Stairway to Forever
“There was no natural crowding of these trees—oaks, maples, elms, a few chestnuts and ginkos and, within his sight, one huge mimosa covered with a pink froth of flowers—they therefore looked less like a true forest than a carefully tended park.
Startled by the noise of the engine, two deerlike beasts looked up, then burst into full flight, quickly disappearing among the tree trunks and folds of gently rolling greensward. They were clearly not the white-tails of his own world and hunting expe...rience, however; he got a good enough glimpse of the departing creatures to at least tell that much. For one thing, both of them were spotted, though obviously adult, and they bore antlers more like those of a moose than a deer or elk.
Nor were the cervines the only animals to be seen and heard in the parklike expanse. Squirrels scampered up trees, to turn and scold at him from safe altitudes; brown voles and striped chipmunks scurried through the grass and dove into their burrows among the spreading roots of the trees; while high in a persimmon tree, a scaly-tailed opossum blithely ignored the noisy, smelly intruder and went about gorging himself on the rich, yellow-orange fruits.MoreLess
Startled by the noise of the engine, two deerlike beasts looked up, then burst into full flight, quickly disappearing among the tree trunks and folds of gently rolling greensward. They were clearly not the white-tails of his own world and hunting expe...rience, however; he got a good enough glimpse of the departing creatures to at least tell that much. For one thing, both of them were spotted, though obviously adult, and they bore antlers more like those of a moose than a deer or elk.
Nor were the cervines the only animals to be seen and heard in the parklike expanse. Squirrels scampered up trees, to turn and scold at him from safe altitudes; brown voles and striped chipmunks scurried through the grass and dove into their burrows among the spreading roots of the trees; while high in a persimmon tree, a scaly-tailed opossum blithely ignored the noisy, smelly intruder and went about gorging himself on the rich, yellow-orange fruits.MoreLess
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