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Herewith is $_____for___issues of CLASSICS Illustrated as circled below: 12 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 15 17 19 2 23 mH % BF 2 2 3 32 34 42 46 «47 48 50 S152 5587 RRA SOT «O86? 70-72-75 7H 7 78 79 8 82 83 85 8 $1 9% §7 98 99 100 101 103 104 105 108 V2 NS 16 1912012 “122-29 1241251287 12Be«P«1390«13) ABB 193134 135 136 137138139 140 4k 142143144145 KBAT 1481S Name. 3 Z (Please print) Adress©) 7) J" THE SUMMER OF 1757, FRANCE AND ENGLAND WERE IN a THE MIDST OF A WAR FOR POSSESSION OF NORTH AMERIOA. AN THIS FIERCE STRUGGLE KNOWN AS THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR, MANY INDIANS WERE ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH. THEY WERE OF DIFFERENT TRIGES, BUT THE COMMON NAME FOR THEM WAS MINGO, | a THE OTHER EASTERN TRIBES EITHER SIDED WITH THE BRITISH. | OF WERE NEUTRAL. BUT ONE TRIBE HAD BEEN $0 BADLY ISPOSSESSED BY THE FIRST EUROPEAN SETTLERS THAT IT HADIALL _ BUT DISAPPEARED. THIS WAS THE TRIBE OF THE MOHICANS. ©ULASSIUS Silica (ranted T WAS THE THRO YEAR | { WHY ARE We WE HAVE REPORTS THAT GENERAL OF THE WAR, AT ThE MOVING, SiR? MONTCALM AND THE FRENCH ARE BRITISH GARRISON, FORT MARCHING ON FORT WILLIAM HENRY. EDWARD, NEAR LAKE COLONEL MUNRO, ITS COMMANDER, GEORGE IN UPSTATE NEW : NEEDS REINFORCEMENTS. ARE YOU NO, I HAVE ANOTHER] MARCHING | | DUTY TO PERFORM. WITH US, fb THAT'S THE MAJOR'S HORSE OVER |( HE MUST BE ESCORTING THE THERE, SADOLED AND WAITING. || TWO DAUGHTERS OF COLONEL BUT THE OTHER TWO ARE FITTED)! MUNRO SOMEWHERE. I'VE ‘OUT FOR LADIES, z= WATCHED HIM, AND I CAN . e SEE THAT HE'S INTERESTED IN THE FAIR-HAIREO (LZ 5 ONE, ALICE.‘THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. 3 THERE THEY ARE--AND |,( 1 AM A PSALM-SINGER, DEDICATED PRETTIER GIRLS YOU'LL fa) TO THE WORK OF THE LORD, THE NEVER SEE, EH, BEAUTY OF WOMEN DOES NOT DAVID GAMUT? INTEREST ME. BUT IF THEY ARE GOING ARE SUCH SPECTRES ff] HE IS A RUNNER OF THE ARMY FREQUENT IN THE AND HAS VOLUNTEERED TO WOODS, DUNCAN? MM GUIDE US TO FORT WILLIAM Peg HENRY BY A PATH BUT PAST THEM TO LEAD THE Way. ¥ WOULD WE }f OUR ENEMIES WILL NOT BE [J SURELY BE SKIRTING SAFER WITH | ff THE DETACHMENT, THE TROOPS? WHOSE ROUTE IS KNOWN. WE CAN Pass UNOBSERVED ON A PATH WHICH IS SECRET AND REACH THE FORT BEFORE THEM.‘ CLASSICS arated UST THEN THE SOUND OF HOOFS [A FEW HOUENTS THe FreURE OF Dag CAUSED THE PARTY TO HALT. GAMUT CAME (NTO VIEW. af SEEK YOU SOF ANYONE HERE? x4 “Ap A ieee WHO CAN BE BR FOLLOWING US? J% I HEAR YOU ARE RIDING TO FORT WILLIAM HENRY, AS T AM JOURNEYING THERE MYSELF, T CONCLUDED IT WOULD BE AGREEABLE TO HAVE GOOD COMPANY. THROW ASIDE THAT FROWN, DUNCAN, AND PERMIT HiM TO JOURNEY IN_OUR TRAIN. HE MAY BE A FRIEND ADDED TO OUR STRENGTH iN TIME OF NEED. ARBITRARY {| DECISION DJYUCAN SIGNALLED DAViD TO FALL INTO LINE, AND THETHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS MY PEOPLE, THE MOHICANS, [fT