Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border LifeThompson, Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce)
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Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life
Thompson, Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Maine -- Fiction; Trappers -- Fiction
We will not attempt to describe, in detail, the lively and bustling scene,
which, for the next hour or two, now ensued in and around the tavern, that
had lately been the unaccustomed theatre of so many new and startling
developments. The running to and fro of the excited and jubilant throng of
men, women, and children, who, in their anxiety to witness and know the
result of the trial, had passed the whole night in the place,--the
partaking of the hastily snatched breakfast, in the tavern, by some, or on
logs or bunches of shingles in the yard, by others, from provisions brought
along with them, from home,--the hurried harnessing of horses and running
out of wagons, preparatory to the departure of those here with the usual
vehicles of travel,--the resounding blows and lumbering sounds of the score
of lusty men who had volunteered to replace and repair the bridge from the
old materials luckily thrown on the bank a short distance down the stream,
so as to permit the departing teams, going in that direction, to pass
safely over,--and, lastly, the bringing out, the placing on his bed of
straw in the bottom of a wagon, and the moving off of the caged lion, with
his cavalcade of guards before and behind,--the fiercely exultant hurrahing
of the execrating crowd, as he disappeared up the road to the west,
together with the crowning, extra loud and triumphant _kuk-kuk-ke-o-ho!_ of
Comical Codman, who had mounted a tall stump for the purpose, and made the
preliminary declaration that, if he was _ever_ to have another crow, it
should be now, on seeing the Devil's unaccountable and first cousin, to say
the least, in relationship, so handsomely cornered, and, at last so
securely put in limbo,--these, all these combined to form a scene as
stirring to the view, as it was replete with moral picturesque to the mind.
But we must content ourself with this meagre outline; another and a
different, quickly succeeding scene in the shifting panorama, now demands
our attention.
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