id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 04-pioneers_026-1793 James Fenimore Cooper 04-pioneers_026-1793 1793 .txt text/plain 3535 121 65 We would not wish to mislead our readers in their conceptions of any of our characters, and we therefore feel it necessary to add that the adjective, in the preceding agnomen of Mr. Van der School, was used in direct reference to its substantive. Mr. Van der School was a well-educated man, but of slow comprehension, who had imbibed a wariness in his speeches and actions, from having suffered by his collisions with his more mercurial and apt brethren who had laid the foundations of their practice in the Eastern courts, and who had sucked in shrewdness with their mother's milk. cache/04-pioneers_026-1793.txt txt/04-pioneers_026-1793.txt