Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 63: what you’re looking at

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NEGRO PROWESS. _ «5 ketch ’em all an’ fro’ ’em ober de ribber, so dey can’t git back. No hurt dey; ’tall.” ; “ Why will you say such things, Dave? You would run at the first sight of an Indian, and you know you would.” “One Injin ; course I'd run from one Infin. Wat's de use ob fi’tin’ one Injin. But wud I run from free, four, hundred ? No, I guess not. Ketch ’em by de ha’r and fro’ ’em into de ribber; dat’s what I do wid dem.” . “ Le’s us go out,-missee,” said Tom. ‘“ Spec’ I’s jist spilin’ fur sumfin to do. I ketch dem Injins. and fro’ ’em to Little Dave and he fro’ ’em into de ribber. Jes’ mek’ fourteen fro’s ; do it in fourteen seconds.” “Tom, you are as bad as Dave.” “ What I done now, Miss Maggie ?” tat “ You tell such whoppers; you are afraid of Indians.” “J ain’t,” said Tom, promptly. “ Lick a hull tribe. Scorn to lick less dan a tribe.” . . “That’s another, Tom.” ; “No ’tain’t; you stop slandering of me all de time. I kin do it ebery time.” ra Tell you what I dows one day, Miss Maggie,” put in little Dave, who neyer missed an opportunity fora lie. “T was goin’ down froo’ de woods affer de cows, long down by de falls—you know de place. Brudder Sam caught a fish ddr dat weighed most two t’ousand pounds; awful fish, dat, now min’ I tells you. Wal, w’en I got dar’ I seen seventy- five Injins drivin’ our cows away. Miss Maggie, I walked into dem Injins an’ piled’em up on one anudder, an’ put a big rock on top ob dem, an’ far as I know, dey’s dar’ still.” This proclivity of the two blacks for telling tremendous storigs of their prowess was a source of much sport to Maggie, who, finding it impossible to check it, as any thing like doubt of the truth of their statements was sure to elicit.a still more tremendous yarn, suffered them to run on till they were out of breath. The old lady came in before nightfall, and told them why she had visited the savages. They were braves of her own nation, and had accompanied the two avho had brought the _ message from Jaques Chattillon. They reported an immense gathering of troops in the Montreal district, with the avowed comicbooks.com