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QUITE A CURIOSITY TOO HE'LL BE INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT CHOP FIGHT I HAVE READ THE SITUATION IN YOUR MIND AND YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL HAVE TO BE RATHER MORE SPECTACULAR THAN USUAL SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED IT WILL WORK CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL +003284f0-26c0-461b-a186-32e69daf2819 BEHIND US A YOUNG MOON WAS HANGING OVER SOUTHWESTERN MEADOWS OF SPRINGTIME PEACE BUT ALL ABOUT US WERE THE SOFT MOIST SHADOWS OF A MAY NIGHT DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK +003681f5-a3b2-47cd-b292-a38fed5685c3 FELIX AND I ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HAD NOT THEN HEARD HER SAY IT AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL OF COURSE DECLARED THE GIANTESS AND I HAVE ADDED A LITTLE MAGIC TO YOUR TRANSFORMATIONS TO MAKE YOU ALL CONTENTED WITH WEARING YOUR NEW FORMS I'M SORRY I DIDN'T THINK TO DO THAT WHEN I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME INTO A CANARY BIRD I LIKE TO HEAR YOU TALK SAID FELIX IN HIS GRAVE STODGY WAY EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME TOO AS WELL AS YOU LIKE FELICITY AND CECILY NOT BETTER +003dd138-a005-417f-b602-d64a47634402 HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST OF YOU BUCK EYED BEASTS THERE HOW DO WE GET TO THE PLACE CAN YOU SHOW US ON A MAP SHE PRAYED FOR IT YOU KNOW SAID FELIX AFTER SARA HAD GONE HOME FINALLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE TALE OF THE PRISONER OF CHILI WE MAY RETURN LATER WITH THE CAMTHORIAN HUNTING PARTY AND RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT FORESTED WITH ENDLESS ROWS OF FINS AND SPINES AND ENIGMATIC TENDRILS +00441b28-c03f-42f6-bc29-722c9cc0f108 THEIR THIN LEGS SEEMED TO BUCKLE AT THE KNEES THEIR ARMS DROOPED FROM THEIR SHOULDERS THEIR MOUTHS SAGGED AT THE CORNERS AND EVEN THEIR HUGE EARS HUNG DOWN LIKE A HOUND'S ON REACHING THE TOP OF THE HILL THE PLAINS SPREAD OUT BEFORE THEM IN ALL ITS BEAUTY OF BLUE GRASSES AND WILD FLOWERS AND MOUNT LUNCH SEEMED MUCH NEARER THAN IT HAD THE PREVIOUS EVENING PERHAPS SHE FORGAVE HIM THE MORE EASILY BECAUSE HE HAD JUSTIFIED HER IN HER PREDICTIONS AND THUS AFFORDED HER A DECIDED TRIUMPH OVER THE STORY GIRL +004778c1-b95f-490c-96e6-44829fe77b3b AND A PROCESSION OF VERY ANCIENT BEINGS WHOM I TOOK TO BE THE PRIESTS OF THIS GOD INTO THE MIDST OF THE WAITING GUARDS IT WOULDN'T DO SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT DO SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY IT WAS WRENCHED FROM HIS HANDS AND FORCED DOWNWARD TO STICK QUIVERING IN THE DECK JOHN ANDREW WAS A PERSON WHO FOUND IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY NO +005946e4-9d98-4b09-94ab-12d2d39093b6 EXCITEMENT HAD COME WITH A VENGEANCE AND AND UNDER ITS STRESS FELICITY HAD SPOKEN FIRST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE OUR RELATIVES STARTED US WITH A QUARTER APIECE FOR THE REST WE KNEW WE MUST DEPEND ON OUR OWN EXERTIONS IT WAS THE STORY GIRLS STORIES MADE ME WANT TO LAUGH AND SO I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR FOR HER TO BE MAD AT ME +005af8cb-6c2a-4e75-8eb0-a3e89aec14b4 IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE WOULDN'T BE VERY LIKELY TO HAVE A HIRED BOY FOR A BEAU SHE MADE HER GO TO BED INSTEAD THE STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE BUT NEITHER VIC NOR HOPE WERE ANYWHERE IN SIGHT ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT +009eb677-8d26-4b08-abbc-51c269692e62 THAT WILL BE SATTERFIELD AND HIS TASK FOR US JEFF TOLD THE COFFEES I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELVES IN AN ARGUMENT OVER THAT MATTER OF SQUEEZING TERRA OUT OF THE CRYSTAL TRADE THEY REASSURED HIM SOLEMNLY AH FELICITY WE WERE ALL IN THE DEPTHS OF OUR PITIFUL LITTLE SOULS REVIEWING THE INNUMERABLE THINGS WE WOULD OR WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IF WE HAD KNOWN THAT MAKES ME THINK OF ANOTHER STORY ABOUT OLD MISTER SCOTT SAID THE STORY GIRL YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE +00c5736b-4279-4a73-9936-cd6cec8d64a8 I'M GOING TO DENY MYSELF EVERYTHING I LIKE AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF THAT I DON'T LIKE JUST TO PUNISH MYSELF FOR BEING SO WICKED HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO JEFF DUCKED AND STRAINED HIS WEIGHT AGAINST THE BUNK HE WAS ABOUT TO SEND OUT AN E I PATROL SHIP TO TAKE OVER HERE IN THE ISLANDS JEFF SAID +00c843f4-ba7e-4f7a-8e1f-52ca8a0e58a5 WHERE AGAIN THE CALL BELL RANG WHAT'S IT THIS TIME HAL BARKED STETSON THEY'VE CHANGED TO PLAN H STETT NEW ORDER'S CUT I SUPPOSE WE'LL ALL HAVE THE MEASLES NOW GRUMBLED FELICITY AND OCTOBER IS SUCH AN INCONVENIENT TIME FOR MEASLES THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO I DON'T BELIEVE ANY TIME IS VERY CONVENIENT TO HAVE THE MEASLES CECILY SAID THE NEIGHBOUR WILL GET HER I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT MAYBE HE SAID SUDDENLY SLUMPED AND TIRED NO LONGER LAUGHING MAYBE THEY WILL +00dad53a-ee57-42e3-bd2b-f9d478b4afde WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH AND IT HAD SEAS NOT AS LARGE AS ON EARTH BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS NO SIGN OF HIM AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH TOWERS TOLD RYNEHART IF HE GOT OUT OBSERVED RHIN HART HE COULD BE A HUNDRED MILES AWAY OR MORE CECILY DO YOU KNOW WHERE MOTHER PUT THE SAWDUST SHE EMPTIED OUT OF THAT OLD BEADED PINCUSHION OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S AFTER SHE HAD SIFTED THE NEEDLES OUT OF IT I THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE TIN BOX WHEN A SON WAS BORN TO ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH A TREE WAS PLANTED IN THE ORCHARD FOR HIM THEY HAD FOURTEEN CHILDREN IN ALL AND EACH CHILD HAD ITS BIRTH TREE EVERY FAMILY FESTIVAL WAS COMMEMORATED IN LIKE FASHION AND EVERY BELOVED VISITOR WHO SPENT A NIGHT UNDER THEIR ROOF WAS EXPECTED TO PLANT A TREE IN THE ORCHARD +01155568-c933-4743-88ef-371d6e3db697 YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY AT FIRST GLANCE THEY SEEMED WELL ENOUGH I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE AND HIS FEMALE SISTANT THEY PULLED THE ENTIRE JOB BY THEMSELVES THE SUIT WAS ON AND I KEPT THE RUNNING CHATTER UP THROUGH THE MIKE IN THE HELMET SOME OF THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED VERY CAREFULLY EVEN SCEPTICAL DAN PRAYED BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON +01188d5e-ade7-46ef-9932-aba0897839d1 I'M NOT TELLING THEM ANYTHING REALLY SO THAT THEY COULD GIVE A REASONABLE COHERENT VERBAL PICTURE OF WHAT THEIR BOOKS WERE ABOUT NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED NO NO YELLED PANT I'M NOT BIG ENOUGH YET WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT HATE TO PART WITH MY MONEY EVEN FOR A GOOD REASON +01390bd6-2679-4fa1-9ec9-3ba0193f52cb CHAFFY FORE RELIEVED HIS FELLOW OF THE STRAIN BY TRYING HIS OWN RUSTY CROAK THE SITUATION WAS DESPERATE ENOUGH AT HOME JEFF HAD TO ADMIT I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL THE TEMPLE WAS A SMALL ONE BUILT AGAINST THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD HE AND EAT APPLES FROM OUR BIRTHDAY TREES +013b0642-1289-4e05-a128-fd6a7954cb96 SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE YOUR MACHINE REACTIVATED THE GATE FROM THIS SIDE EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO DORA WENT ON IT'S A GOOD THING I NOTICED THE GATE WAS OPEN OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM IT WAS CLOSING FAST USING THE RAW ENERGY OF THE BATTLESHIP ENGINES FOR A HEADLONG APPROACH MY SHIP BUCKED A BIT AS THE TUG BEAMS LOCKED ON AT MAXIMUM DISTANCE THE RADIAT LEAKED AT ME FOR ATTENTION AT THE SAME TIME I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON THE VOICE BOOMED OUT ONLY IF TO MORROW IS THE LAST DAY THE CHERRY VARNS WON'T BE MUCH USE TO YOU I GUESS IT'LL BE AS MUCH USE TO ME AS TO ANY ONE ELSE SAID CECILY INDIGNANTLY SHE'S SACRIFICED HER DEAR FORGET ME NOT JUG TO SATISFY SOME PANG OF CONSCIENCE OR PROPITIATE SOME THREATENING FATE BUT SURRENDER HER PRECIOUS SHERRY VASE SHE COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT FELICITY NEEDN'T BE GIVING ANY HINTS +01410694-311e-43d4-ac9c-ff1601106a2e BECAUSE A LADY ASKS YOU AND SHE HUMBLY BEGGED PETER'S PARDON FOR SPOILING HIS SERMON EASY BOY HISS STUTSON DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH HIM NOW REMEMBER THIS RACE IS ARBOREAL HE'S PROBABLY STRONG AS AN APE WHILE THEY COULD RUN MUCH FASTER THAN THE BOY THEY OFTEN STUMBLED AND FELL OR GOT IN ONE ANOTHER'S WAY SO HE MANAGED TO CATCH SEVERAL AND PRICK THEM WITH HIS THORN +015a52e8-5980-46fc-9b9a-076f5b97424d PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT FANCY HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ THEY AGREED TO THIS AND PROMPTLY SET OFF THIS TIME MOVING MORE DELIBERATELY +0163e6c5-e198-4171-bf13-c5454eb61379 WHICH IN A WAY THEY DID JONES REFLECTED ON THAT A TRIFLE GRIMLY THINKING OF THE HOLY INQUISITION WITH ITS HIERARCHY OF PRIESTS AND LAY FOLK BUSILY WORKING IN SPIRE JUST AS IT WORKED IN EVERY OTHER TOWN THROUGHOUT OFFENBURG AND THROUGHOUT THE CIVILIZED WORLD DORA LAUGHED A TINKLY LAUGH AND CAME INTO HIS WAITING ARMS DARLING'S HE COOED WHAT A THING TO SAY I ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU'RE JEALOUS AND YOU KNOW I ONLY LOVE YOU WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE CAMPBELL DID WHY JUST THE THING HE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE HE TOOK BETTY AT HER WORD ON THE SPOT AND THERE WAS A DOUBLE WEDDING SOON AFTER AND IT IS SAID THAT NEIL AND BETTY WERE THE HAPPIEST COUPLE IN THE WORLD HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL +01720992-19b7-4ed3-9325-ea7d4b9c84da WELL I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WHO DREW IT THOUGHT GOD WAS LIKE ANSWERED THE STORY GIRL CARELESSLY BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING HE HAS CAUGHT COLD SOMEWAY AND THE MEASLES HAVE STRUCK IN HE HAD WORRIED MORE OVER WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO LUKE THAN TO HIMSELF I SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO COOK FOR YOU HER VOICE DRIPPING DANGER THE ONLY REAL TROUBLE WITH YOU EARTH PEOPLE AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE +01948cc6-e529-4d56-906c-8341f5cc263a WE ALL SHOWED THE SYMPATHY WE FELT SEE WHAT THESE REBELLIOUS ONES HAVE DONE WHY HAS SHE CHANGED HER MIND I PERMIT KENNEFF SAID UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE HE GRIMACED IN THE DARKNESS A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE HE FELT VAGUELY UNEASY ON THIS CHINA THREE +01b6eda5-453c-4fb6-a663-00ea296ee393 THE OWL AND THE CANARY FOUND THAT THEY COULD CONVERSE TOGETHER IN THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND SO AT TIMES THEY TWITTERED AWAY TO EACH OTHER AND PASSED THE LONG DREARY WAY THEY QUITE CHEERFULLY SHE KNEW BETTER THAN TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO ASSERT AUTHORITY OVER THE STORY GIRL AND FELIX AND I WERE ALLOWED SOME LENGTH OF TETHER BUT CECILY DAN AND PETER WERE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT DUTIFULLY TO HER DECREES PHARAO STILL HAD THE BAFFLED ACT GOING AS HE FUMBLED WITH THE PAPERS EXAMINING INITIALS AND SUCH I GAVE HIM PLENTY OF TIME HE FINALLY PUT THEM DOWN SHAKING HIS HEAD +01e6a8ac-ed48-421b-b6ca-c78fc81a7fbd UNCLE ROGER DID NOT COME TILL NEARLY TEN NEVER WAS THERE A MORE WELCOME SOUND THAN THE RUMBLE OF HIS WHEELS IN THE LANE IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID THAT'S RIGHT YONA SAID SMILING AGAIN I'M A WIZARD A WARLUCK PAT WAS WITH US OF COURSE PROWLING ABOUT STEALTHILY OR MAKING FRANTIC BOOTLESS LEAPS AT THE SWALLOWS +01ec7f82-bd6e-43f5-8f02-ae04316fd1f7 A CLINK AND CLATTER BROUGHT HIS ATTENTION TO THE LAUNCH HE GAWKED RAY HAD THROWN BACK A DECK CATCH AND PRODUCED A DIVING SUIT WHICH LOOKED AS UNSHIP SHAPED AS THE REST OF THE BOAT'S EQUIPMENT NO IT ISN'T AGREED THE STORY GIRL WITH A REGRETFUL SIGH IT'S VERY EXPRESSIVE BUT IT ISN'T NICE THAT IS THE WAY WITH SO MANY WORDS THEY'RE EXPRESSIVE BUT THEY'RE NOT NICE AND SO A GIRL CAN'T USE EM THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AGAIN SHE LOVED EXPRESSIVE WORDS AND TREASURED THEM AS SOME GIRLS MIGHT HAVE TREASURED JEWELS THE TORTURE CHAMBER WAS BRIGHTLY LIT WITH TORCHES AND BRACKETS ALONG THE WALLS THAT GAVE OFF BY A SMALL FRACTION MORE LIGHT THAN SMOKE IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM +01ecb30c-270b-4fea-90cb-40e311a7d60e THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT IT GREW BRIGHTER AS THE SLED CREPT THROUGH THE LAST OF THE JUNGLE EMERGED IN CLEARED LAND AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY UNCLE ALEC' MERELY TOLD US TO BE GOOD AND MIND WHAT UNCLE ROGER SAID WHO'LL GIVE THE PRIZES ASKED FELIX WAS THE STORY GIRL CRAZY OR +01f38d9a-32b8-41ef-a339-62e0265f3a47 ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I NOTHING APPARENTLY HAD BEEN DISTURBED WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US BOYS AIN'T ALWAYS HUNGRY SAID FELIX GRAVELY THERE'S TIMES WHEN THEY AIN'T THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES +02029b9c-f7ac-4280-a97a-b9e3a3505262 FELIX ALSO AVERRED THAT HE HAD HEARD SARA ASK CECILY VERY SERIOUSLY OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE WAS SOMETHING SOMETHING THAT WAVERED AND FLUTTERED ADVANCED RETREATED AND HIS EARS STUCK OUT FROM HIS HEAD LIKE TWO FANS IT WAS QUITE A CLEVER IDEA I THINK FOR IT DOESN'T MAR THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE SOLID AIR BEING INVISIBLE THE ONLY THING SHE COULD THINK OF ALONG THIS LINE WAS TO PERSUADE PETER TO GO TO CHURCH +026c140e-539b-4954-a402-87b5833648e4 HE CONFESSED TO ME THAT HE HAD TAKEN IT TO MAKE FELICITY FOND OF HIM YES HE DID I SAID IN DISGUST YOUR MOUTH IS A DECENT SIZE SAID DAN SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE THEN LET US GO HE SAID AND MARCHED OFF HE WENT ON WHISTLING FOR A TWO NOTE PLINGO VOLNERA UNDER HIS BREATH AND AFTER A TIME HE KNOCKED AGAIN AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE +029371a6-8020-4d49-89e7-5f5f84348488 WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN IN THE OLD CARLISLE GRAVEYARD SARA STANLEY FELICITY FLEW ACROSS THE KITCHEN DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU PUT THE BREAD RIGHT INTO THE OVEN AFTER YOU KNEADED IT WITHOUT LEAVING IT TO RISE A SECOND TIME THERE WE STOOD IN A HUDDLED DEMORALIZED GROUP +02d8298f-057d-467a-b2b5-ee313e38c666 HE ISN'T IN THE KITCHEN SAID FELICITY RUSHING ABOUT WILDLY AND HE COULDN'T GET INTO THE OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE FOR I SHUT THE HALL DOOR TIGHT AND NO BABY COULD OPEN IT AND IT'S SHUT TIGHT YET SO ARE ALL THE WINDOWS HE MUST HAVE GOT OUT OF THE DOOR DAN KING AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT HE DIDN'T GO OUT OF THIS DOOR REITERATED DAN STUBBORNLY I KNOW THAT WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP THE SCENE ASSUMED SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF A BAD MOVIE COMEDY THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW NEVERTHELESS ALTHOUGH NONE OF US NOT EVEN UNCLE ROGER OR FELICITY SAID A WORD AT THE TIME FOR FEAR OF HURTING THE STORY GIRL'S FEELINGS THE PUDDING DID NOT TASTE EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD +030ca2f0-d77a-42c5-8383-6c28d1f42aab THAT IS WHY I WAS SENT HERE SAID ORAN THE LEATHER CHAIRS COMFORTABLE SWUNG DOWN FROM THE TOWERING FOREST CEILING MOREOVER THE OLD WOMAN GRABBED UP MY SEVERED HEAD FOR THE THREE WHOLE DAYS LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT PARIN MUMBLED A PROTEST AND HURRIED AWAY +030fc8b0-1d0f-4e24-a7f8-8c7ace7833bd HAVE YOU GOT A TELETOWKEY BRANDON ASKED SURE SAID THE FIRST MAN PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S COULD YOU TUNE IT TO TWENTY EIGHT POINT SIX MICROCYCLES SURE THE MAN SAID AGAIN HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS AND THE KINDLY WAYS OF THE WARM RED EARTH GRANDMOTHER KING HAD BEEN A WARD AND IN UNCLE STEPHEN THE BLOOD OF THE SEAFARING RACE CLAIMED ITS OWN TO SEE HE MUST GO DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER AND IT WAS FROM THE SEA HE CAME TO SET OUT HIS AVENUE IN THE ORCHARD WITH TREES BROUGHT FROM A FOREIGN LAND THEN HE SAILED AWAY AGAIN AND THE SHIP WAS NEVER HEARD OF MORE WHY THIS BEACON WAS BUILT WITHIN REACH OF THE LOCAL CLAUSE I HAD YET TO FIND OUT BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME THE FIRST THING TO DO WAS MAKE CONTACT TO MAKE CONTACT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCAL LANGUAGE AND FOR THAT I HAD LONG BEFORE WORKED OUT A SYSTEM THAT WAS FULL PROOF I HAD A PRY EYE OF MY OWN CONSTRUCTION IT LOOKED LIKE A PIECE OF ROCK ABOUT A FOOT LONG ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY +033e32c6-f6ef-4b3b-9470-6e29131eb7d0 LEGENDS OF THE OLD ORCHARD I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL THEIR SKINS WERE ALL OF A LIGHT GRAY COLOR ONCE WE ARE FREE OF THE BARRIER WE HAVE THE WANDERER TO HELP US I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MARRIED I THINK IT'S JUST HORRID SO THERE I IF ONLY WE KNEW WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH HIM WE MIGHT DO SOMETHING SOBBED THE STORY GIRL STROKING HER POOR PET'S UNRESPONSIVE HEAD +034b7a60-de31-4a51-8f18-8222419f5baa BUT HE WAS EVEN MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE VERY REAL PAINS OF UNREQUITTED LOVE AND HIS STOMACH WAS TRYING TO TURN ITSELF INSIDE OUT JOHN ANDREW TURNED A DOOR BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THE ENTERPRISE EDITOR AT ALL WHO'S SAYING IT I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN DO IT GO AWAY BACK THERE ALONE IT CAN'T BE TRUE SAID SARA RAY SEEKING REFUGE AS USUAL IN TEARS I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING THIS RAISED A BUZZ OF CONVERSATION BEHIND ME BUT GOT NO RISE OUT OF THE CHIEF +0352cc8e-3888-41f1-b9d6-ea9c0d4c0b87 WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW FRANK HERBERT THE ROMANTICS USED TO SAY THAT THE EYES WERE THE WINDOWS OF THE SOUL A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY I HAVE REPAIRED HYPERSPACE BEACONS FROM ONE ARM OF THE GALAXY TO THE OTHER AND I WAS SURE I HAD WORKED ON EVERY TYPE OR MODEL MADE BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS KIND +0354f8f6-ecca-4a96-8b0c-707799d8379a THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME I TALKED FIRST BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH SUCH WAS THE PRICE WE WERE TO PAY FOR INDULGENCE OF A CURIOSITY WHICH EACH OF US DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HAD LIKE SARAH RAY FELT OUGHT NOT TO BE GRATIFIED BUT SARA RAY WAS NOT HAPPY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER THE STORY GIRL HERSELF WAS NOT ALTOGETHER AT EASE PROBABLY HER OWN CONSCIENCE WAS TROUBLING HER BUT ADMIT IT SHE WOULD NOT +03619def-d04b-452a-a3d5-ac33ae7573df ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY THE SPEAKER SAID YES THEY SAID WE HAVE TO USE ORAN BECAUSE THE RECORDS ON THE DELPHINIS WELL THEN WILL THEY GIVE US MORE TIME TO BRIEF HIM NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS THE CROWNS ARE JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS THEY LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU CAN GO BY THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY NEIL WENT ON TASTING AND THAT SLY DONALD SAT THERE WITH A SOBER FACE BUT LAUGHING EYES AND COAXED HIM ON AT LAST NEIL'S HEAD FELL FORWARD ON HIS BREAST AND HE WAS SOUND ASLEEP DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR MAY YOUR SLEEP BE LONG AND SWEET MAN HE SAID LAUGHING SOFTLY AND AS FOR THE WAKING TWILL BE BETWIXT YOU AND ME +037cb52e-e8d1-4fe6-bf0d-b560228800eb IT WAS QUITE A CLEVER IDEA I THINK FOR IT DOESN'T MAR THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE SOLID AIR BEING INVISIBLE AND YET IT KEEPS ALL STRANGERS AWAY FROM THE HOUSE THE NOTE READ DEAR PETE IF YOU GET THIS I AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION OVER THE BARREN ROCKY GROUND WE HURRIED PAST THE WRETCHED HOVELS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY AND THROUGH CROOKED DISMAL STREETS TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE CITY BEFORE THEY COULD PROTEST I HAD PUSHED THE PRIESTS OUT THROUGH IT THE REST OF THEIR CLAN SHOWED UP AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS AND MADE A GREAT BRUCK US WHILE I FINISHED WELDING THE DOOR SHUT +038588ef-bb22-42c2-882a-959f07a6b8ab I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HIS ANTIPATHY TO THE INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE WHITE PELLETS WHICH WERE SO EASY TO SWALLOW BUT HE EXPLAINED THE MATTER TO US IN THE ORCHARD WHEN HE HAD RECOVERED HIS USUAL HEALTH AND SPIRITS BUT THE STORY GIRL UNDAUNTEDLY CONTINUED TO COAX THE RELUCTANT PETER IT WAS NOT AN EASY MATTER PETER DID NOT COME OF A CHURCH GOING STOCK AND BESIDES HE ALLEGED HE HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST A GREAT CROWD FORMED AROUND ME AND THE RABBLE WAS SENT FLYING BY A NUMBER OF MEN WHO SEEMED TO HOLD SOME OFFICE DISTINGUISHED BY A JEWEL LIKE EMBLEM AROUND THEIR THROATS IF I READ THEIR ACTIONS CORRECTLY THEY CLAIMED THE PRIVILEGE OF DEATH BY VIRTUE OF THEIR GREATER AUTHORITY +03a0559a-9df6-4156-9849-0cc294e2cd1e HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL STAY WITH US OLD FELLOW BUT PAT WITH NONE OF US HE STRUGGLED OUT OF MY CLASP AND DISAPPEARED OVER THE LONG GRASSES WITH SOUNDLESS LEAPS HE WAS NO LONGER OUR TAME DOSTMISTIC WELL ACQUAINTED PADDY HE WAS A STRANGE FURTIVE ANIMAL A QUESTING BEAST I AM SURE MY DEAR NICK SAID THE BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL MY NAME THEN WAS NICK CHOPPER YOU SHOULD BE TOLD THAT YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST HUSBAND FOR ANY GIRL COULD HAVE +03c9d1a3-6d47-4b59-9d8b-211f821cf841 BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST YOU KNOW THE NATURE OF THE TROUBLE NEGATIVE MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE CHOPPED OFF THE POWER OR IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER +0408434a-fcdf-4115-9541-2a8e87965614 THESE CREATURES WERE LIKE SUCH SHADOWS SEEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO JUST BEFORE YOU ARRIVED SIR FIVE PACES DOWN THE CORRIDOR THE WALK TURNED INTO A RUN YONIC WATCHED HIM GO AND THEN SAT DOWN ON HIS LOUSE AND FESTO COT TO AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS THERE WAS INTEREST IN HIS MIND OVERLAID WITH SKEPTICISM LET IT BE SHARP SAID QUIETLY HIS FATHER WAS LAZY BUT HIS MOTHER HASN'T A LAZY BONE IN HER BODY AND PETER TAKES AFTER HER I'M GOING TO PRAY LIKE SIXTY SAID FELIX ENERGETICALLY +040ba62d-5541-44d2-ad60-1d64dfeaa9bf IT WAS STRAIGHT AND SMOOTH IN FRONT BUT SLOPED DOWN IN NATURAL STEPS BEHIND I DON'T KNOW THE STORY GIRL LOOKED DUBIOUS HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES BUT CLOSER INSPECTION REVEALED SOMETHING NOT ALTOGETHER CUSTOMARY +0413ae9b-0353-41ac-b159-fb616f732d5e AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW IT'S SAD AND BEAUTIFUL AN EXPRESSION OF SCORN CAME OVER HER FACE IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE FACE OF A CLOCK AND THERE ARE FLOWERS IN IT THAT OPENS AT EVERY HOUR SO YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THE TIME WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL INDIVIDUALLY PERCEPTIVE YET ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER OFFERING FOR THE FIRST TIME A REAL STEP TOWARD ULTIMATE STABILITY ON A TRADE BASIS OF COURSE +0424dfd6-d727-40f3-8f83-be3b41fd97c5 UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND AND HE LOVED HER THE SAME BUT HE WROTE ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS ON IT AFTERWARDS AND SENT IT TO HER THE LIZARDS CRINGED AND I SET MY SOLAR FOR NARROW BEAM AND RAN IT AROUND THE DOOR JAM +042c56ba-b646-454f-8bc2-def6c593bb80 HE EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE WITH CARE HE DECIDED THAT GARF'S SUPERIOR ATTITUDE AND POWERS BODED NO GOOD BUT IF THE FISH MAN ONCE BECAME SLIGHTLY IRRITATED HE WOULD SICK THE NONIPUS ON RAY AND HIMSELF COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS NICE WORK PETE THE LIGHT IN HER NARROWED ORBS WAS THE COLD MERCILESS GLEAM OF THE SERPENT'S EYE I FELT FRIGHTENED OF THIS UNHOLY CREATURE WHO HAD SUDDENLY COME IN OUR DEAR STORY GIRL'S PLACE +04568855-4ab7-4949-a3e3-415301948e2a THEY WERE WONDERFULLY DAINTY WITH A STRANGE FAINT AROMATIC PERFUME WHICH WAS ONLY TO BE DETECTED AT A LITTLE DISTANCE AND VANISHED IF YOU BENT OVER THEM THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT HE RAISED THE INTENE ON THE TELETOKEY AND SNAPPED IT ON THE THE SCREEN GLOWED INTO LIFE TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT SEEN TWO COMING UP I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU HAVE SUCH A GOOD OPINION OF ME I DON'T DESERVE IT BUT AFTER THIS I'LL TRY TO I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALL YOUR KINDNESS I'D LIKE THE FELLOW THE STORY GIRL WROTE ABOUT THAT WHO COULDN'T GET IT OUT I HAVE THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL GAVE ME FOR MY SERMON ON THE WALL AT THE FOOT OF MY BED I LIKE TO LOOK AT IT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE AUNT JANE +046c4174-d81e-4ba2-a630-671d96da60fb THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS UNDER ECLIPSE SHE WAS FAIR AND LUSTRELESS FROM HER DISTURBED NIGHT AND EARLY RISING AND NO OPPORTUNITY OFFERED TO TELL A MELTING TALE NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER IT WAS FELICITY'S DAY QUESTION SHE SAID YOU COME FROM HERAK NUFF I'M AN OLD WOMAN BUT I DO NO WRONG AND THERE IS NO ONE CAN ACCUSE ME OF HERESY I AM IN CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND MORE THAN ONCE I KEEP PEACE WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND THERE'S NONE CAN SAY A MYSTERY ABOUT ME THE WOMAN JONAS THOUGHT WAS FULL TO THE EYEBROWS WITH WORDS AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES +046de45f-1eea-4e80-88dc-17bb3b681495 A VERY GOOD GUESS FOR THIS LATE AT NIGHT I TOLD HIM CHEERILY ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED MY PLAN WAS BEYOND HIS UNDERSTANDING THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT MY VOICE TRAILED OFF AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO TOM GOE SAYS HE CAN'T KEEP THE INFORMATION OUT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER BULL ONE'S HANDS +04975cc6-a4fc-4986-828a-8b0779b30a61 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS I ASKED HIM POKING A LARGE GLOSSY PICK UNDER HIS LONG BROKEN NOSE ONE EYE OPENED SLOWLY BEGULL SHIP OF SOME KIND LOOKS LIKE AMBALLIANCE NOW FOR THE LAST TIME GO AWAY HE SAID FELIX ALSO AVERRED THAT HE HAD HEARD SARA ASK CECILY VERY SERIOUSLY CECILY HOW OLD MUST WE BE BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A REAL BEAU BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF THERE STILL REMAINS THE GREEN MONKEY REMARKED THE JAGUAR HUNGRILY HE IS NEITHER MADE OF TIN NOR STUFFED WITH STRAW NOR CAN HE FLY I'M PRETTY GOOD AT CLIMBING TREES MYSELF SO I THINK I'LL CAPTURE THE MONKEY ANY IN FOR MY BREAKFAST +04bb5e9a-20b6-4869-a825-e66cb445c509 WHY NOT SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH A FLASH OF HER EYES INDEED I SHALL I'LL TELL STORIES AS LONG AS I'VE A TONGUE TO TALK WITH OR ANYONE TO LISTEN I DOUBTLESS THAT DAUNTLESS BIRTH WOULD SOAR TRIUMPHANTLY ABOVE THE WRECK OF MATTER AND THE CRASH OF WORLDS TAKING WITH IT ALL ITS OWN WILD SWEETNESS AND DARING WELL I BELIEVE IT WOULD PUZZLE HIM SAID CECILY OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF HER EXPERIENCE WITH FELICITY PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE BUT FELICITY'S THEOLOGY BROKE DOWN AT THIS POINT SHE TURNED HER BACK ON PETER AND WALKED DISDAINFULLY AWAY THE STORY GIRL RETURNED TO THE MAIN POINT WITH A NEW ARGUMENT +04efb657-c395-476c-be38-930c76ae7af0 NOW ONLY THE GET THAT UNIFORM ON YOUR UGLY FRAME THE ENGINEERS OF THE DELPHINAS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID HE MIGHT BUT HE COULDN'T PROMISE FOR HE'D HAVE TO ASK HIS MOTHER IF HE COULD BRING THE BOOK TO SCHOOL MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER RAY JUMPED NOT VERY FAR BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY DIVING SUIT THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH +04f300ac-110b-4b04-bbd4-4fc1a7a3bce9 LET THEM COME SHE RETURNED WITH AN ACCENT OF SCORN WHEN THEY GET HERE THEY WILL FIND NEITHER BOY NOR A TIN MAN NOR A SCARECROW FOR TO MORROW MORNING I INTEND TO TRANSFORM YOU ALL INTO OTHER SHAPES SO THAT YOU CANNOT BE RECOGNIZED DO YOU KNOW FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE I FELT EXACTLY LIKE A SNAKE YOU LOOK LIKE ONE SAID UNCLE ROGER HOW ON EARTH DO YOU DO IT I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF VERY QUICKLY SLEEPY EYED CLERKS AND ASSISTANTS WERE BRINGING FILES AND RECORDS WE WENT THROUGH THEM TOGETHER HE APPARENTLY DID NOT BELIEVE IN PYJAMA BOTTOMS AND IT HURT ME TO SEE THE GOOSE BUMPS WRITHING ON THOSE THIN SHANKS +050be507-d96f-4ceb-bba2-00a32f225508 OUR EYES DIFFER SAID TO NEWBE HE BENT TOWARD ORAN PEERED HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION DAN SHARED IT WITH US AND DAN IS SO OBLIGING THAT WAY I THOUGHT IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE AND I WALKED UP THE AISLE TO YOUR PEW AND SAT DOWN +053c2da1-42d8-4104-ba36-b78a6ac23ae3 BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO JUST BEFORE YOU ARRIVED SIR SHE BECAME NERVOUS LIKE AND RAPPED ON THE DOOR THERE WASN'T A SOUND SO SHE WENT UP TO THE MASTER'S ROOM AND FOUND A KEY AND WENT IN AND NOW SHE DON'T ANSWER AND WE WERE JUST ABOUT READY TO CALL THE POLICE IT WAS WRENCHED FROM HIS HANDS AND FORCED DOWNWARD TO STICK QUIVERING IN THE DECK THE DEVELOPMENT TOOK FARMER COMPLETELY UNAWARES NEITHER OF THE ALIENS MOVED IT WAS JUDGE GREY WHO HAD DISARMED HIM THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES THE WORLD CALLS THEM ITS SINGERS AND POETS AND ARTISTS AND STORY TELLERS BUT THEY ARE JUST PEOPLE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND +05481ff8-e8d4-4d07-90ea-7cd05e42bf7a I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX HE SAID HE MIGHT BUT HE COULDN'T PROMISE FOR HE'D HAVE TO ASK HIS MOTHER IF HE COULD BRING THE BOOK TO SCHOOL IF SHE'LL LET HIM HE'LL BRING IT TO MORROW OH I'LL BE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK AT IT SAID SARA RAY TREMULOUSLY THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP HE HAD A DECISION TO MAKE STAY HERE WITH THE CAPSULE OR HEAD FOR THE FIRE ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN PLEASE CECILY FINISHED HER CUCUMBER AND THEN DRANK A GLASS OF MILK JUST AS WE HEARD THE WHEELS OF UNCLE ALEC'S BUGGY RAMBLING OVER THE BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW +0561d802-3f2f-462c-bbe7-d46051909565 WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL FINALLY I MUST GO AND GET THE POTATOES READY I SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE BAWLED EVEN IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS AND I'VE GOT TO GO AND STUMP ELDERBERRY SAID PETER I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN DO IT GO AWAY BACK THERE ALONE I FEEL SCARED TO DEATH THE WHOLE TIME IT'S SO PRETTY WHEN THE VINES LEAF OUT AND HANG DOWN IN LONG FESTOONS SAID THE STORY GIRL THE BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS IN IT A PAIR OF WILD CANARIES COME HERE EVERY SUMMER AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM I COULD HAVE HAD A LIZARD FRY FIXED THE BEACON AND TAKEN OFF ONLY NATIVE LIFE FORMS WERE QUITE WELL PROTECTED THERE WERE SPYSAILS ON MY SHIP ALL OF WHICH I HADN'T FOUND THAT WOULD CHEERFULLY RAT ON ME WHEN I GOT BACK +05afb6c9-7853-4b39-ab78-7bc4929617b6 THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES BUT SHE WORKED ON AT HER BUTTONHOLES SHE WOULD NOT LOOK AT THE EXCITING SERIAL IN THE NEW MAGAZINE DAN BROUGHT HOME FROM THE POST OFFICE NEITHER WOULD SHE OPEN A LETTER FROM HER FATHER HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD VING STRONG NOBLE AND VALIANT HE SAID RAINBOW BRIDGE IS NOT FOR THEE +05b12780-e412-402a-9ef8-9a20ea367bd0 THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY OF YOU BUCK EYED BEASTS THERE SAID THE SMALL MARTINET YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS WE DECIDED IT WAS TOO CLOSE NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE NO RACHEL WARD WAS NOT PRETTY THAT HAD TO BE ADMITTED THE PICTURE SHOWED A FRESH YOUNG FACE WITH STRONGLY MARKED IRREGULAR FEATURES LARGE BLACK EYES AND BLACK CURLS HANGING ACROSS THE SHOULDERS IN OLD TIME STYLE RACHEL WASN'T PRETTY SAID UNCLE ALEC BUT SHE HAD A LOVELY COLOR AND A BEAUTIFUL SMILE SHE LOOKS FAR TOO SOBER IN THAT PICTURE AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE FELIX AND I RECOGNIZED ITS BEAUTIFUL FITNESS AT ONCE YES THE STORY GIRL WAS FASCINATING AND THAT WAS THE FINAL WORD TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT +05bd158d-3b83-41c2-becd-b7e33a0ef143 A SCARLET HAZE OF LIGHT SHOT FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF THE BLACK GOD AND THE OLD MAN STEPPED BACK SHARPLY AS THOUGH STRUCK BY SOME INVISIBLE AGENT HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN BUT AS HE CRUMPLED HIS BODY SEEMED TO SOFTEN AND SHATTER INTO A SCINTILLATING CLOUD AN INSTANT LATER THERE WAS NO TRACE OF HIM ANYWHERE JUST WHEN A KING THOUGHT HE HAD CONQUERED EVERYBODY SOME OTHER KING WOULD COME AND CONQUER HIM AND SO IT WENT ON UNTIL IT DID NOT SEEM LIKELY THE PROUD PRINCESS WOULD EVER GET A HUSBAND AT ALL BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO +05de97fb-caf3-457e-af73-2bc124b9eb98 AND STORY GIRL HAD MADE THE TALE VERY REAL TO US THEN HE OPENED HIS BIG BLUE EYES AND LOOKED UP INTO EDITH'S FACE AN AIR OF RESTRAINT WAS OVER ALL OUR GAMES AND CONVERSATIONS HE SAID HE BELIEVED THE OTHER PLACE MUST BE LOTS MORE INTERESTING THAN HEAVEN CAUSE FIRES WERE SUCH JOLLY THINGS DONKEY A JACK WERE TOO STUPID YEN LORDA DE NOSER MOTE +05e084a0-b12e-4705-8262-c159ce3c1f99 MAY BE PETER WILL GET BETTER AFTER ALL SAID DAN SWALLOWING A SOB I'VE HEARD OF LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WENT AND GOT BETTER AFTER THE DOCTOR SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DIE YOU'VE RUINED THE BREAD SAID FELICITY FLATLY IT'S AS HEAVY AS A STONE I DECLARE SARA STANLEY I'D RATHER HAVE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE THAN BE A GREAT STORY TELLER THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE WELL SHE SAID IT IS SAID THAT THE FAMILY COLLEGE SHARP HAS A HOUSE TOO LARGE FOR THEM NOW THAT THE ELDER SON IS GONE THERE IS ONLY THE MAN HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY HE WOULD ACCEPT PAYMENT WERE IT GENEROUS IN RETURN FOR SHARING ROOM IN HIS HOUSE +05efc493-7599-4055-b988-0d5cbd6d5ba4 DON'T YOU REMEMBER OLD MISS BAXTER IN TORONTO BETH AND HOW SHE TOLD MISSUS MC LAREN THAT SHE WAS SUBJECT TO TERRIBLE DREAMS AND FINALLY SHE TOOK TWO LIVER PILLS AND NEVER HAD ANY MORE DREAMS AFTER THAT I'D RATHER HAVE DIED THAN RISK IT CONCLUDED FELIX SOLEMNLY HE LANDED ON SOMETHING TOUGH AND WARM AND SLIPPERY A MONSTROUS TAIL FLUKE THAT STRETCHED DOWN THE BEACH TO MERGE INTO A FLAT PURPLISH ACREAGE OF BACK FORESTED WITH ENDLESS ROWS OF FINS AND SPINES AND ENIGMATIC TENDRILS THE ONLY REAL TROUBLE WITH YOU EARTH PEOPLE IS THAT YOU HAVE A TREMENDOUS INFERIORITY COMPLEX COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY AS YOU'VE JUST ILLUSTRATED GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE +06006dca-65af-4643-ae11-db91ce0e884b THERE TOO SLEPT THE EMILY WHOSE FAITHFUL SPIRIT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAUNT THE ORCHARD WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS THEY FOUND OUT I WAS THERE ONLY TO HELP THEM RESTORE THE FLOW OF THE WATERS CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH BUT HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY MORE THAN YOU DO THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS +06031c08-ec19-4585-92b4-2e913593d069 IN THE REACTION OUR SPIRITS ROSE WITH A BOUND OH AIN'T IT GREAT THAT PETER'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT SAID DAN SPRINGING UP I WAS NEVER SO GLAD OF ANYTHING IN MY WHOLE LIFE DECLARED FELICITY IN SHAMELESS RAPTURE THOUSANDS OF THE UNREAL CREATURES OF THIS WORLD WERE CROWDED AROUND A VAST HIDEOUS IMAGE THAT ROSE FROM THE CENTER OF THIS SPACE A MONSTER SO TERRIBLE THAT HOPE CRIED OUT AT SIGHT AND VIC EXCLAIMED UNDER HIS BREATH NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM +0607b5dc-b9c8-4c9d-88db-3df3b1148ff6 HE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT HER SAILS BELLIED NOT WITH THE WIND BUT AGAINST STARTLED JEFF NO MORE THAN THE FACT THAT HE SEEMED TO BE HOLDING JENOFOR MAC TIGHTLY HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF HE WERE ABOUT TO SPIT OUT AN INCANTATION MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID YONAS GRINNED SUDDENLY AND SAT STRAIGHTER I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D BE GETTING INTO CONTACT SOONER OR LATER HE THOUGHT HIS BREATHING SEEMED ALMOST NORMAL SO THE ODDLY ASSORTED PAIR QUICK BOX LIKE LITTLE RAY AND BIG AWKWARD UNCOMFTABLE FARMER +0633ed91-fc1e-4198-bd51-cb27d39e3d52 BUT OUR FRIENDS KEPT ON WALKING EVEN AFTER THE SUN WENT DOWN SHE RAN AWAY LAUGHING IN WICKED GLEE FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM THE COLD FEELING WAS NOW A BALL OF ICE THAT THREATENED TO PARALYZE ME I CHEWED MY LIP WITH JEALOUSY LIKE ALL GREAT IDEAS THIS ONE WAS BASICALLY SIMPLE +064e0d25-a413-4883-9856-74220272cba8 WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM THE DWARF WAS THREE FOOT HIGH A SKELETON STRETCHED OVER WITH BROWN BURNT LEATHER +06889213-42cf-4d0a-8dc2-d069d75aa3f3 IT'S IT'S FOUR BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR THAT SEEMS KIND OF QUEER SAID FELICITY DOUBTFULLY WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE YOUR OWN TRUE FRIEND SARA RAY NOBODY BUT A COUN WOULD DO IT AND THAT'S A FACT SAID DAN BUT HER PRIDE WHISPERED THAT IT WOULD BE SUCH A WONDERFUL THING TO BE QUEEN OF THE KING OF THE WORLD WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN +070c2d69-bdf6-4810-980c-f09a3eae7802 IF YOU'D HAD TO PAY FATHER FOR ALL THE EXTRA HANDFULS OF WHEAT YOU FED TO THOSE HENS MISS FELICITY YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SO MUCH SAID DAN SPITEFULLY I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY LOOK HOW AUNT OLIVIA'S HENS LAID TOO AND SHE FED THEM HERSELF JUST THE SAME AS USUAL IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND AS THERE ARE NOW AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN IT WAS A LONG AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND SOMETIMES IT TOOK OVER SIXNTHS WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE OH SARA SARA STANLEY WE CALL HER THE STORY GIRL PARTLY BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A HAND TO TELL STORIES OH I CAN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT AND PARTLY BECAUSE SARA RAY WHO LIVES AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL OFTEN COMES UP TO PLAY WITH US AND IT IS AWKWARD TO HAVE TWO GIRLS OF THE SAME NAME IN THE SAME CROWD BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL +0735d1d9-b936-4f50-b471-ae91d8dfb173 YONAS MADE CONTACT TWICE WITH CLARTON WHO TOLD HIM OVER AND OVER TO WAIT TO DO NOTHING NOW WAS THE TIME FOR HIS PLAY THAT WAS BEFORE WE WERE BORN AND SUCH A THING WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN UNTIL AFTER WE'RE DEAD SAID CECILY WITH VERY UNUSUAL PESSIMISM HE SAID IT WAS AS CHRISTIAN AN ACT AS HE EVER DID DREAM OF THE DEAD YOU'LL HEAR OF THE LIVING QUOTED FELIX ORACULARLY EXCEPT WHEN FELICITY IS EDITH +076100a6-6d46-4242-9d8e-717f7a74998c DOES GOD REALLY LOOK LIKE THIS OH I'LL BE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK AT IT SAID SARA RAY TREMULOUSLY FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS IS THAT THE NATIVE SPEAKING GAVE OUT A FLASHING DANCE OF SHE SET THE JUDGE'S INVENTION DOWN ON A LOWER STEP AND PICKED UP THE JUDGE INSTEAD +077c17d8-bbb3-4043-9d42-e27eee7c427e ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND THE BULKHEAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND TOWERS POKED HIS HEAD THROUGH KNOCK THAT OFF SAID TOWERS STERNLY AND TAKE YOUR LANDING STATION WHAT A BLACK AND ENDLESS LIST THEY MADE THOSE SINS OF OMISSION AND COMMISSION THAT RUSHED ACCUSINGLY ACROSS OUR YOUNG MEMORIES FOR AS THE LEAVES OF THE BOOK OF JUDGMENT WERE ALREADY OPENED AND WE STOOD AT THE BAR OF OUR OWN CONSCIENCES THAN WHICH FOR YOUTH OR ELSE THERE CAN BE NO MORE DREAD TRIBUNAL SARA RAY CAME UP BUT WAS SO SNUBBED BY FELICITY THAT SHE WENT HOME CRYING FELICITY GOT THE DINNER BY HERSELF DISDAINING TO ASK OR COMMAND ASSISTANCE SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA +07a2c921-f2b0-428b-99ab-a949c0195a70 THE HENS AND TURKEYS PROWLED ABOUT PECKING AT WINDFALLS AND PAT MADE MAD RUSHES AT THEM AMID THE FALLEN LEAVES WHATEVER IS THE MATTER WITH YOU ALL DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL APPEARING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS WHAT IS SARAH CRYING ABOUT WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST OUTSIDE THE LOFT WAS A VAST SUNSHINY GULF OF BLUE SKY AND MELLOW AIR WHEREIN FLOATED ARGUSES A FLUFFY CLOUD AND AIRY TOPS OF MAPLE AND SPRUCE MODESTY PREVENTED ME FROM SPEAKING FIRST BUT I HAD A VERY SHORT WAIT BEFORE INSKIP REACHED THE SAME CONCLUSION I HAD HE HURLED A FOLD OF THE LENGTH OF THE ROOM AND SCOWLED OUT AT THE HARSH DAWN LIGHT +07dcc7c9-4bb6-4338-9bb8-f07a298f1cd5 I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES VIC LOOKED DOWN FROWNING I'M NOT SURE I'M RIGHT HE REPLIED AFTER A MOMENT BUT IF I AM THEY WISH US TO KILL THEM OH FELIX DON'T TALK LIKE THAT SAID CECILY SHOCKED GOD MUST BE FAIR I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE REASON A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP WE SAW IT SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY OH OH OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT SHE WAILED +0806ad53-43d3-470a-bf50-60473c15d367 HOW DID YOU EVER HEAR THE LIKE PERHAPS THEY'LL LAUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR FACES TO MORROW SAID DAN WITH GLOOMY SATISFACTION FELIX KING WHAT HAS SCARED YOU THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT WELL WE COULD HAVE A JOLLY FUNERAL YOU KNOW PETER SIDLED UP TO HER +082202b9-4038-41d1-92e5-b0bd24a4895b THEY WERE ANGRY WHEN I REFUSED TO DO ANY MORE SLAUGHTERING AND LED ME HERE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE ONE OF THE CAPTAINS WOULD COME IN AND COMMAND ME TO KILL HIM I REFUSED FOR THAT'S THE ONLY TRUMP CART I HELD WHEN WE REACHED THE FOOT OF THE ORCHARD AND ENTERED IT THROUGH A GAP IN THE HEDGE IT WAS THE MAGICAL MYSTICAL TIME OF BETWEEN LIGHTS OFF TO THE WEST WAS A DAFFODIL GLOW HANGING OVER THE VALLEY OF LOST SUNSETS AND GRANDFATHER KING'S HUGE WILLOW ROSE UP AGAINST IT LIKE A ROUNDED MOUNTAIN OF FOLIAGE THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL +082817b5-9d25-4ec0-bc62-583e32bfe611 THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE FANNY REFUSED TO LET CAPTAIN DUNBAR TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY AS FOR FELICITY SHE DID NOT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT OUT OF MALICE PREPENSE BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS A CHANGE OF WIND OR SOME CRAFTY MANEUVRE OF OLD CHARLEY MAX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT +0836b1fe-0906-4efe-b3e0-d3699a1ef9cd IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID MISTER MARWOOD INDIGNANTLY THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PICTURE OF GOD FELIX NO HUMAN BEING KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE NO HUMAN BEING CAN KNOW WE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO THINK WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE BUT FELIX YOU MAY BE SURE THAT GOD IS INFINITELY MORE BEAUTIFUL AND LOVING AND TENDER AND KIND THAN ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE OF HIM NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE MY BOY AS FOR THIS THIS SACRILEGE TAKE IT AND BURN IT PETER I QUESTIONED I HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY PETER HE IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY SAID UNCLE ALEC HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG AND HE IS A REAL SMART LITTLE CHAP BUT HE'S GOT HIS SHARE OF MISCHIEF THAT SAME LAD HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU SAID DAN SLYLY DON'T TALK SILLY NONSENSE DAN SAID AUNT JANET SEVERELY MADAM HE SAID I WISH TO KNOW IF THERE BE ANY FAMILY IN THIS TOWN TO GIVE ROOM TO A WAYFARER UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED THE OLD WOMAN BLINKED YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN INN SHE SAID AN INN IN THIS TOWN THE IDEA APPEARED TO STRIKE HER AS THE VERY HEIGHT OF IDIOCY SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HANDS AND SHOOK +085c9bbf-9521-44a0-b739-df084c00c80c POLYCHROME ALTHOUGH DANCING LIGHTLY BACK AND FORTH HAD LISTENED TO EVERY WORD OF THE CONVERSATION BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE TRIANGULATION HAD LED INVESTIGATORS TO THE SPOT WHERE THEY FOUND A FREIGHTER OGAT'S DREAM WITH A HOLE PUNCH THROUGH AS BIG AS A RAILROAD TUNNEL +08841232-bd6b-49d9-b31c-24270914912c DOUBTLESS A FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY AND BROWN BESS IS A GOOD MARE IN HER WAY APPARENTLY FURNISHED FORTH FELICITY'S CONCEPTION OF PARADISE HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND FELT THE STRENGTH IN HIM GATHER TO A SINGLE POINT AND FLOW OUTWARD THE TWO MEN SUDDENLY SEEMED TO STAGGER THERE WAS A SECOND OF CONFUSION AND THEY HAD LET HIM GO HIS STEP WAS BOUNCING AS IF HE WERE USED TO A HIGHER GRAVITY OR GREATER PRESSURE THIS BICKING WAS AS USUAL GETTING THEM EXACTLY NOWHERE +08875427-0426-46d3-ac11-5cfd71c18961 RAY TURNED ON HIM WITH A LOOK THAT WOULD HAVE SEARED THE SPHINX THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MACHINE HE SAID ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE SHOUTING THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE TELEVISION THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WIRING HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN THEY CEASED AND ALL HEAVEN WAS HUSHED THROUGH THE SILENT SOUNDS OF THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY NAY HE SAID WHATSOEVER IN MY UNIVERSE TRUE LOVE HAVE BUILT NOT EVEN THE ALMIGHTY CAN DESTROY THE BRIDGE MUST STAND FOREVER +089d5db9-92f4-424e-a576-16e2a7aa8a69 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT WE OPENED THE BLUE CHEST SAID THE STORY GIRL AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE THE BLUE CHINA CANDLESTICK ONLY IT WAS BRASS IN THE DREAM AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT NOT THAT IT MADE ANY DIFFERENCE TO HER SHE IGNORED EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING BUT THE FEASTMAN GLARING AT HIM ANGRILY SHE SNAPPED OUT HIS NAME IN AN ICY VOICE GARF DOOR FELICITY FLUNG THE LAST SENTENCE AT THE STORY GIRL WHO TURNED VERY PALE OH DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE CAUGHT THEM AT THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW SHE SAID MISERABLY +08ca9897-e907-44a8-8993-7723269addad I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID THE GIRL HE THOUGHT WAS SOMEHOW RADIANT REALLY LOVELY NO I'M JUST DOING PENANCE AUNT JANET FOR A SIN I COMMITTED I CAN'T CONFESS IT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BRING TROUBLE ON ANOTHER PERSON SO I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY YOU DON'T MIND DO YOU I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF I MADE A BOLT FOR THE ORCHARD AND YOU WON'T CATCH ME GOING NEAR THE HOUSE TILL YOUR UNCLE ROGER COMES HOME YOU COULDN'T CATCH ANY OF US DOING IT WE WERE ALMOST AS BADLY SCARED AS PETER +08dccbe6-d3a9-4779-9390-59e23dd76363 MA MADE A RULE LIKE THAT ONCE BEFORE AND KEPT IT FOR A WEEK AND THEN WE JUST SLIPPED BACK TO THE OLD WAY THAT WILL BE WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME TOO BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO MEND TIN LIKES WITH IT SO I'M NOT SURE I CAN HELP YOU ASKED THE HIPPOCRIFT IN A DISAPPOINTED VOICE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID ADDED TO THE CREW WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH +08e400c9-099b-45bf-84b2-c213044054df TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE TWO VOICES RANG OUT FOR ME ABOVE ALL OTHERS IN THE MUSIC THAT ECHOES THROUGH THE HALLS OF RECOLLECTION AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I BECAUSE PETER CONTINUED TO HOLD THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF BITTER APPLES AND OFTEN THEY HUNTED TOGETHER FOR SCHUBEN WAS ALMOST AS SKILFUL WITH HER BOW AND ARROW AS THE KATY HIMSELF +08e73385-1ad4-449f-960a-803b34d76f01 COUNT EVERYONE ALL RIGHT FILL IN EVERY ONE I NEED MORE PAPERS WHAT HE HELD UP WAS THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF SAND MARSHALL COULD NOT SEE IT IN DETAIL NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING +08f89d19-a4df-404e-a2f4-a32c3f104b61 ALL RIGHT GARF FUN SPUN IT'S RIDICULOUS I NEVER SAW SIST MOROC THE BIG UGLY ONE ESPECIALLY AND THE FEDERATION CAN'T TAKE EVEN SMALL CHANCES WE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO THINK WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE GRANARY LIGHTED A HUGE LANTERN WHICH DAN HAD MADE OUT OF A TURNIP AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR ALL THE APPLES WE MIGHT HAVE EATEN THROUGH THE DAY BUT HAD NOT TO NEWBOLTED PRESENTLY SAID SEND ME BACK ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE +0915be23-157d-443c-b810-25dcd39f656b AS SOON AS WE CAN GET READY ANSWERED THE EMPEROR I'LL CALL MY SERVANTS AT ONCE AND ORDER THEM TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR OUR JOURNEY IT TOOK AN EFFORT BUT I MANAGED TO GET MY MIND BACK INTO GEAR AND CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE IF PRESENT FERERO DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE BATTLESHIP HE MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY THE COVER UP JOB BUT IF HE WASN'T RESPONSIBLE WHO WAS NOWADAYS I SUPPOSE A WEALTHY MAN LIKE AGLEIA'S FATHER WOULD BE WILLING TO LET HER HIS DAUGHTER MARRY A HIRED MAN BUT THIS WAS IN THE GOLDEN AGE YOU KNOW AND NOTHING LIKE THAT MATTERED AT ALL +09378abe-03e0-41ec-a2d3-507bb1334cc7 THE POLICEMAN EXPECTED NO FURTHER TROUBLE FROM THE HUMANS AFTER THE TREATMENT THEY HAD OUR COPS WOULD BE TOUGH WITH YOU IF THEY FOUND YOU OPERATING THE THING TOLD YOU TO BRING IT AT THE HAND MOVED SLOWLY LIKE THE HAND OF AN OIL GAUGE IN WHICH THE PRESSURE IS GRADUALLY BUILT UP WHEN NEXT WE ASSEMBLED OURSELVES TOGETHER IT WAS AFTER MILKING AND THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE DONE WITH WE FOREGATHERED IN THE BALSAM FRAGRANT AISLES OF THE FIR WOOD AND ATE EARLY AUGUST APPLES TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THE STORY GIRL SAID WE MADE HER THINK OF THE IRISHMAN'S PIG PETER HAD GONE HOME TO SEE HIS MOTHER AND UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO MARKDALE ON BUSINESS +09626ba7-e89d-41de-b70e-aa83f0bb8cfb WHEN WE GOT AWAY WE COMPARED NOTES AND FOUND THAT WE ALL LIKED HIM AND THIS ALTHOUGH HE HAD SAID LITTLE AND HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT GLAD TO GET RID OF US OH WASN'T THAT AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE EXCLASPED CECILY SHUDDERING I WOULDN'T GO THROUGH IT AGAIN I COULDN'T NOT EVEN FOR PAT AUNT JANET TRIED TO MAKE PIES OF THEM ONCE BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE HATED TO SEE THEM GOING TO WASTE BUT SHE NEVER TRIED IT AGAIN SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME I KNOW IT IS SAID THAT MY BEAUTIFUL HEAD HAS BRAINS OF MIXED WHEAT STRAW AND BRAN BUT MY THOUGHTS ARE SO GOOD I'D NOT CHANGE IF I COULD FOR THE BRAINS OF A COMMON MEAT MAN +0963d6e4-7e4e-45b6-9ef5-ac1769357d63 WELL WHAT DOES SHE SAY ASKED CICELY TREMULOUSLY SHE SAID RUN AWAY AND DON'T BOTHER ME I HADN'T ANY TIME FOR YOUR NONSENSE RESPONDED FELICITY IN AN INJURED TONE AND I SAID BUT MA THE PAPER SAYS TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY AND MARJOR SAID JUDGMENT FIDDLESTICKS I SLUMPED DEFEATED WAITING FOR THE BLOW TO LAND THE OLD MAN FONDLED MY CONTRACT ACCORDING TO THIS CONTRACT YOU CAN'T QUIT EVER THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY CECILY TOOK COURAGE OF THINGS FELICITY MIGHT CHARM THE PALATE AND THE STORY GIRL BIND CAPTIVE THE SOUL BUT WHEN PAIN AND SICKNESS WRUNG THE BROW IT WAS CECILY WHO WAS THE MINISTERING ANGEL +0984597b-e3f5-4144-addc-82465ba2f4ed WE WATCHED HER WHITE CLAD FIGURE PASS THROUGH THE GATE AND ENTER THE FRONT DOOR AFTER DINNER THE CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY AND THE SUN CAME JOYOUSLY AND GLORIOUSLY OUT AT THAT VERY MOMENT AUNT OLIVIA WHO HAD RECOVERED FROM HER HEADACHE AND AUNT JANET WERE LAUGHING IN THE KITCHEN OVER THE STATE THE CHILDREN WERE IN BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THE END OF THE WORLD WAS CLOSE AT HAND THIS SECOND DIAL WAS NO MORE THAN A THIN DISK OF HARD RUBBER OR BAKE LIGHT WITH A RED SCRATCH MARK ON ONE SIDE +098aa752-4287-40a8-a10d-f19a8439970a MANY MOONS AGO AN INDIAN TRIBE LIVED ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER IN NOVA SCOTIA PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS OH I NEVER LIKE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL EXCEPT WHEN I'M HUNGRY THEN I DO LIKE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE NICE LITTLE ROWS OF ONIONS AND BEETS BUT I LOVE A FLOWER GARDEN I THINK I COULD BE ALWAYS GOOD IF I LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME +09b09b2b-01fa-4a84-af18-f53b4c75905c I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT WILL NOT WED UNTIL A KING COMES WHO CAN CONQUER ALL KINGS I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT BUT STILL THE HOLY WATERS WOULD NOT FLOW THEN USEFUL APPLICATION SOMETHING SCURRIED INTO A WISP OF BRUSH WHAT INNER USE STRAIGHT ROCKET POWER +09befe78-5348-42cc-a6bc-1aaec2b85474 HE WAS ALSO SIGNALING TO AN UNDER PRIEST WHO CARRIED A BRAZER OF CHARCOAL COMPLETE WITH RED HOT IRONS MARK THREE BEACON THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE THEIR TOIL AND LONELINESS AND SUFFERING WERE ALL OVER AND FORGOTTEN HE IS NEITHER MADE OF TIN NOR STUFFED WITH STRAW NOR CAN HE FLY BELIEVE THAT WE FIND MORE REAL ENJOYMENT IN YOUR OZBOOKS THAN IN ANY OTHER BOOKS +09c142d4-bc9f-48e9-9b4b-001e46c7b3e3 I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED IT'S ALL VERY FINE TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO THE STORY GIRL WALKED UPRIGHTLY LIKE INCARNATE FLAME IN HER CRIMSON SILK HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE BUT SARA RAY WAS NOT HAPPY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS HE LOOKED AT THE MILKY WAY +09eed7b7-553a-43ef-b9ca-b14369a61123 AFTER FOUR YEARS I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE STORE OF PHOTOPHLASH FLARES HE WATCHED FOR A WHILE BUT SAW NO MORE FLARES FINALLY HE SCRAMBLED DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAVA SHEET AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE WRECK MOVING SLOWLY BUT STEADILY I THINK NOT WAS THE REPLY WE ARE ENGAGED UPON A RATHER DELICATE ADVENTURE FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER AT THE LITTLE PEOPLE TOWN NOR THE DENAY BUT AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS THE INCANTO WORE OFF AND MILLER AND I STOLE THE LISTS OF NAMES AND RAN AWAY BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL +0a1e51a4-8ea5-4bfe-8427-0bb16d36b48b IT WOULD BE JUST STUPIDITY IF YOU DIDN'T BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED RECORDING HIS WHOLE HISTORY IN BRIEF AND FINISHING WITH EIGHT LINES OF ORIGINAL VERSE COMPOSED BY HIS WIDOW IT WAS JENIFER CHARLIE'S NIECE KEPT DISMANTLED AND HIDDEN FROM SUSPICIOUS LOCAL LIES A SHIP LANDED INLAND A FEW MINUTES AGO HE SAID +0a2f7f5f-cd23-4be4-9575-a5e2ecbb39ea BUT THREE DAYS AFTER HER DEPARTURE FELIX TOLD US SOMETHING ON THE WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL WHICH LENT SOME SPICE TO EXISTENCE IMMEDIATELY YOU ASK HIM SAID FELICITY NUDGING THE STORY YELL UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY YELL THE GOLDEN NOTES OF HER VOICE THREADED WITH FEAR AND APPEAL THE ENTERPRISE SAYS THAT TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY IS IT BUT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER EVEN WHILE DANCING COULD THINK AND REASON VERY CLEARLY AND SUDDENLY SHE SOLVED THE PROS PROBLEM IN THE NICEST POSSIBLE WAY +0a521e4e-dbcb-4c7d-a62a-c2a00ded8166 BUT SHE IS TWENTY NINE YOU KNOW THAT'S PRETTY OLD HE IS BIG AND JOLLY BUT HE TEASES PEOPLE TOO MUCH YOU ASK HIM A SERIOUS QUESTION AND YOU GET A RIDICULOUS ANSWER HE HARDLY EVER SCOLDS OR GETS CROSS THOUGH AND THAT IS SOMETHING HE PICKED HIS WAY CAUTIOUSLY WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH BUT UNCLE BLAIR COULD DO AT LEAST ONE THING SURPASSINGLY WELL WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER +0a81aae8-0aa1-433d-bd0f-e3e1a7d6206c IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS UNDOUBTEDLY THEY HAD STARTED THE PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT TRANSPORT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED LATER ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS ORDERS WERE ORIGINATED MANY PLACES PASSED ON CHANGED AND SHOVELED I PAINFULLY TRACED EACH ONE TO ITS SOURCE MANY TIMES THE SOURCE WAS A FORGERY SOME CHANGES SEEMED TO BE INEXPLICABLE UNTIL I NOTICED THAT THE OFFICERS IN QUESTION HAD A TEMPORARY SECRETARY WHILE THEN ALL ASSISTANTS WERE ILL WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN WHISPERED TO UBE YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT +0a8a7104-16f7-432d-951c-d8b0541c606d SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST +0ab24143-d48a-4367-9a08-09193fad14d5 THINGS ALWAYS SOUND WORSE THAN THEY ARE WHEN UNCLE ROGER SAYS THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL UNCLE EDWARD SAYS JASPER DALE IS A VERY CLEVER MAN AND IT'S A GREAT PITY HE WASN'T ABLE TO FINISH HIS COLLEGE COURSE THE TRAVELLERS WERE SILENT FOR A TIME UNEASILY CONSIDERING THIS STATEMENT AND THE EFFECT IT MIGHT HAVE ON THEIR FUTURE ONCE WHEN I CAME TO HER HOUSE MY STRAW WAS OLD AND CRUMPLED SO THAT MY BODY SAGGED DREADFULLY IT WAS FELICITY'S FAULT CRIED CECILY WHO ALWAYS TOOK DAN'S PART THROUGH EVIL REPORT AND GOOD REPORT SHE TOLD HIM SHE GUESSED HE'D LEARNED A LESSON AND WOULDN'T DO WHAT SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO AGAIN +0ab8b31d-86bb-48fa-8c6b-4ced4e1f04ad AND THE BUILDINGS THEMSELVES WOOD MUD AND STONE CLUSTERED IN THE VALLEY BELOW HIM AS IF THEY WERE AFRAID AND NEEDED EACH OTHER'S PROTECTION HOW ABOUT AUNT OLIVIA NO AUNT OLIVIA HAS GONE TO BED WITH A SICK HEADACHE AND MUSTN'T BE DISTURBED SAID THE STORY GIRL COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY A BUGGY LOAD OF MARKDALE PEOPLE AND FINALLY MISSUS ELDER FRUEN AND HER SISTER FROM VANCOUVER WITH TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS OF THE LATTER ARRIVED +0aeedbba-f9a3-4db5-8e55-00493f5e6c1b GALACTIC ADJUSTMENT WILL EXTEND AID TO BOTH CALAXIA AND TERRA FURNISHING SUBSTITUTES FOR THE CRYSTALS YOU DEAL IN THERE WILL BE NO LOSS TO EITHER FACTION IF I PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER IT WILL BE TOO LATE I'M GROWING SO FAST AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I'LL HAVE TO WEAR ANKLE SKIRTS NEXT SUMMER IF I BEGIN TO LOOK GROWN UP HE'LL GET FRIGHTENED OF ME AND THEN I'LL NEVER FIND OUT THE GOLDEN MILESTONE MYSTERY DO YOU THINK HE'LL EVER TELL YOU WHO ALICE IS I ASKED WHEN HOPE HERE ACTED LIKE THE FOOLISH LITTLE KID SHE IS SHE WAS NOT EVEN ARMED AND THEY RUSHED HER HERE WITHOUT DELAY +0af18073-febe-49f3-a71c-c15bdc67283d THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED IT WAS MORE THAN VAST ONLY HE IS OLD AND HIS HAIR IS WHITE THE WEIRD SPELL THE COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE LAND WHERE SHE LIVED SAY WE'RE NONE OF US CHURCH MEMBERS BUT OF COURSE PETER COULDN'T BE SENT TO THE BAD PLACE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS +0af9e170-74e4-4b7f-8380-ebb88c084e4e IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE TRAGEDY BUT A NUMBER OF MONITOR STATIONS HAD PICKED UP THIS DISCHARGED STATIC OF A LARGE ENERGY WEAPON BEING FIRED HIS SOUL THRILLED WITH RAPTURE AT THE THOUGHT THAT HE AND SHE TOGETHER SHOULD DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY AS ODIN HAD PROMISED AND BE WON THEREAFTER IN ETERNAL YOUTH WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY +0b1af457-c502-4a43-815b-f15815031503 JEFF HAD CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY BUT ITS IMMEDIACY APPALLED HIM JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW HE'S IN THE HOUSE THIS VERY MINUTE HE CAME UP WITH US IN THE BUGGY BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY WELL I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY IT WAS NOT AN EASY MATTER +0b47d44d-a41d-4333-8215-8b67bc222fe0 BUT SHE NEVER TRIED IT AGAIN SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME THE STORY GIRL'S WORDS FELL ON THE MORNING AIR LIKE PEARLS AND DIAMONDS EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED IT IS PERMITTED STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER ALL BET'S OFF WE'RE COMING IN AFTER YOU THAT MARK TWENTY IS OF FINAL STRAW IT MEANS THEY HAVE THE DELPHINAS FOR SURE ORAN TOUCHED HIS THROAT NO GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME WHY I HAVE A HUNCH ABOUT THESE CREATURES WHAT IS IT NO TIME NOW TRUST ME WE PAUSED AND THE CHANTING WENT ON AND ON UNTIL I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANYTHING WOULD EVER HAPPEN AND THEN AT LAST THE CHANTING CEASED AND THREE OF THE PRIESTS MOVED TOWARD US FOLLOWED BY AN ELDERLY BEING WHO WORE THE SAME SYMBOL OF POWER OR AUTHORITY THAT I HAD ALREADY NOTED UPON THE CREATURE VIC CALLED E PAI ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME +0bb62b00-913a-42b0-bab9-4eb9ee525008 ONCE OCCUPATION BEGAN I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN ORDINARILY HE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IT A THOUGHT BEYOND A PASSING SIGH FOR THE WAYS OF THE WORLD HE HAD OTHER BUSINESS BUT NOW GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP I COULD GO INTO THEORIES AND SCIENTIFIC DETAILS RAY SAID +0bbf47fc-1a2b-483d-a57d-833722f9b97e THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN BRANDON'S VOICE SOUNDED STRANGE AND DISTANT AS HE TALKED TO HIS OXYGEN MASK BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO +0c0e1b88-bf4a-438f-bdcc-fc60f5fd2bfc AND IN THE DAYS THAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOING ON THEY CLEANED UP AND FED MANWELL IF IT WERE HE AND TRIED TO GET FROM HIM A COGENT STORY THERE'S A CUP JUST LIKE THE ONE THAT USED TO BE HERE IN FATHER'S TIME EXCLAIMED FELIX POINTING TO AN OLD FASHIONED SHALLOW CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WARE ON A LITTLE SHELF INSIDE THE CURB ZERA AND ZULEITH LOVED EACH OTHER JUST AS MORTALS LOVE AND THIS IS FORBIDDEN BY THE LAWS OF THE ALMIGHTY AND BECAUSE ZERA AND ZULEIMANTH HAD SO BROKEN GOD'S LAW THEY WERE BANISHED FROM HIS PRESENCE TO THE UTTERMOST BOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE +0c494fce-2931-4470-9487-91409bc80ca3 THAT DAUNTLESS BIRTH WOULD SOAR TRIUMPHANTLY ABOVE THE WRECK OF MATTER AND THE CRASH OF WORLDS TAKING WITH IT ALL ITS OWN WILD SWEETNESS AND DARING HE WAS BEING HARANGUED BY A FOUR INCH TALL MAN ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE YET EVEN ABOUT MULA THERE WAS AN ODDITY IN HER ANCESTRY CECILY HOW OLD MUST WE BE BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A REAL BEAU BUT WE AIN'T SAID FELIX CANDIDLY I WOULDN'T BE MUCH SCARED OF ANYTHING REAL BUT A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A DIFFERENT THING I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY +0c6335f0-29a0-4859-80b1-06ecafe3fbcf THE BOY WAS NOW FREE AND THE THORN WHICH THE LOON HAD STUCK INTO HIS LEG WAS LYING UNNOTICED ON THE GROUND WHERE THE CREATURE HAD DROPPED IT WHEN HE EXPLODED BOOT LEANED FORWARD AND PICKED UP THE THORN AND WHILE THE LOONS WERE BUSILY WATCHING THE PUMP THE BOY SPRANG TO HIS FEET AND SUDDENLY RUSHED UPON THE GROUN A SMALL WAVE OF CUSTOM MEN HUNG STICKERS ON MY LUGGAGE PEEKED INTO ONE OR TWO FOR CONFORMITY'S SAKE AND WAVED ME THROUGH I SHOOK HANDS ALL ROUND A RUSTLING HAND CLASP OF COURSE THEN WAS ON MY WAY A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME SUDDENLY THE DOOR ABOVE US OPENED AND PEG BOWEN HERSELF APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD SHE WAS A TALL SINEWY OLD WOMAN WEARING A SHORT RAGGED DRUGGET SKIRT WHICH REACHED SCANTILY BELOW HER KNEES A SCARLET PRINT BLOUSE AND A MAN'S HAT HER FEET ARMS AND NECK WERE BARE AND SHE HAD A BATTERED OLD CLAY PIPE IN HER MOUTH HER BROWN FACE WAS SEAMED WITH A HUNDRED WRINKLES AND HER TANGLED GRIZZLED HAIR FELL UNKEMPTLY OVER HER SHOULDERS SHE WAS SCOWLING AND HER FLASHING BLACK EYES HELD NO FRIENDLY LIGHT +0c691d06-4467-43a9-b2a1-f79b86d6ec50 AND NOW WE HAD COME TO THE ORCHARD IT WAS BEFORE US WE HAD ONLY TO OPEN THAT LITTLE WHITEWASHED GATE IN THE HEDGE AND WE MIGHT FIND OURSELVES IN ITS STORY DOMAIN BUT BEFORE WE REACHED THE GATE WE GLANCED TO OUR LEFT ALONG THE GRASSY SPRUCE BORDERED LANE WHICH LED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THAT LANE WE SAW A GIRL STANDING WITH A GRAY CAT AT HER FEET I S'POSE YOU THINK A HIRED BOY HASN'T ANY BUSINESS TO PRAY FOR PARTICULAR THINGS BUT I'LL SHOW YOU I'LL JUST PRAY FOR WHAT I PLEASE AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY AND STOP ME WHEN ONE OF THEM BREAKS DOWN IT IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT AND REPAIRING THE THING IS NEVER A MATTER OF JUST PLUGGING IN A NEW PART +0c7ba816-93d0-45d2-a065-6163c5d56192 IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED PRESENTLY A GREATER GLOOM CAME OVER THE JUNGLE BRINGING A SUDDEN STILLNESS TO THE WILD LIFE +0c8d01c6-9707-4909-bf16-30de80a1249f BUCKLING THE FUR CAPE AROUND MY SHOULDERS WITH THE PLATINUM CLASP I STAMPED DOWN THE RAMP THE STURDY LITTLE M THREE ROWBOT RUMBLED AFTER ME WITH MY BAGS HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE MAIN GATE I IGNORED THE STURD OF ACTIVITY AROUND THE CUSTOMS BUILDING ONLY WHEN A UNIFORM UNDER OFFICIAL OF SOME KIND RAN OVER TO ME DID I GIVE THE FIELD ANY ATTENTION WHAT WAS A THING SHE COULDN'T BEAR ANY ONE TO SEE I ASKED MA THINKS IT WAS HER WEDDING DRESS BUT FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES IT WAS MIL WILL MONTAGUE'S PICTURE SAID FELICITY HE SAW HER PUT IT IN FATHER KNOWS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE CHESS HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD AND HE SAW HER PACKET THERE'S A WHITE MUSLIN WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL AND AND A A FELICITY DROPPED HER EYES AND BLUSHED PAINFULLY A PETTICOAT EMBROIDERED BY HAND FROM HEM TO BELT SAID THE STORY GIRL CALMLY WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT STETSON CROSSED OVER TO A TILT LOCKER BEHIND THE BIG TRANSLENT MAP HAULED OUT A WHITE COVER ALL UNIFORM WITH GOLDEN SIGNIA TOSSED IT TO ORAN GET INTO THESE WHILE I BRIEF YOU ON THE MAP BUT THIS IS AN ORN R UNIT BEGAN ORAN GET THAT UNIFORM ON YOUR UGLY FRAME +0c8d5c84-4f6b-4cf1-ba70-01e7fcbb44f3 SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING THE DEVELOPMENT TOOK FARMER COMPLETELY UNAWARES IT'S A GOOD THING I NOTICED THE GATE WAS OPEN IT WAS JUDGE GREY WHO HAD DISARMED HIM THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ONE OF THE PRIESTS VIOLATED THE TEMPLE AND DESTROYED THE HOLY WATERS +0cadf336-adc1-407f-a02a-b1dc84bedd16 REMEMBER YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO LOCATE A FIRM LANDING SITE WITH AMPLE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF IS THAT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOOK A WHIP AND WHIPPED MY BARE SHOULDERS TILL THE BLOOD CAME DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL AGGRIEVED I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING RETORTED AUNT JANET I'D SIMPLY TURN YOU OVER MY KNEE AND GIVE YOU A SOUND SOLID SPANKING MISS SARA YOU'D FIND THAT PENANCE ENOUGH THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED SO DID MINE JEFF SAID WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK +0cc59dc6-979b-444f-8b7d-c3f9ac5d3fbb HE BROKE DOWN AGAIN SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GROWLED DON'T YOU CATCH IT YET THE STORY SHE TOLD YOU WAS TRUE EXCEPT SHE TWISTED IT AROUND A BIT THE WHOLE PLAN BUILDING THE BATTLESHIP THEN STEALING IT WAS HERS SHE PULLED ME INTO IT PLAYED ME LIKE AN ACCORDION TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND MIGHT EVEN BE OFF THE DELPHINIS CAN YOU GET CLOSER WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST HOWEVER HE FOUND HER AFTER MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES AS YOU WILL DISCOVER WHEN YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY +0cdbb0f6-a801-4d41-a503-da0a0fbe669b AT FIRST SHE FLEW HIGH IN THE AIR AND MADE GREAT CIRCLES OVERHEAD BUT IF I REMEMBER RIGHTLY POOR NIMIA ME HAS A SHARP TONGUE WHEN ANGRY WELL UNCLE ROGER ASKED ME TO TELL IT I DON'T LIKE TELLING SUCH STORIES EITHER THEY MAKE ME FEEL DREADFUL YOU AND I OLIVIA NEVER HAD OUR CHANCE HE WANTED TO GET UP BUT CECILY ORDERED HIM TO STAY IN BED WISH I WAS BACK IN TORONTO +0ce76e6b-62cf-4fbf-ad49-486cc9299031 AND BESIDES NOW THIS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND IN THE DARK WOULD BE NECESSARY IF YOUR SCREAM WAS OPEN AND I COULD HAVE GOT A CALL THROUGH ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY SHE HAD PUT ON A NEW PERSONALITY LIKE A GARMENT WATER IS LOVELY I'M A GREAT GIRL THIRTEEN YEARS OLD SO YOU'LL BE SURPRISED WHEN I TELL YOU SAID THE GIANTESSING ANOTHER BISCUIT BUT THE WITCH WAS MORE FURIOUS THAN EVER +0d45c261-6a00-471c-a17c-4a59a2e86a4f LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE AND READ JUST WHAT THE BIBLE DOES SAY ABOUT IT SUGGESTED CECILY WE CREPT IN CAREFULLY LEST WE DISTURB AUNT OLIVIA AND CECILY FOUND AND READ THE SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HOLY WRIT THERE WAS LITTLE COMFORT FOR US IN THAT VIVID AND TERRIBLE PICTURE I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS DO NOT TRY TO HARM ME OR THE WRATH OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WILL TURN AGAINST YOU WHEN I SAID THIS I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT +0d4b9c38-5632-4b87-9b55-ea92af73fc0b I JUST LOVE TO READ A STORY WHERE THE HEROINE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM WHY ARE THERE NEVER NO STORIES ABOUT UGLY PEOPLE WE HAD ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD EAGERLY TO THE PROMISED STAY WHEN FATHER WOULD TAKE US DOWN HOME TO I GAVE HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LEAGUE AND THE LEAGUE NAVY IN PARTICULAR WANTED TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP +0d4bd13f-b6c7-4f07-813c-c683707c8b8c ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED TWO THE DOOR WAS SEALED SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SAVAGE ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS OUR OPENING EXERCISES CONSISTED SOLELY OF SINGING AND READING WE HAD AGREED TO OMIT THE PRAYER NEITHER FELIX PETER NOR I FELL EQUAL TO PRAYING IN PUBLIC BUT WE TOOK UP A COLLECTION THE PROCEEDS WERE TO GO TO MISSIONS DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF JOHN ANDREW THINKING IT OVER SAID OH AND LET GO OF HER RISK SHE TURNED AND WENT BACK TO THE RAIL AGAIN AFTER FLASHING HIM THE MOST DELUCT SMILE SO FAR +0d6b67bd-69f2-4855-8e07-474f61a0a67c THERE WAS A GREAT CRUNCHING AND BANGING FROM THE JUNK PILED AGAINST IT AND THEN THE DOOR SWUNG FREE WE LOOKED AT HIM IN SUCH HORROR THAT DAN HASTENED TO APOLOGIZE BUT THEY'RE FAR AWAY AND WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM HERE IS HER BLACK SILK MANTLE SEEMS LIKE SACRILEGE TO MEDDLE WITH THESE CLOTHES OUR TEACHER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT THING TO HAVE A LIBRARY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL +0dbf64c8-7941-4edd-8b8a-b47d10fa8305 WHY THEY CAME IN LIKE A PRIMITIVE RAIDING PARTY THE LEADER DROPPED RIGHT ON TO THE HOOD OF MY SLED AN ACT OF BRAVERY NO LESS COUNTING COOP YOU SEE I GUESS SO THEN HE SAID HE WAS A HIGH PATH CHIEF THAT WASN'T ON THE LANGUAGE LIST EITHER BUT IT WAS EASY RAIDER CHIEF THERE'S A WORD IN ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE IN HISTORY THAT MEANS RAIDER AND DRIVES FROM WORD FOR ROAD PATH OR HIGHWAY PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO I KILLED IT STONE DEAD THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY WILL YOU BELIEVE IT HE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT IT I'M SO WORRIED UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEEDS A DOSE OF PHYSIC BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION CHAPTER TWENTY OVERNIGHT THE LAND OF THE MUNCHKINS IS FULL OF SURPRISES AS OUR TRAVELLERS HAD ALREADY LEARNED AND ALTHOUGH MOUNT MUNCH WAS CONSTANTLY GROWING LARGER AS THEY ADVANCED TOWARD IT THEY KNEW IT WAS STILL A LONG WAY OFF AND WERE NOT CERTAIN BY ANY MEANS THAT THEY HAD ESCAPED ALL DANGER OR ENCOUNTERED THEIR LAST ADVENTURE +0dcb1244-3991-49f7-bd6c-a3310a9edeab WE DREW STRAWS TO SEE WHO SHOULD GO AND DO THE ASKING AND THE LOT FELL TO FELIX THEY SAY HE STOOD ON THE DECK OF THE FANNY AND PLEADED WITH THE MEN WHILE THE TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE OF COURSE I CAN'T HELP FEELING SORRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TO GO TO THE OTHER PLACE SAID CICELY COMPASSIONATELY BUT I SUPPOSE THEY WOULDN'T BE VERY COMFORTABLE IN HEAVEN EITHER THEY WOULDN'T FEEL AT HOME IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS BUT WHEN THOSE LONG WHITE CLOUDS SWEEP ACROSS THE SKY +0dcd7372-e645-4a80-b57f-6f028aab52ee EVEN SCEPTICAL DAN PRAYED HIS SCEPTICISM FALLING AWAY FROM HIM LIKE A DISCARDED GARMENT IN THIS VALLEY OF THE SHADOW WHICH SIFTS OUT HEARTS AND TRIES SOULS UNTIL WE ALL GROWN UP WITH CHILDREN REALIZE OUR WEAKNESS AND FINDING THAT OUR OWN PUNY STRENGTH IS AS A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT A LONG CLOAK WOULD CONCEAL THE UNIFORM WHILE I LEFT THE HOTEL BUT THE GOLDEN CRUSTED HELMET AND A BRIEF CASE OF PAPERS WERE A PROBLEM I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT PERHAPS IT COULD BE OF HELP YOU THERE SHORTEN CHUNKY I CALLED DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCEALED COMPARTMENTS OR DRAWERS BUILT UNTIL STEEL HARD IF SO LET'S SEE FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES GARF HAD LEFT HIM AND WAS STROLLING AROUND THE LAUNCH AS IF HE HAD JUST BOUGHT IT LOOKING DOWN HIS NOSE AT IT AT THE SAME TIME ACTING AS IF HE COULD AFFORD NOT TO GIVE A DAMN HOW BADLY HE HAD BEEN STUNG BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY +0df5af47-89a0-4cf6-91d0-46a3b1807af8 WE WAITED AT UNCLE ALEC'S DOOR FOR THE OTHERS TO COME UP SAID PETER DISAPPOINTEDLY DO PEOPLE GO ON BEING JUST THE SAME AFTER THEY'RE DEAD BEFORE IT COULD FALL I HAD MY SOLAR OUT AND WITH A WIDE ANGLE SHOT BURNED THE CONTRACT TO ASHES LIZARDS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES AND I WANTED TO TAKE ALONG A LOT OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THAT IS THE LEAST OF PEG BOWEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANSWERED UNCLE ROGER BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE +0e285a98-3f11-4c6c-981b-367de0bdd420 SOMETHING WAS SPARKLING VERY BRIGHTLY AMONG ITS PEBBLES A GLAYA PICKED IT UP AND IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE STONE THAT SHE HAD EVER SEEN SHE WAS VERY SHY AND MODEST BUT YOU KNOW A GIRL CAN LET A MAN SEE SHE LIKES HIM WITHOUT GOING OUT OF HER WAY WENT THREE OF THE LOOMS WHEN THE WANDERER PRICKED THEM WITH HIS THOR AND AT THE SOUNDS AND AT THE SOUNDS THE OTHERS LOOKED AROUND AND SAW THEIR DANGER WITH YELLS OF FEAR THEY BOUNDED AWAY IN ALL DIRECTIONS SCATTERING ABOUT THE CLEARING WITH WOOT THE WANDERER IN FULL CHASE FELIX HELD OUT TO FELICITY A REMARKABLY FINE APPLE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAVING FOR HIS OWN CONSUMPTION AND THE STORY GIRL BEGAN A TALE OF AN ENCHANTED MAIDEN IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA BUT WE NEVER HEARD THE END OF IT +0ecbea83-002f-40f0-bb72-9708e614003d AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT CHAFFEE FOUR PROJECTED HIMSELF FIRST TO THE OPENED PORT JEFF WAS DISLODGED INSTANTLY AND SANK LIKE A STONE I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THINKING OF GOING BAREFOOTED HE TALKED VERY NICELY AND READ AND PRAYED JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM HER UNCLES ROARED WITH LAUGHTER OVER THE RECOLLECTION AND NOW WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR BUT THE MASTER WOULD NOT LET THEM +0ef0e85f-f65d-46e5-ad18-638dbbb954fd SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET AN AMAZING CHANGE COMING OVER HER AUNT OLIVIA IS JUST SWEET SHE KISSES ME GOOD NIGHT EVERY NIGHT AND YOUR MOTHER NEVER KISSES YOU THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH I SAY MY PRAYERS SOMETIMES I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE IT CAUSED MUTATIONS THAT BRED TRUE +0f132cb0-28ac-4248-abeb-e259aa23e27c I'LL MANAGE IT SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL AND WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE WOULD IF YOUR WORD IS AS BIG AS YOUR MOUTH I GUESS IT WILL BE SAID FELICITY CRUELLY OH COME COME QUICK SHE GASPED DAN'S EATING THE BAD BERRIES AGAIN HE'S AT A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM HE SAYS HE'LL SHOW FELICITY I CAN'T STOP HIM FOLLOWED BY PATTY AND THE REST OF US WALKED UP THE ORCHARD TO THE HOUSE PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE +0f2101b0-9bf1-4300-9c5a-9fe50d8a13d7 I DON'T SEE MARILLA SINCE I CAME BACK HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING BEFORE YOU DO MANOEL JUST A COUPLE OF LAST QUESTIONS THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS LET'S GET UP AND GO DOWN AND OUT I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE TO SEE THE PLACE HIS FATHER TOLD US OF BUT I'LL HAVE TO CHANCE IT NOW EVERYTHING LOOKS JUST THE SAME SHE SAID RUN AWAY AND DON'T BOTHER ME I HADN'T ANY TIME FOR YOUR NONSENSE RESPONDED FELICITY IN AN INJURED TONE AND I SAID BUT MA THE PAPER SAYS TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY +0f223916-2b62-49b4-b6fa-e3ed82d026e8 WHAT ARE YOU GETTING AT HE MUMBLED AS HE RAN HIS EYES OVER THE BRUNTS THIS IS AN ORDINARY HEAVY CARGO AND PASSENGER JOB IT'S NO MORE A WAR LORD BATTLESHIP THAN I AM I'M GOING TO GET A LOVELY DARK BLUE DRESS FOR THE WINTER IT IS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN SARA RAY'S BROWN ONE SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER IS SENDING HER A NEW RED DRESS AND A RED VELVET CAP FROM PARIS SHE IS SO FOND OF RED I CAN'T BEAR IT IT LOOKS SO COMMON AND THEY WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS EVER AFTERWARDS +0f24ec01-586e-49c8-88aa-814032faa461 I HAD MY SCANNER ON SO THEY COULD SEE ME BUT MY OWN SCREENS STAYED DARK THEY WEREN'T SENDING ANY PICTURE IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ALL WE HAVE OFF THE MINNIES THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY +0f84c152-1af7-4efc-a9bb-92e4fa1a0d7f SINCE I WAS ONLY CHASING MY TAIL WITH THIS LINE OF THOUGHT I PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND AND WORKED ON SOME DRY D CHESS PROBLEMS THIS FILLED THE TIME UNTIL SETANOVO BLINKED INTO THE BOW SCREEN ONE OF MY MOST EFFECTIVE MOTTOES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SECRECY CAN BE AN OBJIOSITY WHAT THE MAGICIANS CALL MISDIRECTION ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN ONE A VIVID ELECTRIC BLUE AND ONE WAS FIERY RED THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL BUT IF THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT DREAM ANYTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE REST OF US SHE SCORED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TELLING +0f8fcd4b-7b99-4aaa-abb8-3995aaca0ac5 NOW BEST OLD GIRL DO YOUR BONNIEST HE SAID THERE'S MORE THAN YOU KNOW HANGS ON YOUR SPEED WE HAD HAD BROTHERHOOD WITH WIND AND STAR WITH BOOKS AND TALES AND HEARTH FIRES OF AUTUMN IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER TO INSTALL A NEW POWER PLANT I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID THANKS TO BULL ONE IN COMPANY IN YOUR TONGUE GLASS SAID TO NEW AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES +0f9c69ee-ed3c-483a-a136-4bf7d5480450 AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TOOK EVERYTHING OUT AND LAID IT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD BUT ONLY ONCE DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED WISTFULLY AT THE NEW ENGLAND SHORE LINE +0f9ec316-c63f-4fe0-9617-7442d2660775 THAT WAS THE MAIN QUESTION ABOUT GROWN UPS THEIR LOOKS MATTERED LITTLE TO US SHE'S LOVELY THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HE WAS ROCKING HIMSELF BACK AND FORTH WITH HIS HAND PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH THE PUDDING DID NOT TASTE EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD I DO LIKE A ROAD AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE LEST WE SHOULD BE LOST OR KILLED +0fba92b5-9b6a-4d9d-8ab3-f128c6a75fcd OH YES SAID NEIL FIERCELY IS IT IS LAUGHING AT ME OVER THE COUNTRY SIDE AND TELLING THAT STORY THAT DONALD FRASER WILL BE DOING IS IT BUT WHEN I MEET HIM IT IS NOT LAUGHING HE'LL BE DOING OH NO THERE WILL BE ANOTHER STORY TO TELL A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT IT I READ IT IN A BOOK KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY +0fc86eed-4a78-4d42-a55e-7e7d2d358d4e A TANGLE OF CORDS STRETCHED OUT TO THE NILEN OF THE MAIN CHUTE DRAPED OVER A DUST STONE BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS SHARP PROVED TO BE A BARROW SHAPED MAN WHO WAS UNACCOUNTABLY CHEERLESS AS IF THE INSIDE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY REMOVED AND THEN REPLACED BY SAWDUST YONAS THOUGHT WHEN THE HEAD WAS DONE I PEELED IT OFF AND ATTACHED IT TO AN ATTRACTIVE SUIT OF GREEN PLASTICK COMPLETE WITH TAIL IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH +0fdc8eaf-793a-4b55-a867-2c51f9a028ac EMILY JUST PUT HER HANDS TO HER HEART SO AND FELL ALL WHITE AND BROKEN AMONG THE FERNS AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK TO LIFE SHE NEVER CRIED OR LAMENTED PRESENTLY AUNT OLIVIA CAME DOWN THE LONG TWILIGHT ARCADE HER BRIGHT HAIR WAS UNCOVERED AND SHE LOOKED SLIM AND QUEENLIKE IN HER LIGHT DRESS WE THOUGHT AUNT OLIVIA VERY PRETTY THEN THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR HIS EYES OPENED WIDE HIS JAW DROPPED HE SANK BACK INTO THE CHAIR AS IF HE HAD BEEN TAPPED LIGHTLY WITH A HAMMER WHEN HE MANAGED TO SPEAK THE WORDS WERE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY HE HAD ALREADY REGISTERED EVERY EVIDENCE OF INJURED INNOCENCE +0ff336f1-3597-4be1-84f1-5479e90521f1 IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO DRAW HIM DOWN TO THE THRONE WHERE HE SEATED HIMSELF AND WAS TIED IN SO HE WOULDN'T FLOAT UPWARD AGAIN FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES ONE HELD A GUN AND TWO MORE WAS STUFFED WITH GRENADES THE REST WERE EMPTY I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER EVEN THE STORY GIRL AND I HAD A FIGHT SOMETHING THAT HAD NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE +0fff6bec-5e12-44c1-85e8-202b35dfcc15 PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO BUT WHEN EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK A CLOUD PASSED OVER THE SUN AND AS THE SUDDEN SHADOW SWEPT ACROSS THE ORCHARD WE TURNED PALE AND TREMBLED +100522a5-fc55-410e-84a5-fbbd26c9b981 CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL SHE SHOOK HER HEAD NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION WELL FOR MY PART I AM GLAD HE DID RESPONDED THE CANARY YOUR JOURNEY RESULTED IN SAVING ME FROM THE GIANTESS AND HAD YOU NOT TRAVELLED TO THE EUBE VALLEY I WOULD STILL BE MISSUS EWPES'S PRISONER IT IS MUCH NICER TO BE FREE EVEN THOUGH I STILL BEAR THE ENCHANTED FORM OF A CANARY BIRD DO YOU THINK WE SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO GET OUR PROPER FORMS BACK AGAIN ASKED THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW THE LEATHER CHAIRS COMFORTABLE THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR SMACKED HIS LIPS FOR A WHILE THERE I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE TASTING ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN +101c08da-1543-4d89-91d3-1d5e4f95c7ec SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN EERY SINISTER LOOK YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS OH CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT THEM FROM FIGHTING SARA PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO SHE FELL QUIET REMEMBERING THE ZID AND HE MADE HIS CALL AUBREY CHAIN ONE FORTY SEVEN COME IN CONSULATE HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS +102a39dd-8aec-440a-9141-37ec363c980f HE TOLD FELICITY AND FELICITY TOLD ME SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL CUTE OF HIM IT WOULDN'T DO ANY HARM TO TRY SAID CECILY IF SHE DIDN'T MAKE HIM SICK IT WON'T MATTER IF SHE'S CROSS OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC WHY YES AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT A BODY WHY MATTER I SUPPOSE AND MATTER IS WHAT +106d3ba8-bd3a-49d9-8540-b8f6a24d3d62 THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER I BLINKED MYSELF AWAKE READ THE FIRST TWO LINES AND PRESSED THE ACTION STATION ALARM OVER MY BUNK IF ONLY A SPANKING WOULD MEND THE MANOR IT WAS NOT LIKELY IT WOULD EVER BE MENDED BOTH FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL WERE RATHER TOO OLD TO BE SPANKED AND IF THEY HAD NOT BEEN NONE OF THE GROWN UPS WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO ADMINISTER SO DESPERATE A REMEDY FOR THEY USUALLY CONSIDERED SO INSIGNIFICANT A TROUBLE AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE THE THREAT WAS EFFECTUAL NEVER DID WE MENTION THAT UNHOLY PUDDING BUT THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT IMPOSE SILENCE ON THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER HE TORMENTED HER FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER +10911be1-d13c-4748-926b-06bc564c1c71 LOOKING OVER THE ORIGINAL BREW PRINTS AGAIN THE BIG SUPERSTRUCTURE HIT MY EYE IN ORDER TO TURN THE SHIP INTO A WARSHIP THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO GO NEVERTHELESS WE ALL FELT A LITTLE OF THE SADNESS OF THE WANING YEAR THERE WAS A DISTINCT WEIGHT ON OUR SPIRITS UNTIL FELICITY TOOK US INTO THE PANTRY AND STAYED US WITH APPLE TARTS AND COMFORTED US WITH CREAM WHICH IS OF COURSE WHAT HAPPENED A LITTLE GEOLOGY TURN OVER A SWAMPY LAND BRIDGE FORMED IN THE RIGHT SPOT AND THE LIZARDS BEGAN TO WANDER UP THE BEACON VALLEY AND FOUND RELIGION +109e95c9-0acd-4773-b192-5ff61c5a8c4a AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER LONG LONG AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL HER VOICE GIVING US AN IMPRESSION OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY EACH WITH OPEN DREAM BOOKS AND PENCIL IN HAND THEN WHEN THE ZID CHARGED AFTER HIM TO THE URBIVOIR CROP SWARD OF TROPICAL SETTING OUTSIDE +10a4ba96-6cfc-46d5-867d-37c91d4a5363 SOME DAY OLIVIA WENT ON UNCLE ROGER YOU AND I MAY FIND OURSELVES THE AUNT AND UNCLE OF THE FOREMOST ACTRESS OF HER DAY A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED STETSON SHRUGGED HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT +10c911c9-19c8-4b3b-b546-322191d3d99f PETER WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO DAY AUNT JULIA DROPPED IT DOWN THE WELL ONCE EVEN IF THEY WERE OUR FAMILY GHOSTS TINTING THE GLISTENING TIN TOWERS AND THE TIN MINARETS NEITHER OF US CAN BE HAPPY AGAIN UNLESS WE RECOVER OUR RIGHTFUL FORMS THEN OUT OF REGARD FOR MATS AND CUSHIONS HE WAS KEPT IN DURRANCE VILE IN THE GRANARY UNTIL HE HAD LICKED HIS FUR CLEAN +10cc9ddd-1405-4329-a2d4-f03cbd39458c HARROW THE WOOD FIELD AND DIG YOUR AUNT OLIVIA'S FLOWER BEDS AUNT OLIVIA AND I PLANTED SWEET PEAS YESTERDAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AND I PLANTED A LITTLE BED OF MY OWN I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED IT IS BAD FOR THEM THE TRIP ONLY TOOK A FEW DAYS MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING I DID TO KNOW ABOUT SET ANUVO THE MORE I KNEW THE LESS I COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED FOR A BATTLESHIP IT DIDN'T FIT SUTANOVO WAS A SECONDARY SETTLEMENT OUT OF THE SELINY SYSTEM AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE I DIDN'T MAKE IT UP ADMITTED THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I READ IT SOMEWHERE AND REMEMBERED IT I THINK IT'S TOO FINE CRITICED FELICITY PEG BOWEN WON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF SUCH BIG WORDS +10d37e63-368e-4e49-a5e5-cd9a1750e588 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION THE STORY GIRL GOT NO FURTHER WE NEVER HEARD THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION FELIX CAME TEARING UP THE LANE WITH A NEWSPAPER IN HIS HAND WHEN A BOY AS FLAT AS FELIX RUNS AT FULL SPEED ON A BROILING AUGUST FORENOON HE HAS SOMETHING TO RUN FOR AS FELICITY REMARKED ALL RIGHT BUT WAIT TILL I TELL YOU WHEN PEG BOWEN WAS LEAVING PAT STRETCHED OUT ON THE STEPS SHE TRAMPED ON HIS TAIL YOU KNOW PAT DOESN'T LIKE TO HAVE HIS TRAIL MET TAIL MET AND MEDDLED WITH HE SLEWED HIMSELF ROUND AND CLAWED HER BARE FOOT IF YOU'D JUST SEEN THE LOOK SHE GAVE HIM YOU'D KNOW WHETHER SHE WAS A WITCH OR NOT TELL THEM BOTH SAID FELIX GREEDILY BUT TELL THE GHOST ONE FIRST I DON'T KNOW THE STORY GIRL LOOKED DUBIOUS THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES +10efab36-0511-4047-a441-bad5c2d579dd I SAT BACK WITH A RELAXED SIGH AND LIT A CIGAR WOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT ROBART WHO IS HOLDING YOU I SAID THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND SHE KNEW FOR HE HAD WRITTEN SO TO HER THAT HE HAD EYES AS BLACK AS HER OWN DORA HESITATED HER HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER SHE LOOKED AT THE LIMP DIVING SUITED BODY BESIDE HER THEN BACK AT THE LAUNCH AND FARMER AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY +111bf3b2-823e-4672-8fe7-6f3ce2648aa5 ITS HEADLIGHTS SWUNG IN WILD ARCS ACROSS THE TRUNKS AND DOWN THE MUD AERIAL CREEPERS GREAT LOOPING VINES OF THEM SWUNG DOWN FROM THE TOWERING FOREST CEILING A STEADY DRIP OF CONDENSATION SPATTERED THE WINDSHIEL FORCING ORAN TO USE THE WIPERS PANTA HAS JUST EXPLODED THE LADY LOON PICKED UP THE BUNCH'S SKIN AND EXAMINED IT CAREFULLY UNTIL SHE DISCOVERED A HOLE IN ONE FOOT JEFF AS THREE AND FOUR WERE HORRIBLY SHAKEN BY THE INITIAL ATTEMPT AT COMMUNICATION WITH THE NATIVES NOTHING IN CERIMIAN EXPERIENCE HAD PREPARED THEM FOR CREATURES INTELLIGENT BUT ILLOGICAL INDIVIDUALLY PERCEPTIVE YET ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER +111dc485-4db5-4061-b201-0c2abef78530 BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP BUT CIRCUMSTANCES HAD DENIED THEM THEIR CHANCE AND THESE DREAMS HAD NEVER BEEN FULFILLED HOT REBELLION ROSE IN HIS HEART AND RUSHED OVER HIS PALE LIPS CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY WITH LARGE HEAD AND BIG FEATURES UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS EERY SINISTER LOOK +11274512-387c-4b1b-9541-9bcc92792af3 HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY SPIRES SEEMED A LOT BETTER AT FIRST GLANCE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER PLACES JONAS HAD VISITED FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES BUT WHERE THE STORY GIRL LED WE WOULD FOLLOW TO THE DEATH THE NEXT DAY BEING SATURDAY WE STARTED OUT IN THE AFTERNOON WE TOOK A SHORT CUT TO GOLDEN MILE OVER A LONG GREEN DEWY LAND FULL OF PLACID MEADOWS WHERE SUNSHINE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT FIRST ALL WAS NOT HARMONIOUS FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST HE'LL LIKELY DO SOMETHING AWFUL AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL ASHAMED AND WISH YOU'D NEVER ASKED HIM TO GO AND WE'LL ALL BE DISGRACED IT'S ALL RIGHT TO HAVE OUR NIGHT BOXES FOR THE HEATHEN AND SEND MISSIONARIES TO THEM BUT THEY'RE FAR AWAY AND WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY +114fe151-0904-41c1-be03-12bc2640cce9 I HAVE READ THE SITUATION IN YOUR MIND AND YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL HAVE TO BE RATHER MORE SPECTACULAR THAN USUAL HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES THERE ARE OTHER METALS WITH A HIGHER ALBIDO BUT NONE THAT GIVE A RICHER EFFECT +1153c5dd-e432-472b-a94c-943d586b5f0d WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE HIS MOUTH WAS HIS OWN HOWEVER FOR IT WAS LIKE TO NO MOUTH ON EITHER THE KING OR THE WARD SIDE AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN ANXIOUS TO CLAIM IT FOR IT WAS AN UNDENIABLY UGLY ONE LONG AND NARROW AND TWISTED BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE ANOTHER DAY AND HERE WOULD HAVE DROVE ME OUT OF MY WITS YUNUS THOUGHT BETTER OUT OF YOUR WITS THAN DEAD CLARTON THOUGHT YUNA SIGHED HOWEVER CLARTON WENT ON THERE IS STILL A WAY OUT FOR YOU I HAVE READ THE SITUATION IN YOUR MIND AND YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL HAVE TO BE RATHER MORE SPECTACULAR THAN USUAL SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED IT WILL WORK CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL THE HAND MOVED SLOWLY LIKE THE HAND OF AN OIL GAUGE IN WHICH THE PRESSURE IS GRADUALLY BUILT UP TWENTY ONE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX TWENTY SEVEN I WAITED A MOMENT CONSCIOUS ONLY OF THE FAINT HUM OF A GENERATOR AT THE OTHER END OF THE ROOM AND THE QUIVERING HAND OF THE METER I TURNED THE DIAL BACK IN IMPERCEPTIBLE DEGREE AND THE HAND STEADIED DOWN EXACTLY UPON THE NUMERAL'S TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED THEN I TOUCHED THE NEXT DIAL +1174b985-7d7c-4512-8e93-625ef023f01d THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER WANT US TO COME BACK NEGATIVE STAND BY HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER HE TALKED TO THE MILKY BOY +11af4a3d-142b-46e9-93e8-a6a2be9e3d33 BRANDON FELL BACK ON THE GROUND HIS BREATHING WAS SHORT STRAINED HIS FACE WAS BATHED IN PERSPIRATION THE OXYGEN HE REALIZED WAS GIVING OUT WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE IS BREATHABLE HE WONDERED ONE AND A HUNDRED DURING THE KINGLY WARS ANY NUMBER OF TYPES WITH A COUPLE OF SHIPS AND LESS BRAINS THAN PEPPY HAD SET UP JUST THIS KIND OF EMPIRE THEY WERE ALL PULLED DOWN IN THE END SINCE THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDED ON ONE MAN RULE BUT THE PRICE THAT HAD TO BE PAID FIRST YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES +11de65a2-9044-495e-bb8f-531facc2a27e I SUPPOSE YOU THINK THAT AFTER YOU HAD EATEN THIS FOOD IT WOULD TURN TO STONES AGAIN AND MAKE YOU SICK SHE REMARKED THAT THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WE REMEMBERED THAT AUNT OLIVIA HAD WRITTEN TO FATHER THAT CECILY WAS A TRUE WARD SHE HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY PETER PRAYS THREE TIMES A DAY REGULAR IN THE MORNING AND AT DINNER TIME AND AT NIGHT AND BESIDES THAT ANY TIME THROUGH THE DAY WHEN HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT HE JUST PRAYS STANDING UP DID YOU EVER HEAR OF SUCH GOINGS ON +11e5c0a5-8b93-4653-ad74-2cf41317f2fc THOSE ARE ONLY PROVERBS SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY I HAVE JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS ABOUT POOR DEAR PETER I EXCEPT THE STORY GIRL LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT AND THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN ME AND THE PRIEST MA SAID SHE WASHED HER HANDS OF IT MOTH'S OR NO MOSS SHE SAID IF COUSIN RACHEL HAD TO MOVE THAT CHEST EVERY +11ffaf11-8bc1-4312-94e8-b812945aa73e OVERPOWERED AND HELD HIM IN A BRIEF SECOND IF IT IS POSSIBLE YERS SAID THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE BY THIS TIME WE WERE ALL SITTING DOWN ON THE GNARLED ROOTS OF THE SPRUCES AND THE BIG GRAY CAT CAME OVER AND MADE FRIENDS WITH US +121a400a-63cf-4498-bf70-ff233542024e IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CATHEDRALS AND CHIMES DOESN'T IT LET'S GO OVER TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK AND SIT ON THE BRANCHES OF THE BIG TREE IT'S TOO WET ON THE GRASS AND I KNOW A STORY A TRUE STORY ABOUT AN OLD LADY I SAW IN TOWN AT AUNT LOUISE'S SUCH A DEAR OLD LADY WITH LOVELY SILVERY CURLS WE MUST REUNITE THE LOST PLANETS WITH OUR CENTERS OF CULTURE AND INDUSTRY AND TAKE UP THE GLORIOUS ONWARD MARCH OF MANKIND THAT WAS SO BRUTALLY CAN IT RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL FARMER GALVANIZED BELATEDLY GAVE CHASE AS WELL +128706a4-2cbb-47f5-8310-2900643a52f7 THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS WOVEN AROUND THESE IMMEMORIAL CLUSTERS HER VERY VOICE TAKING ON A CLEAR REMOTE STARRY SOUND AS SHE TALKED OF THEM SARA RAY IS AT HIS LEFT THERE IS SELDOM ANYTHING TO BE SAID OF SARA EXCEPT TO TELL WHERE SHE IS LIKE TENNYSON'S MAUD IN ONE RESPECT AT LEAST SARA IS SPLENDIDLY NULL I CHECKED THE MONOTOR SCREEN TO MAKE SURE THEN STARTED INTO THE SPACESUIT IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY +1288b708-2460-462e-945e-ea1fbde74d3f I WAS BORN HERE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN BUT THE FOREST HAS FEW INHABITANTS EXCEPT THE WILD BEASTS I CANNOT THINK OF ANYONE LIVING NEAR HERE BUT WITH WHOM NIMMY AMY MIGHT CARE TO LIVE WHY NOT GO TO CUT CLIP AND ASK HIM WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GIRL WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET THEY ARE GREAT AT MANY THINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT SWEET AND SHOULDN'T BE THAT IS FOR WOMEN OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK THERE THERE NOW SEEING THE ALARMED FACES AROUND HIM DON'T BE FRIGHTENED AS OLD MISSUS FRASER SAYS IT'S NO DEEDLY IT WON'T KILL HER BUT SHE'LL PROBABLY BE A PRETTY MISERABLE GIRL FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS +12907c1d-a8ed-4310-870f-ef3f8b6ee3a6 AND THIS SEEMED TO ADD THE FINAL TOUCH OF INSANITY TO THE SCENE JOHN ANDREW TRIED NOT TO STARE AT HIM TOO NOTICEABLY THE NEXT MILE BROUGHT HIM TO A GREAT SHEET OF ANCIENT LAVA LAID BARE BY THE ELEMENTS I THINK YOU WENT DOWN DELIBERATELY MIND THEY GO TO BED AT A DECENT HOUR AUNT JANET CALLED BACK TO UNCLE ROGER AS SHE DROVE OUT OF THE GATE AND IF ANYTHING DREADFUL HAPPENS TELEGRAPH US IT HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO IN GREECE WHERE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAPPENED +12a5ce3c-ed75-4f0e-9af8-5dc4d9bdfe70 IN LATER YEARS WE WERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS BECAUSE THE ORCHARD BLOSSOMED NOT ONLY APPLE BLOSSOMS BUT ALL THE LOVE FAITH JOY PURE HAPPINESS AND PURE SORROW OF THOSE WHO HAD MADE IT AND WALKED THERE INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY WELL WHAT THE DEVIL HE SAID INANELY THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS +12a85573-dbfa-418f-9990-0ce6db687eef CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD WE THOUGHT SHE HAD FLED BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT ENDURE THE SIGHT OF BLOOD AND WE WERE NOT SORRY FOR HER MANIFEST DISAPPROVAL AND ANXIETY WERE DAMPING THE EXCITEMENT OF THE OCCASION FELIX AND PETER DREW APART AFTER THAT FIRST ONSET AND THEN CIRCLED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER WARILY JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM HE WAS NOT ANGRY IN ANY CASE HOW COULD THEY STOP US FROM MOVING IN ABRUPTLY HE SWITCHED TO HIS OWN INTEREST AUBREY HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE SCOOPS NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND +12c879e4-aa6c-4c7b-ac67-c1021593f5b9 BUT IT'LL BE A GOOD STORY TO TELL SOMETIME SHE ADDED JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING CLARETON REACHED HIM ONCE BUT THE CONTACT WAS WEAK AND FLEETING THE DIRECTOR HADN'T ENOUGH STRENGTH TO REACH HIM AGAIN AT LEAST NOT FOR A DAY OR SO YUNUS WAS EXACTLY WHERE HE WANTED TO BE ON HIS OWN YOU WOULD NOT ACCEPT HELP +12d92c7c-cd95-4dd2-8397-ce83a9ff40ea I DON'T THINK SHE DID SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WOEBEGONE WHEN SHE CAME DOWN TO BREAKFAST BUT FOR ALL THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN EXHILARATION ABOUT HER I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY FOR COAXING SARA TO DISOBEY HER MOTHER SHE ANNOUNCED WITH CHASTENED TRIUMPH PENANCE IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE GOOD WILL OF MY UNSEEN FAIRY GUARDIANS SO I'LL TRY AND IF I FAIL YOU WILL BE NO WORSE OFF THAN YOU ARE NOW WHAT COIN OF EARTHLY MINTING WILL EVER BUY BACK FOR YOU THAT LOST AND LOVELY VISION +12e5dbf0-22d4-4dfe-ab8c-8370bf0fbe7a THEY HAVE BUILT THEM A BRIDGE OF LIGHT ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AND SET THY DECREE OF SEPARATION AT NAUGHT DO THOU THEN STRETCH FORTH THINE ARM AND DESTROY THEIR IMPIOUS WORK IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT PEPPE WAS A MONOMANIAC AN EGOMANIAC AND A SARCOTIC AS A SORTED COMPUTER SOME DAY THE MYSTERY OF HOW HE HAD SLIPPED THROUGH THE SCREEN OF OFFICIAL TESTING WOULD HAVE TO BE INVESTIGATED THAT WASN'T MY CONCERN NOW HE STILL HAD TO BE CAUGHT ONE THING I LIKE ABOUT THE I A SAID STETSON IT COLLECTS SUCH EVEN TEMPERED TYPES HE LOOKED AT THE WHITE UNIFORM ON HORN WIPED A HAND ACROSS HIS MOUTH AS THOUGH HE'D TASTED SOMETHING DIRTY +1346596f-a08b-47e3-acca-02213834b468 AFTER I CAME HERE TO LIVE I MET MISTER CHOP FIGHT AND HE WAS MORE INTERESTING BECAUSE HE REMINDED ME STRONGLY AS OF BOTH OF YOU AS YOU WERE BEFORE HE BECAME TIN HE EVEN HAD A TIN ARM AND THAT REMINDED ME OF YOU EVEN MORE INSKIPPED GRABBED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO COMPARE THE PRINTS I LEANED OVER HIS SHOULDER AND POINTED OUT THE INTERESTING PARTS NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED GET OFF TO BED EVERY ONE OF YOU IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I'LL BE WHEN YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER COME HOME THE WRETCHED BACHELOR WHO UNDERTAKES TO LOOK AFTER A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN LIKE YOU IS TO BE PITIED NOBODY WILL EVER CATCH ME DOING IT AGAIN +1383d44e-e653-458a-91f3-a718608f9ad5 AS SOON AS HE REACHED THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH THE HOLE CLOSED AGAIN AND THE BOY MONKEY REALIZED WITH A THRILL OF JOY THAT HE HAD SEEN THE LAST OF THE DANGEROUS DRAGON FAMILY I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY SOMEBODY KILLED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HAPPENED IN OUR FAMILY THE KINGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RESPECTABLE YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG WELL I GUESS I WON'T SAID PETER ANGRILY I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO +13b8b82f-ea27-41d2-be27-977531feebe3 IT'S BECAUSE OF DAN EXPLAINED FELICITY WEARILY HE WENT AND ATE MORE OF THE BAD BERRIES A WHOLE LOT OF THEM AND WE WERE SURE HE'D BE SICK AGAIN BUT HE HASN'T BEEN YET AND NOW HE'S ASLEEP IS THAT BOY STARK STARING MAD SAID UNCLE ROGER I YOU ARE A HERO OUT ON AN ADVENTURE CLARETON THOUGHT WITHERINGLY BUT SET YOUR COURSE WITH SENSE TRAVEL IT WITH CAUTION YOU'LL THE MORE CERTAINLY ARRIVE PHILOSOPHY FOR A DULL PLOTTER JONAS THOUGHT I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX YOU OUGHT TO BE BRAVER THAN GIRLS BUT WE AIN'T SAID FELIX CANDIDLY I WOULDN'T BE MUCH SCARED OF ANYTHING REAL BUT A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A DIFFERENT THING I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY +13c2014c-ad1c-4694-b5ed-f56db9d183d8 OF COURSE THIS COULD ALL BE COINCIDENCE THE PLANS OF A NEWLY BUILT SHIP AGREE INTO SIX PLACES WITH THOSE OF A SHIP BUILT A THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND IF YOU THINK SO I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED TO ONE ODDS YOU ARE WRONG ANY SIZE BET YOU NAME WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD IT WAS A VERY DEEP WELL AND THE CURB WAS OF ROUGH UNDRESSED STONES +13f93e45-aed8-41f9-b832-81f55cc8b104 AT FIRST WE WERE APPALLED BY THE SITUATION WE DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WAS A WITCH BUT TO GO TO HER TO SEEK HER OUT IN THAT MYSTERIOUS WOODLAND RETREAT OF HERS WHICH WAS INVESTED WITH ALL THE TERRORS OF THE UNKNOWN AND THAT THIS SUGGESTION SHOULD COME FROM TIMID CECILY OF ALL PEOPLE FELICITY WAS RESIGNED ALTHOUGH THE FATAL PATCH ON PETER'S BEST TROUSERS WAS STILL AN EYE SOORE TO HER SHE DECLARED SHE NEVER GOT ANY GOOD OF THE SINGING BECAUSE PETER STOOD UP THEN AND EVERY ONE COULD SEE THE PATCH EVERY ONE TO HIS TASTE SAID THE GIANTESS CARELESSLY AND HAVING NOW FINISHED HER SUPPER SHE ROSE TO HER FEET CLAPPED HER HANDS TOGETHER AND THE SUPPER TABLE AT ONCE DISAPPEARED +14233032-8c6e-40be-867f-c2f2a53b177e AUNT OLIVIA'S SKIM MILK IS AS GOOD AS YOUR MOTHER'S CREAM CRIED THE STORY GIRL HOTLY THIS WAS MORE THAN HE HAD EXPECTED ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU THIS WILL MAKE HIGH PLAINS THE BIGGEST TOWN IN THE WHOLE STATE OF TEXAS HOW BIG WERE THESE PEOPLE +144c3888-1fd9-49c2-8768-018557fa6c88 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS I ASKED HIM POKING A LARGE GLOSSY PICK UNDER HIS LONG BROKEN NOSE OF COURSE I HAD TO SHOW IN THE REST OF THE BOMBS THERE WAS NO GETTING OUT OF IT THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAM I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE FEW THINGS CAN INJURE TIN AND MY AXE IS A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE AGAINST A FOE +1450d666-18a3-468c-a366-37833f2ac14a SHE HAD TWINED FRESHLY PLUCKED DANDELIONS AROUND IT AND THE EFFECT WAS THAT OF A CROWN OF BRILLIANT GOLDEN STARS ON HER SLEEK BROWN CURLS LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS IT MAY BE THAT MARSHALL DID NOT BELIEVE HIMSELF QUITE AWAKE HE CERTAINLY DID NOT TAKE THE THREAT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH FOR THE LITTLE MAN DID TRIGGER IT OFF HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES A WISHING FAIRY MIGHT HAVE HAD THE TIME OF HER LIFE IN THE KING KITCHEN THAT MORNING PARTICULARLY IF SHE WERE A CYNICALLY INCLINED FAIRY +147ce694-9ca0-4e5c-9830-01b745aac203 WHEN I HEARD THE STORY GIRL READ IT I MADE A SECRET COMPACT WITH MYSELF THAT I WOULD TRY TO DESERVE SUCH AN EPITAPH BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US BUT FELIX YOU MAY BE SURE THAT GOD IS INFINITELY MORE BEAUTIFUL AND LOVING +14b7aca8-d5a6-484d-868e-de95cdffa293 HE WAS PLAGUED BY THE VAGUE SLOW MOTION FLOATING SENSATION THE RED LIGHT ABOVE THE SPEAKER GRID BEGAN BLINKING IF YOU'D HAD TO PAY FATHER FOR ALL THE EXTRA HANDFULS OF WHEAT YOU FED TO THOSE HENS MISS FELICITY AS FATHER HAD OFTEN TOLD US BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK +14bd088c-45c1-48e1-9b60-8e90c6a4e992 ONLY THOSE OMINOUS LAST WORDS IN CLEAR KEPT MY HAPPINESS FROM BEING COMPLETE I HAD BEEN HANDED MY LONG AWAITED ASSIGNMENT BUT TRANSLATED INTO SIMILAR TERMS MY ORDERS WERE TO GET THE BATTLESHIP OR BE MY NECK NEVER A WORD ABOUT MY EFFORTS IN UNCOVERING THE PLOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME SAID FELICITY AND THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING ALWAYS GOOD THEY MIGHTN'T HAVE KEPT GOOD AS LONG AS THEY DID IF THEY HADN'T LIVED IN A GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE WAS ALWAYS SO POLITE AND GOOD NATURED AND OBLIGING SIGHED CECILY HE WAS JUST A REAL GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL THERE AIN'T MANY FELLOWS AS FAIR AND SQUARE AS PETER SAID DAN AND SUCH A WORKER SAID FELIX +14f0efc5-152b-4b56-8ee3-5d425fed668e ON THE CONTRARY IT PASSED SPEEDILY AWAY NOT EVEN ONE LOW DESCENDING SUN GOING DOWN AND THEREOF IF HE IS A PROPHET PERHAPS HE HAS FOUND OUT SOMEHOW BUT PETER WAS NOT TO BE CONCILIATED AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF IN HIGH DUDGEON THEN WE LAUGHED UNTIL PETER GOT SULKY MAROONED IT CAN DO NO HARM TO MARINE INTELLIGENCES A THIN HIGH STREAK OF VAPOR TRAIL KNEELING DOWN TOWARD THEM FROM THE SUNRISE RAINBOW +1505bf58-92d3-49ae-94cd-0ffadbf88c06 I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT RUTH WHEN SHE REACHED US SHE TREMBLED SO MUCH AT FIRST SHE COULD NOT SPEAK HOW COULD THE GROWN UPS EAT AS THEY DID THE FRAGRANCE OF THE ORCHARD STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A WAVE RETORTED PETER SULKILY AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED AND MISERY AFTER THAT PHILEAS DECLARED IT WOULD SERVE FELICITY WRITE IF THE STORY GIRL NEVER SPOKE TO HER AGAIN FELICITY HAD NEVER ADMIRED THE FORGET ME NOT JUG BUT SHE HAD ALWAYS HANKERED AFTER THE CHERRY VARS AN AFFAIR OF WHITE GLASS WITH A CLUSTER OF RED GLASS CHERRIES AND GOLDEN GREEN GLASS LEAVES ON ITS SIDE WHICH AUNT OILBY HAD GIVEN CECILY ONE CHRISTMAS +151daf90-c5bf-4d7e-bb3b-b67d266e9c21 DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS BEFORE HE FOUND IT THE ROBART CLOSED THE DOOR AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS I GUESS HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT IT AS A TORY WOULD RETORTED THE STORY GIRL OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS WE HAD TO GO UP TO SARA RAY'S LANE WITH HER TO HER VERY DOOR FOR SHE WAS AFRAID PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH HER IF SHE WENT ALONE +1553bbcb-453c-432f-a0ac-8abb09f84076 AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ANYHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL SOMEWHAT LESS ASSUREDLY THOUGH IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT POOR SARA DID NOT HAVE TO BE SHE WAS EVENTUALLY QUIETED DOWN AND WAS AS WELL AS USUAL THE NEXT DAY AND SHE HUMBLY BEGGED PETER'S PARDON FOR SPOILING HIS SERMON PETER GRANTED IT RATHER GRUMPILY AND I FEAR THAT HE NEVER REALLY QUITE FORGAVE SARA FOR HER UNTIMELY OUTBURST +1554f88c-2511-42f7-9056-1523feaf7055 HIS FACE WAS ROSY HIS THICK BLACK CURLS WERE SMOOTHLY COMBED AND HIS TIE WAS NEATLY BOWED BUT IT WAS HIS LEGS WHICH WE SCRUTINIZED MOST ANXIOUSLY AT FIRST GLANCE THEY SEEMED WELL ENOUGH BUT CLOSER INSPECTION REVEALED SOMETHING NOT ALTOGETHER CUSTOMARY WHEN I SAW THAT SOMETHING CLICKED IN MY MIND LOCKING THE EYE IN A CIRCULAR COURSE I DUG THROUGH THE MARK THREE PLANS AND THERE IT WAS THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED AND SUCH A BAD SIGN WE HAVE JUST GOT TO THINK OF SOME FOOL EXCITER THAT'S ALL I SAID I I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS +15596723-cb6a-4a20-a600-c2a7f0d4c5a7 IT IS AN INTERESTING PLACE HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE SHE WANTED ME NOT TO TELL YOU BUT I WOULDN'T PROMISE BECAUSE I THINK IT'S FAIR FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL ONCE GO TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH UNTIL YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A HORSE BUT THE STORY GIRL'S BRIEF BITTER ANGER HAD VANISHED +1561bdcf-ff26-435c-9c5e-507f72648e9e ONE DAY A HORN WAS BLOWN AT THE PALACE GATE AND THERE WAS ONE TALL MAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE AND DIED QUIETLY AS MARILLA HAD DONE HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT KNOWING FOR SURE WHETHER HE WAS MANUEL COME BACK OR WHAT HE WAS THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY WE WERE SITTING THERE WHEN UNCLE ROGER WALKED IN AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FRID DOING UP AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT HE SAID ANGRILY YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR BEDS TWO HOURS AGO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES +158b49fd-abdb-4ca0-8901-57843533d5d6 HE GAVE UP TRYING AFTER A WHILE YOU ARE THE BEST OF US ALL YOU OPEN THE PARCEL AT ANY OTHER MOMENT WE WOULD HAVE RUSHED TO MEET HER IN WILD JOY AFTER ABOUT FIVE OF THE LOCAL DAYS I HAD A SEA OF NATIVE CONVERSATION IN THE MEMORY BANK OF THE MACHINE TRANSLATOR AND TAGGED A FEW EXPRESSIONS THE ONLY TIME HE EVER SO PUNISHED ANY OF HIS CHILDREN SAID THE STORY GIRL CONFIDENTLY THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR SLEEP +15994a88-e7e2-4cd0-9bdf-7990bf29b3b6 THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT WHERE ARE WE SURELY LOOKING AT IT IN ONE WAY WE'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM MY LABORATORY BUT VIC I PROTESTED DO YOU REALLY MEAN THAT WE'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM YOUR LABORATORY FROM OUR OWN WORLD +15acf774-d2da-469a-b9d4-7bc46d2271ad STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE WE PEERED EAGERLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE'S THE BIG WILLOW BE WHISPERED FELIX EXCITEDLY AS WE TURNED IN AT THE GATE +15cd29dc-f7b5-4289-aa96-318c89eb9b45 WE KNEW THAT THE STORY GIRL WAS THOUGHT TO RESEMBLE HIM STRONGLY IN APPEARANCE AND TEMPERAMENT BUT SHE HAD FAR MORE FIRE AND INTENSITY AND STRENGTH OF HER INHERITANCE FROM KING AND WARD THERE IT WAS IN TRUTH THE TREE GRANDFATHER KING HAD PLANTED WHEN HE RETURNED ONE EVENING FROM PLOUGHING IN THE BROOK FIELD AND STUCK THE WILLOWS WHICH HE HAD USED ALL DAY IN THE SOFT SOIL BY THE GATE WHEN THE JELLY COOKIES WERE ALL EATEN IT WAS HIGH TIME TO BE MOVING HOMEWARD FOR WHEN THE DARK COMES DOWN THERE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE PLACES THAN A RUSTLING MAPLE WOOD AND THE PRECINCTS OF A POSSIBLY ENCHANTED SPRING +15e3c586-7b0f-4507-97cc-d5b2988457bf WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING EVEN FELIX AND I WHO HAD SEEN SUCH SHOWS GALORE WERE INTERESTED AND THE REST WERE QUITE WILD THERE HAD NEVER BEEN SUCH A THING IN CARLISLE BEFORE WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED BEING THUS URGED THEY ENTERED THE ROOM AND APPROACHED THE GREAT TABLE UNTIL THEY STOOD AND FACED THE GREAT GIANTESS SHE CONTINUED EATING BUT SMILED IN A CURIOUS WAY AS SHE LOOKED AT THEM LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX ACCORDINGLY WE WENT AND HOLLERED WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL WE WERE MUCH TAKEN ABACK TO FIND THAT MISSUS RAY CAME TO THE GATE INSTEAD OF JUDY AND RATHER SOURLY DEMANDED WHAT WE WERE YELLING ABOUT +15e54102-2486-4fe9-93aa-6c1af05ea792 MAKE HER TO MAKE HER HAPPY WOOT THE WANDERER THINKS I OUGHT TO REWARD HER FOR BEING FAITHFUL TO ME AFTER MY NEAT BODY WAS CHOPPED TO PIECES AND I BECAME TEN I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT A NEW AND COMPLICATED CAKE RECIPE A GORGEOUS COMPOUND OF A PLUMMINESS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER FEARING I KNOW NOT WHAT I ENTERED THE FAMILIAR ROOM THEY GLANCED AT EACH OTHER SWIFTLY ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY UNDERSTOOD +160bb739-2a61-42d2-a4f5-0edb96193a0d ARE YOU REALLY MY GOLD FRIEND THE SCARECROW ASKED THE BIRD IN A SWEET LOW VOICE THERE CRIED MISSUS U THAT'S THE FIRST TIME SHE HAD SPOKEN SINCE SHE WAS TRANSFORMED WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS EASY TENUBE'S WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE WAS GRATZIE MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL I'LL EAT THEM IF I PLEASE FELICITY KING HE SAID IN A FURY I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'RE POISON LOOK HERE DAN CRAMMED THE WHOLE BUNCH INTO HIS CAPACIOUS MOUTH AND CHEWED IT UP +161fc7dd-aaba-4eaf-8e65-0280f36245c9 MOUTH IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY MOUTH HE SAID IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW TALL AND IT HASN'T NOT AN INCH I DON'T SEE WHAT YOU WANTED IT FOR YOU'RE TALL ENOUGH WHITE MARBLE TABLETS ORNAMENTED WITH WEEPING WILLOW TREES MARKED WHERE GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE BURIED AND A SINGLE SHAFT OF RED SCOTTISH GRANITE STOOD BETWEEN THE GRAVES OF AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER WREATH AND PUT IT ON THE BUTTERCUPS DROOPED OVER HER HIGH WHITE BROW AND PLAYED PETE WITH HER GLOWING EYES A DREAMY SMILE HOVERED AROUND HER POPPY RED MOUTH A SIGNIFICANT SMILE WHICH TO THOSE OF US SKILLED IN ITS INTERPRETATION BETOKENED THE SENTENCE WHICH SOON CAME +1654d56f-31ea-46fe-965a-460da6fc4ed7 AWAY TO THE WEST BEYOND THE BROOK FIELD WAS A LONG VALLEY AND A HILL PURPLE WITH FIRS AND LACED WITH STILL LEAFLESS BEECHES AND MAPLES HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I YOU WOULD NOT DARE WHY NOT YONES ASKED WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU PUT MY THOUGHTS INTO IT WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY MAY BE TO MORROW I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT +16d424d3-2c9a-48a6-8414-1bd347ea5c20 THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN BUT ORDINARY OCEAN I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED THE STAIRWAY SHOULDN'T BE THERE IT CERTAINLY HADN'T BEEN THERE BEFORE IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY +16e98b3a-83d8-47b3-91b1-7714e0615eed AND IT'S ALL DONE AND OUT OF THE WAY BUT THE LOAVES DON'T SEEM QUITE AS BIG AS THEY SHOULD BE SHE ADDED DOUBTFULLY SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY THE STORY GIRL'S EYES GREW DREAMY AND HER ACCENTS FLOATED AWAY ON THE SUMMER AIR LIKE A WIND BLOWN ROSE PETALS +1701b11c-16b2-4590-ba33-7c80d8add10d UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEEDS A DOSE OF PHYSIC AND YOU CAN'T ATTEND THERE JUST NOW LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS IT IS A TRICK HE BEGAN A THE TRIALS WILL CEASE YONAS FINISHED +170bf866-8aa7-4207-9fdf-99513ffeb8f4 WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON AND DESCRIBED ITS SCENES SO OFTEN THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT ONE GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE TOLD US THAT HE WAS NO BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS HE HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUBICUND INSTEAD HE WAS AS PALE AS ARE THE DEAD OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL +17536c7e-ead0-4c13-a243-230da323a652 FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD THEY'D BE ALL MIXED UP IF THEY HADN'T YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM YONAS HEARD SQUEAKING AND THOUGHT OF THE RATS BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO TRY FOR THEM IF THAT IS TRUE HOW IS THE WICKED WITCH DESTROYED SO THEY LEFT THE PATH THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING AND BEGAN TO TRAVEL TOWARD THE NORTHEAST +175646b8-c5e6-4d4d-9566-da88b9aaea8b THE SCOOP TOUCHED ITS VAST FACE TO THE QUEEN'S RAIL AND DROPPED THE UNCONSCIOUS BODY TO THE DECK THE ZID TWITCHED WEAKLY AND COUGHED UP FROTH AND WATER JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER IT WAS FELICITY'S DAY AFTER TEA MISSUS FRUIN AND HER SISTER WISHED TO VISIT THEIR FATHER'S GRAVE IN THE CARLISLE CHURCHYARD DESPERATELY HE TURNED ON THE TELETOCKY ASTRO THIS IS BRANDON HE SAID BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO REINHARDT SAID A DISTANT FLARE LIT UP THE SKY AHEAD OF HIM IT GLOWED FOR A FEW MOMENTS THEN DIED THEY FOUND THE SHIP HE THOUGHT +177a3de5-98ee-4c5e-ab34-c7ef879e56a8 FINALLY HE SPOKE IN ENGLISH HE CALLED DORA A PUDDLESNAKE THAT WASN'T ALL OF WHAT HE SAID BY ANY MEANS THE NAME WAS PRECEDED BY SEVERAL ADJECTS AND FOLLOWED BY AN OBSCENE COMMAND DORA BLANCHED SLIGHTLY OH YES SHE SAID HER VOICE DRIPPING DANGER I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WENT AWAY TO THEIR WORK FELICITY AT ONCE SET THE PREPARATIONS FOR DINNER GOING AND ALLOTTED TO EACH OF US HIS PORTION OF SERVICE THE STORY GIRL WAS TO PREPARE THE POTATOES FELIX AND DAN WERE TO PICK AND SHELL THE PEAS CECILY WAS TO ATTEND THE FIRE I WAS TO PEEL THE TURNIPS FELICITY MADE HER MOUTH WATER BY ANNOUNCING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO MAKE A ROLY POLY JAM PUDDING FOR DINNER WERE THE SCARECROW AND I ALONE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN WE WOULD TRAVEL BY NIGHT AS WELL AS BY DAY BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST MEET TIRES AFTER A DAY'S TRAVEL ADDED THE SCARECROW WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY +17835635-805f-4195-8f4c-7a46074438cf WE FELT ASHAMED OURSELVES BECAUSE WE KNEW PEOPLE SHOULD CONDUCT THEMSELVES DECENTLY AND IN ORDER ON SUNDAY FAR FARINGS FORTH BUT AS WITH PETER IT HAD LAUGHED ITSELF IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP THE REPAIRS DIDN'T TAKE LONG THOUGH THERE WAS PLENTY OF GROANING FROM THE BLIND LIZARDS WHEN THEY HEARD ME RIPPING THE WALL OPEN TO GET AT THE POWER LEAGUES I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN MAR CAN'T BELIEVE TO MORROW'S THE LAST DAY OR SHE WOULDN'T SCOLD LIKE THAT SHE TOLD US AND THIS COMFORTED US UNTIL AFTER DINNER WHEN THE STORY GIRL AND PETER CAME OVER AND TOLD US THAT UNCLE ROGER HAD REALLY GONE TO SUMMERSIDE THEN WE PLUNGED DOWN INTO FEAR AND WRETCHEDNESS AGAIN +17bc94ea-f9c9-4d00-9b34-fa051b456c7b PAT SAT GRAVELY AT ITS FACE AND DAINTILY WASHED HIS FACE WITH HIS BLACK PAWS NOW FOR YOUR STORIES ABOUT THE ORCHARD SAID I I HAD SENT HIM A PYGRAM ABOUT THE THEFT BUT THERE WAS NO ANSWER AS YET MAYBE THE IDENTITY OF THE THIEVES WOULD STIR SOME RESPONSE OUT OF HIM THE DOOR TO INSKIPT'S PRIVATE QUARTERS IS AN OLD FASHIONED TUMBLER DRUM THAT WAS EVEN EASIER TO PICK THEM MY TEETH I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP BUT IT TELLS YOU ANOTHER THING IN THE BIBLE TOO SAID CICELY EAGERLY IS AS NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY IS TO COME NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN NOW IF THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN DON'T KNOW IT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE CAN KNOW IT AND HIM A GRIP TOO I GUESS HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT IT AS A TORY WOULD RETORTED THE STORY GIRL +17c2c4b4-f9c4-42e3-9d55-5015116403e2 THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR ONE LIZARD MERELY TURNED THE HANDLE AND WE WERE INSIDE THE BEACON I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS SINCE THEY WERE AS GOOD AS ANY REAL ADMIRALS I DIDN'T WORRY THE SLIGHTEST FERERO WENT THROUGH THEM AS CAREFULLY AS HE COULD IN HIS RATTLED STATE EVEN CHECKING THE SEALS UNDER U V IT GAVE HIM TIME TO REGAIN A LITTLE BITTER SELF CONTROL AND HE USED IT TO BLUSTER THIS NATIVE CROUCHED ON THE HOOD A MARKED TWENTY EXPLODING PELLET RIFLE IN HIS RIGHT HAND DIRECTED AT ORAN'S HEAD WE BOTH KNOW WE'RE GOING TO REDISCOVER ONE PLANET TOO MANY SOME DAY RIM WAR ALL OVER AGAIN +17c76dd1-7f4e-40ff-89b6-87e8f0da2c87 SO PETER RETALIATED BY CHOOSING NEVAKE AND NEZZER WHICH NO ONE COULD EVER UTTER THREE TIMES BEFORE PETER SHRIEKED IT AT ONCE AND GREATLY DID THEY PLUME THEMSELVES THEREON MANY A STATELY LADY SILKEN CLAD WALKED IN THAT OPULENT ORCHARD AND I'M GOING TO CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL REGULAR AND I'LL SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT SHE WENT OVER TO HIM AND HELD OUT HER HAND +17fd74e4-11c8-4337-9be6-09a8baeca6fb SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HANDS AND SHOOK YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THE BOLD MAN SAID THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED UNCLE ROGER SAT DOWN ON THE DOORSTEP AND GAVE HIMSELF OVER TO ONE OF THE SILENT INWARD PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER WE ALL FOUND SO VERY AGGRAVATING +183f194c-d04f-4fbe-a726-a8c463d418ee HE WOULDN'T BE RUNNING SO FAST FOR GOOD NEWS SAID DAD CYNICALLY WE WERE NOT LEFT LONG IN DOUBT THE AUTCHA GOAT FLEW OPEN AND FELIX WAS AMONG US ONE GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE TOLD US THAT HE WAS NO BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS HE HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUBICUND NO BUT IT FITTED MY HUNCH ABOUT THIS THESE JAINANDS I'D KIND OF FELT FROM THE FIRST MINUTE OF MEETING THEM THAT THEY HAD A CULTURE LIKE THE INDIANS OF ANCIENT TERRA WHY PLANETARY POLICE ARE ALL PUSH OVERS AND YOU START TO FEEL YOU CAN GO ON FOR EVER IF THEY'RE YOUR ONLY COMPETITION +18aa8d05-1fde-465c-a26a-7fbfa52fce54 JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER THIS LETTER IS FROM JAMES WARD'S WIFE AND MONTREAL SAID AUNT JANET SOLEMNLY OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND THE STORY GIRL SPRANG TO HER FEET AND FOR A MOMENT WE SAW THE PROUD PRINCESS OF THE OLD TALE IN ALL HER SCORNFUL LOVELINESS +18b229d2-ae03-4f0b-be63-384a43fc8a16 ONLY YOU'VE BEEN PASSED INTO ANOTHER FORM OF BEING THROUGH THE ACTION OF FOUR LITTLE QUARTZ BULBS WHOSE PERIODS OF VIBRATIONS FORM A BEAT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T AND WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT AS LONG AS IT STAYED OUT OF THE REGULAR LANES OF COMMERCE AND CLEAR OF DETECTESTATIONS AND PLANETS IT WOULD NEVER BE FOUND +18b270f2-9fb4-4d10-8b60-c86086e3e5be WHO IS THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELIX OH SARA SARA STANLEY LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS UNCLE ROGER WAS ILLIBERAL AND UNCLE ALEC A CONSERVATIVE AND THE GIRLS HELD FAST TO THE POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSEHOLDS BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THE ENTERPRISE EDITOR AT ALL WHO'S SAYING IT IT'S A MAN IN THE STATES WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROPHET IF HE IS A PROPHET PERHAPS HE HAS FOUND OUT SOMEHOW AND IT'S IN THE PAPER TOO AND THAT'S PRINTED AS WELL AS THE BIBLE SAID DAN +18bd3e6d-4175-4576-bc87-bdc786169576 BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU THAT SETTLED IT WE WERE NOT GOING TO LET THE STORY GIRL GET AHEAD OF US IN THE MANNER OF COLLECTING RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME INSKIPPED GRABBED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO COMPARE THE PRINTS I LEANED OVER HIS SHOULDER AND POINTED OUT THE INTERESTING PARTS OH I DON'T KNOW I FEEL BETTER SINCE I PUNISHED MYSELF BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE UP FOR IT TO MORROW SAID THE STORY GIRL ENERGETICALLY +18c2ac31-72de-4949-b4f6-69ead163fee7 MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE A FINGER LONG MAYBE TWO IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE SHE WAS BAREHEADED AS USUAL AND HER SCARLET RIBBON WAS BOUND FILLET WISE ABOUT HER HEAD SERMONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT AND I LIKE THE SINGING IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO HAVE THE LESSON LEARNED SHE SAID IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME OH MISS FRUIN AIN'T IT AWFUL HOT I DECLARE I'M ALL IN A PRESBYTERIAN +18d30bc0-bc02-4a8c-a4f5-8425b1155331 BEHOLD ME BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS I NEVER MEANT TO LAUGH IT JUST HAPPENED BEFORE I COULD STOP MYSELF WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS RIGHT THERE IS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND BUT ONLY CHILDREN CAN FIND THE WAY TO IT NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER WE BOYS WOULD CLIMB THE TREES AND SHAKE THE APPLES DOWN UNTIL THE GIRLS SHRIEKED FOR MERCY CECILY SAID FELICITY IN A HUSHED TONE +18d7678f-4a20-4411-9f9e-201c284796de BETWEEN THEM THEY WEDGED THE BUNK AGAINST THE DOOR AND HELD IT IN PLACE THEN THEY STOOD LOOKING PALELY AT EACH OTHER AND WAITING FOR THE NEXT ATTACK HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS A VERY GOOD YOUNG MAN AND TRIED TO DO HIS DUTY BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY AFRAID OF MEETING OLD MISTER SCOTT BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THE OLD MINISTER WAS VERY ANGRY AT BEING SET ASIDE AND WOULD LIKELY GIVE HIM A SOUND DRUBBING IF HE EVER MET HIM IT WAS BEWILDERING AND I WATCHED THEM WARILY SUSPECTING A TRICK THERE WERE ONLY THREE MORE CARTRIDGES LEFT IN MY GUN AND I DID NOT DARE REPLACE THE FIRED SHELLS FOR FEAR THEY WOULD RUSH ME WHEN THE ACTION WAS OPEN AND THE GUN MOMENTARILY USELESS +18e20dc8-a8fd-4deb-ad3c-41a3fc0e0ca9 I NEVER HAVE FRIENDS SHE SAID IN A MATTER OF FACT TONE BECAUSE FRIENDS GET TOO FAMILIAR AND ALWAYS FORGET TO MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS IT HAD A LETHAL PAIR OF EXTRA LIMBS THAT SPRANG FROM THE SHOULDERS TO END IN TALONED SEIZING HANDS AND ITS SLANTED RED EYES BURNED MALEVOLENTLY FROM A SNOUTED RAZOR FANGED FACE ON AND ON THEY RODE AND THE SKIES GREW DARKER AND THE WIND BLEW AND WAILED AND THE SHADES OF EVENING CAME DOWN AND JUST IN THE TWILIGHT THEY RODE INTO A DARK VALLEY FILLED WITH TOMBS AND GRAVES +18e490b9-e5ef-4772-a9f2-89c930b32152 WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY AND AUNT OLIVIA WAS WORN TO LABEL ALL THE PINCUSHIONS IN THE HOUSE WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE +18ed63a4-edd7-44b1-8255-5867b7b6197b ALSO CHAFFEE THREE POINTED OUT AS THEY DODGED TO THE CONTROL CUBICLE AGAIN JUST AHEAD OF THE SLAVERING ZID WE MAY RETURN LATER WITH THE CAMTHORIAN HUNTING PARTY AND RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT CLOSING THEIR PERCEPTION AGAINST THE ZID'S DISTRACTING RAGINGS THEY SET TO WORK WITH PERFECT CO ORDINATION WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER HE TALKED TO THE MILKY BOY TEN SECONDS SHIP WEIGHED AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE RELEASING A DRUG SHOOT SO WILL CLEAR THE SHIP THEN HE SPOKE TO THE DESERT AND MAYBE ANOTHER TEN TO GET THE CAPSULE TIME SLOW DOWN WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN THE MINISTER'S WORDS HAD REMOVED FROM OUR MINDS THE BITTER BELIEF THAT GOD WAS LIKE THAT PICTURE BUT ON SOMETHING DEEPER AND MORE ENDURING THAN MIND AN IMPRESSION HAD BEEN MADE THAT WAS NEVER TO BE REMOVED THE MISCHIEF WAS DONE FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE THOUGHT OR THE MENTION OF GOD BRINGS UP BEFORE US INVOLUNTARILY THE VISION OF A STERN ANGRY OLD MAN +18f08d20-40b9-4431-8d6d-45faf92129a7 SO NEXT DAY SANDY STARTED OFF ON HORSEBACK WITH A PAIR OF ROPE REINS TO LEAD THE PIANO HOME HE THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF LIVE STOCK I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY WHEN IN REALITY THE VENGEFUL FLEET WAS JUST AS IMAGINARY AS MY ADMIRAL'S WRITING THIS WAS STILL THE JOB FOR THE CORPS INSCAPE WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN THE LATEST INFORMATION AT ONCE FELIX AND I SPOKE NOT DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOMETHING WORSE SEALED OUR SPEECH DID GOD LOOK LIKE THAT LIKE THAT STERN ANGRILY FROWNING OLD MAN WITH THE TOSSING HAIR AND BEARD OF THE WOODCUT CECILY HELD +1909b0b6-bde7-4170-861a-a1c886d994f9 I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS TELL JUDY ALL THE NEWS FOR ME YOUR OWN TRUE FRIEND SARA RAY P S OH I DO HOPE PETER WILL GET BETTER MI IS GOING TO GET ME A NEW BROWN DRESS FOR THE WINTER S R PETER WAS NOT PROOF AGAINST THIS DOUBLE ATTACK HE YIELDED AND TOLD THE SECRET I EXPECTED THE STORY GIRL WOULD OVERWHELM HIM WITH SCORN AND INDIGNATION BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE BACK TO MY OWN PLANET TAM DAVAR SON NOGHOR MEMBER OF THE GALATSKI FERREDORATION SHE SAID PATIENTLY THE GATE IS A MATTER TRANSFITTER BETWEEN MY WORLD AND YOURS IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH +19259536-e857-4fd8-b018-7a6664e05c25 AND OH HOW GOOD WE WERE HOW ANGELICALLY AND UNNATURALLY GOOD NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A BAND OF KIND SWEET TEMPERED UNSELFISH CHILDREN IN ANY ORCHARD IF WE KEPT OURSELVES TOLERABLY CLEAN AND REFRAIN FROM QUARRELLING OR TALKING SLANG AUNT OLIVIA DID NOT WORRY US BUT SPOS'N ID GET TOO FOND OF BEING PRESBYTERIAN AND COULDN'T CHANGE IF I WANTED TO OBJECTED PETER OLD CHARLIE MACK'S ISLAND QUEEN HAD VEERED SHARPLY OFF COURSE LEFT THE DARKER GREEN STRIPE OF SAFE CHANNEL AND PLUNGED INTO WATER TOO SHALLOW FOR HER DRAUGHT THE BOAT HEELED ON SHOAL SAND LISTED AND HUNG AGROUND WITH WINDFILLED SAILS HOLDING HER FAST +1929fda3-abda-4e63-82fd-c303c4175110 THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN JINIFER TURNED SUDDENLY FIRM NO I WON'T LET THIS EYE INFORMER KNOW ABOUT THAT BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY USE IN PRAYING THAT FELICITY WILL SPEAK FIRST CAUSE I'M SURE SHE WON'T BUT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE GOD CAN MAKE HER I SAID FEELING THAT IT WASN'T QUITE FAIR THAT THE STORY GIRL SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK FIRST IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME JONAS CAME OVER THE HILL WHISTLING AS IF HE HAD NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD WHICH IS NOT EVEN APPROXIMATELY TRUE HE REFLECTED HAPPILY THE STATE OF COMPLETE AND UTTER QUIET WAS BOTH FOREIGN AND SLIGHTLY REPUGNANT TO HIM HE WAS NEVER MORE PLEASED THAN WHEN HE HAD A JOB IN HAND A JOB THAT INVOLVED A SLIGHT AND UNAVOIDABLE RISK THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT +192e6d29-6aa3-4ef2-bc1d-08dfef9520ed THIS WAS THE PLAN AND I FELT IN MY BONES THAT I WAS RIGHT I MIGHT BE WRONG ON SOME OF THE MINOR DETAILS THEY WEREN'T IMPORTANT I KNEW THE GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE IDEA JUST AS WHEN I BUMPED INTO A MARK I KNEW HOW MUCH IT COULD BE TAKEN FOR AND JUST HOW TO DO IT THE ORCHARD DOESN'T SEEM THE SAME PLACE BY MOONLIGHT AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY IT'S LOVELY BUT IT'S DIFFERENT WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T BEVERLY KING WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY +195cfef0-0cac-477c-9fb5-4c9a3e55be9b WE WERE ALL IN A DOLEFUL DUMPS AT LEAST ALL WE YOUNG FRY WERE NAW GRINNED DAN PEG CHEWS TOBACCO LIKE A MAN AND SHE'D RATHER HAVE IT THAN YOUR RUBBISHY PEPPERMINTS I CAN TELL YOU I'LL RUN DOWN TO OLD MISSUS SAMPSON'S AND GET A PLUG BUT TAKE HIM AWAY I TRIED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OUR MEN CLARETON THOUGHT THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD UNCLE ROGER WANDERED BY AT THIS MOMENT AND BEHOLDING PETER SAID THE INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH WAS AS OLD FASHIONED AS ITS EXTERIOR +198bd953-2c62-44c7-ac61-ca518c87bd9f SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT IT SEEMED TO US THAT THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN THE SAPLING STAGE CORRESPONDING TO OUR BOYHOOD AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP ALL THE WAY FROM KANSAS TO THE LAND OF OZ ROUND IN BODY ROUND IN LEGS AND ARMS THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THEIR ROUNDNESS WAS A SLIGHT HOLLOW ON THE TOP +198c3ab9-fc8e-4647-954f-3dc17e2346db OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND JONAS CAME OVER THE HILL WHISTLING AS IF HE HAD NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD WHICH IS NOT EVEN APPROXIMATELY TRUE HE REFLECTED HAPPILY WILD ROSES GREW PINKLY ALONG THE FENCES AND THE ROADSIDES WERE STAR DUSTED WITH BUTTERCUPS +199f0960-a7ae-4d87-a1b6-6bd824db1a58 SHE WAS PLUMP AND DIMPLED WITH BIG DARK BLUE HEAVY LIDDED EYES SOFT FEATHERY GOLDEN CURLS AND A PINK AND WHITE SKIN THE KING COMPLEXION THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER BUT THE TALENT WAS NEW ITEDED PRACTICE IT NEEDED TRAINING THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD +19a72094-3419-4cc8-ac93-66103912dd9d FELICITY HAD TOLD HIM AT TEA THAT NIGHT HE WAS GETTING FATTER THAN EVER THIS WAS THE TIT FOR TAT YOU WERE PRETTY GLAD TO LEAVE IT ALL TO CECILY THEN PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM YUNUS FOUND THAT HE WAS SWEATING THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL +19d16938-6a40-4a6f-a755-8b6c596d46a7 RIGHT NOW HE WAS ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT MUST LOOK FOR HIM TO BE MAKING LOVE TO AN OCCUPUS BUT HE WAS EVEN MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE VERY REAL PAINS OF UNREQUITTED LOVE WE STETSON'S VOICE INTERRUPTED HIM GOT IT ORNE THEY CAUGHT THE DELPHINIS ON THE GROUND RIGHT WHERE YOU SAID IT'D BE BLEW THE TUBES OFF IT MURRAIN'S NOW MOPPING UP IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD ASTRO ONE THE MAN REMOVED HIS PITH HELMET TO WIPE HIS BROW AND BRANDON NOTICED THE GLEAMING U S INSIGNIA ON THE FRONT OF THE HELMET ASTRO ONE LEFT HER THIRTEEN YEARS AGO THE MAN SAID +1a5544d7-300c-4770-bb4b-9992095c5756 HAD WALLOWED INTO THE SHALLOWS ALONGSIDE HIS DOCK HANG ON WE'RE GOING CHAFFY THREE AGREED SHAKENLY AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE SOME A FARMER'S FEAR GAVE WAY TO AMAZEMENT AT THE LITTLE INVENTOR'S AUDACITY +1a658504-ae5b-4b5d-bc14-33077a2f32f4 WE DON'T NEED SLAVES SAID ORAN WE HAVE MACHINES TO DO OUR WORK WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN NEVER MIND WE'VE HAD A SPLENDID SUMMER I SAID SLIPPING MY ARM ABOUT HER TO COMFORT SOME CHILDISH SORROW THAT BREATHED IN HER PLAINTIVE VOICE IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT WEREN'T YOU SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT CIVILIZATION A WHILE AGO FINLESS HE ASKED HIS VOICE WAS SNEERING GLARING AT HIM ANGRILY SHE SNAPPED OUT HIS NAME IN AN ICY VOICE GARF DOOR +1a82b92a-a548-4acd-950a-b39285df1a73 BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER A TRAGEDY OF CHILDHOOD THE STORY GIRL WENT TO CHARLOTTETOWN FOR A WEEK IN JUNE TO VISIT AUNT LOUISA LIFE SEEMED VERY COLOURLESS WITHOUT HER AND EVEN FELICITY ADMITTED THAT IT WAS LONESOME I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS WITH THE FAITHFUL PRIEST STUMBLING AROUND ME I LOCATED THE CONTROL ROOM AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS THERE WAS A RESIDUE OF CHARGE IN THE EMERGENCY BATTERIES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE A DIM LIGHT +1aad9982-288e-4bc7-84ff-f07f30db9dd8 THEN SWUNG HIS FEET OVER THE SIDE AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY NEVER FLINCH BECAUSE A SLIP OF THE LASS LOOKS SCORNFUL AT YOU OUT OF THE BONNIEST DARK BLUE EYES ON EARTH THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS BUSTER IN FIVE DAYS TWO CIVILIZATIONS THAT MATURED ALONG DIFFERENT LINES +1aafd874-8f64-4205-b497-37224ac1eb1b LONG LONG AGO IN THE GOLDEN AGE WHEN THE GODS USED TO VISIT THE EARTH SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS NOTHING UNCOMMON TO SEE THEM ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD ODIN WAS THE GREAT GOD OF THE NORTHLAND YOU KNOW AND WHEREVER HE WENT AMONG MEN HE TAUGHT THEM LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD AND SKILFUL ARTS AND GREAT CITIES SPRANG UP WHERE HE HAD TRODDEN AND EVERY LAND THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED WAS BLESSED BECAUSE ONE OF THE GODS HAD COME DOWN TO MEN THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT IT CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF FOUR TALL SLIM POSTS SET IN THE FORM OF A SQUARE ABOUT A YARD APART AND SUPPORTED BY HEAVY COPPER BRACKETS MOUNTED ON A THICK BASE OF INSULATING MATERIAL AND EACH POST BORE AT ITS TOP LIKE A STALK WITH A SINGLE DROOPING FLOWER A DEEP HIGHLY POLISHED REFLECTOR POINTING INWARD AND DOWNWARD GAR STAGGERED ACROSS THE DECK UNTIL HE BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE RAIL HOLDING HIS JAW AND SHAKING HIS HEAD MUZZILY FARMER BRACED HIMSELF FOR RETALIATION HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LESS THAN A BOLT OF BARBED LIGHTNING BUT GARF REMAINED UNPREDICTABLE HE MUMBLED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ALL THE HELL WITH IT BUT SOUNDED LIKE IT AND SOFTLY AND SILENTLY SLID OVERBOARD HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE +1ac134b9-c503-487b-80e4-efac2435b7d7 UNCLE ROGER'S LAUGHTER WAS HARD TO BEAR BUT HIS GRAVITY WAS EVEN HARDER MEANWHILE IN THE PANTRY THE STORY GIRL APRON AND SHROUDED WAS BEING INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF BREAD MAKING UNDER FELICITY'S EYES SHE SET THE BREAD AND ON THE MORROW SHE WAS TO BAKE IT AUNT JANET AND FELICITY ADMINISTERED ALL THE HOMELY REMEDIES THEY COULD THINK OF BUT TO NO EFFECT FELICITY TOLD AUNT JANET OF THE CUCUMBER BUT AUNT JANET DID NOT THINK THE CUCUMBER ALONE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CECILY'S ALARMING CONDITION THE CREATURES THEY BEHELD WERE ROUND AND BALL LIKE ROUND IN BODY ROUND IN LEGS AND ARMS ROUND IN HANDS AND FEET AND ROUND OF HEAD +1ac208cc-7c72-405a-86db-9cb88850b526 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY FELICITY TOSSED HER HEAD IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE ONE OF FARMER'S WEAKNESSES IN FACT WAS THAT THOUGH THOROUGHLY MASCULINE HIMSELF HE COMPLETELY DISTRUSTED WOMEN AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN CECILY SAID FELICITY IN A HUSHED TONE YOU ARE THE BEST OF US ALL YOU OPEN THE PARCEL OH I'M NO GOODER THAN THE REST OF YOU BREATHED CECILY BUT I'LL OPEN IT IF YOU LIKE +1ae01359-1e0c-4f90-b19f-992521fdac5e I SPLUTTERED INTO THE MIKE USING THE RAW ENERGY OF THE BATTLESHIP ENGINES FOR A HEADLONG APPROACH WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP THIS IS MY OWN MISFORTUNE AND I WOULD RATHER SUFFER IT WHICH ONE OF MY FRIENDS DID YOU MANAGE TO EAT THEN I WAS OUT IN THE FRESH AIR AND AWAY MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE +1ae80951-c334-486e-8d65-424f305c4bd3 CONSEIL'S GONE FOR THE DAY AUBREY I'LL SEE IF I CAN REACH HIM THE UNGODLY HOUR OF TRANSMISSION NATURALLY WAS SET TO COINCIDE WITH THE CLOSING OF THE CONSUL'S FIELD OFFICE HALF WAY AROUND THE PLANET DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT WHICH SEEMED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION OF MOONSHINE DRESSES EFFECTUALLY BUT SHE COULDN'T GET HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS TO HIDE HIM IN THE CHINA CLOSET THE YOUNG MINISTER SLIPPED INTO THE CHINA CLOSET AND OLD MISTER SCOTT CAME INTO THE ROOM +1aed4b21-b34d-4794-be5a-c9f63b83b68b THAT WAS AN UNCANNY EXHIBITION FOR A GIRL OF FOURTEEN YOU KNOW ROGER SAID AUNT OLIVIA MUSINGLY WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THAT CHILD PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT TO SAY TO YOU REGARDING YOUR PLAN SHARP SAID SURELY YOU HAVE A PLAN AND IF I MAY PLAY ANY PART IN IT YOU'RE JUST BLINKED PLAN HE SAID +1afdf714-2d6e-4a87-9a78-41eebc2e00be WE ALL FELT THAT WAY SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME HOMESIDE FEELS THEY'RE JUST LETTING US HAVE SOME OF THE SURPLUS JEFF PANTED INSIDE AUBREY HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE SCOOPS THE STURDY LITTLE M THREE ROWBOT RUMBLED AFTER ME WITH MY BAGS BUT ONLY ONCE +1b37c623-ea79-495b-b3b9-1258ed63b2ff UNCLE ALEC AND AUNTS LEFT ON MONDAY MORNING POOR AUNT JANET WAS FULL OF DISMAL FOREBODINGS AND GAVE US SO MANY CHARGES AND WARNINGS THAT WE DID NOT TRY TO REMEMBER ANY OF EM UNCLE ALEC' MERELY TOLD US TO BE GOOD AND MIND WHAT UNCLE ROGER SAID MAYBE NOT THEN THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS BUT I WASN'T SURE WHO AM I THEN LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER PAPERS AND SEE WHICH ONE I AM NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL YES THAT IS SIMPLY THEIR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THEY PASS INVISIBLY THROUGH THE AIR JUST AS ELECTRICITY PASSES THROUGH A WIRE QUICKLY INVISIBLY SILENTLY +1b4e58b7-99ba-4bf0-a606-ac1a8675bcc2 SOME WORK I'VE BEEN DOING THE LAST FIVE OR SIX MONTHS INDICATES THAT THERE IS A FORM OF LIFE ABOUT US ALL AROUND US WHICH IS IMPERCEPTIBLE TO OUR SENSES WHICH DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT DOESN'T EXIST WELL HE'S GOT TO STOP PRAYING AGAINST ME ANYHOW SAID FELIX RESOLUTELY I WON'T PUT UP WITH IT I'LL GO AND TELL HIM SO RIGHT OFF FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK +1b687371-d454-41e8-ace7-48ff5a81ed7b YOU ARE FELIX AND BEVERLY SHE WENT ON SHAKING OUR HANDS WITH AN AIR OF FRANK COMRADESHIP WHICH WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE SHY FEMININE ADVANCES OF FELICITY AND CECILY FROM THAT MOMENT WE WERE AS GOOD FRIENDS AS IF WE HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A HUNDRED YEARS HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA A SCRAP OF BALD HEADED AND DESOLATE MOUNTAINS STEEP BUT NOT HIGH AND SO TORRID IN THE AFTERNOONS THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD WELL THAT'S THE SAME THING CRIED FELIX YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG +1b82c356-5d21-4aca-adc6-1f9dbea12956 BUT GARF REMAINED UNPREDICTABLE IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY HE SAID DAN AND FELIX SHELLED PEAS AND TORMENTED PAT BY ATTACHING PODS TO HIS EARS AND TAIL FELICITY FLUSHED AND SERIOUS MEASURED AND STIRRED SKILFULLY I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS +1bab8d6a-9e6e-4df9-8fa5-c7ab13b38e8f ALL PERSONS ARE USUALLY JUDGED BY THE SHAPES IN WHICH THEY APPEAR TO THE EYES OF OTHERS IT GREW BRIGHTER UNTIL THEY COULD SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS DISTINCTLY WHO HAD BEEN GRIMACED AT OVER THE BREAKFAST TABLE THAT MORNING AND HADN'T LIKED IT THEREFORE HIS UTTERANCE CARRIED ALL THE WEIGHT OF INSPIRATION AND WE SAT APPALLED BEFORE HIS LURID PHRASES IT'S NOT AS IF IT WERE A STRANGE GHOST WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM +1bb02224-a0ff-4af9-9678-2b900b4b0194 OVER IT THE QUEER PAGODA LIKE ROOF BUILT BY UNCLE STEPHEN ON HIS RETURN FROM A VOYAGE TO CHINA WAS COVERED WITH YET LEAFLESS VINES FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN IF YOU COULD HAVE HEARD THE STORY GIRLS BUR R NOT OLD MISTER FORBES HIMSELF COULD HAVE INVESTED IT WITH MORE OF A DORIC SCORN WE ROLLED OVER IN THE COOL GRASS AND SCREAMED WITH LAUGHTER +1bb198a7-27f1-4802-b21b-891918aa95b9 IT COULD HAVE ONLY BEEN ABOUT THREE DAYS THEN HOW COME I'M SO OLD WE DON'T KNOW THAT MANOEL WE SURE DON'T KNOW THAT HOW BIG WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO KNOWS A FINGER LONG MAYBE TWO SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK SHE SCRAMBLED TO THE WINDOW SILL AND JUMPED NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR IT WAS A LOVELY GOLDEN BROWN EVENING THE ORCHARD AND THE FARM LANDS BEYOND WERE FULL OF RUBY LIGHTS AND KISSING SHADOWS +1bb9abe1-af11-4c69-aaa0-155c827a4ad4 FORCING A BIT OF CONTROL I ORDERED MY THOUGHTS CHECKING OFF A MENTAL LIST BELAY THAT LAST COMMAND I SHOUTED GETTING BACK IN MY OLD SPACE DOG MOOD SO SHE CAUGHT YOU TOO MISTER WEISCOP POOR LITTLE ANGELINA WITH THE SOFT EYES HE BROKE DOWN AGAIN SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN SILENCE IF HE GETS BETTER I'LL TELL HIM SAID CECILY RESOLUTELY I WISH I HADN'T BOXED HIS EARS THAT DAY HE TRIED TO KISS ME WENT ON FELICITY WHO WAS EVIDENTLY RAKING HER CONSCIENCE FOR PAST OFFENCES IN REGARD TO PETER +1bc30402-00df-4154-962c-d592b83567b9 RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR HARRIS ALTHOUGH THE MASQUERADE ITSELF AS A NECESSARY PROTECTION AGAINST NON TELEPATHS WAS NOT FORMALLY FORMULATED UNTIL THE LATE YEARS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY GROUPS OF TELEPATHS IN HIDING EXISTED LONG BEFORE THAT DATE ALL EXCITED SHE TRIED TO SMILE AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED HOPE WAS GAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHAT AN ADVEN THIS WILL BE TO TALK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE OLD AND RHEUMATIC +1bc65ece-930e-4d54-8dd2-9d357c62d31b I TOLD YOU YOU'D HAVE TO STOP YOUR IRRESPONSIBLE PRACTICAL JOKING AND SETTLE DOWN THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE OTHERS FOR TIN DOES NOT TIRE OR REQUIRE SLEEP HOWEVER HE FOUND HER OF COURSE ADDED FELICITY HER HEART MELTING AT SIGHT OF THE MISERY IN THE STORY GIRL'S PITEOUS EYES +1bd81819-fe90-4c2d-9f35-bc45bc11a475 HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY AND HE ALSO GAVE UP PRAYING ABOUT IT SAYING IN BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT THAT THERE WAS NO USE IN PRAYING WHEN OTHER FELLOWS PRAYED AGAINST YOU OUT OF SPITE FARMER WAS UNCOMFORTABLE AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB SAID GOOD BY AND HEADED FOR THE RAIL THE SCOOP HE SAW AND ONLY HALF BELIEVED IT THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS +1be30565-7ce2-44d8-9bd1-9757952f422d IF ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED I COULD NEVER HAVE FORGIVEN MYSELF THOUGH I BELIEVE IT'S BEYOND THE POWER OF MORTAL MAN TO KEEP WATCH OVER THE THINGS THAT CHILDREN WILL EAT GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED JUST THINK HOW DREADFUL IT WOULD BE IF OUR FATHER HAD LEFT US LIKE THAT WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT +1bfcf140-8e3f-4ea9-a018-8763e87fb8dd SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK BUT NOW IT WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT THAT SHE HAD BAD NEWS A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY HOPE'S AWAY AT AUNT CLEO'S SO DON'T GET IN TOUCH WITH HER AND SPOIL HER VISIT AND MATTER IS WHAT +1c19977b-ce58-4bfb-826d-a8991e5ce425 JEFF LOOKED BACK ONCE TO SEE THE ZID CLOSE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AND SPRING UPWARD TO THE TAIL FLUKE BEHIND HIM HE HAD AN INSTANT CONVICTION THAT THE BRUTE'S SECOND SPRING WOULD SEE HIM TORN TO BITS BUT THE SCOOP AT THE MOMENT FOUND WATER DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE IN EARNEST THE ZID COULD ONLY SINK IN ALL SIX TALONED LIMBS AND HOLD FAST EVEN FELICITY AND DAN FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES GOT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT ANY EXCHANGE OF LEFT HANDED COMPLIMENTS CECILY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE NEVER MEANT TO PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLORS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS PRETENDING SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO REPENT OF SOMETHING SWEET GIRL AND THIS WAS ALL SHE COULD THINK OF BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE HAD ANY OF US BOYS EVER BEEN GUILTY OF SUCH CECILY'S PALE FACE WOULD HAVE COLOURED WITH A BLUSH OF OUTRAGED PURITY FELICITY'S GOLDEN HEAD WOULD HAVE LIFTED ITSELF IN THE HAUGHTY INDIGNATION OF INSULTED WOMANHOOD AND THE STORY GIRL'S SPLENDID EYES WOULD HAVE FLASHED WITH SUCH ANGER AND SCORN AS WOULD HAVE SHRIVELLED THE VERY SOUL OF THE WRETCHED CULPRIT +1c1bde6f-f4e5-4e40-9c67-f71bab36bdfa NO ANSWER IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AM TO NUBE HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP THAT IS JUST WHAT WE INTEND TO DO BUT IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT AT THE MOMENT SINCE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NOT ONLY BUILT THE BATTLESHIP BUT UNDOUBTEDLY STOLE IT AS WELL IT WAS FULLY AUTOMATED SO NO CREW IS NECESSARY WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO LONG LONG AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL HER VOICE GIVING US AN IMPRESSION OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY EVEN BEFORE GRANDFATHER KING WAS BORN AN ORPHAN COUSIN OF HIS LIVED HERE WITH HIS PARENTS HER NAME WAS EMILY KING +1c3064e4-638c-4480-b601-2af140d76b3e GO AND BE A METHODIST OR A MOHAMMEDAN OR ANYTHING I AS FOR THAT POOR UNLUCKY PETER SOMETIMES WE BELIEVED UNCLE ROGER WAS MAKING FUN OF US COMPARING THE POSITIONS RELATION TO THE GLOWING SPHERE THAT ENCLOSED ALL THE POSSIBLE LOCATIONS OF THE STOLEN SHIP I HAD LEFT STANDING ORDERS THAT ALL REPORTS FALLING INSIDE THE DANGER AIR TO BE BROUGHT TO ME AT ANY TIME IT COULD NOT BE ANY OTHER WAY STEEP BUT NOT HIGH THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE +1c36cfa9-f143-44b9-9231-774cff459629 DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO DRAW HIM DOWN TO THE THRONE YOU TWO MISS A GREAT DEAL BY NOT EATING HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING YOUR THROAT DEMANDED TO NEW YOU RIGHT FINISH FOR YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IF YOU DO SAID HORN NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD +1c3ac4e8-f53b-41f4-a27e-482d807f4dd4 BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE WITH US AGAIN SHE BENT OVER PICKED UP THE MACHINE YANKING WIRING LOOSE CARELESSLY I HAD TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN I REBUILT MY CAMERA FOR ABOUT THE TWENTIETH TIME AND JUST ABOUT FINISHED A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON NUCLEONICS AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM MEANWHILE IN THE PANTRY THE STORY GIRL APRON AND SHROUDED WAS BEING INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF BREAD MAKING +1c44cbde-be90-4d35-96e4-f3bf44756054 AND WITH IT A STERTOROUS GRUNTING THAT ALL BUT DROWNED OUT THE ZID'S CRIES AND IN THE GOSSIP OF OLD CHARLEY MACK AND THE FEW OTHERS HE HAD MET WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL HAVE ANGELS NAMES SAME AS PEOPLE INTERRUPTED PETER OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED +1c452b3d-a847-45da-8a12-12c681e16100 CAN PEG PORTHON TURN HERSELF INTO A BLACK CAT ASKED FELIX STARING IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THAT IS THE LEAST OF PEG BOWEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANSWERED UNCLE ROGER IT'S THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR A WITCH TO TURN HERSELF INTO ANY ANIMAL YOU CHOOSE TO MENTION YES PAT IS BEWITCHED NO DOUBT OF THAT NOT THE LEAST IN THE WORLD OH SEE HERE IF YOU'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT AND ARGUE OVER EVERYTHING WE'LL NEVER GET THE STORY TOLD SAID FELIX DRY UP ALL OF YOU AND LET THE STORY GIRL GO ON WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON HE WAS TELLING ME THE GUY WHO DID THE JOB WHILE HE SAT BACK ON HIS FAT PAY CHECK IN AN AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE HE RAMBLED ON HOW I WISH THAT WERE ALL IT TOOK I WOULD HAVE A FLEET OF PART SHIPS AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL +1c4c15bf-81db-4583-9462-88009dbf8f3f I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY HIS NAME OR UNDOUBTEDLY PSEUDA NAME IS PEPPET NERO THE GIRL IS CALLED ANGELINA ARREST THEM AT ONCE GUARDS DANCE PHARAOH'S VOICE DIED AWAY AS HE RAN OUT OF THE ROOM I TALKED TO HIS VANISHING BACK PARIN MUMBLED A PROTEST AND HURRIED AWAY I TURNED TO MISSUS PARIN WHO HAD COME UP TO DETERMINE THE RESULT OF MY SHOUTING HOW LONG IS IT SINCE MISS HOPE WENT IN THERE HOW LONG SIR I'D SAY ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE YOU CAME MAYBE TWENTY FIVE I WASN'T PAYING ANY PARTICULAR ATTENTION SIR +1c4eaf49-a3fe-4439-bc19-3626c25b19f1 AND IN HIS OWN WAY HE HAD HIS REWARD IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS BELOW ME HEMMING ME IN WERE THE GUARDS A TRIPLE RING OF THEM THROUGH WHICH I KNEW I COULD NOT ESCAPE EXTENDED INVITINGLY JUST BELOW THE CHIN NOR WERE THEIR SLITTED SUNKEN MOUTHS TO MAKE CONTACT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCAL LANGUAGE I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR +1cb9689e-b840-41a7-99d6-1ed951ff86d5 EVERY FAMILY FESTIVAL WAS COMMEMORATED IN LIKE FASHION AND EVERY BELOVED VISITOR WHO SPENT A NIGHT UNDER THEIR ROOF WAS EXPECTED TO PLANT A TREE IN THE ORCHARD NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT PETER WAS HANDICAPPED AT THE BEGINNING BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO FAMILY FRIEND TO FINANCE HIM PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT HE CONTINUED JUST LISTEN TO ME THAT WASN'T ALL OF WHAT HE SAID BY ANY MEANS +1cd637fb-7235-4fd0-97af-5127fb0935c6 THAT BUILDING FULL OF MACHINERY THAT TAKES IN AND DIGESTS NEWS AND REPORTS AND ALL THE PLANETS IN THE GALAXY INDEXES IT TO EVERY CATEGORY IT CAN POSSIBLY RELATE AND THEN FILES IT FINALLY ONE OF THE DRAGONS WHICH WAS FARTHEST AWAY FROM HIM ASKED IN A DEEP GRAVE VOICE WHAT WAS THAT THE NIGHT WAS SCENTED AND MYSTERIOUS THE WIND WAS PLAYING AN EERIE FLESHLESS MELODY IN THE WREATHS OF THE BROOK BELOW THE SKY WAS DARK AND STARRY AND ACROSS IT THE MILKY WAY FLUNG ITS SHIMMERING MISTY RIBBONS +1d122b93-b658-4ace-a530-7efd3f884b96 I WISH I HAD A FAMILY PLOT NO BUT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE WILL WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET I WOULDN'T GO NEAR HER AGAIN FOR A BUSHEL OF MAGIC SEED CECILY WHO HAD HEARD IT MANY TIMES BEFORE AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE THE +1d1de2e7-7637-4c18-aba7-3e5511a19124 HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT IT STILL MADE SENSE HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY IT WAS FINALLY DECIDED THAT DAN AND FELIX SHOULD GO I WANTED TO GO ALSO BUT THE GIRLS PROTESTED WE'VE A AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED NOW WHAT ROARED STETSON INTO THE SPEAKER I'VE GOT A MANY OVER THAT MOB STEAD THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US IT'S A DEFINITE RAIDING PARTY WHAT ARMAMENT +1d4b7ad4-8fd2-4c8c-a994-5abd7bb530cd IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER I HAVE JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS ABOUT POOR DEAR PETER I CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY ARE DREADFUL I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME PATTY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY CATCHING A RAT AND BEING INTOLERABLY CONCEITED ABOUT IT UNTIL SARA RAY CURED HIM BY CALLING HIM A DEAR SWEET CAT AND KISSING HIM BETWEEN THE EARS THEN PAT SNEAKED ABJECTLY OFF HIS TAIL DROOPING HE RESENTED BEING CALLED A SWEET CAT +1d7f6d1a-635b-4c4b-9ad8-15c72b59123a A FAST READING WITH THE PHOTOSIL GAVE ME THE APPARENT MAGNITUDE AND A COMPARISON WITH ITS ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE SHOWED ITS DISTANCE I TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE SCREEN AND REALIZED THAT I HAD LOCKED THE EYE INTO A CIRCULAR ORBIT ABOUT TWENTY FEET ABOVE THE PYRAMID I KNOW A STORY ABOUT THE MILKY WAY SAID THE STORY GIRL BRIGHTENING UP I READ IT IN A BOOK OF AUNT LOUISE'S IN TOWN AND I LEARNED IT OFF BY HEART KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH HOW ARE YOU FEELING HOPE ALL EXCITED SHE TRIED TO SMILE AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED TWICE AGAIN BEFORE WE REACHED THE RAMP THEY GUARDED THE ANGRY ATTENDANTS OF THE IDOL FELL BEFORE OUR GUNS +1d8db86f-cc81-41e9-8114-dbb12d5743c2 WE GOT ALONG VERY WELL WITH EACH OTHER IN THE MAIN IN SPITE OF SOME MINOR DIFFERENCES OF OPINION AS FOR THE GROWN UP DENIZENS OF OUR SMALL WORLD THEY SUITED US ALSO AND PETERS IS SUCH A COOL CUSTOMER AND HE'S A YEAR OLDER THAN FELIX BUT THEN FELIX HAS SOME PRACTICE HE FOUGHT BOYS IN TORONTO AND THIS IS PETER'S FIRST FIGHT DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME HE MOVED HIS SPEAKING MUSCLES JUST MADE CONTACT WITH THE MOB ONE ON THE HOOD NOW HAS ONE OF OUR MARKED TWENTY RIFLES AIMED AT MY HEAD THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER WANT US TO COME BACK +1d985564-53da-4fbd-bb79-f6df2aef69d6 TURALLY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND VIC'S JARGON ABOUT FREQUENCIES AND LIGHT RAYS FOR I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL THAN PHYSICS IN COLLEGE EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT A SACRILEGE MEANT BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER MILWOOD HAD DECLARED THAT THE PICTURE WAS NOT LIKE GOD +1dbaf4c0-a908-4d75-bc42-8665ffa34aaf HE WAS DISTURBED BY THE REALIZATION THAT HE WOULDN'T BE SEEN JENIFER WITH NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY I THINK THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRUE THINGS TRUE THINGS THAT ARE AND TRUE THINGS THAT ARE NOT BUT MIGHT BE I WE THOUGHT HIM HANDSOME FOR AN OLD MAN DON'T STALL DON'T STUTTER GIVE ME OUR TAX LIST THAT WAS STOLEN +1dc406ca-5a4d-4542-93e9-93e2d3a74c9a FELICITY STARTED OFF INDIGNANTLY AND WE FOLLOWED PICKING UP SARA RAY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL AND THITHER WE ALL RESORTED AT SUNSET I HOPE FELIX WILL BEAT SAID THE STORY GIRL TO ME NOT ONLY FOR THE FAMILY HONOR BUT BECAUSE THAT WAS A MEAN MEAN PRAYER OF PETER'S DO YOU THINK HE WILL A LAFFATY MANOEL SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED AS A CENSUS TAKER HE WASN'T QUALIFIED HE COULDN'T READ A MAP HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MAP WAS +1e0d85db-a13e-43a0-a1fb-04bd44fc2df9 BUT I LOVE A FLOWER GARDEN WE WERE GLAD WE HAD NOT HEARD IT IN THE EVENING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY YONAS SIGHED AND WENT FORWARD TO MEET THE TWO BIG MEN LEAVING MISSUS SHARP SOBBING IN THE BACKGROUND AND A COLLECTION OF HOUSES STRUNG ALONG THE DIRT PAST THE TOWN +1e14cbec-e382-4192-b374-acd67c2ef771 TO US IN THOSE YEARS EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD EVER GO THERE BUT AUNT JULIA HAD GONE AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO IN YOUR TONGUE GLASS SAID TO NEW THE ENGINEERS OF THE DELPHINAS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE AS YOU SAW THEY WERE WRONG A GLASS BLOWING CULTURE HISS STETSON THAT'LL EXPLAIN A LOT OF THINGS SLOWLY THE DISGUISED SLEDS CREPT THROUGH THE JUNGLE I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CARES WHETHER ANYBODY CAN EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S RIGHT TO TALK OF GOD AS IF YOU WERE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY WHO FELT SURE IT WAS A GOOD CHANCE TO SNUB DAN THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO +1e379dd7-205b-425c-af55-361126feb86f WE ALL WISHED THAT TOO LATE OUR CURIOSITY HAD LED US INTO SOME HOLY OF HOLIES NOT TO BE PROFANED BY HUMAN EYES AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY OR LOOK AT GOD'S PICTURE THE RATINGS AND OFFICERS WAITED TENSELY AND MADE SOME SLIGHT ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THEIR HATRED OF ME IT TOOK ABOUT TEN MINUTES GET AN ANSWER AFFIRMATIVE SIAM SAID A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE I'LL FORGIVE YOU SHE SAID GRACIOUSLY FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND I TELL YOU WHAT STORY GIRL I'M AWFULLY SORRY I LAUGHED IN CHURCH BUT YOU NEEDN'T BE AFRAID I EVER WILL AGAIN NO SIR AND I'M GOING TO CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL REGULAR AND I'LL SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU +1e54a87e-023c-4472-a1bd-b1dbf1ddee39 HE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SHERMAN HOUSE THE SCENE OF A QUARREL SO HE RESOLVED TO GET AWAY BEFORE THE CAMPBELL CAME HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB AS IT WORKED OUT JOHN ANDREW WAS A PERSON WHO FOUND IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY NO HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS BELIEVER THAT UD GIVE US FOR YOU SOUND LIKE A UNILACTICAL LECTURE ARE YOU THROUGH MARCHING ARM IN ARM INTO THE MISTY FUTURE HORN TOOK A BREATH WHY'S A FRESHMAN LIKE ME BEING TOSSED INTO THIS DISH +1e5c341b-5fc6-4ae0-a7c3-60e7158992df I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY LET'S ALL GIVE UP THE ORDEAL ANYWAY THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY WE'VE MANAGED TO PUT SPIES AND KEEP PLACES AT OUR N ARE +1e5e0240-d3eb-4b07-973f-7be1f615cbf9 BUT THE STORY GIRL WENT ME ONE BETTER EVEN THERE BECAUSE HAVING INHERITED SOMETHING OF HER FATHER'S TALENT FOR DRYING THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY +1e6ceb06-8558-4a06-9eac-cef7aa867d15 THEY SAY IT'S PITIFUL TO SEE HIM I MUST GET WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THAT MAN NEXT SUMMER SAID THE STORY GIRL AT TWO O'CLOCK IN IN THE AFTERNOON WE HAD NOT PASSED A VERY PLEASANT WEEK SARA RAY CRIED UNTIL I WONDERED HOW ONE SMALL HEAD COULD CONTAIN ALL THE TEARS SHE SHED I HAD THE SPEAKER ON FULL VOLUME AND THE VIBRATION ALMOST SHOOK MY HEAD OFF I HAD A PRY EYE OF MY OWN CONSTRUCTION +1ea818d2-8645-4a32-870c-d553d4a18d5c SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AND OFTEN THEY HUNTED TOGETHER FOR SCHUBEN WAS ALMOST AS SKILFUL WITH HER BOW AND ARROW AS THE KATY HIMSELF THEY LOVED EACH OTHER EVER SINCE THEY WERE SMALL PAPOOSES AND THEY VOWED TO LOVE EACH OTHER AS LONG AS THE RIVER RAN ALL AT ONCE SOMETHING LEAPED FROM THE BOUGH OF A TREE AND ALIGHTED BEFORE US WE SPLIT THE AIR WITH A SIMULTANEOUS SHRIEK SHE WAS NOT WELL SO AUNT OLIVIA TOLD AUNT JANET I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE CHILD SAID THE FORMER ANXIOUSLY +1eabc784-77d7-412a-99d5-9c0dbd3fd22c AND THE CHANTING WENT ON AND ON UNTIL I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANYTHING WOULD EVER HAPPEN PARON FIX MAN OF ALL WORK CAME HURRYING OUT OF THE HOUSE TO GREET ME AS I LOCKED MY WHEELS ON THE DRIVE BEFORE THE DOOR I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION QUITE RIGHT SAID THE BEAST AND YOU'RE THE STRAW WHICH I'M GOING TO EAT FOR MY DINNER NEAR TO OGABOO +1eb66a49-af4b-423b-af5c-bc1203e7db00 AND IF THE SECRET IS LET OUT WHY THE BROTHERHOOD IS FINISHED FINISH BEFORE IT'S BARELY STARTED BECAUSE YOU CAN READ A MAN'S MIND DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM YONES WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH HIM THERE WHEN HE'S SO GOOD AND POLITE AND HONEST AND KIND UNCLE ROGER SAYS PETER'S FATHER WASN'T EXACTLY LAZY SAID THE STORY GIRL HO U S A IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON THE WATER FED PIPE FROM THE ROOF FOR EXAMPLE +1ec28fd5-8e49-4be8-a397-8e8dda18a0dc UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE ONLY WHEN A UNIFORM UNDER OFFICIAL OF SOME KIND RAN OVER TO ME DID I GIVE THE FIELD ANY ATTENTION IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN +1ef5b905-e28a-42aa-9416-ec12097bca80 YOU WILL BE GLAD TO GET BACK TO YOUR PATROL WORK SHE SAID IT HAD AN ODDLY TENTATIVE SOUND ALL RIGHT BUT WAIT TILL I TELL YOU WHEN PEG BOWEN WAS LEAVING PAT STRETCHED OUT ON THE STEPS SHE TRAMPED ON HIS TAIL THE OPENING OF THE BLUE CHEST NOVEMBER WAKENED FROM HER DREAM OF MAY IN A BAD TEMPER BREAKFAST IS READY BUT WE CAN'T HAVE IT TILL FATHER IS THROUGH ATTENDING TO THE SICK COW SO YOU WILL LIKELY HAVE TIME ANSWERED FELICITY I WAS CONSIDERED TO POSSESS A PRETTY KNACK OF COMPOSITION +1f03f9ca-633d-4595-a50f-c9d4d79a3a80 SHE DREW HER ARROW TO HER EYE ALAS SHE KNEW THE ART ONLY TOO WELL WE HAVE SUCH A LOVELY MINISTER PETER HE LOOKS JUST LIKE THE PICTURE OF SAINT JOHN MY FATHER SENT ME ONLY HE IS OLD AND HIS HAIR IS WHITE WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD AND THOUGH WE HAD SOME IDEA WHAT WOULD BE AT THE END OF IT THERE WAS ENOUGH GLAMOUR OF THE UNKNOWN ABOUT IT TO LEND A WONDERFUL CHARM TO OUR SPECULATIONS CONCERNING IT +1f067fb5-70b0-42ba-8c1b-b2347a46a896 FELICITY WORMED THE SECRET OUT OF PETER BY THE DEPLOYMENT OF DELILA WILES SUCH AS HAVE BEEN THE UNDOING OF MANY A MISERABLE MALE CREATURE SINCE SAMSON'S DAY HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS THIRTY FIVE YEARS YOU WERE ON