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Oh! then you own it was only meant for a neighborly visit on your part, and without the sanction of law. Remember, gentlemen, the words of the witness, one neighbor wanting to enter the house of another. Now, sir, I ask you if Nathaniel Bumppo did not again and again order you not to enter? There was some words passed between us, said Hiram, but I read the warrant to him aloud.
If you will fire, you should shoot quick, before there is time to shake off the aim. Fair play, again shouted the negro; fair play gib a nigger fair play. What right a Nat Bumppo advise a young man? Let em shoot clear a ground.
"Well, Deerslayer, I'm not one of them," answered Hetty, simply; "Judith likes soldiers, and flary coats, and fine feathers; but they're all naught to me. She says the officers are great, and gay, and of soft speech; but they make me shudder, for their business is to kill their fellow-creatures. I like your calling better; and your last name is a very good one better than Natty Bumppo."
This is the way, said Hiram, pointing forward and quickening his step, as if apprehensive that Kirby would desert, and Bumppo is the man. Kirby stopped short, and looked from one of his companions to the other in astonishment. He then burst into a loud laugh, and cried: Who? Leather-Stocking!
Kit Gist, a hunter and trapper of the Natty Bumppo order, was his guide; they laid their course through the dense but naked forests as a mariner over a sullen sea. Four or five attendants, including an interpreter, made up the party.
He is suspected of other misdemeanors and offences against private rights; and I have this night taken on myself. by the virtue of my office as sheriff, to arrest the said Bumppo, and bring him to the county jail, that he may be present and forthcoming to answer to these heavy charges before the court to-morrow morning.
The order was either unheard or unheeded. Nathaniel Bumppo, be uncovered, repeated the Judge. Natty started at the sound of his name, and, raising his face earnestly toward the bench, he said: Anan! Mr. Lippet arose from his seat at the table, and whispered in the ear of the prisoner; when Natty gave him a nod of assent, and took the deer-skin covering from his head. Mr.
I wouldnt shoot at a deer at ten rod: besides, you may remember, Aggy, I only fired once. Yes, massa Richard, I member em! Natty Bumppo fire toder gun. You know, sir, all e folks say Natty kill him. This is a damned envious world that we live in people are always for dividing the credit at a thing, in order to bring down merit to their own level.
Accordingly, after the period we have mentioned had elapsed, the cry of the officer to clear the way for the grand jury, announced the entrance of that body. The usual forms were observed, when the foreman handed up to the bench two bills, on both of which the Judge observed, at the first glance of his eye, the name of Nathaniel Bumppo.
"They never deserved them more, Deerslayer, and the name is a good one; either Hetty, or myself, would a thousand times rather be called Hetty Bumppo, or Judith Bumppo, than to be called Hetty or Judith Hutter." "That's a moral impossible," returned the hunter, good humouredly, "onless one of you should so far demean herself as to marry me."
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