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"A brave fellow he was" exclaimed a third.
"We shall never see a braver," added a fourth.
And the Indians looked more serious word scratched out than ever, but were tearless and in the expression of their eyes triumphant.
"Cock a doodle do" was uttered from some invisible quarter -- all stood aghast.
"Cock a doodle do" was uttered more loudly and shrilly than before.
The soldiers started & stared in each other's faces --
"Cock-a-doodle do!"--was repeated a third time, and lo, upon a stump overtopping? some bushes, sprang up Shoe-Boots in the midst of the troops, flapping his arms like a rooster.
"Me crow like cock" cried he "but no chicken heart me, and me crow long time yet" --- Cock-a-doodle do! " ---
And they unclear the old warrior off, with shouts of triumph & exultation.
But now we must turn back to an earlier part of the history of Shoe Boots, which has already been touched unclear when the difficulties on the Kentucky border were adjusted. sentence scratched out.
3 words scratched out, as one of the results Shoe-Boots was called upon from Kentucky for his unclear lady captive. Old George