Ye can make up your mind that there's some way leading into this cavern, which nobody knows anything about, excepting this wild creature, and, if we let him alone, he'll go out again, showing us the path." "I should think if he knew the route some of the Indians would learn it." "So anybody would think; but the crayther has not given 'em the chance--so how can they larn it?
If we play our cards right, me laddy, we're sure to win." "What kind of an animal is it ?" They were all the time gazing at the point where the eyes were last seen, but the beast was continually shifting its position, so that the orbs were no longer visible.

The faint tipping of his feet upon the gravely earth was heard, and now and then the transient flash of his eyes, as he whisked back and forth, was caught, but all vanished again almost as soon as seen.

All that could be learned was, that whatever the species of the animal, he owned large eyes, and they were placed close together.

Neither of the two were sufficiently acquainted with the peculiarities of the different animals of the West to identify them by any slight peculiarities.
"I don't think he can be an ilephant or a rhinoceros," said Mickey, reflectively, "because such crathurs don't grow in these parts.

What about his being a grizzly bear ?" "He can't be that," said Fred, who had been given time to note the special character of the footsteps before he awoke his companion.