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She had a handsome son, that looked like her and the major, but she didn't know how to manage him went to the dogs, or worse, before he was eighteen." "Axell here?" asked the young man. "No," replied the reporter; "and 'twouldn't do her any good if he was. The major's stylish and good-looking, and plays a brilliant game, but he hasn't any more heart than is absolutely necessary to his circulation.
This infinite field now open before him, Darwin began his investigations, and the whole world knows his triumphs. He has been followed by a host of disciples, to whom his books have come as an inspiration and ennobling impulse. Hildebrand, Delpino, Axell, Lubbock, and, latest and perhaps most conspicuous, Hermann Müller, to whom the American reader is especially referred.
Finally one of them, in a tone of disgusted resignation, remarked: "Axell ought to be ashamed of hisself; he's draggin' along a little feller not half the size he is. Blamed if he ain't got his match, though; the little feller's jest doin' some gellorious chawin' an' diggin'."
The lady glanced at him quickly and searchingly, and then, seeming assured of the reporter's honesty, replied: "I am looking for an old acquaintance of mine one Major Axell." "He is not in camp, ma'am," said Spidertracks. "He was at Rum Valley a few days ago, when our party was organized to come here."
The reporter was in the midst of a very able and voluble defense, when the attention of his hearers seemed distracted by something on the trail by which the original settlers had entered the village. Spidertracks himself looked, shaded his eyes, indulged in certain disconnected fragments of profanity, and finally exclaimed: "Axell himself, by the white coat of Horace Greeley!
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