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to know their customs well. Therefore, I was quite positive that this caravan
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Each adult Martian female brings forth about thirteen eggs each year; and those
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recesses of some subterranean vault where the temperature is too low for
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of each yearly supply. At the end of five years about five hundred almost
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a period of another five years.
All but about one per cent of the eggs hatch, and these are left behind when the
horde departs from the incubator. If these eggs hatch, the fate of those
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might inherit and transmit the tendency to prolonged incubation and thus upset
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hour.
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