James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier: The Pioneers as History

Chapter 3:

 [The View from Mount Vision] As the sleigh approaches Templeton, Oliver 

Edwards insists that the carcass of the deer belongs to him, and refuses to sell it to Judge Temple. 

From Mount Vision they look down on the ice-covered Lake Otsego, with the bustling but 

unkempt new village at its foot. The village is described, as is the ugly roof of the Mansion 

House, Judge Temple's home, designed and built by Hiram Doolittle and Richard Jones.  

Chapter 4:

 [The Quarry] The party meets another sleigh coming to meet them, driven by 

Richard Jones and carrying the Rev. Mr. Grant, Monsieur Le Quoi, and Major Fritz Hartmann. 

The only place to turn this sleigh around is at a quarry. Jones almost runs the sleigh over a 

precipice, and is rescued by Oliver Edwards. Judge Temple hints to Agamemnon that he should 

not tell Jones about the unfortunate shooting of the deer (and of Edwards), reminding him that 

Santa Claus is expected with gifts, but Jones worms the story out of Aggy anyway.