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This and other difficulties made it true that only one of the world's five continents were human-occupied. Most of the land surface was strictly as it had been before the landing of men impenetrable jungles of spongelike flora, dwelt in by a largely unknown useless fauna. Calhoun read on. Population ... government ... health statistics.... He went through the list.
The parents scolded and swore at them peevishly, and beat their spongelike bodies, soaked with liquor; then more or less systematically put them to bed, in order to rouse them to work early next morning, when the bellow of the whistle should sullenly course through the air.
The Cinnamon fern, that encloses the spongelike, brown, fertile fronds in the circle of green ones, gains its greatest size of five feet in roadside runnels or in springy places between boulders in the river woods; yet so accommodating is it that you can use it at the base of your knoll if a convenient rock promises both reasonable dampness and shelter.
He fought with his fear again, overcame it, hitched the pack still farther over on his left shoulder, and lurched on down the slope. The bottom of the valley was soggy with water, which the thick moss held, spongelike, close to the surface.
The girl carefully folded the contents into the now spongelike omelet as he went on: "By the way, a neighbor of mine told me, just before I left, that he was having trouble with a broken sewer. How'd you like to " "About as well as you'd like to darn socks!" she came back, evidently being primed for such comments.
'Don't take it off, he said with a laughing wave of the hand to Catherine; 'I will come for it to-morrow morning. And he ran up the drive, conscious at last that it might be prudent to get himself into something less spongelike than his present attire as quickly as possible. The vicar followed him. 'Don't keep Catherine, my dear. There's nothing to tell. Nobody's the worse. Mrs.
Beginning our account with the first and most exceptional of these groups, we note the following features in their interesting history: Wherever in a humid region, on a gentle slope say with an inclination not exceeding ten feet to the mile the soil is possessed by any species of plants whose stems grow closely together, so that from their decayed parts a spongelike mass is produced, we have the conditions which favour the development of climbing bogs.
'Don't take it off, he said, with a laughing wave of the hand to Catherine; 'I will come for it to-morrow morning. And he ran up the drive, conscious at last that it might be prudent to get himself into something less spongelike than his present attire as quickly as possible. The vicar followed him. 'Don't keep Catherine, my dear. There's nothing to tell. Nobody's the worse. Mrs.
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