Pray tell me, did your exceeding excellence of vision extend so far as to enable you to decide on their order, or genus ?" "I know not what you mean by your orders of genius." "No!" interrupted the bee-hunter, a little disdainfully for him, when speaking to his aged friend; "now, old trapper, that is admitting your ignorance of the English language, in a way I should not expect from a man of your experience and understanding.

By order, our comrade means whether they go in promiscuous droves, like a swarm that is following its queen-bee, or in single file, as you often see the buffaloes trailing each other through a prairie.

And as for genius, I'm sure that is a word well understood, and in every body's mouth.

There is the congress-man in our district, and that tonguey little fellow, who puts out the paper in our county, they are both so called, for their smartness; which is what the Doctor means, as I take it, seeing that he seldom speaks without some considerable meaning." When Paul finished this very clever explanation he looked behind him with an expression, which, rightly interpreted, would have said--"You see, though I don't often trouble myself in these matters, I am no fool." Ellen admired Paul for anything but his learning.

There was enough in his frank, fearless, and manly character, backed as it was by great personal attraction, to awaken her sympathies, without the necessity of prying into his mental attainments.