id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 01-deerslayer_027-1740 James Fenimore Cooper 01-deerslayer_027-1740 1740 .txt text/plain 7603 256 66 There were several who might claim the distinction of being chief men, but the two in question were so much superior to all the rest in influence, that, when they agreed, no one disputed their mandates, and when they were divided the band hesitated, like men who had lost their governing principle of action. With a view to render their triumph as signal as possible, in the event of the hour's passing without the reappearance of the hunter, all the warriors and scouts of the party had been called in, and the whole band, men, women and children, was now assembled at this single point, to be a witness of the expected scene. cache/01-deerslayer_027-1740.txt txt/01-deerslayer_027-1740.txt