Identifier: throughswampglad00munrrich (find matches)
Title: Through swamp and glade : a tale of the Seminole war
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Such wretches as you area disgrace to manhood! You make me ashamed ofmy color, since it is the same as your own. Did younot hear me give my word to this youth that heshould go in safety? How dared you then evencontemplate this outrage? Perhaps you thoughtthat the word of an Englishman might be defiedwith impunity. From this moment you will knowbetter ; for if any one of you ever dares cross my pathagain, I will shoot him in his tracks as I would anyother noxious beast that curses the earth. Now getyou gone from this spot ere my forbearance is temptedbeyond its strength. Go back to the town, and thereproclaim your iniquity, if you dare. You will findfew sympathizers in your attempt to precipitate anIndian war, and deluge this fair land with blood.Go, and go on foot. Your horses have alreadytaken the road. Go, and if you even dare to lookback until out of my sight, a bullet from this rifleshall spur your lagging pace. And you, FontaineSalano, you brute of brutes, you pariah dog, do you
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THEN WITH A VICIOUS HISS THE RAWHIDE SWEPT DOWN WITH THEFULL FORCE OF THE ARM THAT WIELDED IT. COACOOCHEE IN THE CLUTCHES OF RUFFIANS 59 go with them. Away out of my sight, I say, lest Icause this Indian to flay your bare back with thelashes you intended for him. Whether the four men imagined that they wereconfronted by one bereft of his senses, or whetherthey were indeed the cowards he called them, it isimpossible to say. Certain it is that they receivedthe young mans scathing words in silence, and, whenordered to leave, they took their departure with aprecipitate haste that would have been comical underless tragic circumstances. The stranger followed them to the edge of thewood, and watched them until they disappeared inthe direction of the town. Then he returned towhere Coacoochee, who had not yet seen the face ofhis deliverer, still remained bound to the tree. Aswith a keen-edged knife he cut the thongs confiningthe young Indians arms, and the rope about his neck,thus allowing the

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