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Page 41
... murdering , " said the gallant Co- lonel Bruce , " is nothing , sir : it is the shame of the thumping that makes one feel ambi- tious ; thar's the thing no Kentuckian can stand , sir . To be murdered , whar thar's ten Injuns to one ...
... murdering , " said the gallant Co- lonel Bruce , " is nothing , sir : it is the shame of the thumping that makes one feel ambi- tious ; thar's the thing no Kentuckian can stand , sir . To be murdered , whar thar's ten Injuns to one ...
Page 43
... murdering , " said the gallant Co- lonel Bruce , " is nothing , sir : it is the shame of the thumping that makes one feel ambi- tious ; thar's the thing no Kentuckian can stand , sir . To be murdered , whar thar's ten Injuns to one ...
... murdering , " said the gallant Co- lonel Bruce , " is nothing , sir : it is the shame of the thumping that makes one feel ambi- tious ; thar's the thing no Kentuckian can stand , sir . To be murdered , whar thar's ten Injuns to one ...
Page 89
... murdering Injun . I took his gun from him once ; for why , he wouldn't attend muster , when I had enrolled him . the brute ; for he war poor , But I pitied and thar war but little corn in his cabin , and nothing to shoot meat with ; and ...
... murdering Injun . I took his gun from him once ; for why , he wouldn't attend muster , when I had enrolled him . the brute ; for he war poor , But I pitied and thar war but little corn in his cabin , and nothing to shoot meat with ; and ...
Page 96
... murdering Injuns and scalping run- negades , and keep your fists off their top- knots . Thar's my idear : for I go for the doctrine , that every able - bodied man should sarve his country and his neighbours , and fight their 96 NICK OF ...
... murdering Injuns and scalping run- negades , and keep your fists off their top- knots . Thar's my idear : for I go for the doctrine , that every able - bodied man should sarve his country and his neighbours , and fight their 96 NICK OF ...
Page 134
... murdering work of him , taking every scalp in the company ; and so it makes one sad - like to pass thar , and the more partickelarly that its ' all nat- teral fine ground for an ambush . You'll see the road , when you are six mile deep ...
... murdering work of him , taking every scalp in the company ; and so it makes one sad - like to pass thar , and the more partickelarly that its ' all nat- teral fine ground for an ambush . You'll see the road , when you are six mile deep ...
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