Scouting Dave

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Bowen James. Scouting Dave

CHAPTER I. DAVID BARRING

CHAPTER II. THE HINTON FAMILY AND THEIR FATE

CHAPTER III. THE RENEGADE

CHAPTER IV. MARKLEY

CHAPTER V. THE WAGON TUSSLE AND THE TRAIL HUNTERS

CHAPTER VII. THE CAPTIVE

CHAPTER VIII. AFFAIRS AT THE VILLAGE

CHAPTER IX. A TASTE OF THE STICKS

CHAPTER X. THE INVINCIBLE VINCIBLE

CHAPTER XI. WILD BILL TRIES AN EXPERIMENT

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Eight years before the opening of our story, Elisha Hinton, removing from his New England home, with his wife and three children, had located in the western land of promise. Being frugal and industrious, a few years found the happy family comfortably settled, surrounded by all the abundant blessings conferred by the productive soil and the ancient forest.

But to them, as all others, bitter was mixed with the sweet. The pet of the family – little Ella – the youngest daughter, sickened. All the medical skill of the region round about was resorted to, but in vain. Day by day she wasted away, becoming paler and thinner, until it was fully apparent to the sorrowing friends that she could not long survive. And, while they hung grief-stricken about her couch, she clasped those little transparent hands, murmured fondly of the bright home above, and passed away.

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Despite her terrible surroundings, it was but a brief time that Emily remained insensible. The faint light of the moon, in concert with the glare of flames, rendered objects quite distinct, and the poor girl at once saw that she was a close prisoner.

She looked up at her captors. Nothing could she gather from those grim, exultant guards. To her entreaties they gave not even the slightest heed, scarce removing their gaze from the wild scene of the burning cabin. A dull pain at her ankles caused her to look down. A deeper pang went to her sensitive heart as she saw that her limbs were securely bound with thongs of dried deerskin. This, indeed, seemed to unloose the fountain of her tears, and, bowing her head upon her hands, she gave way to violent and heart-breaking sobs.

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