The Huge Hunter

ered by some outsider, when a large crowd would probably collect around his house, a

r of her revealing it. So the boy experimented with his invention until ther

pper, who had visited him some weeks before, he made his appearanc

hat thundering

n ready for a we

out then, fur

while, for we can't get

to start the man right off up street, and then toward t

take it out upon the prairie, set it up and start it off, without any fear of disturbance fr

to get it in a box, which gave it the appearance of an immense piano under transportation. This, with considerable difficulty, was transported to the wh

hort time, said farewell to him, with little of the regret she would otherwise hav

Independence in safety. They secured a landing somewhat above the t

se size of the steam man, it was so put together that they were able to load it upon the w

emarked young Brainerd, 'and then we can

trong wagon to carry such

ve times the weight withou

and began putting it together. It certainly had a grotesque and fearful look when

t. The trapper could not avoid laughing when the boy clambered as nimbly up its shoulde

descried in the distance, where he loaded it down with wood and filled the tank with water. By

team with remarkable quickness. As the boy had never yet given the man such an opportunity to

antity of fuel piled on, the boiler filled with water, and the

in that direction?' inquired

all yer

ll start.

am man started with a sudden jerk, that both o

gon went bounding over the ground at a rate so fast that both the occupants were c

monotonous, and as it r

ker, and show us

e wheels spinning round at a tremendous rate, while the extraordinary speed caused the wind thus created almost to lift the

y a click heard. The huge spiked feet came lightly to the ground, and were lifted but a short distance from it, and their long sweep and

not yet become accustomed to controlling it, he slackened the rate again, so tha

ntirely shut off, whereupon the giant came to such a sudden ha

en like,' said the hunter. 'It's a litt

' replied Johnny. 'I see it wo

re found heated, and the fuel was getting low. The water in the boiler, however, was

re was an abundance of steam, and the boy readily acquired such a familiarity with the

with all the ease and celerity that it could have done if really human, while it

y were quite anxious to come across some, that the

plains,' remarked Johnny, when they h

rack of 'em. If you'll turn off summat to

food which they brought with them, without checking their progress in the least. True, while the boy was eating, he kept one eye on the

Baldy declared that they had gone

had scarcely paused for seven hours, and had gone a portion of the distan

hours of dusk, when

igrant train, no