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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: with them. An' Jim Girty, with more of his kind, ain't dead yit."
"Why don't some one kill him?" was Joe's sharp question.
"Easier said than done, lad. Jim Girty is a white traitor, but he's a cunnin'
an' fierce redskin in his ways an' life. He knows the woods as a crow does,
an' keeps outer sight 'cept when he's least expected. Then ag'in, he's got
Simon Girty, his brother, an' almost the whole redskin tribe behind him.
Injuns stick close to a white man that has turned ag'inst his own people, an'
Jim Girty hain't ever been ketched. Howsumever, I heard last trip thet he'd
been tryin' some of his tricks round Fort Henry, an' thet Wetzel is on his
trail. Wal, if it's so thet Lew Wetzel is arter him, I wouldn't give a pinch
o' powder fer the white-redskin's chances of a long life."
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