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=1.= Revealed the havoc of the living flood, etc.

Point out each word and statement that pictures the havoc

wrought in the valley by the herd.

=9.= A food-devouring plethora of food

Devouring what food? What plethora?

=10.= Had come to make a starving solitude!

What idea is modified by the word “starving”?

=16.= That still the weak might perish.

Express this idea in other terms. Note unusual use of the word

“still.” State the biological “law of evolution.”

=24.= Within himself the oldest cause of war

What is the “oldest cause of war”? The newest?

Define: plethora, raucous, guerdon.

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