Death Of A Naturallist Flashcards
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‘All year the flax-dam festered in the heart of the town land; green and heavy headed…daily it sweltered in the punishing sun’
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‘Best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water in the shade of the banks. Here, every Spring I would fill the jampotfuls of jellied specks’
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‘One hot day when fields were rank with cow dung in the grass and angry frogs invaded the flax-dam; I ducked…a coarse croaking’
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‘Gross-bellied frogs were cocked on sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped: the slap and plop were obscene threats’
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‘Mud grenades, their blunt heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings were gathered there for vengeance’
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