Walkabout

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The nightlights of the fireflies became pale and anaemic.†

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To his sister the sneeze was a calamity.†

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They were hungry and thirsty; exhausted and disillusioned.†

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His feet he pulled proudly up in a high-kicking march of victory - an ebullient, primitive goose-step.†

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Mental euthanasia.†

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Then, amongst the roots, he fossicked for resin; the exuded sap that had overflowed from and run down the yacca-yaccas' stems in the days of their prime.†

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In the centre of the pool three of the strangest creatures were playfully gambolling over the water.†

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For the pardalote was a bird with an abnormal thirst; he drank eighty to a hundred times a day, and not by the normal process of imbibing through the beak, but by settling himself on top of the water, spreading his wings and absorbing liquid through the delicate membrane of his skin.†

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He started to clear the area of leaves, twigs, and grass; everything inflammable he swept aside; so that the evil spirits of the bush fire should have nothing to feed on.†

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The presence of these strange interlopers, it decided, deserved to be announced.†

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The hours meandered past like slow, unhurrying snails.†

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For now came a metamorphosis too amazing to be believed.†

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Half-way through the afternoon, as they were crossing a monotonous belt of scrub, there came a diversion: as welcome as it was unexpected.†

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Peter, meanwhile, had fanned the fire into a blazing pyre of yacca.†

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He was healthy and scrupulously clean.†

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It was a test of mental and physical toughness far fairer - but no less stringent - than the Spartan exposure of new-born babies.†

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His absurdities grew more tempestuous, more abandoned, yet never lost their realism.†

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All the tenets of progressive society and racial superiority combined inside her to form a deep-rooted core of resentment.†

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That evening they came to a bend in the lagoon, and rounding this, saw ahead of them the valley-end: a sheer precipice of granite, and at its base a dark tunnel out of which an underground river flowed in a smooth pouring torrent.†