"They were fetched here about fifty years ago from Java--just a few pair, and they were let go and went wild, and now they're all over the face of the earth about here.

We've shot six hundred of 'em--just the two rifles--in six months.

It's not play, I tell you, to shoot and skin six hundred and cure their hides in that time.

We'll get a thousand this season." "Good Lord," said Hugh.

"Won't they be shot out ?" "Not they.