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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 10: An Up-Country District
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I can lead one, my black boy can ride another and lead the third.

It is likely enough some of the horses may give out, or get speared if the blacks make a fight of it, and half a dozen spare horses would come in very handy." Reuben thought the plan was a good one, whereupon two of the others also volunteered to ride over and fetch--the one three and the other two--horses.
"That will make ten altogether, with Blount's two.

We shall travel all the faster, because we can ride the spare horses by turns." The three settlers rode off at once, and returned late at night with the spare horses.

They had not been idle at Mr.Blount's.

A bullock had been killed and cut up, and a considerable portion cooked, so that each of the twenty men going on the expedition would start with ten pounds of cooked meat, in order to save the time that would be spent in halting to cook the carcass of any sheep they might come upon.


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