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03 - The Last Of The Mohicans - James Cooper · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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Speaker 1: Chapter three quote before these fields were shorn and tilled
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Speaker 1: full to the brim, our rivers flowed, the melody of
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Speaker 1: waters filled the fresh and boundless wood, and torrents dashed,
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Speaker 1: and rivulets played, and fountains spouted in the shade unquote
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Speaker 1: by Bryant, leaving the unsuspecting Heyward and his confiding companions
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Speaker 1: to penetrate still deeper into a forest that contained such
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Speaker 1: treacherous inmates. We must use an author's privilege and shift
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Speaker 1: the scene a few miles to the westward of the
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Speaker 1: place where we have last seen them. On that day,
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Speaker 1: two men were lingering on the banks of a small
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Speaker 1: but rapid stream, within an hour's journey of the encampment
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Speaker 1: of Webb, like those who awaited the appearance of an
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Speaker 1: absent person or the approach of some expected event. The
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Speaker 1: vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of
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Speaker 1: the river, over the water and shadowing its dark current
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Speaker 1: with a deeper hue. The rays of the sun were
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Speaker 1: beginning to grow less fierce, and the intense heat of
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Speaker 1: the day was lessened as the cooler vapors of the
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Speaker 1: springs and fountains rose above their leafy beds and rested
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Speaker 1: in the atmosphere. Still, that breathing silence which marks the
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Speaker 1: drowsy sultriness of an American landscape in July, pervaded the
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Speaker 1: secluded spot, interrupted only by the low voices of the men,
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Speaker 1: the occasional and lazy tap of a woodpecker, the discordant
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Speaker 1: cry of some gaudy jay, or a swelling on the
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Speaker 1: ear from the dull roar of a distant waterfall. These
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Speaker 1: feeble and broken sounds were, however, too familiar to the
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Speaker 1: foresters to draw their attention from the more interesting manner
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Speaker 1: of their dialog. While one of these loiterers showed the
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Speaker 1: red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods,
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Speaker 1: the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and
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Speaker 1: nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sunburned, and long faced
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Speaker 1: complexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.
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Speaker 1: The former was seated on the end of a mossy log,
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Speaker 1: in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect
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Speaker 1: of his earnest language by the calm but expressive gestures
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Speaker 1: of an Indian engaged in debate. His body, which was
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Speaker 1: nearly naked, presented a terrific emblem of death, drawn in
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Speaker 1: intermingled colors of white and black. His closely shaved head,
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Speaker 1: on which no other hair than the well known and
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Speaker 1: chivalrous scalping tuft was preserved, was without ornament of any kind,
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Speaker 1: with the exception of a solitary eagle's plume, the crossed
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Speaker 1: as crown and depended over the left shoulder footnote. The
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Speaker 1: North American warrior caused the hair to be plucked from
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Speaker 1: his whole body. A small tuft was left on the
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Speaker 1: crown of his head in order that his enemy might
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Speaker 1: avail himself of it in the wrenching off the scalp
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Speaker 1: in the event of his fall. The scalp was the
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Speaker 1: only admissible trophy of victory. Thus it was deemed more
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Speaker 1: important to obtain the scalp than to kill the man.
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Speaker 1: Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of striking
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Speaker 1: a dead body. These practices have nearly disappeared among the
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Speaker 1: Indians of the Atlantic States end footnote. A tomahawk and
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Speaker 1: scalping knife of English manufacture were in his girdle, while
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Speaker 1: a short military rifle of that sort with which the
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Speaker 1: policy of the Whites armed their savage allies lay carelessly
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Speaker 1: across his bare and sinewy knee. The expanded chest, full
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Speaker 1: formed limbs, and grave counts of this warrior would denote
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Speaker 1: that he had reached the vigor of his days, though
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Speaker 1: no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
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Speaker 1: The frame of the white man, judging from such parts
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Speaker 1: as were not concealed by his clothes, was like that
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Speaker 1: of one who had known hardships and exertion from his
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Speaker 1: earliest youth. His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full,
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Speaker 1: but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by
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Speaker 1: unremitted exposure and toil. He wore a hunting shirt of
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Speaker 1: forest green, fringed with faded yellow, and a summer cap
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Speaker 1: of skins which had been shorn of their fur. Footnote.
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Speaker 1: The hunting shirt is a picturesque smock frock, being shorter
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Speaker 1: and ornamented with fringes and tassels. The colors are intended
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Speaker 1: to imitate the hues of the wood, with a view
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Speaker 1: to concealment. Many corps of American riflemen have been thus attired,
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Speaker 1: and the dress is one of the most striking of
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Speaker 1: modern times. The hunting shirt is frequently white. He also
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Speaker 1: bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that
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Speaker 1: which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.
