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Indulging in a small laugh, which his
exertions to repress reduced nearly to a simper, he took the indicated
seat by the old man's side, and made the customary dispositions to
commence his meal without further ceremony.
"I should be ashamed of my profession," he said, swallowing a morsel
of the hump with evident delight, slily endeavouring at the same time
to distinguish the peculiarities of the singed and defaced skin, "I
ought to be ashamed of my profession, were there beast, or bird, on
the continent of America, that I could not tell by some one of the
many evidences which science has enlisted in her cause. This--then--
the food is nutritious and savoury--a mouthful of your corn, friend,
if you please?"
Paul, who continued eating with increasing industry, looking askaunt
not unlike a dog when engaged in the same agreeable pursuit, threw him
his pouch, without deeming it at all necessary to suspend his own
labours.
"You were saying, friend, that you have many ways of telling the
creatur'?"--observed the attentive trapper.


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