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He did not give up his idea, however, not even when Larson raised his original estimate to five thousand dollars. "Petrified polecats!" cried Uncle Ezra. "You'll bankrupt me, man!" "Oh, no," answered Larson, with a winning smile. "This is getting off cheap. I want to increase the size of my mercury stabilizer to render the airship more safe for you when you go after that twenty thousand dollars."
The four polecats, thinking themselves safe, repaired to the poultry-yard, which was close to the kennel, and, having opened the wooden gate with their teeth and claws, they slipped in one by one. But they had only just passed through when they heard the gate shut behind them with great violence.
During all this, conversation respecting the sport rolls on. We carried away this day about a dozen or more beasts, some hares, foxes, and polecats. The night overtook us soon after we quitted the arbours. And this is the daily diversion of their Catholic Majesties. It is time now, however, to resume the thread of my narrative, from which these curious and little-known details have led me.
We hain't no time to fool with polecats when we're huntin' bears. Go off and leave 'em here." "That's all right," said Si, to whom an idea occurred. "Hustle around, boys, but don't make no noise.
The twenty-three centuries since Socrates do not furnish me with a fitter characterization of Lincoln. His image was as homely as that of Silenus was bestial. His talk was of ploughs and boats, polecats and whiskey. But those who opened this homely image found in him a likeness as of no other man, and in his words a meaning that was of widest and most ennobling comprehension.
The ground of the plain is occupied by the burrows of multitudes of barking squirrels, who entice hither the wolves of a small kind, hawks, and polecats, all of which animals we saw, and presumed that they fed on the squirrel. This plain is intersected, nearly in its whole extent, by deep ravines, and steep, irregular rising grounds, from one to two hundred feet.
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