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Speaker 1: His moccasins were ornamented after the gay fashion of the natives,
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Speaker 1: while the only part of his under dress which appeared
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Speaker 1: below the hunting frock was a pair of buckskin leggings
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Speaker 1: that laced at the sides, and which were guarded above
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Speaker 1: the knees with the sinews of a deer. A pouch
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Speaker 1: and horn completed his personal accouterments, though a rifle of
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Speaker 1: great length, which the theory of the more ingenious whites
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Speaker 1: had taught them, was the most dangerous of all firearms
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Speaker 1: leaned against a neighboring sapling. Footnote, the rifle of the
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Speaker 1: army is short, that of the hunter is always long.
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Speaker 1: And footnote the eye of the hunter or scout, whichever
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Speaker 1: he might be, was small, quick, keen, and restless, roving,
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Speaker 1: while he spoke on every side of him, as if
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Speaker 1: in quest of game or distrusting the sudden approach of
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Speaker 1: some lurking enemy. Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his
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Speaker 1: countenance was not only without guile but at the moment
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Speaker 1: at which he is introduced, it was charged with an
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Speaker 1: expression of sturdy honesty. Even your traditions make the case
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Speaker 1: in my favor. Chinchkotchkok, he said, speaking in the tongue
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Speaker 1: which was known to all the natives who formerly inhabited
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Speaker 1: the country between the Hudson and the Potomac, and of
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Speaker 1: which we shall give a free translation for the benefit
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Speaker 1: of the reader, endeavoring at the same time to preserve
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Speaker 1: some of the peculiarities, both of the individual and of
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Speaker 1: the language. Your fathers came from the setting sun, crossed
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Speaker 1: the big river, fought the people of the country, and
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Speaker 1: took the land. And mine came from the red sky
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Speaker 1: of the morning, over the salt lake, and did their
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Speaker 1: work much after the fashion that had been set them
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Speaker 1: by yours. Then let God judge the matter between us,
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Speaker 1: and friends, spare their words. Footnote the Mississippi the Scout
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Speaker 1: alludes to a tradition which is very popular among the
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Speaker 1: tribes of the Atlantic States. Evidence of their Asiatic origin
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Speaker 1: is deduced from the circumstances. Their great uncertainty hangs over
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Speaker 1: the whole history of the Indians, and footnote my fathers
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Speaker 1: fought with the naked red man, returned the Indian sternly
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Speaker 1: in the same language. Is there no difference, Hawkeye, between
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Speaker 1: the stone headed arrow of the warrior and the leaden
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Speaker 1: bullet with which you kill? There is reason in an Indian,
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Speaker 1: though nature has made him with a red skin, said
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Speaker 1: the white man, shaking his head like one on whom
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Speaker 1: such an appeal to his justice was not thrown away.
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Speaker 1: For a moment he appeared to be conscious of having
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Speaker 1: the worst of the argument. Then, rallying again, he answered
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Speaker 1: the objection of his antagonist in the best manner his
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Speaker 1: limited information would allow. I am no scholar, and I
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Speaker 1: care not who knows it. But judging from what I've
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Speaker 1: seen at dear chases and squirrel hunts of the sparks below,
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Speaker 1: I should think a rifle in the hands of their
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Speaker 1: grandfathers was not so dangerous as a hickory bow and
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Speaker 1: a good flint head might be if drawn with Indian
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Speaker 1: judgment and sent by an Indian eye. You have told
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Speaker 1: the story told by your father's, returned the other, coldly,
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Speaker 1: waving his hand. What say your old men do? They
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Speaker 1: tell the young warriors that the pale faces met the
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Speaker 1: red men needed for war and armed with the stone
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Speaker 1: hatchet and wooden gun. I am not a prejudiced man,
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Speaker 1: nor one who vaunts himself on his natural privileges. Though
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Speaker 1: the worst enemy I have on earth, and he is
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Speaker 1: an Iroquois, daren't deny I am genuine white, the scout replied,
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Speaker 1: surveying with secret satisfaction the faded color of his bony
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Speaker 1: and sinewy hand. And I'm willing to own that my
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Speaker 1: people have many ways of which as an honest man,
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Speaker 1: I can't prove. It is one of their customs to
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Speaker 1: write in books what they have done and seen, instead
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Speaker 1: of telling them in their villages, where the lie can
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Speaker 1: be given to the face of a cowardly boaster, and
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Speaker 1: a brave soldier can call on his comrades to witness
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Speaker 1: for the truth of his words. In consequence of this
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Speaker 1: bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to mis
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Speaker 1: spend his days among the women in learning the names
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Speaker 1: of black marks, may never hear the deeds of his fathers,
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Speaker 1: nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them. For myself,
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Speaker 1: I conclude that Bumpos could shoot, for I have a
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Speaker 1: natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed
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Speaker 1: down from generation to generation. As our holy commandments tell us,
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Speaker 1: all good and evil gifts are bestowed. Though I should
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Speaker 1: be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
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Speaker 1: But every story has its two sides. So I ask
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Speaker 1: Hugh Chinchotchcook, what passed according to the traditions of the
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Speaker 1: Red Men when our fathers first met? A silence of
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Speaker 1: a minute seceeded, during which the Indian sat mute. Then,
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Speaker 1: full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his
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Speaker 1: brief tale with a solemnity that served to heighten its
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Speaker 1: appearance of truth. Listen, Hawkeye, and your ear shall drink
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Speaker 1: no lie. Tis what my fathers have said and what
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Speaker 1: the Mohicans have done. He hesitated, a single instant, and,
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Speaker 1: bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued in
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Speaker 1: a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
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Speaker 2: Does not this.