AM WILLING TO ADMIT, /V THAT SAME DAY, q@ WERE HAPPY, HAWKEYE, UNTIL fi} CHINGACHGOOK, THAT MY WOT FAR AWAY, aj THE PALE~FACES CAME. THEN, PEOPLE HAVE MANY os i TWO MEN WERE |< FOOT BY FOOT, WE WERE LINGERING BY A DRIVEN BACK FROM SMALL STREAM, DEEP iv DISCUSSION. MY TRIBE IS THE GRANDFATHER OF NATIONS. THE BLOOD OF CHIEFS IS IN MY VEINS, BUT ALL OF MY FAMILY HAS GONE TO THE LAND OF THE SPIRITS. I, TOO, MUST ONE DAY GO, AND WHEN UNCAS FOLLOWS, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE ANY OF THIS BLOOD, FOR MY SON IS THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. DO'THE MINGOES | { I HAVE BEEN ON THEIR DARE COME INTO || TRAIL, THEY LIE HIDDEN | | FOR SCALPS AND PLUNDER, THESE WOODS? } LIKE COWARDS. 00 YOU HEAR ANYTHING ?, WAYS OF WHICH I WHITE MEN ARE ‘COMING. HAWKEYE, THEY ARE YOUR BROTHERS. SPEAK TO THEM.‘AN INDIAN LosT }{ HE IS ADOPTED BY IN THE WOODS/ |] THAT TRIBE, BUT "TIS STRANGE. }| I THINK BY BIRTH THOSE WHO SEEK HE IS A MINGO, FORT WILLIAM HENRY, BUT OUR GUIDE HAS THEY ARE A THIEVISH RACE. Pi BAND OF THEM IS ABROAD TONIGHT IN SEARCH OF SCALPS, AS I THINK YOUR GUIDE KNOWS.)THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 7 DON'T FOLLOW BUT WHAT IS TO HIM, FOR HE BE DONE? DESERT WOULD LEAD ME NOT. REMAIN YOU WITHIN TO DEFEND THOSE ‘SWING OF THE I ESCORT. TOMAHAWKS OF HIS COMRADES. IT WOULD NOT BE THE ACT OF MEN TO LEAVE SUCH HELPLESS CREATURES AS THESE LADIES TO ‘THEIR FATE. THESE MOHICANS AND I WILL DO WHAT WE. CAN TO KEEP THEM FROM HARM. TO TRAVEL TO THE FORT NOW THAT NIGHT iS FALLING IS DANGEROUS, BUT I KNOW A PLACE WHERE WE MAY LIE UNTIL MORNING. EAVING THEIR HORSES, THE PARTY FOLLOWED HAWKEYE TO THE HUDSON RIVER, WHERE A CANOE WAS CONCEALED THE SCOUT, THEY STARTED ON A PERILOUS AT THE FOOT OF GLENN'S FALLS, NEAR THE BANK, IN THE SKILLFUL HANDS OF JOON THE CANOE SHOT INTO AN EDDY AND FLOATED QUIETLY AT THE FOOT OF A FLAT ROCK. GO ON THE ROCK. I WILL GO BACK FOR THE MOHICANS,FALLS ON TWO Si ‘AND THE Ri ‘ AND BELOW. U THAT NEED EK FOR SLEEP, T BE AFOOT HE IS A FEARLESS SLEEP WITH Mf LOOKING YOUTH. I SUCH A THINK HE WILL BE SENTINEL? A BRAVE AND CONSTANT FRIEND.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 9 UL PAYING THE SISTERS IN THE CAVERN WITH DAV, [1 SHOOTING STOPPED AS SUDDENLY. THE OTHERS CREPT OUT AND FIRED FROM gy AS IT HAD BEGUN, @ HAVE We ‘A MINGO IS NOT SO Wy REPULSED [MB EASILY BEATEN BACK BE WITHOUT A SCALP. RISKY DEVILS HAVE SWUM ACROSS TO OUR ISLAND.CLASSICS Slee foetnd INDIANS SPRANG FROM COVER AND Pprureres rire pouren ut irs l. Fala THE SOUNDED TOWARDS THEM. “ATAL CONTENTS AND - FOREMOST INDIAN FELL DEAD. CHINGACHGOOK, KEEP US COVERED. JN UNCAS, TAKE THE LAST OF THE : SCREECHING IMPS. WE'LL TAKE THE OTHER TWO. dj SIGANTIC MINGO LEAPED AT HAWKEYE. Ponca a mare, Der xenTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANSTHAT WAS THE LAST WA;| CHARGE IN MY POWDER Z| HORN. UNCAS, LAD, GO DOWN TO THE CANOE AND BRING UP THE BIG HORN. [ie