The Leather Stocking Tales Author:James Fenimore Cooper General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Social... more » Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XI. Compel the hawke to ait that is umnann'd, Or make the hound, untaught, to draw the deere, Or bring the free against his will in band, Or move the sad a pleasant tale to heere, Your time is lost, and you no whit the neere ! So love ne learnes, of force the heart to knit: She serves but those that feel sweet fancies' fit. Thomas Sackviliji: Mirrourfor Magistrates. It is not often that hope is rewarded by fruition as completely as the wishes of the young men of the garrison were met by the state of the weather on the succeeding day. It may be no more than the ordinary waywardness of man, but the Americans are a little accustomed to taking pride in things that the means of intelligent comparisons would probably show were, in reality, of a very inferior quality, while they overlook or undervalue advantages that place them certainly on a level with, if not above, most of their fellow-creatures. Among the latter is the climate, which, as a whole, though far from perfect, is infinitely more agreeable, and quite as healthy as those of most of the countries which are loudest in their denunciations of it. The heats of summer were little felt at Oswego, at the period of which we are writing; for the shade of the forest, added to the refreshing breezes from the lake, so far reduc...« less