398b1b87-b9af-411a-86d6-f54b0d8d90f6 177 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 8cbffb01-fcc7-4def-91f6-5c18075e0d32 748 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 f2d4a8de-56b2-4418-8200-b4b24c2b1775 2137 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 f295084c-d984-4227-964c-25724783b02b 451 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 24c372a2-7c08-426e-946f-daab82debc42 242 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 22136d70-afc2-48bc-9efc-055326a15bb3 1867 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 46e8e28f-e105-43fd-b032-719cfe3cffef 2425 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 24c44eda-9878-4b00-b5b9-593347ead003 242 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 b53f31e3-8840-4f79-bc46-5d40d6dd5c75 30 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 7468377e-3029-4b6d-bc32-bed9759692c1 2182 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 6b4d11c5-ee7c-4770-ac1c-27975e47a9bd 2274 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 d5b79ac8-cf62-4741-b695-f2d9ef3ed78b 2137 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 9e534287-36fe-4d11-b63f-e74a65b0f8ee 464 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 ff179543-08c8-4bbb-b8db-dc288231bcc8 2286 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 74daeff5-0e8f-4df0-9fd3-99752d7eb29c 464 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 5fd27285-9087-4556-b29a-baced27433b2 177 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 cc974911-ae01-48ab-a7bb-3ba6cf25347a 177 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 ccb43515-4192-4f4e-9d8b-a85866c4601c 103 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 b180eb64-bf5d-4dae-87f6-5db31798bf45 188 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 IF I WENT IT MUST BE ON BLACK BENT DAN'S BACK AND HE LIKES A CANTER OVER THE ICE IN A SNOWSTORM AS LITTLE AS I HIS OWN FIRESIDE IS THE BEST PLACE FOR A MAN TO DIET CAMPBELL HAVE ANOTHER TASTE MAN HAVE ANOTHER TASTE f05aac79-4ef6-4116-972f-f926ed384165 14 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 43abe5d0-a908-4ea9-b7e8-52863ff4c32e 188 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 999e709c-c494-417d-8721-124bb86e4dea 14 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 1180d925-aab7-4b05-8381-05fbca31f206 2286 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 48cabf50-14b6-4315-8141-49c5f0e536bc 2425 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 de9a8a6a-9119-4d9e-8574-fc0cbdf5d430 2182 TERRA HAS NO REAL NEED OF THE CRYSTALS WE CAN OFFER A TESTEDETICS PROGRAMME THAT WILL ELIMINATE RACIAL ANXIETY WITHIN A FEW GENERATIONS AND SUPPLY NEURAL THERAPY EQUIPMENT ON A TRADE BASIS OF COURSE THAT WILL SERVE THE CRYSTAL'S PURPOSE DURING THE INTERIM acaab1ce-8218-4041-a6e2-79567ee89a0a 413 WELL NO I SUPPOSE NOT I AGREED THINKING OF BILLY ROBINSON 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 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 HE SAID HE BELIEVED THE OTHER PLACE MUST BE LOTS MORE INTERESTING THAN HEAVEN CAUSE FIRES WERE SUCH JOLLY THINGS HOW DID YOU EVER HEAR THE LIKE 0de365aa-8f6b-427d-959d-8d0873c285c6 30 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 6dd23841-b168-4308-9aa5-1488725067c5 2312 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 cad58a98-914d-4da8-bb16-73db8f02a515 2182 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 9fe504bc-f2f9-4f5c-bf13-d3d5815b73e0 2425 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 1944a255-bd83-42cf-b11b-82f357db1ea5 14 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 a0f9e358-0bb9-4488-92b5-3411785d2178 2137 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 e3d234cd-9770-4677-8c22-ad67f5d2cac5 2425 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 bd1b1555-d780-4610-af57-55f221196aac 2368 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 6d5e313f-f515-4f06-b910-18525f8f31f7 2182 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 0b0d5676-af74-4e9a-8f7d-b31ff53b83a1 2425 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 ec02df90-04a0-4022-8387-e7e08fab08fa 2137 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 38f8c3be-ed0a-495a-90b9-56d709514e29 413 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 441a20fe-08e4-4130-8f04-7080cba0bd88 2312 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 e99016d9-921a-4d87-88e2-199bb13bf7cd 2317 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 63a540e9-1f71-4103-8b3d-5df736a90b10 402 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 4f6e6fba-a25e-414a-aa79-338607cd9239 2425 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 71512441-cb47-4d6b-8c0f-e05669c312c0 2425 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 1de7b8f4-9af0-4f7b-aa24-6c8b9772b6aa 32 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 b302867c-36b9-427e-a444-d3d5588c221d 451 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 e1d3d7c0-38fd-4b06-89d7-d9973969cb20 2286 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 93cc9f92-a055-4022-b230-d8e866dfff56 30 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 3dbbc16d-87a6-4ec6-859f-58cfccdf7dea 402 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 9263203a-8a7b-48d0-b715-66ec9851d4e3 32 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 dd8dc3e6-a8a2-4435-8d81-75b7bf2ece64 14 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 29098aa1-f613-4cdd-9784-963a62269875 2286 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 633be1ac-e49e-493d-bc93-2fb736bd310b 2108 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 5342ca0c-fe47-4076-a9d9-bccb5ba39082 2368 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 8f602596-b83a-4ecb-a609-40d61b752e6c 2312 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 1388b935-1e6f-46ae-a7a5-d00e5e2f573c 188 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 5e867a4b-fd58-454e-962b-6f320649fbd1 2312 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 4bfe7080-4afe-4076-98aa-334319d37bab 2274 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 2b738956-1475-410c-ac5b-7cd1573dc8f7 2182 THEY WORKED HURRIEDLY BETWEEN JUMPS FORE AND AFT 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 CHAFFEE FOUR ON THE NEXT JUMP SCANNED THE SHIP'S CHARTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH THEY TRAVELED 2d86b1f7-2338-4061-9aff-cdf053bbffec 402 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 8f735b69-db90-4f71-9671-1aaa89f39d2c 2182 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 19e05a9e-f8de-4cee-8951-76353df59b55 30 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 637bcacb-0f01-4981-8dea-6f9efb7efdc7 2368 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 9c66c932-e21f-48f2-b563-8c876e6b7911 402 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 94127bf4-91bd-4fd4-8a48-d89146cf60e7 2312 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 4038dfa1-9762-4f63-9d43-317dd05af9c7 2368 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 d93ac119-0617-46d2-a724-e61f771700fe 2137 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 029d7a1f-14c5-4ff7-8cf2-811a5805e179 14 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 ea10a328-19bf-40e8-877a-c3b74aa6172b 2425 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 1bfdaaa8-baa6-4038-8717-7524eb7dea1e 2108 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 e761f85c-7f3b-417a-bb74-2488d9d15bd5 2286 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 5474944a-a433-4363-9f68-a63bf9e3a28e 32 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 1adcb600-c0cd-4b50-9c05-7ed4275ca5f6 2312 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 MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM e1928d33-9ff8-4908-8f72-d7610d3dac7b 188 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 10ee26db-2435-4b8f-8789-3ad81a9648bd 14 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 b49e10f0-392d-4933-b42e-b00eca611b19 451 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 c7445134-9902-4b6d-8a59-281063786f1f 2425 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 64e0b0ce-6b91-4b55-8233-26e53e463793 2317 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 14f79a23-7a9a-4995-bae0-5ac0c0605215 2317 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 b7c1f5d5-5443-4f6c-aefc-9419111ed687 451 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 52983f6f-665f-40bb-86a7-bd1d875b3b4a 2108 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 c9279dcb-20db-4d79-bfd2-9173738cae44 188 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 02d52624-793d-4b6e-b36c-4932b0470765 2286 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 6790ab54-49a6-4d08-8645-137be728085b 2274 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 051fbf3c-7da8-4fca-b5aa-1d45836066ba 451 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 0ecaa7cc-8491-48e2-9683-c14cbac1b09a 2425 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 44f3efb6-c957-449d-80f1-0ce42c7c07a1 2274 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 f6e8cfbb-b9bd-4518-950f-1454c5db4a4c 2317 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 406c8444-d485-410e-a02c-de7d806331d0 2286 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 9be8819c-76a2-4711-ac59-dd4d86a3b9aa 402 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 4b4f1d38-1acf-4cf3-a99e-74951ea77b9d 2182 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 90323307-63fe-43a9-833f-e4c4243cec64 2108 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 ab5aba17-9041-499d-bc4b-3faf78bc7f4c 451 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 