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And through the portal marched, two by two, incredible, nightmare figures frog-men, giants, taller by nearly a yard than even tall O'Keefe! Their enormous saucer eyes were irised by wide bands of green-flecked red, in which the phosphorescence flickered. Their long muzzles, lips half-open in monstrous grin, held rows of glistening, slender, lancet sharp fangs.
And the elm, knowing them, approving them, let its green-flecked branches dance in unison with them. The first dance was in full swing when I approached. Only six of the men were dancers.
The oak in regal purple stood outlined against the beech in cloth-of-gold, while green-flecked hickory and elm, and iridescent silver and scarlet ash, and flaming maple added to the kaleidoscope of splendor. The old National pike road leading down to Cloverdale was still flanked by little rail-fenced fields that were bordered by deep woodlands.
Nevertheless, after watching a convoy train tool along over the green-flecked yellow veldt at the rate of six miles a day, after seeing nothing but an occasional isolated farmhouse, the little town appeared like a centre of civilization and excitement to the bored troopers, as they rode up the main street and pitched camp on the western edge of the town.
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