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Haven't I often had the girl crying--"
"You are an acquaintance, then, of Nelly's?"
"The devil a bit. But I know woman is woman; and all the books in
Kentucky couldn't make Ellen Wade go into a tent alone with a ravenous
beast!"
"It seems to me," the trapper calmly observed, "that there is
something dark and hidden in this matter. I am a witness that the
traveller likes none to look into the tent, and I have a proof more
sure than what either of you can lay claim to, that the wagon does not
carry the cage of a beast. Here is Hector, come of a breed with noses
as true and faithful as a hand that is all-powerful has made any of
their kind, and had there been a beast in the place, the hound would
long since have told it to his master."
"Do you pretend to oppose a dog to a man! brutality to learning!
instinct to reason!" exclaimed the Doctor in some heat. "In what
manner, pray, can a hound distinguish the habits, species, or even the
genus of an animal, like reasoning, learned, scientific, triumphant
man!"
"In what manner!" coolly repeated the veteran woodsman.


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