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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 285

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Cora and Alice, the heroines of thestory, Major Duncan Heyward, betrothed to Alice, andDavid Gamut, a psalm-singing music-teacher. Magua,chief of the Huron allies, had seen the beautiful Coraand wished her for his squaw. In order to capture her,he incited his savage followers to break the truce… … T; >HE hostile armies, which lay inthe wilds of the Horican, passedthe night of the 9th of August,1757, much in the manner they wouldhad they encountered on the fairestfields of Europe. While the conqueredwere still, sullen, and dejected, thevictors triumphed. But there arelimits alike to grief…

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