The book The Fate of the Black Swan a Tale of New Guinea was written by author Moore Frank Frankfort Here you can read free online of The Fate of the Black Swan a Tale of New Guinea book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Fate of the Black Swan a Tale of New Guinea a good or bad book?
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They've made a good many impressions upon you, sonny, through the silent watches of the night, but we'll rub you all over with tar when next you sleep ashore, and you won't find matters so unpleasant. ' I spoke in kindness, but he didn't take me up so ; he said that if he was to be allowed the choice, he'd rather be chawed up by the ants than painted with the tar-brush. Anyhow, he formed a curious and unaccountable prejudice to the glories of O 194 THE FATE OF THE " BLACK SWAN. ' J the tropics ...that he hasn't got over up to the present day. Now, any poet that devotes an epic to the mosquito will find a purchaser in me. The leech, too, is a new subjeck for poetry, and anything about them will give an outsider a better idea of a tropical island than a dozen pages about the bird of Paradise and the glorious palms. " Mr. Phipson's audience laughed heartily, and thanked him for having told them what they might expect. A few nights after his harangue on the reali- ties of life in the tropics, a terrific storm of thunder and lightning took place, the rain descended in what seemed one solid sheet of water, and the lightning flashed almost con- tinuously.
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