Beadle's pocket novels No. 61

Mad Anthony's scouts; or, The rangers of Kentucky

A tall, spare specimen of the backwoodsman, who was sitting by a smouldering camp-fire, had arisen and grasped the hand of a genial-faced Irishman, who was also clad in the habiliments of the forest. "I was jist thraveling through the forest, when I spied the shmoke of fire, and says I to meself, says I, 'There's ayther some graan youngster, or a band of haythen, as doesn't care who saas their camp-fire,' and with that, I pokes around in the wood till I spies you cookin' your legs over the blaze, when I knows by the swate expression of[Pg 10] yer countenance, that ye was a gintleman, and, bedad, I finds I was right." "Begorrah, but ye're axin' too much," replied Pat, with a shake of his head. "Niver ye mind the indoocement that I has for taking to the woods. If I may be so bold, what was the same motive that brought yerself here?" It was plain that both of these characters had a secret historya history which each was determined should remain a secret with himself. The short conversation recorded above had been sufficient for this fact to become evident to both, and as if by mutual consent, neither made any further reference to it. It sufficed that they were white, civilized beings, wanderers in a dangerous territory, where neither, for an hour, could be assured of his own safety, and where both lacked the great safeguard of experience. This was enough to make them firm and fast friends at once. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68482
Author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Release Date: Jul 9, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Beadle and Adams,1872
Publication Date: 1872
Publisher Country: United States