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"Many; many and infallible. Now, the animals that are carnivorous are
known by their incisores."
"Their what?" demanded the trapper.
"The teeth with which nature has furnished them for defence, and in
order to tear their food. Again--"
"Look you then for the teeth of this creatur'," interrupted the
trapper, who was bent on convincing a man who had presumed to enter
into competition with himself, in matters pertaining to the wilds, of
gross ignorance; "turn the piece round and find your inside-overs."
The Doctor complied, and of course without success; though he profited
by the occasion to take another fruitless glance at the wrinkled hide.
"Well, friend, do you find the things you need, before you can
pronounce the creatur' a duck or a salmon?"
"I apprehend the entire animal is not here?"
"You may well say as much," cried Paul, who was now compelled to pause
from pure repletion; "I will answer for some pounds of the fellow,
weighed by the truest steel-yards west of the Alleghanies.


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