Vulgar words in American Big Game in Its Haunts (Page 1)
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The present ungulates may be summed up in this way: Odd-toed: _(Perissodactyla)_-- Horse, Ass, Rhinoceros, Tapir.
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It is strange how the hope of seeing game keeps one from feeling tired, but as we trudged homeward, a bit depressed that in all the great number of sheep seen, there had not been one good head, and that our hard day was all to no purpose, my man and I both began to feel pretty well fagged out.
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We only reached our tent at nine o'clock that night, both completely fagged out.
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We were all fagged out and shaking with cold by the time we reached Blake's old camp.
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There were little camels scarcely more than twelve inches high, little taller than cotton-tail rabbits and smaller than the jackass rabbits; horses 15 inches high, scarcely larger than, and very similar in build to, the little English coursing hound known as the whippet; it is not improbable that we shall find the miniature deer; there certainly existed ancestral wolves and foxes of similarly small proportions.
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Scattered representatives of other species are found--the maple, cherry, dogwood, two varieties of sumac, the yerba del pasmo (or bastard cedar), madroños, walnut, mesquite, mountain mahogany, cottonwood, willow, ash, many varieties of bushes, also the yucca, mescal, cactus, etc.