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Speaker 1: Stream at our feet run toward the summer until its
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Speaker 1: waters grow salt and the current flows upward. It can't
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Speaker 1: be denied that your traditions tell you true in both
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Speaker 1: these matters, said the white Man, For I have been
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Speaker 1: there and have seen them. The why water, which is
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Speaker 1: so sweet in the shade should become bitter in the
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Speaker 1: sun is an alteration for which I have never been
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Speaker 1: able to account. And the current, demanded the Indian, who
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Speaker 1: expect did his reply with that sort of interest that
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Speaker 1: a man feels in the confirmation of testimony at which
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Speaker 1: he marvels even while he respects it. The fathers of
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Speaker 1: Chinggotchkok have not lied. The Holy Bible is not more true,
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Speaker 1: and that is the truest thing in nature. They call
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Speaker 1: this upstream current the tide, which is a thing soon
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Speaker 1: explained and clear enough. Six hours the waters run in,
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Speaker 1: and six hours they run out. And the reason is this,
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Speaker 1: when there is higher water in the sea than in
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Speaker 1: the river, they run in until the river gets to
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Speaker 1: be highest, and then it runs out again.
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Speaker 2: The waters in the.
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Speaker 1: Woods and on the great lakes run downward until they
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Speaker 1: lie like my hand, said the Indian, stretching the limb
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Speaker 1: horizontally before him. They run no more. No honest man
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Speaker 1: will deny it, said the scout, a little nettled at
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Speaker 1: the implied distrust of his explanation on the mystery of
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Speaker 1: the tides. And I grant that it is true on
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Speaker 1: the small scale, and where the land is level, But
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Speaker 1: everything depends on what scale you look at things now.
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Speaker 1: On the small scale, the earth is level, but on
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Speaker 1: the large scale it is round. In this manner, pools
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Speaker 1: and ponds and even the great fresh water lakes may
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Speaker 1: be stagnant, as you and I both know they are,
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Speaker 1: having seen them. But when you come to spread water
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Speaker 1: over a great tract like the sea, where the earth
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Speaker 1: is round, how in reason can the water be quiet?
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Speaker 1: You might as well expect the river to lie still
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Speaker 1: on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us,
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Speaker 1: though our own ears tell you that it is tumbling
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Speaker 1: over them at this very moment. If unsatisfied by the
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Speaker 1: philosophy of his companion, the Indian was far too dignified
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Speaker 1: to betray his unbelief. He listened like one who was convinced,
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Speaker 1: and resumed his narrative in his former solemn manner. We
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Speaker 1: came from the place where the sun is hid at night,
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Speaker 1: over great plains where the buffaloes live, until we reached
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Speaker 1: the Big River. There we fought the aliguity till the
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Speaker 1: ground was red with their blood. From the banks of
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Speaker 1: the Big River to the shores of the Salt Lake,
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Speaker 1: there was none to meet us. The Maquas followed at
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Speaker 1: a distance. We said the country should be ours, from
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Speaker 1: the place where the water runs up no longer on
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Speaker 1: this stream, to a river twenty suns journey towards the summer,
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Speaker 1: we drove the Maquas into the woods with the bears.
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Speaker 1: They only tasted salt at the licks. They drew no
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Speaker 1: fish from the great lake. We threw them the bones.
