Book Excerpt: ...enture had not much benefited his fortunes. Like Corporal Trim in his campaigns, he had "satisfied the sentiment," and that was all. In fact, he was too much of the frank, freehearted soldier, and had inherited too much of his father's temperament, to make a scheming trapper, or a thrifty bargainer.There was something in the whole appearance of the captain that prepossessed me in his favor. He was of the middle size, well made and...