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kiss them with much energy. Xot being- 

 used to this sort of thins;, I remonstrated with 

 the old fellow, and found that he had come to 

 appeal to our generosity to compensate him 

 for the loss of the horse which had fallen 

 down the cliff at Zaskoora. He admitted that 

 the fault was not ours, that we had advised 

 his son not to take the horse on ; but for all 

 that, as we had brought misfortune on him 

 and bad weather on the village by hunting, 

 unclean strangers that we were, in the ]\Iook- 

 mer huntin" fields, he beo'o:ed us to o-ive him 

 something to buy another horse with. AVe 

 could not help feelmg sorry for the old fellow, 

 so though we made a good deal of the 

 extravagance of his demands, Frank and I 

 gave him about double what he expected, and 

 sent him away, praying probably that he 

 might always find Englishmen to hire his old 

 screws. But it was not the old bear-slayer 

 alone who attributed the bad weather to us ; 



