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And the cry was heard in the halls of Congress. And it was heard on the banks of the Hudson by Washington. Heard and answered. A stern demand went to Sir Henry Clinton for Lippencott, the leader under whose command the dastardly deed had been committed. For Lippencott, else the act should be retaliated upon by the death of one of the British prisoners of war.
The second herd, a great one, is northeast, near Shell Lake. The snow is deep. The buffalo can only follow their leader in their retreat." "Hi, hi, hi!" the hunters exclaimed solemnly in token of gratitude, raising their hands heavenward and then pointing them toward the ground.
"Have you prayed yet?" he asked in an altered voice. "Not yet, leader. What should we pray for?" said Lupey. "Fall down on your knees and pray, for this is the last morning which will dawn on any of you again." "Are you in your senses, leader? What are you going to do?" "I am going to purge the Roumin nation of a set of ruthless murderers and brigands.
He believed the Boy Scouts of America needed a leader; that the colonel was the one man in the United States fitted by every natural quality to be that leader; that the Scouts would rally around him, and that, at his call, instead of four hundred thousand Scouts, as there were then, the organization would grow into a million and more.
On, on, on! only in front was any opening; there the prairie lay still and smiling. Wedge-like behind their Bull Leader they thundered. To him the open prairie in front beckoned and smiled a lie of safe passage; the Pound, the death-pit, dug on its rounded breast, lay hushed in silent ambush, and the Bull Leader saw only a narrow gate at the far end of the fast-closing wings.
The light of battle was in his keen, quick, luminous eyes. His face was set and stern. There was no mercy in the set of his jaws, in the drawn shaggy brows. He was out to rid the country, his country, of a scourge, a pestilence neither he nor his fellow townsmen would tolerate. The rest of the vigilantes rode behind him, no less stern-faced than their leader.
He had spies upon a ridge of hills, to watch the fort. When the attack was heard at the fort, soldiers dashed out. The Red Cloud warriors allowed the wagon train to think that it had whipped them. He withdrew, across the ridge. The leader of the soldiers was Captain Fetterman, again. He had asked for the command.
With a boy's sense of such things I knew that the other woodsmen were waiting for him to speak, for they glanced at him expectantly. "You had a near call, McChesney," said he, at length; "fortunate for you we were after this band, shot some of it to pieces yesterday morning." He paused, looking at Tom with that quality of tribute which comes naturally to a leader of men.
"What can I do, my son?" said the queen, "tell me, and it shall be done if my magic has power to do it." "Well then, mother dear, turn the twenty-four dancers and pipers into twenty-four grey herons, and let my seven sons become seven white swans, and let me be a goshawk and their leader." "Alas! alas! my son," she said, "that may not be; my magic reaches not so far.
"Ye do well to say 'attempt," said the woman. "Elizabeth will never die by the hand of an assassin." "Say ye so?" asked the leader eagerly. "Good dame, how will she die?" "Not in her bed. No hand shall be raised against her, and she dies by misease; yet shall she not die in bed," and the old woman nodded prophetically. "Ask her how long the queen will live," whispered one.
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