id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 05-prairie_024-1804 James Fenimore Cooper 05-prairie_024-1804 1804 .txt text/plain 6180 213 71 This has been a strange beast, old man, said Paul, who had pulled the bridle, or rather halter of his steed, over the second carcass, while the rest of the party were already passing, in their eagerness to proceed; a strange horse do I call it; it had neither head nor hoofs! The fire has not been idle, returned the trapper, keeping his eye vigilantly employed in profiting by those glimpses of the horizon, which the whirling smoke offered to his examination. Such is the difference atween a province and a state, my men; and I, miserable and worn out as I seem, have lived to see it all! That you must have seen many a chopper skimming the cream from the face of the earth, and many a settler getting the very honey of nature, old trapper, said Paul, no reasonable man can, or, for that matter, shall doubt. cache/05-prairie_024-1804.txt txt/05-prairie_024-1804.txt