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RUSZARK.
Smoothly moved the colossal shape; on it we rode as easily as though cradled.

It did not glide--it strode.
The columned legs raised themselves, bending from a thousand joints.

The pedestals of the feet, huge and massive as foundations for sixteen-inch guns, fell with machinelike precision, stamping gigantically.
Under their tread the trees of the forest snapped, were crushed like reeds beneath the pads of a mastodon.

From far below came the sound of their crashing.