Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

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Jay Williams. Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave

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THE DANNY DUNN SERIES

Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint

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Danny began the descent along the crack in the rock, setting his feet in it with care and bracing his hands against the face of the stone. After a short distance, the crack widened until it was a narrow shelf that ran diagonally along the rocky face. This, in turn, gave way to great ragged boulders among which grew scrub oaks and junipers. There were blueberry bushes, too, weedy grass, and then, a little further down, the woods began.

Dan led his friends between the dark trunks of the pines. The ground was slippery with needles, and there was a spicy smell of resin in their nostrils. Gray beech trees and the rough bark of maples appeared, and the going became harder as the smooth carpet of needles gave way to underbrush, to partridge berry and sassafras, and tangles of blackberry vines. A pheasant shot up like a rocket with a clap of wings that made all three young people jump. A jay scolded them noisily as they clattered down the slope hanging on to saplings to keep from sliding headlong. The forest thinned. They emerged beside a long ridge of rock, partly covered with moss and shrubs, that stuck out of the ground like the back of a giant beast.

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