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Grace Harlowe’s Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers

CHAPTER IV
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Watch yourself, Grace.

That affair last night disturbs me not a little, because it is an indication of what you folks may have to contend with up here.

The Kentucky mountaineer is not a gentle animal.

He is a man of almost primitive instincts, and the worst of him is that he doesn't come out in the open to settle a grudge, but, as a rule, settles it from ambush." "You forget, Tom dear, that we girls are not tenderfeet, that we are seasoned veterans of the world war and that the whistle of a bullet is not a new nor a particularly terrifying sound to us.

I hope you will not worry about us.


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