CHAPTER IX. 
THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY. 
JAMES HARROD OF HARRODSBURG. 
AFTER all the bombast of hero worshipers, it is astonishing 
how little it takes to make a real hero! Like many of those 
important discoveries in mechanics, which have revolutionized 
the wor.d, the combinations are so simple, that whe nmen come 
to realize them, the general exclamation is, ‘Why, pshaw, I 
could have done that myself!’ No doubt such wiseacres 
could have done it themselves, but somehow, they didn’t do 
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