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at the selfsame place. An Indian who 

 was hunting with me thought otherwise, 

 and persisted in circling off in another di- 

 rection, so that we parted; but he was a 

 fool, and when after two or three hours he 

 came again to camp, bringing with him 

 an ordinary buck, I could not but smile 

 to see how completely he had been baffled. 

 It has never been decided even of 

 what species he is; some testimony points 

 one way and some in another. For my 

 own part, I do not believe that he is a 

 species at all, but a genus — genus Cervus; 

 nothing more. One recent writer, how- 

 ever, claims that this was an elk, and was 

 known for long in Pennsylvania as "The 

 Lone Elk of the Sinnamahoning," in 

 which valley he was killed in 1867. 

 But that, of course, is all nonsense. No, 

 no! I know too much about him to be- 

 lieve any such tale. You cannot wreck 



