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Updated: May 3, 2025
"This is so poetical, commodore, it is a pity it cannot be true. I like this explanation of the 'Speaking Rocks, much better than that implied by the name of 'Fairy Spring." "You are quite right, young lady," called out the fisherman, as the boats separated still farther; "there never was any fairy known in Otsego; but the time has been when we could boast of a Natty Bumppo."
Thackeray was frequent in praise of Fenimore Cooper, hailing Leatherstocking as better than any of "Scott's lot"; and this laudation appeared in the 'Roundabout Papers' long after the British novelist had paid to the American romancer the sincere flattery of borrowing from the last words of Natty Bumppo the suggestion, at least, of the last words of Colonel Newcome.
I wonder what course the Judge means to take in this business of Natty Bumppo! Of Natty Bumppo! echoed Edwards; to what do you allude, sir? Havent you heard! exclaimed the other, with a look of surprise, so naturally assumed as completely to deceive his auditor; it may turn out an ugly business.
Its a very good sort of a man is this Master Bumppo, and he has a way with a spear, all the same as if he was brought up at the bow-oar of the captains barge, or was born with a boat-hook in his hand. Against the Leather-Stocking! cried Elizabeth, rising from her reclining posture.
Then, forest scenes without "Natty Bumppo" could scarce come from his pen after the drawings of old "Leatherstocking" of "The Pioneers," "Hawkeye" of "The Mohicans," and the "aged trapper" of "The Prairie." So it came about that "Natty, the lover," stepped into these pages Natty, "so simple, so tender, so noble and true what shall be said of him?
Now, Judge Temple, can you tell me what has brought three such men as Indian John, Natty Bumppo, and Oliver Edwards together? Marmaduke turned his countenance, in evident surprise, to his cousin, and replied quickly: Thou hast unexpectedly hit on a subject, Richard, that has often occupied my mind. But knowest thou anything of this mystery, or are they only the crude conjectures of
I have always heard so, said Mr. Lippet soothingly. You have been used to the rifle yourself in that country. I pull the second best trigger in this county. I knock under to Natty Bumppo, there, sin he shot the pigeon.
To these virtues he added the graces of a Christian. The morning of his life was spent in honor, wealth, and power; but its evening was obscured by poverty, neglect, and disease, which were alleviated only by the tender care of his old, faithful, and upright friend and attendant, Nathaniel Bumppo.
There, near the small house that is erected over a spring of delicious water, stood the hut of Natty Bumppo, once known throughout all these mountains as a renowned hunter; a man who had the simplicity of a woodsman, the heroism of a savage, the faith of a Christian, and the feelings of a poet. A better than he, after his fashion, seldom lived."
Now, the Judge has a weight in the county that puts him above fear. Miss Temple turned her face to the callous Architect as she said And what has any honest person to dread from so kind a man as Bumppo? Why, its as easy, miss, to pull a rifle trigger on a magistrate as on a painter. But if the Judge dont conclude to issue the warrant, I must go home and make it out myself.
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