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Updated: July 27, 2025
The bassoon-like sound never ceases a single instant and tells the listener how innumerable are the populations of insects which live and generate their sort under the shade of their jungle retreat. Other inexplicable noises far off crashes, mysterious sounds that chill one's veins, howls that make one shiver for a sole moment break the noon-day silence. What is their origin? Nobody can say.
Blare, blare, in a half-chorus they first hang on a high note; then suddenly tumbling an octave, they roar a bassoon-like challenge in unison like a lot of enraged bulls. Nearer and nearer, as if challenging us with these hoarse sounds, came a large body of soldiery; we could distinctly see the bright cluster of banners round the squadron commander.
Then we'll consult. Whatever the old girl says, do do it!" "I intend to, Mat," replies the other. "I would sooner take her opinion than that of a college." "College," returns Mr. Bagnet in short sentences, bassoon-like. "What college could you leave in another quarter of the world with nothing but a grey cloak and an umbrella to make its way home to Europe? The old girl would do it to-morrow.
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