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Anything would be better than that." "Judith Bumppo wouldn't sound as well, gal; and there's many names that would fall short of March, in pleasing the ear." "Ah! Deerslayer, the pleasantness of the sound, in such cases, doesn't come through the ear, but through the heart. Everything is agreeable, when the heart is satisfied.
And you shall see her, sir, said the steward; shes in this here room. Lord, Master Edwards, what a loss shed have been to the Judge! Damme if I know where he would have gotten such another daughter; that is, full grown, dye see. I say, sir, this Master Bumppo is a worthy man, and seems to have a handy way with him, with firearms and boat-hooks.
"Tell Miss Bowen how you were captured, tied to the stake, half-tomahawked, etc. how you lived Indian fashion for a whole year, when you were sixteen. Wonderful lad! A second Nathaniel Bumppo!" added he, tapping his brother's shoulder. The young man drew back, merely answered "that the story would not interest Miss Bowen," and retired, whether out of pride or shyness it was impossible to say.
And let me tell you, Mr. Bumppo, said Hiram, retreating, however, with a quick step, that I know youve broke the law, and that Im a magistrate, and will make you feel it too, before you are a day older. That for you and your law, too, cried Natty, snap ping his fingers at the justice of the peace; away with you, you varmint, before the devil tempts me to give you your desarts.
Of that too were you ignorant? said the youth in evident surprise. How should I know it? I never met the Major, nor was the name of Bumppo ever mentioned to me. I knew him only as a man of the woods, and one who lived by hunting. Such men are too common to excite surprise. This, then, is thy Indian blood?
Gray" appeared John Paul Jones, while "Long Tom Coffin" was said to be Mr. Irish, the mate of the Stirling, in which the lad "Cooper made his voyage before-the-mast." Of this mate and the Yankees the author wrote: "He too was from Nantucket, and was a prime fellow, and fit to command a ship." Prof. Brander Matthews calls this simple-hearted cockswain and Natty Bumppo "co-heirs of time."
Youve scared the creaturs off, said Kirby, with great contempt expressed on his broad features; but you are not going to scare me; so, Mr. Bumppo, down with your gun, or therell be trouble twixt us. Natty dropped his rifle, and replied: I wish you no harm, Billy Kirby; but I leave it to yourself, whether an old mans hut is to be run down by such varmint.
Looking over an ancient map, it was ascertained that a tribe of Indians, called "Les Horicans" by the French, existed in the neighborhood of this beautiful sheet of water. As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the "Horican" into his mouth, as the substitute for "Lake George."
The sheriff laughed heartily at his own wit, and put himself in good humor thereby, when he gratified his patient cousin with the following explanation: You know, Duke, there is a man living on your estate that goes by the name of Natty Bumppo. Here has this man lived, by what I can learn, for more than forty years by himself, until lately; and now with strange companions.
The judges seemed to have anticipated this sentiment, for a consultation was passing among them also, during the deliberation of the jury, and the preparatory movements of the bench announced the coming sentence. Nathaniel Bumppo, commenced the Judge, making the customary pause.
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