6e4fa41d-9318-41b2-820a-de3877006f7d 188 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 c7835550-c3ec-4908-b7e4-3465c0a026b7 2286 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 c4555c97-5666-460e-b261-79c784cb3396 2286 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 c9161525-4236-4be5-96aa-3a181f812346 32 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 97d5e0e1-ab92-41b8-aaab-183f4448b7d5 2108 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 6cc2d6e0-2278-4fc6-b9c9-3a9735f3fd16 2425 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 a97eb5ad-580d-41d1-aee1-649d645db03c 32 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 8a686ac3-cd12-495f-930a-4d4b8dcf8ffc 2317 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 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 45bdb2f6-7dc9-47c5-a9da-6c0a0c8c208b 2286 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 49eaf8fa-df57-44fc-8799-fe2f163728f0 2108 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 b8e953e3-51a2-4c65-8c38-e63b11890d9c 188 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 22c74a2d-0aac-4c11-88fa-daa31ac16056 402 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 71f5874b-fc62-4dcf-ae19-2d394665ecf2 2108 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 02702808-8840-4c18-b6b3-c3e92a33cc32 2274 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 75f66521-5cb3-4c2c-8554-e1fc162de046 2108 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 b32650af-9ae0-4df7-b421-c7785840b409 402 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 aebf3bcc-04b2-44bf-812c-2a7b13c93827 32 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 af3c2026-0512-4e01-8a29-6acc5284ca85 188 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 c40cbc06-2822-4a4b-8f64-9568cec6c583 402 WHAT IF YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME I SUPPOSE YOU'LL BELIEVE THE MINISTER SAID THE STORY GIRL GO AND ASK HIM HE'S IN THE HOUSE THIS VERY MINUTE HE CAME UP WITH US IN THE BUGGY AT ANY OTHER TIME WE WOULD NEVER HAVE DARED CATECHIZE THE MINISTER ABOUT ANYTHING BUT DESPERATE CASES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES WE DREW STRAWS TO SEE WHO SHOULD GO AND DO THE ASKING AND THE LOT FELL TO FELIX BETTER WAIT UNTIL MISTER MILWOOD LEAVES AND CATCH HIM IN THE LANE ADVISED THE STORY GIRL YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF GROWN UPS AROUND YOU IN THE HOUSE f185e769-411f-4486-835d-d4871c1692c9 2108 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 19b234fe-c07f-4563-ac0f-fc28fb38a742 188 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 a47aaa30-2725-4f94-840a-8c629f380ee0 188 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 f58e94f0-ad6f-46bf-bf15-16f69bf45505 2108 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 f21767a2-c062-4c89-a48a-4b68774f25e1 188 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 199f1a60-7622-4d0e-b34f-c3f8e98af1da 2108 ASKED ROOT APPEALING TO POLYCHROME SHE DANCED AROUND HIS CIRCLE SEVERAL TIMES WITHOUT REPLYING AND THE BOY FEARED SHE HAD NOT HEARD HIM BUT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WAS MERELY THINKING UPON THE PROBLEM AND PRESENTLY SHE PAUSED BESIDE THE TIN SOLDIER AND SAID I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT A LITTLE FAIRY MAGIC BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO MEND TIN LIKES WITH IT SO I'M NOT SURE I CAN HELP YOU 68253dea-5673-4a5a-8428-4aa43d892d7e 177 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 2f5909ee-293b-4bf7-9f1d-6bfdbc794b1d 464 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 bcda3dfb-3986-4b9a-ae96-88ca85fd8619 2137 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 6d90250d-9053-4b69-b569-2d760e790358 413 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 5058095c-d1fd-46c5-9c35-4d1d0f976fee 2425 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 6067770c-409a-4f57-83a1-e60051a1736e 748 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 e9088020-59aa-4dbb-a386-785fe5b99607 2137 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 17dec09d-3179-4925-aa45-92d5e765a878 242 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 b84903c4-0196-4f68-aa02-d5eb583e4400 413 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 b0a74451-a720-466d-b0f9-4f17daff425a 32 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 0c779d9c-b292-4cfe-b31e-775b292aff2d 2425 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 50a4d383-41f4-480a-9fc8-25d2efca144d 2182 SO DID MINE JEFF SAID WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED dbd571b0-f95e-4642-a140-5b6155742d5e 242 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 27bbcdcb-f0ad-4039-b137-5f3dc806e7e8 177 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 43a755ed-607e-48a9-a2cc-5005dd204979 2425 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 82c80249-b932-4997-8f81-10f20fcdbc0c 177 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 619107f4-ea01-4c70-857f-1f8bf5b33004 402 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 d81b9cc3-763f-46d0-92fb-f325567521e4 188 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 7737eee6-dd5b-4396-a98c-64645893a03d 188 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 1bc34928-535a-463b-8c4b-5ca99c879503 14 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 9e02f1f9-ce2d-4083-922c-0c7b7fb38802 14 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 f012e7ac-400f-4028-bdba-93822ac6401d 2274 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 f70d258c-f9ac-41b1-8cb2-fe1cfe6c39fc 402 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 bdfad18b-a262-4565-a5a9-33cf1c0b2f97 2286 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 acef41ad-1d5c-4ce6-8132-7015d868a42c 402 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 5c0e7516-2e00-4640-8e51-8d951fe79d85 198 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 9db0be8c-4a06-4bf4-91ca-0e28fd9b95dd 2182 COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED 07bd5e65-f3a5-47b4-ac14-6a0d3054e4e5 30 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 b0ac1d1d-0f6b-44e2-87f9-205d7e567a97 2317 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 4f9b313e-fc45-42d1-ab2a-94e2692cef9c 2312 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 533234b4-1836-4928-81ee-b034f2f8a485 1867 AFTER THAT GRANDPA IN PARADISE HAD MANY HEART TO HEART TALKS WITH GRANDSON WHO FOUND THE HEAVENLY LUTE MORE THAN HE COULD RESIST BUT NOT FOR LONG THERE WAS A SHUFFLING NEAR BY AND I TOOK A CHANCE AND TURNED ON MY FLASH cfb21a0c-3005-45fe-b333-dea7ed8c122d 242 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 d1c51064-6fe0-4e16-8379-7c5237cb46d0 14 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 c39a4393-1f43-4a34-9a13-604e6d83e48f 30 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 a843e055-8fbb-4602-8c57-afdfcfefaa50 177 BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME 1ce42550-bd5a-407c-9dcb-53a73c429deb 402 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 8afb7e70-31d3-467a-9a73-e7b0e77fdddf 2108 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 c0b88b8a-1fb7-4d23-9104-f213468add9d 748 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 550fd71f-5936-48f7-984f-fc2beef999a0 2312 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 1dfa9d45-5c55-4bee-9c6c-6f2aa7300e7e 748 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 a0c60472-7f20-4650-a5f3-fdcdd3a1438a 2108 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 b4f27d3e-0ee0-4e0e-9e1d-71386733606f 188 THAT SETTLED IT WE WERE NOT GOING TO LET THE STORY GIRL GET AHEAD OF US IN THE MANNER OF COLLECTING 9ce86441-0869-4cff-aecc-7df1da228c95 188 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 27120c2d-cb08-4c4c-bfc2-d9777ee7daeb 413 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 NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS 40930675-b273-40f6-b020-1a347286b96b 177 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 499772dc-3396-42a7-9105-3df3dfe21a40 103 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 84ad489d-7f65-4317-ab58-6d5b70d80727 451 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 98f1da20-2e1c-4a23-a1ef-9dbd7d37b2b0 14 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 bd380630-c3b4-4970-845c-b387eeb2afe6 2108 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 32038ef8-cb06-45bc-b922-97f9627ffe7b 32 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 b54d64ab-d282-4687-8ff3-494e8897f19e 464 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 6638be99-1abb-41b1-86ab-252b58454e07 32 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 9c748856-31ec-4406-8aa4-ed6260315bdc 2317 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 c563d6fa-70c1-466b-a0bc-0b022fecda8e 30 BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD 02d446fa-0d9e-4a2a-936b-9c44c1d64351 2274 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 da322aa0-410c-43aa-a901-0b29479a3da6 748 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 0dde4b8c-8927-4930-9265-b23e2a371a6f 2137 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 dd245f49-0edc-4555-95ee-34145f793b9e 103 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 4ca9328c-fee2-4c38-8a70-9f4ca2de4bd0 2274 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 f8dfd622-23ec-44c5-a89a-b0038b26d29e 2425 DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME 6e08810b-76b2-40ee-be0a-2ce64e8243a1 2425 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 6e9fcf0e-088b-4197-8ffe-fff796ec785c 451 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 ecb714ac-cd4d-4137-a8e6-c1eda600d337 2312 WHAT HE HELD UP WAS THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF SAND MARSHALL COULD NOT SEE IT IN DETAIL COUNT EVERYONE ALL RIGHT FILL IN EVERY ONE I NEED MORE PAPERS 4271c66f-50b7-4408-bf79-9871b883173c 464 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 f3d6c8ba-9a73-432f-8973-4468e409c1f8 242 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 8a4a75f0-3984-4a06-bf40-be9540d1786d 103 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 b2e09cfb-fe95-461b-b5cd-c661c158c9be 188 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 dd7a0720-cd5a-4c8b-95d2-bf58ac18b7ec 2274 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 fb6f1ef4-c56b-4fa2-8e7f-9211a2de8fa9 2274 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 33145394-640a-46d2-9c40-8476fa160458 2182 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 a4fd83a5-06d0-455b-80f1-ce7df3f799df 748 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 b354fc30-27cc-4eef-8b5d-2de2fc9efa6e 30 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 aacdabf4-f9c3-46cf-b061-2ca52b3604e7 402 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 5bebd0ac-ab2b-410e-8d35-38d775829235 2137 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 1266da4c-e320-4635-a30a-f218d211591d 103 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 090aa89a-5a6b-4e9b-8912-375fab49f404 464 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 fbc7e0a7-66e4-4de2-9472-adb8551f49df 30 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 9b7fd8e5-6898-4626-9067-45baaa2e7c4d 30 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 f64e1032-5b03-448f-959d-c34e76231397 2425 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 8957d870-b512-4c0d-8dd1-6b331aac6da2 2312 BUT HE WAS SYSTEMATIC SO HE CHECKED THE LIST OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN THERE SEEMED TO BE SOMEBODY MISSING AH YES HIMSELF 1344a50e-0228-49dc-bc3a-c8c46a994b4c 464 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 85ac68fc-a976-493d-9c5d-924c427f6702 198 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 6aa6a917-2fe5-41a3-81c8-42a84030a3d8 464 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 adc9761a-e88d-47dd-b3ec-fb5848e850a4 32 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 de7f0280-de29-4d34-8edb-db6491d36cce 30 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 f7e059c4-9884-4818-9a7a-2872a3ccece9 30 JUST THINK THOSE ARE THE VERY FROGS FATHER LISTENED TO WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY WHISPERED FELIX 28e46f75-a87e-48a4-a207-404926dc8d72 188 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 2e220372-c9b7-4843-a73a-403aea751e42 32 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 995cee05-c9c4-4f91-8f82-ef04fb79fa81 2368 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 a5d4b41a-8d0a-48c8-832c-6c7264fc80c4 2286 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 d9f5a07a-16e7-49f9-bf64-0f66ddba321e 2312 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 674809be-d062-46cc-970e-05d3a794847c 2317 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 0deeebad-af1f-4447-ae66-bd890f624168 242 YOU MIGHT SETTLE IT BY DRAWING LOTS SAID CECILY DESPERATELY DRAWING LOTS IS WICKEDER THAN FIGHTING SAID DAN IT'S KIND OF GAMBLING aa367ef0-3c4e-4d7c-a384-853f206ebf0d 2274 ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS 28730657-2b02-42a3-b79a-696116902e69 2425 KEEP YOUR HAND ON YOUR GUN SAID VIC SWIFTLY I DON'T LIKE THE LOOKS OF THESE CHAPS 27f2d159-0e86-4cb1-92ff-164924ec635a 103 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 7a0d6f2c-86b9-456d-a9f4-a8d359786573 198 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 6fb5f4ee-f0c3-45d7-9176-01b60300dbbc 2108 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 49228557-a52a-4e45-b564-f7a42e7a3912 32 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 7ac993cf-653a-4104-b16b-7dc35ec1a0cd 2182 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 bf61865f-7836-40c7-a9c1-0362780adbb0 242 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 a989b669-1a49-4ea0-a328-816a4d7f3c07 2274 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 112a2c31-fac7-4d91-b847-caa52762eb73 2312 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 a9b55750-8af7-4e8e-96f8-a2ecb841fc42 2182 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 3eafeede-aee8-4a5a-b4b1-8edca4699c14 14 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 9192c3a4-781e-4033-8e88-a20ff54285ae 402 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 f804f3f2-8816-4d9b-8fc7-12c386d234d1 2286 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 e3f49afb-d69a-4d20-9fc3-28ee1f45b674 451 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 5dbf7143-2405-450e-8f30-78ac1fbd772c 32 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 30e5255c-dfae-41d7-b550-a3ba77098546 2137 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 852817d9-6595-4b53-8235-274eabb7fda1 242 IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING SIGHED POOR CECILY THE SHARP WIND BLEW AROUND THE GRANARY AND CECILY SHIVERED WE HEARD AUNT JANET'S VOICE CALLING CHILDREN CHILDREN 8df6d87a-6fca-4827-8773-6d82ffea0ae0 2425 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 754f3264-36c3-4293-b382-bc4d9da82f7a 2425 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 f2429d29-05a8-4de3-998a-d6a7b050f4a0 1867 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 21d61538-6b9e-4d65-bcc6-7974dbfcdcc5 30 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 20945346-35ba-4eeb-b152-3b223d6dfaba 2425 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 2ef55d69-08e1-4369-a1e8-6882e5e1b4ac 188 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 3aa738ab-d91e-4ce1-baf5-99ba876904a2 177 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 b0f70e37-b99e-4cb5-9087-354e23399690 2317 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 e4d970e6-a2ce-49c6-b23f-27423f19a0dc 2312 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 c7f37908-2064-444f-ace1-202f23b1e803 464 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 032acf9c-4f29-4751-bd5f-07f612f1652c 464 WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY I MUST HAVE SWALLOWED A NEEDLE SEVERAL NEEDLES PERHAPS I'M DONE FOR THE POOR STORY GIRL WENT VERY WHITE 7374f872-935f-49e8-b548-ea6e4e5c7ce1 177 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 3e818895-2424-4863-9920-ab1bd0e465be 177 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 17c363a2-5223-4895-bad0-8982b9bd335c 2317 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 324b9f4c-0fe7-4730-863d-980ee8e8928d 103 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 f76c47f5-aa82-497f-be1f-329078cd1346 413 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 a27ed3ee-bb10-4bf2-896f-fd8f52054212 2182 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 f3f81f74-5ff1-458a-b402-2ae7b2a7470e 2274 ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL THE STANCE WAS SLIGHTLY BENT FORWARD LONG ARMS TWO VERTICAL NOSE SLITS A FLAT LIPLESS MOUTH RECEDING CHIN 6963a346-84d8-45b5-910b-b098116ff35e 464 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 10b6c4cf-c12c-4598-8b2f-55283db5da04 2317 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG AT THE OTHER END WHERE THE RAY IS FOCUS AND I INTEND TO FIND OUT 69f5c352-5b6b-43c0-9785-a1ee53851d40 2286 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 730624b5-4112-46b9-b8f9-7f08d7d7d05e 2108 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 e276eb31-9fb5-4bc0-9722-271515578eae 30 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 87b5478a-fcfa-4568-b0ec-a4acfa84235c 2182 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 5711ed50-1a95-41ee-a34d-61c89a1b2742 2182 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 535a77ef-2408-4fb3-a220-45ca731d4697 2274 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 d1a0e3d3-768e-435e-aa25-13313de716c7 2137 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 ef011cf3-c3fe-4710-887f-3f7e08eece04 451 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 bdcd0354-e117-4d9a-b046-fad12368ac74 2368 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 31065ba8-7e87-4f5c-ae2d-e19e964aa96f 177 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 d1136b9c-b949-4fb5-8285-de04a9834332 451 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 60d060ce-9ef9-40b0-b0a3-eda7b8472562 2137 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 4d8be8b8-c4f6-4aed-a150-76686ec24586 30 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 c2e906ba-cf68-4a5d-bd47-2660820aef53 177 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 54ae25ba-7288-4e29-9bb5-3a458a7f5b75 30 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 c02fe8ca-cab8-419b-8534-44c4f76321fd 198 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 4a974bf5-286a-4d76-bf7f-db5d6e82bba9 1867 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 15f3e951-d6cc-4df2-8157-a905b2dcbb95 413 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 3f064231-6e5e-4535-a574-b2c59f6e7ce7 2182 WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE 34fab291-f6a6-4e66-8ed7-2c05b33f65af 177 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 83154c0f-5ed5-4917-b628-ee271da20ff3 177 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 413a6f0e-b938-457d-b625-119dfa9f33d9 188 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 ead92ac8-0a74-42e6-8733-e4f0005b43a9 32 I WAS CONSIDERED TO POSSESS A PRETTY KNACK OF COMPOSITION 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 278cd7f1-8e31-49c8-b2a0-a18c95d5c4ba 2108 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 46a65f1d-d1a0-4407-905c-bc7d9e5fd037 103 