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"Now, then, no more of this tomfool acting; unlock this iron and take me out into the fresh air, or as sure as you stand there, you great, black-muzzled, piratical-looking scoundrel, I'll say such things about you to the captain that he'll hang you to the yard-arm, and serve you right." "What!" growled the smuggler. "Not got tame yet?" "Tame, you miserable ruffian!
Although Red River is a peaceful colony, and not at all likely to be assaulted by the poor Indians, it was, nevertheless, deemed prudent by the traders to make some show of power; and so at the corners of the fort four round bastions of a very imposing appearance were built, from the embrasures of which several large black-muzzled guns protruded.
Mrs. Wilders stopped and looked round. At that moment, too, young Wilders turned angrily on the man a black-muzzled, Spanish-looking fellow, dressed in a suit of coarse brown cloth, short jacket, knee-breeches, and leather gaiters the dress, in fact, of a well-to-do Spanish peasant and said, sharply, "How dare you speak to this lady? What did he say to you, Mrs. Wilders anything rude?" Mrs.
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