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JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY
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"It is more like a deer stalking through the bushes, Galbraith."
"No," exclaimed the sergeant, "that's the gallop of a horse making down the road ahead of us, as sure as you are alive; I heard the shoe strike a stone. You must have hearn it, too."
MAJOR BUTLER AND HORSESHOE ROBINSON
Reproduction of vignette on title-page of original edition of
"Horseshoe Robinson"
"I would n't be sure," answered Butler.
"Look to your pistols, major, and prime afresh."
"We seem to have ridden a great way," said Butler, as he concluded the inspection of his pistols and now held one of