WHOLE PARTY RUSHED TO [. THE ROCK JUST iN TIME TO SEE THEIR CANOE BEING LATE/ HE'S GUIDED INTO THE CURRENT BY MADE OFF" AN AOVENTUROUS MINGO. WITH THETHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS is NOTHING, T FEAR, EXCEPT PREPARE TO DIE. WE ARE g AT THEIR MERCY, BUT YOU MEN HAVE THE STRENGTH TO SAVE YOURSELVES. THE RIVER COULD SWEEP YOU BEYOND THEIR REACH. IT IS BETTER FOR A Wf BUT BY LEAVING fp MAN TO DIE AT PEACE Jf NOW YOU MAY BE WITH HIMSELF THAN Jf ABLE TO AID US TO LIVE WITH AN fq LATER, IN THE EVIL CONSCIENCE. Iggy EVENT THAT WE “a oi zp) ARE NOT KILLED, pg, BUT ARE TAKEN Ct CAPTIVE. BUT SHOULD WE DIE, CARRY TO COLONEL MUNRO THE LOVE AND FINAL PRAYERS OF HIS DAUGHTERS. YOU HAVE COURAGE, AND WHAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN 3 IS WISE. WE WILL GO. =IS 1T NOT TIME FOR YOU TO FOLLOW? CLASSICS HtécsAraetoct GO, GENEROUS YOUNG MAN. 'T IS_MY WISH, 'TIS MY PRAYER DAVID CANNOT swim, BUT YOU, DUNCAN, ARE SKILLFUL IN THE WATER. SAVE YOURSELF. 'EEING THAT NOTHING WOULD CHANGE HIS MIND, THEY ALL RETURNED TO THE CAVERN. YOUR WORDS ARE WASTED,THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Tie SLAMOR invicaTED. THEN THE INDIANS RUSHED THAT THE MINGOES WERE AWAY TO ANOTHER PART CARRYING ON A WILD SEARCH FOR THE FUGITIVES. FOR SOME TIME ALL yas QUIET. THEN, A FRIGHTFUL TUMILT AROSE. THEY ARE JUST OUTSIDE? ‘ALICE'S WORDS DIED UPON HER TONGUE AS SHE GAZED IN HORROR iE RE, FRAMED IN THE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE CAVERN. OPENING, WAS THE EVIL FACE OF MAGUA, THEIR TREACHEROUS‘SHOUT BROUGHT THE REST CLASSICS Stésdrcaled S RESISTANCE WAS USELESS, THE. CAPTIVES WAITED WHILE THE MINGOES DELIBERATED THEIR FATE. Te BAND OF INDIANS DIVIDED. MOST OF THEM DEPARTED, LEAVING THE PRISONERS IN THE CARE OF A FEW MINGOES LED [é LED THEM DEEP INTO 'ORA APPROACHED THE FOREST. WHEN THEY MAGUA WOULD BE REWARDED WELL IF HE WOULD RETURN TO MUNRO HIS DAUGHTERS, THE INDIAN, STOPPED TO REST ‘ ' MAGUA DOES NOT WANT MONEY. GO, TELL THE DARK-HAIRED] ONE I WOULD HAVE ‘WORDS WITH HER.FOUGHT WITH THE BRITISH, HE DRANK. FIRE-WATER ANO| BECAME DRUNK. MUNRO THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS NOW MAGUA HOLDS THE MONSTER! ONLY DAUGHTERS OF MUNRO, TO | | A FIEND WOULD. KILL, IF HE PLEASES. BUT | | THINK OF SUCH MAGUA WISHES GREATER VENGEANCE / REVENGE. HE WISHES THE DARK-HAIRED DAUGHTER OF MUNRO TO LIVE FOREVER IN HIS WIGWAM, wine THe pauenrer OF MUNRO LIKE TO SEE HER SISTER OIE?18 CLASSICS Slestrated TT GUT, SOME OF THE RINGLETS FROM HER HAIR. MADDENED BY THE SIGHT, DUNCAN TORE HIMSELF FREE. [E RUSHED UPON A MINGO| | JP HE INDIAN SLIPPED FROM WHO.WAS ABOUT TO HIS HOLD, FORCED HIM REPEAT. THE BLOW. BACKWAROS. AND LIFTEDTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS THE, STARTLED MINGOES LOOKED TH, CONTEST WAS UPTO SEE HAWKEYE AND ax HAND TO HAND. THE TWO MOHICANS. ‘A od « eo ~ Se Ne s es é SOON ALt THE MINGOES WERE Stam EXCEPT | | JHE MEN HASTENED