id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 02-mohicans_014-1757 James Fenimore Cooper 02-mohicans_014-1757 1757 .txt text/plain 4247 129 64 Hawkeye dropped the breech of his rifle to the earth, and drawing a long, free breath, exclaimed, in an audible whisper: Ay! they respect the dead, and it has this time saved their own lives, and, it may be, the lives of better men too. While the eyes of the sisters were endeavoring to catch glimpses through the trees, of the flood of golden glory which formed a glittering halo around the sun, tinging here and there with ruby streaks, or bordering with narrow edgings of shining yellow, a mass of clouds that lay piled at no great distance above the western hills, Hawkeye turned suddenly and pointing upward toward the gorgeous heavens, he spoke: Yonder is the signal given to man to seek his food and natural rest, he said; better and wiser would it be, if he could understand the signs of nature, and take a lesson from the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field! cache/02-mohicans_014-1757.txt txt/02-mohicans_014-1757.txt