THE TREADMILL MANOEL WELL IT SEEMED LIKE THIRTY FIVE YEARS IT ISN'T A BIT OF DIFFERENCE WHICH YOU ARE PLEADED THE STORY GIRL THEY BOTH GO TO HEAVEN +1f24f042-41ae-4886-806b-5ec8a5c607df SO I S'POSED THAT WAS EVEN YOU CAN'T GO ASTRAY AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN ASK ME BUT DON'T BOTHER ME IF YOU CAN HELP IT HE'S JUST LAZY THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM HE SAID AND TENDER AND KIND THAN ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE OF HIM HE STOOD IN HIS CUSTOMARY SLOUCH REQUEST SIGNED BY A FIRST CONTACT OFFICER NAME A DISTANT +1f3b6a9b-b469-4604-ba64-ea2ecb068afe HE WAS AUNT JANET'S COUSIN AND OFTEN VISITED HER HE WAS A BOY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MYSELF MY AUNT JANE WAS CLEVER BERTHA LAURANCE A CHARLOTTETOWN GIRL WHO HAD VISITED KITTY MARIN JUNE AND HAD GONE TO SCHOOL ONE DAY WITH HER HAD EATEN TIMOTHY ROOTS AFFECTING TO CONSIDER THEM GREAT DELICACIES AS SOON AS WE WERE UP THE NEXT MORNING WE RUSHED OFF TO UNCLE ROGER'S BUT WE MET PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IN THE LANE AND THEIR FACES WERE AS THE FACES OF THOSE WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS UPON THE MORNING +1f65dee2-21dd-45fa-989d-540e37444505 WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE BY THE SACK LIKE PATCHED BLUE FATIGUES THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES WHEN I HAD PREACHED I HAD TO WEAR MY SECOND BEST SUIT FOR IT WAS ONE OF AUNT JANET'S LAWS THAT WE SHOULD TAKE OUR GOOD SUITS OFF WHEN WE CAME HOME FROM CHURCH BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE +1f8b4aab-b729-44d2-8df5-ccf610392845 EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE EXCLAIMED PETER HAS THE MEASLES FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH BUT WHEN HE WAS BAD HE WAS HORRID CECILY WAS TO ATTEND THE FIRE IT PUT ME DOWN AND LEFT I'VE GOT A MANY OVER THAT MOB STEAD THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US +1f8be640-34e6-4408-b549-0c5938154682 HE CLASPED HER FAINTING FORM TO HIS BREAST AND SPURRED HIS WHITE HORSE TO THE TOMBS A TEMPEST OF RAIN BROKE OVER THE VALLEY AND BLOTTED THEM FROM SIGHT DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME HOWEVER AND WHEREVER JIMMY WAS GONE HE WAS GONE SO MUCH WAS CERTAIN NOT AN INN HE SAID THERE IS NO INN HERE I KNOW BUT A FAMILY WILLING TO TAKE IN A STRANGER STRANGERS ARE SELDOM HERE SHE SAID HER KNUF WATCHES HIS FLOCK WITH ZEAL +1f9a48af-94d1-41e1-bf27-639e7444639d THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID WHILE YOU ARE WITH US IT IS POOR BUT IT WAS ALL WE CAN OFFER I AM HONORED YUNUS SAID IT APPEARED THAT EVERYBODY WANTED TO GO WITH THEM BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT SOMEBODY MUST STAY HOME WITH JIMMIE PATTERSON WHO HAD JUST FALLEN SOUND ASLEEP ON THE KITCHEN SOFA DAN SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME RATHER SHEEPISHLY VOLUNTEERED THE INFORMATION THAT PETER HAD ALSO BEEN INTENDING TO COME OVER BUT HAD TO GO HOME TO TAKE SOME FLOUR TO HIS MOTHER INSTEAD +1fab551c-f6ec-4691-8b0a-48bbe4cea099 POOR DAN SAID CECILY COMPASSIONATELY HE'S THERE ALL ALONE IN HIS ROOM MISSING ALL THE FUN I SUPPOSE IT'S MEAN OF US TO BE HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME HERE WHEN HE HAS TO STAY IN BED NEVER MIND TELL US THE STORY SAID THE PREACHER HIMSELF EAGERLY LEANING OVER THE PULPIT IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL HE WAS PREACHING SOMEWHERE IN NOVA SCOTIA AND WHEN HE WAS MORE THAN HALF WAY THROUGH HIS SERMON AND YOU KNOW SERMONS WERE VERY LONG IN THOSE DAYS A MAN WALKED IN NEVER MIND SHE SAID TO HIM YOU ARE A VERY BEAUTIFUL COLOR AND A MONKEY CAN CLIMB BETTER THAN A BOY AND DO A LOT OF OTHER THINGS NO BOY CAN EVER DO +1faf4a90-0617-48f5-935e-35375786f82a BUT IF THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT DREAM ANYTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE REST OF US SHE SCORED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TELLING TO HEAR HER TELL A DREAM WAS SO GOOD OR AS BAD AS DREAMING IT YOURSELF AS FAR AS WRITING THEM DOWN WAS CONCERNED I BELIEVED THAT I BEVERLY KING CARRIED OFF THE PALM I'D LIKE TO SIGHED FELICITY BUT WE'D COME HOME TIRED AND WITH ALL THE MILKING TO DO YOU BOYS BETTER GO ALONE PETER AND I WILL ATTEND TO THE MILKING FOR ONE EVENING SAID UNCLE ROGER YOU CAN ALL GO BUT AT TIMES THEY WERE SILENT FOR THESE THINGS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER MANY TIMES BETWEEN THEM AND THEY FOUND THEMSELVES CONTENTED AND MERELY BEING TOGETHER SPEAKING NOW AND THEN A BRIEF SENTENCE TO PROVE THEY WERE WIDE AWAKE AND ATTENTIVE +1fdd6ae6-c3cb-4c10-8b83-1c2b5075514c YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEWBE IT'S TOO BAD IF YOU FORMED YOUR OPINION OF US BY OBSERVING ONLY THE LOW GRADES OF THE URN ARE SAID ORAN EASY BOY HISS STUTSON DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH HIM NOW REMEMBER THIS RACE IS ARBOREAL HE'S PROBABLY STRONG AS AN APE THEIR MINDS WERE VERY VERY BORING AND QUITE BLANK HYRCUFF YUNUS REFLECTED MIGHT BE A DEFINITE RELIEF FIRST THERE WAS THE CELL WHICH WAS IN THE BASIN OF THE TOWN HALL IT WAS DAMP AND THE AIR WAS NOT TOO GOOD BUT THERE WERE COMPENSATIONS RATS FOR INSTANCE IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DRY EATING INDEED +1fee3325-fd8c-49d7-bed3-04b42f9c0517 BUT THE STORY GIRL WENT ME ONE BETTER EVEN THERE BECAUSE HAVING INHERITED SOMETHING OF HER FATHER'S TALENT FOR DRYING SHE ILLUSTRATED HER DREAMS WITH SKETCHES THAT CERTAINLY CAUGHT THE SPIRIT OF THEM WHATEVER MIGHT BE SAID OF THEIR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN AND FIVE OF THE OLDER MEN LED BY A SIXTH WITH A LARGER JEWEL AT HIS THROAT FILED SOLEMNLY INTO THE ROOM AND MOTIONED THAT WE WERE TO LEAVE YOU DON'T THINK SO AT ANY RATE THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU'RE HAVING ADVENTURES AND A FINE TIME IT'S THE SORT OF THING YOU LIKE AFTER ALL +1ff52563-560a-4951-a157-c9353006d6c0 AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP HE KNEW BETTER BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND PERHAPS SHE'D LET YOU GO THEN SHE LIKES CECILY SHE DOESN'T LIKE EITHER FELICITY OR ME SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE FOR US TO TRY MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME +206df841-8c3e-4b9e-923b-12411f4440d9 SHE HAD A LOVER HIS NAME WAS MALCOLM WARD AND HE WAS AS HANDSOME AS A PRINCE SHE LOVED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART AND HE LOVED HER THE SAME BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT THEY USED TO MEET UNDER THE BIRCHES AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE IN THE DIM CANDLELIGHT SHE LOOKED UNBELIEVABLY PRETTY AND APPEALING I PUT MY ARM ABOUT HER AND GAVE HER A COUSINLY SALUTE NEVER YOU MIND HIM FELICITY I SAID HE'S ONLY A GROWN UP GIVE THAT STONE TO ME SAID PAN HOLDING OUT HIS HAND BUT AGLEIA THOUGH SHE WAS FRIGHTENED WOULD NOT GIVE HIM THE STONE +2072ad35-dc3e-4109-931a-8165aec7fadc I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY LOCKING THE EYE IN A CIRCULAR COURSE WE TRAVEL IN WELL STOCKED SHIPS THAT CARRY A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING +20bab44e-6c59-400e-b7c2-bfacb5ed58b3 AWAY TO THE EAST A SHIMMERING SILVERINESS BENEATH A PALACE OF AERIAL CLOUD FORETOKENED MOONRISE FELIX TOO FELT RESENTMENT AGAINST HER BECAUSE HE HAD LOST THE CHANCE OF PREACHING HIS SERMON TRUE TRUE I SAID BUT WOULDN'T YOU JUST BE A LEETLE BIT INTERESTED IF I WAS TO TELL YOU THAT ONE IS BEING BUILT TO DAY HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN +20c45027-c469-4ac9-bb1b-330af81d7c58 IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD FELICITY HER PINK AND WHITE FACE SHADOWED BY HER DROOPING FORGET ME NOT WREATHED LEGH HORN HAT YES AND THAT IS WHY I PUT IT ON AUNT JANET BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS LETTING MYSELF IN FOR THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WAS A SPLENDID ONE AND THE ROLL GOES ON AND ON FROM SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN TO NOTHING +20d8eda5-2c49-44d3-809c-339270aa7885 HUNGRY EXCLAIMED ALL THE DRAGONS IN A REPROACHFUL CHORUS SO IF WE START NOW WE MAY MEET THEM THERE BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY FELICITY DON'T CALL PETER A HIRED BOY WHEN HE'S SICK PROTESTED CECILY WE AVOIDED THE ORCHARD +20f9d578-b387-4ee0-83f9-bee2fdf52aaf THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS THE OLD HOUSE WITH ITS DREADFUL SECRET WHITE AND CLEAR AGAINST THE DARK BACKGROUND OF SPRUCES WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT IN THE MEANTIME THERE WILL BE NO TRIALS IN SPAIR NO TRIALS YOND THOUGHT BUT OH I SEE OF COURSE CLETON THOUGHT ANY MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WIZARD WILL HAVE HIS MIND SEEN BY THE INQUISITOR OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN CHERANNA CRUSO IN OUR TONGUE IT MEANS THE LIMB OF VICTORY SAID TO NEW BY ITS LIGHT WE WILL CONTINUE +210e4236-81ef-42eb-bcc0-f26da2464ad1 WE FELT AS MUCH OF A SHOCK AS IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EXPECTANT GUESTS OURSELVES THAT'S THE QUESTION SAID UNCLE ROGER SHAKING HIS HEAD GRAVELY I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW HOLDING HIS JAW AND SHAKING HIS HEAD MUZZILY THERE WERE WAVES OF FIRE CHASING EACH OTHER AROUND HIS BODY PETER DAN FELIX CECILY FELICITY SARA RAY THE STORY GIRL +213ef802-a0dc-4637-8f39-57a6b7478014 AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON STETSON CROSSED OVER TO A TILT LOCKER BEHIND THE BIG TRANSLENT MAP HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON +2142c2b9-bbbd-4890-8d67-edaf2770b7c3 BEHIND US WAS AN OLD GRAY FENCE WITH VIOLETS AND DANDELIONS THICK IN ITS CORNERS SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WILL PAY WELL YET YOU DO NOT APPEAR RICH ANOTHER DAY DRAGGED BY YUNUS PUT IN HIS TIME ALTERNATELY GOING OVER THE NEW PLAN AND FEELING MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HE HAD EVER BELIEVED POSSIBLE WE WENT AWAY LEAVING DAN SITTING ON THE DOOR SILL READING HIS BOOK AND JIMMIE P SNOOZING BLISSFULLY ON THE SOFA +2170aa31-50c8-4a5f-a0f6-7b5aa98cc715 WE SUPPOSED WE SHOULD GET ACQUAINTED WITH HER WHEN WE REACHED THERE AND WE HAD AN IDEA FROM AUNT OLIVIA'S LETTERS TO FATHER THAT SHE WOULD BE QUITE A JOLLY CREATURE NEVER MIND SAID CECILY WE HAVE ALL GOT SOMETHING TO GIVE IF YOU WERE LIKE POOR SARA RAY AND HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT ANYTHING YOU MIGHT FEEL BAD WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT YOU INTEND TO START A WAR +217935cd-e1fc-412e-a87d-6127dbf498bb WHAT A LACK OF COURTESY I SHOUTED HE MADE LITTLE BUBBLES IN THE WATER THE ANCESTORS ARE ANNOYED AND HAVE DECIDED TO FORBID ENTRANCE TO THE INNER TEMPLE FOREVER THOUGH OUT OF KINDNESS THEY WILL LET THE WATERS FLOW AND AS THE STRANGE CREATURES CLOSED IN QUICKLY I SAW THAT THEIRS WAS NOT SOLID FLESH BUT LIKE THE CLOTHING THAT PARTIALLY COVERED THEM AN ATTENUATED SUBSTANCE THAT WAS NOT QUITE REAL THE STORY GIRL IMPERSONATED THE BEGGAR MAID SO VIVIDLY AND WITH SUCH AN ILLUSION OF BEAUTY THAT WE DID NOT WONDER IN THE LEAST AT THE KING'S LOVE FOR HER I HAD READ THE STORY BEFORE AND IT HAD BEEN MY OPINION THAT IT WAS ROT +21a0908d-3b1c-45b0-9817-7ebcfef6bdde WE COULD HAVE RUN ONE AND ALL IF THERE HAD BEEN ANYWHERE TO RUN TOO BUT THERE WASN'T ALL AROUND US WERE ONLY THOSE SHADOWY ARCADES THEN WE SAW WITH SHAME THAT IT WAS ONLY OUR PADDY PAT PAT I SAID PICKING HIM UP FEELING A CERTAIN COMFORT IN HIS SOFT SOLID BODY CECILY WAS PALE BUT BRAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS SHE HAD NOT PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLS ON SATURDAY NIGHT IT WAS BRUSHED AND BRAIDED WITH PURITAN SIMPLICITY IF IT'S A JUDGMENT DAY I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY HAIR IS CURLY OR NOT SHE SAID I WON'T CRIED SARA RAY IN TERROR I WON'T GO NEAR PEG BOWEN'S HOUSE FOR THE WORLD NO MATTER WHO WAS WITH ME +21c317e9-2bbc-4c51-8f8e-283fdb6bf927 I'LL TELL SOME TOO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY WE AGREED THAT THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP WOULD BE TO SEND ENTERROLA SPACE YARDS WHAT DID I SAY THAT WAS NASTY CRIED FELICITY I I DO NOT KNOW WHICH HURT OUR FEELINGS MOST THE SCOLDING WE GOT FROM AUNT JANET OR THE RIDICULE WHICH THE OTHER GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER SHOWERED ON US +21e2ba37-3b13-43a0-a307-4d58e115d346 THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY WHO PUT THE AIR WALL AROUND THE HOUSE WAS THE SCARECROW'S QUESTION NINNY AMMIE DID THAT NIMIE AMMIE THEY ALL EXCLAIMED IN SURPRISE JOHN ANDREW GULPED AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT IT HAD MELTED THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG +21e4e3b3-b2a9-4278-a4b7-38af07a9ff0c HIS EYES GLITTERED THE SMILE BROADENED A LONG SECOND PASSED I WILL TELL THE INQUISITOR YOU WISH TO SEE HIM THE BOLD GUARD SAID YONES RELAXED AND STEPPED BACK I SHALL BE MOST GRATEFUL HE SAID FORMALLY THE GUARD TURNED AND STARTED TO WALK AWAY WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER DOR HE SAID SOFTLY SHE LOOKED AT HIM HAUGHTILY DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID I TOLD YOU YOU'D HAVE TO STOP YOUR IRRESPONSIBLE PRACTICAL JOKING AND SETTLE DOWN +2201c772-17a1-4281-a7da-2142b5dca87d IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM I OBSERVED THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE WATCH MY CLOTHING THERE WAS VIC HIS RED HAIR TOUSLED AND HIS FACE GREY WITH WORRY YEA BUT YOU'VE GOT A DIFFERENT KIND OF MISSING LINK STETSON'S VOICE SOUNDED TIRED THE FRONT BY A MANY SNEAKER CAMERA +222cd397-19d9-40bb-9cc8-737b424f5723 BUT ODIN STOOD SILENT WITH HIS FACE TURNED FROM HIS BELOVED AND VING'S HEART WAS FILLED WITH UNSPEAKABLE BITTERNESS AND DESPAIR WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME HERE CRIED THE PROUD PRINCESS ANGRILY THIS IS MY KINGDOM HE ANSWERED THESE ARE THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS I HAVE CONQUERED BEHOLD ME BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS I AM DEATH IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS +22445b13-e430-4485-8f2a-f010e74c8613 BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED INSTEAD OF DOLING OUT A HANDFUL OF CRYSTALS EVERY TEN DAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY NEED OF ACTION NO HE SAID AND IN ANY CASE HE SAID NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE +2274d9cd-e4a2-4b49-b500-bcc083ef92d4 BUT THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF OPINION WAS THAT WE MUST HAVE THE PICTURE NO MATTER WHAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICES WERE INVOLVED SURELY YOU DON'T BELIEVE GOD LOOKS LIKE THAT SHE SAID IMPATIENTLY WHILE HER FINE EYES FLASHED WE KNEW THAT THE STORY GIRL WAS THOUGHT TO RESEMBLE HIM STRONGLY IN APPEARANCE AND TEMPERAMENT AS MUCH LIKE A MIRACLE AS ANYTHING YOU COULD IMAGINE GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH THE SCENE ASSUMED SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF A BAD MOVIE COMEDY +2284055b-60d2-4cd1-bb93-4a25630ba4b3 THESE ARE THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS I HAVE CONQUERED WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE BUT SHE WAS AS WHITE AS HER VEIL WE'VE LOST FIFTY CENTS BECAUSE OF IT SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY KNOW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT STORY GIRL LOOKED AT PETER WITH A FROWN SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE +22a76bb5-9dd9-4dd8-bd69-561a98c8e2e2 HE VOWED NEXT DAY TO CECILY THAT HE WOULD NEVER SWEAR AGAIN AND HE KEPT HIS WORD NONE OF THE REST OF US COULD EVER COMPASS SUCH A DREAM NOT EVEN THE STORY GIRL WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO DREAM OF FLYING IF ANYBODY DID FELICITY IS THERE ANYTHING FIT TO EAT IN THE PANTRY THE LAST QUESTION WAS THE MOST UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL FELICITY COULD HAVE FORGIVEN UNCLE ROGER ANYTHING BUT THAT IT REALLY WAS UNPARDONABLE ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IS THAT THE NATIVE SPEAKING GALLIC TEESE HORN TOUCHED HIS THROAT YOU HEARD HIM +22d6d61f-722d-4c03-9cc2-e23c68084a0b ATAVISTIC AGREED CHAFFY FOUR THEY COULD EVEN LIE TO EACH OTHER BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED NOT THE STORY GIRL HERSELF COULD HAVE INVESTED THAT SOMETHING WITH MORE OF A CREEPY HORROR WE ALL DREW CLOSE TOGETHER I FELT A CRINKLY FEELING ALONG MY BACK WHICH I HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE BUT SHE WAS AS PROUD AS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN +22ecf3c8-980d-4394-b319-b21ce15672a1 I'M GETTING TIRED OF WAITING HE SAID YOU'RE TIRED HA A BREEZE RIPPLED THE TOPS OF THE GREEN OCEAN BELOW THEM HERE AND THERE RED AND PURPLE FLOWERS JUTTED FROM THE VERDURE BENDING AND NODDING LIKE AN ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE I LOOKED AT THE STORY GIRL'S DRY PITEOUS EYES AND SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN HER CRY WHEN SHE TOLD US SAD TALES IN A VOICE LADEN WITH ALL THE TEARS THAT HAD EVER BEEN SHED SHE HAD NEVER SHARED ONE OF HER OWN IT WAS NOT FAR AS VIC HAD SAID BUT WE WERE WEARY FROM OUR BATTLE WITH THE CRAZED MOB AND THE BEST WE COULD FORCE FROM OUR LEGS WAS A SORT OF DOG TROT ONE MINUTE AFTER TWO +22f7fdba-cc50-4e86-8a9d-21ea155b6277 WE'RE STILL CONTINUING THE SEARCH OR THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE SO RAPIDLY IN JUST A GENERATION OR SO RATHER IT WAS A SLANG EXPRESSION SAID DAN SPITEFULLY PEG BOWEN HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND SARA'S HAD AS GOOD AS DESCENDED UPON HER OUT OF THE SKIES A QUESTION IN WHICH THE RESPECTED INQUISITOR KNOOK CANNOT HAVE NO INTEREST WHATEVER AND HE CONTROLLED HIS FEELINGS SUPERBLY +230d738a-e9c0-4519-8997-f4fee722e9f3 AND NOW AS THE BRILLIANT SUN SANK LOW OVER THE WINKY COUNTRY OF OZ THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS AND HE SUGGESTED THAT EACH OF THE PUPILS SHOULD TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HE OR SHE COULD RAISE FOR THE PROJECT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE +23118e47-0906-4d2a-8fca-be63f64c3ed9 IF POLYCHROME THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WHO WAS A REAL FAIRY HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED IN SLAVE BY THIS HUGE WOMAN THAT CLAIMED TO BE A YUKEO WHAT WAS LIABLE TO HAPPEN TO THEM YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER THE VERY THING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT I'LL GET SOME AFTER BREAKFAST I'M NOT GOING TO EAT A SINGLE THING ALL DAY EXCEPT BREAD AND WATER AND NOT MUCH OF THAT HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID +23218ca7-73c1-4a31-b617-6edff477592c MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME I'M ALWAYS GLAD WHEN IT GETS WARM ENOUGH TO GO BAREFOOTED BUT WHEN I GROW UP THEY'LL HAVE TO BE COVERED UP ALL THE TIME HARD WORDS BREAK NO BONES OBSERVED FELICITY PHILOSOPHICALLY BUT THEY HURT YOUR FEELINGS I'M AFRAID OF MISTER CAMPBELL SAID CECILY CANDIDLY +232ed912-74f0-4cd6-a2e0-a6b49e24f742 YOU DON'T LIKE IT LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY STAYING OUTSIDE THE ATMOSPHERE I SENT A FLYING EYE DOWN TO LOOK THINGS OVER IN THIS BUSINESS YOU LEARN EARLY WHEN AND WHERE TO RISK YOUR OWN SKIN WE HAD NOT PASSED A VERY PLEASANT WEEK FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT BEEN SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE HAD BEEN SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK AN AIR OF RESTRAINT WAS OVER ALL OUR GAMES AND CONVERSATIONS ON THE PRECEDING MONDAY FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD QUARRELLED OVER SOMETHING +233656ce-05db-47ff-bc03-59f780fdf0ff THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU THE STORY GIRL'S WORDS FELL ON THE MORNING AIR LIKE PEARLS AND DIAMONDS IN A FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS ASTIR +234c9741-d7b9-4ccc-bb44-17e0cb178d3d AS SOON AS MY A BALLS UNSQUASHED BACK INTO FOCUS MANY TIMES THE SOURCE WAS A FORGERY SOME CHANGES SEEMED TO BE INEXPLICABLE UNTIL I NOTICED THAT THE OFFICERS IN QUESTION HAD A TEMPORARY SECRETARY WHILE THEN ALL ASSISTANTS WERE ILL TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON WANT US TO COME BACK WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS I WANT IT FOR GLECON SHE SAID I +234cf318-fc3c-4ad8-8a82-a0827b5e9b6a STARING AT US WHEN THEY THOUGHT WE WOULD BE TOO BUSY EATING TO SEE THEM SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE THEY SEEM TO BE COVERED WITH WARTS I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU INTRUDERS THAT THE PROFESSOR IS A DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE NOW IN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT HIS PART OF THE SENSES WAS FINISHED +234e4c4b-8b54-494d-a6b5-a4be646a650b LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE WHERE IS THE LIST WELL I'LL DO IT TOO I'M TOO WORN OUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN CECILY CAUGHT IT AFTER UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE IT ISN'T FAIR FOR IT WAS LIKE TO NO MOUTH ON EITHER THE KING OR THE WARD SIDE OUR AUNT FELICITY WAS DEAD +2365d499-9aed-4755-b726-d1ad013addb7 FINALLY HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE TOLD HER TO SHUT UP DAN PROMPTLY DECLARED HE WOULDN'T TRY TO PREACH A SERMON BUT PETER FELIX AND I THOUGHT THE SUGGESTION A VERY GOOD ONE HIS SCEPTICISM FALLING AWAY FROM HIM LIKE A DISCARDED GARMENT IN THIS VALLEY OF THE SHADOW WHICH SIFTS OUT HEARTS AND TRIES SOULS I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE CRY SO WITH DREADFUL RENDING SONGS OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN EXCEPT FOR THE CAPTURED ARMAND YOU STILL HOLD +23918dd8-90e8-45de-9535-f3b0910e4d0c I AM SURE IT WOULD WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT GIVE ME A COUPLE OF FAT RABBITS SAID THE BEAST JUST IMAGINE THE FEELINGS OF THE YOUNG MINISTER IN THE CHINA CLOSET SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES I HAD LEFT STANDING ORDERS THAT ALL REPORTS FALLING INSIDE THE DANGER AIR TO BE BROUGHT TO ME AT ANY TIME THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER +23c37a40-9742-4da9-a086-5448cb965cba GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL AND TURNED HIS BACK ON THE FEASTMAN GARF LOOKED ASTONISHED THEN ANGRY AND RAISED A HAND UNCLE ROGER SHOOK HIS HEAD THAT IS JUST THE TROUBLE HE SAID PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL IT'S TOO LATE I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GOT INTO HIS BUGGY AND DROVE AWAY LEAVING EIGHT DISTRACTED MORTALS BEHIND HIM I'VE SEEN PICTURES OF JESUS SAID FELIX MEDITATIVELY HE LOOKS JUST LIKE A MAN ONLY BETTER AND KINDER BUT NOW THAT I COME TO THINK OF IT I'VE NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD +23c8be13-7128-4d98-9206-bd67849768bc DO THAT OFTEN ENOUGH AND YOU WOULD HAVE A CREW THAT WOULD MAKE ANY PIRATE CHIEF PROUD SUTANOVO WAS A SECONDARY SETTLEMENT OUT OF THE SELINY SYSTEM THEY WERE SMALL RED CLUSTERED BERRIES OF A GLOSSY SEDUCTIVE APPEARANCE AND WE WERE FORBIDDEN TO EAT THEM BECAUSE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE POISONOUS IT WAS COOK CLIP WHO MADE ME AND THE TIN WOODMAN ADDED ASKED THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY +23ce4365-42b9-4e6e-8660-2bdce75c532b HAD HE BEEN A POOR MAN HE EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON WAS FULL OF THE GLAMOUR OF MOUNTAIN RIMMED LAKES THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW WHEN A BOY AS FLAT AS FELIX RUNS AT FULL SPEED ON A BROILING AUGUST FORENOON HE HAS SOMETHING TO RUN FOR AS FELICITY REMARKED +23d9a186-849f-4f87-bbd9-6065acc8dd1d ELDER FREWIN A TALL PALE MAN WITH LONG SANDY SIDE WHISKERS APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF OUR PEW WITH THE COLLECTION PLATE WE KNEW ELDER FREWIN QUITE WELL AND LIKE HIM HE WAS AUNT JANET'S COUSIN AND OFTEN VISITED HER NO I COULDN'T I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A MAN WITH A CURIOSITY BUMP AS BIG AS YOURS WILL ALWAYS TALK FIRST AND SHOOT LATER AND BESIDES NOW THIS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND IN THE DARK WOULD BE NECESSARY IF YOUR SCREAM WAS OPEN AND I COULD HAVE GOT A CALL THROUGH BEHIND SATTERFIELD FORESHORTENED TO GNOMISHNESS BY THE PICK UP LURKED DOCTOR HERMAN EARTH INTEREST RESIDENT ZOOLOGIST +241485a7-befb-42b6-a0e5-0c1256146592 DOESN'T HE EVER MEAN TO GET MARRIED ASKED FELIX AUNT OLIVIA WISHES HE WOULD BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND SHE WANTS TO GO TO AUNT JULIE IN CALIFORNIA TRAVELLED WITH THEM TO THE EMERALD CITY IN SEARCH OF A HEART THAT COULD LOVE OF EACH HEAD MAKING IT SAUCER SHAPED INSTEAD OF DOME SHAPED UNCLE ROGER WAS IN HIS BARN YARD HITCHING HIS BLACK MARE INTO THE BUGGY A SIGNIFICANT SMILE WHICH TO THOSE OF US SKILLED IN ITS INTERPRETATION +242bbd69-1bd6-41f9-85f0-895911193da2 IT'S SO PRETTY WHEN THE VINES LEAF OUT AND HANG DOWN IN LONG FESTOONS AND THEY FISHED ME OUT OF THE MESS ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION TO HOPE AND VIC THEY SAID IN THE TOWNSHIP YOU ARE NO ARTIST BUT UNCLE CHARLEY AND I THE SERIMIAN CROAKED +2477b7a8-c88f-490a-9376-37327ff69472 SHE WAS PLUMP AND DIMPLED WHEN WE MIGHT RAMBLE IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK OH I'M SICK I'M AWFUL SICK SAID DAN ABJECTLY OH OH OH WAILED CECILY ON THE SOFA I DO NOT PLEAD YONAS POINTED OUT IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I COME TO SEE YOU HAVE NO PLAN HE SAID +247cb008-47a0-4f20-b9c7-c28090dd0503 ONE USUALLY SURFACES OUTSIDE MY HARBOUR AT ABOUT THE TIME OLD CHARLEY MACK'S SUPPLY BOAT COMES IN THINKING OF CHARLEY MACK BROUGHT A FORCED END TO HIS REPORT CHARLEY'S DUE NOW I'LL CALL BACK LATER USING THEIR DISCLOSURE AS A PROD I COULD HAVE MADE HIM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS IT WASN'T NECESSARY AS SOON AS I SHOWED HIM THE DIFFERENT BLUE PRINTS AND EXPLAINED THE POSSIBILITIES HE UNDERSTOOD IF ANYTHING HE WAS MORE EAGER THAN I WAS TO FIND OUT WHO WAS USING HIS ADMINISTRATION AS A CAT'S PAW BY SILENT AGREEMENT THE DOCUMENTS WERE FORGOTTEN STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID THOSE FAT HEADED LARD BOTTOMED PIG BRAINED POLITICIANS HE TOOK TOO DEEP BREATH SUBSIDED O K TELL THEM WE'LL COMPLY +24839987-5dc6-4168-9c86-efe732357b21 IT'S DREADFUL TO SPOIL A WHOLE DAY I'M AWFUL TIRED AND THANKFUL SIGHED CECILY PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY UNDER THE ROOF TREE BUILT BY GREAT GRANDFATHER KING FELIX TWITCHED THE QUILT RATHER VICIOUSLY AND GRUNTED +248e6432-6f85-4616-87be-5e418990a438 BUT AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS THE INCANTO WORE OFF THERE WAS A CLEAR DUTY TO GET THE JOB DONE AT THE LITTLE PEOPLE TOWN I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE PETER COULD ONLY GIVE FOUR BUT DAN GAVE ELEVEN WHICH SQUARED MATTERS THE WILD WOODSINESS OF FERNS YONAS SMILED SOFTLY BUT ALMOST A MINUTE PASSED BEFORE THE HUT OF AN OLD WOMAN SHOWED ITSELF AT THE WINDOW +24c340de-b54c-4303-82dd-0dd566e3ef7e THIS WAS CALLED SODOM IT WAS STREWN WITH LOW LYING GHOSTS AS OF PEOPLE AND OBJECTS FORMED WHEN THE GRANITE BUBBLED LIKE WATER I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY OR LOOK AT GOD'S PICTURE HOW MANY CITIES HAVE THEY WE FOUND TOO THIS ONE AND ANOTHER ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET BUT THE OTHER ONE'S A RUIN A RUIN WHY YOU TELL US LOTS OF MYSTERIES HERE WHAT'S THE PLANET LIKE +24dd3c96-a111-4b94-91b2-bf33e299502e AND NOW IT HAS ALMOST FRIGHTENED YOUR POOR LITTLE MONKEYS TO DEATH WE HEARD UNCLE ROGER CHUCKLING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARN OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS THEY'LL USE FORCE JEFF HAD CONSIDERED THE POSSIBILITY BUT ITS IMMEDIACY APPALLED HIM SIR THESE COLONISTS HAD BEEN AUTONOMIST FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS EVER SINCE THE FOURTH WORK CUT THEM OFF FROM US WILL HOMESIDE DENY THEIR INDEPENDENCE +24de9ba5-277f-40aa-89d1-a195507f552f THEY MUST WARN THE NATIVES BEFORE THE PROWLING ZID FOUND THEM ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO NATIVES THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY OWING TO THE RAIN WE COULD NOT FOREGATHER IN THE ORCHARD WHERE WE HAD MEANT TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS WITH JERRY I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT AND OUR HOUSEKEEPER +24e83344-6540-4ab4-a841-e12018f6d9a6 THE DOCTOR'S HAND TIGHTENED ON THE DOORKNOB COULD YOU TUNE IT TO TWENTY EIGHT POINT SIX MICROCYCLES HE ADJUSTED IT AUTOMATICALLY THEN UNBUCKLED THE SEAT STRAPS AS WILD A REGION AS YOU WILL EVER FIND AM NO PIG SANDWICH AND I DO NOT COMMONLY CALL ON FOOLS GET ON YOUR FEET YOU CLOD FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY AND THE EFFECT BORDERED ON THE SPECTACULAR AND SUPPLY NEURAL THERAPY EQUIPMENT +24f60527-d8f7-43d9-a011-7c257626a257 THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK FOR A WEEK WE ATE UNLAWFUL LUNCHES AND DREAMED DREAMS AFTER OUR OWN HEARTS AND I REGRET TO SAY BICKERED AND SQUABBLED INCESSANTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAYTIME FOR OUR DIGESTIONS WENT OUT OF ORDER AND OUR TEMPERS FOLLOWED SUIT CAUTIOUSLY FEARING I KNOW NOT WHAT I ENTERED THE FAMILIAR ROOM NOTHING APPARENTLY HAD BEEN DISTURBED THERE WAS NO SIGN OF DISORDER ANYWHERE THE BLANKETS ON THE NARROW COT IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM HAD NOT BEEN UNFOLDED BUT NEITHER VIC NOR HOPE WERE ANYWHERE IN SIGHT +250f1c27-9c09-48c5-925d-c4f3214b8c84 MISTER MILWOOD TOLD ME TO BURN IT SAID FELIX IT DOESN'T SEEM REVERENT TO DO THAT SAID CECILY EVEN IF IT ISN'T GOD'S PICTURE IT HAS HIS NAME ON IT I LIKE PETER WELL ENOUGH IN HIS PLACE SAID FELICITY PRIMLY BUT YOU MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF HIM MOTHER SAYS HE IS ONLY A HIRED BOY AND HE HASN'T BEEN WELL BROUGHT UP AND HASN'T MUCH EDUCATION I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD MAKE SUCH AN EQUAL OF HIM AS YOU DO I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY YES TIS DAN WAS TOO MUCH IN EARNEST TO RESENT MY BLUNT SPEECH LOOK HERE BEV IS THAT MAGIC SEED +254e010c-754f-41bf-b966-1ac422d95f25 THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS THIS ONE AND ANOTHER ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET BUT THE OTHER ONE'S A RUIN WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW WILL HOMESIDE DENY THEIR INDEPENDENCE OLD CHARLIE MACK SAILED DOWN IN HIS ANCIENT ISLAND QUEEN AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY AND I HASTENED TO DO IT THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER +25598503-5bfd-4ada-8fa7-1e4b4a3603c8 SHE TURNED TO GO BUT FARMER HELD ON WHAT'S THIS ABOUT A GALACTIC FEDERATION AND IF THEY BAND ALL COMMUNICATION WITH EARTH WHY HAVEN'T THEY JUST BLASTED THE PLANET OUT OF EXISTENCE AND GOTTEN RID OF IT YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE WITH SIMILAR CONDITIONS AS THE EARTH LIFE MUST HAVE BEEN BORN AND WALKED OUT OF THE SEAS OF SERIOUS THREE JUST AS IT DID ON EARTH THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX AND I WON'T OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX +255fc002-b6d5-4d6e-ad19-62590615d32e I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I THREW A LIGHTED MATCH INTO THAT KEG OF GUNPOWDER IN MISTER COOK'S STORE AT MARKDALE SAID PETER IT BLEW UP AND EVERYTHING BLEW UP AND THEY FISHED ME OUT OF THE MESS BUT I WOKE UP BEFORE I'D TIME TO FIND OUT IF I WAS KILLED OR NOT THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER THEN RACE SMILED A SMILE THAT WAS SURPRISINGLY SOFT AND SWEET WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT BUT WE WERE VERY QUIET NOW +259bcfbe-2e0c-4ef9-af3c-9150d43850b0 I REMEMBERED THE WAY SHE SHOOK HIM OFF AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN I LOOKED AT THE PULPIT AND THOUGHT OF THE STORY SHE TOLD ABOUT THE OLD SCOTCH MINISTER WHO WAS TOO FAT TO GET IN AT THE DOOR OF IT AND HAD TO HISS HIMSELF UP BY HIS TWO HANDS OVER IT AND THEN WHISPERED TO THE OTHER MINISTER SO THAT EVERYBODY HEARD HIM LORD THOU HAST BEEN OUR DWELLING PLACE IN ALL GENERATIONS BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH OR EVER THOU'ST HAD FORMED THE EARTH IN THE WORLD EVEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING THOU ART GOD FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY WHEN IT IS PAST AND AS A WATCH IN THE NIGHT NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO +25c25537-1aa4-4adf-a7db-77cdfbb08077 COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK DISAPPEARING THROUGH A BULKHEAD DOOR IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME NO SOUND OF ACTIVITY CAME FROM THE HOUSE EITHER AND AT THE SUMMONS A SERVANT APPEARED AND BOWED LOW WAS BALLOON +25cf5e0d-1af3-4067-95d6-158256a05e7d ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL THE STANCE WAS SLIGHTLY BENT FORWARD LONG ARMS TWO VERTICAL NOSE SLITS A FLAT LIPLESS MOUTH RECEDING CHIN WHAT HE SAID WAS VENUS SPACESHIP MY NAME IS RAY IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS BEFORE HE COULD TALK I DID FOOT IN THE DOOR AND STAY ON TOP BEAUTIFUL PLANET YOU HAVE HERE DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL +2614bb68-992f-469d-9f6b-7fa095dc4b75 WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT YOU INTEND TO START A WAR ASKED SCORN IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN THAT IS A QUIBBLE FOR WOMEN SAID TENUBE IT'S TOO BAD TO FEEL THAT WAY SAID HORN WHEN TWO CULTURES MEET LIKE THIS THEY TEND TO HELP EACH OTHER SINCE HE WAS FLYING AN UNDER MANNED BATTLESHIP HE HAD USED IT IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE IF HE ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE OR THREATEN ANOTHER SHIP THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE WOULD BE INTRODUCED SO HE HAD SIMPLY ROARED UP TO UNSUSPECTING FREIGHTER AND BLASTED OVER THE MONSTER GUNS HIS BATTLESHIP PACKED ALL EIGHTEEN MEN ABOARD HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY THE THIEVES WERE NOW MURDERERS PETER WAS NO BETTER THE NEXT DAY AUNT OLIVIA REPORTED THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BROKEN HEARTED WE DID NOT ASK AGAIN TO BE RELEASED FROM WORK INSTEAD WE WENT AT IT WITH FEVERISH ZEAL IF WE WORKED HARD THERE WAS LESS TIME FOR GRIEF AND GRIEVOUS THOUGHTS WE PICKED APPLES AND DRAGGED THEM TO THE GRANARY DOGGEDLY +265a41fa-ece6-4e75-b54a-4839272fed8b GREETINGS O NOBLE SERVERS OF THE GREAT GOD I SAID OF COURSE I DIDN'T SAY IT OUT LOUD JUST WHISPERED LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE THROAT MIKE TO CATCH THIS WAS RADIOED BACK TO THE M T AND THE TRANSLATION SHOT BACK TO A SPEAKER IN MY JAWS OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES WE WERE SHORT OF BOYS BEFORE ONLY DAN AND PETER TO FOUR GIRLS FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN GOODY GOODY AND WHAT HAPPENS IF R N R STUMBLES ON TO ME WHILE I'M DOWN THERE PLAYING PADDY CAKE WE DISOWN YOU +266cd7d4-be75-4e0b-becb-ac5058ee2014 CHILDREN ALWAYS GO TO HEAVEN TO ALL WHO TASTE OF IT SHALL IMMORTALITY BE GIVEN I KNOW HEAVEN MUST BE A SPLENDID PLACE BUT I'M SURE PETER WOULD RATHER BE HERE HAVING FUN WITH US LIKE A STALK WITH A SINGLE DROOPING FLOWER I FOUND THIS ON THE FLOOR OF THE MACHINE HE SAID GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS THEN OF COURSE I QUIT THINKING THAT'S THE EXACT TRUTH EXCLAIMED THE GIANTESS WHO SEEMED PLEASED HEAR THE BIRD TALK +26b91d69-9761-4baa-8182-dff5552c785e THEIR SUBJECT HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR BATTLE SHIP THE ROBERT SAID COLDLY ALL HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SHIP WERE TRUE NOW IT'S MY TURN FOR THE GAPING AND I POPMY ACT WHILE FERREO PULLED HIMSELF TOGETHER HE HAD NO IDEA I WASN'T INTEREST IN HIS OTHER HANKEY PANKY BUT COULD TELL THAT I HAD A LOW BLOW SARA RAY'S OWN DREAMS NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH SHE WAS ALWAYS IN TROUBLE OF SOME SORT COULDN'T GET HER HAIR BRAIDED OR HER SHOES ON THE RIGHT FEET CONSEQUENTLY HER DREAM BOOK WAS VERY MONOTONOUS THE DIVING HELMET CAME OFF EASILY NOT HAVING BEEN PROPERLY FASTENED DOWN AT ALL +26ce0425-3ac0-4d81-bca3-990ef24c242c SO I BELIEVE IT MUST BE TRUE SAID THE STORY GIRL FELICITY WORE HER NEW VELVET HOOD WITH A COQUETTISH LITTLE COLLAR OF WHITE FUR ABOUT HER NECK HER GOLDEN CURLS FRAMED HER LOVELY FACE AND THE WIND STUNG THE PINK OF HER CHEEKS TO CRIMSON THE RAINBOW WON'T APPEAR UNTIL AFTER THE STORM AND I CAN MAKE YOU BATHE IN A JIFFY BEFORE I JOIN MY SISTERS ON OUR BOAT ALL RIGHT SAID WOUT JUMPING UP GIVE ME YOUR HAND POLYCHROME WHERE ARE YOU AND PETER EARLY IN LIFE HAD HAD HIS FEET SET IN THE PATH OF TRUTHFULNESS BY HIS AUNT JANE +26efab71-f88d-4cb7-b804-72ef96c4d592 SHE TOLD US THAT SARA HAD NOTHING WORSE THAN A FEVERISH COLD OVER A VALLEY FILLED WITH BEECH AND SPRUCE WAS A SUNSET AFTERGLOW CREAMY YELLOW AND A HUE THAT WAS NOT SO MUCH RED AS THE DREAM OF RED WITH A YOUNG MOON SWUNG LOW IN IT NOW I LOVED UNCLE ALEC BUT I WANTED TO BE TALLER THAN HE WAS SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US YOU'RE A VERY HONEST AND CLEVER MAN EXCLAIMED THE HIPPOGIRA AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES +271325cc-c520-4665-888c-5d7a13813d32 WITH THE GATHERING SHADES OF NIGHT OUR PLIGHT BECAME PITIFUL IN THE DAYLIGHT SURROUNDED BY HOMELY FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IT WAS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO FORTIFY OUR SOULS WITH A CHEERING INCREDULITY BUT NOW IN THIS TIME OF SHADOWS DREAD BELIEF CLUTCHED US AND WRUNG US WITH TERROR IF THERE HAD BEEN ONE WISE OLDER FRIEND TO TELL US IN SERIOUS FASHION THAT WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WELL FOR US BUT THERE WAS NOT OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY PETE SHOUTED A FAMILIAR VOICE AND I SCRAMBLED TO MY FEET THERE WAS VIC HIS RED HAIR TOUSLED AND HIS FACE GREY WITH WORRY BEHIND HIM HER BIG BLUE EYES BRIMMING HER LIPS QUIVERING WAS HOPE EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY EXCEPT FELIX HE WOULD NOT SPEAK TO PETER FOR TWO DAYS BECAUSE OF IT FELICITY ALSO GOT INTO TROUBLE BECAUSE OF HER DREAMS ONE NIGHT SHE WOKE UP HAVING JUST HAD A VERY EXCITING DREAM BUT SHE WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN AND IN THE MORNING SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER THE DREAM AT ALL +272611d3-c25f-4a01-9316-428e52d4dfad I'D GO THIS MINUTE AND CONFESS THE WHOLE THING TO MISSUS RAY BUT IF I DID IT IT MIGHT GET SARA INTO MORE TROUBLE AND I MUSTN'T DO THAT I SHA'N'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT ANY PLANS ELABORATE AS HIS CERTAINLY INCLUDED WARNING OF APPROACHING DANGER ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY LANDS MANY TIMES +273496fe-0cfd-4bc9-b323-186167dfafbb WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE NO KING I FELT CERTAIN WOULD EVER MARRY A BEGGAR MAID WHEN HE HAD PRINCESSES GALORE FROM WHOM TO CHOOSE +2735d4f1-c4a2-4e04-aae9-41ec91e0cd30 AN OLD PROVERB WITH NEW MEANING IT WAS HALF PAST FIVE WHEN WE BOYS GOT UP NEXT MORNING WE WERE JOINED ON THE STAIRS BY FELICITY YAWNING AND ROSY O DEAR ME I OVERSLEPT MYSELF THE NEXT DAY AS I WAS CUTTING WOOD IN THE FOREST THE CRUEL WITCH ENCHANTED MY AXE SO THAT IT SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY RIGHT LEG HOW DREADFUL CRIED WOOT THE WANDERER WE CALLED THEM THE WHITE LADIES THE STORY GIRL GAVE THEM THE NAME SHE SAID THEY LOOKED LIKE THE SOULS OF GOOD WOMEN WHO HAD HAD TO SUFFER MUCH AND HAD BEEN VERY PATIENT +274f2508-32ef-451a-af3f-60257e152963 THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF HER LETTER I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH BUT WHEN THE MEASLES STRIKE IN THEY LEAVE YOU STUPID FOR A SPELL AND RACHEL WARD HERSELF CAME AND LOOKED AT US SO SAD AND REPROACHFUL AND WE ALL FELT ASHAMED AND I BEGAN TO CRY AND WOKE UP CRYING WHEN ONE TRAVELS IT IS FOOLISH TO MISS ANY INTERESTING SIGHT ADDED THE SCARECROW BUT A WARNING MEANS DANGER PROTESTED THE WANDER AND I BELIEVE IT SENSIBLE TO KEEP OUT OF DANGER WHENEVER WE CAN THEY MADE NO REPLY TO THIS SPEECH FOR A WHILE +2750b38f-acf5-4c40-83ed-3a34877cdaf9 IN THIS CASE I CHOSE THE NATURAL ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO BLIND CHANCE AND ACCIDENT OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY MARGARET WAITED FOR NEARLY A YEAR PETER IS VERY VERY SICK SHE SAID MISERABLY +2784c16e-2e72-480e-9764-a051c5b57e78 BUT ELECTRICITY ISN'T MATTER STILL EXPERIMENTING WITH IT AND IN HARDLY DECIPHERABLE SCRIPT BELOW WAS THIS MESSAGE THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS I MIGHT BE WRONG ON SOME OF THE MINOR DETAILS THEY WEREN'T IMPORTANT AND AS FIERCE A SCOW AS I COULD RAISE SMEARED ACROSS MY FACE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY +279229f6-7417-404d-9e7d-5141493f97c1 WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH MY SERMON I ASKED DAN THAT NIGHT SINCE HE WAS NEITHER JUDGE NOR COMPETITOR I COULD DISCUSS THE MATTER WITH HIM AND I TRUST THE FEAST WILL BEAT TO YOUR LIKING BOOT LEANED FORWARD AND PICKED UP THE THORN AND WHILE THE LOONS WERE BUSILY WATCHING THE PUMP FELIX HELD OUT TO FELICITY A REMARKABLY FINE APPLE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAVING FOR HIS OWN CONSUMPTION AND THE STORY GIRL BEGAN A TALE OF AN ENCHANTED MAIDEN IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA BUT WE NEVER HEARD THE END OF IT +2796f5dc-943f-4f68-ab7f-5ce27f82b783 SAID CHAFFY FOUR HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE SOMETHING NUDGED THE COTTAGE WITH A FORCE THAT ALL BUT KNOCKED IT FLAT I HEARD UNCLE ROGER TELLING IT THE OTHER NIGHT HARD FACT TO REALISE HAD BEEN CHILDREN THERE WAS A FINE MOCKERY IN HIS TONE THAT PUT THE STORY GIRL ON HER MEDDLE INSTANTLY THEY'RE POISON DROP THEM RIGHT AWAY THEY LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU CAN GO BY THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS +27a10bfe-2389-4eb1-bebf-881b7fb3c6a7 SOMETIMES I FEAR OUR REGULAR PRAYERS WAS SLURRED OVER OR MUMBLED IN ANYTHING BUT REVERENT HASTE THE TANG OF FIR BALSAM THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER BUT IT WAS EASY RAIDER CHIEF WHEN WE RETURNED FELIX AND THE GIRLS AND I WERE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS DAN WAS STILL SITTING IN PRECISELY THE SAME PLACE AND ATTITUDE BUT THERE WAS NO JIMMY IN SIGHT +27a6e386-042c-4f0c-971b-c8e4dce2db4b BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE SHE WOULD NEVER BE SATISFIED AS A DABBLER LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT THE GIRLS WERE PREPARING FOR BED IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER THE IDEA APPEARED TO STRIKE HER AS THE VERY HEIGHT OF IDIOCY WHY THE PICTURE IS A CLASSIC ONE DELRIO HIMSELF HOLSINGER OR ANY OF THE OTHERS COULD NOT DESCRIBE A BETTER +27cd282a-01b9-43ba-8e3c-02107a676b5f IT WAS HER DANGER AND NOT HIS OWN THAT HAD BROUGHT THAT HAGGARD PALLOR TO HIS FACE IN SO SHORT A TIME BEING HERE WHEN I RETURN FROM TOWN AFTER MAILING THE LETTER TO YOU SIR MAYBE IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU DON'T STAND ROUND LIKE NINNIES WE MUST FIND HIM BEFORE HIS MOTHER GETS HERE DAN KING YOU'RE AN IDIOT +27d5cd74-61e5-4168-80a3-4c988185babf WE HAD NEVER DREAMED THERE WAS SO MUCH IN THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US THEY LOVE LIFE LIKE A MAN OF OUR EARTH BE SURE YOUR WEAPON I DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN BE IT REMEMBERED WITH A VERY FIRM AND SIMPLE FAITH THAT GROWN PEOPLE KNEW MUCH MORE THAN WE DID AND A ROOTED CONVICTION THAT WHATEVER YOU READ IN A NEWSPAPER MUST BE TRUE BUT DIGNITY REMAINED TO BE CONSIDERED +280d5890-fa07-4150-acbe-41c411b317e1 HE HAD NO IDEA I WASN'T INTEREST IN HIS OTHER HANKEY PANKY BUT COULD TELL THAT I HAD A LOW BLOW HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST THE STORY GIRL CAME OUT OF HER SHADOWS AND SAT DOWN BESIDE US ON THE GRASS EVEN THE GUARDS SEEMED STUNNED AND I TORE MY WAY THROUGH THEM WITH HARDLY A PAUSE IN MY STRIDE AND NOW SHE DON'T ANSWER +28281e72-ba6d-44f4-83c1-47fdf087ad9d FROM WHICH PRESENTLY A LIGHT GLEAMED THROUGH AN OPEN DOOR WHICH WE KNEW WAS THE ORCHARD LEAVING THE STORY YELLOW AND PETER TO PEEL THEIR POTATOES THE REST OF US WENT HOME WHERE AUNT JANET WHO HAD GONE TO THE WELL AND FOUND THE FRAGMENTS OF THE OLD BLUE CUP GAVE POOR FELICITY A BIT OF SCOLDING ABOUT IT A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY IT'S ALL RIGHT TO HAVE OUR NIGHT BOXES FOR THE HEATHEN AND SEND MISSIONARIES TO THEM +28598abb-2605-47c3-8886-109084343956 OH THERE'S EVERY DIFFERENCE I CAN'T JUST EXPLAIN IT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF OH PLEASE DON'T DO SUCH A THING SARA WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE BECAUSE PETER CONTINUED TO HOLD THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF BITTER APPLES IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF SUCH A CONSTANTLY TEARFUL DAMSEL WAS NOT A PLEASANT COMPANION +28abf6b5-a3b8-4b57-9b9e-4446acb38e14 HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER BUT SHE DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND WITHOUT IN FACT EVER SEEING ONE THAT HE COULD REMEMBER AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE I URGED JANET AND ALEC TO GO TO HALIFAX AND TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE AWAY +28baca84-3fcf-4263-9c37-a9123edd45ed JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON AND AS A MAID IS WON BY FAITH FIGURE AND DARING AND A WIFE BY RICHES POSITION OR PROSPECTS THERE WAS A NOTABLY PAUCITY OF LICEN LADIES IN JONAS'S CAREER NO I'M NOT ANSWERED CICELY WITH A CHANGE OF TONE I WILL I DON'T CARE SAID FELICITY QUICKLY THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE YOU ASK HIM SAID FELICITY NUDGING THE STORY YELL OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE +28cbfa74-d01a-4279-aec9-ff71a1155783 IF YOU WERE A WOMAN YOU COULD BUT GIVE YOUR VISITORS A DISH OF TEA I MEAN OF THE FAMILY CAT AT FAMILY PRAYERS MOTHER SAYS HE'S A PERFECT HERMIT I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID +28d445cc-885e-4e3c-ab0d-c19c9f1878eb HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY IN THE MAN'S BIG EYES BITTERNESS AND HOPELESSNESS GLITTERED AND I COULDN'T BE BLAMED IF THE GIRL HAD SLIPPED AWAY HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AT ONCE AND SAID A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AND THAT ONLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE WORSE PUT THAT DOWN DOORS YELL WAS HIGH PITCHED HE DECIDED HIS END HAD COME +290da7af-ff35-46a1-af4e-302e6761eeec NEIL WENT ON TASTING AND THAT SLY DONALD SAT THERE WITH A SOBER FACE BUT LAUGHING EYES AND COAXED HIM ON AT LAST NEIL'S HEAD FELL FORWARD ON HIS BREAST AND HE WAS SOUND ASLEEP BITTER INDEED WAS THE STORY GIRL'S MORTIFICATION DON'T TELL UNCLE ROGER SHE IMPLORED HUMBLY OH I WON'T TELL HIM PROMISED FELICITY AMIABLY IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR BUT PETER'S STOCKINGS WERE ALWAYS DARNED AUNT OLIVIA HAD SEEN TO THAT EVER SINCE SHE HEARD OF PETER'S SINGULAR DEVICE REGARDING THEM ON HIS FIRST SUNDAY +291d3851-085d-45a9-b5ac-d691c7bdbbb1 SARA WHO HAD NOT ENJOYED THE EXHIBITION AT ALL SEEMED TO FEEL MORE CHEERFUL WHEN IT WAS OVER AND SHE WAS GOING HOME THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS GLOOMY ALL AT ONCE THE STORY GIRL AND PETER BEGAN TO FORGE AHEAD IN THE MATTER OF DREAMING THEIR DREAMS SUDDENLY BECAME SO LURID AND DREADFUL AND PICTURESQUE THAT IT WAS HARD FOR THE REST OF US TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE NOT PAINTING THE LILY RATHER FREELY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS OF THEM AFTER ALL HE FINISHED THERE ARE TIMES WHEN EVEN A HERO WANTS A LITTLE PRIVACY POSTSCRIPT IN SIXTEEN O FIVE SIXTEEN O SIX IN OFFENBURG THERE WERE NO EXECUTIONS +2926f320-228f-4d31-9db3-404df91f7b15 JUST LOOK SHE SAID PROUDLY I HAVE EVERY BIT OF THE BREAD BAKED I GOT UP AT THREE AND IT WAS LOVELY AND LIGHT SO I JUST GAVE IT A RIGHT GOOD KNEADING AND POPPED IT INTO THE OVEN AND IT'S ALL DONE AND OUT OF THE WAY BUT THE LOAVES DON'T SEEM QUITE AS BIG AS THEY SHOULD BE SHE ADDED DOUBTFULLY WHY IT WAS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT OUT OF THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES HORN SAW MORE SHADOWS DROPPING TO THE MUD AROUND HIM THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT ANOTHER DAY DRAGGED BY YUNUS PUT IN HIS TIME ALTERNATELY GOING OVER THE NEW PLAN AND FEELING MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HE HAD EVER BELIEVED POSSIBLE CLARETON REACHED HIM ONCE BUT THE CONTACT WAS WEAK AND FLEETING THE DIRECTOR HADN'T ENOUGH STRENGTH TO REACH HIM AGAIN AT LEAST NOT FOR A DAY OR SO YUNUS WAS EXACTLY WHERE HE WANTED TO BE ON HIS OWN +293b3826-a1ea-4505-a4d4-cb5ebad908b9 SHE LOOKED AT THE LIMP DIVING SUITED BODY BESIDE HER SELF CONTAINED OXYGEN SUPPLY THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER I'VE GOTTEN MAD HE SAID ALOUD HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED JENOFER REMINDED HIM IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM NOW IT IS PROPOSED TO MAKE IT THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STATE PARK +294d141e-b7a9-4a4a-afbc-74bcafe8db72 FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL SHE SCRAMBLED TO THE WINDOW SILL AND JUMPED STUDYING HER WHILE SHE SHOOK OUT HER DRIPPING RED HAIR I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING RETORTED AUNT JANET I'D SIMPLY TURN YOU OVER MY KNEE AND GIVE YOU A SOUND SOLID SPANKING MISS SARA YOU'D FIND THAT PENANCE ENOUGH HOLDING THE ARMS CROSS POSE AGAIN DORA RAISED HER NOSE ANOTHER NOTCH HE WAS BEING CRADLED GENTLY BUT FIRMLY BY THE NONNIPUS +29519773-9a60-477c-88b0-534e1213c7d5 BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM THEY HADN'T ANYTHING AGAINST HIM AS A MAN BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT HER TO THROW HERSELF AWAY ON A SAILOR GRANDPA HAD BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH THINGS SINCE HIS DEATH AND GOATBOY HAPPILY FILLED HIM IN I LEARNED ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW OF THE HISTORY PAST AND RECENT AND IT WASN'T NICE WE PAUSED AND THE CHANTING WENT ON AND ON UNTIL I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANYTHING WOULD EVER HAPPEN +296a6dd8-3f11-4d2a-944a-6d33d8151830 I DIDN'T CHEW THE PUDDING GROANED UNCLE ROGER IT WAS TOO TOUGH I JUST SWALLOWED THE CHUNKS WHOLE HE GROANED AND TWISTED AND DOUBLED HIMSELF UP BUT HE OVERDID IT HE WAS NOT AS GOOD AN ACTOR AS THE STORY GIRL FELICITY LOOKED SCORNFULLY AT HIM UNCLE ROGER YOU ARE NOT ONE BIT SICK SHE SAID DELIBERATELY YOU ARE JUST PUTTING ON WE WERE VERY HUNGRY BOYS AND WHEN WE HAD EATEN ALL WE COULD AND OH WHAT SUPPERS AUNT JANET ALWAYS SPREAD WE DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE VERY TIRED ALSO TOO TIRED TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE OUR ANCESTRAL DOMAINS AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK SARA RAY CAME UP STILL CRYING OF COURSE SHE INCREASED OUR UNEASINESS BY SAYING THAT HER MOTHER BELIEVED THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH AND WAS AFRAID THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WAS REALLY AT HAND THAT'S WHY SHE LET ME COME UP SHE SOBBED IF SHE HADN'T BEEN AFRAID I DON'T BELIEVE SHE WOULD HAVE LET ME COME UP BUT I'D HAVE DIED IF I COULDN'T HAVE COME +29b45025-973e-4401-9db7-fd919a1497a0 PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM SIT UP PEPPY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY AH FELICITY DON'T CALL PETER A HIRED BOY WHEN HE'S SICK PROTESTED CECILY WE THOUGHT IT QUITE SUFFICIENTLY MARVELLOUS THAT SHE SHOULD EXPECT TO HAVE THE CHANCE OF JUST SEEING THEM CAN A QUEEN DO EXACTLY AS SHE PLEASES SARA RAY WANTED TO KNOW +29beec1d-30d2-4f52-81ef-b795e733ab8c IN ODIN'S BAND WAS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN NAMED ALIN SHE WAS AS FAIR AND DELICATE AS A YOUNG BIRCH TREE IN THE SPRING AMONG DARK OLD PINES AND FIRS AND VING LOVED HER WITH ALL HIS HEART A PLAN WAS BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE IN MY HEAD BUT I DIDN'T RUSH IT FIRST I HAD TO BE SURE THAT I KNEW HIM WELL ANY MAN THAT CAN CON AN ENTIRE WORLD INTO BUILDING A BATTLESHIP FOR HIM THEN STEAL IT FROM THEM IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE THE SHIP WOULD NEED A CREW A BASE FOR REFUELING AND OMISSION WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT WE WENT +29dd101f-61c8-4017-b09a-c4a2995f7467 A CLOUD OF POWDERY DUST SETTLED OVER HIS LEGS THE LIGHTNESS IN HIS HEAD TOLD HIM THAT HIS OXYSM WAS RUNNING OUT THE WEAKNESS IN HIS MUSCLES REMINDED HIM THAT IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE HAD WALKED IN THE PLANET'S GRAVITY THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN I CHECKED ALL THE PARTS BY SCREEN BEFORE THEY WERE LOADED IN A METAL CRATE IN THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE DAWN THE HEAVY DUTY EYE DROPPED THE CRATE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND DARTED AWAY WITHOUT BEING SEEN I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT +29e33b5e-4a19-4064-bd0a-ba3d16be5a1c SURE THE MAN SAID AGAIN BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY HOMESIDE WILL DENY THEIR AUTONOMY AUBREY I'VE HAD A WARP BEING MESSAGE TO DAY ORDERING ME TO MOVE IN +29e84907-2b33-4a74-80c0-d7a7886cfaa3 THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES AUNT OLIVIA SPOILS YOU SAID FELICITY SHE DOESN'T EITHER FELICITY KING AUNT OLIVIA IS JUST SWEET SHE KISSES ME GOOD NIGHT EVERY NIGHT AND YOUR MOTHER NEVER KISSES YOU MY MOTHER DOESN'T MAKE KISSES SO COMMON RETORTED FELICITY BUT SHE GIVES US PIE FOR DINNER EVERY DAY WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST +2a03c75c-b109-40c5-9f94-86cc445a6fc1 HALF AN HOUR LATER NEIL CAMPBELL RUSHED INTO THE SHERMAN KITCHEN AND OH HOW ANGRY HE WAS WE'RE NOT FIGHTING SAID FELICITY AND I LIKE AUNT OLIVIA BUT MY MOTHER IS JUST AS GOOD AS AUNT OLIVIA THERE NOW WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY SOON AFTER WE WERE AT SUPPER IN THE KITCHEN WITH ITS LOW DARK RAFTERED CEILING FROM WHICH SUBSTANTIAL HAMS AND FLITCHES OF BACON WERE HANGING +2a4c851c-371d-43cb-a8f5-16af7d7a02c6 IN MY MIND I COMPOSED POETRY AND SANG SONGS BUT NOT A SOUND HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO UTTER BUT THIS DESPERATE CONDITION HAS NOW BEEN RELIEVED BY YOUR COMING MY WAY AND I MUST THANK YOU FOR MY RESCUE NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL FINALLY HE TOLD DONALD THAT HE WAS GOING OVER THE BAY TO ASK NANCY SHERMAN THAT VERY NIGHT TO MARRY HIM AND IF SHE WOULD HAVE HIM THEN DONALD AND ALL THE FOLK SHOULD SEE A WEDDING THAT WAS A WEDDING YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR SHOES AND STOCKINGS ON WHEN YOU GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW TO NIGHT SAID FELICITY IN A TONE OF SATISFACTION I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THINKING OF GOING BAREFOOTED OH YOU WOULDN'T SARA STANLEY YOU'RE NOT IN EARNEST EXCLAIMED FELICITY HER BLUE EYES FILLING WITH HORROR +2a5fe0c8-c0e2-4e55-8e53-0b34e9bffe7c EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT MEMBER WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER AND BUST INTO THE LAB CAME IN SINGLE FILE FROM BEHIND THE BLACK GOD DIRECTING THE CHANTING WITH MOVEMENTS OF THEIR ARMS THERE WAS ONE ON THE DOCK BUT I THOUGHT CIRCLED BY A FAINTER COMPANION AND A SINGLE PLANET THAT SWUNG IN PRECISE BALANCE +2a6211df-a04e-4fa8-b8c8-7ee92c2e24a3 IT WASN'T EVEN A RESPECTABLE ORDINARY LOOKING OCCUPANT TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS EACH OF THE NINE TINNACLES HAD A LOBSTERISH CLAW AT ITS TIP AND THERE WERE VARIOUS OTHER UNUSUAL APPENDAGES THEN I FILLED THE FRAME WITH ALL THE EQUIPMENT I WOULD NEED AND BEGAN TO WIRE THE SUIT WHEN IT WAS DONE I TRIED IT ON IN FRONT OF A FULL LENGTH MIRROR IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR AND GAVE ME A DUCK WADDLE BUT THAT ONLY HELPED THE RESEMBLANCE WHAT DO YOU WANT THESE WERE THE FIRST WORDS PEPPER HAD SPOKEN SINCE HIS FIRST THREATS I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ARRANGE A DEAL SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROFITABLE TO BOTH OF US BUT LET ME FIRST SHOW YOU THE REST OF THE BOMBS SO YOU WON'T GET ANY STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CORPORATING +2a66c3a7-1182-47c5-903c-3c4006df74f9 WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTED IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM A ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF UNCLE ALEC WE REALIZED THAT SHE WAS RATHER TOO WELL AWARE OF HER GOOD LOOKS VERY WELL THEN YOU MAY KEEP YOUR HEAD SAID THE BEAST THEY HALTED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD AND ALLOWED WOOT TO GET HIS SUPPER FROM THE BOOT HE CARRIED IN HIS KNAPSACK +2a681059-66ed-4d7b-87f9-5b31f5a46d97 I DIDN'T TELL CECILY TO DRINK THE MILK AND THE CUCUMBER ALONE WOULDN'T HAVE HURT HER HE GRUMBLED I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF THERE WE STOOD IN A HUDDLED DEMORALIZED GROUP OH WHAT AN EERIE PLACE THAT ORCHARD WAS WHAT SHADOWS WHAT NOISES WHAT SPOOKY SWOOPING BATS YOU COULDN'T LOOK EVERY WAY AT ONCE AND GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHAT MIGHT BE BEHIND YOU THERE CAN'T BE ANYBODY AT THE HOUSE SAID FELICITY HE CLIMBED WEARILY IN AND I DIRECTED THE DRIVER BEFORE HE FULLY REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING BLINKING AT THE SICKLY LIGHT OF DAWN BROUGHT HIM SLOWLY BACK TO REALITY BUT ADMIRAL THE HOUR EVERYONE WILL BE ASLEEP I JUST GROWLED BUT IT WAS ENOUGH ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE +2a69e167-69a3-4c5b-bb15-cea9134bb1bc ORDINARILY HE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IT A THOUGHT BEYOND A PASSING SIGH FOR THE WAYS OF THE WORLD HE HAD OTHER BUSINESS BUT NOW HE GRINNED TO HIMSELF AND HE GRIN TURNED TO A LAUGH AS HE STARTED DOWN THE HILL THE GRISLIER METHODS OF THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS WERE WELL KNOWN TO HIM BY REPUTATION AND SOON HE MIGHT BE TESTING THEM OUT FOR HIMSELF SUPPOSE CECILY GOES DOWN WITH YOU AND COAXES YOUR MOTHER SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL PERHAPS SHE'D LET YOU GO THEN SHE LIKES CECILY SHE DOESN'T LIKE EITHER FELICITY OR ME SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE FOR US TO TRY HE HAD FINISHED THOSE JUST DESCRIBED BEFORE DOOR SAID ALL RIGHT GARF FUN SPUN NOW LET US KISS AND MAKE UP AFTER ALL IT'S ILLEGAL FOR US TO BE HERE NOT ONLY OUR OWN COPSE BUT THE GALACTIC FEDERATION WOULD BE ON OUR NECKS IF THEY KNEW +2a8fbfb1-4b44-4c51-84bf-9689964c770a AND MOST MEMBER RACES HAVE WARS OCCASIONALLY EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS YOU UNDERSTAND THE ORDERS ANYWAY THAT'S ALL IT'S NECESSARY THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD +2aa47c97-4f02-48a3-bce2-bf3de0ed6133 WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON AND MISS OAK LOOKS INTO HIS ROOM THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN BUT NOT FOR THE GRANDEROUSSE REASONS THAT SOME HAVE IMAGINED NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME +2ae079d4-7af6-4e0a-9b03-590348feb959 LISTENED JUST AS EAGERLY AS WE DID I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE SHE SOUNDED RELIEVED THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP BUT HE DID NOT MENTION THE BROWN BOOK I THOUGHT HE MIGHT BUT AFTER ALL I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE FIRST TIME YOU MEET THEM LIKE SARA RAY AND YOU MUST NEVER TELL A SOUL YOU'RE TAKING IT OR IT WON'T WORK +2ae4abd8-2256-4636-afa6-819317195043 PETER NOW HE'LL HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT SHE WAS VERY HANDSOME WITH HAIR AS BROWN AS OCTOBER NUTS AND BLACK EYES AND CRIMSON CHEEKS AND SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH NEIL CAMPBELL HERSELF AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR SUCH A DEAR OLD LADY WITH LOVELY SILVERY CURLS OH MASTER HE PRAYED TURNING BESEECHINGLY TO ODIN THE SKY ABOVE IT WAS CHILL AND ERETHRAL AND MYSTICAL HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM +2aea34d3-e293-4354-8378-9ab301420a75 AND UNHAPPINESS IN ANY FORM IS THE GREATEST EVIL THAT CAN BEFALL YOU NOW THE SCARECROW WAS NEXT TO POLYCHROME IN THE LINE MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY THOSE ARE NOT THINGS ONE KNOWS ABOUT SHE SAID WITH DIGNITY DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF AFFECTION FOR IT HAD THEY REALIZED HOW FAR SHE HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR +2b05ad5a-e03b-4dd8-bc71-a86406a6d905 OH SHE TURNED UPON US A FACE ILLUMINATED WITH A SUDDEN INSPIRATION I'VE AN IDEA LET'S EACH OF US GET AN EXERCISE BOOK AND WRITE DOWN ALL HER DREAMS JUST AS WE DREAM THEM WE'LL SEE WHO'LL HAVE THE MOST INTERESTING COLLECTION AND WE'LL HAVE THEM TO READ AND LAUGH OVER WHEN WE'RE OLD AND GREY HE SAW THE WORDS EUP CASTLE OVER THE DOOR BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER EUP IS A PRISONER IN A CAGE IN A FAR OFF PART OF THE LAND OF OZ SO HE DECIDED THAT THERE WAS NO ONE NOW AT HOME AND THAT WE MIGHT USE THE CASTLE FOR THE NIGHT THE LACRYMOSE SARAH PRESENTLY JOINED US AND WE DISCOVERED THE CAUSE OF HER TEARS TO BE THE DOLEFUL FACT THAT HER MOTHER HAD FORBIDDEN HER TO GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW THAT NIGHT WE ALL SHOWED THE SYMPATHY WE FELT SHE SAID YESTERDAY YOU CAN GO SAID THE STORY GIRL INDIGNANTLY WHY HAS SHE CHANGED HER MIND +2b3f7037-c48f-4560-a060-1b27f82aee43 ROCKER COLLAPSED AWAY FROM MY ROAR AND GNAWED HIS EARS YES HE SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME TROUBLE AND WHAT ELSE I INTERRUPTED HIM COLD MOISTURE WAS BEGINNING TO COLLECT ALONG MY SPINE NOW THE DRIVES THE CONTROLS ARE THEY IN TO WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE WORKED ITS WILL ON MISTER CAMPBELL AS ON ALL OTHERS HE CAME IN SAT DOWN HOOKED HIS THUMB INTO HIS VEST POCKET AND SMILED AT HER WHAT IS IT HE ASKED WE ARE COLLECTING FOR OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND WE HAVE CALLED TO ASK YOU FOR A CONTRIBUTION SHE REPLIED SINCE THE SAW HORSE COULD UNDERSTAND HER SPOKEN WORDS OZMA USED NO REINS TO GUIDE HIM SHE MERELY TOLD HIM WHERE TO GO +2ba0a161-f4ed-4c64-92d2-a815a685cc42 THE OLD HOUSE WITH THE SPRUCES BEHIND IT I FEAR SHE HAD AN ANXIOUS TRIP OF IT POOR WOMAN SAID AUNT JANET SEVERELY WITH ANY OF THESE THINGS THE PATTERN IS PROTECTION THEN CONTROL THEN CAUTIOUSLY SKIRTED THE BRUSH TINY RED MISTS MARKED DUST STORMS MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW +2be7bc4c-a1df-4501-871f-cbacd74a63bf CECILILY CHERISHED A GRUDGE AGAINST FATE BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN NATURALLY CURLY HAIR AS HAD THE OTHER TWO GIRLS BUT SHE ATTAINED THE DESIRE OF HER HEART ON SUNDAYS AT LEAST AND WAS QUITE WELL SATISFIED SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY EXPLAINED CECILY AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR SHE MADE HER GO TO BED INSTEAD THE STORY GIRL WAS AWFULLY DISAPPOINTED PICKING UP A CHART HE MURMURED SIX MONTHS MUCH TOO LONG STRANGE WE DIDN'T CATCH THAT AT THE TIME +2c24772b-9a08-49fd-a32d-cf9b50a4157f HE NEVER CRIED A SPECK WHEN YOU THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE AND NOW WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BETTER YOU CRY LIKE THAT AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT HIS HAND REACHING FOR HIS HYDROSTATIC SHOCK PISTOL OUTSIDE OF THE ORCHARD THE GRASS WAS ONLY BEGINNING TO GROW GREEN THEY MIGHTN'T HAVE KEPT GOOD AS LONG AS THEY DID IF THEY HADN'T LIVED IN A GARDEN +2c6a1aa3-177f-458d-9c4e-f08ea01ffabb ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME SAID FELICITY AND THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING ALWAYS GOOD THEY MIGHTN'T HAVE KEPT GOOD AS LONG AS THEY DID IF THEY HADN'T LIVED IN A GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED AWAY THROUGH THE GAP FOLLOWED BY PATTY AND THE REST OF US WALKED UP THE ORCHARD TO THE HOUSE WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL CHAFFEE FOUR TELEPORTED INSIDE AGAIN CHAFFEE THREE CLOSED THE PORT TOGETHER THEY RELAXED THEIR PERCEPTION SHIELDS IN RELIEF UNAWARE IN THEIR CONSTERNATION THAT THEY COMMITTED THE BARBAROUS LAPSE OF VOCALIZING THEY TWITTERED ALOUD WHEN THEY REALIZED THE EXTENT OF THEIR ERROR ABOVE THE FAR MURMUROUS WHISPER OF EXPECTED MARINE CEREBRATION THERE ROSE AN UNCOORDINATED MISHMASH OF THOUGHT FROM AT LEAST TWO STRONG AND RELATIVELY COMPLEX INTELLIGENCES SOMETHING SCURRIED INTO A WISP OF BRUSH AS IF TO BEAR OUT BRANDON'S REALIZATION HE FROZE HIS EYES ON THE BRUSH HIS HAND REACHING FOR HIS HYDROSTATIC SHOCK PISTOL HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT THE WIND HOLLOWING HIS EARS HE STOOD FOR A LONG MOMENT THEN CAUTIOUSLY SKIRTED THE BRUSH AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE BURNING SHIP +2c8aa7a3-5748-4294-87b9-88cb516ac7fc SHARP OPENED HIS MOUTH SHUT IT AGAIN AND THEN SHRUGGED THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN IN THE PLACE OF THIS CREATURE CHOP FIGHT TWISTING HIS STUFFED HEAD AROUND IN MISSUS UBES'S DIRECTION AIMED AT MY HEAD MATCH THAT WITH THE CITY AS ADVANCED AS THAT ONE +2c8db98e-df20-4564-a20a-aa3dc96fc39e IN OUR TONGUE IT MEANS THE LIMB OF VICTORY SAID TO NEW BY ITS LIGHT WE WILL CONTINUE WHY I HAVE A HUNCH ABOUT THESE CREATURES WHAT IS IT NO TIME NOW TRUST ME HE IS AN OLD BACHELOR DOESN'T HE EVER MEAN TO GET MARRIED ASKED FELIX I DON'T KNOW AUNT OLIVIA WISHES HE WOULD BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND SHE WANTS TO GO TO AUNT JULIE IN CALIFORNIA BUT SHE SAYS HE'LL NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND WHEN HE FINDS HER SHE WON'T HAVE HIM THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG AT THE OTHER END WHERE THE RAY IS FOCUS AND I INTEND TO FIND OUT +2c96864b-3c11-4b18-a4ac-5a54a9fd6f47 I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP THE FLAME WAS BRIGHT BUT NOT VERY HOT YET LUKE SCREAMED WITH TERROR I SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH YOUR WEDDING HER WE COULD NEVER CLIMB BACK HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE +2cdc0ab0-0ebd-406d-aad2-5c0a9b5f73c8 DORA BLANCHED SLIGHTLY SHE LOOKED AT HIM HAUGHTILY WRITHING MOANING AND TURNING RED IN THE FACE AS IF YOU HAD ANY COWS GIGGLED FELICITY THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS +2cdf8b29-164d-4121-8393-547297ecc28b AUNT OLIVIA LOOKING MORE LIKE A PANSY THAN EVER IN THE PRETTIEST DRESS OF PALE PURPLE PRINT WITH A KNOT OF YELLOW RIBBONS AT HER THROAT SAT WITH HER ARM ABOUT CECILY AND SMILED ON US ALL AND AUNT JANET'S MOTHERLY FACE LOST ITS EVERY DAY LOOK OF ANXIOUS CARE MA THINKS IT WAS HER WEDDING DRESS BUT FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES IT WAS MIL WILL MONTAGUE'S PICTURE SAID FELICITY OF COURSE WE KNOW IT WASN'T REALLY TRUE SAID FELICITY CHERANNA CHERUSOE THE STRONGEST FIRST CHERANNA CRUSO +2d17adb3-afb2-4cdd-845d-9aeecd8568ff AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I YOU CAN GO HOME IF YOU LIKE SAID THE STORY GIRL SCORNFULLY BUT I'M GOING TO GO SEE MISTER CAMPBELL I KNOW I CAN MANAGE HIM BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU I CAUGHT BROOK TROUT IN THE WESTERLING VALLEY OF SPRUCES AND SOLD THEM FOR A CENT APIECE WOULDN'T HAVE DISOBEYED US OFTEN IF I'D THOUGHT THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS SO NEAR I PROMISED KITTY MOTHER I'D GO DOWN AND SPEND IT WITH HER IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN +2d221100-a9d5-4860-8ed0-8d83cd25e408 THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN AS YOU'VE JUST ILLUSTRATED I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE BEAUTIFUL PLANET YOU HAVE HERE DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES IT LOOKED LIKE A PIECE OF ROCK ABOUT A FOOT LONG I STRIPPED OFF MY TATTERED LIZARD SUIT BACK IN THE SHIP VERY GLAD THAT IT WOULD BE SOME OTHER REPAIRMAN WHO'D GET THE JOB I AM HERE TO RESTORE THE HOLY WATERS +2d268dbf-7496-4c9b-a59c-6922c3b25577 GARF TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE TELEVISION SAT GREAT UNCLE'S GUILDS HE EXCLAIMED AND LAPSED INTO FASCINATED SILENCE FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE THEY WERE IN EFFECT MEN THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE +2d318a8c-2868-479c-bcee-ba5fdc57682e THAT SETTLED IT WE WERE NOT GOING TO LET THE STORY GIRL GET AHEAD OF US IN THE MANNER OF COLLECTING TELL UNCLE ROGER THAT AND SAY IF TO MORROW IS THE END OF THE WORLD THAT THERE IS NO GOOD IN STUMPING FIELDS ANY MORE I SUGGESTED YES AND IF HE LETS YOU OFF THEN WE'LL KNOW HE WAS IN EARNEST CHIMED IN CICELY BUT IF HE STILL SAYS YOU MUST GO THAT'LL BE A SIGN HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY THERE'S A GREAT BIG PATCH ON HIS BEST PAIR OF TROUSERS PROTESTED FELICITY +2d31e7a2-b9a2-4075-9450-1940f87aa8fd I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE ABOUT TEN KILOMETERS OUT SECTION A B SIX HOW MANY A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM NO WHAT ARE THEY DOING LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS IN CHURCH HE SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE AND I WALKED UP THE AISLE TO YOUR PEW AND SAT DOWN AS UNCONCERNED AS A PIG ON ICE AND THEN I FOUND THAT I HADN'T A STITCH OF CLOTHES ON NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH NOW PETER DROPPED HIS VOICE WHAT IS BOTHERING ME IS THIS WOULD IT BE PROPER TO TELL A DREAM LIKE THAT BEFORE THE GIRLS THE SERVANTS OF THE TIN WOODMEN ALL WORE TIN HELMETS AND TIN BREASTPLATES AND UNIFORMS COVERED WITH TINY TIN DISKS SEWED CLOSELY TOGETHER ON THE SILVER CLOTH SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF +2d353f9e-cfe6-49f7-9734-828204668799 HOW DID WILLIAM COAN BEHAVE AFTERWARD ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD BE RESIGNED TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE EVEN FELIX AND I WHO HAD SEEN SUCH SHOWS GALORE WERE INTERESTED AND THE REST WERE QUITE WILD +2d469b11-a25b-45f6-8314-e0b598c35b4a HE'S JUST A LOVELY BOY AND TWICE AS SMART AS LOTS THAT AREN'T HIRED OUT OH WHAT A PARTING IT WAS TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER AND THERE WAS NOTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THE PLEASING THROES OF COMPOSITION +2d5f9964-9bc5-4eec-ad4a-11efcf4cb7f5 I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'LL EVER GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY HE NEVER GOES ANYWHERE EXCEPT TO CHURCH DONALD KNEW THAT IF NEIL PROPOSED FIRST HE WOULD HAVE THE BEST CHANCE THAT YOU ARE UNDER THE GUNS OF A WARSHIP DON'T ATTEMPT TO RUN SIGNAL TAKE EVAH ACTION OR ANY OTHER WAY WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT THE DEVIL WHO WHAT WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE FELIX ALONE MOST UNJUSTLY AND SPITEFULLY DECLARED THAT PETER WAS SIMPLY SHIRKING THOU DIDST PROMISE ME ETERNAL LIFE AS TO THE OTHERS +2d9aa7d5-306e-46d2-a74e-90f6c40f4089 IT HAD TAKEN ROOT AND GROWN AND MILD BROWN EYES BUT SHE HAD DAINTY LITTLE FEATURES ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY WE LOOKED AT HER WITH A SLIGHTLY INCREDULOUS AWE GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS +2dcfaeeb-82e6-481e-b866-281bee9fc072 SETANUVO SECOND PLANET OF A BEE STAR AND CORONA BOREALIS NOR THE COLONIZED PLANETS IN THE SYSTEM WHO'S TALKING TO YOU SAID FELICITY NOW LOOK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL THE FIRST THING WE KNOW WILL ALL BE QUARRELLING AND THEN SOME OF US WILL SULK ALL DAY TOMORROW IT'S DREADFUL TO SPOIL A WHOLE DAY JUST LET'S ALL SIT STILL AND COUNT A HUNDRED BEFORE WE SAY ANOTHER WORD THEY WERE ALL SILENT FOR THEY KNEW HE SPOKE THE TRUTH DOROTHY WAS ALMOST READY TO CRY WITH PITY AND OZMA'S SWEET FACE WAS SAD AND DISTURBED +2dd7b482-af65-4357-8a8e-c443c46b6cfb IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH THE FIRST LIZARD KNEW I WAS TALKING SINCE THEN AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A MEETING OF THE SHAMMANS THEY SAY SHE IS CRAZY PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN US CHILDREN INTO GOOD BEHAVIOR BY TELLING US THAT PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH US IF WE DIDN'T BEHAVE THERE WAS A RARE BREEZE FROM THE SOUTH BLOWING TO MEET US GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES ORNE TURNED LOOKED AT TO NUBE IN THE DIM GLOW OF THE CABLIGHT +2df2ae63-73f8-42aa-9e4e-81c5ab791a6a INSTEAD I REMEMBER SEEING IN HIS DREAM BOOK UNDER THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH AN ENTRY TO THIS EFFECT REMINDED ONE OF DRIFTING CLOUDS IN THE SUMMER SKY INTO SEVERAL SMALL PIECES WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS +2dff7142-3be0-46dd-9b7a-71d6b2685729 WHEN I RETURNED TO MY WORK THE AXE SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY HEAD WHICH WAS THE ONLY PART OF ME THEN REMAINING BUT ONE WAY MUST BE EASIER OR BETTER THAN THE OTHER OR ELSE THEY'D ALL BE ONE KIND ARGUED PETER I WANT TO FIND THE EASIEST WAY AND I'VE GOT A HANKERING AFTER THE METHODISTS MY AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST ISN'T SHE ONE STILL ASKED FELICITY PERTLY A SHINY METAL TEMPPLE OUT OF WHICH POURED A CONSTANT STREAM OF MAGIC WATER THE REACTOR COOLING WATER PUMPED DOWN FROM THE ATMOSPHERE CONDENSER ON THE ROOF THE RADIO ACTIVITY IN THE WATER DIDN'T HURT THE NATIVES +2e12d932-8892-41d8-b63e-71b10279ee65 THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAMME I MADE LIGHT TALK ABOUT ALL MY MASSIVE ARMAMENT WOULD CARRY US BOTH TO PERDITION WHILE I CLIMBED THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE BATTLESHIP'S HULL THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW WILD ONES DO THIS WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU LEARN THAT FELIX I ASKED IT'S THE GRACE UNCLE ALEC SAYS AT EVERY MEAL ANSWERED FELIX SO HE TOOK HIS KNAPSACK AND HIS SHEPHERD'S CROOK AND WANDERED AWAY UNTIL HE CAME TO THESSALY +2e142925-0e15-4f6f-8dbb-6d3ba900c62d YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID THE QUOTES AROUND INTELLIGENT WERE CLEAR IN HIS INTONATION EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG SHE STOPPED CRYING LONG ENOUGH TO CLUTCH IT DELIGHTEDLY OH CICELY THANK YOU BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WON'T WANT IT BACK IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY NO IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD SAID CICELY WITH THE HIGH REMOTE AIR OF ONE TO FORGET ME NOT JUGS IN ALL SUCH PUMPS AND VANITIES OF THE WORLD WERE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD THE GRIN WAS EVEN WIDER NOW AND HE ACTUALLY CHORTELED AS HE THUMBED A BUTTON ON HIS CONSOLE A THICK LEGAL DOCUMENT SLID OUT OF THE DELIVERY SLOT ON HIS DESK THIS IS YOUR CONTRACT HE SAID IT TELLS HOW AND WHEN YOU WILL WORK +2e2bb225-54f1-44e1-8d42-e53c76ed5ca4 WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY WE DESTROYED IT ARE THERE MANY WILD ONES ASKED THORN FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THAT'S HOW THEY GET THEIR SLAVES HIS STETSON WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN BUT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS HE SAID WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE STUPIDER A CREATURE THE MORE OF A NUISANCE IT IS +2e824590-b716-4ab5-8e98-ff31c4204a13 INSTEAD I CONCENTRATED MY ATTENTION ON THE RECENT MODIFICATIONS LIKE THE GUN TURRET THAT WOULD QUICKLY GIVE ME A TRAIL TO THE GUILTY PARTIES A DISTANT FLARE LIT UP THE HORIZON HE CHOKED OFF A SOB AND BEAT HIS FIST IN THE RED DUST A WAVE OF NAUSEA SWEPT OVER HIM BITTER STOMACH JUICES WELLED UP IN HIS THROAT BUT HE SWALLOWED THEM DOWN AGAIN CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT I SAID THEY OUGHT TO NOT FIGHT FOR FUN OR FOR BAD TEMPER RETORTED PETER THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD +2e839673-eb10-48fd-ab0b-9f0f42f87627 I DON'T BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE ASTONISHED MAYBE SHE WOULD SHE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN VERY NICE HERSELF OR SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE GONE AND ASKED A MAN TO MARRY HER SAID FELICITY BUILT OF PURPLE STONE LIKE VINES DRIED AND TOUGH THAT LOOKED LIKE STRINGS NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE +2eb74168-96b4-4e1e-85d9-e6cd53d04acf SOME HARD WORK WOULDN'T HURT YOU EVEN IF YOU DID INHERIT A FORTUNE I DON'T MIND SO MUCH WHEN YOU PULL THOSE DUNKS ON ME BUT WHEN I THINK OF HOW YOU PRACTICALLY DROWNED THOSE POOR DEFENCELESS EARTH CREATURES SHE WAS VERY SHY AND MODEST BUT YOU KNOW A GIRL CAN LET A MAN SEE SHE LIKES HIM WITHOUT GOING OUT OF HER WAY DONALD KNEW THAT IF NEIL PROPOSED FIRST HE WOULD HAVE THE BEST CHANCE NEIL WAS RICH AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER HE SET UP A SHOUT FOR ONE OF THE GUARDS THE BALD ONE HAD BROUGHT HIS MEALS EVERY DAY BUT THE BLACK HAIRED ONE WAS THE MAN WHO CHECKED HIS SAIL AT NIGHT FOR ONCE YONAS THOUGHT HE WAS LUCKY THE BALD MAN APPEARED AFTER SOME FIFTY MINUTES SCREAMING AND CURSING YONAS WAS NOT AT ALL SURE WHETHER THE BLACK HAIRED MAN UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE THERE WAS LITTLE TRACE OF IT IN HIS MIND AND VIRTUALLY NOTHING THAT MIGHT BE CALLED INTELLIGENCE +2ed2d97a-08f9-4fa2-9126-1d436df1f67e MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL GRATSEY WAS ON THE TRAMP WASN'T ON THE TRANSLATED LIST I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND MEANT ENEMY IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR TO INSTALL A NEW BEACON BESIDES BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND THIS RELIC IS ON ONE OF THE MAIN ROUTES WE HAVE SHIPS MAKING FIFTEEN LIGHT YEAR DETOURS NOW HE LEANED BACK WIPED HIS HANDS ON HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND GAVE ME LECTURE FORTY FOUR ON COMPANY DUTY AND MY TROUBLES I AM SO NOISY JUST NOW THAT I DISTURB MYSELF HE FLUTTERED HIS WINGS WITH THE CLATTER THAT ECHOED THROUGH THE FOREST +2ee2ee9d-09b0-48da-92f9-c57bb76e01d2 RIPPING OFF HIS OXYGEN MASK HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH OF THE ALIEN ATMOSPHERE THE DUST CHOKED HIM HIS EARS RANG BLACK SPOTS DANCED BEFORE HIS EYES THEN MELTED INTO SOLID BLACKNESS O K STET ORDERS JUST CAME THROUGH WE USE PLAN SEA TOM GO SAYS TO BRIEF THE FIELD MAN AND JET OUT OF HERE DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN WHEN THE ZID FOUND THEM THEY HAD NO OTHER COURSE BUT TO TELL A PORT BACK TO THE CONTROL CUBICLE AND WAIT UNTIL THE BEASTS SHOULD SNUFF THEM DOWN AGAIN +2eebd327-b751-415c-879b-6805ee15f32a OF COURSE I COULDN'T BE EXPECTED TO THAT HIRE TO LET A BOY KISS ME BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE BEEN SO CROSS ABOUT IT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED AND I TOLD HIM I JUST HATED HIM THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS OH DEAR ME WHAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY THINGS THEY'VE GOT TO BE SORRY FOR AFTERWARDS WHAT IF WE DON'T SEE HER ASKED FELICITY WE'LL PUT THE THINGS ON HER DOORSTEP AND THEN LEAVE THEM SHE MAY BE MILES AWAY OVER THE COUNTRY BY THIS TIME SIGHED CECILY AND NEVER FIND THEM UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE FOR PAT BUT IT'S THE ONLY THING TO DO WHAT CAN WE GIVE HER SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION NOW THAT THE ROAD WAS WELL OUT OF THE BAG I KNEW JUST WHERE TO LOOK AND HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I WOULD FIND ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME +2ef08432-0f35-4e00-9b3b-518d33e363fd THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY WAS MUCH NICER THAN THE GILLIKIN COUNTRY AND ALL THE FIELDS WERE SEPARATED BY BLUE FENCES WITH GRASSY LANES AND PATHS OF BLUE GROUND AND THE LAND SEEMED VERY WELL CULTIVATED WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY NOBODY EVER WANTS TO KNOW THE TIME IN A GARDEN I SLIPPED AWAY AT THIS POINT SUDDENLY REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS TIME TO TAKE A DOSE OF MAGIC SEED I HAD BOUGHT IT FROM BILLY ROBINSON THREE DAYS BEFORE IN SCHOOL BILLY HAD ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW FAST BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG +2f28a7ae-fa50-4e46-89d1-1ac126e062c0 YES IT WAS NICE TO KNOW HE LOVED HER AND SHE LOVED HIM TOO LIKE AN AMUSING BABY BROTHER WANDERER SHOULD HAVE NO FEAR OBSERVED THE SCARECROW WHO WAS WOBBLING ALONG IN A FUNNY HALF HAZARD MANNER BUT KEEPING PACE WITH HIS FRIENDS WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE A HUGE HOLE WAS BURNED IN IT AND WHEN AUNT JANET DISCOVERED IT SHE LIFTED UP HER VOICE WITH NO UNCERTAIN SOUND +2f49e5fd-a5d6-4b3a-a2e8-1df085d417bc BIT BY BIT A PATENT STARTED TO EMERGE A DELICATE WEB WORK OF FORGERY BRIBERY CHICANERY AND FALSEHOOD AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE BUT THEY ONLY LASTED A COUPLE OF DAYS FELICITY HAD DROPPED THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WHICH HAD PASSED UNSCATHED THROUGH SO MANY CHANGING YEARS AND NOW AT LAST LAY SHATTERED ON THE STONE OF THE WELL CURB +2f5335c5-5e68-4838-a0a2-4186a60bf7a7 BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WON'T WANT IT BACK IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY BUT IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID PETER MISERABLY THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE FELIX AND I SPOKE NOT AND CECILY TRUE'S YOU LIVE THERE WAS EIGHT SEEDS IN IT AND YOU KNOW EIGHT MEANS THEY BOTH LOVE +2f69e8ea-4822-4f8e-8247-a1a92c133afe WHILE HIS PATIENT SCRAMBLED TO HIS FEET HASTILY PUTTING OUT HIS CIGARETTE THE PHYSICIAN CAME AROUND THE DESK HE PUT HIS HAND ON THE MAN'S SHOULDER RELAX TAKE IT EASY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT THIS IS A WONDERFUL AGE WE LIVE IN BARRING A REALLY MAJOR ACCIDENT THERE'S NO REASON YOU SHOULDN'T LIVE AT LEAST ANOTHER SEVENTY FIVE YEARS THE SHARP WIND BLEW AROUND THE GRANARY AND CECILY SHIVERED WE HEARD AUNT JANET'S VOICE CALLING CHILDREN CHILDREN IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING SIGHED POOR CECILY BRUTE SHIVERED FOR AGAIN THIS TERRIBLE MAGIC FINGER POINTED AND POINTED DIRECTLY HIS WAY +2f7c9d9a-5b14-432d-9004-a6ca707238a3 PRACTICALLY CHARTELING HOW I WISH THAT WERE ALL IT TOOK I WOULD HAVE A FLEET OF PART SHIPS HE STARTED TO CHARGE ACROSS THE DECK AT GARF BUT HIS OWN FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE LANDED FLAT ON HIS NOSE I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ANY ONE YOU CHERRY VARS ASKED FELICITY TRYING TO SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY +2fce2426-fff2-420d-b4f9-02acd77be48e ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS CECILY WAS PALE BUT BRAVE AND THE DEADLY SERIOUSNESS OF YOUTH IN US RESENTED THAT FELICITY WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM ONE HERSELF AND SHE WAS NONE TOO LAVISH OF HER COPPERS THEY HAVE BEEN NEED NEEDING REORGANIZATION FOR QUITE A WHILE I TOOK A STADISTIC REVENGE ON THE NAVY BY NOT TELLING HIM A WORD ABOUT MY MISSION +2fcf5f9e-149b-4af2-b55e-04cddc0924ca WE WERE NOT SO SURE OF THIS GHOSTS WERE UNCHANCY FOLK EVEN IF THEY WERE OUR FAMILY GHOSTS AND STORY GIRL HAD MADE THE TALE VERY REAL TO US WE WERE GLAD WE HAD NOT HEARD IT IN THE EVENING HOW COULD WE EVER HAVE GOT BACK TO THE HOUSE THROUGH THE SHADOWS AND SWAYING BRANCHES OF A DARKENING ORCHARD I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS HE SAID I WAS TO USE IT IN ANY WAY I LIKED SO MA COULDN'T REFUSE TO LET ME GIVE IT TO THE FUND JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW +2fe1d358-15aa-4c8d-87f7-2b08fc8d56f0 THE STORY GIRL KISSED HER FINGERTIPS TO HIM WITH THE DELIGHTFUL AUDACITY WHICH WAS A PART OF HER AND THE AWKWARD MAN PLUCKED OFF HIS HAT AND SWEPT HER A STATELY AND GRACEFUL BOW I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY CALL HIM THE AWKWARD MAN SAID CECILY WHEN HE WAS OUT OF EAR SHOT CLARETON TRANSMITTED THE ENTIRE PICTURE IN ONE SUDDEN BLOW THE CHANCE THAT YONAS WOULD NOT BE KILLED IMMEDIATELY BUT WILL WE DISCOVERED THE CHANCE THAT THE INQUISITOR WOULD GET FROM HIM THE SECRET OF THE BROTHERHOOD THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE YONA SAID SAID CLARETON SOUNDED RESIGNED NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID AND THE SITUATION HAD THE ASPECTS OF A BURLESQUE ON GRAND HOTEL BUT +2ffc69a6-60cb-4321-8584-7a9549fa8fff I'VE ALREADY CALLED THE SPACEPORT IN YOUR NAME OF COURSE I TOLD HIM ORDER THE FAST CORRER SHIP I'LL LEAVE WITHIN THE HOUR COME OUT INTO THE GARDEN WITH ME SHE SAID AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME OF THE MOST DELICIOUS CARMELS YOU EVER ATE THEY'RE A NEW VARIETY THAT NO ONE CAN GROW BUT ME AND THEY HAVE A HELIOTROPE FLAVOR AIN'T HE JUST A GREAT OLD FELLOW SAID DAN HE KNOWS I'M KIND OF SICK JUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN HE NEVER PAYS NO ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M WELL +3080c013-95cd-4a8d-81a7-7a91459d2a67 MAY I HAVE SOME OF YOUR STRAW ASKED THE SCARECROW THEN CHANGED THE SPECKLED HEN INTO A RABBIT I AM SO NOISY JUST NOW THAT I DISTURB MYSELF AT THE ENTRANCE OF ONE OF THE HUGE MISSHAPEN BLACK BUILDINGS THE CREATURE WITH THE BRILLIANT STONE AT HIS THROAT APPEARED AS SUDDENLY AS A LIGHT FLASHES UP IN THE DARKNESS WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK THE GIRLS GASPED BUT DAN AND I WERE JUBILANT SNUFFING A BATTLE AFAR OFF WE APOLOGIZED AND PROMISED TO BEHAVE BETTER SHE WENT ON APPEASED +30ce66c1-c772-404b-afbb-9759a7a332ed AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA HOW COULD WE EVER HAVE GOT BACK TO THE HOUSE THROUGH THE SHADOWS AND SWAYING BRANCHES OF A DARKENING ORCHARD SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN IT WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL VEIL HE IS A MINISTER SO OF COURSE I KNEW HE SPOKE THE TRUTH +30d409dd-c7ef-4f22-bcac-39995852d130 FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING A GLEA WASDED WITH IT THAT SHE RESOLVED TO TAKE IT AS A PRESENT TO GLACON IT WOULDN'T DO SHE DECIDED SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED SO YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD ME SAFELY OUT THE WAY BREAKING MY SPIRIT UNDER THE GUISE OF GIVING ME A LITTLE BACKGROUND INTO THE CAUSE ACTIVITIES +30e0bf24-727c-485c-8a31-801fd5ae03f9 YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE OF COURSE PETER BEING A CRAIG HAS HIS FAULTS BUT HE'S A SMART BOY AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SO IT APPEARED RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED +30ed1c32-03ad-48af-ab0b-b7193f2adb52 IF SHE WERE ONLY MORE INTERESTING FELICITY HAD NOT A PARTICLE OF THE NAMELESS CHARM AND ALLUREMENT WHICH HUNG ABOUT EVERY MOTION OF THE STORY GIRL AND MADE ITSELF MANIFEST IN HER LIGHTEST WORD AND MOST CARELESS GLANCE BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY CAN'T SAY PETE YOU CAN'T NAME THINGS HERE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN WORLD WELL I'M GOING TO DEPEND ON THE BIBLE SAID CECILY I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW BUT I'M SCARED FOR ALL THAT SHE ADDED PITEOUSLY THAT'S EXACTLY THE POSITION OF US ALL +3139ac0d-27b9-4625-8d53-baaff1c7fbc0 SHE TOUCHED HER SLENDER THROAT SO WE CAN I AGREED ONE FEELS ABOUT THEM NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR ME AND I TOOK NO CHANCES THERE WAS NO SENSE TO ANYTHING THAT VIC BUTLER DID FOR THAT MATTER DRIVE OUT IF PLAIN PEDDLING IS PALLING ON YOU +3153c5fc-6c6f-48c1-ac8b-784b8995759d BUT IT WAS MORE BITTER THAN THE GENERAL RUN OF THEIR TIFFS AND THE CONSEQUENCES WERE APPARENT TO ALL SHE STOPPED CRYING LONG ENOUGH TO CLUTCH IT DELIGHTEDLY OH CICELY THANK YOU AUNT OLIVIA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT OF COURSE BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST DISGUISED BEHIND THESE BLUE PRINTS I SHUDDERED A BIT AS THE THOUGHT HIT ME I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME +3171f90b-32c8-4c4a-8871-187ee698b6a2 JOHN ANDREW FARMER SCOWLED AT THE OCCUPANT THAT SPRAWLED ON HIS LIVING ROOM COUCH RUBBED HIS STUBBY JAW WITH A STUBBY FIST AND SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON HE WOULD NOT LOOK AT CECILY BUT EVERYONE ELSE HAD FORGIVEN HER THE STORY GIRL LEANED THAT BROWN HEAD OF HERS AGAINST THE FIR TRUNK BEHIND HER AND LOOKED UP AT THE APPLE GREEN SKY THROUGH THE DARK BOUGHS ABOVE US +317c0b1d-552a-4178-91df-494c7f4778ee SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WAY OFF IN THE BALLANDINE SYSTEM BY NOW THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES BUT I'VE NOTICED THAT THE LAST END OF THE WAY HOWEVER LONG IT HAS BEEN IS THE HARDEST TO ENDURE +31beaf6c-b4c8-4a1f-98ec-b641c1652f8a WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED RAID THE MENTAL HOSPITALS AND JAILS A UNIFORM WATCHMAN FRANTICALLY WAVED TO US AND THE WHOLE CONVOY JERKED TO A STOP THE SHIP WAS GONE HE STOPPED AND BLOTTED HIS MOIST BROW WITH HIS SLEEVE ALTHOUGH QUITE AS UNJUSTIFIED I ASSURE YOU AND THERE WAS A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY +31cdce25-a4fd-42d9-8e8f-6e8697322ab7 WE WATCHED HER WHITE CLAD FIGURE PASS THROUGH THE GATE AND ENTER THE FRONT DOOR A FEW MINUTES PASSED OR A FEW YEARS WE COULD NOT HAVE TOLD WHICH THEN CICELY CAME RUNNING AT FULL SPEED BACK TO US WHEN SHE REACHED US SHE TREMBLED SO MUCH AT FIRST SHE COULD NOT SPEAK BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST MOUTH IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY MOUTH HE SAID IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW TALL +31d0cf70-695b-421d-a98b-5f9c30efbfdc IT MIGHT BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS SAID PETER AS IF YOU HAD ANY COWS GIGGLED FELICITY I'M GOING TO HAVE COW SOME DAY SAID PETER FLUSHING I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN +31d15fd9-1520-4115-9196-a352977f4fe5 UNCLE ROGER DID NOT COME TILL NEARLY TEN NEVER WAS THERE A MORE WELCOME SOUND THAN THE RUMBLE OF HIS WHEELS IN THE LANE AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD HIS ADVENTURES TOO WERE A LITTLE OUT OF THE COMMON RUN OF TALES DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM I KNOW THE PLACE IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR IT WAS CAUSED BY ONE OF THESE +320ea495-c58c-4266-88c0-01906c1b56be SO A MOMENT LATER THEY HAD RUSHED THROUGH THE PASSAGE AND WERE STANDING IN THE FRESH NIGHT AIR OUTSIDE THE CASTLE I HAD TO SAID DAN MARTIN FORBES IS THE BROTHER OF A HORRID MAN IN SUMMERSIDE WHO CALLED ME JOHNNY THAT'S WHY THE NONIPUS CROUCHED MOTIONLESS THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING THE STAIRWAY SHOULDN'T BE THERE +321755b3-cf53-4811-9f86-1d03676df820 WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE OGT'S DREAM WAS CLEANED OUT OF ALL READING MATTER THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I CHECKED WE CAN'T STOP THE BATTLESHIP FROM ATTACKING AGAIN BUT WE CAN SEE TO IT THAT THE TIME AFTER THAT SHE SAILS INTO A TRAP FACES HAIRLESS PINK SKINNED STETSON SNAPPED A SWITCH THE TRANSLATE MAP BECAME A SCREEN WITH A FIGURE FROZEN ON IT LIKE THAT IS THAT YOU HAVE A TREMENDOUS INFERIORITY COMPLEX COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY +3229e72e-b376-40b0-9095-601d79bfeeb2 WHY IS IT THEY'RE ALWAYS SO HANDSOME IN STORIES ASKED ANNE SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL CUTE OF HIM I THERE WAS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTION IN JEFF IN SPITE OF HIS DRAB YEARS OF E I PATROL DUTY COMPRISING IN THIS CASE A FIERCELY WHITE SUN THEN CICELY CAME RUNNING AT FULL SPEED BACK TO US YES BUT IT TOOK THE JUDGMENT DAY TO MAKE HER OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED +32383114-90f4-47fe-b243-c63195e7f992 WAIT FOR ME PETER SHE CALLED PROTESTED FELICITY WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID IF I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID I HAVE POWERS STRANGE POWERS AS LONG AS THEY LIVED THERE WHEN WE GO TO A DANCE YOU WILL NOT GET WEARY BEFORE THE MUSIC STOPS +323d209a-4793-4f8c-9778-be07ed85774e WHAT DO YOU THINK HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE JERRY COWAN TOLD ME AT RECESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN ON THE SECOND DAY THE RATS BEGAN TO BORE HIM BY THAT EVENING THEY WERE ANNOYING HIM AND WHEN THE THIRD DAY DAWNED BRIGHT AND WARM AS NEAR AS HE COULD TELL FROM THE TINIEST WINDOW AT THE TOP OF HIS CELL YUNUS WAS TELLING HIMSELF THAT ANY MOVE AT ALL WAS A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION PAT WAS WITH US OF COURSE PROWLING ABOUT STEALTHILY OR MAKING FRANTIC BOOTLESS LEAPS AT THE SWALLOWS +3244244d-c28e-4aee-8a41-42c674807932 BUT IT WAS ALWAYS KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE PERSON FOR WHOM OR BY WHOM IT WAS PLANTED AND FELIX AND I KNEW AS MUCH ABOUT AUNT FELICITY'S PEARS AND AUNT JULIA'S CHERRIES AND UNCLE ALEC'S APPLES AND THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT'S PLUMS AS IF WE HAD BEEN BORN AND BRED AMONG THEM WHY NOT DEMANDED THE EMPEROR BECAUSE IT WAS UNKIND OF YOU TO DESERT THE GIRL WHO LOVED YOU AND WHO HAD BEEN FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE IN TROUBLE FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS +329ba22e-8eb1-4502-827e-da633c9fd40a MANOEL AND MILLER STOPPED AT NOON ON LOST SOUL CREEK THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE YOU LOOK HERE AT MY SENSES SLIP IT SAYS I'M MANUEL AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS SHE WAS A PRETTY SIGHT JEFF SANK AGAIN AND CHURNED DESPERATELY TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM +32ac0169-868b-4f7f-816e-56d8016b0f41 THE HANGING IS OVER AND HARVEST ISN'T ON AND ALEC NEEDS A CHANGE HE ISN'T LOOKING WELL AT ALL THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE THE CLATTER OF THE TIN OWL'S WINGS SOUNDED ABOVE HIM AND FOR A LONG TIME THEY COULD HEAR THE YELLS AND STRUGGLES OF THE IMPRISONED GIANTESS +32ad8a40-2a9e-4b23-9828-8006353526ad A DISOBEDIENT BROTHER I KNOW HOW MANY YOU HAVE USED I COUNTED BUT AT LAST THEY GOT A CHOIR WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY EVERYBODY TALKED AND LAUGHED AT ONCE AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE WERE ALL SEATED ABOUT THE SUPPER TABLE THAT CONVERSATION GREW COHERENT THAT IS NO ORDINARY ROBOT IT HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVICES BUILT INTO ITS FINGER TIPS +32c2c64f-8ce7-4109-8345-53fb67d1fdc7 I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET I THREW THE SWITCH AND MY PLASTIC PTERODACTYL SAILED THROUGH THE DOOR THEY CONTROL IT WITH THAT SHUDDER BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE DID YOU NOTICE IT PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SO SHE WENT BACKWARD AND PUT IT AWAY IN THE CUPBOARD AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF +32ec8aaa-437c-484d-aee0-ba7536c76cc4 JUST AT THE MOMENT OF COURSE YOU'RE AT A CROSSROAD YOU CAN JUMP IN EITHER DIRECTION BLOWING YOURSELF UP OR TAKING THE BIG STEP INTO SPACE I THINK YOU'LL TURN OUT O K BUT NOT EVERYBODY AGREES AND THE FEDERATION CAN'T TAKE EVEN SMALL CHANCES YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS AND IF SO WHERE IT IS NEXT WE WANT TO KNOW JUST HOW WARLIKE THESE GOONS ARE CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS THE STORY GIRL PAUSED A DRAMATIC PAUSE IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM OF COURSE WE DID WE ALL SAT DOWN AT THE ROOTS OF THE FIRS FELIX HAVING FINALLY SQUARED MATTERS WITH HIS NOSE TURNED AROUND AND LISTENED ALSO +32f60e48-cad9-4205-9d76-6f0f84211b04 AND THE GROWN UPS WITH UNACCUSTOMED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY TOLD US THAT WE NEED NOT DO YOU SUPPOSE PETER WOULD HAVE GOT BETTER ANYWAY THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY FELICITY DETERMINED SHE WOULD NEVER LET ANOTHER DREAM GET AWAY FROM HER IN SUCH A FASHION AND THE NEXT TIME SHE WAKENED IN THE NIGHT HAVING DREAMED THAT SHE WAS DEAD AND BURIED SHE PROMPTLY AROSE LIGHTED A CANDLE AND PROCEEDED TO WRITE THE DREAM DOWN THEN AND THERE +331890be-c5ef-416b-9092-349662759c79 AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN TWO WAGONS WERE DRIVING UP THE LANE WE RUSHED TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WAS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SNIFFED THEM OUT I DIDN'T TRY TO LOOK FOR FIRST CAUSES THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN TOO LONG FERERO PULLED AWAY FROM THE ROBART'S HAND AS IF IT HAD BEEN A POISONOUS SNAKE IT WILL BRING IN A PERFECT COLOR PICTURE OF THE OCEAN AT WHAT IN THE DEPTH I SET IT FOR I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE +3345a130-f2ba-42d9-854e-9b8d45a32f7f WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY DANGLING THE LIMP FORM OF THE ZID FROM ITS GREAT RUBBERY LIPS LIKE A DROWNED KITTEN BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM OVER HALF A MILE OF THE FENCES SCREENS AN ARMAMENT THAT COULD PROBABLY TURN ANY FLEET EXISTENT TO DAY INTO FINE RADIOACTIVE ASH EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE LAST ONE WAS BROKEN UP A SCRAP OVER A THOUSAND YEARS AGO HE MUMBLED +335bdfaa-3a5b-4323-8384-a8336f1e62ed FELIX TOOK HER ADVICE AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE +335f9670-b4ec-45d4-8fb2-e41af95ea605 OH SEE HERE IF YOU'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT AND ARGUE OVER EVERYTHING WE'LL NEVER GET THE STORY TOLD SAID FELIX DRY UP ALL OF YOU AND LET THE STORY GIRL GO ON UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE WAS TO BE CLOSED AND HE AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WOULD TAKE UP THEIR ABODE WITH US THE GIRLS SAW THIS ENTRY BUT TO THEIR CREDIT BE IT TOLD THEY NEVER TRIED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DRAM WAS +338cc754-3eaf-4558-8894-3db0a6dd5895 THIS IS MY KINGDOM HE'LL LIKELY DO SOMETHING AWFUL AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL ASHAMED AND WISH YOU'D NEVER ASKED HIM TO GO IT WAS FOLDED UP IN A NEWSPAPER PACKET ON TOP OF THE DRIED HERRING WITH WHICH THE BASKET WAS FILLED THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE BUT THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT'S TO COME I SAID UNCOMFORTABLY OF PLAYING TRUANT FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GOING FISHING ONE DAY OF A CERTAIN FIB NO NO AWAY FROM THIS AWFUL HOUR WITH ALL SUCH EUPHONIOUS OF AGENTS OF A LIE I HAD ONCE TOLD WE BOYS WERE SPRAWING ON THE GRASS +3398e254-90dd-4a71-9aa9-62b595454135 OH TALK SENSE SAID FELICITY DAN'S GOT SO TOUCHY IT ISN'T SAFE TO SPEAK TO HIM I SHOULD THINK HE'D BE SORRY FOR ALL THE TROUBLE HE MADE LAST NIGHT BUT YOU JUST BACK HIM UP IN EVERYTHING CECILY COME WITH ME SHE COMMANDED WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ASKED LUTE GIVE YOU A GOOD SCRUBBING SAID GINGER NOW NEITHER BOYS NOR MONKEYS RELISH BEING SCRUBBED SO LUTE SHRANK AWAY FROM THE ENERGETIC GIRL TREMBLING FEARFULLY THEY WERE AS GOOD AS GOLD MOST OF THE DAYS THERE WERE TIMES WHEN ONE COULDN'TT HELP LIKING ROGER +33a581af-2d00-4c7d-b923-ae4ae368d413 AND WE WERE JUST ABOUT READY TO CALL THE POLICE AND EVEN MY HAND WERE NOT REAL THEY WERE LIKE THE REST OF THE THINGS IN THIS MONSTROUS STATE THAT VIC CALLED IN FROM MEDIA I LEFT IT THREE AFTER TEN SOUNDS LIKE TEEVI DRAMA STUFF AFTER A FEW HAPPY YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL CRIME YOU BEGIN TO WONDER HOW LONG IT WILL LAST MY NAME IS GARF HE SAID CHEERFULLY SPURTED OUT INTO LONG ISLAND SOUND IN AN INDESCRIBABLE +33aa06e2-ff6d-45ef-90f7-14921b3ab659 I HAD THE SPEAKER ON FULL VOLUME AND THE VIBRATION ALMOST SHOOK MY HEAD OFF THE LIZARDS CRINGED AND I SET MY SOLAR FOR NARROW BEAM AND RAN IT AROUND THE DOOR JAM THERE WAS A GREAT CRUNCHING AND BANGING FROM THE JUNK PILED AGAINST IT AND THEN THE DOOR SWUNG FREE I THREW IT OPEN THAT ISN'T A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT SAID FELICITY REBUKINGLY I DON'T CARE WOULD YOU FORGIVE JAMES FORBES IF HE HAD CALLED YOU JOHNNY DEMANDED CECILY WAS IT COULD I BE SURE THAT PEPPE FLYING HIS MOUNTAIN OF A SHIP AND EATING NAVY RATIONS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SOME OF THE COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF LIFE +33c39374-0a30-4814-9fc4-9699fbc797a5 I PHRASED MY QUESTION CAREFULLY AS I HAD HIM RIGHT WHERE I WANTED HIM NOW YOU DENY ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE WAR LORD BATTLESHIP THAT IS BEING BUILT FROM THESE MODIFIED PLANS THESE ARE THE PLANS FOR AN ORDINARY PASSENGER FREIGHTER THAT IS ALL I KNOW CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE BESIDES SHE COAXED ME TO TELL HER WHAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR DREAMS I JUST TOLD HER AS A FAVOR AND NOW YOUR AUNT JANET BLAMES ME FOR THE WHOLE TROUBLE GOOD SAID THE BIG LOON WHO HAD COMMANDED THE PARTY NOW TO GET KING BAAL TO JUDGE THESE TERRIBLE CREATURES SO WE HAVE SO BRAVELY CAPTURED AS HE SPOKE HE TOOK HOLD OF THE STRING AND BEGAN TO PULL AS HARD AS HE COULD +33c4eba0-cb56-4f5f-b534-d6451eed319c THERE I STOOD AX IN HAND BUT UNABLE TO MOVE FOR DAYS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS INDEED I HAVE NEVER KNOWN EXACTLY HOW LONG THE TIME WAS BUT FINALLY ALONG CAME DOROTHY AND I WAS SAVED SEE THIS IS THE VERY TREE I WAS CHOPPING AT THE TIME I RESTED ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING THE STORY WAS OLD TO US IT HAD ONCE BEEN PUBLISHED IN A CHARLOTTETOWN PAPER AND WE HAD READ IT IN AUNT OLIVIA'S SCRAP BOOK WHERE THE STORY GIRL HAD LEARNED IT NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY +33e2d480-87d9-4e59-bd2f-684e1910cc41 SHE WASN'T PRETTY BUT SHE LOOKED LIKE THE WOMAN IN THAT PICTURE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER SENT HER LAST WEEK EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US SUCH AS SHOULD BE AT A WEDDING AND EVERY ONE LOOKED AT EVERY ONE ELSE WITH FEAR IN HIS EYES JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON +33fbe302-8b5c-4c3b-b8d9-0781b570e33d AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC CAME STROLLING THROUGH THE ORCHARD AND JOINED OUR CIRCLE AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP OPENED THE DOOR THE RIFLE WAS HELD READY AGAIN THE LIPLESS MOUTH FORMED GALLANT TEESE WORDS WHAT DO YOU CARRY IN THIS VEHICLE THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES DO YOU SUPPOSE PETER WOULD HAVE GOT BETTER ANYWAY SAID DAN AH DAN WHAT MAKES YOU ASK SUCH QUESTIONS EXCLAIMED CECILY IN REAL DISTRESS I DON'T KNOW SAID DAN THEY JUST KIND OF COME INTO MY HEAD LIKE BUT OF COURSE I MEAN TO THANK GOD WHEN I SAY MY PRAYERS TO NIGHT THAT'S ONLY DECENT +3439ef69-f545-4903-82e1-de0d35e7a924 SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN IF TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FELLOWS HE SAID TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT THE THING WAS TOWING YOU CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON TRIMMING A FEW SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH GOLD CAKED AROUND THE CORNERS OF HIS LIPS +343f860e-1f28-4d87-b1ae-f3be1a6833e4 THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THAT WHEN YOU GO ARE GOING TO HAVE ANY IMPORTANT INTERVIEW WITH A MAN YOU OUGHT TO LOOK YOUR VERY BEST SAID THE STREET STORY GIRL GIVING HER SKIRT A LUSTROUS SWIRL AND ENJOYING THE EFFECT +3447c296-eb54-4182-9578-934fe6c8f68c WELL BESS OLD GIRL HERE WE ARE AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR IS QUITE FAMOUS HE WENT UNDER ONCE JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE +346d2181-b9a7-4afc-835c-089c5a457b7c DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND HE HAD AN INSTANT CONVICTION THAT THE BRUTE'S SECOND SPRING WOULD SEE HIM TORN TO BITS AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT +3491db8f-c226-4e04-b421-71fae2b68ffd EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT JONAS TOLD HIMSELF AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS THAT HE SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHAT TO DO WITHOUT THE RATS +34bfcb4e-8acf-4b9b-8b14-f527ca922e89 IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR IT WAS CAUSED BY ONE OF THESE HOLY MAZOO TWENTY SIX DAYS AGO AND I A SEARCHIP CAME THROUGH HERE HAD ROUTINE MINNY SNEAKER LOOK AT THE PLACE SO PETER RETALIATED BY CHOOSING NEVAKE AND NEZZER WHICH NO ONE COULD EVER UTTER THREE TIMES BEFORE PETER SHRIEKED IT AT ONCE IN THE MIDST OF OUR HILARITY HOWEVER UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET CAME DOWN UPON US IT IS BEST TO DRAW VEIL OVER WHAT FOLLOWED +34c4c1a7-4aa3-4baa-a9dc-10bed9a71f3b OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS WHY DON'T YOU TELL HIM SO ASKED DAN IT AIN'T MY BUSINESS TO TELL HIM THINGS RETORTED PETER I'M HARD TO DO WHAT I'M TOLD AND I DO IT BUT I CAN HAVE MY OWN OPINION ALL THE SAME IT'S GOING TO BE A BROILING HOT DAY HE COUNTED THEM PULLED THE CHUTE RELEASE NEYLON STREAMED OUT BEHIND HIM AND SNAPPED OPEN WITH A TREMENDOUS JAR A MOMENT LATER BUNDLES OF METAL RIBBONS FLOATED OUT AND BILLOWED INTO A GIANT UMBRELLA THE LAST THING HE REMEMBERED WAS THE TASTE OF BLOOD ON HIS LIPS +34cc11d8-689d-4622-be86-c31e9c9389cf THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN THE LEAVES WERE STILL THICK ON THE APPLE TREES THOUGH THEY WERE RUSSET HUED AND THE AFTERGROWTH OF GRASS THAT WAS RICHLY GREEN UNHARMED AS YET BY THE NIPPING FROSTS OF PREVIOUS NIGHTS IT'S MORE RESPECTABLE TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN OR SOMETHING THAN NOT TO BE ANYTHING +34e3800c-2729-427a-9258-22a7d149d552 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS WEEK DAY JOLLITY AND THE UNEARTHLY SOLEMNITY OF HIS COUNTENANCE ON SUNDAYS ALWAYS STRUCK US AS VERY FUNNY I WILL PERSONALLY FLAY YOU ALIVE MOSTLY JUNGLE ONE LOW MOUNTAIN CHAIN FOLLOWS THE EQUATORIAL BELT ABOUT TWO THIRDS ROUND THE PLANET INTEND TO PLEASE MYSELF SHE DECLARED OF THE TIN CASTLE WITH GLORIOUS SUNSET HUES AND NOT BECAUSE HE LOVES HER +3528cc74-9251-4064-aa82-b792eba6d12f I KILLED IT STONE DEAD WELL IF THERE ISN'T ONE IN TORONTO IT ISN'T LIKELY THERE'S ONE ANYWHERE IT WAS HIS DUTY TO TELL ME AND I DO NOT BLAME HIM MANY A SWAGGERING GALLANT RUFFLED IT BRAVELY IN VELVET AND PLUME ADOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK RAY LOOKED PUZZLED THEN ANNOYED HE HAD PRESENTED HER A BOUQUET IN WHICH RARE BLOSSOMS HID SLIMY SMELLING WEEDS AND SHE WAS SORE AT HIM AFTER ALL IT'S ILLEGAL FOR US TO BE HERE +35690485-b75d-4bf7-8ca0-2a6810fa166e JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER NOT ON YOUR HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW IN IT SHE WAS A THING OF FIRE AND LAUGHTER AND GLOW AS IF THE SINGULAR CHARM OF HER TEMPERAMENT WERE VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE IN ITS VIVID COVERED COLORING AND SILKEN TEXTURE I WONDER WHAT PEG BOWEN WOULD REALLY DO TO A FELLOW IF SHE CAUGHT HIM SPECULATED DAN +356fa0c0-cc15-4b14-9530-f24fa647f332 SEEMED TO DROP UPON ME BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING IN A SQUAT CLEAR BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL THAT VIC HAD TAKEN FROM THE DRAWER OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT THE SCREEN GLOWED INTO LIFE ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE +35701042-ff2e-4fe8-8366-8633835e747d SERESTIC DOODLES AND ABRUPTLY PRESENTED A PICTURE THE TELEVISION SAT FLICKERED HUMMED TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY ALL ADMIRED ME AND PRAISED MY BEAUTY THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY +358ac038-6f90-4a46-a5aa-1d10d0be6cb0 SO I WAS TO RECEIVE A CORDIAL WELCOME AFTER ALL I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND POCKETED THE WEAPON AND INSTANTLY THE DARK EYES FLASHED ANGRILY I HELD OUT BOTH HANDS TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE EMPTY TRYING TO EXPRESS MY WILLINGNESS TO BE FRIENDS WHEN I HAD COMPLETED MY SERVANT I WENT OVER IT VERY CAREFULLY AGAIN AND WROTE WITH RED INK CICELY MADE IT FOR ME OUT OF AN ANALINE DYE THE WORD THUMP WHENEVER I DEEMED IT ADVISABLE TO CHASTISE THE PULPIT EMILY PROMISED TO MEET HIM THERE I AM SURE SHE STAYED AWAKE THAT NIGHT THINKING ABOUT IT AND WONDERING WHAT THE IMPORTANT QUESTION WOULD BE ALTHOUGH SHE KNEW PERFECTLY WELL +35beae09-145e-4b76-aae4-4ab6c65f68cb SURE WITH HER RED HAIR SANDY WILL NOT BE LIKE TO LOSE HIS PRIDE PAST FINDING I SUPPOSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD TEACH HIM MANNERS FOR WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT THE WOMAN DID SHUT UP AND NEVER SPOKE ONE SINGLE WORD TO HER HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED THE ONE USEFUL QUALITY HE HAD WAS A HOME STUNNED INGRATIATING AIR WHICH PUT NERVOUS YOUNG GENIUSES AT THEIR EASE +35c2e8e9-be65-4e04-b001-bc7469138553 THIS WE THOUGHT WAS A GOOD OMEN WHEN YOU'VE BEEN STUMPING OUT ELDERBERRIES ALL AFTERNOON IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN THE JUDGMENT DAY TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ALL NIGHT HE SAID THE STORY GIRL WAS TO PREPARE THE POTATOES TIN PATTY PANS AREN'T VERY ROMANTIC SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY SHE DOESN'T EITHER FELICITY KING BUT AS WE WAITED THE CLOUDS BROKE AWAY AND THE SUN CAME OUT FLASHINGLY I LOOKED AT THE STORY GIRL'S DRY PITEOUS EYES +35ccda53-5564-49c6-afbb-4ddbb9117656 WHEN NEXT WE ASSEMBLED OURSELVES TOGETHER IT WAS AFTER MILKING AND THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE DONE WITH WE FOREGATHERED IN THE BALSAM FRAGRANT AISLES OF THE FIR WOOD AND ATE EARLY AUGUST APPLES TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THE STORY GIRL SAID WE MADE HER THINK OF THE IRISHMAN'S PIG CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR IT'S A MONSTROSITY IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT DON'T WORRY DEAR SAID CECILY WHO ALWAYS POURED BALM IF YOU CAN'T COLLECT ANY MONEY EVERYBODY WILL KNOW IT ISN'T YOUR FAULT I WON'T EVER FEEL LIKE READING A SINGLE BOOK ON THE LIBRARY IF I CAN'T GIVE SOMETHING TO IT MOURNED SARA +35d76bf9-36cb-4e26-a8bf-0f96958b12ce FELIX'S LETTER DEAR PETER I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU'RE GETTING BETTER WE ALL FELT BAD WHEN WE THOUGHT YOU WOULDN'T BUT I FELT WORSE THAN OTHERS BECAUSE WE HADN'T BEEN ON VERY GOOD TERMS LATELY AND I HAD SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT YOU I'M SORRY AND PETER YOU CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING YOU LIKE AND I WON'T EVER OBJECT AGAIN WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE WITH THE BALD MAN AT LEAST HE COULD COMMUNICATE +360b5495-c167-4828-b6ba-52ee3b363779 NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING HE AT ONE THAT NIGHT HE HAD THE DREAM ABOUT BEING CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS I EAT THREE CUCUMBERS IF I COULD HAVE A DREAM LIKE THAT INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE IT WAS HER DANGER AND NOT HIS OWN THAT HAD BROUGHT THAT HAGGARD PALLOR TO HIS FACE IN SO SHORT A TIME THAT'S WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT OF THESE PEOPLE IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT WANT OF US I HAVE FOUND THEM YES I ADDED HOARSELY BUT NOT A CRIMINAL RING AN INSPIRED MASKED CRIMINAL WHO APPARENTLY HAS MORE EXECUTIVE ABILITY IN ONE EAR LOBE THAN ALL YOUR BRIBE BLOATED BUREAUCRATS AND HIS FEMALE SISTANT THEY PULLED THE ENTIRE JOB BY THEMSELVES +361462bd-3d43-46a6-98c7-808125d0c4a4 LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER PAPERS AND SEE WHICH ONE I AM A DONKEY A JACK AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE +36252b61-4843-47ab-a57d-b272b97825a9 THE RIFLE WAS HELD BUT NOW THE SHIP RESTED ON ITS TAIL FINS THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT SHE PERMITTED THEM ONLY A PLAIN WHOLESOME LUNCH AT BEDTIME AND THE RESULT WAS THESE VISIONS WHICH HAD BEEN OUR DESPAIR CECILY NOW JOINED US AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS GARF LOOKED HESITATE HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET +362af4a9-7de4-4795-9804-9a5ff9b1c08c WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING THE NATIVE SHIFTED TO THE LEFT ANSWERED IN PURE UNACCENTED HIGH GALATIES IF THE ISLANDERS WOULD TELL US THEIR SOURCE AND LET US HELP DEVELOP IT FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM IS A JUST PUNISHMENT FOR WICKEDNESS AND I SAID THE CANARY FLYING CLOSE TO GINGER BUT I WISH I COULD READ THEM MYSELF +369a0668-8dd7-4a97-887f-176cb3406c2c AIR EXCLAIMED WOOT STARING IN ASTONISHMENT INTO THE RABBIT'S BLUE EYES WHO EVER HEARD OF AIR SO SOLID THAT ONE CANNOT PUSH IT ASIDE A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING IF HOMESIDE YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT GREW DARK AND WE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE I NOTICED THAT DAN WAS RATHER PALE AND QUIET HE LAY DOWN ON THE KITCHEN SOFA DO YOU FEEL ALL RIGHT DAN I WHISPERED ANXIOUSLY SHUT UP HE SAID +36cdf38a-9144-40e3-9399-ddb971f5ed9f NOR DID HE MEAN TO TAKE A TEXT WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY IT WAS GOING TO BE A REAL SCORCHER HE DECIDED WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE SAT UP STIFFLY ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND THE CARVEN IMAGE WAS PERHAPS THIRTY FEET IN HEIGHT AND REPRESENTED A FIGURE CROUCHED UPON ITS KNEES ITS HEAD BENT VERY LOW AND AT THE SAME TIME TILTED AT A GROTESQUE ANGLE SO THAT THE FACE SMILED HEAVENWARD THE HANDS PALMS UPWARD EXTENDED INVITINGLY JUST BELOW THE CHIN +36d470e9-9eb3-4169-85e4-142736cc82fe THE FIRE WAS ON AND A FLUSHED AND TRIUMPHANT STORY GIRL WAS TAKING A LOAF OF BREAD FROM THE OVEN BUT I'LL OPEN IT IF YOU LIKE WE WERE ALSO FOND OF THE BIG SWEET APPLES WE USED TO THROW THEM UP IN THE AIR AND LET THEM FALL ON THE GROUND UNTIL THEY WERE BRUISED AND BATTERED TO THE BURSTING POINT SO I FOR MY PART MAKE IT A RULE TO ANSWER ANY CIVIL QUESTION THAT IS ASKED ME +36fd100e-344b-4220-9d72-b7e34ed9c8fe BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET SHE TOOK ANOTHER BISCUIT FROM A PLATE AND DIPPED IT IN A POT OF HONEY HE CALMLY BEGAN EATING IT THE SCARECROW WATCHED HER THOUGHTFULLY THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR ME TO HAVE ANY HORRIDID DREAMS LAMENTED SARA RAY BECAUSE MA WON'T LET ME HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO EAT BEFORE I GO TO BED I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR CAN'T YOU HIDE SOMETHING AWAY THROUGH THE DAY AS WE DO ASKED FELICITY +371505f8-0c46-430a-8130-d5fa9aac1a08 I REMEMBERED THE WAY SHE SHOOK HIM OFF AND I WANTED TO LAUGH SHE HAD DIED IN A FAR FOREIGN LAND IT WAS A STRANGE WOOING AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS BEGGED HER TO REFUSE ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW WITH SUCH COLOURING MOST CATS WOULD HAVE HAD WHITE OR SILVER FEET BUT HE HAD FOUR BLACK PAWS AND A BLACK NOSE SUCH POINTS GAVE HIM AN AIR OF DISTINCTION AND MARKED HIM OUT AS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE COMMON OR GARDEN VARIETY OF CATS +371dda3b-d9da-438c-ae5e-05f803c765b1 A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF AND POLYCHROME FIRST OILED THE STRANGER'S TIN JAWS ALL THIS TROUBLE WAS CAUSED BY THE WICKEDNESS OF MISSUS UPE THE GIANTESS THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO A +3729ad58-ca2c-4889-971c-33b6b4aff43a THE IMPLICATION DREW A COLD FINGER DOWN JEFF'S SPINE THAT WOULD MEAN OTHER CULTURES OUT THERE AND IN ALL OUR YEARS OF PLANET HUNTING WE HAVEN'T FOUND ONE MEMORY CHILLED HIM FURTHER THIS IS NOT DEVIL'S WORK AS I SHALL PROVE YUNUS SAID HE SHIFTED HIS FEET BUT LET ME ESTABLISH ONE POINT AT A TIME IN THE MOST SCHOLASTIC MANNER IF YOU WILL PERMIT I PERMIT KENNEFF SAID THERE WAS INTEREST IN HIS MIND OVERLAID WITH SKEPTICISM OF COURSE BUT INTEREST ALL THE SAME IMPOSSIBLE BARK TO NEW IT'S ON YOUR MOON SAID ORAN DARK SIGHED IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON +3747f483-d579-4d7e-8046-3efffa1c1dcb IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM LEAVING WORD NOT TO DISTURB HIM FOR DINNER I WAS WHISKED UPWARD THE DREAM WHICH WE ALL COUNTED HIS MASTERPIECE WAS THE ONE IN WHICH A MENAGERIE WAS CAMPED IN THE ORCHARD AND THE RHINOCEROS CHASED AUNT JANET AROUND AND ROUND THE PULPIT STONE BUT TURNED INTO AN INOFFENSIVE PIG WHEN IT WAS ON THE POINT OF CATCHING HER I GUESS I'D BETTER NOT RISK IT I FLIPPED THROUGH MY CASE AND DREW OUT A PLAN NOW THAT THE ROAD WAS WELL OUT OF THE BAG I KNEW JUST WHERE TO LOOK WHEN FERERO ROLLED INTO HIS STUDY AFTER DINNER THE ROOM WAS DARK I HEARD HIM MURMUR SOMETHING ABOUT THE SERVANTS AND FUMBLE FOR THE SWITCH +376a0313-105d-4b69-b77d-72a508a812af THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP I GOT YOU INTO THE I A NOW YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY IF YOU PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON ON THIS ONE WITHOUT CAUSE I WILL PERSONALLY FLAY YOU ALIVE BUT FELIX WAS VASTLY ENCOURAGED ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS AUNT JULIA DROPPED IT DOWN THE WELL ONCE BUT THEY FISHED IT UP NOT HURT A BIT EXCEPT FOR THAT LITTLE NICK IN THE RIM I THINK IT IS BOUND UP WITH THE FORTUNES OF THE KING FAMILY LIKE THE LUCK OF EDENHALL IN LONGFELLOW'S POEM IT IS THE LAST CUP OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S SECOND BEST SET +377f2534-2fda-43c4-bddb-638abc8410ed ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT WE DIVERT THE FILES THEN WHAT FELIX AND I LOOKED THE CHEST REVERENTLY I HAD TAKEN ON A NEW SIGNIFICANCE IN OUR EYES AND SEEMED LIKE A TOMB WHEREIN LAY BURIED SOME DEAD ROMANCE OF THE VANISHED YEARS WHAT HAPPENED TO WILL MONTAGUE I ASKED NOTHING SO DID THE BIG GLASSY EYED DISC OF THE ICE AND FARMER AIMED APPOINTED THE HOOK AT ONE OF THEM STARTED THE THRUST +378ae756-70bc-4349-a574-7618e331e1ac MARK THREE THE OLD MAN REPEATED PRACTICALLY CHARTELING I NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER UNTIL RECORDS DUG UP THE SPECKS THEY FOUND THEM BURIED IN THE BACK OF THE OLDEST WAREHOUSE THIS WAS THE EARLIEST TYPE OF BEACON EVER BUILT BY EARTH NO LESS WHAT THE JUMPED UP MAZOO ARE WE DOING HERE STEAT ASKED THORN ALIEN CALLS FOR FULL CONTACT TEAM WITH ALL THAT IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB BUSTER IN FIVE DAYS DESPERATELY I QUICKLY TURNED THE DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED MARKS COINCIDED A GREAT WEIGHT SOFT AND ENVELOPING SEEMED TO DROP UPON ME THE SENSES OF SIGHT AND HEARING AND FEELING ALL LEFT ME I COULD ONLY THINK AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HORRIBLE +378eae28-934b-4219-aa0d-14c6a66cadbe SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME FAME SAID UNCLE ROGER IF SHE EVER HAS A CHANCE THAT IS AND I SUPPOSE HER FATHER WILL SEEK TO THAT +37ba2daa-f0d4-4c21-8c7f-2f1b219af095 I DON'T LIKE THIS INVISIBLE COUNTRY SAID HOO WITH A SHUDDER YOU CAN'T TELL HOW MANY DREADFUL INVISIBLE BEASTS ARE ROAMING AROUND US OR WHAT DANGER WE'LL COME TO NEXT A SHIP LANDED INLAND A FEW MINUTES AGO HE SAID I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED ALL THIS WITH SOME OIL PAINTING AND FREEFALL WORKOUTS IN THE GEM PASSED THE TIME I WAS ASLEEP WHEN THE ALARM WENT OFF THAT ANNOUNCED PLANETARY DISTANCE +37be679e-1c2c-4885-8a72-0225682afbe9 THERE WERE A FEW MINUTES WHILE THE WATER BEGAN TO GURGLE DOWN THROUGH THE DRY PIPE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS NOW I MUST RETURN ON WITH THE CEREMONY THE TORTURE MASTER WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO MOVE SO I GRABBED OUT HIS HOT IRON THE DREAM BOOKS THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS VIC TRIED TO SHOUT SOMETHING BUT A CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND WAS IMMEDIATELY THRUST OVER HIS MOUTH THE GUARDS WHO HELD ME FOLLOWED BY THE PRIESTS MADE THEIR WAY TOWARD THE EXTENDED PALMS WHICH FORMED THE ALTAR OF THIS STRANGE BLACK GOD WHOSE FAVOR WAS DEATH +37e03141-9ff0-40e2-80ef-dcab053dfcf4 PUT DEGREES IN CHARGE OF THE RECORD ROOM FOR A WHILE YOU SAID THAT WAY HE CAN LEARN THE ROPES BUYING AROUND IN SENTRY OLD DUSTY FILES WILL BE JUST THE THING FOR A FREE SPIRIT LIKE SLIPPERY GIM DEGREES TEACH HIM DISCIPLINE SHOW HIM WHAT THE CORE STANDS FOR AT THE SAME TIME IT WILL GET THE RECORDS IN SHAPE THEY HAVE BEEN NEED NEEDING REORGANIZATION FOR QUITE A WHILE TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY AH FELICITY DON'T CALL PETER A HIRED BOY WHEN HE'S SICK PROTESTED CECILY DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL +37e4f445-a79d-466b-b518-1cc5abdb6e8a WE FELT AT HOME WITH HIM AND WERE NOT AFRAID TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS ON ANY SUBJECT THAT CAME UPPERMOST IN OUR MINDS WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH HIM ON THAT TWENTY FOUR MILE DRIVE WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED I DON'T SEE OH I SEE THE WOMAN IN YOUR MIND THE DAUGHTER AND NOW STOP IT YONES THOUGHT STOP IT CUT OFF AFTER ALL HE FINISHED THERE ARE TIMES WHEN EVEN A HERO WANTS A LITTLE PRIVACY +37e88572-6d90-49d9-9da9-7f7aef89c507 BUT IT WOULD GIVE YOU NO REAL IDEA OF THE PECULIAR QUALITY WHICH MADE THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE WHAT IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE US GIRT ABOUT WITH ITS TRIM SPRUCE HEDGE WAS THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD THE HISTORY OF WHICH WAS WOVEN INTO OUR EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE UNCLE ROGERS SAYS THAT MARTIN FORBES WIFE HAS SQUELCHED HIM WE HAD STOWED THE HAY IN THE LOFT THAT MORNING FOR UNCLE ROGER SO WE FELT THAT WE HAD EARNED THE RIGHT TO LOLL ON OUR SWEET SMELLING COUCH +37e95eb8-88ad-465c-bd16-2db9af42ba83 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE I READ PEBE IN EVERY LINE OF THE MESSAGE I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IT HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO IN GREECE WHERE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAPPENED BEFORE THAT NOBODY HAD EVER HEARD OF KISSING AND THEN IT WAS JUST DISCOVERED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AND A MAN WROTE IT DOWN AND THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN PRESERVED EVER SINCE +380821b5-ef92-4794-a14d-960958b03d1d THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY THESE EPISTLES WERE AS DASHINGLY UNDERLINED AS IF SARAH HAD BEEN A CORRESPONDENT OF EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS SHE LOOKED AT ONCE STARTLED AND IMPATIENT NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL BEYOND THE SURF THE SHALLOWS BOILED WHITELY WHERE THE SCOOP FOUGHT FOR TRACTION TO DRAW ITS GROUNDED BULK INTO THE WATER +381165c1-b72c-4051-b987-f335fe0b03d0 I AM KNOWN AS WOOT THE WANDERER ANSWERED THE BOY AND I HAVE COME THROUGH MANY TRAVELS AND BY ROUNDABOUT WAYS FROM MY FORMER HOME IN A FAR CORNER OF THE GALLOPIN COUNTRY OF OZ NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE WE WENT TO SCHOOL OF COURSE AND CERTAIN HOME CHORES WERE ASSIGNED TO EACH OF US FOR THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF WHICH WE WERE HELD RESPONSIBLE BUT WE HAD LONG HOURS FOR PLAY EVEN PETER HAD PLENTY OF SPARE TIME WHEN THE PLANTING WAS OVER +38575818-124c-478d-94e4-a55443eacae7 THE BRIDGES WOVE BACK AND FORTH FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING UNTIL THE ENTIRE VISIBLE NETWORK APPEARED TO BE ONE GIGANTIC AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY SERIOUS THE MACHINE HISSED SNAPPED AND CRACKLED FOR VARIOUS REASONS COME NOW AND DO YOUR PRETTIEST YOU'VE BEEN PROMISING EDWARD FOR YEARS TO VISIT HIM AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A BETTER CHANCE +38675f0b-60fa-4cb5-ba69-ff6f7fc1381f HE BARKED HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE THE EYE A SECTION CHIEF WAS DARK HAIRED GANGLING WITH LARGE HEAD AND BIG FEATURES HE STOOD IN HIS CUSTOMARY SLOUCH A STANCE NOT IMPROVED BY THE SACK LIKE PATCHED BLUE FATIGUES THE SOCIAL LIFE OF JUVENILE CARLYLE CENTERED IN THE DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS WE WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ASSIGNED TO A TEACHER WHO MADE OUR LESSON SO INTERESTING THAT WE NO LONGER REGARDED SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AS A DISAGREEABLE WEEKLY DUTY BUT INSTEAD LOOKED FORWARD TO IT WITH PLEASURE AND TRIED TO CARRY OUT OUR TEACHER'S GENTLE PRECEPTS AT LEAST ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS BRANDON THE COLONEL'S GLARING FACE FLICKED OFF AS BRANDON PUSHED THE PRE EJECTION LEVER INTO THE LOCK POSITION SEVERING ALL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE BRANDON HAD A STRANGE DETACHED FEELING AS HE PUSHED THE EJECTION BUTTON THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND +386fabb1-3f9d-4433-a90b-7faf870d1dfa NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID THOSE FAT HEADED LARD BOTTOMED PIG BRAINED MY MESSAGE WAS IN CODE BUT IT COULD BE QUICKLY BROKEN IF SOME ONE WANTED TO TRY HARD ENOUGH I TOOK IT TO THE MESSAGE AND TO MYSELF THE SI MAN WAS IN HIS TRANSPARENT CUBICLE AND I LOCKED MYSELF IN WITH HIM HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY DAN WHERE'S THE BABY CRIED FELICITY DAN LOOKED AROUND HIS JAW FELL IN BLANK AMAZEMENT I NEVER SAW ANY ONE LOOK AS FOOLISH AS DAN AT THAT MOMENT +387aa989-f74b-40b2-9f6c-1fca6c7d9360 I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT A SPECIAL KIND OF DEVILTRY YOU FRIAR UP TO AT THIS TIME SAID UNCLE ROGER ONE EVENING AS HE PASSED THROUGH THE ORCHARD WITH HIS GUN IN HIS SHOULDER BOUND FOR THE SWAMP IT HAD CLOSED OF ITS OWN ACCORD AS IF BY MAGIC MOREOVER THIS THE LATCH WAS ON THE OUTSIDE AND THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO EACH OF ONE OF THEM THAT THEY WERE NOW PRISONERS IN THIS UNKNOWN CASTLE THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE +3890cf1f-d04c-4f15-a5fb-332bf78843c8 THERE WAS NO DOUBT DAN WAS SUFFERING INTENSE PAIN HE MOANED AND WRITHED AND CRIED FOR HIS MOTHER FELICITY HAD A NATURAL APTITUDE FOR WHAT WE CALLED BOSSING AND IN HER MOTHER'S ABSENCE SHE DEEMED THAT SHE HAD A RIGHT TO RULE SUPREME COULD YOU EVER DO WHAT BETTY SHERMAN DID DO YOU SUPPOSE ASKED CECILY ABSENTLY NO BUT I BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL COULD ANSWERED FELICITY RATHER SNAPPISHLY THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP APPEAR TO HAVE BEGUN APPROXIMATELY IN THE YEAR FIFTEEN NINETY FOUR BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH THE FIRST AND PERHAPS THE LAST OF ITS KIND UNTIL THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MASQUERADE IN TWENTY ONE O THREE EXCERPT FROM A SHORT HISTORY THE MASQUERADE BY A +38afb10d-b806-4d36-97d8-1b9a56aa7ee6 EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET BUT HE WROTE ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS ON IT AFTERWARDS AND SENT IT TO HER AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS DAN WAS THE OLDEST HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN HE WAS A LEAN FRECKLED FELLOW WITH RATHER LONG LANK BROWN HAIR AND THE SHAPELY KING NOSE WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE FOUR TIMES THEY TOUCHED THEIR FOREHEADS TO THE GROUND AND AS THE FOURTH GESTURE WAS COMPLETED SOMETHING MOVED SWIFTLY BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE AS THOUGH A PLATE HAD LIFTED FOR A MOMENT AND DROPPED AGAIN +38e1c75f-7646-46cd-97cc-34570b87cf58 MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A TALL MAN WITH A MASSIVE HEAD WELL THATCHED WITH THICK BLACK HAIR GREY STREET THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE BUT TO THE EDITOR'S UNTECHNICAL EYE IT LOOKED LIKE A FAIRLY ORDINARY RADIO SET AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS AND WHEREVER HE WENT AMONG MEN HE TAUGHT THEM LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD AND SKILFUL ARTS +38e4f4db-3563-4e69-b046-b72534c5acb7 AS IT WAS THEY HAD BARELY TIME TO TELEPPORT THEMSELVES TO THE AFTER HOLD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IMMEDIATE DANGER AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM THEN HE HE WENT THROUGH THE WOODS IN STARLIGHT AND FELT SO HAPPY AND LIGHT OF HEART THAT HE SOMETIMES FRISKED AND CAPERED ABOUT JUST AS A REAL MOOSE WOULD DO ON THE ENDS OF THEIR LONG TAILS WERE CLUSTERS OF JEWELS AROUND THE GREAT MOONLIKE EYES WERE CIRCLES OF DIAMONDS WHICH SPARKLED IN THE SUBDUED LIGHT THAT GLOWED FROM THE EYES +38e6bf50-ac9f-4d18-bc7e-c4b31683ed37 THIS IS NOT DEVIL'S WORK AS I SHALL PROVE YUNUS SAID AND IT HAPPENED AS THE ONISTS SUSPECTED IT WOULD THROUGH THE WIFE ONE WHICH YOU WOULD TELL ME BUT IF HE WAKES UP SOME DAY AND FINDS HE'S AN OLD BACHELOR BECAUSE HE CAN'T GET ANY ONE IT'LL HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT FLAVOR ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO +38f762ca-dc00-4b95-8545-25a9aa4c7616 THEY DEAL DEATH SPARINGLY AND THAT MAKES THEM GREAT BEHIND HIM HER BIG BLUE EYES BRIMMING HER LIPS QUIVERING BUT WHAT THEY'RE UP TO NOW I CAN'T EVEN GUESS WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL +391147a0-d52f-4a19-896e-d753f5705492 WELL IIN'T GOING TO CHURCH TILL I'VE MADE UP MY MIND WHETHER I'M GOING TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN CAMPBELL CHUCKLED THE BEST OF ALL REASONS HE SAID BUT SEE HERE MY DEAR YOUNG LADY I'M AN OLD MISER AND A CURMUDGEON AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD I HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR I NODDED SHUDDERING +391243da-0e1c-4b4d-879f-358391c8ce78 HE WAS RETIRED AND A YOUNG MAN WAS CALLED TO CARLISLE MISTER SCOTT WENT TO LIVE IN TOWN BUT HE CAME OUT TO CARLISLE VERY OFTEN AND VISITED ALL THE PEOPLE REGULARLY JUST THE SAME AS WHEN HE WAS THEIR MINISTER THEN THE SCARECROW LAID HIMSELF DOWN SO THAT WOOT COULD USE HIS STUFFED BODY AS A PILLOW AND THE TIN WOODMAN STOOD UP BESIDE THEM ALL NIGHT SO THE DAMPNESS OF THE GROUND MIGHT NOT REST HIS JOINTS OR DULL HIS BRILLIANT POLISH THESE ARE THE PLANS FOR AN ORDINARY PASSENGER FREIGHTER THAT IS ALL I KNOW HIS WORDS HAD THE SIMPLE INNOCENCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S WAS HE EVER CAUGHT +39468dea-16ee-4feb-91e9-778ea98d2264 THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER WREATH AND PUT IT ON FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT BEEN SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE HAD BEEN SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED FIFTY CENTS WOULD BE PRETTY DEAR FOR ANY OTHER PICTURE BUT OF COURSE THIS IS DIFFERENT SAID DAN THERE IS NO MORE SAID THE STORY GIRL +3960e6a9-c4e2-42ad-b624-cb55be196b5c WE WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A KING I'M ALWAYS GLAD WHEN IT GETS WARM ENOUGH TO GO BAREFOOTED I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY TO DAY SHE SAID AND I'M NOT GOING TO TELL A SINGLE STORY IS AT THE WEST OF OZ IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AT THE EAST SHE DID BUT SHE DOESN'T WAS THE REPLY AND FEELING CHEAP AND EMBARRASSED HIS MOUTH WAS HIS OWN HOWEVER AND WE UNDERSTOOD +3963c271-6b52-415b-9050-db95157c634c THE YACHT WAS FLUSHED AGAINST THE SPACE FILLING BULK OF THE OTHER SHIP I PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND AND WORKED ON SOME DRY D CHESS PROBLEMS DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER SHE ILLUSTRATED HER DREAMS WITH SKETCHES THAT CERTAINLY CAUGHT THE SPIRIT OF THEM WHATEVER MIGHT BE SAID OF THEIR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE UNCLE ALEC CONSENTED THOUGH AUNT JANET SAID IT WAS HIGH TIME THEY WERE BURNED NEVER WROTE TO A BOY BEFORE SO PLEASE EXCUSE ALL MISTAKES +39c3ca33-fb4d-4e98-af82-86b065811316 TIME THE FLOOR HAD TO BE SCRUBBED IT WOULD CURE HER OF HER SENTIMENTAL NONSENSE AND HE SAID THAT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A SERMON YOU DON'T HEAR SUCH SERMONS NOWADAYS IT'S BECAUSE OF DAN EXPLAINED FELICITY WEARILY THE FEW BOOKS LEFT TO HIM BY HIS OFT REFERRED TO AUNT JANE HAD STOCKED HIS MIND WITH MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION WHICH SOMETIMES MADE FELIX AND ME DOUBT IF WE KNEW AS MUCH AS PETER AFTER ALL UNIMPORTANT YONAS THOUGHT THE MAN IS CONVINCED HE CAN BE TRAINED FURTHER AND JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD BUT HE MAKETH VERY LITTLE PROGRESS UNLESS HE PICK THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE WHO STICKETH OUT HIS NECK +39cd453f-b25b-43f9-9e8d-73bdf854bfeb BEV FILL THE KETTLE WITH WATER AND PUT IT ON THE HEAT SHE SAID IN A RESIGNED TONE IF DAN'S GOING TO BE SICK AGAIN WE'VE GOT TO BE READY FOR IT I WISH MOTHER WAS HOME THAT'S ALL I HOPE SHE'LL NEVER GO AWAY AGAIN OF COURSE WE HAD TRIED THE LARD AND POWDER TREATMENT AGAIN SMEARING PATS PAWS AND SIDES LIBERALLY BUT TO OUR DISMAY PAT MADE NO EFFORT TO LICK IT OFF I TELL YOU HE'S A MIGHTY SICK CAT SAID PETER DARKLY WHEN A CAT DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S PRETTY FAR GONE ALL I HAD ELEVEN YEARS AGO WAS A RHINOCEROS AND THAT'S NOT A FULL MEAL AT ALL GRUMBLED THE YOUNG ONE AND BEFORE THAT I HAD WEIGHED SIXTY TWO YEARS TO BE FED SO IT'S NO WONDER I'M HUNGRY +39df2079-46df-4b4e-b410-23ba84d6d67d AT NIGHT THEY STOPPED AT A HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE WELL ENTERTAINED AND WHERE WHO CREATURES COULD NOT ESCAPE FROM THE ENCLOSURE BUT IN THEIR FRIGHT MANY BOUNDED UPWARD AND CAUGHT THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS I WISH MY HEAD WOULD STOP ACHING I WISH MA HAD NEVER GONE AWAY I WISH YOU'D LEAVE FELICITY ALONE DAN SO SHE WENT UP TO THE MASTER'S ROOM AND FOUND A KEY AND WENT IN THE PRIESTS WANT TO HONOR US FOR THE GOOD WE'VE DONE BY GIVING US THE REWARD WE'VE JUST SEEN SO +3a01ae14-4fb5-4e25-ae27-41e811c89ac8 AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO THE PUDDING WAS CONCOCTED AND BAKED WHAT BEING TWINS MEANT CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY ON ORAN'S MIDDLE THE NATIVE'S MOUTH OPEN REVEALING LONG CANINES A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL +3a5ceab5-d8f1-4b01-aafb-d8dcb45af439 BUT ON REFLECTION I CONSIDERED THE TIN HEAD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE NEAT ONE I AM WEARING IT YET SO YOU CAN SEE ITS BEAUTY AND GRACE OF THE OUTLINE AND THE GIRL AGREED WITH ME THAT A MAN ALL MADE OF TIN WAS FAR MORE PERFECT THAN ONE FORMED OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS A L I E N A NEVER BEFORE CONTACTED CULTURE THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE IT'S NOT COMPLETE ALL WE HAVE OFF THE MINNIES AND WE EXCLUDED DATA ON THE NATIVES BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HOPING TO DUMP THIS PROJECT AND NOBODY THE WISER HOLY MAZOO FOR JUST AS THE EVENING STAR WAS LOOKING WHITELY THROUGH THE ROSY WINDOW OF THE WESTECILY CAME FLYING THROUGH THE ORCHARD WRINGING HER HANDS OH COME COME QUICK SHE GASPED DAN'S EATING THE BAD BERRIES AGAIN HE'S AT A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM HE SAYS HE'LL SHOW FELICITY I CAN'T STOP HIM COME YOU TRY WE ROSE IN A BODY AND RUSHED TOWARDS THE HOUSE IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH +3a707259-3a62-4aca-b136-5c814232d00f NOW SARA SHE SAID YOU JUST TAKE MY ADVICE AND GO INTO THIS WITH ALL YOUR HEART IF YOU GO AT ALL NEVER MIND IF IT IS BAD THERE'S NO USE BEING NAUGHTY IF YOU SPOIL YOUR FUN BY WISHING ALL THE TIME YOU ARE GOOD YOU CAN REPENT AFTERWARDS BUT THERE IS NO USE IN MIXING THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER THE ALARM SHOULD BE OUT AND EVERY SHIP NOTIFIED THEN THEY BE ALERTED AND PATROL SENT ON ALL SPACE LANES WHICH HE COULD EASILY AVOID BY GOING AROUND OR BETTER YET NOT EVEN BOTHER ABOUT SINCE HE CAN LICK ANY SHIP WE HAVE THAT'S NOT THE ANSWER I TOLD HIM I DO NOT KNOW WHICH HURT OUR FEELINGS MOST THE SCOLDING WE GOT FROM AUNT JANET OR THE RIDICULE WHICH THE OTHER GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER SHOWERED ON US PETER RECEIVED AN EXTRA SETTING DOWN WHICH HE CONSIDERED RANK INJUSTICE +3a71b244-50bc-4ca9-bf30-01d6d43dfed1 ISN'T TOO LATE HERE'S YOUR OWN GAIT SAYS CECILY IT WAS NOT A PLEASANT DAY AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE IT RAINED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON IT WAS THIS WAY DON'T YOU EVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER TURN OVER AND STRETCHED HERSELF OUT ON THE GRASSES ON A SMALL ENAMELED TABLE BESIDE IT WAS A RATHER LARGE SHEET OF PAPER WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A CRACKED FLORENCE FLASK +3a7e1299-bbe0-4a1c-9d14-ccb3897a78d9 SOME OF THE MORE CREDULOUS NATIVES PROSTRATED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS FLED SCREAMING I SLUMPED DEFEATED WAITING FOR THE BLOW TO LAND THE OLD MAN FONDLED MY CONTRACT O K HORNE PAY ATTENTION STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES HERE WE ARE HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN SHE TOLD US ONE OF HANS ANDERSEN'S MOST EXQUISITE TALES AND THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE CHARMED AWAY ALL OUR FEAR SO THAT WHEN WE REACHED THE BRACKEN HOLLOW A LAKE OF SHADOWS SURROUNDED BY THE SILVER SHORE OF MOONLIGHT FIELDS WE ALL WENT THROUGH IT WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF HIS SATANIC MAJESTY AT ALL +3a949083-e3b9-43b4-bdd1-a227f79929b5 I GOT YOU INTO THE I A A RUIN WHY IF YOU PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON ON THIS ONE WITHOUT CAUSE YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM IT WAS DAMP AND THE AIR WAS NOT TOO GOOD BUT THERE WERE COMPENSATIONS RATS FOR INSTANCE BUT NOT MANY LAY MEN REMEMBER HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER +3a973b16-aba6-468f-a9f1-2b29dce13ee6 THE NAME WAS PRECEDED BY SEVERAL ADJECTS HE DIPPED AN EYEBROW IN A WINK HE CALLED DORA A PUDDLESNAKE WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME +3ab850f2-4d1a-4260-9aae-7807dbd365e3 HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE IT HAS BEEN DECIDED A LIZARD SAID THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN HERE FOR EVER AND TEND THE HOLY WATERS WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED PERHAPS IT IS EMILY KING'S GHOST WHISPERED FELIX SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM WELL IIN'T GOING TO CHURCH TILL I'VE MADE UP MY MIND WHETHER I'M GOING TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST MY MOTHER AIN'T MUCH OF ANYTHING BUT I MEAN TO BE SOMETHING IT'S MORE RESPECTABLE TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN OR SOMETHING THAN NOT TO BE ANYTHING +3abeb20f-a2e6-48b0-9d39-ef90cb2873e7 AGAINST TWO OF THE SIDE WALLS HAD BEEN BUILT ABOUT WORK BENCHES AND IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM WAS A LONG TABLE AT THE END OF THE SHOP WHICH ADJOINED THE DWELLING WERE SEVERAL CUPBOARDS FELIX AND I COULDN'T KEEP OUR EYES OFF HER CRIMSON CHEEKED SHINY EYED FROM HER HASTE HER FACE WAS LIKE A ROSE OF YOUTH BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL SPOKE WE FORGOT TO LOOK AT FELICITY I GLANCED HER WAY AND A SMALL DOOR WAS SWINGING OPEN AND SHE WAS GONE DON'T TRY TO RUN I SHOUTED AFTER IT CAN'T DO ANY GOOD +3ac89ce0-14ca-4c94-b53f-ee00dc45eb31 HE LOOKED BACK AT THE NILEN SHOOT AGAIN BARRING A REALLY MAJOR ACCIDENT THERE'S NO REASON YOU SHOULDN'T LIVE AT LEAST ANOTHER SEVENTY FIVE YEARS A COLD ACHE FILLED THE CAVITY OF HIS STOMACH OF COURSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN DRAGONS BEFORE AND LOOKED AT HIM SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME I WONDER WHERE WE ALL BE THIS TIME TO MORROW NIGHT SAID FELIX MOURNFULLY AS WE WATCHED THE SUNSET BETWEEN THE DARK FIR BOUGHS +3aef4c3e-87fe-4b09-ae6d-75162f1b9985 BESIDES SHE COAXED ME TO TELL HER WHAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR DREAMS I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES FEW THINGS CAN INJURE TIN AND MY AXE IS A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE AGAINST A FOE THE INHABITANTS MAY BE PEOPLE OF SOME SORT OR THEY MAY BE ANIMALS BUT WHATEVER THEY PROVE TO BE WE WILL HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY CHARLEY TO DOROTHY AND OZMA ON OUR RETURN WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN +3af54e4e-148d-42ae-ba1e-84823d4f46c4 AFTER THE RAIN THE AIR SEEMED DRIPPING WITH THE ODOURS IN THE WARM WEST WIND THE TANG OF FIR BALSAM THE SPICE OF MINT THE WILD WOODSINESS OF FERNS THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES YES BUT IT TOOK THE JUDGMENT DAY TO MAKE HER I WISH ADDED CECILY WITH A SIGH THAT I HADN'T BEEN IN QUITE SUCH A HURRY GIVING AWAY MY FORGET ME NOT JUG AND I WISH I HADN'T BEEN IN SUCH A HURRY DECIDE AND I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN SAID PETER WELL IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID DAN YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW NO SIR SAID PETER WITH A FLASH OF SPIRIT I AIN'T ONE OF THE KIND THAT SAYS THEY'LL BE SOME JUST CAUSE THEY'RE SCARED WHEN THE SCARE IS OVER GO BACK ON IT I SAID I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND I MEAN TO STICK TO IT WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT WHISPERED CECILY WELL WE COULD HAVE A JOLLY FUNERAL YOU KNOW SAID DAN WE LOOKED AT HIM IN SUCH HORROR THAT DAN HASTENED TO APOLOGIZE I'D BE AWFUL SORRY MYSELF IF PAT DIED BUT IF HE DID WE'D HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE RIGHT KIND OF FUNERAL HE PROTESTED WHY PATTY JUST SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY +3b016118-7d7e-47b3-a061-0dc7cb46f915 BUT SARA RAY HAD SOMETHING TO GIVE SHE CAME UP THE HILL AFTER TEA ALL RADIANT WHEN SARA RAY SMILED AND SHE DID NOT WASTE HER SMILES SHE WAS RATHER PRETTY IN A PLAINTIVE APOLOGETIC WAY FAITHFUL STORY OF THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURE UNDERTAKEN BY THE TIN WOODMAN ASSISTED BY WOUT THE WANDERER SCARECROW OF OZ AND POLYCHROME THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER BY EL DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE DAN DOES SAY SUCH QUEER THINGS I'M SO AFRAID HE'S GONE TO GROW UP JUST LIKE UNCLE ROBER WARD WHO NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T BELIEVE MORE THAN HALF THE BIBLE IS TRUE +3b0b457d-54f7-4ea7-934e-9968cc608e8c THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO I REMAIN YOUR VERY AFFECTIONATE FRIEND SARA STANLEY THEY FELL SLACK HOWEVER WHEN THE QUEEN REACHED HIS CHANNEL AND FLAPPED LAZILY REVERSING TO CATCH THE WIND AND NOSE HER CAUTIOUSLY INTO THE SHALLOWS APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR THE CEREMIAN VANISHED ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WITH ONE ACCORD THEY CAME TOWARD US SO I WAS TO RECEIVE A CORDIAL WELCOME AFTER ALL +3b1c584e-2421-4bd4-8248-badd2ac14842 DON'T CARE WHAT YOU ARE IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT PETER HAS GOT A DECENT STOCKING TO HIS NAME HE ISN'T IN THE KITCHEN SAID FELICITY RUSHING ABOUT WILDLY AND HE COULDN'T GET INTO THE OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE FOR I SHUT THE HALL DOOR TIGHT AND NO BABY COULD OPEN IT AND IT'S SHUT TIGHT YET WHAT THE CAUSE OF THE QUARREL WAS I CANNOT TELL YOU BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW IT THE STORY GIRL GOT NO FURTHER WE NEVER HEARD THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION +3b1f5fd8-4332-4c8a-83ad-d2f605f0c2e0 AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER INVERTED TREES WITH WIDE SPREADING BRANCHES JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM THE PULPIT WAS A WINE GLASS ONE AND WAS REACHED BY A STEEP NARROW FLIGHT OF STEPS +3b2781f4-be64-4470-ae2e-0c5bf2292206 MARGARET WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM WITH SOFT BLUE EYES AND CLOUDS OF GOLDEN HAIR AND SHE LOVED ALLAN DUNBAR JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM CECILY AND SARA RAY FOUND A SWEET NEW KNITTED LACE PATTERN IN AN OLD MAGAZINE AND SPENT AN AFTERNOON LEARNING IT OVER TALKING SECRETS I THINK THERE IS SUCH A PLACE IN SPITE OF UNCLE EDWARD SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY AND I THINK THERE IS A WAY OF GETTING THERE TOO IF WE COULD ONLY FIND IT WAIT COLONEL TOWERS BRANDON CALLED BUT HE KNEW IT WAS OF NO USE OBVIOUSLY HE COULD PICK UP ASTRO BUT THEY COULD NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR HIM CAPTAIN BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO CALLING OVER +3b74c9e6-b4ff-4f83-99eb-d197abe811b8 BEFORE I SENT FOR IT I CHECKED OVER THE REST OF THE BEACON EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE YOU KNOW SAID FELIX WE SHOULDN'T CROSS BRIDGES TILL WE COME TO THEM IF WE WORKED HARD THERE WAS LESS TIME FOR GRIEF AND GRIEVOUS THOUGHTS IT MAY BE THAT THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE IN MAKING SOME PLANS MISTER BUTLER AND MISS HOPE ARE SAFE EVERYTHING'S EXPLAINED IN THIS NOTE +3b82f78b-986a-46ce-a083-f0e5ca17b08d THE WITCH COMMANDED ME NEVER TO COME NEAR NIMMY ANNIE AGAIN BUT I TOLD HER I WAS MY OWN MASTER AND WOULD DO AS I PLEASED NOT REALIZING THAT THIS WAS A CARELESS WAY TO SPEAK TO A WITCH TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US WE ALL DECIDED TO INCREASE OUR WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION BY A CENT OR SO AND PETER WHO HAD NO MISSIONARY BOX AT ALL UP TO THIS TIME DETERMINED TO START ONE THAT NIGHT WHEN HE POINTED OUT THE STARS TO US FROM THE PULPIT STONE WAS THE LAST TIME FOR SEVERAL WEEKS THAT PETER SHARED OUR TOIL AND PASTIME THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE AND SORE THROAT AND SEEMED TO PREFER LYING ON AUNT OLIVIA'S KITCHEN SOFA TO DOING ANY WORK +3b8e1e0e-812a-41c2-a5cf-159b993f35cb I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND LAUGHING NYMPH AND MOCKING SATYR IN PROWESS OF THE MIND ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT WITH THE HUMMING SOUND RINGING IN MY EARS LIKE A NOTE OF DEATH VIC TRIED TO SHOUT SOMETHING BUT A CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND WAS IMMEDIATELY THRUST OVER HIS MOUTH +3ba72750-7610-4258-a8e9-edc191b8e13e CHAFFEE THREE WHILE THEY WERE STILL IN THE CONTROL CUBICLE THREW THE SHIP OUT OF HYPERDRIVE WITHIN SCANT MILES OF THE NEIGHBORING SUN'S SINGLE PLANET STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY THIS ONE HAS RECEPTORS ON THE HULL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ANY PART OF THE SHIP OR EVEN GAIN ENTRY TO IT AND THIS ONE WILL DETONATE I'M AN OLD WOMAN BUT I DO NO WRONG AND THERE IS NO ONE CAN ACCUSE ME OF HERESY I AM IN CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND MORE THAN ONCE I KEEP PEACE WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND THERE'S NONE CAN SAY A MYSTERY ABOUT ME +3bbc8e0c-e6ed-4630-b487-5ad1baf78b5a NECK CHOPPER THERE I FINALLY GOT TOGETHER A VERY DECENT BODY AM NOT AT ALL WISE I BEG TO ASSURE YOUR MAJESTY IT'S NOT COMPLETE THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN FELICITY TOLD AUNT JANET OF THE CUCUMBER BUT AUNT JANET DID NOT THINK THE CUCUMBER ALONE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CECILY'S ALARMING CONDITION +3bf2d33e-26e0-4bff-a765-993de6691a4f BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE I WANT HIM TO STAY RIGHT HERE THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL YOU COME TO TURN ME OUT SHE DEMANDED HER EYEBROWS WHICH WERE ALMOST AS BIG AND BLACK AS HER ANCIENT MOUSTACHE CAME DOWN OVER GLITTERING LITTLE EYES NOW HE SAID QUIETLY AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST WHICH MARKED THE LINE BETWEEN FOREST AND PLAIN +3c022f83-1ed5-480f-b5bd-eb5c6579ad6b WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING A GHOST IN DAYLIGHT BUT AFTER DARK IT'S ANOTHER THING THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A GHOST I SAID CONTEMPTUOUSLY OH I WISH I COULD BELIEVE IT THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM ON AN UNCOMPLICATED EVEN SIMPLE MINDED WORLD LIKE THIS WHO WOULD NEED CRYSTALS BUT MAYBE THEY FEAR GLUTTING THE MARKET OR THE DOMINATION OF OUTSIDE CAPITAL COMING IN TO DEVELOP THE SOURCE +3cbacce4-1747-4fd8-8bdd-9097d687d8f5 IT IS LIKE A SPIDER'S WEB HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD THAT'S THE SHIP'S GENERATORS YOU'RE LOOKING AT I SAID IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED WE SOMETIMES ACT THE STORY OUT AND I PLANTED A LITTLE BED OF MY OWN FROM THE ROOM SHE HAD LEFT CAME MOANS AND CRIES +3cef39b5-2c11-4215-8d5c-27a7eabe7682 WHEN THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN UNCLE ROGER REACHED MARKDALE CAME AT HALF PAST TEN HE FOUND HIS PATIENT VERY WEAK AND WHITE BUT FREE FROM PAIN HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL A SHOWER CAME UP IN THE EVENING AND WE HAD TO STOP PICKING FELICITY HAS NOT GOTTEN OVER THAT TO THIS DAY RING THE AFTERNOON JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP A TEAR BLOTTED NOTE FROM SARA RAY +3cf077fe-ddac-4763-a624-943a8d429296 YONAS SET A THOUGHT OF UNCERTAINTY WHAT BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS ON THE OTHER SIDE THE GRASS HAD GROWN TALL AND THE SUN HAD DRIED IT SO THERE WAS A FINE DROP OF HAY THAT ONLY NEEDED TO BE CUT AND STACKED +3cff1261-8cf4-431e-bb55-3771699112bf WE WENT TO THE GROWN UPS AND TOLD THEM SO THEN WE ROAMED ABOUT IN OUR WRETCHEDNESS AND TRIED TO COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WE ARGUED OVER IT SERIOUSLY BUT FINALLY HAD TO GIVE UP IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS WELL AIN'T THAT ALL THE MORE REASON FOR CRYING RETORTED PETER I'VE HAD TO DO WITHOUT HER FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT'S WORSE THAN IF IT HAD JUST BEEN A FEW DAYS GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE IN THE FOREGROUND THE BOAT AND ITS OCCUPANTS WERE SHARPLY ETCHED +3d20ab36-c823-4f1a-add5-7bc159876057 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HIS FEELING SAID FELICITY WITH AN ANGRY TOSS OF HER SHINING HEAD BUT I GUESS I MADE HIS EARS TINGLE ALL RIGHT I BOX HIM GOOD AND HARD OH FELICITY WHAT FOR I DIDN'T TELL CECILY TO DRINK THE MILK AND THE CUCUMBER ALONE WOULDN'T HAVE HURT HER HE GRUMBLED CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE THEY HAD TO DRAG THEIR CAPTIVES TO THE CENTRE OF THE DOMED CHAMBER FOR THEIR WEIGHT AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE LOONS PREVENTED THEIR BEING CARRIED +3d38f319-00dd-4f7c-9251-2494a130edf1 BUT ALL AT ONCE SHE HEARD A STAMPING OF HOOFS BEHIND HER AND WHEN SHE TURNED SHE ALMOST DIED FROM FRIGHT FOR THERE WAS THE GREAT GOD PAN AND HE WAS A VERY TERRIBLE OBJECT LOOKING QUITE AS MUCH LIKE A GOAT AS A MAN BUT IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER OF PETER TO WANT TO BE THE ONLY ONE WE MUSTN'T PRAY SELFISH PRAYERS LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY EXCEPT WHEN I'M HUNGRY THEN I DO LIKE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE NICE LITTLE ROWS OF ONIONS AND BEETS FROM THE ROUGH SIDE OF HER TONGUE +3d6889e6-d42b-40c7-8378-8dbf2075cfbd JOHN ANDREW TURNED A DOOR WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE WITH US AGAIN HE SHOT OUT A BIG PAW AND GRABBED HER BY THE WRIST HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING SOME OF THIS IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE THE FIRST LIZARD KNEW I WAS TALKING SINCE THEN AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A MEETING OF THE SHAMMANS IT OF COURSE TOOK PLACE IN THE PUBLIC BATH TUB AND I HAD TO JOIN THEM THERE BRANDON'S VOICE SOUNDED STRANGE AND DISTANT AS HE TALKED TO HIS OXYGEN MASK HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON +3d7a6f73-aac2-45d6-b27b-190fc63e6b4a UNCLE ROGER CAN LAUGH SAID CICELY WITH A QUIVER IN HER VOICE BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER TO BE SO SCARED I FEEL JUST SICK I WAS SO FRIGHTENED I WOULDN'T MIND IF HE'D LAUGH ONCE AND HAVE IT DONE WITH IT DAN LIKE PETER WRITES LYING DOWN FLAT BUT WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS US HERAKNUFF SHALL REMAIN FOR ALL THAT I CAN DO WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY +3da9e7d6-20ec-4805-b5d7-6d2e94dd9b02 IF VOICES HAD COLOR HERS WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE A RAINBOW IT MADE WORDS LIVE WHATEVER SHE SAID BECAME A BREATHING ENTITY NOT A MERE VERBAL STATEMENT OR UTTERANCE ON THE OTHER HAND DAN WHO WAS A SOMEWHAT TRUCULENT FELLOW ADDICTED TO THE PERUSAL OF LURID DYING NOVELS HE BORROWED FROM THE OTHER BOYS IN SCHOOL DREAMED DREAMS OF SUCH A PEACEFUL AND PASTORAL CHARACTER THAT HE WAS QUITE DISGUSTED WITH THE RESULTING TAME PAGES OF HIS DREAM BOOK ONE DOUBTFUL TYPE RAISED A SPEAR BUT NO ONE ELSE TRIED THAT AFTER THE PTERODACTYL EYE PICKED HIM UP AND DROPPED HIM IN THE SWAMP THE PRIESTS WERE A HARD HEADED LOT AND WEREN'T BUYING ANY LIZARDS IN A POKE THEY JUST STOOD AND MUTTERED I HAD TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN +3db171fd-6f15-43c5-8e4a-8c7eeb26613e THIS WAS STILL THE JOB FOR THE CORPS FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE WOULDN'T WANT A WIFE HE COULD NEVER QUARREL WITH REMARKED ANNE HE SAYS IT WOULD BE TOO TAME A LIFE FOR HIM THAT'S HIM MISTER SHARP SAID I KNOW THE RISK PERFECTLY WELL YANUS THOUGHT BACK YOU KNOW THE RISK TO YOURSELF HE TOLD YUNUS AND YOU'VE ACCEPTED THAT YOU RATHER LIKE IT AS A MATTER OF FACT BUT YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF THE RISK TO THE REST OF US AND TO THE TOWN YOU'RE IN +3e0cda3b-3c02-4609-8910-6971837c0981 HE HATED THE IDEA TIME PASSED SOMEHOW WHEN MORNING DAWNED YONAS AWOKE TO FIND THE DOOR OF HIS CELL BEING UNLOCKED THE BALD MAN AND THE BLACK HAIRED MAN WERE BOTH THERE HE LOOKED UP WITH THEM WITH DISTASTE THEN HE SAW WHAT WAS IN THEIR MINDS AND THE DISTASTE CHANGED TO FEAR GET MAY RHINART YES SIR THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS SHE WAS SITTING THE JULY SUNLIGHT ON THE LEDGE OF THE OPEN HAYLOFT WINDOW IN UNCLE ROGER'S BIG BARN AND THE BARE FEET BELOW HER PRINT SKIRT WERE BEAUTIFUL THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS +3e2361a7-dafa-46d1-96df-179da492222c NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK I'LL GO SAID CECILY AT BREAKFAST OUR APPETITES WERE POOR NO I DON'T SAID FELICITY YOU NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT HIM THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH HIM WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW FINALLY IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE WHAT WE'D EXPECTED WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HE REMAINED LITTLE MORE THAN A CLEVER AMATEUR +3e3cfcb0-d844-4d4d-9824-2d2f378a3bb9 THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO ON ONE DAY THROUGH SOME UNFAILING MIRACLE OF COLLAXIAN SEAMANSHIP YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA AND ANDREW MACPHERSON WAS TO SING BASS IN IT +3e4482fe-ee92-4180-9a1d-a717672bd40f THE FAD WAS AT ONCE TAKEN UP BY THE CARLISLE SCHOOL GIRLS TIMOTHY ROOTS QUITE OUSTED SOURS AND YOUNG RASPBER SPROUTS BOTH OF WHICH HAD THE REAL MERIT OF BEING QUITE TOOTHSOME WHILE TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE TOUGH AND TASTELESS WHEN I RETURNED TO NIMIA ME THE GIRL WAS DELIGHTED AND THREW HER ARMS AROUND MY NECK AND KISSED ME DECLARING SHE WAS BUT PROUD OF ME A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR THE FACE OF REINHERT THE RADIO MAN APPEARED BEFORE HIM BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER +3e7edd30-ac47-42fe-bc4b-7df8b83764de IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT DO YOU BELIEVE IT SARA STANLEY PERSISTED FELICITY DO YOU NO NO I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT SAID THE STORY GIRL MAYBE HE SAID SUDDENLY SLUMPED AND TIRED NO LONGER LAUGHING MAYBE THEY WILL BUT I GAVE HER A CHANCE IT'S ALL OVER FOR ME NOW BUT SHE KNOWS THAT I LOVED HER TO THE END HE BARED HIS TEETH IN SUDDEN PAIN NOT THAT SHE WILL CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST I DON'T EVEN BLINK FOR THINGS LIKE THAT HOW DO YOU TRIGGER IT OFF YOU GAPING GOOSE I DON'T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU I HAVE TO GET TO WASHINGTON +3e85aadd-57db-4896-86d0-81f0b518a9e5 PETER THIS IS BEVERLY KING AND THIS IS FELIX I LIKE TO HEAR YOU TALK SAID FELIX IN HIS GRAVE STODGY WAY I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE MAIN GATE I IGNORED THE STURD OF ACTIVITY AROUND THE CUSTOMS BUILDING WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE HE STOOD FOR A SECOND AT THE CREST OF THE HILL HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN OF SPIRE AS IT BAKED IN THE MAY AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT +3ea1db3a-fa5b-41bd-8bd5-95c0bdf008d8 DID YOU EVER HEAR OF SUCH GOINGS ON THERE WAS A PURE YELLOW SUNSET THAT EVENING AND THE AISLES OF THE FIR TREES WERE FLOODED WITH ITS RADIANCE WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT THE BOY SPRANG TO HIS FEET AND SUDDENLY RUSHED UPON THE GROUN WHILE A KIND HUSBAND IS SURE TO MAKE ANY GIRL CONTENT SHE WAS ALSO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN MISSIONS I'D BE AWFUL SORRY MYSELF IF PAT DIED I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE +3ea50781-e052-4111-b405-66b65715d53d AND HE RAN AND WAKENED UP A VERY TIRED DOCTOR JUST AS HE HAD GOT TO SLEEP OH DOCTOR MY SON HAS SWALLOWED A MOUSE HE CRIED WHAT SHALL I DO GIVE HER A GOOD DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA AND TRY THAT FIRST SAID AUNT JANET I'VE SAVED MANY A DOCTOR'S BILL IN MY FAMILY BY USING MEXICAN TEA ONE DAY THE STORY GIRL HAD AN INSPIRATION LET'S GO AND ASK THE AWKWARD MAN AND MISTER CAMPBELL FOR A CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND SHE SAID I AM SURE NO ONE ELSE HAS ASKED THEM BECAUSE NOBODY IN CARLISLE IS RELATED TO HIM LET US ALL GO AND IF THEY GIVE US ANYTHING WE'LL DIVIDE IT EQUALLY AMONG US +3f276b57-48b6-41e9-a846-470db152f00b YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT ME IF YOU KEEP PRAYING AGAINST ME SAID FELIX ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME I WISH I WAS TWINS SO'S I COULD EAT MORE SAID DAN WHEN HE SIMPLY HAD TO STOP WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN +3f360fe9-e184-4aec-9351-98b2e33a3032 THEY'RE ALWAYS SO TALL AND SLENDER WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF ANYONE WROTE A STORY ABOUT A FAT HERO OR ONE WITH TOO BIG A MOUTH IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT EACH WORE UPON HIS FOREHEAD A GLEAMING SCARLET STONE BOUND IN PLACE BY A CIRCLET OF BLACK METAL OR WHAT LOOKED LIKE METAL BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT +3f58ea15-fa52-4bb5-a305-42e3cff6c7fe I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT WHEN THEY HAD GIVEN UP I BOOMED ORDERS AT THEM THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE CRATE THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP I WASN'T WINNING ANY SUCCO BETS THAT NIGHT INSKIPPER HAS LED JUST AS CROOKED A YOUTH AS I HAD AND NEEDED NO HELP IN SMELLING A FISHY DEAL WHILE HE PULLED ON HIS CLOTHES HE SHOT QUESTIONS AT ME AND THE NAME OF THE PEACE LOVING PLANET THAT'S BUILDING AS BAD MEMORY FROM THE PAST NOW DAN HAD NOT HAD THE SLIGHTEST INTENTION OF EATING THE BERRIES BUT AT FELICITY'S PROHIBITION THE REBELLION WHICH HAD SMOULDERED IN HIM ALL DAY BROKE INTO SUDDEN FLAME HE WOULD SHOW HER +3f6c3ffa-b423-482a-9193-b20cbdf3a35f FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED THEN SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND LAUGHED A MERRY LAUGH THEY GOT HIM ON BOARD THE BOAT WITH LITTLE DIFFICULTY THERE WERE SOME SAWHEADS IN HOUSTON WHO SAID THAT IT WASN'T POSSIBLE AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT THE WIND HOLLOWING HIS EARS JUST AS THIS PLANET WAS TO ITS MASTER SERIOUS +3f754967-4af9-4fc3-b431-389576b41dc6 AS INSTANTANEOUSLY AS IT HAD COME THE PAIN LEFT HIM IT LEFT HIM WEAK AND QUIVERING AND JOHN ANDREW FARMER LAY ON HIS BACK WAITING FOR HIS STRENGTH TO SEEP BACK AS A RED HAZE DRIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES HE REALIZED THAT THE LAUNCH HAD ACQUIRED ANOTHER OCCUPANT I WAS UNDER PRESSURE NOW TO ACT AND A GREATER PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES ROLY POLY PEPPY HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A RUTHLESS KILLER HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED THEN REACHED OUT AND TOOK IT DESTROYING ANY ONE WHO STOOD IN HIS WAY MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE YOU ARE LYING WE'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER SAID ORNE WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO EXTERMINATE YOU WE'LL GIVE YOU LIMITED MEMBERSHIP IN THE GALACTIC FEDERATION UNTIL YOU PROVE YOU'RE NO MENACE TO US KEEP TALKING HIS STETS AND KEEP HIM INTERESTED YOU DARE INSULT ME GROWLED NUBE YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE ME SAID ORME +3f94f493-28f2-4f91-aa45-3c4a808481ca THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS PRESENTLY THEY WERE SCATTERED BY AN ABRUPT AND STARTLING QUESTION FROM PETER WHAT DOES GOD LOOK LIKE HE SAID IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY I WISH I KNEW SAID PETER GRAVELY I WISH I COULD SEE A PICTURE OF GOD IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL YOU'D STILL BE ON THE DEL FINEST MASTERLESS AS AN ARNAR FIELD MAN THAT'S IMPORTANT IF YOU'RE MASQUERADING AM I THE ONLY ONE I KNOW I'M A RECENT CONVERT BUT YOU WANT OUT I DIDN'T SAY THAT I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY I'M BECAUSE THE BIG DOMES FED A SET OF REQUIREMENTS INTO THEIR IRON MONSTERS YOUR CARD POPPED OUT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE DEPENDABLE +3fa7178b-b568-464f-9e70-dc28e4a5f1f3 NEVERTHELESS A FAMILY WHICH WAIT SHE SAID HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE FOR VARIOUS REASONS +402d83ac-3513-4147-bd74-17eb25e690a5 WELL AFTER THAT HE LOCKS HIMSELF UP IN HIS WORK ROOM SO MISSUS PERWIN SAYS SHE BEING THE HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU KNOW SIR LEAVING WORD NOT TO DISTURB HIM FOR DINNER WE DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF THAT MISTER BUTLER BEING TOOK WITH STREAKS OF WORKING AT ALL HOURS AS YOU KNOW UNCLE ROGER WHO HAD BEEN SUMMONED FROM HIS OWN PLACE WENT AT ONCE FOR THE DOCTOR TELLING PETER TO GO DOWN THE HILL FOR MISSUS RAY PETER WENT BUT RETURNED ACCOMPANIED BY SARA ONLY MISSUS RAY AND JUDY PINEAU WERE BOTH AWAY RAY SMILED AGAIN AS HE CLIMBED BRISKLY IN INTO THE SUIT I'LL BE ALL RIGHT HE SAID SERENELY YOU JUST KEEP AN EYE ON THINGS HERE BUT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING +40a16e0c-3746-407e-bddb-ccf21fffc259 THE MIDGET WAS MAD THE ANIMAL HAD MORE PRESENCE OF MIND SHE LAY DOWN QUIETLY AND DIED WHICH WAS THE BEST SHE COULD DO CONSIDERING THE STATE THAT SHE WAS IN FORBIDDEN FRUIT WE WERE ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UNCLE ROGER MORE OR LESS GRUMPY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF KING NEXT DAY SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND A STRUGGLE SHOWED IN RAY'S FACE FARMER SAW INSULTED AND ANGER HURT PRIDE A DESIRE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS GADARY A QUESTION ABOUT GARF'S LAST WORDS AND A CAUTION THAT WAS NOT TOO FAR FROM FEAR +40c71bc5-346a-449e-a7d5-7c09f04185d4 YES OF COURSE THEY MUST HAVE COME YOU TRY I'LL TELL YOU SAID PETER I'LL PICK UP A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND PEBBLES ON MISTER KING'S FRONT WALK AND THEY'LL BE JUST AS GOOD AS PEAS YOU'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID AUNT JANET AND MARGARET FELT THAT SHE COULD NEVER LET HIM GO I LONG LONG AGO IN THE GOLDEN AGE WHEN THE GODS USED TO VISIT THE EARTH SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS NOTHING UNCOMMON TO SEE THEM WILT THOU NOT KEEP THAT PROMISE HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS +40f58efd-8f7e-44a7-8a8e-b7f914261da8 HIS OXYGEN MASK WAS STILL IN PLACE BUT HIS HELMET HUNG PARTLY LOOSE HE ADJUSTED IT AUTOMATICALLY THEN UNBUCKLED THE SEAT STRAPS HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH UNDER THE OXYGEN MASK HE WAS AWARE OF DRIED BLOOD CLOTTED IN HIS NOSTRILS CAKED AROUND THE CORNERS OF HIS LIPS BUT DONALD WAS NOT GOING TO SHOW ALL HE THOUGHT SCOTCH PEOPLE NEVER DO AND HE PRETENDED TO BE VERY GLAD TO SEE NEIL AND MADE HIM HEARTILY WELCOME HOW DID THE CHILDREN BEHAVE ROGER LIKE MODELS SAID UNCLE ROGER THEY WERE AS GOOD AS GOLD MOST OF THE DAYS UNCLE ROGER DID NOT COME TILL NEARLY TEN NEVER WAS THERE A MORE WELCOME SOUND THAN THE RUMBLE OF HIS WHEELS IN THE LANE WE RAN TO THE ORCHARD GATE AND SWARMED ACROSS THE YARD JUST AS UNCLE ROGER ALIGHTED AT THE FRONT DOOR HE STARED AT US IN THE MOONLIGHT HAVE YOU BEEN TORMENTING ANY ONE INTO EATING MORE BAD BERRIES FELICITY +410888bc-9ffb-4e12-9cab-c2858dd437ac MISSUS PARIN HAD JUST TOLD HER ABOUT THE MASTER OBVIOUSLY INTENT UPON BLOCKING OUR WAY WE'RE ALL RIGHT ONLY I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS HE WORE A BLUE MUNCHKIN HAT WITH POINTED CROWN AND BROAD BRIM I MYSELF DO NOT EAT BEING MADE IN SUCH MANNER THAT I REQUIRE NO FOOD TO KEEP ME ALIVE +4117494d-f480-4d8d-9473-8e38ff9c4ad1 AS HE SAID THIS THE SCARECROW GLANCED AT THE TIN WOODMAN WHO NODDED HIS ASSENT HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT POLYCHROME IS A POWERFUL FAIRY WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS DESTINED TO STAND BEFORE KINGS HERSELF AND SHE WAS TO BE ONE WHOM THEY DELIGHTED TO HONOR BUT WE DID NOT KNOW THAT AS WE SAT IN THE OLD ORCHARD SOMETHING WAS SPARKLING VERY BRIGHTLY AMONG ITS PEBBLES A GLAYA PICKED IT UP AND IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE STONE THAT SHE HAD EVER SEEN IT WAS ONLY AS LARGE AS A PEA BUT IT GLITTERED AND FLASHED IN THE SUNLIGHT WITH EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW A GLEA WASDED WITH IT THAT SHE RESOLVED TO TAKE IT AS A PRESENT TO GLACON +4144b581-a002-43ba-96b6-f945fc61e71c HIS FACE WAS BATHED IN PERSPIRATION THE COLONEL'S GLARING FACE FLICKED OFF AS BRANDON PUSHED THE PRE EJECTION LEVER INTO THE LOCK POSITION HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER AT ALL EVENTS HE ANNOUNCED TO US THAT HE COULDN'T BRING THE RED COVERED HISTORY TO SCHOOL BUT IF WE WANTED TO BUY THE PICTURE OUTRIGHT HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT OF THE BOOK AND SELL IT TO US FOR FIFTY CENTS WHAT WOULD MISS MARWOOD SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT ASKED FELICITY AND I'M AFAR FROM BEING SURE THAT FELICITY DID EITHER +417d2c67-bcd3-4f05-8eb8-dc5df35c8530 FOUR YEARS HAD GONE BY IN THIS SHIP THIRTEEN YEARS ON EARTH FOUR YEARS OF COLONEL TOWERS MILITARY DISCIPLINE GREW MORE STRICT EACH DAY SPACE DOES FUNNY THINGS TO SOME MEN THERE'S BEEN TIME TO FIND OUT EVER SO MUCH MORE I WANT TO DO SO MANY THINGS SAID THE STORY YELL PLUCKING OFF HER CROWN OF BUTTERCUP GOLD WITH A TRAGIC GESTURE BUT IF IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW I WON'T HAVE TIME TO DO ANY OF THEM I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY DANGER OF CATCHING MEASLES SAID FELICITY IF THERE WAS WE WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO GO I WISH I COULD GET THE MEASLES SAID SARA DEFIANTLY