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--Take it easy like a good young fellow, said his father.
Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men.
As I proceeded on my journey toward Zodanga many strange and interesting sights arrested my attention, and at the several farm houses where I stopped I learned a number of new and instructive things concerning the methods and manners of Barsoom.
Meanwhile there has been a knock at the hall door, but none of them has noticed it.
