. The hunter and the trapper in North America; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest . head between his two is then completely subdued; and, after undergoing fortwo or three days successively these humiliations of slav-eiy, is turned out at liberty among his tamed congeners. I cannot but compassionate the magnificent animalsthus trained by the Pawnees, and whose free wild lifehas been transformed into a miserable servitude. Insteadof traversing at will the vast and almost boundless pas-turages of the West, speeding from prairie to prairie,descending from the hill into the pl
. The hunter and the trapper in North America; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest . head between his two is then completely subdued; and, after undergoing fortwo or three days successively these humiliations of slav-eiy, is turned out at liberty among his tamed congeners. I cannot but compassionate the magnificent animalsthus trained by the Pawnees, and whose free wild lifehas been transformed into a miserable servitude. Insteadof traversing at will the vast and almost boundless pas-turages of the West, speeding from prairie to prairie,descending from the hill into the plain, crojiping theflowers and grasses, quenching their thirst in the runningbrooks, they are condemned to a pei-petual slavery, to thebondage of the yoke, to a life of hardship, and a wretcheddeath. AX AIJRUPT TRANSITION. 41 Is not this abrupt transition comparable to certainhuman existences ? He who to-day is a monarch, to-morrow becomes a [)risoner; and so the noble coui*ser,free and unshackled in the morning, and king of thel>rairie, in the evening is harnessed to a hawkers cart !.
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