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In fact, we have in him an illustration of the modern writer who knows he must found his message firmly upon reality. For both Leather-stocking and Chingachgook are true in the broad sense, albeit the white trapper's dialect may be uncertain and the red man exhibit a dignity that seems Roman rather than aboriginal.
The edifice was composed of a basement of squared logs, perforated here and there with small grated windows, through which a few wistful faces were gazing at the crowd without. Among the captives were the guilty, downcast countenances of the counterfeiters, and the simple but honest features of the Leather-Stocking.
The wonderful exploit of Leather-Stocking was noised through the field with great rapidity, and the sportsmen gathered in, to learn the truth of the report. What said young Edwards, have you really killed a pigeon on the wing, Natty, with a single ball?
He plotted with the grandsons of Monsieur Hochon to worry the grocers of the city; he gathered fruit before the owners could pick it, and made nothing of scaling walls. He had no equal at bodily exercises, he played base to perfection, and could have outrun a hare. With a keen eye worthy of Leather-stocking, he loved hunting passionately.
And yet he was an original; for he assured us that he had never read the Leather-Stocking Tales. What a figure, I was thinking, he must have made in the late war! Such a shot, such a splendid physique, such iron endurance! I almost dreaded to hear his tales of the havoc he had wrought on the Union army. Yes, he was in the war, he was sixteen months in the Confederate army, this Homeric man.
When New York State grew too crowded for Cooper's Leather-Stocking, he shouldered his pack, whistled to his dog, glanced at the sun, and struck a bee-line for the Mississippi. Nothing could be more typical of the first three hundred years of American history. The traits of the pioneer have thus been the characteristic traits of the American in action.
Leather-Stocking, Ive an arrand with you, cried Kirby; heres the good people of the State have been writing you a small letter, and theyve hired me to ride post.
Van der School aided him, by asking some direct questions: It appears from examining the papers, that you demanded admission into the hut legally; so you were put in bodily fear by his rifle and threats? I didnt mind them that, man, said Billy, snapping his fingers; I should be a poor stick to mind old Leather-Stocking.
Hist! said Elizabeth; tis the Leather-Stocking; he seeks me! Tis Natty! shouted Edwards, and we may yet be saved! A wide and circling flame glared on their eyes for a moment, even above the fire of the woods, and a loud report followed. 'Tis the canister, tis the powder, cried the same voice, evidently approaching them. Tis the canister, and the precious child is lost.
To have written our first historical novel, "The Spy," our first sea-story, "The Pilot," and to have created the Leather-Stocking series, is glory enough. In his perception of masculine character, Cooper ranks with Fielding. His sailors, his scouts and spies, his good and bad Indians, are as veritable human figures as Squire Western.
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