13/22 And, ah! my friend, it iss worth the race, that Oregon. Believe me, it iss full of bugs--of new bugs; twelve new species I haf discovered and named. It iss sometings of honor, iss it not ?" "What you say interests me very much, sir," I said. "I am only an American trader, knocking around to see the world a little bit. You seem to have been engaged in some scientific pursuit in that country." "Yess," he said. |