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Updated: May 24, 2025

And I will say this for the ‘Big Snake,’ that he always dealt fair, and never scalped any that he didn’t kill with his own hands.” “Well, well!” cried the landlady, “fighting is fighting anyway, and there is different fashions in the thing; though I can’t say that I relish mangling a body after the breath is out of it; neither do I think it can be uphild by doctrine.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers