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to one side, grabbed Emily, then jerked the girl close to her body in a single,continuos movement as lithe and deadly as a snake strike. The dragonfly lurched downward, threatened to tip over on its nose, then leveled againand began a slow, juddering spiral toward the forest floor. But there seemed another common element aswell, something that troubled him but that he could not quite name. Let me help him if I can.

He tried to speak, but could not. Aftergoing down to the river to splash themselves with lukewarm Nile water, they drowsed in the shadyrefuge of t Together they wrestled the mat over the curled edge of the leaf; then, with a great deal ofswearing, shoved it more or less into place. Child subjects displayed a few differences fromadults--they adapted better in the long run, although they were also more likely to b