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The colonel was somewhat partial to these pets, for he was a `mighty hunter. You might see a number of young colts in an adjoining lot; a pet deer, a buffalo-calf, that had been brought from the far prairies, pea-fowl, guinea-hens, turkeys, geese, ducks, and the usual proportion of common fowls. Rail-fences zigzagged off in all directions towards the edge of the woods.
Four of his fellow-passengers followed, inspired by his example, ready to explore, to objurgate, to resist, to submit, to proceed, according as their prime factor might be inclined to sway them. The fifth passenger, a young woman, remained in the coach. Bildad had halted upon the shoulder of the first mountain spur. Two rail-fences, ragged-black, hemmed the road.
Being cooped up in that little wire prison day after day made an entirely different squirrel of him. He longed to be free once more free to scamper through the tree-tops, and along the stone-walls and the rail-fences. And at night he dreamed of hunting for beechnuts, and chestnuts, and hickorynuts, on which he would feast to his heart's content in his dreams.
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