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overrun at least nine-tenths of the area. Flame 

 and the drafts that it creates sweep upward. 



Upon a huge lava boulder in the grassy stretch 

 I commanded a view of more than a mile of the 

 forest-edge and was close to where a game trail 

 came into it out of the fiery woods. On this 

 burning forest-border a picturesque, unplanned 

 wild-animal parade passed before me. 



Scattered flakes of ashes were falling when a 

 herd of elk led the exodus of wild folk from the 

 fire-doomed forest. They came stringing out of 

 the woods into the open, with both old and 

 young going forward without confusion and as 

 though headed for a definite place or pasture. 

 They splashed through a beaver pond without 

 stopping and continued their way up the river. 

 There was no show of fear, no suggestion of 

 retreat. They never looked back. Deer strag- 

 gled out singly and in groups. It was plain that 

 all were fleeing from danger, all were excitedly 

 trying to get out of the way of something; and 

 they did not appear to know where they were 

 going. Apparently they gave more troubled 

 attention to the roaring, the breath, and the 



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