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The Fight with the Demon of the Deep.
One morning, as they passed the trail that skirts the pond, Quonab pointed to the near water.

There was something afloat like a small, round leaf, with two beads well apart, on it.

Then Rolf noticed, two feet away, a larger floating leaf, and now he knew that the first was the head and eyes, the last the back, of a huge snapping turtle.

A moment more and it quickly sank from view.