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"
"Well--well. Let it then be acquaintance. Is he a man to maintain his
own, stoutly by dint of powder and lead?"
"His own! ay, and that which is not his own, too! Can you tell me, old
trapper, who held the rifle that did the deed for the sheriff's
deputy, that thought to rout the unlawful settlers who had gathered
nigh the Buffaloe lick in old Kentucky? I had lined a beautiful swarm
that very day into the hollow of a dead beech, and there lay the
people's officer at its roots, with a hole directly through the 'grace
of God;' which he carried in his jacket pocket covering his heart, as
if he thought a bit of sheepskin was a breastplate against a
squatter's bullet! Now, Ellen, you needn't be troubled for it never
strictly was brought home to him; and there were fifty others who had
pitched in that neighbourhood with just the same authority from the
law."
The poor girl shuddered, struggling powerfully to suppress the sigh
which arose in spite of her efforts, as if from the very bottom of her
heart.


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