The Tiger-Slayer
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Excerpt from The Tiger-Slayer: A Romance of the Forest and Prairie America, its distant shores bocame the refuge and rendezvous of adventurers of every description, whose daring genius, stifled by the trammels of the old European civilisation, sought fresh scope for action. ne asked frbm the New World liberty of conscience the right fpraying to God in their own fashion Bothers, breaking their sword blades to convert them into daggers, assassinated entire nations to rob their p.M enrich themselves witii their spoils; others, lastly, men of indomi perament, with lions hearts contained in bodies of iron, recognising ndie, accepting no laws, and confounding liberty with license, formed, almost unconsciously, that formidable association of the Brethren of the Coast, which for a season n: tremble f-r her possessions, and with Louis XII., the King-Sun, did not disdain to treat. Tlu deMvndunts of 1 ;and whenever any revolnt -after a short struggle, the I of the population. grandsons of the great ad fachieving inip 1 in their turn under the leadership of heroes. At the period when we were in :wri -:i cham-r allowed us to witneos of the boldest cronreived and carried out by these daring adv;i!ur for Some months it occupied the press, and aroused the curiosity and sympathy of the whole world. Reason?, which our readers will doubtless appreciate, have I to altei the oai of the persons who played the principal parts drama, though to the utmost exactness as regards the facts. About ten years back the discovery of the rod suddenly the adventurous instincts off ;nd int-l men, who, leaving country and family. rushd. In; the new Eldorado, where the with misery and death, after suffer!. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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