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update master prompts file with prompts from user submission:starlite-20070613-fur6

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    1848518485starlite-20070613-fur5/mfc/fur0254 AND ON THE FIRST MAY THE EXPEDITION ARRIVED AT FORT ENTERPRISE 
    1848618486starlite-20070613-fur5/mfc/fur0255 END OF CHAPTER FIVE 
     18487starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0001 PART ONE CHAPTER SIX OF THE FUR COUNTRY THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING 
     18488starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0002 ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 
     18489starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0003 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRIVOX DOT ORG 
     18490starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0004 THE FUR COUNTRY BY JULES VERNE PART ONE CHAPTER SIX 
     18491starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0005 A WAPITI DUEL TWO HUNDRED MILES HAD BEEN TRAVERSED SINCE THE EXPEDITION LEFT FORT RELIANCE 
     18492starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0006 THE TRAVELLERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE LONG TWILIGHT 
     18493starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0007 PRESSED ON DAY AND NIGHT AND WERE LITERALLY OVERCOME WITH FATIGUE 
     18494starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0008 WHEN THEY REACHED FORT ENTERPRISE NEAR THE SHORES OF LAKE SNARE 
     18495starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0009 THIS FORT WAS NO MORE THAN A DEPOT OF PROVISIONS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE 
     18496starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0010 ERECTED A FEW YEARS BEFORE BY THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 
     18497starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0011 IT SERVED AS A RESTING PLACE FOR THE MEN 
     18498starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0012 TAKING THE CONVOYS OF FURS FROM THE GREAT BEAR LAKE 
     18499starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0013 SOME THREE HUNDRED MILES FURTHER TO THE NORTH WEST 
     18500starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0014 ABOUT A DOZEN SOLDIERS FORMED THE GARRISON 
     18501starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0015 THE FORT CONSISTED OF A WOODEN HOUSE SURROUNDED BY PALISADES 
     18502starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0016 BUT FEW AS WERE THE COMFORTS IT OFFERED LIEUTENANT HOBSON'S COMPANIONS 
     18503starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0017 GLADLY TOOK REFUGE IN IT AND RESTED THERE FOR TWO DAYS 
     18504starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0018 THE GENTLE INFLUENCE OF THE ARCTIC SPRING WAS BEGINNING TO BE FELT 
     18505starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0019 HERE AND THERE THE SNOW HAD MELTED 
     18506starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0020 AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NIGHTS WAS NO LONGER BELOW FREEZING POINT 
     18507starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0021 A FEW DELICATE MOSSES AND SLENDER GRASSES CLOTHED THE RUGGED GROUND WITH THEIR SOFT VERDURE 
     18508starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0022 AND FROM BETWEEN THE STONES PEEPED THE MOIST CALICES OF TINY 
     18509starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0023 ALMOST COLOURLESS FLOWERS THESE FAINT SIGNS OF REAWAKENING VEGETATION 
     18510starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0024 AFTER THE LONG NIGHT OF WINTER WERE REFRESHING TO EYES 
     18511starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0025 WEARY OF THE MONOTONOUS WHITENESS OF THE SNOW 
     18512starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0026 AND THE SCATTERED SPECIMENS OF THE FLORA OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS 
     18513starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0027 WERE WELCOMED WITH DELIGHT MRS PAULINA BARNETT AND JASPAR HOBSON 
     18514starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0028 AVAILED THEMSELVES OF THIS LEISURE TIME TO VISIT THE SHORES OF THE LITTLE LAKE 
     18515starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0029 THEY WERE BOTH STUDENTS AND ENTHUSIASTIC LOVERS OF NATURE 
     18516starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0030 TOGETHER THEY WANDERED AMONGST THE ICE MASSES ALREADY BEGINNING TO BREAK UP 
     18517starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0031 AND THE WATERFALLS CREATED BY THE ACTION OF THE RAYS OF THE SUN 
     18518starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0032 THE SURFACE ITSELF OF LAKE SNARE WAS STILL INTACT 
     18519starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0033 NOT A CRACK DENOTED THE APPROACHING THAW 
     18520starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0034 BUT IT WAS STREWN WITH THE RUINS OF MIGHTY ICEBERGS 
     18521starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0035 WHICH ASSUMED ALL MANNER OF PICTURESQUE FORMS 
     18522starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0036 AND THE BEAUTY OF WHICH WAS HEIGHTENED WHEN THE LIGHT 
     18523starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0037 DIFFRACTED BY THE SHARP EDGES OF THE ICE 
     18524starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0038 TOUCHED THEM WITH ALL MANNER OF COLOURS 
     18525starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0039 ONE MIGHT HAVE FANCIED THAT A RAINBOW CRUSHED IN A POWERFUL HAND 
     18526starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0040 BAD BEEN FLUNG UPON THE GROUND ITS FRAGMENTS 
     18527starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0041 CROSSING EACH OTHER AS THEY FELL 
     18528starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0042 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SCENE EXCLAIMED MRS PAULINA BARNETT THESE PRISMATIC EFFECTS 
     18529starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0043 VARY AT EVERY CHANGE OF OUR POSITION 
     18530starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0044 DOES IT NOT SEEM AS IF WE WERE BENDING OVER THE OPENING OF AN IMMENSE KALEIDOSCOPE 
     18531starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0045 OR ARE YOU ALREADY WEARY OF A SIGHT SO NEW AND INTERESTING TO ME 
     18532starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0046 NO MADAM REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT ALTHOUGH I WAS BORN AND BRED ON THIS CONTINENT 
     18533starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0047 ITS BEAUTIES NEVER PALL UPON ME 
     18534starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0048a BUT IF YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS SO GREAT WHEN YOU SEE THIS SCENERY WITH THE SUN SHINING UPON IT 
     18535starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0048b WHAT WILL IT BE WHEN YOU ARE PRIVILEGED TO BEHOLD 
     18536starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0049 THE TERRIBLE GRANDEUR OF THE WINTER TO OWN THE TRUTH I THINK THE SUN 
     18537starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0050 SO MUCH THOUGHT OF IN TEMPERATE LATITUDES SPOILS MY ARCTIC HOME 
     18538starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0051 INDEED EXCLAIMED MRS BARNETT SMILING AT THE LIEUTENANT'S LAST REMARK 
     18539starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0052 FOR MY PART I THINK THE SUN A CAPITAL TRAVELLING COMPANION 
     18540starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0053 AND I SHALL NOT BE DISPOSED TO GRUMBLE AT THE WARMTH IT GIVES 
     18541starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0054 EVEN IN THE POLAR REGIONS AH MADAM REPLIED JASPAR HOBSON 
     18542starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0055 I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO THINK IT BEST TO VISIT RUSSIA IN THE WINTER AND THE SAHARA DESERT IN THE SUMMER 
     18543starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0056 YOU THEN SEE THEIR PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS TO ADVANTAGE 
     18544starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0057 THE SUN IS A STAR OF THE TORRID AND TEMPERATE ZONES 
     18545starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0058 AND IS OUT OF PLACE THIRTY DEGREES FROM THE NORTH POLE 
     18546starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0059 THE TRUE SKY OF THIS COUNTRY IS THE PURE FRIGID SKY OF WINTER 
     18547starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0060 BRIGHT WITH CONSTELLATIONS AND SOMETIMES FLUSHED WITH THE GLORY OF THE AURORA BOREALIS 
     18548starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0061 THIS LAND IS THE LAND OF THE NIGHT NOT OF THE DAY 
     18549starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0062 AND YOU HAVE YET TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE DELIGHTS AND MARVELS OF THE LONG POLAR NIGHT 
     18550starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0063 HAVE YOU EVER VISITED THE TEMPERATE ZONES OF EUROPE AND AMERICA 
