16 THE FOREST. 



The forest trees, gigantic as they are, become 

 uprooted, and are carried away by the stream as 

 though they were reeds or rushes. The monkeys, 

 the jaguars, all the creatures of the forest are 

 swept away. And the gloomy alligator swims 

 where lately they made their home in the 

 branches. 



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