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The Young Trailers

CHAPTER VIII
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The Shawnees, whose name was a name of terror to the new settlements, were probably not a mile away.

He felt tremors but they were not tremors of fear.

Courage was an instinctive quality in him.
Nature had put it there, when she fashioned him somewhat in the mold of the primitive man.
"Step lighter than you ever did afore in your life," said Ross, "an' bend low an' follow me.

But don't you let a single twig nor nothin' snap as you pass." He spoke in a sharp, emphatic whisper, and Henry knew that he considered the enemy near.

But there was no need to caution the boy, in whom the primal man was already awakened.


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