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Therefore I agree with the old man, and say, Kill the beast."
"Friends," said the naturalist, looking with a sorrowful eye from one
to another of his bloodily disposed companions, "slay not Asinus; he
is a specimen of his kind, of whom much good and little evil can be
said. Hardy and docile for his genus; abstemious and patient, even for
his humble species. We have journeyed much together, and his death
would grieve me. How would it trouble thy spirit, venerable venator,
to separate, in such an untimely manner, from your faithful hound?"
"The animal shall not die," said the old man, suddenly clearing his
throat, in a manner that proved he felt the force of the appeal; "but
his voice must be smothered. Bind his jaws with the halter, and then I
think we may trust the rest to Providence."
With this double security for the discretion of Asinus, for Paul
instantly bound the muzzle of the ass in the manner required, the
trapper seemed content. After which he proceeded to the margin of the
thicket to reconnoitre.


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