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Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, and Humorist, 1850, Vol. 88 <p>So saying, he hurried from the room, followed by myself and two others; but our object had already been accomplished, for we found that several of the men we were seeking, aroused by the signal-gun, were already hastening down the ravine with their lanterns. Thanks to my recent practice, I was enabled to follow one of them, and reach the bottom with out accident; but as the night was intensely dark, with drizzling rain, our lanterns, even when we placed them together at the head of the creek, did not enable na to see beyond its outer extremity. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.