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afore ag'in ain't band bein bird Blackstaffe blanket Braxton Wyatt breath buffaloes bullet bushes camp canebrake cannon canoes cave chant chiefs Colonel Alloway comrades creek danger dark deep deer edge eyes feet fellers felt fire five forest runner goin gone grass head hear heard Henry knew Henry saw Henry's hunting Indian army Injun laughed leaves looked mighty miles never night old Sol Panther and Red Paul pow'ful rain reckon Red Eagle renegades replied rifle river Ross roun savage scalp scouts sentinels Shawnee Shawnee tribe Shif'less Sol shore shot shout Silent Silent Tom sleep smoke sound stone stopped stream sure talk tell thar thar's thickets Tom Ross trail trees valley venison war band warriors watch whispered wild wild turkeys wilderness wind wolf woods Wyandots yell Yellow Panther
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Page 315 - ... nothing more than a passion to contradict, to take the opposite view, often intensified by an almost perverse pleasure in being unpopular and standing alone. It is true, he enjoyed epater les bourgeois and especially epater les epateurs des bourgeois (so he managed to shock and antagonize Philistines on the right and on the left at the same time), and he was quite capable occasionally of defending for argument's sake a position in which he did not believe. L'art pour Van in discussions was by...
Page 179 - If there was anything in heredity and reincarnation he was the greatest tracker and hunter in that old primeval world, where such skill ranked first among human qualities.