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 39caca23-d81b-4f40-8094-9f4de70818f7 451 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 59756629-1069-485b-8bb4-f16c3ac7b9f1 32 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 e8f7851a-7e43-41c7-a6c1-79a4220ab7c6 464 IT WAS AGREED THAT THE LATTER WAS TO MAKE A CORNMEAL PUDDING FOR DINNER bb0cc582-c230-41f3-b92f-8f4eec2613d5 451 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 34f2132d-350a-44b3-822f-0bd3bdb05506 30 EVIDENTLY PETER WAS NOT AN ADMIRER OF WHOM FELICITY WAS PROUD f9220a67-b30c-4813-b20e-5d831ed63d89 103 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 db10623a-c913-42a6-8a5d-b0241d4fb4bc 402 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 948af86a-d6f3-4c52-a202-cefbaddfdafb 402 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 02e7b968-b52f-4b80-b8b3-8dbb1dac70d0 2108 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 68ba7752-38db-4f30-8786-75e0dc2d2f57 2368 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 afd89384-ec5f-4259-962d-c0ce4ca12676 2312 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 38d0f3ab-2c1d-453c-8d25-0561db2c75ba 177 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 de630283-e4fc-4057-8549-1722f8882db0 2182 JEFF HAD JUST SET FOOT ON HIS DOCK WHEN IT HAPPENED SOLID AS THE PLANKING ITSELF AND ALL BUT BLOCKING OFF HIS VIEW OF THE NEARING ISLAND QUEEN STOOD A SIX FOOT OWL 257c016f-fa1a-4bd8-a493-62158dbb2b1a 2312 DID YOU KNOW THESE LITTLE PEOPLE WERE THERE BEFORE AH SURE THERE A LONG TIME 04302b4f-0b50-4349-8040-562237c163b3 103 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 ed551c95-7224-4fe9-9823-511c21e85c0e 2425 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 6b5e2233-5403-4fcb-8a43-a7ed32f465ef 2137 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 7d1f1b69-7aac-4ecf-b249-067b90fa1a41 14 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 48b5c1a6-3233-4fb6-b99c-0efd519bbfc1 242 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 698ef58d-d568-4e53-9a3a-995da9857d79 451 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 1d2799b5-2538-49ae-9c8f-cebb8cf835bf 451 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 3fcb7065-9aa6-480f-9aa2-0034ea6dfb1b 2108 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 d1f832ea-a64e-44d1-b647-4146689fc4f6 451 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 be9b2089-8970-4c35-9df5-f4c5e854116e 413 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 c58132c1-c264-4e4d-a8ac-26150153fb12 103 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 7a21a99f-8223-4423-8944-63d3077534a5 2274 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 fda99976-11eb-49d0-9021-5dd39f18fb63 2368 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 f67cac99-d501-48a9-a4d2-047bb996f83f 14 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 12f59843-1d6e-4f38-94ff-4114a4975a29 2317 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 2f27099f-b78e-4979-9f6a-82edbd6a6615 402 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 38bcc7fb-d23b-4253-b7b6-fe1e3b7befa3 451 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 f54e9b1d-7295-441e-8853-eb2113ac9521 1867 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 5e6c68f5-7597-457c-9e94-0b5872cc8904 2286 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 86f04159-76a1-4e1b-9345-ed031a37e8b2 2286 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 50dd0501-b99d-4fad-8a3d-f47c31f6b1b5 413 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 309f0fd2-36b5-46d1-9ced-79a21bf5a382 2312 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 6f71c2e6-1128-4736-a907-5469175ac70d 413 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 acad25fd-d16c-4fc1-8852-a6b1760bcaed 242 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 4b156776-ffe0-4cfb-9b6f-e8e1a4352dfd 2182 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 50e48731-3070-4fb0-a812-2f7153c69559 402 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 f53811d7-8c40-455d-937d-408860a0725a 14 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 3fb01450-7618-4c37-ba43-2265b9a4aec6 2286 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 957f9bae-70bd-45f6-9128-299eed95f507 32 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 f059d567-a406-479f-9a26-8b4081ecb941 2274 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 4be2700a-78b6-46fd-90a0-5310eb5d3c10 103 DO YOU THINK FELICITY IS VERY PRETTY SHE'S THE PRETTIEST GIRL I EVER SAW I SAID ENTHUSIASTICALLY REMEMBERING THAT FELICITY HAD CALLED ME HANDSOME THE BOYS ALL THINK SO SAID THE STORY GIRL NOT I FANCIED QUITE WELL PLEASED 4efa8234-277c-4f4b-95d2-b71173e61067 2137 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 a802478b-e642-4056-b740-2fba4cf44e56 451 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 6c3e98a8-fb60-4e51-b60f-7aec8f47929a 103 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 940208d5-21f7-4dc2-90bf-311043f1c08f 2317 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 21010a7b-3bd8-41e0-a901-720703d3f718 2274 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 a5c0193a-f909-4e54-a5a2-968c3997474e 14 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 92f5837b-6e1f-4c01-a0fb-116aea9aab8c 30 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 0c8317e1-d63e-4713-a590-754c4d963b53 2317 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 e064cb42-08e3-4216-89f0-9c1366c18f8f 402 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 cf9e1662-5d3c-49e7-b7da-b226b7be903e 451 JAMES CLARK WHOSE PEW WAS BEHIND OURS NEVER TOOK HER EYE OFF OF IT OR SO FELICITY AVERRED IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN I KNOW ANOTHER STORY ABOUT MISTER SCOTT SAID THE STORY GIRL 78fa3d44-3472-408b-9ef9-1d33f26cd7a0 748 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 f3fae822-9d47-4115-b6a1-aa45146f3c4c 32 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 facf99f0-ceb7-481c-9565-2e2e7f9a7d0c 2368 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 7a2fda70-8557-4b5f-ba73-28163aba5000 198 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 fecf12d5-5a4a-4fb0-af02-1499aa7eea7c 2286 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 bed596b7-c7cf-4c4c-8cc1-22b32223c627 2108 WHO IS GINGER ASKED WOOT THE GREEN MONKEY HAVEN'T YOU HEARD OF GINGER EXCLAIMED THE SCARECROW IN SURPRISE DEAR ME SAID TILL WHAT DREADFUL CREATURES WHERE DID THEY COME FROM ca19b78b-c71b-43e4-9d01-67a44a58152e 14 I DO NOT THINK THAT POETRY WAS GREAT GRANDMOTHER KING'S STRONG POINT 316626c3-6ac7-4785-9bae-b1ef6642c84e 14 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 01708068-d8e3-41e5-80ab-798944d50a98 14 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 3a7f16e2-f021-4cc5-9aef-f7c7de2afa00 2137 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 7402ebed-b527-49af-b20e-913f23100f31 2312 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 f8871d8e-f475-45e0-832c-9c85a8159f25 242 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 cbee30ab-c31b-479b-9910-536fa5586614 14 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 2cc2b3b8-433d-47b1-9cf1-2633a561e69c 2137 THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR YES SIR b56d1ae3-54ec-4eec-b120-e0cd21d97d87 413 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 e0aa1ffd-e00f-4c0a-a252-31f1213f99e9 748 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 2d7a699a-cd50-49cf-ba4d-5397ff0dccfd 2108 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 6724cfa6-7a88-425e-a819-0b4374da1241 32 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 0f8035e5-3657-4fe7-9996-24bdca130333 2425 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 3a9d6a52-1a95-4a07-949d-5517530ca8b8 413 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 2e40a198-afd5-4324-aee0-b1fa75f69db7 2274 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 10703820-92ac-4f74-9806-8b1b1e25cf5e 2425 YES THAT IS SIMPLY THEIR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THEY PASS INVISIBLY THROUGH THE AIR JUST AS ELECTRICITY PASSES THROUGH A WIRE QUICKLY INVISIBLY SILENTLY 52c82960-05d9-400b-b02f-5b8ad7304bba 402 WITH TREMBLING FINGERS CECILY OPENED THE PARCEL WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP WE SAW IT d80c5502-e1a8-4f42-94f7-7d7387c71687 2425 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 b4d84282-981d-4814-b641-0b336cf374fc 748 A DIMPLE OR TWO CAME INTO SIGHT AND SHE HAD VERY NICE TEETH SMALL AND WHITE LIKE THE TRADITIONAL ROW OF PEARLS 13b8223f-d4ca-4dd5-8540-36da7361048e 2425 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 b7c273c8-8ada-4129-8587-a7a4e4e9a56c 748 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 5d939c84-02ce-4cfa-bb8c-b8d6c25e217f 1867 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 6eca8a1d-8577-4584-bb8f-90e1eb300949 2286 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 217e4796-682e-469d-b45a-547f824e67f4 402 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 a9639a5c-9e1a-4d55-a352-0bf608121d4d 2182 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 1b5745fe-6d5b-4316-942b-37ab72af8302 748 I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS ec06e8a4-1901-4eae-bdd8-1ee612e4e455 748 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 e80de2e0-1d12-49c9-aecb-7f63b4349b8f 198 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 4c7be167-545b-4859-8eb8-e36ff891958a 402 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 d5d6c10e-bc6e-4bc1-892c-9af352ad9256 198 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 b8dcdc00-f639-4c52-880f-910489a807ea 2312 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 