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Man falls upon every thing that comes in his Way, not the smallest Fruit or Excrescence of the Earth, scarce a Berry or a Mushroom, can escape him.
"We are a Scientific Exploration Society, and we must keep an account of all the plants, animals, minerals, and so on, as we come across them. Then, suppose we get lost, and have to hunt for food, how are we to know what is safe and what isn't? Come, now, do you know the difference between a toadstool and a mushroom?" "No, I don't." "Then I'll teach you some day.
'Yes, but it's the water I mean. 'Well, I want to see that dyke. Let's walk along it. My mushroom theory died directly I set foot on it. It was the most innocent structure in the world like a thousand others in Essex and Holland topped by a narrow path, where we walked in single file with arms akimbo to keep our balance in the gusts of wind.
He went back to Fairyfoot in such a hurry that he tripped on his sword and fell, and rolled over so many times that Fairyfoot had to stop him and pick him up. "Is she dead?" asked Fairyfoot. "No," said Robin; "she isn't." He sat down on a small mushroom and clasped his hands about his knees and looked mad just mad. Angry or indignant wouldn't express it.
You may suppose that this was not the moment for saying, 'Respect courage in misfortune! In short, monsieur, after enduring the anguish, if the word is strong enough for my frenzy, of seeing for a long time, yes, quite a long time, those cursed Germans flying from a voice they heard where they could see no one, I was dug out by a woman, who was brave or curious enough to come close to my head, which must have looked as though it had sprouted from the ground like a mushroom.
She did not wait long. Daisy was lying down with a wet cheek on the little hymnbook out of which she and Nat used to sing together; so Mrs Jo strolled about the lawn, looking very like a wandering mushroom with her large buff umbrella.
"Some of us fellows who try to paint have big notions about Art. I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
Some of my Acquaintance, who have try'd these Directions, approve of them; and, for my own part, I think them as agreeable as any that I have eaten: but as the Taste is not alike in every one, I shall add an Observation or two more of Monsieur Garneau's, concerning the Mushroom, which I think not unworthy our notice.
By these things we may know the wan Demon of the woods, but the wisest Guides say to their tribe: "Because death lurks in that shapely mushroom, though there are a hundred good for food, they are much alike, and safety bids you shun them; let them all alone." So Diablo went on his way rejoicing because he had spoiled so much good food for good folk.
Almost as much as insects and birds the former so dear to the child, who loves to rear his cockchafers and rose beetles on a bed of hawthorn in a box pierced with holes; the latter an irresistible temptation, with their nests and their eggs and their little ones opening tiny yellow beaks the mushroom early won my heart with its varied shapes and colors.
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