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They
did
not
stand
for
long
.
The
bundle-like
buds
swelled
and
strained
and
opened
with
a
jerk
,
thrusting
out
a
coronet
of
little
sharp
tips
,
spreading
a
whorl
of
tiny
,
spiky
,
brownish
leaves
,
that
lengthened
rapidly
,
lengthened
visibly
even
as
we
watched
.
The
movement
was
slower
than
any
animal
's
,
swifter
than
any
plant
's
I
have
ever
seen
before
.
How
can
I
suggest
it
to
you
--
the
way
that
growth
went
on
?
The
leaf
tips
grew
so
that
they
moved
onward
even
while
we
looked
at
them
.
The
brown
seed-case
shrivelled
and
was
absorbed
with
an
equal
rapidity
.
Have
you
ever
on
a
cold
day
taken
a
thermometer
into
your
warm
hand
and
watched
the
little
thread
of
mercury
creep
up
the
tube
?
These
moon
plants
grew
like
that
.
In
a
few
minutes
,
as
it
seemed
,
the
buds
of
the
more
forward
of
these
plants
had
lengthened
into
a
stem
and
were
even
putting
forth
a
second
whorl
of
leaves
,
and
all
the
slope
that
had
seemed
so
recently
a
lifeless
stretch
of
litter
was
now
dark
with
the
stunted
olive-green
herbage
of
bristling
spikes
that
swayed
with
the
vigour
of
their
growing
.
I
turned
about
,
and
behold
!
along
the
upper
edge
of
a
rock
to
the
eastward
a
similar
fringe
in
a
scarcely
less
forward
condition
swayed
and
bent
,
dark
against
the
blinding
glare
of
the
sun
.
And
beyond
this
fringe
was
the
silhouette
of
a
plant
mass
,
branching
clumsily
like
a
cactus
,
and
swelling
visibly
,
swelling
like
a
bladder
that
fills
with
air
.
Then
to
the
westward
also
I
discovered
that
another
such
distended
form
was
rising
over
the
scrub
.
But
here
the
light
fell
upon
its
sleek
sides
,
and
I
could
see
that
its
colour
was
a
vivid
orange
hue
.
It
rose
as
one
watched
it
;
if
one
looked
away
from
it
for
a
minute
and
then
back
,
its
outline
had
changed
;
it
thrust
out
blunt
congested
branches
until
in
a
little
time
it
rose
a
coralline
shape
of
many
feet
in
height
.
Compared
with
such
a
growth
the
terrestrial
puff-ball
,
which
will
sometimes
swell
a
foot
in
diameter
in
a
single
night
,
would
be
a
hopeless
laggard
.
But
then
the
puff-ball
grows
against
a
gravitational
pull
six
times
that
of
the
moon
Beyond
,
out
of
gullies
and
flats
that
had
been
hidden
from
us
,
but
not
from
the
quickening
sun
,
over
reefs
and
banks
of
shining
rock
,
a
bristling
beard
of
spiky
and
fleshy
vegetation
was
straining
into
view
,
hurrying
tumultuously
to
take
advantage
of
the
brief
day
in
which
it
must
flower
and
fruit
and
seed
again
and
die
.
It
was
like
a
miracle
,
that
growth
.
So
,
one
must
imagine
,
the
trees
and
plants
arose
at
the
Creation
and
covered
the
desolation
of
the
new-made
earth
.
Imagine
it
!
Imagine
that
dawn
!
The
resurrection
of
the
frozen
air
,
the
stirring
and
quickening
of
the
soil
,
and
then
this
silent
uprising
of
vegetation
,
this
unearthly
ascent
of
fleshiness
and
spikes
.
Conceive
it
all
lit
by
a
blaze
that
would
make
the
intensest
sunlight
of
earth
seem
watery
and
weak
.
And
still
around
this
stirring
jungle
,
wherever
there
was
shadow
,
lingered
banks
of
bluish
snow
.
And
to
have
the
picture
of
our
impression
complete
,
you
must
bear
in
mind
that
we
saw
it
all
through
a
thick
bent
glass
,
distorting
it
as
things
are
distorted
by
a
lens
,
acute
only
in
the
centre
of
the
picture
,
and
very
bright
there
,
and
towards
the
edges
magnified
and
unreal
.
We
ceased
to
gaze
.
We
turned
to
each
other
,
the
same
thought
,
the
same
question
in
our
eyes
.
For
these
plants
to
grow
,
there
must
be
some
air
,
however
attenuated
,
air
that
we
also
should
be
able
to
breathe
.
"
The
manhole
?
"
I
said
.
"
Yes
!
"
said
Cavor
,
"
if
it
is
air
we
see
!
"
"
In
a
little
while
,
"
I
said
,
"
these
plants
will
be
as
high
as
we
are
.
Suppose
--
suppose
after
all
--
Is
it
certain
?
How
do
you
know
that
stuff
is
air
?
It
may
be
nitrogen
--
it
may
be
carbonic
acid
even
!
"