     18551starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0064 INQUIRED MRS BARNETT YES MADAM AND I ADMIRED THEM AS THEY DESERVED 
     18552starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0065 BUT I RETURNED HOME WITH FRESH LOVE AND ENTHUSIASM FOR MY NATIVE LAND 
     18553starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0066 COLD IS MY ELEMENT AND NO MERIT IS DUE TO ME FOR BRAVING IT 
     18554starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0067 IT HAS NO POWER OVER ME AND LIKE THE ESQUIMAUX I CAN LIVE FOR MONTHS TOGETHER IN A SNOW HUT 
     18555starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0068 REALLY LIEUTENANT HOBSON IT IS QUITE CHEERING TO HEAR OUR DREADED ENEMY 
     18556starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0069 SPOKEN OF IN SUCH TERMS 
     18557starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0070 I HOPE TO PROVE MYSELF WORTHY TO BE YOUR COMPANION AND 
     18558starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0071 WHEREVER YOU VENTURE WE WILL VENTURE TOGETHER 
     18559starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0072 I AGREE MADAM I AGREE AND MAY ALL THE WOMEN AND SOLDIERS ACCOMPANYING ME 
     18560starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0073 SHOW THEMSELVES AS RESOLUTE AS YOU IF SO GOD HELPING US 
     18561starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0074 WE SHALL INDEED ADVANCE FAR YOU 
     18562starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0075 HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF YET OBSERVED THE LADY 
     18563starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0076 NOT A SINGLE ACCIDENT HAS OCCURRED THE WEATHER HAS BEEN PROPITIOUS 
     18564starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0077 THE COLD NOT TOO SEVERE EVERYTHING HAS COMBINED TO AID US 
     18565starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0078 YES MADAM BUT THE SUN WHICH YOU ADMIRE SO MUCH 
     18566starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0079 WILL SOON CREATE DIFFICULTIES FOR US AND STREW OBSTACLES IN OUR PATH 
     18567starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0080 WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIEUTENANT HOBSON 
     18568starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0081 I MEAN THAT THE HEAT WILL SOON HAVE CHANGED THE ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY 
     18569starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0082 THAT THE MELTED ICE WILL IMPEDE THE SLIDING OF THE SLEDGES 
     18570starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0083 THAT THE GROUND WILL BECOME ROUGH AND UNEVEN 
     18571starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0084 THAT OUR PANTING DOGS WILL NO LONGER CARRY US ALONG WITH THE SPEED OF AN ARROW 
     18572starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0085 THAT THE RIVERS AND LAKES WILL RESUME THEIR LIQUID STATE 
     18573starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0086 AND THAT WE SHALL HAVE TO FORD OR GO ROUND THEM 
     18574starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0087 ALL THESE CHANGES MADAM DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS 
     18575starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0088 WILL CAUSE DELAYS FATIGUE AND DANGERS 
     18576starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0089 THE VERY LEAST OF WHICH WILL BE THE BREAKING OF THE BRITTLE SNOW BENEATH OUR FEET 
     18577starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0090 OR THE FALLING OF THE AVALANCHES FROM THE SUMMITS 
     18578starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0091 OF THE ICEBERGS 
     18579starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0092 FOR ALL THIS WE HAVE TO THANK THE GRADUAL RISE OF THE SUN HIGHER AND HIGHER ABOVE THE HORIZON 
     18580starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0093 BEAR THIS IN MIND MADAM 
     18581starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0094 OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF THE OLD CREATION ONLY ONE IS NECESSARY TO US HERE 
     18582starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0095 THE AIR THE OTHER THREE FIRE EARTH AND WATER 
     18583starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0096 ARE DE TROP IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS 
     18584starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0097 OF COURSE THE LIEUTENANT WAS EXAGGERATING AND MRS BARNETT COULD EASILY HAVE RETORTED 
     18585starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0098 WITH COUNTER ARGUMENTS BUT SHE LIKED TO HEAR HIS RAPTURES IN PRAISE OF HIS BELOVED COUNTRY 
