meter’s prayer. 
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the old moss walls, the useless daguerreotypes, and the 
skeletons of dog and deer and bear and musk-ox,— 
stoppered in the rigging;—and, that done, whipped up 
my dogs so much after the manner of a sentimentalizing 
Christian, that our pagan Metek raised a prayer in 
their behalf. 
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