Cooper's Novels The Wing-and-Wing Author:James Fenimore Cooper Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Here come my uncle and the Tascarora, and our parties can now join." As Mabel concluded, Cap ar.d Arrowhead, who saw that the conference was amicable, drew ... more »nigh, and a few words sufficed to let them know as much as the girl herself had learned from the strangers. As soon as this was done, th; party proceeded towards the two who still remained near the tire. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER II. Yea! long u nature's hninbleit child Hath kept her temple undefiled By simple sacrifice. Earth's fairest scenes are all his own, He is a monarch and his throne b built anild the des ! WlLSoM. The Mohican continued to eat, though the second white man rose, and courteously took off his cap to Mabel Dunham. He was young, healthful, and manly in appearance; and he wore a dress, which, while it was less rigidly professional than that of the uncle, also denoted one accustomed to the water. In that age real seamen were a class entirely apart from the rest of mankind ; their ideas, ordinary language, and attire, heing as strongly indicative of their calling, as the opinions, speech, and drees of a Turk denote a Mussulman. Although the Pathfinder was scarcely in the prime of life, Mabel had met him with a steadiness that may have been the consequence of having braced her nerves for the interview ; but, when her eyes encountered those of the young man at the fire, they fell before the gaze of admiration with which she saw, or fancied she saw, he greeted her. Each, in truth, felt that interest in the other, which similarity of age, condition, mutual comeliness, and their novel situation, would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous. " Here," said Pathfinder, with an honest smile bestowed on Mabel, " are the friends your worthy father has sent to meet you. This is a great Delaware;...« less