In what manner these several qualities are exhibited, in some of the most strongly marked of the latter class, will be seen in the course of the ensuing narrative.
Ishmael Bush had passed the whole of a life of more than fifty years on the skirts of society.

He boasted that he had never dwelt where he might not safely fell every tree he could view from his own threshold; that the law had rarely been known to enter his clearing, and that his ears had never willingly admitted the sound of a church bell.

His exertions seldom exceeded his wants, which were peculiar to his class, and rarely failed of being supplied.

He had no respect for any learning except that of the leech; because he was ignorant of the application of any other intelligence than such as met the senses.

His deference to this particular branch of science had induced him to listen to the application of a medical man, whose thirst for natural history had led him to the desire of profiting by the migratory propensities of the squatter.