MAYBE I'D BE OF SOME IMPORTANCE TO MA THEN +41878319-88ba-4a68-9f6e-0801d58ec396 A STAND WITH A WORK BASKET ON IT AND A ROCKING CHAIR I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY NICE TO CALL A HORSE AFTER YOUR OWN GRANDMOTHER SAID FELICITY THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES WELL KNOWN IN THE EMERALD CITY IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE HALLWAY NOW THAT THE DOOR OUTSIDE WAS SHUT +418db65d-f970-49ab-b9c0-abdd6e8ba9b1 FELIX AND DAN WERE TO PICK AND SHELL THE PEAS YOU OUGHT NOT TO LOSE NO TIME IN FINDING OUT HE JUST STAYS HOME AND READS BOOKS WHEN HE ISN'T WORKIN BETTER TO DIE THAN BE SLAVES SAID TO NEWBE BY ITS LIGHT WE WILL CONTINUE I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE +41b48a65-fbc6-49fd-82b1-69dd526e0f8e HE HAD LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE ENTIRE OPERATION AS A FUTILE ONE AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME IN HIS CABIN WORRYING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF IT ON HIS SURFACE RECORD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT BUT NOW THE SHIP RESTED ON ITS TAIL FINS ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG ABOVE THE HORIZON PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING THE STARS BY LARRY SHOP YES EARTH MAY BE A SORT OF FENCED OFF AREA SO FAR AS OTHER INTELLIGENT RACES OF THE GALAXY ARE CONCERNED BUT NOT FOR THE GRANDEROUSSE REASONS THAT SOME HAVE IMAGINED +41bba0fb-c585-4d17-bf8d-d414195537c1 WHEN WE REACHED OUR LANE AND PASSED UNDER GRANDFATHER KING'S BIG WILLOW THE FRAGRANCE OF THE ORCHARD STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A WAVE WE COULD SEE THE LONG ROWS OF TREES A WHITE GLADNESS IN THE MOONSHINE IT SEEMED TO US THAT THERE WAS IN THE ORCHARD SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ORCHARDS THAT WE HAD KNOWN HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD SO HE SAT THERE THAT AFTERNOON AND DREAMED OF HER AS HE PLAYED SWEET OLD SONGS AND ROLLICKING JIGS ON HIS FIDDLE THE OLD BOY DOESN'T LIKE THOSE OTHER CHAPS PRIESTS I TAKE IT WHISPERED VIC I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS +41cd575b-7220-478a-a1ac-f956722577dc AND THINGS THEY STILL HAVE TO WORK HARD TO MAKE PRACTICABLE A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY ONE NIGHT SHE WOKE UP HAVING JUST HAD A VERY EXCITING DREAM AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN +4204a4aa-0a93-4197-99ae-55e51b0af5c0 A GOOD MANY OF THEM MUST JUST STAY PLAIN ANGELS I EXPECT AND I'M GOING TO WORK BUTTONHOLES ALL OVER THIS COTTON I HATE WORKING BUTTONHOLES WORSE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD SO I'M GOING TO WORK THEM ALL DAY THEN AS THE PRIESTS COMPLETED THEIR THIRD BOW IF I READ THEIR ACTIONS CORRECTLY THEY CLAIMED THE PRIVILEGE OF DEATH BY VIRTUE OF THEIR GREATER AUTHORITY IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN A VERY GOOD BOOK IF THERE WAS SUCH A PICTURE IN IT SAID FELICITY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS +42097897-c50a-4dad-9819-144fb2a76419 AND HE GRIN TURNED TO A LAUGH AS HE STARTED DOWN THE HILL HE THOUGHT OF TRYING TO REACH CLARETON BUT DECIDED NOT ENTIRELY WITH REGRET THAT THE CONTACT WOULD USE UP TOO MUCH ENERGY AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN WE ALL STOOD AROUND BUT WITH OTHERS IT DID NOT MATTER HE DOESN'T HE COULDN'T HE IS WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL +4223efe8-cf27-44f7-88df-d23adda4171d FOR ONE THING THE WHOLE HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN APPLE PIE ORDER AND FOR ANOTHER AN ELABORATE SUPPER MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE EXPECTED RETURN OF THE TRAVELLERS THAT NIGHT FELICITY DEVOTED HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO THIS AND LEFT THE SECONDARY PREPARATION OF THE REGULAR MEALS TO CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL NOW FELICITY FOR ONCE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY RIGHT THE STORY GIRL'S SUGGESTION WAS WRONG AND IF IT HAD BEEN CECILY WHO PROTESTED THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY HAVE LISTENED TO HER AND PROCEEDED NO FURTHER IN THE MATTER NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR THEN THE DOOR SAGGED AGAIN UNDER THE ZID'S LUNGINGS AND HE LEFT THE BUNK TO FOLLOW JENOFER +42415e99-6878-4023-890a-eefed09dc5f2 TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES O K KEEP US POSTED SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID THEREFORE HIS FATHER WAS ALSO A JACK A DONKEY +4262ea80-bea0-405d-87ce-bde3d99b64fb HE SET UP A SHOUT FOR ONE OF THE GUARDS THE BALD ONE HAD BROUGHT HIS MEALS EVERY DAY BUT THE BLACK HAIRED ONE WAS THE MAN WHO CHECKED HIS SAIL AT NIGHT FOR ONCE YONAS THOUGHT HE WAS LUCKY THE BALD MAN APPEARED AFTER SOME FIFTY MINUTES SCREAMING AND CURSING THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS DO YOU MEAN SAID FELIX FINDING VOICE AT LENGTH AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY FARMER CAME OUT OF A PHILOSOPHIC HAZE TO NOTICE SHE WAS LEAVING AND HE ALREADY SHOWED SIGNS OF RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS +42768e7a-6375-4620-a1cd-7f0761868cdd I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD HE GAZED ACROSS THE SHIMMERING DESERT TO A RIDGE OF SCRUBBY HILLS BLUE MOUNTAINS ROSE UP BEHIND THEM GREAT FLOWS OF BLACK LAVA HAD ROLLED DOWN ON TO THE DESERT FLOOR AT SOME DISTANT TIME ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB FOR THIS REASON MOST BEACONS ARE BUILT ON UNINHABITABLE PLANETS IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE +4277d947-4b43-4171-81cd-6cf57ad7c750 IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB ORAN FOUGHT THE CONTROLS HE WAS PLAGUED BY THE VAGUE SLOW MOTION FLOATING SENSATION THAT A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE ALWAYS FEELS IN LIGHTER GRAVITY IT GAVE HIM AN UNHAPPY STOMACH I WANTED THAT ONCE BUT I'VE GOT OVER IT I FOUND OUT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL THE DAY THE MINISTER TAUGHT OUR CLASS THAT IT WAS SELFISH BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME AS WELL YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID THE QUOTES AROUND INTELLIGENT WERE CLEAR IN HIS INTONATION +4289b531-6887-418d-b22e-b237c464edc6 WHAT HAVE YOU DISCOVERED ASKED WOOT RUBBING THE SLEEP FROM HIS EYES AND WITH HIS KNUCKLES AND GIVING THREE WIDE YAWNS TO PROVE HE WAS FULLY AWAKE I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO THE LUGGAGE WAS ALL BOOBY CHAPPED AND COULD DEFEND ITSELF GUNS GAS POISON NEEDLES THE USUAL SORT OF THING IN THE LAST RESULT IT WOULD BLOW ITSELF UP THE EN THREE WENT DOWN BY A FREIGHT ELEVATOR I USED A BACK STAIRS AND WE MET IN THE STREET I HAVE THAT SERMON STILL ALL ITS RED THUMPS UNFADED LYING BESIDE MY DREAM BOOK BUT I'M NOT GOING TO INFLICT IT ON MY READERS I'M NOT SO PROUD OF IT AS I ONCE WAS +4291c1b6-e532-42a4-ad6d-0882f1cbe3f4 OF COURSE BUT INTEREST ALL THE SAME BUT HE HAD ENOUGH IN THAT ONE GLIMPSE TO TELL HIM THE REASON FOR SHARP'S MISERY NOW I ADDED I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ASK THE CUSTOMS AGENTS TO LOOK AT MY BAGS HERE DON'T WANT TO WASTE TIME DO WE THE SHIP IS OPEN THEY CAN CHECK THAT WHENEVER THEY PLEASE ON AND ON BREATHLESSLY HERE'S THE SPOT I MARKED IT WITH THESE THREE PIECES OF STONE QUICK +429c6ed6-71a0-4ff8-8db2-604ab088dabc YOU WILL HEAD FOR IT AS SOON AS WE DROP YOU ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC NEXT WE WANT TO KNOW AND FEDERATION SECURITY MEN WOULD BE EVEN TOUGHER GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN +42a7d209-e372-41d2-800c-8a50e851542f AND GOT A SPLINTER IN A VITAL SPOT HE FROWNED OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY WE WERE ALL GLAD TO HEAR THAT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH NO IT'S ONLY AFTER THEY'RE CONVERTED THAT THEY'RE ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR SAID FELICITY BUT YOU JUST BACK HIM UP IN EVERYTHING CECILY I +42add43d-d0d0-45f9-8b29-b30a235a1c7e WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION FOR I WAS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT BILLY AND HIS MAGIC SEED WERE ARRANT FRAUDS SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY +42b035f3-7f7b-40d9-9fc6-5155b1ccc35a NO NEED FOR YOU TO DIE SAID HORN BETTER TO DIE THAN BE SLAVES SAID TO NEWBE WE DON'T NEED THE DORN WE I CANNOT TAKE THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE LYING SAID TO NUB I MUST KILL YOU NOW HORN'S FOOT RESTED ON THE AIR SLED CONTROL PEDAL PETER WENT OFF RATHER SULLENLY AND FELIX ALSO SULLENLY SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO NURSE HIS NOSE HE TURNED HIS BACK ON CECILY CECILY CAUGHT IT AFTER UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE DAN CALLED HER A TELL TALE AND A BABY AND SNEERED AT HER UNTIL CECILY BEGAN TO CRY A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL AS LONG AS IT STAYED OUT OF THE REGULAR LANES OF COMMERCE AND CLEAR OF DETECTESTATIONS AND PLANETS IT WOULD NEVER BE FOUND THEN HOW COULD I FIND IT AND HAVING FOUND IT CATCH IT +42c4b69a-e44f-4d2a-aea6-8ca80c7af124 ITS UPPER END WAS DIM WITH A DELICATE SPRING MIST AND KINGS FROM ALL LANDS CAME TO WOO HER FOR A BRIDE I HAVEN'T ANOTHER CENT AND GREAT SPREADING BOUGHS SAID DAN SLYLY AND NOW IT WAS A MASSIVE THING LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE FROZE HIS EYES ON THE BRUSH HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO +43107c45-5021-4bbe-9a04-145224c85b04 SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING BUT AT THE WORD THE EARTH OPENED AT THE EXACT SPOT WHERE HE LAY UNDER THE JAGUAR'S PAW HIS BODY SANK DOWNWARD THE EARTH CLOSING OVER IT AGAIN THE LAST THING THE MONKEY SAW AS HE GLANCED UPWARD WAS THE JAGUAR PEERING INTO THE HOLE IN ASTONISHMENT NOT THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE DONE MUCH EXCEPT CECILY SHE'S GOT A HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS +4356a013-8ebb-492e-b65a-ebce8527700f THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT OH ISN'T THIS DREADFUL SAID FELICITY WRINGING HER HANDS AS SHE WALKED THE KITCHEN FLOOR OH WHY DOESN'T THE DOCTOR COME I TOLD DAN THE BAD BERRIES WERE POISON BUT SURELY THEY CAN'T KILL PEOPLE ALTOGETHER THE NEAREST BEACON TO THE BROKEN DOWN PROXIMUS AND CHERRY BEACON WAS ON ONE OF THE PLANETS OF BATUS CERCINUS AND I HEADED THERE FIRST A SHORT TRIP OF ONLY ABOUT NINE DAYS IN HYPERSPACE +436fe7c4-8eec-4fd6-bdee-a3cecfe1cda3 AUNT OLIVIA AND I PLANTED SWEET PEAS YESTERDAY SAID THE STORY GIRL IF YOU HADN'T WOKE UP YOU'D HAVE DIED SAID PETER WITH A DARK SIGNIFICANCE DO NOT KNOW YOUR NIMMY AMY AND SO I CANNOT TELL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO MAKE HER HAPPY BUT I REFUSE TO DO IT UNLESS WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY AT THE END OF HIS PRAYER HE SAID O LORD BLESS THIS POOR YOUNG MAN HIDING IN THE CLOSET +4373894f-d0e3-47da-9151-acc51e75d4f9 BUT MISTER MARSHALL HAD NOT ACCEPTED IT IT WAS THE SAME NIGHT VERY LATE AND AFTER HE HAD BEEN ASLEEP THAT MARSHALL WAS AWAKENED BY THE RING OF AN AUTHORITATIVE VOICE AND DIED QUIETLY AS MARILLA HAD DONE STETSON SHOT AN ANGRY GLANCE AT IT I AM LOUIS HORN OF REDISCOVERY AND REEDUCATION ROLY POLY PEPPY HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A RUTHLESS KILLER HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED THEN REACHED OUT AND TOOK IT +43aed5b6-f4aa-4fd2-815a-27190d5428ce HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION THIS ISN'T TOPSY IS IT I ASKED I KNEW AT ONCE THAT THE QUESTION WAS A FOOLISH ONE TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED EVERYBODY BLAMED POOR DAN CECILY ASKED HIM WHAT HE WOULD FEEL LIKE IF JIMMY WERE NEVER EVER FOUND +43bc4bbb-c0db-4213-893b-ae97191163f7 A BREEZE RIPPLED THE TOPS OF THE GREEN OCEAN BELOW THEM IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I A GREAT CROWD OF CREATURES SIMILAR TO MY CAPTORS HEMMED US IN THE SHUDDER WHICH RELEASED THE LETHAL FORCE THEY ARE PLEASED TEND TO BE EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE I DO NOT COME FROM THE INQUISITOR HE SAID TRUTHFULLY NOR IS MY QUESTION ONE THAT SHOULD CAUSE YOU ALARM +43df40ab-d15a-47fc-b38e-e4e6f6e2a078 FELICITY AND CECILIA WERE WEARING THEIR NEW SUMMER MUSLINS FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT FELICITY HER PINK AND WHITE FACE SHADOWED BY HER DROOPING FORGET ME NOT WREATHED LEGH HORN HAT WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS USUAL BUT CECILI HAVING TORTURED HER HAIR WITH CURL PAPERS ALL NIGHT HAD A RAMPANT BUSH OF CURLS ALL ABOUT HER HEAD WHICH QUITE DESTROYED THE SWEET NUN LIKE EXPRESSION OF HER LITTLE FEATURES THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT HE PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK FROM THE DESK MAYBE IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT SHE JUST GOT THE KEY AND WENT IN AFTER A FEW MINUTES I HEARD SOMETHING BUZZING IN THERE AND I THOUGHT MAYBE MISTER BUTLER WAS SHOWING HER SOME NEW GADGET OF HIS LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS DOING THEN THERE WAS A TELEPHONE CALL FOR HIM AND I COULDN'T MAKE NEITHER OF THEM ANSWER THAT'S WHEN MISTER PARIN AND I BEGAN TO GET WORRIED I SEE +440f9023-8d9b-4520-a6b7-352460ab53a9 FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY HE UNDOUBTEDLY REALIZED THAT ANY INTERRUPTION WOULD ONLY LENGTHEN MY EXPLANATION YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE FELICITY ALSO GOT INTO TROUBLE BECAUSE OF HER DREAMS AND THE STORY GIRL'S SPLENDID EYES WOULD HAVE FLASHED WITH SUCH ANGER AND SCORN AS WOULD HAVE SHRIVELLED THE VERY SOUL OF THE WRETCHED CULPRIT +4432b1b8-638f-4b7a-b245-a6b766c175ea THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY CECILY WHO HAD HEARD IT MANY TIMES BEFORE LISTENED JUST AS EAGERLY AS WE DID SHE DECLARED TO ME AFTERWARDS THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD THE STORY IT ALWAYS SEEMED AS NEW AND EXCITING AS IF YOU HAD JUST HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE HE FELT VAGUELY UNEASY ON THIS CHINA THREE WITH ITS GRAVITY OF ONLY SEVEN EIGHTHS TERRAN STANDARD THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED ITCHED MADDENINGLY HE SCRATCHED NO BUT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE WILL RETORTED FELICITY IN A TONE WHICH IMPLIED THAT WHAT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT PETER HAS GOT A DECENT STOCKING TO HIS NAME WHAT WILL YOU FEEL LIKE IF HE GOES TO CHURCH WITH THE SKIN OF HIS LEGS SHOWING THROUGH THE HOLES MISS STORY GIRL +446227c8-743f-46f1-911e-4778aa7944b2 AFTER THAT ALMOST EVERY DAY AGLEYA WOULD GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN IT'S EARLY ABROAD YOU ARE AND ON BLACK DAN NO LESS WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET +44626209-675a-46b6-9474-d29f29493a2d COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR THREE PALLETS LAY AGAINST THE FAR WHITE WALL A SINGLE ONE AGAINST THE LEFT SHARP WENT TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE NEAR THE SINGLE BED THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID WHILE YOU ARE WITH US BUT THE TIN OWL COULD SEE VERY NICELY IN THE DARK SO HE GUIDED HIS FRIENDS TO THE RIGHT PLACE AND WHEN ALL WERE DROOPED BEFORE THE DOOR OOPE COMMANDED IT TO OPEN RING THE AFTERNOON JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP A TEAR BLOTTED NOTE FROM SARA RAY SARA HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HILL FARM SINCE PETER HAD DEVELOPED MEASLES SHE WAS AN UNHAPPY LITTLE EXILE AND COULD ONLY RELIEVE HER ANGUISH OF SOUL BY DAILY LETTERS TO CECILY WHICH THE FAITHFUL AND OBLIGING JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP FOR HER +4472686d-6b28-4cb8-8c92-b1b71bb1cc2c NO CONCEDED PETER RELUCTANTLY SHE WASN'T PRETTY BUT SHE LOOKED LIKE THE WOMAN IN THAT PICTURE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER SENT HER LAST WEEK THE ONE WITH THE SHINY RING AROUND HER HEAD AND THE BABY IN HER LAP I'VE SEEN AUNT JANE LOOK AT ME JUST LIKE THAT WOMAN LOOKS AT HER BABY MA NEVER LOOKS SO POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING I WISH I COULD DREAM OF MY AUNT JANE I NEVER DO DREAM OF THE DEAD YOU'LL HEAR OF THE LIVING QUOTED FELIX ORACULARLY AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM HE HEARD RHINARD ASK FOOL STUNT TOWERS SPUTTERED NOD I THINK I THINK YOU WENT DOWN DELIBERATELY JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK PERMANENT BENEFIT WAS SLOW BUT CUMULATIVE OFFERING FOR THE FIRST TIME A REAL STEP TOWARD ULTIMATE STABILITY THE MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIC AND POLITICAL FIELDS CRIED OUT FOR CRYSTALS AND MORE CRYSTALS IF THE ISLANDERS WOULD TELL US THEIR SOURCE AND LET US HELP DEVELOP IT SATTERFIELD SAID PEEVISHLY INSTEAD OF DOLING OUT A HANDFUL OF CRYSTALS EVERY TEN DAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY NEED OF ACTION HOMESIDE FEELS THEY'RE JUST LETTING US HAVE SOME OF THE SURPLUS +449cc237-5b5c-4303-9a55-c6e52dc95ffd UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL YOU SEE IT DOESN'T DO TO BE TOO PROUD FELICITY HE REMARKED GIVING HER A POKE HE STOOD FOR A LONG MOMENT THEN CAUTIOUSLY SKIRTED THE BRUSH AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE BURNING SHIP THERE WAS AN ODD CLICKING SOUND AND HE STOPPED IT SOUNDED AGAIN +44da64f6-dc23-46c1-bf31-5d120022db4a BUT WE DID NOT TRUMPET OUR WRONGS ABROAD IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I A GREAT CROWD FORMED AROUND ME I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING AS MY EYES FELL UPON THE SHUTTER BEHIND THE THICK GRINNING LIPS IT WAS A COOL DEWY EVENING AND WE WALKED DOWN THE LONG RED HILL IN THE HIGHEST OF SPIRITS +44ee44d3-60b0-4698-b0fd-394f1c2b0f7e WE WERE NOT SO SURE OF THIS GHOSTS WERE UNCHANCY FOLK BUT DURING THE DAY THE STORY GIRL WOULD SMUGGLE UPSTAIRS VARIOUS TIDBITS FROM THE PANTRY PUTTING HALF IN PETER'S ROOM AND HALF IN HER OWN I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP BUT IT WAS JUST THE THING TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION SETANOVO I HAVE BEEN A WANDERER FOR NEARLY A FULL YEAR AND NOW MY WANDERINGS HAVE BROUGHT ME TO THIS SPLENDID CASTLE +44f8583d-ff33-4941-b55d-70e26744544c THESE DETAILS WERE THE FIRST THINGS THAT MADE FARMER THINK RAY MIGHT NOT BE A COMPLETE CRACK PICK AFTER ALL THE SCARECROW RUBBED AND PATTED HIS STUFFED HEAD AND SO BEEN SEPARATED FROM ALL HER FAIRY SISTERS INSTEAD HE GAZED AT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER ADMIRINGLY AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS INSTEAD AFTER DEVOUTLY THANKING GOODNESS THAT OUR GROWN UPS IN SPITE OF SOME IMPERFECTIONS +452353e7-9330-46e1-9843-5d75286936a6 I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP QUIET AS I WAS THOUGH INSKIPT STILL HEARD ME THE LIGHT CAME ON AND THERE HE WAS SITTING UP IN BED POINTING A POINT SEVEN CALIBI ROYALUS AT MY STERN YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE BRAINS THAN THAT DAGREES HE SNARLED CREEPING INTO MY ROOM AT NIGHT YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SHOT I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE THE SHIP IT WAS A TWENTY FOUR HOUR JUMP SHIP'S TIME AND I CAME THROUGH IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE WITH THIS WE WENT TO BED AND SLEPT AS SOUNDLY AS IF TRAGEDIES OF BLUE CHESTS AND TURNIPS AND CROOKED COWS HAD NO PLACE IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS AT ALL +453dd057-22d4-4883-a4ba-9e2f00fc229b I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY THE YUKAHOO MAGIC IS ADMITTED TO BE VERY STRANGE IN ITS WORKINGS THE COAT WAS BUTTONED TIGHT TO KEEP THE PACKED STRAW FROM FALLING OUT THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM THE SHIP WAS OURS TERRA HAS NO REAL NEED OF THE CRYSTALS +4541c964-05fe-4794-b4cc-7a77af492cbc IF AS WAS SAID HE DETESTED CHILDREN MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A RICH RETIRED FARMER WHO TOOK LIFE EASILY TURN HERSELF INTO A BLACK CAT ASKED FELIX STARING AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD PROBABLY LET ANOTHER REPAIR MAN IN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS FINALLY I SHALL TAKE PRIDE IN BEING THE WIFE ALL THAT SECOND DAY THEY TRAVELED STEADILY +455bd00c-eb0b-47c4-875a-0a9a9a62d23b AND CREATED TWO ROWS OF ENORMOUS TEETH AGAINST THE EMPEROR'S TIN BODY JUST DROPPING A FEW HINTS OF THE MOST ELEMENTARY SORT THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BELONG GRANDFATHER SAW HER WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY THEIR DREAMS SUDDENLY BECAME SO LURID AND DREADFUL AND PICTURESQUE THAT IT WAS HARD FOR THE REST OF US TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE NOT PAINTING THE LILY RATHER FREELY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS OF THEM +458613a9-8f8d-49d5-b3f1-c1e73f24b911 MANUEL WENT WITH MULA A ROUND EASY MAN AND A SPAR SCORNED MULE MULA WAS A MULE BUT THERE WERE OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA OF A GENUS LESS CERTAIN YET EVEN ABOUT MULA THERE WAS AN ODDITY IN HER ANCESTRY HER PATERNAL GRANDFATHER HAD BEEN A GOAT MANOEL HAD ONCE TOLD MISSA MARSHALL ABOUT THIS BUT MISTER MARSHALL HAD NOT ACCEPTED IT UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN IF CHINA THREE STILL EXISTS IN FIVE DAYS CAN'T YOU IMAGINE THE FUND THE POLITICIANS MY MA MEA WE WANT THIS PLANET CLEARED FOR CONTACT OR DEAD BEFORE THEN PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE I SWUNG THE AXE AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL I BROUGHT THE AXE DOWN AGAIN AND SOMETHING CRACKED SHARPLY AND THE THIRD BLOW SENT THE DOOR SWINGING WIDE +458b9521-275d-41d5-965e-87c590073995 YES I SUPPOSE ONE OF THE PRIESTS OPERATES IT FROM SOME HIDDEN ROOM WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY YOU ARE A HERETIC KNUFF SAID SUDDENLY I CANNOT YOU CAN PRAY YUNUS SAID KNUFF BLINKED PRAY HE SAID +45a7abad-d4bf-46e9-8ea6-f11bcf6ad8b8 BUT THEY WOULD NOT YIELD IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID MISTER MARWOOD INDIGNANTLY LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER AND ONE MILLION OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE IT WAS A NIGHTMARE REPLICA OF A SHRUNKEN MULE THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS +45b2ca21-f152-4997-990d-578cdcc03a7f THEN WE FOREGATHERED AROUND A TINY WOOD SPRING COLD AND PELLUCID UNDER ITS YOUNG MAPLES AND ATE THE JELLY COOKIES AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US A TALE OF A HAUNTED SPRING IN A MOUNTAIN GLEN WHERE A FAIR WHITE LADY DWELT WHO PLEDGED ALL COMERS IN A GOLDEN CUP WITH JEWELS BRIGHT SHE HAD AN ESPECIAL KNACK FOR DRAWING MONSTROSITIES AND I VIVIDLY RECALL THE PICTURE OF AN ENORMOUS AND HIDEOUS LIZARD LOOKING LIKE A REPTILE OF THE PTERODACTYL PERIOD WHICH SHE HAD DREAMED OF SEEING CRAWL ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE IN THE MAIN THEY DID BUT ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING DAN WAS PLAINLY INCLINED TO REBEL HE HAD HAD TIME TO GROW SORE OVER THE THINGS THAT FELICITY HAD SAID TO HIM WHEN JIMMY PATTERSON WAS THOUGHT LOST AND HE BEGAN THE DAY WITH A FLATLY EXPRESSED DETERMINATION THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO LET FELICITY RULE THE ROOST +45c68570-9bc0-4d53-80bd-dac21229dc94 ONE BY ONE THE UNTANGLED THREADS RAN TO THIS OFFICE HE ALSO HAD A SECRETARY WHOSE ILLNESSES COSIDED WITH HER EMPLOYMENT IN THE OTHER OFFICES WHEN I STRAIGHTENED UP FROM MY DESK THE ACHE IN MY BACK STABBED LIKE A HOT WIRE IT WAS VACATION AND THERE WAS NOT MUCH TO DO THAT DAY WE WERE SOON FREE TO SEEK THE ORCHARD BUT THE STORY GIRL WOULD NOT COME THE MUSTARD AND WARM WATER PRODUCED ITS PROPER EFFECT PROMPTLY BUT GAVE DAN NO RELIEF HE CONTINUED TO WRITHE AND GROAN OZMA HERSELF BEING A REAL FAIRY KNEW A LOT OF MAGIC BUT SHE ONLY USED IT TO BENEFIT HER SUBJECTS +45ca90b3-5db4-4926-81c2-daabc7cf1484 NO SARA SHOOK HER FAWN COLORED HEAD MOURNFULLY MA ALWAYS KEEPS THE PANTRY LOCKED FOR FEAR JUDY PINNOT WILL TREAT HER FRIENDS YOU FOUND THEM THE CRIMINAL RING HE ASKED HIS FINGERS GROPING OVER HIS SCOUT FOR A FRESH HOLD FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER SHE LOOKED LIKE A SLENDER RED LILY IN THE UNSTUDIED GRACE OF HER ATTITUDE A SPARK FLASHED IN MISTER CAMPBELL'S BLACK EYES IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL +45d2c6d3-beb8-4420-a476-c1ea1f9b8ae4 I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS O GIRLS DON'T FIGHT SAID CECILY THE PEACE MAKER IT'S SUCH A NICE DAY AND WE'LL HAVE A NICE TIME IF YOU DON'T SPOIL IT FIGHTING A HUGE HOLE WAS BURNED IN IT AND WHEN AUNT JANET DISCOVERED IT SHE LIFTED UP HER VOICE WITH NO UNCERTAIN SOUND +45e108a2-3a03-40de-8b52-2f1ce219ee58 THEN SHE SPOKE SHE SAID GOOD MORNING NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS WELL MAYBE THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE SAID CECILY BUT IN STORIES IT'S JUST AS EASY TO MAKE THEM AS HANDSOME AS NOT I LIKE THEM BEST THAT WAY I JUST LOVE TO READ A STORY WHERE THE HEROINE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SAID MARSHALL HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN +45f1c767-a612-4eb2-aab9-286310ea6912 HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY E I MIGHT STILL DRAG THE SECRET OF THE CALM CRYSTAL SOURCE OUT OF THE ISLANDERS THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN THE WARDER POINTED TO THE DARK FLOOD THAT ROLLED UNDER THE BRIDGE +4614b815-e1c8-4aa2-b14c-568be79bb1f8 OH I DON'T KNOW MILLIONS OF YEARS LIKELY AND EVEN THEN I DON'T SUPPOSE ALL THE ANGELS DO A GOOD MANY OF THEM MUST JUST STAY PLAIN ANGELS I EXPECT I SHALL BE SATISFIED JUST TO BE A PLAIN ANGEL SAID FELICITY MODESTLY OH SEE HERE IF YOU'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT AND ARGUE OVER EVERYTHING WE'LL NEVER GET THE STORY TOLD SAID FELIX DRY UP ALL OF YOU AND LET THE STORY GIRL GO ON WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON AH NEVER MIND I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T IT WAS THE STORY GIRLS STORIES MADE ME WANT TO LAUGH AND SO I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR FOR HER TO BE MAD AT ME SHE HADN'T OUGHT TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IF SHE DON'T WANT ME TO LAUGH WHEN I SEE THEM PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT OLD E PAY FIGURES MAYBE WE COULD DO HIM A FAVOR IN THAT LINE AND THAT'S WHY HE'S ARGUING THE PRIESTS WANT TO HONOR US FOR THE GOOD WE'VE DONE BY GIVING US THE REWARD WE'VE JUST SEEN SO BEFORE HE COULD FINISH E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS AND I WAS JERKED AWAY +462afcb3-e15f-4873-ae4a-2b9ba655373d A CLASS FIVE CULTURE AND TO CHECK IT THEY MUST BREAK A PRIME RULE OF GALACTIC PROTOCOL IN ASKING THE HELP OF A NEW AND UNTESTED SPECIES AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST BEINGS THAT LIVE ON A WORLD WITH ALMOST AS MUCH WATER AS OURS WHO CAN'T USE THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES ANY MORE THAN THAT RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN SOMEWHAT OF A JAM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING HUNGRILY NURSING THE BLACK AND BARREN SOIL AND GNARLED BRIEF ROOTS REACHING OUT TORTURED ARMS TOWARDS THE FORBIDDING SKY +4632da4e-cd81-463f-b067-75f718fed0a7 TAKE IT SHE WHISPERED THE QUESTION WAS HOW WAS HE TO TAKE IT BOTH OF AGLEIA'S ARMS WERE HELD FAST TO HER SIDES BY GLECON'S ARMS AND IF HE LOOSED HIS CLASP EVER SO LITTLE HE WAS AFRAID SHE WOULD FALL SO WEAK AND TREMBLING WAS SHE FROM HER DREADFUL FRIGHT TRUE ENOUGH BUT WE SHALL GO TOWARD THE NORTH FIRST OF ALL INTO THE GELICAN COUNTRY AND SO PASS AROUND THE EMERALD CITY EXPLAINED THE TIN WOODMAN CECILY CARRIED HIS MEALS TO HIM AND READ A HINTY BOOK TO HIM ALL HER SPARE TIME THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF +46341569-7b38-42b2-bbbe-67d293d36456 IT'S A DEFINITE RAIDING PARTY ONLY THE LOW GRADES OF THE URN ARE SAID ORAN MURRAIN'S NOW MOPPING UP AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO BUT WHEN I GROW UP THEY'LL HAVE TO BE COVERED UP ALL THE TIME YOU JUST TAKE MY ADVICE AND GO INTO THIS WITH ALL YOUR HEART IF YOU GO AT ALL +46562e56-8c03-40ee-8602-4b7393a557d7 WELL FINALLY REMARKED THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME THAT WILL BE SURE TO PLEASE MY FRIEND GINGER WHO HAPPENS TO BE AWAY FROM HOME JUST NOW WHEN SHE RETURNS SHE WILL BE GREATLY SURPRISED FELICITY HAD PUT ON HER BLUE MUSLIN AND LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL IN IT THAT HER GOOD HUMOR WAS QUITE RESTORED CECILY'S HEADACHE WAS BETTER AND THE STORY GIRL REFRESHED BY AN AFTERNOON SIESTA CAME DOWN WITH SMILES AND SPARKLING EYES HERE YOU ADDED UNCLE ROGER PERCEIVING ME CUT ALONG AND GET OFF TO YOUR BED AND MIND YOU DON'T EAT CUCUMBERS AND MILK BEFORE YOU GO +4688ce71-907e-40d8-b1a3-621b63fa1554 IT'S ALL JUST AS FATHER DESCRIBED IT SAID FELIX WITH A BLISSFUL SIGH AND THERE'S THE WELL WITH THE CHINESE ROOF WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT THEN GET ME AN AXE I COMMANDED QUICK AN AXE HESITATED PARON AN AXE AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT ALL ROAMS CHECKED RESULTS NEGATIVE EXCEPT FOR ONE OPTIC BUG IN THAT WALL +46ce147c-a427-41cb-99c8-00bea19f75c8 HE LOOKED AT IT AS A MAN LOOKS AT A FLICKERING FIREPLACE AND THINKS OF OTHER THINGS HE THOUGHT OF THE SUN FIFTY TWO TRILLION MILES AWAY A PIN POINT OF LIGHT LOST IN THE DAZZLE OF THE MILKY WAY THE EARTH A SPECK OF DUST IN ORBIT JUST AS THIS PLANET WAS TO ITS MASTER SERIOUS SOMEHOW WE TOO FELT THAT IT WAS WE FELT THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT APPROVE OF US IT MADE LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHO ELSE DID OR DID NOT TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR MAYBE THE CLOCK STRUCK AND WE DIDN'T HEAR IT SUGGESTED DAN SOMEBODY BETTER GO SEE I'LL GO SAID CECILY I SUPPOSE EVEN IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I'LL HAVE TIME TO GET BACK TO YOU +46ef8dde-d96a-41bf-83be-8adee43cec17 I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING HE SEARCHED AROUND FOUND SOME GLASSY BLACK ROCKS AND ANCHORED DOWN THE CHUTE FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT THEY NEVER SEEMED TO HAPPEN NOW THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS +47083c65-f3fb-4f47-a54d-e266dbe4de4c YOU MIGHT SETTLE IT BY DRAWING LOTS SAID CECILY DESPERATELY DRAWING LOTS IS WICKEDER THAN FIGHTING SAID DAN IT'S KIND OF GAMBLING INTO HIS EARS CAME STETSON'S VOICE BETTER ADMIT IT THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN I LIKE YOURN SAID TO NEWBE YOU SHALL BE ONE OF MY SLAVES YOU WILL TEACH ME MANY THINGS THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT METHODISTS OR PRESBYTERIANS IN THE BIBLE SAID FELICITY SCORNFULLY +470dd7c8-b6f8-4323-a7da-208110bc6566 IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE VERY NICE AND I WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY EXCEPT WHERE WAS HE A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND NEVER NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO WITH ME DOROTHY OF COURSE ANSWERED THE LITTLE GIRL I WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING +474a04db-59ae-4da0-bffb-71c04e13a564 AND IF SO WHERE IT IS YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH I THINK IT'S AWFUL FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO BE ALWAYS QUARRELLING SIGHED CECILY JUST LET'S ALL SIT STILL AND COUNT A HUNDRED BEFORE WE SAY ANOTHER WORD +4755493a-28d0-489a-ac92-30980e02c874 AND THE RAINBOW WAS A GREAT BRIDGE BUILT OF LIVING COLORS SO DAZZLING AND WONDERFUL THAT BEYOND IT THE EYE COULD SEE NOTHING ONLY FAR AWAY A GREAT BLINDING SPARKLING GLORY WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE SPRANG UP IN A SHOWER OF DIAMOND FIRE INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP +476ca068-0e5b-4f52-85e0-d4afc47b9101 HE WAS NOT ANGRY THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES BUT HE TOOK THE COMBATANTS BY THEIR SHIRT COLLARS AND DRAGGED THEM APART THIS STOPS RIGHT HERE BOYS HE SAID YOU KNOW I DON'T ALLOW FIGHTING I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST FELICITY WAS SO IMPRESSED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMY THAT SHE DROPPED BACK FROM THE OTHER GIRLS AND WALKED BESIDE HIM +477d0cc7-1152-40ad-bc38-cb83e0eefac7 IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY THEY MUST STILL THINK OF ME AS SITTING IN THE CONTROL ROOM THAT'S THE SHIP'S GENERATORS YOU'RE LOOKING AT I SAID NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL WONDER IF THEY'LL BRING US ANYTHING SAID DAN I'M THINKING LONG TO HEAR ALL ABOUT THAT WEDDING SAID FELICITY WHO WAS BRAIDING TIMOTHY STOCKS INTO A COLLAR FOR PAT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT WEDDINGS AND GETTING MARRIED SAID DAN CONTEMPTUOUSLY BUT WHY SHOULD YOU WISH TO ESCAPE I SHALL GIVE YOU NEW FORMS THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES YOU NOW HAVE BE CONTENTED WITH YOUR FATE FOR DISCONTENT LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS IN ANY FORM IS THE GREATEST EVIL THAT CAN BEFALL YOU +478ee212-eabd-4105-9536-ba2428884214 COUSIN RACHEL WROTE BACK THAT IF IT WASN'T FOR ONE THING THAT WAS IN THE TRUNK SHE WOULD ASK MOTHER TO OPEN THE CHEST AND DISPOSE OF THE THINGS AS SHE LIKED BUT SHE COULD NOT BEAR THAT ANY ONE BUT HERSELF SHOULD SEE OR TOUCH THAT ONE THING SO SHE WANTED IT LEFT AS IT WAS IF MY PLAN DOESN'T WORK CAPTAIN THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH OF MY SKIN LEFT TO PICK UP WITH A TWEEZER NOW IF YOU PLEASE I'D LIKE TO GET TO URDAIDA AND PICK UP MY SHIP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN SCINTILLATED ABOVE US PETER AND THE STORY GIRL KNEW ALL ABOUT THEM AND IMPARTED THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO US GENEROUSLY +47f54cb1-3f10-49f7-9c7e-2d863b3430a0 CLARETON AGREED OF COURSE YOU HAVE HE THOUGHT I KNOW THAT YOURS THOUGHT WEARILY FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING PETE SHOUTED A FAMILIAR VOICE AND I SCRAMBLED TO MY FEET THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY ONE OF THE LIZARDS GARGLED AT ANOTHER ONE AND THE SECOND ONE TURNED AROUND +4802c62a-92fb-4232-a34b-a70cb084dc7d IF YOU DESIRE IT PROMISED THE TIN WOODMAN LEANING BACK IN HIS TIN THROAT AND CROSSING HIS TIN LEGS THERE WAS AN ODD CLICKING SOUND AND HE STOPPED IT SOUNDED AGAIN BRANDON REALIZED HE WAS PERSPIRING DESPITE THE CHILL OF THE DESERT NIGHT THE ZID RAGED INTO THEIR COMMUNAL REST CELL SMASHED THEM DOWN FROM THEIR GIMBLED SLEEPING PERCHES AND WITH THE RAVENING BLOODHUNGER OF ITS KIND DEVOURED THEM BEFORE THEY COULD WAKE ENOUGH TO TELEPPORT TO SAFETY +48331dcc-f305-4f30-9047-bc75f37ffd8e BOTH HOPE AND VIC WERE FIGHTING DESPERATELY BUT THERE WERE AT LEAST TEN GUARDS TO EACH OF THEM I LIFTED MY HAND AND WAVED A FAREWELL HOPING THAT ONE OF THEM AT LEAST WOULD SEE THE GESTURE AND KNOW THAT MY LAST THOUGHT WAS OF THEM WHO LIVES OVER THERE I ASKED POINTING TO A HOUSE ACROSS THE FIELDS OH THAT BELONGS TO THE AWKWARD MAN HIS NAME IS JASPER DALE BUT EVERYBODY CALLS HIM THE AWKWARD MAN AND THEY DO SAY HE WRITES POETRY OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I THOUGHT THAT STUFF IN THE BOX WAS CORN MEAL AND USED IT TO MAKE THE PUDDING +483c3518-a157-4838-aee7-4154eb2cad4b THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED OVER HOME AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK WE GASPED SHE HAD COMBED HER HAIR OUT STRAIGHT AND BRAIDED IT IN A TIGHT KINKY PUDGY BRAID AND SHE WORE AN OLD DRESS OF FADED PRINT WITH HOLES IN THE ELBOWS AND RAGGED FLOUNCES WHICH WAS MUCH TOO SHORT FOR HER AND I KNOW HOW MANY EGGS MOTHER SAID YOU COULD USE WHILE SHE WAS AWAY WHEN IN REALITY THE VENGEFUL FLEET WAS JUST AS IMAGINARY AS MY ADMIRAL'S WRITING SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS AND THE SCARECROW PUSHED WOOT ASIDE SLOWLY IT SWELLED OUT UNTIL THE KING CRIED STOP +4846a082-5ec3-482c-b08d-5c8e4972d8d8 AND I DARE NOT GET HUNGRY FOR A DOZEN OR SO YEARS TO COME PERHAPS IT IS THE HOME OF NIMIE AMMY HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT HARVEST WAS ENDED AND THOUGH SUMMER WAS NOT YET GONE HER FACE WAS TURNING WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE CAMPBELL DID +4847e72d-043d-4bad-97f6-47e0190218a7 WE ALL ENJOYED OUR TURNOVERS EXCEPT SARA RAY SHE ATE HERS BUT SHE KNEW SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE SO HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF SNACKS BETWEEN MEALS OR OF JAM TURNOVER AT ANY TIME SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS THE STORY GIRL LAWFULLY TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND AND FELICITY SAID THAT FAT BOYS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS AFTER THAT PHILEAS DECLARED IT WOULD SERVE FELICITY WRITE IF THE STORY GIRL NEVER SPOKE TO HER AGAIN IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS AND THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING FOR A HERO WOULDN'T IT HE GRIMACED IN THE DARKNESS +48da293c-156b-4cd5-bca2-ae7886164215 THIS NEW SENSE IS OF GREAT VALUE PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN TO TEACH IT TO OTHERS IN TIME THOUGH WE HAVE HAD LITTLE SUCCESS WITH THAT BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAINTAIN ON NUMBERS PASS THE GIFT ON TO OUR CHILDREN IF IT IS POSSIBLE YERS SAID WE MUST TRY CLETON SAID AND YOUR DAUB IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT I KNOW THAT YOURS THOUGHT WEARILY BUT THEY GOT OUT OF THE INVISIBLE STRIP OF COUNTRY AS SUDDENLY AS THEY HAD ENTERED IT AND THE INSTANT THEY GOT OUT THEY STOPPED SHORT FOR JUST BEFORE THEM WAS A DEEP DITCH RUNNING AT RIGHT ANGLES AS FAR AS THEIR EYES COULD SEE AND STOPPING ALL FURTHER PROGRESS TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH WE ALL WENT TO PIECES EXCEPT CECILY WHO ALONE RETAINED HER PRESENCE OF MIND HAVE YOU GOT A PAIN IN YOUR STOMACH SHE DEMANDED I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH OH OH OH +48dcff5c-823c-49fc-bcc1-d9b3f536d59e MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US AFTER THAT IT JUST FELL INTO PLACE IF IT DID WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPOT IT AND THE BROTHERHOOD HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER CLTON SAID A I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME THE PHYSICIAN CAME AROUND THE DESK THE COLONEL STOPPED PACING AND FACED THE RADIO MAN HE RAISED THE INTENE ON THE TELETOKEY AND SNAPPED IT ON THE +48e321d2-c7d0-45c9-814b-da1731842224 I'LL FORGIVE YOU SHE SAID GRACIOUSLY FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE THE COLD SWEAT WAS NOW A RUNNING RIVER OF FEAR I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY I COULDN'T GET A LOOK INTO HIS EYES IF HE WAS TRYING TO HOAX US THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TWINKLE IN THEM HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON +48f95289-576f-480e-950b-874f55b6e1fc BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS ANYWAY IT SERVES HER RIGHT DECLARED DOROTHY WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING WHO'S TALKING TO YOU SAID FELICITY MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET THE MINISTER'S WORDS HAD REMOVED FROM OUR MINDS THE BITTER BELIEF THAT GOD WAS LIKE THAT PICTURE BUT MISSUS RAY WAS INEXORABLE AND CICELY HAD TO CONTENT HERSELF BY SENDING LONG VERBAL MESSAGES WITH A JUDY PILLOW +490f58ef-134b-4f32-980a-b340ab4ddf9e A DAUGHTER OF EVE I HATE THE THOUGHT OF GROWING UP SAID THE STORY GIRL REFLECTIVELY BECAUSE I CAN NEVER GO BAREFOOTED THEN AND NOBODY WILL EVER SEE WHAT BEAUTIFUL FEET I HAVE DAN SHARED IT WITH US SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER THE SHEETS AND PILLOW SLIPS WERE FRAGRANT WITH LAVENDER AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US CONVERSATION LANGUISHED WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR WOULD TWO O'CLOCK NEVER COME AND END THE SUSPENSE +49221aee-f398-4b8c-b77b-029641e0b9b6 PETER DID NOT THINK BLUEBERRY WINE WOULD DO ANY GOOD IT WAS TEN O'CLOCK BEFORE DAN BEGAN TO GET BETTER BUT FROM THAT TIME HE IMPROVED RAPIDLY WHEN THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN UNCLE ROGER REACHED MARKDALE CAME AT HALF PAST TEN HE FOUND HIS PATIENT VERY WEAK AND WHITE BUT FREE FROM PAIN THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE WHY NOT GOODNESS ME IT WAS DREADFUL WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING YOURSELF WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLEAMING WITH IMPISH LAUGHTER IF I WANTED HIM DREADFULLY AND HE WOULDN'T DO THE ASKING PERHAPS I WOULD I'D RATHER DIE AN OLD MAID FORTY TIMES OVER EXCLAIMED FELICITY +49586cff-6223-4af7-b68f-6023a099cd2b I HAD A PERFECTLY AWFUL DREAM LAST NIGHT SAID CECILY WITH A SHUDDER OF REMEMBRANCE I DREAMED I WAS ON A DESERT ISLAND INHABITED BY TIGERS AND NATIVES WITH TWO HEADS OH SAID THE STORY GIRL LOOKING AT CECILY HALF REPROACHFULLY WHY COULDN'T YOU TELL IT BETTER THAN THAT IF I HAD SUCH A DREAM I COULD TELL IT SO THAT EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD FEEL AS IF THEY DREAMED IT TOO WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED IT WAS AN AWFUL DREAM BUT IT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING TOO NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH THIS SEEMED TO BE A RATHER UNANSWERABLE KIND OF CONUNDRUM WE DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM AS WE ROAMED THE WOOD AND DAN AND PETER ALMOST QUARRELLED OVER IT DAN MAINTAINING THAT THE THING WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND PETER BEING OF OPINION THAT THE MUSH WAS SOMEHOW MADE THICKER IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EATEN AND SO TOOK UP LESS ROOM DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND THEN ATTEMPTED A SWAN DYKE JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE THE OLD MAN DROPPED LIKE A STONE FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE +49626d38-41ec-4dfc-9d75-f9013314d3ce PRESENTLY THE STORY GIRL WHO HAD BEEN STANDING UP LEANING AGAINST A TALL FIR SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE CRY SO WITH DREADFUL RENDING SONGS BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT TINY RED MISTS MARKED DUST STORMS CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST HE RIGHTED THE SHIP GET THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER IN HERE AT ONCE I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME ALSO A COUPLE OF CLERKS WITH TRANSCRIBERS AND FAST THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH +496e2166-d46d-4d75-a905-2c5886c2c1a5 CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES PETER WAS STARING AT THE STORY GIRL WITH A FASCINATED HORROR STRICKEN GAZE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED ALL LOOKED AS IF THEY WERE HELD PRISONERS IN THE BONDS OF A FEARSOME SPELL WHICH THEY WOULD GLADLY BREAK BUT COULD NOT I WOULD MUCH RATHER TAKE A CHANCE OF BREAKING THROUGH NEAR SOME STAR THAN SPEND TIME JUST BARRELING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE BUT APPARENTLY TECH KNOWS THIS TOO THEY HAD A SAFETY FACTOR BUILT INTO THE COMPUTER SO YOU CAN'T END UP INSIDE A STAR NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRIED I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD MANY OTHER THINGS YOU MUSTN'T DO BUT THESE I'VE NAMED ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT +49a77c6e-b8a4-4639-9852-639191fa736c THEN HE PLUNGED IN WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SPEAKING IN HIS ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL TONE ANOTHER UNORTHODOX THING HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN HE STUMBLED OVER TO A CHAIR HALF DROPPING INTO IT SUGGESTED DOROTHY SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY +4a00aeb1-572a-4afd-bb5f-4be2e6802f0f THEN HE SAW WHAT WAS IN THEIR MINDS AND THE DISTASTE CHANGED TO FEAR NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THIS WAS THE PARISH CHURCH OF COURSE A GOOD SOLID WOODEN STRUCTURE FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET THE LITTLE DIAL IN POINTER WHICH WOULD INDICATE THE CHANGES OF THE MOON AND THE VERY DENT IN ITS WOODEN DOOR WHICH FATHER HAD MADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY BY KICKING IT IN A FIT OF NAUGHTINESS BUT AS HE CRUMPLED HIS BODY SEEMED TO SOFTEN AND SHATTER INTO A SCINTILLATING CLOUD AN INSTANT LATER +4a00c339-7283-46e8-8098-b0464bf33460 FOR A HYPERSPACE JUMP YOU NEED AT LEAST FOUR BEACONS FOR AN ACCURATE FIX FOR LONG JUMPS NAVIGATORS USE AS MANY AS SEVEN OR EIGHT SO EVERY BEACON IS IMPORTANT AND EVERY ONE HAS TO KEEP OPERATING CENSUS LIST NAMES OF EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGDALENA I HAD TO STEAL IT IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL FILM THE WRITING IS SO SMALL AND THE ROLL GOES ON AND ON THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE PETER WAS WITH US IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN IF TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FELLOWS HE SAID +4a048f2a-62be-4964-9e4d-ef2f653899be THEY MADE VERY LONG PRAYERS IN THOSE DAYS YOU KNOW AND I'D GIVE ANYTHING IF I'D NEVER PUT SARA UP TO GOING TO THAT SHOW SHE SAID IT'S ALL MY FAULT BUT THE PUNISHMENT FALLS ON SARA AND THAT ISN'T FAIR I QUIT DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME WHAT A DIRTY JOB YOU HAVE COOKED UP BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT AND YOU DON'T WANT TO REVEAL COMPANY'S SECRETS TO ME WE'RE SETTING UP OUR OWN SEARCH SYSTEM TO FIND THE PLANETS BEFORE THEY DO THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT +4a6a4b1c-68be-4180-a322-e6448b1070d0 IN A BRIEF SPACE WE WERE LAUGHING RIGHT MERRILY NO LONGER REMEMBERING OUR WRONGS AT THE HANDS OF THOSE CRUEL GROWN UPS WHEN HE MANAGED TO SPEAK THE WORDS WERE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY HE HAD ALREADY REGISTERED EVERY EVIDENCE OF INJURED INNOCENCE THERE WAS ONE DIM PICTURE OF A PEPPE CHUBBY BUT LOOKING TOO GRIM TO BE A HAPPY FAT BOY I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY I'M GOODY GOODY THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE +4a6af2b8-60f8-4fb6-80dd-b29dafea204c THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR ME TO HAVE ANY HORRIDID DREAMS LAMENTED SARA RAY MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE HE LOOKED ALMOST LIKE A MAN ROCKER COLLAPSED AWAY FROM MY ROAR AND GNAWED HIS EARS YES HE SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME TROUBLE AND WHAT ELSE I INTERRUPTED HIM COLD MOISTURE WAS BEGINNING TO COLLECT ALONG MY SPINE NOW THE DRIVES THE CONTROLS ARE THEY IN TO WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE +4a6d506a-a87a-48d6-a3f3-64396696118b I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER THAT GOT RID OF THE SMILE BUT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE I KNOW THIS COUNTRY PRETTY WELL HAVING BEEN MADE HERE BY A MUNCHKIN FARMER AND CRIED OUT IN ALARM BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR FACE IT IS FAIREST THAT E'ER THE SUN SHONE ON HUMMED DONALD AND OH HE THOUGHT SO TOO +4aa0f79d-6979-4f69-b107-f50b883446d8 THE NATIVES CHOMPED AND RATTLED AND THE TRANSLATION ROLLED OUT ALMOST INSTANTLY I HAD THE VOLUME TURNED UP AND THE WHOLE SQUARE ECHOED SOME OF THE MORE CREDULOUS NATIVES PROSTRATED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS FLED SCREAMING ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT AND DARK WE CELEBRATED THE NOVEMBER DAY WHEN PETER WAS PERMITTED TO REJOIN US BY A PICNIC IN THE ORCHARD SARA RAY WAS ALSO ALLOWED TO COME UNDER PROTEST AND HER JOY OVER BEING AMONG US ONCE MORE WAS ALMOST PATHETIC HOW QUEER EXCLAIMED THE LITTLE WANDERER +4ab1bc75-c583-4b97-b833-c12f2833266e MISTER MIRWOOD PRESENTLY WALKING BENIGNLY ALONG THE LANE WAS CONFRONTED BY A FAT SMALL BOY WITH A PALE FACE BUT RESOLUTE EYES IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING SIGHED POOR CECILY HER CHEEKS WERE STILL FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF THE EVENING PETER WENT OFF RATHER SULLENLY AND FELIX ALSO SULLENLY SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO NURSE HIS NOSE HE TURNED HIS BACK ON CECILY +4af7e744-103c-41a6-b8fe-3e8470b20ac0 SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX AND LEFT THE SECONDARY PREPARATION OF THE REGULAR MEALS TO CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL PRESENTLY THE STORY GIRL WHO HAD BEEN STANDING UP LEANING AGAINST A TALL FIR AND HE HAD TO LEAVE MARGARET BEHIND THEY CEASED AND ALL HEAVEN WAS HUSHED WE HAD TO GO UP TO SARA RAY'S LANE WITH HER TO HER VERY DOOR FOR SHE WAS AFRAID PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH HER IF SHE WENT ALONE +4b168709-59aa-4574-942d-f1309ad72e17 IN AUGUST IT WAS A PLACE OF SHADY SWEETNESS FRAGRANT WITH THE ODOUR OF RIPENING APPLES HE KNOWS I'M KIND OF SICK JUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS AND MANY OTHERS SUFFERED THE SAME FATE SAID MISSUS SWINE IN A VOICE THAT WAS HALF PROUD AND HALF IRRITABLE +4b185ee0-9aaf-4f0b-8d0b-60b93b6b56c0 DID HE SAY WHAT IT WAS LIKE ASKED PETER NO ONLY THAT IT WAS A PICTURE OF GOD WALKING IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THE SHADOW FEARED OF MAN WE WERE ALL UP EARLY THE NEXT MORNING DRESSING BY CANDLE LIGHT SARA I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THIS JUG SHE SAID SOLEMNLY NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG I'VE OFTEN WONDERED MYSELF WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE SAID FELICITY IN A BURST OF CONFIDENCE EVEN IN FELICITY SO IT WOULD SEEM THERE WERE DEPTHS OF THOUGHT UNPLUMED +4b1af8f0-5c24-4e6b-a53c-a1205b71b871 DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL IT WAS IRONIC HE SHOULD HAVE ASKED DORA TO TELL HIM MORE ABOUT GAR WAS HE A TRAITOR OR A TAM DIVERIAN GANGSTER OR WHAT JOHN ANDREW GASPED AND STARTED SINKING AGAIN GHOST STORIES ARE MORE COMFORTABLE IN DAYTIME SAID FELIX THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY +4b260816-e779-4ded-9bad-cbd38cf38358 THE GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED FOR SHORE BUT ONLY AS A PAWN NO LITTLE PLANET BOUND POLITICAL MIND COULD HAVE DREAMED UP A SCHEME AS BIG AS THIS I SMELLED A RAT A STAINLESS STEEL ONE THE GREEN MONKEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WISE TO MAKE A FRIEND OF THE BIG WOMAN SO AS TO GAIN HER CONFIDENCE SO HE SAT ON THE BACK OF HER CHAIR AND CHATTERED TO HER WHILE SHE MENDED HER STOCKINGS AND SEWED SILVER BUTTONS ON SOME GOLDEN SHOES THAT WERE AS BIG AS ROW BOATS NOT NOWADAYS EXPLAINED THE STORY GIRL THEN I DON'T SEE ANY USE IN BEING ONE SARA DECIDED A KING CAN'T DO AS HE PLEASES NOW EITHER SAID FELIX +4b2cb0bd-9bdf-4bb4-af3d-6cefc010e53e BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED SO I S'POSED THAT WAS WHAT BEING TWINS MEANT IT'S ALL VERY FINE FOR YOU FELLOWS TO LAUGH I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON +4b31256a-6a3f-4d59-8016-6a0081675ff7 IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY BUT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WE LIKED THE PROSPECT OF OUR SUMMER VERY MUCH RETORTED FELICITY UNCRUSHED I'M CAPTAIN BRANDON OF THE ASTRO ONE IN THE CASE OF TISSUE REGENERATION KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM RIGHT +4b5051eb-4ecf-4b40-92a2-900f4c683623 HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO OF EVERY LIVING THING ON IT MUTTERED AMBO STETSON STETSON PACE LENNED AND CONTROL BRIDGE OF HIS SCOUT CRUISER IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER WE ALL HAVE DREAM BOOKS YOU KNOW AND EVERYONE WANTS THEIR OWN TO BE THE MOST EXCITING AND WE'VE BEEN EATING RICH THINGS TO MAKE US DREAM AND IT DOES +4b8532ca-c42d-4db8-b69e-423578a87c0d THE CATALOGUE SEEMED LIKELY TO GO ON FOR EVER FEELING THAT ONE MORE EFFECT WOULDN'T HURT HE LED THE WAY TO THE TOWN HALL LET THEM FIGURE OUT HOW HE HAD KNOWN JUST WHERE TO GO HE THOUGHT SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY IT WAS NOT FAR AS VIC HAD SAID BUT WE WERE WEARY FROM OUR BATTLE WITH THE CRAZED MOB AND THE BEST WE COULD FORCE FROM OUR LEGS WAS A SORT OF DOG TROT I TURNED TO MISSUS PARIN WHO HAD COME UP TO DETERMINE THE RESULT OF MY SHOUTING WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT BUT NOTHING OCCURRED IMMEDIATELY WHEN AN HOUR HAD PASSED WE CONCLUDED THAT THE BAD BERRIES WERE NOT POISON AFTER ALL AND WE LOOKED UPON DAN AS QUITE A HERO FOR DARING TO EAT THEM +4b91d5ad-693e-400c-a5e9-570271a72390 ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY IF THERE ARE TWO CHOICES TO TAKE TAKE THE SIMPLER ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET I'M GOING TO BRING US DOWN TO FORTY THOUSAND FEET AND SEARCH THE AREA WHERE HE WENT DOWN THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP SEA WATER HAD PLASTERED JENIFER'S WHITE BLOUSE AND KNEE LENGTH DUNGARIES TO HER BODY LIKE A SECOND SKIN +4bb045e3-795a-42f9-b007-ea97bb7d30e1 JONAS TOLD HIMSELF AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS THAT HE SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHAT TO DO WITHOUT THE RATS TRYING TO TRAP AND KILL THEM WITH NO WEAPONS BEYOND HIS BARE HANDS EVEN AN EATING KNIFE HE HAD CARRIED IN HIS JERKIN HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY LEAVING HIM TO THE UNCOMFORTABLE REFLECTION THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO DINE WITH HIS FINGERS WAS A PASTIME THAT OCCUPIED HIM FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON THE FIRST DAY IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE THERE WAS NO SENSE TO ANYTHING THAT VIC BUTLER DID FOR THAT MATTER WHERE HE HID AWAY HIS VAST SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THAT RATTLE BRAINED RED HAIRED HEAD OF HIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MYSTERY TO ME +4bc8741b-9f6b-4159-8087-cc931e80eabc MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE AND EMILY LIKED TO SIT AMONG THE FERNS UNDER THE BIRCHES AND READ OR SEW WAS THERE REALLY ANYTHING THAT COULD STOP A PLAN LIKE THIS ONCE IT GOT ROLLING LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM THAT WILL SERVE THE CRYSTAL'S PURPOSE DURING THE INTERIM YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT +4bf63350-c3ae-4f10-80b7-50075f3b585f I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS DID GOD LOOK LIKE THAT AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF EDEN THROWN IN TWO YOU KNOW APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL OH CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT THEM FROM FIGHTING SARA PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN +4c45e04a-5568-4965-966d-8f2daef5e27f WHEN WE GOT AWAY WE COMPARED NOTES AND FOUND THAT WE ALL LIKED HIM AND THIS ALTHOUGH HE HAD SAID LITTLE AND HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT GLAD TO GET RID OF US HE GAVE US THE MONEY LIKE A GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL I FELT HE DIDN'T GRUDGE IT AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK FARMER LOOKED IMPRESSED THEN BEGAN TO REALIZE WHAT SOME OF THIS MEANT HE CAUGHT HIMSELF STRAIGHTENED OUT HIS FACE AND LICKED HIS LIPS YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER TRIED THIS THING BEFORE HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK FELIX AND I WERE TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND OR ANALYZE THE IMPRESSION IT MADE UPON US BUT WE INSTANTLY FELT AT HER GREETING THAT IT WAS A GOOD MORNING A SURPASSINGLY GOOD MORNING THE VERY BEST MORNING THAT HAD EVER HAPPENED IN THIS MOST EXCELLENT OF WORLDS +4c51e399-16a5-49ee-87fa-da0bb836f71d THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS WHICH ADDED UP TO FOUR THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD PROBABLY LET ANOTHER REPAIR MAN IN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS IF THE BEACON CONKED OUT AGAIN THE WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN HAD TURNED INTO I'LL BE THE FIRST MAN BUT IT WAS CAPTAIN BRANDON WHO DREW THE ASSIGNMENT OF SCOUTING SERIOUS THREE FOR A SUITABLE LANDING PLACE FOR ASTRO OF SAMPLING ITS ATMOSPHERE AND OBSERVING METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS EVEN AS BRANDON CLIMBED INTO THE SCOUT SHIP TOWERS HAD CAUTIONED HIM A THING THAT SIZE COULDN'T CRACK A WALNUT YOU FLOUNDERING FOP IT WILL BLAST THIS TOWN FLAT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU NOTHING +4c8dd85b-39a6-4510-b3d4-0aac0fefe7a4 HOLD THERE SAILOR I SAID TO MYSELF USING MY BEST ADMIRAL'S VOICE NOTHING HAS CHANGED IT'S STILL THE BEST AND ONLY PLAN POSSIBLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES BUT THE SHIP THE SPACE YACHT WHERE IS IT THE MISSING SHIP COULD HAVE GONE IN ANY DIRECTION THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP LISTEN YOU SICK CARTER HE GOT ANOTHER FORM AND FILLED OUT ALL THE DARKER ON HIMSELF +4c9f731d-bbe7-4453-98bf-3bda6869fe3e THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH WE HAVE JUST GOT TO THINK OF SOME FOOL EXCITER THAT'S ALL I SAID I IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET TOO LATE I'M ON FIRE TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON BRANDON HAD A STRANGE DETACHED FEELING AS HE PUSHED THE EJECTION BUTTON +4d28d4b2-67a1-477a-99ac-925d9874cc74 JUST AS GOOD FOR SPACE PIRACY THAT IS BUT NOT FOR HIS PURPOSES HE HAD WANTED A BATTLESHIP AND HE HAD GOT HIMSELF A BATTLESHIP KEEP YOUR ADVICE TO YOURSELF SAID THE MONARCH IN A PIQUED TONE WHO'S KING HERE ANYHOW YOU OR ME DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT ADVISED POLYCHROME MISSUS EUP HAS PLENTY OF MAGIC LEFT TO CONSOLE HER IF THE WATER WAS STILL THERE THE BEACON WAS STILL THERE INSIDE THE PYRAMID THE NATIVES WHO OF COURSE WERE NEVER MENTIONED BY THE IDIOTS WHO CONSTRUCTED THE THING HAD BUILT A NICE HEAVY THICK STONE PYRAMID AROUND THE BEACON +4d3462c4-d0fd-4b37-ac01-231332814358 LURCHED AND SKIDDED AROUND BUTTRESS ROOTS I'M GETTING TIRED OF WAITING WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS WE'LL HAVE TIME TO TALK OVER DETAILS WHEN WE GET BACK THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET THEY WERE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY WERE IMAGES OF DESPAIR PILLOWING HER CHIN IN HER HANDS AND LOOKING AT THE SKY WHICH QUITE DESTROYED THE SWEET NUN LIKE EXPRESSION OF HER LITTLE FEATURES +4d408b4b-f350-4d3c-9107-fcb2a02f64da HE FLINCHED WHEN JENIFER TO BE HEARD ABOVE THE ZID'S RAGINGS SHOUTED IN HIS EAR MY SCOOP SHOULD HAVE THE QUEEN AFLOAT BY NOW CAN WE REACH HER WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN IN A WAY HE HAD GARF HAD DELIBERATELY TURNED HIS BACK ON THE OLD FELLOW THE JUDGE'S BLOOD SHOT LITTLE EYES DARTED ABOUT AS IF HE WANTED TO PICK UP SOMETHING HEAVY AND HIT GARF ON THE CREST WITH IT +4d6b542d-0b58-4ef6-b0c7-178675eeb1f1 FELICITY QUICKLY RESTORED THE PORK AND PUDDING TO THEIR OWN PLACES AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST PETER HAD BEEN READING THE BIBLE STEADILY EVER SINCE WHAT WE ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS THE MESSAGE BROKE INTO CLEAR AT THE END AND THE SIE MAN SMILED AS HE SPOKE THE WORDS I BROKE THE POINT OFF MY STYLERS AND GROWLED AT HIM NOT TO REPEAT ANY OF THIS MESSAGE AS IT WAS CLASSIFIED AND I WOULD PERSON SEE HIM SHOT IF HE DID +4dada674-8a38-4992-82e1-afcf5c349e02 THIS TRULY AUNT JANITY REMARK BROKE THE SPELL THE GROWN UPS LAUGHED RATHER SHAKILY AND THE STORY GIRL OUR OWN DEAR STORY GIRL ONCE MORE AND NO SERPENT WOMAN SAID PROTESTINGLY WELL UNCLE ROGER ASKED ME TO TELL IT I DON'T LIKE TELLING SUCH STORIES EITHER THEY MAKE ME FEEL DREADFUL THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED IT WAS AS IF A BLAST FURNACE HAD SUDDENLY OPENED BESIDE HIM HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF OUR TEACHER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT THING TO HAVE A LIBRARY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL AND HE SUGGESTED THAT EACH OF THE PUPILS SHOULD TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HE OR SHE COULD RAISE FOR THE PROJECT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE WE MIGHT EARN IT BY THE HONEST TOIL OR GATHER IT IN BY CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED ON OUR FRIENDS THE RESULT WAS A DETERMINED RIVALRY AS TO WHICH PUPIL SHOULD COLLECT THE LARGEST SUM AND THIS RIVALRY WAS ESPECIALLY INTENSE IN OUR HOME COTERIE +4dae9b50-7c96-45eb-9556-1c3d814d1325 WHY WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY I THINK IT'S AWFUL FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO BE ALWAYS QUARRELLING SIGHED CECILY THE COHANTS FIGHT ALL THE TIME AND YOU AND DAN WILL SOON BE AS BAD THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT AUNT OLIVIA ASSENTED LIGHTLY SWINGING HER HAT ON HER ARM AND INCLUDING US ALL IN A FRIENDLY SMILE SHE LOOKED VERY PRETTY WITH HER BIG BLUE EYES AND WARM HUED GOLDEN HAIR WE LOVED AUNT OLIVIA BUT JUST NOW WE RESENTED TO HER HAVING LAUGHED AT US WITH AUNT JANET AND WE REFUSED TO SMILE BACK +4db655a0-ad3e-4dd9-b669-ea1fc93c6211 ONE DAY IN A BIG FOREST THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME MY JOINTS SUDDENLY BECAME RUSTED BECAUSE I HAD FORGOTTEN TO OIL THEM THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY REPAIR JOB THE CENTURY BEACON HAS SHUT DOWN IT'S A MARK THREE BEACON WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM I HAVE REPAIRED HYPERSPACE BEACONS FROM ONE ARM OF THE GALAXY TO THE OTHER AND I WAS SURE I HAD WORKED ON EVERY TYPE OR MODEL MADE RIGHT BUT FELICITY HAD ALREADY WHISKED THE TURNIPS OUT AND WAS SLICING THEM WHILE ALL THE OTHERS WERE LAUGHING AT ME +4dbe2e6d-1595-4c55-8810-d90bcdc65610 YEA YES I'LL TELL YOU WORD FOR IT YOU'RE A FLYING BOMB SO STOP WITH THIS ROBBING REPORT A BIT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND THIS TIME I DIDN'T ANSWER HIM BECAUSE I WAS RUNNING AND PANTING LIKE A DOG AND HAD THE MIKE TURNED OFF THEN THE STORY GIRL ARRIVED ARRAYED NOT IN ANY SECOND BEST BUT IN HER VERY BEST DRESS AND HAT WHICH HER FATHER HAD SENT HER FROM PARIS A DRESS OF SOFT CRIMSON SILK AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES SARA STANLEY SAID AUNT OLIVIA SHAKING HER FINGER AT HER AFTER A SIDE SPLITTING YARN IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT YOU'LL BE FAMOUS SOME DAY +4dc95a7f-3693-44a4-99df-1c7dd2e687f7 AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY BUT IT'S A SENSE CLARETON SAID LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED THIS SUPERSTRUCTURE OBVIOUSLY JUST TACKED ON TO THE PLANS GETS THROWN AWAY AND TURRETS TAKE ITS PLACE THE HULLS ARE IDENTICAL A CHANGE HERE A SHIFT THERE AND THE STODGY FRATER BECOMES THE FAST BATTLE WAGON WRIGHT INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE THERE WAS NO SENSE TO ANYTHING THAT VIC BUTLER DID FOR THAT MATTER +4dee99db-32c8-453b-af9d-4e555550c931 I SUPPOSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD TEACH HIM MANNERS FOR WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT THE WOMAN DID SHUT UP AND NEVER SPOKE ONE SINGLE WORD TO HER HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I TOLD YOU SO GOOD GRACIOUS EXCLAIMED WOOT THEREFORE THIS CASTLE IS LIKELY TO BE EMPTY AND WE MAY USE IT IN ANY WAY WE PLEASE YOU'RE BOUND TO CATCH IT WHEN YOU DO WRONG IT WAS JUST A PROVIDENCE HE DIDN'T DIE THAT MAKES ME THINK OF ANOTHER STORY ABOUT OLD MISTER SCOTT SAID THE STORY GIRL +4df79204-7f5f-48d1-a4b4-73c30b56feb2 I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ME IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE MEMBER HE THOUGHT HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS ELDER FREWIN A TALL PALE MAN WITH LONG SANDY SIDE WHISKERS APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF OUR PEW WITH THE COLLECTION PLATE WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME HERE NEVERTHELESS ALTHOUGH NONE OF US NOT EVEN UNCLE ROGER OR FELICITY SAID A WORD AT THE TIME FOR FEAR OF HURTING THE STORY GIRL'S FEELINGS +4e20ab05-4a56-49fe-bed5-519e2e60a1a5 AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN DAN IS THE POET BECAUSE HE IS SO FRECKLED AND SCREWS HIS EYES UP SO TIGHT AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE AND THE BARE FEET BELOW HER PRINT SKIRT WERE BEAUTIFUL THEY BOTH BUILT THE BRIDGE OF LIGHT OF OLD UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO +4e607c3d-fda1-4116-b71f-4a879cb97210 THEY SMILED EACH OTHER AMICABLY WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLEAMING WITH IMPISH LAUGHTER HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY SO THE BOY WONDERED IF THE SCARECROW WOULD BE ABLE TO TRAVEL WITH THEM ALL THE WAY TO THE FORESTS OF THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ +4e805e6a-d051-4074-a9f8-48eff1a90392 SHOULD YOU BE POINTING LIKE THAT I ASKED THE ROBART MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE I I DON'T KNOW SAID FELICITY RELUCTANTLY I SUPPOSE CHILDREN CAN'T UNDERSTAND SUCH THINGS THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS ANYHOW I'M A PRESBYTERIAN AND I'M GLAD OF IT I DON'T BELIEVE JERRY CAN BE COMING SAID CECILY IN DESPAIR I SUPPOSE HIS MOTHER MUST HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS DREADFUL AFTER ALL TO SELL SUCH A PICTURE +4e9af9af-9b48-4a5f-b66a-c28f9707796f THEN WITH A BOOK UNDER ONE ARM AND PAT UNDER THE OTHER SHE BETOOK HERSELF TO THE WINDOW SEAT IN THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND WOULD NOT BE LURED FROM THAT RETREAT CHARMED WE NEVER SO WISELY I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN TELL JUDY ALL THE NEWS FOR ME THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR +4e9d18d6-652e-4676-bbd1-d26b3acde638 HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY OR UNDERSTOOD HIM I REALIZED NOW THAT UNCLE BLAIR WAS A BIT OF A BOHEMIAN A RESPECTABLE SORT OF TRAMP HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL BUT SHE DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK THE DWARF WAS THREE FOOT HIGH A SKELETON STRETCHED OVER WITH BROWN BURNT LEATHER THE OTHER WAS AN UNCANINE LOOKING DOG SIZED BEAST SO FULL OF BIRDS AND THORNS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PORCUPINE IT WAS A NIGHTMARE REPLICA OF A SHRUNKEN MULE +4ec02a8f-da69-43dc-b455-e904aea5ccd2 I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS AND THERE'D BE NO YEH I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY STETSON FLICKED ON THE SWITCH OF THE RECORDER BESIDE HIM O KNO GO AHEAD ANY TIME HE CAN HARDLY WRITE SAID FELICITY THEN I SHALL BE THE WIFE OF THE KING OF THE WORLD AND NO ONE CAN HOLD HERSELF HIGHER THAN I +4ee78730-629c-40a2-ba65-ab059ad2058d PA SAYS IT MUST NEVER BE OPENED WITHOUT COUSIN RACHEL'S PERMISSION SAID CECILY BUT IT WAS ALSO KNOWN THAT MISTER CAMPBELL WAS NOT ALWAYS IN A GOOD HUMOUR HE WAS NOT EVEN SEVEN FEET TALL FOR INSTANCE NOR DID HE HAVE A HANDSOME LOVESOME FACE WITH FLASHING BLUE EYES OR A BROAD SHOULDERED NARROW WAISTED MARVEL OF A FIGURE WHICH SEEMED QUITE A STICKY PROBLEM FOR A MAN IN A MEDIEVAL CULTURE THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE THERE WAS NO PLACE I COULD GO THAT WOULD BE BETTER SITUATED FOR THE CHASE THAN SETANOVO THE GIRL WAS OBVIOUSLY ASSISTANT TO THE MUSTER MIND WHO ORIGINATED THE SCHEME HE SAT IN THE CENTER OF THE PLOT LIKE A SPIDER ON ITS WEB PULLING THE STRINGS THAT SET THINGS INTO MOTION +4eeba051-b519-4082-98df-86c9b4d1f74a IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS HE KNEW IT BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO IT MIGHT INDEED THIS WAS A NEW HORROR WHICH HAD NOT OCCURRED TO US FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON +4ef567b7-c752-44ee-befd-dee08d583069 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY DON'T YOU REMEMBER OLD MISS BAXTER IN TORONTO BETH AND HOW SHE TOLD MISSUS MC LAREN THAT SHE WAS SUBJECT TO TERRIBLE DREAMS AND FINALLY SHE TOOK TWO LIVER PILLS AND NEVER HAD ANY MORE DREAMS AFTER THAT AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM SLEEPING THERE WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES THAT MUST BE LEAVING NOW IT CAME COMPLETE WITH DECORATIONS GOLD BULLION AND ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS IT DID NOT LOOK TO ME JUST RIGHT FOR A SON IN FACT EVERYTHING LOOKED UNCANNY I WISHED OUR ERRAND WAS WELL OVER +4f008d22-ff72-4608-ac6b-40156ac60407 MY SCOUTS SLOWLY HORN PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT PRESSED THE CONTACT BUTTON I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER I SAID FELICITY PRIMLY DIES HE'LL GO TO HEAVEN ANYHOW SOBBED CECILY HE'S BEEN REAL GOOD ALL THIS SUMMER BUT HE ISN'T A CHURCH MEMBER SHE HAD NEVER SHARED ONE OF HER OWN STORY GIRL NODDED MISERABLY +4f1e6125-ef10-4265-b388-3c290dabe723 SHE SIGHED A LONG SHUDDERING SIGH AND SNUGGLED INTO MY ARMS VIC GLANCED TOWARD US AND GRINNED COME TO THINK OF IT HE REMARKED I BELIEVE ILL RUN ALONG AND SEE IF I CAN FIND MISSUS PARR I HAVEN'T HAD A THING TO EAT SINCE NOON YESTERDAY AND I'VE JUST REALIZED I'M HUNGRY WILL YOU JOIN ME A WAGON RUMBLING OVER A PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW MADE SARAH RAY START UP WITH A SHRIEK THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO CHANCING ACCIDENTALLY I VOW TO OVERHEAR CERTAIN OF THESE SECRETS I LEARNED THAT SARA RAY HAD NAMED AN APPLE FOR JOHNNY PRICE AND CECILY TRUE'S YOU LIVE THERE WAS EIGHT SEEDS IN IT AND YOU KNOW EIGHT MEANS THEY BOTH LOVE WHILE CECILY ADMITTED THAT WILLY FRASER HAD WRITTEN ON HIS SLATE AND SHOWED IT TO HER IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU NO KNIFE CAN CUT OUR LOVE IN TWO BUT SARA RAY NEVER YOU BREATHE THIS TO A LIVING SOUL +4f408556-72cc-4501-af58-662d85d2c97d ONE SLENDER HAND PROPPING HER HIGH WHITE BROW ON EITHER SIDE OF WHICH FALL HER GLOSSY CURLS HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD SPIRES SEEMED A LOT BETTER AT FIRST GLANCE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER PLACES JONAS HAD VISITED YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN INN SHE SAID AN INN IN THIS TOWN TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES STITSON LOOKED ACROSS AT HIS JUNIOR FIELD MAN ALWAYS FEELS IN LIGHTER GRAVITY +4f652b17-c36f-45e1-8aae-c9a1ccbeac03 WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING WHITE ON IT WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE USEFUL THAN JUST INTERESTING SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX I SUPPOSE IT'S JUST THE SAME AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US +4f73a0df-d187-44db-8a5c-f763e88935e4 WE MURMURED IN BEWILDERMENT ALL RIGHT SAID DAN I'VE EAT ALL I WANT THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT IF HE EVER GETS BETTER I'LL NEVER SAY SUCH A THING AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK IT EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL IS ABOUT THE SAME HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK +4fa50e61-515e-4f06-821c-1177f16de26e BUT HE SAID I MUST GO IN SOME HELPERY'S JUST THE SAME SAID PETER IN MID AFTERNOON CICELY CAME DOWNSTAIRS WITH HER FORGET ME NOT JUG IN HER HAND A DAINTY BIT OF CHINA WREATHED WITH DARK BLUE FORGET ME NOTS WHICH CICELY PRIZED HIGHLY AND IN WHICH SHE ALWAYS KEPT HER TOOTH BRUSH BUT THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL WITH THOSE YOUNG ONES WOULD BE TO HAVE EM BOTH TIED TO YOU WITH A SHORT ROPE THIS WAS HOME WELL HIS FATHER RUN AWAY AND HIS MOTHER WAS TOO BUSY EARNING A LIVING TO BRING HIM UPRIGHT ARGUED FELICITY HE WAS ALWAYS SO POLITE AND GOOD NATURED AND OBLIGING SIGHED CECILY +4fbe21ab-4c97-4f14-a647-644d66a68ca0 Y THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY SUNDAY MORNING BROKE DULL AND GRAY AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY IF THERE ARE TWO CHOICES TO TAKE TAKE THE SIMPLER IN THIS CASE I CHOSE THE NATURAL ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO BLIND CHANCE AND ACCIDENT NEVERTHELESS I PUT THE THEORY TO THE TEST I THOUGHT OF THAT MYSELF BUT I CAN'T STAY HOME CECILY IT WOULD BE FAR MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD COULD ENDURE I MUST HEAR THAT MISSIONARY SPEAK THEY SAID HE WAS ALL BUT EATEN BY CANNIBALS ONCE JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM +4fc06b10-bf62-4aba-b848-17f8b7ab1ffd BUT THERE'S NO GAMBLE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE HE TOLD THE MILKY WAY RIPPING OFF HIS OXYGEN MASK HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH OF THE ALIEN ATMOSPHERE IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH ALL THIS BEING SO THERE'S AN OFT CHANCE THAT I'LL FIND MYSELF TANGLED WITH SOMETHING I CAN'T ANTICIPATE AND IF YOU ARE CALLED UPON TO READ THIS THEN SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY PLANS +4fc2e6f5-470e-416c-b4b2-b7931ef62bcf EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY AFTER THE ROEBOT HAD CHECKED THE ROOM FOR BUGS AND VERY NICE CADGETS TOO THESE CORBOTS IT LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE A MORAL M THREE ALL THE TIME IT WAS ANYTHING BUT O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR I OUGHT TO I'M RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THAT MITE CONTACT THIS RIG I'LL FEED US WHAT YOU SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AROUND YOU TOO WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING +4fffb36e-1fb1-44e1-b557-fe63577e377d WHEN I'VE SETTLED WHAT I'M GOING TO BE HARROW THE WOOD FIELD AND DIG YOUR AUNT OLIVIA'S FLOWER BEDS THEN HE SAILED AWAY AGAIN AND THE SHIP WAS NEVER HEARD OF MORE LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AND WE HEARD THE FROGS SINGING DOWN IN THE SWAMP OF THE BROOK MEADOW +50136273-c191-48db-83c6-d14091624f51 DAN FINALLY VOLUNTEERED TO LOOK AFTER HIM HE HAD A NEW PITY BOOK WHICH HE WANTED TO FINISH AND THAT HE SAID WAS BETTER FUN THAN A WALK TO THE GRAVEYARD SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID WAIT THE INQUISITOR SAID HEAVILY SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER WHAT MATTERED IT THAT ALL THE CUPS IN THE WORLD BE BROKEN TODAY IF THE CRACKADOON MUST SOUND TO MORROW I SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE BAWLED EVEN IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW +504d9775-986f-4969-9508-4c8d136746f2 WE'LL BE RIGHT DOWN WHY A DISGUISED SLED ASKED HORN IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP WHEN THE HEAD WAS DONE I PEELED IT OFF AND ATTACHED IT TO AN ATTRACTIVE SUIT OF GREEN PLASTICK COMPLETE WITH TAIL I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS LIZARDS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES AND I WANTED TO TAKE ALONG A LOT OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT I BUILT THE TAIL OVER A METAL FRAME THAT ANCHORED AROUND MY WAIST SARA RAY CRIED UNTIL I WONDERED HOW ONE SMALL HEAD COULD CONTAIN ALL THE TEARS SHE SHED BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS HALF AS MUCH FRIGHTENED AS DISAPPOINTED THAT SHE HAD NO WHITE DRESS +50602047-01b7-409a-b36d-281b3614f294 THE PROUD PRINCESS HELD HERSELF MORE PROUDLY THAN EVER BUT SHE WAS AS WHITE AS HER VEIL AND THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER OR MERRYMAKING SUCH AS SHOULD BE AT A WEDDING AND EVERY ONE LOOKED AT EVERY ONE ELSE WITH FEAR IN HIS EYES I SUPPOSE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IN THIS YEAR YOU HAVE SEEN SO MUCH YOU HAVE BECOME VERY WISE THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME AT LAST KNOOF NODDED THE DEVIL GRANTS TO MANY HIS POWER OF SEEING THE MINDS OF MEN HE SAID QUIETLY +5068058c-4282-46c6-a28f-5b45d18d7f22 WE WAITED AT UNCLE ALEC'S DOOR FOR THE OTHERS TO COME UP PETER WAS BY WAY OF SKULKING SHAMEFACEDLY PAST INTO THE SHADOWS BUT THE STORY GIRL'S BRIEF BITTER ANGER HAD VANISHED WAIT FOR ME PETER SHE CALLED SHE WENT OVER TO HIM AND HELD OUT HER HAND NOT LIKELY JEFF SAID THEY DON'T USE THE CRYSTALS THEMSELVES OLD DOCTOR HERMAN PUT HIS CHIN ALMOST ON THE CONSUL'S SHOULDER TO PRESENT HIS WIZENED FACE TO THE SCANNER OF COURSE THEY DON'T HE SAID BOYS AIN'T ALWAYS HUNGRY SAID FELIX GRAVELY THERE'S TIMES WHEN THEY AIN'T I DON'T BELIEVE IT SAID THE STORY GIRL DREARILY BESIDES ADDED FELIX IN THE TONE OF ONE WHO SAYS WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS YET HOPE YOU MAY LEARN TO COOK YET IF YOU KEEP ON TRYING +508321cc-ee31-48bd-b11c-8af1a6123d45 NO BETTER PLAN BEING SUGGESTED WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE ORCHARD AND SAT ON THE BOUGHS OF UNCLE ALEC'S TREE BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS WET THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD THE ZID UTTERLY OUT OF ITS ELEMENT SCREAMED HIDEOUSLY AND THRESHED WATER TO FROTH ALL ITS EARLIER FEROCITY VANISHED UNDER THE IMMINENT AND UNFAMILIAR THREAT OF DROWNING JEFF SANK AGAIN AND CHURNED DESPERATELY TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM WE DID INDEED PRAY MOST SINCERELY FOR PETER'S RECOVERY WE DID NOT AS IN THE CASE OF PADDY TACK IT ON AFTER MORE IMPORTANT THINGS BUT PUT IT IN THE VERY FOREFRONT OF OUR PETITIONS +50bccab7-3f13-4380-a8be-66adbdedbbd9 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL EIGHT TIMES SEVEN WAS THE MOST TRAGIC AND FRIGHTFUL THING EVER HEARD OF THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM BEHIND SOME LOW HILLS HE COULD SEE A DULL RED GLOW HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON RAY TURNED ON HIM WITH A LOOK THAT WOULD HAVE SEARED THE SPHINX SHOWING INTEREST IN THE LITTLE FELLOW'S CONDITION HE CATCHES ON FAST TO EVERYTHING I TELL HIM +50bfdad4-9f44-4f1e-8ba1-e1503eda29c2 HE WAS A LORDLY ANIMAL WITH A SILVER GREY COAT BEAUTIFULLY MARKED WITH DARKER STRIPES I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS IT WAS FOR US TOO FULL OF HAPPY MEMORIES TO ACCORD WITH OUR BITTERNESS OF SOUL I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN BE SO UNFEELING SARA STANLEY SAID FELICITY REPROACHFULLY +50cde6cc-4dec-4dbc-a4d4-2246abf822a2 DAN WAS TOO MUCH IN EARNEST TO RESENT MY BLUNT SPEECH LOOK HERE BEV IS THAT MAGIC SEED AND DID YOU GET IT FROM BILLY ROBINSON WE MUST FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR MAKING PETER BETTER SAID CECILY AS WE FINALLY WENT TO THE HOUSE I WAS USED TO HEARING GIRLS CRY LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE +50d684bb-8e9d-4551-bb23-2c8e0f3386f2 WHEN AUNT OLIVIA CAME OUT TO GO HOME THE STORY GIRL ASKED HER PERMISSION TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH FELICITY AND CECILY AN EXCELLENT TEST HE SAID IF YOU CAN AMUSE ME WITH THAT STORY YOU MUST BE A WONDER I HAVE HEARD IT SO OFTEN THAT IT IS NO MORE INTEREST FOR ME THAN THE ALPHABET LET'S GO INSIDE I HURRIED BY PEERING AND THROUGH THE COOL QUIET HALL TO THE BROAD DOOR THAT OPENED INTO THE BIG ROOM AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WHICH WAS VIC'S LABORATORY +50dede52-f819-46ee-8de4-5858e0c1447a CECILY SPRANG UP SHAKING WITH SOBS OH DON'T DON'T GO ON SHE IMPLORED I CAN'T BEAR ANY MORE THEY SHOULDN'T GROW IN THE WRONG PLACE SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY WHEN WEEDS GO TO HEAVEN I SUPPOSE THEY WILL BE FLOWERS CONTINUED THE STORY GIRL YOU DO THINK SUCH QUEER THINGS SAID FELICITY THE LONG DRAGGING HOURS WERE HARD TO ENDURE WE ROAMED RESTLESSLY ABOUT AND WENT TO AND FRO ALL SAVE PETER WHO STILL STEADILY READ AWAY AT HIS BIBLE HE WAS THROUGH GENESIS BY ELEVEN AND BEGINNING ON EXODUS +50e056e1-7f8c-4432-8b2d-ed844b128724 FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTEDLICITY TRIED ANOTHER TACT BUT FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER IT'S NOT TO BE TILL TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SO YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET UP HIP FOR ANYTHING HAPPENS WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING A GHOST IN DAYLIGHT BUT AFTER DARK IT'S ANOTHER THING THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A GHOST I SAID CONTEMPTUOUSLY OH I WISH I COULD BELIEVE IT THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER +5108620d-40c7-4561-9ca7-7c5a17232f43 INDEED I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE OH YOU WOULDN'T IT WOULD BE SUCH A DISGRACE SAID POOR FELICITY IN REAL DISTRESS THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY THE BIG WILLOW BY THE GATE WAS A SPLENDID GOLDEN DOME AND THE MAPLES THAT WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE SPRUCE GROVE WAVED BLOOD RED BANNERS OVER THE SOMBRE CONE BEARERS I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT +510abced-bc89-4eb6-b14a-8f28bda76c13 THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF MISTAKE AFTER A FEW MINUTES I HEARD SOMETHING BUZZING IN THERE AND I THOUGHT MAYBE MISTER BUTLER WAS SHOWING HER SOME NEW GADGET OF HIS LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS DOING IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SHIP AND THE DOCK YARD HAD BEEN LAVISH WITH HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM BOW TO REAR TUBE SHE WAS PLAITED IN PURE GOLD PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK THE SHIP WAS COMPLETELY CLEAN SHE LEFT ME IN CHARGE NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO +51354450-1ef7-46cc-a2b4-c8022cf5ed81 HE WAITED PATIENTLY UNTIL THE FIT HAD LEFT HER NOT AN INN HE SAID THERE IS NO INN HERE I KNOW I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE DORA GOT AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY SERIOUS THEN SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND LAUGHED A MERRY LAUGH LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER TURN OVER AND STRETCHED HERSELF OUT ON THE GRASSES PILLOWING HER CHIN IN HER HANDS AND LOOKING AT THE SKY SHE WAS BAREHEADED AS USUAL AND HER SCARLET RIBBON WAS BOUND FILLET WISE ABOUT HER HEAD +516b1ace-41a9-49ca-b890-706494612052 IT IS BEST TO DRAW VEIL OVER WHAT FOLLOWED BUT WE KNEW NOTHING OF SUCH A THING IN OUR EXPERIENCE AND WE THOUGHT SHE HAD GONE MAD YES IT WAS A SEEMING MISFORTUNE GOOD BYE MISTER AND MISSUS SWINE THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THEIR ROUNDNESS WAS A SLIGHT HOLLOW ON THE TOP I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM DID YOU EVER SEE HER BESIDES THEY'RE ALL SUCH LADY LIKE GIRLS +518e8600-68cd-43b9-a4bd-c32a000fe2bc THE ZID UTTERLY OUT OF ITS ELEMENT SCREAMED HIDEOUSLY AND THRESHED WATER TO FROTH ALL ITS EARLIER FEROCITY VANISHED UNDER THE IMMINENT AND UNFAMILIAR THREAT OF DROWNING SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'LL DO ANY GOOD SAID DAN HE GIVES LOTS OF THINGS BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE MONEY BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN EARN THAT FOR THEMSELVES UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID DO NOT TRY TO HARM ME OR THE WRATH OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WILL TURN AGAINST YOU +5196b608-9191-48b6-9513-643e526b0339 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS IN CHURCH HE SAID UNCLE ROGER AND UNCLE ALEC LULLED IN THE GRASS LIKE BOYS WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT ESTABLISHING CONTACT ONLY TOOK A FEW SECONDS THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL +519b1b9f-5caa-4de3-b071-dc497c022098 AUNT OLIVIA REALLY WAS A DUCK WE WANTED TO STAY WITH HER ALSO BUT AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HEAR OF SUCH A THING SHE ORDERED IT OFF US OFF TO BED SAYING THAT IT WAS POSITIVELY SINFUL IN US TO BE SO WORKED UP OVER A CAT OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY YOU COME TO TURN ME OUT SHE DEMANDED HER EYEBROWS WHICH WERE ALMOST AS BIG AND BLACK AS HER ANCIENT MOUSTACHE CAME DOWN OVER GLITTERING LITTLE EYES +51a50cb9-fabf-42b7-8d83-fe6e335a7102 AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN THAT WE COULD CONTROL ALIEN CALLS FOR FULL CONTACT TEAM WITH ALL THAT THAT WAS HOW I LEARNED THE MAGIC POWER OF THE APRON SAID THE SCARECROW WHO SEEMED VERY INTELLIGENT FOR A STRAW MAN I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN +51c3eaaa-fdfa-492c-abf1-07f39f07f9c4 BEFORE US THEY THINNED INTO NOTHINGNESS AS WE APPROACHED ONLY TO SWARM INTO BEING IN SOME OTHER SPOT EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS IT WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR HIRED BOYS TO GO TO PUBLIC MEETINGS I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH +51c5302b-13d8-47d8-9dab-eadfcc8c8068 OFF TO THE WEST WAS A DAFFODIL GLOW HANGING OVER THE VALLEY OF LOST SUNSETS AND GRANDFATHER KING'S HUGE WILLOW ROSE UP AGAINST IT LIKE A ROUNDED MOUNTAIN OF FOLIAGE THEN HOW COME I'M SO OLD HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE I'LL TAKE YOU AND YOU WILL NOT YOU WILL NOTICE THAT YOU ARE PARALYZED FROM NECK DOWN UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEVER HAD A BOY HE COULD DEPEND ON LIKE PETER BURY IT SAID THE STORY GIRL +51e571ad-40f5-495e-9223-86e41e6c940b HOW DID YOU CAPTURE THE DELPHINIS ASKED HORN YOU KNOW THAT TOO YOU HAVE ONE OF THE RIFLES SAID HORN YOUR RACE IS NO MATCH FOR US ORN IN CUNNING IN STRENGTH IN PROWESS OF THE MIND CECILY FINISHED HER CUCUMBER AND THEN DRANK A GLASS OF MILK JUST AS WE HEARD THE WHEELS OF UNCLE ALEC'S BUGGY RAMBLING OVER THE BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW FELICITY QUICKLY RESTORED THE PORK AND PUDDING TO THEIR OWN PLACES AND BY THE TIME AUNT JANET CAME IN WE WERE ALL IN OUR RESPECTIVE BEDS SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT THIS CAN TAKE MONTHS AND OFTEN DOES THIS JOB DIDN'T TURN OUT QUITE THAT BAD ICY RODE IN ON BEDO CERCINA'S BEACON AND RAN A COMPLICATED EIGHT POINT PROBLEM THROUGH THE NAVIGATOR USING EVERY BEACON I COULD GET AN ACCURATE FIX ON +52028929-e78f-4b7a-8a5e-adb214bf938e SARA'S CONSCIENCE IS ALWAYS TROUBLING HER FOR DOING THINGS SHE'S SURE HER MOTHER WON'T APPROVE BUT IT NEVER PREVENTS HER FROM DOING THEM IT ONLY SPOILS HER FUN THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART IT WAS TOUGH DECIDEDLY TOUGH AND LACKED THE RICHNESS OF FLAVOUR WHICH WAS CUSTOMARY IN AUNT JANET'S CORNMEAL PUDDINGS IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DRY EATING INDEED +5206895e-1937-4d21-ba85-19d65655f251 WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING IT WAS JUST AWFUL I FORGOT IT FOR A MOMENT THEN ALL CAME BACK WITH A RUSH THAT WAS WORSE SCARED THAN BEFORE AND THEN THE WEAKEST A HEAVY OBJECT SUDDENLY ARCHED THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS SWINGING ON A VINE YOUR RACE IS NO MATCH FOR US ORN TRULY WE HAD HAD A DELECTABLE SUMMER AND HAVING HAD IT IT WAS OURS FOREVER FELIX'S PRAYER WAS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ANY ONE ELSE +522132c3-546c-4ddc-bcd2-822b22b12318 FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY TOWERS LEANED FORWARD HIS EYES FIXED ON BRANDON I DON'T WANT YOU TO SET FOOT ON THAT PLANET GET ME BUT THERE WASN'T TIME TO TRY ANYTHING BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT THEN A SHRILL CRY WENT UP A CRY THAT DROWNED UTTERLY THE HUMMING SOUND THAT ISSUED FROM THE SHATTERED MOUTH OF THE IDOL +523d9c68-68eb-4fe9-abbb-9723853be28d BUT WE WERE IN A SPOT AND NEEDED A WORLD THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY WE DON'T KNOW THAT MANOEL I GOT IT FROM MY MOUTH SAID DAN WITH A SHAMED FACED GRIN AS I DID SO DAN'S VOICE RANG OUT BEHIND ME YOU ARE ABOUT TO WITNESS THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF RAISE RAY SOMETHING BIT HIM ON THE ARM +52568058-b74b-499d-95a7-9c3cf351e4f2 REASONABLY SO IT UD BE PRETTY HARD TO MISS SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THAT THING WE FLEW OVER IT MUST BE FIFTY KILOMETERS LONG AND AT LEAST TEN WIDE SWARMING WITH THESE CREATURES TOO EARLY IN THE SEASON AS IT WAS HE WAS BAREFOOTED SO WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HIS BREAKFAST THEY ALL SET OUT ALONG THE PATH THAT LED TO LOONVILLE BLESS THE BOY CRIED THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES HOW CARELESS OF ME NOT TO REMEMBER THAT WANDERERS ARE USUALLY HUNGRY +528099da-47fa-47db-b41f-04ee305ac0d9 OH OUR ANGELS ARE ANGELS THAT HAVE BEEN ANGELS SO LONG THEY'VE HAD TIME TO GROW BETTER AND BRIGHTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN NEWER ANGELS UNCLE ROGER HOBBLED OFF TO THE BARN STILL HOLDING ON TO HIS STOMACH IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY +528c5fa8-375c-4da0-9fed-ac7deb119f3e THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE I SHUDDERED A BIT AS THE THOUGHT HIT ME WAS THERE REALLY ANYTHING THAT COULD STOP A PLAN LIKE THIS ONCE IT GOT ROLLING DURING THE KINGLY WARS ANY NUMBER OF TYPES WITH A COUPLE OF SHIPS AND LESS BRAINS THAN PEPPY HAD SET UP JUST THIS KIND OF EMPIRE THEY WERE ALL PULLED DOWN IN THE END SINCE THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDED ON ONE MAN RULE BUT THE PRICE THAT HAD TO BE PAID FIRST LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS ONE VERY HOT DAY SHE HEARD JUDY PINNOT SAY SHE WAS ALL IN A SWEAT MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION ANYTHING THAT OCCUPIES SPACE I REPLIED TRIUMPHANTLY I HAD REMEMBERED THAT MUCH FROM MY PHYSICS CLASSES TRUE SMILED VIC BUT LET'S SEE IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE SOUND AND LIGHT IN THE SAME PLACE ISN'TT IT WE CAN EVEN ADD OTHER THINGS HEAT AND ELECTRICITY FOR EXAMPLE SPEAKING OF ELECTRICITY A TREMENDOUS CURRENT OF IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE WIRE CARRYING IT AND NOTHING TO ITS BULK UNLESS WE HAVE A HEATING OVERLOAD +528d4228-8c9e-4c3c-ab37-a30602c5a150 I A WHAT IS THAT THERE WAS A WARY TENSENESS IN THE GIANT'S FIGURE HIS MOUTH OPEN TO REVEAL THE LONG CANINES AND THAT TALL SLENDER TREE OVER THERE WITH THE BRANCHES ALL GROWING STRAIGHT UP IS A SEEDLING THAT CAME UP OF ITSELF AND NOBODY CAN EAT ITS APPLES THEY ARE SO SOUR AND BITTER EVEN THE PIGS WON'T EAT THEM SHOULD YOU WISH TO TAKE A FLIER AFTER ME STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE SQUARE OUTLINED BY THE FOUR UPRIGHTS OF THE DEVICE BESIDE WHICH THIS LITTLE TABLE STANDS BE SURE YOUR WEAPON I TOLD YOU TO BRING IT AT IS ON YOUR PERSON +52d39db2-cb33-4dea-939c-cd86134c28c2 THE STORY OF A BRAW LOVER WHO LED HIS SECRET OUT WHEN THE WHISKEY WAS ABOVE THE WIT I WOULDN'T SPARE ANY OF IT TO ANY ONE BUT YOU ABOVE THE HORIZON THE DISGUISE SLED ITS PARAGRAPH UNITS TURNED OFF THIS WAS RANK HERESY TO FELICITY BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN IT +52d986c2-37a1-47cb-8fc0-3cd9030ae6ac WHEN I GO HOME I'M GOING TO TELL HER ABOUT GOING TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS NOW STOP IT YONES THOUGHT STOP IT CUT OFF AFTER ALL HE FINISHED THERE ARE TIMES WHEN EVEN A HERO WANTS A LITTLE PRIVACY +52dde3ac-71e7-4a81-8fc8-2ee14fd86ee1 YOU WILL NOT BE THAT FOOLISH WILL YOU ORN NO NEED TO BE SAID ORAN I'VE ANOTHER LITTLE LESSON TO TEACH YOU I ALREADY KNOW WHERE YOU'VE HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS GO BOY HISSED STUTSON WHERE IS IT JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN THE BUNK HE PANTED AT JENIFER SHOVE IT OVER WHEN THE INFERNAL THING WAS MORE THAN A MATCH FOR ANY SHIP IT MIGHT MEET THAT WAS MY PROBLEM IT HAD KEPT ME AWAKE NIGHTS AND TALKING TO MYSELF DAYS SINCE THERE WAS NO EASY ANSWER +52f41db5-ae49-466a-a805-0b746f0d2552 THE SUNSHINE WAS AS THICK AND YELLOW AS MOLTEN GOLD I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT NO ONE HAD LIVED THERE FOR A LONG TIME THEN YOU CAN LIFT US ACROSS +5302664c-f67c-4ca3-b58c-fab71938e761 NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE IS BREATHABLE THE BULKHEAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND TOWERS POKED HIS HEAD THROUGH PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE TRAGEDY BUT A NUMBER OF MONITOR STATIONS HAD PICKED UP THIS DISCHARGED STATIC OF A LARGE ENERGY WEAPON BEING FIRED +531555ba-1f6b-4646-b5d3-47371245b4f3 HAD HE BEEN A POOR MAN HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST BUT HE HAD A SMALL FORTUNE OF HIS OWN IN LACKING THE SPUR OF NECESSITY OR OF DISQUIETING AMBITION HE REMAINED LITTLE MORE THAN A CLEVER AMATEUR GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL COME BACK TO MORROW AND WE WILL TALK SOME MORE I CALLED AFTER THE FLEEING FIGURE I WAS PLEASED TO NOTICE THAT HE TOOK THE CASH BEFORE TAKING OFF THERE WAS A SHIMMER OF LIGHT FROM THE TOP AND I TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT IT ON THE PEAK OF THE PYRAMID WAS A HOLLOW BASIN FILLED WITH WATER +5349fec2-d3ca-4154-8dba-db440bb2cff6 SHIP WEIGHED AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE RELEASING A DRUG SHOOT SO WILL CLEAR THE SHIP NINE LIGHT YEARS AWAY TOGETHER THEY RELAXED THEIR PERCEPTION SHIELDS IN RELIEF JUST AHEAD OF HIM JONIFER CAUGHT AN ERECT FIN SPINE AND CLUNG WITH BOTH ARMS SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE REPAIRS DIDN'T TAKE LONG THOUGH THERE WAS PLENTY OF GROANING FROM THE BLIND LIZARDS WHEN THEY HEARD ME RIPPING THE WALL OPEN TO GET AT THE POWER LEAGUES +534d0b48-1b94-4960-bd40-4d630cf723eb I GLANCED DOWN AT THE PAPERS IN MY HAND AND SLOWLY TURNED THE FIRST DIAL ON THE LITTLE INSTRUMENT BOARD NARROWLY WATCHING THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT AS VIC HAD INSTRUCTED THIS WAS MINGLED BITTER AND SWEET WE WERE SORRY TO HEAR THAT PETER HAD THE MEASLES BUT IT WOULD BE JOLLY TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL LIVING WITH US ALL THE TIME WHAT ORGES OF STORY TELLING WE SHOULD HAVE IT WAS RAY WHO BROUGHT THE CONVERSATION BACK TO EARTH OR SEA AGAIN HE ASKED GARF DIRECTLY EXACTLY WHERE HE DID COME FROM THIS OFTEN SAVED STEIN FINE AND BRYAN'S A LOT OF READING OF UNPUBLISHABLE MANUSCRIPTS +538653f5-e05b-4112-a0cc-c028925d13d2 PERHAPS THEY'LL LAUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR FACES TO MORROW SAID DAN WITH GLOOMY SATISFACTION WE WERE SITTING ON THE CELL HATCH WATCHING WHAT MIGHT BE OUR LAST SUNSET OVER THE DARK HILLS OF TIME PETER WAS WITH US IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN IF TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FELLOWS HE SAID THERE WAS LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON PEPPY AND ANGELINA THEY HAD COVERED THEIR TRACKS WELL THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN THERE WAS ONE DIM PICTURE OF A PEPPE CHUBBY BUT LOOKING TOO GRIM TO BE A HAPPY FAT BOY THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER NECESSARY KNUFF SAID LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS GAZE STABBED LIKE A SWORD HE WAS UNEASY YONAS KNEW WITH ANOTHER MIND PROBING HIS HE COULD NOT HELP BUT BE UNEASY BUT HE COULD NOT FIND A CAUSE IT WOULD NEVER OCCUR TO HIM AND HE CONTROLLED HIS FEELINGS SUPERBLY +53b73ce3-e860-4029-8b47-b07f1eeaedd4 HE HAD BEEN WORKING HARD ON IT THOUGH BUT HE CAME WHEN THE POLICE CALLED HIM YOU MARSHALL'S LITTLE BOY YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER SAID THE MIDGET WELL THEY'RE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE FROGS HE HEARD SAID FELIX AND THEY'RE SINGING IN THE SAME SWAMP THAT'S NEAR ENOUGH FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG +53c5ec55-9f8c-4127-861f-5055dc0459e0 SHE WAS CONSTANTLY IN A QUITE JUSTIFIABLE TERROR LEST WE SHOULD BE LOST OR KILLED SHE MUST HAVE FELT GREAT RELIEF WHEN SHE REACHED CHARLOTTETOWN AND HANDED US OVER TO THE KEEPING OF UNCLE ALEC INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH WE ALL HAVE DREAM BOOKS YOU KNOW AND EVERYONE WANTS THEIR OWN TO BE THE MOST EXCITING AND WE'VE BEEN EATING RICH THINGS TO MAKE US DREAM AND IT DOES BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM BEFORE I SENT FOR IT I CHECKED OVER THE REST OF THE BEACON IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGN OF WEAR THE OLD BOYS HAD BUILT WELL I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER +53db1ab1-030e-4fed-9769-ec9250ae366d FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS HE WENT UNDER ONCE AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING HE DECIDED HIS END HAD COME AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN WHEN HE COMBED IN HIS NET OF SNEAKERS TO CHECK THE TAPES AND FILMS LO AND BEHOLD HE HAD A LITTLE STRANGER ONE OF THEIRS NO IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY THE DELPHINUS HAS BEEN UNREPORTED FOR EIGHTEEN STANDARD MONTHS AFTER HE HAD BEEN IN HER SERVICE FOR SOME TIME OZMA SENT HIM INTO THE GILICAN COUNTRY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO KEEP AMONG THE WILD PEOPLE WHO INHABIT SOME PARTS OF THAT UNKNOWN COUNTRY OF OZ AS FOR WOUT BEING A WANDERER BY PROFESSION HE WAS ALLOWED TO WANDER WHEREVER HE DESIRED AND OZMA PROMISED TO KEEP WATCH OVER HIS FUTURE JOURNEYS AND TO PROTECT THE BOY AS WELL AS SHE WAS ABLE IN CASE HE EVER GOT INTO MORE TROUBLE +53dc91ba-b5f9-4ee5-8287-8d079ff76f6e OH WHISPERED FELICITY I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX SO THAT HE COULD SEE NOTHING IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE I FOLDED MY ARMS IN A REGAL DANCE A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON THE CABIN WAS FILLING THE FUMES +5406783d-1215-43dc-a7e1-8184726cecb7 VIC UNDERNEATH IN HOPE'S CLEAR PURPOSEFUL HAND WAS THIS DEAR PETER NOT KNOWING WHEN YOU'LL ARRIVE I'M GOING ON AHEAD WE MUST GIVE VIC A HAND MUSTN'T WE H FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN FURTHER THAN THAT WE DID NOT THINK ABOUT HER WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON +540a41b4-20ae-436d-b39e-d4ea6c70c7f5 OF COURSE I KNOW WE'RE THOROUGHLY UNCIVILIZED TOO UNWARLIKE FOR ANY OTHER RACE TO TRUST AND ALL THAT I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE I EXPECTED SHE'D SING AND TALK AND WE'D HAVE GOOD TIMES TOGETHER BUT SHE HAS PROVED NO COMPANY FOR ME AT ALL EVER SINCE THE MOMENT OF HER TRANSFORMATION SHE HAS REFUSED TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD THE COLD FEELING WAS NOW A BALL OF ICE THAT THREATENED TO PARALYZE ME YOU'RE LYING I SAID HOARSELY AND EVEN I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT +540ac548-bad2-4fb6-a0b2-a9ac3f7a3dc0 THE NEAREST METHODIST CHURCH IS SIX MILES AWAY AT MARKDALE AND WE'LL ALL BE DISGRACED OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF SHE STROKED THE PURRING PADDY AND WE READ STEADILY ON WITH MADDENING INDIFFERENCE TO ALL OF OUR PLEADINGS THAT A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THAT MITE CONTACT THIS RIG HERE AND THERE RED AND PURPLE FLOWERS JUTTED FROM THE VERDURE +541f346f-3fba-4e0d-bbbf-7b7e7d8c0974 JONAS HAD NO VAUGHAN TO STICK ON HIS NAME AND HE HAD NEVER THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO CLAIM ONE AND ACCEPT THE TINY RISK OF DISCLOSURE YOU HAVE HUMILIATED ME JUST REMEMBERED THAT STORY AND I THOUGHT I COULD SEE HIM TAKING UP THE SENSE SO SOLEMN WITH ONE LONG WHISKER FOR A LOVING HUSBAND IS NOT ALWAYS KIND EVEN FOR THE ONE WHO IS BRAVE AND DETERMINED NIMMY AMY LIVED WITH THE WICKED WITCH +54359ad5-032a-42e3-8dc1-ad684b85705e WE WERE ALL IN THE HAYLOFT MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS BILLY SAID THAT THE SEED WOULD SHRINK IT FOR SURE KATE MAR SAYS IT'S LIKE A GASH IN A PIE THE GIRLS IN SCHOOL LAUGH AT IT SO FARMER FURTHER DECIDED THAT RAY WAS TOO EGOCENTRICALLY ECCENTRIC TO BE TRUSTED TO GET HIM OUT OF THIS FIX +543aefe2-223a-45c5-af7a-8487aa44b0cd THE DREAM BOOKS THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS THEY WERE TEN CENTS APIECE WITH RULED PAGES AND MOTTLED GREEN COVERS MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO HIS VOICE TRAILED OFF THE MACHINE HISSED SNAPPED AND CRACKLED THE TELEVISION SAT FLICKERED HUMMED GAVE OUT A FLASHING DANCE OF SERESTIC DOODLES AND ABRUPTLY PRESENTED A PICTURE IT WAS A PICTURE OF MILTON BOROUGH RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING THE NOTE READ DEAR PETE IF YOU GET THIS I AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION DRIVE OUT IF PLAIN PEDDLING IS PALLING ON YOU AND BUST INTO THE LAB I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO +543d7226-51c3-4df5-9217-7d9010f65a2b MIGHT PERHAPS BE INJURED IF THE PEOPLE OF LOONVILLE ARE REALLY DANGEROUS WITH A COLD AND INDIFFERENT STARE THAT WAS ALMOST INSOLENT I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY NOT RETORTED CECILY GOD MADE PATTY JUST AS MUCH AS HE MADE YOU FELICITY KING THOUGH PERHAPS HE DIDN'T GO TO SO MUCH TROUBLE BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT PETER IS BESIDE HER OF COURSE YOU BET I SCOOTED AND SHE CAUGHT ME YES SIR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM +5453216c-1ae3-402f-89e8-ad9483fa2f1a YOU AND MISSUS PARENT STAY HERE THERE BY THE DOOR I SUGGESTED I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG HERE BUT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THERE'S NO NEED FOR ALL OF US ENTERING I HAVE TO BROWBEAT BRIBE BLACKMAIL AND BULL DOSE YOU THUGS INTO DOING A SIMPLE JOB IF YOU THINK YOU'RE FED UP JUST THINK HOW I FEEL BUT THE SHIPS MUST GO THROUGH THE BEACONS MUST OPERATE OF THE DELPHINAS BUT THE DEA MISSING THE REQUEST WAS A FORGERY NOW YOU SEE WHY I'M MOSTLY FOR RUBBING OUT THIS PLACE WHO DARE FORAGE SUCH A THING UNLESS HE KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL F SEA OFFICER WAS MISSING OR DEAD +547cbbf4-4e85-451a-b9dc-7a7607883020 THE NAME OF THE HILL WAS OLYMPUS BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS STORY THAT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER MOUNTAIN OF COURSE SHE IS AUNT JANE IS SPLENDID AGREED THE STORY GIRL PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TRULY EFFICIENT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION EVER MANUFACTURED I SUPPOSE MISSUS SCOTT THOUGHT THAT WHAT WAS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE WAS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER A CAT IN A HAY LOFT IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS +547cedae-dcc1-4a2b-8564-83471d598bf9 WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR BUT THAT WAS A FINE DINNER SAID THE HIPPO THAT IS ALTOGETHER TOO TEDIOUS A PROCESS FOR A YUKABOO BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS AND I WON'T +54c2b3cf-4dd4-4a66-ad25-780451954cd8 ALL OF THEM ASKED THE JAGUAR YES THE OWL IS TIN SO YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY EAT HIM THE CANARY IS A FAIRY POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW AND YOU COULD NEVER CATCH HER BECAUSE SHE CAN EASILY FLY OUT OF HER RAGE IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS I SUPPOSE WE MADE IT HORRID OURSELVES SAID THE STORY GIRL CANDIDLY BUT IT'LL BE A GOOD STORY TO TELL SOMETIME SHE ADDED I'M AWFUL TIRED AND THANKFUL SIGHED CECILY WE ALL FELT THAT WAY ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE WHILE DOING THIS HE HAD THROWN ONE OF THE SWITCHES AND THAT HAD CAUSED THE TROUBLE RATHER THAT HAD STARTED THE TROUBLE IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH +54e2d1b3-9d82-4fed-a116-4a8946eb4e79 BUT IN AN HOUR'S TIME DAN WAS STILL IN GOOD HEALTH AND ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF GOING TO BED HE WENT AND WAS SOON SLEEPING AS PEACEFULLY AS IF HE HAD NOTHING ON EITHER CONSCIENCE OR STOMACH WHEELS IT WAS TWO WAGONS WERE DRIVING UP THE LANE WE RUSHED TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WAS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA THE EXCITEMENT WAS QUITE TREMENDOUS EVERYBODY TALKED AND LAUGHED AT ONCE AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE WERE ALL SEATED ABOUT THE SUPPER TABLE THAT CONVERSATION GREW COHERENT I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR FOR IN THE BEGINNING I WAS A MAN OF FLESH AND BONE AND BLOOD AND LIVED IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ +54f86cf6-fb2b-4e17-bfc5-d2cffd0fba14 IT WAS ALL NONSENSE FIGHTING ABOUT SUCH PRAYERS ANYHOW SAID DAN WHO PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT SINCE ALL CHANCE OF FIGHT WAS OVER HE MIGHT AS WELL AVOW HIS REAL SENTIMENTS AS TO ITS FOLLY WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST WHILE THE CROWD WAS OGLING THIS ASCENT I WALKED THROUGH THE TEMPLE DOORS I WOULD TALK WITH YOU O NOBLE PRIESTS I SAID +55332555-ce84-4bde-82df-35e4cd13396e THE OTHER WAS AN UNCANINE LOOKING DOG SIZED BEAST SO FULL OF BIRDS AND THORNS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PORCUPINE HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT A SMOKING CYLINDER OF FUSED METAL LAY IN A GULLY IN THE MORNING AND AT DINNER TIME AND AT NIGHT AND BESIDES THAT ANY TIME THROUGH THE DAY WHEN HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT HE JUST PRAYS STANDING UP +559331b2-86a5-4a72-abb5-671b44a71714 THINK OF THE GAMES WE CAN HAVE THEY ARE ALL AROUND ME ONCE MORE BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL NO IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD SAID CICELY WITH THE HIGH REMOTE AIR OF ONE TO FORGET ME NOT JUGS IN ALL SUCH PUMPS AND VANITIES OF THE WORLD WERE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD HE LOOKED AS WE SAW WITH SINKING HEARTS UNUSUALLY GRAVE AND PREOCCUPIED FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS WE WERE ALL DELIGHTED PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT +55933cbe-e53f-4366-ab09-4d5b6397815c AH DO WE EVER FEEL QUITE THE SAME TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO DESTROY OUR ILLUSIONS SHALL I EVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE THE BRUTAL CREATURE WHO FIRST TOLD ME THERE WAS NO SUCH PERSON AS SANTA CLAUS ONE OF THE CLERKS ASKED I SHALL DO NOTHING I TOLD HIM WITH THE SNAP PRECISION OF AN OLD SPACE DOG THE LEAGUE FLEET IS ALREADY CLOSING IN ON THE RENEGADES AND YOU WILL BE INFORMED OF THE CAPTURE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IT'S NOT THAT THEY HURT IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY IS THAT UNUSUAL THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL +55f45019-1895-4861-9109-681c08f92ae0 ASKED A FEW NIGHTS LATER I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL AND HER MAIDENS DRESSED HER AH NEVER MIND ISN'T SHE ONE STILL ASKED FELICITY PERTLY BEING ALONG AT SEA IN A RICKETY CRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE MADMAN HAD BEEN BAD ENOUGH IT IS SUFFICIENT TO SAY THAT THE RAY WILL WORK BECAUSE +5610f14b-7d7b-4c6d-b489-b9a29ac7fe4d WHEN WE WERE ALONE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT COURTEOUS TO ME HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF BY NOT TOO SUBTLE QUESTIONING THAT I WAS A SPURIOUS ADMIRAL JOHN ANDREW TURNED FEELING COMPLETELY DOOMED JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE BUT SHE GENEROUSLY GAVE US ALL ONE APIECE FOR THE COVERS OF OUR DREAM BOOKS AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS +56200874-0019-4a12-8279-19f2dd533551 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MISSUS RICHARD COOK'S GRANDMOTHER PEG HAD YOUR RHEUMATISM RING ON AND THE STORY GIRL'S BLUE BEADS AND SARA RAY'S LACE SEWED ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER DRESS I NAMED HIM CHOP BY USING IN THIS VALLEY NO ONE EVER DIES IT IS TRUE RESPONDED THE SCARECROW THE SI MAN WAS IN HIS TRANSPARENT CUBICLE AND I LOCKED MYSELF IN WITH HIM DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL +56213ee6-f89a-4f1f-8870-4f1d216918cb JONAS DID NOT IN SPITE OF HIS POSE LOOK LIKE THE TYPICAL HERO FOLK TALE OR SCRIBE'S TOME THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME NO BUT I SHALL SOME DAY IF I KEEP ON BELIEVING IN HER BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT OH YOU CAN'T HARM US WE'RE TOO POWERFUL SAY HA SIR WHEN YOU ADDRESS ME TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS +564c8f67-b8fc-47f7-af20-9c030ccf0bc3 IT'S SO PRETTY WITH RED BERRIES ALL OVER IT AND THE FUNNIEST LITTLE POT BELLIED CREAM JUG AUNT OLIVIA NEVER USES IT EXCEPT ON A FAMILY ANNIVERSARY THIS WE FELT WAS A HEROIC MEASURE INDEED TO SIT DOWN TO ONE OF AUNT JANET'S MEALS IN ORDINARY HEALTH AND APPETITE AND EAT NOTHING BUT BREAD AND WATER THAT WOULD BE PENANCE WITH A VENGEANCE A DREAD PROPHECY I'VE GOT TO GO AND BEGIN STUMPING OUT THE ELDERBERRY PASTURE THIS AFTERNOON SAID PETER DOLEFULLY +566415dc-90dc-430b-a368-b7f9d20de877 AND WEAR A TIN CROWN ON HER HEAD HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL BOTH AN ALARMING MAJORITY IN THE SHATTERING AFTERMATH OF THE FOURTH WAR A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED +56b83dd1-f564-4713-85b2-8de4d453231a THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES IT MAKES ME NERVOUS HORRENT STARED UPWARD IN AWE STETSON SMILED WITHOUT HUMOR AND THE BROWN BEAR GRUNTED AND GROWLED WITH GLEE AND TROTTED TOWARD OZMA AS FAST AS HE COULD WABBLE +56c09144-a1bc-46e3-891d-ce683fb2ada6 BUT HE WAS SYSTEMATIC SO HE CHECKED THE LIST OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN THERE SEEMED TO BE SOMEBODY MISSING AH YES HIMSELF THE THIRD MILE BROUGHT HIM TO THE SCENE OF THE CRASH A SMOKING CYLINDER OF FUSED METAL LAY IN A GULLY PARTS WERE STREWN ALONG THE BOTTOM A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY HE SAT DOWN P S OH I DO HOPE PETER WILL GET BETTER MI IS GOING TO GET ME A NEW BROWN DRESS FOR THE WINTER S R +571cf4cd-0ed2-48e5-8ed1-505a1839bc0b I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER COME BACK TO HIS FAMILY SAID CECILY SAID DAN AH DAN WHAT MAKES YOU ASK SUCH QUESTIONS EXCLAIMED CECILY IN REAL DISTRESS WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED HE DIDN'T GO OUT OF THIS DOOR REITERATED DAN STUBBORNLY I KNOW THAT WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU +573b262e-1b6d-4b8f-8969-9566a06c135c WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY I THINK THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRUE THINGS TRUE THINGS THAT ARE AND TRUE THINGS THAT ARE NOT BUT MIGHT BE I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY ONE BUT THE ONE KIND OF TRUENESS SAID FELICITY ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN THE BOY ATE IN SILENCE FOR A TIME BEING REALLY HUNGRY BUT AFTER HIS APPETITE WAS SOMEWHAT SATISFI HE SAID HOW HAPPENED YOUR MAJESTY TO BE MADE OF TIN AND STILL BE ALIVE IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED ENOUGH OLD SHIPS ARE FEEL WASTERS YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUILD NEW ONES TO DO THAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ENTERING MY PRIVATE QUARTERS AND BELOW GLOWING YOU'RE IN VERY BAD TROUBLE I SAID IN AS GLOOMY A VOICE AS I COULD MUSTER +574a58ac-8844-4273-9aee-7bf7fc723d42 HE DEMANDED OH UNCLE ROGER DON'T GO IN IMPLORED FELICITY SERIOUSLY THERE'S SOMETHING DREADFUL IN THERE SOMETHING THAT RINGS A BELL THEN WE SAW WITH SHAME THAT IT WAS ONLY OUR PADDY PAT PAT I SAID PICKING HIM UP FEELING A CERTAIN COMFORT IN HIS SOFT SOLID BODY A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY THE MEXICAN TEA WAS DULY ADMINISTERED BUT PRODUCED NO IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION OF THE STORY GIRL WHO HOWEVER WENT ON DREAMING AFTER A FASHION WHICH SOON MADE HER DREAM BOOK A VERITABLE CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE +57564c27-cbf4-4ed7-8cc1-09e7ea566bc9 THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS A L I E N I KNOW THEY DO THAT'S THE METHODIST WAY AND IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR THEM I SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY I SAT BEHIND HIS DESK ALL HIS PERSONAL PAPERS WERE BEFORE ME WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A PISTOL HE BROKE DOWN AGAIN SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER +575746be-be5e-47d1-ae37-056a2d9e1797 A SERIES OF MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS ROCKED THE SHIP THERE WAS ENOUGH TO LAST THE NIGHT BUT NOT MUCH MORE IS THAT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL THEY BOTH STARED GAPED AT ME CAUGHT OFF GUARD AND COMPLETELY UNPREPARED ACTING ON MY ORDERS THE SHIP DROPPED OUT OF WARP DRIVE SO OUR SIAMEN COULD GET THROUGH TO THE OTHER OPERATORS +57633067-7a79-4317-8546-74c7e8ea4a9d SARA DID YIELD WHEN THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE ENTREATED IT WAS NOT EASY TO RESIST ITS TEMPTATION EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO THAT EVENING WHEN WE STARTED FOR THE SCHOOLHOUSE SARA RAY WAS AMONG US DECKED OUT IN BORROWED PLUMES HIS HANDS WERE WHITE CAUGHT IN GLOVES STUFFED WITH FINE STRAW I THINK IT WAS UNCLE ROGER'S LAST ARGUMENT WHICH CONVINCED AUNT JANET IN THE END SHE DECIDED TO GO +577bbda8-e6e5-48ec-b836-881ed3bc3e8d HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID HE STOPPED AT THE FIRST HOUSE A MUD CONSTRUCTION WITH A BADLY CARPENTERED WOODEN DOOR AND A SINGLE BARE WINDOW THAT LOOKED OUT ON THE STREET BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING SHE JUST GOT THE KEY AND WENT IN BUT HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO GET YOU POLYCHROME AND THIS GAVE LOOT TIME TO CLIMB THROUGH THE OPENING FOR WOOT WAS NOT VERY BIG AND NOT VERY OLD +57996063-d9ae-49f5-8a86-925de66c6108 AND AUNT JANET TALKED TO HIM AFTER A FASHION WHICH MADE US REALIZE PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH DON'T YOU CATCH IT YET THE STORY SHE TOLD YOU WAS TRUE EXCEPT SHE TWISTED IT AROUND A BIT THE WHOLE PLAN BUILDING THE BATTLESHIP THEN STEALING IT WAS HERS AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE +57a49325-4507-41ca-8833-917fa98a19c9 AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA HE HAD NEVER SEEN HIM PETER CAUGHT THEM AT MARKDALE THE LAST TIME HE WAS HOME HIS MOTHER SAYS THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES CECILY HAD A PACKET OF VISITING CARDS WHICH SHE WAS HOARDING AGAINST THE DAY WHEN SHE WOULD BE GROWN UP AND COULD PUT THE CALLING ETIQUETTE OF THE FAMILY GUIDE INTO PRACTICE IN THE SWEET SCENTED FADING GRASSES +57aeccb0-8076-418e-9385-60e58fe828c0 I AM GOING TO HELP MOTHER PLANT THE VEGETABLE GARDEN TO DAY SAID FELICITY SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A COUSIN THEY HAD BEEN EXPECTING FROM SCOTLAND THEN THE STORY GIRL ARRIVED ARRAYED NOT IN ANY SECOND BEST BUT IN HER VERY BEST DRESS AND HAT WHICH HER FATHER HAD SENT HER FROM PARIS BUT THE ORCHARD WAS A PLACE OF SHADOWS AND MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS MIDWAY UP THE OPEN SPACE IN ITS HEART WE MET PETER AND IF EVER A BOY WAS GIVEN OVER TO SHEER TERROR THAT BOY WAS PETER +57b0ef50-ec8a-4944-b94b-6649dcdba8e1 I TAKE IT THERE'S BEEN A HEAVY MUTATIONAL VARIATION IN THE HUMAN OY NORM ON THIS PLANET SAID HORN WHAT IS IT HARD RADIATION WHY THERE WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RELIGION IN OLD TIMES SAID FELIX THE MORE RELIGIOUS ANYTHING WAS THE MORE FIGHTING THERE WAS ABOUT IT A FELLOW'S GOT A RIGHT TO PRAY AS HE PLEASES SAID PETER AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO STOP HIM HE'S BOUND TO FIGHT THAT'S MY WAY OF LOOKING AT IT WE WENT TO SCHOOL BAREFOOT AT ALL JUNE ARGUED THAT WICKED STORY GIRL WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOING TO THE SCHOOL HOUSE BAREFOOTED IN THE DAYTIME AND GOING IN THE EVENING +57ce24b5-c65d-41eb-9071-b902bf55ff3a STRANGER SHARP SAID WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN LIFE WAS AS A RED ROSE ONCE MORE I'M GOING TO MAKE A BIG BATCH OF PATTY PANS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING SAID FELICITY JUBILANTLY ISN'T IT QUEER LAST NIGHT I FELT JUST LIKE PRAYING AND TO NIGHT I FEEL JUST LIKE COOKING I'M A PIE EYED GRIPIS WHISPERED STETSON ERNE GRINN SAID IT PROBABLY ARE SIR THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN +57e0faf5-3f79-4c74-8f71-ada6917f0a3b WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY MA MADE A RULE LIKE THAT ONCE BEFORE AND KEPT IT FOR A WEEK AND THEN WE JUST SLIPPED BACK TO THE OLD WAY THAT WILL BE WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME TOO BUT OF COURSE WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANY MORE RICH THINGS FOR SUPPER AND OUR DREAMS WILL BE PRETTY FLAT AFTER THIS BUT OZMA WILL SOON FIX YOU UP AGAIN THE GREEN MONKEY HAD HUNG BACK BASHFUL AT MEETING TWO LOVELY GIRLS WHILE IN THE FORM OF A BEAST BUT GINGER NOW TOOK HIS HAND AND LED HIM FORWARD WHILE SHE INTRODUCED HIM TO OZMA AND WOOD MANAGED TO MAKE A LOW BOW NOT REALLY UNGRACEFUL BUT FOR HER GIRLISH MAJESTY THE RULER OF OZ I WAS STILL TEASED AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A SHIP THIS LARGE COULD BE USED FOR SO I REMOVED THE TIME INTELLECT ON THE C M AND LET IT PICK AROUND THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF SPACE TO SEE IF IT COULD FIND A COMPARISON IT SURE DID RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME +57e76291-26fa-4eb6-92e0-c123934422cc I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT POOR RACHEL WAS SO HAPPY THAT WINTER SHE MADE ALL HER WEDDING THINGS WITH HER OWN HANDS I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG YOU'RE AS BIG AS YOU'RE GOING TO BE DECLARED THE KING UNTIL DOROTHY AND THE SCARECROW CAME ALONG AND RESCUED ME +5807c712-7f75-48e0-a5b3-bacddd5dd300 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE FACT THAT IN ALL OUR FOREGATHERINGS SHE WAS CAREFUL TO SIT AS FAR FROM FELICITY AS POSSIBLE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DECEIVED WHAT WOULD AUNT JANE SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT CECILY DEMANDED OF PETER DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN PERSISTED CECILY PRAIRIE DOGS CAN'T WRITE AS GOOD AS ON THAT LIST PRAIRIE DOGS CAN'T WRITE HARDLY AT ALL THAT'S TRUE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO +5817c3df-328a-48fe-ace1-6a0b8310f350 PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO WELL DON'T WHISTLE ON SUNDAY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY SEVERELY WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRUST BILLY ROBINSON SAID FELICITY SUMMING UP THE CASE ONE EVENING WHEN ALL HAD BEEN MADE KNOWN I WAS VERY MUCH AFRAID THAT WE DID NOT REJOICE QUITE AS UNSELFISHLY IN SARAH'S GOOD FORTUNE AS WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THE SHIP HE THOUGHT ASTRO MAY ALREADY BE HOVERING OVER IT +583e3e8a-c889-40d3-97a4-163e2472466c OH YOU'RE QUITE WRONG DECLARED POLYCHROME LAUGHING AFTER BREAKFAST THE BOY WENT INTO THE THRONE ROOM WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT FELICITY TOSSED HER HEAD AND MANY A TIME HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP THE STRUGGLE HAD NOT THE THOUGHT OF SWEET ALIN'S LOVING EYES BROUGHT HIM THE STRENGTH AND DESIRE TO STRUGGLE AS LONG AS IT WAS POSSIBLE +5859ccfc-ece2-4e28-96ed-327ebbf91308 YOU CAN'T NAME THINGS HERE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN WORLD ANYTHING THAT OCCUPIES SPACE BEFORE HE COULD FINISH IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY THEY MUST STILL THINK OF ME AS SITTING IN THE CONTROL ROOM HE WAS TELLING ME THE GUY WHO DID THE JOB WHILE HE SAT BACK ON HIS FAT PAY CHECK IN AN AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE +5864de76-4204-4d03-8b5d-e314aa9f4953 I WISH ADDED CECILY WITH A SIGH WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER I JAMMED THE IRON HARD INTO MY PHONY EYE SOCKETS AND THE PLASTI GAVE OFF AN AUTHENTIC ODOR I HAD MEANT TO SAIL OUT BRAVELY BLIND EYES FACING INTO THE SUNSET FANCY SELLING GOD'S PICTURE SAID CECILY IN A SHOCKED AWED TONE WE FELT AS IF A TERRIBLE WEIGHT HAD BEEN LIFTED FROM OUR MINDS +5869bda6-1ea6-4991-95ee-ca80f46e7603 MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE THEY FOUND THEM BURIED IN THE BACK OF THE OLDEST WAREHOUSE I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX WELL I SUPPOSE THE FIRE IS ON ANYHOW FOR THE STORY GIRL IS UP I GUESS SHE GOT UP EARLY TO KNEAD THE BREAD SHE COULDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT FOR WORRYING OVER IT +586c0f6d-f63a-4610-b9b0-6bf9b9705c5a MUCH PRESTIGE ATTACHED TO THEM AND MY BLACK DRESS OUTFIT SHOULD WRITE AS HIGHLY AS ANY UNIFORM IN THE GALAXY A STEADY DRIP OF CONDENSATION SPATTERED THE WINDSHIEL STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS I AM NOT VENGEFUL BUT MY SON WAS NO WIZARD SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY HE SAT CROSS LEGGED IN A CORNER OF THE CELL AND CLOSED HIS EYES +58867146-07e5-4d82-8c8b-0a68cd1d90fb COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR YOU HAVE CONFESSED TO ME HE SAID YOUR HERESY NOW YOU WILL BE MADE TO RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION CECILY WHO WAS ELEVEN WAS PRETTY ALSO OR WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD FELICITY NOT BEEN THERE FELICITY RATHER TOOK THE COLOR FROM OTHER GIRLS FIFTY CENTS WOULD BE PRETTY DEAR FOR ANY OTHER PICTURE BUT OF COURSE THIS IS DIFFERENT SAID DAN AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF EDEN THROWN IN TWO YOU KNOW ADDED FELICITY FANCY SELLING GOD'S PICTURE SAID CECILY IN A SHOCKED AWED TONE NOBODY BUT A COUN WOULD DO IT AND THAT'S A FACT SAID DAN +5888dca7-d117-41ca-ad1f-20184143502e A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS THE LAST THING HE REMEMBERED WAS THE TASTE OF BLOOD ON HIS LIPS LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM FINALLY HE TURNED TO RAY HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS VIC SWEPT BOTH ARMS ABOUT HOPE AND ME HOLDING US IN A CLOSE EMBRACE SO THAT WE ALL STOOD WITHIN THE TRIANGLE FORMED BY THE THREE BITS OF BLACK ROCK TELL HER ALL SCRAMBLE OUT SOMEHOW +588eec55-42a6-4618-86c4-cbb092c6b728 I MUST HAVE SWALLOWED A NEEDLE SEVERAL NEEDLES PERHAPS I'M DONE FOR THE POOR STORY GIRL WENT VERY WHITE WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM A SILVERY MOON WAS LOOKING DOWN ON US OVER THE GRANARY THE STARS TWINKLED THROUGH THE SOFTLY WAVING BOUGHS BEYOND THE WOODS WE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF MOONLIGHT WORLD LYING IN THE SHARP FROST OF THE OCTOBER EVENING I GRABBED UP THE MONITOR RECEIVER AND RAN TOWARDS THE AIRLOCK THIS IS A DIFFERENT BOMB NOW I SAID KEEPING ONE EYE ON THE SCREEN AND THE OTHER ON THE SLOWLY OPENING OUTER DOOR THIS ONE HAS RECEPTORS ON THE HULL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ANY PART OF THE SHIP OR EVEN GAIN ENTRY TO IT AND THIS ONE WILL DETONATE +589286de-4c4c-4290-a544-24ee32f123d4 I THREW THEM ACROSS THE DESK TO HIM AND POINTED TO ONE CORNER WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE THERE EXCLAIMED THE KING I EXPECTED THAT WOULD HAPPEN I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I DON'T CARE FOR MY HUSBAND TREATED ME BADLY AT TIMES TOLD YOU SO AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT +58c2d9bb-128c-4a19-839d-b6dd142f0a20 SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE YONAS STARTED MUSING ON HEROES AGAIN BUT HE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A MOVE TOWARDS HER SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY WHILE HE WAS PLAYING A SLEIGH DROVE UP TO THE DOOR AND NEIL CAMPBELL CAME IN DONALD WAS NOT OVERLY GLAD TO SEE HIM FOR HE SUSPECTED WHERE HE WAS GOING AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS +58ebc05e-1917-4d6d-9cd0-3380dcdd8ff9 SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO REPENT OF SOMETHING SWEET GIRL AND THIS WAS ALL SHE COULD THINK OF I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID HIS VOICE TRAILED OFF BUT HE EXTENDED HIS HAND AND SAID PETER THERE JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION AN IRISHMAN WHO LIVED AT MARKDALE HAD A LITTLE PIG SHE SAID AND HE GAVE IT A PAILFUL OF MUSH +58fbaab4-0849-427a-aa26-6b73d7364ac2 BUT I KNOW WHAT HE MUST EVER SEEM TO ME AND CERTAIN HOME CHORES WERE ASSIGNED TO EACH OF US FOR THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF WHICH WE WERE HELD RESPONSIBLE WE KNEW ELDER FREWIN QUITE WELL AND LIKE HIM WHY SHOULD HE INDEED I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER AND THROUGH THE MANY TIN ROOMS ALL SET WITH BEAUTIFUL TIN FURNITURE IT'S TOO BAD HE HASN'T A LOVING HEART SAID ROOT +5907e32c-0ca3-45b4-b2c1-d13e979f9d56 SHE DREW A PICTURE OF THE GRIMACING OTTOMAN ON THE MARGIN OF HER DREAM BOOK WHICH SO SCARED SARA RAY WHEN SHE BEHELD IT THAT SHE CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME AND INSISTED ON SLEEPING THAT NIGHT WITH JUDY PINNOT LEST THE FURNITURE TAKE TO PURSUING HER ALSO DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR MAY YOUR SLEEP BE LONG AND SWEET MAN HE SAID LAUGHING SOFTLY AND AS FOR THE WAKING TWILL BE BETWIXT YOU AND ME I BELIEVE WE ARE SAFE NOW SAID POLYCHROME WHEN HER CAGE WAS SET DOWN AND THE OTHERS HAD ALL GATHERED AROUND IT FOR MISSUS EWKE DAREST NOT GO OUTSIDE OF HER OWN VALLEY FOR FEAR OF BEING CAPTURED BY HER ENEMIES SO WE MAY TAKE OUR TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT TO DO NEXT +591360fa-2481-41cd-80f3-13a2661839e4 SARA RAY CAME UP BUT WAS SO SNUBBED BY FELICITY THAT SHE WENT HOME CRYING SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN NOW STARING FIXEDLY INTO SPACE IN SEARCH OF SOME ELUSIVE WORD OR PHRASE WHICH MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE THIS LAST ORDER WAS DIRECTED AT THE ROBART WHO WAS WELL BRIEFED IN ITS ROLL IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED +59360af0-8ebe-4b07-8a8d-95924461b7af SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE WAS SOMETHING SOMETHING THAT WAVERED AND FLUTTERED ADVANCED RETREATED THAT'S ONLY MY OLD APRON SAID FELICITY I HUNG IT THERE TO DAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT WHITE HEN'S NEST OH WHAT SHALL WE DO I FOUND THIS ON THE FLOOR OF THE MACHINE HE SAID DIDN'T NOTICE IT UNTIL LATER THE RAYS OF THE MACHINE CAUGHT IT AND BROUGHT IT BACK WITH US MADE IT SOLID MATTER AS WE KNOW IT HERE DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT I NODDED SHUDDERING THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF MISTAKE IN A SQUAT CLEAR BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL THAT VIC HAD TAKEN FROM THE DRAWER WAS A SINISTER CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND SEVERED CLEANLY AT THE WRIST BY THE WAY HE SAID IT I KNEW THAT HE THOUGHT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANCE OF IT HAPPENING THAT WAY SINCE MY FIRST INDUCTION TO THE CORPS SIX MONTHS EARLIER I HAD BEEN STUCK ON THIS SUPERSECRET PLANETOID THAT WAS ITS HEADQUARTERS AND MAIN BASE I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED +59493155-816b-418a-90c9-84ce1f14ddb1 THE GREEN MONKEY WAS SO STARTLED BY THE SUDDEN ATTACK THAT HE SPRUNG INTO THE FIREPLACE STRAW IS MUCH MORE DELICIOUS IT TWISTED AROUND AND CUT OFF ONE OF MY ARMS HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT +59955be1-4373-435b-b208-856e43b2e394 WE MUST HAVE YOUR FRIEND'S HELP FINDING OUT WHERE THE ISLANDERS GOT THEIR CALM CRYSTALS HAD BECOME SUDDENLY UNIMPORTANT WHERE DO YOU GO DEMANDED TO NUBE BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER +599deafe-c760-4cf1-9b0a-7c35df05248a HER BEST SET IS STILL COMPLETE AUNT OLIVIA HAS IT YOU MUST GET HER TO SHOW IT TO YOU THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES YOU'RE A VERY HONEST AND CLEVER MAN EXCLAIMED THE HIPPOGIRA ADMIRINGLY WHEN I HAVE EATEN YOUR HEAD PERHAPS I WILL ALSO BECOME CLEVER YOU ARE NOT TO EAT MY HEAD YOU KNOW RETURNED THE SCARECROW HASTILY +59b82c80-6a6d-40b9-812a-8a5fd0251153 IF ONLY HE HAD LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY THEY BURIED HIM NOT KNOWING FOR SURE WHETHER HE WAS MANUEL COME BACK SHE TRANSFORMED HIM INTO AND SANG SONGS THAT SOUNDED LIKE THE NOTES OF TIN WHISTLES LET'S GO OVER TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK AND SIT ON THE BRANCHES OF THE BIG TREE WE DID NOT WISH OUR GROWN UPS AROUND AT OUR GREAT MOMENT SO WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE LOFT OF THE GRANARY IN THE SPRUCE WOOD FROM WHOSE WINDOW WE COULD SEE THE MAIN ROAD AND HALE JERRY +59e66cc2-d71d-445a-a373-094cc6c3c4dc NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE US DIONES SORROS EVEN PEOPLE A SCRAP OF BALD HEADED AND DESOLATE MOUNTAINS BUT MANOEL HAD A JOB TO DO AND HE DID IT COLLAXY AND CALM CRYSTALS DID WHAT NO REFINEMENT OF TERRAN THERAPEUTICS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE +5a1989d5-e73b-47cd-bfdd-18fa94a1203a I'VE BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND HEARD SOME GOOD THINGS BUT I'VE NEVER ENJOYED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT THREADBARE OLD STORY I HEARD IN MY CRADLE THE MAN SMILED AND PUT HIS HELMET BACK ON HIS HEAD OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT THERE'S AN E I COMMUNICATOR IN MY CABIN JEFF SAID LET'S GO +5a2a291f-a8fe-4b5f-8eec-29339695b634 JUST TO MAKE YOU LAUGH I'LL WRITE YOU A LITTLE STORY I HEARD UNCLE ALEC TELLING LAST NIGHT LET'S GO AND ASK THE AWKWARD MAN AND MISTER CAMPBELL FOR A CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND SHE SAID BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN NEAR IT HE COULD SEE ITS WHITE HOT DWARF STAR COMPANION WE MUST TRY CLETON SAID AND YOUR DAUB IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS +5a2ffbe3-22a3-4307-9153-de54d08b0a41 FELICITY IF I DIE FROM THE EFFECTS OF EATING SAWDUST PUDDING FLAVORED WITH NEEDLES YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU EVER SAID SUCH A THING TO YOUR POOR OLD UNCLE SAID UNCLE ROGER REPROACHFULLY EVEN IF THERE WERE NO NEEDLES IN IT SIXTY YEAR OLD SAWDUST CAN'T BE GOOD FOR MY TUMMY I DARE SAY IT WASN'T EVEN CLEAN IF THAT CLOCK DOESN'T STRIKE TWO I SHALL GO OUT OF MY SEVEN SENSES DECLARED CECILY WITH UNUSUAL VEHEMENCE WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN FELICITY WAS TWELVE SHE HAD BEEN CALLED AFTER AUNT FELICITY WHO WAS THE TWIN SISTER OF UNCLE FELIX SO FAR AS WE KNEW NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE +5a3c4145-a8eb-4c47-88fd-923e01919d1d IT WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR HIRED BOYS TO GO TO PUBLIC MEETINGS WHEN NOT HELD IN THE CHURCH WITH BARE FEET AND NO PARTICULAR DISGRACE ATTACHED TO IT BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION IT WAS DARK NOW SO NOBODY WOULD NOTICE HIS FEET IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY I AM AFRAID THE REMEMBRANCE GREW A LITTLE DIM THE REST OF THE WEEK FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE +5a4f97f4-457a-4db9-ba20-d27fa905a66e THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE LITTLE BIT MORE LITTLE BIT MORE I GET TWO BITS A NAME SOMEHOW THE PREDICTABLE MONOTONY OF CONSOLATE WORK HAD NEVER SEEMED LESS INVITING THE PROSPECT OF ENDING HIS COLLAXI IN TOUR AND GOING TO A HALF BARREN AND JUTTERY EARTH APPEALED TO JEFF EVEN LESS IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK THERE WAS ENOUGH TO LAST THE NIGHT BUT NOT MUCH MORE +5a7dc2b4-de6c-4b7a-911b-6fe68e2bb5f8 AFTERWARDS AS WE DRESSED FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL UPSTAIRS OUR SPIRITS CARRIED US AWAY HATE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT AUNT JANE HAD TO COME TWICE TO THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS AND INQUIRE SEVERELY CHILDREN HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT DAY IT IS AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND OH YES CECILY HAD ASSURED HIM THE BIBLE IS ALWAYS THE SAME THIS SEEMED TO BE A RATHER UNANSWERABLE KIND OF CONUNDRUM +5a820823-78a4-4cc9-aa44-ff0e69845f5b I WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM SAID FELICITY AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING THAT REPLIED THE TIN MAN IS A LONG STORY THE LONGER THE BETTER SAID THE BOY WON'T YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE STORY THERE WAS HEARTBREAK IN THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE AND TEARS CAME INTO OUR EYES THERE IN THE GREEN BOWER OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK WE CRIED OVER THE PATHOS OF A PARTING WHOSE ANGUISH HAD BEEN STILLED FOR MANY YEARS +5a898865-c4d5-4201-a25e-3c45b893d990 THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT TOO TIRED TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE OUR ANCESTRAL DOMAINS OH YOU WOULDN'T SARA STANLEY YOU'RE NOT IN EARNEST EXCLAIMED FELICITY HER BLUE EYES FILLING WITH HORROR +5aaed2dd-19ca-4c54-aed0-f658d6d632e2 YOU MUST TAKE A PINCH OF THE SEED EVERY THREE HOURS WALKING BACKWARD AND IT MADE US FEEL WRETCHEDLY UNCOMFORTABLE SOMEHOW YOU ARE A WONDER SOME DAY YOU WILL MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE IT IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER DO YOU KNOW WHY I WAS PUT HERE WE ALL MADE MUCH OF HIM EXCEPT FELICITY WHO NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A STORY GIRL'S CAT +5aafd9fa-0ec6-4ae6-b85a-4a3c3579330d WHERE WE SAT ON THOSE SEPTEMBER EVENINGS AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED IT'S TOO LATE TO BE SAYING ALL THESE NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM NOW SAID THE STORY GIRL IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE +5ad080ba-e1b7-470d-a7a1-beb1beecb8b1 WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH BUT TAKE HIM AWAY THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR HIS EYES OPENED WIDE HIS JAW DROPPED HE SANK BACK INTO THE CHAIR AS IF HE HAD BEEN TAPPED LIGHTLY WITH A HAMMER +5ae9292b-3177-4369-a859-1dee22c117b7 WASN'T KISSING ALWAYS DISCOVERED ASKED ANNE THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS A PAIR OF WILD CANARIES COME HERE EVERY SUMMER OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS SO MANY WOONS AND POUNDED THE THREE TRAVELLERS AS HARD AS THEY COULD ON ALL SIDES +5b3e45d5-e21b-45d8-8bc0-c30732a54cb8 AMAZINGLY HIS TONGUE ONLY GOT TANGLED ONCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SPEECH AND HE REGAINED CONTROL OF IT QUICKLY THEN JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION I WONDER IF IT IS TRUE THAT HE WRITES POETRY MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT IS SHE SAYS SHE HAS SEEN HIM WRITING IT IN A BROWN BOOK SHE SAID SHE COULDN'T GET NEAR ENOUGH TO READ IT BUT SHE KNEW IT WAS POETRY BY THE SHAPE OF IT VERY LIKELY IF THAT BLUE SILK DRESS STORY IS TRUE I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING OF HIM SAID FELICITY FELIX HAD A KNACK OF DREAMING ANYHOW AND HIS DREAM BOOK WHILE SUFFERING SOMEWHAT IN COMPARISON OF LITERARY STYLE WAS ABOUT THE BEST OF THE LOT WHEN IT CAME TO SUBJECT MATTER +5b43b401-6e22-45d0-912d-c305c27b462c THINGS SKIPPED THROUGH THE AIR AROUND THE LURCHING VEHICLE FLITTING AND DARTING THINGS DARK LIKEWISE ERGO A HIGH PLACE ON THE DARK SIDE OF THEIR MOON I'M A PIE EYED GRIPIS WHISPERED STETSON AM I TO TAKE THIS AS A CONFESSION HE SAID DO YOU WISH TO HURRY YOUR OWN DEATH I AM NO WIZARD YONAH SAID SHE WAS VERY SMALL AND VERY SWEET SHE HAD SOFT BROWN EYES THAT WERE TOO TIMID TO LOOK STRAIGHT AT ANYBODY LIKE CECILY'S THERE AND LONG SLEEK BROWN CURLS LIKE MINE AND SHE HAD A TINY BERTH MARK LIKE A PINK BUTTERFLY ON ONE CHEEK RIGHT HERE +5b4431fc-ddd5-41eb-a2cb-a264b98d76f1 DON'T GO TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING TO NIGHT NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH WHERE ELSE SHOULD SHE HAVE CAUGHT THEM SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY I BUT SOON AND LATER IT STILL HAD TO HAPPEN AS ANY WIZARD MIGHT DO WHO HAD THE HELP OF HIS LORD THE DEVIL KUTUFF MUTTERED I DUG THROUGH THE MARK THREE PLANS IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON IT SWISHED DOWN AND LANDED AT NIGHT IN THE BANK OF A LOCAL MUD WALLOW +5b5f0d9f-eac5-4336-9e23-52d6baa517c3 BITTER INDEED WAS THE STORY GIRL'S MORTIFICATION HE STRODE ALONG RIGHT MASTERFULLY AND LIFTED HIS HEAD WITH THE AIR OF ONE WHO WAS MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED FIRST I HAD TO BE SURE THAT I KNEW HIM WELL JUST AS WHEN I BUMPED INTO A MARK I KNEW HOW MUCH IT COULD BE TAKEN FOR AND JUST HOW TO DO IT HEAVY LIDDED EYES AND THOUGH WE HAD SOME IDEA WHAT WOULD BE AT THE END OF IT AND A PINK AND WHITE SKIN +5b86e3c6-5c0a-4e82-9bac-befce5b285ad AND IF HE LOOSED HIS CLASP EVER SO LITTLE HE WAS AFRAID SHE WOULD FALL SO WEAK AND TREMBLING WAS SHE FROM HER DREADFUL FRIGHT STETSON'S FACE HARDENED WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP BUT HIS PROGRESS IN THE DIVING SUIT WAS WADDLING AND SLOW AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK +5baafb5e-e5f2-4e67-a414-54d39dfb1bde BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH WHAT IF SARA DOES TAKE THE MEASLES I SAID SULKILY THE MINCE PIE WAS TO BLAME FOR THAT WISH +5bc1d281-bb6a-4654-b104-5e00332ab9e9 GOOD LUCK I MEANT THAT ABOUT DIVING IN FOR YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I KNOW THE WORD TOO SAID ORNE HELP OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ I WAS GINGER JUST NOW I'M AS YOU SEE ME A MISERABLE LITTLE BROWN BEAR WITH A POOR QUALITY OF STUFFY PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON +5bd3fcab-beef-4ffe-b92f-608bb48bcf02 OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN NOW SARA SHE SAID WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY EVERY ONE HAS TO HAVE THE MEASLES SOMETIME THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM THERE WAS A RESIDUE OF CHARGE IN THE EMERGENCY BATTERIES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE A DIM LIGHT +5bd5c425-28a9-4a4f-a4ac-dbbd04450fee RIM WAR ALL OVER AGAIN BUT THIS IS A DIFFERENT BREED OF FISH IT'S NOT REPEAT NOT A REDISCOVERY NEIL WAS RICH AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER IF HE TOLD NANCY SHE MUST TAKE NEIL CAMPBELL SHE WOULD NEVER DREAM OF DISOBEYING HIM HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS IT FOUND ROTS IN HIS DAILY RAMBLES OVER THE LITTLE ISLAND GRANTED HIM BY THE TOWNSHIP FOR THE PAINTING HE HAD BEGUN AS A BLIND TO HIS ASSIGNMENT AND IN THE GOSSIP OF OLD CHARLEY MACK AND THE FEW OTHERS HE HAD MET +5bd668a2-adbf-4388-a48f-2de3573620f3 AS IT WAS WE WERE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK UP IT LEST WE SHOULD SEE THE WADING BLUE CLAD EMILY UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE BUT ALL WE SAW WAS FELICITY TEARING OVER THE GREEN SWARD HER CURLS STREAMING BEHIND HER IN A GOLDEN CLOUD THE STORY GIRL CAME OVER EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SARA RAY TO WHOM FAITHFULLY CECILY HAD SENT WORD WAS ALSO ON HAND PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM +5be90e01-3071-4164-82c1-307cdb45be4b WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT A SACRILEGE MEANT BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER MILWOOD HAD DECLARED THAT THE PICTURE WAS NOT LIKE GOD THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR US WE FELT AS IF A TERRIBLE WEIGHT HAD BEEN LIFTED FROM OUR MINDS I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THE MINISTER KNOWS SAID DAN HAPPILY WE'VE LOST FIFTY CENTS BECAUSE OF IT SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN SO EVERY KING WENT TO WAR TO PROVE THAT HE COULD CONQUER EVERYONE ELSE AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED AND MISERY BUT THE PROUD PRINCESS LAUGHED AND SANG AND SHE AND HER MAIDENS WORKED AT A WONDERFUL LACE VEIL WHICH SHE MEANT TO WEAR WHEN THE KING OF ALL KINGS CAME IT WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL VEIL BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT OH YOU CAN'T HARM US WE'RE TOO POWERFUL BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT HA SAY HA SIR WHEN YOU ADDRESS ME DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM I KNOW THE PLACE IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR +5bf12f89-8ab2-43f2-982e-f72746f6a538 WELL ANYHOW IT ISN'T A SUITABLE WORD IN THIS CASE INSISTED FELICITY WE ARE NOT UP TO ANY DEVIL ANY EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF WRITING DOWNS ONE'S DREAM ISN'T MISCHIEF AT ALL CERTAINLY IT WASN'T SURELY NOT EVEN THE STRAITEST SECT OF GROWN UPS COULD CALL IT THAT IF WRITING DOWN YOUR DREAMS WITH AGONIZING CARE AS DECOMPOSITION AND SPELLING FOR WHO KNEW THAT THE EYES OF GENERATIONS UNBORN MIGHT NOT READ THE RECORD WERE NOT A HARMLESS AMUSEMENT COULD ANYTHING BE CALLED SO I TROW NOT BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR FOR IN THE BEGINNING I WAS A MAN OF FLESH AND BONE AND BLOOD AND LIVED IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL +5c0db33c-e894-4380-895a-46e2dce7d104 ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WITH ONE ACCORD THEY CAME TOWARD US OBVIOUSLY INTENT UPON BLOCKING OUR WAY I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE I DON'T MEDDLE WITH HIRED BOYS PRAYERS SHE SAID HAUGHTILY WHY AM I WEARING THIS THING ASKED HORN DISGUISE BUT THERE'S NO MOUSTACHE +5c2bb1b8-6e22-4ad1-8442-6a607fa684b4 THERE WAS A THICK MUSCLED NO FAT LOOK TO ORN BUT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS BLOCKY OFF CENTERED FEATURES SUGGESTED A CLOWN DID IT CRACK UP HERE WE DON'T KNOW CECILY DID NOT WRITE BACK BECAUSE MISSUS RAY HAD DECREED THAT NO LETTERS MUST BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE HILL FARM LEST THEY CARRY INFECTION CECILY HAD OFFERED TO BAKE EVERY EPISTLE THOROUGHLY IN THE OVEN BEFORE SENDING IT BUT MISSUS RAY WAS INEXORABLE AND CICELY HAD TO CONTENT HERSELF BY SENDING LONG VERBAL MESSAGES WITH A JUDY PILLOW DIPLOMACY WAS CALLED FOR I SIGHED AND DRAGGED OUT THE PLASTER FLESH EQUIPMENT WORKING FROM THREETY SNAPS OF GRANDSON I MODELLED A PASSABLE REPTILE HEAD OVER MY OWN FEATURES +5c3015fc-410a-4daf-bb7b-d345419ff455 THIS TIME I DIDN'T ANSWER HIM BECAUSE I WAS RUNNING AND PANTING LIKE A DOG AND HAD THE MIKE TURNED OFF JUST AHEAD IF THE BLUE PINS WERE RIGHT WAS THE DOOR TO THE CONTROL ROOM PEPE SHOULD BE THERE OH DOCTOR MY SON HAS SWALLOWED A MOUSE HE CRIED WHAT SHALL I DO TELL HIM TO SWALLOW A CAT ROARED THE POOR DOCTOR AND SLAMMED HIS DOOR NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION YOU TWO MISS A GREAT DEAL BY NOT EATING HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS IT IS TRUE RESPONDED THE SCARECROW WE MISS SUFFERING FROM HUNGER WHEN FOOD CANNOT BE HAD AND WE MISS A STOMACH ACHE NOW AND THEN +5c3e828e-339e-48ec-a26e-8311b379e1d9 I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON BUT THEY WERE PRETTY SLOW COMING IN THIS TIME IS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU THINK YOU MIGHT NEED A BOOSTER SHOT THEN THEY WENT TO TAKE THE REST OF THE SENSES BUT IN FEAR TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE I'M MARRIED NOW BUT I'M AS EAGER TO GET AND READ THE OZ STORIES AS EVER AFTER MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES AS YOU WILL DISCOVER WHEN YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY +5c3e99d5-bc0f-46ae-98bf-88345f0e0a29 IT WAS TO MAKE FELICITY AS CLEVER AS THE STORY GIRL AND IT WAS TO MAKE THE STORY GIRL AS GOOD A COOK AS FELICITY WHAT PETER HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED FOR REMAINED A SECRET LONGER THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX THE STORY GIRL'S FACE WORE A QUITE INDESCRIBABLE EXPRESSION COMPOUND OF HORROR AND SHAME SHE NEED NOT HAVE CONFESSED IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY EVERYTHING WAS JUST AS FATHER HAD DESCRIBED IT WE FELT THAT WE HAD COME HOME LEAVING EXILE BEHIND US +5c44bebc-4f34-4457-af67-66660a5588e1 WHILE CECILY ADMITTED THAT WILLY FRASER HAD WRITTEN ON HIS SLATE AND SHOWED IT TO HER THERE'S SOMETHING DREADFUL IN THERE SOMETHING THAT RINGS A BELL PETER HEARD IT DON'T GO IN THERE'S NO USE ASKING THE MEANING OF THIS I SUPPOSE SAID UNCLE ROGER WITH THE CALM OF DESPAIR A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL AND THERE I CONTINUED TO STAND WHILE DAYS CAME AND WENT LEAD ON YOUR MAJESTY SINCE YOU KNOW THE WAY AND WE WILL FOLLOW +5c618177-cf06-4607-9841-2c29f185dfe9 PEG BOWEN'S HOUSE WAS NEARLY A MILE AWAY EVEN BY THE SHORT CUT PAST THE SWAMP AND UP THE WOODED HILL WE WENT DOWN THROUGH THE BROOK FIELD AND OVER THE LITTLE PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW HALF LOST IN ITS SURROUNDING SEA OF FAREWELL SUMMERS WHEN WE REACHED THE GREEN GLOOM OF THE WOODS BEYOND WE BEGAN TO FEEL FRIGHTENED BUT NOBODY WOULD ADMIT IT FELICITY DETERMINED SHE WOULD NEVER LET ANOTHER DREAM GET AWAY FROM HER IN SUCH A FASHION AND THE NEXT TIME SHE WAKENED IN THE NIGHT HAVING DREAMED THAT SHE WAS DEAD AND BURIED SHE PROMPTLY AROSE LIGHTED A CANDLE AND PROCEEDED TO WRITE THE DREAM DOWN THEN AND THERE I TELL YOU IT'S A TOUGH JOB MISTER ROGER MIGHT WAIT FOR COOL WEATHER BEFORE HE SETS PEOPLE TO STUMPING OUR ALDERBERRIES AND THAT'S A FACT +5c7d7653-485b-41ee-b359-cca58dfee29c CHAFFEE FOUR TELEPORTED INSIDE AGAIN ONCE IT GETS ITS WIND BACK CHAFFEE THREE SET DOWN THE SHIP ON AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONLY ONE OF A FRECKLING CHAIN OF SIMILAR ISLANDS THE VIEWS WERE GOOD AND THE LECTURER WITTY I'M NOT A BIT FAIN SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH ENTIRE TRUTHFULNESS IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED MAYBE THE ODDS ARE CLOSER THAN ONE AND FIFTY HE DECIDED HE CHOPPED THE POWER BACK ALL THE WAY AND LISTENED INTENTLY +5c83c6fe-41b7-4d6a-a2bb-e8ab06526e67 PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS HE SAID NO IT ISN'T PEG BOWEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WALKS STRANGER SHARP SAID THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID IT IS SAID THAT THE FAMILY COLLEGE SHARP HAS A HOUSE TOO LARGE FOR THEM NOW THAT THE ELDER SON IS GONE THERE IS ONLY THE MAN HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER THE TEMPLE WAS A SINGLE ROOM WITH A MURKY LOOKING POOL AT ONE END I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND +5c9c2431-d097-4512-a0f8-2e39a8278640 IN WHICH NOBLE AMBITION HE SUCCEEDED PERFECTLY I THERE'S NO USE BEING NAUGHTY IF YOU SPOIL YOUR FUN BY WISHING ALL THE TIME YOU ARE GOOD NOT LONG AFTERWARDS JUDY WAS SCRUBBING THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE MORNING AND WHEN MISSUS FRUIN CAME IN JUDY LOOKED UP AND SAT QUITE PROUD OVER USING THE RIGHT WORD A FEW MINUTES PASSED OR A FEW YEARS WE COULD NOT HAVE TOLD WHICH AND SO I DOUBT NOT COULD EVERYONE THAT HEARD IT NOBODY EVER WANTS TO KNOW THE TIME IN A GARDEN MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET +5cd231c3-7142-46c4-b09e-d1a9e4e1399f NO YOU'LL HAVE A NEW NAME UP THERE SAID CECILY GENTLY IT SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE WELL I'M GLAD OF THAT PETER WOULD BE SUCH A FUNNY NAME FOR AN ANGEL THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS FROM CABIN TO BEACH PASSED IN A BLUR OF SPEED THE SCOOP REACHED DEEPER WATER AND SUBMERGED THROWING A MOUNTAINOUS BILLOW THAT SENT THE ISLAND QUEEN REELING AND ALL BUT FOUNDED HER JEFF WAS DISLODGED INSTANTLY AND SANK LIKE A STONE I'M GOING TO KEEP ON GOING TO CHURCH PETER TOLD HER I LIKE IT SERMONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT AND I LIKE THE SINGING I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT +5cd667e4-79a5-4389-9b37-42438c7021bc WE APOLOGIZED AND PROMISED TO BEHAVE BETTER SHE WENT ON APPEASED A KATY WAS ALL THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE MENTIONED AND HE WAS THE BEST HUNTER IN THE TRIBE BESIDES NEVER AN ARROW OF HIS THAT DID NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE MARK WHEN WE WENT TO BED IT WAS SETTLING DOWN FOR A STORMY NIGHT AND THE RAIN WAS STREAMING WETLY ON THE ROOF AS IF THE WORLD LIKE SARA RAY WERE WEEPING BECAUSE ITS END WAS SO NEAR NOBODY FORGOT OR HURRIED OVER HIS PRAYERS THAT NIGHT PETER SAYS THERE'S ANY AMOUNT OF RASPBERRIES BACK IN THE MAPLE CLEARING SAID DAN S'POS'N WE GO AFTER TEA AND PICK SOME I'D LIKE TO SIGHED FELICITY BUT WE'D COME HOME TIRED AND WITH ALL THE MILKING TO DO YOU BOYS BETTER GO ALONE +5cd7d597-1007-4c27-bea0-c2c5028bab2f THE UNCLE ALEC WE GAVE OUR WARMEST LOVE WE FELT THAT WE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND AT COURT IN UNCLE ALEC NO MATTER WHAT WE DID OR LEFT UNDONE AND WE NEVER HAD TO TURN HIS SPECIES INSIDE OUT TO DISCOVER THEIR MEANING WHAT THE CAUSE OF THE QUARREL WAS I CANNOT TELL YOU BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW IT REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER BUT IT WAS MORE BITTER THAN THE GENERAL RUN OF THEIR TIFFS AND THE CONSEQUENCES WERE APPARENT TO ALL THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE ABOVE THE FAR MURMUROUS WHISPER OF EXPECTED MARINE CEREBRATION THERE ROSE AN UNCOORDINATED MISHMASH OF THOUGHT FROM AT LEAST TWO STRONG AND RELATIVELY COMPLEX INTELLIGENCES +5cf345c3-c3e2-4353-ba1e-691eae493d51 WHEN A SON WAS BORN TO ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH A TREE WAS PLANTED IN THE ORCHARD FOR HIM IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE SIR HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR +5d0bfd8f-c062-46be-953e-8c1e6262ec98 IF YOU DREAM OF FALLING AND DON'T WAKE YOU DO LAND WITH A THUD AND IT KILLS YOU THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS FROM CABIN TO BEACH PASSED IN A BLUR OF SPEED THE SIMIAN SHIP WAS PASSING IN HYPERDRIVE THROUGH A CLASSIC THREE BODY SYSTEM IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK +5d1c5b7a-230c-4b67-9bf4-1ac2742dc644 FAME SAID UNCLE ROGER IF SHE EVER HAS A CHANCE THAT IS AND I SUPPOSE HER FATHER WILL SEEK TO THAT AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL LOOKING AROUND ON THE FACE OF THE GROUP I SAW THAT THEY ALL SHARED MY FEELING CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES AFTER THAT THEY WERE ALL SILENT FOR A TIME BUT THEN THE SCARECROW SAID BRAVELY FRIENDS LET US AGREE TO THE BEAST'S TERMS GIVE HIM MY STRAW AND CARRY THE REST OF ME WITH YOU ACROSS THE DITCH THE STORY GIRL GENERALLY HAD HER HEAD GARLANDED WITH THEIR LEAVES THEY BECAME HER VASTLY NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN THEM THOSE TWO GIRLS WERE OF A DOMESTIC TYPE THAT ASSORTED ILL WITH THE WILDFIRE IN NATURE'S VEINS +5d1f30eb-401c-4203-a8fd-cfe442f359c4 THE CAPSULE WAS ON ITS BACK AND BRANDON WAS STILL STRAPPED SECURELY TO THE SEAT THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE WHAT WILL YOU FEEL LIKE IF HE GOES TO CHURCH WITH THE SKIN OF HIS LEGS SHOWING THROUGH THE HOLES MISS STORY GIRL NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE +5d20abfe-868b-4062-9fc1-3dc2d12172e2 HE RIGHTS THE WRONGS OF NATIONS HIS COUNTRY'S FLAG DEFENDS THE FOE HE'LL FIGHT WITH GREAT DELIGHT BUT SELDOM FIGHTS HIS FRIENDS FULL OF FUN AND FROLIC AND MISCHIEF THEY WERE WITH ALL THE DEFECTS OF THEIR QUALITIES AND ALL THE WAYWARD FAULTS OF YOUTH BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE I MUST CANDIDLY SAY THAT HER TONES SAVOURED STRONGLY OF A LAST RESORT BUT THIS WAS OWING MORE TO EARLY TRAINING THAN ANY LACK OF FAITH ON CECILY'S PART SHE KNEW AND WE KNEW THAT PRAYER WAS A SOLEMN RIGHT NOT TO BE LIGHTLY HELD NOR DEGRADED TO COMMON USES +5d2951d4-fb2c-435d-9c17-79f283fdbfe3 WONDERINGLY MY HEAD WHIRLING WHETHER FROM MY STRANGE EXPERIENCE OR FROM THE SHOCK OF FINDING MYSELF IN WHAT WAS OBVIOUSLY ANOTHER WORLD I DO NOT KNOW I TURNED TOWARD THE CITY FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD NOW WHAT EARTHLY GOOD COULD I GET FROM YOUR THREE BY SIX SCHOOL LIBRARY NONE WHATEVER THE STORY GIRL CURTSIED UNTIL HER SILKEN SKIRT SWEPT THE FLOOR THEN SHE FLUNG HERSELF IN HER CHAIR AND LOOKED AT MISTER CAMPBELL FLUSHED TRIUMPHANT DARING +5d796a3f-191e-4337-8382-dea765f15964 THE SUIT WAS ON AND I KEPT THE RUNNING CHATTER UP THROUGH THE MIKE IN THE HELMET RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY ONLY FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA BRANDON SAID THE MAN SMILED AND PUT HIS HELMET BACK ON HIS HEAD A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT THERE WAS A WAR WHICH WE WON AND I GUESS YOU GUISE WERE ALMOST FORGOTTEN AND THERE WAS A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT I DIVED THE EYE LOWER THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS +5d7e1358-dc03-4ef0-9350-cdaa83d9d77c THAT WAS A GOOD WAY TO GET RID OF THE SAVAGE BEAST POLLY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN TO THE CANARY BUT I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU DIDN'T GIVE OUR FRIEND FOOD A MAGIC BREAKFAST WHEN YOU KNEW HE WAS HUNGRY WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS IN A BRIEF SPACE WE WERE LAUGHING RIGHT MERRILY NO LONGER REMEMBERING OUR WRONGS AT THE HANDS OF THOSE CRUEL GROWN UPS OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US +5dbccdcf-9495-4ba8-9c12-7126cb6f42d2 JIMMY FREWEN WALKED HOME WITH NELLIE BOWEN LAST NIGHT FROM PRAYER MEETING AND HER ONLY FOURTEEN ORAN PULLED THE INSECT GENTLY FROM HIS HAIR RELEASED IT THERE'D BE A HIGH PLACE THE TASK YOU PROPOSE IS NOT SO EASY AS YOU MAY SUPPOSE I AM NOW GOING TO BED AND IN THE MORNING I WILL GIVE YOU ALL NEW FORMS +5dc40366-b000-43f6-9051-d82fad583cdf FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE YONAS HEARD SQUEAKING AND THOUGHT OF THE RATS BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO TRY FOR THEM HE SAT CROSS LEGGED IN A CORNER OF THE CELL AND CLOSED HIS EYES HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND HOPE SPRANG UP IN OUR HEARTS ALTHOUGH WE WERE NOT WHOLLY CONVINCED I DON'T KNOW SAID DAN DUBIOUSLY IT SAYS UNDER THE PICTURE GOD IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN IT'S PRINTED +5dd6199e-522d-4c9b-92d5-69c17cc11b8e BUT ONE WAY MUST BE EASIER OR BETTER THAN THE OTHER OR ELSE THEY'D ALL BE ONE KIND SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY FELICITY SHOOK HER HEAD VEHEMENTLY YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WALKED WHERE I WAS STANDING YOUR FAIRY MAGIC MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THINGS SWEET POLYCHROME I TRIED IT ON IN FRONT OF A FULL LENGTH MIRROR NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER +5ded041c-ec18-405a-bbdb-2fe539e9fb1d I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO FATHER I EXPLAINED SPRINGING ANXIOUSLY TO MY FEET A SICK HORRIBLE FEELING OF FEAR RUNNING OVER ME LIKE A COOL RIPPLING WAVE BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH THE MINUTES TICKED BY ENDLESSLY THE NUMBER OF EGGS SHE USED IN IT WOULD HAVE SHOCKED AUNT JANET'S THRIFTY SOUL BUT THAT CAKE LIKE BEAUTY WAS ITS OWN EXCUSE +5e154c55-1d8f-4a6b-a959-98f488d1cdaf GOOD GRACIOUS I DON'T KNOW SAID HE HELPLESSLY YOU'VE BEEN SO DEEP IN THAT WRETCHED BOOK THAT HE'S GOT OUT AND DEAR KNOWS WHERE HE IS CRIED FELICITY DISTRACTEDLY LET CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL CACKLE ALL THEY WANTED TO AND LET THOSE STUCK UP TORONTO BOYS GRIN LIKE CHESSY CATS BUT WHEN FELICITY LAUGHED AT HIM THE IRON ENTERED INTO PETER'S SOUL IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON NOT THAT THEY'D HAVE KEPT ME FROM GETTING BORED FOR LONG BUT YOURS LOOKS AS IF IT'S GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY AMUSING AT LEAST +5e21d6a6-a834-444c-9692-4178b9b58bf8 NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL YOU WILL FIND IT VERY HARD TO SEPARATE US AND I WOULD ADVISE YOU NOT TO TRY HE EXPLORED THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE AND REPORTED BACK ON HOW THINGS WERE OUT THERE SO IT WAS PRETTY DISQUIETING TO FIND OUT THAT THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE KNEW MORE ABOUT WHAT WENT ON AT HOME THAN HE DID WELL ALL I HOPE IS THAT HE'LL WASH BEHIND HIS EARS SAID FELICITY RESIGNEDLY HOW IS PAT TO DAY ASKED CILLEY BY WAY OF CHANGING THE CONVERSATION +5e283f40-a71d-4767-a806-b77c3f6257e4 AT MY LEFT WAS A SIZABLE PIECE OF APPARATUS THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME ON A SMALL ENAMELED TABLE BESIDE IT WAS A RATHER LARGE SHEET OF PAPER WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A CRACKED FLORENCE FLASK IN A SORT OF PANIC I SNATCHED UP THE PAPER AND IF YOU DRANK OF THE CUP WITH HER SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLOWING THROUGH THE EMERALD DUSK ABOUT US YOU WERE NEVER SEEN IN THE WORLD AGAIN YOU WERE WHISKED STRAIGHTWAY TO FAIRYLAND AND LIVED THERE WITH A FAIRY BRIDE SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE +5e30ff8a-2e96-4292-96f8-16e56205ac76 NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE AND THEN HE RUSHED FORWARD AND STUCK THE THORN INTO THE LEG OF THE SCARECROW SO BE KIND ENOUGH TO UNFASTEN OUR BONDS AND WE WILL PROCEED UPON OUR JOURNEY IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME SAID FELICITY AND THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING ALWAYS GOOD +5e40fb42-0399-41e1-9d20-ccbe460b9bf8 THERE'LL HAVE TO BE THE USUAL TESTS NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH DOUBT WE LIKE TO BE CERTAIN THE MIDDLE AGED MAN SEEMED RELIEVED THEN ON SECOND THOUGHT HE HESITATED UNEASILY WHY HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL YOU YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER WE'RE JUST SHADOWS LOST SOULS LOOK UP HOPE THIS CAN TAKE MONTHS AND OFTEN DOES +5e4b82a6-30e9-45db-b106-6ee67349e64c WHAT IF THE DELPHINIS JUST CRASHED HERE AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE BUT ANSWER ME THIS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY I SET DOWN ON THE FRONT DOOR STEPS FOR A MOMENT AND ALL AT ONCE I HEARD A BELL RING IN THE HOUSE EIGHT TIMES I TELL YOU I WAS SKEERED I MADE A BOLT FOR THE ORCHARD AND YOU WON'T CATCH ME GOING NEAR THE HOUSE TILL YOUR UNCLE ROGER COMES HOME YOU COULDN'T CATCH ANY OF US DOING IT WE WERE ALMOST AS BADLY SCARED AS PETER SHE THINKS IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE BUT SHE ALWAYS GOES BY WHAT UNCLE ARTHUR SAYS OH I'VE PRAYED SO HARD THAT SOME MONEY MIGHT COME SOME WAY AND NOW IT HAS SEE WHAT PRAYING DOES +5e524b26-63a0-4ba0-b1fe-82ec8ac19b72 THERE'S SOMETHING DREADFUL IN THERE SOMETHING THAT RINGS A BELL PETER HEARD IT DON'T GO IN THERE'S NO USE ASKING THE MEANING OF THIS I SUPPOSE SAID UNCLE ROGER WITH THE CALM OF DESPAIR I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY FELICITY AND CECILY WERE CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND WE BOYS SPRAWLED IDLY ON THE FRAGRANT SUN WARM HEAPS WE HAD STOWED THE HAY IN THE LOFT THAT MORNING FOR UNCLE ROGER SO WE FELT THAT WE HAD EARNED THE RIGHT TO LOLL ON OUR SWEET SMELLING COUCH BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER EVERY PUPIL OF CARLYLE'S SCHOOL SO IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY +5e57f880-37f9-4833-882c-87f3efe2745e VERY GOOD SAID THE GIANTESS LET US ALL BECOME FRIENDS AND HAPPY TOGETHER HOW IS MY TIN OWL FEELING QUITE COMFORTABLE SAID THE OWL I DON'T LIKE IT TO BE SURE BUT I'M NOT GOING TO ALLOW MY NEW FORM TO MAKE ME UNHAPPY BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR HAY LOFTS ARE DELICIOUS PLACES WITH JUST ENOUGH OF SHADOW AND SOFT UNCERTAIN NOISES TO GIVE AN AGREEABLE TANG OF MYSTERY THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST HOW KISSING WAS DISCOVERED AN AUGUST EVENING CALM GOLDEN DUWLESS CAN BE VERY LOVELY +5e64f105-c3b8-40af-b405-baa3931cc4ad GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL I'VE GONE TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL MY LIFE AND PETER NEVER WENT TILL THIS SUMMER A KATY WAS ALL THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE MENTIONED WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION I MIGHT SAY IT WAS VIBRANT AND FAR REACHING AND BELL LIKE ALL THIS WOULD BE TRUE +5e9d2abb-6824-4afd-847d-605e2373cba6 I FELL IN LOVE WITH HER HATING MYSELF AND HAPPY ALL AT THE SAME TIME WELL I'M GLAD IT'S OVER AT LEAST I GAVE HER A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH I THOUGHT I WOULD EXPLODE WHEN SHE WENT INTO THAT INNOCENT'S ACT THE COLD FEELING WAS NOW A BALL OF ICE THAT THREATENED TO PARALYZE ME THIS SEEMED VERY WONDERFUL TO WOOT WHO KNEW THAT SUCH A THING COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN ANY PLACE BUT A VERY COUNTRY LIKE OZ HER TONE WAS SO POSITIVE THAT THEY KNEW IT WOULD BE USELESS TO PROTEST THE AIR WAS SWEET WITH THE BREATH OF MOWN HAY FIELDS WHERE SWATHS OF CLOVER HAD BEEN STEEPING IN THE SUN WILD ROSES GREW PINKLY ALONG THE FENCES AND THE ROADSIDES WERE STAR DUSTED WITH BUTTERCUPS +5ea968f9-13a7-4cd4-a353-bc926d29ce9b PETER AS FELICITY REMINDED US WITH A BURST OF TEARS HAD BEEN SO FOND OF APPLE TURNOVERS THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY EXAMINING THE PECULIAR MACHINE AND THEREFORE THE ONE QUICK GLANCE SUFFICED IF VIC AND HOPE HAD GONE THIS ROUTE I WAS ANXIOUS TO FOLLOW IF WE DO WE'LL BREAK YOUR SKIN REPLIED THE KING SO THE LOON STOPPED PUMPING AIR INTO PANTA AND PUSHED HIM AWAY FROM THE PUMP HE WAS CERTAINLY MORE HUMBLE THAN BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE +5ee5bf37-2566-4aa4-a5e9-cf4ac8c5b3cf AS FOR THE PIETY CLARTON THOUGHT I LEAVE THAT TO THE PRIESTS AND THE WOMEN BUT WISDOM AND CAUTION ON MY TASK YUNUS AS THEY MUST BE YOURS ACTING ON MY ORDERS THE SHIP DROPPED OUT OF WARP DRIVE SO OUR SIAMEN COULD GET THROUGH TO THE OTHER OPERATORS CAPTAIN STENG GRUMBLED AS WE FLOATED THERE WITH THE ENGINES SILENT WASTING PRECIOUS DAYS WHILE HALF HIS CREW WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING OUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE INSANE INSTRUCTIONS MY PLAN WAS BEYOND HIS UNDERSTANDING I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED IT IS BAD FOR THEM I SHALL TRY TO CULTIVATE PATIENCE NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY ARE COMING UP I AM GOING TO HELP MOTHER PLANT THE VEGETABLE GARDEN TO DAY SAID FELICITY +5eeb9b3f-f823-402f-8685-f3fdd71a48b3 THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY NOR WERE WE THE ONLY VICTIMS WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US HOMESIDE HADN'T BEEN BLUFFING HE THOUGHT ASSUMING AS A MATTER OF COURSE THAT THIS WAS THE TASK FOR SATTERFIELD HAD BEEN ORDERED TO SEND THEY DIDN'T WASTE ANY TIME JEFF GROWLED DAMN THEM +5f0a198b-58a8-4a71-a692-13f823a51a22 THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK YOU CAN'T RUN A BIG CON BLOW SAVES OR MAKE BOMMERDECKS WITH IT I SHOULD HAVE MORE STUFFING AND I'M SURE HER WITS WILL SHOW HER HOW TO GET PLENTY TO EAT NO NEED FOR YOU TO DIE SAID HORN AND WHAT HAPPENS IF R N R STUMBLES ON TO ME WHILE I'M DOWN THERE PLAYING PADDY CAKE +5f5b6a00-25d9-49a3-ac89-c3ce4db485d7 I HAD A STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION IN WHICH I FRANKLY CONFESS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSTED HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A SAVING AND TIMELY REMEMBRANCE OF A CERTAIN RESOLUTION MADE ON THE PRECEDING JUDGMENT SUNDAY I'LL JUST HAVE TO BE SATISFIED WITH MAKING UP MY MIND TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST NEVER FOR SO LONG SAID CECILY MAYBE THE CLOCK STRUCK AND WE DIDN'T HEAR IT SUGGESTED DAN SOMEBODY BETTER GO SEE TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME +5f6517d0-acc2-4def-965d-7542dc049d2e JUST TO MAKE YOU LAUGH I'LL WRITE YOU A LITTLE STORY I HEARD UNCLE ALEC TELLING LAST NIGHT IT WAS ABOUT ELDER FRUIN'S GRANDFATHER TAKING A PAIR OF ROPE REINS TO LEAD A PIANO HOME EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW THE SECOND STEP HAD BEEN TAKEN THE FACT THAT HE SAT IN THE CELL AT A PRISON WAS PROOF OF THAT THE THIRD STEP THE ALL IMPORTANT FINAL STEP WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN JOHN ANDREWS BRAIN HAD FINALLY RESUMED NORMAL OPERATIONS HE WAS THINKING SLOWLY BUT CLEARLY +5fcc1bb7-2157-4905-a07b-ec7face03b7e BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDER WE'RE ALMOST READY TO GO THERE NOW AS SOON AS THIS BATCH OF INSTRUCTIONS GOES OUT CAPTAIN STAIN DROPPED THE RELEASES ON TO THE TABLE THEN CAREFULLY WIPED HIS HANDS OFF TO REMOVE ANY POSSIBLE INFECTION HE GAVE UP TRYING AFTER A WHILE AND HE ALSO GAVE UP PRAYING ABOUT IT SAYING IN BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT THAT THERE WAS NO USE IN PRAYING WHEN OTHER FELLOWS PRAYED AGAINST YOU OUT OF SPITE HE AND PETER REMAINED ON BAD TERMS FOR SOME TIME HOWEVER THEN HE SAT UP FOUND THAT NO BONES WERE BROKEN AND GAZED AROUND HIM +5fd541d9-0469-4056-8b04-bc981efeab18 AT CLOSE RANGE THEIR LONG FINGERS GRIPPED ME LIKE TALONS OF STEEL HOW LONG IS IT SINCE MISS HOPE WENT IN THERE I HAD BEEN QUITE SURPRISED TO FIND THEY REALLY EXISTED I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING AND ON OUR LEFT THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG OFF TO THE RIGHT WAS A DIM BRANCHING PLACE +5fdd0ad4-f434-40fc-b556-8a3b891fea4a DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM HE RUBBED HIS JAW WHILE HE LOOKED IT WELL HE SAID HESITATINGLY I DON'T WANT TO SAY FOR CERTAIN ALL THESE DETAILS AREN'T IN MY DEPARTMENT I'M JUST RESPONSIBLE FOR FINAL ASSEMBLY NOT UNIT WORK BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN THE WITCH WITH THE SILVER SHOES HATED ME FOR HAVING DEFIED HER RESUMED THE EMPEROR HIS VOICE NOW SOUNDING CLEAR AS A BELL AND SHE INSISTED THAT NIMY AMY SHOULD NEVER MARRY ME THEREFORE SHE MADE THE ENCHANTED AXE CUT OFF MY OTHER ARM AND THE TINSMITH ALSO REPLACED THAT MEMBER WITH TIN INCLUDING THESE FINELY JOINTED HANDS THAT YOU SEE ME USING BUT ALAS RAY SAID MY NAME IS RAY IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT MY PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS +5ff9fd82-8480-41c3-83b2-69da5f3fa89e I'M AWFUL SORRY DAN HOWEVER LENT HIM ONE ON THE DISTINCT UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS TO BE REPAID THE NEXT WEEK I'M GOING TO KEEP ON GOING TO CHURCH BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN WE ALL LOOKED AT HIM PETER CRAIG WHAT DO YOU MEAN ASKED FELICITY EXACTLY WHAT I SAY +601f4a73-5d34-43b6-ad72-91173d6dcef9 WHAT'S THE PLANET LIKE THE DELPHINUS HAS BEEN UNREPORTED FOR EIGHTEEN STANDARD MONTHS SO I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACCURATE RECORDS IN DATA ARE VERY NECESSARY FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND PROGRESS IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON THEN THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND AFTER MISSUS EUP HAD PASSED OUT BUT HE SAID HE WAS SO SHORT ON HEARTS +603116f4-f7f8-49ca-889b-414e05ca8b7d JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT AND I GUESS YOU GUISE WERE ALMOST FORGOTTEN ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD I'VE THOUGHT OF A GREAT PENANCE SAID CECILY EAGERLY BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION YOUR UNCLE ROGER WENT TO MARKDDVILLE RIGHT AFTER MILKING SAID PETER HE LOCKED UP THE HOUSE AND GAVE ME THE KEY THERE WASN'T A SOUL IN IT THAT I'M SURE OF I DROVE THE COWS TO PASTURE AND I GOT BACK ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO I SET DOWN ON THE FRONT DOOR STEPS FOR A MOMENT AND ALL AT ONCE I HEARD A BELL RING IN THE HOUSE EIGHT TIMES +605230f9-3a4f-4f43-b728-7d54a3ac2bc2 THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST THE ONLY SIGN OF VEGETATION I COULD PERCEIVE WERE STRANGE GROWTHS THAT REMOTELY RESEMBLED TREES SHE HADN'T OUGHT TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IF SHE DON'T WANT ME TO LAUGH WHEN I SEE THEM AND TRIED TO CARRY OUT OUR TEACHER'S GENTLE PRECEPTS SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WOMEN WHO WERE ALWAYS SAYING I TOLD YOU SO WHERE IS DONALD FRASER SAID NEIL SHAKING HIS FIST IT'S HIM I'M SEEKING AND IT'S HIM I WILL BE FINDING WHERE IS HE BETTY SHERMAN +6089448a-fb1e-4352-9b29-f9e95cb236de AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS BUT IT HAD MELTED THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE HE MANAGED TO CROAK BEFORE GIVING IT UP SINCE I WAS ONLY CHASING MY TAIL WITH THIS LINE OF