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I will, however, gladly profit by your invitation, for I have
fasted since the rising of yesterday's sun, and I know too well the
merits of a bison's bump to reject the food."
"Ah! you ar' acquainted with the dish! Well, therein you have the
advantage of me, in setting out, though I think I may say we could now
start on equal ground. I should be the happiest fellow between
Kentucky and the Rocky Mountains, if I had a snug cabin, near some old
wood that was filled with hollow trees, just such a hump every day as
that for dinner, a load of fresh straw for hives, and little El--"
"Little what?" demanded the stranger, evidently amused with the
communicative and frank disposition of the bee-hunter.
"Something that I shall have one day, and which concerns nobody so
much as myself," returned Paul, picking the flint of his rifle, and
beginning very cavalierly to whistle an air well known on the waters
of the Mississippi.
During this preliminary discourse the stranger had taken his seat by
the side of the hump, and was already making a serious inroad on its
relics.


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