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When Paul finished this very clever explanation he looked behind him
with an expression, which, rightly interpreted, would have said--"You
see, though I don't often trouble myself in these matters, I am no
fool."
Ellen admired Paul for anything but his learning. There was enough in
his frank, fearless, and manly character, backed as it was by great
personal attraction, to awaken her sympathies, without the necessity
of prying into his mental attainments. The poor girl reddened like a
rose, her pretty fingers played with the belt, by which she sustained
herself on the horse, and she hurriedly observed, as if anxious to
direct the attentions of the other listeners from a weakness, on which
her own thoughts could not bear to dwell--
"And this is not a horse, after all?"
"It is nothing more, nor less, than the hide of a buffaloe," continued
the trapper, who had been no less puzzled by the explanation of Paul,
than by the language of the Doctor; "the hair is beneath; the fire has
run over it as you see; for being fresh, the flames could take no
hold.


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