Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 540
is never safe. Death anddanger lurk everywhere and in the most un-expected forms. It is onlyin South America,he went on, that you can be eaten up byfish about the size of a small trout, or bekilled by ants or Httle brown bats. Jud listened with much scorn. Profes-sor, he broke out at last, I dont… … 360 THE INCA EMERALD of the moonlight, from the glassy water ofthe bay, soared a shape of horror, a black,monstrous creature like a gigantic bat. Ithad two wings which measured a goodtwenty feet from tip to tip, and was fiat,like an enormous skate. Behind it streameda spiked, flexible tail, while…
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