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Bounce, and Big Waller, and Black Gibault, drew naturally together and speculated, after their own peculiar fashion, on every subject of thought within the reach of their capacities; and as Bounce's capacities embraced a pretty wide range, the "feelosophical" views he set forth upon that lovely Sabbath day were so varied, so eccentric, so graphic, and so apparently inexhaustible, that he effectually quelled Gibault's inveterate tendency, to jest, and filled Big Waller with deeper admiration than ever.

The others followed his example, with the exception of Redhand, who remained standing, and of Bertram, who quickly opened his sketch-book, that being the first opportunity he had enjoyed during the day of making an entry therein. "Right," exclaimed Bounce. "It's allers more feelosophical to sot than to stand also more ekornomical, 'cause it saves yer moccasins. Go on with yer story, old man."

"March Marston," said Bounce and Bounce was sitting beside the camp fire, smoking his pipe after supper when he said it "you may think ye're a 'cute feller, you may, oncommon 'cute; but if you'll listen to wot an oldish hunter says, an' take his advice, you'll come to think, in a feelosophical way, d'ye see? that ye're not quite so 'cute as ye suppose."

"That's a foul calumny," cried Bounce, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, and refilling it from the canister; "it's wot may be called a a " "Lie," suggested Waller. "No," said Bounce, "it ain't that. I don't like that word. It's a ugly word, an' you shouldn't ought to use it, Waller. It's a error; that's wot it is, in a feelosophical pint o' view.

The laugh and the groan together banished drowsiness, so he turned on his back, and said "Bounce, do you really believe all that?" Thus pointedly questioned on what he felt to be a delicate point, Bounce drew a great number of whiffs from the tomahawk ere he ventured to reply. At length he said "Well, to say truth, an' takin' a feelosophical view o' the p'int I don't. But I b'lieve some of it.

"Ollification," suggested Waller modestly. "Not at all," retorted Bounce with much severity in his tone. "I wos goin' to have said transparientsy; but I'll not say that now, seein' it's too feelosophical for the likes o' you; but, as I wos sayin', that bein' the case, d'ye see? it's quite plain that "