The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, Volumes 1-2
The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, Volumes 1-2
James Fenimore Cooper
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" Run, Billy ," he cried, " to the village, and bring up the rum-hogshead that lies before the door, in which I am making vinegar in cold weather, and r>e quick, boy, don't stay to empty the vinegar ; arid stop at Mr. Le Quoi's, and buy a paper of to- bacco and half-a-dozen pipes ; and ask Remarkable for some salt, and one of her flannel petticoats : and ask Dr. Todd to send his lancet, and to come himself ; and ha ! 'duke, what are you about 5 Digitized by V^iOOQlC 80 THE PIONEERS. would you s...trangle a man who is full of water, by giving him rum ! Help me to open this hand, that 1 may pat it." All this time Benjamin sat, with his muscles fixed, his mouth shut, and his hands clenching the rushes, which he had seized in the confusion of the moment, and which, as he held fast, like a true seaman, had been the means of preventing his body from rising again to the surface. His eyes, how- ever, were open, and stared wildly on the group about the fire, while his lungs were playing like a blacksmith's bellows, as if to compensate them- selves for the minute of inaction to which they had been subjected.
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