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repeated summons to surrender, which Paul uttered in a voice that he
intended should strike terror in their young bosoms, were as little
heeded as were the calls of the trapper to abandon a resistance, which
might prove fatal to some among them, without offering the smallest
probability of eventual success. Encouraging each other to persevere,
they poised the fragments of rocks, prepared the lighter missiles for
immediate service, and thrust forward the barrels of the muskets with
a business-like air, and a coolness, that would have done credit to
men practised in warfare.
"Keep under the ledge," said the trapper, pointing out to Paul the
manner in which he should proceed; "keep in your foot more, lad--ah!
you see the warning was not amiss! had the stone struck it, the bees
would have had the prairies to themselves. Now, namesake of my friend;
Uncas, in name and spirit! now, if you have the activity of Le Cerf
Agile, you may make a far leap to the right, and gain twenty feet,
without danger.


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