Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 8, 2025
Taking a book of colossal size from a shelf, he whirled the pages, running his finger down a column while he murmured, "Pursuit P-u-r P-u P-u " But there was no such name in the postal directory. He went back to older directories. He began to worry. Was there no such postoffice as Pursuit? He went to other books, whirling the pages, running down column after column.
The sounds were repeated and they were nearer. They were like a long drawn p-u, p-u, p-u. The tone was of indescribable ferocity. Ned was brave, but he shivered all over and there was a prickly sensation at the roots of his hair. He felt like some primeval youth who with club alone must face the rush of the saber-toothed tiger. But he drew upon his reserves of pride which were large.
He was a good seven feet in length, black as a coal, low but of singularly thick and heavy build. His shoulders and paws were more powerful than those of a tiger. As he stood there before Ned, black and sinister as Satan, he opened his mouth, and emitted again that fearful, rumbling p-u, p-u, p-u. Ned could not move. All his power seemed to have gone into his eyes and he only looked.
He would not awaken Obed, but, drawing the pistol and holding his fingers on trigger and hammer, he walked a little distance down the bank of the stream. That terrible p-u, p-u, p-u, suddenly sounded much closer at hand, and Ned shrank back, stiffening with horror. A great black beast, by far the largest wild animal that he had ever seen, came silently out of the jungle and stood before the boy.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking