It has cloven hoofs, a shaggy mane, a horn right out of its forehead and a tail like that of a pig.

When hunted it spews hot water upon the dogs.
I wonder if you could have seen such an animal ?' "'No, that's another nightmare,' I answered.

'People go hunting for nightmares in America.

They enjoy them and often think they have found them when they have not.

It all comes of trying to talk with Indians and of guessing at the things they say.' "Sir Benjamin remarked that when a man wrote about nature he seemed to regard himself as a first deputy of God.
"'And undertakes to lend him a hand in the work of creation,' I suggested.