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He approached the tent, and was about to sever two of
its folds, with the very obvious intention of examining, more closely,
into the nature of its contents, when the man who had once already
placed his life in jeopardy, seized him by the arm, and with a rude
exercise of his strength threw him from the spot he had selected as
the one most convenient for his object.
"It's an honest regulation, friend," the fellow, drily observed,
though with an eye that threatened volumes, "and sometimes it is a
safe one, which says, mind your own business."
"Men seldom bring any thing to be concealed into these deserts,"
returned the old man, as if willing, and yet a little ignorant how to
apologize for the liberty he had been about to take, "and I had hoped
no offence, in examining your comforts."
"They seldom bring themselves, I reckon; though this has the look of
an old country, to my eye it seems not to be overly peopled."
"The land is as aged as the rest of the works of the Lord, I believe;
but you say true, concerning its inhabitants.


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