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Chapter 12

           Averysummaryprocesscompletedthesimplecookery,whenheandtheMohicanscommencedtheirhumblemeal,withthesilenceandcharacteristicdiligenceofmenwhoateinordertoenablethemselvestoenduregreatandunremittingtoil.

           Whenthisnecessary,and,happily,gratefuldutyhadbeenperformed,eachoftheforestersstoopedandtookalongandpartingdraughtatthatsolitaryandsilentspring,aroundwhichanditssisterfountains,withinfiftyyears,thewealth,beauty,andtalentsofahemisphereweretoassembleinthrongs,inpursuitofhealthandpleasure.ThenHawkeyeannouncedhisdeterminationtoproceed.Thesistersresumedtheirsaddles;DuncanandDavidgraspedtheirrifles,andfollowedontheirfootsteps;thescoutleadingtheadvance,andtheMohicansbringinguptherear.Thewholepartymovedswiftlythroughthenarrowpath,towardsthenorth,leavingthehealingwaterstomingleunheededwiththeadjacentbrook,andthebodiesofthedeadtofesterontheneighboringmount,withouttheritesofsepulture;afatebuttoocommontothewarriorsofthewoodstoexciteeithercommiserationorcomment.

           

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