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The spot chosen by Jotham was on the back of the mountain that overhung the hut of Leather-Stocking, and the place selected by Natty and his companions was on the other side of the same hill, but above the road, and, of course, in an opposite direction to the route taken by the ladies in their walk.
Leave that there door free out board, and youll find no locking inboard, Ill promise ye. I must shut up for the night at nine, said the jailer, and its now forty-two minutes past eight. He placed the little candle on a rough pine table, and withdrew. Leather-Stocking! said Elizabeth, when the key of the door was turned on them again, my good friend, Leather-Stocking!
A less experienced man would have aimed at the flowing robe, which hung like a festoon half-way to the earth ; but the Leather-Stocking knew both the man and his female tailor better; and when the smart report of the rifle was heard, Kirby, who watched the whole manoeuvre in breath less expectation. saw the bark fly from the beech and the cloth, at some distance above the loose folds, wave at the same instant.
Miss Temple knew not what to say. She wished to draw the thoughts of the old warrior from his gloomy recollections, but there was a dignity in his sorrow, and in his fortitude, that repressed her efforts to speak. After a long pause, however, she renewed the discourse by asking: Where is the Leather-Stocking, John?
The sheriff was no sooner possessed of these facts, which Benjamin related with all possible tenderness to the Leather-Stocking, than, snatching up his hat, and bidding the astonished steward secure the doors and go to his bed, he left the house.
But I did not know that the patient was a son of Leather-Stocking; it is news to me to hear that Natty had a wife. It is by no means a necessary consequence, returned the other, winking, with a shrewd look around the bar room; there is such a thing, I suppose you know, in law as a filius nullius.
Add the semi-silent, inward laugh which Cooper ascribes to his Leather-Stocking, and you have Pierre Cyr, who might have stood for that immortal's portrait.
While this worthy couple were thus discussing events, the battle began to rage more violently than ever above them. When Leather-Stocking saw his enemy fairly under headway, as Benjamin would express it, he gave his attention to the right wing of the assailants.
I have crossed the broadest part of the Oneida in one much smaller than this. And I the Ontary, interrupted the Leather-Stocking; and that with squaws in the canoe, too. But the Delaware women are used to the paddle, and are good hands in a boat of this natur, If the young lady would like to see an old man strike a trout for his breakfast, she is welcome to a seat.
Victory! shouted Richard, victory! we have driven the enemy from the field. Not so, Dickon, said Marmaduke; the field is covered with them; and, like the Leather-Stocking, I see nothing but eyes, in every direction, as the innocent sufferers turn their heads in terror. Full one-half of those that have fallen are yet alive; and I think it is time to end the sport, if sport it be.
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