their stalks, they are unable to give The peculiar shoes or stilts shown in the accompany- Eventually the same wind that lifted them will dash their seeds the start in life which is desirable. They ing illustrations have been patented by their inventor, them to earth once more, and they will… … Still more striking MODERN SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS. Then, the other foot is the resemblance being raised, the many little contrivances whereby the seeds are dis- between a dandelion seed and a parachute—while the body rolls forward on the curve shoe until the front persed and deposited upon soil suited…
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