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They we down South, in Alabama Bill Driscoll and Sam when the kidnapping came to them. -
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There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called Summit it contained inhabitants of as undeketerious and self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole. -
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About 2 miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense cedar brake, On the rear elevation of this mountain was a cave. -
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They selected for their victim the only child of a prominent citizen name Ebenezer Dorset. The boy was ten, with bas-relief fleckles, and hair the colour of the cover of the magazine you buy at the news-stand when you want to cath a train. They thought Ebenezer would melt down for a ransom of 2 thousand dollars. -
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One evening after sundown, they drove past old Dorset's house. The kid was in the street, throwing rocks at a kitten on the opposite fence. Bill ask the little boy if he wantes a bag of candy and a nice ride. The boy catches bill neatly in the eye with a pieace of brick. -
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That boy put up a fight like a welter-weighted cinnamon bear ;but at last, they got him down in the buggy and drove away. They took him up to the cave. -
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That boy seemed to be having the time of his life. The fun of camping out in a cave had made him forget that he was a captive himself. Then they had supper he made a during-dinner speech. -
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The boy was watching a pot of boiling coffee, with two buzzard tailfeathers struck in his head. He points a stick at Sam when he comes up and says "Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Cheif, the terror of the plains?" -
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Sam ask Red Cheif if he would like to go home ARed Cheif says what for? he doesn't have any fun at home, he hates school and he likes to camp out. -
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That nite Sam went up on the peak of the little mountain and ran his eye over the contiguous vicinity. He expected to see the sturdy yeomanry of the village armed with scythes and pitchforks beating the countryside for the dastardly kidnappers. But what he sat was a peaceful landscape dotted with one man ploughing with a dun mule. -
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Sam and Bill write a letter Ebenezer telling him the terms they want for return of his son. The only thing they demand was fifteen hundred dollars in large bills for the return of his son. Ebenezer recives the letter and replys back he thinks their demands are a little bit to hig. They will pay him two hundred and fifty dollars in cash and he agree to take Red cheif of their hands. -
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It was 12 o'clock when they knocked at Ebenezer's front door. Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand. When the kid found out they were going to to leave him he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg. His father peeled away gradually. then in ten minutes they were gone,