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...middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...FLORA & FAUNA...
...geologists with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, who feels responsible for Antarctica, are more imaginative. Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy. There-just possibly-unknown fauna may be nibbling at unknown flora...
...sights of Florida in 1824, in the days when Florida's sights were pretty well confined to flora & fauna, was the new owner of a 1,2OO-acre plantation known as Parthenope, near St. Augustine. The bachelor proprietor was 23, and had a nervous, knowing, extraordinary manner...
Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...