Books for you

"Little danger of
that! I made my own base, knew the length of the perpendicular by
calculation, and to draw the hypothenuse had nothing to do but to work
my angle. I supposed the guns were fired for my benefit, and changed
my course for the sounds--not that I think the sense more accurate, or
even as accurate as a mathematical calculation, but I feared that some
of the children might need my services."
"They are all happily--"
"Listen," interrupted the other, already forgetting his affected
anxiety for his patients, in the greater importance of the present
subject. "I had crossed a large tract of prairie--for sound is
conveyed far where there is little obstruction--when I heard the
trampling of feet, as if bisons were beating the earth. Then I caught
a distant view of a herd of quadrupeds, rushing up and down the swells
--animals, which would have still remained unknown and undescribed,
had it not been for a most felicitous accident! One, and he a noble
specimen of the whole! was running a little apart from the rest.


Pages:
130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154