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A red-hot poker falling on a board of poplar would burn its way without causing more combustion than the hole through which it passed." "I should think, then," said Malcolm, "that all wooden things would be made of poplar." "It is generally thought not to be durable," was the reply, "but it is said that if kept dry the wood will last as long as that of any tree. Says the poplar plank,
"You know these gentlemen like to do each other a good turn when they can, and so, putting two and two together, I should say that his Excellency of Perm has concluded that our pretty prisoner will serve to beguile the dulness of that Godforsaken hole in which his Excellency of Tchit is probably dying of ennui.
We afterwards went together to the forest, where we dug a hole for the elephant; my patron intending to return when it was rotten, and to take the teeth, etc., to trade with. I continued this game for two months, and killed an elephant every day, getting sometimes upon one tree, and sometimes upon another.
At night she may get out of the hole, but she may not leave the hut. Her paternal aunt looks after her, and both of them must abstain from eating turtle, dugong, and the heads of fish. Were they to eat the heads of fish no more fish would be caught.
There did not seem to be anything more to say on that subject, so Sandy remarked: "Smoke if you care to, Lans; don't mind me." But Lans did not care to smoke and suddenly he jumped up, plunged his hands in his pockets and faced Sandy with crimson cheeks and wide eyes. "Sand," he blurted out, "I'm in a devil of a hole; I've pulled about all Lost Hollow in with me.
And so, when that citizen finds himself in the capital of India he goes first of all to see the Black Hole of Calcutta and is disappointed. The Black Hole was not preserved; it is gone, long, long ago. It is strange. Just as it stood, it was itself a monument; a ready-made one.
"Why, what happened?" Lena asked, partly because she was curious and partly to be kind. "I'll never know just what did truly happen, because just as she came toward me, I was so scared I fainted, and when I came to, the lady had vanished, but the big hole in the canvas showed JUST WHERE SHE'D STOOD!" "Why Gwen Harcourt! You know that story's a fib story all the way through!" said Harry.
It was making an alarming noise and diffusing a pungent odor, while two men thrust bits of board beneath the wheels for it to climb out of the hole on. Prescott's team slackened their pace, jerking their heads and pricking their ears. They were young range horses that had roamed over wide spaces, and were badly broken. Getting a tight grip on the reins he turned to his companion.
But luckily she was well provided with water-tight bulkheads, or nothing could have saved her, for the sea poured into her in tons through the huge hole which the shell had made in her side.
When Martin discovered the great ant-eater, it was about to begin its supper; so he watched it. The plain was covered with ant-hills, somewhat pillar-like in shape. At the foot of one of these the animal made an attack, tearing up earth and sticks with its enormously strong claws, until it made a large hole in the hard materials, of which the hill was composed.
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