d249afed-4e71-45f7-8889-e7bb357f5d6f 2182 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 b4d1e89a-9a9c-4174-b095-c5bfd4273dcd 2137 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 6ca91dcc-62a3-4787-bdd8-ba75a1954d1b 2317 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 98b518a5-e45f-4901-a6ae-a14d25f1d731 32 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 05453701-84dd-4a64-909f-66cf809dbea1 2312 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 eb3a6033-a946-4919-8c0a-17fa54f40f4b 32 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 ecfd77f2-adee-4142-b41d-2d20bced97bd 188 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 438bbd1b-31ed-4d8d-a1c3-13391aab42f8 2286 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 9e61b6a1-d52d-4c88-b758-d7c964c44ccd 188 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 8abc5839-3e3d-4bff-b95f-227f0d66cd4f 30 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 3cc21a41-7103-47cf-bafd-136b71b5e700 451 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 1834b11e-f5a9-4bbf-8ad3-7592f8a8147f 2182 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 13ee3a6f-42a6-4590-bfb5-bdf7a8d0a307 14 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 933ef054-4ddc-4c50-9f2f-fe7740292cfe 2182 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 1ebf93b7-7d2c-470f-9fcb-8f46472d6a5d 2274 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 4d9d5302-271d-4332-bda3-8f61613a5d69 2274 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 7fce0608-6d72-468f-995e-49a04e4a070f 451 WELL WE HAVEN'T ANY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I SUPPOSE BLUEBERRY WINE WOULDN'T DO IN ITS PLACE a8cad772-e515-4748-b6f8-22c601f50739 2312 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 d95a50c5-28e1-4bc5-a601-55e1d635a044 242 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 197b62dc-1dcd-48aa-b37a-dd34923c745c 2274 WE'VE A AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED NOW WHAT 6d50bceb-7b94-4d47-946a-c4bc08bbe22c 451 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 bbbfb0c1-a75a-4abb-a6cd-c73c05df5ecf 2274 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 50b0f234-665c-43de-a5a9-c1071db01727 14 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 46e3be07-aadc-4ebf-a648-c9109c4e3e3a 2108 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 6fd840fe-0c31-4bd3-865d-bed9e8d84880 413 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 812fdf3b-d3e8-4d41-8fc0-2b797e2f79db 103 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 5e263935-ebb1-4d63-bd02-da5be5a01e4e 103 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 7f91a19b-62f1-4be7-a4a7-7b9fd8d07753 198 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 d576e937-1b67-44c1-a4c6-084241a18710 1867 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 af6d999a-8216-4aad-a07a-238e9c32f414 2137 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 af975321-58da-4c5a-ad4b-e512fe6bedc7 2312 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 1e6d4263-00ac-4970-bd7a-9093dd237fec 402 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 37d9bcfa-73a6-4502-a9b6-8910d03021bf 451 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 86a88f91-004d-4118-97e9-5bb5a24a7685 32 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 dc246220-4664-41ad-ba98-4f3bc2a616f0 2312 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 df5319ca-521e-44d8-81e7-058113cbe3fd 188 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 cb559bb5-ba1f-4eeb-b099-1fc876cb2817 30 I AM GOING TO CLIMB IT TO MORROW I SAID JOYFULLY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOYS ASKED CECILY 32ad34c8-8f6c-4fb6-92ef-f71853453da3 451 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 cd7b1adb-27c3-42f8-8425-dcd00d60b53b 2286 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 054efcef-8981-4847-878a-a30b2396f69a 402 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 2d147212-de82-4b97-a517-92acb9078c65 413 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 52039b0f-f1cf-4c7e-b40f-e0f55d3d0928 32 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 dd6036da-ccc5-4306-9d6d-052ff5d846e8 188 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 0e937e9c-c324-44ac-80db-f3d17add3082 1867 ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND AND WATCH AS HE STIRRED UP THE COALS PULLED OUT THE RUDDIEST IRON AND TURNED TOWARD ME 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 c8a8087d-c524-4cae-a1c4-670c5b3cb605 2312 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 08464a4e-9b05-4ff2-a74e-31353354020a 198 AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE f03bdcbe-ec5c-4c43-a38f-ebb3c4e9cd50 32 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 53967577-8bcd-4ded-8021-b368ea318d57 2137 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 beea30e2-dcc4-4afa-aab3-b006a08cb796 2274 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 28c2e48a-3122-4306-97e4-aa0154acab45 402 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 3aee1b28-b592-447a-9bd4-962b17e417bb 413 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 feab9017-a4e6-4952-8992-46210fc9bb43 2425 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 70313a04-a13e-4e2c-8c57-dd9ec73b40b2 32 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 ad08ea4e-ca0d-420e-b649-82dfa04a1a5f 1867 THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING I CHECKED THE READINGS CAREFULLY AND FOUND JUST WHAT I SUSPECTED ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE 6aff62f7-b5b6-46dc-9249-3f0d1539720a 2182 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 1330eb17-4a7d-4dd5-9389-7be4fa08ee46 413 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 56d9be55-2585-4d7e-b8ea-36de189386e9 2182 THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN 1d1c4a9d-f507-47ca-b764-86b9d99966fa 2368 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 e1a58fd8-b787-4af2-ae8f-15553e6846ce 14 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 7c8f35a3-2b28-4884-af21-c1eb3e622c99 2182 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 de10da39-8d17-45c8-8a60-9d5af8828c2c 2137 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 f1b191b3-fb5f-445e-a1c3-1eda0432d8b9 198 CECILY WAS IN QUEST OF INFORMATION WHAT DOES IT NEVER RAIN BUT IT POURS MEAN 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 cb88f543-f74d-4360-9d2b-a5b0d5b064ed 2137 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 e4fd165c-e615-4763-b2aa-96a83e3dc65a 2368 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 c2e66586-b248-4c9d-bf0f-0384bdcb80a6 2108 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 d6199eee-86b2-4386-85aa-b9497af314f6 32 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 bed95237-cbab-41cf-9fa6-b908c37ad70c 451 WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER f425941d-380e-4160-b755-521d1a72f67e 32 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 7813fdda-b9f6-47b0-a4c6-f60494d91e9e 188 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 0c51caf0-932b-4037-989f-c149732d80fb 32 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 4b1e5d8b-e3f6-46e1-8963-a3a68596d8e8 2368 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 236343ab-e34a-4a61-9eb3-ae3c5299edc3 402 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 9f540296-d59a-4f8f-a317-a120bbc1c425 2274 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 7ebe22e9-cdfd-448c-821e-3f298612fe06 242 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 82746210-0591-44de-a2fe-0df33b318afb 2425 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 334d070b-ae19-4f3b-8701-6185d0040e93 402 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 2969ac55-1703-4be8-a211-954490ea080a 2286 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 fc0b7ed8-0c11-4248-8a1f-2fedad29962d 103 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 a8f29d1d-a11c-469f-bb97-3711b4ad2c25 32 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 55860197-064e-4eaa-bb58-3e762347ddf0 2108 HOW QUEER EXCLAIMED THE LITTLE WANDERER da5fd7b8-d568-478e-a2aa-8aeb132f880e 2317 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 8a5c75e1-d895-4acc-9ea3-a5fca5a28e6c 2286 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 a44b276b-6c67-4353-bf4d-f9fbc3213c71 2425 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 9da20607-d5da-4b24-aa6f-e27b278ccf4e 2108 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 cef8d0c7-4795-434f-8b27-5ed2775ba6c7 103 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 eff9383f-76c2-4e7f-a691-7f61ef9cd765 103 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 1a2dd469-1509-4e9a-9062-cf8e99f3c08e 2108 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 78b4ee72-2bdd-4e22-b538-c03f3cfd4ff8 198 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 68884b98-faae-484d-9e17-86473b1f169e 2137 I MAY BE ABLE TO WRITE IT DOWN GET ON THE DECK INTACT TRY IT AIR START BRANDON 2c28ff36-d99d-4aa9-b9f0-d11e74902e98 1867 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 4c6a7ff9-414e-4d3e-87e1-2ca8ea5d7541 2368 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 60843926-c346-4f3a-85a5-98c5f2bc691c 402 THE TALE OF THE RAINBOW BRIDGE FELIX SO FAR AS MY REMEMBRANCE GOES NEVER ATTAIN TO SUCCESS IN THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES 980b2c9f-eb94-44f0-90dc-019b4287c296 188 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 dddc95f3-f162-4f1b-81de-20671aa3d11b 402 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 24dafa51-bd58-4d09-8a2d-ac2438f931ba 451 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 c3899cc4-4048-41b9-beee-bbbf2ff6cbd6 242 