Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs


The body and the legs were as symmetrically human as Nature could
have fashioned them, and the feet, too, were human in shape, but
of monstrous proportions. From heel to toe they were fully three
feet long, and very flat and very broad.


As it came quite close to me I discovered that its strange movements,
running its odd hands over the surface of the turf, were the result
of its peculiar method of feeding, which consists in cropping off
the tender vegetation with its razorlike talons and sucking it up
from its two mouths, which lie one in the palm of each hand, through
its arm-like throats.

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Old Dominion University CS Dept
Designed by Joan A. Smith for the CRATE project
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Part of a series of experiments in web preservation under the direction of Michael L. Nelson, Ph.D.