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What a plight would
you now be in, if there was need for a long and a quick push with our
heels?"
"The fault exists in the formation of the quadruped," said Obed, whose
placid temper began to revolt under so many scandalous imputations.
"Had there been rotary levers for two of the members, a moiety of the
fatigue would have been saved, for one item--"
"That, for your moiety's and rotaries, and items, man; a jaded ass is
a jaded ass, and he who denies it is but a brother of the beast
itself. Now, captain, are we driven to choose one of two evils. We
must either abandon this man, who has been too much with us through
good and bad to be easily cast away, or we must seek a cover to let
the animal rest."
"Venerable venator!" exclaimed the alarmed Obed; "I conjure you by all
the secret sympathies of our common nature, by all the hidden--"
"Ah, fear has brought him to talk a little rational sense! It is not
natur', truly, to abandon a brother in distress; and the Lord He knows
that I have never yet done the shameful deed.


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