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flourished it up and down. Tribes of emerald-green grasshoppers leaped over
his feet, falling awkwardly on their backs, heads, or hips, like unskilful
acrobats, or engaged themselves in noisy flirtations under the fern-fronds
with silent ones of homely hue. Huge flies, ignorant of larders and wire-
netting, and quite in a savage state, buzzed about him without knowing that
he was a man. In and out of the fern-dells snakes glided in their most
brilliant blue and yellow guise, it being the season immediately following
the shedding of their old skins, when their colours are brightest. Litters of
young rabbits came out from their forms to sun themselves upon hillocks,
the hot beams blazing through the delicate tissue of thin-fleshed ear,and
firing it to a blood-red transparency in which the veins could be seen. None
of them feared him."" 29
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