"Undoubtedly; among the '
mammoth trees' of California, there is a cedar four hundred and eighty feet in height.
There is the low, dark wainscoted room hung with sporting prints; the hat-stand (with a whip or two standing up in it belonging to bagmen who are still snug in bed) by the door; the blazing fire, with the quaint old glass over the mantelpiece, in which is stuck a large card with the list of the meets for the week of the county hounds; the table covered with the whitest of cloths and of china, and bearing a pigeon-pie, ham, round of cold boiled beef cut from a
mammoth ox, and the great loaf of household bread on a wooden trencher.
Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer's or druggist's, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic -- if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced; -- then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a
mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood.
Any one of those
mammoth low-brows at the door could eat him, armour and all.
The armament of the huge German airships, big as the biggest
mammoth liners afloat, was one machine gun that could easily have been packed up on a couple of mules.
I saw a greater number of small lions and tigers, though many of the huge ones still persisted, while the woolly
mammoth was more in evidence, as were several varieties of the Labyrinthadonta.
Crouching among the trees, which here commenced to thin out slightly, Bradley saw what appeared to be an enormous dragon devouring the carcass of a
mammoth. From frightful jaws to the tip of its long tail it was fully forty feet in length.
And he told them of the Great
Mammoths and Lizards, as long as a train, that wandered over the mountains in those times, nibbling from the tree-tops.
There were the outlines of the giant red-deer, of
mammoths, of tigers and other beasts.
"You don't mean to say you really believe this stuff of his about
mammoths and mastodons and great sea sairpents?"
She was haunted by absurd jumbled ideas--how, if one went back far enough, everything perhaps was intelligible; everything was in common; for the
mammoths who pastured in the fields of Richmond High Street had turned into paving stones and boxes full of ribbon, and her aunts.
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