Wild-cat

Younker and Reynolds, uttering horrid yells, accompanied with kicks and blows; after which, a consultation was held between Girty and Wild-cat, wherein it was agreed to take them to Piqua, a Shawanoe settlement on the Miami, and there have them put to the tortures.

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The separation being now speedily effected, the two parties were quickly lost to each other -- Girty and his band going down the bed of the stream some two hundred yards before touching the bank; and the others, headed by Wild-cat, going up about half that distance.

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"Ugh!" grunted Wild-cat, with that look and gutteral sound peculiar to the Indian.

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Wild-cat seemed to muse on the remarks of Girty, for a moment or two, and then said:

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"But there may be that which will not leave Kitchokema slow to act, in safety," rejoined Wild-cat, significantly.

Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

Taking him along, the savages set forward, on the alert for other game; and presently three of them darted away in chase of a party of whites; and directly after, two others, leaving our hero alone with Wild-cat.

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"Speak out briefly, girl; for yonder stands Wild-cat awaiting me."

Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

Wild-cat and his party, with their prisoners, encamped on the evening the attack was made upon the renegade, as shown in the preceding chapter.

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On looking up, he at once recognized the grim features of Wild-cat, and saw himself in the power of some half a dozen savages.

Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett

Such was the substance of what Wild-cat, in his own peculiar way, now made known to Girty; and having inquired out the location distinctly, the latter exclaimed:

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