But you're so positive you know all the lore of the
forest. It's difficult.
The importance of this feature has not been properly magnified in the Black
Forest stories.
Then he lay flat on the floor, as one does in a wood, and declared that he would wait until I found the door of the
forest, as there was nothing better to do!
They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she said: 'You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the
forest?--we thought you were never coming back at all!' The father, however, rejoiced, for it had cut him to the heart to leave them behind alone.
The country on each side of the lake was one unbroken
forest. In the same periagua with us, a cow was embarked.
Do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the interior of the burdock
forest?"
The spoor lay directly along the trail for another half-mile when the way suddenly debouched from the
forest into open land and there broke upon the astonished view of the ape-man the domes and minarets of a walled city.
The sun shone upon it, and about it were open, level grass-lands, while to the eastward we saw the dark line of a wide-stretching
forest.
It was easy to see why the Kaolians needed no navy; their cities, hidden in the midst of this towering
forest, must be entirely invisible from above, nor could a landing be made by any but the smallest fliers, and then only with the greatest risk of accident.
But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the
forest trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.
Waziri remained with the main body, which advanced in a thin line that spread in a great crescent through the
forest. By the chief's side walked Tarzan.
It was now deep dusk in the
forest, and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying.