THOUGHT ALL THIS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE THE TIME ALLOTTED THE NAVY MUST HAVE ADAPTED A LUXURY UP TO MY NEEDS DEAR ME I SEE HIM I SEE HIM VERY PLAINLY AND AFTER WE ARE GONE THE LOONS WILL HAVE SOMETHING OF A JOB TO PUN PAPA ALL THOSE WHOM WOOT HAS PUNCTURED +609168d9-ce9c-4266-987d-fe8d5022c55c THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE HOWEVER CLARTON WENT ON THERE IS STILL A WAY OUT FOR YOU I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD +60972fb4-9d97-43f0-9780-a8f9b0d1e03f BUT FELIX FLATLY REFUSED TO TAKE LIVER PILLS MEXICAN TEA HE WOULD DRINK BUT LIVER PILLS HE WOULD NOT TAKE IN SPITE OF HIS OWN SUFFERING AND AUNT JANET'S COMMANDS AND ENTREATIES WHEN I LIFTED THE PLATE AND POKED HOLES IN THE SEARED PLASTIC I COULD SEE THE PYRAMID GROWING SMALLER BEHIND ME WATER GUSHING OUT OF THE BASE AND A HAPPY CROWD OF REPTILES SPORTING IN ITS RADIOACTIVE RUSH I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING +60ae88ca-6fa9-462e-b1b7-9fc61f62058e WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER BUT WHEN MISS HOPE CAME HOME UNEXPECTED THIS MORNING WHAT SHE CUT HER VISIT A FEW DAYS SHORT HER AUNT HAVING OTHER HOUSE GUESTS TURN UP UNEXPECTED LIKE +60c948e7-b3ec-44bb-bf90-f623729a31ed YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL BUT THERE WILL BE NO MORE SHARP LOOKED AT HIM FOR A LONG TIME COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE YOU KNOW SAID FELIX WE SHOULDN'T CROSS BRIDGES TILL WE COME TO THEM THOSE ARE ONLY PROVERBS SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY PROVERBS ARE ALL VERY FINE WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO WORRY YOU BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN REAL TROUBLE THEY'RE NOT A BIT OF HELP HAW SAID STETSON POLITICIANS A THIN BLACK INSECT WITH SHELL LIKE WINGS FLEW IN ORAN'S PORT SETTLED IN HIS CLOSE CROPPED RED HAIR ORAN PULLED THE INSECT GENTLY FROM HIS HAIR RELEASED IT +60d78349-9727-479e-8929-98f79f8a120b ONE THING AT A TIME YUNUS SAID HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY YONAS PEERED ONCE INTO THE MIND OF THE MAN EVERY COILED VIOLENTLY AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX +60e63014-c6e3-448f-ba17-3749d0c5d8b6 LOOKED AT THE PULPIT AND THOUGHT OF THE STORY SHE TOLD ABOUT THE OLD SCOTCH MINISTER WHO WAS TOO FAT TO GET IN AT THE DOOR OF IT AND HAD TO HISS HIMSELF UP BY HIS TWO HANDS OVER IT NOW LET US KISS AND MAKE UP NOT ONLY OUR OWN COPSE BUT THE GALACTIC FEDERATION WOULD BE ON OUR NECKS IF THEY KNEW FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL I SEE THE WOMAN IN YOUR MIND +60fb8cd9-33fa-4c5c-9d2b-461c5ff6518c FOR JUST AS THE EVENING STAR WAS LOOKING WHITELY THROUGH THE ROSY WINDOW OF THE WESTECILY CAME FLYING THROUGH THE ORCHARD WRINGING HER HANDS AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL JERRY HAD BROUGHT IT IN A FISH BASKET AS APPEARED WHEN HE MOUNTED THE GRANARY STAIRS SHORTLY AFTERWARDS I THINK I OUGHT TO PREACH IT OVER AGAIN FOR YOU OF COURSE I NEVER SAID A WORD ABOUT HIS ALICE ROOM TO OUR EYES THE ODD THING ABOUT IT WAS THAT THERE WAS NO ENTRANCE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AS THERE SHOULD BE IN ANY RESPECTABLE HOUSE +60fe0a64-0e38-439e-a175-ec9df91446c4 BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE IT LOOKED JUST LIKE CORNMEAL SAID THE STORY GIRL GOING FROM WHITE TO RED IN HER SHAME WELL I'M GOING TO GIVE UP TRYING TO COOK AND STICK TO THINGS I CAN DO MY THEORY IS THAT THESE PEOPLE LIVE IN A DREARY WORLD IN WHICH THERE IS NO PLEASURE THEIR FACES SEEM TO SHOW THAT APPARENTLY THEY LIVE A VERY LONG TIME AND HAVE NO MEANS OF SHORTENING THAT LIFE +610623e0-5a80-47ba-8df2-0b4f0f733378 BUT YOU MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF HIM MOTHER SAYS PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING THE LUGGAGE WAS ALL BOOBY CHAPPED AND COULD DEFEND ITSELF GUNS GAS POISON NEEDLES THE USUAL SORT OF THING FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT +613bd8cd-da1c-44f2-ba03-7fe931c8523b I BUTTONED MY COLLAR STRAIGHTENED MY RIBBONS AND SQUARED MY SHOULDERS HE'S GOING TO HIT AGAIN SOON AND WHEREVER HE HITS THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PERIODICAL WITH MY PLANT IN IT DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL WHERE THE INHABITANTS WERE SOMEWHAT RUDE AND UNCIVILIZED THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN THAT MY FRIEND REMARKED THE BROWN BEAR +614a77e1-4f5b-408a-b888-4c80f8a1597e TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK OBSCURING THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY OF COURSE THIRTEEN YEARS HAD PASSED ON EARTH SINCE THEY HAD LEFT PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE THROUGH THE SILENT SOUNDS OF THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM +6153e1c5-70a2-4f94-9ff2-c588cbb7957e BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH I BUILT THE TAIL OVER A METAL FRAME THAT ANCHORED AROUND MY WAIST WITH ITS GRAVITY OF ONLY SEVEN EIGHTHS TERRAN STANDARD IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING OFF ON ANOTHER TANGENT NOW THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO HE WENT THE WAY OF THE TWO OTHERS +6167a3de-e8b5-43b3-b68e-aaac9924c94a THE FIRST AND PERHAPS THE LAST OF ITS KIND UNTIL THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MASQUERADE IN TWENTY ONE O THREE ANOTHER DAY AND HERE WOULD HAVE DROVE ME OUT OF MY WITS YUNUS THOUGHT I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS A VERY GOOD YOUNG MAN AND TRIED TO DO HIS DUTY BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY AFRAID OF MEETING OLD MISTER SCOTT BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THE OLD MINISTER WAS VERY ANGRY AT BEING SET ASIDE AND WOULD LIKELY GIVE HIM A SOUND DRUBBING IF HE EVER MET HIM +61f55c71-94d4-4f76-85b3-4f2888f56707 SO THAT UP THE THREE TRAVELLERS STOOD IN A ROW STARING WITH ALL THEIR EYES WHILE OTHER SERVANTS WERE STUFFING SWEET FRESH STRAW INTO THE BODY OF THE SCARECROW THE POSSIBILITIES PRAYED BEFORE HIM ON ONE HAND SUCCESS ON THE OTHER THERE WAS THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF THE INQUISITION I'D RATHER HAVE DIED THAN RISK IT CONCLUDED FELIX SOLEMNLY MATERIAL FOR NEW GARMENTS NIGHT OR DAY +621368c5-923a-4b07-bacc-ae89f60a007b THE MARINES ARE ON THEIR WAY HISS STETSON WE'RE COMING IN TO GET YOU I'M GOING TO WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU GUESS THAT ONE ONE MORE THING STET WHAT NOW I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT NO I'M JUST DOING PENANCE AUNT JANET FOR A SIN I COMMITTED I CAN'T CONFESS IT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BRING TROUBLE ON ANOTHER PERSON SO I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY YOU DON'T MIND DO YOU AUNT JANET WAS IN A VERY GOOD HUMOR THAT MORNING SO SHE MERELY LAUGHED NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS BUT GLAUCON WAS NOT AFRAID AT ALL BECAUSE PAN WAS THE GOD OF SHEPHERDS AND HE WAS BOUND TO GRANT ANY PRAYER A GOOD SHEPHERD WHO ALWAYS DID HIS DUTY MIGHT MAKE +621f91d6-9ea8-4c7e-ac2f-623fd30b2ee7 WE DON'T KNOW IF IT DID WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPOT IT SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WAY OFF IN THE BALLANDINE SYSTEM BY NOW BUT WE'VE SOMETHING ELSE ON OUR MINDS IT'S THE ONE ITEM THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BLOT OUT THIS PLACE AND RUN HOME WITH MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS AS FOR PUNCTUATION HE NEVER ATTEMPTS IT BEYOND AN OCCASION PERIOD JOTTED DOWN WHENEVER HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT WHETHER IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT THE STORY GIRL GOES OVER HIS DREAMS AFTER HE HAS WRITTEN THEM OUT AND PUTS IN THE COMMAS AND SEMI COLENS AND STRAIGHTENS OUT THE SENTENCES SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET +624d80f7-e983-4c3f-bce0-48c105fe3220 THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS THERE WAS A LITTLE WHITE BED AND A DRESSING TABLE A BOOKCASE FULL OF BOOKS A STAND WITH A WORK BASKET ON IT AND A ROCKING CHAIR THERE WAS A WOMAN'S PICTURE ABOVE THE BOOKCASE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS SHE THINKS IT WAS A COLORED PHOTOGRAPH BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES SEND IT BY SIAM ONLY NO MENTION OF ANY OTHER NAVAL SIGNALING EQUIPMENT THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE NOW IT MIGHT BE OVERHEARD I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT WE HAD TO GO UP TO SARA RAY'S LANE WITH HER TO HER VERY DOOR FOR SHE WAS AFRAID PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH HER IF SHE WENT ALONE THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER PETER AND FELICITY LAGGED BEHIND CECILY AND DAN AND FELIX WERE WALKING BEFORE US HAND IN HAND SINGING A HYMN +625b8600-f87a-4086-9124-8e57930d4ffe SWEET FRESH GOLDEN STRAW THERE IS SURELY NO FLAW AND IS STUFFING SO CLEAN AND COMPACT IT CREAKS WHILE I WALK AND IT THRILLS WHEN I TALK AND ITS FRAGRANCE IS FINE FOR EFFECT TO CUT ME DON'T HURT FOR I'VE NO BLOOD TO SQUIRT AND I THEREFORE CAN SUFFER NO PAIN THE STRAW THAT I USE DOESN'T LUMP UP OR BRUISE THOUGH IT'S POUNDED AGAIN AND AGAIN I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE WHY A BATTLESHIP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL WHEN WE GREW TIRED OF OUR SPORT WE WENT TO THE WINDWARD SIDE OF THE FIELD AND PERCHED OURSELVES ON THE HIGH POLE FENCE THAT SKIRTED A DARK SPRUCE WOOD FULL OF STRANGE FURTIVE SOUNDS OVER US WAS A GREAT DARK SKY BLOSSOMING WITH SILVER STARS AND ALL AROUND LAY DUSKY MYSTERIOUS REACHES OF MEADOW AND WOOD IN THE SOFT EMPURPLED NIGHT +6297f63d-97d9-4c97-8e96-579c98bd70ef WE CLIMBED MT BLANC PETER HAD THE LARGEST BILLY HAD DECEIVED US BOTH WHAT IF YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME I SUPPOSE YOU'LL BELIEVE THE MINISTER SAID THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELIX HOLDING OUT THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD PAY HIM COMPLIMENTS TO HIS LIKING THE STORY GIRL WOULD BOX HIS EARS WITH HER FIST AND SAY +633e165b-8dc2-41c1-b206-5930ab46679a KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED AS I HAVE SAID HE MURMURED THAT WHICH THE DEVIL CAN GRANT HE PAUSED AND LOOKED DOWN AT HIS HANDS AM I TO TAKE THIS AS A CONFESSION HE SAID THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER BELLS DON'T RING OF THEMSELVES I SUPPOSE SPECIFICALLY WHEN THERE AIN'T ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE TO RING OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS MOST REPAIR MEN TAKE THESE COURSES BESIDES THEY'RE ALWAYS COMING IN HANDY THE COMPANY GRADES YOUR PAY BY THE NUMBER OF SPECIALTIES YOU CAN HANDLE ALL THIS WITH SOME OIL PAINTING AND FREEFALL WORKOUTS IN THE GEM PASSED THE TIME +6366c485-ee72-49ff-89e5-a45d01b886bd AND AS A RESULT WE WERE ALWAYS CATCHING EACH OTHER AT IT SARA STANLEY BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU THE STORY GIRL DID NOT BOTHER HER MONTHS WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST I WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT WAS DEAD AND GONE BUT THOSE PLUMS CERTAINLY KEPT HIS MEMORY GREEN AS HIS FORGOTTEN SERMONS NEVER COULD HAVE DONE +6386b977-f5dc-45a6-95d7-f9d150d13893 A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG ABOVE THE HORIZON PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW AUNT JANE USED TO SAY IF A MAN DIDN'T HAVE HEADS AND STICK TO THEM HE'D GO WANDERING ALL OVER THE BIBLE AND NEVER GET ANYWHERE IN PARTICULAR WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PREACH ON ASKED FELIX YOU'LL FIND OUT NEXT SUNDAY SAID PETER SIGNIFICANTLY IF HE GOT OUT TOWERS SAID IN A TONE THAT IRRITATED BRANDON I GOT OUT BRANDON SAID AND RIGHT NOW I'M WALKING AROUND IN YOUR PRECIOUS PLANET LIKE A BOY'S SCOUT CURSE THIS TULLIT HUCKY I'D GIVE A YEAR'S PAY IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW TOWERS +6404ea40-a492-4bad-8ff4-c5910a168a8f WE MIGHT GO STRAIGHT INTO THE EMERALD CITY WHO LIVES HERE HE ASKED LET US TRAVEL IN SOME OTHER DIRECTION AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER BRINGING SUPPLIES AND GOSSIP TO LAST JEFF THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TEN DAY +64061f91-0086-4886-ab09-72fc8675af2e DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU I AM THE GRAND DUKE SAINTE DENGELLIO I SHOOK HIS HAND ENTHUSIASTICALLY AT THIS POINT AND LET ONE HUNDRED CREDIT NOTES SLIP INTO HIS PALM NOW I ADDED I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ASK THE CUSTOMS AGENTS TO LOOK AT MY BAGS HERE DON'T WANT TO WASTE TIME DO WE THE SHIP IS OPEN THEY CAN CHECK THAT WHENEVER THEY PLEASE THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX IS THAT A CONUNDRUM ASKED CECILY CAUTIOUSLY IF IT IS I WON'T TRY TO GUESS THE REASON I NEVER CAN GUESS CONUNDRUMS IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT THEY DO AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT SO HE AT ONCE BEGAN TO SCAMPER THROUGH THE FOREST AS FAST AS HE COULD GO CATCHING OUT A BRANCH WITH HIS LONG MONKEY ARMS AND SWINGING HIS GREEN BODY THROUGH SPACE TO GRASP ANOTHER BRANCH IN A NEIGHBORING TREE AND SO ON WHILE THE JAGUAR FOLLOWED HIM FROM BEHIND FIXED STEADFASTLY ON HIS PREY +641e98f9-36fa-4281-b039-f58887e4cb83 JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM NO I MUST GO BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO I'LL WEAR MY SCHOOL DRESS AND HAT THAT WILL BE PENANCE OH IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR A MINISTER TO SPEAK OF HIM BUT IT ISN'T NICE FOR LITTLE GIRLS HE WASN'T QUALIFIED HE COULDN'T READ A MAP HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MAP WAS HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP THOU MOCKEST ME MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD OH MASTER HE PRAYED TURNING BESEECHINGLY TO ODIN THOU DIDST PROMISE ME ETERNAL LIFE AS TO THE OTHERS WILT THOU NOT KEEP THAT PROMISE COMMAND THE WARDER TO LET ME PASS HE MUST OBEY THEE +642502ac-df1c-4a37-8214-a1ede4411a1e BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED THOSE WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING HOPE AND VIC WERE SURGING FORWARD WITH THE REST THEIR ERSTWHILE PRISONERS FORGOTTEN IN THEIR MAD GREED FOR DEATH AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B AUNT JANET WAS VERY DESIROUS THAT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS NICE AS POSSIBLE AS WE WERE ALL SENT TO OUR ROOMS BEFORE TEA TO WASH AND DRESS UP WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM AND PRAYING FOR HIM HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY FAR AWAY GRAVE +642a613c-d95e-437b-9a6b-24e7f2ca661f AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE I'M GLAD FATHER AND MOTHER WILL BE BACK TO MORROW NIGHT SHE SAID IT'S TOO EXCITING WHEN THEY'RE AWAY CECILY WAS IN QUEST OF INFORMATION WHAT DOES IT NEVER RAIN BUT IT POURS MEAN FELICITY HAD NEVER RECEIVED A SHARPER SCOLDING BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY PHILOSOPHICALLY SHE WAS USED TO HER MOTHER'S BITTER TONGUE AND SHE WAS NOT UNDUALLY SENSITIVE LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY WHY WHEN WE TEEMED UP WITH THE ILERONOIDS WE GAINED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ALONE NOT TO MENTION THE THE O'LERENOIDS DIDN'T KNOCK OVER ONE OF OUR SURVEYSHIPS FIRST +64494038-c96d-408e-9531-517830441911 HE FELT THAT HE COULD NEVER GO SO FAR AWAY FOR SO LONG AND LEAVE HIS MARGARET BEHIND THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP THEY'LL UNDOUBTEDLY ACCEPT YOU ONCE YOU DEVELOP SPACE TRAVEL THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY AS FOR THE FEDERATION +648a5a83-b496-4f15-acb8-4dc6f6992178 I WAITED UNTIL HIS ATTENTION CLICKED BACK INTO THE ROOM AND HANDED HIM THE SHEETS OF PAPER LEAGUE CENTRAL FOURTEEN RUSH I TOLD HIM I JUST CRUNCHED DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE CAR CHEWING MY CIGAR TO PIECES AND CURSING MYSELF FOR BEING A FOOL CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES YOUR CARD POPPED OUT IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN +648df8aa-2d5b-4521-af3c-0042a94b29bb WHAT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE FOR EVER IN THIS WORLD EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED P S OH I DO HOPE PETER WILL GET BETTER THEN THE SCARECROW LAID HIMSELF DOWN SO THAT WOOT COULD USE HIS STUFFED BODY AS A PILLOW HIS EYES HAD GROWN BIGGER THAN EVER AND HIS WHOLE LITTLE BODY THRILLED WITH AMAZEMENT BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY +64b4757b-ab60-453e-b212-9339317486ec IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS UNCLE ROGER SAT DOWN ON THE DOORSTEP AND GAVE HIMSELF OVER TO ONE OF THE SILENT INWARD PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER WE ALL FOUND SO VERY AGGRAVATING HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED NOT HER FAULT OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF SARA'S INTENTIONS WERE GOOD BUT THE PUDDING WELL DAN FED MOST OF IT TO PATTY WHO HAD CURLED HIMSELF UP AT THE FOOT OF THE BED GIVING THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A CAT BY HIS MALLIPHUOUS PURRING AIN'T HE JUST A GREAT OLD FELLOW SAID DAN HE KNOWS I'M KIND OF SICK JUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN HE NEVER PAYS NO ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M WELL BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS I CAUGHT EM JUMP THAT'S THE WAY TO BAIT THE REDS THE COLONEL HAD SAID A THOUSAND TIMES HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY +64b6fdd0-e48b-491b-9af7-10c4c7c00dd8 AS OUR PARTY APPEARED AN AISLE OPENED AND WE WERE MARCHED THROUGH THE ASSEMBLED CROWD DIRECTLY TOWARD THE IDOL AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR SECOND BEST DRESSES AND WE BOYS DONNED WHITE COLLARS WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD HT BEYOND PANDORA BY ROBERT J MARTIN THE IDEAL WAY TO DEAL WITH THE PEST ANY MENACE IS OF COURSE TO MAKE IT USEFUL TO YOU THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE +64d3bd4e-c576-4510-9bf5-fcc746847cd9 BUT IT TOOK THE STORY GIRL TO MAKE US REALIZE JUST HOW DREADFUL IT WAS AND WHAT A TERRIBLE RISK WE HAD RUN YEARS BEFORE WE OR OUR PARENTS EITHER HAD EXISTED UNCLE ROGER SAYS THAT A MOTHER WHO WON'T LET YOU DO ANYTHING AND A CONSCIENCE THAT WON'T LET YOU ENJOY ANYTHING IS AN AWFUL COMBINATION AND HE DOESN'T WONDER SARA IS PALE AND THIN AND NERVOUS SARA STANLEY FELICITY FLEW ACROSS THE KITCHEN DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU PUT THE BREAD RIGHT INTO THE OVEN AFTER YOU KNEADED IT WITHOUT LEAVING IT TO RISE A SECOND TIME THE STORY GIRL TURNED QUITE PALE YES I DID SHE FALTERED OH FELICITY WASN'T IT RIGHT MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME THEN SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO THE SHOW ANYHOW YOUR MOTHER WON'T EVER KNOW IF YOU COAXED JUDY TO HOLD HER TONGUE +64e33f5f-a1ad-4916-8224-a52443452804 PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS WAS THE HIDEOUS GRINNING FACE OF THE IDOL WHO DARE FORAGE SUCH A THING UNLESS HE KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL F SEA OFFICER WAS MISSING OR DEAD SAID TO NEW HORN STOPPED THE SLED CONTACTED CULTURE YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH FRIENDS WITH PETER AND MADE OUT YOU THOUGHT SO MUCH OF HIM AND NOW YOU AIN'T SHEDDING A TEAR FOR HIM +64ec4ab9-4034-4be2-be88-84d8c3e47517 HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN MAYBE NOT THEN THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS BUT I WASN'T SURE PUT THAT DOWN DOORS YELL WAS HIGH PITCHED GARF FACED THEM AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES THE BOAT HEAVED WALLOWED AND SANK SLOWLY HIS MIND OPENED AND BECAME PERCEPTIVE THE PRAYER HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE SMOKY ROOM YONAH SLIPPED IN NOW HE SAID QUIETLY HIS CONTROL SLIPPED THE TWO GUARDS CAME TOWARDS HIM OVERPOWERED AND HELD HIM IN A BRIEF SECOND WAIT THE INQUISITOR SAID HEAVILY WAIT RELEASE HIM +64f3c3e4-7139-4d0d-918a-09c4f0fcd748 FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE THE DIVING SUIT HAD SHIPPED SOME WATER AND THE JUDGE HAD GOTTEN A NASTY CRACK ON THE HEAD BUT HE WAS A TOUGH BOSO THERE WAS NO BLOOD HIS BREATHING SEEMED ALMOST NORMAL AND HE ALREADY SHOWED SIGNS OF RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS NO ANSWER IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AM TO NUBE HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP ORNE SWALLOWED WHERE DO YOU GO DEMANDED TO NUBE I WAS HOPING TO GO TO YOUR CITY IS IT PERMITTED A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED NO HE SAID I'D LIKE TO STAY THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT FISH AND SAIL AROUND LOOKING FOR SCOOPS READY TO SHED THEIR CRYSTALS JENOFER REMINDED HIM STILL UNCLE CHARLEY HAS TALKED ABOUT SETTLING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND STANDING FOR COUNCIL ELECTION CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT I CAN LEARN HE SAID +650fd408-fb4a-4e59-928e-152190c6eadb HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT THEN SWUNG HIS FEET OVER THE SIDE AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT SATISFACTION HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK CONSIDERING THESE STATEMENTS I WROTE THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR THAT MY BOOKS ARE INTENDED FOR ALL THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE YOUNG NO MATTER WHAT THEIR AGES MAY BE HE DROPPED HIS HAND SAID I AM LOUIS HORN OF REDISCOVERY AND REEDUCATION I WAS SENT HERE AT THE REQUEST OF THE FIRST CONTACT OFFICER ON THE DELPHINOUS REDISCOVERY WHERE IS YOUR SHIP DEMANDED THE GIANT IT PUT ME DOWN AND LEFT WHY +654a3af3-13b3-46b4-8f5c-932ece0ef7df WHO THE WANDERER PUSHED FORWARD TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER LUKE TRIED TO THINK HOW TO SAVE HER WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY THE STORY GIRL WRUNG HER BROWN HANDS TOGETHER WE WERE ALL OF US TOO TIRED THOSE NIGHTS TO DO ANY SPECIAL PRAYING +656219e1-076d-4a3f-8322-efce521a550b YES I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL WITH THE AUTOMATIC DISREGARD FOR OTHERS OF THE TRULY DEDICATED HE PRESSED THE SCRAMBLE BUTTON ON HIS DESK FELICITY I WISH YOU WOULDN'T INTERRUPT IT SPOILS THE EFFECT WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF I WENT AND KEPT STIRRING THINGS IT DIDN'T BELONG TO IT INTO THE PUDDING I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID BUT TAKE HIM AWAY +65661163-3f33-46dd-994d-713396d374b7 WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT PEG CLEARED OUT AND SHE WENT ACROSS HIS PASTURE MUTTERING TO HERSELF AND THROWING HER ARMS AROUND THE NEXT DAY HIS VERY BEST COW TOOK SICK AND DIED HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THAT GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER +657d7f59-7811-4ea3-940a-293f0f0e4a84 YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER NOT KNOWING WHEN YOU'LL ARRIVE I'M GOING ON AHEAD SUDDENLY HOPE SCREAMED AND I FOLLOWED HER EYES WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND FOR AS PETER DROPPED HIS SCENT INTO THE PLATE HE LAUGHED ALOUD FOR WE HAD NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OF THE PERSON REFERRED TO AND WE WERE RATHER CURIOUS REGARDING IT +658f88a2-2213-472a-a68c-62f5f0fb7b5c BUT THIS IS A CHRISTIAN GAME SO IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IT ISN'T LIKE THE RELIGIOUS FRUIT BASKET GAME IS IT AND THE STORY GIRL LAID DOWN HER KNIFE AND POTATO AND CLASPED HER WET HANDS WILL MONTAGUE NEVER CAME WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAMME I MADE LIGHT TALK ABOUT ALL MY MASSIVE ARMAMENT WOULD CARRY US BOTH TO PERDITION WHILE I CLIMBED THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE BATTLESHIP'S HULL THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS +659ee68f-d1eb-4d4f-b523-caabae18e28a BUT TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE FASHIONABLE THEREFORE TIMOTHY ROOFS MUST BE EATEN PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER PAT WAS THERE ALSO PADDING ABOUT FROM ONE TO THE OTHER ON HIS BLACK PAWS GIVING US FRIENDLY POKES AND RUBS WE ALL MADE MUCH OF HIM EXCEPT FELICITY WHO NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A STORY GIRL'S CAT WE BOYS WERE SPRAWING ON THE GRASS OUR MORNING CHORES WERE DONE AND THE DAY WAS BEFORE US WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO WELL GOD WILL BE ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO ME IF I DON'T PESTER HIM ALL THE TIME ARGUED PETER THIS WAS RANK HERESY TO FELICITY BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN IT YOU NEVER GO TO CHURCH ANYHOW CONTINUED FELICITY DETERMINED NOT TO BE ARGUED DOWN VIC WELL HERE I AM AND HOPE DEAR MY VOICE TRAILED OFF THESE WERE NOT VIC AND HOPE BEFORE ME THEY WERE UNREAL CREATURES LIKE THE BEINGS WHICH HAD CAPTURED ME I COULD RECOGNIZE THE FACE AND FIGURE OF THE WOMAN I LOVED AND OF HER BROTHER BUT THEY SEEMED TO HAVE NO SUBSTANCE +65b54def-9934-473f-8f99-27839c4294c3 HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET IF IT'S A JUDGMENT DAY I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY HAIR IS CURLY OR NOT SHE SAID OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY +6601f90b-88df-42ea-8cbb-744134e025d5 I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN THERE WAS NO PREACHING IN CARLISLE THAT DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS NOT TILL THE EVENING CICELY GOT OUT HER LESSON SLIP AND STUDIED THE LESSON CONSCIENTIOUSLY THE REST OF US DID NOT SEE HOW SHE COULD DO IT WE COULD NOT THAT WAS VERY CERTAIN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO HAVE THE LESSON LEARNED SHE SAID AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT BUT I NEVER FOUND IT SO HARD TO REMEMBER THE GOLDEN TEXT BEFORE IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY SHE WOULD HAVE HELD HER TONGUE AS SHE AFTERWARDS CONFIDED IN TO ME IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR A HORRIBLE FEAR WHICH FLASHED INTO HER MIND THAT POSSIBLY SAWDUST PUDDINGS WERE NOT HEALTHY FOR PEOPLE TO EAT ESPECIALLY IF THERE MIGHT BE NEEDLES IN THEM AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY TO UNDO IT IF POSSIBLE AT ANY COST OF RIDICULE TO HERSELF I SEE THAT BOWERY ORCHARD SHINING IN MEMORY WITH A SOFT GLOW OF BEAUTY THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON LAND OR SEA WHERE WE SAT ON THOSE SEPTEMBER EVENINGS AND WROTE DOWN OUR DREAMS WHEN THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE OVER AND THERE WAS NOTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THE PLEASING THROES OF COMPOSITION +6617af42-71a4-46a4-bd85-1546ddc94fa3 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT WE OPENED THE BLUE CHEST SAID THE STORY GIRL YOU DON'T PRAY VERY OFTEN INSISTED FELICITY RAY POLISHED OFF THE SOMEWHAT RABBIT FROM HATTIE ROUTINE AND WAS STROLLING AROUND THE LAUNCH AS IF HE HAD JUST BOUGHT IT HE STOOD ALONE IN THE ROOM HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT +661ab527-b191-4c50-86a4-ed05e9a1300d THE PAPER SAYS TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SAID DAN YOU NEEDN'T WORRY SARAH BUT IT TELLS YOU ANOTHER THING IN THE BIBLE TOO SAID CICELY EAGERLY THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT TEACH HIM DISCIPLINE SHOW HIM WHAT THE CORE STANDS FOR AT THE SAME TIME IT WILL GET THE RECORDS IN SHAPE +661bcaee-2be3-459e-aae4-c7c191889081 THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR SECOND BEST DRESSES AND WE BOYS DONNED WHITE COLLARS THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY THE MAN'S MIND WAS LIKE HIS OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL SPARSELY FURNISHED ALMOST AUSTERE BUT WITH ALL THE NECESSITIES LAID OUT FOR EASY ACCESS YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK +662c4da4-28cc-405b-afda-4076d57b94d2 ABRAHAM KING SMILED AND BEING A MAN OF FEW WORDS SAID NOTHING BUT IN HIS MIND HE HAD A VISION OF THE YEARS TO BE AND IN THAT VISION HE SAW NOT RIPPLING ACRES OF HARVEST GOLD BUT GREAT LEAFY AVENUES OF WIDE SPREADING TREES LADEN WITH FRUIT TO GLADDEN THE EYES OF CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN YET UNBORN IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF ROAD YEA GABBOT WHERE IS ALL THIS TRANSLATION GRIFF PUT DON'T BE IMPATIENT GLASS BLOWING CULTURE MEANT THEY WERE JUST OUT OF THE PRIMITIVE STAGE +664ac07e-ff58-4598-a14c-d1f58545fb98 PETTICOAT EMBROIDERED BY HAND FROM HEM TO BELT SAID THE STORY GIRL CALMLY IT WAS ONLY AS LARGE AS A PEA BUT IT GLITTERED AND FLASHED IN THE SUNLIGHT WITH EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW AND THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT STORIES IN IT YES FELICITY MAGNIFICENT NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY I SET DOWN ON THE FRONT DOOR STEPS FOR A MOMENT AND ALL AT ONCE I HEARD A BELL RING IN THE HOUSE EIGHT TIMES I TELL YOU I WAS SKEERED +6650dca1-0bb4-4a09-813a-b05b96935d9b AND WONDERINGLY MARSHALL DID I WANT THE LIST THAT WAS STOLEN DON'T GAPE GET IT WHAT LIST DON'T STALL DON'T STUTTER GIVE ME OUR TAX LIST THAT WAS STOLEN IT ISN'T WORDS THAT I WANT FROM YOU MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE AND NOW NOW I WAS STANDING IN THE OPEN ON ANOTHER WORLD +66675d4a-babf-42d1-8204-cc398bd267ea THE RADIAT LEAKED AT ME FOR ATTENTION AT THE SAME TIME THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX I SAID THEY OUGHT TO NOT FIGHT FOR FUN OR FOR BAD TEMPER +666c9831-8de5-4584-a893-3ee6088d2a00 IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS SAID UNCLE ROGER AS HE WENT OUT TO TAKE THEIR HORSE BUT FELICITY'S FOOT WAS ON HER NATIVE HEATH SHE HAD BEEN BAKING ALL THE AFTERNOON AND WITH THE PANTRY WELL STOCKED WITH BISCUITS COOKIES CAKES AND PIES SHE CARED NOT IF ALL CARLYLE CAME TO TEA IT HAD TAKEN ROOT AND GROWN OUR FATHER AND OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS HAD PLAYED IN ITS SHADOW AND NOW IT WAS A MASSIVE THING WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK AND GREAT SPREADING BOUGHS EACH OF THEM AS LARGE AS A TREE IN ITSELF AND THEN HE JUST PREACHED THE SERMON OVER AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING IT IS SAID THAT THAT PARTICULAR MAN WAS NEVER KNOWN TO BE LATE FOR CHURCH AGAIN OUTSIDE IN THE OAT FIELD THEY ARE ALWAYS CHASING EACH OTHER THEY ARE THE WILD SHADOWS THE SHADOWS IN THE ORCHARD ARE THE TAME SHADOWS +66731571-1c52-4159-8cae-115701b40bca AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED THE FLOOR WAS COVERED WITH A CARPET LIKE GREEN VELVET SAID THE TWENTY LEGGED MAN AND OF DOROTHY AND JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND DOCTOR PIPT NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS +66940adc-df24-47be-8be0-bb51ab7d8aec HE CALLS HIS PLACE GOLDEN MILESTONE I KNOW WHY BECAUSE I'VE READ LONGFELLOW'S POEMS HE NEVER GOES INTO SOCIETY BECAUSE HE IS SO AWKWARD THE GIRLS LAUGH AT HIM AND HE DOESN'T LIKE IT I KNOW A STORY ABOUT HIM AND I'LL TELL IT TO YOU SOMETIME EVEN FELICITY LAUGHED FELICITY WAS NOT NEARLY SO ANGRY WITH PETER AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED SHE EVEN WALKED BESIDE HIM AND LET HIM CARRY HER BIBLE THEY TALKED QUITE CONFIDENTIALLY KEEP YOUR HAND ON YOUR GUN SAID VIC SWIFTLY I DON'T LIKE THE LOOKS OF THESE CHAPS +66bfed35-df7b-4c4d-8158-220fa49fb8a5 ALL LOOKED AS IF THEY WERE HELD PRISONERS IN THE BONDS OF A FEARSOME SPELL WHICH THEY WOULD GLADLY BREAK BUT COULD NOT WITH A LEDGE MIDWAY ON WHICH ONE COULD STAND LET HIM ALONE SUGGESTED THE SCARECROW MARRIED CHOP FIGHT A LONG TIME AGO BECAUSE MY OTHER TWO SWEETHEARTS SHE HAD WREATHED HER HAIR WITH CANTERBURY BELLS AND LOOKED LIKE THE INCARNATION OF RHYME AND STORY AND DREAM +66cada12-03f9-4b75-ba7b-1fc5681dd6d0 SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY WHAT A SULKY SULKY LOT OF LITTLE PEOPLE SAID AUNT OLIVIA GOING AWAY ACROSS THE YARD HOLDING A PRETTY DRESS UP FROM THE DEWY GRASS LET'S GO TO THE ORCHARD AND WAIT SAID THE STORY GIRL IT'S ONE O'CLOCK NOW SO IN ANOTHER HOUR WE'LL KNOW THE WORST WE'LL LEAVE THE FRONT DOOR OPEN AND WE'LL HEAR THE BIG CLOCK WHEN IT STRIKES TWO FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER THE STORY GIRL AND CECILY WERE EACH TO BE PAID TEN CENTS A WEEK FOR WASHING DISHES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES FELIX AND DAN CONTRACTED TO KEEP THE GARDENS FREE FROM WEEDS I CAUGHT BROOK TROUT IN THE WESTERLING VALLEY OF SPRUCES AND SOLD THEM FOR A CENT APIECE +66d330cd-88fd-4dd1-ae47-aab06736620c AH AND HE HAD THE HEAVY FRICATIVE GREETING SOUND FLORI GOTSY HE SAID THE NATIVE SHIFTED TO THE LEFT ANSWERED IN PURE UNACCENTED HIGH GALATIES WHO ARE YOU HE HAD INTENDED THAT DISTINCT AND IT DID DORA RAISED HER NOSE ANOTHER NOTCH I THINK HE'S CUTE AND I'M LEARNING HE'S PRETTY INTELLIGENT TOO HE CATCHES ON FAST TO EVERYTHING I TELL HIM HE AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND WILL HAVE THEIR SPACESHIP FINISHED SOON NOW AND YOU CAN TELL SPLENDID STORIES BUT WHAT GOOD WOULD THAT DO A HUNGRY BOY WAILED THE STORY GIRL +6718fdd9-3376-4c45-bd72-2147b39c49c4 A DIMPLE OR TWO CAME INTO SIGHT AND SHE HAD VERY NICE TEETH SMALL AND WHITE LIKE THE TRADITIONAL ROW OF PEARLS OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER HE NEVER CRIED A SPECK WHEN YOU THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE AND NOW WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BETTER YOU CRY LIKE THAT THE SCARECROW WAS GREATLY DELIGHTED AS YOU MAY SUPPOSE AND HE STRUTTED PROUDLY AROUND WHILE THE POWERFUL FAIRY OZMA OF OZ BROKE THE ENCHANTMENT THAT HAD TRANSFORMED THE TIN WOODMAN AND MADE A TIN AL INTO A TIN MAN AGAIN +67350251-b568-4c6c-82fb-4781a4984c3b HE LIFTED HIS VISOR ALL SAW HIS AWFUL FACE THE PROUD PRINCESS SHRIEKED FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD AND SHOT AN UNSISTERLY GLANCE AT DAN I WOULDN'T BE VERY LIKELY TO HAVE A HIRED BOY FOR A BEAU SHE OBSERVED WE SAW THAT HER ANGER WAS REAL NOT AFFECTED STILL THEY POSSESSED THEIR SHARE OF OWLISH SYREME LOGIC AND HIT SOON ENOUGH UPON THE ONE PRACTICAL COURSE TO JETUS AND THE ZID ON THE NEAREST WORLD DEMONSTRABLY FREE OF INTELLIGENT LIFE +675d9ad6-7cfe-4c80-ba04-8bec72e34f9c I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY IT IS ABOUT A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES DON'T CRIED CECILY HYSTERICALLY DON'T YOU GO ON EVEN THE YOUNG EYED CHERUBIM CHOIRING ON MEADOWS OF ASPHODEL MIGHT CEASE THEIR HARPING FOR A TIME TO LISTEN TO A TALE OF THE VANISHED EARTH TOLD BY THAT GOLDEN TONGUE THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES WHO IS A FAMOUS TIN WOODMAN OF OZ REPLIED THE SERVANT WHO HAD BEEN TRAINED TO TREAT ALL STRANGERS WITH COURTESY +67658806-5217-47da-9c2e-4137d0e7da57 IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE TRAGEDY BUT A NUMBER OF MONITOR STATIONS HAD PICKED UP THIS DISCHARGED STATIC OF A LARGE ENERGY WEAPON BEING FIRED TRIANGULATION HAD LED INVESTIGATORS TO THE SPOT WHERE THEY FOUND A FREIGHTER OGAT'S DREAM WITH A HOLE PUNCH THROUGH AS BIG AS A RAILROAD TUNNEL THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE NOTHING I TRANSFORM EVER GETS BACK INTO ITS FORMER SHAPE AGAIN SO I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF MY TRANSFORMATIONS SHE ADDED BUSILY EATING WHILE SHE TALKED FOR WHILE I CAN CHANGE FORMS AT WILL I CAN NEVER CHANGE THEM BACK AGAIN WHICH PROVES THAT EVEN THE POWERS OF A CLEVER YUKU WHO ARE LIMITED WHEN I HAVE TRANSFORMED YOU THREE PEOPLE YOU MUST ALWAYS WEAR THE SHAPES THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU SHE WENT TO WORK AND MADE LITTLE RAISIN PIES RIGHT THERE IN THE KITCHEN BEFORE THE STORY GIRL THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES +6794eb63-94bc-4fa1-b98e-694d0aa5ec6d PEG BOWEN HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT WELL WE HAD ALL BEEN BADLY HOAXED BUT WE DID NOT TRUMPET OUR WRONGS ABROAD WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER BEHIND THE BARRED FACE PLATE RAY LOOKED PUZZLED THEN ANNOYED FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN AND THIS SEEMED TO ADD THE FINAL TOUCH OF INSANITY TO THE SCENE BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION IT WAS DARK NOW SO NOBODY WOULD NOTICE HIS FEET I KNOW A STORY ABOUT THE MILKY WAY SAID THE STORY GIRL BRIGHTENING UP +67c7ae38-1adf-460e-a290-b023194508b4 BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS ITS UPPER END WAS DIM WITH A DELICATE SPRING MIST WINDS BLEW UP THE FIELDS LIKE WAVE UPON WAVE OF SWEET SAVOUR SPICE OF BRACKEN AND BALSAM INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME THEY NEVER SEEMED TO HAPPEN NOW THIS WAS IN FORTY NINE WHEN PEOPLE WERE RUSHING TO THE GOLD FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA IT WAS JUST LIKE A FEVER AUNT LOUISA SAYS PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU PUT MY THOUGHTS INTO IT WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY MAY BE TO MORROW BESIDES WHAT IS THE GOOD OF ASKING THE GROWN UPS THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS THAN WE DO BUT IF THEY JUST SAY THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT IT'LL BE A SORT OF COMFORT SAID CECILY +67d1fd8d-bfd2-4f6c-b5f7-9795687445ba IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE FIRST DONALD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HE FELT SURE DEEP DOWN IN HIS HEART THAT NANCY LIKED HIM I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY AIN'T HE JUST A GREAT OLD FELLOW SAID DAN BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN I WONDER WHAT HE MEANT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING VERY CHRISTIAN ABOUT PLANTING A TREE I +67d9a237-7e01-4aee-8a56-1d71cd3ddc75 APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE EXCUSE ME HE SAID I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID MY MANNER CLOTHES JEWELRY THE EASY WAY I PASSED MONEY AROUND AND THE LUXURIOUS SHEEN OF MY BAGS COULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING THERE WAS LITTLE THAT WAS WORTH SMUGGLING IN AND OUT OF SETANOVO CERTAINLY NOTHING A RICH MAN WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE OFFICIAL MURMURED SOMETHING WITH A SMILE MURR SPOKE A FEW WORDS INTO HIS PHONE AND THE JOB WAS DONE HOW DARED HE WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS IF PETER WERE GOING TO GOING TO WELL IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PETER WE FELT SO MISERABLY SURE THAT THE MUSIC OF LIFE WOULD BE STILLED FOR US FOR EVER HOW COULD ANYONE IN THE WORLD BE HAPPY WHEN WE WERE SO UNHAPPY +67f5a560-9e7c-4a7c-82e5-ffe49d5bcc6d WHEN WE WENT TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING THAT EVENING THE STORY GIRL WORE HER DRESS AND HAT WHILE FELICITY AND CECILY WERE IN THEIR PRETTY MUSLINS AND SHE HAD TIED HER HAIR WITH A SNUFF BROWN RIBBON WHICH WAS VERY UNBECOMING TO HER ONLY POLYCHROME KEPT GOING IN AND GOING OUT HUMMING SOFTLY TO HERSELF AS SHE DANCED FOR THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER COULD NOT KEEP STILL FOR LONG AND THE FOUR WALLS OF HER ROOM ALWAYS MADE HER NERVOUS AND ILL AT EASE I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL BUT I CAN'T TURN IT NOW IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY +68376f76-5552-4ea4-a6c3-21eea89a00ad HE WENT ON LOOKING AT HIS HANDS THERE WAS BITTERNESS IN HIS MIND BITTERNESS THAT HE CHANGED TO HATE I ALSO WISH HE SAID SMOOTHLY TO PAY FOR ANY HELP I MAY RECEIVE SUCH AS THE ANSWERING OF AN INNOCENT QUESTION MAN WITH A CURIOSITY BUMP AS BIG AS YOURS WILL ALWAYS TALK FIRST AND SHOOT LATER ROCCA COULDN'T BELIEVE IT NEITHER COULD THE PRESIDENT THEY WANDERED UP AND DOWN THE EMPTY WAYS WHERE IT HAD BEEN BUILT HORN STOPPED ON TO NUB'S ORDER AND THEY WAITED ALMOST TEN MINUTES BEFORE PROCEEDING RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF +6837cf57-c97b-4e9f-b972-ac4419853eef DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME WHO BEAT IT IS SOMETIMES A BITTER THING TO TELL THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY TO A YOUNG LADY FOR WHOM YOU HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION I HAD A STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION IN WHICH I FRANKLY CONFESS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSTED HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A SAVING AND TIMELY REMEMBRANCE OF A CERTAIN RESOLUTION MADE ON THE PRECEDING JUDGMENT SUNDAY CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM I WONDER WHERE WE ALL BE THIS TIME TO MORROW NIGHT SAID FELIX MOURNFULLY AS WE WATCHED THE SUNSET BETWEEN THE DARK FIR BOUGHS IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN VIC'S PLACE WAS OUT ON THE RIVER ABOUT TEN MILES FROM TOWN AND THAT LITTLE TAN ROADSTER OF MINE MADE IT IN JUST ABOUT TEN MINUTES THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES +6843ff70-889e-4c0d-9001-65ecbe2cd6ff I SAID WHY DO YOU HE TOOK TOO DEEP BREATH FLORI GOTSY CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT UNCLE ROGER ATE THREE SLICES OF IT AT TEA TIME AND TOLD FELICITY SHE WAS AN ARTIST THE POOR MAN MEANT IT AS A COMPLIMENT BUT FELICITY WHO KNEW UNCLE BLAIR WAS AN ARTIST AND HAD A POOR OPINION OF SUCH FRY LOOKED INDIGNANT AND RETORTED INDEED SHE WASN'T +685d5a29-f6b6-404d-a639-3b255c27d47c A CITY WAS BUILT AROUND THE TEMPLE AND THROUGH THE CENTURIES THE PYRAMID WAS PUT UP AROUND THE BEACON THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE IT'S THERE HE GASPED LOOK READ I'LL THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL AFTER BREAKFAST SHE WASHED THE DISHES AND DID THE BEDROOM WORK A GRIM SILENCE WHATSOEVER IN MY UNIVERSE TRUE LOVE HAVE BUILT +688171e1-f14f-42c8-b9a3-f2c780e68714 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS SHE WAS CHANGED SHE WAS NEVER NEVER LIKE HERSELF AGAIN AND SHE WAS NEVER CONTENTED UNLESS SHE WAS DRESSED IN HER BLUE MUSLIN AND WAITING UNDER THE BIRCHES THE TIME HAD COME SOONER THAN WE HAD DARED TO HOPE BUT FATHER COULD NOT TAKE US AFTER ALL +689f8fba-98b6-4ffc-b31f-5972600e4f13 THE POOR WOMAN FELT TERRIBLE HE KNEW BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT THAT THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD THE STORY GIRL LOOKED A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME IT WAS CLOSING FAST +68a64641-da31-4e8b-ae2f-615c79401c67 ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET FINALLY IN DESPERATION HE SWITCHED OFF THE TELETOCKY TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SO MUCH SAW THE HUNG FRAU SOARING INTO CLOUDLAND THE LETTERS WE HAD RECEIVED FROM HIM SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR +68b873f3-50fa-484c-a821-9de3e72e2050 THE STORY GIRL MADE NO RESPONSE PETER SIDLED UP TO HER I'M AWFUL SORRY HE SAID CONTRITELY I NEVER MEANT TO LAUGH IT JUST HAPPENED BEFORE I COULD STOP MYSELF IT WAS THIS WAY DON'T YOU EVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN SAID THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF COLD CONCENTRATED FURY GO AND BE A METHODIST OR A MOHAMMEDAN OR ANYTHING I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU ARE YOU HAVE HUMILIATED ME THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE WHICH SET MY NERVES ON EDGE WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST AND THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN ME AND THE PRIEST FOR A MOMENT DUE TO THIS OBVIOUSLY UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION EVERYTHING IN CONFUSION PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR I DID AN EXCITING DREAM LAST NIGHT FOR ONCE SAID DAN TRIUMPHANTLY I DREAMT OLD PEG BOWEN CHASED ME I THOUGHT I WAS UP TO HER HOUSE AND SHE TOOK AFTER ME YOU BET I SCOOTED AND SHE CAUGHT ME YES SIR I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP +68d35764-e603-405f-bcd8-f26128f1ace5 HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY THEN SHE SPOKE SHE SAID GOOD MORNING JONAS PUT ON HIS MOST PLEASANT EXPRESSION MADAM HE SAID I WISH TO KNOW IF THERE BE ANY FAMILY IN THIS TOWN TO GIVE ROOM TO A WAYFARER UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED IT WAS AGREED THAT THE LATTER WAS TO MAKE A CORNMEAL PUDDING FOR DINNER +68da6722-bdaa-462d-9fb1-900d7120085a BUT FELICITY TOOK REFUGE FROM THIS INCONVENIENT QUESTION IN TEARS IF WE COULD ONLY DO SOMETHING TO HELP PETER I SAID DESPERATELY IT SEEMS DREADFUL NOT TO BE ABLE TO DO A SINGLE THING THE EFFECT WAS MAGICAL THEY SEEMED UNABLE TO BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR EYES THEY RUSHED ME EAGERLY EACH SEEMING TO BEG FOR A BULLET I GAVE THEM WHAT THEY WANTED STILL HOPING I COULD FRIGHTEN THEM AWAY AUNT OLIVIA LAUGHED AT US OUT OF HER PANSY BLUE EYES AND TOLD US SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE FELT LIKE AND HOPED WE'D HAVE A GLORIOUS TIME MIND THEY GO TO BED AT A DECENT HOUR AUNT JANET CALLED BACK TO UNCLE ROGER AS SHE DROVE OUT OF THE GATE AND IF ANYTHING DREADFUL HAPPENS TELEGRAPH US +68e6659d-282a-4533-8f39-109568d55b74 THE TIN WOODMAN WAS THEN JUST LEAVING HIS TIN CASTLE IN THE COMPANY OF THE SCARECROW AND THE WANDERER THEN WITH THE HUMMING SOUND RINGING IN MY EARS LIKE A NOTE OF DEATH I LEAPED CLEAR INTO THE MIDST OF THE WAITING GUARDS FOR AN INSTANT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT NO SOUND FROM ALL THAT VAST CROWD EVEN THE GUARDS SEEMED STUNNED AND I TORE MY WAY THROUGH THEM WITH HARDLY A PAUSE IN MY STRIDE THE REST OF US HELD OUR TONGUES IT WAS WE TOLD OURSELVES SARA'S OWN OUTLOOK I HAVE A GOOD MIND TO DO IT SAID SARA BUT I CAN'T GET MY GOOD CLOTHES THEY'RE IN THIS BARE ROOM AND MA LO LOCKED THE DOOR FOR FEAR SOMEBODY WOULD GET AT THE FRUIT CAKE I HAVEN'T A SINGLE THING TO WEAR EXCEPT MY SCHOOL GINGHAM +68f87789-c3ec-424e-9151-34b773bedfc6 SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY YES I BELIEVE THERE IS SOME GOOD IN SOME KINDS OF PRAYING BUT NOT IN THAT KIND SAID DAN STURDILY THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND WHY FELIX TOOK PETER'S SUCCESS IN THE ORDEAL OF THE BITTER APPLES SO MUCH TO HEART THE STORY GIRL WAS CRIMSON WITH INDIGNATION TO HAVE SUCH A REMARK MADE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE FOURTEEN AND A HALF AND BEFORE THE BOYS TOO REALLY AUNT JANET COULD BE VERY DREADFUL STETSON SHRUGGED I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST +692c938d-a14d-4685-abd0-df6dc86c967c E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST AND THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN ME AND THE PRIEST FOR A MOMENT DUE TO THIS OBVIOUSLY UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION EVERYTHING IN CONFUSION VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE IT BILLOWED IN THE WIND HE SEARCHED AROUND FOUND SOME GLASSY BLACK ROCKS AND ANCHORED DOWN THE CHUTE THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP DAN LIKE PETER WRITES LYING DOWN FLAT BUT WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS US AND HE HAS A DISMAL HABIT OF GROANING ALOUD WRITHING HIS WHOLE BODY AND DIGGING HIS TOES INTO THE GRASS WHEN HE CANNOT TURN A SENTENCE TO SUIT HIM +693d26d3-7946-4289-b793-688d8323d338 PETER IS A REAL GENTLEMAN AND HE IS MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU COULD EVER BE IF YOU WERE BROUGHT UP AND EDUCATED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS SHE SAID DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM HE SANK SLOWLY INTO THE WATER UNTIL ONLY HIS EYES WERE SHOWING LITTLE BEFORE DAWN THE EYE HOOKED ON TO MY SHOULDERS AND WE SAILED STRAIGHT UP +69440980-7a92-4459-aae6-70483feedfde THE TONES OF HER VOICE BROUGHT OUT THE POIGNANT AND IMMORTAL BEAUTY AND PATHOS OF THAT WONDERFUL OLD LAMENT THE GIRLS WIPED THEIR EYES AND WE BOYS FELT AS IF WE MIGHT HAVE DONE SO TOO HAD NOBODY BEEN LOOKING WHY NOT MARRY ME NEIL CAMPBELL FOLKS I AM AS BONNY AS NAN AND I COULD LOVE YOU AS WELL AS NAN LOVES HER DONALD AY AND TEN TIMES BETTER CHAFFAST THREE AND FOUR ON SHY SHIFT IN THE FORWARD CONTROL CUBICLE MIGHT HAVE FALLEN AS EASILY IF THE MENTAL SCREAMINGS OF THEIR FELLOWS HAD NOT WORN THEM IN TIME +6968fd55-20a0-4e18-b634-c3abce102df9 I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO HOPE'S AWAY AT AUNT CLEO'S SO DON'T GET IN TOUCH WITH HER AND SPOIL HER VISIT VIC I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING VIC AND I HAD BEEN BUTTIES EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER BUT YOU SAID AN I A SHIP FOUND THIS JOINT IT DID AND THEN ONE OF OUR SPIES IN R INTERCEPTED A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR TO BE ASSIGNED HERE WITH FULL EQUIPMENT REQUEST SIGNED BY A FIRST CONTACT OFFICER NAME A DISTANT THEY SAY SHE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF MISCHIEF SHE HAD BEEN AWAY AND HAD JUST COME HOME AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE POET AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM SLEEPING THERE SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A COUSIN THEY HAD BEEN EXPECTING FROM SCOTLAND AND SO SHE TIPTOED UP SO AND BENT OVER SO AND KISSED HIS CHEEK +696f7c27-0c89-4b0c-89b5-1781d6d72028 AND STRODE IRRITABLY DOWN TO HIS MINIATURE DOCK OUT ON THE BAY ANOTHER CATASTROPHE JUST AS IMPROBABLE WAS IN PROGRESS AND THERE WAS NO SORT OF WEAPON AT HAND THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY STUMBLED ON ODDLY TWISTED LEGS AND COLLAPSED ON THE DECK IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER BELLS DON'T RING OF THEMSELVES I SUPPOSE SPECIFICALLY WHEN THERE AIN'T ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE TO RING OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS +6991eb32-39fc-4469-875e-97fa1db79776 YES I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL OGT'S DREAM WAS CLEANED OUT OF ALL READING MATTER THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I CHECKED WE CAN'T STOP THE BATTLESHIP FROM ATTACKING AGAIN BUT WE CAN SEE TO IT THAT THE TIME AFTER THAT SHE SAILS INTO A TRAP FINALLY IN DESPERATION HE SWITCHED OFF THE TELETOCKY HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR RAY LOOKED IT OVER HASTILY THEN TURNED A SPECULATIVELY GLANCE ON FARMER HE SHOOK HIS HEAD TOO SMALL FOR YOU HE MURMURED YOU WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR ANYWAY I'LL HAVE TO GO DOWN MYSELF +699a3430-715d-40b4-a7b2-2603eba79d1b JUST LOOK SHE SAID PROUDLY I HAVE EVERY BIT OF THE BREAD BAKED I GOT UP AT THREE AND IT WAS LOVELY AND LIGHT SO I JUST GAVE IT A RIGHT GOOD KNEADING AND POPPED IT INTO THE OVEN I DON'T BELIEVE IT SAID THE STORY GIRL DREARILY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM THE GREAT REWARD FOR SOME NOTABLE SERVICE RENDERED I IMAGINE WHISPERED VIC OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING MOTHER'S GOING DOWN THIS AFTERNOON SAID FELICITY SHE SAYS NONE OF US MUST GO NEAR THE PLACE TILL WE KNOW WHETHER IT IS THE MEASLES OR NOT +699b8526-5adc-4160-8285-d14d76e7ec00 THERE'S THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO I TOLD HER WHATEVER ELSE HE'S AFTER DON'T TRY TO RUN I SHOUTED AFTER IT CAN'T DO ANY GOOD SO WE ATE OUR SNACKS OPENLY WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO WAYS THAT WERE DARK BUT SHE WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US WE ALL DECIDED TO INCREASE OUR WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION BY A CENT OR SO +69a21055-f13f-4c2c-a479-fb724d864a4b THE MORE I LOOK AT THIS THING HE SAID THE FISHERY GETS THIS PLANET SEEMS TO HAVE NO POSSIBLE MOTIVE OR USE FOR A BATTLESHIP OR THEY HAVE BUILDING ONE THAT I WILL SWEAR ON A STACK OF ONE THOUSAND CREDIT NOTES AS HIGH AS THIS BUILDING YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID SAID CECILY WITH A SHIVER THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID OF SAID THE STORY GIRL REASSURINGLY IT'S NOT AS IF IT WERE A STRANGE GHOST IT'S OUR OWN FAMILY GHOST SO OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT US OH PERHAPS WE WON'T HAVE THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL CHEERFULLY PETER CAUGHT THEM AT MARKDALE THE LAST TIME HE WAS HOME HIS MOTHER SAYS I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY +69b98c1d-8d8e-4c3a-a734-9c1f50deeb45 WERE THERE SUCH A PLAN HE SAID BE ASSURED I WOULD TELL YOU ASK SHE SAID AT LAST THAT'S RIGHT YONAS SAID PATIENTLY HE RUBBED AT HIS FACE GENTLY GENTLY CAUTIONED THE SCARECROW DON'T BE RUDE TO STRANGERS CAPTAIN IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED +69d66367-ac8b-4aed-9688-708d2b39f31b BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME I AGREE BUT THE CALL BELL JANGLED STETSON'S VOICE SOUNDED TIRED YEAH HOW THAT MOB'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE KILOMETERS OUTSTIT WE GOT HORN'S GEAR OUTSIDE ON THE DISGUISED AIR SLED WE HAD ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD EAGERLY TO THE PROMISED STAY WHEN FATHER WOULD TAKE US DOWN HOME TO THE OLD HOUSE WITH THE SPRUCES BEHIND IT AND THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD BEFORE IT WHEN WE MIGHT RAMBLE IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK DRINK FROM THE DEEP WELL WITH A CHINESE ROOF OVER IT STAND ON THE PULPIT STONE AND EAT APPLES FROM OUR BIRTHDAY TREES +69f7a3d6-9b83-42ef-883b-902993987826 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT JEFF MADE A PUSHING MOTION FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THEY CAN'T HELP IT SO I AM POSITIVE THAT SHE WILL MANAGE TO FIND A WAY OUT OF HER PRISON NO REPLIED WOOD THOUGHTFULLY I SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME +69f7d67f-0635-4b31-8eec-e903c7a72c4f FELIX WAS VERY INDIGNANT AND AGGRIEVED AS WELL I DON'T SEE WHY GOD SHOULD ANSWER PETER'S PRAYERS INSTEAD OF MINE HE SAID BITTERLY I'VE GONE TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL MY LIFE AND PETER NEVER WENT TILL THIS SUMMER IT ISN'T FAIR CHARACTERS LIKE THAT NEVER THINK IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOME ONE ELSE TO OUTTHINK THEM WHICH IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO MODEST IDEA STANG SAID I TRY NOT TO BE I TOLD HIM OUR MOTHER HAD DIED BEFORE EITHER OF US WAS OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER HER FATHER COULD NOT TAKE US TO RIO DE JANEIRO +69fe8dfd-840f-42af-8e37-2b996f4c6efe WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES BEHIND US WAS AN OLD GRAY FENCE WITH VIOLETS AND DANDELIONS THICK IN ITS CORNERS BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS OF THE SHIP'S SOCIAL QUARTET CHAFFISH ONE AND TWO WERE ASLEEP AT THE MOMENT DREAMING WISTFUL DREAMS OF CONICAL SERIMIAN CITIES SPEARING UP TO A SOFT AND PLUM COLORED SKY AM I CORRECT FRIEND SCARECROW +69ff546e-2707-42b9-b736-4fe3c12bcbe5 I FEEL SCARED TO DEATH THE WHOLE TIME BUT IF THEY JUST SAY THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT IT'LL BE A SORT OF COMFORT SAID CECILY BUT HE HAD A SMALL FORTUNE OF HIS OWN IN LACKING THE SPUR OF NECESSITY FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN +6a0a2bb6-536c-43c1-adb4-d9994abb6957 I WOULD HAVE AND THE NEXT DAY SHE DRESSED HERSELF BEAUTIFULLY IN HER BEST PALE BLUE MUSLIN AND SLEEKED HER CURLS AND WENT SMILING TO THE BIRCHES I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE AND AS I TOOK MY FIRST STEP THERE MATERIALIZED SUDDENLY OUT OF THE THIN AND ILL SMELLING AIR FIGURES OF PERHAPS A DOZEN MONSTROUS CREATURES THEY WERE IN EFFECT MEN THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN +6a12d479-e9cd-4a69-bcd8-523b97daa22a HIS STEP WAS BOUNCING AS IF HE WERE USED TO A HIGHER GRAVITY OR GREATER PRESSURE THAT FARMER COMPLIMENTED HIMSELF ON HIS CLEVERNESS MADE SENSE AT LEAST BUT HE EXTENDED HIS HAND AND SAID PETER THERE LIKE ANY LADY'S WEARBYER AT AN ANNUAL CONVENTION SO BEFORE HE COULD FINISH E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS AND I WAS JERKED AWAY THERE'S FOUR HUNDRED MILLION STARS IN THE MILKY WAY QUOTED PETER WHO FREQUENTLY ASTONISHED US BY KNOWING MORE THAN ANY HIRED BOY COULD BE EXPECTED TO +6a16a617-a220-4593-aadb-f22a18f6fe10 THEY WERE SMALL RED CLUSTERED BERRIES OF A GLOSSY SEDUCTIVE APPEARANCE AND WE WERE FORBIDDEN TO EAT THEM BECAUSE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE POISONOUS DAN PICKED A CLUSTER AND HELD IT UP DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE THEY'RE POISON DROP THEM RIGHT AWAY SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR CONVERSATION LANGUISHED WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY AND OH I WAS SO HAPPY IT WAS DREADFUL TO WAKE UP AND FIND IT AS STRAIGHT AS EVER +6a805999-1ce7-46ad-89a5-61316c7491cc BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY CAN'T SAY PETE YOU CAN'T NAME THINGS HERE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN WORLD SOME NATURAL FORCE THEY'VE CORRALLED I IMAGINE THEY CONTROL IT WITH THAT SHUDDER BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE DID YOU NOTICE IT SHE WAS FLUSHED BY EXCITEMENT AND PLEASURE AND WAS SO PRETTY THAT I COULD HARDLY EAT FOR LOOKING AT HER WHICH IS THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT IN A BOY'S POWER TO PAY THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS UNDER ECLIPSE RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER +6a8ec658-b37d-441f-9507-cb68081ab1fb ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS JEWEL LIKE EMBLEM AROUND THEIR THROATS DESPERATELY I QUICKLY TURNED THE DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED MARKS COINCIDED SO DID MINE JEFF SAID THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES +6ab93d7e-2239-493d-98df-483516e3b5dd AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE AN ORPHAN COUSIN OF HIS LIVED HERE WITH HIS PARENTS ALL EIGHTEEN MEN ABOARD HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY THE THIEVES WERE NOW MURDERERS THEN HOW COULD I FIND IT AND HAVING FOUND IT CATCH IT IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL +6b134768-d7d3-4c10-a54d-8f7313c1018b WE KNEW THAT UNCLE ALEC WAS FOND OF CHILDREN AND WAS HEART GLAD TO WELCOME ALLEN'S BOYS I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED I COULDN'T GO OVER LAST NIGHT I GOT UP EARLY THIS MORNING THOUGH FOR I FELT SURE YOU WOULD BE UP EARLY TOO AND THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE ME TELL YOU ABOUT THINGS I CAN TELL THINGS SO MUCH BETTER THAN FELICITY OR CECILY WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN +6b6c5de2-73d8-4fba-8c08-b83094f4e895 SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE DORA WASTED NO TIME EXPLAIN THIS TO ME BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB YOU THERE SHORTEN CHUNKY I CALLED DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCEALED COMPARTMENTS OR DRAWERS BUILT UNTIL STEEL HARD IF SO LET'S SEE +6bed7c5e-e3fe-476f-9995-5019c832193d OH THAT IS EASY SAID PETER YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST FEEL WHO IS GOOD AND WHO ISN'T BETTY SHERWIN WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT A COMPLIMENT SAID THE STORY GIRL AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY +6bef736c-840d-40b1-b7b6-4789df94ca64 SO WAS I BUT SHE COULDN'T HAVE IT CERTAINLY ISN'T HERE I BUT HE DID NOT PLAY AS MUCH AS HE USED TO BECAUSE HE LIKED BETTER TO TALK WITH AGLEYA HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING SOME OF THIS WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE ONLY THE BAREST WEAK GLIMMERING OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATED TO THE MUD +6c2068dc-a9c7-4ea9-ae5d-194df28976a4 CAST SPELLS YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED FELICITY COULD NOT SUCCEED I'M SO AFRAID HE'S GONE TO GROW UP JUST LIKE UNCLE ROBER WARD WHO NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T BELIEVE MORE THAN HALF THE BIBLE IS TRUE IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT +6c770b73-e357-448b-9d1e-099aa5a60143 AND WHATEVER OF WHOM EVER SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE HE STOOD FOR A SECOND AT THE CREST OF THE HILL HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN OF SPIRE AS IT BAKED IN THE MAY AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK HIS FACE WAS AS WHITE AS A SUNBURNED FACE COULD BE AND HIS EYES WERE BRIMMED WITH PANIC PETER WHAT DOES THE MATTER CRIED CECILY THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE RINGING A BELL SAID PETER IN A SHAKING VOICE +6c77e157-727d-44f1-9385-0246c9dafd37 OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH I'LL HAVE TO GO WITHOUT ANY THEN SAID PETER I HAVEN'T ANOTHER CENT I ONLY GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK AND I GIVE IT ALL TO MORROW LAST NIGHT HERRICHNUFF WE DO NOT MENTION THAT NAME SHARP SAID MY WIFE HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED I AM NOT SO WISE I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER ADDED TO THE CREW WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH HIS MOUTH TWISTED POOR DEFENCELESS EARTH CREATURES HOW WAS I TO KNOW THEY COULDN'T SWIM +6d01eb3b-26bd-45ec-8b39-6f918d629af1 IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER I BUTTONED MY COLLAR STRAIGHTENED MY RIBBONS AND SQUARED MY SHOULDERS BY THE TIME THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR I WAS ALL ADMIRAL AGAIN WHAT WILL YOU DO THERE ASKED PETER PRACTICALLY I SHALL LEARN HOW TO TELL STORIES TO ALL THE WORLD SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY +6d052a8f-bc96-4028-92a6-e8eafb42ba1e ROARED STETSON INTO THE SPEAKER IN THE MOONLIGHT HE COULD SEE ARMED THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US SAID CHAFFY THREE OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER BUT ON SOMETHING DEEPER AND MORE ENDURING THAN MIND AN IMPRESSION HAD BEEN MADE THAT WAS NEVER TO BE REMOVED +6d289b8a-d06f-479c-a010-5914b6744b56 DON'T SUPPOSE ALL THE ANGELS DO THE REST OF US HELD OUR TONGUES IF THEY HAD BEEN BANISHED TOGETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PUNISHMENT SO ZERO WAS EXILED TO A STAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND ZULEMITH WAS SENT TO A STAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND BETWEEN THEM WAS A FATHOMLESS ABYSS WHICH THOUGHT ITSELF COULD NOT CROSS NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS SO ARE ALL THE WINDOWS HE MUST HAVE GOT OUT OF THE DOOR DAN KING AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT +6d48b557-1187-4dbe-b2ba-a807cb048e85 AND FOR US GOD AND GODDESS NORN AND VALCURY ELF AND TROLL AND GREEN FOLK GENERALLY WERE REAL CREATURES ONCE AGAIN INHABITING THE ORCHARDS AND WOODS AND MEADOWS AROUND US UNTIL IT SEEMED AS IF THE GOLDEN AGE HAD RETURNED TO EARTH HE AND PETER REMAINED ON BAD TERMS FOR SOME TIME HOWEVER THE STORY GIRL WINKED WITH THE SIGHT OF HER FACE NEXT TO FELIX AND ME BUT THE SIDE NEXT TO THE GIRLS CHANGED NOT A MUSCLE DAN FED MOST OF IT TO PATTY A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON I JUST GROWLED BUT IT WAS ENOUGH +6d854013-4887-4b95-bf0b-730fcc3afacf OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG LAST NIGHT I FELT JUST LIKE PRAYING AND TO NIGHT I FEEL JUST LIKE COOKING THE FIRST THING WE KNOW WILL ALL BE QUARRELLING AND THEN SOME OF US WILL SULK ALL DAY TOMORROW +6da50686-baf9-4088-8024-187fb7a2c397 HULLO SAID THE KING BLINKING HIS PURPLE EYES AT HIS FOLLOWERS WHAT'S UP NOW STRANGERS YOUR MAJESTY STRANGERS AND CAPTIVES REPLIED THE BIG LOON POMPOUSLY I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MARTIN FORBES'S GRANDFATHER SAID THE STORY GIRL LONG AGO THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOIR IN THE CARLISLE CHURCH JUST A PRESENTOR YOU KNOW IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE MARRIED TOO SAID CECILY GRAVELY SEEING THAT FELICITY DISDAINED REPLY IF YOU GOT A MAN LIKE FATHER IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT BUT SUPPOSING YOU GOT ONE LIKE ANDREW WARD +6dda8b4a-66d9-4570-8cff-b7090e458b89 YOU'RE UNDER ARREST CRIME KING I TOLD HIM AND A GIRL FRIEND I HAVE FOUND THEM YES I ADDED HOARSELY BUT NOT A CRIMINAL RING THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME BRANDON COULD HEAR TOWER'S VOICE IN A VORTEX OF DARKNESS HE REMEMBERED THE RUSSIAN REPORTS OF THE WEIRD AND DEADLY CREATURES THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED IN THE MARTIAN DESERTS +6dedbf4b-9a3c-41a2-a5dc-7af7c20a128c WE ARE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE DECLARED THE TIN WOODMAN ALL THE BETTER SHE REPLIED OUR TEACHER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT THING TO HAVE A LIBRARY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL AND HE SUGGESTED THAT EACH OF THE PUPILS SHOULD TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HE OR SHE COULD RAISE FOR THE PROJECT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED +6e02b6b5-378a-48d9-8151-229f67175f3e THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY AND HAD CERTAINLY NEVER THOUGHT HE'D LIKE A MERMAID BUT AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE AND A CHINA FRUIT BASKET WITH AN APPLE AS A HANDLE WENT ON FELICITY MUCH RELIEVED AND YOU MUSTN'T CALL NAMES OR MAKE FACES FELICITY'S GOLDEN HEAD WOULD HAVE LIFTED ITSELF IN THE HAUGHTY INDIGNATION OF INSULTED WOMANHOOD +6e2634a8-733b-46ca-b608-e3bc9675ddd7 INTO OTHER SHAPES SO THAT YOU CANNOT BE RECOGNIZED ARE MANY PEOPLE WHOM IT IS NOT PLEASANT TO MEET I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MUNCHKIN GIRL WHO LIVED WITH A WICKED WITCH RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS I KNEW THE GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE IDEA UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN +6e6bcc21-8800-4d31-acca-5d6fb084d68e THAT'S WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC POSSIBLY NOT FRIENDLY JUST FORGET ABOUT IT AND BUILD A NEW ONE I NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER UNTIL RECORDS DUG UP THE SPECKS MARK THREE THE OLD MAN REPEATED THAT IS THE WAY WITH SO MANY WORDS THEY'RE EXPRESSIVE BUT THEY'RE NOT NICE AND SO A GIRL CAN'T USE EM +6e6e85e8-733f-4cb3-be2d-4ef68eaf8d7b WE WERE OBLIGED LITTLE CREW SITTING THERE IN THE LIGHT OF OUR GOBLIN LANTERN WE HAD IN VERY TRUTH BEEN GIVEN BEAUTY FOR ASHES AND THE OIL OF JOY FOR MORNING WE HAD A CALL FROM PEG BOWEN YESTERDAY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE STORY GIRL HUSTLING PAT OUT OF THE WAY FOR ALL SHE SAYS SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT HE WAS BEWITCHED PEG HAD YOUR RHEUMATISM RING ON AND THE STORY GIRL'S BLUE BEADS AND SARA RAY'S LACE SEWED ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER DRESS SAYING THIS HE BLEW UPON A TIN WHISTLE THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM HIS TIN NECK AND AT THE SUMMONS A SERVANT APPEARED AND BOWED LOW +6e9ad306-047a-4166-94ee-9a6d42d76da0 THESE CHANGES COULD BE MADE DURING CONSTRUCTION THEN PLANS FILED BY THE TIME ANY ONE IN THE LEAGUE FOUND OUT WHAT WAS BEING BUILT THE SHIP WOULD BE FINISHED AND LAUNCHED AND WHAT WAS A QUEST WITHOUT SOMEONE TO SET IT NOW I WISH TO SEE HERKINUFF THE INQUISITOR CALLS YOU WHEN HE WANTS YOU THE BALD MAN SAID THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES CHERANNA CHERUSOE OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN CHERANNA CRUSO +6ed48de1-5a26-43a9-b8b0-be835c9115be THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE YONES HAD MET THE TYPE BEFORE AND WAS UNINTERESTED IN GOING FURTHER VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES WE WANT THIS PLANET CLEARED FOR CONTACT OR DEAD BEFORE THEN IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT +6edebfd2-8e94-4aec-bdf3-cb913cde1e42 WHEN HE COMBED IN HIS NET OF SNEAKERS TO CHECK THE TAPES AND FILMS WHAT DO YOU CARRY IN THIS VEHICLE YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE IT WAS A LONG AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND SOMETIMES IT TOOK OVER SIXNTHS IT'S TO BE READY BY SATURDAY BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS THE SOUL OF HONOUR I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING +6ee7b7f2-4b51-440c-a6da-70f13eb21bcb IT WAS A FAST RUN TO UDRIDA WHEN MY BILLIONAIRES YACHT THE EL DORADO WAS WAITING THE DOT YARD COMMANDER SHOWED ME THE SHIP AND MADE A NOBLE EFFORT TO CONTROL HIS CURIOSITY I TOOK A STADISTIC REVENGE ON THE NAVY BY NOT TELLING HIM A WORD ABOUT MY MISSION AFTER CHECKING OUT THE CONTROLS AND SPECIAL APPARATUS WITH THE TECHNICIANS I CLEARED THE SHIP THERE WAS A TAPE IN THE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR THAT WOULD PUT ME ON THE COURSE MENTIONED IN ALL THE ARTICLES JUST AT PRESS OF THE BOTTOM AND I WOULD BE ON MY WAY I PRESSED THE BUTTON ORAN TURNED LOOKED BACK AT TO NEWBE DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN SEE BY WHAT LIGHT GETS DOWN HERE THROUGH THOSE TREES CAN YOU NOT SEE ASKED TO NEW NOT WITHOUT THE HEADLIGHTS OUR EYES DIFFER SAID TO NEWBE HE BENT TOWARD ORAN PEERED THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF HIS EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED YOU ARE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS O ON THE DAUPHINIS PAUSE YES IT PUZZLED ME TO ANSWER THAT PROPERLY UNTIL I HAD LOOKED OVER SOME OF MY LETTERS I HAD RECEIVED ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES MY SISTER WHO IS WRITING THIS FOR ME READS ME THE OZ BOOKS BUT I WISH I COULD READ THEM MYSELF +6eedafbd-b052-435b-b484-73a5c50eafe1 I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY BUT THERE WAS NO REAL REASON WHY THAT COULDN'T BE CHANGED TOO THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY WHICH BROUGHT THE ORGY OF WISHING TO AN END FOR THE TIME AND WAS IN THE ACT OF SITTING DOWN WHEN FELICITY'S TACTFUL SPEECH ARRESTED HIM MIDWAY THE FIRST PERSON WE SAW IN THE CHURCH PORCH WAS MISSUS RAY +6f0b5b0a-372b-4666-9308-902fe943b607 CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT I CAN LEARN HE SAID THE GIRL HE THOUGHT WAS SOMEHOW RADIANT REALLY LOVELY IN SPITE OF HER SCALES AND FINS HE WAS PECULIAR HE HAD NEVER LIKED WOMEN AT ALL AND HAD CERTAINLY NEVER THOUGHT HE'D LIKE A MERMAID BUT IT MEANS DANGER SHARP PRESSED HIM BUT I DO NOT MIND DANGER IN SUCH A CAUSE KNOCK AT THE DOOR I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS THE OLD WOMAN STILL CLUTCHING HER COIN DISAPPEARED FROM THE WINDOW AS IF SOMEONE HAD YANKED HER BACK +6f11cd01-aeb9-420e-8500-a57cdcacb366 OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT THE BRIDGES WOVE BACK AND FORTH FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING UNTIL THE ENTIRE VISIBLE NETWORK APPEARED TO BE ONE GIGANTIC DEW GLITTERING WEB BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY HE HAD NOT ONLY PICKED IT UP HOWEVER HE HAD ALSO TIED IT IN A KNOT IT SHOULD HAVE SPLINTERED IN HIS HANDS ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL +6f310ab9-8ffa-4a94-87af-57410bb24a27 I'M ALMOST SURE I CAN SEE A STRAWSTACK IN THE BACK YARD THEY TALKED IT OVER FOR A WHILE AND THEN MISSUS EWKE RETURNED HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN AND THEN I FOUND THAT I HADN'T A STITCH OF CLOTHES ON I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED INDIGESTIBLE THINGS BEFORE THEY WENT TO BED +6f403723-5c7e-437a-83ca-3528bac52fcf YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE SHE LAUGHED AGAIN OH THE ROEBOT EXCEPT FOR THE CAPTURED ARMAND YOU STILL HOLD YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS IF YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH THEN WE SHALL DIE BRAVELY SAID TO NUB YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MISTER BUTLER LEAVES A LETTER FOR ME WHICH I'M TO MAIL EARLY THIS MORNING SPECIAL DELIVERY IT'S TO YOU I RECKON YOU GOT IT SIR THAT'S WHY I'M HERE GO ON +6f443c85-15ae-4c64-b788-f2d999072baa ONE OF THE YOUNG BRAVES WAS NAMED A KATY HE WAS THE TALLEST AND BRAVEST AND HANDSOMEST YOUNG MAN IN THE TRIBE WHY IS IT THEY'RE ALWAYS SO HANDSOME IN STORIES ASKED ANNE WHY ARE THERE NEVER NO STORIES ABOUT UGLY PEOPLE I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS AND THERE'D BE NO YEH HORN SHOOK HIS HEAD THINK OF IT TWO CIVILIZATIONS THAT MATURED ALONG DIFFERENT LINES THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND +6f4e9f65-38b3-4389-80e1-d742a1565369 SHE ASKED MISERABLY PETER DID NOT THINK BLUEBERRY WINE WOULD DO ANY GOOD THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK AND WAS BADLY CHEATED TO BOOT FOR HE LEVANTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS TAKING THE APPLES WITH HIM HAVING PAID HER ONLY HALF HER RIGHTFUL DUE BUT WE WERE VERY QUIET NOW I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY THEN I FILLED THE FRAME WITH ALL THE EQUIPMENT I WOULD NEED AND BEGAN TO WIRE THE SUIT +6f4f3bb1-861d-4854-b567-5ebc383b02e1 LONG AND NARROW AND TWISTED BECAUSE YOU CAN BE ALWAYS WONDERING WHAT IS AT THE END OF IT I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU YOU OUGHT TO BE BRAVER THAN GIRLS THEY SHUDDERED AND TELEPARTED THE SUDDEN REAPPEARANCE OF HIS HALLUCINATION DOUBLED +6f899952-e7b2-4b69-9541-57f2ecbe5358 THE STORY GIRL TURNED QUITE PALE IT'S ALL VERY FINE TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD OUR MORNING CHORES WERE DONE AND THE DAY WAS BEFORE US OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE BARKED THE VOICE FROM THE GRIN THE CONTACT BROKE OFF WITH AN ANGRY SOUND THIS IS FAR ENOUGH +6f8fb496-fd3d-4866-9fa4-4f543a22ddc3 I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE I GUESS SHE WON'T FORGET IT IN A HURRY YOU WON'T GO EATING THE BAD BERRIES ANOTHER TIME WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOLD TO WE MUST ALL GO TOGETHER SAID THE STORY GIRL I DON'T SUPPOSE THE FAMILY GUIDE WOULD THINK SO AGREED THE STORY GIRL LAZILY WITH SOME SARCASM IN HER VOICE CONSIDER MY CASE PLEASE SAID WOOT THE CRUEL GIANTESS HAS MADE A MONKEY OF A BOY AND THAT IS THE MOST DREADFUL DEED OF ALL +6fb6eba3-c747-4622-b2c2-6744b9d606c4 HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION DEMANDED FELICITY I'VE GOT A YANKEE CENT I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT FELICITY SHOOK HER HEAD VEHEMENTLY OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH I'LL TELL YOU WHY SAID PETER THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN YOU FELLOWS WERE ALL IN SCHOOL PEG BOWEN CAME HERE YOUR AUNT OLIVIA GAVE HER A LUNCH A GOOD ONE YOU MAY LAUGH AT THE NOTION OF PEG BEING A WITCH BUT I NOTICE YOUR FOLKS ARE ALWAYS AWFUL GOOD TO HER WHEN SHE COMES AND AWFUL CAREFUL NEVER TO OFFEND HER SHE DID NOT SAY A WORD TO HIM COMING INTO THE HOUSE THAT EVENING A PACE BEHIND HER MOTHER LIKE AN OBEDIENT SLAVE SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE +6fcedb0f-77cc-494a-9946-15a24f0bcfd5 AND AFTER A TIME THE GIANTESS CAME FROM HER BEDROOM WEARING ANOTHER DRESS THAT WAS QUITE AS ELABORATE AS THE ONE IN WHICH SHE HAD BEEN ATTIRED IN THE EVENING BEFORE AND ALSO WEARING THE PRETTY LACE APRON FELIX PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE AND WHEN HE HAD PRAYED THREE NIGHTS AFTER THIS MANNER HE CONTRIVED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT A GRIMACE UNTIL HE CAME TO THE LAST BITE WHICH PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE AND A PROCESSION OF VERY ANCIENT BEINGS WHOM I TOOK TO BE THE PRIESTS OF THIS GOD CAME IN SINGLE FILE FROM BEHIND THE BLACK GOD DIRECTING THE CHANTING WITH MOVEMENTS OF THEIR ARMS +703052bf-2275-40ef-bb25-50efeee53ca2 PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT THE BEWITCHMENT OF PAT WE WERE ALL IN A DOLEFUL DUMPS AT LEAST ALL WE YOUNG FRY WERE AND EVEN THE GROWN UPS WERE SORRY AND CONDESCENDED TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN OUR TROUBLES PAT OUR OWN DEAR FROLICSOME PADDY WAS SICK AGAIN VERY VERY SICK BUT EVEN THE EFFECTS OF UNHOLY SNACKS WERE AWAY AT LENGTH BY TEA TIME THINGS HAD BRIGHTENED UP +70336e6b-ec02-4074-a3aa-e93198641d47 WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US THE HOUSES OF THE RICH WERE NATURALLY WOODEN THE POOR BUILT OF BAKED MUD ONE HAD BLACK COARSE HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND A STUBBLE ABOUT HIS FACE THE OTHER WAS BALD AS AN EGG +703df6b6-ff35-4abf-8617-48dc75b8766b MURR SPOKE A FEW WORDS INTO HIS PHONE AND THE JOB WAS DONE I HAD MISSED THE OBVIOUS FACT BEING CARRIED AWAY BY THE THOUGHT OF A PLANETARY GOVERNMENT BUILDING A WARSHIP SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO PROBABLY MADE THAT EXPLANATION UP ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT JUST TO PACIFY PETER THE STORY GIRL LOOKED PITEOUS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS YES THE STORY GIRL WAS FASCINATING AND THAT WAS THE FINAL WORD TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT +705a2567-d8f0-484e-911b-2d305d49679d PIGS SAID FELIX FORCIBLY IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU I TOLD HER TRUTHFULLY THAT'S UP FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE BUT BUT HE MADE ME DO ALL THOSE THINGS SHE WAILED SHE WAS YOUNG DARK AND BEAUTIFUL THE TEARS DID NOTHING TO SPOIL THIS IF HE TRIES TO AND IF IT ISN'T WHAT PLEASES OTHER PEOPLE THE PARLIAMENT OR SOMETHING SQUELCHES HIM ISN'T SQUELCH A LOVELY WORD SAID THE STORY GIRL IRREVERENTLY IT'S SO EXPRESSIVE +7061ddcd-a773-4c49-b8d9-260712e9cb0a AND IT WAS TO MAKE THE STORY GIRL UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AS INSTANTANEOUSLY AS IT HAD COME THE PAIN LEFT HIM AND HE REGAINED CONTROL OF IT QUICKLY THEN WISH I COULD I'VE A DREADFUL FEELING HERE LIKE THAT STERN ANGRILY FROWNING OLD MAN WITH THE TOSSING HAIR AND BEARD OF THE WOODCUT CECILY HELD +7067be1d-d3b0-445d-8abb-9336c4291c38 O K TELL THEM WE'LL COMPLY ONE MORE THING STET WHAT NOW HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED NOT HER FAULT OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED OF COURSE YOU DON'T EXPECT THEM TO FIRE WARSHIP PLANS WITH THE LEGAL REGISTRY DO YOU BUT AS I SAID I KNOW MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SHIPS IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED +707102ae-c9d4-4455-807e-abccc2db6116 AND DESTRUCTION SINCE THEN THE LOCAL TORTURER SNIFFED A BIT AND THREW A LITTLE MORE CHARCOAL ON THE FIRE SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED BUT BEFORE WE REACHED THE GATE WE GLANCED TO OUR LEFT ALONG THE GRASSY SPRUCE BORDERED LANE WHICH LED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S +7071d58c-291e-48f6-a52f-38612c807bf8 MAYBE THEY WERE REALLY ALL PRAIRIE DOGS MANOEL MAYBE THE HEAD GOT YOU AND YOU ONLY DREAMED THAT THEY WERE LITTLE PEOPLE HE FINALLY PUT THEM DOWN SHAKING HIS HEAD I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANY BATTLESHIP THESE ARE THE PLANS FOR A NEW CARGO LINA THOSE ARE MY INITIALS I RECALL PUTTING THEM THERE SHE PRAYED FOR IT YOU KNOW SAID FELIX AFTER SARA HAD GONE HOME THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY IF THE REST OF US HAD JUST SET DOWN AND DONE NOTHING ONLY PRAYED HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE IT DON'T SEEM FAIR TO ME +7087b1b4-c940-460d-85fa-69230c75d1d3 DAN ALONE CONTINUED TO NURSE HIS GRIEVANCES AND WOULD NOT EVEN LAUGH WHEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD US A TALE BROUGHT TO MINE BY SOME OF THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT'S PLUMS WHICH WERE ON THE TABLE SO HE TOOK HIS KNAPSACK AND HIS SHEPHERD'S CROOK AND WANDERED AWAY UNTIL HE CAME TO THESSALY THAT IS THE LAND OF THE GODS HILL YOU KNOW THE NAME OF THE HILL WAS OLYMPUS BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS STORY THAT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER MOUNTAIN MOUNT PELICON I THINK I AM JUSTIFIED IN PROMISING THAT THERE WILL BE SOME ASTONISHING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE MAGIC OF OZ IN MY BOOK FOR NINETEEN NINETEEN ALWAYS YOUR LOVING AND GRATEFUL FRIEND L FRANK BAUM ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ +708e7c89-fe2a-4aad-af36-40a927bbfb71 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT FURTHER SOMEWHAT TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT FOR WE HAD NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OF THE PERSON REFERRED TO AND WE WERE RATHER CURIOUS REGARDING IT WE'LL ASK PETER TO DESCRIBE IT SOME TIME WHEN HE'S IN A BETTER HUMOUR WHISPERED FELIX JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME HE WAS CLIMBING OVER THE RAIL AT THE STERN AND ALREADY BEGINNING TO MAKE A PUDDLE ON THE DECK FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY +70957a82-9b11-4d58-acc1-a7eef26e4f65 THE FAT ONE WAS FELIX WHO WAS VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT HIS PLUMPNESS HE WAS ALWAYS TAKING EXERCISES TO MAKE HIM THIN WITH THE DISMAL RESULT THAT HE BECAME FATTER ALL THE TIME FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL I THINK WE ALL SHARED HER FEAR TO SOME EXTENT NEVERTHELESS WE WENT TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY BURNING WITH CURIOSITY AND WE WERE DISAPPOINTED +70e441dc-9e5b-4998-91d3-c64ffa7dad49 YET MISSUS YUKE INSISTS THAT NO POWER CAN ALTER TRANSFORMATIONS HE GLANCED AT THE KING WHO NODDED HIS HEAD IN ASCENT SHE IS GOING TO WRITE YOU A LETTER TOO ONE DESPERATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD NOTHING TO READ AND THE TIME SEEMED ENDLESS FELIX HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE A GAME OF FRUIT BASKET I SHOULD THINK THE MORE LIKE A REGULAR SERMON IT WAS THE BETTER I SAID YOU CAN JUMP IN EITHER DIRECTION BUT RAY MADE NO BONES ABOUT HIM OR TAKING THE BIG STEP INTO SPACE +70eae481-e0a6-4854-885b-0d707831da2d WE ALL WENT TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK AND THAT PERSONALITY WAS A VENOMOUS EVIL LOATHLY THING IT WON'T KILL HER BUT SHE'LL PROBABLY BE A PRETTY MISERABLE GIRL FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY HAD THREE DAYS MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE WE MUST BREED AND BE BORN IN THE SUNLIGHT VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS IN THEIR EYES SAID HORN HE STUDIED THE FIGURE +7101c663-34ed-494a-a17e-1b76b9e9cc02 YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY EXACTLY JONAS SAID HASTILY SHE REPEATED IT SIMPLY BUT HER VOICE CHANGED FROM ONE TONE TO ANOTHER AS EACH IN SUCCESSION GREW TIRED VERY LIKELY IF THAT BLUE SILK DRESS STORY IS TRUE I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING OF HIM SAID FELICITY HAVE HAD NO ONE TO TALK TO SINCE I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW INTO A CANARY BIRD +713171e2-7df8-4665-9a31-255cb5ec451d PAT WAS THERE ALSO PADDING ABOUT FROM ONE TO THE OTHER ON HIS BLACK PAWS GIVING US FRIENDLY POKES AND RUBS BUT IF HE STILL SAYS YOU MUST GO THAT'LL BE A SIGN HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT THE MORE RELIGIOUS ANYTHING WAS THE MORE FIGHTING THERE WAS ABOUT IT THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOW I TELL YOU I THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD AM UNDER NO COMPULSION TO LISTEN TO YOU KENUFF SAID AFTER A PAUSE +7160db4d-effc-4e71-8933-211bdbec51d2 CERTAINLY IT WAS A LOVELY WORD AND AS THE STORY GIRL SAID IT EVEN A KING WOULD NOT HAVE MINDED BEING SQUELCHED IF IT WERE DONE TO MUSIC LIKE THAT ON THEY WENT AND WHEN THEY REACHED THE CENTRE OF THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREAT STONE CASTLE STOOD IT WAS BEGINNING TO GROW DARK SO THEY HESITATED AS TO WHAT TO DO DAN AND THE GIRLS AND I WERE SITTING IN A ROW ON AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN FENCE WATCHING FELIX WEED FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM +716152d5-4282-4134-9418-7f0c42e78230 BUT WE CAN'T RAISE HIM SIR THE RADIO OPERATOR SAID MAYBE HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF IT ALIVE COLONEL TOWERS CAN'T YOU HEAR ME BRANDON YELLED INTO HIS OXYGEN MASK IT WAS A STRANGE WOOING AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS BEGGED HER TO REFUSE BUT HER PRIDE WHISPERED THAT IT WOULD BE SUCH A WONDERFUL THING TO BE QUEEN OF THE KING OF THE WORLD SO SHE CONSENTED AND HER MAIDENS DRESSED HER AND PUT ON THE LONG LACE VEIL THAT HAD BEEN SO MANY YEARS A MAKING IN A MOMENT I NODDED AND VIC BEING A GOOD SCOUT THAT HE WAS HURRIED AWAY AND THE MACHINE I ASKED A FEW NIGHTS LATER STILL EXPERIMENTING WITH IT I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES +7176bad2-1bef-4f27-bd9e-a675adca0166 IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER MY FOOLISHNESS YONA'S THOUGHT SOMETIMES WORKS TO MY BENEFIT WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING AND THOUGH IT WAS THUS SUDDENLY REMOVED THE CHILL AND THE SHADOW OF IT WERE ABOUT US STILL WHEN THE TALE ENDED THERE WAS A BRIEF SILENCE THEN AUNT JANET SAID SEVERELY BUT WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF LITTLE GIRLS SHOULDN'T TELL SUCH HORRIBLE STORIES +717b3920-b0ca-41f1-936e-0cbff5c30c79 WELL THEN THE OLD WOMAN SAID AND STARTED TO DRAW BACK JONAS GESTED LAZILY WITH ONE HAND WAIT HE SAID I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR HOUSE AWAY FROM YOU MADAM I AM ONLY HERE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION RAY JUMPED NOT VERY FAR BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY DIVING SUIT STUMBLED ON ODDLY TWISTED LEGS AND COLLAPSED ON THE DECK WRITHING MOANING AND TURNING RED IN THE FACE THE DIVING HELMET CLATTERED ON THE PLANKS BUT THESE YOUNG MEN DIDN'T THINK OF THESE THINGS THEY WERE LED ON BY A GOLDEN VISION THEY MADE ALL THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND THEY CHARTERED THE BRIG FANNY TO TAKE THEM TO CALIFORNIA THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY IS THE HERO OF MY STORY +7189e952-e46b-4abf-a300-6722db839bca DREAMED DREAMS OF SUCH A PEACEFUL AND PASTORAL CHARACTER IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL SUDDENLY APPEARING THROUGH A LITTLE GAP IN THE HEDGE I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY IF I PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER IT WILL BE TOO LATE I'M GROWING SO FAST AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I'LL HAVE TO WEAR ANKLE SKIRTS NEXT SUMMER IF I BEGIN TO LOOK GROWN UP HE'LL GET FRIGHTENED OF ME AND THEN I'LL NEVER FIND OUT THE GOLDEN MILESTONE MYSTERY WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOOK A WHIP AND WHIPPED MY BARE SHOULDERS TILL THE BLOOD CAME DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL AGGRIEVED +71988a71-7d0d-4657-bd14-b2f5d0767fdf WE WOULD DEARLY HAVE LOVED TO LEAVE THE CANDLE BURNING BUT AUNT JANET'S DECREE REGARDING THIS WAS AS INEXORABLE AS ANY OF MEAD AND PERSIA BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS HALF AS MUCH FRIGHTENED AS DISAPPOINTED THAT SHE HAD NO WHITE DRESS THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK YOU ARE ALL HELPLESS AND IN MY POWER SO YOU MAY AS WELL MAKE UP YOUR MINDS TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE AND BE CONTENT +71b15158-96f3-45ba-8ec1-cbec9a07f528 WE DEMANDED THE TALE INSTANTLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD IT TO US AS SHE PEELED HER POTATOES WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING NO MY LITTLE CABIN STANDS NOT A GREAT WAY OFF BUT THERE IS NO OCCASION FOR US TO VISIT IT OUR ERRAND IS WITH NIMI AMMY AND HER HOUSE IS SOMEWHAT FARTHER AWAY TO THE LEFT OF US YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL TELLS IT NOW OH IT ISN'T THE RIGHT KIND OF STORY TO TELL ON SUNDAY SHE REPLIED BUT I'LL TELL IT TOMORROW MORNING ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD +71c66cd7-c339-4db4-9805-20d0a9e808e8 THOSE FAT HEADED LARD BOTTOMED PIG BRAINED TELL THEM WE'LL COMPLY A SMALL WAVE OF CUSTOM MEN HUNG STICKERS ON MY LUGGAGE PEEKED INTO ONE OR TWO FOR CONFORMITY'S SAKE AND WAVED ME THROUGH I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT FELICITY WAS SIPPING FROM THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WITH AN OVERDONE AIR OF UNCONCERN EACH WAS ACUTELY AND MISERABLY CONSCIOUS OF THE OTHER'S PRESENCE IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT +71c98eb6-00bc-4a52-8bcb-d1c5851373b3 WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WERE SUMMONED FROM THE FIELD MISSUS PATERSON BECAME HYSTERICAL AND WAS TAKEN INTO THE SPARE ROOM WITH SUCH REMEDIES AS COULD BE SUGGESTED WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY BUT NOBODY HAS TO EAT IT ALL AT ONCE RETORTED UNCLE ROGER WITH ANOTHER GROAN WHY A BATTLESHIP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL JUST AS GOOD FOR SPACE PIRACY THAT IS BUT NOT FOR HIS PURPOSES +71ca0714-478e-439c-84c3-5cfa1cb1858d OH I THINK HE'LL BE ALL RIGHT TOO SIGHED CECILY BUT YOU KNOW HE NEVER DID GO TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL BEFORE THIS SUMMER NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL I'M AWFUL GLAD MISTER KING IS GOING TO LEAVE THE POTATO STOCKS UNTIL I GET WELL AND I'M OBLIGED TO THE STORY GIRL FOR COAXING HIM I GUESS WE WILL FIND OUT ABOUT ALICE YET THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF HER LETTER I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH BUT WHEN THE MEASLES STRIKE IN THEY LEAVE YOU STUPID FOR A SPELL +71d5428e-bcb9-41c3-98d4-4b87352295d8 I'VE THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT IT OH MOTHER PLEASE LET ME HOLD IT FOR A MINUTE I'LL BE AS CAREFUL AS CAREFUL THERE COMES A CHINA SET GRANDFATHER KING GAVE US SAID THE STORY GIRL WISTFULLY OH IT MAKES ME FEEL SAD HE KNEW ALL THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT THEM THEIR NATIVITIES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE ONLY NINE REGULAR PEOPLE IN THE NINE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA IF WE WERE WE COULD SEE IT WE'D BUMP INTO OUR OWN TREES AND HOUSES AND PEOPLE WE'D BE KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTOMOBILES AND TWO BODIES CANNOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC WHY YES +71ef134c-a033-4cbe-b953-b20f8eb7a971 THE MARKED TWENTY'S MUZZLE CAME ROUND THE CENTER ON ORN'S STOMACH NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY INSTANT YAWNED AND POURED HIMSELF A GLASS OF WATER FROM THE DISPENSER UNIT ABOVE THE BED I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP +71f26e97-90ba-4163-a714-aad09ab9da05 THERE WAS A SOUND OF STEALTHY MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND HE FLICKED SWEAT OUT OF HIS EYES WITH A HAND THAT SHOOK WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS BUT HOW ASTONISHED THOUGH HE WAS HE DOROTHY HAD NEVER SEEN THIS BOY BEFORE BUT HE IS A KIND MASTER +71f8ee47-ac76-41d7-a5d3-991be478b551 GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY TO RAISE INVENTION AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS NO THEY'RE BAWED IF YOU REMEMBER RIGHTLY AND FITTED WITH THIS FROSTED GLASS SO YOU CAN'T SEE IN EVEN HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES WERE TOO STUPID TO BE A NUISANCE +71fc418b-d956-421c-9e46-f84b2bbe59f3 FELIX TOOK HER ADVICE MISTER MIRWOOD PRESENTLY WALKING BENIGNLY ALONG THE LANE WAS CONFRONTED BY A FAT SMALL BOY WITH A PALE FACE BUT RESOLUTE EYES THE REST OF US REMAINED IN THE BACKGROUND BUT WITHIN HEARING YOU MEAN YOU HAD A QUANON JUMP ASKED BRANDON PIRROTING COLONEL TOWER'S FAVORITE EXPRESSION ODD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT REPLIED THE SECOND MAN IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT THIS NEW SENSE IS OF GREAT VALUE PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN TO TEACH IT TO OTHERS IN TIME THOUGH WE HAVE HAD LITTLE SUCCESS WITH THAT +721443b9-35d6-452e-982f-2714832f772f WHAT IS IT IS IS IT PAST TWO IMPLORED THE STORY GIRL IT IT'S IT'S FOUR SAID CECILY WITH A GASP THE OLD CLOCK ISN'T GOING MOTHER FORGOT TO WIND IT UP LAST NIGHT AND IT STOP BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN SHE WAS ALSO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN MISSIONS AND ONE TALK ON THIS SUBJECT INSPIRED THE STORY GIRL TO DO A LITTLE HOME MISSIONARY WORK ON HER OWN ACCOUNT THE ONLY THING SHE COULD THINK OF ALONG THIS LINE WAS TO PERSUADE PETER TO GO TO CHURCH FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THE DESIGN AND SAID SO PLAINLY LONG LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE BREATHLESS AND REELING HIS VESTURE TORN HIS GREAT WOUNDS BLEEDING HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE SHORE WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY SPRANG UP HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY +721cc0d7-ca92-4aeb-8bd7-2cf3041a3e74 WHY NOT WHAT ARE MINISTERS FOR IF THEY AIN'T TO TELL PEOPLE HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN OH WELL IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR GROWN UPS TO ASK THEM THINGS OF COURSE BUT IT ISN'T RESPECTFUL FOR LITTLE BOYS ESPECIALLY HIRED BOYS BUT THE STRING THAT HE WAS TIED TO HIS BODY WAS STILL CONNECTED WITH THE ARM OF THE THRONE AND THEY KNEW THEY COULD PULL HIS MAJESTY DOWN AGAIN IF THEY WANTED TO SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS +721e48e5-d0e6-4bf5-b267-da2c551731db MY SISTER WHO IS WRITING THIS FOR ME READS ME THE OZ BOOKS BUT I WISH I COULD READ THEM MYSELF VERY GOOD ANSWERED THE TIN WOODMAN IN HIS ACCUSTOMED CHEERFUL MANNER TELL ME WHO YOU ARE AND WHENCE YOU CAME DAN HAD NO PATIENCE WITH EITHER OF THE GIRLS ESPECIALLY FELICITY OR THEY BOTH WANT IS A RIGHT GOOD SPANKING HE SAID BEFORE THE WEDDING HE HAD FENCED OFF THE BIG SOUTH MEADOW THAT SLOPED TO THE SUN IT WAS THE FINEST MOST FERTILE FIELD ON THE FARM AND THE NEIGHBOURS TOLD YOUNG ABRAHAM KING THAT HE WOULD RAISE MANY A FINE CROP OF WHEAT IN THAT MEADOW +722c25c8-a679-4528-a0e2-2060e5f87830 LD THE SIMIAN SHIP WAS PASSING IN HYPERDRIVE THROUGH A CLASSIC THREE BODY SYSTEM COMPRISING IN THIS CASE A FIERCELY WHITE SUN CIRCLED BY A FAINTER COMPANION AND A SINGLE PLANET THAT SWUNG IN PRECISE BALANCE WHEN THE CANTHORIAN ZID BROKE OUT OF ITS CAGE IN THE SPECIMEN HOLD OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES I WAS JUST SEVEN HE IS A MINISTER SO OF COURSE I KNEW HE SPOKE THE TRUTH IT WAS HIS DUTY TO TELL ME AND I DO NOT BLAME HIM BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT QUITE THE SAME TO UNCLE EDWARD SINCE HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER AND AT LAST THERE CAME A LETTER BUT NOT FROM ALLAN ALLAN WAS DEAD HE HAD DIED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD BEEN BURIED THERE WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM AND PRAYING FOR HIM HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY FAR AWAY GRAVE +722c3926-c3b6-4e5d-ba4c-dc252968dfe0 ANYHOW I SAVED MY DREAM SHE SAID PLACIDLY AND THAT OF COURSE WAS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERED GROWN PEOPLE WERE SO STRANGELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRULY IMPORTANT THINGS OF LIFE MATERIAL FOR NEW GARMENTS NIGHT OR DAY COULD BE BOUGHT IN ANY SHOP FOR A TRIFLING SUM AND MADE UP OUT OF HAND THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON LAST OF ALL CAME VING HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED IT FLOATED LIKE A GLISTENING PLUM COLORED ISLAND FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN IT WAS MORE THAN VAST THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS +7242c21e-35ba-4ff0-a4db-2b140e9e784e WHAT IS PETER LIKE I ASKED PETER IS SPLENDID HIS MOTHER LIVES ON THE MARKDALE ROAD AND WASHES FOR A LIVING PETER'S FATHER RAN AWAY AND LEFT THEM WHEN PETER WAS ONLY THREE YEARS OLD WE WERE ALL INTENSELY EXCITED SATURDAY MORNING TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER WHAT IF JERRY DOESN'T BRING THE PICTURE TO DAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN I SUGGESTED NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS IN THE CASE OF TISSUE REGENERATION OR THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE SO RAPIDLY IN JUST A GENERATION OR SO THAT INSTINCTIVE FEAR IS EVEN MORE UNDERSTANDABLE ALTHOUGH QUITE AS UNJUSTIFIED I ASSURE YOU THE DOCTOR STOOD UP INDICATING THAT THE SESSION WAS ENDING +725092e3-23e5-4295-9f38-132654b0a5ae GREAT MACHINE TO WORK WITH I HAD IT DIGGING OUT SPACESHIP INFA FOR ME SOMETHING I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN YOU SHOULD BE INSKIPP INTERRUPTED RUDELY YOU'VE STOLEN ENOUGH OF THEM IN YOUR TIME I GAVE HIM A HURT LOOK AND WENT ON SLOWLY THEY TASTE GREAT HE SAID SMACKING AND HE ATE TWO MORE CLUSTERS REGARDLESS OF THE HORROR STRICKEN PROTESTATIONS AND FELICITY'S PLEADINGS WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT WHY MILK AND CUCUMBERS TOGETHER MAKE A RANK POISON HE SAID NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK +72644f59-81a2-475c-bdc8-407e5dee3666 SOMETIMES WE WORKED UNTIL THE COLD YELLOW SUNSET FADED OUT OVER THE DARKENING DISTANCES AND THE HUNTER'S MOON LOOKED DOWN ON US THROUGH THE SPARKLING AIR HE HAD LEARNED TO APPRECIATE THE EASY LIFE OF THE ISLANDS WELL ENOUGH TO BE DISMAYED NOW BY WHAT MUST HAPPEN UNDER EYE PRESSURE TO OLD CHARLEY AND HIS HANDFUL OF SUN BROWNED FISHER FOLK WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH ARE WE SIR ASKED THE RADIO MAN IT WOULD SERVE US ALL RIGHT THE COLONEL STOPPED PACING AND FACED THE RADIO MAN +72671be2-c08b-4607-9962-ee766d73aa5f CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS NOT A SECOND MORE WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM NOT MUCH THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE WITH A SHOUT I JERKED THE GUN FROM MY POCKET AND LEAPED ASIDE AS I DID SO I FIRED TWICE INTO THE GAPING MOUTH AND SAW THE BULLETS SHATTER THE HEAVY SHUTTER A LADY CALLED THE POLICE TO SAVE THE PAIR FROM ROCK THROWING KIDS WHO MIGHT HAVE KILLED THEM AND THE TWO AS YET UNCLASSIFIED THINGS WERE TAKEN TO THE STATION HOUSE +7277d86b-953c-472f-a591-ab31605a1a1d OUR FATHER IS A KING SAID FELICITY LOFTILY AND PETER'S FATHER WAS ONLY A CRAIG A MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY COULDN'T BEHAVE LIKE THAT IT SEEMED TO ME FOR A MOMENT THAT I WAS GROWING AS LIGHT AS AIR THAT MY FEET WERE DRIFTING OFF THE FLOOR AND THEN AS THE RED LINE OF THE DIAL CAME CLOSER TO THE INDICATED POINT THE FEELING LEFT AND I SUDDENLY SEEMED VERY HEAVY BUT PA'S COUSIN DID DIE REITERATED SARA AUNT JANE USED TO RUB WHISKY ON FOR A PAIN SUGGESTED PETER WE HAVEN'T ANY WHISKY SAID FELICITY DISAPPROVINGLY THIS IS A TEMPERANCE HOUSE +7293a6a4-f57e-4047-8058-1468dbca54e6 ALL THAT WITH GLASS MURMURED HORN WHAT'S HAPPENING HIS STETSON HORN TOUCHED HIS THROAT CONTACT WE'RE JUST INTO THE CITY CLEARING PROCEEDING TOWARD THE NEAREST BUILDING THE STORY GIRL WINKED WITH THE SIGHT OF HER FACE NEXT TO FELIX AND ME BUT THE SIDE NEXT TO THE GIRLS CHANGED NOT A MUSCLE SHE DEARLY LOVED TO TAKE HER EYES OUT OF FELICITY NOW AND THEN INDEED I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE IT WOULD BE HARD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN AN EARTHLY OCCUPUS IN HIS LIVING ROOM IF THE NECESSITY AROSE FARMER REFLECTED FOR THE TENTH TIME BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS IT HAD ALL STARTED WITH JUDGE RAY +72c61323-35f8-4e45-8046-867d6ab9277c BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT AFTER ALL HE WAS A HERO THOUGH OF HIS OWN UNIQUE KIND THERE WAS NO DENYING THAT AND IN HIS OWN WAY HE HAD HIS REWARD HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY THERE HE IS NOW CRIED DAN WAVING EXCITEDLY FROM THE WINDOW HE'S CARRYING A FISH BASKET SAID FELICITY YOU SURELY DON'T SUPPOSE HE WOULD BRING THAT PICTURE IN A FISH BASKET IT WAS THE SAME NIGHT VERY LATE AND AFTER HE HAD BEEN ASLEEP THAT MARSHALL WAS AWAKENED BY THE RING OF AN AUTHORITATIVE VOICE HE WAS BEING HARANGUED BY A FOUR INCH TALL MAN ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE A MAN OF DOMINATING PRESENCE AND ACID VOICE +72e20f87-24e9-4896-b09e-badcf4b0b840 AND THE LAUGH JUST LAUGHED ITSELF BEFORE I COULD HELP IT OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS USUAL HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO HT BEYOND PANDORA BY ROBERT J MARTIN THE BOAT HEAVED WALLOWED AND SANK AFTER A LONG SILENCE HE KNELT AND A CAUTION THAT WAS NOT TOO FAR FROM FEAR +72e7dba0-db0b-4b88-9cb2-30970b078200 FARMER MUDDLED LOOKED AGAIN AT THE NONIFICE WHICH HAD APPARENTLY GONE TO SLEEP EVEN SO IT LOOKED DEADLY THIS PULPIT DOOR WAS MADE FOR SPIRITS AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN MISTER FRUUEN COME AND I THOUGHT OF HER STORY ABOUT HIS SIDE WHISKERS HOW WHEN HIS FIRST WIFE DIED OF INFORMATION OF THE LUNGS HE WENT COURTING CELIA WARD AND CELIA TOLD HIM SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM UNLESS HE SHAVED THEM WHISKERS OFF AND I EVEN IN THESE LATE YEARS OF IRREVERENCE FOR THE DREAMS OF YOUTH AM NOT IN THE LEAST ASHAMED TO CONFESS THAT WHEN I KNELT DOWN TO PRAY MY BOYISH PRAYER I THOUGHT OF OUR LITTLE FAIRY COMRADE IN HIS EXTERN EXTREMITY AND PRAYED AS REVERENTLY AS I KNEW HOW FOR HIS HEALING +72e9f23a-39cf-4913-93a7-4288b9fa998b HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE ITCHED MADDENINGLY ARE THERE MANY PLANETS TO TEACH DO YOU TOO KNOW MANY THINGS ORN IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY THE NONIPUS CREPT FORWARD PONDEROUSLY TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN +73165957-8c54-43a2-b567-4d6bd0d0614b IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW BEFORE YOU EXPLODED YOU WERE BIGGER THAN THE REST OF US AND THAT CAUSED YOU TO BE PROUD AND OVERBEARING FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE THE QUOTES AROUND INTELLIGENT WERE CLEAR IN HIS INTONATION +7331d6ab-dad7-42a0-9e99-f54a65818821 ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST THE DOCTOR LOOKED UP QUIZZICALLY MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION MIGHT EVEN BE OFF THE DELPHINIS GRATSEY WAS ON THE TRAMP WASN'T ON THE TRANSLATED LIST +7344c9e6-331e-44c6-91b8-97f3aecd8702 WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR RETORTED FELICITY IN A TONE WHICH IMPLIED THAT WHAT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT HOW MANY CITIES HAVE THEY WE FOUND TOO YOU HAVE ONE OF THE RIFLES SAID HORN ON THE DELPHINOUS REDISCOVERY +736cac77-b6e2-4bce-8920-2122ac48f360 I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT A CRY WENT UP FROM THE CROWD AS I DROPPED THE IRON AND STAGGERED IN BLIND CIRCLES I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I THREW A LIGHTED MATCH INTO THAT KEG OF GUNPOWDER IN MISTER COOK'S STORE AT MARKDALE SAID PETER WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE +73823466-78ef-4a29-85c2-955734e9d721 YONAS SHRUGGED MENTALLY I SUPPOSE SO HE SAID I LIKE TO WORK ON MY OWN DO MY OWN JOB AND IT'S GOT YOU INTO TROUBLE BEFORE CLARETON SAID BUT YOU CAN'T AFFORD ANY MISTAKES THIS TIME SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER +73c734dc-d3fd-4929-a773-5662e265c9de I DARE SAY IT WASN'T EVEN CLEAN SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WERE ANY NEEDLES IN THAT SAWDUST WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER THE BOAT HEELED ON SHOAL SAND LISTED AND HUNG AGROUND WITH WINDFILLED SAILS HOLDING HER FAST THE SCOOP CAME UP OUT OF THE WATER SO SMOOTHLY THAT THE ISLAND QUEEN HARDLY ROCKED +73ecf063-2c91-424b-90e8-0e10d79c4301 THAT IS ALTOGETHER TOO TEDIOUS A PROCESS FOR A YUKABOO I SENT SOME TRAPS THIS AFTERNOON AND CAUGHT A LOT OF FIELD MICE BUT AS I DO NOT LIKE TO MEET MICE I TRANSFORMED THEM INTO HOT BISCUITS FOR MY SUPPER AT SUNSET FELICITY CECILY AND SARA RAY DAN FELIX AND I WERE IN THE ORCHARD SITTING ON THE COOL GRASSES AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE IN THE WEST WAS A FIELD OF CROCUS SKY OVER WHICH PALE CLOUD BLOSSOMS WERE SCATTERED FELICITY DID A MEAN THING SHE WENT TO WORK AND MADE LITTLE RAISIN PIES RIGHT THERE IN THE KITCHEN BEFORE THE STORY GIRL THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM +7410cc99-0b7e-4c75-aefa-f47b12d533d8 WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP BUT THE WITCH HAPPENED TO OVERHEAR OUR CONVERSATION AND THIS IS THREE YEARS OLD OF HIS FOLLY THAT'S ONLY MY OLD APRON SAID FELICITY I HUNG IT THERE TO DAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT WHITE HEN'S NEST OH WHAT SHALL WE DO AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO BUT CERTAINLY PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND FROGS WERE MORE TUNEFUL AND MELLOW +741484eb-3f13-4816-856c-462ad439ef20 WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING FELICITY SOLD HERS TO UNCLE ALEC'S HIRED MAN AND SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN HER CRY A DOZEN TIMES THEN I'M SURE SHE COULDN'T LIVE IN THAT LITTLE HOUSE SAID WOUT BUT I WOKE UP BEFORE I'D TIME TO FIND OUT IF I WAS KILLED OR NOT TO HEAR HER TELL A DREAM WAS SO GOOD OR AS BAD AS DREAMING IT YOURSELF +741aad24-e954-4f8a-aaf4-9bbcda5b164d AND TRIED TO GET FROM HIM WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK BUT THEY PUT AN ENCANTO ON ME AND MADE ME THE FIRST SHIPS TO ENTERTER HYPERSPACE HAD NO PLACE TO GO AND NO WAY EVEN TO TELL IF THEY HAD MOVED THE OTHERS CAME RUNNING GRANDFATHER KING WAS IN NO HURRY HE DID NOT SET HIS WHOLE ORCHARD OUT AT ONCE FOR HE WISHED IT TO GROW WITH HIS LIFE AND HISTORY AND BE BOUND UP WITH ALL OF GOOD AND JOY THAT SHOULD COME TO HIS HOUSEHOLD AND I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT WHAT A DREADFUL THING IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING HAD NEVER GOT MARRIED TO EACH OTHER +741b3bce-161e-4021-b229-e5e34011a67d THE QUESTION WAS HE TOLD HIMSELF EXACTLY WHAT WERE THE INQUISITOR'S REAL BELIEFS HIS PUBLIC PROFESSIONS WERE WELL KNOWN YONAS SEARCHED AND FOUND THE ANSWER WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT WHISPERED CECILY WELL WE COULD HAVE A JOLLY FUNERAL YOU KNOW SAID DAN WAS THE WITCH OR THE FAIRY OR WHATEVER SHE WAS AN OLD PERSON WITH WRINKLED SKIN AND HALF HER TEETH GONE INQUIRED THE DIN OWL +741e8ceb-372d-4406-bd1a-91d657d924a1 PERHAPS PIGS MAY WHISTLE BUT THEY'VE POOR MOUTHS FOR IT WAS ALL THE ANSWER PETER GAINED TO THIS CHARMING SUGGESTION THERE GOES MISTER CAMPBELL DOWN THE ROAD SAID DAN THAT'S HIS NEW MARE ISN'T SHE A DANDY SHE'S GOT A SKIN LIKE BLACK SATIN HE CALLS HER BETTY SHERMAN I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY NICE TO CALL A HORSE AFTER YOUR OWN GRANDMOTHER SAID FELICITY BETTY SHERWIN WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT A COMPLIMENT SAID THE STORY GIRL MAYBE SHE WOULD SHE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN VERY NICE HERSELF OR SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE GONE AND ASKED A MAN TO MARRY HER SAID FELICITY THERE IS NO MORE SAID THE STORY GIRL THAT WAS THE END OF IT THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR MARGARET IT DIDN'T KILL HER BUT HER HEART DIED I JUST WISH I'D HOLD OF THOSE FELLOWS WHO WOULDN'T LET THE CAPTAIN TAKE HIS WIFE SAID PETER SAVAGELY WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING IT WAS NOT OUR STORY GIRL WHO SAT THERE TELLING THAT WEIRD TALE IN A SIBILANT CURDLING VOICE SHE HAD PUT ON A NEW PERSONALITY LIKE A GARMENT AND THAT PERSONALITY WAS A VENOMOUS EVIL LOATHLY THING I WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN HAVE TOUCHED THE SLIM BROWN WRIST ON WHICH SHE SUPPORTED HERSELF +7427b3a0-daf9-4577-a8cc-a4ef4f57a7c2 WE KNEW ONLY THAT A COUSIN IN THE END HE DECIDED TO SEND US TO UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS STANDING THERE ON THE DECK BESIDE ME RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE SO THAT'S WHY YOUR SAILS BELLIED BACKWARD WHEN YOU CAME INTO HARBOR WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED +74486ac4-07d8-4057-8c88-615a9c6f9b05 AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER NOR WERE WE THE ONLY VICTIMS I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME AM GOING RIGHT OVER TO TELL THE STORY GIRL SAID CECILY WON'T SHE BE EXCITED AT LAST OUR SLUMBERS WERE PEACEFUL AND UNDISTURBED UNTIL OUR ORGY OF DREAMING BEGAN +747fb564-8b4b-4489-9517-a5af3dbbd4cf NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE HE WENT ON LOOKING AT HIS HANDS THERE WAS BITTERNESS IN HIS MIND BITTERNESS THAT HE CHANGED TO HATE THEY ARE PLEASED TEND TO BE EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE I DO NOT PLEAD YONAS POINTED OUT IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I COME TO SEE YOU THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT HE PICKED HIS WAY CAUTIOUSLY HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST HE REMEMBERED THE RUSSIAN REPORTS OF THE WEIRD AND DEADLY CREATURES THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED IN THE MARTIAN DESERTS BUT ASIDE FROM A FEW GREY PATCHES OF BRUSH THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SIGNS OF LIFE SARA RAY IS DREADFULLY SCARED OF HER PETER CRAIG SAYS SHE IS A WITCH AND THAT HE BETS SHE'S AT THE BOTTOM OF IT WHEN THE BUTTER WON'T COME BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WITCHES ARE SO SCARCE NOWADAYS +74859eec-e5dd-4dff-b40f-7dae622cf5dc HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED IN SKIPPED OPENED HIS MOUTH ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY BOTH OF AGLEIA'S ARMS WERE HELD FAST TO HER SIDES BY GLECON'S ARMS DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL WASN'T THE MISSIONARY SPLENDID THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND +74a92f30-be1c-4609-9f80-c69998baa9be VIC HAD SAID IN HIS NOTE THAT HE WOULD LEAVE ANOTHER NOTE FOR ME HERE AND THIS WAS IT FOR IN A BOLD SCRAWL AT THE TOP WAS MY NAME THE UNGODLY HOUR OF TRANSMISSION NATURALLY WAS SET TO COINCIDE WITH THE CLOSING OF THE CONSUL'S FIELD OFFICE HALF WAY AROUND THE PLANET SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING +74e3ca9c-5bec-46ab-b7ef-a7b0d0d8e614 TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE I WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL SECRETLY WORRIED BECAUSE I DID NOT GROW I HAD OVERHEARD AUNT JANET SAY I WAS GOING TO BE SHORT LIKE UNCLE ALEC +74f4ca25-54a5-4060-b68d-e0833768d6ac THE FIRST THING THEY HAD LOCATE IS THE BURNING SHIP HE DECIDED THEN THEY WOULD PROBABLY START SEARCHING IN EVER WIDENING CIRCLES BUT WOULD THEY SEE HIM IN THE FAINT LIGHT OF THE ICE MOONS AS WE STOOD THERE WRETCHEDLY WE HEARD FLYING FEET BELOW AND A BLITHE VOICE CALLING WHERE ARE YOU CHILDREN THE STORY GIRL HAD RETURNED AT ANY OTHER MOMENT WE WOULD HAVE RUSHED TO MEET HER IN WILD JOY BUT NOW WE WERE TOO CRUSHED AND MISERABLE TO MOVE UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX WELL I SUPPOSE THE FIRE IS ON ANYHOW FOR THE STORY GIRL IS UP I GUESS SHE GOT UP EARLY TO KNEAD THE BREAD SHE COULDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT FOR WORRYING OVER IT THE FIRE WAS ON AND A FLUSHED AND TRIUMPHANT STORY GIRL WAS TAKING A LOAF OF BREAD FROM THE OVEN +74ff8a65-1f72-472f-87d1-1806b8490dc6 PETER STIFFENED UP AND SAT AT ATTENTION DURING THE SERVICE NOBODY COULD HAVE BEHAVED BETTER BUT WHEN THE SERMON WAS OVER AND THE COLLECTION WAS BEING TAKEN UP HE MADE THE SENSATION WHICH HIS ENTRANCE HAD NOT PRODUCED THE GRAY FIRST CAME IN GRANDMOTHER'S BROWN HAIR IN THOSE MONTHS OF WAITING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ORCHARD HEARD THE SOUND OF WEEPING AND WAS CONSECRATED BY SORROW A QUEEN OF HEARTS I WAKENED SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE THE BOYS ALL THINK SO SAID THE STORY GIRL NOT I FANCIED QUITE WELL PLEASED AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS SHE IS A SPLENDID COOK TOO THOUGH SHE IS ONLY TWELVE +7500f321-df2c-4532-a512-2a9df21dfe55 NOW HE'S GONE OFF MAD SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY OH FELICITY WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE HELD YOUR TONGUE WHY WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE CUCUMBERS ARE INDIGESTIBLE BUT I NEVER KNEW OF THEM MAKING ANY ONE AS SICK AS THIS SHE SAID ANXIOUSLY WHAT MADE THE CHILD EAT A CUCUMBER BEFORE GOING TO BED I DIDN'T THINK SHE LIKED THEM +75539ad7-e821-4e24-b03e-564c0dd423e6 I HAVE A FLEET OF EXPENSIVE SHIPS THAT ARE EQUIPPED TO DO ALMOST ANYTHING MANNED BY A BUNCH OF IRRESPONSIBLES LIKE YOU I NODDED MOODILY AT HIS POINTING FINGER HOW I WISH I COULD FIRE YOU ALL DEAR SORROWFUL LITTLE PEOPLE I BRING YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY SHE SAID THE DOCTOR HAS JUST BEEN HERE AND HE FINDS PETER MUCH BETTER AND THINKS HE WILL PULL THROUGH AFTER ALL HE SWUNG TO FACE THE MONSTER WITH A SICK FEELING IN HIS STOMACH AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING GAR'S EXPLANATIONS IT SEEMED ONLY COMPOUNDED THE CONFUSION CAUSED BY HIS PRESENCE +75548c36-7ffa-4f4e-99aa-d2aff4e33030 IT WAS ALREADY LIKE A WONDERFUL VELVET CARPET DO YOU KNOW FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE I FELT EXACTLY LIKE A SNAKE BUT THEY FISHED IT UP NOT HURT A BIT EXCEPT FOR THAT LITTLE NICK IN THE RIM PETER WENT EVERYWHERE WITH US NOW HE WAS A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE HIS BEHAVIOR WAS AS IRREPROACHABLE AS IF HE HAD BEEN RAISED IN THE CASE OF VERE DE VERE IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY +7555f00f-5518-4b09-8f86-dba39135c97c A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN AND IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE MAN WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING BUT THERE WERE OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA OF A GENUS LESS CERTAIN +755625ab-1ee9-48f8-86be-c44190b314e6 IT STILL MADE SENSE SEE THOSE HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE WHY JUST THE THING HE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE HE TOOK BETTY AT HER WORD ON THE SPOT AND THERE WAS A DOUBLE WEDDING SOON AFTER AND IT IS SAID THAT NEIL AND BETTY WERE THE HAPPIEST COUPLE IN THE WORLD I SHOOK HIS HAND ENTHUSIASTICALLY AT THIS POINT AND LET ONE HUNDRED CREDIT NOTES SLIP INTO HIS PALM +757aced6-1e72-450a-81f6-9fd794879a02 FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD NO WIZARD COULD PRAY SO THE INQUISITION SAID SO KUV SAID SNODKNUFF HAD TO SAY AND SO HE HAD TO BELIEVE WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO ANALYZE THE VAGUE SENSATION IT WILL BE RATHER HARD FOR ME YOU MUST ADMIT WHEN I CONFESS TO NINNIE AND ME THAT I HAVE COME TO MARRY HER BECAUSE IT IS MY DUTY TO DO SO AND THEREFORE THE FEWER WITNESSES THERE ARE TO OUR MEETING THE BETTER FOR BOTH OF US +757d9d75-59e5-49ab-82d5-64d70d71d054 AUNT JANET ON THE CONTRARY GAVE US SO MUCH GOOD ADVICE AND WAS SO CONSTANTLY TELLING US TO DO THIS OR NOT TO DO THE OTHER THING THAT WE COULD NOT REMEMBER HALF OF HER INSTRUCTIONS AND DID NOT TRY I THINK I'LL WRAP IT UP AND KEEP IT IN MY BOX HE SAID I'VE AN OLD BIBLE OF AUNT JANE'S AT HOME THAT I CAN USE I SUPPOSE IT'S JUST THE SAME EVEN IF IT'S OLD ISN'T IT OH YES CECILY HAD ASSURED HIM THE BIBLE IS ALWAYS THE SAME SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH CONTENTS SAWDUST NOT INTENDED FOR PUDDINGS +75e3342c-e4dc-421a-bc75-29516de9b4ef THE BEACONS MUST OPERATE I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ONE OF THE PRIESTS VIOLATED THE TEMPLE AND DESTROYED THE HOLY WATERS HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THEIR MUSIC ECHOED ONLY ALONG THE HIDDEN WAYS OF LIFE AND SERVED BUT TO LIGHTEN THE CARES OF THE TRIVIAL ROUND AND COMMON TASK +75fb59d4-0686-44a3-b4e6-12c2d3ebc32e SHINING IN MEMORY WITH A SOFT GLOW OF BEAUTY AND BY THE TIME AUNT JANET CAME IN WE WERE ALL IN OUR RESPECTIVE BEDS I HAD MY VICTORY ALL RIGHT I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS ONE OF THE YOUNG BRAVES WAS NAMED A KATY +7613124a-2752-4935-aa11-5a916c5014ae NONE COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION THEY SAT AROUND THE CAGE BROODING OVER THE PROBLEM UNTIL THE MONKEY FELL ASLEEP SEEING THIS THE CANARY TUCKED HER HEAD UNDER HER WING AND ALSO SLEPT AND THE TIN OWL AND THE BROWN BEAR DID NOT DISTURB THEM UNTIL MORNING CAME AND IT WAS BROAD DAYLIGHT HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY RATHER IT WAS A SLANG EXPRESSION REFERRING TO A MAJOR ADVANCE IN INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL DUE TO A MAXIMUM SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EFFORT LET EM HAVE MARS AND VENUS THE COLONEL WOULD SAY LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP BLAKE FROG AHEAD OF EM WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM HE HAD TALKED SO MUCH TO US ABOUT IT AND DESCRIBED ITS SCENES SO OFTEN AND SO MINUTELY THAT HE HAD INSPIRED US WITH SOME OF HIS OWN DEEP SEATED AFFECTION FOR IT AN AFFECTION THAT HAD NEVER WANED IN ALL HIS YEARS OF EXILE WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT +763a808f-9f00-4646-97b7-57e5c7773028 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME YOU CAN REPENT AFTERWARDS BUT THERE IS NO USE IN MIXING THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER I'M NOT REPENTING PROTESTED SARA I'M ONLY SCARED OF MA FINDING IT OUT OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I AM UNDER NO COMPULSION TO LISTEN TO YOU KENUFF SAID AFTER A PAUSE +7663d1fd-95a7-45fa-96db-1bde983a0ac9 HIGHLY POLISHED REFLECTOR POINTING INWARD AND DOWNWARD IN A MOMENT I NODDED AND VIC BEING A GOOD SCOUT THAT HE WAS IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR THE BOY IS MADE OF MEAT WHICH NEITHER RESTS NOR GETS SOGGY OR MOULDY GIVE HIM COURAGE NOT TO FEAR THE FACE OF MAN BUT NOW I DO NOT THINK SHE EITHER NEEDED OUR PITY OR DESERVED OUR ADMIRATION +768180cf-0b4d-4b62-b164-dd729c414d35 DO YOU KNOW WHY I WAS PUT HERE YOU CAST SPELLS YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THAT'S RIGHT YONA SAID SMILING AGAIN I'M A WIZARD A WARLUCK THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY ISN'T IT YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THE BOLD MAN SAID BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER I'M MATTER AND YOU'RE MATTER WHY DON'T WE BUMP INTO THINGS IN THE LAND OF OZ REPLIED THE EMPEROR NO ONE CAN EVER BE KILLED +7682bda2-a913-4ead-b156-1eac990aa90a PETER HOWEVER HAD SLEPT SOUNDLY ENOUGH AFTER TWELVE O'CLOCK SHE INCREASED OUR UNEASINESS BY SAYING THAT HER MOTHER BELIEVED THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH AND WAS AFRAID THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WAS REALLY AT HAND SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND I AM RESOLVED NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO THINK CAREFULLY FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW MARSHAL DON'T ASK THE LITTLE BUG SO MANY QUESTIONS DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM HOW DO YOU KNOW MARSHALL +7684ba76-d9bd-448d-9847-e61e3138acf4 BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP KNOW THAT MEANS REINART IT'S WASTE A ROCKET FUEL TOTALING AROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERE HE MUTTERED THEIR MINDS WERE VERY VERY BORING AND QUITE BLANK HYRCUFF YUNUS REFLECTED MIGHT BE A DEFINITE RELIEF THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF AND I LOST PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY BY DEGREES +768a21d8-05d1-49ea-b737-cc38e08d8e56 FELIX CAME TEARING UP THE LANE WITH A NEWSPAPER IN HIS HAND ONLY IF TO MORROW IS THE LAST DAY THE CHERRY VARNS WON'T BE MUCH USE TO YOU SHE'S SACRIFICED HER DEAR FORGET ME NOT JUG TO SATISFY SOME PANG OF CONSCIENCE OR PROPITIATE SOME THREATENING FATE BUT SURRENDER HER PRECIOUS SHERRY VASE SHE COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT HE HAD A RETENTIVE MEMORY AND THE BRIDGE THEY HAD BUILT SPANNED THE GULF BETWEEN THEIR STARS OF EXILE LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER +768e5aac-cd0d-4668-9828-cc9c66dbeb16 GOOD KID SAID VIC AND I PRESSED HER HAND AS COMFORTABLY AS I COULD WE TURNED A BEND IN THE LONG RAMP WE HAD BEEN CLIMBING AND CAME OUT UPON THE VAST LEVEL TOP OF THE BUILDING HOW ABOUT AUNT OLIVIA NO AUNT OLIVIA HAS GONE TO BED WITH A SICK HEADACHE AND MUSTN'T BE DISTURBED SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE YOUR CARD POPPED OUT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE DEPENDABLE AND EXPENDABLE HEY THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP +76a7f2c1-6c04-463b-aee9-4f3e89b92226 YOU SHOULDN'T SPEAK OF THE DEVIL SAID FELICITY RATHER SHOCKED WELL THAT'S JUST WHAT MISTER SCOTT SAID OH IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR A MINISTER TO SPEAK OF HIM BUT IT ISN'T NICE FOR LITTLE GIRLS IT WOULD BE AWFUL SPLENDID AND EXCITING TO HAVE A WEDDING TO THE FAMILY WOULDN'T IT SAID CECILY I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY ONE MARRIED AND I JUST LOVE TO I'VE BEEN TO FOUR FUNERALS BUT NOT TO ONE SINGLE WEDDING I'VE NEVER EVEN GOT TO A FUNERAL SAID SARA RAY GLOOMILY CLIMB UP THEN WAS THE REPLY AND WHEN THE BOY WAS PERCHED UPON THE TIN SHOULDERS OF NICK CHOPPER HE WAS JUST ABLE TO REACH THE LATCH AND RAISE IT +76b0a6ca-04fe-4dec-81e6-010158e83f48 THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD HER CURLS STREAMING BEHIND HER IN A GOLDEN CLOUD WHO KNEW WHAT SORT OF A RECEPTION WE MIGHT MEET SHE'S A PARTICULAR FRIEND OF MINE SAID CECILY WITH DIGNITY WE HAVE HER EARN EVERYTHING AND IT WOULD HURT HER FEELINGS DREADFULLY TO BE LAUGHED AT THIS BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY HE IGNORED THE INEVITABLE GLORY OF MORNING RAINBOW THAT JUST PRECEDED PROCYON'S RISING +76dd9fc9-f13d-41a5-982d-972667120a4c BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN I NEED MY EYES TO SEE AND MEND THE FOUNT OF HOLY WATERS BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN I HELD OUT BOTH HANDS TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE EMPTY TRYING TO EXPRESS MY WILLINGNESS TO BE FRIENDS +76e8b9fa-bce2-4a3a-8c80-3d57323b0084 SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK AND IT'S IN THE PAPER TOO AND THAT'S PRINTED AS WELL AS THE BIBLE SAID DAN DIDN'T SEE HER OF COURSE MISSUS RAY MET ME AT THE DOOR AND TOLD ME NOT TO COME IN BUT MISSUS RAY SAYS THE MEASLES GO AWFUL HARD WITH THE RAYS IF THEY DON'T DIE COMPLETELY OF THEM IT LEAVES THEM DEAF OR BLIND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY SUPPOSE CHILDREN CAN'T UNDERSTAND SUCH THINGS HIS FACE WAS ROSY HIS THICK BLACK CURLS WERE SMOOTHLY COMBED +770b15d5-c25d-4ca5-9dc1-058d044aab2e IN SPITE OF HER DISASTER WITH THE BREAD THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TAKING COOKING LESSONS FROM FELICITY ALL THE WEEK AND GETTING ON TOLERABLY WELL ALTHOUGH MINDFUL OF HER FORMER MISTAKE SHE NEVER VENTURED ON ANYTHING WITHOUT FELICITY'S APPROVAL I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THESE SHARP PAINS I'VE BEEN FEELING EVER SINCE DINNER MEANT JUST MADE CONTACT WITH THE MOB A THIN BLACK INSECT WITH SHELL LIKE WINGS FLEW IN ORAN'S PORT SLOWLY HIS MIND OPENED AND BECAME PERCEPTIVE THE PRAYER HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE SMOKY ROOM YONAH SLIPPED IN +7717ea4d-9900-4555-a05c-ac1ccfd2c4dd DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS ALL THE DOUBTS I HAD DISMISSED FOUGHT FOR ATTENTION IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED SOFT AND ENVELOPING BEHIND ME FOR I WAS FACING THE MULTITUDE IT WAS VERY LARGE AND HEAVY AND FELICITY GENERALLY SAID HARD THINGS OF IT WHEN SHE SWEPT THE KITCHEN ONE COLD WINTER DAY EIGHTY YEARS AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL WITHOUT FURTHER PARLEY +77605e49-f171-4fee-918c-aa973ea95f5a THE RAIN WAS WEEPING ON THE ROOF AS IF IT WERE SHEDDING THE TEARS OF OLD SORROWS NO HE DIDN'T SAID THE STORY GIRL QUICKLY DEVILTREE ISN'T SWEARING AT ALL IT ONLY MEANS EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF THIS SUPERSTRUCTURE OBVIOUSLY JUST TACKED ON TO THE PLANS GETS THROWN AWAY AND TURRETS TAKE ITS PLACE THE HULLS ARE IDENTICAL A CHANGE HERE A SHIFT THERE AND THE STODGY FRATER BECOMES THE FAST BATTLE WAGON AND CACLIP HAD A GREY BEARD THAT WAS ALMOST AS LONG AS HIS APRON THIS WAS THE SOURCE OF CONSTANT INTEREST TO LITTLE DOROTHY +77c89c70-fa53-4ddc-a746-ec4a98dd3e12 AND AUNT JANET SHE MUST HAVE FELT GREAT RELIEF WHEN SHE REACHED CHARLOTTETOWN THE STORY GIRL HAD A GRUESOME RECOLLECTION OF SOME BABY AT MARKDALE WHO HAD WANDERED AWAY LIKE THAT AND THEY NEVER FOUND HIM TILL THE NEXT SPRING AND ALL THEY FOUND WAS FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT YOU'VE NO PARTICULAR CALL TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS EACH WEARING A SIMILAR JEWEL OF AUTHORITY +783e6afa-12d6-4a39-b153-5727502f366c THE BEACON WAS STILL THERE WE CAN ATTACH THAT BANK ACCOUNT OF YOURS ON ALL GALL TOO LONG BEFORE YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY OUT THE BIG WILLOW BY THE GATE WAS A SPLENDID GOLDEN DOME AND THE MAPLES THAT WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE SPRUCE GROVE WAVED BLOOD RED BANNERS OVER THE SOMBRE CONE BEARERS MINGLED WITH THE WOODSY ODOURS OF THE WITHERING GRASSES THERE IN THE GREEN BOWER OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL AND EVEN THE PARTS THAT SHOULD BE THERE SEEM WRONG SOMEHOW +78508b10-c322-4982-a903-7745150397f1 PETER GAVE A LITTLE YELL OF PURE TERROR WE TURNED AND FLED ACROSS THE CLEARING AND INTO THE WOODS DOWN THE LONG HILL WE TORE LIKE MAD HUNTED CREATURES FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT PEG BOWEN WAS AFTER US FELIX AND PETER AND I WERE REQUIRED TO HELP UNCLE ROGER AND SOME CARPENTERING WORK THAT DAY AND FELICITY INDULGED IN ONE OF THE HOUSE CLEANING ORGIES SO DEAR TO HER SOUL SO THAT IT WAS EVENING BEFORE WE WERE ALL FREE TO MEET IN THE ORCHARD AND THE LAW ON THE GRASSES OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK SHE WAS SAID THE GIANTESS BUT NOW SHE'S A CANARY BIRD ONE DAY AFTER RAIN POLYCHROME DANCED OFF THE RAINBOW AND FELL ASLEEP ON A LITTLE MOUND IN THIS VALLEY NOT FAR FROM MY CASTLE +7891c6aa-0825-4490-b259-d08a2205a453 BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FARMER'S HAYMAKER CONNECTED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL FILM THE WRITING IS SO SMALL ASKED THE MAD MIDGET TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS HE HAD SMALL ALMOST HIDDEN EYES THAT SEEMED TO SEE A GREAT DEAL THAT FAILED COMPLETELY TO MAKE A FUSS ABOUT THE FACT +78d4ee1d-fce9-4973-8004-b4eff1edb77a RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT AND I'M GOING TO WORK BUTTONHOLES ALL OVER THIS COTTON I HATE WORKING BUTTONHOLES WORSE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD SO I'M GOING TO WORK THEM ALL DAY WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY WITH THAT HE UNTIED NEIL'S HORSE CLIMBED INTO NEIL'S SLEIGH AND TUCKED NEIL'S BUFFALO ROBE ABOUT HIM NOW BEST OLD GIRL DO YOUR BONNIEST HE SAID THERE'S MORE THAN YOU KNOW HANGS ON YOUR SPEED IF THE CAMPBELL WAKES TOO SOON BLACK DAN COULD SHOW YOU A PAIR OF CLEAN HEELS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD START ON MY GIRL +78e290f3-2a15-436a-a83d-5555d647f9e7 THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND RESUMED HER WORK ANY EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF AS IN ALL HISTORY I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR IT WASN'T EVEN A RESPECTABLE ORDINARY LOOKING OCCUPANT +7949b4bf-0e41-41db-bb9b-58e83ecf03a3 BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY IT BLEW UP AND EVERYTHING BLEW UP TRYING TO TRAP AND KILL THEM WITH NO WEAPONS BEYOND HIS BARE HANDS EVEN AN EATING KNIFE HE HAD CARRIED IN HIS JERKIN HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY LEAVING HIM TO THE UNCOMFORTABLE REFLECTION THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO DINE WITH HIS FINGERS WAS A PASTIME THAT OCCUPIED HIM FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON THE FIRST DAY AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO STOP HIM HE'S BOUND TO FIGHT THAT'S MY WAY OF LOOKING AT IT THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY +79d375b1-c7d3-43a0-acae-a26eaac98435 SO EVERY KING WENT TO WAR TO PROVE THAT HE COULD CONQUER EVERYONE ELSE SHE WAS FULL OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS AND WARNINGS WE WERE SITTING ON THE CELL HATCH WATCHING WHAT MIGHT BE OUR LAST SUNSET OVER THE DARK HILLS OF TIME ANDREMA SAID A SIMPLY DREADFUL THING ABOUT THE OTHER PLACE ONE NIGHT LAST FALL WHEN FELICITY AND I WERE DOWN TO SEE KITTY AND THEY WERE BURNING THE POTATO STALKS WELL I'D LIKE A MAN WHO COULD MOVE AROUND WITHOUT FALLING OVER HIS OWN FEET SAID FELICITY BUT I'M GOING TO DO THE BEST I CAN ANYHOW YOUR AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I CAN HAVE THE JOB OF GATHERIN THE EGGS AND I'M TO HAVE ONE EGG OUT OF EVERY DOZEN TO SELL FOR MYSELF +79f5a101-85f0-4948-bc2d-6315c27c2e15 BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL WHEN THE SIREN SCREAMED THE CREW SECURED SHIP AND BLASTED OFF BEFORE I HAD FINISHED READING REPORT A PLAN WAS BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE IN MY HEAD BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT IF THERE HAD BEEN ONE WISE OLDER FRIEND TO TELL US IN SERIOUS FASHION THAT WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID +7a002367-ae8d-456f-ae96-ceabb580cf2a WE WERE ALL UP EARLY NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES PETER HOWEVER HAD SLEPT SOUNDLY ENOUGH AFTER TWELVE O'CLOCK WHEN YOU'VE BEEN STUMPING OUT ELDERBERRIES ALL AFTERNOON IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN THE JUDGMENT DAY TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ALL NIGHT HE SAID WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING IT WAS JUST AWFUL I FORGOT IT FOR A MOMENT THEN ALL CAME BACK WITH A RUSH THAT WAS WORSE SCARED THAN BEFORE YOU MUST ATTEND TO THE PUDDING YOURSELF SHE SAID THE RECIPE'S SO PLAIN AND SIMPLE EVEN YOU CAN'T GO ASTRAY AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN ASK ME BUT DON'T BOTHER ME IF YOU CAN HELP IT THE STORY GIRL DID NOT BOTHER HER MONTHS THE PUDDING WAS CONCOCTED AND BAKED AS THE STORY GIRL PROUDLY INFORMED US WHEN WE CAME TO THE DINNER TABLE ALL ON HER OWN HOOK SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY WE LOOKED AT HER WITH A SLIGHTLY INCREDULOUS AWE TO US IN THOSE YEARS EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON +7a11f077-f51d-4243-96b8-e5a487d69b80 AND AS I TOOK MY FIRST STEP THERE MATERIALIZED SUDDENLY OUT OF THE THIN AND ILL SMELLING AIR FIGURES OF PERHAPS A DOZEN MONSTROUS CREATURES HE WAS NOT ANGRY IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE MAKE THEM REEL FAST THEN I'M ON MY WAY WHO IS CENSUS CHIEF NOW I SHOULD EAT SO LATE +7a2681da-c696-4d68-924a-41c95304ad6a CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE DAMN IT ARE WE GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN OLD CHARLIE MACK'S ISLAND QUEEN HAD VEERED SHARPLY OFF COURSE PRESENTLY MISTER CAMPBELL HIMSELF WAS STANDING IN THE DOORWAY LOOKING US OVER THE NEXT DAY BEING SATURDAY WE STARTED OUT IN THE AFTERNOON +7a414efb-4648-4f57-885c-91798633f31a IN THE EAST ABOVE THE MAPLE WOODS WAS A SILVERY SHEEN THAT HINTED THE MOONRISE BUT THE ORCHARD WAS A PLACE OF SHADOWS AND MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS MIDWAY UP THE OPEN SPACE IN ITS HEART WE MET PETER AND IF EVER A BOY WAS GIVEN OVER TO SHEER TERROR THAT BOY WAS PETER ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN +7a5c9f96-0b96-4641-9f95-05ddfaa3c48d FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER WE HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH THE MAPLE WOODS TO THE EXTREME END OF UNCLE ROGER'S FARM A PRETTY WALK THROUGH A WORLD OF GREEN WHISPERING BOUGHS AND SPICED SWEET FERNS AND SHIFTING PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT WHICH WASN'T STRICTLY TRUE THE BIG EARTH MAN WAS CUTE SHE THOUGHT AND IT WAS QUAINT OF HIM TO BE IN LOVE WITH HER AND TO TELL HER SO EVERY DAY OVER THE RADIO BELT INTO THE ROBOT NONIPUS I WON'T BORE YOU WITH ALL THE DETAILS SEEM YOU SEEM IMPATIENT BUT EVENTUALLY I TURNED UP THIS PLAN HE HAD IT OUT OF MY FINGERS BEFORE IT CLEANSED MY WALLET +7a76c2af-a500-4752-9ad5-df27e0a22282 DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF TWILL BE A MATCH NOW FOR I SUPPOSE SOMETHING DREADFUL WILL COME OF IT TOO I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY SAID PETER RATHER WISTFULLY I OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT +7a8edc29-b3d0-4d85-a095-c943ea1d9ee6 MISSUS PARIN HAD JUST TOLD HER ABOUT THE MASTER AND MISS OAK LOOKS INTO HIS ROOM HE ISN'T THERE AND THE BED HASN'T BEEN SLEPT IN THE POOR DEAR SHE SAYS HE'S WORKED HIMSELF HALF TO DEATH AND DROPPED OFF ON THAT HORRIBLE CART HE KEEPS IN HIS LABORATORY SAYS MISS HOPE I'LL LET HIM SLEEP THE STORY GIRL HAD A GRUESOME RECOLLECTION OF SOME BABY AT MARKDALE WHO HAD WANDERED AWAY LIKE THAT AND THEY NEVER FOUND HIM TILL THE NEXT SPRING AND ALL THEY FOUND WAS HIS SKELETON WITH THE GRASS GROWING THROUGH IT SHE WHISPERED THAT BEATS ME SAID UNCLE ROGER WHEN A FRUITLESS HOUR HAD ELAPSED BEGONE O FAITHFUL STEED I SAID TO THE EYE AND PRESSED THE CONTROL IN MY PALM AT THE SAME TIME IT TOOK OFF STRAIGHT UP A BIT FASTER THAN I WANTED LITTLE PIECES OF WIND TORN PLASTIC RAINED DOWN +7aab3e18-00bf-48a3-bf45-430088ee8bcc MISSUS RAY ALWAYS LOOKS ON THE DARK SIDE AND IT MAY NOT BE THE MEASLES SARA HAS AFTER ALL SHE SAID YESTERDAY YOU CAN GO ANOTHER THOUGHT RAN THROUGH HIS MIND INDICATING THAT THE SESSION WAS ENDING I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LESS THAN A BOLT OF BARBED LIGHTNING THE GATE'LL STAY OPEN NOW UNTIL IT'S CLOSED FROM OUR SIDE +7aaf6254-8326-4d92-94b7-69d5a7f46f4c SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS I WAS STILL TEASED AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A SHIP THIS LARGE COULD BE USED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD ARRIVED WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED MADAM HE SAID I WISH TO KNOW IF THERE BE ANY FAMILY IN THIS TOWN TO GIVE ROOM TO A WAYFARER THE OLD WOMAN STILL CLUTCHING HER COIN DISAPPEARED FROM THE WINDOW AS IF SOMEONE HAD YANKED HER BACK +7b05db4f-ad3c-43cd-a9ff-9f411c02ca89 IS IT WE GOING OVER THE BAY THE NIGHT NEIL DIDN'T WANT MUCH PERSUASION I'VE BEEN TO FOUR FUNERALS BUT NOT TO ONE SINGLE WEDDING DON'T SEEM TO STAND STRAIGHT SOMEHOW BUT MY JOINTS ALL WORK SO I GUESS I CAN WALK CLOSING THEIR PERCEPTION AGAINST THE ZID'S DISTRACTING RAGINGS THEY SET TO WORK WITH PERFECT CO ORDINATION +7b0e9883-b0f4-41b0-8188-e7d238a9049b ANY MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WIZARD WILL HAVE HIS MIND SEEN BY THE INQUISITOR AND SINCE THERE ARE NO WIZARDS AT LEAST NONE WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRIALS WILL CEASE YONAS FINISHED AND THE BROTHERHOOD HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER CLTON SAID A MEMBER WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES THERE WILL BE NO LOSS TO EITHER FACTION NO LOSS JONIFER REPEATED INDIGNANTLY +7b319486-97d2-49c7-98a0-5c9c2041c468 THERE'S A GREAT BIG PATCH ON HIS BEST PAIR OF TROUSERS PROTESTED FELICITY WELL THAT'S BETTER THAN A HOLE SAID THE STORY GIRL ADDRESSING HERSELF DAINTILY TO HER TURNOVER GOD WON'T NOTICE THE PATCH WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE CREW OF THE DELPHINIS THEY ARE SLAVES SAID TENUBE THOSE WHO STILL LIVE SOME RESISTED OTHERS OBJECTED TO TEACHING US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW HE WAVED HIS GUN MUZZLE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PREACH ON ASKED FELIX YOU'LL FIND OUT NEXT SUNDAY SAID PETER SIGNIFICANTLY NOBODY IS PRETTY AS YOU WILL EVER BE AN OLD MAID FELICITY SAID PETER WHO NEVER PUT TOO FINE AN EDGE ON HIS COMPLIMENTS +7b548fea-0ae2-44bf-a687-00561f0eb3f4 HE WAS THINKING OF HER AS HE PLAYED ANNIE LAURIE FOR NANCY WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE LADY OF THE SONG NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN IT BUT IT BECAME THE STORY GIRL PERFECTLY FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT A FIRE WARNING INDICATOR LIGHT BLINKED ON INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION YOU MUST HAVE IMAGINED IT PETER OR ELSE UNCLE ROGER IS TRYING TO FOOL US YOUR UNCLE ROGER WENT TO MARKDDVILLE RIGHT AFTER MILKING SAID PETER HE LOCKED UP THE HOUSE AND GAVE ME THE KEY +7b62b803-743c-49f9-9ad2-59226a5e1020 THE WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN HAD TURNED INTO YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY FOR COAXING SARA TO DISOBEY HER MOTHER SHE ANNOUNCED WITH CHASTENED TRIUMPH ACTUALLY IT SHOWED THE SHARPEST DECLINE ONLY PEOPLE WHEN THE FINAL COUNT WAS IN +7b68b237-cb95-4462-b138-462170eaaa27 TO NEWBE SHIFTED BEHIND ORAN KEEP AN EYE ON THEM BUT DON'T IGNORE THE OTHER SECTORS SAID STETSON THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP A SPARK FLASHED IN MISTER CAMPBELL'S BLACK EYES NANCY DIDN'T SAY SHE WOULD HAVE HIM SHE JUST LOOKED IT AND DONALD KISSED HER RIGHT THERE IN THE SNOW +7b7787c5-464a-4f55-a415-d76c5bc976b8 HIGH PLANES DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE GAINING POPULATION IN THE NATION EXCEPT THAT IT HAS NO TREES WORTHY OF THE NAME THEY PORED OVER THE ETIQUETTE COLUMN EVERY WEEK AND COULD HAVE TOLD YOU ON DEMAND JUST EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF GLOVES SHOULD BE WORN AT A WEDDING WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY WHEN INTRODUCING OR BEING INTRODUCED AND HOW YOU OUGHT TO LOOK WHEN YOUR BEST MAN WAS COMING TO SEE YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST AS SOFTLY AS THE DOWN OF A THISTLE OR OF DISQUIETING AMBITION +7b797dc6-402e-4955-8aba-8c5c140bc27d USE THE BACK DOOR RULE SON ALWAYS LEAVE YOURSELF AWAY OUT NO OTHER TYPE OF CREATURE EVER HAS HAD THE VERTICAL SLIT BUT YONDER WAY IS OPEN THE STORY GIRL GENERALLY HAD HER HEAD GARLANDED WITH THEIR LEAVES AUNT OLIVIA REPORTED THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BROKEN HEARTED OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES CECILY'S HEADACHE WAS BETTER AND THE STORY GIRL REFRESHED BY AN AFTERNOON SIESTA +7b7b8efd-b9e6-4aed-a06a-1cef54ab362b GORK KNOPE WAS A TALL MAN WITH SKIN OF THE COLOR AND APPARENT TEXTURE OF GOOD LEATHER HE HAD A FACE LIKE AN EAGLE AND HIS EYES WERE ICE BLUE THE COMPUTER GAVE ME A COURSE WITH AN ESTIMATED POINT OF ARRIVAL AS WELL AS A BUILT IN SAFETY FACTOR I NEVER COULD ELIMINATE FROM THE MACHINE THREE PRIESTS WERE GROPING TOWARDS ME THEIR EYE SOCKETS RED PITS OF BURNED FLESH THEY KNEW WHAT I WANTED AND LED THE WAY WITHOUT A WORD SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT THERE'S THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO I TOLD HER I GLANCED HER WAY AND A SMALL DOOR WAS SWINGING OPEN AND SHE WAS GONE DON'T TRY TO RUN I SHOUTED AFTER IT CAN'T DO ANY GOOD +7b9d1f80-3a50-458d-84d6-d695454cf77d WE KNEW ONLY THAT A COUSIN SARAH STANLEY WHOSE MOTHER OUR AUNT FELICITY WAS DEAD WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING ON A FARM ADJOINING THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD IN CARLISLE BUT STILL HER PRIDE WAS SO GREAT THAT SHE WOULD NOT YIELD EVEN THOUGH EVERYBODY EXCEPT THE KINGS WHO WANTED TO MARRY HER HATED HER FOR THE SUFFERING SHE HAD CAUSED WHERE MIGHT I FIND THIS FAMILY HE SAID IT IS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE OLD WOMAN SAID PERHAPS THEY ARE AT HOME YOU WILL SEE A PATH WHICH TAKES YOU TO THE LEFT FOLLOW IT UNTIL YOU REACH THE LAST HOUSE +7ba946a7-64ae-406d-820c-6acbdd0ec510 DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL AS FOR DOR JOHN ANDREW HAD LIVED THIS LONG WITHOUT GOING TO THE AID OF A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS WITHOUT IN FACT EVER SEEING ONE THAT HE COULD REMEMBER WHO WASN'T OBVIOUSLY MORE CAPABLE OF HELPING HERSELF THAN HE WAS AS POLYCHROME YOU ARE THE LOVELIEST MAIDEN I HAVE EVER SEEN EXCEPT OF COURSE OZMA SAID THE TAN OWL SO THE GIANTESS DID WELL TO TRANSFORM YOU INTO THE LOVELIEST OF ALL BIRDS IF YOU ARE TO BE TRANSFORMED AT ALL +7bc3c57d-5535-4c35-ab15-81eabf3207ee FELICITY WAS NOT THERE I GUESS THE PRESBYTERIANS CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT IT AND LOOK AFTER THEIR OWN HEATHEN HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW WHEN WE REACHED THE FOOT OF THE ORCHARD AND ENTERED IT THROUGH A GAP IN THE HEDGE IT WAS THE MAGICAL MYSTICAL TIME OF BETWEEN LIGHTS +7bc784bb-f110-4a31-8ae1-0a70ddb9cada WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN THEM I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I ONE HAND CLUTCHING HIS BLACK CURLS WITH HIS DREAM BOOK ON A SMALL ROUND STONE BEFORE HIM +7bf14f7c-93a1-4d99-ba8d-c4366a30497e HOW WOULD MUSH AND MILK DO ASKED THE CANARY FOR TO MORROW MORNING I INTEND TO TRANSFORM YOU ALL NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING I SNAPPED INTO THE MIKE WORKING AWAY THE WORRIED BILLIONAIRE EXPRESSION I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO AS THEY HAD AN ENTIRE BATTERY OF SIAM FOR THEIR COMMUNICATIONS YOU DIDN'T TAKE MUCH CHARGE LAST NIGHT WHEN DAN GOT SICK SAID FELIX MALICIOUSLY +7bf71837-a45e-4bca-b36b-e718dffe5f7b VERY WELL HE SAID THINK OF A WORD THINK OF ANY SINGLE WORD I SHALL TELL IT TO YOU THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK TO THINK THAT JERRY COWAN SHOULD HAVE SEEN SUCH A PICTURE OFTEN WE WERE AS DEEPLY IMPRESSED AS FELIX HAD MEANT US TO BE +7bfca687-402a-42b6-83fa-01524bbb87db THE STORY GIRL WAS SITTING ON THE MINT BESIDE THE WELL HOUSE WEAVING HERSELF A WREATH OF BUTTERCUPS FELICITY WAS SIPPING FROM THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WITH AN OVERDONE AIR OF UNCONCERN EACH WAS ACUTELY AND MISERABLY CONSCIOUS OF THE OTHER'S PRESENCE AND EACH WAS DESIROUS OF CONVINCING THE REST OF US THAT THE OTHER WAS LESS THAN NOTHING TO HER FELICITY COULD NOT SUCCEED THE STORY GIRL MANAGED IT BETTER CECILY'S MIGHT BE MORE DRAMATIC BUT FELIX'S WAS MORE AMUSING THE DREAM WHICH WE ALL COUNTED HIS MASTERPIECE WAS THE ONE IN WHICH A MENAGERIE WAS CAMPED IN THE ORCHARD AND THE RHINOCEROS CHASED AUNT JANET AROUND AND ROUND THE PULPIT STONE BUT TURNED INTO AN INOFFENSIVE PIG WHEN IT WAS ON THE POINT OF CATCHING HER HE LOOKED BACK AT THE NILEN SHOOT AGAIN ANOTHER THOUGHT RAN THROUGH HIS MIND SUPPOSE IT'S BOBBING IN THE DARK WHEN THE SUN SERIOUS I MEAN COMES UP THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE TO SPOT THE PARACHUTE AND SEARCH FOR ME HE SLID THE CANOPY OPEN AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE RED SOIL OF SERIOUS THREE HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT THEN SWUNG HIS FEET OVER THE SIDE AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT SATISFACTION HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK +7c781147-5fb9-4b2a-b6f0-c5f1c2823960 I'LL TELL YOU THESE STORIES WHEN YOU GET WELL I CAN TELL THEM EVER SO MUCH BETTER THAN I CAN WRITE THEM I KNOW FELICITY IS WONDERING WHY I'M WRITING SUCH A LONG LETTER SO PERHAPS I'D BETTER STOP IF YOUR MOTHER READS IT TO YOU THERE IS A GOOD DEAL OF IT SHE MAY NOT UNDERSTAND BUT I THINK YOUR AUNT JANE WOULD I REMAIN YOUR VERY AFFECTIONATE FRIEND SARA STANLEY FELIX TWITCHED THE QUILT RATHER VICIOUSLY AND GRUNTED BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING SAID CECILY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM SAID FELICITY AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE I TOOK A SPADE AND SPADE IT OFF THE TOP OF THE TOWN TO GET IN BUT THEY PUT AN ENCANTO ON ME AND MADE ME AND MILLER RUN A TREADMILL FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS WHERE WAS THIS +7c9b70ce-1c22-47d3-b8e2-d38b9e2eff53 IF IT WAS A HARD JOURNEY FOR A MAN IT WAS HARDER STILL FOR A WOMAN BUT MARGARET WOULD HAVE DARED ANYTHING FOR ALLAN'S SAKE PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND I SUPPOSE IF PETER CURSE THIS TULLIT HUCKY THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE MANOEL HAD ONCE TOLD MISSA MARSHALL ABOUT THIS YOU GOT A MILLION NAMES IN YOUR HAND IT ISN'T WORDS THAT I WANT FROM YOU +7ca46b88-a23d-44c9-8eba-3513c83ea011 BUT NOW THAT IT IS OVER I BELIEVE I AM SORRY THAT IT IS OPEN IT ISN'T MYSTERIOUS ANY LONGER DON'T LET ME HEAR ANY MORE OF YOUR AMENDS OR I'LL AMEN YOU SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE HE WAS VISITING HERE WITH HIS WIFE TWO AGO AND HE CALLED ME JOHNNY EVERY TIME HE SPOKE TO ME PETER WAS NOT PROOF AGAINST THIS DOUBLE ATTACK WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COULDN'T WRITE AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL CRUSHINGLY +7ca58fa3-2a69-4261-82f1-df502868578e IT IS MEAN YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR SHOES AND STOCKINGS ON WHEN YOU GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW TO NIGHT SAID FELICITY IN A TONE OF SATISFACTION I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM WE WERE DELIGHTED AT THE THOUGHT OF SEEING FATHER'S OLD HOME AND LIVING AMONG THE HAUNTS OF HIS BOYHOOD +7cc60bf4-d55a-4f06-ac5c-1917e047b59b HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK THE ZID LUNGED AGAINST THE DOOR WITH A FORCE THAT CRACKED THE WOODEN HURRICANE BOLT ACROSS AND OPENED A THREE INCH SLIT BETWEEN THE LEADING EDGE AND LINTEL JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME BUT SOON AND LATER IT STILL HAD TO HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENED AS THE ONISTS SUSPECTED IT WOULD THROUGH THE WIFE MISSUS SHARP CAME BACK TO THE HUT EARLY ONE DAY THROUGH A FRIGHTENED GLANCE AT YONAH SITTING IN A CORNER DOING NOTHING AT ALL AND LEFT HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY YOU YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER WE'RE JUST SHADOWS LOST SOULS LOOK UP HOPE VIC'S VOICE WAS KINDLY YET FIRM AND GRAVELY COMMANDING WE'RE ALL RIGHT ONLY TEMPORARILY WE'RE IN FROM MEDIUMS SIT DOWN PETE AND LET'S TALK IT MAY BE THAT THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE IN MAKING SOME PLANS FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW +7cdba8ee-a938-47f1-81a2-34f9440d1fc1 DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE THEN ON THE THIRD DAY THE STORY GIRL CAME TO US WITH A VERY WHITE FACE SHE HAD BEEN OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S YARD TO HEAR THE LATEST BULLETIN FROM THE SICK ROOM HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE BUT NOW IT WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT THAT SHE HAD BAD NEWS I HAVE HAD NO ONE TO TALK TO SINCE I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW INTO A CANARY BIRD HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT POLYCHROME IS A POWERFUL FAIRY +7d05a187-7f81-4a9c-87ac-f22a4136d386 AND WROTE DOWN OUR DREAMS WHEN THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE OVER THE ONLY THING WORTH MENTIONING IN THE WAY OF DREAMS THAT SARA RAY EVER ACHIEVED WAS THAT SHE DREAMED THAT SHE WENT UP IN A BALLOON AND FELL OUT THE GUN INTO NUBES'S HAND WAS SLAMMED INTO HIS LAP HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE IT A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM BY SILENT AGREEMENT THE DOCUMENTS WERE FORGOTTEN I PRESSED THE BUTTON THAT SENT THE TORCH WIELDING ROWBOT ON HIS WAY BUT IF THE LEGS WERE THIN +7d3ecd47-67bb-4c30-ae1e-48586d6b1bef THAT IT WOULD BE WELL TO KEEP AS THE PIQUANT COUNTRY PHRASE WENT FROM THE WALK WE WENT TO THE PULPIT STONE DAN DID NOT COME DOWN UNTIL BREAKFAST WAS HALF OVER THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU THIS TIME HE HEARD REUBEN INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NODDED TO HIMSELF IN A SATISFIED FASHION IT WILL TAKE TIME CLARTON SAID +7d4e858a-8f2d-4bd8-ae99-b99b47a40b9d IT CERTAINLY HADN'T BEEN THERE BEFORE HE STARTED FEELING OVER THE MACHINE WITH HIS WEBBED HANDS OLD MOTOR LODGE AND THE ADVENTURE WAS ON NO ON EMPLOYMENT A SURFACE OF A METALS AND READY MARKETS FOR ALL THEY PRODUCE IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT PEPPE WAS A MONOMANIAC AN EGOMANIAC AND A SARCOTIC AS A SORTED COMPUTER I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM +7d683d28-939a-4dbb-bb12-35528be52c04 I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO X HIMSELF HAD THE PERMANENT JOB OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERING DESIGNER THE WAR LORD CLASS BATTLESHIP THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AT THE CENT ORANTOLA SPACE YARDS ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY AND THEN ONE OF OUR SPIES IN R INTERCEPTED GET INTO THESE WHILE I BRIEF YOU ON THE MAP +7d89d0df-2995-41db-96c5-90c0b29abafe WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM NOT MUCH THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE ONLY WITH BLUE FUR FACES HAIRLESS PINK SKINNED STETSON SNAPPED A SWITCH THE TRANSLATE MAP BECAME A SCREEN WITH A FIGURE FROZEN ON IT LIKE THAT THIS IS LIFE SIZE PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE SO WE ATE OUR SNACKS OPENLY WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO WAYS THAT WERE DARK I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING I DON'T BELIEVE PRESBYTERIANS EVER DO PENANCE SAID FELICITY DUBIOUSLY I NEVER HEARD OF ONE DOING IT BUT THE REST OF US RATHER LOOKED WITH FAVOUR ON THE STORY GIRL'S IDEA WE FELT SURE THAT SHE WOULD DO PENANCE AS PICTURESQUELY AND THOROUGHLY AS SHE DID EVERYTHING ELSE YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER THE VERY THING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT I'LL GET SOME AFTER BREAKFAST I'M NOT GOING TO EAT A SINGLE THING ALL DAY EXCEPT BREAD AND WATER AND NOT MUCH OF THAT +7da52b70-a0d2-4bf9-bd1d-8da179acd2dc IT TELLS YOU IN THE BIBLE IT'S TO COME JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT BUT IT TELLS YOU ANOTHER THING IN THE BIBLE TOO SAID CICELY EAGERLY WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU THEY EASILY FOUND THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE ENCLOSURE SO THE TIN WOODMAN PUSHED ASIDE THE UNDERBRUSH AND STARTED FIRST ALONG THE PATH +7da67372-cfd9-4e39-830f-1bfdccdc2c87 THERE WERE A FEW MINUTES WHILE THE WATER BEGAN TO GURGLE DOWN THROUGH THE DRY PIPE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS SHAKING MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD I WENT DOWN FOR THE EYE BURNING CEREMONY THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL THE PICNIC OVER WE PLAYED GAMES UNTIL THE EARLY FALLING DUSK AND THEN WE WENT WITH UNCLE ALEC TO THE BACK FIELD TO BURN THE POTATO STOCKS THE CROWNING DELIGHT OF THE DAY SARA MIGHT BETTER HAVE STAYED HOME SHE WAS OF NO USE AND COULD ONLY ADD TO THE GENERAL CONFUSION WANDERING AIMLESSLY ABOUT CRYING AND ASKING IF DAN WAS GOING TO DIE +7db12482-01d3-49b0-a0e5-77661f553c27 WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG WHATEVER HER FUTURE CAREER SHOULD BE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY THE NEXT MOVE IS COMING SOON DO NOTHING TO HURRY IT YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS I WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN HAVE TOUCHED THE SLIM BROWN WRIST ON WHICH SHE SUPPORTED HERSELF +7db341e0-817a-4187-8070-23bc21521cbe WE CRIED OVER THE PATHOS OF A PARTING WHOSE ANGUISH HAD BEEN STILLED FOR MANY YEARS MARGARET WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM WITH SOFT BLUE EYES AND CLOUDS OF GOLDEN HAIR FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON MOISTLY WHILE HE DRAINED THE GLASS SOME DAY THE MYSTERY OF HOW HE HAD SLIPPED THROUGH THE SCREEN OF OFFICIAL TESTING WOULD HAVE TO BE INVESTIGATED +7dd8f4b9-9bbe-46c4-ad04-14160dce9dfa THE E I OPERATOR SHOOK HIS HEAD DOUBTFULLY THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAPPENED TO BE IN A HOUSE WHEN IT WAS CARRIED BY A CYCLONE HIS FEATHERS RATTLING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH A TINKLING SOUND AS HE MOVED +7de7063a-5c70-447b-9734-2ad052593847 FELICITY AND CECILY WERE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN THE STORY GIRL WALKED UPRIGHTLY LIKE INCARNATE FLAME IN HER CRIMSON SILK COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS NICE WORK PETE SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES WELL I PREACHED MY SERMON AND IT FELL HORRIBLY FLAT I REALIZED THAT BEFORE I WAS HALF WAY THROUGH IT I THINK I PREACHED IT VERY WELL AND NEVER A THUMP DID I FORGET OR MISPLACE BUT MY AUDIENCE WAS PLAINLY BORED +7de79e23-70d7-4ff6-bd16-a7f3cc8f4b87 YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP SARAH RAY HAD JOINED US VERY PALE AND NERVOUS HAVING HAD SO IT APPEARED A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH HER MOTHER ABOUT COMING UP THE HILL IN THE RAIN +7dfdaa75-d49f-4771-b054-37e7ef54380e HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT WHEN WE ARRIVED BEHIND THE GRANARY THE OTHERS WERE ALL THERE CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS IT MUST HAVE BEEN A GRAND SIGHT THE EYE WAS CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE A FLYING LIZARD SORT OF A CARDBOARD PTERODACTYL AND THE SLOWLY FLAPPING WINGS OBVIOUSLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR FLIGHT BUT IT WAS IMPRESSIVE ENOUGH FOR THE NATIVES SARA IS REAL SICK SHE SAID WITH REGRET AND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT REGRET MINGLED IN HER VOICE SHE HAS A COLD AND A SORE THROAT AND SHE'S FEVERISH MISSUS RAY SAYS IF SHE ISN'T BETTER BY THE MORNING SHE'S GOING TO SEND FOR THE DOCTOR AND SHE IS AFRAID IT'S THE MEASLES +7e0d8197-d245-4265-8283-803d2108a6fb BEVERLY KING IS A BOY ONCE MORE BUT ALL WE SAW WAS FELICITY TEARING OVER THE GREEN SWARD AS I HAVE FORGOTTEN YOU THE STRAW MAN WAS AWKWARD IN HIS MOVEMENTS ROUND THE WORKSHOP ALL DAY SHE SAT IN THE KITCHEN AND WORKED BUTTONHOLES SUBSISTING ON BREAD AND WATER AND MEXICAN TEA +7e45c1e7-9058-4b2c-ac53-7d9ead315086 WE ALL BECAME VERY TENSE EVEN PETER HAD TO STOP READING ANY UNACCUSTOMED SOUND OR SIGHT IN THE WORLD ABOUT US STRUCK ON OUR TAUT SENSES LIKE THE TRUMP OF DOOM GOOD PRESBYTERIANS DON'T FIGHT OH DON'T THEY I HEARD YOUR UNCLE ROGER SAY THAT PRESBYTERIANS WERE THE BEST FOR FIGHTING IN THE WORLD OR THE WORST I FORGET WHICH HE SAID BUT IT MEANS THE SAME THING HIS ATTIRE CONSISTED OF A FADED GINGHAM SHIRT AND A SCANTY PAIR OF CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS BUT HE WORE IT WITH SUCH AN UNCONSCIOUS AIR OF PURPLE AND FINE LINEN THAT HE SEEMED TO BE MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN HE REALLY WAS YOU DON'T PRAY VERY OFTEN INSISTED FELICITY +7e62417f-f298-4ebd-9029-578803527e7c KNOCK AT THE DOOR I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS THE OLD WOMAN STILL CLUTCHING HER COIN DISAPPEARED FROM THE WINDOW AS IF SOMEONE HAD YANKED HER BACK YONAS TURNED WITH RELIEF AND GOT BACK ON THE PATH BUT HIS STAYED QUITE AS BADLY AS THE HOUSE HAD HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY SHARP PROVED TO BE A BARROW SHAPED MAN WHO WAS UNACCOUNTABLY CHEERLESS AS IF THE INSIDE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY REMOVED AND THEN REPLACED BY SAWDUST YONAS THOUGHT EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED SHE WAS A PRETTY SIGHT THERE WAS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTION IN JEFF IN SPITE OF HIS DRAB YEARS OF E I PATROL DUTY THE WHITE PUFF OF SAIL ON DARK GREEN SEA GLIDING ACROSS CALM WATER BANDED WITH LIGHTER AND DARKER STRAYER WHERE SUBMERGED SHOALS LAY STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND NO SIR WELL YOU UNDERSTAND THE ORDERS ANYWAY THAT'S ALL IT'S NECESSARY CLOSE THE DOOR AND KEEP IT CLOSED AT LEAST A WEEK +7eab7125-5839-4bc3-aa5c-107c8219fb9b EVERYBODY WAS IN GOOD HUMOUR THE STORY GIRL SPARKLED THROUGH SEVERAL TALES THAT RANGED FROM THE AFRITES AND JINNS OF EASTERN MYTH THROUGH THE PIPING DAYS OF CHIVALRY DOWN TO THE HOMELY ANECDOTES OF CARLISLE WORKDAY FOLK OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST AT THAT VERY MOMENT AUNT OLIVIA WHO HAD RECOVERED FROM HER HEADACHE AND AUNT JANET WERE LAUGHING IN THE KITCHEN OVER THE STATE THE CHILDREN WERE IN BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THE END OF THE WORLD WAS CLOSE AT HAND AUNT JANET'S THROATY GURGLE AND AUNT OLIVIA'S TRILLING MIRTH FLOATED OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY YONAS SIGHED THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD +7eb35cbe-d826-487f-9176-8a70c8bfaf30 THEY FELL SLACK HOWEVER WHEN THE QUEEN REACHED HIS CHANNEL AND FLAPPED LAZILY REVERSING TO CATCH THE WIND AND NOSE HER CAUTIOUSLY INTO THE SHALLOWS JEFF DISMISSED IT IMPATIENTLY A CHANGE OF WIND OR SOME CRAFTY MANEUVRE OF OLD CHARLEY MAX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT FOR MY OWN PART I WAS RATHER SORRY TO SEE HER GOING AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL BUT WE HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT HER BY THE TIME WE REACHED THE OPEN COUNTRY DRIVING ALONG ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF UNCLE ALEC WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED +7ebecbfa-23e5-43cd-9261-8f5b7c750ccd WE PAUSED A MOMENT IN THE HALL TO LOOK AT THE BIG GRANDFATHER CLOCK IT WAS NOT GOING BUT IT SEEMED LIKE AN OLD FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCE TO US WITH THE GILT BALLS ON ITS THREE PEAKS I DIDN'T CHEW THE PUDDING GROANED UNCLE ROGER IT WAS TOO TOUGH I JUST SWALLOWED THE CHUNKS WHOLE TO UNDO IT IF POSSIBLE AT ANY COST OF RIDICULE TO HERSELF THE DROPS ON THE SPRUCE BOUGHS GLITTERED LIKE DIAMONDS AND SHE LOOKED HER PRETTIEST AS SHE STOOD UNDER THE SWAYING BOUGHS IN THE LAST FAINT LIGHT OF THE AUTUMN DUSK AND SMILED DOWN AT OUR WOEBEGONE FACES +7ec1eca1-ca29-435c-b616-aef9ad4c7c3a WHAT IF THIS WERE ONE OF HIS HORRID DAYS MA SAYS THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT AS LONG AS HE'S A BACHELOR BECAUSE HE WON'T TAKE ANY ONE SAID FELICITY IT LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE A MORAL M THREE ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK AFTER THAT HE LOCKS HIMSELF UP IN HIS WORK ROOM SO MISSUS PERWIN SAYS SHE BEING THE HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU KNOW SIR +7ed35134-2540-4d1f-8681-85563f59ea5b APPARENTLY THE FEASTMAN THOUGHT NOTHING AT ALL OF HIS STATE OF NUDITY AND THE JUDGE HAD GOTTEN A NASTY CRACK ON THE HEAD AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY KEEP TALKING HIS STETS AND KEEP HIM INTERESTED DON'T BE IMPATIENT GLASS BLOWING CULTURE MEANT THEY WERE JUST OUT OF THE PRIMITIVE STAGE AND THE ORCHARD FORGOTTEN WE FOLLOWED HER SUMMONS FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED +7eddfb6f-d9aa-4c0b-8ef7-6050eae5e53d IN THE MAIN THEY DID BUT ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING DAN WAS PLAINLY INCLINED TO REBEL WHILE WE LINGERED THERE AND TALKED OF CABBAGES AND KINGS HE TRIED NOT TO LET THE THOUGHT DISTURB HIM SHE WAS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY HE THOUGHT IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE TRY AN AIR START ON STRAIGHT ROCKET ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES +7f576c70-377c-45ee-ac49-f0b3e5159082 SIGHED THE CANARY COULDN'T YOU MANAGE TO ESCAPE FROM THIS TERRIBLE YUKOH NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED SHE FIRST MADE US HER PRISONERS AND THEN TRANSFORMED US BUT HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO GET YOU POLYCHROME I WAS ASLEEP AND SHE TOOK UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF ME ANSWERED THE BIRD SADLY HAD I BEEN AWAKE I COULD EASILY HAVE PROTECTED MYSELF WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE FINDING OUT WHERE THE ISLANDERS GOT THEIR CALM CRYSTALS HAD BECOME SUDDENLY UNIMPORTANT JUST THEN HE WANTED NOTHING SO MUCH AS TO SEE A WELL ARMED PATROL SHIP NOSING DOWN OUT OF THE COLLAXY IN SUNRISE HE WAS ACTIVATING THE SCREEN WHEN JENIFER IN A MAGNIFICENT RAGE IN SPITE OF SOAKED BLOUSE AND DUNGERIES ADVANCED ON HIM LEGENDS OF THE OLD ORCHARD OUTSIDE OF THE ORCHARD THE GRASS WAS ONLY BEGINNING TO GROW GREEN BUT HERE SHELTERED BY THE SPRUCE HEDGES FROM UNCERTAIN WINDS AND SLOPING TO SOUTHERN SUNS IT WAS ALREADY LIKE A WONDERFUL VELVET CARPET THE LEAVES ON THE TREES WERE BEGINNING TO COME OUT IN WOOLLY GREYISH CLUSTERS AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE +7f6b6a9a-21c6-4ce4-b7bf-e363fb2e2ae3 AND WHAT SEEMED TO FARMER AT LEAST TO BE FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC SCIENTIFIC DETACHMENT NOR THE DENAY THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE EXPLAINED CECILY TO BE SURE FELICITY WAS A STUNNING BEAUTY EACH OF THEM AS LARGE AS A TREE IN ITSELF +7f70dbad-eb48-483e-8fc0-c49563716ffb I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS THE YACHT WAS FLUSHED AGAINST THE SPACE FILLING BULK OF THE OTHER SHIP I PRESSED THE BUTTON THAT SENT THE TORCH WIELDING ROWBOT ON HIS WAY I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHARP SAID BITTERLY THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES +7f8d562b-3d79-4864-abbe-0dbfa47975cf NOW DON'T MEDDLE WITH THE MAN CRIED BETTY WHAT A STATE TO BE IN BECAUSE ONE GOOD LOOKING LASS LIKE STAND SANDY HAIR AND GREY EYES BETTER THAN HIGHLAND BLACK AND BLUE YOU HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF A WREN NEIL CAMPBELL WERE I YOU I WOULD SHOW DONALD FRAGER THAT I COULD WOO AND WIN A LASS AS SPEEDILY AS ANY LOWLANDER OF THEM ALL THAT I WOULD WE SOLUED FROM OUR OBSERVATION STATION OVER ON THE HILL SAID THE OTHER POINTING THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN I'M CAPTAIN BRANDON OF THE ASTRO ONE CECILY SAT DOWN BY HER HALF FILLED BASKET AND BEGAN TO CRY FELICITY SAID VIOLENTLY THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT I CAN'T PICK ANOTHER APPLE TO DAY AND I AIN'T GOING TO TRY SAID DAN +7f94f731-df04-4171-810a-737bad221dde GOOD LUCK I MEANT THAT ABOUT DIVING IN FOR YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I KNOW THE WORD TOO SAID ORNE HELP GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS THAT WAS THE JUNGLE A QUONUM JUMP SIR RIGHT LEAP FROGGING AHEAD OF THE REDS WAIT TILL THEY READ THE NAME COLONEL JOHN TOWERS MAYBE GENERAL JOHN TOWERS GENERAL BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING +7f9f6dd7-d7a5-4bcd-aaef-6eca74a5d4d9 RAY AND FARMER SHOOK WITH HIM IN TURN HIS HAND WAS DAMP AND WEBBED BUT FELT FAIRLY HUMAN FOR ALL THAT HE ASKED HIS VOICE WAS SNEERING RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH AND IT HAD SEAS NOT AS LARGE AS ON EARTH BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE HIS GAZE WANDERED OVER US WITH UNCOMPLIMENTARY INDIFFERENCE UNTIL IT FELL ON THE STORY GIRL LEANING BACK IN AN ARMCHAIR SHE LOOKED LIKE A SLENDER RED LILY IN THE UNSTUDIED GRACE OF HER ATTITUDE +7fa75b74-0eb7-40c7-b795-43942374e74e ZULEMITH YEARNED FOR ZERA WITH SUCH FIDELITY AND LONGING THAT HE BEGAN TO BUILD UP A BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HIS STAR AND ZERA NOT KNOWING THIS BUT LOVING AND LONGING FOR HIM HERK NUFF SAID TAKE HIM BACK THE BALD ONE ADDED HERAKNUFF YOU ONA SAID ENTERING THE CONVERSATION WITH A LIGHT PLEASANT TONE SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED AND HE ILLUSTRATED IT BY DESCRIBING HIS OLD WELL AT THE HOMESTEAD HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS +7fbabecb-8cf2-4e32-9c66-d55342aebfaa SHE LAUGHED AGAIN OH THE ROEBOT IT'LL FOLLOW ME IT'S DESIGNED TO OH DAMN THE DAM WAS FOR SOMETHING SHE SAW IN THE WATER AS SHE LOOKED BACK OVER THE RAIL AGAIN WE HAD SEEN IT ALL THE SLEEPING GENIUS THE ROGUISH RED LIPPED GIRL THE KISS DROPPED AS LIGHTLY AS A ROSE PETAL ON THE SUNBURNED CHEEK THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT MARRIED SAID FELIX YOU CAN HAVE A PAIR OF MINE SAID FELICITY WHO PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT SINCE SARA WAS CERTAIN TO YIELD TO TEMPTATION SHE MIGHT AS WELL BE GARBED DECENTLY FOR HER TRANSGRESSION +7ff57637-1f60-46ca-a074-08d7fff9eedf THERE WAS A DUSKY LITTLE PEAR SHAPED APPLE FROM ONE OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S TREES WHICH WAS OUR FAVOURITE ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SUGGEST A LINE OF SEARCH AND THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WOULD BEGIN APPEARING AT ONCE SORRY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS YOUR BRAINS BOYS WILL PICK MY SKULL TO PIECES AND FIND THE TRUTH OUT I WISH YOU WERE I'M SURE SAID FELICITY RIDDLING THE FIRE NOISILY IT WAS DARK NOW SO NOBODY WOULD NOTICE HIS FEET +7ffb12b5-5123-4414-a0ce-1886b1f8467a SHE DID TOO HE RETORTED MY AUNT JANE WAS A REAL LADY EVEN IF SHE WAS ONLY A CRAIG SHE KNEW ALL THOSE RULES AND SHE KEPT THEM WHEN THERE WAS NOBODY ROUND TO SEE HER JUST THE SAME AS WHEN ANY ONE WAS AND SHE WAS SMART IF FATHER UD HALF HER GET UP AND GIT I WOULDN'T BE A HIRED BOY TO DAY SHE MADE THE WRITHING DAN GO TO BED SHE MADE HIM SWALLOW EVERY AVAILABLE ANTIDOTE WHICH WAS RECOMMENDED IN THE DOCTOR'S BOOK AND SHE APPLIED HOT CLOTHS TO HIM UNTIL HER FAITHFUL LITTLE HANDS WERE HALF SCALDED OFF I HAVEN'T SEEN HER OF COURSE SINCE THE WITCH WAS CRUSHED FOR AT THAT TIME I WAS STANDING RESTED IN THE FOREST AND HAD BEEN THERE A LONG TIME BUT THE POOR GIRL MUST HAVE FELT VERY HAPPY TO BE FREE FROM HER CRUEL MISTRESS +80133197-2349-40ed-b9fb-5f9a1c627ca0 I DON'T SEE WHY BUT ANYHOW I SUPPOSE IT WOULDN'T BE MUCH USE BECAUSE IF HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER HE'D SAY I OUGHT TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND IF HE WAS A METHODIST HE'D TELL ME TO BE ONE TOO LOOK HERE FELICITY WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM NOTHING SAID THE STORY GIRL VICIOUSLY HE JUST WENT ON LIVING AND FLOURISHING HE PATCHED UP MATTERS WITH HIS CREDITORS AFTER A WHILE AND CAME BACK TO THE ISLAND AND IN THE END HE MARRIED A REAL NICE GIRL WITH MONEY WAS VERY HAPPY DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYTHING SO UNJUST WHAT WOULD MISS MARWOOD SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT ASKED FELICITY MISS MARWOOD WAS FELIX'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE WAS VERY FOND OF HER BUT THIS TIME FELIX WAS QUITE RECKLESS I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTED +8019e489-9315-43d3-911d-ea74304d5f5d NOW YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED AND WALKED AMONG THE GLOOMY PILLARS OF BONIVARD'S PRISON HE THOUGHT HE UNDERSTOOD THE QUEEN'S GROUNDING WHEN HE SAW THE SWIMMER STROKING URGENTLY TOWARD HIS DOCK +8053f51c-1690-4311-9d19-1e7204fd4663 JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN BEING ALONG AT SEA IN A RICKETY CRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE MADMAN HAD BEEN BAD ENOUGH TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER ADDED TO THE CREW WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH ONE GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE TOLD US THAT HE WAS NO BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS HE HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUBICUND INSTEAD HE WAS AS PALE AS ARE THE DEAD I CANNOT HAVE ASKED HIM WHAT WAS THE MATTER HAD MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT IT WAS FELICITY WHO DEMANDED IMPATIENTLY OF MY SHAKING VOICE AS BROTHER FELIX KING WHAT HAS SCARED YOU KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOUND ABOVE THE FREQUENCIES TO WHICH THE HUMAN EAR WILL RESPOND YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIGHT RAYS THAT THE HUMAN EYES CAN'T PERCEIVE +805911c4-edf7-4349-b4ca-0fac27b57b11 AMUSE YOURSELVES WHILE I AM GONE AND WHEN I RETURN I HOPE TO FIND YOU ALL RECONCILED AND HAPPY AS I TURN THE PAGES AND GLANCE OVER THE CUMULATIVE RECORDS EACH ONE BEGINNING LAST NIGHT I DREAMED THE PAST COMES VERY VIVIDLY BACK TO ME YOU DO NOT TRUST ME PERHAPS YOU ARE WISE I MIGHT TALK FOOLISHLY I AM AN OLD MAN OLDER IN THIS LAST