TO RELEASE THE fie" |.” FOR MAGUA, WHO, AGILE AS A CAT, LEAPED SISTERS AND DAVID. ‘ SWVIO A THICKET AND DISAPPEARED.T# PARTY LOST NO Ta FOR THIS I THANK THEE, LORD! THE WOODS ARE TIME IN MAKING JTS I LET DANGER COME AS IT'WiLL, | | FULL OF FRENCH THY SERVANT iS NOW PREPARED.] | AND INDIANS, SIR. CAN THE FORT HOLD OUT MUCH LONGER? I TRUST YOU HAVE COME TO TREAT FOR THE SURRENDER OF THE FORT. THIS PROTRACTED SIEGE IS BEGINNING TO IRRITATE MY FRIENDS HERE. IT 15 HARD TO RESTRAIN [i OFFER LIBERAL TERMS. YOU AND YOUR GARRISON MAY LEAVE IN SAFETY AND HONOR, THEIR ANGER. MAGUAT HE HAS FOUND ) HIS_ WAY TO OUR ENEMIES! I MUST ACCEPT YOUR TERMS, MONSIEUR DEWTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS a OWING MORNING, THE SILENT BRITISH I MUST RIDE WITH THE ARMY MARCHED FROM THE FORT. TROOPS. BUT DAVID, HERE, WILL LOOK AFTER YOU.GIRLS STOOD, HORROR-S) WATCHING THE MASSACRE. THIS IS NOT A FITTING PLACE TO TARRY, LET NUPSUA CAUGHT uP THE FAINTING FORM OF ALICE) MOVED SWIFTLY AWAY. HOLD, WRETCH! WHAT 1S_IT YOU DO? som i Meus LED THE WAY TOA THICKET WHERE TWO HORSES WAITED. MOTIONING CORA TO MOUNT, HE PERMITTED HER TO HOLD HER SISTER. THEM, SEIZING THE BRIDLE, HE PLUNGED DEEP INTO THE FOREST, STILL FOLLOWED BY THE PSALM-SINGER.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Bs TREE DAYS LATER, FIVE MY CHILOREN/ [Aaa WE WILL TRY TO FIND > * MEN WERE SEEN SEARCHING H GIVE ME MY f| THEM, COLONEL MUNRO, AMONG THE DEAD THAT + CHILDRENS is 4 LITTERED THE SILENT FOREST. = , g D{ SHINING BAUBLE OVER IT |S THE VEIL OF (S] But WHAT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF, THE DARK-HAIRED ONE. OF ALICE? HER, UNLESS THAT THERE SHOULD IT 1S A TRINKET yas Wt WHAT HAVE YOU _ AM I SEE THE BOOT OF THE SHE HAD ON ei FOUND NOW, UNGAS? [iW SINGING MASTER, AND WHEN LAST I gh] THE MOCCASIN OF MAGUA/} ae Ja d & a ;PAWKEYE LED THEM TO THE NEARBY SHORE OF LAKE GEORGE, WHERE A CANOE WAS HIDDEN. TAKING THEIR PLACES, THEY BEGAN TO PADDLE NORTHWARD. THEY CAME ASHORE NEAR ,! WE SHOULD PICK THE NORTHERN END ‘UP THEIR TRAIL 4 ABOUT HERE. T AFTER A DELIBERATE SEARCH... HERE/ SEE, THE p DARK-HAIRED ONE q THERE Is NOT A SIGN.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 25 TT HE PARTY ADVANCED RAPIDLY. SOON... 16% PRESSED AHEAD. ? ‘SUDDEMLY. feet] YONDER IS OPEN SKY THROUGH = KA n THE TREE TOPS. WE ARE GETTING H NIGH AN ENCAMPMENT x EM OF MINGO! zs by THE IMP IS NOT A MINGO. CAN \ My hf t= appears To Have Viz WiLL CREEP IN YOU SEE WHERE HE HAS PUT NO ARMS, NOR OOES || BEHIND HIM AND HIS RIFLE OR HIS BOW? gy | | HE SEEM'viciousLY | TAKE HIM ALIVE oven 7 . INCLINED. p— ~WUT INSTEAD OF GRASPING HIM BY THE THROAT, HE TAPPED HIM LIGHTLY ON THE SHOULDER. “HOW NOW, DAVID 10 PM | 4 CALL BROUGHT. THE OTHERS. GAMUT? RIGHT E = i WHAT Hl@Become. I GLAD ARE WE - 4 | OF MY TERS? IK THEY ARE CAPTIVES AND, CORA 1S WITH A NEIGHBORING PEOPLE WHOSE LODGES ARE BEYOND YONDER THOUGH TROUBLED IN f-~ . SPIRIT, ARE WELL BLACK