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Updated: May 22, 2025
Evening closed in, and he strained his eyes to see if he could behold the top of the mountain. Then he gazed beneath him, and what a sight met his eyes! A yawning abyss, with certain and terrible death at the bottom, reeking with half-decayed bodies of horses and riders! And this had been the end of all the other brave men who like himself had attempted the ascent.
One more adventure the Buck had that fall. Providence, or Fate, or someone took a hand in affairs, and rid the Glimmerglass of all hunters, not for that season alone, but for many years to come. One night, down beside a spring in the cedar swamp, the Buck found a half-decayed log on which a bag of salt had been emptied.
No doubt they were right, for I went back, in spite of their protest, and peeped into the nest, and found four gleaming white eggs studding the bottom like pearls. Alas! when I visited the place two weeks later, the little domicile had been raided, the half-decayed walls having been broken down.
From time to time you pass a cluster of deserted roofless cottages of dingiest brick, half-swallowed up in sinking pits or inclining to every point of the compass, while the timbers point up like the ribs of a half-decayed corpse.
It is known that various kinds of acids are generated by the decay of vegetable matter; and from the contents of the intestines of worms and from their castings being acid, it seems probable that the process of digestion induces an analogous chemical change in the swallowed, triturated, and half-decayed leaves.
Delicious! delicious! And the stone-work round it, bearing no other marks of waste than my pruning-hook and dagger left behind? Cornelia. None whatever. Tasso. White in that place no longer? There has been time enough for it to become all of one colour; grey, mossy, half-decayed. Cornelia. No, no; not even the rope has wanted repair. Tasso. Who sings yonder? Cornelia. Enchanter!
His words reminded me of what I had seen when a boy a tree full of split, half-decayed cherries and I told him to go to picking at once. I also sent his eldest boy and Merton into the trees. Old Jacox was told to get the grass he had cut into as good shape as possible before the shower.
Now and again a group of minarets, with a central dome, would come into view on the horizon, breaking the deep blue of the sky with their dark shadows; or a ruined temple was seen close at hand, charred and crumbled by the wear of the elements for centuries. India abounds in these forsaken and half-decayed shrines, once, no doubt, centres of busy life and religious ceremonials.
"Dauntless to the front!" yelled Roy Bock. "Everybody in the game!" and then, in the midst of the excitement, he drew back with a soft apple in his hand and threw the half-decayed fruit at Jack. It just grazed the young major's shoulder. Pepper was on the watch, for he had expected just such a dirty trick. He leaped up, and reaching over, caught the Pornell student by the ear.
And when we remember how easily scientific scepticism is satisfied with the faintest traces of whatever strengthens its theories how thin are some of the generalizations of Herbert Spencer how very slight and fanciful are the resemblances of words which philologists often accept as indisputable proofs how far-fetched are the inferences sometimes drawn from the appearance of half-decayed fossils as proofs and even demonstrations of the law of evolution we need not be over-modest in setting forth these traces of an original divine element in the institution of typical sacrifices among men.
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