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danger is from my aunt."
"Esther sleepeth!" the Doctor sententiously replied. "Ellen, you have
been watching on this rock, to-day?"
"I was ordered to do so."
"And you have seen the bison, and the antelope, and the wolf, and the
deer, as usual; animals of the orders, pecora, belluae, and ferae."
"I have seen the creatures you named in English, but I know nothing of
the Indian languages."
"There is still an order that I have not named, which you have also
seen. The primates--is it not true?"
"I cannot say. I know no animal by that name."
"Nay, Ellen, you confer with a friend. Of the genus, homo, child?"
"Whatever else I may have had in view, I have not seen the vespertilio
horribi--"
"Hush, Nelly, thy vivacity will betray us! Tell me, girl, have you not
seen certain bipeds, called men, wandering about the prairies?"
"Surely. My uncle and his sons have been hunting the buffaloe, since
the sun began to fall."
"I must speak in the vernacular, to be comprehended. Ellen, I would
say of the species, Kentucky.


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