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Sarpent, you can't be in airnest, and therefore I shall say but little to your offer. But you're a chief, and will soon be sent out on the war path at head of the parties, and I'll just ask if you'd think of putting your forces into the inimy's hands, afore the battle is fou't?" "Wah!" ejaculated the Indian.
Our night, however, will soon be over, for with the moon we must be up and moving again. I remember to have fou't the Maquas, hereaways, in the first war in which I ever drew blood from man; and we threw up a work of blocks, to keep the ravenous varmints from handling our scalps. If my marks do not fail me, we shall find the place a few rods further to our left."
"I never heerd tell o' the devil in a bell-crowned 'at afore, but p'r'aps you 'm right, Peter tak' another pinch o' snuff." "No more," said I, shaking my head. "Why, it's apt to ketch you a bit at first, but, Lord! Peter, for a man as 'as fou't wi' the devil " "One pinch is more than enough, Ancient." "Oh, Peter, 'tis a wonnerful thing as you should be alive this day!"
"There is no answering for their caprice: to-day they may order a dozen of you to be shot for rebels; to-morrow they may choose to consider you as prisoners of war, and send you to the hulks for a dozen years." "Tell them, brother, that I'm a rebel, will ye? and ye'll tell 'em no lie one that has fou't them since Manly's time, in Boston Bay, to this hour.
"Few live who know the blockhouse was ever raised," was the slow and musing answer; "'tis not often that books are made, and narratives written of such a scrimmage as was here fou't atween the Mohicans and the Mohawks, in a war of their own waging. I was then a younker, and went out with the Delawares, because I know'd they were a scandalized and wronged race.
It's more than quietness, seemin' to say, for all he loved his life and fou't so hard out thar', ter lose his own at last givin' or losin', he never missed o' naught! he never missed o' naught! "I can't tell what's the thought comes nighest to ye when we look at him.
"Come, 'twould be a wonnerful thing to tell as I'd took snuff out o' my very own box wi' a man as 'ad fou't wi' the devil come tak' a pinch, Peter," he pleaded. Whereupon, to please him, I did so, and immediately fell most violently a-sneezing. "And," pursued the old man when the paroxysm was over, "did ye see 'is 'orns, Peter, an' 'is "
The boy has been set upon by the savages in a body, and has fou't like a hero as he was, until they have mastered his strength, and then drawn him to the bushes." To this probable opinion there was now but one dissenting voice, that of the slow-minded Ishmael, who demanded that the corpse itself should be examined in order to obtain a more accurate knowledge of its injuries.
I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters, and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.
"Let him; it is all such gay gallants are good for. Drill, honor is almost as scarce an article with our arms just now as promotion. We seem but the degenerate children of the heroes of Poictiers; you understand me, sergeant?" "Some battle fou't by his majesty's troops against the French, your honor," returned the orderly, a little at a loss to comprehend the expression of his officer's eye.
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