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I ran the Indian gauntlet on both rivers. At the gauntlet on the Licking I lost my raft which carried my rifle, clothes and ammunition. However here I am pretty wet and somewhat tired, but as far as I know, sound." "You can rely on every word he says, Colonel," exclaimed Simon Kenton. "I do believe him absolutely," said Colonel Logan, "and here, Mr. Ware, is my blanket.
But it is said that the best work he ever did is the pair of portraits that face each other in the Mason home, and the other pair, the exact duplicates that face each other in the same manner in the Kenton house. Dick opened a shutter entirely, and the light of the white moon, white like marble, streamed in. The sudden inpouring illuminated the room so vividly that Dick's heart missed a beat.
Trannel had no choice but to go, and he was supported, possibly, by the hope of taking it out of Lottie some other time. It was more difficult for Mrs. Kenton to get rid of the judge, but an inscrutable frown goes far in such exigencies.
So I came back just to peep in. I can't stay, of course; Hamilton would kill me as if I were a wolf. I can remain but an hour and then slip out of town again before daylight conies. The rain and darkness are my friends." He had seen Simon Kenton, who said he had been in the neighborhood of Vincennes acting as a scout and spy for Clark.
Moreover, he thought himself the target at which it was so energetically launched. Wherefore he promptly turned back and gave Kenton a kicking that made his body resound not unlike a drum. And here it was that Oncle Jazon overreached himself.
"Fall in?" "No, thrown in." Colonel Kenton raised his eyebrows higher than ever. Harry sat down and told him the whole story, Colonel Kenton listening intently and rarely interrupting. "It was great good fortune that the men on the raft came just at the right time," he said, when Harry had finished.
"I heard them," replied the colonel. "They'll come upon the lawn, hiding behind the pines, and hoping to surprise the house. I fancy the surprise will be theirs, not ours. When you shoot, Harry, shoot to kill, or they will surely kill us. Keep as much as you can behind the pillar, and don't get excited." Colonel Kenton was quite calm. The old soldier had returned to his work.
Lord! how the press of Kenton City needs a man a man with the courage and the power to show up the scoundrels who are responsible for all this McGrath and his associates, I mean. I'm sick and tired of reporters whose rascality is self-evident, of editors who are bought and sold like chattels, of a state of affairs, in general, so infamous as to surpass expression!
Kenton trusted to something like this on the present occasion, but was disappointed; for when Tecumseh was present, his influence over the minds of his followers infused that confidence in his tact and intrepidity, that they could only be defeated by force of numbers."
Boone was regularly trained in all that made him a successful backwoodsman. Indolence and imbecility never produced a Simon Kenton, a Tecumthè, or a Daniel Boone. To gain the skill of an accomplished hunter requires talents, patience, perseverance, sagacity, and habits of thinking.
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