The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

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I Is the jpoor felltow atually, expended?" said
thte.Enrigtistihman in) sometin' titke ttl ttones of iregret; " well, e had a soltlil.r's metal in hin at nd
w)s nearly as great 1 1101t as myself!"
Thlle marines had, lttck;ily t the soldiers and'teir cal)tatin, by this t imtte discove'red the signs t
lifet in their m it wn commt ander, who had h)een only v)
slightly stunnet by the bullet which ihad grazedt' hi'i;
cro\wnt antd who being'assist:edt e ont hbis. tfeet, stoodt a
minute or two tru.bbing his h(e-:tad, ats fi:awalikI:ing i froti:
a ireat. As Manual caitne gradtuatll to hbis senses
he recolilet/ted tlhe busines-.i in whic.fh le tlad ijutst
ben el...do an d:l in his:turn in(uIired after the
fate. of hlis antat01onist.
" I am helre, my worthy ineoglito,> cried tht-e
othter with the voicet of perfect good nature; " yingt i the tap of mother Einarth, and all th'e bettett'br opetning a vein i o t'wo in m)ly right leg;. t}loughi
Ido think thatt hte same efifeet mighlit have bee:.
r rotduced without t're-ating the bone sto routghly) |
Bjut I: opl)ine that I saw y)tou also retliting on tblc
}bosom of outr co0 mmt aitto CtncesttL*StOrt', )
" I was down fibr at t vw minutes, I te betlie ve,'
ret.urned Manual; " there is the ptath of a bultlet
acrtoss myi scatp ))"
u It )lnph on the head > staid Ilorrou:ltflifte,
dryly; " th}e h:urtt is not likely to he nt1o)0al t I s:'ee..-..; Wetl I tshaltl o ffr o raffle Nwith the first }o)or
devil I can find that — as but onet good l eg, ifor wIollt
shall have both; and that will lust set up a beg:.gar
anda gentfeman!......Manual, give' me your tand;
we have drank trogetr, ttnt: d we havte V foughtgt;
sturelyv there is nottthingt now to prevent: ou0t beitgl
sworn fi'iends!"
" Why," ret Iur ned Manual, continuint to rub Ihis
leat{, {tf I see no irtremioveable.ob'jections...........tt you
rwill want a stlr' tt'ti can I o'rder any thingti to be