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This paper was written for my tenth grade English class, in response to an assignment to write a short story parodying the style of J.F. Cooper (author of The Leatherstocking Tales, including The Last of the Mohicans). I wanted to publish this here last summer when I re-read The Last of the Mohicans (and laughed right through it, remembering writing this), but I realized I'd accidentally deleted it from my computer. I found the hard copy with my teacher's comments in a box today and almost squealed out loud, I was so excited!

If you're not familiar with his work, Cooper's style is complicated to the point of near-unintelligibility by his use of passive verbs, sobriquets, names for inanimate objects (especially weapons; I believe Natty Bumppo's rifle is referred to as "Killdeer"), ridiculous situational escalations, exaggerated word choice (people don't walk, they "bound"; weapons aren't thrown, they "quit someone's hand"), and frequent moralizing.

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( Although Jake was cognizant of the fact that physical altercations inside the structure which had been constructed for the purpose of learning would meet with a severe castigation, when the final affront tumbled from Ned's oral cavity, he was forced to issue a physical rejoinder. )