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Updated: May 25, 2025
Telegrams of inquiry, concern, and consolation reached us in our retreat, but those who expected us were none the less inconvenienced. Then, too, what business have the dusty, grimy, veiled, goggled, and leathered party from the machine among the muslin gowns, smart wraps, and immaculate coverings of the conventional house party; if we but approach, they scatter in self-protection.
Deerslayer knew that his adversary must be employed in reloading, unless he had fled. The former proved to be the case, for the young man had no sooner placed himself behind a tree, than he caught a glimpse of the arm of the Indian, his body being concealed by an oak, in the very act of forcing the leathered bullet home.
If a chap gives me one black eye, that's enough for me; I sha'n't ax him for another afore I sarve him out; an' a good turn's worth as much as a bad un, anyhow. I shall niver grow down'ards again, Mr. Tom, an' you war the little chap as I liked the best when I war a little chap, for all you leathered me, and wouldn't look at me again.
The pale boy-face of one, with soft brown eyes glared up sightless to the sun; the dead, leathered bronze of the other was carved in piteous terror. Thirty-eight Three months had flown. It was Spring again, and Zora sat in the transformed swamp now a swamp in name only beneath the great oak, dreaming. And what she dreamed there in the golden day she dared not formulate even to her own soul.
She refused he leathered her she put him in prison. This was the best place for him. The man was a drunkard, and all the riches of Egypt would never have made him better off. And here, gentlemen of the lower classes, a word with you. How can you, with your small incomes, hope to be well off, if you are more extravagant than those who have large ones? "Us extravagant?" you reply.
But the little fellow could not help himself, and he went on in the required direction among the trees, the forest growing darker and darker, till suddenly voices were heard, and the boy stopped, "You go straight along there," he said, "and I'll wait." "No, you go," said Robin. "You know them." "Oh! yes, and them want some more pigs! Want me to be leathered again?"
"More than one!" replied the weeping girl; "he gave me more than a hundred thousand, and would have given a finger off his hand if I would only have gone with him to his posada; nay, I even think that the tears were almost starting from his eyes after he had leathered me."
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