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An' I know how to scalp, too." "Oh, I wouldn't do that!" exclaimed Enoch, in horror. "Umph! Yorkers ain't no better'n Injins, an' I'd scalp an Injin," declared Lot, blood-thirstily. "I wouldn't. My father never did that, an' he was in the war. He said that was why the Injins warn't no better'n brute-beasts, an' didn't have no souls 'cause they scalped their enemies."
And that which was a thing to laugh at or to pity, I know not which, was that he belonged to a company, or rather, gang, of friends who, under the pretence of living like philosophers, lived like swine and brute-beasts; they never washed their hands, or face, or head, or beard; they did not sweep their houses, and never made their beds save only once every two months; they laid their tables with the cartoons for their pictures, and they drank only from the flask or the jug; and this miserable existence of theirs, living, as the saying goes, from hand to mouth, was held by them to be the finest life in the world.
The boors, with the fearful inquisitiveness of professed connoisseurs, carefully regarded the strange awe-inspiring powder from every side so this was the murderous instrument of extirpation. Some of them had heard, somewhere or other, that it was usual to make preliminary experiments with such poisons on the brute-beasts.
They sank lower and lower into the muddy abyss, back into the dregs of the raw beginnings of life, striving blindly and chemically, as atoms strive, as the star-dust if the heavens strives, colliding, recoiling, and colliding again and eternally again. "God! We are animals! Brute-beasts!" Martin muttered aloud, as he watched the progress of the fight.
The odd thing about the Boy was that it was only with these Indian curs Nig in particular, who wasn't the Boy's dog at all only with these brute-beasts had he seemed to recover something of that buoyancy and ridiculous youngness that had first drawn the Colonel to him on the voyage up from 'Frisco.
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