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The Pathfinder

James Fenimore Cooper

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1840
Pages
Pages 450

Lake Ontario, wilderness on every shore, and a schooner driving before a gale toward the rocks while the finest rifle shot on the frontier stands on her deck with nothing useful to do. Water is the one country Natty Bumppo cannot read, and Cooper puts him out on it, then does something crueller still: he lets him fall in love.

Don't speak to me, Mabel,—don't speak to me, Jasper,—let me go my way in peace, and like a man.
The Pathfinder, James Fenimore Cooper

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