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Nick of the Woods

CHAPTER XXXIV
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And we'll lick 'em over and over again, till they've had enough of it." "Hurrah for Kentucky!" cried the young man, exerting his remaining strength to give energy to the cry, so often uplifted, in succeeding years, among the wild woodlands around.

It was the last effort of his sinking powers.

He fell back, pressed his father's and his brother's hands, and almost immediately expired,--a victim not so much of his wounds, which were not in themselves necessarily fatal, nor perhaps even dangerous, had they been attended to, as of the heroic efforts, so overpowering and destructive in his disabled condition, which he had made to repair his father's fault; for such he evidently esteemed the dismissing the travellers from the Station without sufficient guides and protection..


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