     18586starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0099 AND SHE FELT THAT HIS ENTHUSIASM WAS A GUARANTEE THAT HE WOULD SHRINK FROM NO OBSTACLE 
     18587starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0100 YET JASPAR HOBSON WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THE SUN WOULD CAUSE DIFFICULTIES 
     18588starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0101 THIS WAS SEEN WHEN THE PARTY SET OUT AGAIN ON THE FOURTH MAY 
     18589starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0102 THREE DAYS LATER THE THERMOMETER 
     18590starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0103 EVEN IN THE COLDEST PART OF THE NIGHT MARKED MORE THAN THIRTY TWO DEGREES FAHRENHEIT 
     18591starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0104 A COMPLETE THAW SET IN THE VAST WHITE SHEET OF SNOW RESOLVED ITSELF INTO WATER 
     18592starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0105 THE IRREGULARITIES OF THE ROCKY SOIL CAUSED CONSTANT JOLTING OF THE SLEDGES 
     18593starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0106 AND THE PASSENGERS WERE ROUGHLY SHAKEN 
     18594starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0107 THE ROADS WERE SO HEAVY THAT THE DOGS HAD TO GO AT A SLOW TROT 
     18595starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0108 AND THE REINS WERE THEREFORE AGAIN 
     18596starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0109 ENTRUSTED TO THE HANDS OF THE IMPRUDENT CORPORAL JOLIFFE 
     18597starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0110 NEITHER SHOUTS NOR FLOURISHINGS OF THE WHIP 
     18598starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0111 HAD THE SLIGHTEST EFFECT ON THE JADED ANIMALS 
     18599starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0112 FROM TIME TO TIME THE TRAVELLERS LIGHTENED THE SLEDGES BY WALKING LITTLE WAY 
     18600starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0113 THIS MODE OF LOCOMOTION SUITED THE HUNTERS 
     18601starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0114 WHO WERE NOW GRADUALLY APPROACHING THE BEST DISTRICTS FOR GAME IN THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH AMERICA 
     18602starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0115 MRS PAULINA BARNETT AND MADGE TOOK A GREAT INTEREST IN THE CHASE 
     18603starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0116 WHILST THOMAS BLACK PROFESSED ABSOLUTE INDIFFERENCE TO ALL ATHLETIC EXERCISE 
     18604starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0117 HE HAD NOT COME ALL THIS DISTANCE TO HUNT THE POLECAT OR THE ERMINE 
     18605starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0118 BUT MERELY TO LOOK AT THE MOON 
     18606starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0119 AT THE MOMENT WHEN HER DISC SHOULD COVER THAT OF THE SUN 
     18607starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0120 WHEN THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ROSE ABOVE THE HORIZON THE IMPATIENT ASTRONOMER 
     18608starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0121 WOULD GAZE AT HER WITH EAGER EYES 
     18609starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0122 AND ONE DAY THE LIEUTENANT SAID TO HIM 
     18610starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0123 IT WOULD BE A BAD LOOK OUT FOR YOU MR BLACK 
     18611starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0124 IF BY ANY UNLUCKY CHANCE 
     18612starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0125 THE MOON SHOULD FAIL TO KEEP HER APPOINTMENT ON THE SIXTEENTH JULY EIGHTEEN SIXTY 
     18613starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0126 LIEUTENANT HOBSON GRAVELY REPLIED THE ASTRONOMER 
     18614starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0127 IF THE MOON WERE GUILTY OF SUCH A BREACH OF GOOD MANNERS 
     18615starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0128 I SHOULD INDEED HAVE CAUSE TO COMPLAIN THE CHIEF HUNTERS OF THE EXPEDITION 
     18616starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0129 WERE THE SOLDIERS MARBRE AND SABINE BOTH VERY EXPERT AT THEIR BUSINESS 
     18617starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0130 THEIR SKILL WAS WONDERFUL AND THE CLEVEREST INDIANS 
     18618starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0131 WOULD NOT HAVE SURPASSED THEM IN KEENNESS OF SIGHT 
     18619starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0132 PRECISION OF AIM OR MANUAL ADDRESS THEY WERE ALIKE TRAPPERS AND HUNTERS 
