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  <f310r.P.10;W>     he was full of speculation that night about the condition -
  <f310r.P.11;W>     of mars and scoffed at the vulgar idea of its having in -
  <f310r.P.12;W>     habitants who were signalling us his idea was that meteorites -
  <f310r.P.13;W>     might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet or that -
  <f310r.P.14;W>     a huge volcanic explosion was in progress he pointed out -
  <f310r.P.15;W>     to me how unlikely it was that organic evolution had taken -
  <f310r.P.16;W>     the same direction in the two adjacent planets =

  <f310r.P.17;W>     the chances against anything manlike on mars are a -
  <f310r.P.18;W>     million to one he said =

  <f310r.P.19;W>     hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the -
  <f310r.P.20;W>     night after about midnight and again the night after and -
  <f310r.P.21;W>     so for ten nights a flame each night why the shots ceased -
  <f310r.P.22;W>     after the tenth no one on earth has attempted to explain -
  <f310r.P.23;W>     it may be the gases of the firing caused the martians in -
  <f310r.P.24;W>     convenience dense clouds of smoke or dust visible through -
  <f310r.P.25;W>     a powerful telescope on earth as little grey fluctuating -
  <f310r.P.26;W>     patches spread through the clearness of the planets atmos -
  <f310r.P.27;W>     phere and obscured its more familiar features =

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  little~              1     9   0.0000 little
  its~                 2    19   0.0000 its
  os~                  1    26  -0.0713 as
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Created on 2000-07-10 09:08:43 by stolfi