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During most of the time, they had ridden in the
little vales in order to seek the protection of the shadows, but just
at that moment, they had ascended a roll of the prairie in order to
cross into the very bottom where this unknown animal was now seen.
"Let us descend," said Middleton; "be it beast or man, we are too
strong to have any cause of fear."
"Now, if the thing was not morally impossible," cried the trapper, who
the reader must have already discovered was not always exact in the
use of qualifying words, "if the thing was not morally impossible, I
should say, that was the man, who journeys in search of reptiles and
insects: our fellow-traveller the Doctor."
"Why impossible? did you not direct him to pursue this course, in
order to rejoin us?"
"Ay, but I did not tell him to make an ass outdo the speed of a horse:
--you are right--you are right," said the trapper, interrupting
himself, as by gradually lessening the distance between them, his eyes
assured him it was Obed and Asinus, whom he saw; "you are right, as
certainly as the thing is a miracle.


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