     18620starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0133 AND WERE ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THE NETS AND SNARES 
     18621starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0134 FOR TAKING SABLES OTTERS WOLVES FOXES BEARS ETC 
     18622starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0135 NO ARTIFICE WAS UNKNOWN TO THEM AND CAPTAIN CRAVENTY HAD SHOWN HIS WISDOM 
     18623starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0136 IN CHOOSING TWO SUCH INTELLIGENT MEN TO ACCOMPANY THE LITTLE TROOP 
     18624starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0137 WHILST ON THE MARCH HOWEVER MARBRE AND SABINE HAD NO TIME FOR SETTING TRAPS 
     18625starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0138 THEY COULD NOT SEPARATE FROM THE OTHERS FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR OR TWO AT A TIME 
     18626starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0139 AND WERE OBLIGED TO BE CONTENT WITH THE GAME WHICH PASSED WITHIN RANGE OF THEIR RIFLES 
     18627starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0140 STILL THEY WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO KILL TWO OF THE LARGE AMERICAN RUMINANTS 
     18628starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0141 SELDOM MET WITH IN SUCH ELEVATED LATITUDES 
     18629starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0142 ON THE MORNING OF THE FIFTEENTH MAY 
     18630starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0143 THE HUNTERS ASKED PERMISSION TO FOLLOW SOME FRESH TRACES THEY HAD FOUND 
     18631starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0144 AND THE LIEUTENANT NOT ONLY GRANTED IT 
     18632starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0145 BUT HIMSELF ACCOMPANIED THEM WITH MRS PAULINA BARNETT 
     18633starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0146 AND THEY WENT SEVERAL MILES OUT OF THEIR ROUTE TOWARDS THE EAST 
     18634starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0147 THE IMPRESSIONS WERE EVIDENTLY THE RESULT OF THE PASSAGE 
     18635starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0148 OF ABOUT HALF A DOZEN LARGE DEER 
     18636starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0149 THERE COULD BE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT 
     18637starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0150 MARBRE AND SABINE WERE POSITIVE ON THAT POINT 
     18638starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0151 AND COULD EVEN HAVE NAMED THE SPECIES TO WHICH THE ANIMALS BELONGED 
     18639starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0152 YOU SEEM SURPRISED TO HAVE MET WITH TRACES OF THESE ANIMALS HERE LIEUTENANT 
     18640starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0153 SAID MRS BARNETT WELL MADAM REPLIED HOBSON 
     18641starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0154 THIS SPECIES IS RARELY SEEN BEYOND FIFTY SEVEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE 
     18642starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0155 WE GENERALLY HUNT THEM AT THE SOUTH OF THE SLAVE LAKE 
     18643starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0156 WHERE THEY FEED UPON THE SHOOTS OF WILLOWS AND POPLARS 
     18644starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0157 AND CERTAIN WILD ROSES TO WHICH THEY ARE VERY PARTIAL 
     18645starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0158 I SUPPOSE THESE CREATURES LIKE THOSE WITH VALUABLE FURS HAVE FLED FROM THE DISTRICTS SCOURED BY THE HUNTERS 
     18646starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0159 I SEE NO OTHER EXPLANATION OF THEIR PRESENCE AT SIXTY FIVE DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT 
     18647starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0160 THAT IS IF THE MEN ARE NOT MISTAKEN AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FOOTPRINTS 
     18648starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0161 NO NO SIR CRIED SABINE MARBRE AND I ARE NOT MISTAKEN 
     18649starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0162 THESE TRACES WERE LEFT BY DEER THE DEER WE HUNTERS CALL RED DEER 
     18650starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0163 AND THE NATIVES WAPITIS HE IS QUITE RIGHT ADDED MARBRE 
     18651starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0164 OLD TRAPPERS LIKE US ARE NOT TO BE TAKEN IN 
     18652starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0165 BESIDES DON'T YOU HEAR THAT PECULIAR WHISTLING SOUND 
     18653starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0166 THE PARTY HAD NOW REACHED THE FOOT OF A LITTLE HILL 
