"Ah. But, at present, working here in your famous slaughterhouse district . . . are many . . . Hungarians, not true?"
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Ah. Here we go. The question about the bison was just to lube Lew up (Lew Basnight. Lube Ass Night) for the real meat of the discussion. Human meat. Obviously, if he wanted to hunt bison . . . if that were the thing he were "really looking for in Chicago," he wouldn't have come to Chicago. But Chicago does have a large immigrant class of immigrants from a place where the Archduke would probably like to kill a few of them. He was probably annoyed that the Hungarians retained as much power as they did in the Austro-Hungarian union but he couldn't just kill them over in Europe. But here in America, where they've fled to? Oh ho! Vengeance!
Or maybe Franz didn't have any problem with Hungarians. You'd have to read historical texts to know if that were true or not and I only read Xanth novels. Maybe the Archduke simply thought, "Americans are pretty racist to ethnic minorities. I've seen how they treat the immigrant laborers. It would be daft if they didn't want me to hunt down a few!"
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