Hurry Harry spoke pretty plainly of the whole
family, as we journeyed this-a-way, and he did hint something
consarning Thomas Hutter's having been a free-liver on the water,
in his younger days. By free-liver, I mean that he made free to
live on other men's goods."
"He told you he was a pirate - there is no need of mincing matters
between friends. Read that, Deerslayer, and you will see that he
told you no more than the truth. This Thomas Hovey was the Thomas
Hutter you knew, as is seen by these letters."
As Judith spoke, with a flushed cheek and eyes dazzling with
the brilliancy of excitement, she held the newspaper towards her
companion, pointing to the proclamation of a Colonial Governor,
already mentioned.
"Bless you, Judith!" answered the other laughing, "you might as
well ask me to print that - or, for that matter to write it. My
edication has been altogether in the woods; the only book I read,
or care about reading, is the one which God has opened afore all
his creatur's in the noble forests, broad lakes, rolling rivers,
blue skies, and the winds and tempests, and sunshine, and other
glorious marvels of the land! This book I can read, and I find it
full of wisdom and knowledge.
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