ROCK. ALICE IS DETAINED AMONG tN BODY. THE WOMEN OF THE MINGOES, WHOSE B7| | DWELLINGS ARE BUT TWO SHORT MILES HENCE,THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS =F a = E THEY ARE DELAWARES. THE MOHICANS ARE OF THE HIGH BLOOD OF THE_DELAWARES, AND GREAT CHIEFS.YET IT 1S A DANGEROUS PATH WE MOVE IN, FOR A FRIEND WHOSE FACE 1S TURNED FROM YOU OFTEN BEARS ‘A BLOODY MINO. TWILL PASS MYSELF OFF AS_A WANDERING FRENCH OF US WILL TRY TO MEDICINE MAN, AND TRY TO THINK HOW BEST TO EFFECT ALICE'S RESCUE, ELEASE CORA. DIETHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 'ANO DAVID SET OUT AND SOON WE WILL HEAD FOR THE LODGE YONDER WHERE THE COUNCILS 57% ARE HELD. THE CHIEFS WILL pat WANT TO QUESTION YoU. TAM A MAN WHO KNOWS THE ARTS OF HEALING. THE GREAT FRENCH FATHER SENDS ME TO YOU TO SEE IF ANY ARE SICK ina nh TUST THEN, A SHRILL YELL CAME FROM (Ti NOUNS GLi0ED FROM THE LODGE, [S| THE FOREST, ANNOUNCING THE RETURN FOLLOWED BY DAVID AND DUNCAN. OF A SUCCESSFUL WAR PARTY.Al GAUNTLET WAS BEING PREPARED FOR, A TALL AND ERECT WARRIOR WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT IN AS. PRISONER. 30 CLASSICS iisraled Ni Bees AME DARTED FOR THE WOODS, BUT SEEING HIS WAY BLOCKED, HE TURNED AND RAN TO A SMALL, PAINTED POST WHICH STOOD BEFORE THE COUNGIL LODGE. [BUT HS CAPTORS DROVE HIM BACK. [Z| z ey. 77-7 a WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Ir AI T POST I$ PROTECT! 2 [PD untic THe counci. was “3 o MET AND DECIDED HS E 4 ) FAN - 9B aTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS [DUNCAN WENT CLOSE TO THE PRISONER, UNCAS! THE OTHERS ARE SAFE. GO, WE MUST BE STRANGERS NOW. ; + od s Cs iy See A WE CHIEF LED THE WAY TOWARDS THE BASE OF rARBY MOUNT DARK FORM TAIN. SUDDENLY, A DARK ‘PATH. A BEAR! T HAVE HEARD THIS ANIMAL IS OFTEN DOMESTICATED BY THE INDIANS. eee , tae FIND HER, HE RETURNED TO THE COUNCIL. LODGE. SOON. COME WITH ME, MEDICINE MAN. T WISH YOU TO’ FRIGHTEN AWAY THE EVIL SPIRIT WHO LIVES IN MY! DAUGHTER, [HE BEAR GROWLED AT DUNCAN: 5ELS, AND OR “LAD(iE) ENTERED A ROOM WHICH WAS ONE OF MANY IN THE CAVE. NOW LET MY BROTHER SHOW HIS POWER. I GO, Dpenean rou HIMSELF ALONE WITH THE I ge THE ANIMAL'S HEAD FELL TO ‘SICK WOMAN AND THE FIERCE BEAR. ‘ ONE SIDE. HOW CAN T BEST xy PROTECT MYSELF. IF HE ait — T_ SAW UNCAS LED INTO AMBUSH, SO T ‘A_RAP ON THE HEAD STARTED TO HIS AID. AS LUCK WOULD HAVE ‘STIFFENED HIM FOR IT, T MET A CONJURER OF THE TRIBE IN THE] Flees A TIME, AND I MADE ACT OF DRESSING HIMSELF IN THIS } FREE WITH HiS FINERY. BEARSKINTHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS BUT TELL ME, Bammq I DO NOT KNOW, Jim THERE ARE OTHER CHAMBERS | WHERE IS THE PRM ALTHOUGH I HAVE HERE. LET US SEPARATE AND GENTLE ONE? LOOKED IN EVERY Ba be SEARCH THEM, LODGE OF agi THE VILLAGE. WOULD NEVER DESERT ME af DEAREST ALICE, \ MY HEART IS DUNCAN! T i KNEW YOU iy : 334 CLASSICS Atdus¢ratoct ([Jraruen, puncan oRew ALICE TO HIM AND WAITED FOR HIS DEATH. MINGO, BO