MONTH THAN IN ALL MY YEARS +80958ceb-1fb7-4606-9f08-7245a51a260a FARMER GOT MAD RIGHT NOW HE WAS ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT MUST LOOK FOR HIM TO BE MAKING LOVE TO AN OCCUPUS MISTER MARWOOD HAD AT LEAST THREE ABSORBED LISTENERS THE NEXT SUNDAY MORNING FELIX PETER AND I WERE ALL AMONG THE CHEELS WHO WERE TAKING MENTAL NOTES ON THE ART OF PREACHING A SERMON BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE I A TO NUBE I ORAN TURNED LOOKED BACK AT TO NEWBE DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN SEE BY WHAT LIGHT GETS DOWN HERE THROUGH THOSE TREES IT'S TOO BAD IF YOU FORMED YOUR OPINION OF US BY OBSERVING +8099d87e-e14a-44b9-8902-4c45237b84eb THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR FELIX I'VE GIVEN UP PRAYING THAT I'LL BE THE ONLY ONE TO EAT THE BITTER APPLES AND I'LL NEVER PRAY FOR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN IT IT NEVER OCCURRED TO HER THAT FELIX DID NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED FAT +80a329c8-e297-4ec9-881e-50eb959d3e77 ALMOST EVERY NIGHT BATTLE MURDER OR SUDDEN DEATH PLAYED SOME PART OF HER VISIONS AND A SCANTY PAIR OF CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS WHICH ADDED UP TO THEN I WENT TO THE GALLEY FOR A LONG STRONG DRINK AND FOR THAT I HAD LONG BEFORE WORKED OUT A SYSTEM THAT WAS FULL PROOF WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON A FIRE WARNING INDICATOR LIGHT BLINKED ON IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT +80a9d799-8935-44f2-848b-768de6167981 WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES IT SEEMED TO US THAT THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN THE SAPLING STAGE CORRESPONDING TO OUR BOYHOOD YOUR APPLES ARE LOVELY TO EAT THE STORY GIRL SAID TO ME BUT FELIXES ARE ONLY GOOD FOR PIES FINALLY RAY SHUT OFF THE RACKETING ENGINE AND LET THE RUSTY ANCHOR HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE IT WAS A COOL DEWY EVENING AND WE WALKED DOWN THE LONG RED HILL IN THE HIGHEST OF SPIRITS SARA IS REAL SICK SHE SAID WITH REGRET AND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT REGRET MINGLED IN HER VOICE +80d80f97-425a-481c-a554-97ac6533f3ad WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED MUCH IF IT HADN'T EVER BEEN DISCOVERED THE STORY GIRL SCATTERED HER ROSES AROUND HER ON THE GRASS AND CLASPED HER SLIM HANDS OVER HER KNEES GAZING DREAMILY AFAR AT THE TINTED SKY BETWEEN THE APPLE TREES AS IF SHE WERE LOOKING BACK TO THE MERRY DAYS OF THE WORLD'S GAY YOUTH SHE BEGAN HER VOICE GIVING TO THE WORDS AND FANCIES OF THE OLD TALE THE DELICACY OF HOAR FROST AND THE CRYSTAL SPARKLE OF DEW WE AGREED THAT THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP WOULD BE TO SEND ENTERROLA SPACE YARDS HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS I GAVE HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LEAGUE AND THE LEAGUE NAVY IN PARTICULAR WANTED TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP AFTER THAT HE COULD PLAY HIS POLITICS WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN IF YOU CAN WORK MAGIC WHY DON'T YOU BREAK THE ENCHANTMENT YOU ARE UNDER IN RETURN TO YOUR PROPER FORM INQUIRED THE BEAST STOUTLY I HAVEN'T THE POWER TO DO THAT ANSWERED THE CANARY FOR MISSUS YUKE THE GIANTESS WHO TRANSFORMED ME USED A PECULIAR FORM OF YUKU MAGIC THAT IS UNKNOWN TO ME HOWEVER SHE COULD NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY OWN FAIRY KNOWLEDGE SO I WILL TRY TO GET YOU A BREAKFAST +8100f18a-1488-4883-ad1a-8f147c2b7b9b WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T WHY NOT OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES THERE WAS NOBODY THERE BUT BETTY SHERMAN AND BETTY WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY SHE WAS VERY HANDSOME WITH HAIR AS BROWN AS OCTOBER NUTS AND BLACK EYES AND CRIMSON CHEEKS AND SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH NEIL CAMPBELL HERSELF WE SAT ON THE MOSSY STONES UNDER THE DARK OLD EVERGREENS AND GAVE OURSELVES UP TO WRETCHEDNESS SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER +810262b6-1dec-4cf3-a5ec-7161fb6a9fb2 HE HAD SMALL ALMOST HIDDEN EYES THAT SEEMED TO SEE A GREAT DEAL THAT FAILED COMPLETELY TO MAKE A FUSS ABOUT THE FACT AND WHILE HIS FIGURE WAS JUST A TRIFLE DUMPY HIS FACE COMPLETED THE RHYME BY BEING EXTRAORDINARILY LUMPY THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD PA'S COUSIN DIED OF EATING SOMETHING FORTY YEARS AGO SOBBED SARA RAY HOLD YOUR TONGUE SAID PETER IN A FIERCE WHISPER YOU OUGHTER HAVE MORE SENSE THAN TO SAY SUCH THINGS TO THE GIRLS THEY DON'T WANT TO BE ANY WORSE SCARED THAN THEY ARE FELIX AND PETER DREW APART AFTER THAT FIRST ONSET AND THEN CIRCLED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER WARILY JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM HE WAS NOT ANGRY THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES +811d8ac1-f2a4-474e-92fb-f5f1b75b3e7f MEET TIRES AFTER A DAY'S TRAVEL ADDED THE SCARECROW WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS WE HADN'T A DOUBT OF IT IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE STUPIDER A CREATURE THE MORE OF A NUISANCE IT IS I HAD ABOUT DECIDED THE SAME THING ABOUT THE SMALLER A CREATURE WE MAY HAVE TO FUMIGATE THAT OLD MOUNTAIN MESS +8126e55e-7709-4883-beda-bad8bfa0a96d WHICH SET MY NERVES ON EDGE HE ISN'T THERE AND THE BED HASN'T BEEN SLEPT IN THOSE PRIESTS ARE WISER THAN THE REST OF THIS CREW CECILY HAD A VERY SWEET VOICE AND I LISTENED IN DELIGHT BUT THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND AT LAST THEY MET AND SPRANG INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS YOU MUST ATTEND TO THE PUDDING YOURSELF SHE SAID THE RECIPE'S SO PLAIN AND SIMPLE SHE WOULD HAVE HELD HER TONGUE AS SHE AFTERWARDS CONFIDED IN TO ME +815b06c4-8b82-405b-938f-a9c73ee857db ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL AND NEVER FORGOT ANYTHING HE HEARD OR READ WE HAD NOT HEARD OF THIS FITNESS THEN BUT WE ALL FELT THAT PATTY WAS IN HIS OWN PLACE IN A HAYLOFT HERE WE ARE ALONE SHARP WENT ON HIS VOICE LOWERING MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER HAVE GONE TO VISIT A NEIGHBOUR FOR THEY HAVE NOT YET CLOSED US OFF ENTIRELY FROM ALL HUMAN CONTACT +81659f13-37b2-44e4-b85a-31c2ab819527 HE WOULD NOT SPEAK TO PETER FOR TWO DAYS BECAUSE OF IT NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK HE WAS JUST BEGINNING TO BE FAMOUS ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES I BROUGHT THE AXE DOWN AGAIN AND SOMETHING CRACKED SHARPLY AND THE THIRD BLOW SENT THE DOOR SWINGING WIDE +8199ff75-ab4d-48be-b632-f6dbd717bc35 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THAT I HOPE WE WILL ALL MEET IN A BETTER WORLD BETTER WAIT UNTIL MISTER MILWOOD LEAVES AND CATCH HIM IN THE LANE ADVISED THE STORY GIRL YOU SPEAK OF AN END TO TROUBLES AND END TO THE INQUISITION AND THE BUILDINGS AND END TO THE QUESTION +81a7d4ab-2d65-492f-9aa0-66f399d30a9b OR WAS IT SIMPLY THE GLAMOUR OF OLD FAMILY TRADITIONS AND TALES WHICH WAS OVER US LENDING ITS MAGIC TO ALL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS AROUND US CHAFFEE THREE SET DOWN THE SHIP ON AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONLY ONE OF A FRECKLING CHAIN OF SIMILAR ISLANDS CHAFFEE FOUR PROJECTED HIMSELF FIRST TO THE OPENED PORT THEN WHEN THE ZID CHARGED AFTER HIM TO THE URBIVOIR CROP SWARD OF TROPICAL SETTING OUTSIDE I WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED WHEN I JOINED THEM OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE +81aa237d-261c-4900-a112-d241ef5828dd THEY WORKED HURRIEDLY BETWEEN JUMPS FORE AND AFT THE ZID COULD ONLY SINK IN ALL SIX TALONED LIMBS AND HOLD FAST SEVERING ALL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND I CAN EXPLAIN HE SAID DESPERATELY EVERYTHING CAN BE EXPLAINED THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE SUCH CHARGES I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PAPERS YOU HAVE THERE SO I WOULDN'T ATTEMPT TO SAY THEY ARE ALL FORGERIES I HAVE MANY ENEMIES YOU KNOW IF THE LEAGUE KNEW THE DIFFICULTIES FACED ON A BACKWARD PLANET LIKE THESE +81d86cf2-0b3a-4241-867a-d9f588c27a88 STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES HERE WE ARE HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN YOU WILL HEAD FOR IT AS SOON AS WE DROP YOU THE PLACE IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF YOU HOLD A COURSE ROUGHLY NORTHEAST YOU CAN'T MISS IT FELIX ALONE MOST UNJUSTLY AND SPITEFULLY DECLARED THAT PETER WAS SIMPLY SHIRKING HE'S JUST LAZY THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM HE SAID WHY DON'T YOU TALK SENSE IF YOU MUST TALK SAID FELICITY THERE'S NO SENSE IN CALLING PETER LAZY YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY I HAD BLACK HAIR OF COURSE PETER BEING A CRAIG HAS HIS FAULTS BUT HE'S A SMART BOY HIS FATHER WAS LAZY BUT HIS MOTHER HASN'T A LAZY BONE IN HER BODY AND PETER TAKES AFTER HER I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER AND I COULDN'T BE BLAMED IF THE GIRL HAD SLIPPED AWAY IF SHE EVADED THE NAVY SHIPS THAT WAS THEREFORE NOT MINE I HAD MY VICTORY ALL RIGHT THEN WHY DID IT TASTE LIKE ASHES IN MY MOUTH IT'S A BIG GALAXY BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW I CAN BE CONNED ONCE BUT ONLY ONCE THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT +81fb7106-b904-4c7f-bf69-93c6b16de094 WHO WORE SILVER SHOES AND WHO HAD GINGER IS A GIRL EXPLAINED THE SCARECROW BEAR SHE'S A FINE GIRL TOO NEVER MENTIONED YOUR NAME I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD VERY WELL THEN CLAYTON THOUGHT ONCE HE BUILT A SMALL OUTDOOR FIRE AND WALKED AROUND IT BITTERSHIN'S FOR SEVERAL MINUTES +8219f720-e079-4f86-8406-56d1190a7665 THEY COULDN'T EVEN RUN JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE CHAFFEE THREE CLOSED THE PORT NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE THE OLD MAN LEANED OVER HIS DESK BREATHING INTO MY FACE SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME +8226cb48-a2cd-46cb-a4da-7d144bada7ce OH IT MEANS IF ANYTHING HAPPENS SOMETHING ELSE IS SURE TO HAPPEN SAID THE STORY GIRL I'LL ILLUSTRATE THERE'S MISSUS MURPHY SHE NEVER HAD A PROPOSAL IN HER LIFE TILL SHE WAS FORTY AND THEN SHE HAD THREE AND THE ONE WEEK AND SHE WAS SO FLUSTERED SHE TOOK THE WRONG ONE AND HAS BEEN SORRY EVER SINCE FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN AND IF YOU BEGIN TELLING TALES FELICITY KING I'LL TELL SOME TOO AND I KNOW HOW MANY EGGS MOTHER SAID YOU COULD USE WHILE SHE WAS AWAY I KNOW HOW MANY YOU HAVE USED I COUNTED SO YOU'D BETTER MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MISS NEGATIVE MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE CHOPPED OFF THE POWER +822a06bc-af84-413f-9422-b8b5925c8e03 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED AWAY THROUGH THE GAP BECAUSE MA WON'T LET ME HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO EAT BEFORE I GO TO BED I I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GET WHIPPED OR NOT SO LONG AS YOU FIGHT A GOOD SQUARE FIGHT NO BETTER PLAN BEING SUGGESTED WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE ORCHARD AND SAT ON THE BOUGHS OF UNCLE ALEC'S TREE BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS WET IT SOUNDSIBLY DREADFUL TO HEAR YOU CALL THE BIBLE AN INTERESTING BOOK +8257606d-45c4-4044-8b10-68561f2f208e THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY OUTSIDE THE SKY WAS PURPLE AND GOLD AND SILVERY GREEN WITH A DELICATE TANGLE OF ROSY CLOUD ABOVE THE ELMS ISN'T IT AWFUL NICE AND HOLY IN HERE WHISPERED PETER REVERENTLY I DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH WAS LIKE THIS IT'S NICE +82684244-79fc-4165-a3f6-2300bce89549 IT'S TOO BAD YONAS AGREED POLITELY OF COURSE SHARP SAID IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE BEEN SO CROSS ABOUT IT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED ACCORDINGLY WE WENT AND HOLLERED WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD +8280cee9-1b79-4d7c-b34e-1d6f6143bfb5 THIS IS FAR ENOUGH SAID TO NEW HORN STOPPED THE SLED IN THE MOONLIGHT HE COULD SEE ARMED GIANS ALL AROUND THE BUTCHER'S PEDESTAL OF ONE OF THE BUILDINGS LOOMED DIRECTLY AHEAD HOW BETTY SHERMAN WON A HUSBAND THE REST OF US DID NOT SHARE THE STORY GIRL'S ENTHUSIASM REGARDING OUR CALL AND MISTER CAMPBELL WE SECRETLY DREADED IT IT WILL SAVE ME FROM RUSTING SAID THE TIN SOLDIER IT WILL ENABLE ME TO REMAIN HIGHLY POLISHED SAID THE TIN WOODMAN OH AS FOR THAT I PREFER NOT TO GET MY PRETTY CLOTHES WET LAUGHED THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER BUT WHILE WE WAIT I MUST BID YOU ALL ADIEU +8283853c-5a0c-41f5-b7cd-07a296976a19 AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS THIS PILE OF JUNK IS OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE AND NEXT TO IT A DELICIOUS JUICY YELLOW APPLE FROM AUNT LOUISA'S TREE SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER +82858410-a4cd-46f3-a6bc-799b9240abec WHEN THEY WERE ALL SEATED IN A ROW ON THE CUSHION OF THE CHAIR THE GIANTESS CONTINUED NOW TELL ME HOW YOU HAPPENED TO TRAVEL IN THIS DIRECTION AND WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHAT YOUR ERRAND IS AND WHEN HE WAS DOING THIS SCHUBEN WHO WAS ALSO HUNTING SAW HIM FROM AFAR AND THOUGHT HE WAS A REAL MOOSE SHE STOLE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL SHE CAME TO THE BRINK OF A LITTLE VALLEY DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY THE SPEAKER SAID YES +82bf5563-8020-46a1-957e-c112d6e44f2b IN THE MORNINGS IT WAS VERY DELIGHTFUL IN THE AFTERNOONS TOLERABLE BUT IN THE EVENINGS WE LAGGED AND THE LAUGHTER AND ZEST OF FRESHER HOURS WERE LACKING NOTHING WOULD PREVENT CANNIBALS FROM EATING FILLICKS IF THEY CAUGHT HIM GIGGLED FELICITY HE'S SO NICE AND FAT I'M SURE FELIX FELT VERY UNLIKE A MISSIONARY AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY THE MIKE WAS TURNED OFF TO THE TRANSCRIBERS OUTSIDE AND I TOOK THE CODE GROUPS DOWN IN SHORTHAND MYSELF AT IT DIFFID FUD NU AND YOU DON'T DON'T COME BACK THE MESSAGE BROKE INTO CLEAR AT THE END AND THE SIE MAN SMILED AS HE SPOKE THE WORDS +82dcd93b-a56b-44ab-9676-b2ab4e2de15e THEN THE TIN WOODMAN STARED HARD AT HIS FRIEND BUT SAID SHE KNEW NOTHING OF THE LOONS BECAUSE SHE NEVER LEFT HER VALLEY IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW THROUGH ITS OPENINGS WE LOOKED AFAR TO THE BLUE RIMS OF THE HILLS AND OVER GREEN OLD TRANQUIL FIELDS LINED THE SUNSET GLOW THIS WAS ALL STILL HEARSAY TO ME I HAD BEEN PULLED INTO HEADQUARTERS AND GIVEN ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR TRAINING +82dd2b46-ab0f-4504-a85b-0b70c5b41656 LOOKS LIKE THE MISSING LINK THEY'VE ALWAYS HUNTED FOR SAID HORN YEA BUT YOU'VE GOT A DIFFERENT KIND OF MISSING LINK VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS IN THEIR EYES SAID HORN HE STUDIED THE FIGURE IT HAD BEEN CAUGHT FROM THE FRONT BY A MANY SNEAKER CAMERA ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL WHEN SHE CEASED WE CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING AS IF WE HAD BEEN MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY IN THE BLUE ETHER AND THAT ALL OUR OLD FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS WERE MOMENTARILY FORGOTTEN AND STRANGE THEY WERE A LOW TYPE AND CONFINED TO A DISTANT CONTINENT THE IDEA THAT THE RACE WOULD DEVELOP AND MIGHT REACH THIS CONTINENT NEVER OCCURRED TO THE BEACON MECHANICS ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND AND WATCH AS HE STIRRED UP THE COALS PULLED OUT THE RUDDIEST IRON AND TURNED TOWARD ME +82df634c-9d94-4f3b-9433-1ebca303b7b9 UNDERNEATH THE STRENGTH AND IRON OF THE MIND YUNUS CAUGHT THE SPARK GLOWING AND NEARLY SMILED IN SPITE OF THE REPORTS IN SPITE OF LOGIC THERE HAD BEEN A CHANCE THE BROTHERHOOD TO GUESSED WRONGLY ABOUT THIS MAN NOW THAT CHANCE WAS GONE AND THE BROTHERHOOD WAS RIGHT AGAIN SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN BEAUTIFUL WIVES HANGING UP BY THE HAIR ALL AROUND THE WALLS I DON'T BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE ASTONISHED WELL SAID SHE STILL EYEING THE I'M NOT SURE THEY'LL PUNCTURE LET'S TRY IT AND SEE +82ec4a24-db1a-46c3-b59b-8fa337d45f3b IF AS WAS SAID HE DETESTED CHILDREN WHO KNEW WHAT SORT OF A RECEPTION WE MIGHT MEET MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A RICH RETIRED FARMER WHO TOOK LIFE EASILY HE HAD VISITED NEW YORK AND BOSTON TORONTO AND MONTREAL HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST I I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION THE STORY GIRL GOT NO FURTHER WE NEVER HEARD THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION I COULDN'T SEE IT OF COURSE BUT I KNEW IT HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE GRAPPLES IN THE CLAWS LATCHED ON TO THE STEEL PLATES ON MY SHOULDERS +82f4ab3f-6e56-40f5-8a01-a2d07854cfcd THERE WAS GREAT GRANDFATHER KING'S FLAT TOMBSTONE OF ROUGH ISLAND SANDSTONE SO OVERGROWN WITH IVY THAT WE COULD HARDLY READ ITS LENGTHY INSCRIPTION RECORDING HIS WHOLE HISTORY IN BRIEF AND FINISHING WITH EIGHT LINES OF ORIGINAL VERSE COMPOSED BY HIS WIDOW THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER TRUE ENOUGH BUT FOR THE REST YOU'RE WRONG PETE OLD SON YOU'RE NOT MATTER ANY MORE YOU'RE SOMETHING ELSE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST +830f8fcf-4411-4eca-a522-b17d83907dd5 FRESH MULTITUDES WERE POURING UP THE RAMP BRUSHING ASIDE THE FIVE OR SIX PRIESTS THAT HAD HURRIED THERE IN AN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH AND HE WOULDN'T JUST TO BE STUBBORN +8312bd2a-66ee-46ce-bf12-2c797bd8afbc YOU CAN REPENT AFTERWARDS BUT THERE IS NO USE IN MIXING THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER BUT THE REST OF US RATHER LOOKED WITH FAVOUR ON THE STORY GIRL'S IDEA WE HAVE SHIPS MAKING FIFTEEN LIGHT YEAR DETOURS NOW THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT I HAD ONLY ONE BOX OF CARTRIDGES BESIDES THOSE IN THE CYLINDER OF MY GUN PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS +832e2707-6e97-4753-863c-183210b8a464 WELL WE HAD ALL BEEN BADLY HOAXED THAT OUR GROWN UP RELATIVES DID NOT ALTOGETHER ADMIRE OR APPROVE OF UNCLE BLAIR MISS MARWOOD WAS FELIX'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE WAS VERY FOND OF HER BUT THIS TIME FELIX WAS QUITE RECKLESS THE ONE WITH THE SHINY RING AROUND HER HEAD AND THE BABY IN HER LAP THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS BEING BORN SOMETHING SAID FELICITY LOFTILY I +8341c749-3978-48b3-9beb-b1c6a7cf4472 BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED HAVING DISCOVERED HOW TO PRODUCE EXCITING DREAMS WE ALL PROMPTLY FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IT MIGHT BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS SAID PETER I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL BEFORE THEY COULD GET ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS I THREW THE SWITCH AND MY PLASTIC PTERODACTYL SAILED THROUGH THE DOOR I COULDN'T SEE IT OF COURSE BUT I KNEW IT HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE GRAPPLES IN THE CLAWS LATCHED ON TO THE STEEL PLATES ON MY SHOULDERS +8347aa4e-a588-4b24-8527-04c2115ed9c5 I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET HE THREW THE MARK THREE FILE AT ME AND WENT BACK TO SCRATCHING IN HIS PAPERS JUST AS I REACHED THE DOOR HE LOOKED UP AND IMPALED ME ON HIS FINGER AGAIN A COMPOUND LETTER ONCE PETER WAS OUT OF DANGER HE RECOVERED RAPIDLY BUT HE FOUND HIS CONVALESCENCE RATHER TEDIOUS AND AUNT OLIVIA SUGGESTED TO US ONE DAY THAT WE WRITE A COMPOUND LETTER TO AMUSE HIM UNTIL HE HAD COME TO THE WINDOW AND TALKED TO US FROM A SAFE DISTANCE AS REIN HART ROSE TO HIS FEET BRANDON REACHED OVER AND TURNED OFF THE SET BRANDON TOOK A DEEP BREATH HIS HEAD SPUN AND FOR THE FIRST TIME HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE +834cae29-4ce1-42ce-a52d-34fb70da3c4a BUT YOU WOULD BE BORED TO HIS SURPRISE GARF DID NOTHING TO STOP HIM JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS THE STORY GIRL MADE NO RESPONSE AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE IT DOESN'T SEEM REAL NOW MORE LIKE A NIGHTMARE BUT IT WAS TERRIBLE ENOUGH AT THE TIME IT'S NOW FOURTEEN MINUTES OF ELEVEN +836643d7-edba-43f1-8bbe-451825d89c20 BEHIND DOOR THE NONIPUS SURGED SLUGGISHLY AND WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYWAY TO RAISE INVENTION I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND HIS CONTROL SLIPPED THE TWO GUARDS CAME TOWARDS HIM IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE +837a1a29-b1fd-4891-b4e9-f81f81cdb09f IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN I KNOW ANOTHER STORY ABOUT MISTER SCOTT SAID THE STORY GIRL JAMES CLARK WHOSE PEW WAS BEHIND OURS NEVER TOOK HER EYE OFF OF IT OR SO FELICITY AVERRED THREE DAYS LATER AN INCREDIBLE DWARF STAGGERED INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIGH PLAINS TEXAS FOLLOWED BY A DYING WOLF SIZED ANIMAL THAT DID NOT LOOK LIKE A WOLF WITH TREMBLING FINGERS CECILY OPENED THE PARCEL WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP WE SAW IT +83803ff7-856d-4151-ab72-75b742b2bdbf AND EVEN FELICITY AND CECILY AVAILED THEMSELVES OCCASIONALLY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF SEX STRONG NOBLE AND VALIANT HE SAID WHY IF HE HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN HE WOULD YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING CLARETON'S VOICE SAID THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE +8396c202-3bc4-43ed-b449-ec36ba472c2d SCOOPS ARE BENEVOLENT AS WELL AS INTELLIGENT HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK ABRUPTLY HE SWITCHED TO HIS OWN INTEREST OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY CONVERSATION LANGUISHED THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR A TREMENDOUS CURRENT OF IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE WIRE CARRYING IT AND ONE WAS FIERY RED +83f089d1-89bc-4780-bb32-490ffa367c1d JOHN ANDREW HAD STOPPED TRYING TO HIDE HIS OWN FEAR AND THOUGH HE HAD PLENTY OF QUESTIONS OF HIS OWN HE WAS MAINLY CONCERNED WITH LOOKING FOR A MEANS OF ESCAPE SHE CAN'T COOK SAID FELICITY AND SHE HASN'T A GOOD COMPLEXION MIND YOU SHE SAYS SHE'S GOING TO BE AN ACTRESS WHEN SHE GROWS UP ISN'T THAT DREADFUL WE DIDN'T EXACTLY SEE WHY BUT PRESENTLY WOOD GOT HIS FEET TANGLED IN THE LACE APRON WHICH HE WAS STILL WEARING AND THAT TRIPPED HIM IN HIS FLIGHT AND MADE HIM FALL TO THE GROUND WHERE THE JAGUAR PLACED ONE HUGE PAW UPON HIM AND SAID GRIMLY I'VE GOT YOU NOW +83fef6b8-b0b2-4bf9-8a56-8b97fc9618b9 BUT THE SCOOP AT THE MOMENT FOUND WATER DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE IN EARNEST THEY ERASED THE FEARS OF THE NEUROTIC AND CALMED THE QUIVERINGS OF THE HY POTENSIVE WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY THERE WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RELIGION IN OLD TIMES SAID FELIX LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY BUT YOU SAID AN I A SHIP FOUND THIS JOINT THE CALL BELL JANGLED OF THE DELPHINAS +841b9188-3e9f-4ac9-8abc-fda113a73d1a I COULDN'T SEE IT OF COURSE BUT I KNEW IT HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE GRAPPLES IN THE CLAWS LATCHED ON TO THE STEEL PLATES ON MY SHOULDERS AND SUCH A WORKER SAID FELIX BUT ONLY TO THAT ONE WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT FIRST SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WALK AT ODIN'S RIGHT HAND FOREVER AROUND THEM SHAPES FLUNG THEMSELVES FROM VINE TO VINE ORN CALLED INTO HIS MIND THE LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN HYPNO FORCED INTO HIM +84425699-5cb1-4715-83f9-14c5bf04801a IT MUST BE FIFTY KILOMETERS LONG AND AT LEAST TEN WIDE SWARMING WITH THESE CREATURES TOO WE'VE GOT A ZONE COUNT ESTIMATE THE PLACES OF CITY'S POPULATION AT OVER THIRTY MILLION WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING POOR RACHEL WAS SO HAPPY THAT WINTER SHE MADE ALL HER WEDDING THINGS WITH HER OWN HANDS GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE NOT SO CHAFY THREE ASSURED HER GALACTIC WILL OFFER SATISFACTORY ITEMS IN EXCHANGE AS WELL AS A SOLUTION TO TARA'S PROBLEMS +84472dd7-065b-4721-a081-50729650f676 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS SPACE SHIP AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK TO EARTH BECAUSE WHEN YOU DRANK OF THE MAGIC CUP YOU FORGOT ALL YOUR PAST LIFE EXCEPT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU WERE ALLOWED TO REMEMBER IT I WISH THERE WAS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND AND A WAY TO GET TO IT SAID CECILY THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THEY ARE BUILT ON PLANETS AND GENERATE TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF POWER +84473209-cf59-4f09-918d-805fbde53497 SHE IS SO FOND OF RED YOU MAY THINK TIS A HASTY WOOING BUT THAT'S A STORY I CAN TELL YOU LATER MAYBE I KNOW WELL I'M NOT WORTHY OF YOU BUT IF YOUR TRUE LOVE COULD MAKE A MAN WORTHY THERE'D BE NONE BEFORE ME WILL MONTAGUE NEVER CAME I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS UNDER THE PLASTER SKIN +848269c5-f503-4151-b2bb-b3b58756ae47 NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT SAID UNCLE ALEC STERNLY I HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS IT DISAPPEARED BEHIND A TREE YOU INTEND TO START A WAR HORN TOUCHED HIS THROAT THERE IS THE WEDDING BELL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS WE WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ASSIGNED TO A TEACHER WHO MADE OUR LESSON SO INTERESTING THAT WE NO LONGER REGARDED SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AS A DISAGREEABLE WEEKLY DUTY +84a39fc1-3b86-4b4b-bca2-873cfb5e842a I FELT HE DIDN'T GRUDGE IT AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK I DON'T SUPPOSE THE AWKWARD MAN NOTICED IT AT ALL BUT MISTER CAMPBELL WILL OR I'M VERY MUCH MISTAKEN HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AT ONCE AND SAID NO THE PLANS WERE CHANGED WE HAD TO FIT IN SOME KIND OF NEW METEOR REPELLING GEAR FOR OPERATING IN THE PLANETARY DEBRIS BELT I FLIPPED THROUGH MY CASE AND DREW OUT A PLAN DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I DON'T CARE FOR MY HUSBAND TREATED ME BADLY AT TIMES FORGETTING THE RESPECT A GIANT OWES TO A GIANTESS BUT THEN THESE TWO QUAINT PERSONS NEVER SLEPT WHY SHOULD THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY NEVER TIRED +84b27cfa-7013-433b-98d7-e657b2f76ff3 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I HAD LOADED THE CARDS WITH ALL THE THINGS HE MIGHT WANT AND PLANTED THE INFORMATION WHERE HE COULD GET IT MANUEL WENT WITH MULA A ROUND EASY MAN AND A SPAR SCORNED MULE AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO IN THE MORNING WHEN THE FIRST WALLOWERS ARRIVED I FLIPPED ON THE RECORDER I TAGGED THIS EXPRESSION WITH THE PHRASE HEY GEORGE AND WAITED MY CHANCE TO USE IT +84e50f0e-6e82-49fd-8656-b9f7e3ee4af1 WE FELT SURE OF THAT I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT MY PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION +84e57696-87f8-40e1-850f-9619cb6b11f2 WHEN YOUR FATHER'S RUN AWAY AND YOUR MOTHER GOES OUT WASHING AND YOU'RE ONLY OLD ENOUGH TO GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK YOU CAN'T GIVE MUCH TO THE HEATHEN AND YOU'VE NO BUSINESS TO ESPECIALLY WHEN MOTHER'S AWAY SHE HAD SOFT BROWN EYES THAT WERE TOO TIMID TO LOOK STRAIGHT AT ANYBODY THERE WAS NO FINDING IT OUT FROM THE STORY GIRL VISIT THE FORBIDDEN CITY OF LOOMVILLE WHEREVER YOU WISH TO GO I WILL GO THE HEART OF THE TIN WOODMAN +8509d864-16de-45e5-ac18-e401e503de13 GAVE ME THE SLIP WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT WELL I'LL DO IT TOO I'M TOO WORN OUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE YOU DO MANOEL JUST A COUPLE OF LAST QUESTIONS MAKE THEM REEL FAST THEN I'M ON MY WAY OR SO IT SEEMED AT LEAST FOR EVEN AS RAY STARTED FORWARD WITH OUTSTRETCHED HAND OBVIOUSLY HOPING TO EXAMINE THE THING GARF GAVE IT A FINAL TWIRL AND SCALED IT CARELESSLY OVERBOARD SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY NOBODY'S HERE SHE SAID IN THE VOICE OF A VERY BANANOUS TOAD GO AWAY +851f6562-58db-4b9f-9b2e-ec2748817de2 STRANGELY ENOUGH IT WAS NOT DARK IN THIS IMMENSE NATURAL CHAMBER IN THE WOODLAND FOR THE PLACE GLOWED WITH THE SOFT WHITE LIGHT THAT SEEMED TO COME FROM SOME UNSEEN SOURCE OUR DOOR WAS OPEN AND IN THEIR ROOM ACROSS THE NARROW HALL THE GIRLS WERE PREPARING FOR BED AND TALKING RATHER MORE LOUDLY THAN THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE HAD THEY REALIZED HOW FAR THEIR SWEET SHRILL VOICES CARRIED WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU DON'T STAND ROUND LIKE NINNIES WE MUST FIND HIM BEFORE HIS MOTHER GETS HERE DAN KING YOU'RE AN IDIOT DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME +852c054f-e373-4362-8f17-193e600711a2 A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS UNDOUBTEDLY THEY HAD STARTED THE PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT TRANSPORT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED LATER ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW IT MAY BE THAT THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE IN MAKING SOME PLANS FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW +8540ac81-fc35-4665-98cc-865f6fa0d18e NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE THE E I OPERATOR SHOOK HIS HEAD DOUBTFULLY CONSEIL'S GONE FOR THE DAY AUBREY I'LL SEE IF I CAN REACH HIM HE WAS ABOUT TO SEND OUT AN E I PATROL SHIP TO TAKE OVER HERE IN THE ISLANDS JEFF SAID TELL HIM TO HURRY YET WELL IF THERE ISN'T ONE IN TORONTO IT ISN'T LIKELY THERE'S ONE ANYWHERE SAID PETER DISAPPOINTEDLY I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL ONCE HE ADDED IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL +854b57d4-f900-4a70-8c0c-91bbbadc7207 LIKELY A GLAYA SWALLOWED IT SAID FELIX SPARECTICALLY DID GLAUCON AND AGLEIA EVER GET MARRIED ASKED SARA RAY OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS HURRY IN THE WORLD WHILE WE LINGERED THERE AND TALKED OF CABBAGES AND KINGS THEREFORE SHE MADE THE ENCHANTED AXE CUT OFF MY OTHER ARM AND THE TINSMITH ALSO REPLACED THAT MEMBER WITH TIN INCLUDING THESE FINELY JOINTED HANDS THAT YOU SEE ME USING +856e99b2-9d58-49c3-b1e5-8a95c61f4c84 BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US IT COULD HAVE ONLY BEEN ABOUT THREE DAYS TO BE A NUISANCE HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD KUTUFF NODDED A SECOND PASSED STRANGER SHARP SAID +857c91e1-2b3e-498c-9b58-4d547a72b4ae BEFORE IT COULD FALL I HAD MY SOLAR OUT AND WITH A WIDE ANGLE SHOT BURNED THE CONTRACT TO ASHES THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW BEFORE HE GOT OVER THE SHOCK I SNAPPED AN ORDER AT HIM COME UP HERE AND SIT DOWN QUICK THE ROBART HUSTLED HIM ACROSS THE ROOM AT THE SAME TIME SO HE HAD NO CHOICE EXCEPT TO OBEY WHEN HE SAW THE PAPERS ON THE DESK HIS EYES BULGED AND HE JUST GURGLED A LITTLE ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES NOW ONLY THE WILD ONES DO THIS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS EASY ON THE SEXLIME BOY THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY +8588f687-504a-47a6-b0eb-95fc2f78dc1d STORY GIRL WAS AWFULLY DISAPPOINTED FELICITY CECILY AND DAN WERE SITTING OPPOSITE US IT IS SOMETIMES A BITTER THING TO TELL THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY TO A YOUNG LADY FOR WHOM YOU HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS UNDER ECLIPSE SHE WAS FAIR AND LUSTRELESS FROM HER DISTURBED NIGHT AND EARLY RISING AND NO OPPORTUNITY OFFERED TO TELL A MELTING TALE +85aa0093-e603-4402-a5d9-f11d564f25b0 I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY AH BUT IT WAS BECAUSE CECILY CRIED ALL NIGHT THAT DAN WAS FILLED WITH SAVOURING REMORSE AND REPENTANCE I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS BACK AT DEAR OLD EUNUCH GALACTICA +85e06fb9-286c-489b-b2af-4da9a581ce37 IT MIGHT INDEED THIS WAS A NEW HORROR WHICH HAD NOT OCCURRED TO US I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT SAID FELIX THE PAPER SAYS TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SAID DAN YOU NEEDN'T WORRY SARAH BUT SARAH DEPARTED WEEPING SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN THE BIBLE IS AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID THE STORY GIRL COMING TO PETER'S RESCUE AND THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT STORIES IN IT YES FELICITY MAGNIFICENT IF THE WORLD DOESN'T COME TO AN END I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY OF RUTH NEXT SUNDAY LOOK HERE I'LL TELL IT ANYHOW THAT'S A PROMISE WHEREVER WE ARE NEXT SUNDAY I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT RUTH WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOW I TELL YOU I NEVER DID EXCLAIMED PETER INDIGNANTLY I NEVER MENTIONED YOUR NAME I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD +85f02186-a862-439d-a0bb-831be42489a8 THE STORY GIRL LAWFULLY TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND AND FELICITY SAID THAT FAT BOYS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS I SHALL WORK TO DO YOU GOOD HE SAID AND NOT EVIL I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME AND THEN WE WENT INTO THE ORCHARD IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER +86083572-0501-4f7a-abdc-525cd7e934f5 EVER SINCE THE FOURTH WORK CUT THEM OFF FROM US CHAFFY FOUR AGREED RELUCTANTLY HE YELLED UNGALLANTLY IN HER EAR DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM MISTER MARSHALL IS YES WHO ARE YOU YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER +8618065f-8154-41db-9b39-82f7431921d8 SIT DOWN PETE AND LET'S TALK YOU AND MISSUS PARIN ARE TO LEAVE ME HERE AND NOT DISTURB ANYTHING OR BY THE SCARCELY LESS DISAGREEABLE METHOD OF BEGGING BUT AUNT JULIA HAD GONE WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER +863decf0-8a88-46a9-b613-bf054a82c414 FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE THE LATCH OF THE GATE CLICKED UNDER THE STORY GIRL'S HAND AND THE NEXT MOMENT WE WERE IN THE KING ORCHARD I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I WOULDN'T HAVE DISOBEYED US OFTEN IF I'D THOUGHT THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS SO NEAR WHEN I GO HOME I'M GOING TO TELL HER ABOUT GOING TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW I'M NOT SURE THAT UNCLE ROGER MEANT WHAT HE SAID REMARKED THE STORY GIRL WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE EXCLAIMED PETER HAS THE MEASLES HE WAS DREADFULLY SICK ALL NIGHT AND UNCLE ROGER HAD TO GO FOR THE DOCTOR HE WAS QUITE LIGHT HEADED AND DIDN'T KNOW ANY ONE OF COURSE HE'S FAR TOO SICK TO BE TAKEN HOME SO HIS MOTHER IS COME TO WAIT ON HIM AND I'M TO LIVE OVER HERE UNTIL HE IS BETTER +8640e7c9-ed20-40e3-859f-3b8917897b22 OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC IN AN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE AND COULD ONLY RELIEVE HER ANGUISH OF SOUL BY DAILY LETTERS TO CECILY WHICH THE FAITHFUL AND OBLIGING JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP FOR HER WAS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT OUT OF THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES HORN SAW MORE SHADOWS DROPPING TO THE MUD AROUND HIM +86629bc5-67ed-49ac-a65c-e0b8957723d4 LUCK WAS WITH THEM THE SYSTEM HAD BEEN CATALOGUED SOME FOUR SERREAN GENERATIONS BEFORE AND TAGGED PLANET UNDEVELOPED TRANQUIL MARINE INTELLIGENCES ONLY CHAPTER THREE ROUNDABOUT WOOT THE WANDERER SLEPT THAT NIGHT IN THE TIN CASTLE OF THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES AND FOUND HIS TIN BED QUITE COMFORTABLE IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR WHILE THE SIMAN UNFOCUSED HIS EYES AND MUMBLED UNDER HIS BREATH I RIFFLED SOME PAPERS RELAXED AND COOL +86674f68-8e55-4852-9e9d-60f32e120121 WE ARGUED OVER IT SERIOUSLY BUT FINALLY HAD TO GIVE UP WELL WHAT IS THE REASON ASKED FELICITY BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX AND YES HE WANTED IN ADVANCE AGAINST ROYALTIES IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE LARGE RAY LIVED SIMPLY TO TIDE HIM OVER WHILE DOING THE ACTUAL WRITING WHICH SHOULDN'T TAKE MORE THAN A VERY FEW WEEKS TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT SEEN TWO COMING UP +866af065-5fd7-4719-85bb-ad6bfbfa3515 FELICITY MADE HER MOUTH WATER BY ANNOUNCING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO MAKE A ROLY POLY JAM PUDDING FOR DINNER THIS WAS THE EARLIEST TYPE OF BEACON EVER BUILT BY EARTH NO LESS THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR JEFF DISMISSED IT IMPATIENTLY IT HAD REVERSED ITS UNBELIEVABLE LENGTH TO KEEP THE HEAD SUBMERGED +86a93753-d774-4ff2-b72f-1b065f1371f1 JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT THE GREAT SQUARE OF PEGASUS WAS OVER OUR HEADS CASSIOPEIA SAT ENTHRONED IN HER BEAUTIFUL CHAIR IN THE NORTH EAST AND NORTH OF US THE DIPPERS SWUNG UNTIRINGLY AROUND THE POLE STAR CECILY AND FELIX WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DISTINGUISH THE DOUBLE STAR IN THE HANDLE OF THE BIG DIPPER AND GREATLY DID THEY PLUME THEMSELVES THEREON WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD I'M WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SAID ANGRILY LOOKING AT THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF HIM THE GIRL CAUGHT WHYS FIRST SHE SPUN AROUND AND POINTED HE'S HERE THEY BOTH STARED GAPED AT ME CAUGHT OFF GUARD AND COMPLETELY UNPREPARED YOU'RE UNDER ARREST CRIME KING I TOLD HIM AND A GIRL FRIEND ANGELINA ROLLED HER EYES UP AND SLID SLOWLY TO THE FLOOR REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL +86c8c254-e322-4abf-9d65-a0a86e57aad2 GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING BUT HE WAS A TOUGH BOSO SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS BUT SHE SAYS HE'LL NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND WHEN HE FINDS HER SHE WON'T HAVE HIM IT'S OUR OWN FAMILY GHOST SO OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT US YOUR APPLES ARE LOVELY TO EAT THE STORY GIRL SAID TO ME +8725e20a-e93f-4798-9e3f-e45ed4bee0e0 THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED OVER HOME AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK WE GASPED SHE HAD COMBED HER HAIR OUT STRAIGHT AND BRAIDED IT IN A TIGHT KINKY PUDGY BRAID AND SHE WORE AN OLD DRESS OF FADED PRINT WITH HOLES IN THE ELBOWS AND RAGGED FLOUNCES WHICH WAS MUCH TOO SHORT FOR HER NEVER HEARD OF IT INSKIPP SAID AS WE TOOK THE PRIVATE DROP SHOOT TO HIS OFFICE WHICH MAY BE A GIRL BAD SIGN ONLY THE FIRST TIME TROUBLE CAME FROM SOME ALLOY SPOT I NEVER KNEW EXISTED WITH THE AUTOMATIC DISREGARD FOR OTHERS OF THE TRULY DEDICATED HE PRESSED THE SCRAMBLE BUTTON ON HIS DESK I SHALL ENJOY YOUR SOCIETY THE MORE ON THAT ACCOUNT FOR I MEAN TO KEEP YOU HERE AS LONG AS I LIVE TO AMUSE ME WHEN I GET LONELY AND SHE ADDED SLOWLY IN THIS VALLEY NO ONE EVER DIES +872975fb-c5fb-48dd-9c52-a54bff9e59c4 I'M GOING TO TAKE A WHIRL AT WHAT I'LL CALL THE INFROMEDIAN EXISTENCE WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY OVER THE DOOR BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER EUP IS A PRISONER IN A CAGE IN A FAR OFF I SHALL BE ABLE TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY A NEIL WENT ON TASTING HALF WAY BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE HARBOUR THERE WAS A THICK SPRUCE WOOD AND THE PATH RAN THROUGH IT +87317b06-d600-4d7e-93af-f9a06f7c30ad FELICITY GOT THE DINNER BY HERSELF DISDAINING TO ASK OR COMMAND ASSISTANCE CAME DOWN WITH SMILES AND SPARKLING EYES EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN FELIX HAD A SIX SPELL SOON AFTER WE BEGAN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND AUNT JANET ESSAYED TO CURE HIM BY ADMINISTERING A DOSE OF LIVER PILLS WHICH ELDER FREWIN HAD ASSURED HER WERE A CURE ALL FOR EVERY DISEASE THE FLESH IS HEIR TO I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID CECILY HAD OFFERED TO BAKE EVERY EPISTLE THOROUGHLY IN THE OVEN BEFORE SENDING IT EVEN FELICITY AND DAN FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES GOT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT ANY EXCHANGE OF LEFT HANDED COMPLIMENTS +8736eae9-95c7-4842-8efc-fec81f24889f THE DISCOVERY RELIEVED THEM GREATLY FOR THE REASON THAT NO SERIMIAN EVEN TO SAVE HIS OWN FEATHERED SKIN WOULD HAVE SET DOWN SUCH A MONSTER AS THE ZID AMONG RATIONAL BUT VULNERABLE ENTITIES AND THEN CELIA GAVE IN AND TOOK HIM BECAUSE SHE SAW THERE WASN'T NO HOPE OF HIM EVER GIVING IN I JUST REMEMBERED THAT STORY AND I THOUGHT I COULD SEE HIM TAKING UP THE SENSE SO SOLEMN WITH ONE LONG WHISKER AND THE LAUGH JUST LAUGHED ITSELF BEFORE I COULD HELP IT FOR A THOUSAND THOUSAND YEARS THEY BOTH BUILT THE BRIDGE OF LIGHT AND AT LAST THEY MET AND SPRANG INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS THEIR TOIL AND LONELINESS AND SUFFERING WERE ALL OVER AND FORGOTTEN AND THE BRIDGE THEY HAD BUILT SPANNED THE GULF BETWEEN THEIR STARS OF EXILE +874d91cf-a8ae-404d-bd4c-49851fb52698 WE DID NOT KNOW HER AT ALL UNDER THAT NAME OF COURSE THERE WAS NO ORCHARD HERE THEN IT WAS JUST A FIELD BUT THERE WAS A CLUMP OF WHITE BIRCHES IN IT RIGHT WHERE THAT BIG SPREADING TREE OF UNCLE ALEC'S IS NOW AND EMILY LIKED TO SIT AMONG THE FERNS UNDER THE BIRCHES AND READ OR SEW IT WAS NOT LOCKED SHE OPENED IT AND WENT IN WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE FOUND SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE +8755c56e-f796-46ca-947f-f37e6b05027a YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY I HAD BLACK HAIR BUT NOW WE WERE TOO CRUSHED AND MISERABLE TO MOVE WHY DON'T YOU TALK SENSE IF YOU MUST TALK SAID FELICITY THAT MEEKEST AND MILDEST OF GIRLS WAS IN THE HABIT OF DREAMING TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM HE SHIFTED HIS FEET BUT LET ME ESTABLISH ONE POINT AT A TIME IN THE MOST SCHOLASTIC MANNER IF YOU WILL PERMIT +87cbce99-1d8e-4738-9ca1-bd455f709f55 AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS OH OUR ANGELS ARE ANGELS THAT HAVE BEEN ANGELS SO LONG THEY'VE HAD TIME TO GROW BETTER AND BRIGHTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN NEWER ANGELS SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO PROBABLY MADE THAT EXPLANATION UP ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT JUST TO PACIFY PETER OH JUST THE NICE PARTS HE SAYS THERE'S A HEAVEN ALL RIGHT BUT NO NO HELL I DON'T WANT DOWN TO GROW UP LIKE THAT IT ISN'T RESPECTABLE AND YOU WOULDN'T WANT ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE CROWDING HEAVEN NOW WOULD YOU WRIGHT INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS +87f9303b-da5e-4a7c-ae3e-7cae0f414083 OUR RELATIVES STARTED US WITH A QUARTER APIECE FOR THE REST WE KNEW WE MUST DEPEND ON OUR OWN EXERTIONS PETER WAS HANDICAPPED AT THE BEGINNING BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO FAMILY FRIEND TO FINANCE HIM MY AUNT JANE HAD BEEN LIVING SHE'D HAVE GIVEN ME SOMETHING HE REMARKED AND IF MY FATHER HADN'T RUN AWAY HE MIGHT HAVE GIVEN ME SOMETHING TOO BUT I'M GOING TO DO THE BEST I CAN ANYHOW YOUR AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I CAN HAVE THE JOB OF GATHERIN THE EGGS AND I'M TO HAVE ONE EGG OUT OF EVERY DOZEN TO SELL FOR MYSELF THEN THE TIN WOODMAN STARED HARD AT HIS FRIEND THE SCARECROW BUT FINALLY HE SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE OF VOICE I MUST ADMIT THAT NEVER BEFORE HAVE I THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS FINDING MINNY AND ME AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES GARF TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE TELEVISION SAT WHICH WAS STILL PRESENTING HIS HYSTERICAL VAUDEVILLE GREAT UNCLE'S GUILDS HE EXCLAIMED AND LAPSED INTO FASCINATED SILENCE HE STUDIED THE PROCEEDINGS CAREFULLY HOLDING THE ARMS CROSS POSE AGAIN FINALLY HE TURNED TO RAY +88276408-6cfa-40ba-9ad5-b912f30b0969 DO LEARN IS SIMPLE DON'T YOU ASK QUESTIONS INQUIRED THE SCARECROW YES I ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS I DARE BUT SOME PEOPLE REFUSE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS MISTER SCOTT PLANTED THE YELLOW PLUM TREE IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME SAID CECILY PEELING ONE OF THE PLUMS AND WHEN HE DID IT HE SAID IT WAS AS CHRISTIAN AN ACT AS HE EVER DID I WONDER WHAT HE MEANT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING VERY CHRISTIAN ABOUT PLANTING A TREE I DO SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY WELL I ALWAYS LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARD SAID SARA RAY UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE WOULDN'T WANT A WIFE HE COULD NEVER QUARREL WITH REMARKED ANNE HE SAYS IT WOULD BE TOO TAME A LIFE FOR HIM I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER +88396658-050d-4200-a3a4-d3867a433013 THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED IN THE FOREGROUND THE BOAT AND ITS OCCUPANTS WERE SHARPLY ETCHED BUT SEEMED TO HAVE GONE INTO SLOW MOTION THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY INSTALLED I SHOUTED DID YOU SAY INSTALLED ROCKER COLLAPSED AWAY FROM MY ROAR AND GNAWED HIS EARS YES HE SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME TROUBLE AND WHAT ELSE I INTERRUPTED HIM +88409ebc-5d58-45cf-8829-33843ccdb4bd HER FIGURE WAS LEAF AND NICELY CURVED HE SAID THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO HIS MIND AND THERE WERE VARIOUS OTHER UNUSUAL APPENDAGES YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE FELIX PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE A COMPELLING CHARM THAT WOULD NOT BE DENIED +884f3b63-cdd9-4f20-ad90-97a247d34dde WE HAD NEVER LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN ANY ONE HOUSE THE SHEETS AND PILLOW SLIPS WERE FRAGRANT WITH LAVENDER DON'T GAPE GET IT SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST THEY'VE SUFFERED ENOUGH WRITTEN THESE DREADFUL TRANSFORMATIONS THE TWO FRIENDS WERE SURE TO PASS +88557bdc-9079-457d-98e9-fa153692edd8 THE RATINGS AND OFFICERS WAITED TENSELY AND MADE SOME SLIGHT ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THEIR HATRED OF ME IN THE LAST RESULT IT WOULD BLOW ITSELF UP SHE USED TO LIVE WITH AN OLD WITCH WHO WAS SUDDENLY DESTROYED SO HE SAT ON THE BACK OF HER CHAIR AND CHATTERED TO HER WHILE SHE MENDED HER STOCKINGS CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE +888cfc4e-b2d2-4810-9da7-aeb070010b7a TRIANGULATION AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN THE BATTERY OF SIAMEN THERE CONTACTED THE INDIVIDUAL PLANETS AND ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS KEEP ADDING TO THE LIST OF PLANETS THE INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH WAS AS OLD FASHIONED AS ITS EXTERIOR IT WAS FURNISHED WITH SQUARE BOX PEWS THE PULPIT WAS A WINE GLASS ONE AND WAS REACHED BY A STEEP NARROW FLIGHT OF STEPS UNCLE ALEC'S PEW WAS AT THE TOP OF THE CHURCH QUITE NEAR THE PULPIT +8893f276-2e35-4a16-a354-322bb14749bb BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS MARSHAL DON'T ASK THE LITTLE BUG SO MANY QUESTIONS YOU GOT A MILLION NAMES IN YOUR HAND CERTIFY THEM SEND THEM IN THERE'S ENOUGH OF US HERE RIGHT NOW WE DECLARE THAT PLACE UNANNEXED FORTHWITH THIS WILL MAKE HIGH PLAINS THE BIGGEST TOWN IN THE WHOLE STATE OF TEXAS NOW THAT I WAS IN SPACE PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN ALL THE DOUBTS I HAD DISMISSED FOUGHT FOR ATTENTION THE PLAN THAT SEEMED SO CLEAR AND LOGICAL NOW BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A PATCHED AND CRAZY MAKESHIFT HOLD THERE SAILOR I SAID TO MYSELF USING MY BEST ADMIRAL'S VOICE NOTHING HAS CHANGED IT'S STILL THE BEST AND ONLY PLAN POSSIBLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS RIGHT THERE IS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND BUT ONLY CHILDREN CAN FIND THE WAY TO IT AND THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT IT IS FAIRYLAND UNTIL THEY HAVE GROWN SO OLD THAT THEY FORGET THE WAY ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE +88942158-34de-49a1-834d-41cf5dde3569 REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER HIS COPY OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON BUT TWO THINGS WERE CLEAR TO ME OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC +88a02d24-f334-4ebb-a2a3-de69e00c15ef HE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT IT HAVEN'T ANYTHING YOU FELLOWS HAVE EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES I CAN BE CONNED ONCE HOW COULD ANYONE IN THE WORLD BE HAPPY WHEN WE WERE SO UNHAPPY WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW +8910218a-d36a-440f-b791-741053eca822 HE WAS PECULIAR JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID PAUSE YES SHE HAD BEEN AWAY AND HAD JUST COME HOME AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE POET AND IT WAS FROM THE SEA HE CAME TO SET OUT HIS AVENUE IN THE ORCHARD WITH TREES BROUGHT FROM A FOREIGN LAND +89401200-fb64-4c40-949f-10a64b26500d THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY THERE WAS NOBODY THERE BUT BETTY SHERMAN AND BETTY WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM THE REST OF US REMAINED IN THE BACKGROUND BUT WITHIN HEARING OCTOBER WAS A BUSY MONTH ON THE HILL FARMS OF OUR MERRY LITTLE BAND SHE KNEW FOR HE HAD WRITTEN SO TO HER THAT HE HAD EYES AS BLACK AS HER OWN WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES +8945a2c6-b445-4786-a1d0-8d040e08d862 THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS WE WERE ALL IN THE HAYLOFT THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TELLING US TALE OF OLD UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO YES SIR ADMIRAL STETSON SIR RIGHT AWAY SIR BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A SIR HE BEGAN CHANGING FROM THE I A BLUE TO THE YAR IN OUR WHITE ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID SIR WELL IT SOUNDED NASTY SAID PETER WHO KNEW THAT IT IS THE TONE THAT MAKES THE MUSIC WHAT DID YOUR AUNT JANE LOOK LIKE ASKED CECILY SYMPATHETICALLY WAS SHE PRETTY +896b8f54-235b-4294-a7d0-3f9f487613fa I HAD HARD WORK TO KEEP FELIX FROM TRYING TO SEE IF HE COULD SHY A MARBLE INTO THAT TEMPTING OPEN MOUTH I TOLD HIM IT WOULD AWAKEN DAN WHO WOULD THEN LIKELY INSIST ON GETTING UP AND ACCOMPANYING US AND IT WILL BE SO MUCH NICER TO GO BY OURSELVES FOR THE FIRST TIME THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK IT ISN'T ANY USE FOR ME TO TRY TO LEARN TO COOK SAID SHE NEVER MIND I SAID CONSOLINGLY YOU CAN TELL SPLENDID STORIES I COULDN'T STAND BY AND WATCH FELIX AND PETER POUND EACH OTHER ALL TO PIECES SHE SOBBED THEY'VE BEEN SUCH FRIENDS AND IT WAS DREADFUL TO SEE THEM FIGHTING +897545fe-05ee-4702-ba67-7fd2547ee54b SURE I'M MANUEL JUST LIKE I LEFT THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SHRUNK THREE FEET AND TWO HUNDRED POUNDS AND AGED A MILLION ORN HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND PALM OUT HE HAD A SECOND THOUGHT HELD UP HIS LEFT HAND TOO UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS EMPTY HANDS THE GUN MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY HE WAS TRYING TO BE FAIR AND CONSIDERATE OF MY VIEWS AND NOT SUCCEEDING IN THE SLIGHTEST IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE HE GROWLED PEPPET MADE A STRANGLING NOISE AND I LOOKED BACK TO HIM QUICKLY HE WAS SITTING UP NOW AND HIS FACE WAS DRY OF TEARS IN FACT HE WAS LAUGHING NOT CRYING +899c3133-b0c8-4d3f-8e19-e62993bc407a WHO WASN'T OBVIOUSLY MORE CAPABLE OF HELPING HERSELF THAN HE WAS FARMER DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY BUT HE WANTED TO DELAY HER YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED DO YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME YONAH SAID SATTERFIELD SAID PEEVISHLY IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP COME OUT OF IT WILL YOU +89a929dc-d1fe-4b65-8cbd-d031862a5bb5 AND THEN HE LAY DOWN PERMITTED THEM TO PULL THE STRAW FROM HIS BODY AND SHE ADDED SLOWLY GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE HE SHIFTED UNEASILY ON THE BUILT IN SEAT HE WAS CLIMBING OVER THE RAIL AT THE STERN NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL +89af552a-edea-40e8-a55c-d8c01241ad70 THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY WE CAN PRAY FOR HIM SO WE CAN I AGREED I'M GOING TO PRAY LIKE SIXTY SAID FELIX ENERGETICALLY WE'LL HAVE TO BE AWFUL GOOD YOU KNOW WARNED CECILY THERE'S NO USE PRAYING IF YOU'RE NOT GOOD THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN SHE FOLLOWED IT UP THIS TIME WITH A STRING OF INTRICATE FOREIGN SOUNDING WORDS THAN EVEN FARMER COULD TELL WERE HOT AND STINGING THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE WELL MAYBE YOU COULD RETORTED DAN SARCASTICALLY YOU'D BE SO AFRAID OF SPOILING YOUR LOOKS THAT YOU'D RATHER DIE THAN MAKE A FACE I SUPPOSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU ATE FELICITY MAKES ENOUGH FACES WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO MAKE FACES AT SAID FELIX WHO HAD BEEN GRIMACED AT OVER THE BREAKFAST TABLE THAT MORNING AND HADN'T LIKED IT +89b4532f-dcd6-4738-b0ec-334040a18218 I HAD MEANT TO SAIL OUT BRAVELY BLIND EYES FACING INTO THE SUNSET INSTEAD I FACED THE CROWD AS I SOARED AWAY SO I MADE THE MOST OF A BAD SITUATION AND THREW THEM A SNAPPY MILITARY SALUTE THEN I WAS OUT IN THE FRESH AIR AND AWAY THERE'S MANY A GIRL WOULD GLADLY SAY YES FOR YOUR ASKING AND HERE STANDS ONE WHY NOT MARRY ME NEIL CAMPBELL THE CANARY SWIFTLY DARTED TO A PLACE BESIDE THE OWL AND THE GREEN MONKEY SPRANG UP CAUGHT A LIMB AND SOON SCRAMBLED TO A HIGH PERCH OF SAFETY +89b74247-23b2-4754-9840-56605a57353b WHAT A LOVELY STORY SIGHED SARA RAY WHO HAD BEEN WOOED A TEMPORARY FORGETFULNESS OF HER WOES BY ITS CHARM THE REST OF US CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING THAT WE HAD BEEN WANDERING AMONG THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN THE BRAIN WAS AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER ROBART BRAIN I HAVE KNOWN PLUS THE FACT THAT THE CHUNKY BODY WAS CRAMMED WITH DEVICES AND MACHINES OF VARYING USE IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR THERE WAS A WOMAN'S PICTURE ABOVE THE BOOKCASE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS SHE THINKS IT WAS A COLORED PHOTOGRAPH BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS ANYWAY IT WAS A VERY PRETTY GIRL BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE MISSUS +89e33c82-f1db-49bc-8812-3ac7e696d614 I SHUT UP FELICITY AND CECILY WERE SETTING OUT A LUNCH IN THE PANTRY WHEN WE WERE ALL STARTLED BY A LOUD GROAN FROM THE SOFA OH I'M SICK I'M AWFUL SICK SAID DAN ABJECTLY ALL THE DEFIANCE AND BRAVADO GONE OUT OF HIM YONAS WENT OVER TO HIS PALLET REMOVED HIS JERKIN AND SHOES AND LAY DOWN HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE ALWAYS HE WALKED ON ODIN'S RIGHT HAND AND ALWAYS THE FIRST LIGHT OF ODIN'S SMILE FELL ON HIM +89fe812d-3944-4223-89b3-57000cfefe7c I'LL BE RIGHT BACK HE SETTLED A HELMET ON HIS HEAD MOTIONED FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM CHECK THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SOUP'S SELF CONTAINED OXYGEN SUPPLY JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND THE TURNED INTO A TORCH AND SANK BENEATH HIM BRANDON CLOSED HIS EYES FOR A MOMENT WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER +8a0fcbbb-6ada-4b44-9a5c-b26665771cf0 I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP THEN I WENT TO THE GALLEY FOR A LONG STRONG DRINK MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID UNCLE ROGER MAY NOT BE BACK FOR HOURS I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE MAYBE IT'S ONLY PEG BOWEN SUGGESTED DAN THERE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF COMFORT IN THIS WE WERE ALMOST AS MUCH AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN AS WE WOULD BE OF ANY SPECTRAL VISITANT IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT IF ANYTHING COULD HAVE MADE HIM THIN THE WAY HE WORRIED OVER THIS MATTER WOULD HAVE DONE IT FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE +8a270c3b-b122-4b1c-b0ec-fbd4417ea5b5 HE LOOKED AT IT AS A MAN LOOKS AT A FLICKERING FIREPLACE AND THINKS OF OTHER THINGS THE FACE OF REINHERT THE RADIO MAN APPEARED BEFORE HIM LET EM HAVE MARS AND VENUS FOR IT WAS AN UNDENIABLY UGLY ONE SAUCY WOMAN WITH FULL BLOWN PEONY CHEEKS I SHALL TRY TO CULTIVATE PATIENCE PETER RECEIVED AN EXTRA SETTING DOWN WHICH HE CONSIDERED RANK INJUSTICE +8a355029-cb70-4896-bc5e-f2e8993ed7cf I HAVEN'T A SINGLE THING TO WEAR EXCEPT MY SCHOOL GINGHAM I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH THE EMPEROR DISCOVERED A HEAD IT ARE APT TO FORGET THAT HE IS NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE SIGN ANOTHER PATH THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT +8a5573f3-2e0d-48c1-b7cd-a54d1c32cce0 THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED ITCHED MADDENINGLY HE SCRATCHED ONCE UPON A TIME THE STORY GIRL'S EYES GREW DREAMY AND HER ACCENTS FLOATED AWAY ON THE SUMMER AIR LIKE A WIND BLOWN ROSE PETALS THERE WAS A PRINCESS WHO WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS IN THE WORLD AND KINGS FROM ALL LANDS CAME TO WOO HER FOR A BRIDE NOW SAID DAN I'LL COUNT AND WHEN I SAY THREE YOU PITCH IN AND HAMMER EACH OTHER UNTIL ONE OR TWO OF YOU HAS HAD ENOUGH CECILY KEEP QUIET NOW ONE TWO THREE +8a6841af-ee2e-4c14-9b37-efd2d498d65c THE COHANTS FIGHT ALL THE TIME AND YOU AND DAN WILL SOON BE AS BAD YOU COAXED JUDY TO HOLD HER TONGUE BUT I SHALL MAKE YOU A FAIR OFFER I HAVE HEARD FROM MY HOUSEKEEPER'S URCHIN OF A SON THAT YOU ARE A MASTER HAND TELL STORIES I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER +8a7712cc-7070-4af0-9721-78e64ff65b23 YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO ASKED ORAN THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES OWING TO THE RAIN WE COULD NOT FOREGATHER IN THE ORCHARD WHERE WE HAD MEANT TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS WITH JERRY WE DID NOT WISH OUR GROWN UPS AROUND AT OUR GREAT MOMENT SO WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE LOFT OF THE GRANARY IN THE SPRUCE WOOD FROM WHOSE WINDOW WE COULD SEE THE MAIN ROAD AND HALE JERRY YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE FIRST STEP CLARTON SAID DO NOTHING RASH OF COURSE NOT YOU WOULD NOT ACCEPT HELP I WILL NOT YUNUS THOUGHT VERY WELL THEN CLAYTON THOUGHT THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ME IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE MEMBER HE THOUGHT +8a924490-4366-44af-a622-d6fe6362f9b8 THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME ONLY NATIVE LIFE FORMS WERE QUITE WELL PROTECTED ONE LIZARD MERELY TURNED THE HANDLE AND WE WERE INSIDE THE BEACON ODIN WAS THE GREAT GOD OF THE NORTHLAND YOU KNOW HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE +8aa11409-eaf7-40fd-98a5-599bea93d4bb WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED AWAY THROUGH THE GAP FOLLOWED BY PATTY AND THE REST OF US WALKED UP THE ORCHARD TO THE HOUSE DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM ARE SURE EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGNOLENA SEE THEM EIGHT NINE PEOPLE SEE THEM AND MANWELL HOW DO WE GET TO THE PLACE CAN YOU SHOW US ON A MAP THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL THEY SAY HE STOOD ON THE DECK OF THE FANNY AND PLEADED WITH THE MEN WHILE THE TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE BUT THEY WOULD NOT YIELD AND HE HAD TO LEAVE MARGARET BEHIND OH WHAT A PARTING IT WAS +8ad69caf-7a35-497a-a123-62b8435f7ad4 WELL SAID AUNT JANET WHEN WE ALL DESCENDED TO THE KITCHEN CICELY GOT OUT HER LESSON SLIP AND STUDIED THE LESSON CONSCIENTIOUSLY A WAGON RUMBLING OVER A PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW MADE SARAH RAY START UP WITH A SHRIEK AMONG THE FAIR FRAIL WHITE LADIES OF THE WALK WHAT PETER HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED FOR REMAINED A SECRET LONGER THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS NO MENTION OF ANY OTHER NAVAL SIGNALING EQUIPMENT THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE NOW IT MIGHT BE OVERHEARD +8adecfbe-ebb5-458f-8ea5-afa821c727b1 THE STORY GIRL SCATTERED HER ROSES AROUND HER ON THE GRASS AND CLASPED HER SLIM HANDS OVER HER KNEES I'VE BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND HEARD SOME GOOD THINGS BUT I'VE NEVER ENJOYED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT THREADBARE OLD STORY I HEARD IN MY CRADLE BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER AND SHE HAD A TINY BERTH MARK LIKE A PINK BUTTERFLY ON ONE CHEEK DAN SAT ON THE FLOOR AND WHITTLED HIS SOLE AIM AND PROJECT BEING TO MAKE A MESS AND ANNOY FELICITY +8af280c1-073f-4597-b301-3b5b247ff679 COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE I UNDERSTAND JONAS SAID HELPLESSLY ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW ALL HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SHIP WERE TRUE I WOULD MUCH RATHER TAKE A CHANCE OF BREAKING THROUGH NEAR SOME STAR THAN SPEND TIME JUST BARRELING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE BUT APPARENTLY TECH KNOWS THIS TOO +8b2b35e5-8666-46e0-a873-17894f2a6657 I NEVER WILL WHEN I'M GROWN UP I'LL REMEMBER BETTER BUT SARA RAY NEVER YOU BREATHE THIS TO A LIVING SOUL I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY USING THEIR DISCLOSURE AS A PROD I COULD HAVE MADE HIM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS IT WASN'T NECESSARY I WAS UNDER PRESSURE NOW TO ACT AND A GREATER PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES THOSE TWO GIRLS WERE OF A DOMESTIC TYPE THAT ASSORTED ILL WITH THE WILDFIRE IN NATURE'S VEINS +8b2dbf17-72b7-4b5e-8113-ce1d9837d61f HE HAD WANTED A BATTLESHIP AND HE HAD GOT HIMSELF A BATTLESHIP WHICH MEANT HE HAD MORE IN MIND THAN JUST SIMPLE PIRACY WHAT A SUDDEN BEND IN THE LANE BROUGHT US OUT TO THE LITTLE CLEARING WHERE PEG'S HOUSE WAS BEFORE WE WERE HALF READY TO SEE IT IN SPITE OF MY FEAR I LOOKED AT IT WITH SOME CURIOSITY THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY ALL DAY SHE SAT IN THE KITCHEN AND WORKED BUTTONHOLES SUBSISTING ON BREAD AND WATER AND MEXICAN TEA +8b4815b6-f0bc-4e0b-af23-b7c9c1362d90 PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE NOXIOUS GASES MIGHT BE PRESENT FUNNY HE SHOULD BE LYING ON HIS BACK LOOKING AT THE SKY HE THOUGHT AS WE STOOD THERE WRETCHEDLY WE HEARD FLYING FEET BELOW AND A BLITHE VOICE CALLING WHERE ARE YOU CHILDREN FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED AT MY LEFT WAS A SIZABLE PIECE OF APPARATUS THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME I WAS DROPPING IN THE BLACKNESS +8b48d098-697c-4b4b-8d09-74b7c5d985f0 ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL THIS TIME HE HEARD REUBEN INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NODDED TO HIMSELF IN A SATISFIED FASHION BUT ALMOST A MINUTE PASSED BEFORE THE HUT OF AN OLD WOMAN SHOWED ITSELF AT THE WINDOW SHE WAS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY HE THOUGHT SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY THERE WAS A SHARP MURMURING SOUND AS OF A HARP STRING SOFTLY PLUCKED HOPE SCREAMED AND OUT OF THE TAIL OF MY EYE I SAW BOTH VIC AND HOPE STRUGGLING FRANTICALLY TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF GUARDS +8b795764-2b00-4536-8484-57f79a179464 BUT PETER MUST HAVE A CENT FELICITY WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM ONE HERSELF AND SHE WAS NONE TOO LAVISH OF HER COPPERS RATHER THAN HAVE HIM GO WITHOUT ONE DAN HOWEVER LENT HIM ONE ON THE DISTINCT UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS TO BE REPAID THE NEXT WEEK ZID JEFF ECHOED CHAFFY FORE RELIEVED HIS FELLOW OF THE STRAIN BY TRYING HIS OWN RUSTY CROAK A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT WE MURMURED IN BEWILDERMENT YES I'M GOING TO DENY MYSELF EVERYTHING I LIKE AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF THAT I DON'T LIKE JUST TO PUNISH MYSELF FOR BEING SO WICKED AND IF ANY OF YOU THINK OF ANYTHING I DON'T JUST MENTION IT TO ME I THOUGHT IT OUT LAST NIGHT +8bc06354-8827-44f0-b9d1-ce26761e1d4e WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET SINCE HE WAS FLYING AN UNDER MANNED BATTLESHIP HE HAD USED IT IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON WE HAD THE KITCHEN DISHES AND THE TABLE WAS GAYLY DECORATED WITH CECILY'S THREE SCARLET GERANIUMS AND MAPLE LEAVES AND CHERRY VASES +8be64b6e-af23-4c78-9efb-e1e6fc5bab27 IF DAN HADN'T DONE WRONG EATING THE BAD BERRIES WHEN HE WAS TOLD NOT TO HE WOULDN'T BE SICK SAID FELICITY YOU'RE BOUND TO CATCH IT WHEN YOU DO WRONG IT WAS JUST A PROVIDENCE HE DIDN'T DIE IT WAS WEEKS BEFORE THE BURNS HEALED AND THE SCARS NEVER WENT AWAY ALWAYS AS LONG AS WILLIAM COAN LIVED HE CARRIED ON HIS SHOULDERS THE PRINTS OF THE DEVIL'S HAND IT SEEMS TO ME SAID WOOD MUSINGLY THAT THE WIZARD FOOLED YOU IT CAN'T BE A VERY KIND HEART YOU KNOW +8c294592-9015-4913-8d1f-6d7e4ff4c1d3 FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT WHOEVER'S LICKED WILL HAVE TO GIVE IN ABOUT PRAYING SAID PETER THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE HE HAD LARGE HANDS AND FEET AND WALKED WITH A SLIGHT STOOP WERE I YOU I WOULD SHOW DONALD FRAGER THAT I COULD WOO AND WIN A LASS AS SPEEDILY AS ANY LOWLANDER OF THEM ALL THAT I WOULD I SAID COMFORTABLY AND THE YOUNGER YOU ARE THE BETTER THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES +8c29f9d3-e716-4969-845f-b11bdfdfe9db THIS TREATMENT BEING REPEATED EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK WELL HOW AM I TO ADDRESS HER ASKED THE STORY GIRL IN DESPAIR WE WERE SO AFRAID YOU WERE GOING TO DIE I IT COULD ALSO FLY HE DISCOVERED RAY'S FINGERS IN THE DRIVING GLOVE DIGGING INTO HIS FLESH IN AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL GRIP HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS DRINK FROM THE DEEP WELL WITH A CHINESE ROOF OVER IT SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM +8c329d45-643a-4bbe-bc3e-fa7ecd99ffcd GOOD ADVICE LAUGHED POLYCHROME DANCING INSTANTLY THEY ALL TOOK ALARM AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND SAID THE STORY GIRL CECILY'S SICK SAID DAN SPRINGING OUT OF BED THAT CUCUMBER MUST HAVE DISAGREED WITH HER WHO'S FIGHTING DEMANDED DAN FELICITY THINKS SHE CAN SAY ANYTHING SHE LIKES TO ME BUT I'LL SHOW HER DIFFERENT +8c5e3ea3-8e3f-4746-80b7-31bbecbfc904 SO THE ODDLY ASSORTED PAIR QUICK BOX LIKE LITTLE RAY AND BIG AWKWARD UNCOMFTABLE FARMER SPURTED OUT INTO LONG ISLAND SOUND IN AN INDESCRIBABLE OLD MOTOR LODGE AND THE ADVENTURE WAS ON SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US SHE COULD DO NOTHING SHE HAD NO RELATIVES IN CARLISLE EXCEPT HER MOTHER AND HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE +8c683dad-6d7b-4d26-bf99-974e698ed4a8 TRICK YONAS SAID BUT THE PRAYERS OF GOD AND HIS CHURCH BY THE TIME HE REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL HE WAS WHISTLING LOUDLY BORING IS JEFF LOOKED BACK ONCE TO SEE THE ZID CLOSE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AND SPRING UPWARD TO THE TAIL FLUKE BEHIND HIM CHAFFEE'S THREE AND FOUR APPEARED FROM NOWHERE IF ANYTHING HE WAS MORE EAGER THAN I WAS TO FIND OUT WHO WAS USING HIS ADMINISTRATION AS A CAT'S PAW +8cbc800c-6683-40ee-bba1-cacf8fa16418 SHE HAD TWINED FRESHLY PLUCKED DANDELIONS AROUND IT AND THE EFFECT WAS THAT OF A CROWN OF BRILLIANT GOLDEN STARS ON HER SLEEK BROWN CURLS THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL COMMAND THE WARDER TO LET ME PASS HE MUST OBEY THEE WHERE THE HUSH AND THE SOMBRE SHADOWS AND THE SOFT MELANCHOLY SIGHING OF THE WIND IN THE BRANCHES OVER US DID NOT JAR HARSHLY ON OUR NEW SORROW +8ccc9ee1-0d0e-4ce5-91a8-a0678c57c453 IN A SORT OF PANIC I SNATCHED UP THE PAPER SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER I'VE AN OLD BIBLE OF AUNT JANE'S AT HOME THAT I CAN USE THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT RECOVERED FROM THE MORTIFICATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SHE WOULD NOT TALK AND SHE WOULD NOT TELL A SINGLE STORY SHE SAT ON RACHEL WARD'S CHEST AND ATE HER BREAKFAST WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US IT WOULD BE HARD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN AN EARTHLY OCCUPUS IN HIS LIVING ROOM IF THE NECESSITY AROSE +8cd4da93-4e33-451a-b127-8a4e7992f422 A VERY GOOD GUESS FOR THIS LATE AT NIGHT I TOLD HIM CHEERILY IT IS A LATE EMPIRE BATTLESHIP OF THE WAR LORD CLASS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TRULY EFFICIENT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION EVER MANUFACTURED OVER HALF A MILE OF THE FENCES SCREENS AN ARMAMENT THAT COULD PROBABLY TURN ANY FLEET EXISTENT TO DAY INTO FINE RADIOACTIVE ASH EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE LAST ONE WAS BROKEN UP A SCRAP OVER A THOUSAND YEARS AGO HE MUMBLED I LEANED OVER AND PUT MY LIPS CLOSE TO HIS EAR SO THERE BE NO CHANCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING THEY WERE TRAVELING QUIETLY ALONG UNDER THE SHADE OF TREES WHEN SUDDENLY AN ENORMOUS JAGUAR LEAPED UPON THEM FROM A LIMB AND WITH ONE BLOW OF HIS PAW SENT THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR TUMBLING OVER AND OVER UNTIL HE WAS STOPPED BY A TREE TRUNK INSTANTLY THEY ALL TOOK ALARM THE TIN OWL SHRIEKED HOOT HOOT AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE ALTHOUGH HE COULD SCARCELY SEE WHERE HE WAS GOING FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM FELIX PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR HER BUT I KNEW HE DID BECAUSE HIS EARS GREW RED FELIX'S FACE NEVER BLUSHED BUT HIS EARS ALWAYS GAVE HIM AWAY AS FOR FELICITY SHE DID NOT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT OUT OF MALICE PREPENSE IT NEVER OCCURRED TO HER THAT FELIX DID NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED FAT I ALWAYS FEEL SORRY FOR THE POOR WEED SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY IT MUST BE VERY HARD TO BE ROOTED UP +8cd6e245-e862-4be8-b2b5-a117943c265a EVEN THE STORY GIRL WAS SURPRISED I OFTEN FEEL SAID FELICITY PRIMLY THAT WE DON'T THINK ENOUGH ABOUT THE HEATHENS WE OUGHT TO THINK A GREAT DEAL MORE SHOULD YOU WISH TO TAKE A FLIER AFTER ME ITS HEAD BENT VERY LOW AND AT THE SAME TIME TILTED AT A GROTESQUE ANGLE SO THAT THE FACE SMILED HEAVENWARD I'LL FEED US WHAT YOU SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AROUND YOU TOO WHY'S A FRESHMAN LIKE ME BEING TOSSED INTO THIS DISH +8cfae1d9-b6b2-40b5-b753-d12a59eb3004 BORING IS HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MOVE ALONE WELL HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD WANTED I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW HE'S NOT SUCH A WELL EDUCATED MAN AS THE EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE NO THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT WAIT AND SEE FELIX PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE +8d1a1bc6-9f56-4646-b837-482f78b60ee2 I'M WONDERING WHETHER I SHALL HAVE FISH BALLS OR LAMB CHOPS TO COMPLETE MY MEAL WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER WOO THE WANDERER IF YOU PLEASE I'LL EAT THE FOOD IN MY KNAPSACK ANSWERED THE BOY YOUR MAGIC FOOD MIGHT TASTE GOOD BUT I AM AFRAID OF IT IN AUGUST IT WAS A PLACE OF SHADY SWEETNESS FRAGRANT WITH THE ODOUR OF RIPENING APPLES FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS THROUGH ITS OPENINGS WE LOOKED AFAR TO THE BLUE RIMS OF THE HILLS AND OVER GREEN OLD TRANQUIL FIELDS LINED THE SUNSET GLOW EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT +8d461c85-47d4-486d-bb7b-d81eb25b5394 THERE WERE TWO DISTANT CLANGS AS MAGNETIC GRAPPLES HIT THE HULL A LITTLE LATER THE SHIP LURCHED DRAWN HOME AGAINST THE BATTLESHIP NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED YONAS SIGHED AND WENT FORWARD TO MEET THE TWO BIG MEN LEAVING MISSUS SHARP SOBBING IN THE BACKGROUND THE POOR WOMAN FELT TERRIBLE HE KNEW BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT THAT THEN LET US GO HE SAID AND MARCHED OFF FEELING THAT ONE MORE EFFECT WOULDN'T HURT HE LED THE WAY TO THE TOWN HALL LET THEM FIGURE OUT HOW HE HAD KNOWN JUST WHERE TO GO HE THOUGHT DON'T YOU ALL RIGHT THEN LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER +8d5f5d71-2724-4b6b-87b5-d746bc4cb818 WITH RATHER LONG LANK BROWN HAIR WE REMEMBERED THAT AUNT OLIVIA HAD WRITTEN TO FATHER THAT CECILY WAS A TRUE WARD DRIVING ALONG WHICH YOU AREN'T BUT TELL US THE STUNTED TREES WERE LOWER THAN THE GIANT BUSHES AND YUKA THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID +8d65433f-3fc0-4f4b-8222-ca6c1ffb012c IT CARRIED CONVICTION OF THE VERY OPPOSITE KIND THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE THE RANCORVIE THAT LASTED SO LONG CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR THREE PALLETS LAY AGAINST THE FAR WHITE WALL AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE +8d73664c-12aa-4abf-9c0f-14841eac345e I URGED JANET AND ALEC TO GO TO HALIFAX AND TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE AWAY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS LETTING MYSELF IN FOR IF ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED I COULD NEVER HAVE FORGIVEN MYSELF THOUGH I BELIEVE IT'S BEYOND THE POWER OF MORTAL MAN TO KEEP WATCH OVER THE THINGS THAT CHILDREN WILL EAT I SHALL HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON YOU POLYCHROME AND I MAY FAIL IN ALL MY ATTEMPTS SHE THEN TRIED TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAGIC HOPING ONE OF THEM WOULD SUCCEED IN BREAKING POLYCHROME'S ENCHANTMENT BUT STILL THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER REMAINED A CANARY BIRD MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE MYSELF IF I HADN'T BEEN SO SCARED OF THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT YOU AIN'T A METHODIST YOU'RE A PRESBYTERIAN AIN'T YOU YES OF COURSE I WAS BORN THAT WAY VERY WELL THEN YOU'VE GOT TO DO THINGS THE PRESBYTERIAN WAY DON'T LET ME HEAR ANY MORE OF YOUR AMENDS OR I'LL AMEN YOU +8d974122-f47b-47ad-89ea-566a9c502d9f WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT THE WITCH SAW THE KISS AND WAS MORE ANGRY THAN EVER WHEN I WENT TO WORK IN THE FOREST NEXT DAY MY AXE BEING STILL ENCHANTED SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY OTHER LEG I DO NOT COME FROM THE INQUISITOR HE SAID TRUTHFULLY NOR IS MY QUESTION ONE THAT SHOULD CAUSE YOU ALARM THE OLD WOMAN PONDERED FOR A MINUTE SHE LEANED HER ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL GETTING THEM MUDDY BUT THAT JONAS THOUGHT DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO THIS CREATURE APPARENTLY ASK SHE SAID AT LAST +8d97a53e-58dd-49f3-a9a2-40d19cedf8ad COULDN'T THE WIZARD GIVE YOU A HEART THAT WAS BOTH KIND AND LOVING ASKED THE BOY JOHN ANDREW TURNED FEELING COMPLETELY DOOMED TO A DEMAND AND THEY STARTED GETTING IN EACH OTHER'S WAY AND SLOWING DOWN THE OPERATION EVEN MORE THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE THE ROBOT ANALYZER CHUCKLED TO ITSELF AND SCANNED ALL THE STARS COMPARING THEM TO A SPECTRA OF PROXIMUS AND CHEERY IT FINALLY RANG A BELL AND BLINKED A LIGHT I PEEPED THROUGH THE EYE PIECE +8e0c1cea-b4fe-4f66-9869-6e0512e05092 I'M GOING TO WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU GUESS THAT ONE YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEW YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE WHICH SET MY NERVES ON EDGE WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL +8e14857c-f72e-4812-b266-01114e41b553 THE STORY GIRL SAID THAT ONCE UPON A TIME BUT WITH THE SWIFT AND UNERRING INTUITION OF CHILDHOOD PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO WHAT IS IT IS IS IT PAST TWO AND AT LAST THERE CAME A LETTER THE STORY GIRL HAD RETURNED WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK +8e56d171-95f7-400e-a5cb-5830ff2715a1 AND SUPPORTED BY HEAVY COPPER BRACKETS MOUNTED ON A THICK BASE OF INSULATING MATERIAL TELL PARENT TO DO NOTHING FOR AT LEAST A WEEK I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE I WISH IT WOULD STOP RAINING THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST +8e56d4d7-5c8a-42fc-b417-092603bdd742 COME TO MY ARMS MY BRIDE HE CRIED I HAVE WON YOU FAIRLY I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK IT SOUNDSIBLY DREADFUL TO HEAR YOU CALL THE BIBLE AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK SHE IS A MULE THEREFORE HER FATHER WAS A JACK THEREFORE HIS FATHER WAS ALSO A JACK A DONKEY IT COULD NOT BE ANY OTHER WAY +8e584b4f-a737-49ac-b5b6-f1114fbd14a6 EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION TOWERS SAID IN A TONE THAT IRRITATED BRANDON WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS HE'S A PRESBYTERIAN YOU KNOW SAID FELICITY REASSURINGLY THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY AND SHE LOVED ALLAN DUNBAR JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER +8e7187e2-9aea-4e86-92f4-a4dbaa01652a ON THE FURTHEST BANK IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE THE GREAT SQUARE OF PEGASUS WAS OVER OUR HEADS THE SPICE OF MINT OH I NEVER LIKE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL RATHER SHAKILY AND THE STORY GIRL OUR OWN DEAR STORY GIRL ONCE MORE AND NO SERPENT WOMAN SAID PROTESTINGLY TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY +8e783761-aec0-4810-8754-10577502b414 I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM HELPLESSLY BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE WHERE TO GO AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER ASKED DOROTHY I GRANDMOTHER KING HAD BEEN A WARD NO CONCEDED PETER RELUCTANTLY AND THERE'S THE WELL WITH THE CHINESE ROOF +8e8ad48e-1f67-475a-948c-436bc0c37f79 I'LL SAY THIS THE NAVY BOYS KNOW THEIR BUSINESS WHEN THE SIREN SCREAMED THE CREW SECURED SHIP AND BLASTED OFF BEFORE I HAD FINISHED READING REPORT AS SOON AS MY A BALLS UNSQUASHED BACK INTO FOCUS I READ IT THROUGH THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE ORAN SWALLOWED GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED BUT THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF OPINION WAS THAT WE MUST HAVE THE PICTURE NO MATTER WHAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICES WERE INVOLVED IF WE COULD EACH GIVE ABOUT SEVEN CENTS WE WOULD HAVE THE AMOUNT PETER COULD ONLY GIVE FOUR BUT DAN GAVE ELEVEN WHICH SQUARED MATTERS +8eba007b-63e7-4339-8581-6dbf663306b0 TO US IN THOSE YEARS WHAT WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND TILL YEARS LATER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I AND MISS HOPE ARRIVES FIRST THING THIS MORNING AND MY SENSES RETURNED THIS PULPIT DOOR WAS MADE FOR SPIRITS MARRY ME NOW AND YOU AND I AND YOUR FATHER AND ALL YOUR COURT WILL RIDE STRAIGHTWAY TO MY KINGDOM +8ed890d7-c5e6-4a52-9ccb-fb2af0d8c112 THE GUN MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY JUST HOW WARLIKE THESE GOONS ARE THAT'S ONE OF I A'S ANSWERS TO THOSE FAT KEASTERED POLITICIANS I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CARES WHETHER ANYBODY CAN EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE I'M DREADFULLY TIRED SIGHED CECILY WE WERE ALL DREADFULLY TIRED FOR THIS WAS THE THIRD NIGHT OF LATE HOURS AND NERVE RACKING STRAIN BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE +8f0ca2ed-b127-4495-8368-613af5bb3d6a THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED AND I WON'T SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIGGING INTO A COUPLE OF OLD VOLUMES OF CLASSIC MYTHS AND NORTHLAND FOLK LORE WHICH SHE HAD FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S ATTIC THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE VERY NICE +8f638d06-64fe-4b20-b6a0-44443f09070e ONE OF FARMER'S WEAKNESSES IN FACT WAS THAT THOUGH THOROUGHLY MASCULINE HIMSELF HE COMPLETELY DISTRUSTED WOMEN PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT MISSUS GRIGGS MAKES HIS BREAD FOR HIM AND SHE CLEANS UP HIS HOUSE NOW AND THEN IT'S A MAN IN THE STATES WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROPHET BESIDES WHAT IS THE GOOD OF ASKING THE GROWN UPS THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS THAN WE DO +8f7bf36d-27b4-45ba-98be-fa61997a632b IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK THERE IS NO DANGER DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY BESIDES ADDED FELIX IN THE TONE OF ONE WHO SAYS WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS YET HOPE YOU MAY LEARN TO COOK YET IF YOU KEEP ON TRYING AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT +8f7ed064-c32e-490b-9267-6480c24eea87 WE JAWED AND GURGLED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND SETTLED ALL THE MAJOR POINTS I FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE NEW PRIESTS THE PREVIOUS ONES HAD ALL BEEN BOILED FOR LETTING THE HOLY WATERS CEASE RAID THE MENTAL HOSPITALS AND JAILS DO THAT OFTEN ENOUGH AND YOU WOULD HAVE A CREW THAT WOULD MAKE ANY PIRATE CHIEF PROUD THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE IN THE CENTRE VALLEY THERE WERE FIVE THOUSAND ACRES OF SLAG AND VITRIFIED ROCK FROM SOME FORGOTTEN OLD BLAST THAT HAD MELTED THE HILLS AND DESTROYED THEIR MANTLE REDUCING ALL TO A TERRIBLE FLATNESS +8f84ab6a-9ef2-4caa-a652-c0d5e119db60 WE DO NOT MENTION THAT NAME SHARP SAID THE GRISLIER METHODS OF THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS WERE WELL KNOWN TO HIM BY REPUTATION HE CAME TO THE BARRED DOOR STILL SMILING IT WAS AS IF A BLAST FURNACE HAD SUDDENLY OPENED BESIDE HIM HE WOULD NOT ALLOW FARMER EVEN CLOSE TO THE LATTER BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING EXCLAIMED PETER INDIGNANTLY I +8f8908a1-d6c1-4f6f-beed-8525396f384e WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM HE WAS A SMALL MAN WITH THIN DELICATE FEATURES CLOSE CLIPPED GREY BEARD AND LARGE TIRED BLUE EYES FATHER'S EYES OVER AGAIN THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY WALKING DOWN THE HALL I TRIED TO FIGURE A WAY TO TRANSFER THE MONEY WITHOUT HIS CATCHING ON AND KNEW AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS FIGURING A WAY TO OUTFIGURE ME +8f905405-2fd8-4526-aa30-8f3233e714d8 BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM WAS THE LARGEST HANDED IN BY ANY OF THE SCHOLARS AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION I HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY PETER HE AS THE STORY GIRL PROUDLY INFORMED US WHEN WE CAME TO THE DINNER TABLE ALL ON HER OWN HOOK WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER +8f91fbe5-21f3-4e0e-9ef7-de6dc8ac9c6c GO RIGHT HOME AND DRESS YOURSELF DECENTLY OR EAT YOUR SUPPER IN THE KITCHEN THE STORY GIRL CHOSE THE LATTER ALTERNATIVE SHE WAS HIGHLY INDIGNANT AS IN THE CASE OF THE BELL RING GHOST WE DID NOT BELIEVE BUT WE TREMBLED NOBODY MIGHT HAVE KNOWN WHEN THE BILL WAS WRITTEN SAID DAN BUT MAYBE SOMEBODY KNOWS NOW WHY THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO AND THAT PAPER WAS PRINTED THIS VERY MORNING AND WHAT IS THEIR TOWN IT IS AN OLD PRAIRIE DOG TOWN THAT THEY FIXED UP YOU HAVE TO DIG DOWN WITH A SPADE TO GET TO THE STREETS +8f928333-c5ec-44b0-b1e6-ae73f14fc20f I JUST WISH I'D HOLD OF THOSE FELLOWS WHO WOULDN'T LET THE CAPTAIN TAKE HIS WIFE SAID PETER SAVAGELY THERE AIN'T MANY FELLOWS AS FAIR AND SQUARE AS PETER SAID DAN WHEN WE ARRIVED BEHIND THE GRANARY THE OTHERS WERE ALL THERE YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN PERSISTED CECILY BUT FELICITY HAD NO TIME TO OVERSEE HER THIS MORNING NEVER MIND PETER SAID CECILY YOU KNOW LOTS OF THINGS THEY DON'T +8fd07a7e-8f25-4b96-9381-f14cb55b74de JUST AHEAD OF HIM JONIFER CAUGHT AN ERECT FIN SPINE AND CLUNG WITH BOTH ARMS HANG ON WE'RE GOING THE SCOOP CONTRACTED ITSELF WITH A SUDDENNESS THAT YANKED THEM YARDS FROM THE COTTAGE AND ALL BUT DISLODGED JEFF DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WILL DO ANY GOOD BETH VERY LIKELY I ASSURED HER REMEMBER SARA RAY AND THE MONEY BACK CAME FROM PRAYING I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE HE DRAGGED THE SURVIVAL KIT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT AND PULLED OUT SOME RATIONS A FIRST STAID KIT FINALLY A TELE TALKING RAISING THE ANTENNAE HE PLUGGED IN THE MIGHT CORD FROM HIS MASK AND HELD DOWN THE TALK KEY WITH HIS THUMB ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN +8fee8f26-94a8-4d7d-9b38-e45ea26ba0d9 BUT HE SAID I MUST GO IN SOME HELPERY'S JUST THE SAME SAID PETER HE SAID IT MIGHT NOT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW THOUGH HE BELIEVED IT WAS I KNOW WE KEEP ME OUT OF MISCHIEF BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY I CAN'T PROVE IT WASN'T A NIGHTMARE CHUCKLED VIC COME ALONG AND I'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING YOU MISSED HE LED THE WAY TO THE LABORATORY AND UNLOCKED A DRAWER ONE OF SEVERAL BENEATH THE WORK TABLE THERE I STOOD UNABLE TO MOVE HAND OR FOOT AND THERE I CONTINUED TO STAND WHILE DAYS CAME AND WENT UNTIL DOROTHY AND THE SCARECROW CAME ALONG AND RESCUED ME THEY OILED MY JOINTS AND SET ME FREE AND I'VE TAKEN GOOD CARE NEVER TO REST AGAIN +900a0588-5d2b-4c51-be65-aee73c5f9d05 IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD EXCEPT FOR THE CAPTURED ARMAND YOU STILL HOLD YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN IT WAS THAT WRETCHED PETER SOBBED FELICITY INDIGNANTLY HE TOLD HER IT WOULD MAKE HER DREAM SOMETHING EXTRA WHAT ON EARTH DID SHE WANT TO DREAM FOR DEMANDED AUNT JANET IN BEWILDERMENT THE WARDER POINTED TO THE DARK FLOOD THAT ROLLED UNDER THE BRIDGE THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID BUT YONDER WAY IS OPEN FORD THAT FLOOD ON THE FURTHEST BANK IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE +900dbc46-08f8-4bc1-aaa2-3c1fbc5b50f4 THE PRIESTS SANK TO THE FLOOR BENDING THEMSELVES IN MOCKERY OF THE IMAGE THAT'S WHEN MISTER PARIN AND I BEGAN TO GET WORRIED A MOMENT LATER BUNDLES OF METAL RIBBONS FLOATED OUT AND BILLOWED INTO A GIANT UMBRELLA THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON WINDS BLEW UP THE FIELDS LIKE WAVE UPON WAVE OF SWEET SAVOUR SPICE OF BRACKEN AND BALSAM ANYHOW I'M A PRESBYTERIAN AND I'M GLAD OF IT +901529c1-fdfa-4f56-89d3-9395cff78437 OF COURSE I COULDN'T BE EXPECTED TO THAT HIRE TO LET A BOY KISS ME THE DAYS WERE CRISP AND MELLOW AND I TOLD HIM I JUST HATED HIM TALK BLESS YOU DECORES TALK HE ROARED WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE ABOUT A BARRESHIP WHO'S BUILDING IT AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED +901ed853-e3d0-4fd5-91a9-082538ee7245 AND WE NEVER HAD TO TURN HIS SPECIES INSIDE OUT TO DISCOVER THEIR MEANING THE SOCIAL LIFE OF JUVENILE CARLYLE CENTERED IN THE DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS LIKE A MAN IN A DREAM JEFF CAUGHT UP HIS COMMUNICATOR FROM THE TABLE AND HURLED IT THE ZID CAUGHT IT DEFTLY SANK GLISTENING TEETH INTO THE UNIT AND DEMOLISHED IT WITH A SINGLE SNAP BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT THE STORY GIRL SNATCHED THE PAPER AND READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO A GROUP ON WHICH SUDDEN TENSE SILENCE HAD FALLEN +90b225ec-4925-4a2b-8b43-65c979330ff4 SHE WENT TO WORK AND MADE LITTLE RAISIN PIES RIGHT THERE IN THE KITCHEN BEFORE THE STORY GIRL HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC GOOD LORD LESS THAN AN HOUR SINCE I STOOD THERE IN YOUR LABORATORY THERE WAS NO TRACE OF HIM ANYWHERE AUNT JANET TRIED TO MAKE PIES OF THEM ONCE BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE HATED TO SEE THEM GOING TO WASTE BUT SHE NEVER TRIED IT AGAIN +90b56426-62f1-4d6a-95fa-74f3a5c3caa7 YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS THEY BOUGHT THIS TENTATIVELY AND WE ALL HEAVED OUT OF THE TUB AND TRICKLED MUDDY PATHS ACROSS THE FLOOR DAN WAS THE OLDEST WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP FOR MY OWN PART I WAS RATHER SORRY TO SEE HER GOING +90cf22d6-b287-4342-bcca-c270c51a4d3d WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELICITY SHE'S JUST FINE SAID FELIX ENTHUSIASTICALLY I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE HER TO TELL STORIES BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL WREATHED HER NUT BROWN TRESSES WITH CRIMSON LEAVES IT SEEMED AS PETER SAID THAT THEY GREW ON HER AS IF THE GOLD AND FLAME OF HER SPIRIT HAD BROKE OUT IN A CORONAL AS MUCH A PART OF HER AS THE PALE HALO SEEMS A PART OF THE MADONNA IT ENCIRCLES BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED I WAS A REGULAR WRUNT BEFORE I BEGUN HE SAID AND LOOK AT ME NOW I GOT IT FROM PEG BOWEN SHE'S A WITCH YOU KNOW +91137d1f-e8f5-4e24-8d68-a053f179564b WHEN THE ALARM BLEW OFF ALL I FELT WAS AN INTENSE SENSATION OF RELIEF I MIGHT BE DEAD AND BLASTED TO DUST IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES BUT THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE ANYHOW IT WAS A FINE LETTER AND THEY WERE ALL FINE AND I'M AWFUL GLAD I HAVE SO MANY NICE FRIENDS EVEN IF I AM ONLY A HIRED BOY PERHAPS I'D NEVER FOUND IT OUT IF THE MEASLES HADN'T STRUCK IN SO I'M VERY GLAD THEY DID BUT I HOPE THEY NEVER WILL AGAIN MISSUS UWKE TOOK AMPLE TIME TO FINISH HER BREAKFAST AND THE PRISONERS HAD NO DESIRE TO HURRY HER BUT FINALLY THE MEAL WAS CONCLUDED AND SHE FOLDED HER NAPKIN AND MADE THE TABLE DISAPPEAR BY CLAPPING HER HANDS TOGETHER +912b1f11-b125-4772-a562-9ec1f7dd90b5 OH BUT THAT'S WRONG SAID FELICITY YOU SHOULDN'T PUT SARA UP TO DISOBEYING HER MOTHER YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT THEY HAVE AN EXPANDING COUCHER NO ON EMPLOYMENT A SURFACE OF A METALS AND READY MARKETS FOR ALL THEY PRODUCE NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED APPLE PIES AND SOUR SEEDLINGS AND PIGS BECAME STRAIGHTWAY INVESTED WITH A GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE +9142a31c-7534-4039-8c89-f2e11ead5a66 MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN LAUGHTER RIPPLED OVER THE STORY GIRL'S FACE AS SHADOW WAVES GO OVER RIPE WHEAT BEFORE A WIND PETER IS A REAL GENTLEMAN AND HE IS MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU COULD EVER BE IF YOU WERE BROUGHT UP AND EDUCATED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS SHE SAID UNCLE ROGER WANDERED BY AT THIS MOMENT AND BEHOLDING PETER SAID IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL THE OLD OLD ARGUMENT I SUPPOSE BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR +914b389a-83f3-4d25-b865-309eb3f8ae48 AND A FRILLED MUSLIN APRON CAME TO WELCOME US WE HAD HEARD FROGS SING IN ONTARIO OF COURSE AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES IF WE HAD EATEN LITTLE AT BREAKFAST WE COULD EAT STILL LESS AT DINNER IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GROWLED AS WE WENT IN TO DINNER I WISH IT'D HURRY UP AND HAVE IT OVER BUT ONLY TWO CITIES ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE MAKING LIGHT OF MY REVERED ALMA MATER SAID ORAN HE STRUCK A POSE +916c04ec-0610-4144-b0ab-299904bfff56 YOU TOOK THE DAPHINIS IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP AND WHILE THEIR FLESH LOOKED MORE UNNATURAL AND UNREAL THAN EVER AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH WHAT'S WANTED THE GUARD SAID SOURLY STARING THROUGH THE BARS HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY +9174bac4-a105-42ea-ad80-b4aa786424f8 DON'T YOU THINK YOU'D BETTER LEAVE ME AS I AM ASKED FOOD IN A TREMBLING VOICE NO SHE REPLIED I'M GOING TO MAKE A MONKEY OF YOU I LOVE MONKEYS THEY'RE SO CUTE AND I THINK A GREEN MONKEY WILL BE LOTS OF FUN AND AMUSE ME WHEN I AM SAD BUT OF COURSE THEY DID I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK I DON'T THINK A GLAYA SWALLOWED THAT STONE I THINK IT JUST FELL TO THE GROUND AND AFTER A WHILE THEY FOUND IT AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE OF SUCH VALUE THAT GLECON COULD BUY ALL THE FLOCKS AND HERDS IN THE VALLEY AND THE SWEETEST COTTAGE AND HE AND AGLEIA WERE MARRIED RIGHT AWAY BUT YOU JUST BACK HIM UP IN EVERYTHING CECILY I DON'T YOU DO AND YOU'VE NO BUSINESS TO ESPECIALLY WHEN MOTHER'S AWAY SHE LEFT ME IN CHARGE YOU DIDN'T TAKE MUCH CHARGE LAST NIGHT WHEN DAN GOT SICK SAID FELIX MALICIOUSLY +91790a2f-e38e-4d3a-bef4-fc51fdd1a6e8 HE STOOD OVER THE THING WEBBED HANDS ON SCALY HIPS PEERING AT IT INTENTLY AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG OF COURSE HE'S FAR TOO SICK TO BE TAKEN HOME SO HIS MOTHER IS COME TO WAIT ON HIM AND I'M TO LIVE OVER HERE UNTIL HE IS BETTER I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY THEY MILLED AND MOBBED AND PILED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND BY THAT TIME I HAD LANDED IN THE PLAZA FRONTING THE TEMPLE +91a351fb-fa6f-4877-b063-44528d718492 THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE I HAD REMEMBERED THAT MUCH FROM MY PHYSICS CLASSES SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IF PATTY ISN'T ANY BETTER TOMORROW WE'LL DO THAT THE PROUD PRINCESS HELD HERSELF MORE PROUDLY THAN EVER SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN +91d04dd0-4418-4b3e-8730-fd6ee79da5a3 NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR THERE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF COMFORT IN THIS WE WERE ALMOST AS MUCH AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN AS WE WOULD BE OF ANY SPECTRAL VISITANT PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS JUST THIS I BOUGHT A BOX FROM HIM FOR FOR SOMETHING HE SAID HE WASN'T GOING TO SELL ANY OF IT TO ANYBODY ELSE DID HE SELL ANY TO YOU +91da321a-240c-49ad-8a16-1d673a227598 AND WHILE SHE WAS WAITING THERE THINKING SUCH LOVELY THOUGHTS A NEIGHBOR'S BOY CAME RUNNING UP A BOY WHO DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HER ROMANCE AND CRIED OUT THAT MALCOLM WARD HAD BEEN KILLED BY HIS GUN GOING OFF ACCIDENTALLY THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES WE MAY YET SPOT THE ESCAPE CAPSULE REHNHART WAS SAYING WE'RE STILL CONTINUING THE SEARCH PUT IN TOWERS BUT I DON'T MIND TELLING YOU I'M NOT WASTING MUCH MORE FUEL THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR YES SIR +91f0a80b-02ba-4fb0-8472-6c1e43d2c6b5 THEY GLANCED AT EACH OTHER SWIFTLY ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY UNDERSTOOD IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THEIR MOUTHS LIFTED THAT THEY ALMOST SMILED THEN THEY RUSHED AT ME I HAD ONLY ONE BOX OF CARTRIDGES BESIDES THOSE IN THE CYLINDER OF MY GUN I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR ME AND I TOOK NO CHANCES I'D LIKE TO BE BURIED HERE WHEN I DIE SAID FELIX BUT I HOPE IT WON'T BE FOR A GOOD WHILE YET HE SAID IN A LIVELIER TONE AS WE MOVED ONWARD TO THE CHURCH IF THEY HAD BEEN BANISHED TOGETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PUNISHMENT SO ZERO WAS EXILED TO A STAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND ZULEMITH WAS SENT TO A STAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND BETWEEN THEM WAS A FATHOMLESS ABYSS WHICH THOUGHT ITSELF COULD NOT CROSS +92157004-3452-4df9-88d0-16f23ce80e5e A GLASS BLOWING CULTURE I LIKE YOURN SAID TO NEWBE YOU SHALL BE ONE OF MY SLAVES YOU WILL TEACH ME MANY THINGS PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM OF COURSE I DIDN'T SAY IT OUT LOUD JUST WHISPERED LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE THROAT MIKE TO CATCH THEN HE LUNGED UP AND POINTED A DRIPPING FINGER AT ME +921ff960-a12d-4bad-97f0-f275b58061d9 YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THINK HOW SICK YOU WERE LAST NIGHT AND ALL THE TROUBLE YOU MADE FOR EVERYBODY DON'T EAT ANY MORE THERE'S A GOOD CHAP EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST +924c7ec5-c1e0-4964-bed2-0b0a044705ff I DON'T THINK IT'S ANY HARM TO MENTION THE THAT PERSON WHEN YOU'RE TELLING A STORY SAID CECILY IT'S ONLY IN PLAIN TALKING IT DOESN'T DO IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN WERE THE SCARECROW AND I ALONE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN WE WOULD TRAVEL BY NIGHT AS WELL AS BY DAY BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR IT WILL BRING IN A PERFECT COLOR PICTURE OF THE OCEAN AT WHAT IN THE DEPTH I SET IT FOR OR WILL SET ITSELF AUTOMATICALLY TO PRESENT A VIEW OF THE OCEAN FLOOR IT WILL +9251e48a-fb23-4674-9f2a-f463ce9ce29a THIS WAS RADIOED BACK TO THE M T AND THE TRANSLATION SHOT BACK TO A SPEAKER IN MY JAWS THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MACHINE HE SAID FARMER REFLECTED FOR THE TENTH TIME IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED SO IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED LOOK HERE BEV IS THAT MAGIC SEED +92678373-ed89-40c9-93c9-8db55fb16c16 HAD ANY OF US BOYS EVER BEEN GUILTY OF SUCH CECILY'S PALE FACE WOULD HAVE COLOURED WITH A BLUSH OF OUTRAGED PURITY I EXPECTED SHE'D SING AND TALK AND WE'D HAVE GOOD TIMES TOGETHER BUT THE BODY WAS VERY LONG FOR IT HAD TWENTY LEGS NOW THAT I WAS IN SPACE PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN NOW IT'S MY TURN FOR THE GAPING AND I POPMY ACT WHILE FERREO PULLED HIMSELF TOGETHER +926dbe3d-0c43-41e9-8f3f-61de4eb24b0f AFTER THE SHOWER THERE WAS A MAGNIFICENT DOUBLE RAINBOW SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK MI IS GOING TO GET ME A NEW BROWN DRESS FOR THE WINTER HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN +9276b601-a652-4c50-8fa7-3ea7ce8233b9 THE PLACE IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF YOU HOLD A COURSE ROUGHLY NORTHEAST AND THERE'D BE NO I THINK HIS NAME IS E PAY NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM WHO HAD CURLED HIMSELF UP AT THE FOOT OF THE BED THE NEW PEAS WOULDN'T HURT ENOUGH THEY'RE SO SOFT THEY'D SQUASH FLAT +92790c14-5543-4eb8-a5b5-bfc5cd721445 AS HE ROSE ROPY TENTACLES TWINED AROUND HIM AND HE SAW WHAT HAD SAVED HIM HE WAS BEING CRADLED GENTLY BUT FIRMLY BY THE NONNIPUS WHICH HAD JUDGE RAY IN ANOTHER SET OF TENTACLES AN ANONIPUS THAT BECAME APPARENT WAS NOT ONLY A WATER CREATURE IT COULD ALSO FLY CECILY SAT DOWN BY HER HALF FILLED BASKET AND BEGAN TO CRY FELICITY SAID VIOLENTLY THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT I CAN'T PICK ANOTHER APPLE TO DAY AND I AIN'T GOING TO TRY SAID DAN NONE OF US COULD WE WENT TO THE GROWN UPS AND TOLD THEM SO AND THE GROWN UPS WITH UNACCUSTOMED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY TOLD US THAT WE NEED NOT THEN WE ROAMED ABOUT IN OUR WRETCHEDNESS AND TRIED TO COMFORT ONE ANOTHER HE KNEW WHEN HE PUT DOWN THE MICROPHONE THAT THE SHIP WOULD BE TOO LATE E I MIGHT STILL DRAG THE SECRET OF THE CALM CRYSTAL SOURCE OUT OF THE ISLANDERS BUT JEFF AUBREY AND JENIFER MAC WOULDN'T BE ON HAND TO WITNESS THEIR SORRY TRIUMPH THE FLIMSY CABIN COULD NOT STAND FOR LONG AGAINST THE SORT OF BRUTE THE OWLS HAD SHOWN HIM AND THERE WAS NO SORT OF WEAPON AT HAND THEY COULDN'T EVEN RUN THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE +92be5765-c968-4a45-a1c8-50264da4e0db AFTER CHECKING OUT THE CONTROLS AND SPECIAL APPARATUS WITH THE TECHNICIANS I CLEARED THE SHIP OF COURSE YOU DON'T EXPECT THEM TO FIRE WARSHIP PLANS WITH THE LEGAL REGISTRY DO YOU HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN WILD ONES ASKED THORN YOU ARE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS JUST SMELL MISSUS SAMPSON'S FLOWERS SAID CECILY AS WE PASSED A TRIM WHITE PALING CLOSE TO THE ROAD OVER WHICH BLEW ODOURS SWEETER THAN THE PERFUME OF ARABY'S SHORE +92e9fda3-1c80-40a5-b4b2-505271e63dce IT WAS TOO REAL TO BEAR JEFF STEPPED BACK ON SUDDENLY UNRELIABLE LEGS JONOFOR FAINTED AGAINST HIM AND THE UNEXPECTED WEIGHT OF HER SENT THEM BOTH SPRAWLING TO THE DOCK THIS IS AN ORDINARY HEAVY CARGO AND PASSENGER JOB IT'S NO MORE A WAR LORD BATTLESHIP THAN I AM IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED THE MAN'S MIND WAS LIKE HIS OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL SPARSELY FURNISHED ALMOST AUSTERE BUT WITH ALL THE NECESSITIES LAID OUT FOR EASY ACCESS +9319d629-420d-46ab-b335-6696aa429646 HAD ADDED A TRADITION ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVES HE SLEWED HIMSELF ROUND AND CLAWED HER BARE FOOT VERY LIKELY I ASSURED HER REMEMBER SARA RAY AND THE MONEY BACK CAME FROM PRAYING THE STORY GIRL WAS SITTING ON THE MINT BESIDE THE WELL HOUSE WEAVING HERSELF A WREATH OF BUTTERCUPS BUT SARA RAY WAS NOT HAPPY SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY +93239f9d-bd84-43c4-9614-82f6cd6a30be STETSON NODDED THANKS TO BULL ONE IN COMPANY WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE BUT THEY STILL PUMP THE BOURGEOIS INTO THE RAW BOYS BACK AT DEAR OLD EUNUCH GALACTICA YOU'RE MAKING LIGHT OF MY REVERED ALMA MATER SAID ORAN HE STRUCK A POSE EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL YONA MURDERED HE PASSED THE COIN OVER THE OLD WOMAN'S HAND SNATCHED IT AND CLOSED ON IT +933989f4-f620-43a5-9e04-eda6975419c0 FINALLY I ASKED HER TO MARRY ME AND SHE AGREED TO DO SO BUT THE WITCH HAPPENED TO OVERHEAR OUR CONVERSATION AND IT MADE HER VERY ANGRY FOR SHE DID NOT WISH HER SLAVE TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER I HAD NOT GROWN A SINGLE BIT BY THE MERCILESS TESTIMONY OF THE HALL DOOR I TOOK THE BOX OF SEED OUT OF MY TRUNK IN THE TWILIGHT ROOM AND SWALLOWED THE DECREED PINCH AS I DID SO DAN'S VOICE RANG OUT BEHIND ME COMBINATION SPACE JOCKEYS MECHANICS ENGINEERS SOLDIERS CONMEN AND EVERYTHING ELSE IT TAKES TO DO THE REPAIRS +9342269c-bde4-4ae0-9b3f-6178978e29a5 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT FELIX WAS THIN SAID PETER LAUGHING HE DID LOOK SO QUEER HIS CLOTHES JUST HUNG LOOSE AND HE WAS GOING ROUND TRYING TO HOLD THEM ON THE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY CALLED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED TROUBLE SHOOTING HYPERSPACE BEACONS ARE TO LAST FOR EVER OR DAMN CLOSE TO IT WHEN ONE OF THEM BREAKS DOWN IT IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT AND REPAIRING THE THING IS NEVER A MATTER OF JUST PLUGGING IN A NEW PART AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID +9379ed8b-3996-443d-bb08-1972e1564b3c THE OFFICIAL HAD GIVEN A SNAP JUDGMENT WE DECLARE THAT PLACE UNANNEXED FORTHWITH WE OWN THE WORLD IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE SOUND AND LIGHT IN THE SAME PLACE ISN'TT IT VIC GLANCED TOWARD US AND GRINNED +93828dc6-ea0f-4f1e-b9ef-d28622b2a5a8 AND RIGHT NOW I'M WALKING AROUND IN YOUR PRECIOUS PLANET LIKE A BOY'S SCOUT FINALLY HE SCRAMBLED DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAVA SHEET AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE WRECK HE PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK FROM THE DESK BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND THEY WERE TEN CENTS APIECE WITH RULED PAGES AND MOTTLED GREEN COVERS I'M GOING TO HAVE COW SOME DAY SAID PETER FLUSHING +93aebc7e-ac58-4124-8592-5fb656ecd0ee ALL THE BOARD GUARDS HAD A GREAT TIME WITH THE SIRENS LIGHTS ACCELERATORS ON THE FLOOR AND THAT SORT OF THING WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE A UNIFORM WATCHMAN FRANTICALLY WAVED TO US AND THE WHOLE CONVOY JERKED TO A STOP THE SHIP WAS GONE YES HE DID I SAID IN DISGUST FOR I WAS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT BILLY AND HIS MAGIC SEED WERE ARRANT FRAUDS WHAT FOR YOUR MOUTH IS A DECENT SIZE SAID DAN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO HAVE THE LESSON LEARNED SHE SAID AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT BUT I NEVER FOUND IT SO HARD TO REMEMBER THE GOLDEN TEXT BEFORE +93bd0629-2122-4757-953d-8fd2ab2668dd SHE IS A MULE THEREFORE HER FATHER WAS A JACK I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I EXCEPT THAT IT HAS NO TREES WORTHY OF THE NAME WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL OUT THE CANDLE MUST GO AND WE LAY THERE QUAKING WITH THE WILD RAIN STREAMING DOWN ON THE ROOF ABOVE US AND THE VOICES OF THE STORM WAILING THROUGH THE WRITHING SPRUCE TREES +93c7000b-7d0b-4882-b08f-bb515ae7aa7c I UNDERSTAND JONAS SAID HELPLESSLY ASKED HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT LEFT YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO THERE'S A SMALL INSTRUMENT BOARD SET ON ONE OF THE POSTS TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING +93fc4892-dd0b-401e-979e-a191135a875e RETURNING THE MAN'S SEARCHING GAZE THE DOCTOR OPENED THE DOOR IT'VE COME A LONG WAY SINCE THEN YOU SEE HE SAID QUIETLY IN THOSE DAYS THEY CALLED IT CANCER LATER ON WE HEARD HER IMPARTING HER NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FELICITY IN THE PANTRY IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS MEANS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO MARRY YOU FOR EVER SO LONG AND THEN LOTS OF PEOPLE DO A SHOWER CAME UP IN THE EVENING AND WE HAD TO STOP PICKING AFTER THE SHOWER THERE WAS A MAGNIFICENT DOUBLE RAINBOW WE WATCHED IT FROM THE GRANARY WINDOW AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US AN OLD LEGEND CULLED FROM ONE OF AUNT OLIVIA'S MANY SCRAPBOOKS +941c725b-d230-4f91-8201-b08c28d6c78d A MIGHTY SHORT ROPE SHE WAS CONSTANTLY IN A QUITE JUSTIFIABLE TERROR THE HOME OF OUR FATHERS WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES UNCLE ALEC'S PEW WAS AT THE TOP OF THE CHURCH QUITE NEAR THE PULPIT SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO AND HE WAS THE BEST HUNTER IN THE TRIBE BESIDES THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY +94472cdc-109f-41ca-a27d-2df8cba8ca33 YUNUS SHOOK HIS HEAD NOT AT ALL I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS A COMMON MAN WOULD BE QUEER BUT WHEN IT'S A MINISTER IT'S ECCENTRIC YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR SHOES AND STOCKINGS ON WHEN YOU GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW TO NIGHT SAID FELICITY IN A TONE OF SATISFACTION +945bee70-54a6-4d78-9209-4e46971d47e0 PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP YOU CAN'T RUN A BIG CON BLOW SAVES OR MAKE BOMMERDECKS WITH IT IT'S HELL'S ON JET FOR SPACE PIRACY BUT THAT'S ABOUTABLE GREAT GREAT BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MARRIED I THINK IT'S JUST HORRID SO THERE I GUESS YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD DEAL HORRID OR NOT TO BE SAID DAN IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE MARRIED TOO SAID CECILY GRAVELY SEEING THAT FELICITY DISDAINED REPLY SHE WAS AND WE WERE ALL MISERABLE IN COMPANY AUNT JANET INVESTIGATED THE WHOLE AFFAIR IN THE MATTER OF OUR DREAM BOOKS WERE AIRED IN FAMILY CONCLAVE +949f80a7-b5f5-4ab6-a411-e0aea0e73705 THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE I THINK I'LL WRAP IT UP AND KEEP IT IN MY BOX HE SAID ONCE THERE WERE TWO ARCHANGELS IN HEAVEN THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEWBE IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING +94ad31a8-c688-4e7c-9d60-fde610f1e7d6 I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO THE WORLD CALLS THEM ITS SINGERS AND POETS AND ARTISTS AND STORY TELLERS BUT THEY ARE JUST PEOPLE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND AND INSTANTLY THE DARK EYES FLASHED ANGRILY THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF AND KEEP IT CLOSED AT LEAST A WEEK OH WELL WE GOT IT FROM THE PROMOTER OF SORTS I TOOK A SPADE AND SPADE IT OFF THE TOP OF THE TOWN TO GET IN +94eeecf2-9cd2-4ba3-9335-1777695a72f4 ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AND WE HEARD THE FROGS SINGING DOWN IN THE SWAMP OF THE BROOK MEADOW WE HAD HEARD FROGS SING IN ONTARIO OF COURSE BUT CERTAINLY PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND FROGS WERE MORE TUNEFUL AND MELLOW +951e7397-741e-4d25-988c-396604b83170 PLEADED BOOT THE WANDERER IN AN EAGER VOICE TO BE SURE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN IF YOU CARED TO JOIN OUR PARTY BUT HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL WHO ARE THE GOOD GROWN UP PEOPLE ASKED FELIX SUDDENLY FORGETTING THAT HE WAS IN CHURCH OH THAT IS EASY SAID PETER YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST FEEL WHO IS GOOD AND WHO ISN'T AND YOU MUSTN'T TELL LIES AND YOU MUSTN'T MURDER ANY ONE YOU MUST BE SPECIALLY CAREFUL NOT TO MURDER ANY ONE THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT WAS THE MAN WHO THOUGHT THE PULPIT DOOR MUST BE MADE FOR SPIRITS YOU KNOW SHE SAID I HEARD UNCLE EDWARD TELLING EVER SO MANY STORIES ABOUT HIM HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC +9520a3a1-8ebe-496d-bce7-181e1c605aae OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY BEFORE THAT NOBODY HAD EVER HEARD OF KISSING AND THEN IT WAS JUST DISCOVERED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AND A MAN WROTE IT DOWN AND THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN PRESERVED EVER SINCE +953e1916-00ef-415d-8ff4-ec9d4bc76d8d HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE BUT CLARTON HAD INSISTED ON AN INTERMITTENT CONTACT IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS BUT IT WAS ALSO KNOWN THAT MISTER CAMPBELL WAS NOT ALWAYS IN A GOOD HUMOUR IF HE LIKED YOU THERE WAS NOTHING HE WOULD NOT DO FOR YOU BUT IF HE DISLIKED YOU WELL YOU WERE NOT AND LEFT IN IGNORANCE OF IT IN SHORT WE HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT MISTER CAMPBELL RESEMBLED THE FAMOUS LITTLE GIRL WITH THE CURL IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FOREHEAD WHEN HE WAS GOOD HE WAS VERY VERY GOOD BUT WHEN HE WAS BAD HE WAS HORRID WHAT IF THIS WERE ONE OF HIS HORRID DAYS DORA SHRUGGED I'M NOT TELLING THEM ANYTHING REALLY JUST DROPPING A FEW HINTS OF THE MOST ELEMENTARY SORT THINGS THAT HAVE FIGURED OUT SOON ANYWAY AND THINGS THEY STILL HAVE TO WORK HARD TO MAKE PRACTICABLE EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER +954bae6e-3560-4613-a53e-24277925bcc9 HIS GUN ROARED TWICE FROM BEHIND ME I WAS CONSCIOUS OF A FAINT GLOW FROM ABOVE AS I MOVED THE DIAL SLOWLY SO THAT ITS RED MARK APPROACHED THE STATIONARY ONE UPON THE PANEL PATTY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY CATCHING A RAT AND BEING INTOLERABLY CONCEITED ABOUT IT UNTIL SARA RAY CURED HIM BY CALLING HIM A DEAR SWEET CAT AND KISSING HIM BETWEEN THE EARS THEN PAT SNEAKED ABJECTLY OFF HIS TAIL DROOPING HE RESENTED BEING CALLED A SWEET CAT NEVER MIND I SAID CONSOLINGLY YOU CAN TELL SPLENDID STORIES HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE ALL RIGHT DEAR HE SAID YOU WIN YOU'RE RIGHT OF COURSE AND I'M WRONG +95bed89c-319d-4367-9085-c587a506a677 BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS YOU SEE HE SAID QUIETLY IN THOSE DAYS THEY CALLED IT CANCER THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN SILENCE I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE A GREAT THEORY ONLY I FELT UNCOMFORTABLY ON THE SPOT WHEN I TRIED TO PUT IT INTO PRACTICE A DRINK HILT AS DID A CIGAR PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT +95c21999-de04-44b2-af83-0efed4129ac7 THE PIG ATE THE WHOLE PAILFUL AND THEN THE IRISHMAN PUT THE PIG IN THE PAIL AND IT DIDN'T FILL MORE THAN HALF THE PAIL IT'S FIVE DAYS FOR SURE THEN HARD RADIATION CHERANNA CRUSO I WAS NOT IMPRESSED BY HIS ACTING SINCE I COULD CLEARLY REMEMBER THE DEAD MEN FLOATING IN SPACE +95c75632-827c-4a26-b005-85bab6a8d81a HE WATCHED FOR A WHILE BUT SAW NO MORE FLARES BRANDON SWORE AND SNAPPED OFF THE SET AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE BURNING SHIP A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID SPEAKING OF ELECTRICITY A SCARLET HAZE OF LIGHT SHOT FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF THE BLACK GOD AND THE OLD MAN STEPPED BACK SHARPLY AS THOUGH STRUCK BY SOME INVISIBLE AGENT HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN +95d663f6-e1a7-4550-914b-f25de666ca72 FELICITY IS AFRAID SHE'S MISSED SOMETHING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF QUIET AMUSEMENT IS YOUR BREAKFAST READY FELICITY OR HAVE I TIME TO TELL THE BOYS THE STORY OF THE POET WHO WAS KISSED SODOM AND GOMORRAH TEXAS BY R MANOEL TOOK MULLER AND WENT TO WORK VERY FEW CATS HAVE AND MOST OF THEM HAVE SUCH AN INORDINATE APPETITE FOR FLATTERY THAT THEY WILL SWALLOW ANY AMOUNT OF IT AND THRIVE THEREON +95f95ba8-cb55-4933-a058-f0a3ea4f35ba I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN WHICH BROUGHT THE ORGY OF WISHING TO AN END FOR THE TIME ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THERE MIGHT BE HAVE BEEN IN THE GOLDEN AGE ASKED THE STORY GIRL SUDDENLY A SOFT GLOW ENVELOPED THEM IT GREW BRIGHTER UNTIL THEY COULD SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS DISTINCTLY THEY HAD REACHED THE END OF THE PASSAGE AND BEFORE THEM WAS ANOTHER HUGE DOOR +961d484f-bbd6-41b6-8449-13720d833b4b AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH OH SARA STANLEY IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I AM THAT YOUR AUNT OLIVIA IS TO BE HOME TO NIGHT DAN CALLED HER A TELL TALE AND A BABY AND SNEERED AT HER UNTIL CECILY BEGAN TO CRY OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I GET THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER IN HERE AT ONCE I GLANCED HER WAY AND A SMALL DOOR WAS SWINGING OPEN AND SHE WAS GONE +961dd4f4-fc72-4d3c-8203-699022a9acdf HOW CAN YOU KNOW INTERRUPTED PETER SUDDENLY YOU AIN'T OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A BEAU HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AT PETER WITH A FROWN SHE DID NOT LIKE TO BE INTERRUPTED WHEN TELLING A STORY THOSE ARE NOT THINGS ONE KNOWS ABOUT SHE SAID WITH DIGNITY ONE FEELS ABOUT THEM NEITHER ARGUMENT ENTREATY NOR EXPOSTULATION HAD ANY EFFECT ON THOSE TWO STUBBORN GIRLS NOR YET THE TEARS OF SWEET CECILY WHO CRIED EVERY NIGHT ABOUT IT AND MINGLED IN HER PURE LITTLE PRAYERS FERVENT PETITIONS THAT FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL MIGHT MAKE UP I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU EXPECT TO GO WHEN YOU DIE FELICITY SHE SAID TEARFULLY IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING MY AUNT JANE TOLD ME SO SAID PETER I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY WHAT DID I SAY THAT WAS NASTY CRIED FELICITY I DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING +9656662e-c09a-4d4f-be53-df5a6d066931 ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL WE ALL FEEL PRETTY WELL YET IT'S A SAD TALE SAID THE STORY GIRL AND IT HAPPENED FIFTY YEARS AGO WHEN GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE QUITE YOUNG SECTION CHIEF OF INVESTIGATION AND ADJUSTMENT I CANNOT TAKE THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE LYING SAID TO NUB WHEN DO WE GO ASKED ORAN +9660aa27-cfd5-48c4-89ba-2a036db71fe2 HE'S GOING TO CHURCH WITH US TO MORROW BUT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS HE SAID ALTOGETHER THE STORY GIRL HAD A HARD TIME OF IT A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY UNDERNEATH IN HOPE'S CLEAR PURPOSEFUL HAND WAS THIS THINGS COULDN'T LOOK THE SAME IF JUDGMENT DAY WAS GOING TO BE TO MORROW THE STORY GIRL MANAGED IT BETTER THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE +967bcabf-2a78-4cfe-a24e-ede22d9ffd33 OH I WISH I'D NEVER SAID PETER WASN'T FIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH MOANED FELICITY IF HE EVER GETS BETTER I'LL NEVER SAY SUCH A THING AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK IT HE'S JUST A LOVELY BOY AND TWICE AS SMART AS LOTS THAT AREN'T HIRED OUT UNDER A SENSATIONAL HEADLINE THE LAST TRUMP WILL SOUND AT TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW WAS A PARAGRAPH TO THE EFFECT THAT THE LEADER OF A CERTAIN NOTED SECT IN THE UNITED STATES HAD PREDICTED THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THAT ALL HIS NUMEROUS FOLLOWERS WERE PREPARING FOR THE DREAD EVENT BY PRAYER FASTING AND THE MAKING OF APPROPRIATE WHITE GARMENTS FOR ASCENSION ROBES PARON MISTER BUTLER AND MISS HOPE ARE SAFE EVERYTHING'S EXPLAINED IN THIS NOTE YOU AND MISSUS PARIN ARE TO LEAVE ME HERE AND NOT DISTURB ANYTHING DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME +96c5aef3-39f4-4709-98d9-401254fc233f WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN BE IT REMEMBERED WITH A VERY FIRM AND SIMPLE FAITH THAT GROWN PEOPLE KNEW MUCH MORE THAN WE DID AND A ROOTED CONVICTION THAT WHATEVER YOU READ IN A NEWSPAPER MUST BE TRUE IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT SHE MARCHED OFF WITH SARA RAY AND PETER DROPPED BACK TO US WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE WHAT IS IT I HAVE DONE TO HER HE WHISPERED WHAT DOES THAT BIG WORD MEAN YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE THERE WERE TWO MINISTERS IN PARTICULAR HE BLAMED FOR BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM YOU SHOULD BE RESIGNED TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE +96d38744-31d8-4e2a-889e-ec6374fd5bbe I DON'T CARE HE SAID HOW'S A FELLOW TO KNOW TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY I SHOULDN'T THINK YOU'D PUT ON YOUR BEST CLOTHES TO GO BEGGING FOR THE LIBRARY IN SAID FELICITY CUTTINGLY BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD PUT DEGREES IN CHARGE OF THE RECORD ROOM FOR A WHILE YOU SAID THAT WAY HE CAN LEARN THE ROPES BUYING AROUND IN SENTRY OLD DUSTY FILES WILL BE JUST THE THING FOR A FREE SPIRIT LIKE SLIPPERY GIM DEGREES URGED ON BY THE FIRES OF PATRIOTISM +96eeb0d3-d047-4873-acd3-d1347611cf02 THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID BUT TAKE HIM AWAY SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER DORA HESITATED HER HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER SHE LOOKED AT THE LIMP DIVING SUITED BODY BESIDE HER THEN BACK AT THE LAUNCH AND FARMER AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY BENDING LEAVING A TRAIL OF BUBBLES AS HER HEAD WENT UNDER SHE SET THE JUDGE'S INVENTION DOWN ON A LOWER STEP AND PICKED UP THE JUDGE INSTEAD CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD CECILY NOW JOINED US IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST THEREFORE SHE COULD NOT COME WE ALL WENT TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD UNCLE STEPHEN WAS THE FIRST BORN OF ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH KING +97007ee5-2cb2-444d-a5da-dca6c8c14c59 HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION DEMANDED FELICITY I'VE GOT A YANKEE CENT I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT FELICITY FROWNED AT HIM AND THE STORY GIRL TOUCHED HER WITH HER SLIPPERED FOOT TO REMIND HIM THAT HE MUST NOT TALK IN CHURCH NINE LIGHT YEARS AWAY OF COURSE THIRTEEN YEARS HAD PASSED ON EARTH SINCE THEY HAD LEFT BECAUSE THE TRIP TOOK FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA RELATIVE TIME BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF ANSWERED THE EMPEROR AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS INCLUDING THE WINKIES +973116b9-7d14-4509-9dc3-2810756b072b THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE TEMPORARILY WE'RE IN FROM MEDIUMS FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN HE HAD NOT ONLY PICKED IT UP HOWEVER EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH +973396b5-9f00-4350-ba9f-2e48366504b8 WE LOVED AUNT OLIVIA BUT JUST NOW WE RESENTED TO HER HAVING LAUGHED AT US WITH AUNT JANET AND WE REFUSED TO SMILE BACK CICELY'S PRAYER HAD BEEN ANSWERED A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY I WISH I COULD UNDERSTAND IT TELLS IT NOW OH IT ISN'T THE RIGHT KIND OF STORY TO TELL ON SUNDAY SHE REPLIED BUT I'LL TELL IT TOMORROW MORNING +973677c2-9148-41df-bd70-8ceac3c1169d ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW THEY ARE NOT INTELLIGENT THINGS THAT WOULD KILL A MAN OF OUR OWN WORLD HAVE NO EFFECT ON THEM FOR REMEMBER THEY ARE NOT PHYSICAL BEINGS YOU HAVE SEEN THEM APPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR AND DISSOLVE IN THE SAME FASHION HE CUT THE CIRCUIT HURRYING TO HAVE HIS COMMUNICATOR STOWED AWAY BEFORE OLD CHARLEY'S ARRIVAL NOT HE THOUGHT BITTERLY THAT BEING FOUND OUT NOW WOULD MAKE ANY GREAT DIFFERENCE +97412cf1-6031-46b5-86f0-0a130e3eef7c PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN SUCH AS SHIP SAILINGS BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO GO TO A METHODIST MISSIONARY YOU CAN GIVE IT TO THE METHODIST MINISTER AT MARKDALE +974a8457-ab7a-4cb8-a9db-f8d464ad7f06 PERHAPS IF WE GO NEARER WE SHALL FIND OUT WHETHER ANYBODY LIVES THERE OR NOT SUGGESTED LU LOOKS TO ME AS IF NOBODY LIVED THERE YOU BELIEVE THAT I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID KENUF WAITED A BARE A SECOND AND THEN NODDED I CAN DO MANY THINGS YANUS WENT ON IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I BRING THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION AND TO PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY WERE NOT WIZARDLY OR MAGIC MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE BUT UNDER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE ROLLED A TERRIBLE FLOOD DEEP AND WIDE AND VIOLENT FULL OF ROCKS AND RAPIDS AND WHIRLPOOLS +976b02f3-4d38-4347-8986-c0d53e621b0c IT WAS SO NICE TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL BACK AGAIN WE DID BURY IT AFTER TEA IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPRUCE GROVE IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL WELL I GUESS I WON'T SAID PETER ANGRILY PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY'VE FOUND OUT HOW TO ENJOY IT THE BLANKETS ON THE NARROW COT IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM HAD NOT BEEN UNFOLDED +977f6d65-6b69-4cd7-952b-eb9b5e7720ab BUT INSTEAD LOOKED FORWARD TO IT WITH PLEASURE THE HOLES DON'T COME IN THE SAME PLACES AND YOU'D NEVER NOTICE THEM UNLESS YOU LOOK QUITE CLOSE OH I HADN'T A PAIR WITHOUT HOLES IN THE LEGS SUCH A CONSTANTLY TEARFUL DAMSEL WAS NOT A PLEASANT COMPANION NOR YET THE TEARS OF SWEET CECILY WHO CRIED EVERY NIGHT ABOUT IT AND MINGLED IN HER PURE LITTLE PRAYERS FERVENT PETITIONS THAT FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL MIGHT MAKE UP THE OLD WOMAN PONDERED FOR A MINUTE SHE LEANED HER ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL GETTING THEM MUDDY BUT THAT JONAS THOUGHT DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO THIS CREATURE APPARENTLY +9785e30d-8252-44ef-b59a-24cf8cf685e4 PRESENTLY THE TIN WOODMAN PUSHED HIS WAY THROUGH SOME HEAVY UNDERBRUSH AND ALMOST TUMBLED HEADLONG INTO A VAST CLEARED SPACE IN THE FOREST IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS DAN PROMPTLY DECLARED HE WOULDN'T TRY TO PREACH A SERMON BUT PETER FELIX AND I THOUGHT THE SUGGESTION A VERY GOOD ONE SECRETLY I BELIEVED I COULD CUT QUITE A FINE FIGURE PREACHING A SERMON WHO'LL GIVE THE PRIZES ASKED FELIX I WILL SAID THE STORY GIRL I'LL GIVE THAT PICTURE FATHER SENT ME LAST WEEK +978c55af-1e79-4348-8394-21a4b32720eb AMEN CRIED FELIX WHO HAD SUFFERED MANY THINGS BECAUSE FELICITY SO OFTEN MADE FACES AT HIM NONE OF US UTTERED A WORD UNTIL WE REACHED THE ROAD LYING IN THE WHITE MOONSHINE OF THE MAY NIGHT THEN FELICITY BROKE THE TENSE SILENCE BY REMARKING TO THE STORY GIRL I TOLD YOU SO THE CONSUL'S PESSIMISM JOLTED JEFF BACK TO THE MOMENT AT HAND HOMESIDE WILL DENY THEIR AUTONOMY AUBREY I'VE HAD A WARP BEING MESSAGE TO DAY ORDERING ME TO MOVE IN +9795c1d8-ff8b-44b2-a371-22be20157a6b WE WATCHED IT FROM THE GRANARY WINDOW AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US AN OLD LEGEND CULLED FROM ONE OF AUNT OLIVIA'S MANY SCRAPBOOKS THE PRIESTS WERE A HARD HEADED LOT AND WEREN'T BUYING ANY LIZARDS IN A POKE THEY JUST STOOD AND MUTTERED BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE +9796e175-4e82-4b20-bef9-8c99a74904fd UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEVER HAD A BOY HE COULD DEPEND ON LIKE PETER I SAID IT'S TOO LATE TO BE SAYING ALL THESE NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM NOW SAID THE STORY GIRL HE WON'T EVER KNOW HOW MUCH WE THOUGHT OF HIM IT'S TOO LATE A CLASS FIVE CULTURE CHAFFY THREE AGREED SHAKENLY HIS AURA QUIVERED WITH A SHOCK OF BETRAYAL THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK THE OTHERS CAME RUNNING THEY MILLED AND MOBBED AND PILED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND BY THAT TIME I HAD LANDED IN THE PLAZA FRONTING THE TEMPLE THE PRIESTHOOD ARRIVED I FOLDED MY ARMS IN A REGAL DANCE +97b232ee-7c99-482c-854a-b1417f776396 BUT THE BODY WAS VERY LONG FOR IT HAD TWENTY LEGS TEN LEGS ON EACH SIDE AND THIS CAUSED THE BODY TO STRETCH OUT AND LIE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION SO THAT ALL THE LEGS COULD TOUCH THE GROUND AND STAND FIRM HE WENT AND WAS SOON SLEEPING AS PEACEFULLY AS IF HE HAD NOTHING ON EITHER CONSCIENCE OR STOMACH BUT FELICITY DECLARED SHE MEANT TO KEEP THE WATER HOT UNTIL ALL DANGER WAS PAST AND WE SAT UP TO KEEP HER COMPANY THE STORY GIRL'S LETTER DEAR PETER OH HOW GLAD I AM THAT YOU'RE GETTING BETTER THOSE DAYS AND WE THOUGHT YOU WOULDN'T WERE THE HARDEST OF MY WHOLE LIFE +97c1176b-4aaa-4d26-90ef-98c8c8ba7556 OH DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE CAUGHT THEM AT THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW SHE SAID MISERABLY WHERE ELSE SHOULD SHE HAVE CAUGHT THEM SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY I DIDN'T SEE HER OF COURSE MISSUS RAY MET ME AT THE DOOR AND TOLD ME NOT TO COME IN DURING THE NIGHT THE SCARECROW AND THE EMPEROR TALKED IN LOW TONES TOGETHER AND THEY GOT OUT OF THE CHAIR AND MOVED ALL ABOUT THE ROOM FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW AND PERMIT THEM TO ESCAPE I WAS REALLY PUFFED UP WITH EARTHLY VANITY OVER IT AT THAT TIME FELIX I THOUGHT WOULD BE HARD PUT TO IT TO BEAT IT +97cf81b5-b3f2-42aa-a961-eb9e7db0f7a8 WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT TO WAIT WHAT WOULD THE FEDS SAY IF THEY KNEW YOU WERE GIVING OUT INFORMATION THE EARTH MEN HADN'T ACQUIRED BY THEMSELVES HELPING THEM GET INTO SPACE WHAT ABOUT THAT USE THE BACK DOOR RULE SON ALWAYS LEAVE YOURSELF AWAY OUT NOW LET'S CHECK THAT EQUIPMENT THE SURGEON'S PUT IN YOUR NET STETSON PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT HIS MOUTH REMAINED CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A SURF HISSING VOICE IN ORNE'S EARS YOU READ ME +97ec205d-642e-4dce-a023-adcad71146d6 PETER'S APPEARANCE DID NOT ATTRACT AS MUCH ATTENTION AS WE HAD FONDLY EXPECTED INDEED NOBODY SEEMED TO NOTICE HIM AT ALL THE LAMPS WERE NOT YET LIGHTED AND THE CHURCH WAS FILLED WITH A SOFT TWILIGHT AND HUSH GET OUT THERE FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON THEN GET BACK NOTHING ELSE AND THAT'S AN ORDER THIS PEPEE IS SMART AND AS TRICKY AS A FIX GAMBLING MACHINE THAT'S HIS STRENGTH AND HIS WEAKNESS AS WELL WHY IF HE HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN HE WOULD YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING CLARETON'S VOICE SAID YONAS GRINNED SUDDENLY AND SAT STRAIGHTER I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D BE GETTING INTO CONTACT SOONER OR LATER HE THOUGHT I TRIED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OUR MEN CLARETON THOUGHT IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER +97f5f8ba-fe33-4fac-b675-48bb2c96fb94 IT WAS MORE THAN VAST THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US SHE FELL QUIET REMEMBERING THE ZID AND HE MADE HIS CALL THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS +9800b4a5-4203-47d0-8ff2-d98f3f99328a WE WERE SITTING IN A CIRCLE BEFORE THE PULPIT STONE EACH WRITING DILIGENTLY IN AN EXERCISE BOOK AND EATING THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT'S PLUMS WHICH ALWAYS REACHED THEIR PRIME OF JUICY GOLDEN GREEN FLESH AND BLOOMY BLUESKIN IN SEPTEMBER THAT WE COULD CONTROL NEXT HE SAID THEIR MOON WAS CERANNA CRUSOE TRANSLATED AS A LIMB OF VICTORY AFTER THAT IT JUST FELL INTO PLACE HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU TO FIND HIMSELF HAULED OUT OF THE WATER UNCEREMONIOUSLY BY THE SCRUFF OF HIS NECK AS HE ROSE ROPY TENTACLES TWINED AROUND HIM AND HE SAW WHAT HAD SAVED HIM +98017a43-24d4-4e96-b33e-4a23d7897cd2 THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS THE REST OF US DID NOT SEE HOW SHE COULD DO IT NO SIR SAID PETER WITH A FLASH OF SPIRIT I AIN'T ONE OF THE KIND THAT SAYS THEY'LL BE SOME JUST CAUSE THEY'RE SCARED WHEN THE SCARE IS OVER GO BACK ON IT I SAID I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND I MEAN TO STICK TO IT IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AWAY FROM HER THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT SHE ISN'T A BIT PRETTY AFTER ALL HE VOWED THAT HE DIDN'T CARE +980338fe-d17f-4052-98c9-bc42cf52032a AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE EXCUSE ME COLONEL TOWERS SAID BRANDON QUIETLY TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON THE COLONEL'S FACE PALED I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU SAID BRANDON GRINNING ABOUT THE QUONUM JUMP CECILY HAD A VERY SWEET VOICE AND I LISTENED IN DELIGHT BUT THE STORY GIRL SIGHED WHAT IF SARA DOES TAKE THE MEASLES SHE ASKED MISERABLY EVERY ONE HAS TO HAVE THE MEASLES SOMETIME I SAID COMFORTABLY AND THE YOUNGER YOU ARE THE BETTER +9804e43b-920d-4ad1-8a7b-e30119045375 WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED THE WAR LORD CLASS BATTLESHIP THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AT THE CENT ORANTOLA SPACE YARDS DISGUISED BEHIND THESE BLUE PRINTS I THREW THEM ACROSS THE DESK TO HIM AND POINTED TO ONE CORNER THOSE YOUR INITIALS THERE AUTHORIZING CONSTRUCTION IT WILL SOON BE WINTER I WISH SUMMER WOULD LAST FOREVER FELICITY LIKES THE WINTER AND SO DOES THE STORY GIRL BUT I DON'T IT ALWAYS SEEMS SO LONG TILL SPRING THE TIME HAD COME SOONER THAN WE HAD DARED TO HOPE BUT FATHER COULD NOT TAKE US AFTER ALL HIS FIRM HAD ASKED HIM TO GO TO RIO DE JANEIRO THAT SPRING TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR NEW BRANCH THERE +98085e34-5e53-47be-9719-c946d154d992 HOW LONG SIR I'D SAY ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE YOU CAME THEN DARKNESS CLOSED IN SWIFTLY OLD CHARLEY HAD ABANDONED HIS BOAT AND WAS SWIMMING IN TO ESCAPE THE SCOOP THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM AS SOON AS I SHOWED HIM THE DIFFERENT BLUE PRINTS AND EXPLAINED THE POSSIBILITIES HE UNDERSTOOD THE DOT YARD COMMANDER SHOWED ME THE SHIP AND MADE A NOBLE EFFORT TO CONTROL HIS CURIOSITY +980c299d-9ba2-488a-bd77-5a86882819dd THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS WHY PATTY JUST SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY IT SEEMED SO TO STRIKE PETER FOR ONE THING THE WHOLE HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN APPLE PIE ORDER AND FOR ANOTHER AN ELABORATE SUPPER MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE EXPECTED RETURN OF THE TRAVELLERS THAT NIGHT FELICITY DEVOTED HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO THIS THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY +98668d34-03e4-4372-876b-24e97db33d5b YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ANY ONE YOU CHERRY VARS ASKED FELICITY TRYING TO SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY FELICITY HAD NEVER ADMIRED THE FORGET ME NOT JUG BUT SHE HAD ALWAYS HANKERED AFTER THE CHERRY VARS AN AFFAIR OF WHITE GLASS WITH A CLUSTER OF RED GLASS CHERRIES AND GOLDEN GREEN GLASS LEAVES ON ITS SIDE WHICH AUNT OILBY HAD GIVEN CECILY ONE CHRISTMAS WE WERE EATING LITTLE JAM TURNOVERS WHICH FELICITY HAD MADE FOR US FELICITY'S TURNOVERS WERE PERFECTION I LOOKED AT HER AND WONDERED WHY IT WAS NOT ENOUGH THAT SHE SHOULD BE SO PRETTY AND CAPABLE OF MAKING SUCH TURNOVERS +9876d1f5-c3b7-4860-8eae-22be3b456f77 OH OH OH WAILED CECILY ON THE SOFA I WISH IT WOULD STOP RAINING I WISH MY HEAD WOULD STOP ACHING I WISH MA HAD NEVER GONE AWAY I WISH YOU'D LEAVE FELICITY ALONE DAN I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN WHICH BROUGHT THE ORGY OF WISHING TO AN END FOR THE TIME THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE UNLESS CHECK THE ZID WOULD RAPIDLY DEPOPULATE THE ISLAND AND TO CHECK IT THEY MUST BREAK A PRIME RULE OF GALACTIC PROTOCOL IN ASKING THE HELP OF A NEW AND UNTESTED SPECIES BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE THE FIELDS WERE WILD AND UNCULTIVATED AND THERE WERE NO HOUSES OF ANY SORT TO BE SEEN BUT OUR FRIENDS KEPT ON WALKING EVEN AFTER THE SUN WENT DOWN HOPING TO FIND A GOOD PLACE FOR WOOT THE WANDERER TO SLEEP BUT WHEN IT GREW QUITE DARK AND THE BOY WAS WEARY WITH HIS LONG WALK THEY HALTED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD AND ALLOWED WOOT TO GET HIS SUPPER FROM THE BOOT HE CARRIED IN HIS KNAPSACK +989613da-3f00-4e71-9bb7-7b053f008f3d THEN THEY ASSUME THEIR ORIGINAL FORM WHERE THEY WILL JUST AGAIN AS ELECTRICITY PASSES FROM THE END OF THE WIRE EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT ENTERED IT ALLOWING ONLY FOR VOLTAGE DROPS AND SOME OTHER FACTORS THAT AREN'T PERTINENT HERE VOCALLY SAID CHAFFY FOUR THEY SHUDDERED AND TELEPARTED THE SUDDEN REAPPEARANCE OF HIS HALLUCINATION DOUBLED STARTLED JEFF NO MORE THAN THE FACT THAT HE SEEMED TO BE HOLDING JENOFOR MAC TIGHTLY HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR AN ANGEL TO GROW INTO AN ARCHANGEL PURSUED PETER OH I DON'T KNOW MILLIONS OF YEARS LIKELY +98a95a07-376b-417b-87ff-8e3781415df4 I EXPECT WE'D GET TIRED OF IT AFTER A WHILE SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT SHE ADDED I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOODLY WHILE BEFORE I WOULD THEY WERE ALL UNITED IN A LOOSE ALLIANCE AND BICKET A LOT AMONG THEMSELVES BUT NEVER CAME TO BLOWS IF ANYTHING THEY SHARED A UNIVERSAL ABHORRENCE OF WAR YET THEY WERE SECRETLY BUILDING A BATTLESHIP ACCORDINGLY WE WENT ROUND TO THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE THE GIRLS WOULD NOT SEE US TO THE ROUSING OF THEIR CURIOSITY AND THEN PETER TOLD US OF HIS DILEMMA +98b0b4e1-50a8-4b52-beda-6fc763426ec7 YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I'M EVER GOING TO PUT IN THE AFTERNOON I PROMISED KITTY MOTHER I'D GO DOWN AND SPEND IT WITH HER BUT I CAN'T NOW AND I CAN'T NEAR ANY AT MY LACE I JUST KEEP THINKING WHAT IS THE USE PERHAPS IT'LL ALL BE BURNED UP TO MORROW HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT I DON'T KNOW I CONFESSED DUBIOUSLY FELIX IS TOO FAT HE'LL GET OUT OF BREATH IN NO TIME THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN THOSE HUGE ROUND EYES UNBLINKING UMBRELLAS WERE NOT HUMAN NOR WERE THEIR SLITTED SUNKEN MOUTHS THEY WERE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY WERE IMAGES OF DESPAIR +98d51e10-b935-42a3-ae4c-50911d1d2992 AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL BUT HE FELT KEENLY THE WOUNDS AND BRUISES OF THE CRUEL ROCKS IF IT IS I WON'T TRY TO GUESS THE REASON BUT THERE'S NO GAMBLE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE RAY YELPED HE STARTED AFTER HER HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO PUZZLE YOU OR MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR BY ME MAKING YOU +98dcf430-d7bc-4e16-b49f-edc11052290f I DO HOPE THAT BABY HASN'T WANDERED DOWN TO THE SWAMP IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE HE COULDN'T WALK SO FAR BUT I MUST GO AND SEE FELICITY HAND ME MY HIGH BOOTS OUT FROM UNDER THE SOFA THERE'S A GIRL NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING OH SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL HER HAIR WAS LIKE A SKEIN OF GOLD AND SILK AND HER EYES WERE AS BLUE AS THE GULF WATER WHEN THE SUN BREAKS OUT AFTER A STORM BEVERLY IS HANDSOME BUT FELIX IS TOO FAT ANSWERED FELICITY PROMPTLY +98e390a5-e262-4366-9de3-d6e693574ffc YOUR FRIEND MUST HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL WORKMAN EXCLAIMED GROUP HE WAS INDEED ADMITTED THE EMPEROR HE WAS A TINSMITH BY TRADE AND COULD MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF TIN I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE WE MUST BREED AND BE BORN IN THE SUNLIGHT ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES NOW ONLY THE WITH HIM WERE TWO OTHERS EACH WEARING A SIMILAR JEWEL OF AUTHORITY THEY STOOD ASIDE FOR US TO ENTER AND THEN FOLLOWED US DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR WHICH WAS NOT LIGHTED BY ANY DEVICE I COULD DISCERN AND YET WHICH WAS NOT DARK +98f0a41f-a9ba-439f-adc2-58900c7f16b6 THE DECODY MESSAGE TURNED OUT NOT TO BE AS BAD AS I IMAGINED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE I WAS IN CHARGE OF TRACKING AND CAPTURING THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP I COULD CALL ON THE LEAGUE FOR ANY AID I NEEDED I WOULD KEEP MY IDENTITY AS AN ADMIRAL FOR THE REST OF THE JOB I WAS TO KEEP HIM INFORMED OF PROGRESS CECILY'S SICK SAID DAN SPRINGING OUT OF BED THAT CUCUMBER MUST HAVE DISAGREED WITH HER IN A FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS ASTIR CECILY WAS SICK VERY VERY SICK THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF IT SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN +9900c11a-237f-49e4-bfee-1045042334de LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED ORAN BRAKED TO A CREAKING STOP THAT SHIFTED THE LOAD BEHIND HIM I'M NERVOUS SAID ORAN GUNS ALWAYS MAKE ME NERVOUS OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE +9907cc59-5199-499b-954d-0f23af87b7e2 YOU HAVE CONFESSED TO ME HE SAID YOUR HERESY NOW YOU WILL BE MADE TO RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION THAT DONE YOUR PENALTY WILL BE EXACTED AND THE PENALTY OF COURSE WILL BE DEATH DEATH AT THE STAKE NO IT'S ONLY AFTER THEY'RE CONVERTED THAT THEY'RE ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR SAID FELICITY BEFORE THAT THEY'RE JUST PLAIN HEATHEN BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO GO TO A METHODIST MISSIONARY YOU CAN GIVE IT TO THE METHODIST MINISTER AT MARKDALE I GUESS THE PRESBYTERIANS CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT IT AND LOOK AFTER THEIR OWN HEATHEN NO LOSS JONIFER REPEATED INDIGNANTLY BUT THEN THERE WON'T BE ANY DEMAND FOR OUR CRYSTALS WE'LL LOSE EVERYTHING WE'VE GAINED +992122aa-4f64-4aae-8d15-5cb134278482 THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE THAT'S TRUE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO WHERE IS MARILLA I DON'T SEE MARILLA SINCE I CAME BACK MARILLA JUST LAY DOWN AND DIED MANOEL REASSURED THE PATIENT THOUGHT AND BECAME CONFIDENTIAL I SEE WELL I SUPPOSE IT'S GONE OF SILLY BUT I DON'T MUCH LIKE SHOTS IT'S NOT THAT THEY HURT IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS +9930d7bc-e374-4fe1-9d4f-a5c8d1925388 JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WE ARE THE RADIO BOOMED AGAIN JUST OBEY ORDERS IF YOU CARE TO LIVE STAY AWAY FROM THE CONTROLS UNTIL WE HAVE TIRED ON THEN DO EXACTLY AS I SAY WHEN HE FLEW TO THE BACK OF A CHAIR AND PERCHED UPON IT HIS TIN FEATHERS RATTLED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH A TINY CLATTER THE GIANTESS SEEMED MUCH AMUSED BY THE TIN OWL'S APPEARANCE FOR HER LAUGH WAS BIG AND JOLLY +994a07b7-b3c5-434b-b26e-1370693bc940 HE SAID INANELY THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE WHERE IS DONALD FRASER SAID NEIL SHAKING HIS FIST IT'S HIM I'M SEEKING AND IT'S HIM I WILL BE FINDING WHERE IS HE BETTY SHERMAN INSTANTLY WE ALL SAW OURSELVES IN EACH OTHER BY INNER VISION OLD AND GREY ALL BUT THE STORY GIRL WE COULD NOT PICTURE HER AS OLD A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY HE SAT DOWN ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS HE THOUGHT +996c284c-2655-4b64-a3c0-382d05db7c22 OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS THERE WAS NO PLACE I COULD GO THAT WOULD BE BETTER SITUATED FOR THE CHASE THAN SETANOVO THE MISSING SHIP COULD HAVE GONE IN ANY DIRECTION WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP I CAN UNDERSTAND THE SOLDIER'S INTEREST ASSERTED POLYCHROME DANCING ROUND THE GRIMY WORKSHOP UNTIL HER DRAPERIES FORMED A CLOUD ROUND HER DAINTY FORM FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS A MAN MIGHT LIKE TO SEE HIS OLD HEAD ONCE MORE JUST AS ONE LIKES TO VISIT AN OLD HOME THE STORY GIRL PEELED THE POTATOES SOMEWHAT SLOWLY AND AWKWARDLY FOR SHE WAS NOT DEFT AT HOUSEHOLD TASKS DAN AND FELIX SHELLED PEAS AND TORMENTED PAT BY ATTACHING PODS TO HIS EARS AND TAIL FELICITY FLUSHED AND SERIOUS MEASURED AND STIRRED SKILFULLY I AM SITTING ON A TRAGEDY SAID THE STORY GIRL SUDDENLY +9986f0c4-73c2-446d-9742-430bf9621959 GAR STAGGERED ACROSS THE DECK THAT FARMER COMPLIMENTED HIMSELF ON HIS CLEVERNESS MADE SENSE AT LEAST I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU I TOLD HER TRUTHFULLY THAT'S UP FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE BUT BUT HE MADE ME DO ALL THOSE THINGS SHE WAILED I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO WELL IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PETER WE FELT SO MISERABLY SURE THAT THE MUSIC OF LIFE WOULD BE STILLED FOR US FOR EVER +99a78732-2fb9-4f79-b55f-fd759afd0650 DO YOU SEE WHAT IT MEANS NOW YEAH I GUESS SO SAID CECILY SOMEWHAT DOUBTFULLY LATER ON WE HEARD HER IMPARTING HER NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FELICITY IN THE PANTRY ANY ONE WHO LIVES WITH YOU FELICITY KING WILL ALWAYS BE WISHING HE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE SAID DAN I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU DAN KING RETORTED FELICITY SPEAK WHEN YOU'RE SPOKEN TO COME WHEN YOU'RE CALLED THAT SEEMS KIND OF QUEER SAID FELICITY DOUBTFULLY YOU WOULDN'T PUT ON AN APRON TO GO TO CHURCH SO IT DOESN'T SEEM AS IF IT WAS PROPER TO PUT IT ON FOR JUDGMENT DAY EITHER IT'S THE BEST I COULD DO SAID SARA DISCONSOLATELY I WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING WHITE ON IT IT'S JUST LIKE A DRESS ONLY IT HASN'T SLEEVES +99a7d2ad-33af-4abc-9db5-8ef749821241 I DID NOT FIND IT AS EASY IN A TASK AS I HAD ANTICIPATED BUT I PEGGED GRIMLY AWAY AT IT AND BY DINT OF SEVERE LABOUR FOR TWO EVENINGS I EVENTUALLY GOT MY FOUR PAGES OF FOOLSCAP FILLED ALTHOUGH I HAD TO PAD THE SUBJECT MATTER NOT A LITTLE WITH VERSES OF QUOTABLE HYMNS A DISOBEDIENT BROTHER DAN WAS OWN MAN AGAIN IN THE MORNING THOUGH RATHER PALE AND WEAK HE WANTED TO GET UP BUT CECILY ORDERED HIM TO STAY IN BED FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED THIS IS STRANGE MUSED THE SCARECROW I HAD NO IDEA SUCH A BIG CASTLE EXISTED IN THE GALLIKIN COUNTRY I WONDER WHO LIVES HERE IT SEEMS TO ME FROM THIS DISTANCE REMARKED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IT'S THE BIGGEST CASTLE I EVER SAW +99cac4bb-d43b-42f9-827d-7ab581c46f49 INSTEAD WE WENT AT IT WITH FEVERISH ZEAL BUT DESPERATE CASES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES IS THAT A CONUNDRUM ASKED CECILY CAUTIOUSLY HAD WOOED WILD DREAMS TO THEIR PILLOWS BY THE SIMPLE DEVICE OF EATING RICH THEN GREAT AUNT EDITH CAME INTO THE ORCHARD THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY +99d27a9c-5abe-413e-b71c-0f6ee806ca16 THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO YOU ARE A LIAR YOU ARE NO ANCESTOR OF OURS WE WILL STOP I THUNDERED BEFORE HE GOT SO FAR IN THAT HE COULDN'T BACK OUT AT FIRST ALL WAS NOT HARMONIOUS FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOW I TELL YOU I NEVER DID +99e8ae46-2256-4df7-bb23-aa55e60e5745 THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW I DON'T CARE IF THE JOKE IS AS MUCH ON MYSELF AS ANY ONE A STORY IS A STORY NO MATTER WHO IT'S ON BUT IT IS HATEFUL TO BE LAUGHED AT AND GROWN UPS ALWAYS DO IT +9a1c610f-895e-4bad-923e-480a8dc6a6d5 WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE IT WASN'T CHANCE THAT HE HAD LEFT THE SAME DAY I ARRIVED ON SETANOVO GREAT LOOPING VINES OF THEM ONE ON THE HOOD NOW HAS ONE OF OUR MARKED TWENTY RIFLES THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER SARA'S INTENTIONS WERE GOOD I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS WE WERE IN THE ORCHARD AT SUNSET LISTENING TO THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID ALL OF US EXCEPT PETER WHO WAS HOEING TURNIPS AND FELICITY WHO HAD GONE DOWN THE HILL ON AN ERRAND TO MISSUS RAY +9a7f632d-8d52-4139-bd23-520eb373c0b0 JOHN ANDREW GULPED EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME +9ab1463a-2528-4ecc-904e-5a1ec14133b5 SHE BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE TRUE I CANNOT HAVE ASKED HIM WHAT WAS THE MATTER HAD MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT I THOUGHT OF ALL THE EVIL DEEDS OF MY SHORT LIFE FELICITY IF I DIE FROM THE EFFECTS OF EATING SAWDUST PUDDING FLAVORED WITH NEEDLES YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU EVER SAID SUCH A THING TO YOUR POOR OLD UNCLE SAID UNCLE ROGER REPROACHFULLY IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY PETER AND FELICITY LAGGED BEHIND IT WAS WE TOLD OURSELVES SARA'S OWN OUTLOOK AND WHEN I'M AN ANGEL IF I EVER GET TO BE ONE WILL MY NAME STILL BE PETER +9ab8b2d8-1ea4-4d33-ac89-da85ed343fdc BUT AS I SAID I KNOW MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SHIPS PERHAPS IT COULD BE OF HELP THOSE YOUR INITIALS THERE AUTHORIZING CONSTRUCTION SHE WAS VERY SHY AND MODEST BUT YOU KNOW A GIRL CAN LET A MAN SEE SHE LIKES HIM WITHOUT GOING OUT OF HER WAY HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHERE YOUR FATHER IS ASKED ANN THE CENTURY BEACON HAS SHUT DOWN FOR THIS REASON MOST BEACONS ARE BUILT ON UNINHABITABLE PLANETS +9ac172be-2df0-4923-bc59-c14bf8018675 THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE SOME A FARMER'S FEAR GAVE WAY TO AMAZEMENT AT THE LITTLE INVENTOR'S AUDACITY AND WHAT SEEMED TO FARMER AT LEAST TO BE FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC SCIENTIFIC DETACHMENT WE COULD NOT PICTURE HER AS OLD ALWAYS AS LONG AS SHE LIVED SO IT SEEMED TO US MUST SHE HAVE SLEEK BROWN CURLS A VOICE LIKE THE SOUND OF A HARP STRING IN THE WIND AND EYES THAT WERE STARS OF ETERNAL YOUTH OH I HADN'T A PAIR WITHOUT HOLES IN THE LEGS ANSWERED PETER EASILY BECAUSE MA HADN'T TIME TO DARN THEN THIS WEEK SO I PUT ON TWO PAIRS THE HOLES DON'T COME IN THE SAME PLACES AND YOU'D NEVER NOTICE THEM UNLESS YOU LOOK QUITE CLOSE +9ac74ea6-23bf-4977-8f9a-65059673adf0 THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE EXCEPT THAT IT HAS NO TREES WORTHY OF THE NAME NOW IT IS PROPOSED TO MAKE IT THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STATE PARK FROM THE TWO MYSTERIOUS SCENES OF DESOLATION THERE JUST SEVEN MILES APART IT IS AN INTERESTING PLACE AS WILD A REGION AS YOU WILL EVER FIND AND IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE MAN WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING STETSON SMILED WITHOUT HUMOR THAT'S ONE OF I A'S ANSWERS TO THOSE FAT KEASTERED POLITICIANS WE'RE SETTING UP OUR OWN SEARCH SYSTEM TO FIND THE PLANETS BEFORE THEY DO WE'VE MANAGED TO PUT SPIES AND KEEP PLACES AT OUR N ARE ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT WE DIVERT THE FILES THEN WHAT THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE TRIANGULATION AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW +9ac77075-f593-4e42-b150-aac4b9b44d15 AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID AND STRINGING AN INSORTMENT OF WIRES BETWEEN IT AND HIS INVENTION BUT ORDINARY OCEAN CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER THEY'RE ALWAYS SO TALL AND SLENDER WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF ANYONE WROTE A STORY ABOUT A FAT HERO OR ONE WITH TOO BIG A MOUTH NEVER AN ARROW OF HIS THAT DID NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE MARK SAID CECILY WITH A GASP IMPLORED THE STORY GIRL IT AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT +9acbd0d0-cb0b-4435-8b0b-038eee393d5a WHY THAT IS EASY THE TIN MAN ASSURED HIM AND THEIR JOURNEY NOW BECAME TEDIOUS BECAUSE ON CLIMBING EACH HILL THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THING DOESN'T LEAK FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER REASONABLY SO +9ad838e0-a2f5-40a6-9d8c-859308bdff74 WHAT ABOUT THAT DORA SHRUGGED CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD WE THOUGHT SHE HAD FLED BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT ENDURE THE SIGHT OF BLOOD AND WE WERE NOT SORRY FOR HER MANIFEST DISAPPROVAL AND ANXIETY WERE DAMPING THE EXCITEMENT OF THE OCCASION THOSE TWO BIG TREES BEHIND THEM ARE THE TWINS TREES MY MOTHER AND UNCLE FELIX YOU KNOW THE APPLES ARE SO DEAD SWEET THAT NOBODY BUT US CHILDREN AND THE FRENCH BOYS CAN EAT THEM +9afe9a2d-1dec-443e-a479-5cd21b83d7b8 THE IMAGE ON HIS THREE INCH SCREEN WAS NOT CONSEIL SEDTERFIELD'S BUT THE STARTLED CONSOLATE OPERATORS OH PERHAPS WE WON'T HAVE THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL CHEERFULLY IT WAS JUST LIKE A FEVER AUNT LOUISA SAYS WOULD JERRY COWN BRING IT TO SCHOOL THEN LET US SEE IT MADE THEIR WAY TOWARD THE EXTENDED PALMS WHICH FORMED THE ALTAR OF THIS STRANGE BLACK GOD WHOSE FAVOR WAS DEATH +9b012458-322d-4d61-a2ac-6eebfdc138ab SCOOP THE ZID'S AVID CRIES DISCOURAGED CURIOSITY BEFORE IT WAS WELL BORN WE'D NEVER MAKE IT WE COULDN'T POSSIBLY OUTRUN THAT BEAST WHEN FELIX READ IT ON OUR FIRST SUNDAY IN CARLISLE HE REMARKED DUBIOUSLY THAT IT LOOKED LIKE POETRY BUT DIDN'T SOUND LIKE IT EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER +9b3fc7ee-a181-4c1c-96c6-dfab1c0ce786 THE SUMMIT OF THE STONE PILE WAS NOW COVERED WITH LIZARDS OF SOME TYPE APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIFE FORM AND I HAD TO WALK INTO THE MIDDLE OF THAT MESS AND REPAIR THE THING IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE AS FOR THE FEDERATION THEY LET US IN AND MOST MEMBER RACES HAVE WARS OCCASIONALLY THEY'LL UNDOUBTEDLY ACCEPT YOU ONCE YOU DEVELOP SPACE TRAVEL CECILY HAD A PACKET OF VISITING CARDS WHICH SHE WAS HOARDING AGAINST THE DAY WHEN SHE WOULD BE GROWN UP AND COULD PUT THE CALLING ETIQUETTE OF THE FAMILY GUIDE INTO PRACTICE BUT SHE GENEROUSLY GAVE US ALL ONE APIECE FOR THE COVERS OF OUR DREAM BOOKS +9b98aa50-0018-49a5-83a5-1911a8002740 THE POOR DEAR SHE SAYS HE'S WORKED HIMSELF HALF TO DEATH AND DROPPED OFF ON THAT HORRIBLE CART HE KEEPS IN HIS LABORATORY SAYS MISS HOPE I'VE SEEN AUNT JANE LOOK AT ME JUST LIKE THAT WOMAN LOOKS AT HER BABY WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST WELL AT LAST IN APRIL THE WEDDING DAY CAME AND ALL THE GUESTS WERE HERE AND RACHEL WAS DRESSED IN HER WEDDING ROBES WAITING FOR HER BRIDEGROOM +9bb989e0-b649-4054-aac7-d001ad4c21ad I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN THERE WERE A GREAT MANY BAKED MUD STRUCTURES AND ONLY ONE WOODEN ONE BESIDES THE CHURCH THE JONAS COULD SEE THE PATHS WERE WINDING BUT COMPARATIVELY FREE FROM SLOP THAT WAS PLEASING HE TOLD HIMSELF +9bd22d25-7678-441b-9a91-3c5f4753d931 WITH THE USUAL LEVITY OF GROWN UPS THEY RECOVERED THE COLDNESS BETWEEN THE GIRLS AS A SUBJECT OF MIRTH AND JEST AND RECKED NOT THAT IT WAS FREEZING THE GENIAL CURRENT OF OUR YOUTHFUL SOULS AND BLIGHTING HOURS THAT SHOULD BE FAIR PAGES IN OUR BOOK OF DAYS HE READ SILENTLY FOR A FEW MOMENTS THEN BEGAN TO FILL OUT A FORM CLIPPED TO THE FOLDER WELL I THINK YOU PROBABLY ARE DUE FOR ANOTHER BOOSTER ABOUT NOW THERE'LL HAVE TO BE THE USUAL TESTS NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH DOUBT WE LIKE TO BE CERTAIN PRESENT FERERO A BACHELOR WAS EATING HIS DINNER THIS GAVE ME ENOUGH UNDISTURBED TIME TO SEARCH HIS STUDY THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NOTHING TO DO WITH WARS OR BATTLESHIPS DAYS IF I HAD BEEN INTERESTED IN BLACKMAIL I HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN MY HAND TO SUPPORT ME FOR LIFE I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN POLITICAL CORRUPTION HOWEVER +9be1c211-4f9d-4807-aca2-cbd8871f1e7e THESE FUNNY STORIES ARE ALL RIGHT SAID UNCLE ROGER BUT FOR REAL ENJOYMENT GIVE US SOMETHING WITH A CREEP IN IT SARA TELL US THAT STORY OF THE SERPENT WOMAN I HEARD YOU TELL ONE DAY LAST SUMMER IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER AND YOU ARE LET'S SEE HIM BEFORE IT HAPPENS GIVE HIM MY LOVE AND TELL HIM HOW SORRY I AM AND THAT I HOPE WE WILL ALL MEET IN A BETTER WORLD EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL IS ABOUT THE SAME THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS A QUICK STOP AT SUPPLY AND RECORD SECTIONS GAVE ME EVERYTHING I NEEDED THE SUN WAS BARELY CLEAR OF THE HORIZON WHERE THE SILVER NEEDLE OF MY SHIP LIFTED IN THE GRAY FIELD THEN BLASTED INTO SPACE +9c1dad1e-cd7f-4b52-9863-e4cc24dce530 I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE ANY MAN THAT CAN CON AN ENTIRE WORLD INTO BUILDING A BATTLESHIP FOR HIM THEN STEAL IT FROM THEM IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW AUNT JANET'S THROATY GURGLE AND AUNT OLIVIA'S TRILLING MIRTH FLOATED OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW +9c20a652-15d5-4abe-a3a2-6d07cb9bfbd3 THEN WE FOREGATHERED AROUND A TINY WOOD SPRING COLD AND PELLUCID UNDER ITS YOUNG MAPLES AND ATE THE JELLY COOKIES AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US A TALE OF A HAUNTED SPRING IN A MOUNTAIN GLEN WHERE A FAIR WHITE LADY DWELT WHO PLEDGED ALL COMERS IN A GOLDEN CUP WITH JEWELS BRIGHT YES I DID SHE FALTERED I WAS VERY CAREFUL TO AVOID THEM DURING MY JOURNEY SOUTH I KNOW AGREED THE HIPPOCRIF NINNIE AMY STILL DECLARED SHE WOULD MARRY ME WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS IT IS THE LAST CUP OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S SECOND BEST SET +9c51f5da-83c4-40d5-98bf-2be22100320d WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOYS ASKED CECILY I AM GOING TO CLIMB IT TO MORROW I SAID JOYFULLY OH WELL WE GOT IT FROM THE PROMOTER OF SORTS A KIND MAN REALLY I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE WERE TAKEN BUT WE WERE IN A SPOT AND NEEDED A WORLD HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES WERE TOO STUPID TO BE A NUISANCE AND IN HARDLY DECIPHERABLE SCRIPT BELOW WAS THIS MESSAGE DEAR PETE FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT YOU'VE NO PARTICULAR CALL TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS IF I'M IN A JAM IT'S MY OWN DOING AND DUE TO MY BULLHEADEDNESS OF WHICH YOU HAVE SO OFTEN REMINDED ME +9c52d1a3-c9d6-4bdd-a268-60611f6fe55b ACTING AS IF HE COULD AFFORD NOT TO GIVE A DAMN HOW BADLY HE HAD BEEN STUNG RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT I'M GLAD OF IT SAID CECILY VINDICTIVELY HER ROSES ARE ALL OUT AND THAT BED OF SWEET WILLIAM IS A SIGHT BY DAYLIGHT DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT +9c5b415c-44f2-40f2-adee-1dae8cc21c35 OZMA SMILED AND SAID I DO NOT KNOW YOUR NIMMY AMY AND SO I CANNOT TELL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO MAKE HER HAPPY BUT THERE IS NO HARM IN YOUR GOING TO HER AND ASKING HER IF SHE STILL WISHES TO MARRY YOU BUT STILL HE WENT AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING NOW DEAREST WHAT IS ALL THIS TROUBLE ABOUT ASKED GLAUCON AND AGLEYA TOLD HIM THE STORY BUT WHERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL STONE HE ASKED WHEN SHE HAD FINISHED DIDST THOU DROP IT IN THY ALARM SHE LEFT ME IN CHARGE YOU DIDN'T TAKE MUCH CHARGE LAST NIGHT WHEN DAN GOT SICK SAID FELIX MALICIOUSLY BUT IN AN HOUR'S TIME DAN WAS STILL IN GOOD HEALTH AND ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF GOING TO BED +9c95afbe-6138-481d-96b5-3a3dad993c38 HE EASED BACK ON THE POWER SETTING A PIN POINT OF LIGHT LOST IN THE DAZZLE OF THE MILKY WAY THAT INSTINCTIVE FEAR IS EVEN MORE UNDERSTANDABLE YOU YOU ARE IN A CELL HE SAID AT LAST LOCKED UP AND THAT WAS THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THE DESIGN AND SAID SO PLAINLY WHAT DOES GOD LOOK LIKE ONE DAY A HORN WAS BLOWN AT THE PALACE GATE +9cabdd20-0b9f-4e73-aef3-18c094c661d8 THE CROWD JOSTLING ABOUT ME SEEMED BLIND TO MY PRESENCE EVERY EYE WAS FIXED ON THE ALTAR LIKE HANDS OF THE IDOL AND THE DEATH THAT BLEW ACROSS THEM HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE WELL WHAT THE DEVIL AND IT WAS HERE THAT THE WITCH ENCHANTED MY AXE AND I LOST DIFFERENT PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY UNTIL I BECAME ALL TIN +9cb91a18-3234-4a43-b22d-67050da54b5d IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW BEFORE HE COULD MOVE I PUSHED A SWITCH AND A HANDFUL OF LOCAL CURRENCY LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY A STANCE NOT IMPROVED WE'LL BE RIGHT DOWN WHY A DISGUISED SLED THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES OH I WISH I'D NEVER SAID PETER WASN'T FIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH MOANED FELICITY +9d0b5c8f-d7a8-45f7-b050-33a130bed552 THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SAID THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF COLD CONCENTRATED FURY PETER GOES TO CHURCH BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ASKED PETER THEN SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO THE SHOW ANYHOW YOUR MOTHER WON'T EVER KNOW IF +9d14bb3d-0228-494f-9ee6-3a72e99be7b2 HE ISN'T IN THE KITCHEN SAID FELICITY RUSHING ABOUT WILDLY AND HE COULDN'T GET INTO THE OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE FOR I SHUT THE HALL DOOR TIGHT AND NO BABY COULD OPEN IT AND IT'S SHUT TIGHT YET HERE'S THE SPOT I MARKED IT WITH THESE THREE PIECES OF STONE QUICK VIC SWEPT BOTH ARMS ABOUT HOPE AND ME HOLDING US IN A CLOSE EMBRACE SO THAT WE ALL STOOD WITHIN THE TRIANGLE FORMED BY THE THREE BITS OF BLACK ROCK I VERILY BELIEVE THAT TO SIT AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE IN THAT SHABBY OUTGROWN DRESS CONSCIOUS OF LOOKING UGLIEST AND EATING ONLY BREAD AND WATER BEFORE THE CRITICAL MILLWARDS WOULD HAVE BEEN POSITIVE BLISS TO HER +9d20dd3e-1170-40eb-b738-aa802fe9abbb WE CLIMBED MT BLANC SAW THE HUNG FRAU SOARING INTO CLOUDLAND AND WALKED AMONG THE GLOOMY PILLARS OF BONIVARD'S PRISON FINALLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE TALE OF THE PRISONER OF CHILI IN WORDS THAT WERE BYRONS BUT IN A VOICE THAT WAS ALL HER OWN IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY SARA RAY'S OWN DREAMS NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH SHE WAS ALWAYS IN TROUBLE OF SOME SORT COULDN'T GET HER HAIR BRAIDED OR HER SHOES ON THE RIGHT FEET CONSEQUENTLY HER DREAM BOOK WAS VERY MONOTONOUS THE ONLY THING WORTH MENTIONING IN THE WAY OF DREAMS THAT SARA RAY EVER ACHIEVED WAS THAT SHE DREAMED THAT SHE WENT UP IN A BALLOON AND FELL OUT I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP DAN FINALLY VOLUNTEERED TO LOOK AFTER HIM HE HAD A NEW PITY BOOK WHICH HE WANTED TO FINISH AND THAT HE SAID WAS BETTER FUN THAN A WALK TO THE GRAVEYARD I THINK WE'LL BE BACK BEFORE HE WAKES SAID MISSUS PATTERSON AND ANYHOW HE IS VERY GOOD AND WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE DON'T LET HIM GO OUTSIDE THOUGH HE HAS A COLD NOW +9d23a6f9-a727-4625-a101-ad3993df96da LOOKS LIKE THE MISSING LINK THEY'VE ALWAYS HUNTED FOR SAID HORN NOT WITHOUT THE HEADLIGHTS THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU BREATHLESS AND REELING HIS VESTURE TORN HIS GREAT WOUNDS BLEEDING HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE SHORE WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY SPRANG UP IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CATHEDRALS AND CHIMES DOESN'T IT I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS AS A MATTER OF FACT I THINK I WILL HE GAZED REFACTLY AT THE BALD MAN WHO GULPED AND TURNED A LITTLE PALE +9d2b61f0-98ca-4cb7-885b-5fb8b559e183 PETER PRAYS THREE TIMES A DAY REGULAR YOU'LL BE SURE TO GET WHIPPED IF YOU FIGHT WITH PETER SHE SAID YOU'RE TOO FAT TO FIGHT WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT ON A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PICTURE OF GOD FELIX NO HUMAN BEING KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE NO HUMAN BEING CAN KNOW +9d2db116-6b7f-4487-8f5c-561271df9cde BUT IF THE LEGS WERE THIN THE VOICE WAS MORE THAN FULL ENOUGH TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE TALK BLESS YOU DECORES TALK HE ROARED WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE ABOUT A BARRESHIP WHO'S BUILDING IT I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A DEADLINE BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITIZEN'S GROUP HE HAD TO PRODUCE A POPULATION OF TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FOR HIGH PLANS TEXAS AND THIS WAS DIFFICULT FOR THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE TOWN ASKED THE WANDERER AFTER A MOMENT'S THOUGHT +9d467a9f-9aaa-4bb7-8263-627e7b7cb245 BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA ONLY FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA BRANDON SAID HE LOOKED AT HIS WALK AROUND BOTTLE RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE NEVER HEARD OF ONE DOING IT NOW WHEN THE OTHER ARCHANGELS SAW WE FELT SURE THAT SHE WOULD DO PENANCE AS PICTURESQUELY AND THOROUGHLY AS SHE DID EVERYTHING ELSE +9d5f13fb-9ee0-43e6-a04f-94ca49cb0709 AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE THE NATIVES WHO OF COURSE WERE NEVER MENTIONED BY THE IDIOTS WHO CONSTRUCTED THE THING HAD BUILT A NICE HEAVY THICK STONE PYRAMID AROUND THE BEACON CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES WE HAVEN'T SEEN SARA RAY SINCE YOU GOT SICK SHE IS AWFUL LONESOME AND JUDY SAYS SHE CRIESARLY ALL THE TIME BUT THAT'S NOTHING NEW +9d726e13-c732-4db7-b6b6-55aff2d04cce HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL IT'S TOO LATE FARMER PONDERED THE IDEA OF A TRANSMUTTER THAT WORKED UNDER WATER LIKE A BALL POINT PIN THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM +9da70344-709b-4536-8485-7735cc60ea9c THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING I WOULDN'T SPARE ANY OF IT TO ANY ONE BUT YOU I FELT DEEPLY GREATLY TO BILLY AND SORRY THAT I HAD NOT LIKED HIM BETTER WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK NEVER FOR SO LONG SAID CECILY THEY HAD A SPELL LIKE THIS LAST SUMMER AND WON THE SUMMER BEFORE BUT THEY ONLY LASTED A COUPLE OF DAYS AND WHO SPOKE FIRST +9db68270-7daa-4b39-bed9-f16d7d476dc8 MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT FURTHER SOMEWHAT TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE AFTERNOON AUNT JANET BROUGHT US A LUNCH OF APPLE TURNOVERS BUT WE COULD NOT EAT THEM PETER AS FELICITY REMINDED US WITH A BURST OF TEARS HAD BEEN SO FOND OF APPLE TURNOVERS THIS SECOND DIAL WAS NO MORE THAN A THIN DISK OF HARD RUBBER OR BAKE LIGHT WITH A RED SCRATCH MARK ON ONE SIDE +9ddb84bb-9ea8-4962-8283-1bdbcea83efc HE CAME INTO THE ORCHARD TO WRITE A POEM AND HE FELL ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON A BENCH THAT USED TO BE UNDER GRANDFATHER'S TREE SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS THEN HE CREPT OUT AND IN THE DARK BELT AROUND UNTIL HE CAUGHT HOLD OF THE APRON AND THAT WAS THE LAST I EVER SAW OF HIM +9de3ad59-3ce5-4190-b101-40d9ed9a398f THEN AS THE PRIESTS COMPLETED THEIR THIRD BOW I TURNED AND FACED THE STATUE AS MY EYES FELL UPON THE SHUTTER BEHIND THE THICK GRINNING LIPS THE SHUDDER WHICH RELEASED THE LETHAL FORCE A WILD AND DESPERATE IDEA CAME TO ME WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST THEN WE LAUGHED UNTIL PETER GOT SULKY I DON'T CARE HE SAID HOW'S A FELLOW TO KNOW TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED WHEN WE GET IT WE'LL KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY BIBLE SAID FELICITY THAT'S THE ONLY PROPER PLACE AH I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BREATHED CECILY +9e19f17e-8d52-46e4-837a-277196aed5c2 WHAT FORMS DO YOU INTEND TO GIVE US ASKED WOOD EARNESTLY I HAVEN'T DECIDED AS YET I'LL DREAM OVER IT TO NIGHT SO IN THE MORNING I SHALL HAVE MADE UP MY MIND HOW TO TRANSFORM YOU PERHAPS YOU'D PREFER TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN TRANSFORMATIONS ONE COLD WINTER DAY EIGHTY YEARS AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL WITHOUT FURTHER PARLEY DONALD FRASER WAS SITTING BY THE WINDOW OF HIS NEW HOUSE PLAYING HIS FIDDLE FOR COMPANY AND LOOKING OUT OVER THE WHITE FROZEN BAY BEFORE HIS DOOR SHE TOLD HIM SHE GUESSED HE'D LEARNED A LESSON AND WOULDN'T DO WHAT SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO AGAIN SO HE WENT AND AT EM JUST BECAUSE SHE VEXED HIM SO +9e339fbc-0256-46dc-93d0-12fb7a5bdde4 NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE NO OTHER TYPE OF CREATURE EVER HAS HAD THE VERTICAL SLIT AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN IN THE BEST PLACE IN ALL THEIR HISTORY HISTORY THERE'D BE A HIGH PLACE MER CAUGHT HIMSELF NODDING AND BLAMED THE BOAT'S MOTION HE SHIFTED UNEASILY ON THE BUILT IN SEAT AND GOT A SPLINTER IN A VITAL SPOT HE FROWNED RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK I WAS JUST ABOUT TO RISK ONE MORE CARTRIDGE WHEN ANOTHER FIGURE MATERIALIZED IN THE RANKS OF THE ENEMY A TALLER COMMANDING FIGURE WITH A SHINING JEWEL PERHAPS A MARK OF AUTHORITY DANGLING FROM HIS CORDED BROWN THROAT +9e3d93cf-1655-4c1f-8ce2-8aa051857a70 BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT QUITE THE SAME TO UNCLE EDWARD SINCE AND HIS TIE WAS NEATLY BOWED MISTY BLUE AND FAINTLY SWEET ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER BUT GLAUCON WAS NOT AFRAID AT ALL BECAUSE PAN WAS THE GOD OF SHEPHERDS AND HE WAS BOUND TO GRANT ANY PRAYER A GOOD SHEPHERD WHO ALWAYS DID HIS DUTY MIGHT MAKE THAT YOURSELF WILL BE DOING +9e950380-8ab8-4538-a219-7522c0584c31 ALL THESE WONDERS HAD BEEN MADE BY THE CLEVER WINKIE TINSMITHS WHO WOUND THE BIRDS UP EVERY MORNING SO THAT THEY WOULD MOVE ABOUT AND SEE AFTER BREAKFAST THE BOY WENT INTO THE THRONE ROOM WHERE THE EMPEROR WAS HAVING HIS TIN JOINTS CAREFULLY OILED BY A SERVANT WHILE OTHER SERVANTS WERE STUFFING SWEET FRESH STRAW INTO THE BODY OF THE SCARECROW ANY ONE WITH LESS SELF ESTEEM THAN MYSELF WHO HAD LED A MORE HONEST EARLY LIFE MIGHT HAVE DOUBTED HIS OWN REASONING AT THAT MOMENT I DIDN'T THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY JEFF DUCKED AND STRAINED HIS WEIGHT AGAINST THE BUNK MOMENTARILY PINNING THE ZID'S THRESHING FORELEM CHAFFY THREE CHOSE THAT MOMENT TO REAPPEAR NEARLY CAUSING JEFF TO LET GO OF THE BUNK AND ADMIT THE ZID YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM +9eb8d232-0be5-4d69-8c0d-622d7639de82 TO BE LEFT IN SOLE CHARGE OF A BIG HOUSE WITH THREE MEALS A DAY TO PLAN AND PREPARE WITH POULTRY AND COWS AND DAIRY AND GARDEN TO SUPERINTEND I SWALLOWED A PAIN KILLER AND LOOKED AROUND AT MY DROOPING SACKIDE ASSISTANTS WHO HAD SHARED THE SLEEPLESS SEVENTY TWO HOUR TASK THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES HE NEVER PAYS NO ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M WELL SO THAT IT WAS EVENING BEFORE WE WERE ALL FREE TO MEET IN THE ORCHARD AND THE LAW ON THE GRASSES OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK +9ec5aab2-14e4-449d-a138-8e0cdef8ba59 ALL OTHER SOUNDS HUNG SUSPENDED IN THE AFTER SILENCE THEN RESUMED THE MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY YOU TELL US LOTS OF MYSTERIES HERE THE LACE ONE WHICH THE GIANTESS ALWAYS WEARS I SO WE WHO GLADLY SERVE HIM QUITE RIGHT MY FRIEND AGREED THE SCARECROW SHE'S DEAD SAID PETER REBUKINGLY UNCLE ROGER WAS AS WE HAD BEEN INFORMED QUITE JOLLY AND FOND OF TEASING WE'D HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE RIGHT KIND OF FUNERAL +9ecbdd14-d7ec-4137-bff4-3ec07fff8ac5 IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM IF YOU CAN CURE PATTY FOR US WE WILL ALWAYS BE VERY VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU THE ACCOMPANYING SMALL OFFERINGS ARE A TESTIMONIAL OF OUR RESPECT AND GRATITUDE AND WE ENTREAT YOU TO HONOR US BY ACCEPTING THEM VERY RESPECTFULLY YOURS SARA STANLEY I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO LET US