The latter were not ordinary hunters, butmen famous in their county for their skill inskee-racing, and trained in the dangerous art ofsliding down a mountain-side at a speed incon-ceivable to any one who has not witnessed it inthe northern counties of California, where skee-racing is a favorite pastime, and men becomevery skilful. These men were engaged in amore serious work. They were the hunterswho supply wild animals to the zoological gar-dens, or to the circus, or to any one who desiresliving wild animals. Every man was a triedwoodsman ; every one had killed the great gameof the Rocky Mountain country — grizzlies,mountain-sheep, black bear, mountain-lion, andmany more; and to-day they were in search of theelk, specimens of which were desired to stock agreat game-preserve in the East. It would have been an easy matter to go out 448 THE SKEE-HUNTERS. (Mar.
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