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"Didn't he say so himself? and didn't he gabble out a whole parcel of purgatory talk? He's as sure gone as a stuck pig, I tell you," continued Sneak. "He will eat as hearty a breakfast to-morrow morning as ever he did in his life," said Boone. "But let us attend to the business in hand.
Charles, in 1816, Colonel Boone, with the return of peace, had resumed his Kentucky habits.
The four Indians were shielded, likewise. They laughed at his efforts, and waxed bolder. They had Daniel Boone! "Come out, Boone," they called. "Come out. No fight, no get hurt. Many Injuns near." So he wisely surrendered before he lost his scalp. It was well that he had done this. The four Indians took him to their main party.
Their loss could not be ascertained, as they carefully removed their dead and wounded. In July following, the residence of Boone was again besieged by a body of Indians, whose number was increased to two hundred. With their numbers, their hardihood and audacity were increased in proportion.
Boone, in his autobiography, says in allusion to this hazardous adventure: "I returned home to my family with a determination to bring them as soon as possible, at the risk of my life and fortune, to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise." The two brothers accomplished the journey safely, and Daniel Boone found his family, after his long absence, in health and prosperity.
Then we can send ten men to meet you, if you send for them. "I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Boone immediately commenced upon the left bank of the Kentucky river, which here ran in a westerly direction, the erection of a fort. Their position was full of peril, for the road-makers were but few in number, and Indian warriors to the number of many hundreds might at any time encircle them.
They shall not murder him! I shall command him to remain in Richmond. I shall command him to join Vincent. The North is unworthy of such men as my son. He is too pure, too innocent, too high-minded to be understood by the coarse natures that have come to power in the country. I shall not let this odious Boone destroy him as he ruined your brother." "O Mrs. Sprague, think what you are saying!
Boone, it seemed, had come over from Boonesboro to consult with Colonel Clark on certain matters, and had but just arrived. But so modest was he that he would not let it be known that he was in the station, for fear of interrupting the pleasure. He was much the same as I had known him, only grown older and his reputation now increased to vastness.
But Senator Sprague was too firmly enshrined in the loyalty of the district to be overcome by the parvenu's manoeuvres or his money. Hatred of the Spragues became something like a passion in Boone. Sarcasms and disparagement leveled at his social and political pretensions he attributed to the Senator and his family.
It was not long before every thing was executed according to the directions of Boone, and at nightfall each man was stationed at a loophole, with gun in hand, awaiting the coming of the savages. Night Sagacity of the hounds Reflection The sneaking savages Joe's disaster The approach of the foe under the snow The silent watch. The night was beautiful.
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