     18654starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0167 AND AS THE SNOW HAD ALMOST DISAPPEARED FROM ITS SIDES 
     18655starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0168 THEY WERE ABLE TO CLIMB IT AND HASTENED TO THE SUMMIT 
     18656starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0169 THE PECULIAR WHISTLING NOTICED BY MARBRE BECOMING LOUDER 
     18657starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0170 MINGLED WITH CRIES RESEMBLING THE BRAYING OF AN ASS 
     18658starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0171 AND PROVING THAT THE TWO HUNTERS WERE RIOT MISTAKEN 
     18659starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0172 ONCE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL 
     18660starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0173 THE ADVENTURERS LOOKED EAGERLY TOWARDS THE EAST 
     18661starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0174 THE UNDULATING PLAINS WERE STILL WHITE WITH SNOW 
     18662starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0175 BUT ITS DAZZLING SURFACE WAS HERE AND THERE RELIEVED 
     18663starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0176 WITH PATCHES OF STUNTED LIGHT GREEN VEGETATION 
     18664starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0177 A FEW GAUNT SHRUBS STRETCHED FORTH THEIR BARE AND SHRIVELLED BRANCHES 
     18665starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0178 AND HUGE ICEBERGS WITH PRECIPITOUS SIDES 
     18666starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0179 STOOD OUT AGAINST THE GREY BACKGROUND OF THE SKY 
     18667starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0180 WAPITIS WAPITIS THERE THEY ARE CRIED SABINE AND MARBRE AT ONCE 
     18668starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0181 POINTING TO A GROUP OF ANIMALS DISTINCTLY VISIBLE 
     18669starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0182 ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE TO THE EAST 
     18670starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0183 WHAT ARE THEY DOING ASKED MRS BARNETT THEY ARE FIGHTING MADAM 
     18671starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0184 REPLIED HOBSON THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN THE HEAT OF THE POLAR SUN 
     18672starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0185 INFLAMES THEIR BLOOD ANOTHER DEPLORABLE RESULT OF THE ACTION OF THE RADIANT ORB OF DAY 
     18673starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0186 FROM WHERE THEY STOOD THE PARTY COULD EASILY WATCH THE GROUP OF WAPITIS 
     18674starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0187 THEY WERE FINE SPECIMENS OF THE FAMILY OF DEER 
     18675starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0188 KNOWN UNDER THE VARIOUS NAMES OF STAGS WITH ROUNDED ANTLERS AMERICAN STAGS 
     18676starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0189 ROEBUCKS GREY ELKS AND RED ELKS ETC THESE GRACEFUL CREATURES 
     18677starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0190 HAVE SLENDER LEGS AND BROWN SKINS WITH PATCHES OF RED HAIR 
     18678starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0191 THE COLOUR OF WHICH BECOMES DARKER IN THE WARMER SEASON 
     18679starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0192 THE FIERCE MALES ARE EASILY DISTINGUISHED FROM THE FEMALES 
     18680starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0193 BY THEIR FINE WHITE ANTLERS THE LATTER BEING ENTIRELY WITHOUT THESE ORNAMENTS 
     18681starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0194 THESE WAPITIS WERE ONCE VERY NUMEROUS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA AND 
     18682starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0195 THE UNITED STATES IMPORTED A GREAT MANY 
     18683starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0196 BUT CLEARINGS WERE BEGUN ON EVERY SIDE 
     18684starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0197 THE FOREST TREES FELL BENEATH THE AXE OF THE PIONEER OF CIVILISATION AND 
     18685starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0198 THE WAPITIS TOOK REFUGE IN THE MORE PEACEFUL DISTRICTS OF CANADA 
     18686starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0199 BUT THEY WERE SOON AGAIN DISTURBED AND WANDERED TO THE SHORES OF HUDSON'S BAY 
     18687starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0200 SO THAT ALTHOUGH THE WAPITI THRIVES IN A COLD COUNTRY 
     18688starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0201 LIEUTENANT HOBSON WAS RIGHT IN SAYING THAT IT SELDOM PENETRATES 
