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Updated: June 22, 2025
There are the sky, the clouds, the lungfuls of pure air, the growing things which send their roots where they will and not in a man-ordered way. There is the wild life that obeys no man's law: the insects, the birds, and small four-footed animals. On all sides you will find evidences of wild life if you will look for it.
He was jerked upwards, perhaps a foot. A moment later he was gulping in great lungfuls of air. He had been suffocating ten or twelve inches beneath that repulsive slime, as securely captured as if he had been a thousand feet deep. It had taken Greer and Smith that length of time to wriggle a yard or two and fish him out. "Steady! Steady!" said Caradoc in a lifeless voice. "Steady there, Madden!
Murmurs answered him, but no man dared rebel. Discipline still gripped the Legionaries. The Master drove them to labor. "Come, quick now! Prepare a sack, apiece! I'll show you how!" He set lips to the emptied skin, and with many lungfuls of strong breath inflated it. The leather thong tightly wrapped the neck.
The sky overhead was deep purple, and full of stars. The air wafted about hither and thither in little, cool, damp puffs, which were a luxury to inhale. Bressant drew in two or three long lungfuls; then, setting his round straw hat more firmly on his head, he leaned slightly forward, and launched himself into a long, swinging run.
They're a rather scarce commodity with us. Too many weasels and skunks and other chicken-eaters to make it a healthy country for hens. As to the door I'll be glad to have you close it if you feel cold. But it's delightful for me to be sitting here all wrapped up in blankets and taking in big lungfuls of our forest air. It it makes a fellow feel like a two-year-old."
Behind them, far away but too clear, sounded that eerie howling, topping the sigh of the night wind. "I saw " Thorvald gasped, pausing as if to catch full lungfuls of air to back his words, "they have a 'hound! That's what you hear." As the raft revolved slowly it also slipped downstream at a steadily increasing pace, for the current had them in hold.
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