HE'S PRAYING THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE SHE SAID e2418ee9-5dfa-4909-836d-265cd3191087 2425 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 259c89d0-88d7-46b5-a48d-ffd6895a61d6 402 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 c80ca219-52fa-4d15-af8e-1148f97595a5 188 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 0dc1ea38-db9d-4b9c-b0c2-522baf29d60f 2368 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 79c94121-ed77-4cb9-bea9-192510e89e02 2286 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 8a8fa03d-2505-4485-bc14-488169da01c7 2274 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 9ea9874a-e0a4-4674-b2a4-ad4b237b8549 188 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 55a60036-2202-4d2a-9758-199f3caf57e0 2317 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 20dd1ae3-c7d8-4681-a76c-697395be2859 14 I CAN EASILY PROVE IT BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS HE SAID BUT YOU MUST GO WITH ME TO MY KINGDOM FOR THE PROOF 23a72d82-526f-490d-bb89-26b22727f5ce 14 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 c81aeaea-b039-4edb-b107-9c26248518d9 2182 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 f6c18174-17e1-4d6b-bec2-0b1ac3819b79 103 THE LATCH OF THE GATE CLICKED UNDER THE STORY GIRL'S HAND AND THE NEXT MOMENT WE WERE IN THE KING ORCHARD FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE 0c078691-cd79-499f-a148-bf023dbfe583 2137 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 2418ca3a-c927-493d-ac02-22afd5843be1 2137 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 ec968221-3c4f-4263-8fb9-94b7916c849d 2274 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 3049d6ba-937c-48fe-9b64-abf31f6bf875 2425 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 a8e88163-1277-4edf-89f8-201f41a4456e 2182 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 1c6f1b7b-9d30-4fbe-8b03-7c721857faa4 32 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 4a625139-1405-4e80-bd97-7d7c7afb1771 2312 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 caa1243d-1838-451a-a7d4-186086e1a875 2368 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 9c03ba04-b17e-4722-97f7-906b9f8c8921 451 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 a10a5e18-d195-4081-ab53-deffc9786979 103 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 76a922e1-4c20-4ccf-b883-3cc86c706cc3 103 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 A QUEEN OF HEARTS I WAKENED SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE d522c315-9e1b-485c-b528-962c4352a9bf 32 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 f7259896-5921-4748-a40b-7915ff0d8cbc 14 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 9d052d6a-a0c6-4386-839a-4a9ee87d68f0 242 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 f776e733-808d-43e3-9a0f-2875d54e18a4 188 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 4a8258c7-ce4b-44c2-9521-9f49f95f2c10 2108 THEN HE SAT UP FOUND THAT NO BONES WERE BROKEN AND GAZED AROUND HIM 901c93b4-fc5d-492d-910f-4d9b11111559 2108 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 ec4f299b-e00b-48bb-a0dd-f7d48ec9d89f 242 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 9edb0c8d-ed96-42c7-83e6-00bc65e4589e 2317 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 baf8805e-cf1c-4d88-8225-c3c1de487d07 198 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 THEY SAY IT'S PITIFUL TO SEE HIM I MUST GET WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THAT MAN NEXT SUMMER SAID THE STORY GIRL ae6fadab-8a5a-4286-92ba-a304abfd2277 242 PETER'S PRAYER WAS WRONG BECAUSE IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER I GUESS SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT 05cc212c-f052-49c4-a877-508f61071bb8 2274 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 6c309fca-823d-436a-9835-633e18e010ee 14 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 4675483a-b6c1-45fc-a963-2a2a68dec005 451 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 328f22d8-c079-4824-b421-4dfd025e87e5 2182 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 06fd4e51-055b-43cf-8489-8a9dd3556845 2274 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 99fd793a-3409-4cae-9e93-701daf558e5c 2182 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 0457755b-893d-4228-9ab2-2921c8d3812c 2368 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 757dd37d-f1a8-49e1-9bdd-dc2f4dcde876 198 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 c78fbbe6-a3ad-4812-9976-be48c5954918 2108 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 e90a6822-1559-470a-b6a2-b66c6fd5af76 1867 I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP I CURSED AND WHEELED THE EYE IN CIRCLES SCANNING THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP 3085fb05-3d8e-4429-ab56-c94bb6e665db 402 WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY ed8b6426-d108-4379-9b20-09fa7f2c6fc4 14 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 e7d5df0d-f1b6-4278-8fa3-521fd22776b3 2368 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 6cf39725-9425-4a19-b565-d0d1c50e8abf 451 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 e5ab3297-f43b-4a4e-a4e7-1cbaf649fca0 242 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 56c07920-671b-42e3-a10c-0c9217b2ee20 413 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 7e04dd06-59d7-46ae-8143-e4ff310908e4 413 A DREAD PROPHECY I'VE GOT TO GO AND BEGIN STUMPING OUT THE ELDERBERRY PASTURE THIS AFTERNOON SAID PETER DOLEFULLY 4f9a4e39-a0dd-4253-9ec5-7870098ee454 2286 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 424167ce-7f44-4cd6-bd90-2aeeb9d7e224 198 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 e08651d0-9d1f-4885-9432-06f9f1c5da89 14 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 55e5fc0c-6c94-4a24-93ce-4ee05fa956af 451 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 1651bfda-9d7a-4a40-8015-a75c56e6732d 2182 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 34b37063-66e6-45f2-a8a1-ff0ccb7cc320 32 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 ba0384a9-d5bb-4c26-ab64-8ae14d13efe9 14 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 6435f3de-cf44-40aa-838a-b05b9f4c7423 32 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 78b2e747-bf8e-4be8-96d9-c8642e4c0fa5 2317 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 08dfe267-a638-4564-8204-79bb9b2eb267 2274 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 17238ec3-8063-4757-90b9-270e96d02cd6 2425 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 ccb897f6-f1d3-4a62-a2c6-8def945f4aa2 2137 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 1624f135-cb5f-4fc6-8592-77d6d8575106 2368 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 cf48ae64-df15-40a3-8bb6-800561864092 188 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 569b3797-4f0d-4dd4-a859-5fc2a6ddc1a5 2425 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 4e33c1a7-1f72-40d8-add5-e7e0300b3848 2425 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 2a07ee5c-682e-491f-a60c-e6bc60c88a78 14 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 d58933b5-832c-4dd8-be3f-460cdbe8def0 188 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 b7279368-7ff3-49ee-ad19-9c347f9fd7e0 2286 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 ebb8c346-85d0-4e7f-8d15-90bff21e2f23 32 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 44792233-24ed-4bd9-b957-b5b0cf2d7fa9 2137 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 ade0acd8-e9f5-445c-9df1-a16afcdf716b 413 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 05f977e4-bfcb-4609-91d1-58ad0ffbca22 2108 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 56455aef-a9c5-41c4-818f-e8c531ba294a 2182 BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE d5529948-7886-47b8-ab74-2cbcba477349 2286 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 6bd32eaa-3c52-4795-b606-b7633eb17ccd 451 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 77c3bb99-310e-4ee1-be0f-2b3a09d37eb3 32 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 8813e160-4e94-477a-b7f9-d072a73a0d78 198 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 ce92460b-42fc-4ed4-a83c-7c7efc0e956e 1867 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 524e1615-3033-478d-8536-5fd9db5415de 1867 A TOUCH ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE DROPPED A STEEL PLATE OVER MY EYES UNDER THE PLASTER SKIN I JAMMED THE IRON HARD INTO MY PHONY EYE SOCKETS AND THE PLASTI GAVE OFF AN AUTHENTIC ODOR A CRY WENT UP FROM THE CROWD AS I DROPPED THE IRON AND STAGGERED IN BLIND CIRCLES ad0e78fb-7229-4d1b-b537-59689377ed67 2182 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 af1f4539-3a0b-401f-baaa-a044f2bf33e9 14 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 4c2bce3f-603d-4a76-9e28-1173ac1a5782 413 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 1a67408a-ed51-40b1-95d2-e6de38d01faa 2108 AND WHATEVER OF WHOM EVER SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY 5763d26e-372d-4c94-b717-8d985a40b0af 2317 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 cff7bd32-7a32-4b21-acaf-c0c285f74a2f 2108 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 388b76fa-b0dd-441a-9b8e-3b4db5ad568c 402 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 7b16d7d5-585a-4009-b1ba-20ee4dbf43f3 402 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 ce8f8bca-7d46-43d9-97d2-0208d22fc5c4 402 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 a226e35a-a1e6-4a3f-9360-f39418edf41b 451 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 8831ecc0-bae0-4da6-a603-34c320cdb6df 242 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 