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The Spirit of the Border

CHAPTER III
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Simon Girty's bad enough; but Jim's the wust.
He's now wusser'n a full-blooded Delaware.

He's all the time on the lookout to capture white wimen to take to his Injun teepee.

Simon Girty and his pals, McKee and Elliott, deserted from that thar fort right afore yer eyes.

They're now livin' among the redskins down Fort Henry way, raisin' as much hell fer the settlers as they kin." "Is Fort Henry near the Indian towns ?" asked Joe.
"There's Delawares, Shawnees and Hurons all along the Ohio below Fort Henry." "Where is the Moravian Mission located ?" "Why, lad, the Village of Peace, as the Injuns call it, is right in the midst of that Injun country.

I 'spect it's a matter of a hundred miles below and cross-country a little from Fort Henry." "The fort must be an important point, is it not ?" "Wal, I guess so.


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