"I ain't afeared of him," muttered the borderer.

Even granting the Earl corrupt motives and a prophetic soul, it remains to be explained why he should wish to injure an obscure borderer, whom nobody has ever heard of except in connection with Logan; it would have served the purpose quite as well to have used the equally unknown name of the real offender, Greathouse.

Sevier was then eighteen years old, but nevertheless is portrayed, among other things, as leading "a hundred hardy borderers" into the Indian country, burning their villages and "often defeating bodies of five times his own numbers."

"Art thou sure that this Scottish man is a tall man and true?" "I cannot say, my lord," replied the jealous borderer; "I have ever found the Scots fair and false, but the man's bearing is that of a true man, and I warrant you have noted the manner in which he bears himself as a knight.

"Reckon he'll hev to run the river a spell," returned the borderer.

They were especially anxious for spirits, for they far surpassed even the white borderers in their crazy thirst for strong drink.

Hamilton and his subordinates, both red and white, were engaged in what was essentially an effort to exterminate the borderers.

A hint from Coronado had warned the borderer that here was a person whom it might be necessary some day to get rid of.