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"Kommit," he said; "salt; kommit, kommit," and filling his hand with salt, the animal came near, and devoured it greedily, and allowed the Norwegian to pat her on the neck and shoulder.
The Norwegian turned his head and smiled with us, but would not yet despair of success. "Kommit," still, with onward step, he said, "kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt! kommit, kommit."
"Middlin," sez I, not wishin to kommit myself, tho he peered to be as fine a man as there was in the wurld "It is a middlin fine day, Square," I obsarved. Sez he, "How fares the Ship of State in yure regine of country?" Sez I, "We don't hav no ships in our State the kanawl is our best holt." He pawsed a minit and then sed, "Air yu aware, Sir, that the krisis is with us?"
The Norwegian had volunteered the promise, that if the deer turned out to be his own, and he could lay hands on her, we should accept her as a gift. "Kommit," said the Norwegian, in tones of gentler blandness; "salt! salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit."
No sooner did the guide perceive the animal, than he tugged the salt-bag from his belt, and, holding it in his left hand, extended it at arm's length before him, creeping down the hillock on which we had clustered, exclaiming, "Kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit."
"Kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o!" the Norwegian continued half singing, and half importuning the deer to come to him.
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