The Riflemen of the Miami

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Ellis Edward Sylvester. The Riflemen of the Miami

CHAPTER I. THE RESCUE

CHAPTER II. THE SETTLERS

CHAPTER III. THE RIFLEMEN OF THE MIAMI

CHAPTER IV. THE PASSAGE OF THE CREEK

CHAPTER V. APPREHENSION

CHAPTER VI. A HUNTER'S WOOING

CHAPTER VII. THE COUNTRYMAN

CHAPTER VIII. THE FLIGHT

CHAPTER IX. THE RIFLEMAN AND HURON ON THE TRAIL

CHAPTER X. THE PURSUIT OF THE PURSUERS

CHAPTER XI. AT BAY

CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION

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The incident narrated in the preceding chapter occurred one autumn, many years ago. In the spring succeeding this autumn, a company of settlers, with their loaded teams, and unwieldy baggage, were making their slow way through the labyrinths of an Ohio forest to a sparse settlement buried many miles further in the wilderness.

At that day, so comparatively recent, such a sight was rarely witnessed in this section, as a deep-rooted hostility existed between the settlers and Indians, and an undertaking like the present was attended with too great danger for it to be often repeated. The rut of a single wagon, half obliterated by accumulated leaves and rankly-growing grass, showed that this route had been traveled over but once before, and that on the preceding season. At regular intervals, trees were passed with chips hacked from their sides, the track having first been "blazed" before being passed over.

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"Most certainly. There's where the tug of war will come, and I think if we should encamp to-night without a guard there would be no danger of attack from the Shawnees."

"Are you going to warn others?"

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