Leiningen versus the Ants
Suspense · November 29, 1959 · 25 min · 2,939 words
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And now, another tale well calculated to keep you in. The solly, Linengen versus the Anne. Begins in a minute. Cigarette good. Cigarette good.
Winston gives you real flavor for risk. The back of flavor, Winston sees he's lying to the flavor. Come try to kill you. Winston tastes good like a cigarette. A modern filter? Sure, Winston has it.
But that's only the beginning of a Winston. Up front, upward rear tilt, Winston packs exclusive filter blend. Light, flavorful tobacco, especially selected and specially processed for filter smoking. Filter blend. That's why it's fun to smoke Winston.
America's best-selling filter cigarette. I first met Liningen while performing my duty as commissioner of the Toto Santo District along the upper reaches of the Santa Barbara River. As my boat neared its plantation landing, I throm about the riverbank regarding me with mild interest.
A great hulk of a man with bristling gray hair, bulky nose and lucid eye. An entire appearance somehow suggested an aging and shabby eagle. I came quickly to the point of my visit and issued my warning.
Mining in, possibly, the huge cigar and seemed unimpressed. These and her view, badly in all this way, just to give me the tip commissioner. But even a herd of crocodiles couldn't fight in me from my planting.
None of you don't understand. These aren't creatures. You can fight. These are army ants. An elemental force. A gigantic catastrophe, an act of gods. 10 miles long. Two miles wide. Dan. Nothing but ants. Each one has figured your problems.
They can strip a man's body to a skeleton in six minutes. I'm not an old woman commissioner. I tell you, relying in can you don't know these ants? But he sat there puffing into the car and regarded me with a grin and I knew it was hopeless.
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