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He was not molested when he came to the end of the row, but before him he saw a contest which threatened to terminate speedily as well as fatally for Israel Boone. The son of the great scout was in the hands of a white man, and was struggling desperately. His contestant, however, plainly was much the stronger.
If he wants to make himself an exception to the sober people whose cooking will make him long for the maddening bowl, he must bring his poison with him. And we can say that, so far as our example is concerned, we left the country as temperate as we found it. There is nothing special to be said about Boone.
With such a force before them, Smith was in favor of meeting their proposal; Boone opposed it; the settlers backed him in this opposition; and he sent back for an answer to the Indians that the gates should never be opened to them. Presently another flag of truce was sent in, with a message that they had a letter for Colonel Boone from Governor Hamilton, of Detroit.
However," continued Boone, "I have little time to discuss these matters with you, now. It is a time for action, and much as you and I may dislike to leave our homes, we cannot lightly regard such a summons as Colonel Clark has sent us." "What is the plan?" "He proposes to raise an army of one thousand men, as I said, and march to destroy the Indian villages." "Where do we meet?"
Daniel Boone, 1781. The wandering life of a border Nimrod in a surpassingly beautiful country teeming with game was the ideal of the frontiersman of the eighteenth century.
"Aunt Suse give me a big turn when she took you fur the governor," said Jarvis to Harry, "but it ain't so wonderful after all. Often she sees the things of them early times a heap brighter an' clearer than she sees the things of today. As I told you, she knowed Boone an' Kenton an' Logan an' Henry Ware an' all them gran' hunters an' fighters.
The hours wore on in peace, until midnight, when a low chattering, like that of a squirrel, was heard in the valley below; while a shrill whistling, resembling that of quails was distinguished above. "Come hither!" exclaimed Boone in a whisper to Glenn. "Do you see any of them?" inquired Glenn, joining his friend. "Not yet but we will see enough of them presently.
By degrees, the vision of Boone became more clear, and he perceived the shaggy mass at about ten feet from him and about twenty yards from the entrance of the cave.
The first to break the long silence was Jim Boone, with "Who brings in the wood?" And Black Gandil answered: "We'll match, eh?" In an outburst of energy the day before he disappeared Garry Patterson had chopped up some wood and left a pile of it at the corner of the house.
You no cheat us any more. Boone looked down upon their up-turned faces, saw their loaded guns pointed at his breast, and recognizing some of his old friends, the Shawanees, who had made him prisoner near the Blue Licks in 1778, coolly and pleasantly responded, 'Ah! old friends, glad to see you. Perceiving that they manifested impatience to have him come down, he told them he was quite willing to go with them, and only begged they would wait where they were, and watch him closely, until he could finish removing his tobacco."
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