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a "bullfinch," a "rasper," and a "yawner:" and 

 though there was not one of the party, except 

 myself, that does not hunt regularly, there were 

 scarcely two who agreed in the same explanation 

 of these words; or even on their applicability, 

 excepting the last to jumps, with which we were 

 all locally familiar ! So much for slang authorities ! 