36ab4408-8be2-4fc2-b247-1ca3f20da624 188 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 af0c2b24-0cbd-4353-924e-1d0e0e816857 1867 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 b712cb26-db0c-4457-8dd5-4cd54b41a545 1867 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 THE SUMMIT OF THE STONE PILE WAS NOW COVERED WITH LIZARDS OF SOME TYPE APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIFE FORM bc7c4b8e-83ac-4a54-90b0-7570fa958bce 413 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 c137662d-e7dd-456b-9e95-fd23fc58eb7b 451 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 de885a78-3d70-4926-89de-2f59645c3ba1 32 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 fe9cb60f-42ee-4465-96eb-8d1f129d6e56 2182 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 18659768-8526-4fcb-affd-f59671afdb90 188 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 bed48930-fc3d-4ca1-a31a-e89f26dbad7c 14 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 3d234635-e3bf-4d82-8b03-32e572bc5cfa 2182 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 1c99f0ed-d3a6-4fe6-bb6e-a44c36f93a60 198 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 718f552d-b138-4523-8bd5-0457b1be5578 2425 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 e4ba7af6-5a38-48e0-8b8c-34732c6b97a3 2368 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 52251b3a-fe1a-4433-b4a9-cebd3893a9ac 242 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 823943f8-e47f-4c34-b4c2-d883ea3faa01 32 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 64a41651-67e9-4e66-8b81-6bdc93243830 2317 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM e6dc019b-822b-48cd-8b20-f3aad33057a1 451 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 add3e017-51f6-4074-b811-2a4cf3b5c8eb 451 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 3d03b047-3881-482b-9d8e-04ab037b1b65 188 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 cdaf0703-0a8b-4bb1-9800-bf505618e5e8 451 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 3490c2a6-4210-4232-b0f2-aa879dfb1c34 2274 RIM WAR ALL OVER AGAIN BUT THIS IS A DIFFERENT BREED OF FISH IT'S NOT REPEAT NOT A REDISCOVERY 5c675ac7-9d67-4685-b6e7-b6e0530154b9 2182 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 8765f3f3-8b52-48d4-8713-5a5f5493c167 2274 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 b9fa0b45-d3cd-4366-be1b-f21712c33fa7 2108 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 47c73e86-34df-445a-8ce1-f55beb4565a0 2425 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 8d1a8715-3c4c-48c3-9f4b-9d8a7b78a435 2274 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 32e68fbb-1cc4-49cb-ba82-7ee0b6202843 198 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 d711d6bb-e4b4-42ee-8668-93386fd8f6ae 32 WHAT COIN OF EARTHLY MINTING WILL EVER BUY BACK FOR YOU THAT LOST AND LOVELY VISION 9824d1a5-1c42-4b4a-970d-6f0706a852bf 2274 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 I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS AND THERE'D BE NO YEH a8af4075-2093-4846-8fc2-e8a9bc345513 2317 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 31c456a5-9b63-4850-a3e4-c27b53781d80 2368 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 3876310f-ff8f-4ca6-8f0f-954e1729a9fc 242 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 f579f971-a65b-43a1-b031-5305fe099b34 2182 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 d384634c-64b0-4007-a73d-d5a1e62e4866 2182 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 b8f981a0-489a-4272-af07-a41169aee8de 413 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 4ddf0d20-6177-439f-b1d1-83c1e8f2961c 198 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 8e6bd23e-c4f3-4652-be28-801c1a7a3d10 2317 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 8dd1baa2-8bd8-461f-9a50-f9bf01697b35 413 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 c0051f26-2ae9-4ca8-864b-e1504b184c7e 2108 WHAT WAS THE MUNCHKIN GIRL'S NAME ASKED WOOT NIMMY AMMY I SEE SAID THE BOY THOUGHTFULLY AND DID YOU MARRY NINNY OF ME NO ANSWERED THE TIN WOODMAN I DID NOT 74bc2b82-c572-4823-9cde-bf9027b55fd2 2317 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 341085de-246e-40e1-8210-868787bbbddb 14 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 3d2f8c0e-6452-4b19-81df-c3fa1d4a2ab8 2274 WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY ecb59e2e-df1a-4f66-9384-102f45005dd2 2182 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE 1980de41-ec4a-4690-a35e-06a44e759c31 32 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 52eaa1a0-9010-4231-be66-4053201dc975 2317 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 eaf6ade3-12d2-454a-8fb6-5014b715bae6 2317 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 e380cfe4-1a94-49c1-a668-0b351b53e6d3 2274 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 7e2fa163-9730-4ff3-b560-1f47d80dbf6b 451 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 5080720e-e2db-4d8c-9912-96dec43d6602 2317 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 3a9337e7-fb6d-4874-8165-b3371d23f041 1867 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 72b52a06-fa72-4b4e-9d49-b100da35e662 402 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 1b6124c3-44f2-4088-92cb-1a32aed2e0a4 2274 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 b2bb7967-03f4-4f6f-875e-6ad3354a777b 242 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 26949181-b7ef-4662-8e89-36ddd37f402d 2137 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 5a6eb060-e94e-4ab4-9c56-d1fd34686509 14 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 408a0d7a-883e-48d4-839a-8a09a0923b64 14 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 bdcaa0b8-20d4-4a19-973a-86c675c6d0e9 413 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 8e9ff6fb-d9d2-4a66-af0e-591d7f6691af 32 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 46d68d94-e136-4066-8ad5-21455c97313a 1867 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 1dedc922-db1f-466e-b71c-0496e0b57bd1 2286 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 c70c32bf-015f-4e35-80a3-a0877217c140 242 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 0c23ca23-7010-4807-b0ee-e5c5df98ffed 451 SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET 4eaa5ca0-3f52-43b8-9e58-8ace4fd90224 1867 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 d0331959-9905-451d-bdb9-aacbd7a51746 242 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 2db3a542-c419-49bb-8afe-d11ad70fa754 198 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 cc193c40-1daf-4e7e-a3e3-9a2ac79bee82 2317 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 c450f794-4fe0-4ee1-8e0e-9a145338ad68 2137 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 8efb7a1a-3549-4714-bc53-4f8bcc6d0051 32 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 3d692f23-77a7-413a-9e0a-85b8a9a2154b 2368 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 acc206a2-f64c-4297-9d3a-fe7d54824163 2108 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 45e9dafa-4ca2-4f15-abec-c3d73230b741 32 HE CAN HARDLY WRITE SAID FELICITY 71698dc0-23e9-4b64-a731-6fef9ddf6ec9 2286 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 b19f88e7-decb-474c-834e-060219774587 2137 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 6296e3ae-dcf2-4159-98ef-21a13cf84d17 2425 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 804f0459-b550-42dd-ad79-ae6b47279f28 242 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 3f009cbb-a1b9-4cd3-88af-b6d1b1830432 2274 HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN 6e49636a-10d6-48ff-9bc5-a2a96154eb21 242 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 129b3302-cfe1-47c7-a0fe-f19d1bf4c9ec 413 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 295bfebf-d4bd-40c3-a20b-4670ce64b0c3 2425 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 4f1968f5-78dd-493c-b5fd-564aa3e817ee 2274 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 3e78606f-90b6-46ce-abb1-e10e8d6c4bc0 402 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 a9200cf8-8621-4134-9885-3a69bf2a5b30 1867 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 1629e202-e0c5-4ee3-9809-e2e8154f5d6d 2368 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 5f7c8c05-046c-42a3-9904-34dd4f972e74 451 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 fda74fe2-cd05-4ddf-9675-f20d8f8da8fc 2182 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 e6974b4f-921b-4a9a-b306-fb339e33d6a8 413 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 c9f9596b-e431-4f8d-b513-90783ed9fcc9 2108 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 aa4db479-199c-49f6-8d79-67a569751d99 198 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 5fd9f6dd-b428-43b1-a6c3-def281b45809 2137 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 1521993d-5bb5-4580-9fe8-fb58085707c8 2108 DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT ADVISED POLYCHROME MISSUS EUP HAS PLENTY OF MAGIC LEFT TO CONSOLE HER KEEP YOUR ADVICE TO YOURSELF SAID THE MONARCH IN A PIQUED TONE WHO'S KING HERE ANYHOW YOU OR ME d4646aee-d541-405f-a5b0-a31b5fe93d29 1867 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 60545241-243f-4977-bdc5-f4cdc8e9c285 198 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 31f0f277-6bbc-436b-acca-7b5cb1d26450 2286 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 629a244d-6a44-4b98-b434-31a558716728 402 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 c26d633c-4d67-40e2-b8d0-7831b4e29fa0 2108 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 1d5d3be1-03d0-4c33-aa79-cba1cc996662 2286 