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The Last of the Mohicans, Ed. by W.r. Wickes
The Last of the Mohicans Ed by Wr Wickes Author:James Fenimore Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V " In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew; And saw the lion's shadow ere himself." -- Merchant Of Venice. The suddenness of the flight of his guide, and the wild cries of the pursuers, caused Heyward to remain fixed, for a few moments, in inactive surprise. Then recollecting the importance of securing the fugitive, he dashed aside the surrounding bushes, and pressed eagerly forward to lend his aid in the chase. Before he had, however, proceeded a hundred yards, he met the three foresters already returning from their unsuccessful pursuit. " Why so soon disheartened?" he exclaimed ; " the scoundrel must be concealed behind some of these trees, and may yet be secured. We are not safe while he goes at large." " Would you set a cloud to chase the wind ?" returned the disappointed scout; " I heard the imp brushing over the dry leaves, like a black snake, and blinking a glimpse of him, just over ag'in yon big pine, I pulled as it might be on the scent; but 'twouldn't do ! and yet for a reasoning aim, if anybody but myself had touched the trigger, I should call it a quick sight; and I may be accounted to have experience in these matters, and one who ought to know. Look at this sumach ; its leaves are red, though everybody knows the fruit is in the yellow blossom in the month of July ! " " 'Tis the blood of Le Subtil! he is hurt, and may yet fall! " "No, no," returned the scout, in decided disapprobation of this opinion, " I rubbed the bark off a limb, perhaps, but the creature leaped the longer for it. A rifle bullet acts on a running animal, when it barks him, much the same ...« less