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As the stream divided, the place became clear; the two dark columns
moving obliquely from the copse, to unite again at the distance of a
mile, on its opposite side. The instant the old man saw the sudden
effect which the voice of Asinus had produced, he coolly commenced
reloading his rifle, indulging at the same time in a heartfelt fit of
his silent and peculiar merriment.
"There they go, like dogs with so many half-filled shot-pouches
dangling at their tails, and no fear of their breaking their order;
for what the brutes in the rear didn't hear with their own ears,
they'll conceit they did: besides, if they change their minds, it may
be no hard matter to get the Jack to sing the rest of his tune!"
"The ass has spoken, but Balaam is silent!" cried the bee-hunter,
catching his breath after a repeated burst of noisy mirth, that might
possibly have added to the panic of the buffaloes by its vociferation.
"The man is as completely dumb-founded, as if a swarm of young bees
had settled on the end of his tongue, and he not willing to speak, for
fear of their answer.


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