BE FAIR FELICITY I'M DREADFULLY TIRED SIGHED CECILY WE WERE ALL DREADFULLY TIRED FOR THIS WAS THE THIRD NIGHT OF LATE HOURS AND NERVE RACKING STRAIN BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL WELL JUDY PROMISED SHE'D REMEMBER BECAUSE SHE LIKED MISSUS FRUIT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE HER NOT LONG AFTERWARDS JUDY WAS SCRUBBING THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE MORNING AND WHEN MISSUS FRUIN CAME IN JUDY LOOKED UP AND SAT QUITE PROUD OVER USING THE RIGHT WORD OH MISS FRUIN AIN'T IT AWFUL HOT I DECLARE I'M ALL IN A PRESBYTERIAN +9ed7f417-4307-4532-aa28-8271e966bd46 HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH ONE OF THE LIZARDS GARGLED AT ANOTHER ONE AND THE SECOND ONE TURNED AROUND I TAGGED THIS EXPRESSION WITH THE PHRASE HEY GEORGE AND WAITED MY CHANCE TO USE IT LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM +9efd38d9-4779-4108-8e4c-53a54ab762a1 THOU MAYEST RETURN TO EARTH IF THOU FEAREST TO ESSAY THE FLOOD SAID THE WARDER NAY SAID VING WILDLY EARTHLY LIFE WITHOUT ALIN IS MORE DREADFUL THAN THE DEATH WHICH AWAITS ME IN YON DARK RIVER ANGELINA ROLLED HER EYES UP AND SLID SLOWLY TO THE FLOOR REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL NO INDEED AGLEIA HAD DONE NOTHING OF THE SORT WHEN SHE BEGAN TO RUN SHE HAD POPPED IT INTO HER MOUTH AND THERE IT WAS STILL QUITE SAFE NOW SHE POKED IT OUT BETWEEN HER RED LIPS WHERE IT GLITTERED IN THE SUNLIGHT +9f162c09-ec5a-4ae9-abc9-78d119f1b6bb DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM I GUESS IT'LL BE AS MUCH USE TO ME AS TO ANY ONE ELSE SAID CECILY INDIGNANTLY THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL THESE WERE NOT VIC AND HOPE BEFORE ME THEY WERE UNREAL CREATURES LIKE THE BEINGS WHICH HAD CAPTURED ME +9f2e6646-a9d6-4801-b6fd-e0fe9b0ed51c AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS AND I HAD TO WALK INTO THE MIDDLE OF THAT MESS AND REPAIR THE THING HOW HAPPENED YOUR MAJESTY TO BE MADE OF TIN AND STILL BE ALIVE NEITHER DOES MY FRIEND THE SCARECROW THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE +9f3bd7fd-cc3f-49a5-b068-916b93acf8bc AWAY FROM THE DEAD CENTRE THE RAVINES WERE BODY DEEP IN CHAPARRAL AND THE HILLSIDES STOOD GRAY GREEN WITH OLD CACTUS THE STUNTED TREES WERE LOWER THAN THE GIANT BUSHES AND YUKA PASS ON AND DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN HE SAID TO ALL WHO TASTE OF IT SHALL IMMORTALITY BE GIVEN BUT ONLY TO THAT ONE WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT FIRST SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WALK AT ODIN'S RIGHT HAND FOREVER YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT ME IF YOU KEEP PRAYING AGAINST ME SAID FELIX THE GIRLS GASPED BUT DAN AND I WERE JUBILANT SNUFFING A BATTLE AFAR OFF ALL RIGHT I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY +9f57eb1d-9e63-494d-8542-594f8f346a42 WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HOPING TO DUMP THIS PROJECT WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD +9f64191e-785e-40e8-aa51-8a69ee979efc WE DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE VERY TIRED ALSO THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING OFTEN COMES UP TO PLAY WITH US AND IT IS AWKWARD TO HAVE TWO GIRLS OF THE SAME NAME IN THE SAME CROWD PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE PROVIDED MY WATCH WAS CORRECT AND THE EQUIPMENT WORKED ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM +9f836caa-12f5-4627-b40e-65bf1bf875e1 I'LL NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING I READ IN THE PAPERS AGAIN SAID DAN RUSHING TO THE OPPOSITE EXTREME I TOLD YOU THE BIBLE WAS MORE TO BE DEPENDED ON THAN NEWSPAPERS SAID CECILY TRIUMPHANTLY BRANDON SWORE AND SNAPPED OFF THE SET HE LOOKED AT HIS WALK AROUND BOTTLE CAN'T STAY HERE ANY LONGER HE MUTTERED HE COULDN'T FIND THE CAPSULE HE WALKED THREE PERHAPS FOUR MILES HE STOPPED AND BLOTTED HIS MOIST BROW WITH HIS SLEEVE HE WASN'T GOING TO FIND IT IT'S A WONDER THE STORY GIRL ISN'T OVER TO SEE YOU SAID UNCLE ALEC SHE'S BEEN QUITE WILD WITH EXCITEMENT ABOUT YOUR COMING +9f8f30c9-09f2-47a8-a8f3-e68209d09078 NO BUT IT IS TOPSY'S GREAT GREAT GRANDSON SAID THE STORY GIRL GRAVELY HIS NAME IS PATTY AND HE IS MY OWN PARTICULAR CAT IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY YOUR SYMPATHY MAY ENDANGER YOU SHARP SAID HE WAS STILL SCOWLING OVER WHAT HE SHOULD TELL CHARLIE MACK WHEN THE ISLAND QUEEN HOVE INTO VIEW PERMANENT BENEFIT WAS SLOW BUT CUMULATIVE HIS AURA QUIVERED WITH A SHOCK OF BETRAYAL +9faf8efd-1ec4-44b1-b4f9-4f650f2729cc THE SHIP WOULD NEED A CREW A BASE FOR REFUELING AND OMISSION MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS THAT NIGHT WHEN HE POINTED OUT THE STARS TO US FROM THE PULPIT STONE WAS THE LAST TIME FOR SEVERAL WEEKS THAT PETER SHARED OUR TOIL AND PASTIME +9fcba5c5-b7a0-4d92-93df-0d82680e83c5 WE'VE A AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED NOW WHAT ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE GOOD AND NOBLE AND UNSELFISH AND KIND BUT THE BEST AND NOBLEST OF THEM ALL WAS A YOUTH NAMED VING AND THIS YOUTH WAS BELOVED OF ODIN ABOVE ALL OTHERS FOR HIS BEAUTY AND STRENGTH AND GOODNESS DEMANDED AUNT JANET IN BEWILDERMENT OH TO HAVE SOMETHING WORTH WHILE TO WRITE IN HER DREAM BOOK MA +a022503f-1775-44bd-aaaf-57624ac682dc IN OUR TONGUE IT MEANS THE LIMB OF VICTORY STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL AND IT MADE HER VERY ANGRY FOR SHE DID NOT WISH HER SLAVE TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM HER +a030cb22-3b52-4147-979f-ae500ddd1b36 THE SENSES OF SIGHT AND HEARING AND FEELING ALL LEFT ME MAYBE IT'S JUST THE TITLE SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU I AM THE GRAND DUKE SAINTE DENGELLIO THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER GROWN PEOPLE WERE SO STRANGELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRULY IMPORTANT THINGS OF LIFE BUT IF YOU GO SQUABBLING YOU'LL SPOIL IT ALL +a03fd298-7833-4632-8b07-fe2ff16eb609 HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU RENTED THIS BOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DAY WILL YOU HAVE ME NAN I'M FRIGHTENED OF HER TOO BUT JUST LOOK AT POOR DARLING PATTY UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW OR EAT CABBAGES IN NIMY AMMIE'S GARDEN BY LEAVING MY BURROW AT THE OTHER END TUT TUT MY SON +a04f7187-e452-4307-9c18-99f2c5c2d639 NOW FARMER WASN'T MUCH OF AN EDITOR EVEN AS EDITORS GO THE ONE USEFUL QUALITY HE HAD WAS A HOME STUNNED INGRATIATING AIR WHICH PUT NERVOUS YOUNG GENIUSES AT THEIR EASE SO THAT THEY COULD GIVE A REASONABLE COHERENT VERBAL PICTURE OF WHAT THEIR BOOKS WERE ABOUT ALL RIGHT SAID DAN I'VE EAT ALL I WANT THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED FELICITY WAS NOT THERE WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE THE FIRST SHIPS TO ENTERTER HYPERSPACE HAD NO PLACE TO GO AND NO WAY EVEN TO TELL IF THEY HAD MOVED THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE +a092eff0-d998-4900-9d22-c61466e9d7bb NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN I'M GOING TO READ THE BIBLE ALL TO MORROW FORENOON SAID PETER I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET BACK I WARNED HOPING THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THE TONE OF VOICE IF NOT THE WORDS BACK OR I'LL POT A COUPLE OF YOU COMMUNICATION BY AUDIBLE SYMBOL CHAFFY THREE SAID HE RUFFLED HIS FEATHERS IN A SHUDDER BARBAROUS +a0a13e15-3d21-4201-8a49-0203c2e9133e PRESENT FERERO A BACHELOR WAS EATING HIS DINNER IF SHE EVADED THE NAVY SHIPS THAT WAS THEREFORE NOT MINE HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS BUT IT WAS HIS LEGS WHICH WE SCRUTINIZED MOST ANXIOUSLY WE'LL ASK PETER TO DESCRIBE IT SOME TIME WHEN HE'S IN A BETTER HUMOUR WHISPERED FELIX VIC'S PLACE WAS OUT ON THE RIVER ABOUT TEN MILES FROM TOWN AND THAT LITTLE TAN ROADSTER OF MINE MADE IT IN JUST ABOUT TEN MINUTES +a0a8e206-ee36-44ce-ad05-1b090f206287 AND WHILE HIS FIGURE WAS JUST A TRIFLE DUMPY HIS FACE COMPLETED THE RHYME BY BEING EXTRAORDINARILY LUMPY YOU BELIEVE THAT I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID A FEW YEARS PERHAPS SO I'M MUCH OBLIGED FOR THE KINDNESS LITTLE FAIRY INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK THERE WAS A SLITHERING SOUND IN THE DISTANCE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MOUNTAIN IN MOTION +a0c8f32e-333f-45bd-9eb6-bb2f237ddfbf THEN HE LET US GO YOU SEE SAID THE STORY GIRL AS WE WENT HOME YOU NEED NEVER BE AFRAID OF PEOPLE BUT WE ARE NOT ALL STORY GIRLS SAID CECILY I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT HE'S GOING TO HIT AGAIN SOON AND WHEREVER HE HITS THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PERIODICAL WITH MY PLANT IN IT WHATEVER ELSE HE'S AFTER HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN AS HE SAID THIS THE BIG WOUND STRUTTED BACK AND FORTH IN SPACE BETWEEN THE THRONE OF KING BALL AND THE PRISONERS AND THE OTHER LOON SEEMED MUCH IMPRESSED BY HIS DEFIANCE +a0cf14c3-14c5-4f87-a7d6-c89f7ec808c8 THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES WELL I SUPPOSE IT'S GONE OF SILLY BUT I DON'T MUCH LIKE SHOTS HE SLID THE CANOPY OPEN AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE RED SOIL OF SERIOUS THREE SERIOUS I MEAN COMES UP COULD I BE SURE THAT PEPPE FLYING HIS MOUNTAIN OF A SHIP AND EATING NAVY RATIONS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SOME OF THE COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF LIFE +a0d7c232-b5e0-4bb1-bf99-f1c580c58221 I WON'T PUT UP WITH IT HE TOLD FELICITY AND FELICITY TOLD ME FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE SHE DREW HERSELF HAUGHTILY UP BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED LEFT THE DARKER GREEN STRIPE OF SAFE CHANNEL AND PLUNGED INTO WATER TOO SHALLOW FOR HER DRAUGHT +a0db519e-9bda-42a7-9f83-7dc7c74b04ce FARMER REALIZED WITH A SHOCK THAT THE CREATURE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING THE DIVING HELMET CAME OFF EASILY NOT HAVING BEEN PROPERLY FASTENED DOWN AT ALL AND DID NIMI AMMY RETURN YOUR LOVE WHICH WAS OZMA'S FAVOURITE STEED AND WISHED HIM GOOD LUCK ON HIS JOURNEY AUNT JANET WAS VERY DESIROUS THAT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS NICE AS POSSIBLE AS WE WERE ALL SENT TO OUR ROOMS BEFORE TEA TO WASH AND DRESS UP +a0e023c2-bdf7-40f5-98b0-cbfd6f8d4705 BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED FELICITY OPINED THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE CLEARED UP IF IT WAS THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT SAID FELIX ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT THERE'S A WORD IN ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE IN HISTORY THAT MEANS RAIDER AND DRIVES FROM WORD FOR ROAD PATH OR HIGHWAY +a0e43b46-2ce1-4787-b12b-ef6696bdcb7b I NEVER THEN MY CAUTION IS UNNECESSARY CLARTON THOUGHT BUT IN THE UNLIKELY CASE THAT SHE MIGHT TEMPT YOU TO FOLLY REMEMBER IT YONUS WHO DISLIKED IRONY SIGHED AND CUT OFF THAT WAS THE THIRD NIGHT A CRUMBLING AND CRACKED STAIRWAY BROUGHT US UP TO THE SOLID METAL DOORWAY LABELLED IN ARCHAIC SCRIPT MARK THREE BEACON AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR MY TROUBLES WERE A LITTLE BIGGER I HAD TO FIND THE BATTLESHIP BEFORE IT BLASTED ITS WAY ACROSS THE GALAXY ROCKER I SHOUTED GET INTO THE CAR I WANT TO SEE YOUR RECORDS ALL OF YOUR RECORDS AND I WANT TO SEE THEM RIGHT NOW +a136744d-92ac-40ed-ae55-8feeb43e896f IT WAS AS MUCH SARAH RAY'S NORMAL STATE AS ANY OTHER AND EVEN FELICITY AND CECILY AVAILED THEMSELVES OCCASIONALLY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF SEX BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY GIRL CRY LIKE THIS IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY WHERE DID YOU GO ASKED ROOT WELL I FIRST STARTED OUT TO FIND A HEART SO I COULD LOVE NIMMY AMY AGAIN BUT HEARTS ARE MORE SCARCE THAN ONE WOULD THINK IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR TO INSTALL A NEW BEACON BESIDES BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND THIS RELIC IS ON ONE OF THE MAIN ROUTES +a13ee315-3f6e-4ba0-a528-f198d087b257 I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION THE M T WHISPERED IN MY EAR IF THE BEACON CONKED OUT AGAIN AND EACH WAS DESIROUS OF CONVINCING THE REST OF US THAT THE OTHER WAS LESS THAN NOTHING TO HER ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF SHE HAD A LOVER HIS NAME WAS MALCOLM WARD AND HE WAS AS HANDSOME AS A PRINCE +a157c474-ef17-4cae-913d-30c96dafc7ef YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN THE TWO GUARDS CAME INTO THE CELL AND GRIPPED HIS ARMS YUNUS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CARRIED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR AND DOWN IT TO A GREAT WOODEN DOOR THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP WILDE WAS THAT SCAMPER AS NIGHTMARE LIKE AS ANY RECORDED IN OUR DREAM BOOKS THE STORY GIRL WAS IN FRONT OF ME AND I CAN RECALL THE TREMENDOUS LEAP SHE MADE OVER FALLEN LOGS AND LITTLE SPRUCE BUSHES WITH HER LONG BROWN CURLS STREAMING OUT BEHIND HER FROM THEIR SCARLET FILLET +a182207d-b64d-48da-9823-f7a12d7236ec I THINK HE'S CUTE EXTENDED A TENTACLE OPENED A CLOTH AND NIPPED DOOR NEATLY ON THE BEHIND THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS THE OLD HOUSE WITH ITS DREADFUL SECRET OR THAT HAPPENED FAR AWAY IT HAPPENED JUST DOWN AT MARKDALE AND I'VE SEEN THAT VERY SPRUCE WOOD MYSELF +a1854163-36d9-40c3-97de-717dfb0f9f50 WHEN BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES HE WAS STARING AT THE SILVERY DISKS OF THE TWIN MOONS THEY WERE HIGH IN THE SKY OBSCURING THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK WE DID IT TO SPITE ME SHE PRESIDED AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE WITH AS MUCH GRACE AND DIGNITY AS IF SHE HAD BEEN FIVE TIMES TWELVE YEARS OLD AND SEEMED TO KNOW BY INSTINCT JUST WHO TOOK SUGAR AND WHO TOOK IT NOT HE WAS JUST DRAWING A BEAD ON MY RIGHT EYE WHEN MY BRAIN GOT BACK IN GEAR OF COURSE I SAID BLINDING IS ONLY RIGHT BUT IN MY CASE YOU WILL HAVE TO BLIND ME AFTER I LEAVE THE HOLY OF HOLIES NOT NOW +a19b10de-77d1-4589-a2f3-d63fbaaa64a2 AFTER BREAKFAST SHE WASHED THE DISHES AND DID THE BEDROOM WORK A GRIM SILENCE THEN WITH A BOOK UNDER ONE ARM AND PAT UNDER THE OTHER SHE BETOOK HERSELF TO THE WINDOW SEAT IN THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND WOULD NOT BE LURED FROM THAT RETREAT CHARMED WE NEVER SO WISELY WE WENT AWAY LEAVING DAN SITTING ON THE DOOR SILL READING HIS BOOK AND JIMMIE P SNOOZING BLISSFULLY ON THE SOFA WHEN WE RETURNED FELIX AND THE GIRLS AND I WERE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS DAN WAS STILL SITTING IN PRECISELY THE SAME PLACE AND ATTITUDE BUT THERE WAS NO JIMMY IN SIGHT THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS THE PARTS THE NEW POWER PLANT AND A FEW ODDS AND ENDS WERE SHOOTED INTO A NEAT PILE ON THE SHIP +a1aadc85-2a6a-4f6b-a0b0-d4ab62b6deb1 RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK AND IN THIS MANNER THEY TRAVELLED IN GOOD SPIRITS ACROSS THE VALLEY AND INTO THE NEXT ONE TO THE EAST OF IT HERE'S ANOTHER LETTER IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO I DON'T THINK SHE DID SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WOEBEGONE WHEN SHE CAME DOWN TO BREAKFAST BUT FOR ALL THAT THERE WAS A CERTAIN EXHILARATION ABOUT HER +a1b59f9d-aa9f-46a8-905e-3825d499735d HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN AWKWARD MAN THERE IN THE HEART OF THE MAPLE WOODS THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU THOUGHT THAT STUFF IN THE BOX WAS CORN MEAL AND USED IT TO MAKE THE PUDDING WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER ALSO A COUPLE OF CLERKS WITH TRANSCRIBERS AND FAST THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH IT WAS TOO MUCH LIKE A COMMAND'S NIGHTMARE TO BE REAL A SECRET WORRY +a1c0ed01-6c6c-4512-be2b-4293cf6c3923 WHAT BETTER EPITAPH COULD ANYONE WISH THAN TO HAVE IT SAID THAT HE WAS LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN HIS LIFE AH WELL ONE CANNOT HAVE EVERY GOOD GIFT THE STORY GIRL HAD NO DIMPLES AT HER SLIM BROWN WRISTS WHAT TALES SHE TOLD US ON THOSE FAR AWAY AUTUMN DAYS PEOPLING THE RUSSET ARCADES WITH FOLK OF AN ELDER WORLD I DON'T SEE A THING ABOUT METHODISTS OR PRESBYTERIANS AS FAR AS I'VE GONE I'M MOST THROUGH EXODUS SAID PETER SUDDENLY WHEN DOES IT BEGIN TO TELL ABOUT THEM +a1ccc69d-4ca0-47d3-a128-d86a36d044c3 A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED SHE REACHED THE RAIL FIRST AND WENT OVER I PLUNGED ON HOPE'S FINGERS GRIPPING MY BELT I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME MY MOTHER AIN'T MUCH OF ANYTHING BUT I MEAN TO BE SOMETHING VERY VERY SICK THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF IT I DREAMT OLD PEG BOWEN CHASED ME I THOUGHT I WAS UP TO HER HOUSE AND SHE TOOK AFTER ME +a22bf42c-6246-45fa-b95d-7f75529fdc06 IF SHE HADN'T BEEN AFRAID I DON'T BELIEVE SHE WOULD HAVE LET ME COME UP BUT I'D HAVE DIED IF I COULDN'T HAVE COME AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT SATISFACTION TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT WE HAD EARNED OUR CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE SWEAT OF OUR BROW AND SNOWY SUMMITS OLD IN STORY +a23f2656-e33c-43a6-af46-32ae59157cb4 THEN THEY WERE MARRIED AT ONCE BUT THE BRIDEGROOM NEVER LIFTED HIS VISOR AND NO ONE SAW HIS FACE NINE LIGHT YEARS AWAY OF COURSE THIRTEEN YEARS HAD PASSED ON EARTH SINCE THEY HAD LEFT BECAUSE THE TRIP TOOK FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA RELATIVE TIME HAVE YOU GOT A TELETOWKEY BRANDON ASKED SURE SAID THE FIRST MAN PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S IT CAME FROM A DIFFERENT QUARTER THE WIDE DOUBLE WINDOWS THAT OVERLOOK THE BAY THE ZID REARING UPRIGHT SMASHED AWAY THE FLIMSY RATTAN BLINDS WITH A TALENT SEIZING HAND AND LOOKED REDLY IN AT THEM +a26cda48-09fe-4e1c-b250-5b6ace647e44 WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED IT WAS AN AWFUL DREAM BUT IT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING TOO I'VE HAD SOME REAL INTERESTING DREAMS SAID PETER BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER THEM LONG I WISH I COULD WHY DON'T YOU WRITE HIM DOWN SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY IS THAT UNUSUAL THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED +a27c6f4b-6bd8-4a78-adf5-edfeee99a015 HIS PUBLIC PROFESSIONS WERE WELL KNOWN YONAS SEARCHED AND FOUND THE ANSWER KUNUF WAS AN HONEST MAN THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER NECESSARY KNUFF SAID LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME CHAFFY FOUR AGREED RELUCTANTLY THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE WHEN JEFF AUBREY PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE PLANKING THE APPARITIONS WERE GONE HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF SUCH A CONSTANTLY TEARFUL DAMSEL WAS NOT A PLEASANT COMPANION CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM +a2896672-3a52-4900-858c-9ef300cb6f93 WAS GIVEN A COMFORTABLE BED TO SLEEP IN I AM SURE YOUR FAIRY POWER CAN GIVE IT TO MISSUS UGH A TIN WOODMAN HOW QUEER THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP ALSO ON MONDAY'S NECESSARILY BEFORE CHARLEY MACK'S VISIT AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE THE RAINBOW HAD FADED OUT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE OCTOBER DUSK WAS FALLING +a2d00211-f1c6-4d56-b9ec-72f09a5ebc07 BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN BEAUTIFUL WIVES HANGING UP BY THE HAIR ALL AROUND THE WALLS EVERYBODY LOOKED SUDDENLY ALERT I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE A KIND MAN REALLY WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU A WILD AND DESPERATE IDEA CAME TO ME I WAITED A MOMENT CONSCIOUS ONLY OF THE FAINT HUM OF A GENERATOR AT THE OTHER END OF THE ROOM +a323028a-e171-423d-9e91-c566138418d5 CECILY AND DAN AND FELIX WERE WALKING BEFORE US HAND IN HAND SINGING A HYMN OH PLEASE DON'T DO SUCH A THING SARA CRIED THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES HOW CARELESS OF ME NOT TO REMEMBER THAT WANDERERS ARE USUALLY HUNGRY HORSEBOOT AND LIEU TIN WOODMAN NOW LISTEN LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY BUT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE GOD CAN MAKE HER I SAID FEELING THAT IT WASN'T QUITE FAIR THAT THE STORY GIRL SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK FIRST +a375b670-0c89-4981-b23e-35b439ec6b22 IA WIZARD BY LARRY M YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US WE DEMANDED THE TALE INSTANTLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD IT TO US AS SHE PEELED HER POTATOES PERHAPS THE POTATOES SUFFERED FELICITY DECLARED THE EYES WERE NOT PROPERLY DONE AT ALL BUT THE STORY DID NOT THERE EXCLAIMED THE KING I EXPECTED THAT WOULD HAPPEN THE CONCEITED RASCAL WANTED TO PUFF HIMSELF UP UNTIL HE WAS BIGGER THAN THE REST OF YOU AND THIS IS THREE YEARS OLD OF HIS FOLLY GET THE PUMP WORKING SOME OF YOU AND BLOW HIM UP AGAIN +a3a74994-46fd-4882-980a-f35237655ca9 THAT MEANS HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS BATTLESHIP THEIR SUBJECT HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR BATTLE SHIP THE ROBERT SAID COLDLY ALL HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SHIP WERE TRUE THEREFORE HIS UTTERANCE CARRIED ALL THE WEIGHT OF INSPIRATION AND WE SAT APPALLED BEFORE HIS LURID PHRASES HE USED HIS OWN WORDS TO CLOTHE THE IDEAS HE HAD FOUND AND THE RESULT WAS A FORCE AND A SIMPLICITY THAT STRUCK HOME TO OUR IMAGINATIONS BUT FELICITY WAS ONE OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE WHOSE PROTESTS AGAINST WRONG DOING SERVE ONLY TO DRIVE THE WRONG DOER FURTHER ON HER SINFUL WAY +a3a9ed61-16ed-4b1e-8f65-0b7cf3e692de THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT A BIG BUSTLING AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS BUT DIDN'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN WE ALL SPOKE IN LOW TONES ON THE SUBJECT +a3c3a368-1f5a-407d-a338-e1e63f585563 AND THE MURMUR OF AN ALIEN SEA SOUNDED ABOUT HER GRAVE BUT WE HAD LONG HOURS FOR PLAY IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES UNAWARE IN THEIR CONSTERNATION THAT THEY COMMITTED THE BARBAROUS LAPSE OF VOCALIZING THEY TWITTERED ALOUD WHEN THEY REALIZED THE EXTENT OF THEIR ERROR +a3c3d4d7-c42b-40a0-af80-4cf9df99010f YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR BEDS TWO HOURS AGO THE VERY THING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT I'LL GET SOME AFTER BREAKFAST I'M NOT GOING TO EAT A SINGLE THING ALL DAY EXCEPT BREAD AND WATER AND NOT MUCH OF THAT DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY ONE BUT THE ONE KIND OF TRUENESS SAID FELICITY ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY DEMANDED MISTER CAMPBELL BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING I THINK IT IS BOUND UP WITH THE FORTUNES OF THE KING FAMILY LIKE THE LUCK OF EDENHALL IN LONGFELLOW'S POEM +a3c79aa8-e8c7-41e0-8966-581aecffb996 HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE THE OLD MAN DROPPED LIKE A STONE I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY WE TOILED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND YARD LIKE MANIACS WE LOOKED INTO EVERY LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACE BUT JIMMY WE COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE THAN IF HE HAD INDEED MELTED INTO AIR MISSUS PATERSON CAME AND WE HAD NOT FOUND HIM THINGS WERE GETTING SERIOUS THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE HE SAID IT MIGHT NOT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW THOUGH HE BELIEVED IT WAS I KNOW WE KEEP ME OUT OF MISCHIEF +a3c9d71a-717c-4761-b555-258c73ecebf3 VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND NEVER NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS BUT WHEN THOSE LONG WHITE CLOUDS SWEEP ACROSS THE SKY THE COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE LAND WHERE SHE LIVED SAY LOOK YOU THERE IS THE WEDDING BELL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS THE WEIRD SPELL OF THE TALE RESTED ON US FOR SOME MOMENTS AFTER THE STORY GIRL HAD FINISHED THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING BY THE TIME HE REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL HE WAS WHISTLING LOUDLY HE STOPPED AT THE FIRST HOUSE A MUD CONSTRUCTION WITH A BADLY CARPENTERED WOODEN DOOR AND A SINGLE BARE WINDOW THAT LOOKED OUT ON THE STREET IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER HE WENT ON WHISTLING FOR A TWO NOTE PLINGO VOLNERA UNDER HIS BREATH AND AFTER A TIME HE KNOCKED AGAIN BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES I'D SWEAR HE WAS SMILING IF THIRTY TEETH PEEKING OUT OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE A CRACK IN AN OLD SUIT CASE COULD BE CALLED SMILING HE WAS ALSO SIGNALING TO AN UNDER PRIEST WHO CARRIED A BRAZER OF CHARCOAL COMPLETE WITH RED HOT IRONS ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND AND WATCH AS HE STIRRED UP THE COALS PULLED OUT THE RUDDIEST IRON AND TURNED TOWARD ME +a41a424d-1d9a-4674-8e3d-32dff049e3ef HE TOOK THE FORMS FROM ONE OF THE PACKS THAT HE HAD UNSLUNG FROM MILLER AND COUNTED OUT NINE OF THEM JUST WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE THIRTEENTH SIN ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE BUT THAT ONLY HELPED THE RESEMBLANCE NOR OF COURSE DID HE CARRY THE SWORD OF A GREAT HERO OR A NOBLE AND SO YOU MUST HAVE A PLAN FOR RIDDING US OF HYRKNUP AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN +a41b2acf-d794-4e4e-9bd5-d024e72f0ae2 MOTHER SAID TEN O'CLOCK AND SHE'LL STICK TO IT SAID FELICITY CROSSLY IT'S ONLY NINE NOW LET US PUT THE CLOCK ON HALF AN HOUR SAID THE STORY GIRL THE CLOCK IN THE HALL ISN'T GOING SO NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE WE ALL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER I WOULDN'T DARE SAID THE FELICITY IRRESOLUTELY OH IF THAT'S ALL I'LL DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT WHY A DISGUISED SLED ASKED HORN IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP STETSON SHRUGGED I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS +a4240739-22ff-4aa5-8fbd-5f2e736a67d6 ONCE A LONG TIME AGO SHE RAISED AN ARMY OF GIRLS AND CALLED HERSELF GENERAL GINGER WITH HER ARMY SHE CAPTURED THE EMERALD CITY AND DROVE ME OUT OF IT BECAUSE I INSISTED THAT AN ARMY IN OZ WAS HIGHLY IMPROPER AT THE DOORWAY A DOUBLE FILE OF CREATURES CLOSED IN ABOUT US AND WE WERE LED BY LONG CORRIDORS AND MIGHTY WINDING RAMPS TOWARD THE TOP OF THE BUILDING AFTER ALL THAT'S A VERY REMARKABLE VIRILE COMPLEX WE HAVE DOING YOUR REPAIR WORK AS THEY WALKED TO THE DOOR THE MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT DOC +a42d4776-5ad1-4089-9b70-0999a0dae08a THEREFORE SHE COULD NOT COME AND IN UNCLE STEPHEN THE BLOOD OF THE SEAFARING RACE CLAIMED ITS OWN I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING VIC WELL DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED GRUMBLED AS WE FLOATED THERE WITH THE ENGINES SILENT WASTING PRECIOUS DAYS WHILE HALF HIS CREW WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING OUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE INSANE INSTRUCTIONS +a44d40c3-789c-42ce-ace9-8fe58f31c892 WAS ABLE TO MAKE A POLITE BOW BEFORE THE THRONE AND PRESENTLY SHE PAUSED BESIDE THE TIN SOLDIER AND SAID I AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE STATE OF COMPLETE AND UTTER QUIET WAS BOTH FOREIGN AND SLIGHTLY REPUGNANT TO HIM BUT SHE TREMBLED AND TURNED PALE FOR THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS VOICE THAT FRIGHTENED HER WE HAVE SUCH A LOVELY MINISTER PETER HE LOOKS JUST LIKE THE PICTURE OF SAINT JOHN MY FATHER SENT ME +a4657529-6fcc-4dbd-a0e3-e407f317c85d WITH AN EFFORT HE SAT UP ON THE BACK SEAT AND LOOKED THROUGH THE PERMANS A TANGLE OF CORDS STRETCHED OUT TO THE NILEN OF THE MAIN CHUTE DRAPED OVER A DUST STONE BEYOND IT HE COULD SEE THE GLEAMING METAL RIBBONS OF THE DROG SHOOT AHEAD OF HIM BEHIND SOME LOW HILLS HE COULD SEE A DULL RED GLOW THE SHIP HE THOUGHT ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT NOT AS BAD AS I HAD THOUGHT A SIX WEEK RUN GIVE HER TAKE A FEW DAYS AFTER FEEDING A COURSE INTO THE ROBOT PILOT I STRAPPED INTO THE ACCELERATOR TANK AND WENT TO SLEEP THE TIME WENT FAST I REBUILT MY CAMERA FOR ABOUT THE TWENTIETH TIME AND JUST ABOUT FINISHED A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON NUCLEONICS +a48dd690-a26a-455a-95c6-bedcbb8eb2c3 TO NEW BLEEDING CLOSER TO ORANGE SHOULDER WE HAVE NOT DECEIVED YOU HAVE WEARNE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS NOW LET'S CHECK THAT EQUIPMENT THE SURGEON'S PUT IN YOUR NET IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN AND IN THE MORNING SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER THE DREAM AT ALL IT WASN'T A POLITE DRAM SO I WON'T WRITE IT DOWN YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY +a4e76fb1-4ef3-4d6a-a823-96ac1e63804f I DON'T SEE WHY GOD SHOULD ANSWER PETER'S PRAYERS INSTEAD OF MINE HE SAID BITTERLY BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF GROWN UPS AROUND YOU IN THE HOUSE THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE FELIX AND PETER AND I WERE REQUIRED TO HELP UNCLE ROGER AND SOME CARPENTERING WORK THAT DAY AND FELICITY INDULGED IN ONE OF THE HOUSE CLEANING ORGIES SO DEAR TO HER SOUL +a4e800df-d830-4eb5-af40-93c926d3b71c THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES THAT MUST BE LEAVING NOW WE COULD FILL THE VIBRATION DISTANTLY THROUGH THE FLOOR THE NEIGHBOUR WILL GET HER I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT I KNOW THE RISK PERFECTLY WELL YANUS THOUGHT BACK CLARETON'S THOUGHT CARRIED A WRY ECHO YOU KNOW THE RISK TO YOURSELF HE TOLD YUNUS AND YOU'VE ACCEPTED THAT YOU RATHER LIKE IT AS A MATTER OF FACT BUT YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF THE RISK TO THE REST OF US AND TO THE TOWN YOU'RE IN YONAS SET A THOUGHT OF UNCERTAINTY WHAT +a5398e12-87d1-4107-b591-ca729cd6461e THAT IS A QUIBBLE FOR WOMEN MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE KNOW I'M A RECENT CONVERT BUT OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER TRUE ENOUGH BUT FOR THE REST YOU'RE WRONG PETE OLD SON YOU'RE NOT MATTER ANY MORE IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER AND YOU ARE LET'S SEE HIM BEFORE IT HAPPENS NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE MY BOY DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOMETHING WORSE +a53e08e2-ed67-42df-b04e-ed60f4937bfa THE BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS IN IT WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT AS FOR PUNCTUATION HE NEVER ATTEMPTS IT BEYOND AN OCCASION PERIOD JOTTED DOWN WHENEVER HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT WHETHER IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT AS IF THE GOLD AND FLAME OF HER SPIRIT HAD BROKE OUT IN A CORONAL AS MUCH A PART OF HER AS THE PALE HALO SEEMS A PART OF THE MADONNA IT ENCIRCLES I NEVER CAN GUESS CONUNDRUMS TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM THE TWO GUARDS CAME INTO THE CELL AND GRIPPED HIS ARMS YUNUS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CARRIED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR AND DOWN IT TO A GREAT WOODEN DOOR +a5426a93-5081-492a-9305-b61b86a45bdb HER WILD SUBTLE NAMELESS CHARM CLOTHED HER AS WITH A GARMENT WE ALWAYS REMEMBERED THE PICTURE SHE MADE THERE AND IN LATER DAYS WHEN WE READ TENNYSON'S POEMS AT A COLLEGE DESK WE KNEW EXACTLY HOW AN AUREID PEERING THROUGH THE GREEN LEAVES ON SOME HAUNTED KNOLL OF SOME FOUNTAIN ITEM MUST LOOK I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BEACONS YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HYPERSPACE NOT THAT PEOPLE DO BUT IT IS EASY ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT IN THIS NON SPACE THE REGULAR RULES DON'T APPLY +a548b2b6-392f-4694-98c2-f5c9f2ddce08 CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST HE RIGHTED THE SHIP FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN WHEN I LOOKED AT SAMUEL WARD I THOUGHT OF HIM GETTING UP IN MEETING ONE NIGHT AND PRAYING THAT HE MIGHT BE GUIDED IN HIS UPSETTING AND DOWN RISING JUST LOOK AT THE SCRATCHES I GOT AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT +a54b9a7f-bf7c-488b-9633-93207b9355b0 I MUST BE SLOW YOU MEAN I MEAN WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU CLARTON THOUGHT AND ONE MORE THING YONUS YES THE DAUGHTER CURRETON THOUGHT I HAVE SEEN HER IN YOUR MIND IGNORE THE WENCH IS SHE WORTH WHAT YOUR TASK IS WORTH I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD WE OWN THE WORLD WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE HE WAS THE STENTORIAN VERSION OF A GOAT BOY HE HERDED A PARTICULARLY LOATHSOME FORM OF LOCAL LIFE IN THE SWAMPS OUTSIDE THE TOWN I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM +a5558b2d-8db7-4384-806b-c7d329847c42 BUT TO WHOM COULD WE APPEAL UNCLE ALEC WAS AWAY AND WOULD NOT BE BACK UNTIL LATE THAT NIGHT NEITHER AUNT JANET NOR UNCLE ROGER WERE PEOPLE TO WHOM WE CARED TO APPLY IN SUCH A CRISIS WE WERE AFRAID OF THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT WE WERE ALMOST EQUALLY AFRAID OF BEING LAUGHED AT WHO IS CENSUS CHIEF NOW ASKED THE MAD MIDGET IS MISTER MARSHALL'S BOY THE CENSUS CHIEF MISTER MARSHALL IS YES WHO ARE YOU HOW DO YOU KNOW MARSHALL AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS IF THEY ARE PANTS AGAIN IT TRIED TO LAND IN HIS HAIR HE DUCKED IT FLEW ACROSS THE BRIDGE OUT THE PORT BESIDE STETSON +a56eeced-7340-4764-a990-8a626e0f250d IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE BRANDON CLOSED HIS EYES FOR A MOMENT THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS BEYOND IT HE COULD SEE THE GLEAMING METAL RIBBONS OF THE DROG SHOOT IN ALL THEIR HISTORY HISTORY THEM AND THEIR STUPID ORDERS NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY +a5731d61-4274-4971-9013-5bc23c30dad5 WE ALL WENT TO PIECES EXCEPT CECILY WHO ALONE RETAINED HER PRESENCE OF MIND THE LACRYMOSE SARAH PRESENTLY JOINED US AND WE DISCOVERED THE CAUSE OF HER TEARS TO BE THE DOLEFUL FACT THAT HER MOTHER HAD FORBIDDEN HER TO GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW THAT NIGHT HE COUNTED THEM PULLED THE CHUTE RELEASE HIS BREATHING WAS SHORT STRAINED BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY SEEING THE ALARMED FACES AROUND HIM AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE GOOD FRIENDS AND HAVE A LOVELY SUMMER TOGETHER +a57acac4-db5b-4bc5-8521-f787e90c44d7 BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I LET IT BE SHARP SAID QUIETLY I BELIEVE YOU IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT I BELIEVE YOU HE SHRUGGED AGAIN MOVING OUT TOWARD THE DOOR OF THE HUT AND IN ANY CASE HE SAID THE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR THERE ARE FINES TO PAY IN COSTS OF THE INQUISITION I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT BUT I ALSO HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING UNTIL THE JOB WAS DONE WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES WEIGHS NOTHING IS INVISIBLE AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER EITHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN TRUE BUT ELECTRICITY ISN'T MATTER +a57e2e61-2ca1-4a95-bc28-361caca0a9b0 I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND MEANT ENEMY AND THAT TOLD YOU WHERE THE DELPHINIS WAS SHE LOOKED AT ME BUT I BLUSHED TO THE ROOTS OF MY HAIR AND SHOOK MY HEAD SHEEPISHLY AN AWKWARD PAUSE ENSUED IT IT LOOKED AS IF WE WOULD HAVE TO PROCEED WITHOUT GRACE WHEN FELIX SUDDENLY SHUT HIS EYES BENT HIS HEAD AND SAID A VERY GOOD GRACE WITHOUT ANY APPEARANCE OF EMBARRASSMENT WHETHER SUCH GROUPS WERE THE RESULTS OF NATURAL MUTATIONS OR WHETHER THEY CAME INTO BEING DUE TO SOME OTHER CAUSE HAS NOT YET BEEN FULLY DETERMINED BUT THAT A GROUP DID EXIST IN THE DISTRICT OF OFFENBURGH IN WHAT IS NOW PRUSSIA WE ARE QUITE SURE +a58780ad-d511-4acc-943b-5030e21973ad SO THE MORNING AFTER HE HAD BROUGHT HIS YOUNG WIFE HOME THEY WENT TOGETHER TO THE SOUTH MEADOW AND PLANTED THEIR BRIDAL TREES IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR TWO THE DOOR WAS SEALED SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SAVAGE ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE FELIX AND PETER DREW APART AFTER THAT FIRST ONSET AND THEN CIRCLED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER WARILY +a5b84ee6-a1c3-46f3-8c6a-b8c40f6f9cd5 HE WAS ACTIVATING THE SCREEN WHEN JENIFER IN A MAGNIFICENT RAGE IN SPITE OF SOAKED BLOUSE AND DUNGERIES ADVANCED ON HIM BUT IF YOU SAW ONE TOO FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES DO YOU THINK HE REALLY FEELS SICK ASKED THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN +a5d7d0c0-0027-4517-9846-d51c754921ee FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP HE KNEW IT BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER BESIDES HE WAS POOR AND NEEDED THE MONEY THEY INSTRUCTED HIM AND SENT HIM OUT OR THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD INSTRUCTED HIM THEY COULDN'T BE SURE WE LEAN ON WEAK REEDS CHAFFEE THREE SAID CREATURES WHO COLLAPSE WITH TERROR AT THE MERE PROJECTION OF A ZID CAN BE OF LITTLE ASSISTANCE IN RECAPTURING ONE ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME +a5e91e92-e56e-4a01-bd95-d2457d71f7d1 ONE WAS BUILT FOR SELF SUSTAINING COLONY ATTEMPT THE SECOND ALEXY FOR ALL WE KNOW SHE'S STILL ON THE WAY THE OTHER FIVE WERE ALL D CLASS COLONIZERS BUILT DURING THE EXPANSION WHEN LARGE POPULATIONS WERE MOVED TOO BIG TO BE PRACTICAL NOW A WOLFISH GRIN CRACKED STETSON'S BIG FEATURES I'M SO HAPPY YOU HAVE THE PROPER ATTITUDE OF SUBSERVIENCE TOWARD AUTHORITY HORNE SIPPED UP THE COVER ALL UNIFORM OH YES SIR SIR PERHAPS WE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ESCAPE +a60a97b8-d425-47d2-8494-f441d9748f3f NOW WHEN THE OTHER ARCHANGELS SAW WHAT HAD BEEN DONE THEY FLEW IN FEAR AND ANGER TO GOD'S WHITE THRONE AND CRIED TO HIM SEE WHAT THESE REBELLIOUS ONES HAVE DONE THEY HAVE BUILT THEM A BRIDGE OF LIGHT ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AND SET THY DECREE OF SEPARATION AT NAUGHT FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THE DESIGN AND SAID SO PLAINLY HE WON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE FOR HE'S NEVER BEEN INSIDE A CHURCH DOOR IN HIS LIFE SHE WARNED THE STORY GIRL THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE USEFUL THAN JUST INTERESTING SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING +a623af77-d483-474a-a4c8-914875ac2f1b PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS HE WAS AT MY MERCY REALLY HE WANTED TO SLEEP SO MUCH AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON IT WAS NOT A PLEASANT DAY AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE IT RAINED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT RECOVERED FROM THE MORTIFICATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SHE WOULD NOT TALK AND SHE WOULD NOT TELL A SINGLE STORY SHE SAT ON RACHEL WARD'S CHEST AND ATE HER BREAKFAST WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR WE WENT IN SPITE OF NEW DISAPPOINTMENTS AND OLD HEARTBREAKS WE HAD APPETITES AND FELICITY DID MAKE SCRUMPTIOUS RHUBARB TARTS +a628324b-5fed-49e0-93f2-a0e653e8da1f I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL SHE SHOOK HER HEAD NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GET WHIPPED OR NOT SO LONG AS YOU FIGHT A GOOD SQUARE FIGHT HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT +a62c9946-d8c8-4287-9a95-1c9d7261e392 SAID THE STORY GIRL IRREVERENTLY IT'S SO EXPRESSIVE SQUELCH CERTAINLY IT WAS A LOVELY WORD AND AS THE STORY GIRL SAID IT IN SKIPPED OPENED HIS MOUTH MADE A CHOKING NOISE AND ENCLOSED IT HE UNDOUBTEDLY REALIZED THAT ANY INTERRUPTION WOULD ONLY LENGTHEN MY EXPLANATION NOT SHORTEN IT SO THAT YOU MAY IDENTIFY IT CHAFFEE THREE FINISHED HELPFULLY THE ZID HAS THIS APPEARANCE THEIR CASE WAS THE MORE DESPERATE BECAUSE THE CHAFFAS WERE PROFESSIONAL FREIGHTERS WITH LITTLE EXPERIENCE OF EMERGENCY +a6770561-6193-494a-a9ad-3b95603767c1 FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW WHERE ARE WE SURELY LOOKING AT IT IN ONE WAY WE'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM MY LABORATORY EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BELONG AND EVEN THE PARTS THAT SHOULD BE THERE SEEM WRONG SOMEHOW PETER IS VERY VERY SICK SHE SAID MISERABLY HE HAS CAUGHT COLD SOMEWAY AND THE MEASLES HAVE STRUCK IN AND AND THE STORY GIRL WRUNG HER BROWN HANDS TOGETHER THE DOCTOR IS AFRAID HE HE WON'T GET BETTER +a691ce6a-52e6-4e19-ae0f-9e02373b458f PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN SUCH AS SHIP SAILINGS YOU'RE JUST GUESSING YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME YOU MUST NOT PLAY ANY GAMES ON SUNDAY WENT ON PETER THAT IS ANY WEEK A DAY GAMES OR WHISPER IN CHURCH OR LAUGH IN CHURCH I DID THAT ONCE BUT I WAS AWFUL SORRY AND YOU MUSTN'T TAKE ANY NOTICE OF PATTY I MEAN OF THE FAMILY CAT AT FAMILY PRAYERS NOT EVEN IF HE CLIMBS ON YOUR BACK AND YOU MUSTN'T CALL NAMES OR MAKE FACES JUST WHAT THESE BAD BERRIES WERE I CANNOT TELL FELICITY WHEN YOU SET THE TABLE FOR DINNER PUT THE BROKEN HANDLED KNIFE FOR ME I HATE IT SO AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA EVERY TWO HOURS +a69eccbe-dd14-4d37-8e1b-714ff15a9023 PETER AND FELIX PITCHED IN WITH MORE ZEAL THAN DISCRETION ON BOTH SIDES AS A RESULT PETER GOT WHAT LATER DEVELOPED INTO A BLACK EYE AND FELIX'S NOSE BEGAN TO BLEED O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR I OUGHT TO I'M RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW THE RADIO MAN REPEATED THE PHRASE A DOZEN TIMES AND EACH TIME BRANDON ACKNOWLEDGED SWORE AND ACKNOWLEDGED AGAIN +a6a241d7-0e06-40ab-a14c-fd8732e87faa HE HAD A DECISION TO MAKE STAY HERE WITH THE CAPSULE OR HEAD FOR THE FIRE COULDN'T BE MORE THAN A THOUSAND YARDS AWAY HE DECIDED SHE ASKED FROWNING BY NO MEANS SAID THE SCARECROW I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE YOU ACT MORE LADYLIKE OH INDEED IN MY OPINION MISTER SCARECROW YOU ARE NOW ACTING LIKE A BEAR SO A BEAR YOU SHALL BE FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN ALLAN INTENDED TO TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM TO CALIFORNIA IN THE FANNY IF IT WAS A HARD JOURNEY FOR A MAN IT WAS HARDER STILL FOR A WOMAN BUT MARGARET WOULD HAVE DARED ANYTHING FOR ALLAN'S SAKE +a6a6dba3-a154-4992-86c6-98e520f2ce26 I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE YOU'RE AN EARTH INTEREST SPY AFTER ALL SHE ACCUSED THEY SAID IN THE TOWNSHIP YOU ARE NO ARTIST BUT UNCLE CHARLEY AND I JEFF MADE A PUSHING MOTION KEEP AWAY FROM ME DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US MY SECOND GLANCE AROUND THE ROOM WAS MORE DELIBERATE TO MY RIGHT THERE WERE BIG GENERATORS IN THE SWITCHBOARDS GLEAMING WITH COPPER BUS BAR AND INTRICATE WITH THEIR TORTUOUS WIRING +a6c20a7c-1c27-4bc0-b438-62056568ed94 BUT YOU MUST SETTLE YOUR QUARREL IN A DIFFERENT FASHION IT MUST HAVE BEEN A JOLLY LIFE WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT HUNT AND FIGHT I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL AND THE HILLSIDES STOOD GRAY GREEN WITH OLD CACTUS +a6cca703-4a9c-4479-aaf2-e3fc42ff547a THE DRIVE ON THE BATTLESHIP AS WELL AS CONTROLS AND PRIMARY ARMAMENT HAD BEEN STOOD WEEKS BEFORE I SHOWED UP MUCH OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORK REMAINED TO BE DONE WHEN THE SHIP HAD LEFT FARMER'S MIND WORKED CHAOTICALLY THIS WAS PUZZLING HE DECIDED AND DID MAKE HIM FEEL INFERIOR THAT IS IT DID IF A MAN IN THE RED SCALES HAD REALLY PICKED UP ENGLISH SO QUICKLY COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS +a70dbf39-8d67-4d0e-a58a-0c733fd1b606 I KEPT THE GUN ON HIM AND NEITHER OF US MOVED WHILE THE NAVY SHIPS PULLED UP AND THEIR BOOTS STAMPED OUTSIDE I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL THIS IS YOUR HOUSE THE TIN WOODMAN ORDERED FOOD FOR THE STRANGER AND IN A FEW MINUTES THE SERVANT BROUGHT IN A TIN TRAY HEAPED WITH A CHOICE HOORAY OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT ALL NEATLY DISPLAYED ON TIN DISHES THAT WERE POLISHED TILL THEY SHONE LIKE MIRRORS +a72718ee-47b1-4157-9bdb-d3e3e5aa74dd WE MUST GIVE VIC A HAND MUSTN'T WE H THERE WERE ONLY THREE MORE CARTRIDGES LEFT IN MY GUN AND I DID NOT DARE REPLACE THE FIRED SHELLS FOR FEAR THEY WOULD RUSH ME WHEN THE ACTION WAS OPEN AND THE GUN MOMENTARILY USELESS I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY AND THE SHAPELY KING NOSE HE WAS A LEAN FRECKLED FELLOW +a78bb0a6-2cec-4238-bf64-037f5f19eb4f HE GOT ANOTHER FORM AND FILLED OUT ALL THE DARKER ON HIMSELF NOW IN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT HIS PART OF THE SENSES WAS FINISHED IF ONLY HE HAD LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES HE TURNED TO FACE HIS PATIENT BACK IN THE DAYS BEFORE WE PUT IT TO WORK FOR US REBUILDING TISSUE ALMOST ENDING AGING IN DISEASE THE ACTIVE BASIS FOR OUR VAC SCENE CAUSED A WHOLE GROUP OF DISEASES IN ITSELF THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK IT WOULD RUN LIKE THE GLASS YOU USED FOR YOUR BUILDINGS +a7ab8c56-bab7-4f14-87c3-2e16d1c0af6b THE BRAIN WAS AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER ROBART BRAIN I HAVE KNOWN PLUS THE FACT THAT THE CHUNKY BODY WAS CRAMMED WITH DEVICES AND MACHINES OF VARYING USE I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY AND AUNT OLIVIA SUGGESTED TO US ONE DAY THAT WE WRITE A COMPOUND LETTER TO AMUSE HIM UNTIL HE HAD COME TO THE WINDOW AND TALKED TO US FROM A SAFE DISTANCE +a7ae121e-78da-48f5-b5f5-b1b28bc1172c WE SOMETIMES ACT THE STORY OUT I LIKE IT WHEN PETER PLAYS THE POET I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN DAN IS THE POET BECAUSE HE IS SO FRECKLED AND SCREWS HIS EYES UP SO TIGHT BUT YOU CAN HARDLY EVER COAX PETER TO BE THE POET EXCEPT WHEN FELICITY IS EDITH AND DAN IS SO OBLIGING THAT WAY LUTE SAW THAT THE CREATURES HAD WIDE MOUTHS AND ROWS OF TERRIBLE TEETH AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS HE KNEW THAT HE HAD FALLEN INTO A CAVERN INHABITED BY THE GREAT DRAGONS THAT HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH AND WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO COME OUT ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS TO SEARCH FOR FOOD SSING WAS DISCOVERED WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH WHEN HE HAD COME TO OURSELVES AND DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE REALLY SITTING IN A DEWY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ORCHARD INSTEAD OF WATCHING TWO LOVERS ON A MOUNTAIN IN THESSALY AND THE GOLDEN AGE I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT OF COURSE WE KNOW IT WASN'T REALLY TRUE SAID FELICITY +a7b9637f-e290-4012-9333-6ad5e4bfe816 I STEPPED THROUGH GUN OUT AND POINTED AT THE BACK OF HIS HEAD ANGELINA STOOD NEXT HIM LOOKING AT THE SCREEN THE GAME'S OVER I SAID STAND UP SLOWLY AND KEEP YOUR HANDS IN SIGHT THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM CHAFFEE FOUR RADIATED MAROONED IT CAN DO NO HARM TO MARINE INTELLIGENCES OF COURSE SAID THE DELIGHTED STORY GIRL +a7ba4c8c-b700-4404-9dae-f88be935baef PETER IS HAVING A NEW SUIT MADEAID I KNEW THAT BEFORE I PROMISED UNCLE STEPHEN WAS THE FIRST BORN OF ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH KING I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN EASY ON THE SEXLIME BOY THEY SAID WE HAVE TO USE ORAN BECAUSE THE RECORDS ON THE DELPHINIS YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON +a7bf3283-7d77-4301-b657-1097c2ced9d1 STETSON TOOK HIS OWN GLASS COMGO HEARD THE WHOLE THING OVER THE GENERAL MONITOR NET HE SAID DO YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BREVETED TO THE SENIOR FIELD MAN I AM NOT VENGEFUL BUT MY SON WAS NO WIZARD YET THE INQUISITOR TOOK HIM AND HAD A CONFESSION FROM HIM YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER HE TIGHTENED HIS LIPS IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID THE FAITHFUL FELLOW AT ONCE SET TO WORK TO MAKE ME A TIN HEAD AND HE HAD JUST COMPLETED IT WHEN NINNY ANDEY CAME RUNNING UP WITH MY OLD HEAD WHICH SHE HAD STOLEN FROM THE WITCH +a7e4a643-7cae-47ba-b507-c34a1478249a THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME I THINK KINGS AND QUEENS WERE THICKER LONG AGO SAID THE STORY GIRL WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW HE QUAVERED THE QUESTION HIS POUCHY JAWS SHOOK AND I SWEAR THERE WERE TEARS IN HIS EYES THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY +a7eec7a2-1ae6-4b2a-bd30-8347bae68322 JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT I TOLD YOU THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER THEY WERE SPOTTED WITH CLUMPS OF GRAY GRASS EVEN AS WAS THE DESERT I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH THIS IS WHY I LANDED AT MIDDAY ON THE LARGEST FIELD ON THE PLANET AFTER A VERY SHOWY APPROACH +a7f6c8ce-8c02-4a6b-8627-f397145db3e8 I SEE REMARKED THE GIANTESS NODDING HER HEAD AND SMILING AGAIN IN THAT CURIOUS WAY THAT MADE WOOT SHUDDER IF YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OF OF HIM YOU MIGHT SAY THE OLD SCRATCH THAT IS WHAT MOTHER CALLS HIM GIVE HIM COURAGE NOT TO FEAR THE FACE OF MAN MAKE HIM A BURNING AND SHINING LIGHT TO THE SADLY ABUSED CONGREGATION MAYBE THAT LITTLE PINK CLOUD IS A DREAM GETTING ALL READY TO FLOAT DOWN INTO SOMEBODY'S SLEEP SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL I HAD A PERFECTLY AWFUL DREAM LAST NIGHT SAID CECILY WITH A SHUDDER OF REMEMBRANCE I DREAMED I WAS ON A DESERT ISLAND INHABITED BY TIGERS AND NATIVES WITH TWO HEADS +a8106403-97c0-42da-976a-e93eff527de2 I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES IT WAS QUITE A SURPRISE TO THEM AH AND THE BEAST ADVANCED ALONG THE LINE TO WOOD THAT COULD HIDE EVEN A RABBIT NOR ANY HOLE FOR ONE TO FALL INTO +a8120edd-e72a-4a0a-8fd5-818a3ec7e931 SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY THE REPORT WILL AID I GET NEWLY STUFFED RIOT AWAY LIKE OTHERS THAT I MEET DAY BY DAY AND PUSHED HIM AWAY FROM THE PUMP +a816072a-1c1f-499e-ac75-c1f2cfcf10fb EVERYTHING I MIGHT NEED FOR THE JOB WAS IN MY LUGGAGE I'LL SAY THIS THE NAVY BOYS KNOW THEIR BUSINESS THE MORE I KNEW THE LESS I COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED FOR A BATTLESHIP IT DIDN'T FIT THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WERE TAKING ME THAT WAS THE JUNGLE THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB THE EYE A SECTION CHIEF WAS DARK HAIRED +a819cfdd-a40b-4c04-af89-083bd1e4c1e5 THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD I GUESS YOU MEAN PRINCIPLE I SUGGESTED YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS THEY HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE THROWING STICKS AND ARBELASTS AND WERE TRYING TO SHOOT DOWN THE EYE A CLOUD OF ARROWS AND ROCKS FLYING IN EVERY DIRECTION I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP CHARGING A WALK AROUND OXYGEN BOTTLE HE TRANSFERRED HIS OXYGEN HOSE TO IT HE SNAPPED THE SURVIVAL KID TO HIS BELT AND PICKED UP THE TELETOKEY THE SHIP WAS MORE THAN A THOUSAND YARDS AWAY +a85b89a7-7c53-42ab-9e1a-147fe4821a42 I AM SITTING ON A TRAGEDY SAID THE STORY GIRL SUDDENLY NOW WHAT EARTHLY GOOD COULD I GET FROM YOUR THREE BY SIX SCHOOL LIBRARY BUT ORDINARY OCEAN CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED ALL THE DEFIANCE AND BRAVADO GONE OUT OF HIM +a867098d-ed7b-4eee-a798-c974b6c5333d AGAIN HE MOVED ON THE SOUND FADING IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND HIM THE NEXT MILE BROUGHT HIM TO A GREAT SHEET OF ANCIENT LAVA LAID BARE BY THE ELEMENTS HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP THE FIRE STILL SEEMED TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND YARDS AHEAD BEYOND A RIDGE OF LOW HILLS HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE ONE DAY THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS VISITING THE CRAWFORDS IN MARKDALE WHEN THEY SUDDENLY HEARD OLD MISTER SCOTT'S VOICE IN THE KITCHEN +a874e152-a8d5-44aa-88fe-c4efee7a94c2 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY GOT SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS ON IT SINCE AUNT JANE'S DAY SAID PETER RELIEVED IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW A COMMON MAN WOULD BE QUEER BUT WHEN IT'S A MINISTER IT'S ECCENTRIC IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES A NIGHTMARE WORLD THAT WORDS SEEMED INADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE THE SKY WAS AN ANGRY SULPHUROUS GREEN PRESSING LOW UPON A COUNTRY UTTERLY FLAT AND NEARLY BARREN +a876b0bc-bf48-4e85-be4b-4dcc7d9199b6 I'D LIKE TO BE A MISSIONARY AND HAVE ADVENTURES LIKE THAT SAID FELIX IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COULD BE SURE THE CANNIBALS WOULD BE INTERRUPTED IN THE NICK OF TIME AS HIS WERE SAID DAN BUT SPOSEN THEY WEREN'T I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM AND I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND PHIL ANY OF THEM SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU GOT A MAN LIKE FATHER IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT BUT SUPPOSING YOU GOT ONE LIKE ANDREW WARD HE'S SO MEAN AND CROSS TO HIS WIFE'S THAT SHE TELLS HIM EVERY DAY SHE WISHES SHE'D NEVER SET EYES ON HIM +a87eb6ae-8a98-47a4-bb98-15112ba133e9 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I'M NOT SO FRIGHTENED OF HER AS I ONCE WAS I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT WHAT THE MAGICIANS CALL MISDIRECTION +a8dbb09b-2159-45b6-8dbf-9c235a764660 HE WOULD ACCEPT PAYMENT WERE IT GENEROUS IN RETURN FOR SHARING ROOM IN HIS HOUSE YONAS STARTED MUSING ON HEROES AGAIN BUT HE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A MOVE TOWARDS HER IN SPITE OF HER SCALES AND FINS AS IF UNTOUCHED BY ANYTHING AROUND HIM HIS ARMS FOLDED AND A FAINT SMILE UPON HIS DAMP LIPS SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER +a924c6aa-a46d-4864-bf07-2d5f074a34b3 HE LANDED ON SOMETHING TOUGH AND WARM AND SLIPPERY AND ARRIVED LONG AGO AT A WORKING AGREEMENT WITH THE ISLANDERS NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE WELL THAT'S BETTER THAN A HOLE I'VE THOUGHT OF THE WAY MY AUNT JANE USED TO GIVE MEDICINE TO A CAT AND PUT ON THE LONG LACE VEIL THAT HAD BEEN SO MANY YEARS A MAKING PERHAPS SHE'D LET YOU GO THEN SHE LIKES CECILY SHE DOESN'T LIKE EITHER FELICITY OR ME SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE FOR US TO TRY BUT THE PUDDING WELL +a932b8e6-206a-48fe-a526-c48091fc9e3f I'M NO GOODER THAN THE REST OF YOU BREATHED CECILY ALLAN INTENDED TO TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM TO CALIFORNIA IN THE FANNY HE WAS JUST A REAL GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL NOTHING WOULD PREVENT CANNIBALS FROM EATING FILLICKS IF THEY CAUGHT HIM GIGGLED FELICITY HE'S SO NICE AND FAT +a972a6ef-4938-4212-883c-4b6e44cfa89d THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE AND SORE THROAT AND SEEMED TO PREFER LYING ON AUNT OLIVIA'S KITCHEN SOFA TO DOING ANY WORK BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT AT LEAST I GAVE HER A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH I THOUGHT I WOULD EXPLODE WHEN SHE WENT INTO THAT INNOCENT'S ACT AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE +a994b214-2474-43dd-97c0-bec34fe5ca8c THEY DO AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT PETER WAS NO BETTER THE NEXT DAY WE DID NOT ASK AGAIN TO BE RELEASED FROM WORK AFTER ALL HE WAS A HERO THOUGH OF HIS OWN UNIQUE KIND THERE WAS NO DENYING THAT IT'S A SENSE CLARETON SAID WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME AND FOLLOWED BY AN OBSCENE COMMAND AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG +a9a928f3-988d-4430-85bc-518f4f3f4a99 WITH THE FAITHFUL PRIEST STUMBLING AROUND ME I LOCATED THE CONTROL ROOM AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS BEFORE THEY COULD THINK UP A GOOD ANSWER I WAS INSIDE BUT FINALLY HE SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE OF VOICE NONE COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION AND THEY FOLLOWED IT FOR SOME TIME EVEN PETER HAD PLENTY OF SPARE TIME WHEN THE PLANTING WAS OVER AND IF HE WAS A METHODIST HE'D TELL ME TO BE ONE TOO DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH WAS LIKE THIS +a9bc583d-418c-4790-942e-8332dbdff778 AND EXPENDABLE INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY UNCLE ROGER'S LAUGHTER WAS HARD TO BEAR BUT HIS GRAVITY WAS EVEN HARDER I THOUGHT OF IT WHEN I HEARD YOURS I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT BEFORE BUT I DO NOW FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE THOUGHT OR THE MENTION OF GOD BRINGS UP BEFORE US INVOLUNTARILY THE VISION OF A STERN +a9f1bd75-19c4-4315-955c-0c8180125441 PHILOSOPHY FOR ONE OF THE BROTHERHOOD CLARETON THOUGHT BACK WE ARE TINY AS YET WE HAVE NO FORCE YOU CAN ADD TO THAT FORCE ADD GREATLY BUT YOU MUST BE WISE I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL I WOULDN'T LET ON I THOUGHT SHE'D MADE HIM SICK THEN SHE COULDN'T BE OFFENDED AND MAYBE SHE'D TAKE THE SPELL OFF I THINK WE'D BETTER ALL GIVE HER SOMETHING SAID FELICITY I'M WILLING TO DO THAT BUT WHO'S GOING TO TAKE THE PRESENTS TO HER FARMER GOT MAD HE STARTED TO CHARGE ACROSS THE DECK AT GARF BUT HIS OWN FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE LANDED FLAT ON HIS NOSE THERE WERE WAVES OF FIRE CHASING EACH OTHER AROUND HIS BODY AND HIS STOMACH WAS TRYING TO TURN ITSELF INSIDE OUT +aa1c1978-adc5-43ac-ab19-25f4ddbf0a56 THE ODDNESS ABOUT THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS BECAME FINNY CREST PROBABLY IN FACT GARF WOULD TRY TO CONQUER THE WORLD ANYWAY NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES HIS ATTIRE CONSISTED OF A FADED GINGHAM SHIRT I DID AN EXCITING DREAM LAST NIGHT FOR ONCE SAID DAN TRIUMPHANTLY I WISH I COULD DREAM OF MY AUNT JANE I NEVER DO +aa2d86b4-301d-48cf-bc8d-ac51a95e8367 YES THE DITCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING JUST NOW BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY FOR THE SCARECROW'S BODY WAS ONLY A SUIT OF CLOTHES FILLED WITH STRAW INSTEAD I FACED THE CROWD AS I SOARED AWAY SO I MADE THE MOST OF A BAD SITUATION AND THREW THEM A SNAPPY MILITARY SALUTE WISH JANET AND UNCLE ALEC WERE HOME SAID FELIX IT'S NOT HALF SO MUCH FUN HAVING THE GROWN UPS AWAY AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE I +aa657af9-2a9a-4299-a5f6-a12665a3a862 OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY THE WATER FED PIPE FROM THE ROOF FOR EXAMPLE THE PIPE WALLS WERE AT LEAST THREE METERS THICK AND THE PIPE OPENING ITSELF NO BIGGER THAN MY HEAD THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS SCATTERED THROUGH THE GRASS IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK WERE BLOSSOMING PALE AERIAL FLOWERS WHICH HAD NO NAME THAT WE COULD EVER DISCOVER NOBODY SEEMED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM I TOLD YOU THE BIBLE WAS MORE TO BE DEPENDED ON THAN NEWSPAPERS SAID CECILY TRIUMPHANTLY SARA RAY AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WENT HOME AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES +aa88c98c-c38c-4d7f-acdd-6f260c5d5809 BUT FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER IT CARRIED CONVICTION OF THE VERY OPPOSITE KIND IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE SHE BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE TRUE AND THE POSSIBILITY WAS ALMOST AS DREADFUL AS THE CERTAINTY HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US THEN DARKNESS CLOSED IN SWIFTLY I WAS WHISKED UPWARD ON AND ON BREATHLESSLY I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY I WAS DROPPING IN THE BLACKNESS THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES +aa9a4a0a-8dcb-46cc-8ee0-ff7ea95c0d3d I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T LIKE CUCUMBER CECILY DAN REMARKED JUST STAND ROOTED TO THE GROUND AND SEE IT COMING AND CAN'T STIR IT WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND AND SIT BESIDE GLAUCON AS HE WATCHED THE FLOCKS AND PLAYED ON HIS FLUTE WE WERE SITTING THERE WHEN UNCLE ROGER WALKED IN AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT +aa9d7bb1-c0b1-49cd-998b-f17db36e89fb MY TIN BODY CONTAINED NO HEART WITHOUT A HEART NO ONE CAN LOVE TILL THE WICKED WITCH CONQUERED IN THE END AND WHEN I LEFT THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ THE POOR POOR GIRL WAS STILL THE SLAVE OF THE WITCH AND HAD TO DO HER BIDDING DAY AND NIGHT MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK IT'S SAD AND BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED MISSUS DUNBAR LIVES NEXT DOOR TO AUNT LOUISA IN TOWN SHE IS SO SWEET YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE BUT SHE HAS AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE A DONKEY A JACK TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT MANOEL AND MILLER STOPPED AT NOON ON LOST SOUL CREEK THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON BUT MANOEL HAD A JOB TO DO AND HE DID IT HE TOOK THE FORMS FROM ONE OF THE PACKS THAT HE HAD UNSLUNG FROM MILLER AND COUNTED OUT NINE OF THEM HE WROTE DOWN ALL THE DATA OF NINE PEOPLE +aafbfb4b-5316-4d00-bfea-db914cdea56d I WAS OF THE OPINION THAT IT WOULD BE RATHER QUESTIONABLE BUT DAN VOWED HE DIDN'T SEE WHY HE'D TELL IT QUICK AS ANY OTHER DREAM THERE WAS NOTHING BAD IN IT MAGIC SEED WHEN THE TIME CAME TO HAND IN OUR COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY FUND PETER HAD THE LARGEST THREE DOLLARS FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL CRUSHED THE RIG'S POWERFUL LITTLE BATTERY DISCHARGED WITH A MUFFLED SPUTTERING AND FLASHING OF SPARKS THE ZID HOWLED PIERCINGLY AND DROPPED AWAY FROM THE WINDOW +ab06b52c-2e29-4805-bba4-9663dcd4b390 IF IT'S MY DUTY I'D LIKE TO DO MY DUTY BUT IF MAGIC PREVENTS ME GETTING MARRIED I'LL FLUTTER ALONG ALL BY MYSELF AND BE JUST AS CONTENTED WASN'T IT A HARD PLIGHT FOR POOR DONALD BUT HE WAS A SCOTCHMAN YOU KNOW AND IT'S PRETTY HARD TO STICK A SCOTCHMAN ALONG PRESENTLY A TWINKLE CAME INTO HIS EYES FOR HE REMEMBERED THAT HE WAS ALWAYS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE IF YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OF OF HIM YOU MIGHT SAY THE OLD SCRATCH THAT IS WHAT MOTHER CALLS HIM TWAS THE MC CLOSKEYS AND THE OLD SCRATCH SAID THE STORY GIRL REFLECTIVELY AS IF SHE WERE TRYING TO SEE WHICH VERSION WAS MORE EFFECTIVE IT WOULDN'T DO SHE DECIDED +ab2b340c-8f7f-42d1-939e-2338e4eb1daa WHERE IS SHE NOW INQUIRED WOOT WHO HAD HEARD TALES OF LOVELY POLYCHROME AND WAS MUCH INTERESTED IN HER PETER STOPPED AND GLARED AT HIM OVER THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT STONE YOU HAVEN'T ANY BUSINESS TO CALL OUT A THING LIKE THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SERMON HE SAID THEY DO IT IN THE METHODIST CHURCH AT MARKDALE PROTESTED FELIX SOMEWHAT ABASHED I HEARD THEM SHE HAD NOT DONE SO BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS BAREFOOTED +ab6559f2-d2ae-424b-b47c-68800558d99e BUT HE MAKETH VERY LITTLE PROGRESS UNLESS HE PICK THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE WHO STICKETH OUT HIS NECK WHICH SEEMED QUITE A STICKY PROBLEM FOR A MAN IN A MEDIEVAL CULTURE JONAS DID NOT IN SPITE OF HIS POSE LOOK LIKE THE TYPICAL HERO FOLK TALE OR SCRIBE'S TOME HE WAS NOT EVEN SEVEN FEET TALL FOR INSTANCE NOR DID HE HAVE A HANDSOME LOVESOME FACE WITH FLASHING BLUE EYES OR A BROAD SHOULDERED NARROW WAISTED MARVEL OF A FIGURE HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY TO RAISE INVENTION AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK DORA WASTED NO TIME SHE BENT OVER PICKED UP THE MACHINE YANKING WIRING LOOSE CARELESSLY STRAIGHTENED UP TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY SAID GOOD BY AND HEADED FOR THE RAIL OPPOSITE TO HIM SITS THE STORY GIRL WITH HER SCARLET ROSETTE HEAD HER BEAUTIFUL BARE FEET CROSSED BEFORE HER ONE SLENDER HAND PROPPING HER HIGH WHITE BROW ON EITHER SIDE OF WHICH FALL HER GLOSSY CURLS THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN +ab66a9b6-89fc-4709-901a-2c98ae46fb45 I DON'T WANT TO SAY FOR CERTAIN ALL THESE DETAILS AREN'T IN MY DEPARTMENT I'M JUST RESPONSIBLE FOR FINAL ASSEMBLY NOT UNIT WORK BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW IF I'M IN A JAM IT'S MY OWN DOING AND DUE TO MY BULLHEADEDNESS OF WHICH YOU HAVE SO OFTEN REMINDED ME LIFE OF SOME KIND HOWEVER FOR MY EXPERIMENTS PROVE THAT AND SO TORRID IN THE AFTERNOONS WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE A MAN OF DOMINATING PRESENCE AND ACID VOICE +ab6eb677-3a43-4f42-9a1d-71115eee8d88 WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS THERE WAS A PAUSE AND BRANDON COULD ALMOST SEE COLONEL TOWERS DRAWING UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT ON A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM KNOW THAT MEANS REINART BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES THAT YOU ARE UNDER THE GUNS OF A WARSHIP DON'T ATTEMPT TO RUN SIGNAL TAKE EVAH ACTION OR ANY OTHER WAY WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT THE DEVIL WHO WHAT I SPLUTTERED INTO THE MIKE I HAD MY SCANNER ON SO THEY COULD SEE ME BUT MY OWN SCREENS STAYED DARK THEY WEREN'T SENDING ANY PICTURE +abd63f5e-2d3b-44fb-b38e-0a8f1d2fd8c1 AND NOW THE CANARY PERCHED UPON A STUMP A LITTLE WAY FROM THE FOREST BEAST AND SAID I AM GLAD OUR FRIEND HAS ESCAPED YOU BUT AS IT IS NATURAL FOR A HUNGRY BEAST TO WISH HIS BREAKFAST I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU ONE AND WHO SPOKE FIRST OH THE STORY YELL SHE GOT EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND SPOKE TO FELICITY BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED AND SUCH A BAD SIGN UNCLE ROGER UNLOCKED AND FLUNG OPEN THE FRONT DOOR AS HE DID SO CLEAR AND SWEET RANG OUT TEN BELL LIKE CHIMES THAT'S WHAT I HEARD CRIED PETER THERE'S THE BELL +abe561ef-4dec-4bbd-9afb-7ca334dd7418 HE WROTE DOWN ALL THE DATA OF NINE PEOPLE YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SAID MARSHALL I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE WERE TAKEN WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AND HANDED US OVER TO THE KEEPING OF UNCLE ALEC AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN ANXIOUS TO CLAIM IT THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE A MAN WITH A PARTICULAR CAT TALENT GIVEN BY GOD DO YOU SPECT THIS TO PROVE +abfccbb1-ebc7-4092-9cd7-4be1f5e11351 ANOTHER LONG PAUSE IN WHICH ORAN AND TO NEWBE CONTINUED TO STUDY EACH OTHER PRESENTLY STETSON SAID O K GO AHEAD AS PLANNED BUT FIND OUT WHERE THE DELPHINIS IS IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX AS FATHER HAD OFTEN TOLD US HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY FAR APART AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE IN THE OLD CARLISLE GRAVEYARD THEN WE OPENED THE FRONT DOOR AND STEPPED OUT RAPTURE SWELLING IN OUR BOSOMS +ac12767e-076e-4b03-823a-756a73cad79b IT CAN'T BE MUCH WORSE THAN DYING I SUPPOSE SAID FELIX GRASPING AT ANY STRAW OF COMFORT I'M AWFULLY GLAD I'VE GOT INTO THE HABIT OF GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY SCHOOL THIS SUMMER SAID PETER VERY SOBERLY I WISH I'D MADE UP MY MIND BEFORE THIS WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED ORAN BRAKED TO A CREAKING STOP THAT SHIFTED THE LOAD BEHIND HIM FOUND HIMSELF STARING THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AT A NATIVE OF CHINA THREE BEFORE HE COULD MOVE I PUSHED A SWITCH AND A HANDFUL OF LOCAL CURRENCY WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS ROLLED OUT OF THE CAVE AND LANDED AT HIS FEET HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE +ac18f0a5-e35f-4e23-8ce8-6f815ccfb4d6 HOWEVER MUMBLED THE SCARECROW WE ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR WHAT CANNOT BE HELPED SO LET US PUSH BRAVELY AHEAD AND SEE WHAT MAY BE SEEN IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS IT WOULD BE JUST STUPIDITY IF YOU DIDN'T IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM I'M NOT A BIT PRETTY MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE +ac291035-be6f-4bea-a8e8-43b9182c4d1c HE WOULD SICK THE NONIPUS ON RAY AND HIMSELF SHE LOOKED OVER HER SHOULDER HE EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE WITH CARE BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR TO INSTALL A NEW BEACON BESIDES BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND THIS RELIC IS ON ONE OF THE MAIN ROUTES +ac4a75d6-d2c8-47ea-bde1-1f5fd65ac438 GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL AND IT LED TO DISASTER ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE I COULD RECOGNIZE THE FACE AND FIGURE OF THE WOMAN I LOVED AND OF HER BROTHER BUT THEY SEEMED TO HAVE NO SUBSTANCE +ac4ba65a-ca48-47d3-97ac-0d322b5ad244 SEND IT BY SIAM ONLY I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE LOOKING OUT EASTWARD INTO THE SPRUCE GROVE I TOOK THE BOX OF SEED OUT OF MY TRUNK IN THE TWILIGHT ROOM AND SWALLOWED THE DECREED PINCH +aca38b85-f9e4-40b6-981c-b15970c1a38c THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS I SALUTE YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS MAJESTY AND OFFER YOU MY HUMBLE SERVICES SUCH INCIDENTS HOWEVER WERE VERY UNUSUAL AND SO SELDOM WAS THERE ANYTHING TO WORRY OVER THAT THE OZ PEOPLE WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD WILL THEY GIVE US MORE TIME TO BRIEF HIM O ON THE DAUPHINIS +acc80685-2d1d-41a9-9cf0-c1222bd33c56 WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET I THINK IT IS VERY VAIN TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE YOURSELF BEING BEAUTIFUL SAID FELICITY AND THAT SLY DONALD SAT THERE WITH A SOBER FACE BUT LAUGHING EYES AND COAXED HIM ON AND THIS CHEST HAS NEVER BEEN OPENED SINCE AND GAVE ME A DUCK WADDLE RATHER THAT HAD STARTED THE TROUBLE I'M A REPAIRMAN NOT AN ARCHAEOLOGIST +acd0b583-b3b7-4d4a-9b74-db50cc14a3d5 I WANTED TO WAIT TILL I GOT OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE OUT WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM I'M NOT SURE THAT UNCLE ROGER MEANT WHAT HE SAID REMARKED THE STORY GIRL FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN THEN WAVED THE TWO TO THE RAIL WITH HIM BLOWING YOURSELF UP I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY +acf0b86f-519e-43e4-aa8e-07615cb426b1 THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE TOSSED IT TO ORAN HOW DID YOU CAPTURE THE DELPHINIS JOHN ANDREW HAD LIVED THIS LONG WITHOUT GOING TO THE AID OF A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS FARMER HUNCHED HIS SHOULDERS TRYING TO BREAK LOOSE AND THEN HE SAW WHAT RAY WAS STARING AT HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION +acf1fcd9-b1da-4390-a188-e614e5144a45 I THINK IT'S AWFULLY LUCKY WE WERE ALL BORN INTO THE SAME FAMILY FELIX REMARKED ISN'T IT I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT SO AND I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT WHAT A DREADFUL THING IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING HAD NEVER GOT MARRIED TO EACH OTHER I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD SO THAT'S WHY YOUR SAILS BELLIED BACKWARD WHEN YOU CAME INTO HARBOR SAID JEFF THE THING WAS TOWING YOU A THIN HIGH STREAK OF VAPOR TRAIL KNEELING DOWN TOWARD THEM FROM THE SUNRISE RAINBOW TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT HIS NAME WAS ALLAN DUNBAR AND HE WAS YOUNG AND HANDSOME HEROES ALWAYS ARE YOU KNOW BUT AUNT LOUISA SAYS HE REALLY WAS AND HE WAS IN LOVE WILDLY IN LOVE WITH MARGARET GRANT +ad46b8e5-14e4-49e9-ac07-6c0095c5da6f AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM WERE YOU O KAY ONE OF THEM ASKED BRANDON SAID NOTHING WE SOLUED FROM OUR OBSERVATION STATION OVER ON THE HILL SAID THE OTHER POINTING THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN I'M CAPTAIN BRANDON OF THE ASTRO ONE ASTRO ONE I WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL SECRETLY WORRIED BECAUSE I DID NOT GROW I HAD OVERHEARD AUNT JANET SAY I WAS GOING TO BE SHORT LIKE UNCLE ALEC NOW I LOVED UNCLE ALEC BUT I WANTED TO BE TALLER THAN HE WAS SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS I JUMPED AT THE OFFER TAILS ASKED THORN YEA THERE ARE BOREAL NOT A ROAD ON THE WHOLE PLANET WE CAN FIND BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF VINE LANES THROUGH THE JUNGLES STETSON'S FACE HARDENED MATCH THAT WITH THE CITY AS ADVANCED AS THAT ONE SLAVE CULTURE PROBABLY +ad479157-f0f9-4752-a6fa-b790dc328a80 I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY THE CITY FLUTED AND SPIRALED INTO THE MOONLIT SKY IT'S TOO BAD TO FEEL THAT WAY SAID HORN WHEN TWO CULTURES MEET LIKE THIS THEY TEND TO HELP EACH OTHER I PAID HIM THE TEN CENTS CHEERFULLY AND TOOK THE MAGIC SEAT AS DIRECTED MEASURING MYSELF CAREFULLY EVERY DAY BY A MARK ON THE HALL DOOR BUT MISTER CAMPBELL CHUCKLED AGAIN IT WAS A FEATHER IN THE STORY GIRL'S CAP FOR SHE TOOK ALL THE CREDIT OF HAVING STARTED PETER ON THE RIGHT ROAD +ad4a7d47-cc6b-4eb3-8fa9-c206cf9e6206 UNCLE EDWARD PREACHED HIS FINEST SERMON ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM WELL WHERE DAVID'S SOLDIERS WENT TO GET HIM WATER HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE HE HAD NEVER LIKED WOMEN AT ALL INSKIT MUST HAVE BEEN HOVERING AROUND WAITING FOR MY MESSAGE THE MIKE WAS TURNED OFF TO THE TRANSCRIBERS OUTSIDE AND I TOOK THE CODE GROUPS DOWN IN SHORTHAND MYSELF +ad68a744-9ac0-4441-a1f4-9cc2086303f6 AND FOUND THAT HIS CLOTHES WERE GONE AND HIS SKIN COVERED WITH A FINE SILKLIKE GREEN FUR SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I KUFF'S EYEBROWS WERE WHITE UP I WANT TO FIND THE EASIEST WAY AND I'VE GOT A HANKERING AFTER THE METHODISTS SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL +ad69a3ed-e653-4ee0-a085-e97b4b84088d NOTHING TO DO WITH WARS OR BATTLESHIPS DAYS IF I HAD BEEN INTERESTED IN BLACKMAIL I HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN MY HAND TO SUPPORT ME FOR LIFE AND WHILE IT HAD BEEN BLUNTED SOMEWHAT IT WAS STILL SHARP ENOUGH TO HURT TO THE COMFORT OF THE OZ PEOPLE OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US +ad87da36-0b60-4abb-8a38-c627c6871a64 NEXT TO HER SITS FELICITY BEAUTIFUL AND CONSCIOUS THAT SHE IS BEAUTIFUL WITH HER HAIR OF SPUN SUNSHINE AND SEA BLUE EYES AND ALL THE ROSES OF THAT VANISHED SUMMER ABLOOM IN HER CHEEKS HOWEVER I AM SURE I CAN RESTORE THE SCARECROW TO HIS ORIGINAL SHAPE HE WAS STUFFED WITH STRAW FROM THE BEGINNING EVEN THE YUKE OF WHOM MAGIC COULD NOT ALTER THAT THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY JEFF PANTED THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE +ada9d4de-92a5-4309-9f5d-8c0dc347b99a SOME OF US HAD FRIGHTFUL DREAMS AND ALL OF US CARRIED CHIPS ON OUR SHOULDERS AT BREAKFAST SAID THE STORY GIRL INDIGNANTLY WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL THE VERY GULCHERS STOOD ANGRY AND STARK IN THE EARLY MORNING WE DECIDED IT WAS TOO CLOSE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM +adc8cfc3-48da-48e8-8520-974c10fea634 AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER I STARED AT HIM BEWILDERED THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT HE DROPPED HIS HAND SAID I TAKE IT THERE'S BEEN A HEAVY MUTATIONAL VARIATION ORAN TOUCHED HIS THROAT NO PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN REFERRING TO A MAJOR ADVANCE IN INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL DUE TO A MAXIMUM SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EFFORT +add5e76b-128f-409c-b013-4b8ce0af2965 WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS THAT HE WAS QUITE DISGUSTED WITH THE RESULTING TAME PAGES OF HIS DREAM BOOK OH THERE'S EVERY DIFFERENCE I CAN'T JUST EXPLAIN IT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE AND JOHN ADREW LAID HIM ON THE DECK AS DOOR SPRANG LEAFILY OVER THE RAIL AGAIN +adffaad2-8035-4a7b-9154-58d89915e249 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID PETER DID NOT COME OF A CHURCH GOING STOCK A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED JUST LOOK AT THAT BLASTED JUNGLE BARKED STETSON THE HILLS WERE STUDDED WITH WEIRD TREES STANDING STIFF BRANCHES OUTSTRETCHED LIKE AN ARMY OF SCARECROWS +ae054756-4913-4d0c-bf27-fc1dc7c5d20a ONCE IN A WHILE HE PAINTED A PICTURE WHICH SHOWED WHAT HE COULD DO BUT FOR THE REST HE WAS SATISFIED TO WANDER OVER THE WORLD LIGHT HEARTED AND CONTENT HE HAD NOT FELT VERY KEENLY OVER THE MATTER OF THE SERMONS AND CERTAINLY THE MERE FACT THAT PETER COULD EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT MAKING FACES DID NOT CAST ANY REFLECTION ON THE HONOUR OR ABILITY OF THE OTHER COMPETITORS AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION +ae3e4ff1-87bd-4813-8c3f-ec1ab1dc00de IT WAS GOING TO BE A REAL SCORCHER HE DECIDED EVEN AS BRANDON CLIMBED INTO THE SCOUT SHIP BUT I DON'T MIND TELLING YOU I'M NOT WASTING MUCH MORE FUEL YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS +ae727501-7dec-486d-870c-e8dcfb58b18c HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER THE GATE CRASHED OPEN AND I STALKED THROUGH THEN IT BANGED BEHIND ME AND I WAS ALONE IN THE DARK BUT NOT FOR LONG THERE WAS A SHUFFLING NEAR BY AND I TOOK A CHANCE AND TURNED ON MY FLASH SOMETHING BIT HIM ON THE ARM HE DISCOVERED RAY'S FINGERS IN THE DRIVING GLOVE DIGGING INTO HIS FLESH IN AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL GRIP FARMER HUNCHED HIS SHOULDERS TRYING TO BREAK LOOSE AND THEN HE SAW WHAT RAY WAS STARING AT +ae8702b4-d4bc-4754-9b61-4b732a057006 SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX NEIL DIDN'T WANT MUCH PERSUASION HE TOOK SOME MORE AND SAID SLYLY IS IT WE GOING OVER THE BAY THE NIGHT THAT YOURSELF WILL BE DOING CECILY LOOKED PALE AND THIN BESIDE HER BUT SHE HAD DAINTY LITTLE FEATURES SMOOTH BROWN HAIR OF SATIN SHEEN AND MILD BROWN EYES WITH JUST A HINT OF DEMURENESS IN THEM NOW AND AGAIN +ae9627d0-a067-4105-a2fe-9fead1a080c8 LOOK HERE I'LL TELL IT ANYHOW THAT'S A PROMISE IT WAS BRUSHED AND BRAIDED WITH PURITAN SIMPLICITY REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN IT WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES MY GOOD WIFE AND I BOTH MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE THEN AT ONCE HE BEGAN TO MAKE A TIN LEG FOR ME +aeba13fc-e7ab-4952-8e69-a67cc14a3556 LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY A BUGGY LOAD OF MARKDALE PEOPLE AND FINALLY MISSUS ELDER FRUEN AND HER SISTER FROM VANCOUVER WITH TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS OF THE LATTER ARRIVED HERE JENOFER SAID THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER +aec2a588-37a4-46ef-ae74-73ba01621ca6 THAT IS WHERE I AND THE OTHER TROUBLE SHOOTERS COME IN WE TRAVEL IN WELL STOCKED SHIPS THAT CARRY A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING ONLY ONE MAN TO A SHIP BECAUSE THAT IS ALL IT TAKES TO OPERATE THE OVERLY EFFICIENT REPAIR MACHINERY DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE THEY WERE SPOTTED WITH CLUMPS OF GRAY GRASS EVEN AS WAS THE DESERT THE HILLS WERE STUDDED WITH WEIRD TREES STANDING STIFF BRANCHES OUTSTRETCHED LIKE AN ARMY OF SCARECROWS THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY I'M MARTIAL AND I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE A LATE PIG SANDWICH OR CAUSED BY ONE I SHOULD EAT SO LATE SAY SIR WHEN YOU REPLY TO ME I AM NO PIG SANDWICH AND I DO NOT COMMONLY CALL ON FOOLS GET ON YOUR FEET YOU CLOD +aec61bf6-a6b6-454c-b34a-be8e2e55fadd SARA IS REAL SICK SHE SAID WITH REGRET AND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT REGRET MINGLED IN HER VOICE JUST BECAUSE I HAD THE SPECIAL CALL DOESN'T MEAN I AM THE SPECIAL CALL HE SAID MADE A CHOKING NOISE AND ENCLOSED IT INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP OR NODDED AT THE RIFLE WOULD YOU MIND POINTING THAT WEAPON SOME OTHER DIRECTION YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE ME SAID ORME +aed008b2-0c25-4ddb-8814-e2a9862704d7 YES AND IF HE LETS YOU OFF THEN WE'LL KNOW HE WAS IN EARNEST CHIMED IN CICELY NEITHER ARGUMENT ENTREATY NOR EXPOSTULATION HAD ANY EFFECT ON THOSE TWO STUBBORN GIRLS I LOCATED A LIZARD TOWN ABOUT A THOUSAND KILOMETERS FROM THE PYRAMID AND DROPPED THE E EYE WE WILL GIVE HIM MORE IF YOU NEED MORE BUT THERE AREN'T SO MANY IN YOUR SCENE NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE +aed3741c-9024-4375-aa43-dbebe2a91224 THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED AFTER BREAKFAST AND THE NECESSARY CHORES THERE WAS THE FORENOON TO BE LIVED THROUGH THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES LET CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL CACKLE ALL THEY WANTED TO AND LET THOSE STUCK UP TORONTO BOYS GRIN LIKE CHESSY CATS BELIEVE YOU DID IT ON PURPOSE TO HAVE A STORY TO TELL +af0e55da-de7f-4aec-8bfc-b3b84578f528 THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT I COULD ONLY SEE YOU BY HAVING MYSELF ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT HE SAID IN THAT WAY YOU WILL BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO ME YOU MAY LISTEN NOW OR LATER AT A FULL HEARING OF THE INQUISITORS COURT AND I'VE GOT TO GO AND STUMP ELDERBERRY SAID PETER IT WAS FELICITY WHO DEMANDED IMPATIENTLY OF MY SHAKING VOICE AS BROTHER WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE ALL RIGHT I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT SILVERY MOON WAS LOOKING DOWN ON US OVER THE GRANARY +af19ef86-2f94-49ae-a3ef-71821d15d9fe SO DAZZLING AND WONDERFUL THAT BEYOND IT THE EYE COULD SEE NOTHING OF HAPPINESS AND THEN THE BLOW FELL OH BUT UNCLE ALEC IT WAS THIS WAY BEGAN FELIX EAGERLY FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY +af29b5a7-f583-40c2-b5ad-30747a60be1a INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG +af306357-2af6-4731-a2b8-8e6603c0b000 HOW COULD THEY STOP US FROM MOVING IN WHEN JEFF AUBREY PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE PLANKING THE APPARITIONS WERE GONE BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE THEN THERE WAS A TELEPHONE CALL FOR HIM AND I COULDN'T MAKE NEITHER OF THEM ANSWER DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK +af356b4e-629e-49f3-a114-6c5a426867cf THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL I HOPE SARAH WILL HAVE HERS I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU HIS MOUTH REMAINED CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A SURF HISSING VOICE IN ORNE'S EARS HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED +af632bfe-05ca-499b-b351-11bd8d36aff5 TELL US WHAT HAPPENED MANWELL MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DRAM SHE LOVED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART ASKED FELIX SCEPTICALLY +af8be913-f4ef-41a9-b0f9-eca05214f651 I KNEW HE NEVER WENT OUT OF THE DOOR CRIED DAN TRIUMPHANTLY WHEN THE LAST BUGGY HAD DRIVEN AWAY FELICITY SET A BATCH OF BREAD AND THE REST OF US SAT AROUND THE BACK PORCH STEPS IN THE CAT SLIGHT AND ATE CHERRIES SHOOTING THE STONES AT EACH OTHER BUT HE'S GOT HIS SHARE OF MISCHIEF THAT SAME LAD IN THE VERY ROOM BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY INCIDENTALLY ADDING THAT HE WAS WELL AND LONESOME IF THE REST OF US HAD JUST SET DOWN AND DONE NOTHING HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED +afe3fbc7-4935-4132-bb8b-f85f8d97f7e2 IF HE LIKED YOU THERE WAS NOTHING HE WOULD NOT DO FOR YOU BUT IF HE DISLIKED YOU FELICITY IN ESPECIAL SEEMED TO BE IN SEVENTH HEAVEN I RECKON YOU GOT IT SIR COULD SEE IT WE'D BUMP INTO OUR OWN TREES AND HOUSES AND PEOPLE WE'D THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG +afef280d-2013-4e1e-90e7-da350049f444 OH WELL IT'S DIFFERENT WITH SARA SAID DAN WE COULD EARN MONEY AND SHE COULDN'T THE PALE MAY SUNSHINE WAS SHOWERING THROUGH THE SPRUCES AND A CHILL INSPIRING WIND WAS TOSSING THE BOUGHS ABOUT FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT IS SHE NICE I ASKED FELICITY TO LOOK AT THE STORY GIRL TO TELL US TALES OF WONDER CECILY TO ADMIRE US DAN AND PETER TO PLAY WITH WHAT MORE COULD REASONABLE FELLOWS WANT +aff1a3b9-2b96-4827-8c5a-ff6caddd5fc6 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ISN'T TOO LATE HERE'S YOUR OWN GAIT SAYS CECILY BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN THE PLANET HAS WATER AND BOTH ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE CERTAINLY IT HAS SUFFICIENT GRAVITY TO HOLD ITS OXYGEN BUT WHAT OTHER ELEMENTS NOXIOUS GASES MIGHT BE PRESENT MAYBE THE ODDS ARE CLOSER THAN ONE AND FIFTY HE DECIDED BUT THERE'S NO GAMBLE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE HE TOLD THE MILKY WAY JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER NOT ON YOUR HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW THE SCOOP CAME UP OUT OF THE WATER SO SMOOTHLY THAT THE ISLAND QUEEN HARDLY ROCKED DANGLING THE LIMP FORM OF THE ZID FROM ITS GREAT RUBBERY LIPS LIKE A DROWNED KITTEN HERE JENOFER SAID +affb753a-9753-4542-91fd-b71ba4499448 THE LEAVES ON THE TREES WERE BEGINNING TO COME OUT IN WOOLLY GREYISH CLUSTERS I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR AS HE STARED AT THE SKY HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS POLITICIANS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER THERE WAS AN ENDLESS CHITTERING WHISTLING +b00a88a6-2553-434f-9602-fb636a256290 THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN MY FAVOUR THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS THE FACT I HAD FORCED HIM TO MAKE HIS PLAY BEFORE HE WAS ABSOLUTELY READY IT WASN'T CHANCE THAT HE HAD LEFT THE SAME DAY I ARRIVED ON SETANOVO ANY PLANS ELABORATE AS HIS CERTAINLY INCLUDED WARNING OF APPROACHING DANGER SHE WAS CLAD IN SILVER ROBES AND EMBROIDERED WITH GAY LAUREL DESIGNS AND WORE OVER THIS SPLENDID RAIMENT A SHORT APRON OF ELABORATE LACE WORK SLOSHING IN THE POOL WAS AN ANCIENT REPTILE WHO CLEARLY WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS I WADDLED TOWARD HIM AND HE GAVE ME A COLD AND FISHY EYE THEN GROWLED SOMETHING +b01b6035-33b7-4044-88f4-1ee83d7c36f3 THE SCOOP CONTRACTED ITSELF WITH A SUDDENNESS THAT YANKED THEM YARDS FROM THE COTTAGE AND ALL BUT DISLODGED JEFF WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS STILL PRESENTING HIS HYSTERICAL VAUDEVILLE EACH OF THE NINE TINNACLES HAD A LOBSTERISH CLAW AT ITS TIP +b04ae877-1566-4f7d-b96e-bcc472f9c9e7 THERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT ONES SAID THE STORY GIRL THE STORY OF THE POET WHO WAS KISSED AND THE TALE OF THE FAMILY GHOST WHICH ONE SHALL I TELL BEFORE HE COULD RECOVER I THREW A THICK FOLD IN FRONT OF HIM I AM AN THAR LEAGUE GRAND FLEET THESE ARE MY CREDENTIALS YOU HAD BETTER CHECK THEM I'M ALWAYS GLAD WHEN IT GETS WARM ENOUGH TO GO BAREFOOTED BUT WHEN I GROW UP THEY'LL HAVE TO BE COVERED UP ALL THE TIME +b04b3f91-a8ec-40f4-af9d-a42986a81ab7 THAT DONE YOUR PENALTY WILL BE EXACTED AND THE PENALTY OF COURSE WILL BE DEATH DEATH AT THE STAKE HE FORCED HIMSELF TO REMAIN CALM NOW WAS THE TIME FOR HIS PLAY HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND FELT THE STRENGTH IN HIM GATHER TO A SINGLE POINT AND FLOW OUTWARD TRULY WE HAD HAD A DELECTABLE SUMMER AND HAVING HAD IT IT WAS OURS FOREVER THE GODS THEMSELVES CANNOT RECALL THEIR GIFTS THEY MAY ROB US OF OUR FUTURE AND EMBITTER OUR PRESENT BUT OUR PAST THEY MAY NOT TOUCH WITH ALL ITS LAUGHTER AND DELIGHT AND GLAMOUR IT IS OUR ETERNAL POSSESSION HAVE YOU DECIDED WHAT FORMS TO GIVE US ASKED THE SCARECROW UNEASILY YES I DREAMED IT ALL OUT WHILE I WAS ASLEEP +b053041e-f3ec-45d5-beee-3d4e4fd410b4 WHAT ABOUT THE LEAGUE THOUGH DON'T THEY TAKE ANY INTEREST IN CRIME JUST ABOUT THAT TIME YOU HEAR YOUR FIRST RUMOUR OF THE SPECIAL CALL AND IT FITS THE BAD DREAMS A SHADOWY POWERFUL GROUP THAT SLIPS SILENTLY BETWEEN THE STARS READY TO BRING THE INTERSTELLO BLAWBREAKER LOW SOUNDS LIKE TEEVI DRAMA STUFF I HAD BEEN QUITE SURPRISED TO FIND THEY REALLY EXISTED I WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED WHEN I JOINED THEM OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE THE OFFICIAL HAD GIVEN A SNAP JUDGMENT AND IT LED TO DISASTER IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE SOME OF THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED VERY CAREFULLY BUT WITH OTHERS IT DID NOT MATTER WE BOYS WOULD CLIMB THE TREES AND SHAKE THE APPLES DOWN UNTIL THE GIRLS SHRIEKED FOR MERCY THE DAYS WERE CRISP AND MELLOW WITH WARM SUNSHINE AND A TANG OF FROST IN THE AIR MINGLED WITH THE WOODSY ODOURS OF THE WITHERING GRASSES +b05dbc62-473d-4a49-b5f8-935b63f4b5f1 AGAIN THE LIPLESS MOUTH FORMED GALLANT TEESE WORDS SMACKED HIS LIPS SARAH STANLEY AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL AND WHAT LOOKED AT FIRST LIKE A RED SKIN TIGHT COSTUME BECAME A SCALY HEIGHT +b08d28f8-f165-4f3d-91f4-c4d4b914125e WE SAW THAT FELICITY WAS VAIN DOWN ON THE HOMESTEAD TOOK CHARGE OF US ON THE JOURNEY WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS THE PLAN THAT SEEMED SO CLEAR AND LOGICAL NOW BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A PATCHED AND CRAZY MAKESHIFT BUT FELICITY BORE IT VERY PATIENTLY BUT NOW IN THIS TIME OF SHADOWS DREAD BELIEF CLUTCHED US AND WRUNG US WITH TERROR +b0c50cc2-a784-45ee-bd6f-0ff408337ade LITTLE BIT MORE LITTLE BIT MORE I GET TWO BITS A NAME THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME FELICITY HAD ALSO DELIGHTFUL HANDS AND WRISTS AT EVERY TURN OF THEM A DIMPLE SHOWED ITSELF IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE DAN AND I LOOKED AT EACH OTHER SUSPICION DRAWING IN OUR EYES WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BILLY ROBINSON AND HIS MAGIC SEED I DEMANDED +b0d731e5-46b2-4fc5-9d68-0cb25789c49c THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WIRING AND FARMER SEARCHED DAZEDLY FOR A WEAPON ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE SHOUTING THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN MY FAVOUR THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS I THOUGHT IT A LITTLE SHOWY MYSELF BUT THE PROUD PRINCESS LAUGHED AND SANG AND SHE AND HER MAIDENS WORKED AT A WONDERFUL LACE VEIL WHICH SHE MEANT TO WEAR WHEN THE KING OF ALL KINGS CAME +b0d8ed7f-0766-4c7f-8284-a35d4de0eade NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU EVERYBODY DOES IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AWAY FROM HER THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT SHE ISN'T A BIT PRETTY AFTER ALL THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP WONDERING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I THOUGHT THAT STUFF IN THE BOX WAS CORN MEAL AND USED IT TO MAKE THE PUDDING FELICITY AND CECILY STARED BLANKLY AT THE STORY GIRL WE BOYS BEGAN TO LAUGH BUT WERE CHECKED MIDWAY BY UNCLE ROGER HE WAS ROCKING HIMSELF BACK AND FORTH WITH HIS HAND PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH OH HE GROANED I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THESE SHARP PAINS I'VE BEEN FEELING EVER SINCE DINNER MEANT I KNOW NOW NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS NEVER IN ALL MY LIFE SINCE HAVE I HEARD SUCH A VOICE I CANNOT DESCRIBE IT I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET I MIGHT SAY IT WAS VIBRANT AND FAR REACHING AND BELL LIKE ALL THIS WOULD BE TRUE BUT IT WOULD GIVE YOU NO REAL IDEA OF THE PECULIAR QUALITY WHICH MADE THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE WHAT IT WAS +b11291c5-d397-4544-9601-6b1e96b9d7b7 OLD E PAY FIGURES MAYBE WE COULD DO HIM A FAVOR IN THAT LINE AND THAT'S WHY HE'S ARGUING VIC SHOOK HIS HEAD QUITE GRAVELY LOOK HOW AUNT OLIVIA'S HENS LAID TOO FROM KING AND WARD IT DON'T SEEM FAIR TO ME UNFORTUNATELY WE TRUSTED OUR STAR MANUAL STATEMENT THAT THE PLANET IS UNPOPULATED +b12b672c-809e-4446-93f8-51645bbf60d5 SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH I COULD EXPLAIN PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE FOR HOURS E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT AND IF I COULD CRY I THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER AND THOUGH IT WAS THUS SUDDENLY REMOVED THE CHILL AND THE SHADOW OF IT WERE ABOUT US STILL AND THE ROAR OF THE RIVER DEAFENED HIM SO THAT HE COULD HEAR NOTHING +b1563f19-8f97-4715-9160-500875d7c0f1 OH WELL NEVER MIND SAID THE WANDERER I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT ANY ONE WANTS OF A CAST OFF HEAD ANYHOW AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US SOME OF US HAD FRIGHTFUL DREAMS AND ALL OF US CARRIED CHIPS ON OUR SHOULDERS AT BREAKFAST FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM I COULD ONLY SEE YOU BY HAVING MYSELF ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT HE SAID IN THAT WAY YOU WILL BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO ME YOU MAY LISTEN NOW OR LATER AT A FULL HEARING OF THE INQUISITORS COURT AM I TO TAKE MY CHOICE KNUFF SAID +b15966a5-e0db-46d9-821a-e11b4d930d69 MOREOVER TO ABANDON OUR ERRAND AND SO DEPRIVE THE GREAT EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES OR THIS NOBLE SOLDIER OF HIS BRIDE WOULD BE EQUALLY HUMILIATING IF NOT MORE SO IT ISN'T LIKE THE RELIGIOUS FRUIT BASKET GAME IS IT ASKED CECILY ANXIOUSLY WE HAD GOOD REASON TO HOPE THAT IT WASN'T ONE DESPERATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD NOTHING TO READ AND THE TIME SEEMED ENDLESS FELIX HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE A GAME OF FRUIT BASKET ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US +b165d003-76f7-49e1-b3d9-147360a2f789 RAY HELD UP A HAND PURELY FOR DRAMA SINCE THERE WAS SILENCE ALREADY THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY HE SAID BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME SHE DREW HER ARROW TO HER EYE ALAS SHE KNEW THE ART ONLY TOO WELL AND TOOK CAREFUL AIM THE NEXT MOMENT A KATY FELL DEAD WITH HER ARROW IN HIS HEART +b16a6d37-bea2-435b-9cad-68124fce623a THERE WAS A DUSKY LITTLE PEAR SHAPED APPLE FROM ONE OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S TREES WHICH WAS OUR FAVOURITE AND NEXT TO IT A DELICIOUS JUICY YELLOW APPLE FROM AUNT LOUISA'S TREE WE WERE ALSO FOND OF THE BIG SWEET APPLES WE USED TO THROW THEM UP IN THE AIR AND LET THEM FALL ON THE GROUND UNTIL THEY WERE BRUISED AND BATTERED TO THE BURSTING POINT I HAD ADDED A TRADITION ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVES UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW FELIX HAD PREVIOUSLY ACQUIRED THE KNACK OF EXTRICATING MILK FROM THE UTTER BUT HE HAD NEVER BEFORE TRIED TO MILK A WHOLE COW HE DID NOT GET ON WELL THE COW TRAMPED ON HIS FOOT AND FINALLY UPSET THE BUCKET WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY THAT'S THE QUESTION SAID UNCLE ROGER SHAKING HIS HEAD GRAVELY GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP HE STOOD OVER THE THING WEBBED HANDS ON SCALY HIPS PEERING AT IT INTENTLY AFTER A LONG SILENCE HE KNELT HE STARTED FEELING OVER THE MACHINE WITH HIS WEBBED HANDS FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY +b1794502-b53d-499f-a8eb-4c03ef47fecb ACROSS THE HALL THE STORY GIRL WAS TELLING FELICITY AND CECILY THE OLD OLD TALE OF ARGIVE HELEN AND EVIL HEARTED PARIS BUT THAT'S A BAD STORY SAID FELICITY WHEN THE TALE END ENDED SHE LEFT HER HUSBAND AND RAN AWAY WITH ANOTHER MAN REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX PETER ROGER IS LOOKING FOR YOU TO WASH HIS BUGGY BE OFF THE WHOLE EFFECT WAS NOT UNLIKE THE SKELETON OF A MINIATURE SKY SCRAPER I STRODE BETWEEN TWO OF THE HIGH SLIM BLACK PILLARS AND GLANCED UPWARD +b17f0541-7f19-4ad6-bc18-47039f9c7808 FELICITY AND CECILY WERE CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND WE BOYS SPRAWLED IDLY ON THE FRAGRANT SUN WARM HEAPS BUT SARAH DEPARTED WEEPING IS AS NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY IS TO COME NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN I'M MARTIAL AND I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE A LATE PIG SANDWICH JUST SEVEN MILES APART +b184b8dd-4b64-4853-8f6e-6c186d049517 YOU ARE A HERETIC KNUFF SAID SUDDENLY I CANNOT YOU CAN PRAY YUNUS SAID KNUFF BLINKED PRAY HE SAID BUT RUBBING WHISKY ON THE OUTSIDE ISN'T ANY HARM ARGUED PETER IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU TAKE IT INSIDE IT IS BAD FOR YOU WELL WE HAVEN'T ANY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I SUPPOSE BLUEBERRY WINE WOULDN'T DO IN ITS PLACE I HEAR THEIR LAUGHING VOICES I SEE THEIR BRIGHT UNCLOUDED EYES +b1943bb2-1d23-49b3-9d9f-143fc8149639 IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL YOU MUST PROVE IT BEFORE I SHALL MARRY YOU SAID THE PROUD PRINCESS WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING THE WOMAN JONAS THOUGHT WAS FULL TO THE EYEBROWS WITH WORDS NONE WE HAVE DISCOVERED I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST +b1ba6376-2823-4391-b298-1e7b3c3701a7 STETSON PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT THAT'S HOW THEY GET THEIR SLAVES ABOUT TEN KILOMETERS OUT FOR BREAKFAST THE WANDERER ATE CRISP LETTUCE AND RADISHES AND THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WHO HAD NOW RETURNED TO HER FRIENDS WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY +b1bb4e3a-c8c6-4bf9-a3de-8b44e67387ba WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP AND EVENTUALLY WE LEARN TO HARNESS IT FOR A USEFUL PURPOSE BECAUSE THE TRIP TOOK FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS YOU WOULDN'T PUT ON AN APRON TO GO TO CHURCH SO IT DOESN'T SEEM AS IF IT WAS PROPER TO PUT IT ON FOR JUDGMENT DAY EITHER IT'S THE BEST I COULD DO SAID SARA DISCONSOLATELY I +b1e6beb4-f4a5-4fc0-9020-70fcddc90c5d THIS ROOM WAS ALSO LIGHTED ALTHOUGH THEY COULD DISCOVER NO LAMPS AND IN THE CENTRE OF IT WAS A GREAT TABLE AT WHICH SAT AN IMMENSE WOMAN AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I TOLD YOU SO AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY OH YES SHE WAS JUST THE SAME AS SHE USED TO BE SAID THE STORY GIRL WEARILY GRANDFATHER KING ASKED HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THE CHOIR MISTER FORBES SAID IT WAS VERY GLEE BUT AS FOR ANDREWS BASS THEN IT WAS NAY BASS O BUODDITT IT WAS JUST BURR THE HAILTIME +b1e97c38-7d17-430d-a5e2-267c638e7288 DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK AND LEAVE WORD WITH THEM FOR HOPE SEVERED CLEANLY AT THE WRIST AND PURPLE CHALEES UNCLE BLAIR WAS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT DON'T WORRY DEAR SAID CECILY WHO ALWAYS POURED BALM WE MIGHT EARN IT BY THE HONEST TOIL SARA RAY WAS ALSO ALLOWED TO COME UNDER PROTEST +b1faca98-ad0b-4246-943c-d8becad39bf0 WHEN WE WERE ALONE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT COURTEOUS TO ME HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF BY NOT TOO SUBTLE QUESTIONING THAT I WAS A SPURIOUS ADMIRAL THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL BUT THE LONG DRAWN OUT DREAD WAS BEGINNING TO GET ON DAN'S NERVES IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GROWLED AS WE WENT IN TO DINNER I WISH IT'D HURRY UP AND HAVE IT OVER OH DAN CRIED FELICITY AND CECILY TOGETHER IN A CHORUS OF HORROR BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE RATHER SYMPATHIZED WITH DAN GARTH GRINNED WHATEVER YOU SAY MY DEAR HE DIPPED AN EYEBROW IN A WINK BEHIND DOOR THE NONIPUS SURGED SLUGGISHLY EXTENDED A TENTACLE OPENED A CLOTH AND NIPPED DOOR NEATLY ON THE BEHIND SHE SCREECHED +b2022ab3-73cf-428c-86a1-93bed9508ebb I HAVE AN IDEA THAT A RASPBERRY PIE FOR TOMORROW NIGHT WHEN THE FOLKS COME HOME WOULD HIT THE RIGHT SPOT ACCORDINGLY AFTER TEA WE ALL SET OFF ARMED WITH JUGS AND CUPS WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SHE ASKED ROOT HE WAS SUSPICIOUS OF MAGIC COFFEE BUT HIS MOUTH SO GOOD THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST IT SO HE ANSWERED IF YOU PLEASE MA'AM THE GIANTESS POURED OUT ANOTHER CUP AND SET IT ON THE FLOOR FOR WOOT I SHUFFLED THE MEAGRE FINDINGS CONTROLLED MY IMPATIENCE AND KEPT THE SHIP'S SIMON BUSY PULLING IN ALL THE REPORTS OF ANY KIND OF TROUBLE IN SPACE THE NAVIGATOR AND I PLOTTED THEIR LOCATIONS IN HIS TANK COMPARING THE POSITIONS RELATION TO THE GLOWING SPHERE THAT ENCLOSED ALL THE POSSIBLE LOCATIONS OF THE STOLEN SHIP +b245fc2e-75f1-4891-9314-4560f166b6fc THE CARLISLE CHURCH WAS A VERY OLD FASHIONED ONE WITH A SQUARE IVY HUNG TOWER IT WAS SHADED BY TALL ELMS AND THE GRAVEYARD SURROUNDED IT COMPLETELY MANY OF THE GRAVES BEING DIRECTLY UNDER ITS WINDOWS MUCH OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORK REMAINED TO BE DONE WHEN THE SHIP HAD LEFT ONE WITNESS OF THE THEFT HAD GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED THE POWER LINES AND CABLES DANGLING FROM THE SHIP'S LOCKS WHEN SHE LIFTED MY ARRIVAL HAD FORCED PEPE OFF BALANCE SARA RAY IS CRYING HALF HER TIME SAID CECILY IMPATIENTLY I'M SURE SHE CRIES A QUART FULL OF TEARS A MONTH THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN'T HELP CRYING BUT I HIDE THEM SARA JUST GOES ON AND CRIES IN PUBLIC +b2d5f3d1-c60c-4b2f-a62c-53c91679762a I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL WREATHED HER NUT BROWN TRESSES WITH CRIMSON LEAVES IT SEEMED AS PETER SAID THAT THEY GREW ON HER I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT WANT OF US I REPLIED TRIUMPHANTLY AND SO SHE TIPTOED UP SO AND BENT OVER SO AND KISSED HIS CHEEK A HUGE GRAY BOULDER AS HIGH AS A MAN'S HEAD IN THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER +b2eaeeb6-bd6f-4bc9-9310-c1ed871eb081 WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL EVEN A TEMPORARY FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE CONTACTED ALL THE STAR SYSTEMS A DAY'S FLIGHT AHEAD OF THE MAXIMUM FLIGHT OF THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE I PAID HIM THE TEN CENTS CHEERFULLY AND TOOK THE MAGIC SEAT AS DIRECTED MEASURING MYSELF CAREFULLY EVERY DAY BY A MARK ON THE HALL DOOR I COULD NOT SEE ANY ADVANCE IN GROWTH YET BUT THEN I HAD BEEN TAKING IT ONLY THREE DAYS +b310bd46-094a-43e8-8e88-adf97acb205e THERE TOO SLEPT THE EMILY WHOSE FAITHFUL SPIRIT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAUNT THE ORCHARD BUT EDITH WHO HAD KISSED THE POET LAY NOT WITH HER KINDRED SHE HAD DIED IN A FAR FOREIGN LAND AND THE MURMUR OF AN ALIEN SEA SOUNDED ABOUT HER GRAVE I BELIEVE YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE PAT IS SO SICK I SAID FIRMLY AS IF I'D CRY ABOUT A CAT SCOFFED PETER AND HE MARCHED OFF WHISTLING NEIL HAD PLENTY OF NEWS TO TELL AND THE MORE WHISKY HE DRANK THE MORE HE TOLD HE DIDN'T NOTICE THAT DONALD WAS NOT TAKING MUCH WHEN HE GETS VERY OLD CONTINUED THE STORY GIRL THE PRESBYTERY THOUGHT IT WAS TIME HE WAS RETIRED HE DIDN'T THINK SO BUT THE PRESBYTERY HAD THEIR WAY BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY OF THEM TO ONE OF HIM +b31c0ec4-6d2a-4147-9c53-992fe4fdaa43 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY GOT SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS ON IT SINCE AUNT JANE'S DAY SAID PETER RELIEVED SARA RAY IS COMING ALONG THE LANE AND SHE'S CRYING ANNOUNCED DAN WHO WAS PEERING OUT OF THE KNOTHOLE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE LOFT HE WASN'T GOING TO START RESCUING FAIR MAIDENS NOW EVEN IF SHE NEEDED RESCUING STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR STOCKINGS PETER +b3230a61-7b15-4421-a5e4-6f6801a1907a THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF UNIMPORTANT YONAS THOUGHT THE MAN IS CONVINCED HE CAN BE TRAINED FURTHER AND JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD IT WILL TAKE TIME CLARTON SAID A FEW YEARS PERHAPS WE WERE ALL IN THE ORCHARD EXCEPT FELIX WHO HAD GONE TO THE POST OFFICE IT WAS THE FORENOON OF AN AUGUST SATURDAY CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS AFTER ALL HE THOUGHT THE EARTH HELD NO LIFE FOR THE BETTER PART OF ITS EXISTENCE AND TOWERS HAD SELECTED THIS PLANET BECAUSE IT BORE RELATIVELY THE SAME RELATIONSHIP TO THE BRIGHTER HOTTER SERIOUS AS DID THE EARTH TO THE SUN +b3263061-9616-47c1-98c6-89f72c74d8de HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK THERE WAS ENOUGH TO LAST THE NIGHT BUT NOT MUCH MORE HE SAT DOWN ON THE CAPSULE TO THINK TWO VERTICAL NOSE SLITS A FLAT LIPLESS MOUTH RECEDING CHIN HE STOOD IN HIS CUSTOMARY SLOUCH A STANCE NOT IMPROVED BY THE SACK LIKE PATCHED BLUE FATIGUES SINCE IT WAS STILL DAYLIGHT I DIDN'T TAKE A HELLY BUT RENTED A GROUND CAR INSTEAD WE HAD A LEISURELY DRIVE OUT INTO THE COUNTRY AND REACHED PRESIDENT FERRA'S HOUSE AFTER DARK +b33f2b38-96eb-400c-8b48-3ba3827b64c9 I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO IF YOU'D WORKED OUT EVER SINCE YOU WAS SEVEN AND JUST GOT TO SCHOOL IN THE WINTER THERE'D BE LOTS OF THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW EITHER WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE STILL BEFORE US WITH ALL THEIR POTENT LURE OF YEARS UNKNOWN WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL +b355d9fd-60a9-47e1-afe2-6e932775295c I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING THE GROWN UPS LAUGHED THE COLD SWEAT WAS NOW A RUNNING RIVER OF FEAR I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY WHEN I HAVE TRANSFORMED YOU THREE PEOPLE YOU MUST ALWAYS WEAR THE SHAPES THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU +b36601dc-2713-4867-894e-d7f58e1fa9e6 NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS OR WILL SET ITSELF AUTOMATICALLY TO PRESENT A VIEW OF THE OCEAN FLOOR I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE +b368d446-d589-4d89-847a-7fccf5ea7ad2 UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO THE STATION TO MEET THE TRAVELERS AND THE DINING ROOM TABLE WAS SPREAD WITH A FEAST OF FAT THINGS IT'S BEEN A JOLLY WEEK TAKE IT ALL AROUND SAID FELIX BUT I'M GLAD THE GROWN UPS ARE COMING BACK TO NIGHT ESPECIALLY UNCLE ALEC DID YOU SEE IT SHE DEMANDED JEFF WRESTLED HIS EYES AWAY TO THE SCOOP THAT FLOATED LIKE A PURPLE ISLAND IN THE BAY A PROPER MONSTER HE SAID YOU GOT OUT JUST IN TIME IT IS ABOUT A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES DON'T CRIED CECILY HYSTERICALLY DON'T YOU GO ON DON'T YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I CAN'T BEAR IT DON'T YOU THE STORY GIRL DIDN'T BUT SHE HAD SAID ENOUGH +b3c79c3e-20a7-4b2e-af23-0b3f3b2e2304 EACH OF THE LITTLE BLOBS OF QUARTZ WAS GLOWING STROKING THE POLISHED CHEEKS WITH BESEECHING FINGERS BUT THAT'S OVER YOUR HEAD PETE OLD SON WE RAN TO THE ORCHARD GATE AND SWARMED ACROSS THE YARD JUST AS UNCLE ROGER ALIGHTED AT THE FRONT DOOR HE STARED AT US IN THE MOONLIGHT HAVE YOU BEEN TORMENTING ANY ONE INTO EATING MORE BAD BERRIES FELICITY I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP +b3cb17c0-c763-40ce-9019-c055c6777bcb BEHIND THE HOUSE WAS A GROVE OF FIR AND SPRUCE A DIM COOL PLACE WHERE THE WINDS WERE FOND OF PURRING AND WHERE THERE WAS ALWAYS A RESINOUS WOODSY ODOUR ON THE FURTHER SIDE OF IT WAS A THICK PLANTATION OF SLENDER SILVER BIRCHES AND WHISPERING POPLARS AND BEYOND IT WAS UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE GARTH CONSIDERED THIS BICKING WAS AS USUAL GETTING THEM EXACTLY NOWHERE HE GAVE UP ALL RIGHT DEAR HE SAID YOU WIN YOU'RE RIGHT OF COURSE AND I'M WRONG I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED ECILY INDEED SEEMED TO HAVE THE MOST DECIDED TALENT FOR DRAMATIC DREAMS THAT MEEKEST AND MILDEST OF GIRLS WAS IN THE HABIT OF DREAMING TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT BATTLE MURDER OR SUDDEN DEATH PLAYED SOME PART OF HER VISIONS +b3d919c6-ac14-43b3-9780-1ef6e75c17a5 PERHAPS ALL PARTS OF OZ MIGHT NOT BE CALLED TRULY DELIGHTFUL BUT IT WAS SURELY DELIGHTFUL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE EMERALD CITY WHERE OZMA REIGNED WE HAD BEEN AT IT FOR A FORTNIGHT AND DURING THAT TIME WE ONLY LIVED TO HAVE DREAMS AND WRITE THEM DOWN THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA ONE EVENING IN THE RUSTLING RAIN WET WAYS OF THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE WE WERE PICKING GUM AFTER A DAY OF SHOWERS THERE WERE MARKDALE PEOPLE THERE SHE CONFIDED TO AND THE WILLIAMSONS LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE COHENS WHO HAVE MEASLES I WISH I'D NEVER EGGED SARA ON TO GOING BUT DON'T TELL FELICITY I SAID SO +b411d064-ce59-482e-8a69-9b4b962e1ea0 WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW OH BUT UNCLE ALEC IT WAS THIS WAY BEGAN FELIX EAGERLY PETER NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT SAID UNCLE ALEC STERNLY I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT BUT YOU MUST SETTLE YOUR QUARREL IN A DIFFERENT FASHION REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX +b42a081e-e2d3-4bba-b46f-d6c7a3596de8 AND AUNT OLIVIA WAS WORN TO LABEL ALL THE PINCUSHIONS IN THE HOUSE EVEN IF THERE WERE NO NEEDLES IN IT SIXTY YEAR OLD SAWDUST CAN'T BE GOOD FOR MY TUMMY AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY OH I DON'T BELIEVE THAT STORY IS TRUE SAID FELICITY I BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS WAS JUST ROMANCING SHE DOES ROMANCE MOTHER SAID +b446eab2-a77a-4b34-9e61-96e89d00cf26 THE OTHERS FELL BACK INSTANTLY AND THE NEWCOMER APPROACHED ME SWIFTLY HOLDING OUT HIS HANDS AS THOUGH IN SUPPLICATION SWEET WILLIAM IS A DREADFUL NAME FOR A FLOWER SAID STORY GIRL WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS THE SOUL OF HONOUR AND PETER EARLY IN LIFE HAD HAD HIS FEET SET IN THE PATH OF TRUTHFULNESS BY HIS AUNT JANE AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT +b451fef9-cd2a-4a60-9cd5-e9eb08d1f47c I'LL HAVE TO GO WITHOUT ANY THEN SAID PETER I I DON'T KNOW I ONLY GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK AND I GIVE IT ALL TO MORROW LAST NIGHT I GRABBED UP THE MONITOR RECEIVER AND RAN TOWARDS THE AIRLOCK THIS IS A DIFFERENT BOMB NOW I SAID KEEPING ONE EYE ON THE SCREEN AND THE OTHER ON THE SLOWLY OPENING OUTER DOOR SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS WHEN THEY HAD GIVEN UP I BOOMED ORDERS AT THEM THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE CRATE I HAD YET TO FIND OUT +b483aec2-3f4f-4ee4-abaa-d8c08cda3bee THIS IS A HEARTLESS WORLD WE LIVE IN THIS MOMENT A SELF PITY RELAXED ME AND I IMMEDIATELY WENT TO BED SINCE MY MAIN JOB WAS NOW WAITING I COULD WAIT JUST AS WELL ASLEEP THE PRINCIPLE'S THE SAME FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT AND EVENTUALLY WE LEARN TO HARNESS IT FOR A USEFUL PURPOSE HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT IT WAS A HUGE COMFORT TO HER THAT AUNT JANET ALWAYS SAID YES AND OF COURSE AS IF THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT +b4af4f4c-3d56-41a2-89a7-9f16dfcd0612 FELIX HAD A SIX SPELL SOON AFTER WE BEGAN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND AUNT JANET ESSAYED TO CURE HIM BY ADMINISTERING A DOSE OF LIVER PILLS WHICH ELDER FREWIN HAD ASSURED HER WERE A CURE ALL FOR EVERY DISEASE THE FLESH IS HEIR TO WHEN HE HAD JOINED THE ARMS AND LEGS TO THE BODY AND SET MY HEAD IN THE TIN COLLAR I WAS A MUCH BETTER MAN THAN EVER FOR MY BODY COULD NOT ACHE OR PAIN ME AND I WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHT THAT I HAD NO NEED OF CLOTHING WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL +b4bea1a7-23a5-4503-bf49-c9d329cf52f9 CONSEQUENTLY HER DREAM BOOK WAS VERY MONOTONOUS IT IS THE VERY SAME CUP SAID THE STORY GIRL IMPRESSIVELY ISN'T IT AN AMAZING THING NAY MORE SHE SEEMED TO DELIGHT IN IT THEY HAD A SPELL LIKE THIS LAST SUMMER AND WON THE SUMMER BEFORE WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL FINALLY I MUST GO AND GET THE POTATOES READY I LIKE THEM BEST THAT WAY BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING +b4c0091a-2530-49c8-9d98-c6ab3b8ec817 I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE WHILE IN THIS SENSE YOUR PLAN FAILED SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED INSTEAD I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM IT LOOKED AS IF WE WOULD HAVE TO PROCEED WITHOUT GRACE WHEN FELIX SUDDENLY SHUT HIS EYES BENT HIS HEAD AND SAID A VERY GOOD GRACE WITHOUT ANY APPEARANCE OF EMBARRASSMENT +b4c1b542-a7f7-4897-ac87-5f87c7a66b8e THE STORY GIRL WAS BAREFOOTED AND BARE ARMED HAVING ROLLED THE SLEEVES OF HER PINK GINGHAM UP TO HER SHOULDERS THAT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT PROPERLY STUFFED HE ASSURED HER TRUE REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT'S MY NAME REPLIED THE GIRL LOOKING AT THEM IN COLD SURPRISE AND THEN AT LAST THE CHANTING CEASED YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED +b4c26550-75d7-4462-85d4-7a64ffd21971 SPOS'N THEY WENT TO THE OTHER PLACE DO ANY OF YOU HAPPEN TO WANT TO HEAR THE REST OF MY STORY ASKED THE STORY GIRL IN AN OMINOUSLY POLITE VOICE THAT RECALLED US TO A SENSE OF OUR BAD MANNERS COUNT EVERYONE ALL RIGHT FILL IN EVERY ONE I NEED MORE PAPERS WE WILL GIVE HIM MORE IF YOU NEED MORE BUT THERE AREN'T SO MANY IN YOUR SCENE LOVE US DIONES SORROS EVEN PEOPLE +b4c88ada-ab75-4153-bacf-cc2eeed38678 ORDERS WERE ORIGINATED MANY PLACES PASSED ON CHANGED AND SHOVELED JUST AS GOOD FOR SPACE PIRACY THAT IS BUT NOT FOR HIS PURPOSES WELL WHAT IS THE REASON ASKED FELICITY SHOULD DIE WAS UNBELIEVABLE MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER IT WAS NOT OUR STORY GIRL WHO SAT THERE TELLING THAT WEIRD TALE IN A SIBILANT CURDLING VOICE AND MY MOTHER SAW HER ONCE +b51ca226-7e80-4814-93c4-dff7e613fc2a BUT ALL THE CHAIRS IN THE ROOM WERE SO HIGH THAT OUR FRIENDS COULD NOT CLIMB TO THE SEATS OF THEM OF COURSE SAID SHE A STRAW MAN A TIN MAN AND A BOY I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP EVERY PUPIL OF CARLYLE'S SCHOOL THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE +b561a732-8545-42f2-8cd6-c2db8c837d3b ON THE PRECEDING MONDAY FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD QUARRELLED OVER SOMETHING OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I MISTER SCOTT PLANTED THE YELLOW PLUM TREE IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME SAID CECILY PEELING ONE OF THE PLUMS BY CHOPPING UP THE TREES OF THE FOREST TO MAKE FIREWOOD AND THE YUKAH OO MAGIC IS VERY PECULIAR IF YOU WISH TO MEET WITH REAL CLEVERNESS REMARKED THE SCARECROW YOU SHOULD VISIT THE MUNCHKIN FARMER WHO FIRST MADE ME +b576e603-25fc-4bc1-ab66-d9c0c49e2229 MANY A PRINCESS RODE BY US ON HER PALFREY MANY A SWAGGERING GALLANT RUFFLED IT BRAVELY IN VELVET AND PLUME ADOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK MANY A STATELY LADY SILKEN CLAD WALKED IN THAT OPULENT ORCHARD SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WAS A SPLENDID ONE THE VIEWS WERE GOOD AND THE LECTURER WITTY WE REPEATED HIS JOKES TO EACH OTHER ALL THE WAY HOME SPEAKING SOFTLY BUT CLEARLY HE WAS AT MY MERCY REALLY HE WANTED TO SLEEP SO MUCH AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON +b5813320-fc82-4071-b629-4fe27b1b71ec THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN WHEREVER WE ARE NEXT SUNDAY SHE WORE I REMEMBER A DRESS OF WARM CRIMSON AND SHE HAD WOUND AROUND HER A STRING OF WAXBERRIES THAT LOOKED LIKE A FILLET OF PEARLS OH I WON'T TELL HIM PROMISED FELICITY AMIABLY IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR +b5b0d84b-6b99-46ab-a90c-9153f629d72c THEY SUPPOSED HE HAD SEEN HIM THROUGH THE WINDOW BEFORE HE CAME INTO THE HOUSE AND GUESSED HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE CLOSET BUT THERE WAS NO WAY FOR HIM TO GET OUT OF THE ROOM INSTEAD AFTER DEVOUTLY THANKING GOODNESS THAT OUR GROWN UPS IN SPITE OF SOME IMPERFECTIONS WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE GRANARY LIGHTED A HUGE LANTERN WHICH DAN HAD MADE OUT OF A TURNIP AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR ALL THE APPLES WE MIGHT HAVE EATEN THROUGH THE DAY BUT HAD NOT THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN +b5b64e15-b940-4370-867c-abe715b1830f ONLY FAR AWAY A GREAT BLINDING SPARKLING GLORY WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE SPRANG UP IN A SHOWER OF DIAMOND FIRE WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SAID ANGRILY LOOKING AT THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF HIM THE GIRL CAUGHT WHYS FIRST SHE SPUN AROUND AND POINTED HE'S HERE BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO MISSUS SHARP TRIED TO GET THE WORD OUT AND THEN PUSHED BY THE TWO MEN AND CAME INTO THE HUT +b5ed4ee2-7831-4857-9cd4-dc51968d7337 I CAN'T CRY SHE SAID DREARILY I THEY JUST KIND OF COME INTO MY HEAD LIKE HOW CAN YOU KNOW INTERRUPTED PETER SUDDENLY I HAD THOUGHT OF IT HE OWNED BUT IT LOOKS A WEE LIKE A STORM AND MY SLEIGH IS AT THE BLACKSMITH'S TO BE SHOD I JUMPED AT THE OFFER YOU KNOW A GREAT DEAL CLARETON SAID WHICH I SOMETIMES FIND IT NECESSARY TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION YONAS TURNED WITH RELIEF AND GOT BACK ON THE PATH BUT HIS STAYED QUITE AS BADLY AS THE HOUSE HAD +b5f784cf-d259-4a51-bb1b-b6637117ba5e NEITHER OF THE ALIENS MOVED HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE UNTIL HE BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE RAIL NEVERTHELESS WE DRESSED OURSELVES CAREFULLY AND THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR WHITE DRESSES REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE STILL BEFORE US WITH ALL THEIR POTENT LURE OF YEARS UNKNOWN THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER +b624afa7-11f2-466e-8c82-6379707689c9 YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH HE CLOSED HIS EYES CABBAGES HE SAID THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY WHERE IS IT IMPOSSIBLE YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO +b6359f2b-2891-4b1b-b89d-31a6b083275a AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE IT ALL HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME THEY NEVER SEEMED TO HAPPEN NOW IS IT STILL BEING BUILT ON TO THE SHIP PERHAPS THE POTATOES SUFFERED FELICITY DECLARED THE EYES WERE NOT PROPERLY DONE AT ALL BUT THE STORY DID NOT IT'S A SAD TALE SAID THE STORY GIRL AND IT HAPPENED FIFTY YEARS AGO WHEN GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE QUITE YOUNG GRANDMOTHER'S COUSIN RACHEL WARD CAME TO SPEND A WINTER WITH THEM +b648dda8-dcbe-4f53-98b9-70605b05cb4e ASKED THE CANARY THE JAGUAR SNARLED IN DERISION AND LASHED HIS TAIL AGAINST THE GROUND ANGRILY GIVE HIM SOME SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOAST POLLY SUGGESTED THE BEAR SCARECROW HE OUGHT TO LIKE THAT WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN THE IMAGE BLINKED FOCUSED AND A GREAT DAMP PYRAMID SWAM INTO VIEW I WON'T GO NEAR HER QUIVERED SARA RAY BUT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR PAT AND I'LL SEND THAT PIECE OF APPLE LEAF LACE I LIT LAST WEEK +b65a8d92-d0c0-448c-8d9b-a6a22ba11fd4 AN INSPIRED MASKED CRIMINAL WHO APPARENTLY HAS MORE EXECUTIVE ABILITY IN ONE EAR LOBE THAN ALL YOUR BRIBE BLOATED BUREAUCRATS I COULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU SIT GREETED NEW YOU SOUND LIKE A UNILACTICAL LECTURE ARE YOU THROUGH MARCHING ARM IN ARM INTO THE MISTY FUTURE HORN TOOK A BREATH MEAT POOH YOU'RE NO GOOD I CAN'T EAT MEAT GRUMBLED THE BEAST AND PASSED ON TO POLYCHROME +b68e2f1b-c71d-4223-9044-92c08857770b WHILE DIRECTLY BETWEEN THEM LIES THE EMERALD CITY THANK YOU VERY MUCH HOWEVER I DON'T BELIEVE THE OWL COULD STEAL THE APRON OR EVEN THE BEAR AUNT JANE USED TO SAY IF A MAN DIDN'T HAVE HEADS AND STICK TO THEM HE'D GO WANDERING ALL OVER THE BIBLE AND NEVER GET ANYWHERE IN PARTICULAR HE PUT HIS HAND ON THE MAN'S SHOULDER WE'LL NINE YEARS PASS ON EARTH WHEN WE MAKE THE TRIP OUR TEA IS MERE MOMENTS +b69ed67b-6be8-4eaa-aa0a-ae71820d1b2d AND REGAINED HER BREATH THE QUEEN WOULD TALK AT JEFF'S LITTLE PIER AT DAWN A CHILL CONVICTION OF INSANITY GRIPPED HIM WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN ON WATER LAPPING SMOOTH AND UNDISTURBED BELOW THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN IN THE FEW CASES WHERE FORGERY WASN'T ADEQUATE MY MYSTERIOUS X HAD APPARENTLY HIRED HIMSELF TO DO THE JOB +b6b4f1fc-27f2-4812-ba1f-d667e7f1f560 THERE ARE NO LAND DWELLING CREDITORS ON COLLAXIA IT FLOATED LIKE A GLISTENING PLUM COLORED ISLAND WE CAN OFFER A TESTEDETICS PROGRAMME THAT WILL ELIMINATE RACIAL ANXIETY WITHIN A FEW GENERATIONS THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE I WAS ALREADY DRESSED FOR MY ROLL AND OUT OF THE SHIP BEFORE THE LANDING BRACES STOPPED VIBRATING IT IS NOW I'LL GO AHEAD YOU BRING UP THE REAR WITH HOPE IN THE MIDDLE READY TWENTY SEVEN +b6bc781a-fae3-4e61-b683-15c48c413003 HIS ADVENTURES TOO WERE A LITTLE OUT OF THE COMMON RUN OF TALES JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON BUT IT IS TIME FOR US TO BE OFF AND I AM EAGER TO START BECAUSE I SUPPOSE THAT THAT POOR MUNCHKIN GIRL IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING MY COMING TRADER'S RISK BY ROGER D KEEPING THIS CARGO MEANT DEATH TO JETTICINE IT MEANT TO MAKE FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF A WORL +b70dc5bd-d3e7-4daf-80d7-d0e1d7f8069d DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US ALL RIGHT AGREED THE STORY GIRL THE ONLY TROUBLE IS I DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BUT I'LL TELL YOU ALL I DO KNOW I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE WHEN I'VE SETTLED WHAT I'M GOING TO BE I'M GOING TO CHURCH SAME AS YOU THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS BEING BORN SOMETHING SAID FELICITY LOFTILY I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER +b718473a-8df1-4269-9b3d-835bb2b9697f THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE ITS HEADLIGHTS SWUNG IN WILD ARCS ACROSS THE TRUNKS AND DOWN THE MUD AERIAL CREEPERS MY MANNER CLOTHES JEWELRY THE EASY WAY I PASSED MONEY AROUND AND THE LUXURIOUS SHEEN OF MY BAGS COULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING IT IS A LATE EMPIRE BATTLESHIP OF THE WAR LORD CLASS AND BESIDES HE ALLEGED HE HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST +b728b30f-5ae0-4a3e-b34a-c1f9676367ff UNCLE ROGER SENDS HIM TO SCHOOL AND PAYS HIS WAGES IN SUMMER WE ALL LIKE PETER EXCEPT FELICITY OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE MY SCOPE JINNIFER EXCLAIMED SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK +b729a801-cbf4-4c1b-bd16-e80188bc4336 PROVIDENCE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT SAID OLD MISTER SCOTT TWAS THE MC CLOSKEYS AND THE DEVIL ENOUGH ACCIDENTS HAPPENED TO US POOR LOONS AS IT IS MY ADVICE IS TO CONDEMN AND PERPORATE EM AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE THEY PORED OVER THE ETIQUETTE COLUMN EVERY WEEK AND COULD HAVE TOLD YOU ON DEMAND JUST EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF GLOVES SHOULD BE WORN AT A WEDDING WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY WHEN INTRODUCING OR BEING INTRODUCED AND HOW YOU OUGHT TO LOOK WHEN YOUR BEST MAN WAS COMING TO SEE YOU THEY SAY MISSUS RICHARD COOK ASKED HER HUSBAND TO MARRY HER SAID DAN +b73c2583-4a02-4718-870a-3ac01ba9e126 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL OH SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE WHEN UNCLE ROGER HAD PASSED BY UNCLE ROGER SWORE OH NO HE DIDN'T SAID THE STORY GIRL QUICKLY DEVILTREE ISN'T SWEARING AT ALL IT ONLY MEANS EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF WELL IT'S NOT A VERY NICE WORD ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED +b73c60a2-2793-4726-8fef-c01c4de218b0 I'D GIVE A YEAR'S PAY IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW TOWERS AND MAYBE ANOTHER TEN TO GET THE CAPSULE TIME SLOW DOWN NEYLON STREAMED OUT BEHIND HIM AND SNAPPED OPEN WITH A TREMENDOUS JAR TELL HIM TO HURRY YET AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY A GREAT BEGINNING FOR A JOB AND ONE CLEARLY DESIGNED TO DRIVE A STRONGER MAN THAN ME TO THE BOTTLE +b73c6b59-61d8-42d9-a229-ee07ed7e6523 NOW WRITING BUSILY I SEE THAT BOWERY ORCHARD AND LONG SLEEK BROWN CURLS FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE EARTH MAY BE A SORT OF FENCED OFF AREA +b771c4d3-16fb-4ebe-b915-1bf5edc88c88 HE HAS NEVER COME BACK AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD ISN'T THAT A NICE WAY TO BEHAVE TO YOUR FAMILY PETER HAS WORKED FOR HIS BOARD EVER SINCE HE WAS SIX IN A WAY IT MADE MY ACT EASIER I JUST PLAY TO AN UNSEEN AUDIENCE THEY COULD SEE THE RICH CUT OF MY CLOTHES THE LUXURIOUS CAPPING BEHIND ME OF COURSE THEY COULDN'T SEE MY HANDS DO YOU BELIEVE IT SARA STANLEY PERSISTED FELICITY DO YOU NO NO I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT SAID THE STORY GIRL +b776ff18-a9d8-4599-8900-9c74690c527a FERERO'S TURNED FACE WENT A DIRTY GREY AT MY WORDS I PRESSED THE ADVANTAGE UNDOUBTEDLY THEY HAD STARTED THE PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT TRANSPORT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED LATER WE DID NOT GO INTO THE HOUSE HOWEVER WE MET THE AWKWARD MAN IN HIS YARD AND HE GAVE US A QUARTER APIECE FOR OUR LIBRARY IN THE FOREST THERE MAY BE FRUITS OR NUTS GROWING OR BERRY BUSHES AT ITS EDGE SO LET US GO THAT WAY +b78815c0-1037-444b-9bc0-440c43580022 YOU ARE TOO SOFT AND FLIMSY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN YOU ARE TOO HARD AND STIFF SAID THE SCARECROW AND THIS WAS AS NEAR TO QUARRELLING AS THE TWO FRIENDS EVER CAME HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE IT'S REALLY TOO BAD WE CAN'T WORK THIS SORT OF THING AT A DISTANCE CLARETON'S VOICE SAID SUDDENLY BUT THEN NONE OF US HAS EVER MET THE MAN AND YOU CAN'T READ A MIND IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD SOME PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE MAN WHO OWNS IT BUT WAS NOT AN AWKWARD MAN WHO WAS ALSO A HERMIT AND KEPT BLUE SILK DRESSES IN A LOCKED ROOM AND POSSIBLY WROTE POETRY A LEGITIMATE OBJECT OF CURIOSITY I LEAVE IT TO YOU +b7a74749-07b4-43af-a332-f01a0ae2a1a0 FINALLY RAY SHUT OFF THE RACKETING ENGINE AND LET THE RUSTY ANCHOR THE OVERALL EFFECT WAS ODDLY BEAUTIFUL WOULD IT BE PROPER TO TELL A DREAM LIKE THAT BEFORE THE GIRLS SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO SHE DEARLY LOVED TO TAKE HER EYES OUT OF FELICITY NOW AND THEN WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FRID DOING UP AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT HE SAID ANGRILY +b7bb3857-8a3a-4ba2-a6b5-df1e6227d1f3 SO FAR AS OTHER INTELLIGENT RACES OF THE GALAXY ARE CONCERNED THEN ATTEMPTED A SWAN DYKE FOR BY INSTINCT AND TRAINING WE THOUGHT AND UTTERED THE GREAT NAME WITH REVERENCE IN SPITE OF OUR DEVOURING CURIOSITY WELL FELIX WHAT IS IT ASKED MISTER MIREWOOD KINDLY WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING WHAT IF THE DELPHINIS JUST CRASHED HERE MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS +b7c89dbb-765f-49db-bd89-80fd37f67c8a HAD NOT THEN HEARD HER SAY IT ISN'T SO QUICK TO MOVE AND GET OUT OF YOUR SIGHT WHILE YOU'RE WINKING AS THE THIN ONE FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY EXAMINING THE PICK OF THE BATTLESHIP UNDER THE LIGHT SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY +b7d99212-a2b2-429b-804f-023eaf64856b WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING THEY HAD FOURTEEN CHILDREN IN ALL AND EACH CHILD HAD ITS BIRTH TREE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS SOFT FEATHERY GOLDEN CURLS SO FAR AS WE KNEW AND PARTLY BECAUSE SARA RAY WHO LIVES AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL +b7e7df40-5152-40cb-be24-a26c379e5048 BUT IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID PETER MISERABLY I CAN'T TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BETWEEN THIS AND TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW I'LL JUST HAVE TO BE SATISFIED WITH MAKING UP MY MIND TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I WANTED TO WAIT TILL I GOT OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE OUT WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM BUT I'LL HAVE TO CHANCE IT NOW IT WAS YOU WHO FIRST TOLD ME IT WAS MY DUTY TO FIND AND MARRY NIMI AMID AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY ONCE IT IS POINTED OUT TO HIM I DO NOT THINK THAT POETRY WAS GREAT GRANDMOTHER KING'S STRONG POINT +b7f2da74-ab2b-4603-a115-3f23a970977f I GUESS IT DEPENDS A GOOD DEAL WHETHER YOU'RE INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE FIRES I SAID ANDREW DIDN'T REALLY MEAN IT OF COURSE HE JUST SAID IT TO SOUND SMART AND MAKE A STARE THE MARS ARE ALL LIKE THAT BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO SAID FELICITY IMPATIENTLY I SUPPOSE SOBBED CECILY WE MIGHT GO TO PEG BOWEN AND ASK HER TO FORGIVE PAT AND TAKE THE SPELL OFF HIM SHE MIGHT IF WE APOLOGIZED REAL HUMBLE I RECALL PETER STANDING ON THE PULPIT STONE ONE NIGHT ERE MOONRISE AND POINTING THEM OUT TO US OCCASIONALLY HAVING A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH THE STORY GIRL OVER THE NAME OF SOME PARTICULAR STAR +b8050b73-ae4e-4594-988d-c890c72fe270 THE BATTERY OF SIAMEN THERE CONTACTED THE INDIVIDUAL PLANETS AND ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS KEEP ADDING TO THE LIST OF PLANETS AND HE HAS A DISMAL HABIT OF GROANING ALOUD WRITHING HIS WHOLE BODY AND DIGGING HIS TOES INTO THE GRASS WHEN HE CANNOT TURN A SENTENCE TO SUIT HIM MOVING SLOWLY BUT STEADILY WE HAVE TISSUE REGENERATION PRETTY WELL UNDER CONTROL NOW PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S +b843d520-fd7b-423f-b273-f3b8f21a3e6a THE ONLY SIGN OF VEGETATION I COULD PERCEIVE WERE STRANGE GROWTHS THAT REMOTELY RESEMBLED TREES INVERTED TREES WITH WIDE SPREADING BRANCHES HUNGRILY NURSING THE BLACK AND BARREN SOIL AND GNARLED BRIEF ROOTS REACHING OUT TORTURED ARMS TOWARDS THE FORBIDDING SKY HE CAN HANDLE A HOE MORE DEFTLY THAN A PENCIL AND HIS SPELLING EVEN WITH ALL HIS FREQUENT APPEALS TO CECILY IS A FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL THING THIS FITTED IN WITH WHAT I COULD MAKE OUT OF THE LOCAL RELIGION GOAT BOY STOPPED AS IF HE'D BEEN SHOT +b8488862-fa22-4e88-a928-d748fcfa0886 ONCE A SCOUT SWOOPED DOWN INTO THE HEADLIGHTS AND WAVED HORN STOPPED ON TO NUB'S ORDER AND THEY WAITED ALMOST TEN MINUTES BEFORE PROCEEDING WILD ONES ASKED HORN PERHAPS SAID TO NIB A GLOWING OF MANY LIGHTS GREW VISIBLE THROUGH THE GIANT TREE TRUNKS IT GREW BRIGHTER AS THE SLED CREPT THROUGH THE LAST OF THE JUNGLE EMERGED IN CLEARED LAND AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY HORRENT STARED UPWARD IN AWE THE CITY FLUTED AND SPIRALED INTO THE MOONLIT SKY IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE HER FIGURE WAS LEAF AND NICELY CURVED HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM FROM THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER THE OVERALL EFFECT WAS ODDLY BEAUTIFUL FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY AND TRIED TO KEEP HIS EYES ON HER FACE IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL MY AUNT JANE WAS CLEVER IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN A VERY GOOD BOOK IF THERE WAS SUCH A PICTURE IN IT SAID FELICITY IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY +b8630f72-359d-47f6-841b-d45b3510d5f9 THEN I WENT TO SLEEP COMFORTED BY THE SIMPLE HOPE THAT THE GREAT FATHER WOULD AFTER IMPORTANT THINGS WERE ALL ATTENDED TO REMEMBER POOR PAT IT WAS DECIDED THAT I SHOULD LEAD OFF AND I LAY AWAKE FOR AN EXTRA HOUR THAT NIGHT THINKING WHAT TEXT I SHOULD TAKE FOR THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THINK HOW SICK YOU WERE LAST NIGHT AND ALL THE TROUBLE YOU MADE FOR EVERYBODY DON'T EAT ANY MORE THERE'S A GOOD CHAP MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET +b87197fe-8d30-4384-af12-d967da512fdc BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE WE'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER SAID ORNE WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO EXTERMINATE YOU I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX IN THE EAST ABOVE THE MAPLE WOODS WAS A SILVERY SHEEN THAT HINTED THE MOONRISE THE SOUND FADING IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND HIM THE OXYGEN HE REALIZED WAS GIVING OUT THE THIRD MILE BROUGHT HIM TO THE SCENE OF THE CRASH +b87a0180-520a-496e-8617-a46aa229ae4b AND IF NO ONE AT ALL LIVES HERE ADDED THE SCARECROW WHAT SOUND IS SO SWEET AS THE STRAW FROM THE WHEAT WHEN IT CRINKLES SO TENDER AND LOW IT WHEN WE REACHED OUR LANE AND PASSED UNDER GRANDFATHER KING'S BIG WILLOW AND THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT THOSE WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING HOPE AND VIC WERE SURGING FORWARD WITH THE REST THEIR ERSTWHILE PRISONERS FORGOTTEN IN THEIR MAD GREED FOR DEATH +b89c76c5-93f1-471c-b41f-ee350d53619e IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH THE VALVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE USED ONLY FOR REPAIRS AFTER THE PILE WAS DAMPED WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT LISTEN YOU SICK CARTER I'LL TAKE YOU AND YOU WILL NOT YOU WILL NOTICE THAT YOU ARE PARALYZED FROM NECK DOWN I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST A MAN WITH A WOODEN LEG OR A TIN LEG IS STILL THE SAME MAN AND I LOST PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY BY DEGREES I ALWAYS REMAINED THE SAME PERSON AS IN THE BEGINNING EVEN THOUGH IN THE END I WAS ALL TIN AND NO MEAT +b8a2d363-851e-4fe1-9bcc-630c61fd4ed6 THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE WORKED ITS WILL ON MISTER CAMPBELL AS ON ALL OTHERS HE CAME IN SAT DOWN HOOKED HIS THUMB INTO HIS VEST POCKET AND SMILED AT HER OLD MISTER FORBES HADN'T GONE TO CHURCH FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE WAS SO RHEUMATIC BUT HE WENT THE FIRST SUNDAY THE CHOIR SANG BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE SING BASS AND WANTED TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE SO I MUST TRY TO MAKE NIMMY AMY HAPPY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE +b8af037d-3faa-40aa-90ae-3e8328293d60 RIGHT WHERE THAT BIG SPREADING TREE OF UNCLE ALEC'S IS NOW UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA HAD BOTH CHERISHED CERTAIN DREAMS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUTH WHY A DISGUISED SLED WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED AND THIS WORK FELL MAINLY TO US CHILDREN +b8b17381-2839-4dd9-9e15-b96d30e63086 YES OBSERVED THE TIN WOODMAN IT WAS COOK CLIP WHO MADE ME BUT TELL ME WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MUNCHKIN GIRL YOU WERE IN LOVE WITH SHE IS CALLED NIMMY AMMY SAID THE TIN SOLDIER HEARING THIS THEY WERE ALL SO ASTONISHED THAT THEY WERE SILENT FOR A TIME REGARDING THE STRANGER WITH WONDERING LOOKS FINALLY THE TIN WOODMAN VENTURED TO ASK AND DID NIMI AMMY RETURN YOUR LOVE IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY THERE'S AN E I COMMUNICATOR IN MY CABIN JEFF SAID LET'S GO MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS AUNT JULIA HAD BEEN THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK IN THAT RESPECT AND HAD TO BECOME A NOTED CONCERT SINGER THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THEIR MUSIC ECHOED ONLY ALONG THE HIDDEN WAYS OF LIFE AND SERVED BUT TO LIGHTEN THE CARES OF THE TRIVIAL ROUND AND COMMON TASK +b8c53302-2c5a-44ad-8ec4-01d0920295da CHAFFEE FOUR RADIATED WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE WE SLIPPED OUT OF BED AND DRESSED WITHOUT AROUSING DAN WHO WAS STILL SLUMBERING SOUNDLY HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND HIS BEDCLOTHES KICKED OFF ON THE FLOOR WELL HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD WANTED NECESSARY KNUFF SAID LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS GAZE STABBED LIKE A SWORD HE WAS UNEASY YONAS KNEW WITH ANOTHER MIND PROBING HIS HE COULD NOT HELP BUT BE UNEASY BUT HE COULD NOT FIND A CAUSE IT WOULD NEVER OCCUR TO HIM +b8ca0873-7bdd-45da-ae0d-70b4cc1f8d13 SHE CAN PUT ILL LUCK ON YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU AND SHE WILL IF YOU OFFEND HER I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY DON'T YOU ALL RIGHT THEN LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER FERERO'S TURNED FACE WENT A DIRTY GREY AT MY WORDS I PRESSED THE ADVANTAGE I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM THIS LAST ORDER WAS DIRECTED AT THE ROBART WHO WAS WELL BRIEFED IN ITS ROLL IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AN EXPRESSION OF SCORN CAME OVER HER FACE SURELY YOU DON'T BELIEVE GOD LOOKS LIKE THAT SHE SAID IMPATIENTLY WHILE HER FINE EYES FLASHED HE DOESN'T HE COULDN'T HE IS WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL I'M SURPRISED AT YOU THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN +b8cc02db-21ad-4129-8d5c-6eeeda38f2eb SOME OF THE MEN AROUND THE CHURCH DOOR HEARD THE SCREAM AND THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE WOOD THEY SAW NOTHING BUT WILLIAM COHEN LYING LIKE A DEAD MAN ON THE PATH THEY TOOK HIM UP AND CARRIED HIM HOME AND WHEN THEY UNDRESSED HIM TO PUT HIM INTO BED USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY HE STOOD FOR A LONG MOMENT +b8ead498-9351-4a45-8ecb-8050914b09de WELL SAID AUNT JANET WHEN WE ALL DESCENDED TO THE KITCHEN THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU YOUNG ONES HAVE EVER ALL GOT UP WITHOUT BEING CALLED THAT'S A FACT AT BREAKFAST OUR APPETITES WERE POOR HOW COULD THE GROWN UPS EAT AS THEY DID AFTER BREAKFAST AND THE NECESSARY CHORES THERE WAS THE FORENOON TO BE LIVED THROUGH PETER TRUE TO HIS WORD GOT OUT HIS BIBLE AND BEGAN TO READ FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER IN GENESIS I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT GRANDFATHER KING WAS IN NO HURRY HE DID NOT SET HIS WHOLE ORCHARD OUT AT ONCE FOR HE WISHED IT TO GROW WITH HIS LIFE AND HISTORY AND BE BOUND UP WITH ALL OF GOOD AND JOY THAT SHOULD COME TO HIS HOUSEHOLD SO THE MORNING AFTER HE HAD BROUGHT HIS YOUNG WIFE HOME THEY WENT TOGETHER TO THE SOUTH MEADOW AND PLANTED THEIR BRIDAL TREES THESE TREES WERE NO LONGER LIVING BUT THEY HAD BEEN WHEN FATHER WAS A BOY AND EVERY SPRING BEDECKED THEMSELVES IN BLOSSOM AS DELICATELY TINTED AS ELIZABETH KING'S FACE WHEN SHE WALKED THROUGH THE OLD SOUTH MEADOW IN THE MORN OF HER LIFE AND LOVE I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD MEANING I AM IN THE HAND HOLDING COTERGHRIE I ASKED WITH AS MUCH SWEETNESS AS I COULD PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS +b906d2d8-d44f-4367-b903-559acb6a8b9f BUT HE'LL LAUGH AT US FOR A YEAR AND TELL THIS STORY TO EVERY SOUL THAT COMES TO THE PLACE YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM FOR THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL I SHALL TELL IT TOO I DON'T CARE IF THE JOKE IS AS MUCH ON MYSELF AS ANY ONE AND NOW NOW I WAS STANDING IN THE OPEN ON ANOTHER WORLD A NIGHTMARE WORLD THAT WORDS SEEMED INADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT A BODY WHY MATTER I SUPPOSE AND MATTER IS WHAT AH NEVER MIND I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER +b908a142-a9d6-409c-a49a-42665fac4b19 BUT IT WAS A MAY MORNING AND OUR YOUNG BLOOD WAS RUNNING BLITHELY IN OUR VEINS WE SUGGESTED A VISIT TO THE ORCHARD WOULD BE MORE AGREEABLE WE HAD WALKED WITH HER IN THE PLACE OF DEATH AND GROWN COLD WITH A HORROR THAT CHILLED THE HEART OF THEOR PRINCESS DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL DAN DOES SAY SUCH QUEER THINGS I'M SO AFRAID HE'S GONE TO GROW UP JUST LIKE UNCLE ROBER WARD WHO NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T BELIEVE MORE THAN HALF THE BIBLE IS TRUE WHICH HEART DOES HE BELIEVE IS TRUE I INQUIRED WITH UNHOLY CURIOSITY +b90cb1c8-2b30-4f36-8779-033c2a871589 WELL I WILL FOR ONE SAID FELIX EMPHATICALLY I THINK HE WAS REMEMBERING THAT FELICITY HAD CALLED HIM FAT YOU YOU ARE IN A CELL HE SAID AT LAST LOCKED UP DO YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME YONAH SAID HE CAME TO THE BARRED DOOR STILL SMILING YOU WOULD NOT DARE WHY NOT YONES ASKED WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE HE RAISED ONE HAND CLAWING THE FINGERS SLIGHTLY HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF HE WERE ABOUT TO SPIT OUT AN INCANTATION THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD +b954d7c7-0dfa-4f15-acfd-c1af439dae55 THAT'S WHY SHE LET ME COME UP SHE SOBBED BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK WELL JUDY PROMISED SHE'D REMEMBER BECAUSE SHE LIKED MISSUS FRUIT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE HER WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK THAT IS JUST THE TROUBLE HE SAID AND ADDED PETER DELIBERATELY TAKING HIS GUM FROM HIS MOUTH TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT MORE IMPRESSIVE OF COURSE PEG WASN'T A WITCH BUT IT WAS BEST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE +b96012ca-2ade-422d-b19e-63a8decc5822 GIANS ALL AROUND THE BUTCHER'S PEDESTAL OF ONE OF THE BUILDINGS LOOMED DIRECTLY AHEAD AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES I SHOULD THINK I DO LAUGHED UNCLE ALEX SHE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE WITH CECILY IS NOW AND SHE GOT UP AT ONCE AND MARCHED RIGHT OUT OF THE ORCHARD BUT AT THE GATE SHE TURNED AND CALLED BACK INDIGNANTLY I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER +b9687485-2b7d-45cd-86de-95fd9c200400 A CRUMBLING AND CRACKED STAIRWAY BROUGHT US UP TO THE SOLID METAL DOORWAY LABELLED IN ARCHAIC SCRIPT I CHECKED ALL THE PARTS BY SCREEN BEFORE THEY WERE LOADED IN A METAL CRATE SLOWLY THE DISGUISED SLEDS CREPT THROUGH THE JUNGLE WHAT THE JUMPED UP MAZOO ARE WE DOING HERE STEAT IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN +b96fedfb-f000-402b-9fdb-215cb0ca5e30 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY UNCLE ROGER WAS AS WE HAD BEEN INFORMED QUITE JOLLY AND FOND OF TEASING WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR SOMETIMES WE BELIEVED UNCLE ROGER WAS MAKING FUN OF US AND THE DEADLY SERIOUSNESS OF YOUTH IN US RESENTED THAT I SUPPOSE MISSUS SCOTT THOUGHT THAT WHAT WAS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE WAS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER FOR SHE SLIPPED OUT AND DROVE OFF TO CHURCH AS HE HAD DONE OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN +b99a104e-082e-45c2-ad52-b64cf8a4be3a WHEN I LIFTED THE PLATE AND POKED HOLES IN THE SEARED PLASTIC I COULD SEE THE PYRAMID GROWING SMALLER BEHIND ME WATER GUSHING OUT OF THE BASE AND A HAPPY CROWD OF REPTILES SPORTING IN ITS RADIOACTIVE RUSH AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER THE TINSMITH WAS AS PROUD OF HIS WORKMANSHIP AS WAS I ALWAYS YOUR LOVING AND GRATEFUL FRIEND +b9a90fae-75f4-4cf2-a732-e62c275f0aa6 I BELIEVE ILL RUN ALONG AND SEE IF I CAN FIND MISSUS PARR I HAVEN'T HAD A THING TO EAT SINCE NOON YESTERDAY AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT THE STARS TWINKLED THROUGH THE SOFTLY WAVING BOUGHS AND I DID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IT AND IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED THEN THAT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS YOU MAY GIVE ME BACK MY RING AND RETURN HOME FREE THEY'RE ANGELS THEN NOT METHODISTS OR ANYTHING BUT JUST ANGELS +b9e151d9-754f-43d8-b9f9-ef2115068379 ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES AND I HEARD UNCLE ALEX TELL A STORY ONCE ABOUT BEING NEARLY FRIGHTENED TO DEATH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY BY A MINISTER PREACHING ON THE END OF THE WORLD AND HE SAID THAT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A SERMON YOU DON'T HEAR SUCH SERMONS NOWADAYS BUT WHEN PETER PREACHES JUST SUCH A SERMON IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT STORY IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED WASN'T THE MISSIONARY SPLENDID THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE +ba028705-d072-44c3-9d5e-ee5f94bb73a8 IF I COULD SHOOT THE TROUBLE THE PIPE WALLS WERE AT LEAST THREE METERS THICK AND THE PIPE OPENING ITSELF NO BIGGER THAN MY HEAD AN UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE THAT MADE ME QUESTION MY SANITY THE CARVEN IMAGE WAS PERHAPS THIRTY FEET IN HEIGHT AND REPRESENTED A FIGURE CROUCHED UPON ITS KNEES NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST IF CHINA THREE STILL EXISTS IN FIVE DAYS AND NODDING LIKE AN ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE +ba2b4a48-cc7c-4ea3-a689-4212867f22dd AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE OH NO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER INVOLVED NONE AT ALL WE HAVE TISSUE REGENERATION PRETTY WELL UNDER CONTROL NOW SO I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACCURATE RECORDS IN DATA ARE VERY NECESSARY FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND PROGRESS AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS SHE IS A SPLENDID COOK TOO THOUGH SHE IS ONLY TWELVE I CAN'T COOK I AM TRYING TO LEARN BUT I DON'T MAKE MUCH PROGRESS AND OLIVIA SAYS I HAVEN'T ENOUGH NATURAL GUMPTION EVER TO BE A COOK BUT I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AS GOOD CAKES AND PIES AS FELICITY CAN MAKE DO YOU TOO KNOW MANY THINGS ORN THAT IS WHY I WAS SENT HERE SAID ORAN ARE THERE MANY PLANETS TO TEACH ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM +ba61df50-d004-4ab5-96ab-d9923c9bb084 FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING LET'S GET UP AND GO DOWN AND OUT I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE TO SEE THE PLACE HIS FATHER TOLD US OF WE SLIPPED OUT OF BED AND DRESSED WITHOUT AROUSING DAN WHO WAS STILL SLUMBERING SOUNDLY HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND HIS BEDCLOTHES KICKED OFF ON THE FLOOR VIC'S PLACE WAS OUT ON THE RIVER ABOUT TEN MILES FROM TOWN AND THAT LITTLE TAN ROADSTER OF MINE MADE IT IN JUST ABOUT TEN MINUTES THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL +ba72e10a-cf16-4f1b-aeb0-d882c65b7a1b AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK AND MINDFUL OF THE NEED OF MAKING AN IMPRESSION I DREW A HARROWING PICTURE OF THE MISERABLE PLIGHT OF THE HEATHEN WHO IN THEIR DARKEST DARKNESS BOWED DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE YOU HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF A WREN NEIL CAMPBELL WHEN SHE TOLD US SAD TALES IN A VOICE LADEN WITH ALL THE TEARS THAT HAD EVER BEEN SHED BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY I DON'T SEE WHY +ba86ca52-5099-4f94-9e4c-09fea0e9e916 IT FORTUNATELY LANDED ON THE WICKED WITCH AND SMASHED HER FLAT AND WASHING HER DISHES A RICH MAN IN TORONTO HAD A FLORAL CLOCK IN HIS GARDEN I SAID SHE SAYS SHE HE KEEPS IT VERY NEAT OH I WISH WE HAD ONE HERE EXCLAIMED CECILY WE WERE VERY HUNGRY BOYS AND WHEN WE HAD EATEN ALL WE COULD AND OH WHAT SUPPERS AUNT JANET ALWAYS SPREAD +ba8c85ad-0a13-4364-8a19-a0cfef87e0dc SCRAPS OF TIN OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES LAID SCATTERED ROUND THE WORKSHOP THERE WERE HAMMERS AND ANVILS AND SODDERING IRONS AND A CHARCOAL FURNACE AND MANY OTHER TOOLS SUCH AS TINSMITH WORKS WITH GENIUS CAN NEVER EXPLAIN HOW IT DOES IT IT WOULD NOT BE GENIUS IF IT COULD AND THE STORY GIRL HAD GENIUS AS WE LEFT THE ORCHARD I WALKED ALONG BEHIND UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA WHERE ELSE SHOULD SHE HAVE CAUGHT THEM SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY I DIDN'T SEE HER OF COURSE MISSUS RAY MET ME AT THE DOOR AND TOLD ME NOT TO COME IN BUT MISSUS RAY SAYS THE MEASLES GO AWFUL HARD WITH THE RAYS IF THEY DON'T DIE COMPLETELY OF THEM IT LEAVES THEM DEAF OR BLIND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT +bab0cb29-dfe3-4e53-bb07-89e96b898cb8 WHEN I GOT MY TIN LEGS NIMI AMI BEGAN TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN ME WHEN I GOT MY TIN ARMS SHE BEGAN TO LIKE ME BETTER THAN EVER AND WHEN I WAS ALL MADE OF TIN SHE SAID I LOOKED LIKE HER DEAR NICK CHOPPER AND SHE WOULD BE WILLING TO MARRY ME SHE CONFIDED TO ME AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS THAT SHE HATED UNCLE ROGER HER RED LIPS QUIVERED AND THE TEARS OF WOUNDED PRIDE BRIMMED OVER IN HER BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING PARTICULARLY C AND M SET UP THE CATEGORIZEER AND A MEMORY +babd2755-c549-4ca5-a669-515bc0f74e5c DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME I THINK WE'LL BE BACK BEFORE HE WAKES SAID MISSUS PATTERSON WHITE AND CLEAR AGAINST THE DARK BACKGROUND OF SPRUCES WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL HAVE YOU EVER SAT SO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN IN A MOTION PICTURE THEATRE SO THAT THE GRAININESS OF THE MOVING FILM WAS VISIBLE IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT FELICITY AND CECILY STARED BLANKLY AT THE STORY GIRL WE BOYS BEGAN TO LAUGH BUT WERE CHECKED MIDWAY BY UNCLE ROGER +bad3d898-ea2c-4bf3-a6ec-376739847aae THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN THE STORY GIRL'S FACE WORE A QUITE INDESCRIBABLE EXPRESSION COMPOUND OF HORROR AND SHAME SHE NEED NOT HAVE CONFESSED IT WAS A PICTURE OF MILTON BOROUGH FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE IT ISN'T ANY USE FOR ME TO TRY TO LEARN TO COOK SAID SHE DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED +bae56cbd-0712-4b8b-807c-a8954239c3a2 THERE ARE NATURAL LAWS IN CRIME AS IN EVERY OTHER FIELD OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR I KNEW THIS WAS IT BUT BETWEEN YOU AND ME I BELIEVE THE REAL REASON IS THAT HER MOTHER DOESN'T GIVE HER HALF ENOUGH TO EAT NOT THAT SHE'S MEAN YOU KNOW BUT SHE THINKS IT ISN'T HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN TO EAT MUCH OR ANYTHING BUT CERTAIN THINGS ISN'T IT FORTUNATE WE WEREN'T BORN INTO THAT SORT OF A FAMILY THERE'S A GOOD DEAL OF IT I DON'T UNDERSTAND HE SAID BUT I READ EVERY WORD AND THAT'S THE MAIN THING THAT STORY ABOUT JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHER WAS SO INTERESTING I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THE JUDGMENT DAY +bae78b19-19f6-4f2d-98ee-2a3a49203e2b RAY HAD NOT BEEN A REAL JUDGE OBVIOUSLY BUT HAD USED THE TITLE IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER FIRST NAME NEVERTHELESS WE WENT TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY BURNING WITH CURIOSITY AND WE WERE DISAPPOINTED POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT LET EM HAVE MARS AND VENUS THE COLONEL WOULD SAY LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP BLAKE FROG AHEAD OF EM WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM +bb5587fe-f07c-42de-8591-9e7703d56916 YONAS SHOOK HIS HEAD THERE IS HELP HE SAID AND YOU WILL FIND IT YOUR SON IS GONE ACCUSED QUESTIONED CONFESSED AND BURNT BUT THERE WILL BE NO MORE SHARP LOOKED AT HIM FOR A LONG TIME AND ONE DAY ONE OF THEM CAUGHT FIRE AND WHEN HE WAS BURNING BRUSH AND BURNED OFF AND EVERYONE THOUGHT HE'D HAVE TO SHAVE OFF THE OTHER THEN BUT HE DIDN'T AND JUST WENT ROUND WITH ONE WHISKER TILL THE BURNED ONE GREW OUT I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON REPEAT I WANT THAT SHIP BACK I MAY BE ABLE TO WRITE IT DOWN GET ON THE DECK INTACT +bb6dd8b2-0ca3-4792-94ae-2b2b59b3dbde LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND CAN YOU GET CLOSER WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START RAINBOW BRIDGE IS NOT FOR THEE THIS WAS IN FORTY NINE WHEN PEOPLE WERE RUSHING TO THE GOLD FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA LIFE WAS AS A RED ROSE ONCE MORE NO SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STOUTLY I THE MAGIC OF A YUKAHU REPLIED THE BIG LOON POMPOUSLY +bb735cdc-398c-442c-ae66-19d426a37168 UNCLE ROGERS SAYS THAT MARTIN FORBES WIFE HAS SQUELCHED HIM SAID FELICITY HE SAYS MARTIN CAN'T CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN SINCE HE WAS MARRIED I'M GLAD OF IT SAID CECILY VINDICTIVELY WE ALL STARED THIS WAS SO VERY UNLIKE CECILY SHE NEEDN'T HAVE GOT SO SCARED IF SHE'D ONLY WAITED FOR THE THIRD HEAD I'D HAVE SHOWED HER HOW EASY IT WAS TO GET CLEAR OF GOING TO THE BAD PLACE AND GO TO HEAVEN INSTEAD BUT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS IN SUCH A HURRY SAID PETER BITTERLY DO YOU SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE HER TO THE ASYLUM SAID DAN IN A WHISPER I WAS AFRAID TO TAKE THE LIVER PILLS FOR FEAR THEY'D PREVENT ME FROM DREAMING HE SAID +bb7e29e2-efcb-4833-983f-0909ea6af307 SCARCELY WERE THE THREE INSIDE HOWEVER WHEN THEY HEARD THE DOOR SLAM SHUT BEHIND THEM AND THIS ASTONISHED THEM BECAUSE NO ONE HAD TOUCHED IT THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AGAIN SHE LOVED EXPRESSIVE WORDS AND TREASURED THEM AS SOME GIRLS MIGHT HAVE TREASURED JEWELS TO HER THEY WERE AS LUSTROUS PEARLS THREADED ON THE CRIMSON CORD OF A VIVID FANCY DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES +bb8a4864-f5cd-4b7e-bdac-07abdab93231 PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE THE REST OF US ATE OUR APPLES OR CARRIED THEM TO SCHOOL WHERE WE BARTERED THEM FOR SUCH TREASURES AS OUR SCHOOLMATES POSSESSED AND WE COVETED THEY HAD BEEN THERE WHEN GREAT GRANDFATHER KING BOUGHT THE PLACE I HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM ELSEWHERE OR FOUND THEM DESCRIBED IN ANY FLORAL CATALOGUE +bb91cd7a-2300-4814-a4a8-5d1357a05f9d PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM BELAY THAT LAST COMMAND I SHOUTED GETTING BACK IN MY OLD SPACE DOG MOOD GET A CALL THROUGH FIRST AND FIND OUT IF ANY OF OUR PLANTS ARE PICKED UP DURING THE RAID THE STORY GIRL WAS IN GREAT FETTLE THAT NIGHT NEVER HAD HER TAILS SPARKLED WITH SUCH WIT AND ARCHNESS THE YOUNG MINISTER TURNED PALE AS THE DEAD AND IMPLORED MISSUS CRAWFORD TO HIDE HIM BUT SHE COULDN'T GET HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS TO HIDE HIM IN THE CHINA CLOSET THE YOUNG MINISTER SLIPPED INTO THE CHINA CLOSET AND OLD MISTER SCOTT CAME INTO THE ROOM +bb99ad5e-501f-4815-802f-123d17e9d936 IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT BEVERLY KING IS A BOY ONCE MORE WRITING DOWN HIS DREAMS IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD ON THE HOMESTEAD HILL BLOWN OVER BY MUSKY WINDS TURALLY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND VIC'S JARGON ABOUT FREQUENCIES AND LIGHT RAYS FOR I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL THAN PHYSICS IN COLLEGE BUT TWO THINGS WERE CLEAR TO ME ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE JUST DOWN THE HILL YOU CAN'T SEE THE HOUSE FOR THE SPRUCE BUSH SARA'S A NICE GIRL SHE'S ONLY ELEVEN AND HER MOTHER IS DREADFULLY STRICT SHE NEVER ALLOWS SARA TO READ A SINGLE STORY JUST YOU FANCY +bb9be2fc-b71d-4462-b64a-7f5e7f09d7b7 ALSO ON MONDAY'S NECESSARILY BEFORE CHARLEY MACK'S VISIT JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR KEPT DISMANTLED AND HIDDEN FROM SUSPICIOUS LOCAL LIES AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED HE NEVER LIFTED HIS HEAD FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SERVICE HE FOLLOWED US DOWN THE AISLE AND ACROSS THE GRAVEYARD LIKE A BEATEN DOG NONE OF US UTTERED A WORD UNTIL WE REACHED THE ROAD LYING IN THE WHITE MOONSHINE OF THE MAY NIGHT RAY HAD COME TO THE OFFICE OF THE STEIN FINE BRYAN PUBLISHING COMPANY WHERE FARMER WAS WORKING AS AN ASSISTANT EDITOR AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO WRITE THE GREATEST BOOK OF THE AGE +bbbd7496-4e42-48a2-b0fc-eea3e91b3786 DON'T YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I CAN'T BEAR IT DON'T YOU THE STORY GIRL DIDN'T BUT SHE HAD SAID ENOUGH THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE QUALITY OF A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES THAT FROZE HER YOUNG BLOOD ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM WELL CAPTAIN IF YOU ARE AGREEABLE LET US NOW GO TO NIMI AMMY'S HOUSE AND LET HER CHOOSE BETWEEN US WELL SAID MY FRIEND AGREED THE SCARECROW +bbdbf856-5fea-469e-af98-03501afbab3f OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY UNFORTUNATELY WE TRUSTED OUR STAR MANUAL STATEMENT THAT THE PLANET IS UNPOPULATED THE TERRANS DREW TOGETHER AGAIN SHE GOT PALER AND PALER EVERY DAY BUT THE PINK BUTTERFLY GREW REDDER UNTIL IT LOOKED JUST LIKE A STAIN OF BLOOD ON HER WHITE CHEEK WHEN THE WINTER CAME SHE DIED AND SHE WASN'T A BIT CROSS WHEN I TOLD HER I HAD GONE TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW THAT'S AN AWFUL BAD SIGN I HADN'T A WHITE DRESS BUT I HAD PUT ON MY WHITE MUSLIN APRON WITH THE FRILLS +bbdd1430-1bf9-45d6-a80f-5670abeeb91e HE DECIDED THAT GARF'S SUPERIOR ATTITUDE AND POWERS BODED NO GOOD BUT IF THE FISH MAN ONCE BECAME SLIGHTLY IRRITATED THE SCARECROW MERELY SMILED AND SAID NOTHING FOR THE THORN DIDN'T HURT HIM AT ALL HE HAD LEARNED A GREAT MANY POEMS FROM PROFESSOR WOGGLE BUG THEN HE SAID HE WAS A HIGH PATH CHIEF AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW +bc01106d-c083-4eb7-b014-83995f592259 THEY WERE LIGHTER IN COLOR THAN THE OTHERS AND MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT TO JUDGE BY THEIR FACES THEIR EYES HELD NONE OF THE SADNESS WHICH WAS THE MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OTHERS THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT GLIBLY BUT BEFORE SHE HAD GONE FAR WITH IT I WHO WAS SITTING BESIDE HER FELT AN UNACCOUNTABLE REPULSION CREEPING OVER ME FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAD KNOWN HER I WANTED TO DRAW AWAY FROM THE STORY GIRL PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE WE WERE IN THE ORCHARD AT SUNSET LISTENING TO THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID ALL OF US EXCEPT PETER WHO WAS HOEING TURNIPS AND FELICITY WHO HAD GONE DOWN THE HILL ON AN ERRAND TO MISSUS RAY +bc0e063b-09dd-4cd3-a368-62122a0e3410 WE HAD KNOWN FROM AUNT OLIVIA'S LETTERS THAT FELICITY WAS THE BEAUTY OF THE CONNECTION AND WE HAD BEEN CURIOUS TO SEE HER ON THAT ACCOUNT SHE FULLY JUSTIFIED OUR EXPECTATIONS AS THEY WALKED TO THE DOOR THE MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT DOC IT CERTAINLY DONE A GOOD JOB SO FAR I GUESS YOUR SPECIALISTS KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING EVEN IF FOLKS DON'T UNDERSTAND IT VIC I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING VIC AND I HAD BEEN BUTTIES EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER +bc2a0e4b-a4e1-41b3-ba2a-17c4dc9c4758 GAZING DREAMILY AFAR AT THE TINTED SKY BETWEEN THE APPLE TREES AS IF SHE WERE LOOKING BACK TO THE MERRY DAYS OF THE WORLD'S GAY YOUTH UNLESS CHECK THE ZID WOULD RAPIDLY DEPOPULATE THE ISLAND BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE HE KNEW WHEN HE PUT DOWN THE MICROPHONE THAT THE SHIP WOULD BE TOO LATE SO I PROPOSE HE WAITS HERE WHILE YOU AND I FRIEND SCARECROW EVEN SO I AM NOT SURE IT ISN'T THE BEST FOR THE GIRL +bc6eaaa5-0a44-4b88-840a-c698f9a424ab NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL ONLY PEOPLE GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE CHILDREN YES THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE MAYBE THE LIGHT WILL GO OUT BUT IT DIDN'T INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON OVER A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN A THOUGHT ENTERED HIS MIND MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS ONE HAD BLACK COARSE HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND A STUBBLE ABOUT HIS FACE THE OTHER WAS BALD AS AN EGG THAT'S HIM MISTER SHARP SAID JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW THE MAN WITH THE BLACK HAIR SAID UGH GER +bc7e62b9-36a2-4765-abd1-2822ad185786 WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP ALTOGETHER THE STORY GIRL HAD A HARD TIME OF IT BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED HE'S GOING TO CHURCH WITH US TO MORROW SHE SAID TRIUMPHANTLY SARA STANLEY REBUKED FELICITY I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULDN'T SAY SUCH THINGS AT SUCH A SOLEMN TIME YOU'RE SUCH A QUEER GIRL SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY OH OH OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT SHE WAILED +bc8b9be4-c735-4886-8c92-96ac20dfc258 INSTANT YAWNED AND POURED HIMSELF A GLASS OF WATER FROM THE DISPENSER UNIT ABOVE THE BED JUST BECAUSE I HAD THE SPECIAL CALL DOESN'T MEAN I AM THE SPECIAL CALL HE SAID MOISTLY WHILE HE DRAINED THE GLASS I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO A LITTLE BEFORE DAWN THE EYE HOOKED ON TO MY SHOULDERS AND WE SAILED STRAIGHT UP WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN BRANDON COULD HEAR TOWER'S VOICE IN A VORTEX OF DARKNESS LET'S FACE IT BRANDON IS DEAD MUST IT BURNED WITH THE SHIP AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY THE REPORT WILL AID GET MAY RHINART YES SIR THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY +bcaadd15-0eee-48cb-baed-d882914a19bb A SCARLET PRINT BLOUSE AND A MAN'S HAT TO OURSELVES AND DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE REALLY SITTING IN A DEWY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ORCHARD INSTEAD OF WATCHING TWO LOVERS I WAS A REGULAR WRUNT BEFORE I BEGUN HE SAID AND LOOK AT ME NOW AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN AND THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD BEFORE IT HIS SKELETON WITH THE GRASS GROWING THROUGH IT SHE WHISPERED THAT BEATS ME SAID UNCLE ROGER WHEN A FRUITLESS HOUR HAD ELAPSED +bcdc7e47-acd6-4649-9158-2e6bde95690f DAN KING YOU JUST WAIT TILL I TELL HER OF THE WAY YOU HAVE ACTED FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN THE STORY GIRL RESENTED FELICITY'S SUPERIOR TONE AND PROCEEDED TO TEMPT SARA IN RIGHT GOOD EARNEST THERE ARE NO FIELDS OF GRAIN IN YOUR VALLEY SAID HE WHERE THEN DID YOU GET THE FLOWER TO MAKE YOUR BISCUITS MA SAYS THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT AS LONG AS HE'S A BACHELOR BECAUSE HE WON'T TAKE ANY ONE SAID FELICITY BUT IF HE WAKES UP SOME DAY AND FINDS HE'S AN OLD BACHELOR BECAUSE HE CAN'T GET ANY ONE IT'LL HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT FLAVOR +bd07fd1b-0fa2-46e7-9067-8d7ad795dfb1 SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM FROM THE ROOM SHE HAD LEFT CAME MOANS AND CRIES IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT AND A FRILLED MUSLIN APRON AND WE UNDERSTOOD FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT SO FAR AS WE KNEW NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE DAN SAT ON THE FLOOR AND WHITTLED HIS SOLE AIM AND PROJECT BEING TO MAKE A MESS AND ANNOY FELICITY IN WHICH NOBLE AMBITION HE SUCCEEDED PERFECTLY I WISH JANET AND UNCLE ALEC WERE HOME SAID FELIX IT'S NOT HALF SO MUCH FUN HAVING THE GROWN UPS AWAY AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE I WISH I WAS BACK IN TORONTO I SAID SULKILY THE MINCE PIE WAS TO BLAME FOR THAT WISH I WISH YOU WERE I'M SURE SAID FELICITY RIDDLING THE FIRE NOISILY +bd25fd5b-1b48-4c2c-aa57-f21d661d3e34 NO PROGRESS JEFF REPORTED EXCEPT THAT THE FEW ISLANDERS I'VE MET SEEMED TO BE ACCEPTING ME AT LAST AS BEFITTED THE TOP OFFICIAL OF A RICH PLANET THE PLACE IS A MANSION FOR THE SECURITY PRECAUTIONS WERE LUDICROUS TO SAY THE LEAST I TOOK MYSELF AND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILO ROBOT THROUGH THE GUARDS AND ALARMS WITHOUT CAUSING THE SLIGHTEST STIR THE CABIN WAS FILLING THE FUMES BRANDON LOOKED DOWN A FRINGE OF BLUE FLAME CREPT ALONG BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND THE BOTTOM OF THE PILOT'S CAPSULE A COLD ACHE FILLED THE CAVITY OF HIS STOMACH TOO LATE I'M ON FIRE CAPSULING OUT REPEAT CAPSULING OUT +bd35d4bf-79e4-4b59-a396-870f107896c2 SLAVE CULTURE PROBABLY PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY OH WHOEVER'S LICKED WILL HAVE TO GIVE IN ABOUT PRAYING SAID PETER THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING SIGHED POOR CECILY +bd43b830-9b07-428d-afa5-b86d48fb7266 THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU THEY INSTRUCTED HIM AND SENT HIM OUT OR THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD INSTRUCTED HIM THERE WERE SPYSAILS ON MY SHIP ALL OF WHICH I HADN'T FOUND THAT WOULD CHEERFULLY RAT ON ME WHEN I GOT BACK NORMALLY A REPAIR MAN STAYS AWAY FROM NATIVE CULTURES IT'S LIKE A DREAM OF FAIRYLAND THIS TRULY AUNT JANITY REMARK BROKE THE SPELL +bda8424f-39e9-4d1b-9643-d420aa138948 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST KEEP AN EYE ON THEM BUT DON'T IGNORE THE OTHER SECTORS SAID STETSON YOU THINK I WAS BORN YESTERDAY BARKED THE VOICE FROM THE GRIN THE CONTACT BROKE OFF WITH AN ANGRY SOUND WE STAYED HOME FROM SCHOOL TO DO IT IT WAS PLEASANT WORK AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF FUN IN IT BUT IT WAS HARD TOO AND OUR ARMS AND BACKS ACHED ROUNDLY AT NIGHT +bdd578e1-af2c-43cf-88c0-22141e952b7a ANY MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WIZARD WILL HAVE HIS MIND SEEN BY THE INQUISITOR DURING THE DAYS HE HAD DONE THE THINGS HE HAD PLANNED HE DID NO WORK WITH THE SHARPS BUT LET THEM FIND HIM WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HUT OF AN EVENING RECITING STRANGE WORDS WE DIVERT THE FILES HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER +bde47f0f-3e8c-4f11-befd-991cdb6a6407 ANYWAY IT WAS A VERY PRETTY GIRL BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER BUT NOW I DO NOT THINK SHE EITHER NEEDED OUR PITY OR DESERVED OUR ADMIRATION HER AESTHETIC FARE WAS REALLY SWEETER TO HER THAN HONEY OF HYMETTUS WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY +be166c34-48cd-43fd-805d-0bf491f2b9cd IT IS THE VERY SAME CUP SAID THE STORY GIRL IMPRESSIVELY ISN'T IT AN AMAZING THING THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK FROM IT AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN HE WAS TRYING TO BE FAIR AND CONSIDERATE OF MY VIEWS AND NOT SUCCEEDING IN THE SLIGHTEST IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE HE GROWLED HOW CAN YOU BE SURE THIS KILLOW WILL EVER READ ONE OF THESE THINGS AND IF HE DOES WHY SHOULD HE BE INTERESTED IT LOOKS TO ME AS IF YOU'RE WASTING TIME WHEN HE SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS WELL HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD WANTED I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME +be3c2cc3-44f8-43d5-8878-64f196c93f0e THE O'LERENOIDS DIDN'T KNOCK OVER ONE OF OUR SURVEYSHIPS FIRST TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE ECILY INDEED SEEMED TO HAVE THE MOST DECIDED TALENT FOR DRAMATIC DREAMS THE BLUE CHINA CANDLESTICK ONLY IT WAS BRASS IN THE DREAM NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW +be436b1d-b8ef-4b9f-9645-6270ef7a3285 THAT WASN'T ON THE LANGUAGE LIST EITHER THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES ORAN FOUGHT THE CONTROLS YONAS WAS NOT AT ALL SURE WHETHER THE BLACK HAIRED MAN UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE THERE WAS LITTLE TRACE OF IT IN HIS MIND AND VIRTUALLY NOTHING THAT MIGHT BE CALLED INTELLIGENCE THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN AWAY FROM THE DEAD CENTRE THE RAVINES WERE BODY DEEP IN CHAPARRAL +be449c03-7e6a-4477-ae7b-4240de014016 THE RAIN HAD CEASED AND THE OLD LOW RAFTERED ROOM WAS FULL OF SUNSHINE WHICH DANCED ON THE SHINING DISHES OF THE DRESSER MADE MOSAICS ON THE FLOOR AND FLICKERED OVER THE TABLE WHEREON A DELICIOUS MEAL WAS SPREAD PETER IS A REAL SMART BOY SHE SAID TO ME IT'S SUCH A PITY HE'S A HIRED BOY BUT IF WE COULD NOT PASS THE ORDEAL WE GOT ANY AMOUNT OF FUN OUT OF IT AT LEAST EVENING AFTER EVENING THE ORCHARD RE ECHOED TO OUR PEALS OF LAUGHTER WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING UP WE FELT SURE OF THAT PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT +be5d0204-7ab6-4c21-90e6-3d01d69658b1 OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE ASK YOUR MOTHER I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO LET US BE FAIR FELICITY +be64acae-b4d5-4a38-9a9d-6ddbc2387849 THEN HE OPENED HIS BIG BLUE EYES AND LOOKED UP INTO EDITH'S FACE SHE BLUSHED AS RED AS A ROSE FOR SHE KNEW SHE HAD DONE A DREADFUL THING THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND SHE KNEW FOR HE HAD WRITTEN SO TO HER THAT HE HAD EYES AS BLACK AS HER OWN WE GASPED WAS THE STORY GIRL CRAZY OR HAD SHE FORGOTTEN THAT BETTY SHERMAN WAS MISTER CAMPBELL'S OWN GREAT GRANDMOTHER AND THAT HER METHOD OF WINNING A HUSBAND WAS NOT EXACTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MAIDENLY TRADITIONS BUT MISTER CAMPBELL CHUCKLED AGAIN FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER +beb24b54-1776-4bb3-af33-7ed4df1c69b1 THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM THE ODDNESS ABOUT THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS BECAME FINNY CREST AND WHAT LOOKED AT FIRST LIKE A RED SKIN TIGHT COSTUME BECAME A SCALY HEIGHT FARMER REALIZED WITH A SHOCK THAT THE CREATURE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING WHAT A BLACK AND ENDLESS LIST THEY MADE THOSE SINS OF OMISSION AND COMMISSION THAT RUSHED ACCUSINGLY ACROSS OUR YOUNG MEMORIES I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN PADDY HAD A FINER TASTE THE STORY GIRL AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD PAY HIM COMPLIMENTS TO HIS LIKING THE GHOSTLY BELL FRIDAY WAS A COMFORTABLE DAY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF KING EVERYBODY WAS IN GOOD HUMOUR +bef1dfc9-fa21-4d2d-987e-d7e8a305682f AS FOR THAT RETURNED THE SOLDIER SERIOUSLY I MUST ADMIT THAT I LOST MY ABILITY TO LOVE WHEN I LOST MY NEAT HEART LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN THIS IS WHY I LANDED AT MIDDAY ON THE LARGEST FIELD ON THE PLANET AFTER A VERY SHOWY APPROACH I WAS ALREADY DRESSED FOR MY ROLL AND OUT OF THE SHIP BEFORE THE LANDING BRACES STOPPED VIBRATING PRESENTLY ALSO THE LAUGHTER OF THE GROWN UPS MINGLED WITH OURS +befca833-cc2a-463d-9aa2-6356ef5c5e68 IT'S LOVELY BUT IT'S DIFFERENT AND THEN WHISPERED TO THE OTHER MINISTER SO THAT EVERYBODY HEARD HIM I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID TRUE YUNUS SAID PLEASANTLY KNOUGHF WAS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE YONOS HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO SIT HE REMAINED STANDING AND HE WAS RECENTLY SURE THAT HIS FEET WERE GOING TO HURT A MINUTE WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT +bf0c1976-6aba-4fc7-8040-86c3fb258a42 OH I CAN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT STILL WE WERE BOTH INCLINED TO THINK WE WOULD LIKE CECILY BETTER THAN FELICITY HE SHRUGGED AGAIN MOVING OUT TOWARD THE DOOR OF THE HUT EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED IT'S TOO WET ON THE GRASS AND I KNOW A STORY A TRUE STORY ABOUT AN OLD LADY I SAW IN TOWN AT AUNT LOUISE'S +bf18081e-37d2-4452-962a-7f684c7328d3 I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY IT'S A BIG GALAXY BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW I CAN BE CONNED ONCE BUT ONLY ONCE THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT +bf26fbb4-8b79-461e-a4e8-8a12507e2f32 SENT IT TO WASHINGTON YOU BUCK EYED BEEMOFF DO YOU REALIZE WHAT A TRICK THAT WILL BE YOU GRANDFATHER OF INANITIES IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO DESTROY YOU MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF +bf6faa94-75d1-45b1-afca-3198e40634cf AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK FROM IT WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY SAID THE STORY GIRL HE RUBBED HIS JAW WHILE HE LOOKED IT WELL HE SAID HESITATINGLY I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN WE HAVE NINE ANSWERED THE PROFESSOR FOR THEY DO NOT LIVE WITH US YOU MUSTN'T THINK ABOUT IT THOUGH WARNED THE BIRD FOR SHE CAN READ YOUR THOUGHTS WHENEVER SHE CARES TO DO SO YOU DO NOT FORGET BEFORE YOU ESCAPE +bf87ab05-e806-4b08-85a9-f52c75d582e4 BUCKLING THE FUR CAPE AROUND MY SHOULDERS WITH THE PLATINUM CLASP I STAMPED DOWN THE RAMP SIT UP PEPPY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO AND WILL YOU PLEASE TRY THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE UNCLE EDWARD'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WAS TO BE MARRIED AND UNCLE EDWARD HAD WRITTEN OVER URGING UNCLE ALEC AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TO GO DOWN TO HALIFAX FOR THE WEDDING AND SPEND A WEEK THERE SEARCHING OUT AND USING THE PROPER SYMBOLS FOR EXPLANATION JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY +bf8c9da6-ca53-47bb-9848-a8c3a287d2cb WELL OF COURSE THAT'S PRETTY OLD ADMITTED PETER BUT SHE MIGHT FIND SOME ONE WHO WOULDN'T MIND THAT SEEING SHE'S SO PRETTY I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE I HAD MY ANSWER BACK QUICKLY ENOUGH ON THE SPOT WHERE THE BIG FELLOW HAD STOOD A LITTLE HEAP OF FLABBY WRINKLED SKIN +bf8e2495-dead-4fe3-9ef7-13a24822eff4 LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN I AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU MAY DO THE SAME YOURSELF THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE EVERYTHING WAS READY EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE +bfad421b-6c08-450c-a72b-b42da559697e WE WENT PROMPTLY A LETTER FROM THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER WAS ALWAYS AN EVENT AND TO HEAR HER READ IT WAS ALMOST AS GOOD AS HEARING HER TELL A STORY CECILY IS EVER SO MUCH CLEVERER CECILY IS A DEAR SO IS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET IS PRETTY NICE TOO WHAT IS AUNT OLIVIA LIKE ASKED FELIX AUNT OLIVIA'S VERY PRETTY SHE IS JUST LIKE A PANSY ALL VELVETY AND PURPLY AND GOLDY THE MIDDLE AGED MAN SEEMED RELIEVED THEN ON SECOND THOUGHT HE HESITATED UNEASILY WHY IS THERE ANY DANGER THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY +bfbacf6f-390a-4319-96fa-d54de460128c TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED AS HE ROSE ROPY TENTACLES TWINED AROUND HIM AND AS A MAID IS WON BY FAITH FIGURE AND DARING AND A WIFE BY RICHES POSITION OR PROSPECTS THERE WAS A NOTABLY PAUCITY OF LICEN LADIES IN JONAS'S CAREER AND SINCE THERE ARE NO WIZARDS AT LEAST BECAUSE HIS LEG WAS AS SHAPELY AND STRONG AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT SUCH AS DO NO GOOD BUT ARE LIKELY TO DO HARM +bfbd1e67-69df-4b3e-a281-99d8502f3a70 OUTSIDE THE SKY WAS PURPLE AND GOLD AND SILVERY GREEN I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT ALL I NEED TO DO WHEN I WISH TO EAT IS TO TAKE SOMETHING I DON'T CARE TO EAT WHICH WAS QUITE TRUE BUT IF THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT DREAM ANYTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE REST OF US SHE SCORED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TELLING +c00154e0-2f6d-4003-9534-d40d7bbe0aea HOPING TO FIND A GOOD PLACE FOR WOOT THE WANDERER TO SLEEP SHE TRANSFORMED THE CANARY INTO A DOVE SO IT STANDS TO REASON YOU MUST BE PUNISHED THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER +c04cebba-49de-4d15-97a3-13c7905614e6 HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIGHT RAYS THAT THE HUMAN EYES CAN'T PERCEIVE FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING AND SHE INSISTED THAT NIMY AMY SHOULD NEVER MARRY ME SLIPPED THE DEW THAT WAS CLUSTERED THICK ON THE FOREST FLOWERS +c0900d77-e3ea-43d8-af2b-2dedb8db4d29 WHEN PETER WAS READY TO BEGIN HE THRUST HIS HANDS INTO HIS POCKETS A TOTALLY UNORTHODOX THING THEN HE PLUNGED IN WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SPEAKING IN HIS ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL TONE ANOTHER UNORTHODOX THING I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME SHE IS AFRAID I WILL CATCH THE MEASLES BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE MEASLES A DOZEN TIMES OVER THAN BE SEPARATED FROM YOU ALL LIKE THIS WELL THERE WE SIT AND WRITE IN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND UNCLE ROGER PASSES BY AND ACCUSES US OF BEING UP TO DEATH TO VERY BAD MISCHIEF +c090df10-46a8-4847-80d9-28cf5656bb59 IT STILL MADE SENSE HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL THERE IS A NIDUS JUST BACK OF A FLESHY PROCESS IN ITS THROAT CORRESPONDING TO YOUR OWN TONSILS WHICH PRODUCES A CRYSTAL MUCH AS YOUR TARRAN OYSTER SECRETES A PEARL ALIEN ANY SIGN OF THAT MOB NEGATIVE O K WE'RE TAKING OFF +c0c12562-0906-451d-ab4d-5ae6d40fa15a DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT BUT WHEN MISS HOPE CAME HOME UNEXPECTED THIS MORNING WHAT SHE CUT HER VISIT A FEW DAYS SHORT HER AUNT HAVING OTHER HOUSE GUESTS TURN UP UNEXPECTED LIKE AND MISS HOPE ARRIVES FIRST THING THIS MORNING BEING HERE WHEN I RETURN FROM TOWN AFTER MAILING THE LETTER TO YOU SIR THERE WAS ONE OF FATHER'S THIN LETTERS FOR FELIX A FAT FOREIGN LETTER FOR THE STORY GIRL ADDRESSED IN HER FATHER'S MINUTE HANDWRITING A DROP LETTER FROM FOR CECILY FROM SOME SCHOOL FRIEND WITHIN HASTE WRITTEN ACROSS THE CORNER AND A LETTER FOR AUNT JANET POSTMARKED MONTREAL +c0d2f741-1459-475f-8ea3-08a311fe2c5d THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE MY SON IS GONE YOU'RE TIRED HA INTO HIS EARS CAME STETSON'S VOICE IN THE HUMAN OY NORM ON THIS PLANET SAID HORN +c0edac36-3c66-4e50-83b7-478b37f22c87 I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY LET'S ALL GIVE UP THE ORDEAL ANYWAY THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX AND I WON'T WE PAUSED A MOMENT IN THE HALL TO LOOK AT THE BIG GRANDFATHER CLOCK IT WAS NOT GOING BUT IT SEEMED LIKE AN OLD FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCE TO US WITH THE GILT BALLS ON ITS THREE PEAKS THE LITTLE DIAL IN POINTER WHICH WOULD INDICATE THE CHANGES OF THE MOON AND THE VERY DENT IN ITS WOODEN DOOR WHICH FATHER HAD MADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY BY KICKING IT IN A FIT OF NAUGHTINESS THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA +c1c124ae-fd84-4050-98a8-a32a192bee8a GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK TELL US WHAT HAPPENED MANWELL IF YOU ARE WHICH YOU AREN'T BUT TELL US AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE THE STRONG HANDS MOVED ON THE TABLE TOP IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME KUFF'S EYEBROWS WERE WHITE UP BORING IS HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY IN SPITE OF HER DISASTER WITH THE BREAD THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TAKING COOKING LESSONS FROM FELICITY ALL THE WEEK AND GETTING ON TOLERABLY WELL ALTHOUGH MINDFUL OF HER FORMER MISTAKE SHE NEVER VENTURED ON ANYTHING WITHOUT FELICITY'S APPROVAL BUT FELICITY HAD NO TIME TO OVERSEE HER THIS MORNING +c1d96c75-6b03-4039-8596-353c96df8c1d WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB ON THE PANEL ITSELF FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE DIAL'S ZERO POINT WAS THE RED SCRATCH MARK THAT MATCHED IT +c23e1174-f7d7-47d4-a4ab-f5eb0186f54f HE EASED BACK ON THE POWER SETTING MAYBE THE LIGHT WILL GO OUT BUT IT DIDN'T INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL +c2a1bc23-726c-45ee-83b4-173ab2f2ab04 ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN YOU'RE JUST GUESSING YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS THEY HAVE AN EXPANDING COUCHER NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET WE ROSE IN A BODY AND RUSHED TOWARDS THE HOUSE IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH TO US FOR EVERMORE THE MILKY WAY WOULD BE +c2b2128f-f125-4af6-bcbb-74d4610d6c93 NOW AND THEN HE GLANCED AT THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE THE CHRONOMETER ABOVE IT THE BIG TRANS LIKE MAP OF THEIR POSITION TILTED FROM THE OPPOSITE BULKHEAD THEY HIT AGAIN KNOCKED OUT A NAVY SUPPLY OF SATELLITE THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD IF YOUR PLAN DOESN'T WORK ADMIRAL THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD OH I DON'T KNOW I FEEL BETTER SINCE I PUNISHED MYSELF +c2c2f943-d126-41de-b165-edfc340758db BROAD CASTING WEARY VAUDEVILLE ROUTINES A DESIRE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS GADARY AS A RED HAZE DRIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES HE REALIZED THAT THE LAUNCH HAD ACQUIRED ANOTHER OCCUPANT A SINGLE ONE AGAINST THE LEFT SHARP WENT TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE NEAR THE SINGLE BED INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM I'M AWFULLY SORRY I LAUGHED IN CHURCH BUT YOU NEEDN'T BE AFRAID I EVER WILL AGAIN NO SIR +c2d14707-56f3-4341-8b77-b7cf50294102 SHE STROKED THE PURRING PADDY AND WE READ STEADILY ON WITH MADDENING INDIFFERENCE TO ALL OF OUR PLEADINGS EVEN CECILY THE MEEK AND MILD WAS SNAPPISH AND COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE PETER HAD GONE HOME TO SEE HIS MOTHER AND UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO MARKDALE ON BUSINESS IF WE CAN'T SOON FIND OUT WHAT MAKES PETER AND THE STORY GIRL DREAM LIKE THAT THE REST OF US MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP TRYING TO WRITE DREAM BOOKS SAID FELIX DISCONTENTEDLY FINALLY WE DID FIND OUT THEN WE SUCKED ON THE JUICE SWEETER WAS IT THAN THE NECTAR DRUNK BY BLISSFUL GODS ON THE THESSALYAN HILL BUT EARLY AS IT WAS WE FOUND THE STORY GIRL IN THE KITCHEN WHEN WE WENT DOWN SITTING ON RACHEL WARD'S BLUE CHEST AND LOOKING IMPORTANT +c2d9464a-85b2-4357-9e58-5b016ff05d4c THE SCOOP REACHED DEEPER WATER AND SUBMERGED THROWING A MOUNTAINOUS BILLOW THAT SENT THE ISLAND QUEEN REELING AND ALL BUT FOUNDED HER THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES OUTSIDE THE LOFT WAS A VAST SUNSHINY GULF OF BLUE SKY AND MELLOW AIR WHEREIN FLOATED ARGUSES A FLUFFY CLOUD AND AIRY TOPS OF MAPLE AND SPRUCE +c2ee9288-2609-4d97-9ce6-b31784304e07 OZMA'S FACE BRIGHTENED AS SHE LISTENED TO THIS CLEVER PROPOSAL EVEN NOW THE RAIN DROPS WERE BEGINNING TO FALL BUT IT WAS QUITE DRY INSIDE THE TUNNEL AND BY THE TIME THEY HAD REACHED THE OTHER END AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF +c320d0c3-1832-4b64-ae39-ec4e789fd631 IT IS A TRICK KNUFF SAID I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY BUT THE TALENT WAS NEW ITEDED PRACTICE IT NEEDED TRAINING MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION WHEN THE TIME CAME TO HAND IN OUR COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY FUND IT WAS TO MAKE FELICITY AS CLEVER AS THE STORY GIRL +c32397a7-2936-4545-8f28-84d50a4541e4 THERE HAD NEVER BEEN SUCH A THING IN CARLISLE BEFORE WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED MISSUS RAY SAYS IF SHE ISN'T BETTER BY THE MORNING SHE'S GOING TO SEND FOR THE DOCTOR AND SHE IS AFRAID IT'S THE MEASLES IN THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE DAWN THE HEAVY DUTY EYE DROPPED THE CRATE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND DARTED AWAY WITHOUT BEING SEEN AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME +c32a95a9-24d6-4397-87b1-437e45008fcc AUNT OLIVIA'S SKIM MILK IS AS GOOD AS YOUR MOTHER'S CREAM CRIED THE STORY GIRL HOTLY O GIRLS DON'T FIGHT SAID CECILY THE PEACE MAKER IT'S SUCH A NICE DAY AND WE'LL HAVE A NICE TIME IF YOU DON'T SPOIL IT FIGHTING WE'RE NOT FIGHTING SAID FELICITY AND I LIKE AUNT OLIVIA BUT MY MOTHER IS JUST AS GOOD AS AUNT OLIVIA THERE NOW THE BARON THE OWL GRAVELY WATCHED THIS OPERATION AND NODDED APPROVAL IN WUTE'S SILKY GREEN FURS SHONE CLEAR AND BRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON SUN THE CANARY SEEMED MUCH AMUSED AND LAUGHED A SOBERY RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER AS SHE SAID VERY WELL DONE MY GOOD GINGER I ADMIRE YOUR ENERGY AND JUDGMENT THERE WERE SOME SAWHEADS IN HOUSTON WHO SAID THAT IT WASN'T POSSIBLE THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT AND IN THE DAYS THAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOING ON THEY CLEANED UP AND FED MANWELL IF IT WERE HE AND TRIED TO GET FROM HIM A COGENT STORY +c3393bfc-cff8-494c-b717-2111d93bedbe UNCLE CHARLEY HAS TALKED ABOUT SETTLING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND STANDING FOR COUNCIL ELECTION CHAFFY THREE SAID TO JENOFY THEN AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I WELL I'M GOING TO GIVE UP TRYING TO COOK AND STICK TO THINGS I CAN DO IT LOOKED JUST LIKE CORNMEAL SAID THE STORY GIRL GOING FROM WHITE TO RED IN HER SHAME +c341d137-e28c-407a-a929-0f1e7fad26ab THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK I IMAGINE HE WAS AS FULL OF PETTY LARCENACY AS FORERO NO INNOCENT MAN COULD HAVE LOOKED SO TERROR STRICKEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN AND WHEN HER FATHER URGED HER TO CHOOSE ONE OF THEM AS HER HUSBAND SHE DREW HERSELF HAUGHTILY UP SO AND THE STORY GIRL SPRANG TO HER FEET AND FOR A MOMENT WE SAW THE PROUD PRINCESS OF THE OLD TALE IN ALL HER SCORNFUL LOVELINESS AND SHE SAID I WILL NOT WED UNTIL A KING COMES WHO CAN CONQUER ALL KINGS +c3490d6f-5f56-4f2c-bbbb-e483347fe225 IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING HE WAS A BOY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MYSELF AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND BUT I KNOW WHAT HE MUST EVER SEEM TO ME BUT AUNT OLIVIA WON'T LET ME WASTE THE STUFF MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK +c356f8b2-b877-47c7-b2ec-6ebd1b5eb478 THOSE OF US WHO HAD NOTHING THE MATTER WITH OUR CONSCIENCES ENJOYED OUR WALK TO THE LITTLE WHITEWASHED SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE VALLEY FELICITY AND CECILY WERE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY ABOUT TEN YEARS AFTER GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE MARRIED A YOUNG MAN CAME TO VISIT THEM HE WAS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF GRANDMOTHER'S AND HE WAS A POET +c3832cc7-0cd5-48c1-a8dc-62cd0da34ca4 HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN THIS IS YOUR HOUSE THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN FELIX HELD OUT THE NEWSPAPER IT WAS A CHARLOTTETOWN DAILY ENTERPRISE UNDER A SENSATIONAL HEADLINE THE LAST TRUMP WILL SOUND AT TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW WAS A PARAGRAPH TO THE EFFECT THAT THE LEADER OF A CERTAIN NOTED SECT IN THE UNITED STATES HAD PREDICTED THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THAT ALL HIS NUMEROUS FOLLOWERS WERE PREPARING FOR THE DREAD EVENT BY PRAYER FASTING AND THE MAKING OF APPROPRIATE WHITE GARMENTS FOR ASCENSION ROBES MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY BY BRINGING OUT A PORTABLE TELEVISION SET +c392238a-511a-4d17-a806-91c4c57e99c0 ALL NEATLY DISPLAYED ON TIN DISHES THAT WERE POLISHED TILL THEY SHONE LIKE MIRRORS I AM SURPRISED AT YOU FELICITY KING SAID CECILIA SEVERELY AT LEAST ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED BUT I NEVER FOUND IT SO HARD TO REMEMBER THE GOLDEN TEXT BEFORE ONE VERY HOT DAY SHE HEARD JUDY PINNOT SAY SHE WAS ALL IN A SWEAT +c3a2872f-56d7-4044-9f82-ddca0402fc6d THE GUARDS WHO HELD ME FOLLOWED BY THE PRIESTS WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE HE HAD HAD TIME TO GROW SORE OVER THE THINGS THAT FELICITY HAD SAID TO HIM WHEN JIMMY PATTERSON WAS THOUGHT LOST AND HE BEGAN THE DAY WITH A FLATLY EXPRESSED DETERMINATION THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO LET FELICITY RULE THE ROOST +c3b43f51-1736-4a38-b735-e86cc08d5555 THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND IS REALLY TOO BIG FOR ANY USE OR IF THE LUXURIES DIDN'T CATCH HIS EYE WOULD HE BE INTERESTED IN THE PLANETARY HOMESTEADING GEAR YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE BRAINS THAN THAT DAGREES HE SNARLED CREEPING INTO MY ROOM AT NIGHT YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SHOT +c3bd2e9f-3009-493e-aa09-5639630fa537 YOU KNEW IT WAS A PRIVATE PROPERTY I SUPPOSE SAID SHE BUTTERING ANOTHER BISCUIT WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE LEG ANYHOW ONE DAY HE TOLD HER HE WAS COMING THE NEXT DAY TO ASK A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION AND HE WANTED TO FIND HER UNDER THE BIRCHES WHEN HE CAME EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT THE STORY GIRL TURNED WHITE AND CECILID AS FOR THAT POOR UNLUCKY PETER THE SHAME OF HIS COUNTENANCE WAS PITIFUL TO BEHOLD +c3becd10-0588-4ae3-8049-07889afa13e1 I CAN DO THAT AS WELL AS ANY OF THE EXPERIENCED OPERATORS AND IT MAY GIVE ME THE EXPERIENCE I NEED SO THAT SOME DAY I TOO WILL BE QUALIFIED TO JOIN THE RANKS ALL RIGHT HE SAID STOP SHOVELLING ON WHILE I CAN STILL BREATHE I COULD HARDLY SUPPORT MY OWN WEIGHT MY LEGS WERE TREMBLING WITH THE BURDEN SWEAT BROKE OUT OVER MY WHOLE BODY THE RAYS OF LIGHT BEAT DOWN UPON ME FIERCELY AND OVERPOWERINGLY HAPPY WHAT'S THAT DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPINESS IS INQUIRED THE TIN WOODMAN I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHETHER IT'S ROUND OR SQUARE OR BLACK OR WHITE OR WHAT IT IS AND IF YOU WILL PARDON MY LACK OF INTEREST IN IT I WILL SAY THAT I DON'T CARE +c3f96489-7235-4d5d-bc4a-e05baaab4dff THE RAINBOW HAD FADED OUT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE OCTOBER DUSK WAS FALLING I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT WHAT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE FOR EVER IN THIS WORLD TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON HE REACHED OVER TOOK THE RIFLE FOUND THE SAFETY BELTS BOUND TO NOBE WITH HIM THEN HE EASED OFF THE ACCELERATION THE IDEA APPEALED TO US AND THE DAY BEING SATURDAY AND THE APPLES ALL PICKED WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE ORCHARD TO COMPOSE OUR EPISTLES CECILY HAVING FIRST SENT WORD BY A CONVENIENT CALLER TO SARA RAY THAT SHE TOO MIGHT HAVE A LETTER READY +c423b183-8084-4d1a-834d-6c76b71e6aa5 AND THERE WAS PEACE OVER ALL THAT FRESH AND FLOWERY LAND THAT IS IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN WITH A DELICATE TANGLE OF ROSY CLOUD ABOVE THE ELMS SHE BLUSHED AS RED AS A ROSE FOR SHE KNEW SHE HAD DONE A DREADFUL THING SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT HE HAD THE BAIT NOW BUT WOULD HE GRAB THE HOOK MANY THE ROEBOT SAID MEANING I AM IN THE HAND HOLDING COTERGHRIE I ASKED WITH AS MUCH SWEETNESS AS I COULD +c43d55a5-3d44-4826-8fab-9030656f43b6 AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED THE FOREFINGERED HAND LOOKED EXTREMELY CAPABLE AROUND THE STOCK OF MARK TWENTY WHEN A CAT DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S PRETTY FAR GONE WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED WE'LL HAVE TO BE AWFUL GOOD YOU KNOW WARNED CECILY THERE'S NO USE PRAYING IF YOU'RE NOT GOOD WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN +c44bb65d-e107-4ffe-ab42-c7f1afc56110 UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS EMPTY HANDS THE GUN MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY ORN CALLED INTO HIS MIND THE LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN HYPNO FORCED INTO HIM O CHIRO NO THAT MEANT THE PEOPLE CAN'T I JUST SEE HIM AT IT NOW SAID UNCLE ROGER LEANING OVER THAT OLD BOULDER HIS CHEEKS RED AND HIS EYES BURNING WITH EXCITEMENT BANGING THE TOP OF IT AS HE HAD SEEN THE MINISTERS DO IN CHURCH IT WASN'T CUSHIONED HOWEVER AND HE ALWAYS BRUISED HIS HANDS IN HIS SELF FORGETFUL EARNESTNESS THAT GAVE JEFF TIME ENOUGH TO REACH THE STORM SHUTTERS AND SECURE THEM ONLY TO RUSH AGAIN WITH JENIFER TO THEIR BUNK BARRICADE AS THE ZID PROMPTLY RENEWED ITS FEROCIOUS ATTACK ON THE DOOR +c44fafbd-d27f-42e8-80e8-a876a4ad9862 BELOW ME HEMMING ME IN WERE THE GUARDS A TRIPLE RING OF THEM THROUGH WHICH I KNEW I COULD NOT ESCAPE BEHIND ME FOR I WAS FACING THE MULTITUDE WAS THE HIDEOUS GRINNING FACE OF THE IDOL THE PRIESTS BOWED A SECOND TIME MARRY ME NOW AND YOU AND I AND YOUR FATHER AND ALL YOUR COURT WILL RIDE STRAIGHTWAY TO MY KINGDOM AND IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED THEN THAT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS YOU MAY GIVE ME BACK MY RING AND RETURN HOME FREE OF ME FOR EVERMORE BEFORE HIM STRETCHED AN ENDLESS CARPET OF RED DUST THE LIGHT FROM THE TWO MOONS WAS GROWING DIM AS EACH SETTLED TOWARDS DIFFERENT HORIZONS HE SAT DOWN +c46aff08-7948-4b24-ad4a-ad402c63dc2a AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES HE SHOT OUT A BIG PAW AND GRABBED HER BY THE WRIST DORA HESITATED HER HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER THEN BACK AT THE LAUNCH AND FARMER I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT +c4879c37-e56f-4752-97d9-75f494c184c4 HIS VOICE BROKE OFF AS IF HE HAD BEEN STRUCK IN THE FACE AND JOHN ANDREW FARMER LAY ON HIS BACK WAITING FOR HIS STRENGTH TO SEEP BACK IT WAS A HUGE COMFORT TO HER THAT AUNT JANET ALWAYS SAID YES AND OF COURSE AS IF THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY AND I VOW PADDY WOULD LICK HIS CHOPS WITH DELIGHT BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT +c4b99bc0-593c-4ba1-8e28-a6b3a78ed511 JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE E I FOR GOD'S SAKE COME IN I'M IN TROUBLE HERE WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS SHE PULLED ME INTO IT PLAYED ME LIKE AN ACCORDION I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH THE MAN WITH THE BLACK HAIR SAID THE OTHERS HE MET ONLY BRIEFLY FOR AL SHARP WAS A LITTLE WOMAN WITH THE FACE OF A WALNUT WHO LOOKED AS IF SHE HAD NEVER REALLY BEEN CHEERFUL +c4c6eff9-4f46-41f2-bcf4-7d6aab038768 UNCLE ROGER HOBBLED OFF TO THE BARN STILL HOLDING ON TO HIS STOMACH DO YOU THINK HE REALLY FEELS SICK ASKED THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY NO I DON'T SAID FELICITY YOU NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT HIM THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH HIM I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WERE ANY NEEDLES IN THAT SAWDUST SUDDENLY HOPE SCREAMED AND I FOLLOWED HER EYES A SCORE OR MORE OF THE STRANGE BEINGS HAD SUDDENLY MATERIALIZED BUT A FEW YARDS AWAY AND THEY WERE CLOSING IN ON US SWIFTLY I TRIED TO DRAW MY GUN CECILY SET THE TABLE AND THE STORY GIRL WAITED ON IT AND WASHED ALL THE DISHES AFTERWARDS BUT ALL THE BLUSHING HONOURS FELL TO FELICITY WHO RECEIVED SO MANY COMPLIMENTS THAT HER AIRS WERE QUITE UNBEARABLE FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK +c4d7aa34-2c03-4bc9-a402-0b3ee83c5741 WE HAVE BARN CATS BUT PATTY NEVER ASSOCIATES WITH THEM I THINK IT'S AWFULLY LUCKY WE WERE ALL BORN INTO THE SAME FAMILY FELIX REMARKED ISN'T IT I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT SO AND MILLER AND I STOLE THE LISTS OF NAMES AND RAN AWAY MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK FIRST THERE WAS THE CELL WHICH WAS IN THE BASIN OF THE TOWN HALL WHICH MEANT JONAS REFLECTED THAT HE WAS IN A FAIR WAY TO GET HIMSELF BURNED AS A HERETIC UNLESS HE WATCHED HIS STEP CAREFULLY HERC NUF'S FAME HAS REACHED MY OWN COUNTRY FAR AWAY HE SAID WITH SOME TRUTH +c50773cc-9ddd-4a4f-9d61-793d02592d40 EXCUSE ME COLONEL TOWERS THE PLANET HAS WATER AND BOTH ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE HE WATCHED UNTIL THE FLARE FLICKERED OUT HE TORMENTED HER FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION +c52508f3-822b-44ff-9a7d-ea1c9eb9458e ANGELINA ROLLED HER EYES UP AND SLID SLOWLY TO THE FLOOR THERE WAS LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON PEPPY AND ANGELINA THEY HAD COVERED THEIR TRACKS WELL THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB WAS I MISTAKEN IN THINKING THAT DONALD FRAGON SAID ONCE THAT HIS FAVOURITE HORSE SHOULD NEVER BE BACKED BY ANY MAN BUT HIM +c5337567-5053-416d-8a66-c0b786f27716 WASN'T IT A HARD PLIGHT FOR POOR DONALD BUT HE WAS A SCOTCHMAN YOU KNOW AND IT'S PRETTY HARD TO STICK A SCOTCHMAN ALONG WILL THEY DO ANYTHING TO ME DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS IT HAD BEEN INTERESTING AT FIRST PARTICULARLY SINCE UP TO THE TIME I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SPECIAL CORPS I WASN'T EVEN CERTAIN IT REALLY EXISTED WELL NO I SUPPOSE NOT I AGREED THINKING OF BILLY ROBINSON DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WILL DO ANY GOOD BETH HE MUST HAVE GOT SOME BAD USE AT THE OFFICE SAID SARA RAY +c55d426f-3beb-4d72-bf67-8ce3bcf4db0e IT IS A PLACE I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE REMARKED THE SCARECROW AS THEY APPROACHED A DENSE FOREST THE INHABITANTS MAY BE PEOPLE OF SOME SORT OR THEY MAY BE ANIMALS BUT WHATEVER THEY PROVE TO BE WE WILL HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY CHARLEY TO DOROTHY AND OZMA ON OUR RETURN BUT DIRECTLY BEFORE US THE POTATO FIELD WITH ITS WREATHING SMOKE AND SULLEN FLAMES THE GIGANTIC SHADOW OF UNCLE ALEC CROSSING AND RECROSSING IT REMINDED US OF PETER'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF THE BAD PLACE AND PROBABLY SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL'S REMARK I KNOW A STORY SHE SAID INFUSING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF WEIRDNESS INTO HER VOICE ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY I CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT BUT WE WERE VERY QUIET NOW WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING AND THOUGH IT WAS THUS SUDDENLY REMOVED THE CHILL AND THE SHADOW OF IT WERE ABOUT US STILL +c56b494c-adf1-4089-9d93-1d1abb56b0fa AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE FIRST STEP CLARTON SAID AND ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS THE MAGIC APRON PROVED TO WANDER FROM ONE'S HOME REMARKED THE SCARECROW OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE THE VOICE WAS MORE THAN FULL ENOUGH TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE +c574cc70-29fc-446d-a530-db29c7e0daf8 THEY WERE ALL PULLED DOWN IN THE END SINCE THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDED ON ONE MAN RULE BUT THE PRICE THAT HAD TO BE PAID FIRST HAD ALREADY MENDED HIM I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR THIS IS STRANGE MUSED THE SCARECROW I YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY +c575d17c-c58f-4f07-ae24-46a652b93b03 MISSUS RAY NOW APPEARED LOOKING FOR SARA AND SAID SHE WOULD STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US I'LL BE MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU IF YOU WILL SAID UNCLE ROGER I FEEL A BIT SHOOK SO IT CAME TO PASS THAT EVERY TREE IN IT WAS A FAIR GREEN MONUMENT TO SOME LOVE OR DELIGHT OF THE VANISHED YEARS AND EVERY GRANDCHILD HAD ITS TREE THERE ALSO SET OUT BY GRANDFATHER WHEN THE TIDINGS OF ITS BIRTH REACHED HIM NOT ALWAYS AN APPLE TREE PERHAPS IT WAS A PLUM OR CHERRY OR PEAR BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL +c5776029-97de-4036-8af4-2ad4d4487012 THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES ABOVE THE FAR MURMUROUS WHISPER OF EXPECTED MARINE CEREBRATION THERE ROSE AN UNCOORDINATED MISHMASH OF THOUGHT FROM AT LEAST TWO STRONG AND RELATIVELY COMPLEX INTELLIGENCES AND IF MY FATHER HADN'T RUN AWAY HE MIGHT HAVE GIVEN ME SOMETHING TOO WITH THAT HE UNTIED NEIL'S HORSE CLIMBED INTO NEIL'S SLEIGH AND TUCKED NEIL'S BUFFALO ROBE ABOUT HIM +c58bdab2-8dca-407a-b1b2-c938a6a6d6d6 PETER RESOLVED TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US TOO NOT TROUBLING HIMSELF BY ANYBODY'S PERMISSION IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL JOHN ANDREW GULPED AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT IT HAD MELTED WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY I AM GOING TO TAKE A SUBJECT INSTEAD OF A TEXT SAID PETER LOFTILY +c59a0069-4233-4f79-806d-d14c4cfbfa37 HER NAME WAS EMILY KING I LIKE IT WHEN PETER PLAYS THE POET EVEN BEFORE GRANDFATHER KING WAS BORN AS IT WAS THEY HAD BARELY TIME TO TELEPPORT THEMSELVES TO THE AFTER HOLD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IMMEDIATE DANGER MER CAUGHT HIMSELF NODDING OR WAS THAT LONG ISLAND THE DIVING SUIT HAD SHIPPED SOME WATER +c5bb515e-976c-4fdd-9af4-389679a0de19 THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY HE CAME UP SPOUTING WATER AND FIGHTING FOR BREATH TO FIND HIMSELF A PERILOUS TWENTY FEET FROM THE ZID IT'S SUCH A GOOD BOOK TO READ ON SUNDAYS IT IS INTERESTING AND RELIGIOUS TOO SO IS THE BIBLE I HADN'T QUITE FINISHED THE BIBLE BEFORE I TOOK THE MEASLES BUT MA'S READING THE LAST CHAPTERS TO ME BECAUSE OF THE MEASLES IN MARKDALE SOBBED SARA SHE SAYS MARKDALE IS FULL OF THEM AND THERE'LL BE SURE TO BE SOME OF THE MARKDALE PEOPLE AT THE SHOW SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO AND I'VE NEVER SEEN A MAGIC LANTERN AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING +c63619f2-4a4a-4586-a5b6-15c0cf7c7130 FELIX HAD BELIEVED BLISSFULLY THAT IT WOULD MAKE HIM THIN CECILY'S HAIR WAS TO BECOME NATURALLY CURLY AND SARA RAY WAS NOT TO BE AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN ANY MORE THAT ANSWERED THE SOLDIER IS A SAD SAD STORY I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MUNCHKIN GIRL WHO LIVED WITH A WICKED WITCH THE WITCH DID NOT WISH ME TO MARRY THE GIRL SO SHE ENCHANTED MY SWORD WHICH BEGAN HACKING ME TO PIECES PERHAPS UGLY PEOPLE NEVER HAVE STORIES HAPPEN TO THEM SUGGESTED FELICITY I THINK THEY'RE JUST AS INTERESTING AS HANDSOME PEOPLE RETORTED DAN +c652c55f-4f65-47a2-8770-5edbfedaba57 TRUE SMILED VIC IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY WATCH THEM PETE ROARED VIC WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES REASSURED THE PATIENT THOUGHT AND BECAME CONFIDENTIAL THE IDEAL WAY TO DEAL WITH THE PEST YOU KNOW THE NATURE OF THE TROUBLE GARF PADDLED IDLY AROUND DOR'S APARTMENT PRETENDING INTEREST IN THE SHELL PAINTINGS THAT DECORATED THE WALLS +c6641992-3198-4cb6-87bb-ff61ff19009a NOTHING IN CERIMIAN EXPERIENCE HAD PREPARED THEM FOR CREATURES INTELLIGENT BUT ILLOGICAL FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE BUT I SHALL MAKE YOU A FAIR OFFER I HAVE HEARD FROM MY HOUSEKEEPER'S URCHIN OF A SON THAT YOU ARE A MASTER HAND TELL STORIES AMAZINGLY HIS TONGUE ONLY GOT TANGLED ONCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SPEECH GARF FACED THEM +c671ac2e-6400-484c-80c2-7b5aeb98d1cc THE TROUBLE WAS THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER THINGS HE LIKED BETTER THAN WORK IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED I THOUGHT OF THAT MYSELF BUT I CAN'T STAY HOME CECILY IT WOULD BE FAR MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD COULD ENDURE THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH +c67532ef-980b-4b63-98d6-60af6eb43477 WE ALL EVEN DAN CRIED I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING PASS ON AND DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN HE SAID AND I BELIEVE IT SENSIBLE TO KEEP OUT OF DANGER WHENEVER WE CAN CAN'T YOU HELP US BEING A FAIRY THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY +c6826efc-dc5e-4cbf-888b-aca4771eab5a THE STRONG HANDS MOVED ON THE TABLE TOP AND IF HE'S GOT YOU IN A WOODEN HOUSE AND HE'S GOING TO BURN IT DOWN WHAT GOOD DOES THAT YOUR KNOWLEDGE DO YOU KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE CONTACTED ALL THE STAR SYSTEMS A DAY'S FLIGHT AHEAD OF THE MAXIMUM FLIGHT OF THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP WHAT ABOUT THE LEAGUE THOUGH DON'T THEY TAKE ANY INTEREST IN CRIME AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US +c687c15d-58ec-4649-83bd-41883b397c05 WHO WAS THEN IN THE LEAD OF THE LITTLE PARTY HALTED WITH SUCH AN ABRUPT JERK THAT HE STUMBLED OVER BACKWARD DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN AND GREAT CITIES SPRANG UP WHERE HE HAD TRODDEN AND EVERY LAND THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED WAS BLESSED BECAUSE ONE OF THE GODS HAD COME DOWN TO MEN +c69591ca-191f-47e6-9c4c-a0f9af72d803 I EXPECTED THE STORY GIRL WOULD OVERWHELM HIM WITH SCORN AND INDIGNATION NO MATTER HOW LONG THEY ARE COMING UP INSTANTLY THE SLEDGE SHOT SKYWARD HEAVY GEES PRESSING THEM DOWN INTO THE SEATS THERE WAS A WARDER OF THE BRIDGE A GOD AND TELL HIM HOW SORRY I AM AND WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME +c69eb538-b393-478f-8935-55b3391e1677 DON'T WORRY YOUR POOR BRAINS SAID SHE YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME HOWEVER HARD YOU TRY I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS SEE HE'S MOTIONING US TO WATCH THE PRIEST LED THE OLD MAN BACK TO THE IDOL NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY CAPTAIN STENG WON BY NOSE IT WAS HIS SHIP AND HE KNEW ALL THE SHORT CUTS THE SIER MAN WAS HOLDING A TO OUT OF TRANSCRIPTION BUT HE SUMMED IT UP IN ONE SENTENCE HE LOOKED AT ME WHILE HE TALKED AND HIS FACE WAS HARD AND COLD +c6b001fa-0d2b-4087-b0ba-6d329edf1002 RAY MADE SENSITIVE BY YEARS OF OPEN SKETCHISM ON THE PART OF MANY LISTENERS CAUGHT THE LOOK AND INSISTED ON A DEMONSTRATION OF HIS FABULOUS INVENTION EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH THE GIRL WAS OBVIOUSLY ASSISTANT TO THE MUSTER MIND WHO ORIGINATED THE SCHEME HE SAT IN THE CENTER OF THE PLOT LIKE A SPIDER ON ITS WEB PULLING THE STRINGS THAT SET THINGS INTO MOTION THE GIRLS SAW THIS ENTRY BUT TO THEIR CREDIT BE IT TOLD THEY NEVER TRIED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DRAM WAS AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION +c6cdcea8-43db-418f-aa8c-09445a4bfe38 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT UP DAN SAID CECILY ANXIOUSLY I HAD TO SAID DAN THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL BESIDES I'M ALL RIGHT AGAIN I FEEL FINE I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER NOW NEVER MIND QUARRELLING SAID CECILY YOU LEAVE PETER ALONE FELICITY PETER THIS IS BEVERLY KING AND THIS IS FELIX AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE GOOD FRIENDS AND HAVE A LOVELY SUMMER TOGETHER THINK OF THE GAMES WE CAN HAVE BUT IF YOU GO SQUABBLING YOU'LL SPOIL IT ALL PETER WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO DAY PAT JUST GOT SICK AND GOT BETTER AGAIN OF HIS OWN ACCORD I'M GOING TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE PRAYING SAID CECILY DECIDEDLY IT'S SO MUCH NICER TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CURED PAT THAN THAT PEG BOWEN DID BUT YOU OUGHTN'T TO BELIEVE A THING JUST CAUSE IT WILL BE MORE COMFORTABLE OBJECTED PETER MIND YOU I AIN'T SAYING GOD COULDN'T CURE PAT BUT NOTHING AND NOBODY CAN'T EVER MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WASN'T AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL THUS FAITH SUPERSTITION AND INCREDULITY STROVE TOGETHER AMONGST US AS IN ALL HISTORY +c70e2db5-23be-4e33-b2ca-7b4146b9b8e5 MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN NOBODY WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP COULD EVER TELL IT WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COME OUT IT'S WONDERFUL TO WALK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL HE SOON MADE ME A NEW LEG OUT OF TIN AND FASTENED IT CLEVERLY TO MY NEAT BODY +c716c614-f781-44e0-9fa0-68c43b0880f4 NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET AND SHE HANGS MY CAGE IN HER BEDROOM EVERY NIGHT SO SHE CAN KEEP HER EYE ON ME UNLESS THEY CAN HELP US WE MUST REMAIN FOREVER AS WE ARE HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING MISSUS SHARP CAME BACK TO THE HUT EARLY ONE DAY THROUGH A FRIGHTENED GLANCE AT YONAH SITTING IN A CORNER DOING NOTHING AT ALL AND LEFT +c743ff76-2227-4494-b421-05ebfe48d3a7 BUT NOBODY HAS TO EAT IT ALL AT ONCE RETORTED UNCLE ROGER WITH ANOTHER GROAN BUT WHEN FELICITY LAUGHED AT HIM THE IRON ENTERED INTO PETER'S SOUL THESE TREES WERE NO LONGER LIVING BUT THEY HAD BEEN WHEN FATHER WAS A BOY AND EVERY SPRING BEDECKED THEMSELVES IN BLOSSOM AS DELICATELY TINTED AS ELIZABETH KING'S FACE WHEN SHE WALKED THROUGH THE OLD SOUTH MEADOW IN THE MORN OF HER LIFE AND LOVE I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK +c75c8e78-599e-4108-b254-99d121a460c7 I'M MARRIED NOW BUT I'M AS EAGER TO GET AND READ THE OZ STORIES AS EVER AND STILL ANOTHER WRITES MY GOOD WIFE AND I BOTH MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE BELIEVE THAT WE FIND MORE REAL ENJOYMENT IN YOUR OZBOOKS THAN IN ANY OTHER BOOKS WE READ THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN JEFF SAID DIZZILY THE SCOOPS MAKE THE CRYSTALS EVERYTHING WAS VERY STILL AS WE CREPT DOWNSTAIRS OUT IN THE KITCHEN WE HEARD SOME ONE PRESUMABLY UNCLE ALEC LIGHTING THE FIRE BUT THE HEART OF HOUSE HAD NOT YET BEGUN TO BEAT FOR THE DAY +c76e8d6c-9bef-4c76-8cd5-ae4672cfbf6b THERE HIS HEAD PILLOWED HARDLY ON UNCLE ROGER'S BOOTS LADY JIMMIE PATTERSON STILL SOUND ASLEEP WELL I'LL BE JIGGERED SAID UNCLE ROGER I KNEW HE NEVER WENT OUT OF THE DOOR CRIED DAN TRIUMPHANTLY THE SKY ABOVE IT WAS CHILL AND ERETHRAL AND MYSTICAL BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS AND THE WEIRD LITTLE TALE TOLD IN A VOICE FRAUGHT WITH MYSTERY AND PATHOS HAD PEOPLED THEM FOR US WITH FURATIVE FOLKS IN BELT AND WAMPUM AND DARK DRESSED INDIAN MAIDENS I DON'T LIKE THIS STEP YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY +c79ccb18-48df-44b3-9b50-50681425169c FARMER WAS NOT ABLE TO SAY NO TO RAY BUT EVEN HE LOOKED DUBIOUS AT THE SMALL GREY FELLOW'S VOLLE OUTPOURING OF PSEUDO SCIENTIFIC JARGON IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT TELL PARENT TO DO NOTHING FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT WE COULD NEVER CLIMB BACK AND LEAVE WORD WITH THEM FOR HOPE TELL HER ALL SCRAMBLE OUT SOMEHOW THAT WE WILL IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY YOUR LUCK WILD ROSES GREW PINKLY ALONG THE FENCES AND THE ROADSIDES WERE STAR DUSTED WITH BUTTERCUPS +c80307ce-53b6-4d44-8a03-d984d89c60b7 DO NOT WORRY FOR WE SHALL NOT GO FAR TO THE NORTH SAID THE EMPEROR MY ONE IDEA IS TO AVOID THE EMERALD CITY WITHOUT GOING OUT OF OUR WAY MORE THAN IS NECESSARY HE'S PRAYING THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE SHE SAID THE RASPBERRIES WERE PLENTIFUL AND WE WERE NOT LONG IN FILLING OUT OUR RECEPTACLES IF PETER HAD NOT BEEN SO MANIFESTLY FRIGHTENED WE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO PASS OFF A JOKE ON US BUT SUCH ABJECT TERROR AS HIS COULD NOT BE COUNTERFEITED +c820cf4a-22c7-455d-8cd1-e52fe2f4e221 AND AT ONCE A SCENE WOULD FLASH UPON THE MAGIC CANVAS WHICH SHOWED AND AROUND HER WAIST WAS A SASH OF VIPER I FELL IN LOVE WITH HER HATING MYSELF AND HAPPY ALL AT THE SAME TIME WELL I'M GLAD IT'S OVER KNOCKED OUT A NAVY SUPPLY OF SATELLITE PETER WAS STARING AT THE STORY GIRL WITH A FASCINATED HORROR STRICKEN GAZE BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY +c82b32d8-65c8-4156-a74d-2232c3ec6b71 IT WAS FAR FROM A WARM WELCOME BUT YONAS WAS SATISFIED WITH IT I SHALL WORK TO DO YOU GOOD HE SAID AND NOT EVIL STRANGER SHARP SAID WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD AREN'T YOU GETTING A LITTLE HEAVY YOURSELF DE GRIZ HE SAID VOICE CHILL AS THE ICE CAP I STILL GIVE THE ORDERS AND I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU'RE READY FOR AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND WHAT DID SCHUBEN DO WHEN SHE FOUND OUT SHE HAD KILLED A KATY ASKED FELICITY IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY +c8735c09-fbb1-4fad-82fa-a578a6625fbb HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE OLD AND WORN STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN BUT ORDINARY OCEAN I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED ARE WE GOING TO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY BY WAY OF THE EMERALD CITY INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY I THINK NOT WAS THE REPLY WE ARE ENGAGED UPON A RATHER DELICATE ADVENTURE FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER FOR TWO REASONS ON ONE DAY THROUGH SOME UNFAILING MIRACLE OF COLLAXIAN SEAMANSHIP OLD CHARLIE MACK SAILED DOWN IN HIS ANCIENT ISLAND QUEEN FROM THE TOWNSHIP THAT REPRESENTED COLONIAL TERRAN CIVILIZATION IN PERSONCINIAN ARCHIPELAGO ONE FORTY SEVEN BRINGING SUPPLIES AND GOSSIP TO LAST JEFF THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TEN DAY THE QUEEN WOULD TALK AT JEFF'S LITTLE PIER AT DAWN SHE WAS NEVER LATE +c87a77d0-8d89-41bc-ae8a-a75ff99aca4d THEN SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND LAUGHED A MERRY LAUGH LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ISN'T TOO LATE NOW SARA SHE SAID YOU JUST TAKE MY ADVICE AND GO INTO THIS WITH ALL YOUR HEART IF YOU GO AT ALL NEVER MIND IF IT IS BAD THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS JIMMY FREWEN WALKED HOME WITH NELLIE BOWEN LAST NIGHT FROM PRAYER MEETING AND HER ONLY FOURTEEN DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE +c8b7f478-2911-4553-a529-a596993eb4d3 CECILY AND FELIX WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DISTINGUISH THE DOUBLE STAR IN THE HANDLE OF THE BIG DIPPER MANY A PRINCESS RODE BY US ON HER PALFREY WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES THEY ARE GREAT AT MANY THINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT SWEET AND SHOULDN'T BE I THOUGHT IT OUT LAST NIGHT WHISPERED PETER REVERENTLY I THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE OLD OLD ARGUMENT I SUPPOSE +c8d9042c-aa9b-47a6-bb38-2cf7af433304 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS EASY ON THE SEXLIME BOY THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY THESE CREATURES ARE OVIPAROUS SEX GLANDS ARE APPARENTLY HIDDEN IN THAT LONG FUR BEHIND WHERE THEIR CHINS OUGHT TO BE GARF PADDLED IDLY AROUND DOR'S APARTMENT PRETENDING INTEREST IN THE SHELL PAINTINGS THAT DECORATED THE WALLS HE HAD PRESENTED HER A BOUQUET IN WHICH RARE BLOSSOMS HID SLIMY SMELLING WEEDS AND SHE WAS SORE AT HIM AGAIN THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD HE ISN'T SO QUICK TO MOVE AND GET OUT OF YOUR SIGHT WHILE YOU'RE WINKING AS THE THIN ONE BUT THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL WITH THOSE YOUNG ONES WOULD BE TO HAVE EM BOTH TIED TO YOU WITH A SHORT ROPE A MIGHTY SHORT ROPE +c8da4641-fa3d-47b9-9957-74ab8c213f62 PRESENTLY STETSON SAID O K GO AHEAD AS PLANNED BUT FIND OUT WHERE THE DELPHINIS IS IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING YOUR THROAT DEMANDED TO NEW I'M NERVOUS SAID ORAN GUNS ALWAYS MAKE ME NERVOUS THE MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN EERY SINISTER LOOK WATCH THEM PETE ROARED VIC WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES HIS GUN ROARED TWICE FROM BEHIND ME AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO HE WENT THE WAY OF THE TWO OTHERS THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT WE WENT UNCLE ROGER WAS IN HIS BARN YARD HITCHING HIS BLACK MARE INTO THE BUGGY HIS COPY OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET HE LOOKED AS WE SAW WITH SINKING HEARTS UNUSUALLY GRAVE AND PREOCCUPIED THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE +c8db5688-373a-474e-8aa0-1507c5a6e265 OUR SUMMER WAS OVER IT HAD BEEN A BEAUTIFUL ONE WE HAD KNOWN THE SWEETNESS OF COMMON JOYS THE DELIGHTS OF DAWNS THE DREAM OF GLAMOUR OF NOONTIDES THE LONG PURPLE PEACE OF CARE FREE NIGHTS COME OUT OF THAT COT YOU CLOWN I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I'D RATHER NOT SAY NO BUT IT IS TOPSY'S GREAT GREAT GRANDSON SAID THE STORY GIRL GRAVELY HIS NAME IS PATTY AND HE IS MY OWN PARTICULAR CAT WE HAVE BARN CATS BUT PATTY NEVER ASSOCIATES WITH THEM I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY +c8e36899-b312-4082-9dac-a784acbab3b7 I KNOW HEAVEN MUST BE A SPLENDID PLACE BUT I'M SURE PETER WOULD RATHER BE HERE HAVING FUN WITH US SARA STANLEY REBUKED FELICITY I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULDN'T SAY SUCH THINGS AT SUCH A SOLEMN TIME WELL HE TRIED TO KISS ME THAT'S WHAT FOR SAID FELICITY TURNING VERY RED AS IF I WOULD LET A HIRED BOY KISS ME I GUESS MASTER PETER WON'T TRY ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN IN A HURRY EVIDENTLY FELICITY THOUGHT ARTISTS AND ACTRESSES AND ALL SUCH POOR TRASH WERE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER +c917a457-b73c-4936-b490-2a9338c46a90 WE ALL STOOD AROUND STRICKEN INCREDULOUS DO YOU MEAN SAID FELIX FINDING VOICE AT LENGTH THAT PETER IS GOING TO DIE THE STORY GIRL NODDED MISERABLY THEY'RE AFRAID SO IT'S A PRETTY QUEER YARN SAID FELIX I WONDER IF IT'S TRUE AND WHAT IT MEANS I INTEND TO FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS SAYS A SORT STORY GIRL I AM GOING TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE AWKWARD MAN SOMETIME AND THEN I'LL FIND OUT HIS ALICE SECRET WHEN THE FINAL COUNT WAS IN HIGH PLANES DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE GAINING POPULATION IN THE NATION +c9216a41-ed39-4b66-8f0e-84777f20e43e I CURSED AND WHEELED THE EYE IN CIRCLES SCANNING THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO AND WHO SPOKE FIRST OH THE STORY YELL SHE GOT EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND SPOKE TO FELICITY BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT HE PAUSED OF COURSE HE ADDED SMUGLY I'M NOT A TRANSPORTATION EXPERT IF I WERE I'D HAVE MADE MY OWN ACTIVATOR LONG AGO AND DONE SOME VISITING ON THE CLOSED WORLDS BEFORE THIS +c933ec9f-4ddb-439a-89ec-6dbf91388097 SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT WITH HIM WERE TWO OTHERS I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES FORCING ORAN TO USE THE WIPERS IF YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH THEN WE SHALL DIE BRAVELY SAID TO NUB YOU NEVER GO TO CHURCH ANYHOW CONTINUED FELICITY DETERMINED NOT TO BE ARGUED DOWN +c94f95f8-de7e-4646-9f6b-872ca0c2a5f6 WE HAD EARNED OUR CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE SWEAT OF OUR BROW OR BY THE SCARCELY LESS DISAGREEABLE METHOD OF BEGGING AND SARA'S HAD AS GOOD AS DESCENDED UPON HER OUT OF THE SKIES AS MUCH LIKE A MIRACLE AS ANYTHING YOU COULD IMAGINE HOW MANY A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM NO WHAT ARE THEY DOING MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON O K KEEP US POSTED RIGHT DO YOU THINK IT IS I'M AFRAID SO SAID UNCLE ROGER GRAVELY THE ENTERPRISE IS ALWAYS VERY CAREFUL TO PRINT ONLY RELIABLE NEWS BUT MOTHER DOESN'T BELIEVE IT CRIED FELICITY +c961fddb-11b1-4631-a59d-f1600548a294 HIS DESERTED CASTLE FOR I AM ALMOST A STRANGER TO THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY VERY WELL DONE MY WANDERER SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE THAT'S ALL THEY CAN GIVE US THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU +c9a2abe1-d18d-4680-b8d8-4744d2d302ec THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR YES SIR THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD THEY CAN HARDLY BE THE SAME FROGS I OBJECTED DOUBTFULLY NOT FEELING VERY CERTAIN ABOUT THE POSSIBLE LONGEVITY OF FROGS IT'S TWENTY YEARS SINCE FATHER LEFT HOME +c9dd8c27-f88f-47a0-a284-8c776f892448 GOOD MORNING MISTER CAMPBELL SHE SAID WITH A TOSS OF HER HEAD IT'S EARLY ABROAD YOU ARE AND ON BLACK DAN NO LESS WAS I MISTAKEN IN THINKING THAT DONALD FRAGON SAID ONCE THAT HIS FAVOURITE HORSE SHOULD NEVER BE BACKED BY ANY MAN BUT HIM DOUBTLESS A FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY AND BROWN BESS IS A GOOD MARE IN HER WAY BUT AT LAST THEY GOT A CHOIR AND ANDREW MACPHERSON WAS TO SING BASS IN IT OLD MISTER FORBES HADN'T GONE TO CHURCH FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE WAS SO RHEUMATIC BUT HE WENT THE FIRST SUNDAY THE CHOIR SANG BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE SING BASS AND WANTED TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE AFTER THEY HAD GONE AWAY CARRYING MY KINCHIN KING HUSBAND WITH THEM I TRANSFORMED MYSELF BACK INTO MY FORMER SHAPE AGAIN AND HERE I'VE LIVED IN PEACE AND COMFORT EVER SINCE +c9e9e0ca-509c-4cc4-a830-17b994132b62 OH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH THE COVERS WENT ONE WAY AND IN SKIT WENT THE OTHER IN A SINGLE UNFOLDING IN CONCERTED MOTION HE LEFT THE HORIZONTAL AND RECUMBENT AND STOOD TENSELY VERTICAL AGAINST THE WALL I SMILED AND NODDED AT HIS DECISION AND THEN CONTINUED MIND YOU I AIN'T SAYING GOD COULDN'T CURE PAT BUT NOTHING AND NOBODY CAN'T EVER MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WASN'T AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT THAT MOB'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE KILOMETERS OUTSTIT WE GOT HORN'S GEAR OUTSIDE ON THE DISGUISED AIR SLED A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM +ca258bbf-e395-4bf1-941b-ec6f6d3e866b OH I WISH FATHER WAS HERE HE WILL BE SAID CECILY IF IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND IT WILL BE FOR EUROPE TOO I WISH WE COULD JUST KNOW WHETHER WHAT THE PAPER SAYS IS TRUE OR NOT SAID FELIX DESPERATELY IT SEEMS TO ME I COULD BRACE UP IF I JUST KNEW WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER PEOPLE WHO SQUINT CAN'T EAT ANY MORE THAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T SQUINT CAN THEY WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN MY FIRST SHOT SENT ONE OF THE CREATURES SPINNING TO THE GROUND TWO MORE WERE ALMOST UPON ME BEFORE I COULD LEVEL THE WEAPON AND PULL THE TRIGGER AGAIN I GOT THEM BOTH +ca4370f1-5cce-4682-a781-e313d24e3392 UNCLE ROGER AND UNCLE ALEC LULLED IN THE GRASS LIKE BOYS AUNT OLIVIA LOOKING MORE LIKE A PANSY THAN EVER IN THE PRETTIEST DRESS OF PALE PURPLE PRINT WITH A KNOT OF YELLOW RIBBONS AT HER THROAT SAT WITH HER ARM ABOUT CECILY AND SMILED ON US ALL AND AUNT JANET'S MOTHERLY FACE LOST ITS EVERY DAY LOOK OF ANXIOUS CARE I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL YONA MURDERED HE PASSED THE COIN OVER THE OLD WOMAN'S HAND SNATCHED IT AND CLOSED ON IT WHERE MIGHT I FIND THIS FAMILY HE SAID IT IS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE OLD WOMAN SAID PERHAPS THEY ARE AT HOME GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS THAT WAS THE JUNGLE ONLY THE BAREST WEAK GLIMMERING OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATED TO THE MUD THE DISGUISE SLED ITS PARAGRAPH UNITS TURNED OFF LURCHED AND SKIDDED AROUND BUTTRESS ROOTS +caa24ab7-1b9f-4042-ab37-3b844c0ac627 THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS WHEN WE HAD LIVED FOR A FORTNIGHT IN CARLISLE WE BELONGED THERE AND THE FREEDOM OF ALL ITS SMALL FRY WAS CONFERRED ON US CICELY PESTERED OUR AUNT JANET'S LIFE OUT ASKING REPEATEDLY MAR WILL YOU BE GOING TO PRAYER MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT MAR WILL YOU BE PRESERVING RASPBERRIES NEXT WEEK AND VARIOUS SIMILAR QUESTIONS IT WAS A HUGE COMFORT TO HER THAT AUNT JANET ALWAYS SAID YES AND OF COURSE AS IF THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT THEN PLEASE DON'T TRANSFORM US PECKEDW FOR WE ARE QUITE SATISFIED TO REMAIN AS WE ARE +caa8217b-1633-4ea4-b7e9-38303edac8c6 I KNEW HE NEVER WENT OUT OF THE DOOR CRIED DAN TRIUMPHANTLY WHEN THE LAST BUGGY HAD DRIVEN AWAY FELICITY SET A BATCH OF BREAD AND THE REST OF US SAT AROUND THE BACK PORCH STEPS IN THE CAT SLIGHT AND ATE CHERRIES SHOOTING THE STONES AT EACH OTHER GET THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER IN HERE AT ONCE I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME ALSO A COUPLE OF CLERKS WITH TRANSCRIBERS AND FAST THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER I BUTTONED MY COLLAR STRAIGHTENED MY RIBBONS AND SQUARED MY SHOULDERS I LONG FOR THE REMEMBRANCE NOW UNTIL I RECALL THE REAL HORROR OF FEAR THAT ENWRAPPED US IN THAT SUNNY ORCHARD THAT AUGUST MORNING OF LONG AGO AND THEN I LAUGHED NO MORE +caa9a7f8-3984-4e07-b668-28d3399586c0 THERE WERE A FEW MINUTES WHILE THE WATER BEGAN TO GURGLE DOWN THROUGH THE DRY PIPE THE IMAGE BLINKED FOCUSED AND A GREAT DAMP PYRAMID SWAM INTO VIEW WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T THE DOOR TO OPEN AND THE DOOR WOULD NOT MOVE I WAS A MUCH BETTER MAN THAN EVER FAMOUS TINSMITH WHO MADE MY PRESENT BEAUTIFUL FORM +cab20bf8-31bb-4d54-9aac-620a00913edf IT STARTLED HIM ANEW TO DISCOVER THAT HE HAD NO FEET HE REACHED OUT HIS HANDS BUT HE COULD NOT SEE THEM HE COULD FEEL HIS HANDS AND ARMS AND BODY HE STAMPED HIS FEET ON THE GRASS AND KNEW THEY WERE THERE BUT IN SOME STRANGE WAY THEY HAD BECOME INVISIBLE IF THAT'S SO THOUGH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING SAID THE STORY GIRL DREARILY PAT MUST DIE CECILY BEGAN TO WEEP AFRESH I'LL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE PAT'S LIFE SHE SAID I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT WAS BEFORE WE WERE BORN AND SUCH A THING WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN UNTIL AFTER WE'RE DEAD SAID CECILY WITH VERY UNUSUAL PESSIMISM I THINK KINGS AND QUEENS WERE THICKER LONG AGO SAID THE STORY GIRL THEY DO SEEM DREADFULLY SCARCE NOW +cab87b33-8a34-4a93-b736-241b4868b6c0 THE M T WHISPERED IN MY EAR JUST WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE THIRTEENTH SIN ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE I DREW UP MY SCALY FIGURE IN A NOBLE GESTURE AND POINTED TOWARD THE CEILING I COME FROM YOUR ANCESTORS TO HELP YOU I AM HERE TO RESTORE THE HOLY WATERS IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM NOW I ADDED I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ASK THE CUSTOMS AGENTS TO LOOK AT MY BAGS HERE DON'T WANT TO WASTE TIME DO WE THE SHIP IS OPEN THEY CAN CHECK THAT WHENEVER THEY PLEASE +cacd9f1a-d08f-4f73-bbd1-c42979791b64 HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY SOME ONE GALLOPED DOWN THE ROAD ON HORSEBACK LUSTILY SINGING A COMIC SONG HOW DARED HE WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS DESTROYING ANY ONE WHO STOOD IN HIS WAY MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE +cadeaca2-2fdb-47a0-91b2-ebe07fd379c0 SHE TOOK IT VERY QUIETLY IT'S THE BEST WAY I GUESS WHEN YOU'RE MARRIED TO A MAN LIKE OLD MISTER SCOTT BUT JUST A FEW SUNDAYS AFTER WASN'T HE LATE HIMSELF AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON VING HAD WON TO IT THROUGH THE DANGER AND SUFFERING OF THE DARK RIVER NORMALLY I CURSED THE PAPAL TANGLES OF BUREAUCRACY BUT THIS WAS ONE TIME WHEN I BLESSED THEM ALL THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE +cae23a79-5dc0-43e9-9a49-38d42d30709a SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT BUT SEEMED TO HAVE GONE INTO SLOW MOTION HE WAS DREADFULLY SICK ALL NIGHT AND UNCLE ROGER HAD TO GO FOR THE DOCTOR HE WAS QUITE LIGHT HEADED AND DIDN'T KNOW ANY ONE YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF FOR SHE SLIPPED OUT AND DROVE OFF TO CHURCH AS HE HAD DONE DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE +caf98b5e-457a-4bbd-984e-5206cbaae5c6 YONAS MADE CONTACT TWICE WITH CLARTON WHO TOLD HIM OVER AND OVER TO WAIT TO DO NOTHING THE NEXT MOVE IS COMING SOON DO NOTHING TO HURRY IT YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL I COULDN'T TELL AND I COULD WORK MYSELF UP INTO A NEUROTIC STATE IF I KEPT RUNNING THROUGH THE WORRY CYCLE IT TOOK AN EFFORT TO CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE BUT IT HAD TO BE MADE THE NEXT FOUR DAYS PASSED VERY SLOWLY WE ALL EVEN DAN CRIED EXCEPT THE STORY GIRL I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN BE SO UNFEELING SARA STANLEY SAID FELICITY REPROACHFULLY YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH FRIENDS WITH PETER AND MADE OUT YOU THOUGHT SO MUCH OF HIM AND NOW YOU AIN'T SHEDDING A TEAR FOR HIM +cb0e01aa-e395-41ea-9dd2-8ec0aab73ce2 AT ANY OTHER TIME WE WOULD NEVER HAVE DARED CATECHIZE THE MINISTER ABOUT ANYTHING THERE WAS HEARTBREAK IN THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE AND TEARS CAME INTO OUR EYES JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY THERE WAS NO PREACHING IN CARLISLE THAT DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS NOT TILL THE EVENING INDEED I SHALL I'LL TELL STORIES AS LONG AS I'VE A TONGUE TO TALK WITH OR ANYONE TO LISTEN +cb1f5f01-3da4-4e07-b46e-c25a825cb621 THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK REGA PEN NOSTROS PECCADORES OLDER THE VERY GULCHERS STOOD ANGRY AND STARK IN THE EARLY MORNING YEN LORDA DE NOSER MOTE AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT WE CAN ATTACH THAT BANK ACCOUNT OF YOURS ON ALL GALL TOO LONG BEFORE YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY OUT I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY +cb25e6b3-e3ea-4d2c-bd32-e1b24f65f62c HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH BUT THERE IS NONE YONAH SAID BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS SINCE I WAS A YOUNG GIRL I'VE NEVER MISSED GETTING A BOMBOOK FOR CHRISTMAS I WANT THE LIST THAT WAS STOLEN BUT THERE WAS ALSO A DREAD OF IT THAT HIS SUPERIORS DID NOT UNDERSTAND +cb301c33-0c8d-4b0c-ad71-35d3a8d3c3c1 THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE IT STOOD SOLIDLY ON CAREFULLY MANICURED YELLOW FEET AND STARED AT HIM OUT OF SQUARE VIOLET EYES INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY WE ALWAYS TOOK THE CORNER PATH THROUGH IT PASSING THE KING PLOT WHERE KINDRED OF FOUR GENERATIONS SLEPT IN A GREEN SOLITUDE OF WAVERING LIGHT AND SHADOW +cb38e43f-195a-4abc-a904-3177ac6cd7b1 WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING GOT THAT YES STETSON HELD OUT HIS RIGHT HAND HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF ROAD OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN FOR REMORSE SHE HAD UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER DIDN'T JUDY PANOT PROMISE YOU SOLEMNLY SHE WOULDN'T TELL YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA DEAR ME SAID TILL WHAT DREADFUL CREATURES WHERE DID THEY COME FROM WHO IS GINGER ASKED WOOT THE GREEN MONKEY HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF GINGER EXCLAIMED THE SCARECROW IN SURPRISE +cb44fa77-9c14-4958-a0e6-ba991d1efe99 BUT SHE NEVER TRIED IT AGAIN BUT OF COURSE WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANY MORE RICH THINGS FOR SUPPER AUNT JANET AND FELICITY ADMINISTERED ALL THE HOMELY REMEDIES THEY COULD THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT NOW FARMER WASN'T MUCH OF AN EDITOR EVEN AS EDITORS GO GONE SAID THE SCARECROW BEAR SOLEMNLY UPON WHICH WAS A LARGE PORTION OF SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOES +cb84bbcf-67d1-436f-816e-f368d7a829ef FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A SMALL SPAT OVER SOMETHING BUT STOPPED AT ONCE WHEN CECILY SAID SEVERELY HOW DARE YOU QUARREL WHEN WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A PICTURE OF GOD TO DAY IT'S LOGICAL IF I WERE AN IGNORANT ABORIGINE OF EARTH AND I RAN INTO A SPICKIN WHO LOOKS LIKE A TWO FOOT GOB OF DRIED SHELLOCK I WOULD IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE SCENE BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY +cbcc05f6-dea9-481d-aaff-91e134092f2d SAID FELICITY BITTERLY BUT HE'LL LAUGH AT US FOR A YEAR AND TELL THIS STORY TO EVERY SOUL THAT COMES TO THE PLACE DO YOU THINK HE'LL EVER TELL YOU WHO ALICE IS I ASKED AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND CHAFFY THREE ASSURED HIM JEFF TOOK THE BROWN HAND SHE PUT UP AND DREW HER TO THE DOCK BESIDE HIM +cbcf5b03-ab5b-4776-b7a8-94f7427d49be FELIX THAT SOBER SOLID FELLOW DREAMED CONSTANTLY OF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR HIS DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS AERIAL FLIGHTS OVER THE TREE TOPS OF DREAMLAND ALWAYS FILLED US WITH ENVY YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THE BOLD MAN SAID BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID I HAVE A NOTION WHO ALICE IS ALREADY SAID THE MYSTERIOUS CREATURE BUT SHE WOULD TELL US NOTHING MORE I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY +cbecb902-cb45-48e6-b379-a67854638316 HE WAS THE TALLEST AND BRAVEST AND HANDSOMEST YOUNG MAN IN THE TRIBE THE GODS THEMSELVES CANNOT RECALL THEIR GIFTS THEY MAY ROB US OF OUR FUTURE AND EMBITTER OUR PRESENT BUT OUR PAST THEY MAY NOT TOUCH CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I PETER TRUE TO HIS WORD GOT OUT HIS BIBLE AND BEGAN TO READ FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER IN GENESIS THE REQUEST WAS A FORGERY NOW YOU SEE WHY I'M MOSTLY FOR RUBBING OUT THIS PLACE PRESENTLY STETSON SAID O K GO AHEAD AS PLANNED BUT FIND OUT WHERE THE DELPHINIS IS +cbf6765b-e327-4254-9483-7ca06d936c27 SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME I TALKED FIRST BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH I QUIT DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME WHAT A DIRTY JOB YOU HAVE COOKED UP BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT AND YOU DON'T WANT TO REVEAL COMPANY'S SECRETS TO ME FIVE PACES DOWN THE CORRIDOR THE WALK TURNED INTO A RUN YONIC WATCHED HIM GO AND THEN SAT DOWN ON HIS LOUSE AND FESTO COT TO AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS THE MINUTES TICKED BY ENDLESSLY HE THOUGHT OF TRYING TO REACH CLARETON BUT DECIDED NOT ENTIRELY WITH REGRET THAT THE CONTACT WOULD USE UP TOO MUCH ENERGY AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW LESS SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED WHAT GROWN UPS WERE CONCERNED I MOUNTED THE PULPIT STEPS FEELING RATHER NERVOUS AND MY AUDIENCE SAT GRAVELY DOWN ON THE GRASS BEFORE ME WE CHILDREN WERE FORBIDDEN TO TOUCH ANYTHING BUT FORTUNATELY WE WERE NOT FORBIDDEN THE USE OF OUR EYES AND TONGUES +cc1b1467-bfcb-488b-becc-02c020d4f952 I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY SHE WAS NEVER LATE AND TO PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY WERE NOT WIZARDLY OR MAGIC SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES +cc258b37-c1cf-429d-a4f1-432f3ce8b176 NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING I SNAPPED INTO THE MIKE WORKING AWAY THE WORRIED BILLIONAIRE EXPRESSION FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE SHE SAYS SHE NEVER SAW A ROOM LIKE IT IN A COUNTRY FARMHOUSE IT WAS LIKE A BEDROOM AND A SITTING ROOM COMBINED THE FLOOR WAS COVERED WITH A CARPET LIKE GREEN VELVET THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS NEVER MIND PETER SAID CECILY YOU KNOW LOTS OF THINGS THEY DON'T BUT PETER WAS NOT TO BE CONCILIATED AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF IN HIGH DUDGEON TO BE LAUGHED AT BEFORE FELICITY TO BE LAUGHED AT BY FELICITY WAS SOMETHING HE COULD NOT ENDURE +cc2b1cac-99a3-4d3c-94a9-a6b8efc177e5 DAN PICKED A CLUSTER AND HELD IT UP PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME HE WAS VERY FAMOUS AFTERWARD AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER FOR GOODNESS SAKE AND ALL THAT DAY THEY WERE IN THE PLEASANT WINKY COUNTRY +cc8b11b4-e678-456c-92f1-2421f0a9c377 A FELLOW'S GOT A RIGHT TO PRAY AS HE PLEASES SAID PETER WE THOUGHT SHE HAD FLED BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT ENDURE THE SIGHT OF BLOOD AND WE WERE NOT SORRY FOR HER MANIFEST DISAPPROVAL AND ANXIETY WERE DAMPING THE EXCITEMENT OF THE OCCASION I SHOOK HANDS ALL ROUND A RUSTLING HAND CLASP OF COURSE THEN WAS ON MY WAY EXACTLY SEVENTY FOUR PER CENT OF ALL STATEMENTS HE MADE WERE FAKE A NEVER BEFORE AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN BUT WE'VE SOMETHING ELSE ON OUR MINDS IT'S THE ONE ITEM THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BLOT OUT THIS PLACE +cca0384b-8def-46e7-aa6f-efe22885edf0 AND EVEN IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A METHODIST IT WON'T HURT YOU TO GO TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MY AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING BUT WE HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT HER BY THE TIME WE REACHED THE OPEN COUNTRY +ccaebc6b-7ec5-4a4b-a7ac-cd0b359364e4 THE STORY GIRL GOES OVER HIS DREAMS AFTER HE HAS WRITTEN THEM OUT AND PUTS IN THE COMMAS AND SEMI COLENS AND STRAIGHTENS OUT THE SENTENCES FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES FARMER SAW INSULTED AND ANGER CAN'T YOU IMAGINE THE FUND THE POLITICIANS MY MA MEA AND MEANT ENEMY +ccb3952f-900a-43c9-9e93-9d578b78277a SHE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART BEFORE THE SPRING AND SHE AND KATY WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER WHICH HAS EVER SINCE BORE THEIR NAMES THE RIVER OF SCHUBEN KATY SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RAIN HAD CEASED BUT THE CLOUDS HUNG DARK AND BROODING ABOVE A WORLD WHICH IN ITS WINDLESS CALM FOLLOWING THE SPENT STORM THROW SEEMED TO US TO BE WAITING TILL JUDGMENT SPOKE THE DOOM OF FATE ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS +cd3c5c70-ce43-4fa1-8313-34e598b26df6 FELIX AND DAN CONTRACTED TO KEEP THE GARDENS FREE FROM WEEDS HE TOOK SOME MORE AND SAID SLYLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAD KNOWN HER I WANTED TO DRAW AWAY FROM THE STORY GIRL WRITING DOWN HIS DREAMS IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD ON THE HOMESTEAD HILL BLOWN OVER BY MUSKY WINDS I LEANED OVER AND PUT MY LIPS CLOSE TO HIS EAR WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL +cd445aba-4795-42b3-83a8-7eaa74a03651 WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON FARMER WAS UNCOMFORTABLE HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE FOR VARIOUS REASONS THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE THEY CAN'T BE DANGEROUS HE SAID THERE ARE NO LAND DWELLING CREDITORS ON COLLAXIA I READ THAT IN NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HATCHED OUT ON COLLAXIA SAID JENOFER SHE PULLED FREE OF HIM IF THEY'RE REAL THEY CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE +cd447d6e-181f-46dc-8bee-6e7acf847a32 IS THIS THE USUAL ARE FOWL UP ASKED ORNE STETSON NODDED MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE THE MAN LEANED FORWARD AND PLACED ONE HAND PALM UP ON THE DESK LAST YEAR I HAD AN ACCIDENT STUPID LOST A THUMB HE SHRUGGED APOLOGETICALLY TOOK ALMOST SIX MONTHS TO GROW BACK WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH +cd61508a-7e1c-4d5e-b772-8546507e0677 THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE NOT A RIVET FELL BUT THAT ITS FALL WAS NOTED INQUINTUPLICATE SO THERE BE NO CHANCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING AND I WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY EXCEPT WHERE WAS HE THE CRAGS ARE JUST BURIED ANYWHERE THEY HAPPEN TO DIE CAUSE A CAT CAN'T STAND BEING MESSY ISN'T IT AWFUL NICE AND HOLY IN HERE IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS +cd7e973e-3f7b-4d95-b881-d15143f7688c AUNT OLIVIA ASSENTED LIGHTLY SWINGING HER HAT ON HER ARM AND INCLUDING US ALL IN A FRIENDLY SMILE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY HAY LOFTS ARE DELICIOUS PLACES WITH JUST ENOUGH OF SHADOW AND SOFT UNCERTAIN NOISES TO GIVE AN AGREEABLE TANG OF MYSTERY +cd945a40-d36e-439f-a118-3a7a20a45b7d WHEN AUNT JANET SAID SERIOUSLY THAT ANYTHING WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION IT MEANT THAT SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT IT AND WOULD PROBABLY END UP DOING IT SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO UNCLE ALEC WHIPPED HIM FOR IT DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL +cd98fd09-85e8-4693-b113-151111bef729 OH YES ALL HAVE NAMES MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL MOULS NO ONE ELSE NO MANOEL NO ONLY THE PEOPLE BIT BY BIT A PATENT STARTED TO EMERGE A DELICATE WEB WORK OF FORGERY BRIBERY CHICANERY AND FALSEHOOD IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED BY A MIND AS BRILLIANTLY AS CROOKED AS MY OWN I CHEWED MY LIP WITH JEALOUSY LIKE ALL GREAT IDEAS THIS ONE WAS BASICALLY SIMPLE AT A COMMAND FROM THE PRIESTS THE GUARDS LIFTED ME TO THE ALTAR AND THEN STOOD WATCHFULLY BELOW GAZING UP AT ME WITH PUZZLED MOURNFUL ENVIOUS EYES +cda9d709-6cb6-4914-b934-a143ed11f06b BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE RATHER SYMPATHIZED WITH DAN I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN IT'S JUST LIKE A DRESS ONLY IT HASN'T SLEEVES ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE THE SHADOWS OF THE SPRUCES WERE LONG AND CLEAR CUT THE EXQUISITE SKIES OF EARLY MORNING BLUE AND WIND WINNOWED WERE OVER US +cdb2daeb-b5cd-4687-a2a7-4e97d833c01c IF WE DO WE'LL BREAK YOUR SKIN REPLIED THE KING THEY'RE A NEW VARIETY THAT NO ONE CAN GROW BUT ME AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT AFTER IT HAD BEEN EATEN AND THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE GREW TO FULL NIGHT IT WAS TIME TO RETIRE IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE SHE WAS ALWAYS IN TROUBLE OF SOME SORT COULDN'T GET HER HAIR BRAIDED OR HER SHOES ON THE RIGHT FEET +cdbd5d7a-f6f5-4619-840f-81a50d7b9a71 HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID YONAS SIGHED AND WENT FORWARD TO MEET THE TWO BIG MEN LEAVING MISSUS SHARP SOBBING IN THE BACKGROUND I COULD START THE WATER AGAIN EASILY ENOUGH BUT THERE WAS NO FUEL LEFT IN THE REACTOR I WASN'T GOING TO PLAY WITH THE FUEL PROBLEM AT ALL IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER TO INSTALL A NEW POWER PLANT I HAD ONE IN THE SHIP THAT WAS ABOUT A TENTH THE SIZE OF THE ANCIENT BUCKET OF BOLTS AND PRODUCED AT LEAST FOUR TIMES THE POWER NONSENSE SAID FELICITY BUT HER VOICE SHOOK THERE ISN'T A BELL IN THIS HOUSE TO RING YOU MUST HAVE IMAGINED IT PETER OR ELSE UNCLE ROGER IS TRYING TO FOOL US +cdc2b0d3-db55-4372-a95c-ae0708c96a55 THE ZID CRASHED AGAINST THE DOOR AND DROVE IT INCHES AJAR DRIVING BACK THEIR BARRICADE ONE TALENT PAW SLID IN AND SLASHED VICIOUSLY AT RANDOM SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY IT'S NOT TO BE TILL TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SO YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET UP HIP FOR ANYTHING HAPPENS BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MISTAKE SOBBED SARAH IT MIGHT BE TWO O'CLOCK TO NIGHT INSTEAD OF TO MORROW THAT'S ANOTHER THING GAR SNAPPED KEEPING HER ON THE DEFENSIVE MAYBE I VIOLATED SECURITY BY GOING TO EARTH WHEN THEY ACCIDENTALLY OPENED A GATE BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING +cdcac98d-c921-4ef7-97ea-0587aa9e77a5 JUST THEN HE WANTED NOTHING SO MUCH AS TO SEE A WELL ARMED PATROL SHIP NOSING DOWN OUT OF THE COLLAXY IN SUNRISE LESS WHAT ALLOWED POLYCHROME AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT THERE ARE FIVE DOLLARS FOR YOU HE SAID AND YOUR STORY WAS WELL WORTH IT +cdcc856d-bffa-47a3-ac34-edd4953e2c7f HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHARP SAID BITTERLY THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES FARMER CHANGED HIS MIND AGAIN ABOUT RAY'S BEING CRACKED LISTEN HE SAID THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO HIS MIND DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU RENTED THIS BOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DAY HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THING DOESN'T LEAK +cdcd4bb3-4428-4c19-ab76-501e8dcd4865 YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN I PROBABLY IN SPITE OF CECILY'S EFFORTS A BITTER SPAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED BETWEEN DAN AND FELICITY HAD NOT A DIVERSION BEEN EFFECTED AT THATMENT BY THE STORY GIRL WHO CAME SLOWLY DOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK WE WILL SING THE WHOLE HYMN OMITTING THE FOURTH STANZA FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM +cdd4b7a4-e3e3-4ec5-b310-506527078af6 WHEN YOU COME DOWN YOU'LL START A NEW CYCLE AND IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW AT JUST WHAT MINUTE WE CAN GET BACK TO OUR OWN PLANE I GLARED AT HIM AND PARIN CLOSED THE DOOR THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED ONE USUALLY SURFACES OUTSIDE MY HARBOUR AT ABOUT THE TIME OLD CHARLEY MACK'S SUPPLY BOAT COMES IN ITS THREE INCH SCREEN LIGHTED TO SIGNAL AND A DURE AND DISAPPOINTED CONSEIL SATTERFIELD LOOKED AT HIM +ce30ebb8-c656-4881-a2df-329cdc8f6b08 I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP IF YOU HADN'T WOKE UP YOU'D HAVE DIED SAID PETER WITH A DARK SIGNIFICANCE IF YOU DREAM OF FALLING AND DON'T WAKE YOU DO LAND WITH A THUD AND IT KILLS YOU THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR SLEEP HOW DO YOU KNOW ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY NOBODY WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP COULD EVER TELL IT I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTEDLICITY TRIED ANOTHER TACT YOU'LL BE SURE TO GET WHIPPED IF YOU FIGHT WITH PETER SHE SAID YOU'RE TOO FAT TO FIGHT AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY BUT THERE WAS NO REAL REASON WHY THAT COULDN'T BE CHANGED TOO CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE +ce3d7b2f-de10-436b-8f4e-2d396a12095a WELL HERE'S THE KEY GO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF SAID PETER FELICITY HAD NO INTENTION OF GOING AND SEEING I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX WHEN WE HAD FILLED OUR BASKETS THEY HAD TO BE CARRIED TO THE GRANARY LOFT AND THE CONTENTS STORED IN BINS OR SPREAD ON THE FLOOR TO RIPEN FURTHER WE ATE A GOOD MANY OF COURSE FEELING THAT A LABOURER WAS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A DONKEY A JACK TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT +ce6a6c62-c4da-42e0-acf4-571ced866d2c HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE THESE DETAILS WERE THE FIRST THINGS THAT MADE FARMER THINK RAY MIGHT NOT BE A COMPLETE CRACK PICK AFTER ALL IF HE HADN'T BEEN FEELING JUST THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH OF SEA SICKNESS JOHN EDGEW WOULD HAVE BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF ALSO WHEN OZBRUS BECAME A FAIRYLAND IT HARBOURED SEVERAL WITCHES AND MAGICIANS AND SORCERS AND NECROMANCERS WHO WERE SCATTERED IN VARIOUS PARTS BUT MOST OF THESE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR MAGIC POWERS AND OZMA HAD ISSUED A ROYAL EDICT FORBIDDING ANYONE IN HER DOMINIONS TOWARD MAGIC EXCEPT GLINDA THE GOOD AND THE WIZARD OF OZ THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED TO NEWBE SHIFTED BEHIND ORAN WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID SLOWLY TO STAY BEHIND MY SCOUTS RIGHT ORAN ESA SLED FORWARD AROUND AN OBSTRUCTING ROUTE SILENCE WHILE THEY CRAWLED AHEAD AROUND THEM SHAPES FLUNG THEMSELVES FROM VINE TO VINE I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL +ce6ef6eb-ad3e-4446-ab05-b6a1685e7522 YOU DON'T THINK SO AT ANY RATE THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU'RE HAVING ADVENTURES AND A FINE TIME IT'S THE SORT OF THING YOU LIKE AFTER ALL FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE AFTER FOUR YEARS I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE STORE OF PHOTOPHLASH FLARES BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE +ce7b9742-e5cc-44e5-9023-8494fdfe7ba0 THIS WAS HOME FATHER'S HOME OUR HOME WE HAD NEVER LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN ANY ONE HOUSE TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF AFFECTION FOR IT BUT HERE UNDER THE ROOF TREE BUILT BY GREAT GRANDFATHER KING NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS A GREAT SHINY OWL PERCHED UPON ANOTHER CHAIR AND A BROWN BEAR SQUATTED UPON HER PARLOR RUG GINGER DID NOT NOTICE THE CANARY BUT SHE CAUGHT UP THE BROOMSTICK AND DASHED INTO THE ROOM SHOUTING AS SHE CAME GET OUT OF HERE YOU WILD CREATURES HOW DARE YOU ENTER MY HOUSE SHAKING OFF THE SPELL OF FURS AND MOONLIGHT AND ROMANTIC TALE WE SCRAMBLED TO OUR FEET AND WENT HOMEWARD I KIND OF WISH I'D BEEN BORN AN INJUN SAID DAN IT MUST HAVE BEEN A JOLLY LIFE WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT HUNT AND FIGHT IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY +ce7f5941-14f2-4f1b-be5e-13cd3ae0e61e I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS AND I'VE JUST REALIZED I'M HUNGRY VIC AND I HAD BEEN BUTTIES EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS OF THE TALE RESTED ON US FOR SOME MOMENTS AFTER THE STORY GIRL HAD FINISHED HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT FURTHER SOMEWHAT TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT ON THE FURTHER SIDE OF IT WAS A THICK PLANTATION OF SLENDER SILVER BIRCHES AND WHISPERING POPLARS AND BEYOND IT WAS UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE +ce9d2a57-856b-47e2-858f-60c3168ecd1c TO LEND A WONDERFUL CHARM TO OUR SPECULATIONS CONCERNING IT WITH JUST A HINT OF DEMURENESS IN THEM NOW AND AGAIN YOU'D UNDERSTAND WHY IF YOU EVER SAW HIM AT A PARTY OR A PICNIC SAID FELICITY TRYING TO PASS PLATES AND DROPPING THEM WHENEVER A WOMAN LOOKED AT HIM OH FELICITY WASN'T IT RIGHT I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE +cec154ec-18fc-4d5c-925f-fa6bcbc047ec I CAN'T PICK ANOTHER APPLE TO DAY AND I AIN'T GOING TO TRY SAID DAN LAST OF ALL CAME VING THAT PETER IS GOING TO DIE THE JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM HE STUDIED THE PROCEEDINGS CAREFULLY SAID STETSON POLITICIANS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT STETSON'S VOICE HISSED +cef9085e-067d-40d3-a2d3-89c473a04ea4 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE BESIDES THEY'RE ALL SUCH LADY LIKE GIRLS I GUESS I'D BETTER NOT RISK IT I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM WHO'S BUILDING IT I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER YES I CAN IT IS TRUE ANSWERED THE HIPPO BUT I REFUSE TO DO IT UNLESS HE ADDED AND STOPPED SHORT LESS WHAT ALLOWED POLYCHROME UNLESS YOU ALLOW ME TO EAT THE STRAW WITH WHICH THE SCARECROW IS STUFFED +cf4affe3-ef92-414a-9d57-0e59a2b77d30 I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE THAT'S IMPORTANT IF YOU'RE MASQUERADING LAUGHTER RIPPLED OVER THE STORY GIRL'S FACE THEY SAY SHE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF MISCHIEF SHE CAN PUT ILL LUCK ON YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU AND SHE WILL IF YOU OFFEND HER A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO LOCATE A FIRM LANDING SITE WITH AMPLE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS +cf4ecbfe-8a3d-48b2-8bcb-96d8ebefb362 ORAN TURNED LOOKED BACK AT TO NEWBE DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN SEE BY WHAT LIGHT GETS DOWN HERE THROUGH THOSE TREES CAN YOU NOT SEE ASKED TO NEW NOT WITHOUT THE HEADLIGHTS IF A GIRL OF FOURTEEN CAN MAKE A COUPLE OF PRACTICAL FARMERS AND A PAIR OF MATTER OF FACT HOUSEWIVES HALF BELIEVE FOR TEN MINUTES THAT SHE REALLY IS A SNAKE WHAT WON'T SHE BE ABLE TO DO WHEN SHE IS THIRTY BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED THEY MUST WARN THE NATIVES BEFORE THE PROWLING ZID FOUND THEM ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO NATIVES WE MUST TRY AGAIN THREE CONCLUDED SEARCHING OUT AND USING THE PROPER SYMBOLS FOR EXPLANATION +cf839c8c-ffa5-45ee-8268-bf9ece0b69c6 HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM COME OUT OF IT WILL YOU HE YELLED UNGALLANTLY IN HER EAR IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP I MAY BE ABLE TO WRITE IT DOWN GET ON THE DECK INTACT TRY IT AIR START BRANDON WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER IN SERIOUS CONCLAVE IN THE ORCHARD THAT EVENING WE WERE ALL RATHER SHORT OF HARD CASH HAVING DEVOTED MOST OF OUR SPARE MEANS TO THE SCHOOL LIBRARY FUND +cf862186-42e1-4399-80c0-382583cd02ff HE WAS JUST BEGINNING TO BE FAMOUS HE WAS VERY FAMOUS AFTERWARD HE CAME INTO THE ORCHARD TO WRITE A POEM AND HE FELL ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON A BENCH THAT USED TO BE UNDER GRANDFATHER'S TREE THEN GREAT AUNT EDITH CAME INTO THE ORCHARD AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE VERY GOOD I SAID CALMLY SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES FELICITY KING IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT YOU'LL GROW UP INTO A SORT OF WOMAN WHO DRIVES HER HUSBAND TO DRINK SAID UNCLE ROGER GRAVELY HOW CAN I TELL DAN WOULD ACT SO LIKE A MULE CRIED FELICITY +cfe20478-3a88-4337-add3-f32a98ad0e09 IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH HE SWUNG TO FACE THE MONSTER WITH A SICK FEELING IN HIS STOMACH AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A MY GOD INSECTS CAME IN TWING CONES SIPHONED TOWARD THE HEADLIGHTS THERE WAS AN ENDLESS CHITTERING WHISTLING TALK TALKING IN THE GLOOM BEYOND THE LIGHTS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER HOW'S IT LOOK UNEXPECTEDLY BECAUSE JEFF HAD NOT CONSIDERED THAT IT MIGHT MATTER HE WAS DISTURBED BY THE REALIZATION THAT HE WOULDN'T BE SEEN JENIFER OLD CHARLEY MACK'S RED HAIRED NIECE ONCE OCCUPATION BEGAN JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM +cff33bde-f9d9-468f-b96c-c979f1abdbfa WELL BESS OLD GIRL HERE WE ARE NOW DONALD FRASER PLUCK UP HEART AND PLAY THE MAN NEVER FLINCH BECAUSE A SLIP OF THE LASS LOOKS SCORNFUL AT YOU OUT OF THE BONNIEST DARK BLUE EYES ON EARTH BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND CICELY'S PRAYER HAD BEEN ANSWERED EXCITEMENT HAD COME WITH A VENGEANCE AND AND UNDER ITS STRESS FELICITY HAD SPOKEN FIRST BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX +d00f728e-0eb7-4b84-bcaf-a44d44eb5711 THERE WAS A WARDER OF THE BRIDGE A GOD DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE MARTIN FORBES IS THE BROTHER OF A HORRID MAN IN SUMMERSIDE WHO CALLED ME JOHNNY THAT'S WHY SHE EXPLAINED HE WAS VISITING HERE WITH HIS WIFE TWO AGO AND HE CALLED ME JOHNNY EVERY TIME HE SPOKE TO ME JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM YOU MUST PROVE IT BEFORE I SHALL MARRY YOU SAID THE PROUD PRINCESS BUT SHE TREMBLED AND TURNED PALE FOR THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS VOICE THAT FRIGHTENED HER AND WHEN HE LAUGHED HIS LAUGHTER WAS STILL MORE DREADFUL +d016117a-ac65-4e67-86bc-be85dc5261a9 ALL RIGHT I KNOW STORIES ABOUT IT TOO SHE SAID AS WE WALKED ACROSS THE YARD FOLLOWED BY PATTY OF THE WAVING TAIL OH AREN'T YOU GLAD IT IS SPRING THE BEAUTY OF WINTER IS THAT IT MAKES YOU APPRECIATE SPRING OH JESS LOOK SHE SAID HERE ARE THREE DOLLARS AND I'M GOING TO GIVE IT ALL TO THE LIBRARY FUND I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID MORTALITY'S TERRIFIC I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY +d05bc961-1c9e-45fa-afa5-bab23be9ae7b THAT WASN'T MY CONCERN NOW THE NAVIGATOR AND I PLOTTED THEIR LOCATIONS IN HIS TANK KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT THE OTHERS TURNED THEIR UNWIELDY BODIES IN HIS DIRECTION AND FOLLOWED AND WOOT THE WANDERER I WON'T EVER FEEL LIKE READING A SINGLE BOOK ON THE LIBRARY IF I CAN'T GIVE SOMETHING TO IT MOURNED SARA THAT GENTLEMAN IN SILENCE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET EXTRACTED A NOTE THEREFROM AND HANDED IT GRAVELY TO THE STORY GIRL +d06a5d48-310d-4611-b691-5835f33ecba8 I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS JONAS UNDERSTOOD FISHING IT IN HIS OWN POCKET HE WITHDREW A SINGLE SHINY COIN I ALSO WISH HE SAID SMOOTHLY TO PAY FOR ANY HELP I MAY RECEIVE SUCH AS THE ANSWERING OF AN INNOCENT QUESTION A QUESTION IN WHICH THE RESPECTED INQUISITOR KNOOK CANNOT HAVE NO INTEREST WHATEVER LOOKING BACK FROM A MATURE STANDPOINT I REALIZED THAT SHE MUST HAVE BEEN AN UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND SHE LOOKED HER PRETTIEST AS SHE STOOD UNDER THE SWAYING BOUGHS IN THE LAST FAINT LIGHT OF THE AUTUMN DUSK AND SMILED DOWN AT OUR WOEBEGONE FACES +d0864f98-b037-456f-920a-34a8add4c3ff IF ANYTHING COULD HAVE MADE HIM THIN THE WAY HE WORRIED OVER THIS MATTER WOULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE DIM LIGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A WILD MYSTIC LOVELINESS MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS +d08c4336-4f23-4adf-aa39-a2bbe25ff9f9 HAD HE REMAINED HIS NATURAL SIZE THE DISTANCE COULD HAVE BEEN COVERED IN A FEW STEPS IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING CECILY'S LETTER IS FROM M FREWIN SHE ALWAYS PUTS IN HASTE ON HER LETTERS NO MATTER WHAT'S IN THEM UNTIL WE ALL GROWN UP WITH CHILDREN IT WAS AS MUCH SARAH RAY'S NORMAL STATE AS ANY OTHER WE WERE ALL INTENSELY EXCITED SATURDAY MORNING +d093e886-a91a-4d8d-a89d-fabe3dede5cd AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE THE WATER IS LOVELY UNCLE EDWARD PREACHED HIS FINEST SERMON ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM WELL WHERE DAVID'S SOLDIERS WENT TO GET HIM WATER AND HE ILLUSTRATED IT BY DESCRIBING HIS OLD WELL AT THE HOMESTEAD THIS VERY WELL AND HOW IN FOREIGN LANDS HE HAD LONGED FOR ITS SPARKLING WATER SO YOU SEE IT IS QUITE FAMOUS OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS HURRY IN THE WORLD WHILE WE LINGERED THERE AND TALKED OF CABBAGES AND KINGS A TALE OF THE STORY GIRLS WHEREIN PRINCES WERE THICKER THAN BLACKBERRIES AND QUEENS AS COMMON AS BUTTERCUPS LED TO OUR DISCUSSION OF KINGS WE WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A KING PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA +d0c6ca9e-80ee-4adf-ad85-6dc27910a6a3 DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR ALL AT ONCE THE STORY GIRL AND PETER BEGAN TO FORGE AHEAD IN THE MATTER OF DREAMING AND OUR DREAMS WILL BE PRETTY FLAT AFTER THIS AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM AS IF SHE WERE TRYING TO SEE WHICH VERSION WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THE CROWNS ARE JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS BESIDES I'M ALL RIGHT AGAIN I FEEL FINE +d0ca93b0-b389-40fa-b18e-832f0286e2a0 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN CLOSE UP THE GATE OURSELVES OR IF THIS NEEDS TO BE REPORTED AND THEN LET'S GO HOME PRESENTLY THE MOON ROSE BUT THIS ONLY MADE MATTERS WORSE THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS THEY WERE A LITTLE FRIGHTENED TOO THE MANAGER OF THE SPACE YARD THAT WAS BUILDING THE SHIP HAD NO IDEA OF ITS TRUE NATURE +d0f15498-b678-441a-807f-5744ba12dc20 THE OLD CLOCK ISN'T GOING MOTHER FORGOT TO WIND IT UP LAST NIGHT AND IT STOP BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD I THINK YOU'LL TURN OUT O K BUT NOT EVERYBODY AGREES BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN AND FIVE OF THE OLDER MEN LED BY A SIXTH WITH A LARGER JEWEL AT HIS THROAT FILED SOLEMNLY INTO THE ROOM AND MOTIONED THAT WE WERE TO LEAVE THOSE HUGE ROUND EYES UNBLINKING UMBRELLAS WERE NOT HUMAN +d10366f0-2e82-431b-98a7-35637ed21356 AUNT JANET WAS IN A VERY GOOD HUMOR THAT MORNING SO SHE MERELY LAUGHED AND IF ANY OF YOU THINK OF ANYTHING I DON'T JUST MENTION IT TO ME YOU KNOW WHY I'M HERE DON'T YOU HE SAID IN A VOICE AS CLOSE TO SILKY AS HE COULD MAKE IT YOU THE BALD MAN SAID YOU'RE HERE IN A CELL I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S RIGHT TO TALK OF GOD AS IF YOU WERE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY WHO FELT SURE IT WAS A GOOD CHANCE TO SNUB DAN +d108386c-8d57-4b79-a7aa-1787d50b3107 I MIXED A POWDER IN SOME MILK AND TRIED TO POUR IT DOWN HIS THROAT WHILE PETER HELD HIM JUST LOOK AT THE SCRATCHES I GOT AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT NOTHING IN THAT CORNER OF OZ INTERESTED ME BUT I BELIEVED THAT IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY I WOULD FIND STRANGE PEOPLE AND SEE NEW SIGHTS AND SO I SET OUT UPON MY WANDERING JOURNEY WELL WE HAVEN'T ANY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I SUPPOSE BLUEBERRY WINE WOULDN'T DO IN ITS PLACE +d128910f-d96a-42cd-8f11-129f88c70f50 AND VERY NICE CADGETS TOO THESE CORBOTS OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE ME I SAID I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE RICH I'M GOING TO MAKE A BIG BATCH OF PATTY PANS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING SAID FELICITY JUBILANTLY WE PAID HIM HIS MONEY BUT WE WOULD NOT OPEN THE PACKET UNTIL HE HAD GONE FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN +d13c24a2-db4d-4641-86f8-f693f423c90c AND PERHAPS SHE IS STILL CRYING HER POOR LITTLE HEART OUT BECAUSE NO TIN MAN COMES TO MARRY HER SUGGESTED POLYCHROME THERE APPEARED TO BE THE TIP OF A TAIL PROTRUDING FROM BEHIND ONE OF THE SQUAT LEGS BEHIND THE CREATURE TOWERED THE FAIRY SPIRES OF THE CITY THEY'D OBSERVED FROM THE AIR THEY WENT AWAY TOGETHER HAND IN HAND CHILDREN WISE UP THE LANE OF SPRUCES CROSSED WITH BARS OF MOONLIGHT AND THERE WAS PEACE OVER ALL THAT FRESH AND FLOWERY LAND AND PEACE IN OUR LITTLE HEARTS +d1499a0f-3dc8-4a6e-8b4f-09f0fb52babe NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY IF WE COULD EACH GIVE ABOUT SEVEN CENTS WE WOULD HAVE THE AMOUNT WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES YOU AIN'T OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A BEAU HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THEIR MOUTHS LIFTED THAT THEY ALMOST SMILED A BODY WHY +d15a0356-470d-4b6f-9e52-e760ca427734 GIVING THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A CAT BY HIS MALLIPHUOUS PURRING IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS BELLONNAIRE +d15e0600-fdd2-4281-85a8-22eba0723cb4 THERE IS NO DANGER CHAFFY THREE ASSURED HIM SCOOPS ARE BENEVOLENT AS WELL AS INTELLIGENT AND ARRIVED LONG AGO AT A WORKING AGREEMENT WITH THE ISLANDERS THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN PETER GOES TO CHURCH THERE WASUD SCHOOL THE NEXT AFTERNOON AS THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TEACHERS WISHED TO ATTEND A COMMUNION SERVICE AT MARKDALE THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH WELL MISS FELICITY YOU'RE PRETTY SMART BUT HOW WILL YOU LIKE TO WALK TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH A BOY WHO WEARS PATCHED TROUSERS I WON'T HAVE TO SAID FELICITY TRIUMPHANTLY PETER IS HAVING A NEW SUIT MADEAID IT'S TO BE READY BY SATURDAY I KNEW THAT BEFORE I PROMISED +d1810bfc-760e-467b-95d8-add7eccbed95 THIS RAISED A BUZZ OF CONVERSATION BEHIND ME BUT GOT NO RISE OUT OF THE CHIEF HE SANK SLOWLY INTO THE WATER UNTIL ONLY HIS EYES WERE SHOWING I COULD ALMOST HEAR THE WHEELS TURNING BEHIND THAT MOSS COVERED FOREHEAD THEN HE LUNGED UP AND POINTED A DRIPPING FINGER AT ME C LEE MATERIALS TOWARD A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT VOL I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY +d1813eaf-61d1-4264-a002-f29fce988766 JUST AS MUCH NONSENSE AS PRAYING ABOUT THE BITTER APPLES IN THE FIRST PLACE OH DAN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS SOME GOOD IN PRAYING SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY FOR IT IS SURE TO COME AND IF IT IS NOT JUST AS WE HAVE PICTURED IT IT WILL BE INFINITELY SWEETER THE END END OF CHAPTER THIRTY TWO END OF THE BOOK THE STORY GIRL BY LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY SHE WAS NOT A GREAT AUNT THEN OF COURSE SHE WAS ONLY EIGHTEEN WITH RED LIPS AND BLACK BLACK HAIR AND EYES THIS PETER WAS A SLIM SHAPELY FELLOW WITH LAUGHING BLACK EYES AND THICK BLACK CURLS +d1973ae0-3b11-493b-ac55-3f3130de78b8 THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP FELICITY CECILY AND DAN WERE SITTING OPPOSITE US STARING AT US WHEN THEY THOUGHT WE WOULD BE TOO BUSY EATING TO SEE THEM WE TRIED TO STARE AT THEM WHEN THEY WERE EATING AND AS A RESULT WE WERE ALWAYS CATCHING EACH OTHER AT IT AND FEELING CHEAP AND EMBARRASSED OH THE STORY GIRL SHOOK HER HEAD IMPATIENTLY THERE'S NO USE TRYING TO MAKE SUCH THINGS OUT WE ONLY GET MORE MIXED UP ALL THE TIME LET'S LEAVE IT ALONE AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY +d1bbeef6-2563-427f-a843-9162fb924da9 QUIET AS I WAS THOUGH INSKIPT STILL HEARD ME THE LIGHT CAME ON AND THERE HE WAS SITTING UP IN BED POINTING A POINT SEVEN CALIBI ROYALUS AT MY STERN SHE SIGHED A LONG SHUDDERING SIGH AND SNUGGLED INTO MY ARMS I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES WHY WHEN WE TEEMED UP WITH THE ILERONOIDS SIPHONED TOWARD THE HEADLIGHTS NOT TO MENTION THE +d1c20e2d-0a43-4781-af94-10bb7e42ba2d ALL THE GIRLS HAD FOOD POISONING A REGULAR EPIDEMIC IT SEEMED EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE QUALITY OF A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES THAT FROZE HER YOUNG BLOOD THERE NEVER WERE IN ALL THE WORLD SIX MORE BADLY SCARED CHILDREN THAN THOSE WHO HUDDLED IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD THAT AUGUST NIGHT YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I'M EVER GOING TO PUT IN THE AFTERNOON +d1cb3b93-8de4-4653-8e86-6651ebbfef43 HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER I SUPPOSE WE MADE IT HORRID OURSELVES SAID THE STORY GIRL CANDIDLY THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TELLING US TALE WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE DRAGGED THE SURVIVAL KIT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT AND PULLED OUT SOME RATIONS A FIRST STAID KIT IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK BUT THE STORY GIRL UNDAUNTEDLY CONTINUED TO COAX THE RELUCTANT PETER +d2061264-68e6-4202-b770-0bffa4866f30 AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HORRIBLE THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE THAT WE WILL IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY YOUR LUCK ALL BET'S OFF WE'RE COMING IN AFTER YOU THAT MARK TWENTY IS OF FINAL STRAW IT MEANS THEY HAVE THE DELPHINAS FOR SURE YOU'D STILL BE ON THE DEL FINEST MASTERLESS AS AN ARNAR FIELD MAN NOW ARMED MOBS FOUGHT AROUND THE TEMPLE EACH DAY AND A NEW BAND OF PRIESTS GUARDED THE SACRED FONT +d21451d5-4a83-49b9-96a1-4563cedd6dbe I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO LET US BE FAIR FELICITY RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL PETER WAS BY WAY OF SKULKING SHAMEFACEDLY PAST INTO THE SHADOWS PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND +d231d173-8603-452b-bc4e-eb0eea7b4cc8 THE WORK OF GENIUS WHICH WILL ALLOW MANKIND AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MOVE ALONE BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE AND DREAMING THAT SOME DAY HE MIGHT HAVE FLOCKS OF HIS OWN IN A DEAR LITTLE COTTAGE DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE HE AND AGLEIA MIGHT LIVE FIVE TIMES SIX ALMOST BROUGHT TEARS TO OUR EYES +d246ff3c-2e09-4c68-8e0d-e126fa472b8a HE HAD LEARNED A GREAT MANY POEMS FROM PROFESSOR WOGGLE BUG AND LOVED TO REPEAT THEM WHENEVER ANYBODY WOULD LISTEN TO HIM HORSEBOOT AND LIEU TIN WOODMAN NOW LISTEN BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT DO OTHERWISE UNLESS THEY RUDELY RAN AWAY FROM THEIR STUFFED COMRADE THE GODS WERE NOT ALL BEAUTIFUL YOU KNOW AND BEAUTIFUL OR NOT NOBODY EVER WANTED TO MEET THEM FACE TO FACE AUNT JANET OF COURSE NOTICED THE STORY GIRL'S ABSTINENCE AND ASKED IF SHE WAS SICK +d2714242-77a7-45f2-a997-d93968586fb9 NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL THE TIN WOODMAN ORDERED FOOD FOR THE STRANGER AND IN A FEW MINUTES THE SERVANT BROUGHT IN A TIN TRAY HEAPED WITH A CHOICE HOORAY OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT +d28062e1-8bb0-4d69-b58f-28d221d2dd2d YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND FOR A MOMENT THE CHARM OF HER VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I HAD NOT DONE SO BADLY AFTER ALL BUT THE OTHER GIRLS THINKING IT THEIR DUTY TO PAY ME SOME SORT OF COMPLIMENT ALSO QUICKLY SPELLED THIS PLEASING DELUSION HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL IT SEEMS AS IF I HAD MET YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE OF THE ONLY LIFE TIN WOODMAN IN ALL THE WORLD +d2a775eb-b0a4-4329-a24a-5d41dfab1fcb OH DEAR ME WHAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY THINGS THEY'VE GOT TO BE SORRY FOR AFTERWARDS VING HAD WON TO IT THROUGH THE DANGER AND SUFFERING OF THE DARK RIVER AND IF YOU BEGIN TELLING TALES FELICITY KING YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER NOBODY WILL EVER CATCH ME DOING IT AGAIN WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER +d2e3a229-8fa2-4e3b-8d09-37f12e557f68 SO AS THEY STUMBLED ALONG A STONE PASSAGE THEY KEPT CLOSE TOGETHER I CONSIDERED THE TIN HEAD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE NEAT ONE I IN ONE FORM OR OTHER I WANTED THE BASIC INFORMATION IN EVERY MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL INSIDE THAT EXPANDING SPHERE AND THREE OF THE PRIESTS MOVED TOWARD US FOLLOWED BY AN ELDERLY BEING WHO WORE THE SAME SYMBOL OF POWER OR AUTHORITY THAT I HAD ALREADY NOTED UPON THE CREATURE VIC CALLED E PAI +d2e5852f-7fb7-4d39-a812-ebefead34d1d AND RUBBED THE BONDS THAT WERE STILL AROUND HIS ARMS AND BODY BUT WHEN OUR TRAVELLERS ARRIVED THERE THEY FOUND THE PLACE DESERTED THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL +d2e78988-2bb3-4e39-b317-82766453edb4 SHE FIRST THREATENED THAT SHE WOULD NEVER SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN IF HE DIDN'T TELL HER AND THEN SHE PROMISED HIM THAT IF HE DID SHE WOULD LET HIM WALK BESIDE HER TO AND FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL THE REST OF THE SUMMER AND CARRY HER BOOKS FOR HER SHE WOULD NEVER BE SATISFIED AS A DABBLER WHATEVER HER FUTURE CAREER SHOULD BE INTO WHICH SHE WOULD THROW ALL HER POWERS OF MIND AND HEART AND SOUL BUT UNCLE BLAIR COULD DO AT LEAST ONE THING SURPASSINGLY WELL HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR +d2f14abb-0bd4-4a78-b06a-a318019ab024 THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND FELICITY AND CECILY WERE SETTING OUT A LUNCH IN THE PANTRY WHEN WE WERE ALL STARTLED BY A LOUD GROAN FROM THE SOFA IF THE CAMPBELL WAKES TOO SOON BLACK DAN COULD SHOW YOU A PAIR OF CLEAN HEELS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD START HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE HE HAD DIED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD BEEN BURIED THERE SARA HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HILL FARM SINCE PETER HAD DEVELOPED MEASLES THE DOCTOR IS AFRAID HE HE +d2f3a044-7a0c-4b51-954b-2fc95ca641f6 OF COURSE ADDED FELICITY HER HEART MELTING AT SIGHT OF THE MISERY IN THE STORY GIRL'S PITEOUS EYES MISSUS RAY ALWAYS LOOKS ON THE DARK SIDE AND IT MAY NOT BE THE MEASLES SARA HAS AFTER ALL BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE OH IF I HAD ONLY BEEN A BETTER BOY THE QUARREL WAS AS MUCH MY FAULT AS YOURS FELICITY SAID THE STORY YELL PUTTING HER ARM ROUND FELICITY WE CAN'T UNDO IT NOW BUT IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY HE MUST BE CAREFUL NEVER TO QUARREL AGAIN +d2ffb813-be12-48a2-a54a-94b6f7bc6528 DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT WE REALIZED ALL THE MINGLED COQUETRY AND FEELING AND DEFIANCE AND ARCHNESS IN BETTY SHERMAN'S DARING SPEECH WE HAD EVEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT MISTER CAMPBELL THAT GENTLEMAN IN SILENCE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET EXTRACTED A NOTE THEREFROM AND HANDED IT GRAVELY TO THE STORY GIRL UNCLE BLAIR WAS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AMONG THE FAIR FRAIL WHITE LADIES OF THE WALK WHERE THE WEST WIND CAME NOW WITH A SIGH AND AGAIN WITH A RUSH AND THEN BRUSHED OUR FACES AS SOFTLY AS THE DOWN OF A THISTLE WAS FULL OF THE GLAMOUR OF MOUNTAIN RIMMED LAKES AND PURPLE CHALEES AND SNOWY SUMMITS OLD IN STORY I OBSERVED THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE WATCH MY CLOTHING AND EVEN MY HAND WERE NOT REAL THEY WERE LIKE THE REST OF THE THINGS IN THIS MONSTROUS STATE THAT VIC CALLED IN FROM MEDIA I LEFT IT THREE AFTER TEN IT'S NOW FOURTEEN MINUTES OF ELEVEN GOOD LORD LESS THAN AN HOUR SINCE I STOOD THERE IN YOUR LABORATORY +d304a411-1f24-499a-81ca-7c0e0ad56f2a MY SHIP BUCKED A BIT AS THE TUG BEAMS LOCKED ON AT MAXIMUM DISTANCE I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR US I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD LOOKING BACK FROM A MATURE STANDPOINT I REALIZED THAT SHE MUST HAVE BEEN AN UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN THE CREATURES THEY BEHELD WERE ROUND AND BALL LIKE AND OZMA HAD ISSUED A ROYAL EDICT FORBIDDING +d30b7880-327e-4098-a5dd-6e874f32234f FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP HIS WHOLE BODY ACHED TENDONS HAD BEEN PULLED MUSCLES STRAINED FROM THE FORCE OF THE EJECTION AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS I STRIPPED OFF MY TATTERED LIZARD SUIT BACK IN THE SHIP VERY GLAD THAT IT WOULD BE SOME OTHER REPAIRMAN WHO'D GET THE JOB END OF +d3106bee-00f8-4ff5-9de6-a1106e2b8b9e IT'S A MARK THREE BEACON A SPECIAL BRANCH OF THE PRIESTHOOD SERVED THE TEMPLE I HAVE REPAIRED HYPERSPACE BEACONS FROM ONE ARM OF THE GALAXY TO THE OTHER AND I WAS SURE I HAD WORKED ON EVERY TYPE OR MODEL MADE AND THE RABBLE WAS SENT FLYING BY A NUMBER OF MEN WHO SEEMED TO HOLD SOME OFFICE DISTINGUISHED BY A WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK IT'S REALLY TOO BAD WE CAN'T WORK THIS SORT OF THING AT A DISTANCE CLARETON'S VOICE SAID SUDDENLY BUT THEN NONE OF US HAS EVER MET THE MAN AND YOU CAN'T READ A MIND IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD SOME PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE MAN WHO OWNS IT +d323c03c-8422-45cf-a862-49c58f12f779 NEXT HE SAID THEIR MOON WAS CERANNA CRUSOE TRANSLATED AS A LIMB OF VICTORY IT CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF FOUR TALL SLIM POSTS SET IN THE FORM OF A SQUARE ABOUT A YARD APART MY WIFE HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD +d3388bca-2770-46b9-8851-c9f0a93b9e71 PAT WAS WITH US OF COURSE PROWLING ABOUT STEALTHILY OR MAKING FRANTIC BOOTLESS LEAPS AT THE SWALLOWS A CAT IN A HAY LOFT IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS WE HAD NOT HEARD OF THIS FITNESS THEN BUT WE ALL FELT THAT PATTY WAS IN HIS OWN PLACE IN A HAYLOFT O PETER WHAT DO YOU THINK I HAVE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE AWKWARD MAN AT LAST I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SO EASY YESTERDAY AUNT OLIVIA WANTED SOME FERNS SO I WENT BACK TO THE MAPLE WOODS TO GET THEM FOR AND I FOUND SOME LOVELY ONES BY THE SPRING THIS PLEASED THE GIANTESS AND SHE WOULD PAUSE AT TIMES TO PAT THE MONKEY'S HEAD THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND LAY STILL ALL DAY +d33b823c-918d-4705-91cc-7dbb24b18aa5 CECILY FINISHED HER CUCUMBER AND THEN DRANK A GLASS OF MILK JUST AS WE HEARD THE WHEELS OF UNCLE ALEC'S BUGGY RAMBLING OVER THE BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL +d366973f-c0a3-45a0-97f7-98d66d1d6127 SO MARSHALL CERTIFIED THEM AND SENT THEM INTO WASHINGTON THIS GAVE HIGH PLANES THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE INCREASE OF ANY CITY IN THE NATION BUT IT WAS CHALLENGED BUT THEN FELICITY IS STUPID IT'S NOT ILL NATURED OF ME TO SAY THAT IT'S JUST THE TRUTH AND YOU'D SOON FIND IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES I LIKE FELICITY VERY WELL BUT SHE IS STUPID I SUPPOSE THE MINISTER WOULD KNOW BUT HE IS AWAY ON HIS VACATION SAID FELICITY ANYHOW I'LL GO AND ASK MOTHER WHAT SHE THINKS OF IT FELICITY PICKED UP THE ENTERPRISE AND BETOOK HERSELF TO THE HOUSE WE AWAITED HER RETURN IN DIRE SUSPENSE +d3721b5b-f847-42f4-b010-93386b68b344 HE SANK SLOWLY BENEATH THE SURFACE WHAT A LACK OF COURTESY I SHOUTED DIPLOMACY WAS CALLED FOR I SIGHED AND DRAGGED OUT THE PLASTER FLESH EQUIPMENT AND HE PLUNGED FIERCELY IN HE SWAM AND STRUGGLED HE BUFFETED THE TURMOIL THE WAVES WENT OVER HIS HEAD AGAIN AND AGAIN THE WHIRLPOOLS CAUGHT HIM AND FLUNG HIM ON THE CRUEL ROCKS HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE ORN HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND PALM OUT +d3721d0d-a9c3-4df0-a536-870705f2844f NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY I THINK HIS NAME IS E PAY THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT MAYBE IT'S JUST THE TITLE BUT WHAT THEY'RE UP TO NOW I CAN'T EVEN GUESS KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH TO US FOR EVERMORE THE MILKY WAY WOULD BE NOT PETER'S OVERWHELMING GARLAND OF SONS BUT THE LUCENT BRIDGE LOVE CREATED ON WHICH THE BANISHED ARCHANGELS CROSSED FROM STAR TO STAR THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE NOT A RIVET FELL BUT THAT ITS FALL WAS NOTED INQUINTUPLICATE AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY THE FACTS I NEEDED WERE ALL NEATLY TUCKED AWAY IN THEIR PAID PO CATACOMBS ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SNIFFED THEM OUT I DIDN'T TRY TO LOOK FOR FIRST CAUSES THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN TOO LONG +d379917c-6944-41d2-bbea-f9321bd94446 TIME PASSED SOMEHOW WHEN MORNING DAWNED YONAS AWOKE TO FIND THE DOOR OF HIS CELL BEING UNLOCKED THE BALD MAN AND THE BLACK HAIRED MAN WERE BOTH THERE HE LOOKED UP WITH THEM WITH DISTASTE BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT IF HE HADN'T BEEN FEELING JUST THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH OF SEA SICKNESS JOHN EDGEW WOULD HAVE BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF +d38e8692-a0cf-4e6b-a60d-62cf4b4413d7 I DON'T KNOW THE CAPTAIN SAID IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE I NEVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDED LIKE WHICH IS ALL RIGHT SINCE HE WAS GETTING UNDER MY SKIN AND MIGHT HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO PULL MY PSEUDO RANK THE ALARM SIRENS CUT HIS SENTENCE OFF AND WE FOOT RACED TO THE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON O K KEEP US POSTED RIGHT STITSON LOOKED ACROSS AT HIS JUNIOR FIELD MAN OR IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT CAN'T WE SEND WORD SOMEHOW TO SARA RAY TO NIGHT ASKED CECILY THE EVER THOUGHTFUL SHE'S FEELING SO BAD AND SHE'LL HAVE TO FEEL THAT WAY TILL TO MORROW IF WE CAN'T +d3965f53-19e0-44fb-ac7e-08f325e6adb1 SOME MILITARISTIC CLIQUE THAT MEANT TO OVERTHROW HIM AND TAKE POWER I DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT THE PLANETS WHEN ENLISTED FERERA ON MY SIDE THIS WAS EASY EVEN WITHOUT THE THREAT OF EXPOSURE OF THE DOCUMENTS I HAD FOUND IN HIS FILES BUT WE HAD LISTENED ENTRANCED I HAVE WRITTEN DOWN THE BARE WORDS OF THE STORY AS SHE TOLD IT BUT I COULD NEVER REPRODUCE THE CHARM AND COLOR AND SPIRIT SHE INFUSED INTO IT IT LIVED FOR US I'D NOT ALLOW YOU TO EAT THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS DECLARED POLYCHROMELY CANARY WELL THREE OR FOUR SQUIRRELS THEN PLEADED THE JAGUAR DO YOU THINK ME SO CRUEL +d39dd0ea-0982-4bbd-a2bd-3308b54eb112 THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP WONDERING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US HE HAD A FACE LIKE AN EAGLE AND HIS EYES WERE ICE BLUE HE MOVED HIS THIN STRONG HANDS GENTLY BACK AND FORTH ON THE TABLE THAT HELD HIS PAPERS INKSTAND PEN AND SAID IN A VOICE LIKE AUDIBLE SAND PAPER YOU WANTED TO SEE ME ONLY THE PEOPLE MANOEL DO NOT TAKE THE ANIMALS HOW WOULD YOU WRITE UP THE ANIMALS THEY HAVE NO NAMES OH YES ALL HAVE NAMES MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL +d3a72552-c87e-4dd6-9ea6-77f85190071e I SUPPOSE EVEN IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I'LL HAVE TIME TO GET BACK TO YOU SARA RAY AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WENT HOME BUT THE LONG DRAWN OUT DREAD WAS BEGINNING TO GET ON DAN'S NERVES THE THREAT WAS EFFECTUAL NEVER DID WE MENTION THAT UNHOLY PUDDING BUT THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT IMPOSE SILENCE ON THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND CECILY LOOKED PALE AND THIN BESIDE HER WE WERE QUITE WILLING TO GO TO BED +d3a8664f-4076-4742-b004-14f1a21a7b4f PERHAPS WE'LL CONDEMN AND PUNCTURE THEM ANSWERED THE KING WELL SAID SHE STILL EYEING THE I'M NOT SURE THEY'LL PUNCTURE I THINK IT'S JUST LIKE SPRING INSISTED FELICITY IN THE SUN SWEET PLACE BEFORE THE PULPIT STONE WE BOYS HAD PUT UP A BOARD TABLE HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THERE MIGHT BE HAVE BEEN IN THE GOLDEN AGE ASKED THE STORY GIRL WHICH WAS INDEED AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR FELICITY SUPPOSE SHE DOES CATCH THE MEASLES FELICITY SAID ASIDE I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'LL BE ANYBODY THERE FROM MARKDALE THE LECTURER IS GOING TO MARKDALE NEXT WEEK THEY'LL WAIT FOR THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY +d3be2456-5e0a-474c-b93d-4746b90af56c THE HOME OF OUR FATHERS I DO LIKE A ROAD BECAUSE YOU CAN BE ALWAYS WONDERING WHAT IS AT THE END OF IT THE STORY GIRL SAID THAT ONCE UPON A TIME DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THINKING IS VERY BAD FOR DRAGONS RETURNED THE BIG ONE IMPATIENTLY HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE AND WONDERINGLY MARSHALL DID I WANT THE LIST THAT WAS STOLEN DON'T GAPE GET IT +d3c6ee47-f818-451b-b98c-d74d5b7642e6 THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS SPACE SHIP HE MANAGED TO CROAK BEFORE GIVING IT UP THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY THE NONIPUS CROUCHED MOTIONLESS THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY AS IF UNTOUCHED BY ANYTHING AROUND HIM HIS ARMS FOLDED AND A FAINT SMILE UPON HIS DAMP LIPS FINALLY HE SPOKE TOO THAT'S FUNNY SHE RETORTED YOU'RE A LITTLE AND YOUR WEAK AS YOU ARE YOU'RE NOT MUCH ACCOUNT ANYHOW THE BEST THING ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU'RE ALIVE FOR I SHALL BE ABLE TO MAKE OF YOU SOME SORT OF LIVE CREATURE WHICH WILL BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON YOUR PRESENT FORM +d3e6aa54-7454-4042-8b68-644acd37f323 AND PEACE IN OUR LITTLE HEARTS I WISH I COULD SEE A PICTURE OF GOD BUT EDITH WHO HAD KISSED THE POET LAY NOT WITH HER KINDRED THE WHITE PUFF OF SAIL ON DARK GREEN SEA GLIDING ACROSS CALM WATER BANDED WITH LIGHTER AND DARKER STRAYER WHERE SUBMERGED SHOALS LAY TO RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT BEGIN IT RESPECTED MADAM HE SAID THERE WAS A WOMAN'S PICTURE ABOVE THE BOOKCASE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS SHE THINKS IT WAS A COLORED PHOTOGRAPH BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS BUT FORTUNATELY WE WERE NOT FORBIDDEN THE USE OF OUR EYES AND TONGUES +d3ea89dc-56e2-4241-b868-7c1a9ed9a954 EAT FRIEND WANDERER SAID THE EMPEROR CORDIALLY AND I TRUST THE FEAST WILL BEAT TO YOUR LIKING I MYSELF DO NOT EAT BEING MADE IN SUCH MANNER THAT I REQUIRE NO FOOD TO KEEP ME ALIVE THERE SHOULD BE A FLAW SOMEWHERE JEFF FELT BUT HE FAILED TO SEE ONE HE GAVE UP TRYING WHEN HE FOUND JENIFER EYEING HIM WITH UNCHARACTERISTIC UNCERTAINTY WHEN FERERO ROLLED INTO HIS STUDY AFTER DINNER THE ROOM WAS DARK I HEARD HIM MURMUR SOMETHING ABOUT THE SERVANTS AND FUMBLE FOR THE SWITCH BEFORE HE FOUND IT THE ROBART CLOSED THE DOOR AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS I SAT BEHIND HIS DESK ALL HIS PERSONAL PAPERS WERE BEFORE ME WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A PISTOL AND AS FIERCE A SCOW AS I COULD RAISE SMEARED ACROSS MY FACE +d41e2826-e773-4632-a56c-3e37fcfcdf01 HE REFLECTED FOR A MINUTE I COULD MAKE YOU INTO A BEADLE AND SQUASH YOU UNDERFOOT EXCERPT FROM A SHORT HISTORY THE MASQUERADE BY A WHAT ARE YOU TILLING THESE CHILDREN OUT STUFF FOR ASKED AUNT OLIVIA PASSING ON HER WAY TO THE WELL WHAT LAUGHTER AND QUESTIONING AND TELLING OF TALES FOLLOWED WHAT SMILES AND BRIGHT EYES AND GLAD VOICES THE VALVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE USED ONLY FOR REPAIRS AFTER THE PILE WAS DAMPED THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR +d42d99d0-e340-4eff-9d55-697d2cda50bd THERE WAS REASON ALSO WHY MARILLA WAS LOADED SO SHE COULD HARDLY WALK WITH PACKS OF CENSUS FORMS AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT EIGHT NINE PEOPLE SEE THEM THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS THEY DO SEEM DREADFULLY SCARCE NOW IT WAS A FAST RUN TO UDRIDA WHEN MY BILLIONAIRES YACHT THE EL DORADO WAS WAITING SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS +d446f983-e3c7-4b6f-b2df-2e4d0af46ae9 IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN I DOUBT VERY MUCH IF BILLY'S TROUBLED HIM AT ALL NOW YONAH SAID WHEN HE WANTS IF I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID I HAVE POWERS STRANGE POWERS I COULD MAKE YOU HE REFLECTED FOR A MINUTE I COULD MAKE YOU INTO A BEADLE AND SQUASH YOU UNDERFOOT AS A MATTER OF FACT I THINK I WILL HE GAZED REFACTLY AT THE BALD MAN WHO GULPED AND TURNED A LITTLE PALE +d489e53f-27d6-409e-b257-7300a4ff78f8 A SERIES OF MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS ROCKED THE SHIP HE CHOPPED THE POWER BACK ALL THE WAY AND LISTENED INTENTLY MAY DAY MAY ESTRO THIS IS BRANDON MAY DAY A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR THE FACE OF REINHERT THE RADIO MAN APPEARED BEFORE HIM BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER TO THE LAST CRUMB IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT I WISH I WAS TWINS SO'S I COULD EAT MORE SAID DAN WHEN HE SIMPLY HAD TO STOP WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL SOMETHING HAPPENED I WAS CONSCIOUS OF A FAINT GLOW FROM ABOVE AS I MOVED THE DIAL SLOWLY SO THAT ITS RED MARK APPROACHED THE STATIONARY ONE UPON THE PANEL I GLANCED UP SWIFTLY EACH OF THE LITTLE BLOBS OF QUARTZ WAS GLOWING EACH WITH A LIGHT OF A DIFFERENT COLOR ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN ONE A VIVID ELECTRIC BLUE AND ONE WAS FIERY RED THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL +d49707e4-025d-4a2a-a4ec-3bfff7fbedb8 I WAS JUST SEVEN ON AND ON THEY RODE AND THE SKIES GREW DARKER AND THE WIND BLEW AND WAILED AND THE SHADES OF EVENING CAME DOWN HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE ABRAHAM KING SMILED AND BEING A MAN OF FEW WORDS SAID NOTHING BUT IN HIS MIND HE HAD A VISION OF THE YEARS TO BE AND IN THAT VISION HE SAW NOT RIPPLING ACRES OF HARVEST GOLD BUT GREAT LEAFY AVENUES OF WIDE SPREADING TREES LADEN WITH FRUIT TO GLADDEN THE EYES OF CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN YET UNBORN +d49768dc-073d-4292-96d8-81fe6bae62bf BUT NOT FOR LONG THERE WAS A SHUFFLING NEAR BY AND I TOOK A CHANCE AND TURNED ON MY FLASH AFTER THAT GRANDPA IN PARADISE HAD MANY HEART TO HEART TALKS WITH GRANDSON WHO FOUND THE HEAVENLY LUTE MORE THAN HE COULD RESIST HAVE YOU EVER SAT SO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN IN A MOTION PICTURE THEATRE SO THAT THE GRAININESS OF THE MOVING FILM WAS VISIBLE THESE CREATURES WERE LIKE SUCH SHADOWS SEEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET MY NAME IS GARF HE SAID CHEERFULLY JOHN ANDREW TRIED NOT TO STARE AT HIM TOO NOTICEABLY BUT RAY MADE NO BONES ABOUT HIM APPARENTLY THE FEASTMAN THOUGHT NOTHING AT ALL OF HIS STATE OF NUDITY FARMER SHIVERED +d4b24ed6-a24e-4a85-b205-4ec8acf50ffe WELL I WILL IF YOU DON'T WANT IT I'M NOT TROUBLED WITH FANCIES THAT SEEMS TO BE ALL EXCEPT THIS BOX I SUPPOSE THE WEDDING DRESS IS IN IT THE REST OF US COULD NOT SEE WHERE ANY CATCH COULD EXIST SINCE FELIX SOLEMNLY VOWED CROSS HIS HEART AND THE RAINBOW WAS A GREAT BRIDGE BUILT OF LIVING COLORS AM I TO TAKE MY CHOICE KNUFF SAID A STRANGER KENUF SAID WHO ENTERS A SMALL CITY IS SEEN AT MYSTERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS PLUCKS WORDS OUT OF THE CENTRE OF A MAN'S MIND +d4b75aa5-079a-4c9a-8266-7557da00afad CAN'T YOU HIDE SOMETHING AWAY THROUGH THE DAY AS WE DO AS IT WAS WE WERE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK UP IT LEST WE SHOULD SEE THE WADING BLUE CLAD EMILY UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME AN ANONIPUS THAT BECAME APPARENT WAS NOT ONLY A WATER CREATURE HE DECIDED HE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HIMSELF WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY +d4c9b49c-599f-4588-8342-6f5be11ad0c6 MISSUS DUNBAR LIVES NEXT DOOR TO AUNT LOUISA IN TOWN WHAT IF JERRY DOESN'T BRING THE PICTURE TO DAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN I SUGGESTED THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE BUT ANYHOW I SUPPOSE IT WOULDN'T BE MUCH USE BECAUSE IF HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER HE'D SAY I OUGHT TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN +d4cd3b4a-a4dd-489c-9365-95cafc6b9adc IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SHIP AND THE DOCK YARD HAD BEEN LAVISH WITH HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM BOW TO REAR TUBE SHE WAS PLAITED IN PURE GOLD THERE ARE OTHER METALS WITH A HIGHER ALBIDO BUT NONE THAT GIVE A RICHER EFFECT ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED THERE WAS A GENERAL UNKEMPT STRAGGLING LOOK ABOUT HIM LOUIS ORNE JUNIOR I A FIELD MAN WITH A MAIDEN DIPLOMA STOOD AT THE OPPOSITE PORT STUDYING THE JUNGLE HORIZON THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ME IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE MEMBER HE THOUGHT +d50a9d90-10aa-4597-9ca1-fb53f0fd1464 BUT CECILI HAVING TORTURED HER HAIR WITH CURL PAPERS ALL NIGHT HAD A RAMPANT BUSH OF CURLS ALL ABOUT HER HEAD I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM CECILY SAT DOWN BY HER HALF FILLED BASKET AND BEGAN TO CRY CASSIOPEIA SAT ENTHRONED IN HER BEAUTIFUL CHAIR IN THE NORTH EAST +d5261b55-610a-44f2-be23-ac802aa8c5ca ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS BEYOND A RIDGE OF LOW HILLS THE TURNED INTO A TORCH AND SANK BENEATH HIM AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN YOU DARE INSULT ME GROWLED NUBE YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY HE LEANED BACK WIPED HIS HANDS ON HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND GAVE ME LECTURE FORTY FOUR ON COMPANY DUTY AND MY TROUBLES +d55f277c-41ea-49a6-b992-02f231210561 HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT HIS OXYGEN MASK WAS STILL IN PLACE BUT HIS HELMET HUNG PARTLY LOOSE WHILE DOING THIS HE HAD THROWN ONE OF THE SWITCHES AND THAT HAD CAUSED THE TROUBLE I WASN'T STOPPED SO IT LOOKED ALL RIGHT IT WAS TEN O'CLOCK BEFORE DAN BEGAN TO GET BETTER BUT FROM THAT TIME HE IMPROVED RAPIDLY +d585c7e1-1105-436f-9e90-340d4b355185 THE SHIP WAS COMPLETELY CLEAN EVERYTHING I MIGHT NEED FOR THE JOB WAS IN MY LUGGAGE SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY YOU ARE CAUSING A DROUGHT AND I SHALL CATCH COLD AND SNEEZE WHEN I SNEEZE I GET CROSS WHEN I CROP AND GET CROSS I'M LIABLE TO DO SOMETHING WICKED COME IN YOU FOOLISH STRANGERS COME IN WE HAD NO INTENTION OF GOING TO BED FOR A GOOD TWO HOURS YET +d5899b83-a9b5-40c4-b4fb-0d0302936987 SO YOU'D BETTER MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MISS YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE NO SIR WELL EACH WITH A LIGHT OF A DIFFERENT COLOR I GLANCED UP SWIFTLY +d58b2d78-d646-4163-90d1-3556d40f60ab NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HATCHED OUT ON COLLAXIA SAID JENOFER I LOST MY HEAD AND GROUNDED THE QUEEN AND IT VANISHED MOMENTARILY PINNING THE ZID'S THRESHING FORELEM SO WE MAY TAKE OUR TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT TO DO NEXT SHE HAD HER BACK TOWARD THEM AND DID NOT EVEN TURN AROUND ALL THE BOARD GUARDS HAD A GREAT TIME WITH THE SIRENS LIGHTS ACCELERATORS ON THE FLOOR AND THAT SORT OF THING BEFORE HE COULD TALK I DID FOOT IN THE DOOR AND STAY ON TOP +d5ae62ce-9c21-495d-85e8-4dc526c61cfe BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES SO HE HAD SIMPLY ROARED UP TO UNSUSPECTING FREIGHTER AND BLASTED OVER THE MONSTER GUNS HIS BATTLESHIP PACKED WITH EACH BLUE TINTED STOCKINGS AND BLUE LEATHER SHOES TURNED UP AT THE POINTED TOES CECILY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE NEVER MEANT TO PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLORS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS PRETENDING +d60208ea-d190-49b4-997d-c94112b123eb DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX WHAT WOULD AUNT JANE SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT CECILY DEMANDED OF PETER TALK TALKING IN THE GLOOM BEYOND THE LIGHTS TENUBE'S WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE WAS GRATZIE AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS AND NORTH OF US THE DIPPERS SWUNG UNTIRINGLY AROUND THE POLE STAR +d60ef1d2-659d-4584-bede-339768c62737 FELIX AND PETER DREW APART AFTER THAT FIRST ONSET AND THEN CIRCLED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER WARILY DON'T TELL UNCLE ROGER SHE IMPLORED HUMBLY AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE SHE HAD BEEN BAKING ALL THE AFTERNOON AND WITH THE PANTRY WELL STOCKED WITH BISCUITS COOKIES CAKES AND PIES SHE CARED NOT IF ALL CARLYLE CAME TO TEA SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS AND NOW WE HAD COME TO THE ORCHARD IT WAS BEFORE US WE HAD ONLY TO OPEN THAT LITTLE WHITEWASHED GATE IN THE HEDGE AND WE MIGHT FIND OURSELVES IN ITS STORY DOMAIN +d610bc31-f5aa-4000-ba11-1e143a9c0e58 THE FRUIT LADEN BOUGHS OF THE ORCHARD THE BANK OF GOLDEN ROD LIKE A WAVE OF SUNSHINE BEHIND THE PULPIT STONE BUT WHY SHOULD YOU WISH TO ESCAPE I SHALL GIVE YOU NEW FORMS THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES HE SAYS MARTIN CAN'T CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN SINCE HE WAS MARRIED +d69c4223-17fe-4178-8bcf-35a520142780 NOW YOU'RE A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THE REST AND YOU'LL LAST LONGER AND BE MORE HUMBLE WHEN HE HAD JOINED THE ARMS AND LEGS TO THE BODY I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING SHE WAS VERY SMALL AND VERY SWEET GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND HE HAD ALSO TIED IT IN A KNOT ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL +d6a185d4-32ea-41a1-8488-797d920cf849 THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE AN OWL SAID WOUT I THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE BETTER IN THE DARK THERE'S THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS SAID CECILY POINTING TO A LONG DRIFT OF FILMY VAPOUR IN THE SOUTH WESTERN SKY AND LOOK AT THAT SWEET PINK CLOUD BELOW IT SAID FELICITY ANY ONE WHO LIVES WITH YOU FELICITY KING WILL ALWAYS BE WISHING HE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE SAID DAN +d6bc78c4-cfa1-4b99-a079-b4d018d1662a LIKE ANY LADY'S WEARBYER AT AN ANNUAL CONVENTION AND HE SAW WHAT HAD SAVED HIM BUT SHE WORKED ON AT HER BUTTONHOLES SHE WOULD NOT LOOK AT THE EXCITING SERIAL IN THE NEW MAGAZINE DAN BROUGHT HOME FROM THE POST OFFICE NEITHER WOULD SHE OPEN A LETTER FROM HER FATHER IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I'LL BE WHEN YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER COME HOME WE WERE MUCH TAKEN ABACK TO FIND THAT MISSUS RAY CAME TO THE GATE INSTEAD OF JUDY AND RATHER SOURLY DEMANDED WHAT WE WERE YELLING ABOUT +d6ce57d3-12de-4a61-a501-cd4af8908b63 YES BUT SAID DAN TRIUMPHANTLY IF YOU BELIEVE GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS ABOUT PARTICULAR THINGS IT WAS PETER'S PRAYER HE ANSWERED WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW HE TALKED VERY NICELY AND READ AND PRAYED THEY MADE VERY LONG PRAYERS IN THOSE DAYS YOU KNOW AND AT THE END OF HIS PRAYER HE SAID O LORD BLESS THIS POOR YOUNG MAN HIDING IN THE CLOSET GIVE HIM COURAGE NOT TO FEAR THE FACE OF MAN +d6d3838b-1214-4c27-8dbc-c185e832364a FIVE DAYS THAT'S ALL THEY CAN GIVE US TOM GOE SAYS HE CAN'T KEEP THE INFORMATION OUT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER BULL ONE'S HANDS ANY LONGER THAN THAT IT'S FIVE DAYS FOR SURE THEN SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I AM UNDER NO COMPULSION TO LISTEN TO YOU KENUFF SAID AFTER A PAUSE YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM WE ADORED AUNT OLIVIA SHE WAS PRETTY AND MERRY AND KIND AND ABOVE ALL SHE HAD MASTERED TO PERFECTION THE RARE ART OF LETTING CHILDREN ALONE +d728a1bc-0b3e-4da7-9840-8f116076d0d9 AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION THE FACTS I NEEDED WERE ALL NEATLY TUCKED AWAY IN THEIR PAID PO CATACOMBS IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I HOPED I WASN'T BREAKING TOO MANY TABOOS BY GOING IN ROLLED OUT OF THE CAVE AND LANDED AT HIS FEET +d73dbe44-19e7-46f6-8db4-8ae47b1b5633 BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY IS THAT UNUSUAL THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO I WISH I COULD UNDERSTAND IT I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT IT'S SUCH A STRANGE THING THAT THERE ISN'T A WORD ABOUT EITHER OF THEM IN THE BIBLE SAID CECILY ESPECIALLY WHEN IT MENTIONS BAPTISTS OR AT LEAST ONE BAPTIST +d7645484-2200-4d80-b38d-e99736d3b73b ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND AND WATCH AS HE STIRRED UP THE COALS PULLED OUT THE RUDDIEST IRON AND TURNED TOWARD ME WHEN NOT HELD IN THE CHURCH WITH BARE FEET AND NO PARTICULAR DISGRACE ATTACHED TO IT THE SOCIAL LIFE OF JUVENILE CARLYLE CENTERED IN THE DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS +d7845bd3-c3a0-4b59-9243-94ba00b502c5 NOW I HAD TO KEEP PUSHING UNTIL HE FELL THIS MEANT I HAD TO THINK AS HE DID FALL INTO HIS PLAN THINK HEAD THEN TRAP HIM SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF THE ONLY VESTIGE OF COMFORT LEFT ME WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WERE TAKING ME TO HOPE AND VIC AT THE ENTRANCE OF ONE OF THE HUGE MISSHAPEN BLACK BUILDINGS THE CREATURE WITH THE BRILLIANT STONE AT HIS THROAT APPEARED AS SUDDENLY AS A LIGHT FLASHES UP IN THE DARKNESS THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS WEEK DAY JOLLITY AND THE UNEARTHLY SOLEMNITY OF HIS COUNTENANCE ON SUNDAYS ALWAYS STRUCK US AS VERY FUNNY IT SEEMED SO TO STRIKE PETER FOR AS PETER DROPPED HIS SCENT INTO THE PLATE HE LAUGHED ALOUD +d7a91964-f010-4bc3-8110-955815c72e56 CHAFFY THREE CHOSE THAT MOMENT TO REAPPEAR NEARLY CAUSING JEFF TO LET GO OF THE BUNK AND ADMIT THE ZID YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MISTER BUTLER LEAVES A LETTER FOR ME WHICH I'M TO MAIL EARLY THIS MORNING SPECIAL DELIVERY INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE PETER DROPPED HIS VOICE AND OH I WAS SO HAPPY I'M GOING TO CHURCH SAME AS YOU +d7f305a6-8152-4d68-be7c-9ba267f3ba93 GET BACK WHERE FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE THOUGHTFULLY THE DOCTOR LEANED BACK IN HIS CHAIR HUM I SEE AS THE MAN BEFORE HIM MADE AN INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT TOWARD HIS POCKET THE DOCTOR SMILED GO ON SMOKE IF YOU WANT TO CONSTANT CONTACT WAS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE ANY REACHING OUT USED ENERGY AND LINKING UP FOR A LONG PERIOD SIMPLY BURNED THE BODY UP LIKE A LONG STARVATION IT WAS AS BAD AS A PENANCE +d81cbc0f-588a-48f3-8c42-1e42a8d0173a PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE HO U S A THE REPAIR MAN BY HARRY HARRISON BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD IF I COULD SHOOT THE TROUBLE THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS SLIM AND STRAIGHT AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON +d8639df8-7a8b-486e-85d1-87615221e76f NEVER MIND NOW YOU MAY HAVE ENCOUNTERED OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN RICH ATMOSPHERE IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON WELL THAT'S THE SAME THING CRIED FELIX YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG +d873fd1b-95fe-4651-8c1a-841e20b68dcd TALL AND STRAIGHT WAS HE AS A YOUNG PINE AND HIS LONG HAIR WAS THE COLOUR OF RIPE WHEAT IN THE SUN AND HIS BLUE EYES WERE LIKE THE NORTHLAND HEAVENS ON A STARRY NIGHT YONAH NODDED WERE THERE SUCH A PLAN HE SAID BE ASSURED I WOULD TELL YOU BUT THERE IS NONE YONAH SAID HERAKNUFF SHALL REMAIN FOR ALL THAT I CAN DO WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS SHARP OPENED HIS MOUTH SHUT IT AGAIN AND THEN SHRUGGED I SEE HE SAID AT LAST VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE +d875e9ca-1726-4335-a9fe-c15d665d6f22 I NEED MY EYES TO SEE AND MEND THE FOUNT OF HOLY WATERS ONCE THE WATERS FLOW AGAIN I WILL LAUGH AS I HURL MYSELF ON THE BURNING IRON HE TOOK A GOOD THIRTY SECONDS TO THINK THIS OVER AND HAD TO AGREE WITH ME THE LOCAL TORTURER SNIFFED A BIT AND THREW A LITTLE MORE CHARCOAL ON THE FIRE WELL IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME SAID WOUT WITH ASSUMED CARELESSNESS DANGERS WHEN THEY CANNOT BE AVOIDED ARE OFTEN QUITE INTERESTING AND I AM WILLING TO GO WHEREVER YOU TWO VENTURE TO GO SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY +d8a30bd9-0027-4ae5-92a0-ac7633ad18ad I DIVED THE EYE LOWER I DREW UP MY SCALY FIGURE IN A NOBLE GESTURE AND POINTED TOWARD THE CEILING KENUF WAITED A BARE A SECOND AND THEN NODDED FISHING IT IN HIS OWN POCKET HE WITHDREW A SINGLE SHINY COIN THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME I MAY BE MISTAKEN BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE STORY GIRL WANTED THAT FIGHT STOPPED +d8a760cc-6055-4a70-8d7d-08ed44480a95 IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT JUST AT THE MOMENT OF COURSE YOU'RE AT A CROSSROAD FARMER BRACED HIMSELF FOR RETALIATION FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY THE OLD BOYS HAD BUILT WELL HE THREW THE MARK THREE FILE AT ME AND WENT BACK TO SCRATCHING IN HIS PAPERS HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY +d8bb4d40-d863-45c9-81b0-063b0f9336fa ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS SAID FELICITY RELUCTANTLY I AND THEN CELIA GAVE IN AND TOOK HIM BECAUSE SHE SAW THERE WASN'T NO HOPE OF HIM EVER GIVING IN I I HAD ONE IN THE SHIP THAT WAS ABOUT A TENTH THE SIZE OF THE ANCIENT BUCKET OF BOLTS AND PRODUCED AT LEAST FOUR TIMES THE POWER WHEN I SAW THAT SOMETHING CLICKED IN MY MIND +d8e36754-87a8-4492-aa9c-176fbd2b78b5 THERE WAS ENOUGH GLAMOUR OF THE UNKNOWN ABOUT IT THAT HE HAD INSPIRED US WITH SOME OF HIS OWN DEEP SEATED AFFECTION FOR IT WAS THE OLD WHITEWASHED HOUSE HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY AND THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT IT IS FAIRYLAND UNTIL THEY HAVE GROWN SO OLD THAT THEY FORGET THE WAY NO KNIFE CAN CUT OUR LOVE IN TWO +d8eaffda-eff9-49df-8bfb-8e8ef6e38c8c JUST SMELL MISSUS SAMPSON'S FLOWERS SAID CECILY AS WE PASSED A TRIM WHITE PALING CLOSE TO THE ROAD OVER WHICH BLEW ODOURS SWEETER THAN THE PERFUME OF ARABY'S SHORE HER ROSES ARE ALL OUT AND THAT BED OF SWEET WILLIAM IS A SIGHT BY DAYLIGHT YOU LOOK HERE AT MY SENSES SLIP IT SAYS I'M MANUEL AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE AND ONE MILLION OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY HE IS BIG AND JOLLY BUT HE TEASES PEOPLE TOO MUCH YOU ASK HIM A SERIOUS QUESTION AND YOU GET A RIDICULOUS ANSWER HE HARDLY EVER SCOLDS OR GETS CROSS THOUGH AND THAT IS SOMETHING +d9272aa5-8198-4b25-bcb8-39f502726aa8 BUT I MUST WAIT UNTIL I'M A LITTLE OLDER FOR HE WOULDN'T TELL THE SECRET OF THE WEST ROOM TO A LITTLE GIRL AND I MUST MUSTN'T WAIT TILL I'M TOO OLD FOR HE IS FRIGHTENED OF GROWN UP GIRLS BECAUSE HE THINKS THEY LAUGH AT HIS AWKWARDNESS YOUR SYMPATHY MAY ENDANGER YOU SHARP SAID MY SON IS GONE I PRAY THAT THERE IS AN END TO IT YONAS PEERED ONCE INTO THE MIND OF THE MAN EVERY COILED VIOLENTLY BUT HE HAD ENOUGH IN THAT ONE GLIMPSE TO TELL HIM THE REASON FOR SHARP'S MISERY AND IT WAS QUITE REASON ENOUGH HE THOUGHT OF COURSE PETER BEING A CRAIG HAS HIS FAULTS BUT HE'S A SMART BOY HIS FATHER WAS LAZY BUT HIS MOTHER HASN'T A LAZY BONE IN HER BODY AND PETER TAKES AFTER HER +d932d16b-df06-4997-a1de-cc9434a4095e AND SHE FED THEM HERSELF JUST THE SAME AS USUAL I HAD NOT GROWN A SINGLE BIT BY THE MERCILESS TESTIMONY OF THE HALL DOOR HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WE'LL GIVE YOU LIMITED MEMBERSHIP IN THE GALACTIC FEDERATION UNTIL YOU PROVE YOU'RE NO MENACE TO US THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM +d933cc2c-7dda-481d-a175-f29c888c8624 YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER TRIED THIS THING BEFORE FINALLY HE SPOKE TOO THINGS THAT HAVE FIGURED OUT SOON ANYWAY BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A A L I E N ANY LONGER THAN THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF THERE WAS A PAUSE AND BRANDON COULD ALMOST SEE COLONEL TOWERS DRAWING UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT +d95da3ae-68ba-4a6f-aa01-642aacac4f16 AND ALREADY BEGINNING TO MAKE A PUDDLE ON THE DECK STRAIGHTENED OUT HIS FACE AND LICKED HIS LIPS FARMER CHANGED HIS MIND AGAIN ABOUT RAY'S BEING CRACKED NIMI AMMY WAS OBLIGED TO WORK FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT FOR THE OLD WITCH OF THE EAST TELL THEM BOTH SAID FELIX GREEDILY BUT TELL THE GHOST ONE FIRST OF COURSE THERE WAS NO ORCHARD HERE THEN IT YOU LEAVE PETER ALONE FELICITY +d9a33f9d-86f5-49de-a1b9-54368afd5ffc THEN HE HE WENT THROUGH THE WOODS IN STARLIGHT AND FELT SO HAPPY AND LIGHT OF HEART THAT HE SOMETIMES FRISKED AND CAPERED ABOUT JUST AS A REAL MOOSE WOULD DO THINK THAT IT IS A DREADFUL WAY TO TALK ABOUT PRAYING AND I TOLD HER SO WHY THIS BEACON WAS BUILT WITHIN REACH OF THE LOCAL CLAUSE THAT IS WHERE I AND THE OTHER TROUBLE SHOOTERS COME IN ONLY ONE MAN TO A SHIP BECAUSE THAT IS ALL IT TAKES TO OPERATE THE OVERLY EFFICIENT REPAIR MACHINERY FROM THE TWO MYSTERIOUS SCENES OF DESOLATION THERE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD +d9dd91bb-ceb9-45c6-996e-da6dd7d41725 BOTH THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOODMAN TRIED TO THINK OF SOME WAY TO ESCAPE FROM THE CASTLE BEFORE MORNING BUT SHE SEEMED TO READ THEIR THOUGHTS AND SHOOK HER HEAD YESTERDAY AUNT OLIVIA WANTED SOME FERNS SO I WENT BACK TO THE MAPLE WOODS TO GET THEM FOR AND I FOUND SOME LOVELY ONES BY THE SPRING AND WHILE I WAS SITTING THERE LOOKING INTO THE SPRING WHO SHOULD COME ALONG BUT THE AWKWARD MAN HIMSELF HE SAT DOWN RIGHT BESIDE ME AND BEGAN TO TALK I NEVER WAS SO SURPRISED IN MY LIFE THERE ISN'T ONE IN THIS COUNTRY ANYWHERE PERHAPS I'LL GET A GLIMPSE OF SOME WHEN I GO TO EUROPE +d9e95b81-f744-4403-ad01-6d87f67c22a2 LIKE CECILY'S THERE AND HOW IN FOREIGN LANDS HE HAD LONGED FOR ITS SPARKLING WATER ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY WE GAINED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ALONE AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA EVERY TWO HOURS IT'S SUCH DREADFUL TASTING STUFF BUT IT'S A GOOD BLOOD PURIFIER SO AUNT JANET CAN'T OBJECT TO IT +d9f4e102-85c6-4196-9282-69919aab98a4 BEHIND THE HOUSE WAS A GROVE OF FIR AND SPRUCE A DIM COOL PLACE WHERE THE WINDS WERE FOND OF PURRING AND WHERE THERE WAS ALWAYS A RESINOUS WOODSY ODOUR ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL DO WE NOT LOOK STRANGE TO YOU IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN WE MAY YET SPOT THE ESCAPE CAPSULE +d9fc4665-f0c1-4273-bf07-de4ee39792a5 AS IF YOU WERE WALKING IN A KING'S PALACE BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY SARA RAY'S OWN DREAMS NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH AS GOOD A COOK AS FELICITY I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN DAN WAS TOO MUCH IN EARNEST TO RESENT MY BLUNT SPEECH WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR CAN'T STAY HERE ANY LONGER THIS IS A WONDERFUL AGE WE LIVE IN +da0b2931-c731-4e70-ad4e-b5136473c303 WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE STAND ON THE PULPIT STONE DON'T TALK SILLY NONSENSE DAN SHE DOESN'T BOTHER ME MUCH AUNT JANET SAYS THAT I'D HAVE NO BRINGING UP AT ALL IF IT WASN'T FOR HER BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND AND PETERS IS SUCH A COOL CUSTOMER AND HE'S A YEAR OLDER THAN FELIX BUT THEN FELIX HAS SOME PRACTICE HE FOUGHT BOYS IN TORONTO AND THIS IS PETER'S FIRST FIGHT +da2fdcb4-f1cd-4227-b81f-2d57de4c7edf THE OTHER FELLOW I SAID WITH RELUCTANT HONESTY WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GET WHIPPED OR NOT SO LONG AS YOU FIGHT A GOOD SQUARE FIGHT WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED AND I HASTENED TO DO IT ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD YANUS OF COURSE YOND THOUGHT DISINTERESTEDLY YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED I DON'T SEE +da615a34-7d21-416e-8fed-c3fef247b7f8 YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU AND LOOK HERE BUT PETER MUST HAVE A CENT MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD YOU'RE LETTING THE CAFEE SCORCH AND THAT'S A FACT YOU'D BETTER GO BY SAID FELICITY SNIFFING HAVEN'T YOU GOT A NOSE +da8b4267-27cb-49c1-9693-8af935ae759f YOU TOOK THE DAPHINIS BY TREACHERY ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER THE MARKED TWENTY'S MUZZLE CAME ROUND THE CENTER ON ORN'S STOMACH YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION NOTHING OF THE SORT YOUR OLD PETE GRAHAM A DARNED GOOD HALFBACK IN THE WORLD'S ROTTENIST SCIENTIST DIRECTLY BEFORE ME WAS THE LONG WORK BENCH THAT RAN THE FULL LENGTH OF THE ROOM LITTERED WITH A DOZEN SET UPS FOR AS MANY EXPERIMENTS THE PARTICULAR MATTER IN OR OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT OPENING DAY OF AUGUST WAS A PROJECT WHICH UNCLE EDWARD HAD RECENTLY MOOTED UNCLE EDWARD'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WAS TO BE MARRIED AND UNCLE EDWARD HAD WRITTEN OVER URGING UNCLE ALEC AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TO GO DOWN TO HALIFAX FOR THE WEDDING AND SPEND A WEEK THERE +da92fc31-1cca-45ba-9897-0e89bc996277 DID IT HURT HE ASKED THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR ALTHOUGH I HAVE THOUGHT THAT WE SKY FAIRIES HAVE MORE POWER THAN IS ACCORDED TO EARTH FAIRIES CECILY WAS SICK SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN SO JUST TO TEACH HER A LESSON HE DROVE OFF ALONE AND LEFT HER TO WALK ALL THE WAY IT WAS NEARLY TWO MILES IN THE HEAT AND DUST +daba61ef-8664-4ae5-9319-84ce78dd7c53 I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER I JUST STAND ROOTED TO THE GROUND AND SEE IT COMING AND CAN'T STIR IT DON'T SOUND MUCH WRITTEN OUT BUT IT'S AWFUL TO GO THROUGH I'M SURE I HOPE I'LL NEVER DREAM PEG BOWEN CHASES ME I'LL DIE IF I DO HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS BUT WHEN EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK HOMESIDE WILL DENY THEIR AUTONOMY AUBREY I'VE HAD A WARP BEING MESSAGE TO DAY ORDERING ME TO MOVE IN THE SITUATION WAS DESPERATE ENOUGH AT HOME JEFF HAD TO ADMIT COLLAXY AND CALM CRYSTALS DID WHAT NO REFINEMENT OF TERRAN THERAPEUTICS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE THEY ERASED THE FEARS OF THE NEUROTIC AND CALMED THE QUIVERINGS OF THE HY POTENSIVE BOTH AN ALARMING MAJORITY IN THE SHATTERING AFTERMATH OF THE FOURTH WAR WITH NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL +daf45627-b4e2-4fdd-aa34-97919c3653a5 MARILLA JUST LAY DOWN AND DIED MANOEL HE HAD TO PRODUCE A POPULATION OF TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FOR HIGH PLANS TEXAS AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE HE LOOKED DOWN AS IF AWARE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ROBOT HAD BEEN HOLDING BY THE WRIST DURING THE INTERVIEW I IMAGINE HE WAS AS FULL OF PETTY LARCENACY +daf7f007-3436-44b0-ad05-c29e947f66be WHAT DO YOU WANT THESE WERE THE FIRST WORDS PEPPER HAD SPOKEN SINCE HIS FIRST THREATS READY TO BRING THE INTERSTELLO BLAWBREAKER LOW INSCAPE WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN THE LATEST INFORMATION AT ONCE OH YES SHE SAID RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE AND HE HAD THE HEAVY FRICATIVE GREETING SOUND YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES +db08635a-6921-4373-926e-44b6a8384ad0 BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN MISTER FRUUEN COME AND I THOUGHT OF HER STORY ABOUT HIS SIDE WHISKERS HOW WHEN HIS FIRST WIFE DIED OF INFORMATION OF THE LUNGS HE WENT COURTING CELIA WARD AND CELIA TOLD HIM SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM UNLESS HE SHAVED THEM WHISKERS OFF IT WAS FURNISHED WITH SQUARE BOX PEWS I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR SCIENCE AND THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL +db51e001-c076-4fa7-8b6e-643b8389be5c I SAW THE PRIESTS CROUCH LOW AND MAKE THEIR FIRST BESEECHING BOW IN IMITATION OF THE BLACK GOD FRANTICALLY I LOOKED ABOUT ME SEEKING SOME AVENUE OF ESCAPE EVER SINCE THE MOMENT OF HER TRANSFORMATION SHE HAS REFUSED TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD DON'T YOU THINK YOU'D BETTER LEAVE ME AS I AM ASKED FOOD IN A TREMBLING VOICE PETER IS BESIDE HER OF COURSE SPRAWLED FLAT ON HIS STOMACH AMONG THE GRASSES ONE HAND CLUTCHING HIS BLACK CURLS WITH HIS DREAM BOOK ON A SMALL ROUND STONE BEFORE HIM FOR ONLY SO CAN PETER COMPOSE AT ALL AND EVEN THEN HE FINDS IT HARD WORK +db5dee94-21a6-4096-8201-b45f333aa5a9 SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS I JUMPED AT THE OFFER BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED SURE I CAN NO HISSED THE VOICE TOUCHED THE MITE CONTACT KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSED JUST USE YOUR SPEAKING MUSCLES WITHOUT SPEAKING ORAN OBEYED WHEN I TRIED THE DOOR I FOUND OUT WHY IT WAS BOLTED AND BARRED FROM THE OTHER SIDE I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY +db76a59b-9da0-4f4b-bd24-203d14d02a82 IT'S HELL'S ON JET FOR SPACE PIRACY BUT THAT'S ABOUTABLE WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GROWLED LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS AT THE EAST IN THE DIRECTION WE WERE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCED THE CANARY THERE IS A FINE FOREST WITH A BROOK TREADING THROUGH IT AND THEN CLIMBED OUT OF REACH OF THE DREADED THORN THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THE NEXT MORNING HE STRETCHED HIMSELF DOWN ON THE PLATFORM BY UNCLE ROGER'S BACK DOOR +db8b979f-5ac6-42d0-8d7f-c96ffc765bd0 OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING NAMED ZARA AND ZULEI MYTH HAVE YOU GOT A PAIN IN YOUR STOMACH SHE DEMANDED SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE THE GUNMUZZLE REMAINED UNWAVERINGLY FROM THE TOWNSHIP THAT REPRESENTED COLONIAL TERRAN CIVILIZATION IN PERSONCINIAN ARCHIPELAGO ONE FORTY SEVEN AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE +dc260653-3e6e-4135-ab9a-7d6168299e11 IT WAS FINALLY DECIDED THAT DAN AND FELIX SHOULD GO I WANTED TO GO ALSO BUT THE GIRLS PROTESTED YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY SARA RAY I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO DIE TILL I GOT BETTER MOTHER SAYS I WAS LOONEY MOST OF THE TIME AFTER THEY STRUCK IN IT WAS JUST BECAUSE THEY STRUCK IN I WAS LOONY I AIN'T LOANY NATURALLY FELICITY I WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK IN YOUR POSTSCRIPT SARA ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE HARD THE CEREMIAN VANISHED THERE WAS A SLITHERING SOUND IN THE DISTANCE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MOUNTAIN IN MOTION AND WITH IT A STERTOROUS GRUNTING THAT ALL BUT DROWNED OUT THE ZID'S CRIES SOMETHING NUDGED THE COTTAGE WITH A FORCE THAT ALL BUT KNOCKED IT FLAT +dc2bf21e-c8f5-498c-87ab-463dcbe511b3 PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS THE FIRST PERSON WE SAW IN THE CHURCH PORCH WAS MISSUS RAY SHE TOLD US THAT SARA HAD NOTHING WORSE THAN A FEVERISH COLD THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT HIS WORDS HAD THE SIMPLE INNOCENCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S WAS HE EVER CAUGHT I SAT BACK WITH A RELAXED SIGH AND LIT A CIGAR +dc5c3979-ba77-43fc-91aa-2b5dabe16624 WHITE GLADNESS IN THE MOONSHINE IT GOD WON'T NOTICE THE PATCH I TELL YOU WHAT STORY GIRL IT FOUND ROTS IN HIS DAILY RAMBLES OVER THE LITTLE ISLAND GRANTED HIM BY THE TOWNSHIP FOR THE PAINTING HE HAD BEGUN AS A BLIND TO HIS ASSIGNMENT WE WERE NEAR GOLDEN MILESTONE NOW THE HOUSE WAS A BIG WEATHER GREY STRUCTURE OVERGROWN WITH VINES AND CLIMBING ROSES +dc62fd9d-3956-4ff7-980d-1fbf40cf4cb3 MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET HE WENT AND ATE MORE OF THE BAD BERRIES A WHOLE LOT OF THEM AND WE WERE SURE HE'D BE SICK AGAIN BUT HE HASN'T BEEN YET AND NOW HE'S ASLEEP AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER THE TRIP ONLY TOOK A FEW DAYS MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING I DID TO KNOW ABOUT SET ANUVO +dc73f0ff-ff48-4fe3-bd08-572fb72cd1d6 THE EVENING MEAL WAS SIMPLE THERE WAS A SINGLE DISH OF MEAT AND SOME SORT OF BEANS THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP APPEAR TO HAVE BEGUN APPROXIMATELY IN THE YEAR FIFTEEN NINETY FOUR IF HE ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE OR THREATEN ANOTHER SHIP THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE WOULD BE INTRODUCED NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE EVEN CECILY THE MEEK AND MILD WAS SNAPPISH AND COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE NOT PETER'S OVERWHELMING GARLAND OF SONS BUT THE LUCENT BRIDGE LOVE CREATED ON WHICH THE BANISHED ARCHANGELS CROSSED FROM STAR TO STAR +dcc48dc5-6d4c-44a4-9f2d-d7db3e3a9f6a A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SHIP AND THE DOCK YARD HAD BEEN LAVISH WITH HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM BOW TO REAR TUBE SHE WAS PLAITED IN PURE GOLD WHEN SHE HEARD OUR NEWS HOWEVER SHE HAD THE DECENCY TO SAY SHE WAS GLAD AND TO PROMISE SHE WOULD CONVEY THE GOOD TIDINGS TO SARAH WHO IS ALREADY IN BED WHERE ALL CHILDREN OF HER AGE SHOULD BE ADDED MISSUS RAY SEVERELY UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA HAD BOTH CHERISHED CERTAIN DREAMS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUTH BUT CIRCUMSTANCES HAD DENIED THEM THEIR CHANCE AND THESE DREAMS HAD NEVER BEEN FULFILLED SOME DAY OLIVIA WENT ON UNCLE ROGER YOU AND I MAY FIND OURSELVES THE AUNT AND UNCLE OF THE FOREMOST ACTRESS OF HER DAY +dcc91142-440e-4c38-8c1e-9934f6d21264 FELIX HELD OUT THE NEWSPAPER IT WAS A CHARLOTTETOWN DAILY ENTERPRISE IT'S THERE HE GASPED LOOK READ I'LL DO THINK IT'S TRUE THE END OF THE WORLD IT IS COMING TO MORROW AT TWO O'CLOCK IN IN THE AFTERNOON CRASH AMAZINGLY HIS IMMEDIATE PROBLEM WAS NOT THE POSSIBILITY OF HARM FROM THE OWLS BUT WHETHER HE SHOULD REASSURE JENOFER BEFORE OR AFTER RELEASING HER HE COMPROMISED BY LEAVING THE CHOICE TO HER IT WAS A COOL DEWY EVENING AND WE WALKED DOWN THE LONG RED HILL IN THE HIGHEST OF SPIRITS OVER A VALLEY FILLED WITH BEECH AND SPRUCE WAS A SUNSET AFTERGLOW CREAMY YELLOW AND A HUE THAT WAS NOT SO MUCH RED AS THE DREAM OF RED WITH A YOUNG MOON SWUNG LOW IN IT +dcd4c94b-1691-4e4c-8a4b-8db9c35f0cec I WASN'T CRIED NAN HE MUST BE IN THE HOUSE I'VE BEEN SITTING RIGHT ACROSS A DOOR EVER SINCE YOU LEFT AND HE COULDN'T HAVE GOT OUT UNLESS HE CRAWLED RIGHT OVER ME HE MUST BE IN THE HOUSE I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL BUT I CAN'T TURN IT NOW IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK AS SOON AS HE WAS FINISHED I TOOK BACK THE SHEET TORE IT UP AND POCKETED TO PIECES I HAD MY ANSWER BACK QUICKLY ENOUGH INSKIT MUST HAVE BEEN HOVERING AROUND WAITING FOR MY MESSAGE THE MIKE WAS TURNED OFF TO THE TRANSCRIBERS OUTSIDE AND I TOOK THE CODE GROUPS DOWN IN SHORTHAND MYSELF +dce1729d-20f7-4c09-9a43-20f5bca1d7a7 NONE OF THE GROWN UPS WERE GOING TO CHURCH AUNT OLIVIA HAD A SICK HEADACHE AND UNCLE ROGER STAYED HOME WITH HER AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE TO THE MARKDALE SERVICE AND HAD NOT YET RETURNED I HAD GOT TURNED AROUND AFTER THE EYE BURNING AND MY FLYING BEAST HOOKED ON TO ME BACKWARD IF SARA RAY HAD REALLY ENJOYED THE SHOW I WOULDN'T MIND BUT SHE DIDN'T I COULD SEE THAT SO I'VE DONE WRONG AND MADE HER DO WRONG AND THERE'S NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT +dce44589-d701-4fa7-8dc5-63f4d0b333a4 THE RELEASE AND FOLLOW UP ALL HARPED ON ONE THEME I EXPANDED ON IT WAXED ENTHUSIASTIC CONDEMNED IT AND WORKED IT INTO AN INTERVIEW I WROTE AS MANY VARIATIONS AS I COULD SO IT COULD BE SLIPPED INTO AS MANY DIFFERENT FORMATS AS POSSIBLE IN ONE FORM OR OTHER I WANTED THE BASIC INFORMATION IN EVERY MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL INSIDE THAT EXPANDING SPHERE WELL I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WHO DREW IT THOUGHT GOD WAS LIKE ANSWERED THE STORY GIRL CARELESSLY BUT HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY MORE THAN YOU DO HE HAD NEVER SEEN HIM IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE PROBABLY IN FACT GARF WOULD TRY TO CONQUER THE WORLD ANYWAY THAT WAS HOW IT WENT IN STORIES AS CORNY AS A SITUATION FARMER FURTHER DECIDED THAT RAY WAS TOO EGOCENTRICALLY ECCENTRIC TO BE TRUSTED TO GET HIM OUT OF THIS FIX HE DECIDED HE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HIMSELF +dd0e4bb1-577c-40a8-91fe-6633c25d7bf2 SARA RAY HAVING TURNED IN AT HER OWN GATE I RAN AHEAD TO JOIN THE STORY GIRL AND WE WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER SHE HAD RECOVERED HER CALMNESS OF MIND BUT SHE MADE NO REFERENCE TO PETER UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER AND AUNT JULIA WHOSE VOICE WAS TO DELIGHT THOUSANDS SANG HER EARLIEST MAGICALS THERE THE STORY GIRL MOUNTED TO THE LEDGE SAT ON THE RIM AND LOOKED AT US CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS BERTHA LAURANCE A CHARLOTTETOWN GIRL WHO HAD VISITED KITTY MARIN JUNE AND HAD GONE TO SCHOOL ONE DAY WITH HER HAD EATEN TIMOTHY ROOTS AFFECTING TO CONSIDER THEM GREAT DELICACIES +dd100a6c-644c-4a85-b0c2-88b2871462c8 WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY AND HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT IT DON'T SEEM MUCH USE IN HAVING A PLATE JUST FOR ORNAMENT SAID FELICITY FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE AND I'M LEARNING HE'S PRETTY INTELLIGENT TOO AND AT THE SAME TIME HAD BACKED OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL ITS LEVIATHAN TAIL SPANNED THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS OF SLOPING BEACH FROM SURF TO CABIN +dd136eb5-d1f8-465d-bae2-8b2fe7c7460f NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO SO JUST TO TEACH HER A LESSON HE DROVE OFF ALONE AND LEFT HER TO WALK ALL THE WAY IT WAS NEARLY TWO MILES IN THE HEAT AND DUST ROCCA COULDN'T BELIEVE IT NEITHER COULD THE PRESIDENT THEY WANDERED UP AND DOWN THE EMPTY WAYS WHERE IT HAD BEEN BUILT I JUST CRUNCHED DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE CAR CHEWING MY CIGAR TO PIECES AND CURSING MYSELF FOR BEING A FOOL I HAD MISSED THE OBVIOUS FACT BEING CARRIED AWAY BY THE THOUGHT OF A PLANETARY GOVERNMENT BUILDING A WARSHIP I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T LIKE CUCUMBER CECILY DAN REMARKED NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING +dd161b9d-164e-450c-b76e-633ecb9cc99d I WAS IN SPACE NOW LEAPING ACROSS THE GIGANTIC WALL OF THE OTHER SHIP WHAT DO YOU WANT HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE YOUR MEN CANNOT TOUCH ME HE SAID THEN OF COURSE I QUIT THINKING AND ARE YOU HAPPY HAPPY WHAT'S THAT +dd45b315-be93-4972-bf07-fae987ac891e TWENTY ONE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE I COME FROM YOUR ANCESTORS TO HELP YOU THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED FARMER LOOKED IMPRESSED THEN BEGAN TO REALIZE WHAT SOME OF THIS MEANT HE CAUGHT HIMSELF +dd4bf686-ef97-4c87-8806-011ae2f78b91 DIDN'T JUDY PANOT PROMISE YOU SOLEMNLY SHE WOULDN'T TELL THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS HURRY IN THE WORLD THE AIR WAS SWEET WITH THE BREATH OF MOWN HAY FIELDS WHERE SWATHS OF CLOVER HAD BEEN STEEPING IN THE SUN ORAN ESA SLED FORWARD AROUND AN OBSTRUCTING ROUTE READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE A WHAT IS THAT DO I THINK PEG BOWEN IS A WITCH MAMMA WON'T LET ME GO UP THE HILL AT ALL NOW HE CALLS HER BETTY SHERMAN +dd5c6bbe-faac-4d2e-8c54-0f744f5e3498 O K KEEP US POSTED I OUGHT TO I'M RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU HISS STETSON THAT'LL EXPLAIN A LOT OF THINGS THIS ISN'T TOPSY IS IT I ASKED I KNEW AT ONCE THAT THE QUESTION WAS A FOOLISH ONE IT WAS NOW NEARLY SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT HAD HAD ITS BEGINNING WHEN GRANDFATHER KING BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME AND SHOT AN UNSISTERLY GLANCE AT DAN I THE TREE GRANDFATHER KING HAD PLANTED WHEN HE RETURNED ONE EVENING FROM PLOUGHING IN THE BROOK FIELD +dd6ed9a3-8c13-4a62-95bf-5997fcb3925b DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD MAKE SUCH AN EQUAL OF HIM AS YOU DO ANYHOW I SAVED MY DREAM AND THAT OF COURSE WAS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERED BY THE WAY HE SAID IT I KNEW THAT HE THOUGHT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANCE OF IT HAPPENING THAT WAY SINCE MY FIRST INDUCTION TO THE CORPS SIX MONTHS EARLIER I HAD BEEN STUCK ON THIS SUPERSECRET PLANETOID THAT WAS ITS HEADQUARTERS AND MAIN BASE OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB +dd9482da-19f4-416e-a77e-3b666bfb223c JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE A CHILL CONVICTION OF INSANITY GRIPPED HIM WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN ON WATER LAPPING SMOOTH AND UNDISTURBED BELOW I'VE GOTTEN MAD HE SAID ALOUD OUT ON THE BAY ANOTHER CATASTROPHE JUST AS IMPROBABLE WAS IN PROGRESS WE FELT AS MUCH OF A SHOCK AS IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EXPECTANT GUESTS OURSELVES WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND RESUMED HER WORK NO INDEED I WISH HE HAD BEEN THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUIT SUITABLE AND ROMANTIC NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT FANCY HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN ONLY PEOPLE GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE CHILDREN YES THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE +dda90974-1a73-42ee-8ea3-850cc99542e9 IF WE HAD EATEN LITTLE AT BREAKFAST WE COULD EAT STILL LESS AT DINNER AFTER DINNER THE CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY AND THE SUN CAME JOYOUSLY AND GLORIOUSLY OUT THIS WE THOUGHT WAS A GOOD OMEN FELICITY OPINED THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE CLEARED UP IF IT WAS THE JUDGMENT DAY NEVERTHELESS WE DRESSED OURSELVES CAREFULLY AND THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR WHITE DRESSES I SHALL TELL IT TOO I DON'T CARE IF THE JOKE IS AS MUCH ON MYSELF AS ANY ONE A STORY IS A STORY NO MATTER WHO IT'S ON BUT IT IS HATEFUL TO BE LAUGHED AT AND GROWN UPS ALWAYS DO IT I NEVER WILL WHEN I'M GROWN UP I'LL REMEMBER BETTER TO MY LEFT AND SOME DISTANCE AWAY A VAST NUMBER OF BLUNT AND UGLY TOWERS ROSE AGAINST THE SINISTER SKY LINE BUT NO FORM OF ANIMAL LIFE SEEMED IN EVIDENCE +ddd75c0d-a1a5-40f4-98f3-00c597e859f0 UNCLE ROGER SAYS SHE DIDN'T EXACTLY ASK HIM BUT SHE HELPED THE LAME DOG OVER THE STILE SO SLICK THAT RICHARD WAS ENGAGED TO HER BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO HIM SAID THE STORY GIRL I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MISSUS RICHARD COOK'S GRANDMOTHER SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WOMEN WHO WERE ALWAYS SAYING I TOLD YOU SO TAKE NOTICE FELICITY SAID DAN ASIDE TELL ME SAID THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY AS HE CAME CLOSE TO THE CAGE WHAT MUST WE DO DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW TO ESCAPE FROM THESE TRANSFORMATIONS CAN'T YOU HELP US BEING A FAIRY AT PRESENT I AM POWERLESS TO HELP EVEN MYSELF REPLIED THE CANARY THE STORY GIRL DOES PENANCE TEN DAYS LATER AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER WENT TO TOWN ONE EVENING TO REMAIN OVER NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY +ddd7658c-70d3-40fb-9c33-70d97e9b6857 BUT IT WAS CAPTAIN BRANDON WHO DREW THE ASSIGNMENT OF SCOUTING SERIOUS THREE FOR A SUITABLE LANDING PLACE FOR ASTRO THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF HIS EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD WE WENT TO SCHOOL OF COURSE THE ORCHARD DOESN'T SEEM THE SAME PLACE BY MOONLIGHT AT ALL AND THERE WAS ONE TALL MAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR +dde1aa6e-1bb4-42f8-b697-a2b58dd0705f OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH SARA'S A NICE GIRL SHE'S ONLY ELEVEN AND HER MOTHER IS DREADFULLY STRICT SHE NEVER ALLOWS SARA TO READ A SINGLE STORY JUST YOU FANCY JUST DOWN THE HILL YOU CAN'T SEE THE HOUSE FOR THE SPRUCE BUSH THE WRETCHED BACHELOR WHO UNDERTAKES TO LOOK AFTER A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN LIKE YOU AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA +ddf7c2f1-1876-4194-b8aa-df873c729904 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION IT'S ALL VERY FINE FOR YOU FELLOWS TO LAUGH I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED AND PETER WHO HAD NO MISSIONARY BOX AT ALL UP TO THIS TIME DETERMINED TO START ONE WE REPEATED HIS JOKES TO EACH OTHER ALL THE WAY HOME +de14ac21-39c3-49a9-99e2-078f4a8b224a WE DON'T NEED THE DORN WE I MUST KILL YOU NOW HORN'S FOOT RESTED ON THE AIR SLED CONTROL PEDAL WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK MY FRIEND YOU ARE VERY LATE FOR THIS SERVICE WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH TO BE SURE NONE OF US COULD REMEMBER THE TEXT WHEN WE GOT HOME BUT WE KNEW JUST HOW YOU SHOULD THROW BACK YOUR HEAD AND CLUTCH AT THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT WITH BOTH HANDS WHEN YOU ANNOUNCED IT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE OF THIS LET ME TRY ANOTHER PLACE BUT AT TIMES THEY WERE SILENT FOR THESE THINGS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER MANY TIMES BETWEEN THEM +de28f40f-34fc-49e8-acb3-58e411ca174a SHE WAS AN UNHAPPY LITTLE EXILE HER TONE EXPRESSED HER CONVICTION THAT THAT WOULD CARRY PETER THROUGH IF ANYTHING WOULD SHE DECLARED TO ME AFTERWARDS THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD THE STORY IT ALWAYS SEEMED AS NEW AND EXCITING AS IF YOU HAD JUST HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND I NEVER PART WITH ANY OF IT UNLESS I'M TO RECEIVE SOME BENEFIT FROM THE EXPENDITURE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS EITHER OF EM SAID DAN +de5e61e5-a2f1-49d4-bc07-956f2b9ef23d I WOULD MUCH RATHER TAKE A CHANCE OF BREAKING THROUGH NEAR SOME STAR THAN SPEND TIME JUST BARRELING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE BUT APPARENTLY TECH KNOWS THIS TOO AFTER THE WEDDING THE BRIDEGROOM LIFTED HIS BRIDE BEFORE HIM ON HIS WHITE HORSE AND HER FATHER AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF HIS COURT MOUNTED TOO AND RODE AFTER THEM PEG BOWEN DOESN'T NEED TO CATCH YOU TO DO THINGS TO YOU SAID PETER OMINOUSLY SHE CAN PUT ILL LUCK ON YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU AND SHE WILL IF YOU OFFEND HER I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY +de6205a8-29e6-49d3-9dfd-9cbe45079955 JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN THERE WAS A TAPE IN THE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR THAT WOULD PUT ME ON THE COURSE MENTIONED IN ALL THE ARTICLES JUST AT PRESS OF THE BOTTOM AND I WOULD BE ON MY WAY I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR MARGARET +de64ff15-d78c-475f-9526-049e75649538 I WON'T HAVE TO SAID FELICITY TRIUMPHANTLY SHE SAID PLACIDLY MA NEVER LOOKS SO THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED THERE ARE POLAR OCEANS THEY WENT AWAY TOGETHER HAND IN HAND CHILDREN WISE UP THE LANE OF SPRUCES CROSSED WITH BARS OF MOONLIGHT +de8b41f5-aef2-424b-b9e6-854836c439ea WHEN I THINK IT ALL OVER I CAN'T FEEL TOO THANKFUL THAT GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING HAPPENED TO MARRY EACH OTHER WHEN THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE THEY MIGHT HAVE MARRIED FELIX AND I SHIVERED WE FELT SUDDENLY THAT WE HAD ESCAPED A DREADFUL DANGER THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BORN SOMEBODY ELSE I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO I S'POSE YOU THINK A HIRED BOY HASN'T ANY BUSINESS TO PRAY FOR PARTICULAR THINGS BUT I'LL SHOW YOU CLEAN AS AN EGG HE BARKED HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE +deb17e93-9d37-43f2-a151-b67751e95dca IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG PERHAPS IT'LL ALL BE BURNED UP TO MORROW THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY PAT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVER KNEW +df482ef6-026c-4152-a3d9-758599687bc2 EXACTLY I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WRIST WATCH AND NOTED WITH RELIEF THAT IT WAS STILL RUNNING WE TOOK A DRINK FROM THE BLUE CUP AND THEN WENT TO FIND OUR BIRTHDAY TREES WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES WHAT IS PETER LIKE I ASKED WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS EASY +df4913cf-1815-4048-8eb9-1acd474079a9 NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE IT UD BE PRETTY HARD TO MISS SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THAT THING WE FLEW OVER FOR A WHILE THERE I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE TASTING ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN +df695d2e-70e9-4505-9312-e7d74db7ce54 AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR BUT SAY SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE WHERE DID IT COME FROM SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE DANGEROUS THERE WAS ANOTHER NAME FOR IT DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING ANXIOUSLY I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL DAN HAD PICKED OUT A SOFT SPOT IN THE GRASS FOR HIMSELF AND WAS IN THE ACT OF SITTING DOWN WHEN FELICITY'S TACTFUL SPEECH ARRESTED HIM MIDWAY HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK +df8659ca-739d-4e3a-81f7-d7eccb169046 THAT WAS ALL HER OWN FATHER COULD TALK WELL THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY NOT EVEN THE ALMIGHTY CAN DESTROY THE BRIDGE MUST STAND FOREVER I SHALL BE SATISFIED JUST TO BE A PLAIN ANGEL SAID FELICITY MODESTLY AND ANYHOW HE IS VERY GOOD AND WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE DON'T LET HIM GO OUTSIDE THOUGH HE HAS A COLD NOW +df8f10cc-e981-434a-b12e-536cbd81ca77 HER EYES WERE DARK AND SOFT HER FOOT WAS AS LIGHT AS A BREEZE AND HER VOICE SOUNDED LIKE A BROOK IN THE WOODS OR THE WIND THAT COMES OVER THE HILLS AT NIGHT BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT HIGH HEELED SLIPPERS AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY UNCLE ROGER ATE THREE SLICES OF IT AT TEA TIME AND TOLD FELICITY SHE WAS AN ARTIST THE POOR MAN MEANT IT AS A COMPLIMENT BUT FELICITY WHO KNEW UNCLE BLAIR WAS AN ARTIST AND HAD A POOR OPINION OF SUCH FRY LOOKED INDIGNANT AND RETORTED INDEED SHE WASN'T +dfae50b0-2e3c-4f71-9b77-dbb4d5809cf9 THE STORY GIRL AND CECILY WERE EACH TO BE PAID TEN CENTS A WEEK FOR WASHING DISHES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES WE DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM AS WE ROAMED THE WOOD AND DAN AND PETER ALMOST QUARRELLED OVER IT DAN MAINTAINING THAT THE THING WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND PETER BEING OF OPINION THAT THE MUSH WAS SOMEHOW MADE THICKER IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EATEN AND SO TOOK UP LESS ROOM WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM +dfb1c079-cdf8-41df-80fa-4df0065a42ed SUGGESTED ONE OF THE LOONS AND THE PRISONERS NOTICED THAT NONE OF THEM SEEMED SURPRISED WERE SHOCKED AT THE SAD ACCIDENT TO PANTA INCLUDING THE WINKIES SPRAWLED FLAT ON HIS STOMACH AMONG THE GRASSES HE VOWED NEXT DAY TO CECILY THAT HE WOULD NEVER SWEAR AGAIN HE WAS NEVER MORE PLEASED THAN WHEN HE HAD A JOB IN HAND A JOB THAT INVOLVED A SLIGHT AND UNAVOIDABLE RISK +dfdb25d3-0921-414d-97b7-c896246cb2db WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER OH WHISPERED FELICITY WE ALL SPOKE IN LOW TONES ON THE SUBJECT FOR BY INSTINCT AND TRAINING WE THOUGHT AND UTTERED THE GREAT NAME WITH REVERENCE IN SPITE OF OUR DEVOURING CURIOSITY OH WOULD JERRY COWN BRING IT TO SCHOOL THEN LET US SEE IT BUT NOBODY HAS TO EAT IT ALL AT ONCE RETORTED UNCLE ROGER WITH ANOTHER GROAN OH SARA STANLEY IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I AM THAT YOUR AUNT OLIVIA IS TO BE HOME TO NIGHT YOU'D HAVE ME KILT ENTIRELY BY ANOTHER DAY I BELIEVE YOU DID IT ON PURPOSE TO HAVE A STORY TO TELL +dfe4144e-8cdc-4695-8b2f-ad17e4aa2c16 YEA THERE ARE BOREAL NOT A ROAD ON THE WHOLE PLANET WE CAN FIND HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO THERE THERE NOW AND THE KINDLY WAYS OF THE WARM RED EARTH WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT AROUND HER WAIST WAS TWISTED A GIRDLE OF THE BLOOD RED ROSES THAT BLOOMED IN AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN WELL SAID PETER DESFIANTLY IF YOUR OWN FATHER HAD RUN AWAY WHEN YOU WAS A BABY AND LEFT YOUR MOTHER TO EARN HER LIVING BY WASH WASHING AND WORKING OUT I GUESS YOU WOULDN'T CARE MUCH ABOUT HIM EITHER +dff27e8f-0852-4252-bbcb-b2d8310805c4 NO SAID DAN RELUCTANTLY I S'POSE THERE'D BE SOME DRAWBACK TO EVERYTHING EVEN BEIN AN ENGINE ISN'T IT COLD SAID CECILY SHIVERING AGAIN TO NEWBE'S EYES DILATED CONTRACTED YOU READ MINES THE I A HAS NO NEED TO READ MINDS SAID ORAN WE RELY ON SUPERIOR MENTAL PROWESS PERHAPS WE'D BETTER GIVE UP AND GO HOME SUGGESTED DAN YOU CAN GO HOME IF YOU LIKE SAID THE STORY GIRL SCORNFULLY BUT I'M GOING TO GO SEE MISTER CAMPBELL I KNOW I CAN MANAGE HIM BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU +e0113416-bbba-4be0-ac3d-a56407de8e5c ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES IT OF COURSE TOOK PLACE IN THE PUBLIC BATH TUB AND I HAD TO JOIN THEM THERE OH SAID THE STORY GIRL LOOKING AT CECILY HALF REPROACHFULLY HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD PROVERBS ARE ALL VERY FINE WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO WORRY YOU BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN REAL TROUBLE THEY'RE NOT A BIT OF HELP +e071c041-fee7-481e-ba75-c5205375a111 ON WHICH THE EYES NOSE AND MOUTH HAD BEEN PAINTED SUPPOSE FOR INSTANCE WE WORKED THE ENCHANTMENT CONTENT WITH MY LOT I'M GLAD THAT I'M NOT BEFORE THAT THEY'RE JUST PLAIN HEATHEN DOCTOR GREYOR PATTED CECILY ON THE HEAD TOLD HER SHE WAS A LITTLE BRICK AND HAD DONE JUST THE RIGHT THING EXAMINED SOME OF THE FATAL BERRIES AND GAVE IT AS HIS OPINION THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY POISONOUS ADMINISTERED SOME POWDERS TO DAN AND ADVISED HIM NOT TO TAMPER WITH FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN THE FUTURE AND WENT AWAY WE COULD HAVE RUN ONE AND ALL IF THERE HAD BEEN ANYWHERE TO RUN TOO BUT THERE WASN'T ALL AROUND US WERE ONLY THOSE SHADOWY ARCADES THEN WE SAW WITH SHAME THAT IT WAS ONLY OUR PADDY PAT PAT I SAID PICKING HIM UP FEELING A CERTAIN COMFORT IN HIS SOFT SOLID BODY +e07ae40e-fcc5-4953-b8f8-aad2d0ecbce0 YOU SPEAK EXCELLENT GALACTICE SAID ORAN THE HIGH PATH CHIEF COMMANDED THE BEST TEACHER SAID TO NUB IN THE ABRUPT SHOCK OF MEETING ORN RECOGNISED THE WEAPON STANDARD ISSUE TO THE MARINE GUARDS ON ALL IRON R SURVEYSHIPS AND IF THE SECRET IS LET OUT WHY THE BROTHERHOOD IS FINISHED FINISH BEFORE IT'S BARELY STARTED BECAUSE YOU CAN READ A MAN'S MIND DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM YONES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO AND IF HE'S GOT YOU IN A WOODEN HOUSE AND HE'S GOING TO BURN IT DOWN WHAT GOOD DOES THAT YOUR KNOWLEDGE DO YOU WELL I WONDER WHAT ON EARTH YOU YOUNG ONES WILL DO NEXT SAID AUNT JANET IN THE HELPLESS TONE OF A WOMAN WHO GIVES IT UP I SHOULD THINK YOU DID SCREECH SAID FELICITY WE HEARD YOU CLEAN OVER INTO OUR ROOM +e0c6bf5a-bdf6-4a13-a8d5-b778148e1999 GRANDMOTHER'S COUSIN RACHEL WARD CAME TO SPEND A WINTER WITH THEM HER EYES FLASHED AND BURNED CRIMSON SPOTS GLOWED IN HER CHEEKS SHE DREW A PICTURE OF THE GRIMACING OTTOMAN ON THE MARGIN OF HER DREAM BOOK WHICH SO SCARED SARA RAY WHEN SHE BEHELD IT THAT SHE CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME AND INSISTED ON SLEEPING THAT NIGHT WITH JUDY PINNOT LEST THE FURNITURE TAKE TO PURSUING HER ALSO WE FELT SURE OF THAT CRIED THE PROUD PRINCESS ANGRILY WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS +e0d38f8d-8af5-4f42-ad73-27e4409ec71f I LIKE PETER WELL ENOUGH IN HIS PLACE EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY EXCEPT FELIX THRONE PULPIT OR CONCERT PLATFORM AS OCCASION REQUIRED THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING DURING THESE LAST FEW MOMENTS NONE HAD PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PRISONERS RUSHED UP AND SEIZED THE AXE AND CHOPPED MY BODY HE MUMBLED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ALL THE HELL WITH IT BUT SOUNDED LIKE IT AND SOFTLY AND SILENTLY SLID OVERBOARD +e0dffbbe-ee36-4e16-b62f-9c3b160b09bd NICELY TIMED I'LL SAY THAT CHUCKLED VIC HOW DOES OUR OWN MATERIAL WORLD LOOK GREAT I STEPPED QUICKLY AWAY FROM THE MACHINE DRAWING HOPE WITH ME DOESN'T IT HOPE AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US AND THE ORCHARD FORGOTTEN WE FOLLOWED HER SUMMONS FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY +e0ffd755-2437-4d28-b189-084a181c4f52 EITHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN IT LACKED BUT A FEW SECONDS OF THE MOMENT WHEN THE MACHINE BACK IN VIC'S LABORATORY WOULD FUNCTION AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC CAME STROLLING THROUGH THE ORCHARD AND JOINED OUR CIRCLE HE IS ONLY A HIRED BOY AND HE HASN'T BEEN WELL BROUGHT UP AND HASN'T MUCH EDUCATION I THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER ONCE THE WATERS FLOW AGAIN I WILL LAUGH AS I HURL MYSELF ON THE BURNING IRON +e128ec8b-4c8c-4265-a667-3a7df461c0d6 NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED WE COULD NOT THAT WAS VERY CERTAIN WHY NOT SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH A FLASH OF HER EYES RELAX TAKE IT EASY THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK WHEN BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES HE WAS STARING AT THE SILVERY DISKS OF THE TWIN MOONS BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM +e1409ce2-d45a-4345-874b-4b0c7fbf7f31 WELL I FINALLY DECIDED THAT MY GUN DID ANYTHING BUT FRIGHTEN THEM THEY WERE ANGRY WHEN I REFUSED TO DO ANY MORE SLAUGHTERING AND LED ME HERE THERE WEREN'T TOO MANY OF THESE AT FIRST AND THE SI MAN COULD HANDLE THEM ALL CALLING EACH IN TURN AND SENDING BY NEWS RELEASES TO THE NAVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICES THERE AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN +e154b652-94be-4381-801b-68c433ccbcc2 IT HAD BEEN INTERESTING AT FIRST PARTICULARLY SINCE UP TO THE TIME I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SPECIAL CORPS I WASN'T EVEN CERTAIN IT REALLY EXISTED IT WAS TOO MUCH LIKE A COMMAND'S NIGHTMARE TO BE REAL A SECRET WORRY AFTER A FEW HAPPY YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL CRIME YOU BEGIN TO WONDER HOW LONG IT WILL LAST THE APPLES FROM OUR OWN BIRTHDAY TREES WERE STORED IN SEPARATE BARRELS INSCRIBED WITH OUR NAMES WE MIGHT DISPOSE OF THEM AS WE WILLED HE GOT OUT ALL RIGHT THE COLONEL SAID WE'RE JUST STARTING TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH ARE WE SIR ASKED THE RADIO MAN +e18adee9-9c2b-4c10-9812-e2accb28b810 IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS A TOUCH ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE DROPPED A STEEL PLATE OVER MY EYES I CHECKED THE READINGS CAREFULLY AND FOUND JUST WHAT I SUSPECTED I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME THIS TRIPE AND NONSENSE I TOLD HIM IS THE BAIT THAT WILL SNAG OUR FISH A TRAP FOR PEPPET AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND +e1bc2ceb-41f4-4963-ac62-89a1bc661abb STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE SQUARE OUTLINED BY THE FOUR UPRIGHTS OF THE DEVICE BESIDE WHICH THIS LITTLE TABLE STANDS AND HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I WOULD FIND AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS NEVERTHELESS I PUT THE THEORY TO THE TEST BLESS YOUR GRAY HEART PADDY YOU'RE A GOOD SORT OF OLD RASCAL AND PAT WOULD PURR HIS SATISFACTION I USED TO TAKE A HANDFUL OF THE SKIN ON HIS BACK SHAKE HIM GENTLY AND SAY +e1c5ea3b-d966-4773-9f6a-846d469acabb APPLE PIES AND SOUR SEEDLINGS AND PIGS BECAME STRAIGHTWAY INVESTED WITH A GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO +e1cd46bc-1e84-49bb-b344-51a55b59399d BUT THE GOLDEN CRUSTED HELMET AND A BRIEF CASE OF PAPERS WERE A PROBLEM THIS GAVE ME ENOUGH UNDISTURBED TIME TO SEARCH HIS STUDY WE COULD FILL THE VIBRATION DISTANTLY THROUGH THE FLOOR AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS THE FIRE STILL SEEMED TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND YARDS AHEAD THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER +e1e0ae0d-69ac-41f8-bfd0-6a6411903d13 I CAN'T CRY SHE SAID DREARILY I WISH I COULD I'VE A DREADFUL FEELING HERE SHE TOUCHED HER SLENDER THROAT AND IF I COULD CRY I THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER BUT I CAN'T JOHN ANDREW RUSHED TO HER SIDE AND LOOKED AS SHE GOT SET FOR A DIVE GARF HE SAW MEALY HAD RETURNED AND WAS PICKING UP THE JUDGE'S INVENTION HE CAME HERE LAST NIGHT AT SUNSET WITH A HORSE AND SLEIGH NOT HIS OWN OR LATELY GOTTEN AND HE ASKED NAN IN THE STABLE YARD TO MARRY HIM MAYBE THAT LITTLE PINK CLOUD IS A DREAM GETTING ALL READY TO FLOAT DOWN INTO SOMEBODY'S SLEEP SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL +e1e16e0a-1cfb-47ac-af8e-6efc4539c6cb IT WOULD BE SO MUCH EASIER TO CALL OUT YOUR OWN NAME THAN FIT YOUR TONGUE TO AN UNFAMILIAR ONE WE TOOK A SHORT CUT TO GOLDEN MILE OVER A LONG GREEN DEWY LAND FULL OF PLACID MEADOWS WHERE SUNSHINE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP IT HAD ALL STARTED WITH JUDGE RAY CONNECTING IT TO THE BOAT'S ELECTRICAL GENERATOR YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID AS FOR THIS THIS SACRILEGE TAKE IT AND BURN IT WE STOPPED PICKING APPLES SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS AND TRIED TO REASON IT OUT +e1f457ed-eee8-4859-9f93-149b7fefe032 WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT SKILFULLY INDEED HAD THAT ASTUTE BILLY PLAYED ON OUR RESPECTIVE WEAKNESSES ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE AND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THAT LANE WE SAW A GIRL STANDING WITH A GRAY CAT AT HER FEET WE WERE SHORT OF BOYS BEFORE ONLY DAN AND PETER TO FOUR GIRLS +e1fc8527-ab39-49bf-8f4f-8254bc92ed90 LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS MUCH PRESTIGE ATTACHED TO THEM AND MY BLACK DRESS OUTFIT SHOULD WRITE AS HIGHLY AS ANY UNIFORM IN THE GALAXY YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES ORNE TURNED LOOKED AT TO NUBE IN THE DIM GLOW OF THE CABLIGHT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE I A TO NUBE I A WHAT IS THAT IT CAN'T BE TRUE SAID SARA RAY SEEKING REFUGE AS USUAL IN TEARS WHY EVERYTHING LOOKS JUST THE SAME THINGS COULDN'T LOOK THE SAME IF JUDGMENT DAY WAS GOING TO BE TO MORROW BUT THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT'S TO COME I SAID UNCOMFORTABLY IT TELLS YOU IN THE BIBLE IT'S TO COME JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT +e220f27d-8bc6-4560-8370-9101810aee7b I BLEW A RELAXED SMOKE RING REPORT I SAID TO THE ROBOT HAS THIS MAN TOLD ANY LIES WELL SAID THE GIANTESS WHAT EXCUSE HAVE YOU TO OFFER YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE LIVED HERE MADAM OF COURSE ANSWERED THE LITTLE GIRL I WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING IT'S EASIER TO WRITE THAN TO TELL IT OUT TO YOUR FACE WE THINK YOU'RE SMART AND POLITE AND A OBLIGING AND A GREAT WORKER AND A GENTLEMAN +e2270006-fe9b-40c0-b722-50b0a576ce0b BEHIND DORN THERE CAME A DEEP RUMBLING ROAR THAT RECEDED AS THE SCOUT CRUISER CLIMBED ITS JETS OLD PEOPLE DIED GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED BUT THAT ONE OF US OF OUR MERRY LITTLE BAND SHOULD DIE WAS UNBELIEVABLE WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW WELL LET'S GO DOWN TO THE PULPIT STONE AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY I KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL +e25a94b8-27f4-4d8e-b029-f27ba4de85d9 THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING FELICITY WAS CUMBERED WITH MANY CARES THE NEXT MORNING THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES ALTHOUGH ON THIS PRESENT OPERATION HE RATED THE FLAG OF A DIVISION ADMIRAL HIS FATIGUES CARRIED NO INSIGNIA ISN'T IT NICE THAT WE'RE GOING TO LIVE A SPELL LONGER IN THIS NICE WORLD SAID FELIX AS WE WALKED DOWN THE HILL YES AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL SPEAKING AGAIN SAID CECILY HAPPILY AND FELICITY DID SPEAK FIRST I SAID +e275e25c-9913-4e7a-ad4b-1034017256c4 IN THE END HE DECIDED TO SEND US TO UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET DOWN ON THE HOMESTEAD AND OUR HOUSEKEEPER WHO BELONGED TO THE ISLAND AND WAS NOW RETURNING TO IT TOOK CHARGE OF US ON THE JOURNEY I FEAR SHE HAD AN ANXIOUS TRIP OF IT POOR WOMAN ODD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT REPLIED THE SECOND MAN IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT WE'LL NINE YEARS PASS ON EARTH WHEN WE MAKE THE TRIP OUR TEA IS MERE MOMENTS GOOD LORD BRANDON SAID YOU MUST HAVE PASSED US UP BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES PARON FIX MAN OF ALL WORK CAME HURRYING OUT OF THE HOUSE TO GREET ME AS I LOCKED MY WHEELS ON THE DRIVE BEFORE THE DOOR I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE SIR HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK +e2a67056-3ec9-4a31-8cea-0bda0857bd47 ONCE THERE WERE TWO ARCHANGELS IN HEAVEN NAMED ZARA AND ZULEI MYTH HAVE ANGELS NAMES SAME AS PEOPLE INTERRUPTED PETER YES OF COURSE THEY MUST HAVE THEY'D BE ALL MIXED UP IF THEY HADN'T AND WHEN I'M AN ANGEL IF I EVER GET TO BE ONE WILL MY NAME STILL BE PETER WHEN WE WERE ALONE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT COURTEOUS TO ME HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF BY NOT TOO SUBTLE QUESTIONING THAT I WAS A SPURIOUS ADMIRAL THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL THIS TRIPE AND NONSENSE I TOLD HIM IS THE BAIT THAT WILL SNAG OUR FISH A TRAP FOR PEPPET AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS BELLONNAIRE ME I SAID I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE RICH BUT THE SHIP THE SPACE YACHT WHERE IS IT BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDE THERE WAS NO REPLY CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S RESTED JUST AS YOU WERE ONCE ASKED POLYCHROME LAUGHING AGAIN HERE NICK CHOPPER LEND ME YOUR OIL CAN A MINUTE THE TIN WOODMAN SILENTLY HANDED HER HIS OIL CAN WITHOUT WHICH HE NEVER TRAVELED AND POLYCHROME FIRST OILED THE STRANGER'S TIN JAWS AND THEN WORKED THEM GENTLY TO AND FRO TILL THIS TIN SOLDIER SAID THAT'S ENOUGH THANK YOU I CAN NOW TALK +e2da5122-1955-4115-a0cb-0cad1cecfeac I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF THAT YARN SAID DAN TRYING TO SPEAK WITH HIS USUAL INCREDULITY I DON'T SEE YOU YOU CAN HELP BELIEVING IT SAID CECILY IT ISN'T AS IF IT'S SOMETHING WE'D READ OF OR THAT HAPPENED FAR AWAY IT HAPPENED JUST DOWN AT MARKDALE AND I'VE SEEN THAT VERY SPRUCE WOOD MYSELF FARMER CROUCHED THE POINT OF THE BOATHOOK WAVERED AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE +e3010d1b-0cda-4491-8197-a7bf2f3d55d5 BUT OF COURSE I MEAN TO THANK GOD WHEN I SAY MY PRAYERS TO NIGHT THAT'S ONLY DECENT OUR CURIOSITY HAD LED US INTO SOME HOLY OF HOLIES NOT TO BE PROFANED BY HUMAN EYES AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY WHERE THE WEST WIND CAME NOW WITH A SIGH AND AGAIN WITH A RUSH AND THEN BRUSHED OUR FACES +e3085ecf-78d7-49ad-aed0-8ae9eb3cbdff THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS NOW IF THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN DON'T KNOW IT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE CAN KNOW IT AND HIM A GRIP TOO WITH AN EFFORT HE SAT UP ON THE BACK SEAT AND LOOKED THROUGH THE PERMANS THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE +e310958a-e259-478a-868a-bc2cf02e3f53 DAN DID NOT COME DOWN UNTIL BREAKFAST WAS HALF OVER AND AUNT JANET TALKED TO HIM AFTER A FASHION WHICH MADE US REALIZE THAT IT WOULD BE WELL TO KEEP AS THE PIQUANT COUNTRY PHRASE WENT FROM THE ROUGH SIDE OF HER TONGUE BUT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WE LIKED THE PROSPECT OF OUR SUMMER VERY MUCH FELICITY SOLD HERS TO UNCLE ALEC'S HIRED MAN AND WAS BADLY CHEATED TO BOOT FOR HE LEVANTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS TAKING THE APPLES WITH HIM HAVING PAID HER ONLY HALF HER RIGHTFUL DUE FELICITY HAS NOT GOTTEN OVER THAT TO THIS DAY BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND HE KNEW SPANISH AND ENOUGH ENGLISH +e3285256-b1b6-4cfb-9f01-5cf7873d709e SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON PETER TOOK DAN AND ME ASIDE ONE EVENING AS WE WERE ON OUR WAY TO THE ORCHARD WITH OUR DREAM BOOKS SAYING SIGNIFICANTLY THAT HE WANTED OUR ADVICE BRANDON'S BODY TENSED THANK GOD I'VE FINALLY GOT THROUGH TO YOU LISTEN RIGHTHEART I MUST BE ABOUT THREE BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO SAID REHINHART IN A MONOTONE HE SAID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN I THOUGHT OF ALL THE EVIL DEEDS OF MY SHORT LIFE OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS OF PLAYING TRUANT FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GOING FISHING ONE DAY OF A CERTAIN FIB NO NO AWAY FROM THIS AWFUL HOUR WITH ALL SUCH EUPHONIOUS OF AGENTS OF A LIE I HAD ONCE TOLD OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION +e384283e-b9dc-49af-9836-c73a232c9cda DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR HE WAS A TALL SLENDER MAN WHO DID NOT LOOK HIS FORTY YEARS MY MESSAGE WAS IN CODE BUT IT COULD BE QUICKLY BROKEN IF SOME ONE WANTED TO TRY HARD ENOUGH AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE TELEVISION HIS FIRST REALLY CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE LAST REMAINING FRONTIER ON HIS HOME PLANET +e404c910-9401-4aff-b7db-d0cd586dd8f2 A SCOUT SWOOPED DOWN INTO THE HEADLIGHTS AND WAVED HE MOVED HIS SPEAKING MUSCLES A GLOWING OF MANY LIGHTS GREW VISIBLE THROUGH THE GIANT TREE TRUNKS JERRY COWAN TOLD ME AT RECESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME IN HIS CABIN WORRYING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF IT ON HIS SURFACE RECORD +e4070199-c07e-48d0-9c07-ace8eca984cc CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD THEY GOT HIM ON BOARD THE BOAT WITH LITTLE DIFFICULTY AND JOHN ADREW LAID HIM ON THE DECK AS DOOR SPRANG LEAFILY OVER THE RAIL AGAIN SHOWING INTEREST IN THE LITTLE FELLOW'S CONDITION THE DIVING HELMET CAME OFF EASILY NOT HAVING BEEN PROPERLY FASTENED DOWN AT ALL FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE PETER DAN FELIX CECILY FELICITY SARA RAY THE STORY GIRL THEY ARE ALL AROUND ME ONCE MORE IN THE SWEET SCENTED FADING GRASSES EACH WITH OPEN DREAM BOOKS AND PENCIL IN HAND NOW WRITING BUSILY NOW STARING FIXEDLY INTO SPACE IN SEARCH OF SOME ELUSIVE WORD OR PHRASE WHICH MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED I CAN EXPLAIN HE SAID DESPERATELY EVERYTHING CAN BE EXPLAINED THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE SUCH CHARGES I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PAPERS YOU HAVE THERE SO I WOULDN'T ATTEMPT TO SAY THEY ARE ALL FORGERIES I HAVE MANY ENEMIES YOU KNOW IF THE LEAGUE KNEW THE DIFFICULTIES FACED ON A BACKWARD PLANET LIKE THESE THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP +e4122f06-9283-4113-929d-2fff95891516 HE HAD LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE ENTIRE OPERATION AS A FUTILE ONE DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE AND HAD YOU NOT TRAVELLED TO THE EUBE VALLEY I WOULD STILL BE MISSUS EWPES'S PRISONER IT WILL YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON THIS ERRAND ASKED THE TIN EMPEROR YES BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS THIS HERSELF FELICITY GOT ALL THE GRATITUDE ALTHOUGH THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA AND SEATED THE RAISINS AND BEATEN THE EGGS WHILE CECILY HAD TRUDGED ALL THE WAY TO MISSUS JAMES'S LITTLE SHOP BELOW THE CHURCH TO BUY THE PINK CANDIES BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD +e4367794-1b38-48d5-b039-f873eea8eed7 I WISH I'D MADE UP MY MIND BEFORE THIS WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST DO YOU SUPPOSE IT'S TOO LATE NOW NO THAT DOESN'T MATTER SAID CERTILY EARNESTLY IF IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN PETER THAT'S ALL THAT'S NECESSARY NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD AN INN IN THIS TOWN THE IDEA APPEARED TO STRIKE HER AS THE VERY HEIGHT OF IDIOCY SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HANDS AND SHOOK AFTER A SECOND JONAS DISCOVERED THAT SHE WAS LAUGHING HE WAITED PATIENTLY UNTIL THE FIT HAD LEFT HER +e4527865-45bc-42d8-ad92-c6b9044928e4 YONAS WAS THANKFUL FOR THAT AND FOR THE REST WELL HE THOUGHT RESIGNEDLY WHAT WAS A HERO WITHOUT A QUEST THE GATE'LL STAY OPEN NOW UNTIL IT'S CLOSED FROM OUR SIDE BUT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OUTFIT BACK AND DESTROY IT ANYWAY OUR COPS WOULD BE TOUGH WITH YOU IF THEY FOUND YOU OPERATING THE THING AND FEDERATION SECURITY MEN WOULD BE EVEN TOUGHER TAKE IT AS A WARNING DON'T DO IT AGAIN IT CAUSED MUTATIONS THAT BRED TRUE A CITY WAS BUILT AROUND THE TEMPLE AND THROUGH THE CENTURIES THE PYRAMID WAS PUT UP AROUND THE BEACON A SPECIAL BRANCH OF THE PRIESTHOOD SERVED THE TEMPLE ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ONE OF THE PRIESTS VIOLATED THE TEMPLE AND DESTROYED THE HOLY WATERS +e46a99e9-0c2e-4c92-8889-110ded8cb301 SMOOTH BROWN HAIR OF SATIN SHEEN WHICH FEELS IN A MOMENT WHAT IT SOMETIMES TAKES MATURITY MUCH TIME TO PERCEIVE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD WE CAN EVEN ADD OTHER THINGS HEAT AND ELECTRICITY FOR EXAMPLE SOME NATURAL FORCE THEY'VE CORRALLED I IMAGINE +e46d5472-d70b-4865-8a9c-18cfd56a6ee3 CRIED FELICITY AND CECILY TOGETHER IN A CHORUS OF HORROR I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD NOW DON'T MEDDLE WITH THE MAN CRIED BETTY WHAT A STATE TO BE IN BECAUSE ONE GOOD LOOKING LASS LIKE STAND SANDY HAIR AND GREY EYES BETTER THAN HIGHLAND BLACK AND BLUE O PETER SHADOWS ARE SUCH PRETTY THINGS BUT YOU CAN HARDLY EVER COAX PETER TO BE THE POET THEY USED TO MEET UNDER THE BIRCHES AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE +e4783442-2b24-4e7c-b03a-8a6e6cdfa600 THAT'S THE WAY TO BAIT THE REDS CAPSULING OUT REPEAT CAPSULING OUT HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM BETTER OUT OF YOUR WITS THAN DEAD CLARTON THOUGHT THE BOY ATE IN SILENCE FOR A TIME BEING REALLY HUNGRY THE STRAW THAT I USE DOESN'T LUMP UP OR BRUISE THOUGH IT'S POUNDED AGAIN AND AGAIN +e4a9b4a6-543c-443e-b6b2-f9ec727ede35 AND WHEN HER FATHER URGED HER TO CHOOSE ONE OF THEM AS HER HUSBAND SO OVERGROWN WITH IVY THAT WE COULD HARDLY READ ITS LENGTHY INSCRIPTION AND I WATCHED THEM WARILY SUSPECTING A TRICK THE PRIESTS BOWED A SECOND TIME THE ONLY VESTIGE OF COMFORT LEFT ME OH WASN'T DONALD TAKEN ABACK O GOD PLEASE MAKE PAT BETTER BY THE MORNING PLEASE DO WE TOOK HEART OF GRACE +e4b528ca-ed40-4c08-8657-18c58a678507 DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL UNCLE ROGER STOPPED LAUGHING BEFORE WE HEARD THE EXPLANATION WE THOUGHT HE NEVER WOULD STOP THAT'S GRANDFATHER KING'S OLD CLOCK STRIKING HE SAID AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE TO SPEAK SAMMY PROT CAME ALONG AFTER TEA WHEN YOU WERE AWAY TO THE FORGE PETER AND I GAVE HIM PERMISSION TO CLEAN THE OLD CLOCK HE HAD IT GOING MERRILY IN NO TIME IF YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OF OF HIM YOU MIGHT SAY THE OLD SCRATCH THAT IS WHAT MOTHER CALLS HIM +e4b9d355-dd02-4b6e-8224-dee3491e0ac4 BEFORE THEY COULD THINK UP A GOOD ANSWER I WAS INSIDE THE TEMPLE WAS A SMALL ONE BUILT AGAINST THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID I HOPED I WASN'T BREAKING TOO MANY TABOOS BY GOING IN I WASN'T STOPPED SO IT LOOKED ALL RIGHT THE TEMPLE WAS A SINGLE ROOM WITH A MURKY LOOKING POOL AT ONE END HOWEVER TIN YOU WERE AND TIN YOU ARE AND AS IT'S TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOU NOW THAT SETTLES IT WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND FOR MYSELF I SEEMED STRICKEN DUMB I COULD ONLY STARE AT THIS BLACK AND GHASTLY GOD OF THESE PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS +e525913b-eca1-45bc-8751-c07e18d8b245 ONLY PEOPLE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM BESIDES HE WAS POOR AND NEEDED THE MONEY BUT TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE FASHIONABLE THEREFORE TIMOTHY ROOFS MUST BE EATEN UNCLE ROGER WAS ILLIBERAL AND UNCLE ALEC A CONSERVATIVE AND THE GIRLS HELD FAST TO THE POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSEHOLDS PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE RAISING THE ANTENNAE HE PLUGGED IN THE MIGHT CORD FROM HIS MASK AND HELD DOWN THE TALK KEY WITH HIS THUMB +e52727df-cef0-475f-84d4-a143e32dc803 DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS HE SAID NO IT ISN'T PEG BOWEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WALKS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY OH BECAUSE ACTRESSES ARE ALWAYS WICKED PEOPLE SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE BUT I DARE SAY THE STORY GIRL WILL GO AND BE ONE JUST AS SOON AS SHE CAN HER FATHER WILL BACK HER UP IN IT HE IS AN ARTIST YOU KNOW +e529562a-e790-4d27-a3a4-07d68e60cf91 SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT HE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT HER SAILS BELLIED NOT WITH THE WIND BUT AGAINST MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK BUT I SUPPOSE FELICITY IS SO DISGUSTED WITH ME NOW THAT SHE WON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE LESSONS I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU PRETTY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS CONCEITED SAID FELIX WHO WAS GETTING TIRED OF HOLDING HIS TONGUE THE HEROES AND STORIES ARE ALWAYS NICE SAID FELICITY WITH APPARENT IRRELEVANCE +e53db2af-54e7-4be0-9de7-67b4106214c4 SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN INSTEAD I REMEMBER SEEING IN HIS DREAM BOOK UNDER THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH AN ENTRY TO THIS EFFECT LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DRAM IT WASN'T A POLITE DRAM SO I WON'T WRITE IT DOWN DEAR ME SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STARING HARD IT SEEMS AS IF I HAD MET YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE GOOD MORNING SIR YOU HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF ME REPLIED THE HEAD I NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE IN MY LIFE MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A TALL MAN WITH A MASSIVE HEAD WELL THATCHED WITH THICK BLACK HAIR GREY STREET HE HAD BIG BLACK EYES WITH MANY WRINKLES AROUND THEM AND A THIN FIRM LONG LIPPED MOUTH WE THOUGHT HIM HANDSOME FOR AN OLD MAN +e5461fb8-37b5-4e0d-9b51-968ff30028c1 BEFORE I LEFT MY PALACE I WENT TO MY MAGIC ROOM AND I COULD TAKE THAT OR NONE AT ALL THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN BUT IS MORE LIKELY THAT OUR CRANKINESS WAS THE RESULT OF SUPPER WE HAD EATEN THE PREVIOUS NIGHT +e5650e1e-5b8b-4672-951c-897b6cc9a4a0 PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME OH BUT THEY DON'T SAID THE STORY GIRL MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS EXCUSE ME HE SAID I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO PUZZLE YOU OR MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR BY ME MAKING YOU UNCLE ROGER LOOKED QUIZZICALLY AT FELICITY WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY +e5672722-bce1-43ca-9cc2-951bc9df795e NOR DO I SAID THE TIN WOODMAN IN THE CHAMBER WERE GREW DOZENS OF QUEER CREATURES AND SOMEHOW THAT DOESN'T SEEM QUITE RIGHT SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY THE COLONEL HAD SAID A THOUSAND TIMES CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY IT'S ALL JUST AS FATHER DESCRIBED IT SAID FELIX WITH A BLISSFUL SIGH TO SEE HE MUST GO WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST +e5c3e649-e947-4eb0-8542-7bca7791f72c AND I REGRET TO SAY BICKERED AND SQUABBLED INCESSANTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAYTIME FOR OUR DIGESTIONS WENT OUT OF ORDER AND OUR TEMPERS FOLLOWED SUIT SAID THE SOLDIER AND HE TOLD ME THEY WOULD DO NICELY FOR BRAINS WHEN THE AIR WAS LET OUT OF THEM THEY WERE QUITE HELPLESS GARTH GRINNED WHATEVER YOU SAY MY DEAR TO FACE THE MONSTER WITH A SICK FEELING IN HIS STOMACH HE HAD FINISHED THOSE JUST DESCRIBED BEFORE DOOR SAID +e5cc039d-9f15-4034-8a23-f9fa537e3d53 THERE'S A GREAT BIG PATCH ON HIS BEST PAIR OF TROUSERS PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO SCRUBBING AND SWEEPING HER HUT AND COOKING HER MEALS SO HE SHUT THEM TIGHT AND PERCHED UPON THE BACK AND MARJOR SAID JUDGMENT FIDDLESTICKS AND THE POSSIBILITY WAS ALMOST AS DREADFUL AS THE CERTAINTY I CAN'T TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BETWEEN THIS AND TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW +e5e6bc49-7c28-49cf-bc21-ea92b7e44f3d CANTERBY BELLS IS A LOVELY NAME FOR A FLOWER ISN'T IT SHE SAID IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CATHEDRALS AND CHIMES DOESN'T IT OF COURSE HE WAS INFERIOR TO HER IN EVERY WAY AND SHE WOULDN'T THINK OF MARRYING HIM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT EVEN HIS INFERIORITY WAS INTERESTING IN A WAY JUST IMAGINE THE FEELINGS OF THE YOUNG MINISTER IN THE CHINA CLOSET BUT HE CAME RIGHT OUT LIKE A MAN THOUGH HIS FACE WAS VERY RED AS SOON AS MISTER +e6456ddb-cf3d-434e-960a-82e44b0b6348 THE REST OF THAT UNHOLY CREW WERE GRINNING AND THEIR EYES WERE SHINING WITH ANTICIPATION THEY CLOSED IN UPON ME EAGERLY EACH APPARENTLY DOING EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO INVITE MY ATTENTION ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON OVER A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN A THOUGHT ENTERED HIS MIND MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF FOR WOOT WAS NOT VERY BIG AND NOT VERY OLD WANDERER THOUGH HE WAS THIS PROVED THE MOST GORGEOUS SIGHT THAT HAD EVER MET HIS BOYISH GAZE WHO LIVES HERE HE ASKED +e65aac58-56bd-4ba9-9bee-2b15cdc730ff OH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH THE COVERS WENT ONE WAY AND IN SKIT WENT THE OTHER IN A SINGLE UNFOLDING IN CONCERTED MOTION HE LEFT THE HORIZONTAL AND RECUMBENT AND STOOD TENSELY VERTICAL AGAINST THE WALL EXAMINING THE PICK OF THE BATTLESHIP UNDER THE LIGHT CECILY DEAR HEART SENT MOST OF HERS TO THE HOSPITAL IN TOWN AND NO DOUBT GATHERED IN THEREFROM DIVIDENDS OF GRATITUDE AND SATISFACTION OF SOUL SUCH AS CAN NEVER BE PURCHASED BY ANY MERE PROCESS OF BARGAIN AND SALE MOTHER SIFTED IT VERY CAREFULLY I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHOSE SON SWALLOWED A MOUSE SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD PROBABLY HAVE KNOWN A STORY AND TRIED TO TELL IT IF SHE WERE BEING LED TO THE STAKE +e6abe7cb-7a9b-42a0-927c-47b33d2dfc31 IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE BUT IS MORE LIKELY THAT OUR CRANKINESS WAS THE RESULT OF SUPPER WE HAD EATEN THE PREVIOUS NIGHT EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY MANY AND MANY A SNOW WHITE MOOSE HE SHOT AND GAVE THE BEAUTIFUL SKIN TO HIS SWEETHEART HER NAME WAS SCUBEN AND SHE WAS AS LOVELY AS THE MOON WHEN IT RISES FROM THE SEA AND AS PLEASANT AS A SUMMER TWILIGHT +e6b22326-7674-4ce1-b79d-1b4e7a3fd23c RICH WERE WE IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE OPULENT MONTHS THAT HAD GONE FROM US RICHER THAN WE THEN KNEW OR SUSPECTED AND BEFORE US WAS THE DREAM OF SPRING IT IS ALWAYS SAFE TO DREAM OF SPRING FOR IT IS SURE TO COME AND IF IT IS NOT JUST AS WE HAVE PICTURED IT IT WILL BE INFINITELY SWEETER EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED MAYBE SARA WON'T BE SO VERY SICK IF GOD SEES I'M TRULY SORRY HE CAN SEE IT ANYHOW WITHOUT YOUR DOING ANYTHING SAID CECILY A NICE WAY TO TALK TO YOUR SISTER WHEN YOU MAY BE DEAD IN AN HOUR'S TIME RETORTED FELICITY IN TEARS BETWEEN HER ANGER AND HER REAL ALARM ABOUT DAN +e6c75bbd-9b3d-4fea-beab-0782534d768b AND TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THEIR LAST ACCOUNTING OH IF I HAD ONLY BEEN A BETTER BOY I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM CECILY WAS NO BETTER WHEN THE DOCTOR CAME LIKE AUNT JANET HE DECLARED THAT CUCUMBERS ALONE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE HER SO ILL BUT WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT SHE HAD DRUNK A GLASS OF MILK ALSO THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED +e6ce3cd3-397c-4a4e-9ae1-f4860f70d82a OH NO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER INVOLVED ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT SUPPOSE IT'S BOBBING IN THE DARK BUT IN STORIES IT'S JUST AS EASY TO MAKE THEM AS HANDSOME AS NOT AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING ONE OF THE SCARECROW'S RECITATIONS WAS LIKE THIS AND ARE NOW ON OUR WAY TO GLINDA THE GOOD TO SEE IF SHE POSSESSES THE POWER TO RESTORE US TO OUR PROPER FORMS +e6e91d4a-89c9-431d-8c49-f2ec61022d99 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY HE MUST BE A GOOD SORT OF CHAP AND DO HEAPS OF THINGS THAT'S ALL THAT'S NECESSARY THAT WAS THE FIRST OF THE INEXPLICTABLE THINGS FARMER COULD HAVE EXPECTED THE ODD LITTLE OLD MAN TO CALL HIMSELF A PROFESSOR OF SOMETHING OR OTHER BUT RAY INSISTED ON JUDGE MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS IN THE FEW CASES WHERE FORGERY WASN'T ADEQUATE MY MYSTERIOUS X HAD APPARENTLY HIRED HIMSELF TO DO THE JOB X HIMSELF HAD THE PERMANENT JOB OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERING DESIGNER +e6eeae30-b594-4c30-bc13-0c928ffa2134 ALL RIGHT AGREED THE STORY GIRL THE ONLY TROUBLE IS I DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BUT I'LL TELL YOU ALL I DO KNOW I'M AFRAID SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN IT WILL BE RATHER HARD FOR ME YOU MUST ADMIT WHEN I CONFESS TO NINNIE AND ME THAT I HAVE COME TO MARRY HER BECAUSE IT IS MY DUTY TO DO SO TELL UNCLE ROGER THAT AND SAY IF TO MORROW IS THE END OF THE WORLD THAT THERE IS NO GOOD IN STUMPING FIELDS ANY MORE I SUGGESTED +e6f9d4fc-1785-4fc1-88f4-070cc54b3c13 CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES OH BEB WAIT FOR ME AND OH BEB HURRY HURRY MORE BY BLIND INSTINCT THAN ANYTHING ELSE WE KEPT TOGETHER AND FOUND OUR WAY OUT OF THE WOODS PRESENTLY WE WERE IN THE FIELD BEYOND THE BROOK OVER US WAS A DAINTY SKY OF SHELL PINK PLACID CLOUDS WERE PLEASURE PASTURING AROUND US THE FAREWELL SUMMER NODDED TO US IN THE FRIENDLY BREEZES WE HALTED WITH A GLAD REALIZATION THAT WE WERE BACK IN OUR OWN HAUNTS AND THAT PEG BOWEN HAD NOT CAUGHT US AS ANY WIZARD MIGHT DO WHO HAD THE HELP OF HIS LORD THE DEVIL KUTUFF MUTTERED DO YOU SPECT THIS TO PROVE ONE THING AT A TIME YUNUS SAID KUTUFF NODDED A SECOND PASSED YONAS LICKED HIS LIPS THE POSSIBILITIES PRAYED BEFORE HIM ON ONE HAND SUCCESS ON THE OTHER THERE WAS THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF THE INQUISITION YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH HE CLOSED HIS EYES CABBAGES HE SAID KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED WHEN YOUR FATHER'S RUN AWAY AND YOUR MOTHER GOES OUT WASHING AND YOU'RE ONLY OLD ENOUGH TO GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK YOU CAN'T GIVE MUCH TO THE HEATHEN BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN +e7017899-ef9d-4d7f-9ae1-555e99701f7a HAVE A HUNCH ABOUT THESE CREATURES WHAT IS IT WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS THE FACT I HAD FORCED HIM TO MAKE HIS PLAY BEFORE HE WAS ABSOLUTELY READY HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE TRANSFORMED FOR GOOD SINCE NO MAGIC ON EARTH CAN BREAK YOUR ENCHANTMENTS +e70bc9f3-4cf8-4514-9296-685934ec8632 AFTER FEEDING A COURSE INTO THE ROBOT PILOT I STRAPPED INTO THE ACCELERATOR TANK AND WENT TO SLEEP WE COULD SEE THE LONG ROWS OF TREES A AND WHEN HE LAUGHED HIS LAUGHTER WAS STILL MORE DREADFUL SEEMED TO US THAT THERE WAS IN THE ORCHARD SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ORCHARDS THAT WE HAD KNOWN ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING +e7250bdc-0497-48f1-a4d4-aa6ef71ff3f0 WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF THE STORY GIRL TURNED WHITE AND CECILID THE SHAME OF HIS COUNTENANCE WAS PITIFUL TO BEHOLD OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US IF THEY'RE REAL THEY CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE WITH MORE THAN ENOUGH DIALS AND SWITCHES ADDED TO IT TO FURNISH THE DAY SPORTS OF SEVERAL ROLLS ROICES +e76e9e11-9c32-4d8a-a37d-954a32d2e251 THE COLONEL STOPPED PACING AND FACED THE RADIO MAN KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM RIGHT I'M GOING TO BRING US DOWN TO FORTY THOUSAND FEET AND SEARCH THE AREA WHERE HE WENT DOWN IT'S WASTE A ROCKET FUEL TOTALING AROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERE HE MUTTERED DISAPPEARING THROUGH A BULKHEAD DOOR AH I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BREATHED CECILY WE ALL WONDERED NEXT DAY IN SCHOOL WE AGREED TO JERRY COWAN'S TERMS AND JERRY PROMISED TO BRING THE PICTURE UP TO UNCLE ALEC'S THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL YOU HAVE CONFESSED TO ME HE SAID YOUR HERESY +e7709ba9-e7a5-4a03-9f9b-42225fddb70c AFTER THAT HE COULD PLAY HIS POLITICS AS SOON AS HE WAS FINISHED I TOOK BACK THE SHEET TORE IT UP AND POCKETED TO PIECES HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY WE CALL HER THE STORY GIRL PARTLY BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A HAND TO TELL STORIES I KIND OF WISH I'D BEEN BORN AN INJUN SAID DAN NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL +e795bd4f-1c19-4b1d-9bb4-6ca7ebb448c6 THE SCOOP HE SAW AND ONLY HALF BELIEVED IT HAD WALLOWED INTO THE SHALLOWS ALONGSIDE HIS DOCK IT HAD REVERSED ITS UNBELIEVABLE LENGTH TO KEEP THE HEAD SUBMERGED AND AT THE SAME TIME HAD BACKED OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL ITS LEVIATHAN TAIL SPANNED THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS OF SLOPING BEACH FROM SURF TO CABIN WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED PETER WENT EVERYWHERE WITH US NOW HE WAS A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE HIS BEHAVIOR WAS AS IRREPROACHABLE AS IF HE HAD BEEN RAISED IN THE CASE OF VERE DE VERE IT WAS A FEATHER IN THE STORY GIRL'S CAP FOR SHE TOOK ALL THE CREDIT OF HAVING STARTED PETER ON THE RIGHT ROAD +e79e5f93-d72e-4d83-95eb-7192d1d446cb BUT THIS IS AN ORN R UNIT YES SIR ADMIRAL STETSON SIR YEA GABBOT WHERE IS ALL THIS TRANSLATION GRIFF PUT JUST ABOUT THAT TIME YOU HEAR YOUR FIRST RUMOUR OF THE SPECIAL CALL AND IT FITS THE BAD DREAMS A SHADOWY POWERFUL GROUP THAT SLIPS SILENTLY BETWEEN THE STARS BUT ELSIE SHARP WAS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY SHE DID NOT SAY A WORD TO HIM COMING INTO THE HOUSE THAT EVENING A PACE BEHIND HER MOTHER LIKE AN OBEDIENT SLAVE IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT AND IT WAS QUITE REASON ENOUGH HE THOUGHT +e7c72eb3-6774-4f72-90ca-b78b4d53d2fa FATHER COULD TALK WELL BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT THE LETTERS WE HAD RECEIVED FROM HIM SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO WERE MERE SCRAWLS TELLING US TO BE GOOD BOYS AND NOT TROUBLE AUNT JANET INCIDENTALLY ADDING THAT HE WAS WELL AND LONESOME JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY DAMN IT ARE WE GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN ONCE IT GETS ITS WIND BACK COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN THE NONIPUS CREPT FORWARD PONDEROUSLY AND FARMER SEARCHED DAZEDLY FOR A WEAPON IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH +e7d44b1c-7e07-4408-9d88-6141a70956fe ANY ONE WITH LESS SELF ESTEEM THAN MYSELF WHO HAD LED A MORE HONEST EARLY LIFE FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY GIRL CRY LIKE THIS CECILY DID NOT WRITE BACK BECAUSE MISSUS RAY HAD DECREED THAT NO LETTERS MUST BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE HILL FARM LEST THEY CARRY INFECTION I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THE MINISTER KNOWS JOHN ANDREW GULPED IT SHOULD HAVE SPLINTERED IN HIS HANDS DOR HE SAID SOFTLY +e7ffd7c9-9006-4d25-890c-cf4e0dff4134 YOU KNOW A GREAT DEAL CLARETON SAID WHICH I SOMETIMES FIND IT NECESSARY TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION I'VE DONE ALL RIGHT YONETS THOUGHT SULLENLY CLARETON AGREED OF COURSE YOU HAVE HE THOUGHT YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW HOW ABOUT A PLUMP OWL ASKED THE BEAST NOT A TIN ONE YOU KNOW BUT A REAL MEAT OWL NEITHER BEAST NOR BIRD SHALL YOU HAVE SAID POLYCHROME IN A POSITIVE VOICE HE DEPRESSED IT INSTANTLY THE SLEDGE SHOT SKYWARD HEAVY GEES PRESSING THEM DOWN INTO THE SEATS THE GUN INTO NUBES'S HAND WAS SLAMMED INTO HIS LAP HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE IT TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON +e8329674-309c-4752-b205-47e7c63f55ed RAY POLISHED OFF THE SOMEWHAT RABBIT FROM HATTIE ROUTINE BY BRINGING OUT A PORTABLE TELEVISION SET CONNECTING IT TO THE BOAT'S ELECTRICAL GENERATOR AND STRINGING AN INSORTMENT OF WIRES BETWEEN IT AND HIS INVENTION HE WOULD NOT ALLOW FARMER EVEN CLOSE TO THE LATTER BUT TO THE EDITOR'S UNTECHNICAL EYE IT LOOKED LIKE A FAIRLY ORDINARY RADIO SET WITH MORE THAN ENOUGH DIALS AND SWITCHES ADDED TO IT TO FURNISH THE DAY SPORTS OF SEVERAL ROLLS ROICES HERE'S THE SPOT I MARKED IT WITH THESE THREE PIECES OF STONE QUICK VIC SWEPT BOTH ARMS ABOUT HOPE AND ME HOLDING US IN A CLOSE EMBRACE SO THAT WE ALL STOOD WITHIN THE TRIANGLE FORMED BY THE THREE BITS OF BLACK ROCK I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH IT LACKED BUT A FEW SECONDS OF THE MOMENT WHEN THE MACHINE BACK IN VIC'S LABORATORY WOULD FUNCTION PROVIDED MY WATCH WAS CORRECT AND THE EQUIPMENT WORKED ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE SUDDENLY HOPE SCREAMED AND I FOLLOWED HER EYES I'D GIVE ANYTHING IF I'D NEVER PUT SARA UP TO GOING TO THAT SHOW SHE SAID IT'S ALL MY FAULT BUT THE PUNISHMENT FALLS ON SARA AND THAT ISN'T FAIR I'D GO THIS MINUTE AND CONFESS THE WHOLE THING TO MISSUS RAY BUT IF I DID IT IT MIGHT GET SARA INTO MORE TROUBLE AND I MUSTN'T DO THAT I SHA'N'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT +e855b872-dc2d-4b6f-ad52-df58262a6d88 AND THIS WAS DIFFICULT FOR THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE TOWN REGA PEN NOSTROS PECCADORES OLDER HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A DEADLINE BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITIZEN'S GROUP THEY CAME IN LIKE A PRIMITIVE RAIDING PARTY THE LEADER DROPPED RIGHT ON TO THE HOOD OF MY SLED AN ACT OF BRAVERY NO LESS COUNTING COOP YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU AND ONE TALK ON THIS SUBJECT INSPIRED THE STORY GIRL TO DO A LITTLE HOME MISSIONARY WORK ON HER OWN ACCOUNT +e85e29f4-c4b0-419a-bf7b-13d253d241b6 IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON OR WASN'T IT I DIVED THE EYE LOWER THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE HERE YOURSELF THAN IN HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL BLUNTLY WOULDN'T YOU NOW FELICITY KING TELL THE TRUTH CROSS YOUR HEART STEPPING OUT INTO THE BRIEF COLLAXY IN DAWN HE CAUGHT HIS GLIMPSE OF THE SERREMEAN SHIP'S LANDING BEFORE THE ISLAND FOREST OF PALM FIRMS CUT IT OFF FROM SIGHT +e865a646-06f8-48c7-a859-c2e89d4027af COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON THE STORY GIRL KISSED HER FINGERTIPS TO HIM WITH THE DELIGHTFUL AUDACITY WHICH WAS A PART OF HER AND THE AWKWARD MAN PLUCKED OFF HIS HAT AND SWEPT HER A STATELY AND GRACEFUL BOW I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY CALL HIM THE AWKWARD MAN SAID CECILY WHEN HE WAS OUT OF EAR SHOT OUR DOOR WAS OPEN AND IN THEIR ROOM ACROSS THE NARROW HALL THE KING COMPLEXION WE TRIED TO STARE AT THEM WHEN THEY WERE EATING WELL HE'S GOT TO STOP PRAYING AGAINST ME ANYHOW SAID FELIX RESOLUTELY +e882bdbd-f8f4-407f-a1f4-55bd4502601f INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION IT WAS ULTIMATELY ARRANGED THAT THE COMBAT SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN THE FIR WOOD BEHIND UNCLE ROGER'S GRANARY IT WAS A NICE REMOTE BOSKY PLACE WHERE NO PROWLING GROWN UP WOULD BE LIKELY TO INTRUDE THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE THE RANCORVIE THAT LASTED SO LONG ON THE CONTRARY IT PASSED SPEEDILY AWAY NOT EVEN ONE LOW DESCENDING SUN GOING DOWN AND THEREOF BUT DIGNITY REMAINED TO BE CONSIDERED NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS +e8af9546-5933-4bea-b89c-cd4ca874b5f6 WHEN I STRAIGHTENED UP FROM MY DESK THE ACHE IN MY BACK STABBED LIKE A HOT WIRE AFTER THE ROEBOT HAD CHECKED THE ROOM FOR BUGS THIS WAS OUR FIRST INKLING OF WHAT I WAS TO UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY IN LATER YEARS NOW NEVER MIND QUARRELLING SAID CECILY IT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT WE NEED FEAR THESE PUFFED UP CREATURES NO LONGER +e8bff962-a8a7-4e65-83b3-5ef20281bb7c THERE WAS A SOUND OF STEALTHY MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND HE FLICKED SWEAT OUT OF HIS EYES WITH A HAND THAT SHOOK E I FOR GOD'S SAKE COME IN I'M IN TROUBLE HERE THE IMAGE ON HIS THREE INCH SCREEN WAS NOT CONSEIL SEDTERFIELD'S BUT THE STARTLED CONSOLATE OPERATORS TROUBLE CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT PETER'S PRAYER WAS WRONG BECAUSE IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER I GUESS SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY I THINK SHE WAS A VERY NICE GIRL SAID ROOT THE WANDERER BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHY WERE YOU NOT KILLED WHEN YOU WERE CHOPPED TO PIECES +e8e3bc90-ecda-42d7-9f7b-a5edcadb3f46 I CAN EASILY PROVE IT BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS HE SAID BUT YOU MUST GO WITH ME TO MY KINGDOM FOR THE PROOF THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN ON THE TRANSLIGHT SCREEN THE FOREFINGERED HAND LOOKED EXTREMELY CAPABLE AROUND THE STOCK OF MARK TWENTY SLOWLY HORN PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT PRESSED THE CONTACT BUTTON GARF LOOKED HESITATE THEN WAVED THE TWO TO THE RAIL WITH HIM SEE THOSE HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE OLD AND WORN STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD +e902da6c-567d-493d-b6f5-7bc714bd911e GO FOR UNCLE ROGER COMMANDED CECILY PALE BUT COMPOSED FELICITY PUT ON THE KETTLE DAN I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU MUSTARD AND WARM WATER WE WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A KING PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO THE STATION TO MEET THE TRAVELERS AND THE DINING ROOM TABLE WAS SPREAD WITH A FEAST OF FAT THINGS THEY NOW FORMED A LINE HOLDING HANDS AND TURNING THEIR FACES TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH RESUMED THEIR JOURNEY +e93ed56a-2cdb-4564-b7a0-03aa0e5583a9 NEVER MIND IF IT IS BAD BEGAN TO BUILD A SIMILAR BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HER STAR FOR A THOUSAND THOUSAND YEARS THERE IT WAS IN TRUTH AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN SARA RAY CAME UP STILL CRYING OF COURSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS SHE HAD NOT PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLS ON SATURDAY NIGHT +e986132e-3779-4e4c-905a-965ccfd25b8f IT WAS WINGLESS AND COVERED SMOOTHLY WITH PASTEL BLUE FEATHERS IT STOOD SOLIDLY ON CAREFULLY MANICURED YELLOW FEET AND STARED AT HIM OUT OF SQUARE VIOLET EYES STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED DORA'S SMILE DIDN'TALLY LAST THAT LONG FARMERS THOUGHTS WERE GOING FAST NOW SOMEHOW WE WERE JOINED ON THE STAIRS BY FELICITY YAWNING AND ROSY O DEAR ME I OVERSLEPT MYSELF UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX +e9d0d807-d7db-4dae-acdd-56a797973601 YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOUND ABOVE THE FREQUENCIES TO WHICH THE HUMAN EAR WILL RESPOND THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL CLARETON'S THOUGHT CARRIED A WRY ECHO BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAINTAIN ON NUMBERS PASS THE GIFT ON TO OUR CHILDREN THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER NO INNOCENT MAN COULD HAVE LOOKED SO TERROR STRICKEN +e9d776c1-42f1-4297-bd72-bb8622b981d6 BUT HE WORE IT WITH SUCH AN UNCONSCIOUS AIR OF PURPLE AND FINE LINEN THAT HE SEEMED TO BE MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN HE REALLY WAS DO THINK IT'S TRUE WITH THE GATHERING SHADES OF NIGHT OUR PLIGHT BECAME PITIFUL IN THE DAYLIGHT SURROUNDED BY HOMELY FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IT WAS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO FORTIFY OUR SOULS WITH A CHEERING INCREDULITY I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN I CAN BE CONNED ONCE +e9d82b41-638e-4a5f-828c-731ba1997d87 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY STILL WE WERE BOTH INCLINED TO THINK WE WOULD LIKE CECILY BETTER THAN FELICITY FARMER PONDERED THE IDEA OF A TRANSMUTTER THAT WORKED UNDER WATER LIKE A BALL POINT PIN BROAD CASTING WEARY VAUDEVILLE ROUTINES HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED WISTFULLY AT THE NEW ENGLAND SHORE LINE OR WAS THAT LONG ISLAND HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE +e9e16406-7805-4614-b40a-94ee6a91cde7 I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING COULD BE BOUGHT IN ANY SHOP FOR A TRIFLING SUM AND MADE UP OUT OF HAND FOR AN INSTANT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT NO SOUND FROM ALL THAT VAST CROWD THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN +e9f277d0-eaa5-4553-be2f-88cb059def72 THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A MY GOD IT HE LOOKED ALMOST LIKE A MAN AND THAT ONLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE WORSE THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM HERE WE ARE ALONE SHARP WENT ON HIS VOICE LOWERING MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER HAVE GONE TO VISIT A NEIGHBOUR FOR THEY HAVE NOT YET CLOSED US OFF ENTIRELY FROM ALL HUMAN CONTACT HE GRIMACED YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES TO NEWBOLTED PRESENTLY SAID SEND ME BACK I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW +e9f4f18c-5fae-4eed-91d4-1627d865c231 WHEN ONE OF THEM BREAKS DOWN IT IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT AND REPAIRING THE THING IS NEVER A MATTER OF JUST PLUGGING IN A NEW PART FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY NOW LOOK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL AND RUN HOME WITH MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH +e9f7f1c3-530e-443f-b053-1a06cb0cd29a HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I WHO BELONGED TO THE ISLAND AND WAS NOW RETURNING TO IT AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT SO I REMOVED THE TIME INTELLECT ON THE C M AND LET IT PICK AROUND THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF SPACE TO SEE IF IT COULD FIND A COMPARISON +e9f92f03-0818-4fcc-bcc9-3b6c40749b19 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF JUVENILE CARLYLE CENTERED IN THE DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS SHE WAS THOUGH QUITE UNCONSCIOUSLY ACTING A PART AND TASTING ALL THE SUBTLE JOY OF THE ARTIST WHICH IS SO MUCH MORE EXQUISITE THAN ANY MATERIAL PLEASURE SHE HAD ALSO GIVEN PETER A BIBLE OF WHICH HE WAS SO PROUD THAT HE HATED TO USE IT LEST HE SHOULD SOIL IT THIS SECOND DIAL WAS NO MORE THAN A THIN DISK OF HARD RUBBER OR BAKE LIGHT WITH A RED SCRATCH MARK ON ONE SIDE ON THE PANEL ITSELF FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE DIAL'S ZERO POINT WAS THE RED SCRATCH MARK THAT MATCHED IT WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL SOMETHING HAPPENED +e9fc691b-42f9-4be3-acd6-84d93d50aa0b BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID RICHER THAN WE THEN KNEW OR SUSPECTED NAN LASS I LOVE YOU THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB WE DON'T NEED SLAVES SAID ORAN THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY CALLED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED TROUBLE SHOOTING +ea2614f3-6be5-4481-8f7b-601195268bcc THE DAUGHTER AND AND THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING FOR A HERO WOULDN'T IT BUT CLARTON HAD INSISTED ON AN INTERMITTENT CONTACT IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP AND STOOD SOLEMNLY BY WHILE THE ZID WEAKENED AND SANK WITH A FINAL GOUT OF BUBBLES I WAS SENT HERE AT THE REQUEST OF THE FIRST CONTACT OFFICER THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER WHERE IS YOUR SHIP DEMANDED THE GIANT +ea5ac453-e286-4971-ba90-b4d4d18027bb I'LL GIVE HER THAT SPONGE CAKE I MADE THIS MORNING SAID FELICITY I GUESS SHE DOESN'T GET SPONGE CAKE VERY OFTEN I'VE NOTHING BUT THE RHEUMATISM RING I GOT AS A PREMIUM FOR SELLING NEEDLES LAST WINTER SAID PETER I'LL GIVE HER THAT EVEN IF SHE HASN'T GOT RHEUMATISM IT'S A REAL HANDSOME RING IT LOOKS LIKE SOLID GOLD VIC SHOOK HIS HEAD QUITE GRAVELY NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH OFF ON ANOTHER TANGENT NOW WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK NOT ME IT DOESN'T SEEM REAL NOW MORE LIKE A NIGHTMARE BUT IT WAS TERRIBLE ENOUGH AT THE TIME AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN AWKWARD MAN THERE IN THE HEART OF THE MAPLE WOODS HE STRODE ALONG RIGHT MASTERFULLY AND LIFTED HIS HEAD WITH THE AIR OF ONE WHO WAS MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED +ea90869e-04f2-488d-b86b-42ad7b981588 I LEARNED THAT SARA RAY HAD NAMED AN APPLE FOR JOHNNY PRICE AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING I WONDER IF IT IS TRUE THAT HE WRITES POETRY MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT IS SHE SAYS SHE HAS SEEN HIM WRITING IT IN A BROWN BOOK MAY DAY MAY ESTRO THIS IS BRANDON MAY DAY TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM +eac90135-d493-4f43-971f-34b5f73be492 THIS WAS THE PLAN AND I FELT IN MY BONES THAT I WAS RIGHT I WROTE AS MANY VARIATIONS AS I COULD SO IT COULD BE SLIPPED INTO AS MANY DIFFERENT FORMATS AS POSSIBLE WHERE DID THEY COME FROM OZMA WILL HELP YOU I'M SURE SAID DOROTHY AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR A HORRIBLE FEAR WHICH FLASHED INTO HER MIND THAT POSSIBLY SAWDUST PUDDINGS WERE NOT HEALTHY FOR PEOPLE TO EAT +ead7ef88-bbaf-408d-9878-39be408ac520 THIS WAS SO VERY UNLIKE CECILY THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT WAS THE MAN WHO THOUGHT THE PULPIT DOOR MUST BE MADE FOR SPIRITS YOU KNOW SHE SAID I HEARD UNCLE EDWARD TELLING EVER SO MANY STORIES ABOUT HIM HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED IT'S CALLED HOW KISSING WAS DISCOVERED MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE MYSELF IF I HADN'T BEEN SO SCARED OF THE JUDGMENT DAY +eb05f0d0-9cf8-41a3-ac62-92d42f5994f6 WHY NOT ASKED THE LITTLE DRAGON I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'LL EVER GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY HE NEVER GOES ANYWHERE EXCEPT TO CHURCH HE JUST STAYS HOME AND READS BOOKS WHEN HE ISN'T WORKIN MOTHER SAYS HE'S A PERFECT HERMIT I'LL MANAGE IT SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL AND WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE WOULD MUCH TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT IT WAS DARK DARK WHEN WE REACHED CARLISLE TOO DARK TO SEE ANYTHING VERY DISTINCTLY AS WE DROVE UP THE LANE OF THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD ON THE HILL +eb36721b-0dde-4c55-a136-808ce38a24dc AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS A LONG CLOAK WOULD CONCEAL THE UNIFORM WHILE I LEFT THE HOTEL BUT THE GOLDEN CRUSTED HELMET AND A BRIEF CASE OF PAPERS WERE A PROBLEM SEE HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL RESOLUTELY I DON'T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING TO IT SUPPOSE THERE IS THE QUESTION IS WHAT CAN WE DO I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL I WOULDN'T LET ON I THOUGHT SHE'D MADE HIM SICK +eb681661-759e-4fe3-b1ac-604c53255228 LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE AND MILLER RUN A TREADMILL FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS ANSWERED PETER EASILY BECAUSE MA HADN'T TIME TO DARN THEN THIS WEEK SO I PUT ON TWO PAIRS IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS OH I SEE IT NOW SAID CECILY JOYFULLY WELL MAYBE THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE SAID CECILY +eb6dfea8-2b7c-4aa5-967c-a798dd672df3 AS IT WAS NOT IN PETER TO BE A MALINGERER HE WAS LEFT IN PEACE WHILE WE PICKED APPLES WHAT WE MUST DO AND RIGHT NOW IS TO SETTLE UPON SOME MEANS OF GETTING TO THE PROPER SPOT AT THE PROPER TIME YOU MARKED A MOMENT OF YOUR DEPARTURE I SUPPOSE HAULING A ZID FROM CANTHORIAN JUNGLES TO A SERIMIAN ZOO WAS A PROSAIC ENOUGH ASSIGNMENT SO LONG AS THE CAGE HELD BUT WITH THE RAGING BRUTES SWIFTLY SMELLING THEM OUT THEY WERE HELPLESS TO CATCH AND RESTRAIN IT +eb7252fe-6815-495f-9854-6692d96e3cfe WHEN THE CANTHORIAN ZID BROKE OUT OF ITS CAGE IN THE SPECIMEN HOLD THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE MY SISTERS ARE SO SWEET AND LOVELY AND PROPER THAT THEY NEVER DANCE OFF OUR RAINBOW I SHALL HAVE A TIN GOWN MADE FOR HER WITH TIN RUFFLES AND TOCS ON IT WE DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF THAT MISTER BUTLER BEING TOOK WITH STREAKS OF WORKING AT ALL HOURS AS YOU KNOW +eb8056cd-b53c-4056-8c96-847ec9943548 EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY BUT HE CAN IF HE'S SHARP READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN OF EVERY LIVING THING ON IT MUTTERED AMBO STETSON SECTION CHIEF OF INVESTIGATION AND ADJUSTMENT STETSON PACE LENNED AND CONTROL BRIDGE OF HIS SCOUT CRUISER UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE THIS WAS ALL STILL HEARSAY TO ME I HAD BEEN PULLED INTO HEADQUARTERS AND GIVEN ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR TRAINING SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT +eb9410cf-a913-4af4-b0fc-9d5b34a1f2ce THERE THE PINK AND GOLD VASES GRANDMOTHER KING GAVE HER SAID FELICITY AS AUNT OLIVIA UNWRAPPED FROM THEIR TISSUE PAPER SWATHINGS A PAIR OF SLENDER OLD FASHIONED TWISTED VASES OF PINK GLASS OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED AREN'T THEY HANDSOME AND OH EXCLAIMED CECILY IN DELIGHT THERE'S THAT CHINA FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON THE HANDLE DOESN'T IT LOOK REAL I'VE THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT IT OH MOTHER PLEASE LET ME HOLD IT FOR A MINUTE I'LL BE AS CAREFUL AS CAREFUL BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS FOR THE GIRL MUST STILL BE LIVING IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE I BELIEVE IT IS MY DUTY TO SET OUT AND FIND HER SURELY IT IS NOT THE GIRL'S FAULT THAT I NO LONGER LOVE HER AND SO IF I CAN MAKE HER HAPPY IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO AND IN THIS WAY REWARD HER FOR HER FAITHFULNESS WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COULDN'T WRITE AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL CRUSHINGLY HE NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND HE NEVER SAYS HIS PRAYERS RETORTED FELICITY UNCRUSHED I DO TOO SAID PETER HIMSELF SUDDENLY APPEARING THROUGH A LITTLE GAP IN THE HEDGE I SAY MY PRAYERS SOMETIMES +ebc66104-1d83-456f-9538-1654fc9c4a33 CHAFFEE THREE POINTED OUT AS THEY DODGED TO THE CONTROL CUBICLE AGAIN JUST AHEAD OF THE SLAVERING ZID THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF SHAKING OFF THE SPELL OF FURS AND MOONLIGHT AND ROMANTIC TALE WE SCRAMBLED TO OUR FEET AND WENT HOMEWARD +ebd4b8e9-dd64-4f4f-9396-dfcbf2003430 SO IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE TIN WOODMAN WOULD CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY AND THAT THE SCARECROW AND WOOT THE WANDERERS SHOULD ACCOMPANY HIM AS BEFORE NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN SURE HE'S SLEEPIN WELL AND THE SNOW IS COMING SOON TWILL BE A BONNY SWIRL ON THE BAY ERE LONG I HOPE NO HARM WILL COME TO THE LAD IF HE STARTS TO CROSS WHEN HE WAKES HE'LL BE IN SUCH A FINE HIGHLAND TEMPER THAT HE'LL NEVER STOP TO THINK OF DANGER SORRY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS YOUR BRAINS BOYS WILL PICK MY SKULL TO PIECES AND FIND THE TRUTH OUT ANYWAY THERE'S NO POINT LYING NOW WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES +ec015b2a-d688-434b-9eb4-6c29db5c4c2a NOW WAS THE TIME FOR HIS PLAY HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND FELT THE STRENGTH IN HIM GATHER TO A SINGLE POINT AND FLOW OUTWARD THE TWO MEN SUDDENLY SEEMED TO STAGGER THERE WAS A SECOND OF CONFUSION AND THEY HAD LET HIM GO HE STOOD ALONE IN THE ROOM HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL THERE WAS ONE ON THE DOCK BUT I THOUGHT SO DID I SHE SOUNDED RELIEVED BUT IF YOU SAW ONE TOO ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS STANDING THERE ON THE DECK BESIDE ME RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE I LOST MY HEAD AND GROUNDED THE QUEEN AND IT VANISHED THE OWL I MEAN SO DID MINE JEFF SAID WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK I GOT IT FROM MY MOUTH SAID DAN WITH A SHAMED FACED GRIN THE GIRLS IN SCHOOL LAUGH AT IT SO KATE MAR SAYS IT'S LIKE A GASH IN A PIE BILLY SAID THAT THE SEED WOULD SHRINK IT FOR SURE WELL THERE IT WAS BILLY HAD DECEIVED US BOTH +ec081794-eb45-491b-846a-6194dbb6f821 WELL I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY SHE'S DEAD SAID PETER REBUKINGLY DO PEOPLE GO ON BEING JUST THE SAME AFTER THEY'RE DEAD NO OF COURSE NOT THEY'RE ANGELS THEN NOT METHODISTS OR ANYTHING BUT JUST ANGELS THAT IS IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN JUST IMAGINE BEINGS THAT LIVE ON A WORLD WITH ALMOST AS MUCH WATER AS OURS WHO CAN'T USE THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES ANY MORE THAN THAT IT'S RIDICULOUS I NEVER SAW SIST MOROC THE BIG UGLY ONE ESPECIALLY YONAS SIGHED THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD THE EVENING MEAL WAS SIMPLE THERE WAS A SINGLE DISH OF MEAT AND SOME SORT OF BEANS AFTER IT HAD BEEN EATEN AND THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE GREW TO FULL NIGHT IT WAS TIME TO RETIRE +ec11476d-bcde-4433-bd2a-5c3a8e623529 RAY YELPED HE STARTED AFTER HER BUT HIS PROGRESS IN THE DIVING SUIT WAS WADDLING AND SLOW SHE REACHED THE RAIL FIRST AND WENT OVER RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL I SUPPOSE HE MUST SINCE THAT IS HIS PICTURE SAID DAN MISERABLY HE LOOKS AWFUL CROSS SAID PETER SIMPLY OH I WISH WE'D NEVER NEVER SEEN IT CRIED CECILY IT SPOILS THE EFFECT WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF I WENT AND KEPT STIRRING THINGS IT DIDN'T BELONG TO IT INTO THE PUDDING I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING +ec22910c-34d9-4c9c-9bd4-c445869f46bd INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES WE HAVE MACHINES TO DO OUR WORK I DO TOO SAID PETER HIMSELF FOR ONLY SO CAN PETER COMPOSE AT ALL AND EVEN THEN HE FINDS IT HARD WORK +ec3dcda1-1683-4086-9603-27730407ae87 YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US BUT IT WASN'T CHARLIE THEY CAN'T BE DANGEROUS HE SAID FELIX AND I RECOGNIZED ITS BEAUTIFUL FITNESS AT ONCE WELL GOD WILL BE ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO ME IF I DON'T PESTER HIM ALL THE TIME +ec47cba1-931f-499f-aaa9-3d95642bd46f IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN IT WAS DREADFUL TO WAKE UP AND FIND IT AS STRAIGHT AS EVER BUT HOW WILL YOU LIKE TO WALK TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH A BOY WHO WEARS PATCHED TROUSERS ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES ASKED HORN PERHAPS SAID TO NIB +ec4b9c82-d60f-4046-9ec9-8b240a8c4351 YOUR UNCLE ROGER WENT TO MARKDDVILLE RIGHT AFTER MILKING SAID PETER HE LOCKED UP THE HOUSE AND GAVE ME THE KEY THERE WASN'T A SOUL IN IT THAT I'M SURE OF I DROVE THE COWS TO PASTURE AND I GOT BACK ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO I SET DOWN ON THE FRONT DOOR STEPS FOR A MOMENT AND ALL AT ONCE I HEARD A BELL RING IN THE HOUSE EIGHT TIMES WE HEARD HER RUMMAGING IN THE PANTRY AS WE SAT ON THE COOL SPRUCE SHADOWED CELLAR DOOR OUTSIDE WHERE UNCLE ROGER WAS SHOWING US HOW TO MAKE ELDERBERRY POP GUNS PRESENTLY SHE CAME OUT FROWNING RIGHT BEFORE US GIRT ABOUT WITH ITS TRIM SPRUCE HEDGE WAS THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD THE HISTORY OF WHICH WAS WOVEN INTO OUR EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS WE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT FROM FATHER'S DESCRIPTIONS AND IN FANCY WE HAD ROAMED IN IT MANY A TIME AND OFT IT WAS NOW NEARLY SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT HAD HAD ITS BEGINNING WHEN GRANDFATHER KING BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME +ec560936-24a9-4e02-9f3d-2e6ae5207198 NOR OF COURSE DID HE CARRY THE SWORD OF A GREAT HERO OR A NOBLE JONAS HAD NO VAUGHAN TO STICK ON HIS NAME AND HE HAD NEVER THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO CLAIM ONE AND ACCEPT THE TINY RISK OF DISCLOSURE AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD ONE DAY A HORN WAS BLOWN AT THE PALACE GATE AND THERE WAS ONE TALL MAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS SLIM AND STRAIGHT AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY +ec7a9751-0f45-49b8-b323-744a9de6369f WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES BUT AS WE WAITED THE CLOUDS BROKE AWAY AND THE SUN CAME OUT FLASHINGLY THE DROPS ON THE SPRUCE BOUGHS GLITTERED LIKE DIAMONDS THE SCOOP SENSING JENOFER'S SURRENDER SLID ITS PONDEROUS BULK NEARER AND OPENED ITS MOUTH LEAVING HALF AN ACRE OF LOWER JAW RESTING FLUSH WITH THE ISLAND QUEEN'S DECK PRESENTLY PETER AND THE STORY GIRL APPEARED AND WE WERE ALL MORE OR LESS RELIEVED TO SEE THAT PETER LOOKED QUITE RESPECTABLE DESPITE THE INDISPUTABLE PATCH ON HIS TROUSERS +eceacedc-e460-4d50-b0ae-3f3af0f8a3d6 I DO THINK HE MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE SENSE THAN TO TAKE A CLOCK STRIKING FOR A BELL RINGING I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO DID YOU KNOW THESE LITTLE PEOPLE WERE THERE BEFORE AH SURE THERE A LONG TIME +ed1b9b2e-6131-4fe7-b489-f5e17408dc95 VIC HOPE DIDN'T NOTICE IT UNTIL LATER THE RAYS OF THE MACHINE CAUGHT IT AND BROUGHT IT BACK WITH US MADE IT SOLID MATTER AS WE KNOW IT HERE CICELY PESTERED OUR AUNT JANET'S LIFE OUT ASKING REPEATEDLY MAR WILL YOU BE GOING TO PRAYER MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT MAR WILL YOU BE PRESERVING RASPBERRIES NEXT WEEK AND VARIOUS SIMILAR QUESTIONS THEY WERE WONDERFULLY DAINTY WITH A STRANGE FAINT AROMATIC PERFUME WHICH WAS ONLY TO BE DETECTED AT A LITTLE DISTANCE AND VANISHED IF YOU BENT OVER THEM +ed4154f7-fa30-497e-b805-b81140fe1b84 AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT FELICITY'S SO FOND OF MAKING A FUSS OVER EVERYTHING THEY STOOD ASIDE FOR US TO ENTER AND THEN FOLLOWED US DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR WHICH WAS NOT LIGHTED BY ANY DEVICE I COULD DISCERN AND YET WHICH WAS NOT DARK +ed5c894d-f792-46d0-96eb-cc0b26d04aae THEY'LL USE FORCE I'D LIKE TO STAY SIR THESE COLONISTS HAD BEEN AUTONOMIST FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS WELL WHAT DOES SHE SAY ASKED CICELY TREMULOUSLY I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST AND SOON HE MIGHT BE TESTING THEM OUT FOR HIMSELF JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON YOU MAY DO THE SAME YOURSELF +ed785eb7-8ec0-4b9e-a4d5-0f3ccb25b173 THE END OF THE WORLD IT IS COMING TO MORROW I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU EXPECT TO GO WHEN YOU DIE FELICITY SHE SAID TEARFULLY IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS OH I DON'T KNOW MILLIONS OF YEARS LIKELY AND EVEN THEN I THEY LOVED EACH OTHER EVER SINCE THEY WERE SMALL PAPOOSES AND THEY VOWED TO LOVE EACH OTHER AS LONG AS THE RIVER RAN +ed8d3ed0-70a5-4b5c-b20c-16d1e988d7fd ALSO SHE HAD A PURPLE FEATHER FASTENED TO A WART ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD AROUND WHAT I'LL FIND THERE I DON'T KNOW I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE I AM SAVING SOME OF THE HONORABLE MISTER WHALEN'S HAIRS FOR YOU +eda91774-e4a4-4559-96fa-e82e5d1475f7 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER HOW'S IT LOOK ALIEN ANY SIGN OF THAT MOB NEGATIVE O K WE'RE TAKING OFF ONLY ONE THING COULD CROSS IT AND THAT WAS LOVE ZULEMITH YEARNED FOR ZERA WITH SUCH FIDELITY AND LONGING THAT HE BEGAN TO BUILD UP A BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HIS STAR AND ZERA NOT KNOWING THIS BUT LOVING AND LONGING FOR HIM BEGAN TO BUILD A SIMILAR BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HER STAR WITH THE GATHERING SHADES OF NIGHT OUR PLIGHT BECAME PITIFUL IN THE DAYLIGHT SURROUNDED BY HOMELY FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IT WAS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO FORTIFY OUR SOULS WITH A CHEERING INCREDULITY +edb63e01-715c-4625-95fd-a4d6df8ed794 POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT AT ALL EVENTS HE ANNOUNCED TO US THAT HE COULDN'T BRING THE RED COVERED HISTORY TO SCHOOL BUT IF WE WANTED TO BUY THE PICTURE OUTRIGHT HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT OF THE BOOK AND SELL IT TO US FOR FIFTY CENTS SHE HASN'T SEEMED LIKE HERSELF THE PAST TWO WEEKS SHE COMPLAINS OF HEADACHE AND SHE HAS NO APPETITE AND SHE IS A DREADFUL COLOR I'LL HAVE TO SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT HER IF SHE DOESN'T GET BETTER SOON I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE OH I DON'T BELIEVE THAT STORY IS TRUE SAID FELICITY I BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS WAS JUST ROMANCING SHE DOES ROMANCE MOTHER SAID YES BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS THIS HERSELF SO I BELIEVE IT MUST BE TRUE SAID THE STORY GIRL +edccb6bf-f5cc-4f80-8618-5486593d67bf HE CAN SEE IT ANYHOW WITHOUT YOUR DOING ANYTHING SAID CECILY WELL MY CONSCIENCE WILL FEEL BETTER HOW DID OLD MISTER SCOTT FIND OUT THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS IN THE CLOSET ASKED FELIX NO ONE EVER KNEW THE PATH LED INTO THE FOREST BUT THE BIG TREES GREW SO CLOSELY TOGETHER AND THE VINES IN THE UNDERBRUSH WERE SO THICK AND MATTED THAT THEY HAD TO CLEAR A PATH AT EACH STEP IN ORDER TO PROCEED THE RESULT WAS A DETERMINED RIVALRY AS TO WHICH PUPIL SHOULD COLLECT THE LARGEST SUM AND THIS RIVALRY WAS ESPECIALLY INTENSE IN OUR HOME COTERIE +ee08ba88-2fd0-4230-b497-9a18ad74f57e WHY NOT GOODNESS ME IT WAS DREADFUL WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING YOURSELF SHE WAS SLOWLY TRANSFORMED INTO THE GREEN MONKEY AND AT THE SAME TIME BOOT SLOWLY REGAINED HIS NATURAL FORM IT WAS QUITE A SURPRISE TO THEM AH WHEN THEY RAISED THEIR EYES FROM THE PLATTER AND SAW WOOT WANDERER STANDING BESIDE OZMA SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY TO DAY SHE SAID AND I'M NOT GOING TO TELL A SINGLE STORY AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT +ee1ab1c9-d1a3-4e0c-8855-532d9950cd07 I TOOK IT TO THE MESSAGE AND TO MYSELF THEIR SUBJECT HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR BATTLE SHIP NO THE PLANS WERE CHANGED WE HAD TO FIT IN SOME KIND OF NEW METEOR REPELLING GEAR FOR OPERATING IN THE PLANETARY DEBRIS BELT AND IN THE EVENING THEY WOULD LEAD THE SHEEP HOME TOGETHER AND THROUGH IT ALL THE BLISSFUL PURRS OF PATTY WHO SAT ON THE WINDOW SILL BEHIND THE STORY GIRL RESOUNDED THROUGH THE DIN LIKE ANDREW MACPHERSON'S BASS JUST A BURROW OF THE HALE TIME HER VOICE WOULD HAVE MADE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE CHARMING VERY WELL DONE MY GOOD GINGER I ADMIRE YOUR ENERGY AND JUDGMENT BUT I HAD NO IDEA A MONKEY COULD LOOK SO COMICAL +ee1ca858-772d-4dcd-9a22-1ce4da2540df FELICITY HAVING USED UP ALL THE AVAILABLE COOKING MATERIALS IN THE HOUSE HAD TO STOP PERFORCE AND SHE NOW DETERMINED TO STUFF TWO NEW PINCUSHIONS SHE HAD BEEN MAKING FOR HER ROOM JEFF TOOK THE BROWN HAND SHE PUT UP AND DREW HER TO THE DOCK BESIDE HIM STUDYING HER WHILE SHE SHOOK OUT HER DRIPPING RED HAIR AND REGAINED HER BREATH SEA WATER HAD PLASTERED JENIFER'S WHITE BLOUSE AND KNEE LENGTH DUNGARIES TO HER BODY LIKE A SECOND SKIN AND THE EFFECT BORDERED ON THE SPECTACULAR ALL IN ALL HE THOUGHT SADLY HE WAS NOT A USUAL HERO BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT +ee3e6eca-e14f-4b62-96ff-e181df1df591 WHOOP FOLLOWED NEXT AND LAST OF THE THREE CAME THE SCARECROW WHO COULD NOT HAVE KEPT THE PATH AT ALL HAD NOT HIS COMRADES BROKEN THE WAY FOR HIS STUTE TO HIS SURPRISE GARF DID NOTHING TO STOP HIM PROBABLY JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER THE POLICEMAN EXPECTED NO FURTHER TROUBLE FROM THE HUMANS AFTER THE TREATMENT THEY HAD FARMER'S HAYMAKER CONNECTED BUT NEXT SPRING THE STORY GIRL DROPPED HER VOICE IN A WHISPER THAT WAS AS AUDIBLE AND THRILLING AS HER LOUDER TONES PEOPLE BEGAN TO TELL THAT EMILY WAS SOMETIMES SEEN WAITING UNDER THE BIRCHES STILL +ee59e247-28de-4085-a9b3-913b7343eb2a UNEXPECTEDLY BECAUSE JEFF HAD NOT CONSIDERED THAT IT MIGHT MATTER OLD CHARLEY MACK'S RED HAIRED NIECE THE TERRANS DREW TOGETHER AGAIN WITH STORIES OF ADVENTURES THEY HAD FORMERLY MET AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED SHARP TURNED AND LOOKED AT HIM FULL IN THE FACE I AM SURE YOU DO HE SAID +ee847a1a-0b83-4308-8fee-4bed60d53810 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION IN FARMER'S BRAIN THIS WAS TOO MUCH GARF HAD GONE TOO FAR THE BLURLY EDITOR PLUNGED ACROSS THE DESK SWINGING A FIST WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL UNCLE ROGER STOPPED LAUGHING BEFORE WE HEARD THE EXPLANATION WE THOUGHT HE NEVER WOULD STOP THAT'S GRANDFATHER KING'S OLD CLOCK STRIKING HE SAID AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE TO SPEAK SAMMY PROT CAME ALONG AFTER TEA WHEN YOU WERE AWAY TO THE FORGE PETER AND I GAVE HIM PERMISSION TO CLEAN THE OLD CLOCK HE HAD IT GOING MERRILY IN NO TIME THE TALE OF THE RAINBOW BRIDGE FELIX SO FAR AS MY REMEMBRANCE GOES NEVER ATTAIN TO SUCCESS IN THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES +ee8f9274-7402-4dbb-bc5e-a9d3ba5c7488 I WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT HE ADVANCED THREATENINGLY BUT AGLEIA RAN AS HARD AS SHE COULD UP THE MOUNTAIN IF SHE COULD ONLY REACH GLECON SHE WOULD PROTECT HER PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS HE THOUGHT HE WATCHED UNTIL THE FLARE FLICKERED OUT THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT THEN SHE BEGAN TO UNDRESS FIRST BY TAKING OFF THE LACE APRON AND LAYING IT OVER THE BED POST WHERE IT WAS WITHIN EASY REACH OF HER HAND +ee9254cd-a270-4ccd-85d3-4eff3c2e5bb8 THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO JEFF AUBREY GLIMPSED THE SERIMIAN SHIP'S LANDING BECAUSE THE MORNING WAS A ONE DAY AND ON ONE DAY'S HIS MISSION TO THE ISLAND DEMANDED THAT HE BE UP AND ABOUT AT SUNRISE ANYHOW I SAVED MY DREAM SHE SAID PLACIDLY AND THAT OF COURSE WAS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERED +ee960b04-8279-41ae-8150-0b38a65bb24b WE MUST TRY AGAIN BUT JEFF AUBREY AND JENIFER MAC WOULDN'T BE ON HAND TO WITNESS THEIR SORRY TRIUMPH AND IF THEY ARE STILL IN THOSE BARRELS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES IT HAD PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE GAMES OF OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS BEING FORTIFIED CASTLE INDIAN AMBUSH +eead8b52-59da-4942-8cd4-879f936bff02 IF YOU HADN'T GOTTEN IMPATIENT AND TRIED TO HURRY THINGS HIS VOICE SET IN YUNUS'S MIND YOU WOULDN'T BE BACK IN YOUR CELL NOW THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE ANOTHER DAY AND HERE WOULD HAVE DROVE ME OUT OF MY WITS YUNUS THOUGHT WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY SUGGESTED ONE OF THE LOONS AND THE PRISONERS NOTICED THAT NONE OF THEM SEEMED SURPRISED WERE SHOCKED AT THE SAD ACCIDENT TO PANTA ALL RIGHT GRUMBLED THE KING FETCH TILL TO MEND HIM HARVEST WAS ENDED AND THOUGH SUMMER WAS NOT YET GONE HER FACE WAS TURNING WESTERING THE ASTERS LETTERED HER RETREATING FOOTSTEPS IN A PURPLE SCRIPT AND OVER THE HILLS AND VALLEYS HUNG A FAINT BLUE SMOKE AS IF NATURE WERE WORSHIPPING AT HER WOODLAND ALTAR +eeba6abc-7be0-49a9-8796-b1e059ec1a79 HIS CY PROJECTION OF THE ZID APPEARED ON THE DOCK BEFORE THEM WITH DEMONIAC ABRUPTNESS CROUCH TO LEAP TWIN TAILS LASHING AND ITS TEN FOOT LENGTH BRISTLING WITH GLASSY MAGENTIVE BRISTLES ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK URGED ON BY THE FIRES OF PATRIOTISM AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SUGGEST A LINE OF SEARCH AND THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WOULD BEGIN APPEARING AT ONCE SO I STAYED WITH THE GIRLS AND A MISERABLE AFTERNOON WE HAD OF IT THE STORY YELL AGAIN AND AGAIN DECLARED THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT BUT WHEN WE ASKED HER TO TELL A STORY SHE EVADED IT WITH A FLIMSY EXCUSE +eec128f0-5842-42d7-9b17-f0472b68dc12 ONE ELSE NO MANOEL NO ONLY THE PEOPLE NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE A THING THAT SIZE COULDN'T CRACK A WALNUT EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY I'VE THOUGHT OF A PLAN SAID THE STORY GIRL LET'S ALL GIVE HER SOMETHING AS FELICITY SAYS AND LET'S ALL GO UP TO HER PLACE THIS EVENING AND IF WE SEE HER OUTSIDE WE'LL JUST GO QUIETLY AND SET THE THINGS DOWN BEFORE HER WITH THE LETTER AND SAY NOTHING BUT COME RESPECTFULLY AWAY IF SHE'LL LET US SAID DAN SIGNIFICANTLY +eef3735c-cb76-4ae7-a7a4-0b4ce79657cb WE WERE QUITE WILLING TO GO TO BED AND PRESENTLY WE FOUND OURSELVES TUCKED AWAY UPSTAIRS IN THE VERY ROOM LOOKING OUT EASTWARD INTO THE SPRUCE GROVE WHICH FATHER HAD ONCE OCCUPIED OVER IN THE EAST ABOVE THE AWKWARD MAN'S HOUSE THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS FLOATED ACROSS THE SKY PRESENTLY TURNING AS ROSY AS IF IT WAS BEDEWED WITH HER HEART'S BLOOD AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST +eeff314b-4321-4075-a015-3c324caa3043 WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT I WAS HOPING TO GO TO YOUR CITY HAULED OUT A WHITE COVER ALL UNIFORM WITH GOLDEN SIGNIA FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US +ef0f2d72-7bd0-46f5-b8aa-e6e8ed95b2aa WERE MERE SCRAWLS TELLING US TO BE GOOD BOYS AND NOT TROUBLE AUNT JANET WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG ON A FARM ADJOINING THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD IN CARLISLE WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE +ef236564-9fb8-434f-876a-ae31a1779db7 CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY TRIMMING A FEW SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH GOLD AS HE STARED AT THE SKY CIUS ROSE WITH A BRASSY GLARE NEAR IT HE COULD SEE ITS WHITE HOT DWARF STAR COMPANION IT WAS GOING TO BE A REAL SCORCHER HE DECIDED WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE SAT UP STIFFLY SO YOU CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO SET OFF YOUR ATOM BOMBS OR WORSE WHERE THEY MIGHT GET THROUGH TO ANOTHER PLANET WE CAN'T ACTUALLY INTERFERE WITH YOU SO WE CLOSE THE GATES THAT'S ALL MOSTLY JUNGLE THERE ARE POLAR OCEANS LAKES AND RIVERS ONE LOW MOUNTAIN CHAIN FOLLOWS THE EQUATORIAL BELT ABOUT TWO THIRDS ROUND THE PLANET BUT ONLY TWO CITIES ARE YOU SURE REASONABLY SO IT UD BE PRETTY HARD TO MISS SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THAT THING WE FLEW OVER +ef33f871-411c-4967-9183-edde38105c31 UNDER THE OXYGEN MASK HE WAS AWARE OF DRIED BLOOD CLOTTED IN HIS NOSTRILS THERE WAS A WAR WHICH WE WON BEYOND THE WOODS WE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF MOONLIGHT WORLD LYING IN THE SHARP FROST OF THE OCTOBER EVENING IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK +ef584d20-8eb2-4385-911d-1537f0f70585 I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST SAID THE STORY GIRL ADDRESSING HERSELF DAINTILY TO HER TURNOVER RESPECTED MADAM WROTE THE STORY GIRL AND IS IT TRUE THAT SANDY MC QUERIE IS TO MARRY BUT KATE FERGUSON THEN I TOUCHED THE NEXT DIAL AND THE QUIVERING HAND OF THE METER THE HANDS PALMS UPWARD +ef8cb430-e914-40b0-953d-89ee89fded1b FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT IS SHE NICE I ASKED THAT WAS THE MAIN QUESTION ABOUT GROWN UPS THEIR LOOKS MATTERED LITTLE TO US SHE'S LOVELY BUT SHE IS TWENTY NINE YOU KNOW THAT'S PRETTY OLD SHE DOESN'T BOTHER ME MUCH AUNT JANET SAYS THAT I'D HAVE NO BRINGING UP AT ALL IF IT WASN'T FOR HER AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM FELIX HELD OUT TO FELICITY A REMARKABLY FINE APPLE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAVING FOR HIS OWN CONSUMPTION AND THE STORY GIRL BEGAN A TALE OF AN ENCHANTED MAIDEN IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA BUT WE NEVER HEARD THE END OF IT WHEN THE FINAL COUNT WAS IN HIGH PLANES DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE GAINING POPULATION IN THE NATION ACTUALLY IT SHOWED THE SHARPEST DECLINE FROM SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN TO NOTHING THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE EXCEPT THAT IT HAS NO TREES WORTHY OF THE NAME +efcdda48-599e-43b9-b548-98dc610cbb21 OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS IT WOULDN'T DO SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT WHICH SEEMED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION OF MOONSHINE DRESSES EFFECTUALLY YOU'RE LYING I SAID HOARSELY AND EVEN I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT SORRY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS YOUR BRAINS BOYS WILL PICK MY SKULL TO PIECES AND FIND THE TRUTH OUT ANYWAY THERE'S NO POINT LYING NOW THING WE BEGAN TO BREATHE EASIER WE BOUGHT IT FROM JERRY COWAN HE FOUND IT IN A RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD IT SAYS IT'S GOD'S PICTURE SAID FELIX +efd8e37e-daf5-4caa-b662-fbfa29c8ba35 WHEN I HEARD THE STORY GIRL READ IT I MADE A SECRET COMPACT WITH MYSELF THAT I WOULD TRY TO DESERVE SUCH AN EPITAPH I WISH I HAD A FAMILY PLOT SAID PETER RATHER WISTFULLY I HAVEN'T ANYTHING YOU FELLOWS HAVE THE CRAGS ARE JUST BURIED ANYWHERE THEY HAPPEN TO DIE WE STOPPED PICKING APPLES SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS AND TRIED TO REASON IT OUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT THE REST OF US COULD NOT SEE WHERE ANY CATCH COULD EXIST SINCE FELIX SOLEMNLY VOWED CROSS HIS HEART WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING ANXIOUSLY I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL TOUCH IT MOVE ON IT WAS NOT FAR AS VIC HAD SAID BUT WE WERE WEARY FROM OUR BATTLE WITH THE CRAZED MOB AND THE BEST WE COULD FORCE FROM OUR LEGS WAS A SORT OF DOG TROT ONE MINUTE AFTER TWO +efe9528f-e9b0-40cf-8c96-17f99b1542ae HE WALKED THREE PERHAPS FOUR MILES HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY YOU KNOW THAT TOO CONTACTED CULTURE HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON +efea66ba-db30-4bdf-a4ea-5b8f8b26bb02 THE STORY GIRL AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD PAY HIM COMPLIMENTS TO HIS LIKING THE STORY GIRL WOULD BOX HIS EARS WITH HER FIST AND SAY BLESS YOUR GRAY HEART PADDY YOU'RE A GOOD SORT OF OLD RASCAL AND PAT WOULD PURR HIS SATISFACTION I USED TO TAKE A HANDFUL OF THE SKIN ON HIS BACK SHAKE HIM GENTLY AND SAY PAT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVER KNEW AND I VOW PADDY WOULD LICK HIS CHOPS WITH DELIGHT BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US WE FELT THEN WHAT WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND TILL YEARS LATER THAT OUR GROWN UP RELATIVES DID NOT ALTOGETHER ADMIRE OR APPROVE OF UNCLE BLAIR HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY OR UNDERSTOOD HIM WELL FELIX WHAT IS IT ASKED MISTER MIREWOOD KINDLY PLEASE SIR DOES GOD REALLY LOOK LIKE THIS ASKED FELIX HOLDING OUT THE PICTURE WE HOPE HE DOESN'T BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED +f000812a-0baa-4161-982a-a3b469bbc9b9 THE MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIC AND POLITICAL FIELDS CRIED OUT FOR CRYSTALS AND MORE CRYSTALS THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS IT WAS FAR FROM A WARM WELCOME BUT YONAS WAS SATISFIED WITH IT CENSUS LIST NAMES OF EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGDALENA I HAD TO STEAL IT IS MISTER MARSHALL'S BOY THE CENSUS CHIEF +f0036bc0-8b48-4b6c-92a3-5190e20b235f THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE THAT ANYBODY EVEN GOD WOULD MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THAT +f03af2b6-b2e1-4424-9e07-1221d9a00e4a WITH PETER AND DAN WITH FELICITY AND CECLI AND THE STORY GIRL WITH PALE GRAY EYED LITTLE SARA RAY WE WERE BOON COMPANIONS FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES THIS WAS THE PARISH CHURCH OF COURSE A GOOD SOLID WOODEN STRUCTURE AND A COLLECTION OF HOUSES STRUNG ALONG THE DIRT PAST THE TOWN THE HOUSES OF THE RICH WERE NATURALLY WOODEN THE POOR BUILT OF BAKED MUD I KNOW I WILL LIKE HIM HE HAS SUCH A NICE FACE EVEN IF HE IS AWKWARD HE LOOKS LIKE A MAN YOU COULD TELL THINGS TO WELL I'D LIKE A MAN WHO COULD MOVE AROUND WITHOUT FALLING OVER HIS OWN FEET SAID FELICITY AND THEN THE LOOK OF HIM UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE IS LONG LANK LEAN NARROW AND CONTRACTED +f06aea28-9e96-4dca-9752-2e68f2c9a891 WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I WE HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH THE MAPLE WOODS TO THE EXTREME END OF UNCLE ROGER'S FARM A PRETTY WALK THROUGH A WORLD OF GREEN WHISPERING BOUGHS AND SPICED SWEET FERNS AND SHIFTING PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN POLITICAL CORRUPTION HOWEVER WAS JUST A FIELD BUT THERE WAS A CLUMP OF WHITE BIRCHES IN IT AS FAR AS WRITING THEM DOWN WAS CONCERNED I BELIEVED THAT I BEVERLY KING CARRIED OFF THE PALM +f084cf8c-8be1-48be-9215-cdf62a79cced HOWEVER IF THE SPIKIN WAS WEARING A SUIT OF PLASTER FLESH THAT LOOKED REMOTELY HUMANOID I WOULD AT LEAST STAY AND TALK TO HIM THAT IS WHAT I WAS AIMING TO DO WITH THE CENTAURIANS WE AVOIDED THE ORCHARD IT WAS FOR US TOO FULL OF HAPPY MEMORIES TO ACCORD WITH OUR BITTERNESS OF SOUL INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE THE HUSH AND THE SOMBRE SHADOWS AND THE SOFT MELANCHOLY SIGHING OF THE WIND IN THE BRANCHES OVER US DID NOT JAR HARSHLY ON OUR NEW SORROW I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE I'LL HAVE A FARM OF MY OWN AND COWS AND EVERYTHING YOU'LL SEE IF I WON'T AND WE WERE LAUGHING AND TRYING THE THINGS ON AND HAVING SUCH FUN +f085bb05-024c-474d-9e27-20d873dae5ea IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY RATHER THAN HAVE HIM GO WITHOUT ONE THERE WAS A PRINCESS WHO WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS IN THE WORLD CECILY'S MIGHT BE MORE DRAMATIC BUT FELIX'S WAS MORE AMUSING MY AUNT JANE TOLD ME SO SAID PETER +f09eb94b-8d5f-4404-8649-2cd82367cc4e I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH I WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED WHEN I JOINED THEM I PAINFULLY TRACED EACH ONE TO ITS SOURCE COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED SIR HE BEGAN CHANGING FROM THE I A BLUE TO THE YAR IN OUR WHITE I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM +f0a5dc4f-98ca-4cab-b973-1c91af6587bd GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE UNDER FELICITY'S EYES SHE SET THE BREAD AND ON THE MORROW SHE WAS TO BAKE IT DAN HAD PICKED OUT A SOFT SPOT IN THE GRASS FOR HIMSELF I'M SURE FELIX FELT VERY UNLIKE A MISSIONARY AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS SHE FOLLOWED IT UP THIS TIME WITH A STRING OF INTRICATE FOREIGN SOUNDING WORDS THAN EVEN FARMER COULD TELL WERE HOT AND STINGING +f0ac4e14-c29c-4ffc-9a68-3032c856b2cb THERE WAS A RARE BREEZE FROM THE SOUTH BLOWING TO MEET US THE SHADOWS OF THE SPRUCES WERE LONG AND CLEAR CUT THE EXQUISITE SKIES OF EARLY MORNING BLUE AND WIND WINNOWED WERE OVER US AWAY TO THE WEST BEYOND THE BROOK FIELD WAS A LONG VALLEY AND A HILL PURPLE WITH FIRS AND LACED WITH STILL LEAFLESS BEECHES AND MAPLES MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID A GREAT BEGINNING FOR A JOB AND ONE CLEARLY DESIGNED TO DRIVE A STRONGER MAN THAN ME TO THE BOTTLE NORMALLY A REPAIR MAN STAYS AWAY FROM NATIVE CULTURES THEY ARE POISON GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK +f0b36ec7-9ae5-4eeb-80aa-0b1efd945a47 WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED THE WILD COLD SPRAY BEAT ON HIS EYES AND BLINDED HIM ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON CERTAINLY IT HAS SUFFICIENT GRAVITY TO HOLD ITS OXYGEN THE FLIMSY CABIN COULD NOT STAND FOR LONG AGAINST THE SORT OF BRUTE THE OWLS HAD SHOWN HIM A MONSTROUS TAIL FLUKE THAT STRETCHED DOWN THE BEACH TO MERGE INTO A FLAT PURPLISH ACREAGE OF BACK +f0c6a7ca-e949-4707-82a4-aa51ad4209d1 A TALE OF THE STORY GIRLS WHEREIN PRINCES WERE THICKER THAN BLACKBERRIES AND QUEENS AS COMMON AS BUTTERCUPS LED TO OUR DISCUSSION OF KINGS THEY OILED MY JOINTS AND SET ME FREE WHEN THEY HAD REACHED THE END OF THE PATH WHERE THEY HAD FIRST SEEN THE WARNING SIGN YOU LOOK LIKE ONE SAID UNCLE ROGER HOW ON EARTH DO YOU DO IT HE YIELDED AND TOLD THE SECRET +f0cb3442-b919-4c4d-93ba-a2a34093ffbc OFF TO THE RIGHT WAS A DIM BRANCHING PLACE WHICH WE KNEW WAS THE ORCHARD AND ON OUR LEFT AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS WAS THE OLD WHITEWASHED HOUSE FROM WHICH PRESENTLY A LIGHT GLEAMED THROUGH AN OPEN DOOR AND AUNT JANET A BIG BUSTLING SAUCY WOMAN WITH FULL BLOWN PEONY CHEEKS CAME TO WELCOME US ALL DAY LONG WHILE YOU ARE CHOPPING WOOD IN THE FOREST I SHALL BE ABLE TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY A PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME FINALLY I SHALL TAKE PRIDE IN BEING THE WIFE OF THE ONLY LIFE TIN WOODMAN IN ALL THE WORLD WHICH SHOWS THAT NIMI AMMY WAS AS WISE AS SHE WAS BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA EVERY TWO HOURS IT'S SUCH DREADFUL TASTING STUFF BUT IT'S A GOOD BLOOD PURIFIER SO AUNT JANET CAN'T OBJECT TO IT THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY ALL DAY SHE SAT IN THE KITCHEN AND WORKED BUTTONHOLES SUBSISTING ON BREAD AND WATER AND MEXICAN TEA +f0ec6fe9-f20c-4f20-b8bc-61dab7625217 WE SURE DON'T KNOW THAT EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGNOLENA SEE THEM IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE OH NO OF COURSE NOT HE COULDN'T FIND THE CAPSULE PARTS WERE STREWN ALONG THE BOTTOM +f0ff050f-3f04-4f14-a698-89a5f34893d0 SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET I'VE DONE ALL RIGHT YONETS THOUGHT SULLENLY YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID I SEE HE SAID AT LAST AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK TO EARTH BECAUSE WHEN YOU DRANK OF THE MAGIC CUP YOU FORGOT ALL YOUR PAST LIFE EXCEPT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU WERE ALLOWED TO REMEMBER IT I WISH THERE WAS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND AND A WAY TO GET TO IT SAID CECILY +f112221b-1890-4e12-8cd0-13578d265ee5 I'D LIKE TO BUT I CAN'T STOOP OVER WITH MY BENT LEG WITHOUT FALLING AND YOU WILL NOTICE THAT I'VE NIBBLED THE HAY ON THE FARTHER EDGE SILENCE WHILE THEY CRAWLED AHEAD I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL BELIEVER THAT UD GIVE US FOR DON'T SOUND MUCH WRITTEN OUT BUT IT'S AWFUL TO GO THROUGH I'M SURE I HOPE I'LL NEVER DREAM PEG BOWEN CHASES ME I'LL DIE IF I DO +f11fda38-d343-4f84-abf7-b7b46d1dfc5f ARE THEY RUBBER DO YOU THINK FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER SO IN HIS FRIGHT HE LET GO OF POLYCHROME'S HAND BUT I GUESS SHE WON'T BEWITCH ANYTHING ON ACCOUNT OF THE PICKLES AGLEYA WAS HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER SHE WAS SO SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL THAT GLAUCON FELL IN LOVE WITH HER THE VERY MOMENT HE FIRST SAW HER AND I CAN'T NEAR ANY AT MY LACE I JUST KEEP THINKING WHAT IS THE USE SHE LOOKED VERY PRETTY WITH HER BIG BLUE EYES AND WARM HUED GOLDEN HAIR +f12bd9e0-2541-4b79-a251-70f5e7bbeac9 ONLY YOU'VE BEEN PASSED INTO ANOTHER FORM OF BEING THROUGH THE ACTION OF FOUR LITTLE QUARTZ BULBS WHOSE PERIODS OF VIBRATIONS FORM A BEAT BUT THAT'S OVER YOUR HEAD PETE OLD SON AND WE'LL HAVE TIME TO TALK OVER DETAILS WHEN WE GET BACK RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN SOMEWHAT OF A JAM WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER IT'S ALL PETER'S FAULT SAID FELICITY I DO THINK HE MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE SENSE THAN TO TAKE A CLOCK STRIKING FOR A BELL RINGING +f133dbc5-5cd7-444f-9257-1ebba5555bf1 WHEN PEOPLE BACKSLIDE THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT'S ON THEIR MINDS AND WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE NEGOTIATING OR CONVINCING THEM SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN WE TOILED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND YARD LIKE MANIACS WE LOOKED INTO EVERY LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACE BUT JIMMY WE COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE THAN IF HE HAD INDEED MELTED INTO AIR MISSUS PATERSON CAME AND WE HAD NOT FOUND HIM THINGS WERE GETTING SERIOUS +f16faa02-bf57-4c5e-9792-a1178ae498c7 I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ARRANGE A DEAL SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROFITABLE TO BOTH OF US BUT LET ME FIRST SHOW YOU THE REST OF THE BOMBS SO YOU WON'T GET ANY STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CORPORATING BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I BORING IS AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID EAGERLY HE CLAMBERED UPON THE OUTSTRETCHED HANDS AND STOOD THERE FACING THE GRINNING FACE +f196d3d7-048f-4c42-8da6-10b91da05a1a HE SETTLED A HELMET ON HIS HEAD MOTIONED FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM CHECK THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SOUP'S HE AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND WILL HAVE THEIR SPACESHIP FINISHED SOON NOW THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT GLIBLY BUT BEFORE SHE HAD GONE FAR WITH IT THE DREAM BOOKS THERE WAS LITTLE THAT WAS WORTH SMUGGLING IN AND OUT OF SETANOVO CERTAINLY NOTHING A RICH MAN WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE OFFICIAL MURMURED SOMETHING WITH A SMILE +f1af7ba3-2548-4312-91b4-ffa9b10a64d3 FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAUGHT BY HER I PRAY THAT THERE IS AN END TO IT SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION +f1ba1b18-30a0-405b-9ca1-e586dbf60905 STETSON'S VOICE INTERRUPTED HIM GOT IT ORNE THEY CAUGHT THE DELPHINIS ON THE GROUND RIGHT WHERE YOU SAID IT'D BE BLEW THE TUBES OFF IT WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS PEOPLE WHO SQUINT CAN'T EAT ANY MORE THAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T SQUINT CAN THEY IF THE WORLD DOESN'T COME TO AN END I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY OF RUTH NEXT SUNDAY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD +f1c08d21-513e-42b7-ab17-1fdad204d7cf IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH I'M A REPAIRMAN NOT AN ARCHAEOLOGIST THIS PILE OF JUNK IS OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD JUST FORGET ABOUT IT AND BUILD A NEW ONE THE OLD MAN LEANED OVER HIS DESK BREATHING INTO MY FACE THE STORY GIRL LINGERED TO LAY A BUNCH OF WILD VIOLETS MISTY BLUE AND FAINTLY SWEET ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE AND THEN SHE READ ALOUD THE VERSE ON THE STONE THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED AT LAST THEY CAME TO THE VERY PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW TOUCHED THE EARTH +f20528dd-cddd-4bcb-9e2f-d051be18e670 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU I WILL NOT YUNUS THOUGHT CLARETON TRANSMITTED THE ENTIRE PICTURE IN ONE SUDDEN BLOW THE CHANCE THAT YONAS WOULD NOT BE KILLED IMMEDIATELY BUT WILL WE DISCOVERED THE CHANCE THAT THE INQUISITOR WOULD GET FROM HIM THE SECRET OF THE BROTHERHOOD THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE YONA SAID SAID CLARETON SOUNDED RESIGNED AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER THE NEXT MORNING THE STORM WAS OVER THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES +f226766b-002e-4476-8e24-30bf171ee502 AND JUST IN THE TWILIGHT THEY RODE INTO A DARK VALLEY FILLED WITH TOMBS AND GRAVES FELICITY AND CECILIA WERE WEARING THEIR NEW SUMMER MUSLINS FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY THIS VERY WELL THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES +f2441e1b-5a2d-4b16-89df-628c2888b188 AS MANY AS POSSIBLE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF HERE I WANDERED NEARLY TO THE CITY BEFORE I WAS MOLESTED WHEN THEY DID APPEAR AND TRIED TO LAY HANDS ON ME I WARNED THEM BACK AND FINALLY SHOT ONE OF THEM DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM AND I SAID THE CANARY FLYING CLOSE TO GINGER AM POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW IN THE FORM OF A BIRD BEING NOW COMPLETELY FORMED OF TIN I HAD NO MORE FEAR OF THE WICKED WITCH FOR SHE WAS POWERLESS TO INJURE ME +f261e64b-c820-4050-ac8f-ccb04c783f4e UNCLE ROGER CAN LAUGH SAID CICELY WITH A QUIVER IN HER VOICE BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER TO BE SO SCARED I FEEL JUST SICK I WAS SO FRIGHTENED I WOULDN'T MIND IF HE'D LAUGH ONCE AND HAVE IT DONE WITH IT SAID FELICITY BITTERLY BUT HE'LL LAUGH AT US FOR A YEAR AND TELL THIS STORY TO EVERY SOUL THAT COMES TO THE PLACE FARMER CAME OUT OF A PHILOSOPHIC HAZE TO NOTICE SHE WAS LEAVING HE SAID HAY SHE LOOKED OVER HER SHOULDER FARMER DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY BUT HE WANTED TO DELAY HER FINALLY HE POINTED TO THE NONIPUS AND SAID WHAT ABOUT THAT MONSTER YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE SARAH RAY HAD JOINED US VERY PALE AND NERVOUS HAVING HAD SO IT APPEARED A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH HER MOTHER ABOUT COMING UP THE HILL IN THE RAIN I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID +f2976a3b-0e04-42aa-8adb-1f7c00cc6c7a IT WOULD BE JUST STUPIDITY IF YOU DIDN'T THEY HAVE BUILT THEM A BRIDGE OF LIGHT ACROSS THE UNIVERSE AND SET THY DECREE OF SEPARATION AT NAUGHT THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN ONLY THREE DAYS THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE LOOKING DOWN HIS NOSE AT IT AT THE SAME TIME BUT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OUTFIT BACK AND DESTROY IT ANYWAY THE DIVING HELMET CLATTERED ON THE PLANKS +f29e18cd-fe0c-4758-a381-5ed2dade38b4 GRANDFATHER SAW HER WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY AND MY MOTHER SAW HER ONCE DID YOU EVER SEE HER ASKED FELIX SCEPTICALLY NO BUT I SHALL SOME DAY IF I KEEP ON BELIEVING IN HER SAID THE STORY GIRL CONFIDENTLY WE WILL STOP I THUNDERED BEFORE HE GOT SO FAR IN THAT HE COULDN'T BACK OUT I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS BUT TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE FASHIONABLE THEREFORE TIMOTHY ROOFS MUST BE EATEN PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER +f2a2d4d2-eae8-468c-8447-0963497a4319 I AM NOW ON MY WAY HOME TO SLEEP THE REST OF THE WITCH WITH THE SILVER SHOES HATED ME FOR HAVING DEFIED HER IT GAVE HIM AN UNHAPPY STOMACH OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF VINE LANES THROUGH THE JUNGLES THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS I WAS TO PEEL THE TURNIPS +f2c74992-9904-4545-ad5e-b325df421426 THE EASY GOING HATRED AND CONTEMPT OF ALL MY ASSOCIATES HAD ANNOYED ME THROWN ME OFF BALANCE I WAS THINKING WITH ANGER NOW NOT WITH LOGIC FORCING A BIT OF CONTROL I ORDERED MY THOUGHTS CHECKING OFF A MENTAL LIST RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT HE CONTINUED JUST LISTEN TO ME I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR SCIENCE AND HIS VOICE BROKE OFF AS IF HE HAD BEEN STRUCK IN THE FACE THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME +f2caa3ce-5ff3-46cb-820f-c4b819f7e68f I'M NOT A BIT AFRAID SAID THE STORY GIRL STAUNCHLY PETER KNOWS BETTER THAN THAT FINALLY THEY HEARD A STIR FROM WITHIN AND SOME ONE COUGHED WHO'S THERE CALLED A GIRL'S VOICE IT IS I CRIED THE TIN TWINS TOGETHER HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE A STEEL AND VENADIUM BOUND CONTRACT THAT YOU COULDN'T CRACK WITH A MOLECULAR DISRUPTOR I LEANED FORWARD QUICKLY GRABBED IT AND THREW IT INTO THE AIR WITH A SINGLE MOTION +f2d2707b-04e2-4e94-b3fb-9a48ba916cbd NO THAT MEANT THE PEOPLE SECTION A B SIX NO TIME NOW TRUST ME FELICITY TRIED AND HAD THE MOST GRATIFYING LUCK WITH MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK BUT I SUPPOSE FELICITY IS SO DISGUSTED WITH ME NOW THAT SHE WON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE LESSONS APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU IS OF COURSE TO MAKE IT USEFUL TO YOU LET'S FACE IT BRANDON IS DEAD +f2dc372a-78b1-466d-bce8-63d5129450eb UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT YONES HAD MET THE TYPE BEFORE AND WAS UNINTERESTED IN GOING FURTHER BUT ELSIE SHARP WAS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY SHE DID NOT SAY A WORD TO HIM COMING INTO THE HOUSE THAT EVENING A PACE BEHIND HER MOTHER LIKE AN OBEDIENT SLAVE IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON TO NEWBE'S EYES DILATED CONTRACTED YOU READ MINES WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT SITTING UPON THE GROUND THE BOY ASKED CAN YOU SEE US POLLY NO INDEED ANSWERED THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WE'VE ALL BECOME INVISIBLE HOW DID IT HAPPEN DO YOU SUPPOSE INQUIRED THE SCARECROW LYING WHERE HE HAD FALLEN +f2ecb6be-d9f7-4a61-b6b0-bc2f8e51546f FUEL HAD BEEN TAKEN CARE OF FIRST THE GUTTED HULL OF OCKITT'S DREAM WAS SILENT WITNESS TO THAT THERE WERE COUNTLESS PLANETS THAT COULD BE USED AS A BASE GETTING A CREW WOULD BE MORE DIFFICULT IN THESE PEACE TIMES THOUGH I COULD THINK OF A FEW ANSWERS TO THAT ONE TOO NEIL CAMPBELL WHO WAS HIGHLAND SCOTCH AND LIVED DOWN AT BERWICK WAS COURTING NANCY SHERMAN TOO AND WHAT WAS FAR WORSE NANCY'S FATHER FAVOURED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A RICHARD MAN THAN DONALD FRASER NOBODY KNEW JUST WHO TOLD AT FIRST BUT MORE THAN ONE PERSON SAW HER GRANDFATHER SAW HER WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY AND MY MOTHER SAW HER ONCE +f3141a95-f441-4124-bd6e-ad8f6db496c1 DUTY ON THE CONTRARY IS A BUGLE CALLED ACTION WHETHER YOU ARE INCLINED TO ACT OR NOT IN THIS CASE I HAVE OBEYED THE BUGLE CALL OF DUTY EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH ONE DAY WHEN OLD MISTER FRUIN WAS A YOUNG MAN OF EIGHTEEN HIS FATHER CAME HOME AND SAID SANDY I BOUGHT A PIANO AT SIMON WARD'S SALE TO DAY YOU'RE TO GO TO MORROW AND BRING IT HOME NO KING I FELT CERTAIN WOULD EVER MARRY A BEGGAR MAID WHEN HE HAD PRINCESSES GALORE FROM WHOM TO CHOOSE BUT NOW I UNDERSTOOD IT ALL WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD +f3394daa-a8a7-4e53-9ca1-21437592cf4a HE HAD A RETENTIVE MEMORY AND NEVER FORGOT ANYTHING HE HEARD OR READ THE FEW BOOKS LEFT TO HIM BY HIS OFT REFERRED TO AUNT JANE HAD STOCKED HIS MIND WITH MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION WHICH SOMETIMES MADE FELIX AND ME DOUBT IF WE KNEW AS MUCH AS PETER AFTER ALL PEPEY HAD SWALLOWED THE BAIT THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHIP IN THE GALAXY THAT COULD NOT BACK A BLIP THAT BIG AT SUCH A DISTANCE I HAD TO CONSTRUCT A SOLUTION SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY SINCE I COULDN'T BE SURE WHERE PEPPE WAS GOING TO BE NEXT I HAD TO MAKE HIM GO WHERE I WANTED HIM TO THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I HAVE TO CHIDE HIM GENTLY BOTH WITH MY TONGUE AND WITH MY BROOMSTICK BUT HE IS MY HUSBAND AND I MUST MAKE THE BEST OF HIM +f35e3d46-64e2-44b2-ab21-c061c41f7893 THE TIME WENT FAST I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE TO SPOT THE PARACHUTE AND SEARCH FOR ME A FRINGE OF BLUE FLAME CREPT ALONG BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND THE BOTTOM OF THE PILOT'S CAPSULE FINALLY HE POINTED TO THE NONIPUS AND SAID WHAT ABOUT THAT MONSTER BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY +f37b7c41-b621-43ec-b2e9-39990cc42b08 DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE THEY'RE POISON DROP THEM RIGHT AWAY THIS NOISELESSLY SWUNG OPEN BEFORE THEM WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY ONE AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER THE WALLS OF WHICH WERE LINED WITH PLATES OF PURE GOLD HIGHLY POLISHED IF WRITING DOWN YOUR DREAMS WITH AGONIZING CARE AS DECOMPOSITION AND SPELLING FOR WHO KNEW THAT THE EYES OF GENERATIONS UNBORN MIGHT NOT READ THE RECORD WERE NOT A HARMLESS AMUSEMENT COULD ANYTHING BE CALLED SO I TROW NOT +f38459f9-7482-4edf-8967-1667288d4a33 ANYWAY HE DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO TAKE SIDES IF THE TWO ALIENS WERE GOING TO FIGHT IT OUT HIS FIRST INTEREST WAS IN SAVING HIS OWN HIDE HIS SECOND IN GETTING BACK TO SHORE TO GIVE WARNING OF THE INVASION AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK INDEED I WOULDN'T SAID FELICITY WITH VERY UNUSUAL HUMILITY +f39f55e3-23c7-456e-b37f-b2b96ac2f240 I ALWAYS FEEL SORRY FOR THE POOR WEED SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY IT WAS SO LARGE AND HAD SUCH GREEN MALICIOUS EYES PRESENTLY WE WERE IN THE FIELD BEYOND THE BROOK THAT I HADN'T BEEN IN QUITE SUCH A HURRY GIVING AWAY MY FORGET ME NOT JUG AND I WISH I HADN'T BEEN IN SUCH A HURRY DECIDE AND I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN SAID PETER WELL IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID DAN YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU YOUNG ONES HAVE EVER ALL GOT UP WITHOUT BEING CALLED THAT'S A FACT SO I SHALL CHANGE HIM INTO AN OWL FINALLY I ASKED HER TO MARRY ME I AM KNOWN AS WOOT THE WANDERER ANSWERED THE BOY +f3cdf877-a0f7-466d-8a4e-2f0e702e3995 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM WE VENTURED TO YOUR CASTLE TO CUT ME DON'T HURT FOR I'VE NO BLOOD TO SQUIRT AND IS STUFFING SO CLEAN AND COMPACT +f3d93dc5-fb8f-427a-8169-bbdb6cc63c36 BUT MANY MEN AND WOMEN FOLLOWED ODIN HIMSELF GIVING UP ALL THEIR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS AND AMBITIONS AND TO THESE HE PROMISED THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE PLANET TOO WHERE THE BEACON WAS SITUATED ACCORDING TO THE OLD CHARTS WAS A MUSHY LOOKING WET KIND OF GLOBE I TRIED TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THE ANCIENT DIRECTIONS AND FINALLY LOCATED THE RIGHT AREA I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP I SHOULD THINK YOU DID SCREECH SAID FELICITY WE HEARD YOU CLEAN OVER INTO OUR ROOM +f3dc128c-c55a-416e-bba6-2f7fc299605d SO ASTONISHED THE TIN MEN BUT OUR BOY FRIEND HE CONTINUED LOOKING SOLEMNLY AT RUTH ALL DAY LONG WHILE YOU ARE CHOPPING WOOD IN THE FOREST THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID WHAT IS BOTHERING ME IS THIS FINALLY WE CAME TO THE LANE WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO OUR ABODE WE WERE ALL VERY PALE NOW AND OUR HEARTS WERE BEATING +f4062b00-5f44-44c9-8584-e9b39d034177 FINALLY HE SPOKE IN ENGLISH STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD ONE OF MY MOST EFFECTIVE MOTTOES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SECRECY CAN BE AN OBJIOSITY I EXPANDED ON IT WAXED ENTHUSIASTIC CONDEMNED IT AND WORKED IT INTO AN INTERVIEW SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK WHAT'S THE MATTER PARON WHERE'S MISTER BUTLER THAT'S IT SIR THAT'S EXACTLY IT WHERE'S MISTER BUTLER AND JUST A MOMENT PLEASE CUT IT SHORT PARRON WHAT'S HAPPENED +f4226045-532b-4bb0-bc43-bc8bd061c70e AND CONCLUDED THE STORY GIRL HER FACE UPTURNED TO THE SKY HER BIG EYES FILLED WITH STARLIGHT IT STANDS STILL THAT BRIDGE IS THE MILKY WAY SUPPOSE HE WAS MISTAKEN SUPPOSE SHE SAID NO NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN I WAS SWEETNESS AND LIGHT BECAUSE A LOT DEPENDED ON HIS DECISION JUST TRYING TO HELP CHIEF GET THINGS READY IN CASE YOU WANTED MORE IN FOLK AND THIS REALLY ISN'T AN OPERATION JUST A RECONNAISSANCE +f42d0715-49b4-4155-ba1b-eefda0b3d391 WELL WHEN ALLAN DUNBAR KNEW THAT HE MUST GO TO CALIFORNIA IN THE FANNY HE WAS IN DESPAIR THERE'S NO SENSE IN CALLING PETER LAZY AND AUNT JULIA WHOSE VOICE WAS TO DELIGHT THOUSANDS SANG HER EARLIEST MAGICALS THERE THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND THE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR THERE ARE FINES TO PAY IN COSTS OF THE INQUISITION +f4371f2a-58da-4c6b-ac7e-f40c9ccb552e THERE ARE WICKED PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO CAPTURE ME AS THEY DID MY GIANT HUSBAND MISTER HUGH SAID SHE SO I STAY AT HOME AND MIND MY OWN BUSINESS DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS FARMER'S MIND WORKED CHAOTICALLY +f474bc30-3c03-474e-a463-af17ba2e9439 BRANDON TOOK A DEEP BREATH HIS HEAD SPUN AND FOR THE FIRST TIME HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE HE GAZED ACROSS THE SHIMMERING DESERT TO A RIDGE OF SCRUBBY HILLS BLUE MOUNTAINS ROSE UP BEHIND THEM OF COURSE SHARP SAID YOU SPEAK OF AN END TO TROUBLES AND END TO THE INQUISITION AND THE BUILDINGS AND END TO THE QUESTION AND SO YOU MUST HAVE A PLAN FOR RIDDING US OF HYRKNUP ONE WHICH YOU WOULD TELL ME YONA SHOOK HIS HEAD I HAVE NO PLAN HE SAID TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND +f486b959-00a7-47d6-bd2a-cee328759fb7 PRESIDENT FERERO HAD HIS GUN OUT AND WAS STARING AT IT GRIMLY IT WAS HARD TO TELL IF HE WAS THINKING OF MURDER OR SUICIDE I DON'T CARE WHICH ALL HE HAD TO WORRY ABOUT WAS THE NEXT ELECTION WHEN THE VOTERS AND THE POLITICAL COMPETITION WOULD CARVE HIM UP FOR LOSING THE SHIP AN IRISHMAN WHO LIVED AT MARKDALE HAD A LITTLE PIG SHE SAID AND HE GAVE IT A PAILFUL OF MUSH THE PIG ATE THE WHOLE PAILFUL AND THEN THE IRISHMAN PUT THE PIG IN THE PAIL AND IT DIDN'T FILL MORE THAN HALF THE PAIL NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH HE THOUGHT HE UNDERSTOOD THE QUEEN'S GROUNDING WHEN HE SAW THE SWIMMER STROKING URGENTLY TOWARD HIS DOCK OLD CHARLEY HAD ABANDONED HIS BOAT AND WAS SWIMMING IN TO ESCAPE THE SCOOP BUT IT WASN'T CHARLIE IT WAS JENIFER CHARLIE'S NIECE +f497967b-6953-4d91-9338-53dc5079de34 THE STORY GIRL LINGERED TO LAY A BUNCH OF WILD VIOLETS VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND THEN SHE READ ALOUD THE VERSE ON THE STONE NOW YONAH SAID WHEN HE WANTS I BELIEVE YOU IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT I BELIEVE YOU HE RAISED ONE HAND CLAWING THE FINGERS SLIGHTLY BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY +f4a2a113-bb46-4ef2-94d6-3653d60bfbf6 A MAN LIKE YOURSELF A MAN WITH A PARTICULAR CAT TALENT GIVEN BY GOD THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT IT IS A TRICK KNUFF SAID YUNUS SHOOK HIS HEAD NOT AT ALL I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY BUT IF A DREAM ESCAPES YOU IN WHAT MARKET PLACE THE WORLD WIDE OVER CAN YOU HOPE TO REGAIN IT WHAT COIN OF EARTHLY MINTING WILL EVER BUY BACK FOR YOU THAT LOST AND LOVELY VISION HE COULD WRITE LETTERS SUCH LETTERS BY CONTRAST FELIX AND I WERE SECRETLY ASHAMED OF FATHER'S EPISTLES +f4d80e56-7198-4d57-a51a-dff8e3434119 FRESH MULTITUDES WERE POURING UP THE RAMP BRUSHING ASIDE THE FIVE OR SIX PRIESTS THAT HAD HURRIED THERE AND THE REVERSE IS JUST AS TRUE I TURNED AND FACED THE STATUE TO BE LAUGHED AT BEFORE FELICITY TO BE LAUGHED AT BY FELICITY WAS SOMETHING HE COULD NOT ENDURE ESPECIALLY IF THERE MIGHT BE NEEDLES IN THEM WE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT FROM FATHER'S DESCRIPTIONS AND IN FANCY WE HAD ROAMED IN IT MANY A TIME AND OFT NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS NEVER IN ALL MY LIFE SINCE HAVE I HEARD SUCH A VOICE +f4e20a38-7b66-44d6-896e-c81095755eaa THEN DONALD BROUGHT OUT THE WHISKY THEY ALWAYS DID THAT EIGHTY YEARS AGO YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE THREE SQUARE WINDOWS IN THE SECOND STORY GAVE IT AN APPEARANCE OF WINKING AT US IN A FRIENDLY FASHION THROUGH ITS VINES THAT HAD NEVER WANED IN ALL HIS YEARS OF EXILE AND HE IS A REAL SMART LITTLE CHAP AND WONDERINGLY MARSHALL DID AND IN THE DAYS THAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOING ON THEY CLEANED UP AND FED MANWELL +f5185c52-8225-41f7-b0eb-dd2025b561bf CRASH FELICITY HAD DROPPED THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WHICH HAD PASSED UNSCATHED THROUGH SO MANY CHANGING YEARS AND NOW AT LAST LAY SHATTERED ON THE STONE OF THE WELL CURB AT ANY OTHER TIME WE SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN AGHAST OVER SUCH A CATASTROPHE BUT IT PASSED UNNOTICED NOW WHAT MATTERED IT THAT ALL THE CUPS IN THE WORLD BE BROKEN TODAY IF THE CRACKADOON MUST SOUND TO MORROW ALL FOUR OF THE REFLECTORS SEEMED POINTED DIRECTLY AT MY FACE AND I COULD SEE THAT EACH HELD NOT THE BULB I HAD EXPECTED BUT A CRUDELY SHAPED BLOB OF FUSED QUARTZ CHAFFY FOUR AGREED RELUCTANTLY THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE +f5264be7-4adc-4e9d-bc09-ab18ae05b5a1 A NEVER BEFORE WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY CHAFFEE FOUR ON THE NEXT JUMP SCANNED THE SHIP'S CHARTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH THEY TRAVELED +f52db434-e415-478b-90b1-35249b0c187c THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS WHATEVER ELSE HE'S AFTER HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN THOUSAND EIGHT THE QUANUM JUMP BY ROBERT WICKS CAPTAIN BRANDON WAS A PIONEER HE EXPLORED THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE AND REPORTED BACK ON HOW THINGS WERE OUT THERE THERE WERE NO PATHS BUT THE WAY WAS QUITE OPEN AND CLEAR AND THEY WERE DRAWING NEAR TO THE DWELLING WHEN BOOT THE WANDERER WHO WAS THEN IN THE LEAD OF THE LITTLE PARTY HALTED WITH SUCH AN ABRUPT JERK THAT HE STUMBLED OVER BACKWARD AND LAY FLAT ON HIS BACK IN THE MEADOW +f577f9ee-5509-4272-8357-b529215a88c7 THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ OSCOTT AT HALLEY WOOD IN CALIFORNIA NI WOO UNTIED THE BONDS OF THE SCARECROW AND HELPED HIM GET TO HIS FEET THEN HE FREED THE TIN WOODMAN WHO GOT UP WITHOUT HELP AND AUNT JANET SAYS WE ARE NEVER TO HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT BEFORE WE GO TO BED AFTER THIS EXCEPT PLAIN BREAD AND MILK SAID FELIX SADLY THEY'D LIKE TO STOP US FROM DREAMING ALTOGETHER IF THEY COULD SAID THE STORY GIRL WRATHFULLY +f59c14b7-98f9-458b-ab3c-674a27ad434b BUT AFTER A MOMENT HE REPLIED I HAD HOME IN FRIENDS YOUR HONOURABLE STRAWNESS BUT THEY WERE SO QUIET AND HAPPY AND COMFORTABLE THAT I FOUND THEM DISMALLY STUPID AND SO CLARTON THOUGHT THE JOB WAS ACCOMPLISHED NATURALLY YANAS THOUGHT CLARTON'S THOUGHT HAD AN OVERTONE OF WEARINESS THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF MANY THE ROEBOT SAID EXACTLY SEVENTY FOUR PER CENT OF ALL STATEMENTS HE MADE WERE FAKE VERY GOOD I NODDED THROWING THE LAST LOCK ON MY TRAP +f5dbe7e3-f326-438e-a077-3a8c76eb8976 MAYBE TWENTY FIVE I WASN'T PAYING ANY PARTICULAR ATTENTION SIR KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID WHAT HAD BEEN DONE THEY FLEW IN FEAR AND ANGER TO GOD'S WHITE THRONE AND CRIED TO HIM SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY +f5effa1f-5c60-4ac7-9cd7-c33946bcaa4f TO A DEMAND AND THEY STARTED GETTING IN EACH OTHER'S WAY AND SLOWING DOWN THE OPERATION EVEN MORE DEW GLITTERING WEB WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT ONLY WITH BLUE FUR AGREE TO IT SAID THE TIN WOODMAN SHAKING THE HAND OF HIS TWIN TO SHOW THE MATTER WAS SETTLED +f5fe5934-28c8-4b9d-9e49-98bd405c1f59 BUT WHERE THE STORY GIRL LED WE WOULD FOLLOW TO THE DEATH I'M AFRAID IT'S ALL UP WITH PAT HE SAID TWILL BE A BONNY SWIRL ON THE BAY ERE LONG I IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH DAN WAS OWN MAN AGAIN IN THE MORNING THOUGH RATHER PALE AND WEAK BUT ASIDE FROM A FEW GREY PATCHES OF BRUSH THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SIGNS OF LIFE OF SAMPLING ITS ATMOSPHERE AND OBSERVING METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS +f60a34f3-fdf8-4cba-bfdd-03a2244f6cad OH DOCTOR MY SON HAS SWALLOWED A MOUSE HE CRIED WHAT SHALL I DO YOU'D HAVE ME KILT ENTIRELY BY ANOTHER DAY I I THINK I COULD BE ALWAYS GOOD IF I LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME AS SHADOW WAVES GO OVER RIPE WHEAT BEFORE A WIND THE LABEL WAS LOST HE SAID IT WAS A FAMOUSSE AND SHE DECLARED IT WAS A YELLOW TRANSPARENT TAKE NOTICE FELICITY SAID DAN ASIDE +f616e558-92b9-4d2f-acc9-b1aa4087d253 JUST THINK THOSE ARE THE VERY FROGS FATHER LISTENED TO WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY WHISPERED FELIX YOU MARSHALL'S LITTLE BOY YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER SAID THE MIDGET THAT VOICE I SHOULD KNOW THAT VOICE EVEN IF IT'S CRACKED TO PIECES THAT HAS TO BE MANUEL'S VOICE BOTH WERE GLAD TO LEARN THAT A STRANGER HAD ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE FOR THIS WOULD GIVE THEM SOMETHING NEW TO TALK ABOUT SO THE SERVANT WAS ASKED TO ADMIT THE BOY AT ONCE +f623ba89-7278-4063-8159-72131cd82c7a AND WHEN HE HAD PRAYED THREE NIGHTS AFTER THIS MANNER HE CONTRIVED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT A GRIMACE UNTIL HE CAME TO THE LAST BITE WHICH PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM BE KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTOMOBILES AND TWO BODIES CANNOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP +f635e8ba-026b-4be2-b90f-e9c63dbcf334 I'LL GIVE HER A ROLL OF PEPPERMINT CANDY SAID FELIX WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES ONE HELD A GUN AND TWO MORE WAS STUFFED WITH GRENADES THE REST WERE EMPTY +f6455f61-02e8-4181-acf0-7d7f2c10e03b YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON I DON'T BELIEVE PRESBYTERIANS EVER DO PENANCE SAID FELICITY DUBIOUSLY I YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE FINDING THAT OUR OWN PUNY STRENGTH IS AS A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND AFTER THE RAIN THE AIR SEEMED DRIPPING WITH THE ODOURS IN THE WARM WEST WIND +f671cdf0-5ec5-423b-8f86-d2b6776d2f05 IT SHOULD HAVE SPLINTERED IN HIS HANDS ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL IT HADN'T IT WAS IN PERFECT SHAPE EXCEPT FOR THE KNOT IF HE HADN'T BEEN FEELING JUST THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH OF SEA SICKNESS JOHN EDGEW WOULD HAVE BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF I SEE SAID THE BOY THOUGHTFULLY AND DID YOU MARRY NINNY OF ME NO ANSWERED THE TIN WOODMAN I DID NOT WHAT WAS THE MUNCHKIN GIRL'S NAME ASKED WOOT NIMMY AMMY WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS OF COURSE IF ANY OF US TRAMPS ON HIS TAIL HE WILL SCRATCH US BUT YOU KNOW A CAT CAN'T BEAR TO HAVE HIS STICK TAIL TRAMPED ON IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM +f6b8c549-5536-4b84-b7c4-a99cae8003fa SARA RAY AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WENT HOME AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES AFTERWARDS AS WE DRESSED FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL UPSTAIRS OUR SPIRITS CARRIED US AWAY HATE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT AUNT JANE HAD TO COME TWICE TO THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS AND INQUIRE SEVERELY CHILDREN HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT DAY IT IS HE BROKE OFF APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME +f6bcabf6-54cf-42cf-a08f-10042d5351a5 FINALLY IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE WHAT WE'D EXPECTED WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HE CONFESSED TO ME THAT HE HAD TAKEN IT TO MAKE FELICITY FOND OF HIM SKILFULLY INDEED HAD THAT ASTUTE BILLY PLAYED ON OUR RESPECTIVE WEAKNESSES HE VOWED THAT HE DIDN'T CARE BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG UNCLE ROGER WOULD HAVE LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY UNCLE ROGER BELIEVES IN BOYS FIGHTING HE SAYS IT'S A HARMLESS WAY AS ANY OF WORKING OFF THEIR ORIGINAL SIN +f6dbf46f-d0cc-4ad5-bbaa-4d04692be183 WE WERE ALL GLAD TO HEAR THAT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH EXCEPT FELICITY SHE WAS FULL OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS AND WARNINGS I AM SURPRISED AT YOU FELICITY KING SAID CECILIA SEVERELY YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS THERE WAS A PURE YELLOW SUNSET THAT EVENING AND THE AISLES OF THE FIR TREES WERE FLOODED WITH ITS RADIANCE A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY THE REST OF US CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING THAT WE HAD BEEN WANDERING AMONG THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN WE WERE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO APPRECIATE FULLY THE WONDERFUL MEANING OF THE LEGEND BUT WE FELT ITS BEAUTY AND ITS APPEAL +f72d03ca-9752-4001-9471-9b3eb98ed7d7 I COULD GO INTO THEORIES AND SCIENTIFIC DETAILS RAY SAID I COULD EXPLAIN PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE FOR HOURS BUT YOU WOULD BE BORED AND WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYWAY IT IS SUFFICIENT TO SAY THAT THE RAY WILL WORK BECAUSE I INVENTED IT BURY IT SAID THE STORY GIRL WE DID BURY IT AFTER TEA IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPRUCE GROVE AND THEN WE WENT INTO THE ORCHARD IT WAS SO NICE TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL BACK AGAIN SHE HAD WREATHED HER HAIR WITH CANTERBURY BELLS AND LOOKED LIKE THE INCARNATION OF RHYME AND STORY AND DREAM NICE WORK PETE SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES IT IS NOW I'LL GO AHEAD YOU BRING UP THE REAR WITH HOPE IN THE MIDDLE READY LET'S GO I PLUNGED ON HOPE'S FINGERS GRIPPING MY BELT FRESH MULTITUDES WERE POURING UP THE RAMP BRUSHING ASIDE THE FIVE OR SIX PRIESTS THAT HAD HURRIED THERE IN AN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE +f734d2fb-2547-4ae5-8bc5-05e4268e9653 I HOLD THIS HOUSE FREE AND PROPER SHE SAID IN A DETERMINED ROAR AND NOBODY CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME IT BELONGS TO ME AND TO MY CHILDREN AND TO THEIR CHILDREN AND TO THE CHILDREN OF THOSE CHILDREN THE CATALOGUE SEEMED LIKELY TO GO ON FOR EVER EXACTLY JONAS SAID HASTILY I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK AND I HAVE TO SEE THAT THE GATE IS CLOSED BEFORE SHE STOLE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL SHE CAME TO THE BRINK OF A LITTLE VALLEY BELOW HER STOOD THE SNOW WHITE MOOSE +f7356372-d5b0-4635-a42c-d3ab932c2466 OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING MOTHER'S GOING DOWN THIS AFTERNOON SAID FELICITY SHE SAYS NONE OF US MUST GO NEAR THE PLACE TILL WE KNOW WHETHER IT IS THE MEASLES OR NOT I'VE THOUGHT OF A GREAT PENANCE SAID CECILY EAGERLY DON'T GO TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING TO NIGHT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED PITEOUS FALSE MODESTY IS THE REFUGE OF THE INCOMPETENT I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT HE'S GOING TO HIT AGAIN SOON AND WHEREVER HE HITS THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PERIODICAL WITH MY PLANT IN IT GAS BREATHING CHAFFY FORE SAID UNBELIEVINGLY WARM BLOODED LAND DWELLING MAMMALIAN +f76a9c7f-8a8d-454f-98a1-4125a41ca937 EAGERLY HE CLAMBERED UPON THE OUTSTRETCHED HANDS AND STOOD THERE FACING THE GRINNING FACE STROKING THE POLISHED CHEEKS WITH BESEECHING FINGERS THE PRIESTS SANK TO THE FLOOR BENDING THEMSELVES IN MOCKERY OF THE IMAGE WELL THAT'S NEW AND PRETTY SAID THE STORY GIRL WE'LL LEND YOU SOME THINGS YOU CAN HAVE MY LACE COLLAR THAT'LL MAKE THE GINGHAM QUITE ELEGANT AND CECILY WILL ENDURE HER SECOND BEST HAT BUT I'VE NO SHOES OR STOCKINGS THEY'RE LOCKED UP TOO SEE HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL RESOLUTELY I DON'T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING TO IT SUPPOSE THERE IS THE QUESTION IS WHAT CAN WE DO +f7b0d4c3-64bf-4ebe-ac84-cd725fb74996 BUT NOW I UNDERSTOOD IT ALL EVEN IF IT'S OLD ISN'T IT IS THAT BOY STARK STARING MAD SAID UNCLE ROGER A DREAMY SMILE HOVERED AROUND HER POPPY RED MOUTH I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY USE IN PRAYING THAT FELICITY WILL SPEAK FIRST CAUSE I'M SURE SHE WON'T INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET AS IF TO BEAR OUT BRANDON'S REALIZATION +f7b9bd2b-6cf4-42cc-b0cd-710fd049301e THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT THE NEW PEAS WOULDN'T HURT ENOUGH THEY'RE SO SOFT THEY'D SQUASH FLAT I'LL TELL YOU SAID PETER I'LL PICK UP A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND PEBBLES ON MISTER KING'S FRONT WALK AND THEY'LL BE JUST AS GOOD AS PEAS YOU'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID AUNT JANET SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM THEY WERE ALL BUT EYE TO EYE WHEN JENOFER CAUGHT HIM AND TOWED HIM AWAY TOWARD THE DOUBTFUL SAFETY OF THE ISLAND QUEEN CHAFFEE'S THREE AND FOUR APPEARED FROM NOWHERE AND STOOD SOLEMNLY BY WHILE THE ZID WEAKENED AND SANK WITH A FINAL GOUT OF BUBBLES WE MUST HAVE YOUR FRIEND'S HELP CHAFFY THREE SAID TO JENOFY THEN TO RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT HE LOOKED DOWN AS IF AWARE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ROBOT HAD BEEN HOLDING BY THE WRIST DURING THE INTERVIEW THAT IS NO ORDINARY ROBOT IT HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVICES BUILT INTO ITS FINGER TIPS THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS THINGS LIKE THAT WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES +f7f71168-7cad-46f0-9cd8-00bc1dc92fc9 OH WHAT AN EERIE PLACE THAT ORCHARD WAS WHAT SHADOWS WHAT NOISES WHAT SPOOKY SWOOPING BATS YOU COULDN'T LOOK EVERY WAY AT ONCE AND GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHAT MIGHT BE BEHIND YOU THERE CAN'T BE ANYBODY AT THE HOUSE SAID FELICITY QUESTION SHE SAID YOU COME FROM HERAK NUFF UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION +f813dcb5-35a5-424e-9f14-8d6a3b167dad YOUR MACHINE REACTIVATED THE GATE FROM THIS SIDE FARMER CROUCHED THE POINT OF THE BOATHOOK WAVERED THAT WAS HOW IT WENT IN STORIES AS CORNY AS A SITUATION BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME TOO AS WELL AS YOU LIKE FELICITY AND CECILY NOT BETTER I COULD HAVE HAD A LIZARD FRY FIXED THE BEACON AND TAKEN OFF BY HARRY HARRISON IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGN OF WEAR +f81f5816-8827-4516-aecb-f9b4e4c95db2 ADVENTURES TO ME ARE GOOD FUN ONLY I NEVER LIKE TO STAY TOO LONG ON EARTH BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T BELONG HERE I SHALL TELL MY FATHER THE RAINBOW THAT I'LL TRY NOT TO BE SO CARELESS AGAIN AND HE WILL FORGIVE ME BECAUSE IN OUR SKY MANSIONS THERE IS ALWAYS JOY AND HAPPINESS IT'S TOO BAD YONAS AGREED POLITELY FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS YOU DON'T THINK SO AT ANY RATE THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU'RE HAVING ADVENTURES AND A FINE TIME IT'S THE SORT OF THING YOU LIKE AFTER ALL ON ANOTHER OCCASION SHE HAD A FRIGHTFUL DREAM AT LEAST IT SEEMED FRIGHTFUL WHILE SHE TOLD US AND DESCRIBED THE DREADFUL FEELING IT HAD GIVEN HER OF BEING CHASED AROUND THE PARLOUR BY THE OTTOMAN WHICH MADE FACES AT HER +f82568f3-9494-45d3-a1da-2afc269719c8 IF NINNY AMMY IS CONTENT WITH THAT MISS BITMAN FOR A HUSBAND AND ASKED HIM TO HELP ME IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB STETSON SHRUGGED WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER OR GATHER IT IN BY CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED ON OUR FRIENDS AS SHE ANNOUNCED IT THE FACT THAT THREE TIMES THREE WAS NINE WAS EXQUISITELY RIDICULOUS +f868fb1b-b063-4df5-9af7-4a90dcae6fcf IT WAS ALWAYS LOCKED THE WEST ONE LOOKING OVER PIGS SAID FELIX FORCIBLY PETER'S TURN CAME NEXT NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH AS UNCONCERNED AS A PIG ON ICE DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT WHICH HAD JUDGE RAY IN ANOTHER SET OF TENTACLES +f899a534-c8f1-4b97-9c8e-8e980afe5b81 NEIL HADN'T BEEN COURTING NANCY VERY LONG AND DONALD NEVER DREAMED HE WOULD PROPOSE TO HER QUITE SO SOON SHE WAS YOUNG DARK AND BEAUTIFUL THE TEARS DID NOTHING TO SPOIL THIS A LONG CLOAK WOULD CONCEAL THE UNIFORM WHILE I LEFT THE HOTEL WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED NOT AS BAD AS I HAD THOUGHT A SIX WEEK RUN GIVE HER TAKE A FEW DAYS +f8b5bc07-3655-48ec-945d-76176f9ff3d8 WELL AIN'T THAT ALL THE MORE REASON FOR CRYING RETORTED PETER I'VE HAD TO DO WITHOUT HER FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT'S WORSE THAN IF IT HAD JUST BEEN A FEW DAYS I BELIEVE YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE PAT IS SO SICK I SAID FIRMLY HE MUST HAVE GOT SOME BAD USE AT THE OFFICE SAID SARA RAY I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO FATHER I EXPLAINED SPRINGING ANXIOUSLY TO MY FEET A SICK HORRIBLE FEELING OF FEAR RUNNING OVER ME LIKE A COOL RIPPLING WAVE IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY YES I DREAMED IT ALL OUT WHILE I WAS ASLEEP THIS TIN MAN SEEMS A VERY SOLEMN PERSON INDEED THE TIN WOODMAN WAS LOOKING SOLEMN JUST THEN FOR HE GREATLY DISTURBED SO I SHALL CHANGE HIM INTO AN OWL +f91479ba-9328-404d-ae31-079852453de3 IT'S TO COME JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT UNCLE ROGER SHOOK HIS HEAD IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES WHAT DO I CARE FOR A GIRL WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN AND WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ME ADDED THE SCARECROW +f952ef76-db88-42d6-a5ba-90940851686f THERE'S A WHITE MUSLIN WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL I HAD THOUGHT OF IT HE OWNED BUT IT LOOKS A WEE LIKE A STORM AND MY SLEIGH IS AT THE BLACKSMITH'S TO BE SHOD I WASN'T GOING TO PLAY WITH THE FUEL PROBLEM AT ALL THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE THIS WAS A FAVORITE SPOT THAT DREW A GOOD CROWD DURING THE DAY AND NOTHING TO ITS BULK UNLESS WE HAVE A HEATING OVERLOAD THEN SUDDENLY THERE WAS A TERRIFIC CRASH OF SOUND IT SEEMED THAT AN INSTANT BEFORE I HAD BEEN STANDING THERE IN VIC'S LABORATORY SLOWLY TURNING THE SECOND OF THE TWO DIALS WHILE THE FOUR LIGHTS BEAT DOWN UPON MY BODY +f9549d93-57c8-4f60-bf83-ea9930282f2c HE TOLD FELICITY AND FELICITY TOLD ME SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL CUTE OF HIM I THINK THAT IT IS A DREADFUL WAY TO TALK ABOUT PRAYING AND I TOLD HER SO SHE WANTED ME NOT TO TELL YOU BUT I WOULDN'T PROMISE BECAUSE I THINK IT'S FAIR FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON I SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO COOK FOR YOU FOR NOW YOU DO NOT EAT I SHALL NOT HAVE TO MAKE YOUR BED FOR TIN DOES NOT TIRE OR REQUIRE SLEEP WHEN WE GO TO A DANCE YOU WILL NOT GET WEARY BEFORE THE MUSIC STOPS AND SAY YOU WANT TO GO HOME MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU +f95a54a9-9ad6-4c6c-a74c-bf73259ee966 AND SO MINUTELY WHICH FATHER HAD ONCE OCCUPIED HE HAD TALKED SO MUCH TO US ABOUT IT MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL THIS NEW SENSE IS OF GREAT VALUE PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN TO TEACH IT TO OTHERS IN TIME THOUGH WE HAVE HAD LITTLE SUCCESS WITH THAT SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY WE PICKED APPLES AND DRAGGED THEM TO THE GRANARY DOGGEDLY IF SHE'LL LET HIM HE'LL BRING IT TO MORROW +f964e648-4af7-4b59-8ef8-868bab3c4440 I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES BUT THE INSTRUCTIONS THEY HAD GIVEN HIM WERE AMBIGUOUS AND FOR ALL THAT THEY HAD TRIED TO MAKE THEM CLEAR SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL JINIFER TURNED SUDDENLY FIRM NO I WON'T LET THIS EYE INFORMER KNOW ABOUT THAT THE SERIMIANS WERE FIRMER IT WILL NOT MATTER NOW +f972f8de-79ae-48e8-a843-b71703715142 WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK THE BIBLE IS AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID THE STORY GIRL COMING TO PETER'S RESCUE I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN HIS IDEA WAS TO SEIZE HER CHAIR AND PULL IT OUT BY THE ROOTS THE TINSMITH MADE ME TIN ARM AND I WAS NOT MUCH WORRIED BECAUSE NIMMY AMY DECLARED SHE STILL LOVED ME BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF +f97a788a-cf1a-4055-8222-1361ed011d6c LONG LONG AGO IN THE GOLDEN AGE WHEN THE GODS USED TO VISIT THE EARTH SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS NOTHING UNCOMMON TO SEE THEM ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD RUNNING THROUGH THE CROWD I FACED THE FIRST LIZARD IN HIS TUB HE SANK SLOWLY BENEATH THE SURFACE IT WAS ALL VERY DEPRESSING SO I STOPPED FOR A DRINK AND THEN WENT TO THE SPACEPORT BY THE TIME THE SHIP WAS SERVICED I HAD A COURSE CHARTED YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID +f9a01337-49ae-4d90-9fcd-4526100aa81a BUT THEY HAVE BEEN CHILDREN AND I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND US I'LL GIVE HER THAT SPONGE CAKE I MADE THIS MORNING SAID FELICITY I GUESS SHE DOESN'T GET SPONGE CAKE VERY OFTEN THE GATE IS A MATTER TRANSFITTER BETWEEN MY WORLD AND YOURS HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID OF SAID THE STORY GIRL REASSURINGLY THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON LAND OR SEA +f9b20426-8e82-4168-9a29-8111cf5975d7 BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDE THE RELEASE AND FOLLOW UP ALL HARPED ON ONE THEME SAY SIR WHEN YOU REPLY TO ME I HER PATERNAL GRANDFATHER HAD BEEN A GOAT OR CAUSED BY ONE BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID JUST AS I REACHED THE DOOR HE LOOKED UP AND IMPALED ME ON HIS FINGER AGAIN +f9df12e6-514e-41c0-b025-1356451b9034 FELIX SITS ON THE RIGHT OF THE STORY GIRL FAT AND STODGY GRIMLY IN EARNEST EVEN OVER DREAMS HE WRITES WITH HIS KNEES STUCK UP TO FORM A WRITING DESK AND HE ALWAYS FROWNS FIERCELY THE WHOLE TIME BY AND BY THE SCARECROW WHO MIX WHOSE MIXED BRAINS HAD BEEN WORKING STEADILY ASKED THE WOMAN ARE WE TO CONSIDER YOU OUR FRIEND MISSUS UKE OR DO YOU INTEND TO BE OUR ENEMY MUCH PRESTIGE ATTACHED TO THEM AND MY BLACK DRESS OUTFIT SHOULD WRITE AS HIGHLY AS ANY UNIFORM IN THE GALAXY WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR +f9f849b8-5c05-4ca9-bebc-d610118d2b96 ALEC DO YOU REMEMBER HOW FURIOUS JULIA WAS BECAUSE EDWARD PRAYED ONE DAY THAT SHE MIGHT BE PRESERVED FROM VANITY AND CONCEIT OVER HER SINGING ONE OF THE SCARECROW'S RECITATIONS WAS LIKE THIS WHAT SOUND IS SO SWEET AS THE STRAW FROM THE WHEAT WHEN IT CRINKLES SO TENDER AND LOW IT IS YELLOW AND BRIGHT SO IT GIVES ME DELIGHT TO CRINKLE WHEREVER I GO DOCTOR GREYOR PATTED CECILY ON THE HEAD TOLD HER SHE WAS A LITTLE BRICK AND HAD DONE JUST THE RIGHT THING EXAMINED SOME OF THE FATAL BERRIES AND GAVE IT AS HIS OPINION THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY POISONOUS ADMINISTERED SOME POWDERS TO DAN AND ADVISED HIM NOT TO TAMPER WITH FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN THE FUTURE AND WENT AWAY +f9fa6ea1-038a-4a3a-96e9-6d13f65350c6 HE SMILED BRIEFLY HIS FACE REMAINED COLD THE STRONG HANDS MOVED ON THE TABLE TOP IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST ORNE CLEARED HIS THROAT WON OUT ASKED STETSON NO I THINK IT IS VERY VAIN TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE YOURSELF BEING BEAUTIFUL SAID FELICITY +fa10b1e8-922b-4b39-aca4-56971ea9044b FELICITY NEEDN'T BE GIVING ANY HINTS THE BUTTERCUPS DROOPED OVER HER HIGH WHITE BROW AND PLAYED PETE WITH HER GLOWING EYES IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS SAID UNCLE ROGER AS HE WENT OUT TO TAKE THEIR HORSE BUT FELICITY'S FOOT WAS ON HER NATIVE HEATH DURING THE KINGLY WARS ANY NUMBER OF TYPES WITH A COUPLE OF SHIPS AND LESS BRAINS THAN PEPPY HAD SET UP JUST THIS KIND OF EMPIRE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL +fa82d37f-77c5-42ed-bbd2-e88bed72def0 IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP THE FIRST THING TO DO WAS MAKE CONTACT I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH AND WE EXCLUDED DATA ON THE NATIVES AND NOBODY THE WISER HOLY MAZOO PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING THERE WASUD SCHOOL THE NEXT AFTERNOON AS THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TEACHERS WISHED TO ATTEND A COMMUNION SERVICE AT MARKDALE +fa8b8e30-6612-46b9-8627-addd32e1bca2 BUT THE DEA YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN SAID CECILY WITH A SHIVER BUT FELIXES ARE ONLY GOOD FOR PIES AS OLD MISSUS FRASER SAYS MY MOTHER DOESN'T MAKE KISSES SO COMMON RETORTED FELICITY BUT SHE GIVES US PIE FOR DINNER EVERY DAY AND HER HANDS WERE FULL OF THEM +fa9007d2-ddc3-4df4-92d6-633b5de9fd59 SHE BECAME NERVOUS LIKE AND RAPPED ON THE DOOR I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND POCKETED THE WEAPON I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT SAID THE SMALL MARTINET THERE'S ENOUGH OF US HERE RIGHT NOW FOUND HIMSELF STARING THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AT A NATIVE OF CHINA THREE BUT THEY STILL PUMP THE BOURGEOIS INTO THE RAW BOYS +fa94fabc-0106-4e5a-9815-43841ea99753 WE ALL EXPLODED WITH LAUGHTER ON THE SPOT MUCH TO THE HORROR OF MISSUS ABRAHAM WARD WHO WAS JUST DRIVING PAST AND WHO CAME UP THE NEXT DAY AND TOLD AUNT JANET WE HAD ACTED SCANDALOUS ON THE ROAD HOME FROM CHURCH WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT TO WAIT OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE MARGARET WAITED FOR NEARLY A YEAR HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER WELL IN A BOOK THEY WOULD HAVE BUT YOU SEE THIS WAS IN REAL LIFE SAID THE STORY GIRL +fade43d1-9250-42d7-9cb9-13e8ef1ada1f WHEN WE WENT TO BED THAT WONDERFUL WHITE ENCHANTRESS THE MOON WAS MAKING AN ELFLAND OF THE SNOW MISTED WORLD OUTSIDE FROM WHERE I LAY I COULD SEE THE SHARP TOPS OF THE SPRUCES AGAINST THE SILVERY SKY THE FROST WAS ABROAD AND THE WINDS WERE STILL AND THE LAND LAY IN GLAMOUR THE KEENEST EDGE TO OUR HUMILIATION WAS GIVEN BY THE DISCOVERY THAT THE MAGIC SEED WAS NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN CARROWAY WHICH GREW IN ABUNDANCE AT BILLY ROBINSON'S UNCLE'S IN MARKDALE IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL I'M GLAD FATHER AND MOTHER WILL BE BACK TO MORROW NIGHT SHE SAID +fae0e9cc-f739-4e14-a0f0-5d04aea0dfe7 FOUR FINGERED HANDS IT WORE A WIDE BELT FROM WHICH DANGLED NEAT POUCHES AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE TOOLS ALTHOUGH THEIR USE WAS OBSCURE WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT BUT NOTHING OCCURRED IMMEDIATELY WHEN AN HOUR HAD PASSED WE CONCLUDED THAT THE BAD BERRIES WERE NOT POISON AFTER ALL AND WE LOOKED UPON DAN AS QUITE A HERO FOR DARING TO EAT THEM I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY FELICITY'S SO FOND OF MAKING A FUSS OVER EVERYTHING THE ZID LEARNED QUICKLY SO QUICKLY THAT IT WAS SOON CLEAR THAT ITS PHYSICAL STRENGTH WOULD FAR OUTLAST THEIR CONSIDERABLE BUT LIMITED TELECONETIC ABILITY +fb02b8ed-153d-470e-8c8c-b62a08cc7396 IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST AND THE REVERSE IS JUST AS TRUE I STARED AT HIM BEWILDERED WHAT AM I THEN A GHOST THEY HAD THREE DAYS ONLY THREE DAYS OF HAPPINESS AND THEN THE BLOW FELL THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE FANNY REFUSED TO LET CAPTAIN DUNBAR TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO +fb0eb889-ba16-4599-bfc4-21dd2aa06275 THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY WE COULD EARN MONEY AND SHE COULDN'T YOU SEE BUT COME ON DOWN TO THE ORCHARD THE STORY GIRL HAD A LETTER FROM HER FATHER TO DAY AND SHE'S GOING TO READ IT TO US +fb15573d-617d-4e65-bcab-8ce138e7512a OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY GREETINGS O NOBLE SERVERS OF THE GREAT GOD I SAID AND NEVER GREW UP AND SHE HAD ALSO PLACED HER LEFT HAND FIRMLY UPON THE SHOULDER OF THE GREEN MONKEY HE GROANED AND TWISTED AND DOUBLED HIMSELF UP SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER +fb16874d-4118-44b0-821e-1c836f03068b I TURNED THE DIAL BACK IN IMPERCEPTIBLE DEGREE AND THE HAND STEADIED DOWN EXACTLY UPON THE NUMERAL'S TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED YOU THINK I WAS BORN YESTERDAY SETTLED IN HIS CLOSE CROPPED RED HAIR TO BE ASSIGNED HERE WITH FULL EQUIPMENT PRESENTLY THEY WERE SCATTERED BY AN ABRUPT AND STARTLING QUESTION FROM PETER HE MIXED THE POWDER IN LARD AND SPREAD IT ON HIS PAWS AND HIS SIDES AND HE'LL LICK IT OFF +fb659110-b4f6-46d7-8a80-b66feee0263f CHANCING ACCIDENTALLY I VOW TO OVERHEAR CERTAIN OF THESE SECRETS OH IT MEANS IF ANYTHING HAPPENS SOMETHING ELSE IS SURE TO HAPPEN SAID THE STORY GIRL I'LL ILLUSTRATE THERE'S MISSUS MURPHY SHE NEVER HAD A PROPOSAL IN HER LIFE TILL SHE WAS FORTY AND THEN SHE HAD THREE AND THE ONE WEEK AND SHE WAS SO FLUSTERED SHE TOOK THE WRONG ONE AND HAS BEEN SORRY EVER SINCE ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB ON THE TRANSLIGHT SCREEN GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME +fb6de195-f4d5-4741-a783-bee1e589c9fc NOT A BIT OF FEAR OF IT SCOFFED UNCLE ROGER FELICITY IS AS GOOD A HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU ARE AND I SHALL BE HERE TO LOOK AFTER THEM ALL AND KEEP THEM FROM BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN TOO YOU'VE BEEN PROMISING EDWARD FOR YEARS TO VISIT HIM AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A BETTER CHANCE THE HANGING IS OVER AND HARVEST ISN'T ON AND ALEC NEEDS A CHANGE HE ISN'T LOOKING WELL AT ALL WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET IT CAME COMPLETE WITH DECORATIONS GOLD BULLION AND ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS I THOUGHT IT A LITTLE SHOWY MYSELF BUT IT WAS JUST THE THING TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION SETANOVO LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS WELL HIS FATHER RUN AWAY AND HIS MOTHER WAS TOO BUSY EARNING A LIVING TO BRING HIM UPRIGHT ARGUED FELICITY DON'T YOU SUPPOSE THAT ANYBODY EVEN GOD WOULD MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THAT OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE CHILDREN ALWAYS GO TO HEAVEN BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE I WANT HIM TO STAY RIGHT HERE I KNOW HEAVEN MUST BE A SPLENDID PLACE BUT I'M SURE PETER WOULD RATHER BE HERE HAVING FUN WITH US +fb80c01c-86a4-4cf3-84c0-5aff4cec8755 WHEN I EXPLAINED THIS TO GINGER THE GIRL AT ONCE PAINTED A STRAW STACK WHICH WAS SO NATURAL THAT I WENT TO IT AND SECURED ENOUGH STRAW TO FILL ALL MY BODY IT WAS A GOOD QUALITY OF STRAW TOO AND LASTED ME A LONG TIME AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND I DID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IT VIC HOPE I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES THERE WAS NO RESPONSE IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS +fb825f26-568d-4f94-90b3-d000c13f1793 THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED THE ZID LUNGED AGAINST THE DOOR WITH A FORCE THAT CRACKED THE WOODEN HURRICANE BOLT ACROSS AND OPENED A THREE INCH SLIT BETWEEN THE LEADING EDGE AND LINTEL IT'S A MONSTROSITY I COULD START THE WATER AGAIN EASILY ENOUGH BUT THERE WAS NO FUEL LEFT IN THE REACTOR BEFORE THEY COULD GET ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS ON THE OTHER HAND DAN WHO WAS A SOMEWHAT TRUCULENT FELLOW ADDICTED TO THE PERUSAL OF LURID DYING NOVELS HE BORROWED FROM THE OTHER BOYS IN SCHOOL THE STORY GIRL MOUNTED TO THE LEDGE SAT ON THE RIM AND LOOKED AT US +fbaf01e1-d146-4d10-96bd-3d57e723e8bc BUT HE OVERDID IT HE WAS NOT AS GOOD AN ACTOR AS THE STORY GIRL FELICITY LOOKED SCORNFULLY AT HIM UNCLE ROGER YOU ARE NOT ONE BIT SICK SHE SAID DELIBERATELY YOU ARE JUST PUTTING ON TELL HIM TO SWALLOW A CAT ROARED THE POOR DOCTOR AND SLAMMED HIS DOOR AND TURNED AGAIN TOWARD THE DOOR I CAN DO MANY THINGS YANUS WENT ON IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I BRING THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION AND STUCK THE WILLOWS WHICH HE HAD USED ALL DAY IN THE SOFT SOIL BY THE GATE +fbaf4543-55ab-47f6-9087-5b01e349cb90 HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY THE MESSAGE BROKE INTO CLEAR AT THE END AND THE SIE MAN SMILED AS HE SPOKE THE WORDS I BROKE THE POINT OFF MY STYLERS AND GROWLED AT HIM NOT TO REPEAT ANY OF THIS MESSAGE AS IT WAS CLASSIFIED AND I WOULD PERSON SEE HIM SHOT IF HE DID THAT GOT RID OF THE SMILE BUT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER UNCLE ROGER SAYS PETER'S FATHER WASN'T EXACTLY LAZY SAID THE STORY GIRL THE TROUBLE WAS THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER THINGS HE LIKED BETTER THAN WORK I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER COME BACK TO HIS FAMILY SAID CECILY JUST THINK HOW DREADFUL IT WOULD BE IF OUR FATHER HAD LEFT US LIKE THAT +fbbc02cf-7282-4937-8b7a-a46617b5521a SARA STANLEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES DEMANDED AUNT JANET WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA WE COULD NOT REALLY BELIEVE THAT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE TO DIE OLD PEOPLE DIED GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WENT AWAY TO THEIR WORK FELICITY AT ONCE SET THE PREPARATIONS FOR DINNER GOING AND ALLOTTED TO EACH OF US HIS PORTION OF SERVICE +fbc89407-4bf1-4384-ba93-0b30293e4232 WITH ALL ITS LAUGHTER AND DELIGHT AND GLAMOUR IT IS OUR ETERNAL POSSESSION BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY OH SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE AND TALKING RATHER MORE LOUDLY THAN THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE THEIR SWEET SHRILL VOICES CARRIED WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRUST BILLY ROBINSON SAID FELICITY SUMMING UP THE CASE ONE EVENING WHEN ALL HAD BEEN MADE KNOWN +fbfb90a8-831d-4b8f-a3da-f606fe72f6a9 IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT THE SPEAKER SAID YES WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING AND PATHS OF BLUE GROUND AND THE PURPLE HUES OF THE GRASS AND TREES WARNED THEM THAT THEY WERE NOW IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GILICANS WHERE STRANGE PEOPLE DWELT IN PLACES THAT WERE QUITE UNKNOWN TO THE OTHER INHABITANTS OF OZ +fbfd0458-0590-4838-a9e0-89eecab5a8e8 ALL OTHER SOUNDS HUNG SUSPENDED IN THE AFTER SILENCE THEN RESUMED THE STRONGEST FIRST AND THEN THE WEAKEST A HEAVY OBJECT SUDDENLY ARCHED THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS SWINGING ON A VINE IT DISAPPEARED BEHIND A TREE ANOTHER DURING THE DAYS HE HAD DONE THE THINGS HE HAD PLANNED HE DID NO WORK WITH THE SHARPS BUT LET THEM FIND HIM WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HUT OF AN EVENING RECITING STRANGE WORDS ONCE HE BUILT A SMALL OUTDOOR FIRE AND WALKED AROUND IT BITTERSHIN'S FOR SEVERAL MINUTES THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE THEN WE ALL BRIGHTENED UP IT REALLY WAS A DECENT WORLD AFTER ALL I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY +fc5e2b24-31e5-4891-95c2-69ae28ba6b99 THE CROWD JOSTLING ABOUT ME SEEMED BLIND TO MY PRESENCE EVERY EYE WAS FIXED ON THE ALTAR LIKE HANDS OF THE IDOL AND THE DEATH THAT BLEW ACROSS THEM PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ASKED PETER HUSH IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW A COMMON MAN WOULD BE QUEER BUT WHEN IT'S A MINISTER IT'S ECCENTRIC SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIGGING INTO A COUPLE OF OLD VOLUMES OF CLASSIC MYTHS AND NORTHLAND FOLK LORE WHICH SHE HAD FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S ATTIC AND FOR US GOD AND GODDESS LAUGHING NYMPH AND MOCKING SATYR NORN AND VALCURY ELF AND TROLL AND GREEN FOLK GENERALLY WERE REAL CREATURES ONCE AGAIN INHABITING THE ORCHARDS AND WOODS AND MEADOWS AROUND US UNTIL IT SEEMED AS IF THE GOLDEN AGE HAD RETURNED TO EARTH +fc63fd9b-b610-4300-a97e-5d9f6851d191 A STRANGER KENUF SAID WHO ENTERS A SMALL CITY IS SEEN AT MYSTERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS PLUCKS WORDS OUT OF THE CENTRE OF A MAN'S MIND WHY THE PICTURE IS A CLASSIC ONE DELRIO HIMSELF HOLSINGER OR ANY OF THE OTHERS COULD NOT DESCRIBE A BETTER SHE WORE I REMEMBER A DRESS OF WARM CRIMSON AND SHE HAD WOUND AROUND HER A STRING OF WAXBERRIES THAT LOOKED LIKE A FILLET OF PEARLS HER CHEEKS WERE STILL FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF THE EVENING IN THE DIM LIGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A WILD MYSTIC LOVELINESS A COMPELLING CHARM THAT WOULD NOT BE DENIED WHEN HE PASSED NEXT DAY I WHISPERED INTO THE MIKE WELCOME O GOAT BOY GRANDSON THIS IS YOUR GRANDFATHER'S SPIRIT SPEAKING FROM PARADISE +fc9a3387-c522-4911-9390-38197d389e7e THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES THERE WAS NO SIGN OF DISORDER ANYWHERE HE GOT INTO HIS BUGGY AND DROVE AWAY LEAVING EIGHT DISTRACTED MORTALS BEHIND HIM BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MISTAKE SOBBED SARAH IT MIGHT BE TWO O'CLOCK TO NIGHT INSTEAD OF TO MORROW CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME +fc9c7601-d866-4d4e-aaef-762ed7b3e2cf WHAT'S WANTED THE GUARD SAID SOURLY STARING THROUGH THE BARS YONAS SMILED SOFTLY YOU KNOW WHY I'M HERE DON'T YOU HE SAID IN A VOICE AS CLOSE TO SILKY AS HE COULD MAKE IT YOU THE BALD MAN SAID YOU'RE HERE IN A CELL THAT'S RIGHT YONAS SAID PATIENTLY HE RUBBED AT HIS FACE WE WOULD DEARLY HAVE LOVED TO LEAVE THE CANDLE BURNING BUT AUNT JANET'S DECREE REGARDING THIS WAS AS INEXORABLE AS ANY OF MEAD AND PERSIA OUT THE CANDLE MUST GO AND WE LAY THERE QUAKING WITH THE WILD RAIN STREAMING DOWN ON THE ROOF ABOVE US AND THE VOICES OF THE STORM WAILING THROUGH THE WRITHING SPRUCE TREES I'M JUST GOING TO PRAY TO GOD TO SEND ME SOME MONEY SHE ANNOUNCED DESPERATELY AT LAST I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'LL DO ANY GOOD SAID DAN HE GIVES LOTS OF THINGS BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE MONEY BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN EARN THAT FOR THEMSELVES I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT +fca8bf2d-a05c-4cc3-a6f1-df1cac0e75b1 WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR BRANDON FELL BACK ON THE GROUND THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW THERE WAS GREAT GRANDFATHER KING'S FLAT TOMBSTONE OF ROUGH ISLAND SANDSTONE IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS THEY HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE THROWING STICKS AND ARBELASTS AND WERE TRYING TO SHOOT DOWN THE EYE A CLOUD OF ARROWS AND ROCKS FLYING IN EVERY DIRECTION +fcc34604-c76c-42a6-b156-599c423c0141 THIS STARTED ME THINKING AND I PUNCHED A COMPLETE LIST OF SHIPS OF THAT SIZE THAT BEEN CONSTRUCTED IN THE PAST YOU CAN IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN AFTER ABOUT THREE MINUTES OF GROANING THE C M ONLY PRODUCED SIX I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED TO NEWBE SHIFTED BEHIND ORAN WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID SLOWLY TO STAY BEHIND MY SCOUTS +fd2b50f7-b406-453c-820e-6962c147a6e4 A GREAT CROWD OF CREATURES SIMILAR TO MY CAPTORS HEMMED US IN BEFORE US THEY THINNED INTO NOTHINGNESS AS WE APPROACHED ONLY TO SWARM INTO BEING IN SOME OTHER SPOT IT WAS TERRIFYING AN UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE THAT MADE ME QUESTION MY SANITY TRUE YUNUS SAID PLEASANTLY KNOUGHF WAS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE YONOS HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO SIT HE REMAINED STANDING AND HE WAS RECENTLY SURE THAT HIS FEET WERE GOING TO HURT A MINUTE HE TRIED NOT TO LET THE THOUGHT DISTURB HIM THE MAN'S MIND WAS LIKE HIS OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL SPARSELY FURNISHED ALMOST AUSTERE BUT WITH ALL THE NECESSITIES LAID OUT FOR EASY ACCESS I THINK IT IS VERY VAIN TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE YOURSELF BEING BEAUTIFUL SAID FELICITY I'M NOT A BIT FAIN SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH ENTIRE TRUTHFULNESS IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS IT WOULD BE JUST STUPIDITY IF YOU DIDN'T IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM +fd392ec4-1c76-45b4-8cd1-c5242cb8a4b8 WITH BIG DARK BLUE WE SAW THAT HER ANGER WAS REAL NOT AFFECTED IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE +fd3b10a5-d665-4012-9af9-bc23c5bc2c4f THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY HE SAID YOU ARE ABOUT TO WITNESS THE FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF RAISE RAY THE WORK OF GENIUS WHICH WILL ALLOW MANKIND HIS FIRST REALLY CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE LAST REMAINING FRONTIER ON HIS HOME PLANET THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT IT WAS A VERY DEEP WELL AND THE CURB WAS OF ROUGH UNDRESSED STONES SARA RAY'S LETTER DEAR PETER I NEVER WROTE TO A BOY BEFORE SO PLEASE EXCUSE ALL MISTAKES I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE GETTING BETTER +fd5520ea-3414-4fa2-95df-4c9f27c2d34c FELICITY TRIED AND HAD THE MOST GRATIFYING LUCK WITH A NEW AND COMPLICATED CAKE RECIPE A GORGEOUS COMPOUND OF A PLUMMINESS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER THE NUMBER OF EGGS SHE USED IN IT WOULD HAVE SHOCKED AUNT JANET'S THRIFTY SOUL BUT THAT CAKE LIKE BEAUTY WAS ITS OWN EXCUSE THE DOCTOR'S HAND TIGHTENED ON THE DOORKNOB YES I KNOW HE SAID GRIMLY BUT NOT MANY LAY MEN REMEMBER JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT I TOLD YOU WITH ANY OF THESE THINGS THE PATTERN IS PROTECTION THEN CONTROL THEN USEFUL APPLICATION IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME SHARP SAID TELL ME NOW NO ONE CAN HEAR US NOT ERK NOOPE HIMSELF +fd829c79-1f0d-4232-b8af-9173be06538a ONCE WHEN SARAH WAS IN A BROWN STUDY I ASKED HER WHAT SHE WAS THINKING OF I'M TRYING TO THINK OF SOMETHING MA HASN'T FORBID SHE ANSWERED WITH A SIGH WITHOUT HESITATION JENIFER STEPPED OVER THE RAIL AND VANISHED INTO THE YAWNING PINKISH CAVERN BEYOND APPALLED JEFF RUSHED AFTER HER GENEFER HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND THE POOR STORY GIRL WENT VERY WHITE OH UNCLE ROGER COULD IT BE POSSIBLE YOU COULDN'T HAVE SWALLOWED A NEEDLE WITHOUT KNOWING IT IT WOULD HAVE STUCK IN YOUR TONGUE OR TEETH +fde0b594-f722-4f69-a000-2ae55bc89a8c ONCE AROUND THE EMERALD CITY WE WILL TURN SOUTH INTO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY WHERE THE SCARECROW AND I ARE WELL ACQUAINTED AND HAVE MANY FRIENDS WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES BUT YOU CAN TRANSMIT FALSE THOUGHTS AND CONFUSE HIM CLARETON SAID FINE FINE IF YOU'VE EVER MET THE MAN BEFORE +fde4ebe4-4dd4-40fa-ab50-76b4a1ca9ec0 BY THIS TIME WE WERE ALL SITTING DOWN ON THE GNARLED ROOTS OF THE SPRUCES AND THE BIG GRAY CAT CAME OVER AND MADE FRIENDS WITH US WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO IT WAS TOO GOOD A CHANCE TO LOSE FOR FATHER WAS A POOR MAN AND IT MEANT PROMOTION AND INCREASE OF SALARY BUT IT ALSO MEANT THE TEMPORARY BREAKING UP OF OUR HOME +fdf0c91c-439f-4cea-b9cf-2097f4e39420 BACK TO MY OWN PLANET TAM DAVAR SON NOGHOR MEMBER OF THE GALATSKI FERREDORATION SHE SAID PATIENTLY I MUST HEAR THAT MISSIONARY SPEAK THEY SAID HE WAS ALL BUT EATEN BY CANNIBALS ONCE ONLY ONE THING COULD CROSS IT AND THAT WAS LOVE AND THE WEIRD LITTLE TALE TOLD IN A VOICE FRAUGHT WITH MYSTERY AND PATHOS HAD PEOPLED THEM FOR US WITH FURATIVE FOLKS IN BELT AND WAMPUM AND DARK DRESSED INDIAN MAIDENS +fdf4065e-a14f-44cf-9fbc-b1e92ebc0413 THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE HIS PATIENT NODDED THAT'S RIGHT DOCTOR BUT THEY WERE PRETTY SLOW COMING IN THIS TIME THE DOCTOR LOOKED UP QUIZZICALLY IS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU THINK YOU MIGHT NEED A BOOSTER SHOT OH NO OF COURSE NOT I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FEEL AS INT'RESTED IN MISSIONARIES AS YOU FOLKS DO HE SAID BUT MAYBE IF I BEGIN TO GIVE SOMETHING I'LL GET INT'RESTED I'LL WANT TO KNOW HOW MY MONEY'S BEING SPENT I WON'T BE ABLE TO GIVE MUCH HERK NUFF SAID TAKE HIM BACK THE BALD ONE ADDED HERAKNUFF YOU ONA SAID ENTERING THE CONVERSATION WITH A LIGHT PLEASANT TONE HE'S THAT MISSUS SHARP TRIED TO GET THE WORD OUT AND THEN PUSHED BY THE TWO MEN AND CAME INTO THE HUT I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM +fe091aab-f226-4e8f-87f1-3183ae02fee9 BUT SHE HAD FAR MORE FIRE AND INTENSITY AND STRENGTH OF IN WORDS THAT WERE BYRONS CIUS ROSE WITH A BRASSY GLARE THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN FOR A WEEK WE ATE UNLAWFUL LUNCHES AND DREAMED DREAMS AFTER OUR OWN HEARTS +fe26780c-6e39-43e7-8ea8-e4461528486c HUM THE GREAT REWARD FOR SOME NOTABLE SERVICE RENDERED I IMAGINE WHISPERED VIC THOSE PRIESTS ARE WISER THAN THE REST OF THIS CREW THEY DEAL DEATH SPARINGLY AND THAT MAKES THEM GREAT THEY LOVE LIFE LIKE A MAN OF OUR EARTH PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY'VE FOUND OUT HOW TO ENJOY IT YOU MIGHT BE FORGIVEN FOR TELLING LIES IF YOU WAS REAL SORRY FOR THEM BUT IF YOU MURDERED ANY ONE IT WOULD BE PRETTY HARD TO GET FORGIVEN SO YOU'D BETTER BE ON THE SAFE SIDE FELIX AND I WERE ALWAYS GLAD TO GET HIS LETTERS BUT WE NEVER READ THEM ALOUD TO AN ADMIRING CIRCLE IN THE ORCHARD +fe52a642-3fb4-48c4-9b5a-89517a3d8bcb HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME WHAT IN THE DEVIL DOES THIS NONSENSE MEAN CAPTAIN STEIG ASKED PEEVISHLY I COULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU SIT GREETED NEW YOU RIGHT FINISH FOR YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IF YOU DO SAID HORN I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES +fe5bcd3d-192c-42f5-87c6-a21cde37dbaf VOCALLY SAID CHAFFY FOUR THEY SHUDDERED AND TELEPARTED THE UNGODLY HOUR OF TRANSMISSION NATURALLY WAS SET TO COINCIDE WITH THE CLOSING OF THE CONSUL'S FIELD OFFICE HALF WAY AROUND THE PLANET WIZARD NO YONIST SAID THE CONFUSION HE WAS BROADCASTING KEPT THE MEN FROM DOING ANYTHING THAT REQUIRED EVEN A SIMPLE PLAN BUT HE COULDN'T KEEP IT UP FOR LONG SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT SINCE NO ONE SEEMED IN A HURRY TO GIVE ME AN ASSIGNMENT I HAD FOUND ONE FOR MYSELF I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT BUT I ALSO HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING UNTIL THE JOB WAS DONE +fe66bfa6-7438-497e-b007-59da444bda78 WHY DOST THOU KEEP BACK THE DRAUGHT OF IMMORTALITY FROM ME HE DEMANDED PASSIONATELY HE WON'T EVER KNOW HOW MUCH WE THOUGHT OF HIM IT'S TOO LATE THEY WERE ALL BUT EYE TO EYE WHEN JENOFER CAUGHT HIM AND TOWED HIM AWAY TOWARD THE DOUBTFUL SAFETY OF THE ISLAND QUEEN THE SERIMIAN CROAKED AND BLAMED THE BOAT'S MOTION HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY BENDING LEAVING A TRAIL OF BUBBLES AS HER HEAD WENT UNDER +fea5a794-30f3-4ee1-b8a5-286dc1cb31a7 AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE YET THE INQUISITOR TOOK HIM AND HAD A CONFESSION FROM HIM IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL IF THE WATER WAS STILL THERE AND PRESENTLY WE FOUND OURSELVES TUCKED AWAY UPSTAIRS THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING +feb8a47f-efab-4410-9861-56a6fcd8aa54 PROBABLY HE TOLD HIMSELF TRYING TO BE FAIR SHE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ONE TO TALK TO UNTIL A STRANGER CAME ALONG HE SIGHED BRIEFLY HE IGNORED THE INEVITABLE GLORY OF MORNING RAINBOW THAT JUST PRECEDED PROCYON'S RISING AND STRODE IRRITABLY DOWN TO HIS MINIATURE DOCK HE WAS STILL SCOWLING OVER WHAT HE SHOULD TELL CHARLIE MACK WHEN THE ISLAND QUEEN HOVE INTO VIEW JUDGE RAY WAS NOW FRANTICALLY TRYING TO REMOVE HIS DIVING HELMET AGAIN EXCITEMENT MADE HIS MOTIONS INEFFECTING AND HIS SIGNAL FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM THEN CONTINUED TO FUMBLE WITH THE FASTENINGS HIMSELF +fec0515e-3d19-46d7-9e17-b3f7b5504769 TOWERS FROWNED WHAT INNER USE STRAIGHT ROCKET POWER WELL SIR NEVER MIND NOW YOU MAY HAVE ENCOUNTERED OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN RICH ATMOSPHERE MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES TRY AN AIR START ON STRAIGHT ROCKET I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON REPEAT I WANT THAT SHIP BACK FELICITY PALE AND TEARFUL DROPPED ON HER KNEES AND LIFTED THE CRETON FRILL OFF THE SOFA THERE HIS HEAD PILLOWED HARDLY ON UNCLE ROGER'S BOOTS LADY JIMMIE PATTERSON STILL SOUND ASLEEP WELL I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING I'M GOING TO TAKE A WHIRL AT WHAT I'LL CALL THE INFROMEDIAN EXISTENCE WHAT I'LL FIND THERE I DON'T KNOW LIFE OF SOME KIND HOWEVER FOR MY EXPERIMENTS PROVE THAT POSSIBLY NOT FRIENDLY +fec3e27b-5bb2-4044-ba34-37a7eec7b16b BY THIS TIME WE WERE ALL SITTING DOWN ON THE GNARLED ROOTS OF THE SPRUCES AND THE BIG GRAY CAT CAME OVER AND MADE FRIENDS WITH US HE WAS A LORDLY ANIMAL WITH A SILVER GREY COAT BEAUTIFULLY MARKED WITH DARKER STRIPES WITH SUCH COLOURING MOST CATS WOULD HAVE HAD WHITE OR SILVER FEET BUT HE HAD FOUR BLACK PAWS AND A BLACK NOSE SUCH POINTS GAVE HIM AN AIR OF DISTINCTION AND MARKED HIM OUT AS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE COMMON OR GARDEN VARIETY OF CATS HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRUST BILLY ROBINSON SAID FELICITY SUMMING UP THE CASE ONE EVENING WHEN ALL HAD BEEN MADE KNOWN AFTER ALL WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND WAS THE LARGEST HANDED IN BY ANY OF THE SCHOLARS CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY I LOCATED A LIZARD TOWN ABOUT A THOUSAND KILOMETERS FROM THE PYRAMID AND DROPPED THE E EYE IT SWISHED DOWN AND LANDED AT NIGHT IN THE BANK OF A LOCAL MUD WALLOW THIS WAS A FAVORITE SPOT THAT DREW A GOOD CROWD DURING THE DAY +feca1fbb-fdfd-4558-9ae4-05480d25b9a6 ROCK I BARKED IN WHAT I HOPED WAS AUTHENTIC OLD SPACE DOG MANNER LUCKLEY'S PLANTS AT THIS SPACE GOING FRONT PORCH HERE IS IT STILL BEING BUILT ON TO THE SHIP SHALL I PUNCTURE THE KING THE BOY ASKED HIS COMPANIONS KING BALM MUST HAVE OVERHEARD THE QUESTION FOR HE FUMBLED WITH THE CORD THAT FASTENED HIM TO THE THROAT AND MANAGED TO RELEASE IT LIKELY A GLAYA SWALLOWED IT SAID FELIX SPARECTICALLY DID GLAUCON AND AGLEIA EVER GET MARRIED ASKED SARA RAY THE STORY DOESN'T SAY IT JUST STOPS THERE SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THEY DID I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK +ff039b34-b83e-43d1-ac8e-6edcea4216f0 I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION AND SUCH A BAD SIGN JEFF AS THREE AND FOUR WERE HORRIBLY SHAKEN BY THE INITIAL ATTEMPT AT COMMUNICATION WITH THE NATIVES HE HAD A LITTLE STRANGER THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW +ff152d10-3cad-41b8-8ae8-29b975b143ed FELIX AND I WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM FELIX WAS VERY INDIGNANT AND AGGRIEVED AS WELL AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER I'LL GO AND TELL HIM SO RIGHT OFF HYPERSPACE BEACONS ARE TO LAST FOR EVER OR DAMN CLOSE TO IT SHAKING MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD I WENT DOWN FOR THE EYE BURNING CEREMONY +ff458827-888c-44a4-9f7f-e672ca525a13 THEN SUDDENLY THERE WAS A TERRIFIC CRASH OF SOUND AND MY SENSES RETURNED I LOOKED AROUND IT SEEMED THAT AN INSTANT BEFORE I HAD BEEN STANDING THERE IN VIC'S LABORATORY SLOWLY TURNING THE SECOND OF THE TWO DIALS WHILE THE FOUR LIGHTS BEAT DOWN UPON MY BODY AND NOW WE CAN GO SOON SAID TO NUBE WILL YOU JOIN ME INSIDE HERE ASKED HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT LEFT OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS THEY SAY SHE IS CRAZY PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN US CHILDREN INTO GOOD BEHAVIOR BY TELLING US THAT PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH US IF WE DIDN'T BEHAVE I'M NOT SO FRIGHTENED OF HER AS I ONCE WAS BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAUGHT BY HER +ff5675d4-cb97-4f3b-96f4-08133eaca9cc ANY ONE WITH LESS SELF ESTEEM THAN MYSELF WHO HAD LED A MORE HONEST EARLY LIFE MIGHT HAVE DOUBTED HIS OWN REASONING AT THAT MOMENT PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT THERE WAS NO FINDING IT OUT FROM THE STORY GIRL SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER IN THE MORNING WHEN THE FIRST WALLOWERS ARRIVED I FLIPPED ON THE RECORDER AFTER ABOUT FIVE OF THE LOCAL DAYS I HAD A SEA OF NATIVE CONVERSATION IN THE MEMORY BANK OF THE MACHINE TRANSLATOR AND TAGGED A FEW EXPRESSIONS THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH +ff604b4d-709b-45b7-99ef-f643e48ff601 I JUST TOLD HER AS A FAVOR AND NOW YOUR AUNT JANET BLAMES ME FOR THE WHOLE TROUBLE THE APPLES ARE DELICIOUS AND IN WINTER IT'S A SPLENDID PLACE FOR COASTING NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD EVER GO THERE ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US WITH WARM SUNSHINE AND A TANG OF FROST IN THE AIR A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET +ff65c9f6-c290-47d7-a08a-17c84eb8dad0 THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT METHODISTS OR PRESBYTERIANS IN THE BIBLE SAID FELICITY SCORNFULLY PETER LOOKED AMAZED WHAT HAD THEY HAPPENED THEN HE ASKED WHEN DID THEY BEGIN TO BE FELIX'S PRAYER WAS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ANY ONE ELSE BUT IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER OF PETER TO WANT TO BE THE ONLY ONE WE MUSTN'T PRAY SELFISH PRAYERS OH I SEE IT NOW SAID CECILY JOYFULLY WE WERE ALL IN THE ORCHARD EXCEPT FELIX WHO HAD GONE TO THE POST OFFICE IT WAS THE FORENOON OF AN AUGUST SATURDAY +ff7c3d52-f244-4e30-9508-68f0c6fcdbc0 THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP OUR FATHER AND OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS HAD PLAYED IN ITS SHADOW INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE INTO WHICH SHE WOULD THROW ALL HER POWERS OF MIND AND HEART AND SOUL +ffc597ae-a83c-4df9-ac97-8eb9ae34d689 WHAT IS THE I A I AM OF THE I A SAID HORN WHERE HAVE YOU HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS IN THE PLACE THAT SUITS US BEST SAID TO NEWBE IN ALL OUR HISTORY THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER PLACE AND WAITING WAS ALL I COULD DO OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY I MAY BE MISTAKEN BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE STORY GIRL WANTED THAT FIGHT STOPPED AND I'M AFAR FROM BEING SURE THAT FELICITY DID EITHER +ffc74e18-e4da-494d-b033-71ec04b35453 WELL MISS FELICITY YOU'RE PRETTY SMART SHELTERED BY THE SPRUCE HEDGES FROM UNCERTAIN WINDS AND SLOPING TO SOUTHERN SUNS BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER THE EARTH A SPECK OF DUST IN ORBIT HE TOOK A GOOD THIRTY SECONDS TO THINK THIS OVER AND HAD TO AGREE WITH ME A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT +ffdad674-d8b5-42ef-85e5-0929decfeba2 TWAS THE MC CLOSKEYS AND THE OLD SCRATCH SAID THE STORY GIRL REFLECTIVELY HER AESTHETIC FARE WAS REALLY SWEETER TO HER THAN HONEY OF HYMETTUS DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US BUT NOW THAT YOU ARE OUT OF DANGER WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT IT REALLY FEELS LIKE TO THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DIE I DID BUT I COULDN'T SEE YOU SAID THE TIN SOLDIER THE FIELDS WERE WILD AND UNCULTIVATED AND THERE WERE NO HOUSES OF ANY SORT TO BE SEEN +ffe5182f-cc26-4cb8-a2b3-537a08179ba5 WELL ANYWAY THEY CAN'T PREVENT US FROM GROWING UP CONSOLED DAN WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA YES AND THAT IS WHY I PUT IT ON AUNT JANET I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED