I can't find walrus in the Latin dictionary nor anything else beginning with W somehow, but it seems all right.—Ed.
Yes, the fog was playing a dark game, but Nora could see it and go one lighter (there were several on the stream we had quitted). She produced a patent electric light.19 Aided by this, we looked about us and saw the strange denizens of the Zû.
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Patent in the first sense of the word. She has not yet received offers advantageous enough to close with in the other sense.
It was now that the presence of mind of Leonora saved us. Foreseeing the probability of an encounter with wild beasts, she had filled her practicable pocket (she belonged to the Rational Dress Association) with buns and ginger-bread nuts.
The elephant now walked round, the wolves also circulated, the bear climbed his pole, the great gorilla beat his breast and roared.
Leonora was their match.
For the elephant she had a rusk, a bun for the bear, and the gorilla was pacified by an offering of nuts from his native Brazil.
THIS WAY TO THE CROCODILE HOUSE
we now read, on an inscription in black letters, and, following the path indicated, we reached the dank tank where the monsters dwell. We had arrived at a place which I find it difficult to describe. The floor was smooth and hard.