The Pathfinder

By: Fenimore Cooper, James

Book Excerpt: ...r creature at his side; but she soon turned with a look of surprise to her relative, and said hesitatingly, for both had often admired the Tuscarora's knowledge, or, we might almost say, instinct, --"A pale-face's fire Surely, uncle, he cannot know _that_?""Ten days since, child, I would have sworn to it; but now I hardly know what to believe. May I take the liberty of asking, Arrowhead, why you fancy that smoke, now, a pale-face's smoke, and not a red-skin's?""Wet wood," returned the warrior, with the calmness with which the pedagogue might point out an arithmetical demonstration to his puzzled pupil. "Much wet -- much smoke; much water -- black smoke.""But, begging your pardon, Master Arrowhead, the smoke is not black, nor is there much of it. To my eye, now, it is as light and fanciful a smoke as ever rose from a captain's tea-kettle, when nothing was left to make the fire but a few chips from the dunnage.""Too much water," returned Arrowhead, with a slight nod of the head; "Tuscar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KH2LCRB
• ISBN13: 9798678636683
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"