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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...from a hazel bush, through which it had just forced its way, the visage of Roaring Ralph Stackpole, its natural ugliness greatly increased by countless scratches and spots of blood, the result of his leap down the ledge of rocks, when first set upon by the Indians, and his eyes squinting daggers and ratsbane, espec ally while he was giving utterance to that gallinaceous slogan with which he was wont to express his appetite for conflict, and with which he now concluded his unceremonious salutation. The voice and visage were alike familiar to Bruce's senses, and neither was so well fitted to excite alarm as merriment. But, on the present occasion, they produced an effect upon the young Regulator's spirits, and through them upon his actions, the,most unfortunate in the world; to understand which it must be recollected that the worthy Kentuckian had, twenty-four hours before, with his own hands, assisted in gibbeting honest Ralph on the beech tree, where, he had every reason to suppose, his lifeless body was hanging at that very moment. His astonishment and horror may therefore he conceived, when, turning in some purturbation at the wel' known voice, he beheld that identical body, the corse of tin executed horse-thief, crawling after him in the grass," winkinp and blinking, and squinting," as he was used afterwards to sa; u as if the devil had him by the pastern." It was a spectar which the nerves of even Tom Bruce could not stand; ft o what armed Indians could not do,--it frightened him out 1 is propriety. Forgetting his situation, his comrades, &, ":"i,--forgetting everything but the fact of his haVS administered the last correction of Lynch-law to the object of his terror, he sprang on his feet, and roaring, "By the etarnal devil, here's Ralph...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150690321
- ISBN 13 9781150690327
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages122
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