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shouted angrily. “We’re not babies, believing
in silly fairy tales.”

“It’s no fairy tale,” whispered Trapper Joe.
“I saw the critter yesterday, plain as day.
He’s ten feet high with fur all over like a giant
bear, but his head has big horns or antlers
on it like a moose. I’m telling you it’s a night¬
mare. Listen! You can hear him roaring now,
off in the distance!”

“That’s just the wind, you faker,” Grabby
snapped. “And I’ll fix you. You ain’t gonna
gabble on all day and night about that phony
monster. Get out!”

“But I’ll die out there!” gasped the trapper.
“I’ll get lost in the snow, and freeze!”

-“That’s exactly the "idea, pard,” grunted
Grabby heartlessly, pointing his gun. “Now
get out of sight. That’s what you get for pull¬
ing that loco monster story oii us.”

The trapper stumbled off into the snow. But
he turned once and yelled back, ominously,
“The-monster will get me. Then he’ll come to
get you, too!” With that final warning, he
vanished in the swirling white flakes.

Back in'the cabin, Sly Cy was trembling all
over, but not with cold. “Wh-what if there is
a monster, G-Grabby?” h'e moaned.

“Shaddap!” roared Grabby. “It’s a lie, I tell
you! Prehistoric monster—pah! If the'snow
lets up tomorrow we’ll pack up the furs and
go. Let’s get a good night’s sleep.”

But neither of the two badmen slept very
well that night. Several times a screeching
roar was heard over the howling winds. The
next day, nerves unstrung, they paced the
cabin like two caged animals, as the snow kept
falling. But at dark it stopped and the moon
came out clear and bright.

“Pack up the dog-sled with the furs,” said
Grabby nervously. “We won’t spend another
night here. We can travel by moonlight.”

It was while they were outside stacking up
the stolen furs that a shrill bellow froze them
in fright. In the moonlight, a vague form
loomed hugely out of the shadows and lum¬
bered toward them.

“The monster!” shrieked Sly Cy.

The two men stared in paralyzed panic. It
was a nightmare out of the past, ten feet high.

| Its furred body was an ugly misshapen bulg¬
ing mass of hairiness of all shades and hues.
And on top, most ghastly of tall, reposed a
moose-like head with great horns curving out.

“Fire!” yelled Grabby, finally breaking out
of his trance. Both badmen fired again and
again, emptying their guns. How could they
miss the huge shape? And yet the^beast kept
coming as if the shots had only been the
annoying stings of a hornet.

Flinging away their empty guns, the two
badmen tried to make off with the dog-sled,
but the monster was already there, blocking
the way. The yelping dogs, also frightened,
swerved and the sled overturned, spilling the
two badmen helplessly in the snow at the feet
of the nameless horror. Grabby Gunderson and
Sly Cy Ames waited for clawing death.

But amazingly, a laugh now sounded from
the monster—a human laugh. A slit in the
furry bulk opened up and Trapper Joe stepped
out, grinning. He held a gun at the over¬
whelmed, bewildered badmen.

“A fake all the time!” groaned Grabby.

URE,” said Joe. “Long ago I figured
out this system of preventing the rob¬
bery of my furs. I sewed together a bunch
of patchwork furs and cached it in a cave
nearby. A moose’s head was easy to get. A
framework of wood inside, on my shoulders,
propped the whole thing up ten feet high.
When you guys showed up, I harped away at
the monster story till your nerves got raw.
I took a chance on being shot dead instead
of being kicked out, but my gamble paid off
Instead of freezing, I was plenty warm all
^ night in those furs. The rest was easy.”

“But those bullets!” gasped Grabby, still
dazed. “We fired point-blank at you, inside
the fake monster. And you haven’t got a
scratch! How did you work that?”

“Simple enough,” drawled the trapper. “You
know how sandbags can slow down and stbp
bullets, even though a sand bag is soft? It’s
the same with furs. I sewed layers of a dozen
furs in the front of the monster“suit, for pro¬
tection. No bullet can work through that many

“We were tricked like Rabies,” groaned
Grabby.

“Trapped is the word,” said Joe. “After all,

1 -that’s my business—trapping.”

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