A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance

Charles Montgomery Skinner was an American writer, editor, dramatic and art critic, mostly known as a collector and rewriter of North American folklore. 

How many terrible deeds are doing because of revenge! "A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance" is about it. About a mile back from the Hudson, at Coxsackie, in little cabin lives a hunter Nick Wolsey with his dog. Once, during the visits an Indian camp in the wilderness, Nick Wolsey beholds the girl of the tribe and becomes captivated by her engaging manners and beauty. The hunter marries her, but free and happy life is prevented by the surly fellow who has loved the girl and who came to the marriage was humiliated and expelled out of the ceremony. Now the fellow only wants the revenge…

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