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In one of his moments of hilarity, when he felt more than usually conscious of his prowess?, it is said that he was seized with a desire to dance, and requested a bystander to sing for him. The man refused in a manner which irritated Shoe Boots, who was not in a state to select the safest spot for the planting of his blows; and he struck the churlish baffler of his mirth, who died in consequence. Shoe Boots found it the better part of valour to retire from the avenger of blood; and the next, that was word scratched out heard of him, he had been adopted into a northern tribe. unclear war --
The tribe in which Shoe Boots sought refuge, was then at war with a frontier settlement in Kentucky. Shoe Boots distinguished himself in their cause. In one of the skirmishes where his intrepidity was most conspicuous, he took several prisoners from Kentucky, and among them a white girl of eleven, said to have been the natural daughter of Governor Shelby, the Governor of Kentucky. He word scratched out treated her with exemplary kindness and delicacy.
While Shoe Boots was in possession of this captive, the Cherokee nation apprehended word scratched out serious difficulties with the Tennesseans. They deemed it