Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 17: what you’re looking at

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YOUNG AMERICA. 19 and muskrat-trappers, like some of the greasy scoundrels whom we used to meet in Missouri.” “His ideas of war must be very raw, if he calls this a war. It is like nothing but a hunt for fleas, and the only difficulty is to find them.” “ Just what I told the fellow. ven then he had the im- pudence to remind me of General Braddock and old St. Clair, as if he wanted to compare me with those foolish and unfor- tunate commanders.” ‘““ He ought to be cashiered, or something should be done to teach him to keep his place. I understand, major, that he has the assurance to lift his eyes toward your daughter!” “You surprise me, Andrew. I have never noticed any thing of the kind. You surely must have beer misinformed.” “Not if I can‘still trust my sight and my hearing, which have never deceived me yet, I am sure that-he does aim as high as I have said, and I have no doubt that he believes he is as likely to hit the mark as any body. I-feel an interest in this subject, major, and I suppose that I notice more than you do.” “Tt must be tooked into. Lhe young fellow must be crazy, for he has neither rank nor money, and he ought to know, as it is generally understood among us all, that I have other and higher views for Fanny.” “T flatter myself that you have, my dear major, and I trust that I shall continue to merit your confidence. As- for the fellow’s being crazy, I think that he is afflicted with a species of lunacy, that is very prevalent in these times. The Climate of the West is particularly favorable to the develop- ment of young America, and young America means a com- pound of impudence, conceit, and superficial acquirement, and boundless ambition. It is a disease, and that young man has it badly. It may spread among the command, and “per- haps it would be well to take steps to stop it, I have known young ladies to be taken with it, and it must be admitted that Bent is a good-looking and quick-witted fellow.” “You don’t mean to say tliat you are afraid of him, my dear boy, but you object to having a scattering fire on your flanks. I am inclined to think, myself, that some measures of precaution are both prudent and proper, and I shall take Ccomicbooks.conn y