YOUR WORST. YOU AND YOUR VENGEANCE ARE JUICKLY, DUNCAN HELPED HAWKEVE OVERPOWER AND TIE UP THE INDIAN. A T THAT MOMENT, THE BY, INSTEAD OF LEAVING, BEAR APPEARED. THE BEAR SUDDENLY ENCLOSED MAGUA IN A GO PLAY WITH THE MIGHTY GRASP. CHILDREN. LEAVE MEN. TO THEIR WISDOM. Tvl, Leavis BY THE HIDDEN ENTRANCE MAGUA HAD USED, THEY LED ALICETHE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 35 Wien tHer were sare. 2 HAWENE MADE HIS WaY BACK TO A SMALL HUT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE VILLAGE, one Sa pe FOLLOW THIS PATH TO THE = i eg \ é i / NEVER FEAR, IT IS HAWKEYE. / CAN YOU PUT ME ON THE yA a —~ SCENT OF UNCAS? n DARK MONSTER, LISTEN » Ps 70 THs IsPiRED SONG IR xo AND REPENT. . . | Nn[THE YOUNG MAN IS IN BONDAGE IN A LODGE T FEAR HIS DEATH IS DECREED. v SIX WARRIORS GUARD HIM, BUT T DO NOT THINK THEY WILL STOP US, AS THEY ALLOW ME TO COME AND GO AT WILL. (18x SOON ENTERED THE LODGE WHERE UNCAS Lay BOUND. \4 T'S _HAWKEYE, LAD. WE MUST ‘SPEED AWAY FROM HERE AS SOON AS I THINK WHAT TO DO WITH THE MINGOES AT THE DOOR. a YOU CHANGE CLOTHES WITH ME AND PLAY THE PART OF UNCAS? SINCE THE MINGOES THINK YOU ARE OUT OF.YOUR HEAD, THEY PROBABLY WON'T HARM YOU. [UNcAS, PUT ON THE BEARSKIN. DAVID, WILL [ UNCAS HAS BATTLED BRAVELY IN MY.BEHALF, AND I WILL DARE THIS IN’ HIS SERVICE,THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 7 [iE CHANGE WAS QUICKLY MADE, (EVE AND UNCAS LEFT THE HUT AND WALKED TOWAROS THE WOODS. | tre INTO THE LODGE ay Paes sre | eee ee RN : Ee T WTA) bee og All THE LOOGE, THE ENRAGED INDIANS WERE ABOUT TO STRIKE DAVID, A BURST OF iS SONG FROM HIM REMINDED THEM OF Hi PResnws ovr, THe. p THE VILLAGE. VE INDIANS. GATHERED IN THE ! 1S MAGUA HE WENT TO THE CAVE WHERE COUNCIL. LODGE TO AWAIT NOT HERE? ) \\| THE SICK ONE LIES, AND DID INSTRUCTION FROM THEIR CHIEFS. NOT RETURN.CLASSICS Slot rcaect WW armiors were senr 10 Te cave wHeRE | [ AN Evi SPIRIT BLINDED) THEY UNTIED MAGUA ANO BROUGHT HIM OUR EYES AND THEY BACK 70 THE LOOGE. WHERE PRISONERS? LET THEM DIE! THEY MAY HAVE GONE To THE) | pf/acua SET OUT WITH SOME WARRIORS, AND SOON [yall DELAWARES, WHO HOLO THE REACHED THE DELAWARE CAMP. DARK-HAIRED ONE FOR ME = MAGUA WILL GO AND CLAIM. MAGUA IS WELCOME. ST WHAT IS HIS. WHAT DOES HE WISH? MY YOUNG MEN HAVE DREAMED THEY SAW DID MY BROTHER IT WOULD NOT 00, THE TRAIL OF PALE-FACES NIGH THE BEAT OUT THE DOGS? } | THE STRANGER 15 VILLAGE OF THE DELAWARES. ALWAYS WELCOME,THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 3 THE PALE-FACES ARE MY PRISONERS. T COME FOR ‘MY OWN/ JUSTICE 1S THE Law OF THE DELAWARES. TAKE YOUR PRISONERS AND DEPART. \ORA, ALIGE, DUNCAN AND HAWKEYE WERE BROUGHT OUT. CORA RUSHED TO THE FEET OF THE DELAWARE CHEF. HAVE MERCY. THERE 1S ONE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHO HAS NOT APPEARED BEFORE YOU. BEFORE YOU LET THE MINGO DEPART IN ‘TRIUMPH, HEAR HIM SPEAK. WITH WHAT TONGUE LIKE HIS FATHERS, JES THE PRISONER WITH THE TONGUE > a “SPEAKS. I HAVE SEEN THE TRIBES OF THE DELAWARES SCATTERED LIKE BROKEN HEROS OF DEER BY THE PALE-FACES. AND NOW HERE 1S A DELAWARE WHO IS LIKE A DOG40 CLASSICS Silustrated WWE DELAWARES SPRANG SAVAGELY AT UNCAS) THE TORTOISE! ONE TORE HIS SHIRT FROM HIS BODY. THIS 1S & GREAT RE CHIEF EVEN SO, MY RACE: IS THE GRANDFATHER OF NATIONS, THE TRIBE FROM WHOM YOU ARE DESCENDED. UNCAS, THE SON OF CHINGACHGOOK. THE BLOOD OF THE TURTLE HAS BEEN IN MANY | | THAT YOU ARE FOUND TO CHIEFS, BUT ALL HAVE GONE BACK INTO THE | | FILL MY PLACE AT THER EARTH FROM WHENCE THEY CAME EXCEPT ‘COUNCIL-FIRE, CHINGACHGOOK AND UNCAS.‘THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS MY SON, DOES THE MINGO AND THE TALL)(HE LAUGHS SPEAK THE TRUTH? HAS HE A CONQUEROR'S RIGHT OVER ¥ HE HAS NONE. A SNARE WAS SET FOR ME, BUT I ESCAPED. AND THE WOMAN THAT THE MINGO LEFT WITH m MY WARRIORS? SHE 1S MINE/ MOHICAN, YOU KNOW THAT SHE IS MINE. WHAT OF THE STRANGER AND THE WHITE MAIDEN THAT = CAME. INTO MY CAMP TOGETHER?MINGO, DEPART WITH YOUR PRISONER CLASSICS Atuetratoct INABLE TO INTERFERE WITH STRICT TRIBAL LAWS OF HOSPITALITY, UNCAS WATCHED ANGRILY. MINGO, LOOK AT THE SUN. WHEN IT IS SEEN ABOVE THE TREES, THERE WILL BE MEN ON YOUR TRAIL. Orcas Kerr tis Eves ON CORA UNTIL. SHE WAS OUT OF SIGHT. THEN HE WENT INTO A LODGE, [HE YOUNG WARRIORS OF THE DELAWARES FOLLOWED HIM IN HIS. WAR DANCE.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS "HEN THE SUN WAS SEEN ABOVE THE TREES, A THERE 1S SUCH HOWLING IN THE “OUNGIL WAS HELD. AT THAT MOMENT MINGO CAMP THAT T FLED, MAGUA iS THIS A MINGO WHO DARES APPROACH ? HAS LEFT THE MAIDEN IN THE CAVE, AND HAS PUT HIMSELF AT THE HEAD OF HIS SAVAGES. NO, IT iS OUR OLD FRIEND, DAVID GAMUT. WHAT SAYS ar one H/{ GIVE ME TWENTY MEN. DUNCAN AND [2 ff) T WILL GO TO THE RIGHT ALONG THE a STREAM. CHINGACHGOOK AND. MUNRO SSF Lc CONCEALED THERE AND CAN ae : = JOIN US. i UNCAS, YOU FRONT. THEN WE a0 not) NU ut Hh or g I iat ald £44 CLASSICS Hlbastrated We PARTIES SET OUT. BEFORE LONG, fea) IST THEN, CHINGAGHGOOK AND MUNRO HAWKEYES BAND WAS ATTACKED 8) APPEAREL SOME MINGOES. TAKE COMMAN |S THEY ADVANCED, THEY SAW MAGUA WITH FAWKEYE, OUNCAN AND DAVID TWO OF HIS WARRIORS. FOLLOWED AS RAPDLY AS IS THAT UNCAS WHO RUSHES SO FEARLESSLY AFTER THE MINGO? gad | HELP HIM AND FIND h : HIMSELF ALONETHE LAST OF Pre FO LOWED The moves THROUGH THE CAVE AND OUT THE SECRET PASSAGE) A THEY HAVE CORA KILL ME IF YOU WILL. AND ARE ORAGGING T WILL GO NO FURTHER HER WITH THEMCLASSICS tls trardoad INCAS FELL PROSTRATE ON THE LEDGE AND MAGUA BURIED HIS KNIFE I HIS BACK. UT UNCAS ROSE, AND WITH HIS LAST BIT OF STRENGTH, STRUCK DOWN CORA'S ‘MURDERER. |S UNCAS DIED, HAWKEYE, DUNCAN AND GAMUT APPEARED ON THE LEDGE ABOVE. WITH A STONE, DAVID SLEW THE OTHER MINGO. ([Mh450a ATTEMPTED TO LEAP TO SAFETY. HAWKEYE BAISED HIS RIFLE, 17 POURED. QUT ITS CONTENTS AND MAGUA FELL LIFELESS OVER THE PRECIPICE.THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 