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Could rotary levers be substituted for two of
the limbs, agreeably to the improvement in my new order of
phalangacrura, which might be rendered into the vernacular as lever-
legged, there would be a delightful perfection and harmony in the
construction. But, as the quadruped is now formed, I call it a mere
vagary of nature; no other than a vagary."
"Harkee, stranger! in Kentucky we are but small dealers in
dictionaries. Vagary is as hard a word to turn into English as
quadruped."
"A quadruped is an animal with four legs--a beast."
"A beast! Do you then reckon that Ishmael Bush travels with a beast
caged in that wagon?"
"I know it, and lend me your ear--not literally, friend," observing
Paul to start and look surprised, "but figuratively, through its
functions, and you shall hear. I have already made known that, in
virtue of a compactum, I journey with the aforesaid Ishmael Bush; but
though I am bound to perform certain duties while the journey lasts,
there is no condition which says that the said journey shall be
sempiternum, or eternal.


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