     18689starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0202 BEYOND FIFTY SEVEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE AND THE SPECIMENS NOW FOUND 
     18690starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0203 HAD DOUBTLESS FLED BEFORE THE CHIPPEWAY INDIANS WHO HUNT THEM WITHOUT MERCY 
     18691starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0204 THE WAPITIS WERE SO ENGROSSED IN THEIR DESPERATE STRUGGLE 
     18692starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0205 THAT THEY WERE UNCONSCIOUS OF THE APPROACH OF THE HUNTERS 
     18693starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0206 BUT THEY WOULD PROBABLY NOT HAVE CEASED FIGHTING HAD THEY BEEN AWARE OF IT 
     18694starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0207 MARBRE AND SABINE AWARE OF THEIR PECULIARITY IN THIS RESPECT 
     18695starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0208 MIGHT THEREFORE HAVE ADVANCED FEARLESSLY UPON THEM 
     18696starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0209 AND HAVE TAKEN AIM AT LEISURE 
     18697starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0210 LIEUTENANT HOBSON SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD DO SO BEG PARDON SIR 
     18698starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0211 REPLIED MARBRE BUT LET US SPARE OUR POWDER AND SHOT 
     18699starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0212 THESE BEASTS ARE ENGAGED IN A WAR TO THE DEATH 
     18700starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0213 AND WE SHALL ARRIVE IN PLENTY OF TIME TO PICK UP THE VANQUISHED 
     18701starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0214 HAVE THESE WAPITIS A COMMERCIAL VALUE ASKED MRS PAULINA BARNETT 
     18702starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0215 YES MADAM REPLIED HOBSON 
     18703starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0216 AND THEIR SKIN WHICH IS NOT QUITE SO THICK AS THAT OF THE ELK 
     18704starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0217 PROPERLY SO CALLED MAKES VERY VALUABLE LEATHER 
     18705starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0218 BY RUBBING THIS SKIN WITH THE FAT AND BRAINS OF THE ANIMAL ITSELF 
     18706starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0219 IT IS RENDERED FLEXIBLE AND NEITHER DAMP NOR DRYNESS INJURES IT THE 
     18707starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0220 INDIANS ARE THEREFORE ALWAYS EAGER TO PROCURE THE SKINS OF THE WAPITIS 
     18708starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0221 DOES NOT THE FLESH MAKE ADMIRABLE VENISON PRETTY GOOD MADAM ONLY PRETTY GOOD 
     18709starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0222 IT IS TOUGH AND DOES NOT TASTE VERY NICE 
     18710starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0223 THE FAT BECOMES HARD DIRECTLY IT IS TAKEN FROM THE FIRE 
     18711starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0224 AND STICKS TO THE TEETH IT IS CERTAINLY INFERIOR AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD 
     18712starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0225 TO THE FLESH OF OTHER DEER 
     18713starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0226 BUT WHEN MEAT IS SCARCE WE ARE GLAD ENOUGH TO EAT IT 
     18714starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0227 AND IT SUPPORTS LIFE AS WELL AS ANYTHING ELSE 
     18715starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0228 MRS BARNETT AND LIEUTENANT HOBSON HAD BEEN CHATTING TOGETHER FOR SOME MINUTES 
     18716starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0229 WHEN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO THE WAPITIS SUDDENLY CEASED FIGHTING 
     18717starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0230 WAS THEIR RAGE SATIATED OR HAD THEY PERCEIVED THE HUNTERS 
     18718starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0231 AND FELT THE APPROACH OF DANGER WHATEVER THE CAUSE 
     18719starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0232 ALL BUT TWO FINE CREATURES FLED A TOWARDS THE EAST WITH INCREDIBLE SPEED 
     18720starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0233 IN A FEW INSTANTS THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT 
     18721starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0234 AND THE SWIFTEST HORSE COULD NOT HAVE CAUGHT THEM UP 
     18722starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0235 MEANWHILE HOWEVER TWO MAGNIFICENT SPECIMENS REMAINED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE 