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Speaker 1: All this I have heard and believe, said the white man,
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Speaker 1: observing that the Indian paused. But it was long before
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Speaker 1: the English came into the country. A pine grew then
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Speaker 1: where this chestnut now stands. The first pale faces who
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Speaker 1: came among us spoke no English. They came in a
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Speaker 1: large canoe when my fathers had buried the tomahawk, with
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Speaker 1: the red men around them.
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Speaker 2: Then Hawkeye, he.
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Speaker 1: Continued betraying his deep emotion only by permitting his voice
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Speaker 1: to fall to those low guttural tones which render his language,
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Speaker 1: as spoken at times, so very musical. Then Hawkeye, we
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Speaker 1: were one people, and we were happy. The salt lake
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Speaker 1: gave us its fish, the wood it's deer, and the
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Speaker 1: air its birds. We took wives who bore us children.
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Speaker 1: We worshiped the Great Spirit, and we kept the Maquas
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Speaker 1: beyond the sound of our songs of triumph? Know you
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Speaker 1: anything of your own family at that time demanded the white.
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Speaker 1: But you are just a man for an Indian, and
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Speaker 1: I suppose you hold their gifts. Your fathers must have
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Speaker 1: been brave warriors and wise men at the council fire.
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Speaker 1: My tribe is the grandfather of nations. But I am
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Speaker 1: an unmixed man. The blood of chiefs is in my veins,
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Speaker 1: where it must stay forever. The Dutch landed and gave
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Speaker 1: my people the fire water. They drank until the heavens
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Speaker 1: and earth seemed to meet, and they foolishly thought they
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Speaker 1: had found the great spirit. Then they parted with their land.
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Speaker 1: Foot by foot. They were driven back from the shores,
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Speaker 1: until I that am a chief and a sagamore, have
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Speaker 1: never seen the sunshine but through the trees, and have
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Speaker 1: never visited the graves of my fathers. Graves bring solemn
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Speaker 1: feelings over the mind, returned the scout a good deal,
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Speaker 1: touched at the calm suffering of his companion, and they
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Speaker 1: often aid a man in his good intentions. Though for
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Speaker 1: myself I expect to leave my own bones unburied, to
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Speaker 1: bleach in the woods, or be torn asunder by the wolves.
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Speaker 1: But where are to be found those of your race
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Speaker 1: who came to their kin in the Delaware country so
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Speaker 1: many summers?
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Speaker 2: Since where are the blossoms of those summers? Fallen? One
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Speaker 2: by one?
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Speaker 1: So all of my family departed, each in his turn
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Speaker 1: to the land of spirits. I am on the hilltop
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Speaker 1: and must go down into the valley. And when Uncas
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Speaker 1: follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any
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Speaker 1: of the blood of the Sagamores. For my boy is
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Speaker 1: the last of the Mohicans. Uncas is here, said another
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Speaker 1: voice in the same soft guttural tones near his vwbow,
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Speaker 1: who speaks for Uncas? The white man loosened his knife
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Speaker 1: in his leathern sheath and made an involuntary movement of
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Speaker 1: the hand toward his rifle at this sudden interruption, But
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Speaker 1: the Indian sat composed and without turning his head at
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Speaker 1: the unexpected sounds. At the next instant, a youthful warrior
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Speaker 1: passed between them with a noiseless step, and seated himself
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Speaker 1: on the bank of the rapid stream. No exclamation of
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Speaker 1: surprise escaped the father, nor was any question asked or
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Speaker 1: reply given. For several minutes each appearing to await the
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Speaker 1: moment when he might speak without betraying womanish curiosity or
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Speaker 1: childish impatience. The white man seemed to take counsel from
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Speaker 1: their customs, and relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he
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Speaker 1: also remained silent and reserved at length. Chingotchkok turned his
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Speaker 1: eyes slowly toward his son and demanded, do the Makists
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Speaker 1: dare to leave the print of their moccasins in these woods?
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Speaker 1: I have been on their trail, replied the young Indian,
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Speaker 1: and know that they number as many as the fingers
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Speaker 1: of my two hands. But they lie.
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Speaker 2: Hid like cowards.