4? NEXT DAY FOUND THE DELAWARES A FEAR NOTHING, NOBLE MAIDEN. NATION OF MOURNERS. DELAWARE GIRLS THE GREAT WARRIOR, UNCAS, STREWED FLOWERS ON THE GRAVE OF THE WILL BE AT YOUR SIDE ON WGH-SOULED AND COURAGEOUS CORA. YOUR TRIP TO THE GREAT ne SPIRIT. HE WILL PROTECT YOU FROM EVERY DANGER THE GRIEVING MUNRO, ALICE, DUNCAN AND DAVID RODE OFF TOWARDS THE POSTS OF Tie BRITISH ARMY, LEAVING HAWIEYE! AND HE WAS GOOD, HE WAS: BRAVE. THE GREAT SPIRIT HAD NEED OF SUCH A WARRIOR AND HAS CALLED HIM AWAY. HE HAS LEFT US, THE LAST WARRIOR OF THE WISE RACE OF ‘THE MOHICANS.JAMES FENIMORE COOPER [AMES FENIMORE COOPER was the first American novel- ist to achieve world wide fame. ~ He was the son of William ‘Cooper, who was descended from English Quakers. During the American Revolution and shortly after, William Cooper and a partner bought up the rights to a grant of land on Otsego Lake in central New York State. After an autumn visit to survey the lonely new area, Cooper started to sell the land early in 1786, He was so successful that many settlers came before the snow had melted. After several years of traveling back and forth between his New Jersey home and the wilderness, he decided to settle permanent- ly in Cooperstown, his new village. ‘The youngest child in the family, James, was a little over a year old. He was born in Burlington, New Jersey on September 15, 1789. Many years later, James Cooper added Fenimore to his name. It was his mother’s maiden name, In 1803, James Cooper went to Yale. He remained there for three years. Then he went to sea for five years, first as a common sailor, then as a midshipman. In 1811, he married Susan Augusta De Lancey. Cooper's first novel, Precaution, was published in New York City. It was about English so- " ciety life, and was a complete failure. Cooper's friends urged him to change the set- ting of his books from an English locale to his native American scene. This advice was followed and the result was The Spy, which met with imme- diate public acclaim, = + Having found the right background for his books, Cooper went to work and wrote The Pioneers. This was the first of five nov- els in which Leatherstocking, alfo called Natty Bumppo or Hawkeye, appears. These novels are sometimes referred to as’ the Leatherstocking tales. In addition to The Pioneers there are The Last of the Mohi- cans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer. Cooper once defined Leather- stocking as “a philosopher of the wilderness, simple-minded, faithful, utterly without fear and yet prudent.” James Fenimore Cooper died in 1851, Six months after his death, a public meeting was held in New York. Among those pres- ent were Daniel Webster, William Cullen Bryant and Washington Irving. They had» gathered to pay their respects to the mem- ory of James Fenimore Cooper, the first great American novelist.SUBSCRIBE NOW! TODAY! 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