     18723starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0236 HEADS DOWN ANTLERS TO ANTLERS HIND LEGS STRETCHED AND QUIVERING 
     18724starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0237 THEY BUTTED AT EACH OTHER WITHOUT A MOMENT'S PAUSE 
     18725starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0238 LIKE TWO WRESTLERS STRUGGLING FOR A PRIZE WHICH NEITHER WILL YIELD 
     18726starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0239 THEY WOULD NOT SEPARATE BUT WHIRLED ROUND AND ROUND TOGETHER ON THEIR FRONT LEGS 
     18727starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0240 AS IF RIVETED TO ONE ANOTHER WHAT IMPLACABLE RAGE EXCLAIMED MRS BARNETT 
     18728starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0241 YES REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT THE WAPITIS REALLY ARE MOST SPITEFUL BEASTS 
     18729starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0242 I HAVE NO DOUBT THEY ARE FIGHTING OUT AN OLD QUARREL 
     18730starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0243 WOULD NOT THIS BE THE TIME TO APPROACH THEM 
     18731starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0244 WHEN THEY ARE BLINDED WITH RAGE THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME MA'AM 
     18732starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0245 SAID SABINE THEY WON'T ESCAPE US NOW THEY WILL NOT STIR FROM WHERE THEY ARE 
     18733starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0246 WHEN WE ARE THREE STEPS FROM THEM THE RIFLES AT OUR SHOULDERS 
     18734starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0247 AND OUR FINGERS ON THE TRIGGERS INDEED YES MADAM 
     18735starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0248 ADDED HOBSON WHO HAD CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE WAPITIS 
     18736starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0249 AFTER THE HUNTER'S REMARK AND WHETHER AT OUR HANDS OR FROM THE TEETH OF WOLVES 
     18737starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0250 THOSE WAPITIS WILL MEET DEATH WHERE THEY NOW STAND 
     18738starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0251 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN LIEUTENANT SAID MRS BARNETT 
     18739starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0252 WELL GO NEARER MADAM HE REPLIED DON'T BE AFRAID OF STARTLING THE ANIMALS 
     18740starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0253 FOR AS OUR HUNTER SAYS THEY ARE NO LONGER CAPABLE OF FLIGHT 
     18741starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0254 THE FOUR NOW DESCENDED THE HILL 
     18742starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0255 AND IN A FEW MINUTES GAINED THE THEATRE OF THE STRUGGLE 
     18743starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0256 THE WAPITIS HAD NOT MOVED 
     18744starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0257 THEY WERE PUSHING AT EACH OTHER LIKE A COUPLE OF RAMS 
     18745starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0258 AND SEEMED TO BE INSEPARABLY GLUED TOGETHER 
     18746starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0259 IN FACT IN THE HEAT OF THE COMBAT 
     18747starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0260 THE ANTLERS OF THE TWO CREATURES HAD BECOME ENTANGLED TOGETHER 
     18748starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0261 TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THEY COULD NO LONGER SEPARATE WITHOUT BREAKING THEM 
     18749starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0262 THIS OFTEN HAPPENS IN THE HUNTING DISTRICTS 
     18750starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0263 IT IS NOT AT ALL UNCOMMON TO FIND ANTLERS THUS CONNECTED LYING ON THE GROUND 
     18751starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0264 THE POOR ENCUMBERED ANIMALS SOON DIE OF HUNGER 
     18752starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0265 OR THEY BECOME AN EASY PREY TO WILD BEASTS 
     18753starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0266 TWO BULLETS PUT AN END TO THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE WAPITIS 
     18754starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0267 AND MARBRE AND SABINE TAKING IMMEDIATE POSSESSION 
     18755starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0268 CARRIED OFF THEIR SKINS TO BE SUBSEQUENTLY PREPARED 
     18756starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0269 LEAVING THEIR BLEEDING CARCASSES TO BE DEVOURED BY WOLVES AND BEARS 
     18757starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0270 END OF CHAPTER SIX