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In short, the distaste of the worthy
naturalist for beef was not unlike that which the shepherd sometimes
produces, by first muzzling and fettering his delinquent dog, and then
leaving him as a stepping stone for the whole flock to use in its
transit over a wall, or through the opening of a sheep-fold; a process
which is said to produce in the culprit a species of surfeit, on the
subject of mutton, for ever after. By the time Paul and the trapper
saw fit to terminate the fresh bursts of merriment, which the
continued abstraction of their learned companion did not fail to
excite, he commenced breathing again, as if the suspended action of
his lungs had been renewed by the application of a pair of artificial
bellows, and was heard to make use of the ever afterwards proscribed
term, on that solitary occasion, to which we have just alluded.
"Boves Americani horridi!" exclaimed the Doctor, laying great stress
on the latter word; after which he continued mute, like one who
pondered on strange and unaccountable events.


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