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They tell me that skins are well kept
in the new fashion; but it is long since I have left off killing more
than I need for food and garments. I was an eye-witness, myself, of
the manner in which the Siouxes broke into your encampment, and drove
off the cattle; stripping the poor man you call Ishmael of his
smallest hoofs, counting even the cloven feet."
"Asinus excepted," muttered the Doctor, who by this time was
discussing his portion of the hump, in utter forgetfulness of all its
scientific attributes. "Asinus domesticus Americanus excepted."
"I am glad to hear that so many of them are saved, though I know not
the value of the animals you name; which is nothing uncommon, seeing
how long it is that I have been out of the settlements. But can you
tell me, friend, what the traveller carries under the white cloth, he
guards with teeth as sharp as a wolf that quarrels for the carcass the
hunter has left?"
"You've heard of it!" exclaimed the other, dropping the morsel he was
conveying to his mouth in manifest surprise.


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