Beastly habits or no
beastly habits, the creatur's are to be seen cropping the prairies by
tens of thousands, and the piece in your hand is the core of as juicy
a buffaloe-hump as stomach need crave!"
"My aged companion," said Obed, struggling to keep down a rising
irascibility, that he conceived would ill comport with the dignity of
his character, "your system is erroneous, from the premises to the
conclusion; and your classification so faulty, as utterly to confound
the distinctions of science. The buffaloe is not gifted with a hump at
all; nor is his flesh savoury and wholesome, as I must acknowledge it
would seem the subject before us may well be characterised--"
"There I'm dead against you, and clearly with the trapper,"
interrupted Paul Hover. "The man who denies that buffaloe beef is
good, should scorn to eat it!"[*]
[*] It is scarcely necessary to tell the reader, that the animal so
often alluded to in this book, and which is vulgarly called the
buffaloe, is in truth the bison; hence so many contretemps
between the men of the prairies and the men of science.
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