Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 233
eslipped back. Then, with every muscletense, he dodged behind it and sprinted, ashe had never run before, across a little open-ing to where a vast strangler-fig had swal-lowed a Brazil-nut tree in its octopus grip.The rush of the charging herd was hard onhis heels as he reached the tree, and he had… … THE UMBRELLA-BIRD, WHICH RAISES ITS PARASOLWITH EVERY NOTE the ground, the bristling head of one of theherd struck against his feet, and he kickedthem aloft just in time to avoid the quickdouble slash of the sharp tusks which fol-lowed. Up and up he went, while the wholeshell-like structure of the…
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