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 The people adjusted more and more to the new conditions.

The animals perished

from their limited understandir6, the plants were saved due to the complete absence of animals. In the meadows of the forest we repeatedly encountered beautiful dancing games of men and women.

AL heights of the flying larks there resounded singing and music.

The bodies posed beautifully.

At times we doze off, and such dancing games bring

you mentally to a dead-end, reminiscent of fairy tales, mermaids and all kinds of fiction. Sometimes we encountered tragedy:

some unfortunate ruminant, several sagenes

from thick and juicy grass, was dying from hunger.

Barely with intensive blows

against the air and, of course, accidentally, it neared the Earth and grabbed the food, as a new, unreasonable motion withdrew the animal by its legs to heights and mch further than it was earlier. The predatory ones were still ones,

worse off (the non-flying ones, -

the flying

although not without confusion, managed with the new conditions).

very seldom did they bump into food, nor did the food come to them... saw such scenes:

Seldom,

Yes, we also

poor sheep, chamois, deer, cow, horse, hare, not by free will,

climbed into the very mouth of a bear, lion, wolf...

They all bleated, neighed

and, bellowed, but could not avert their inexorable fate.

It also happened, how-

ever, that an animal flew within an arshin of a predator, which in spite of the most sincere desire to use the wild game, could not do this.

It frequently occurred

thus that the animal will strike the predator from behind and wardi'; itself, will fly away back, not getting it saved the animal..,

in his paws.

When it was possible or necessary, we

in order to consume it ourselves. IV Hater of Gravity (Somewhat humorously)

23.

I had an eccentric acquaintance who hated terrestrial gravity like

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