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Speaker 1: The thieves are outlying for scalps and plunders, said the
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Speaker 1: white man, whom we shall call Hawkeye, after the manner
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Speaker 1: of his companions. That busy frenchman Montcalm will send his
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Speaker 1: spies into our very camp, but he will know what
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Speaker 1: road we travel. 'tis enough, returned the father, glancing his
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Speaker 1: eye toward the setting sun. They shall be driven like
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Speaker 1: deer from their bushes. Hawkeye, let us eat tonight and
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Speaker 1: show the Maquas that we are men. Tomorrow I am
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Speaker 1: as ready to do one as the other, but to
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Speaker 1: fight the Iroquois tis necessary to find the skulkers, and
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Speaker 1: to eat tis necessary to get the game. Talk of
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Speaker 1: the devil, and he will come. There's a pair of
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Speaker 1: the biggest antlers I have seen this season moving the
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Speaker 1: bushes below the hill. Now uncas, he continued in a
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Speaker 1: half whisper and laughing with a kind of inward sound,
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Speaker 1: like one who had learned to be watchful. I will
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Speaker 1: bet my charger three times full of powder against a
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Speaker 1: foot of wampum, that I take him atwixt the eyes,
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Speaker 1: and nearer to the right than the left. It cannot be,
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Speaker 1: said the young Indian, springing to his feet with youthful eagerness.
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Speaker 1: Oh but the tips of his horns are head. He's
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Speaker 1: a boy, said the white man, shaking his head while
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Speaker 1: he spoke and addressing the father. Does he think when
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Speaker 1: a hunter sees a part of a creature, he can't
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Speaker 1: tell where the rest of him should be. Adjusting his rifle,
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Speaker 1: he was about to make an exhibition of that skill
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Speaker 1: on which he so much valued himself, when the warrior
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Speaker 1: struck up the piece with his hand, saying, Hawkeye, will
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Speaker 1: you fight the maquas? These Indians know the nature of
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Speaker 1: the woods as it might be by instinct, returned the scout,
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Speaker 1: dropping his rifle and turning away like a man convinced
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Speaker 1: of his air. I must leave the buck to your arrow, Uncas,
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Speaker 1: or we may kill a deer for them thieves the
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Speaker 1: ear cooi to eat the instant. The father seconded this
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Speaker 1: intimation by an expressive gesture of the hand. Uncas threw
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Speaker 1: himself on the ground and approached the animal with warried movements.
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Speaker 1: When within a few yards of the cover, he fitted
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Speaker 1: an arrow to his bow with the utmost care, while
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Speaker 1: the antlers moved as if their owner snuffed an enemy
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Speaker 1: in the tainted air. In another moment, the twang of
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Speaker 1: the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing
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Speaker 1: into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the
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Speaker 1: cover to the very feet of his hidden enemy. Avoiding
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Speaker 1: the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his
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Speaker 1: side and passed his knife across the throat. When bounding
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Speaker 1: to the edge of the river, it fell, dying the
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Speaker 1: water with its blood. Twas done with Indian skill, said
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Speaker 1: the scout, laughing inwardly, but with vast satisfaction, And twas
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Speaker 1: a pretty sight to behold. Though an arrow is a
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Speaker 1: near shot, and needs a knife to finish the work.
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Speaker 1: Hullh ejaculated, his companion, turning quickly like a hound who sent.
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Speaker 2: A game by the lord. There's a drove of.
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Speaker 1: Them, exclaimed the scout, whose eyes began to glisten with
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Speaker 1: the ardor of his usual occupation. If they come within
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Speaker 1: range of a bullet, I will drop one, though the
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Speaker 1: whole six nations should be lurking within sound. What do
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Speaker 1: you hear, chinchcotch cook? For to my ears the woods
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Speaker 1: are dumb. There is but one dear, and he is dead,
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Speaker 1: said the Indian, bending his body to his ear, nearly
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Speaker 1: touched the earth.
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Speaker 2: I hear the sounds of feet.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the wolves have driven the buck to shelter and
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Speaker 1: are following on his trail. No, the horses of white
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Speaker 1: men are coming, returned the other, raising himself with dignity
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Speaker 1: and resuming his seat on the log with his former composure.
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Speaker 2: Hawkeye, they are your brothers.
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Speaker 1: Speak to them that I will, and in English that
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Speaker 1: the king needn't be ashamed to answer, returned the hunter,
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Speaker 1: speaking in the language of which he boasted. But I
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Speaker 1: see nothing, nor do I hear the sounds of man
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Speaker 1: or beast. Tis strange that an Indian should understand white
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Speaker 1: sounds better than a man whose very enemies will own,
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Speaker 1: has no cross in his blood, although he may have
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Speaker 1: lived with the redskins long enough to be suspected. Ha,
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Speaker 1: there goes something like the crackling of a dry stick too.
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Speaker 1: Now I hear the bushes move. Yes, yes, there is
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Speaker 1: a trampling that I mistook for the falls. And but
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Speaker 1: here they come themselves, God keep them from the Iroquois.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter three