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To this end he spoke upon another subject, beginning: "D'ye remember where we be, Nuck? 'Member this place? Seems strange that you sh'd have such a caper here with that catamount after what happened only last spring, doesn't it?" He glanced keenly at young Harding and saw that his words had at once the desired effect.
"I am off at once, folks," said 'Siah, beginning to make his pack for the journey. "I'll see you up near Old Ti, Nuck, for the Colonel means business sure! We may have some such doin's up there as your father and I had under Rogers and Old Put years ago."
"Let him alone, poor chap!" he whispered hoarsely in his friend's ear, and Enoch saw that he was crying, "Let him alone. He is dead. Oh, these villains shall be punished for this they shall be punished! War has begun, Nuck and we have seen its beginning!" In his horror and despair Lot Breckenridge was prophetic.
One of these reels, if of first-rate manufacture, costs a shilling, although coarser ones are very cheap; and of the nuck, about four annas, or sixpence worth, suffices for a kite.
The bear stretched wide his great fore-paws and plunged forward to seize the boy; but the rifle spoke and the smoke of the piece hid the creature for a moment. When the cloud passed there was a great commotion in the brush, and Bryce saw that Nuck had darted back several paces and was rapidly loading his gun again. The younger boy could not see the bear; but it was badly wounded without doubt.
"Wal," said Bolderwood, "while you git yer breath, Nuck, I'll flay that critter and hang her up. I'm in somethin' of a hurry this mornin'; but as the widder's needin' the meat, we won't leave the carcass to the varmints." "You've been to my house, 'Siah?" cried Enoch, following him across the little glade. "Yes. Jest stopped there on my way down from Manchester.
He an' I, Nuck, trapped this neck of woods together before the settlement was started. We knew how rich the land was and naught but the wars with the redskins an' them French kept us from comin' here long before the Robinsons. Jonas wouldn't come 'less it was safe to bring your mother an' you an' he was right. There's little good in a man's roamin' the world without a wife an' fireside ter tie to.
Instead, the villains tumbled into the sledge and upon the backs of their own steeds, and amid the cries of the woman and Robbie, took the way to the Twenty-Mile Line and Albany. The prisoner's wife and son scarcely realized what Nuck's escape meant; it looked as though the guest had fled when peril threatened the helpless family. But Nuck very well knew what he was about.
"Harding and Crow Wing go hunt, shoot deer? Crow Wing need new moccasins," and he thrust forward one foot on which was a ragged covering. But Nuck knew well enough the Indian had not traveled through the wilderness from Lake George merely for the pleasure of going on a deer hunt with him. But he said, doubtfully: "We're pretty busy just now, Crow Wing. Can't go far with you." "Not go far.
"If the Yorkers fight we'll hafter stay right here and shoot like the men," said Nuck, reflectively. "It'll be like the Injin fights my father and 'Siah were in. I s'pose we'll take trees, an' scatter out so't the Yorkers can't git up around us here " "An' we'll raise the warwhoop an' shoot jest as fast as we kin!" exclaimed Lot, excitedly. "Crow Wing taught me the warwhoop last year.
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