The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American literature |
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Page 85
Manes tossing , tails flying , awkward slate - gray bodies humped into a lumbering gallop , ugly heads down , they streamed across the plain . ... The iron head was wrapped in a thin piece of reedbuck skin , supple as chamois leather .
Manes tossing , tails flying , awkward slate - gray bodies humped into a lumbering gallop , ugly heads down , they streamed across the plain . ... The iron head was wrapped in a thin piece of reedbuck skin , supple as chamois leather .
Page 88
On either side the leaves were covered with a mess of blood and froth , two feet above his head . He paused , moved forward again slowly , every muscle tense beneath the sheen of his brown skin . In a moment Wright saw the elephant .
On either side the leaves were covered with a mess of blood and froth , two feet above his head . He paused , moved forward again slowly , every muscle tense beneath the sheen of his brown skin . In a moment Wright saw the elephant .
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He did n't care two hoots for anything or anybody , clearly never looked this way or that , but shambled along , as if he were in carpet slippers , weaving his big head slightly from side to side . I was fascinated watching him .
He did n't care two hoots for anything or anybody , clearly never looked this way or that , but shambled along , as if he were in carpet slippers , weaving his big head slightly from side to side . I was fascinated watching him .
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Contents
August Evening Josephine Johnson | 62 |
Perils of American Power Reinhold | 90 |
Gay Robert M | 96 |
Copyright | |
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