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Title: The life and adventures of Daniel Boone, the first settler of Kentucky : interspersed with incidents in the early annals of the country
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Pioneers Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: New York : International Book Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ot dare to touchthem off, if you had them. We expect reinforce-ments, too, and in numbers to give a short accountof the murdering cowards that follow you. Even ifyou could batter down our pickets, I, for one, holdyour people in too much contempt to discharge riflesat them. Should you see cause to enter our fort, Ihave been roasting a great number of hickoryswitches, with which we mean to whip your nakedcut-throats out of the country. Simon, apparently little edified or flattered by thisspeech, wished him some of his hardest curses; andaffecting to deplore the obstinacy and infatuation ofthe garrison, the ambassador of ruffled shirt and sol-dier coat withdrew. The besieged gave a good ac-count of every one, who came near enough to take afair shot. But before morning they decamped,marching direct to the Blue Licks, where they ob-tained very different success, and a most signal andbloody triumph. We shall there again meet DanielBoone, in his accustomed traits of heroism and mag-nanimity.
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LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE. 121 CHAPTER VIII. B:>one being attacked by two Indians near the Blue Licks, kTJs themboth—Is afterwards taken prisoner and marched to Old Chillicoths—Is adopted by the Indians—Indian ceremonies. We return to the subject of our memoir, fromtthich the reader may imagine we have wanderedtoo long. He had already conducted the defenceof Boonesborough, during two Indian sieges. Thegeneral estimate of his activity, vigilance, courage,and enterprise, was constantly rising. By the Indi-ans he was regarded as the most formidable and in-telligent captain of the Long-knife; and by thtsettlers and immigrants as a disinterested and heroicpatriarch of the infant settlements. He often sup-plied destitute families gratuitously with game.He performed the duties of surveyor and spy, gen-erally as a volunteer, and without compensation.When immigrant families were approaching thecountry, he often went out to meet them and con-duct them to the settlements. Such, in general,we

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