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y like mushrooms,but far too big-the stalks about three feet high and the umbrellas about the same length from edge to edge.When she looked carefully she noticed too that the stalks joined the umbrellas not in the middle but at one side which gave an unbalanced look to them.And there was something-a sort of little bundle-lying on the grass at the foot of each stalk.In fact the longer she gazed at them the less like mushrooms they appeared. The umbrella part was not really round as she had thought at first. It was longer than it was broad,and it widened at one end.There were a great many of them,fifty or more.
The clock struck three.
Instantly a most extraordinary thing happened.Each of the“mushrooms”suddenly turned upside-down.The little bundles which had lain at the bottom of the stalks were heads and bodies.The stalks themselves were legs.But not two legs to each body.Each body had a single thick leg right under itnot to one side like the leg
of a one-legged mana