Beadle's Dime Novels No. 153: Mohawk Nat — page 49: what you’re looking at

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A TEMPTING OFFER. 51 “T need such a man as you—one skillful in woodcraft, who will shrink from no danger and who goes to a battle as to- a feast. I have been studying you this last halfhour, or I should not have borne with youso long. Together, we could do any thing we chose in Canada. Will you join me?” “I don’t think I understand what road yer a-drivin’.”, “ Renounce the service in which you are engaged. My’ sovereign is a man who never promises but he pays. Thatis the man for you. I know your king as well. He is an un- der-bred Dutchman, fitted by nature more for a swine-herd than for ruling so great a nation as the English ; a small- hearted, close-fisted man, full of mean contrivances, of petty schemes, of villainous deeds; a man who always has his hand upon his pocket, fearful that some one will steal from him. How can you serve such a king ?” '* You don’t let him up very easy, do you, Mister Fox ?” said the scout. “He does not deserve it. He is the curse of your nation and mine, a grasping, avaricious dolt. This country is ours. It is” “Hold your hosses a minute! Whose kentry is this ?” “The people of France are the rightful inheritors of this fair domain. The French claim it and will have it.” “ When you get it, as the grapes said to the fox; but drive on ag’in; I want to hear all you have got to say agin’ that Dutchman, the king of England.” “ Nothing good can be said of him. He is a person in- capable of governing justly and too low-minded to appreciate either his own subjects or the people of other nations. But, let that pass, It is enough that you are a colonist, and you know how poorly colonists are treated by this German money-getter. You have not eyen the satisfaction of being treated as servants worthy of your hire. Why not serve a sovereign who recog- nizes personal merit and pays red gold for every service ren- dered ?” “ What would I do in his service ?” “You Know the country like a book. I doubt if there ist & water-course or lake within three hundred miles which you have not explored. You would be of the highest value to us, and we could afford to pay you well. I make you the . comiclbooks.conn