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At the base of a tall fig tree flourishing in one of the corners, its dense, wide branching top making a literal roof for the otherwise roofless hall an enormous ant's nest was plastered, a black excrescence looking like burnt paper, and which crumbled like soft crisp cinder as I poked it with the barrel of my gun, to the dismay of its myriad little red inhabitants the only denizens it would seem of this once-magnificent hall.
"I have been waiting for you with some impatience;" he said, "to be present at the hunt after a white ant's nest, a sort of thing I know you like.
"I know that," said Phil, poking his toe into an ant's nest and declining to meet Roger's steady, level gaze; "but, really, I I was feeling pretty rotten, you know, and I didn't have mum-much heart for practice." "Yes," said the captain, "I'm afraid that was the principal trouble you didn't have much heart for it. You lost heart in the game, and you haven't braced up yet.
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