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Well, Leather-Stocking, returned Billy, facing the prisoner with a freedom and familiarity that utterly disregarded the presence of the court, as you are on the subject it may be that youve no Go on with your examination, Mr. District Attorney. That gentleman eyed the familiarity between his witness and the prisoner with manifest disgust, and indicated to the court that he was done.
None pretended to collect the game, which lay scattered over the fields in such profusion as to cover the very ground with fluttering victims. Leather-Stocking was a silent but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the introduction of the swivel into the sports.
Read the Leather-Stocking books in the order of the events described, beginning with "The Deerslayer," then "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers", and ending with the vast darkening horizon of "The Prairie" and the death of the trapper, and one will feel how natural and inevitable are the fates of the personages and the alterations in the life of the frontier.
Though a good deal of powder and lead was spent in the process, they were shooting like old leather-stocking hunters by the end of the week. The last two days had to be spent indoors, for a heavy autumn rain that came one night held over persistently and drenched the valley with a sullen, steady pour.
Without making the least objection to the punishment, the Leather-Stocking quietly seated himself on the ground, and suffered his limbs to be laid in the openings, without even a murmur; though he cast one glance about him, in quest of that sympathy that human nature always seems to require under suffering but he met no direct manifestations of pity, neither did he see any unfeeling exultation, or hear a single reproachful epithet.
Well, well, be attentive, continued Richard, looking cautiously about him, to make certain that no eavesdropper was hid in the forest, though they were in constant motion. I have seen Mohegan and the Leather-Stocking, with my own eyes and my eyes are as good as anybodys eyes I have seen them, I say, both going up the mountain and coming down it, with spades and picks; and others have seen them carrying things into their hut, in a secret and mysterious manner, after dark.
For a long time Billy Kirby would then be seen sauntering around the taverns, the rider of scrub races, the bully of cock-fights, and not infrequently the hero of such sports as the one in hand. Between him and the Leather-Stocking there had long existed a jealous rivalry on the point of skill with the rifle.
Its a very good sort of a man is this Master Bumppo, and he has a way with a spear, all the same as if he was brought up at the bow-oar of the captains barge, or was born with a boat-hook in his hand. Against the Leather-Stocking! cried Elizabeth, rising from her reclining posture.
Our games were similar to those which lads of the same age play now, but there were some additional ones that could only take place in a wooded mountain valley like Keilhau; such, for instance, were our Indian games, which engrossed us at the time when we were pleased with Cooper's "Leather-Stocking," but I need not describe them.
At this spot boats were kept for the use of Judge Temple and his family. The young man threw himself into a light skiff, and, seizing the oars, he sent it across the lake toward the hut of Leather-Stocking, with a pair of vigorous arms.
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