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One of the pleasantest reminiscences of my travels is that of my reception as a member of the Academy of St. Petersburg. Count Strogonoff, then Director of the Fine Arts, apprised me of the appointed day for my installation. I ordered a uniform of the Academy, in the shape of an Amazonian dress: a little violet bodice, a yellow skirt, and a black hat and feathers.
The Amazonian Mrs Sword proceeded with her work, and Mr Clam stood stupified with surprise. His companion, in the mean time, proceeded as directed to the commandant's house, and in a short time found herself in presence of Colonel Sword. The colonel was a tall thin man, with a very pale face, and a very hooked nose.
Truth to tell, not being quite sure that her game was safely wired, and dreading this Amazonian Miss Hunsden as a prospective rival, she was nothing loath to prejudice the fastidious young baronet beforehand, even while seeming to praise her. "I am surprised that you have not heard of her," she said. "Sir Harcourt Helford and Mr.
Enormous as are the trees of the Amazonian forests, and able to withstand the fiercest storms, they have frequently to succumb to the attacks of minute insects. Many a monarch of the woods has been brought low by the efforts of the persevering termites; but they have other enemies. One of these is an enormous fellow the hister maximus.
They have normally and permanently a wide range just as some terrestrial animals have an almost cosmopolitan character while others are circumscribed within comparatively narrow limits. Surprising indeed is the variety of species of fishes contained in the Amazonian basin.
Indeed the true denizen of the Amazonian forests, like the forest itself, is unique and not to be forgotten."
Before taking to the saw and the ax they had armed themselves with a felling-sword, that indispensable tool of every one who desires to penetrate the Amazonian forests, a large blade slightly curved, wide and flat, and two or three feet long, and strongly handled, which the natives wield with consummate address.
Let's go on home with 'em, and then come back just us have a little expedition of our own." We looked at him, much impressed. There was something attractive to a bunch of unattached young men in finding an undiscovered country of a strictly Amazonian nature. Of course we didn't believe the story but yet!
"If I couldn't afford any other clothes, I might wear a switch, too!" hissed the Amazonian queen. "I suppose you don't dye it on account of the salt water? But perhaps you prefer green, dear?" "A little salt water might improve your own complexion, love." "Fishwoman!" screamed the Amazonian queen. "Bloomerite!" shrieked the mermaid. In another instant they had seized each other. "Mutiny!
With microscope to his eye the bacteriologist is now examining the constituent parts of the blood, isolating, breeding, and minutely studying the germs of fevers, the growths of tumors, and other elemental forms of human parasites, in order to discover their antagonisms, their likings; for in these jungles of the flesh the war of races proceeds quite as in the Amazonian forests the white cells against the red, devouring, destroying.
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