As the purport of the conversation was merely an
engagement to hunt during the remainder of the day, in order to
provide the chief necessary of life, we shall not stop to record it.
With this resolution, then, the squatter descended to the plain and
divided his forces into two parts, one of which was to remain as a
guard with the fortress, and the other to accompany him to the field.
He warily included Asa and Abiram in his own party, well knowing that
no authority short of his own was competent to repress the fierce
disposition of his headlong son, if fairly awakened. When these
arrangements were completed, the hunters sallied forth, separating at
no great distance from the rock, in order to form a circle about the
distant herd of buffaloes.
CHAPTER IX
Priscian a little scratch'd;
'Twill serve.
--Love's Labour Lost.
Having made the reader acquainted with the manner in which Ishmael
Bush had disposed of his family, under circumstances that might have
proved so embarrassing to most other men, we shall again shift the
scene a few short miles from the place last described, preserving,
however, the due and natural succession of time.
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