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 8bf4dea5-f1c5-484a-af47-ac02336bc609 2317 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 ad5b4b2a-a45b-4ace-a1d2-0f676050b27e 2425 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 823944aa-7c6e-4ec5-8b3c-944822e648eb 413 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 ee479dd6-a759-4996-875a-88a4e7c8f8ec 2317 GET BACK WHERE FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE bcf50095-fde3-4fb3-a330-4ffd5f96a3d9 451 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 2d7d7a27-6d53-4334-91ad-e13199274c3f 1867 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 55814a22-986b-4147-98df-c053c52fcc0b 402 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 e559b4dd-d423-4954-ba99-3759fab4411f 2182 LUCK WAS WITH THEM THE SYSTEM HAD BEEN CATALOGUED SOME FOUR SERREAN GENERATIONS BEFORE AND TAGGED PLANET UNDEVELOPED TRANQUIL MARINE INTELLIGENCES ONLY a692b605-e215-459d-992d-f380b28f4e83 2368 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 f7968862-919a-451e-9912-a6e73ad59c7c 2425 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 375a8128-5b0b-4da3-971d-3461ef387371 14 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 45bb61ac-4021-4465-b9ac-41b88ea23bf8 198 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 dfb6b412-2a82-456f-a02e-aeec9e079498 1867 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 eed46fac-675f-4679-abb8-3078cefb370a 2182 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 7d3200e2-2624-4eee-83e3-2a17f4a9f28e 198 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 b751623a-3593-4ff0-80f4-19d9ac1f95da 2425 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 0403a0f5-48a0-4ef9-bb27-00bebadb6d66 402 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 b1912774-5268-4936-bd16-6e0f71c7c758 451 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 0f0deaa0-17dc-4649-8ad9-98ee4a9e9171 2425 I COULD NOT ONLY SEE THE LIGHT I COULD FEEL IT IT BEAT UPON MY BODY THROBBED ALL AROUND ME I HAD A FEELING THAT THE MINGLING RAYS OF LIGHT CONFLICTED WITH EACH OTHER eb433c0e-1c23-4ebe-a4e4-9c13c3a60afc 402 PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN e7bfeb30-c71f-4b4b-bf1b-03c3e3faeea5 2182 BEYOND THE SURF THE SHALLOWS BOILED WHITELY WHERE THE SCOOP FOUGHT FOR TRACTION TO DRAW ITS GROUNDED BULK INTO THE WATER SHE LOOKED AT ONCE STARTLED AND IMPATIENT NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL ce642ae9-28e8-478f-9c91-889f04cf58fd 413 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 bd2e6cc5-1480-49a2-ac13-75e204ee6220 402 THESE EPISTLES WERE AS DASHINGLY UNDERLINED AS IF SARAH HAD BEEN A CORRESPONDENT OF EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS 43e01509-3a08-4946-b6b0-cb09729c7071 1867 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 dd2f51a6-6f82-4424-9d99-6666ccdd330f 14 EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT 0ed9f5e9-b41a-429e-9518-1473f39b01fe 2182 NOT SO CHAFY THREE ASSURED HER GALACTIC WILL OFFER SATISFACTORY ITEMS IN EXCHANGE AS WELL AS A SOLUTION TO TARA'S PROBLEMS ea64fc01-51ae-4888-93c4-c483119fdf13 2137 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 c4911e7a-d455-4120-b8f7-d08d7a7c4b4d 2137 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 9e7a882a-bba1-48ea-860a-703b31094c61 2317 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 bda9e0ec-1829-4c65-bf6f-b6f69a4f6954 32 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 b2d59a50-4ade-4e87-a152-50e252e585b7 413 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 47b18c4f-4f72-4eab-800d-7404d9993a0a 1867 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 aab156a6-bdc6-4c54-8c1b-75c331b572f7 2137 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 c98581cf-c180-4f17-8fbe-78f925fc0a4e 32 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 4cc5fcaa-168f-41c8-ba96-e0d702136f9d 2368 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 b77f3069-2b67-4113-8987-47d2b5f75830 198 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 ff6a1483-aca8-478e-a38e-9552cd350712 1867 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 595adcdc-aca2-4017-b4f2-5fcc494e2f6e 2286 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 23ecbd5d-ebf8-469a-9ffd-0815ce6848ce 188 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 3faf03ed-ca0b-4285-bf98-6e30a93e838a 2137 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 5ca3cce2-a484-452b-a854-2ee1daed744c 2425 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 7ff5f778-dd7d-4343-a80a-48ee95fb3a9b 413 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 I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS 4e26c21f-09d3-4056-bbf3-68f90fa778df 2286 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 443c7b75-4950-4507-a700-74a6b1ff46ab 2182 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 5d967117-224b-48d1-95a0-1cc927d08b9a 2137 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 75022a12-509b-4ae5-95eb-abb69d2b35bf 2425 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 39614d18-f217-4cb8-97e6-262b5e77bcab 1867 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 95e57cd7-c8d9-4825-a7f9-23c7312c2ec3 14 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 f7d14abc-df25-4486-b210-284e89d0c08d 14 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 77720701-5864-4cbc-80c0-da591988850e 1867 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 f41d3bc6-63a6-45e2-abd5-bdd58ddfba02 32 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 73a722fc-8e8b-4848-a6e2-ff9c938fc1b9 2368 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 0fae5b70-aea6-460d-9be8-5773bc241939 188 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 9da837c7-d611-4644-b1d8-ab9712d3678c 188 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 cfd47fca-44b3-4e09-85f7-a8166a6e7329 188 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 f14beab4-0f42-4fc5-ad1e-757b7c288989 2274 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 51ddb485-3bd1-48d4-be32-3bbf09640670 2137 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 3a502efb-fa33-48d0-8c48-b0a02f63484f 451 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 a7c636e2-aedd-4540-9da1-b7374d11c534 2317 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 de6b1303-534a-4187-9b36-e1b8d96b9d1d 1867 I SLUMPED DEFEATED WAITING FOR THE BLOW TO LAND THE OLD MAN FONDLED MY CONTRACT SOME OF THE MORE CREDULOUS NATIVES PROSTRATED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS FLED SCREAMING 1064dacc-98f4-48d4-8ad5-555cd4473ab1 2317 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 7e940cf0-dd13-4431-a0d1-79f3a72be1b4 1867 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 b484d91d-f88d-4a8c-8dc6-d07ca79ed49f 402 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 3515ba2d-8505-415e-9e0a-be059425ca9e 2274 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 d93fb6b7-7d4f-48a6-b4b2-cd236ef1c911 32 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 ec41fcd6-0451-475b-b709-10ee574d6851 2274 TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND 1a5c2239-009a-47a3-8dc0-3c7ea9ed411c 2182 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 8b6a28e4-9ea8-4b9e-adca-3bbeb1dbaf99 14 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 0cacaa5e-21fd-40a6-bd28-023c71e5566d 14 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 43f8b283-8a29-437c-9f7d-0436dc6eedd3 2425 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 42ef3808-b469-4c50-bce3-ab8abb7168d1 2368 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 562231e9-0bd6-4dfc-ad4f-6a9c589fba1e 451 I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL 62b710ba-4b21-4c31-b1e7-dc7ff9bb42f6 2286 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 f7bb1424-fe88-4be9-8b3c-caf58341ead8 2317 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 2ba77091-40f2-42df-8acc-4b866bc88a5e 2286 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 a14ac9c7-1609-4b8a-b634-87aa6edc67b1 188 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 20104f0a-3b58-40be-a144-f916ad2dccfa 2425 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 b133dcfd-9471-4b36-8b51-377c7ab94972 2317 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 3ccf01e8-534c-4b90-8099-c1d9d3f0065a 188 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 4fb3ff52-2668-4ea3-a0d7-45fc0521157d 1867 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 3a362f6c-d145-45ce-ac0c-f7f6a47953e6 402 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 772039c5-c365-4b42-92fe-af38b29f7ddf 14 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 5a19bec9-ec3e-4b5d-bdf3-6ee2c05fcc54 2137 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 922a7a97-6e34-41c0-bc7f-745cdf070c58 2425 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 fc6ed64c-48f7-4175-b3cf-8f4b67a7efdf 2108 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 591f4fc5-cb2b-46ee-bd50-3d836cffd842 2182 GAS BREATHING CHAFFY FORE SAID UNBELIEVINGLY WARM BLOODED LAND DWELLING MAMMALIAN 5e7fa32d-6b0b-438a-aa35-169d3e06890f 2137 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 b2a0404f-cbd1-4a5d-8eba-b738c4ddc2d2 2425 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 db184ba2-f48b-43f7-8e47-5ed453f3db46 2368 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 b6ace7c6-dbba-4971-b295-6e1b0a43fe85 2368 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 634a6a3f-3e5d-4ef6-9c94-05c594330724 2317 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 3431c5a5-e3ce-4c86-81bb-6176db438d0f 2425 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 afb69c8f-8aa5-4d58-a8a9-ec55e06dc7fd 2108 WHO PUT THE AIR WALL AROUND THE HOUSE WAS THE SCARECROW'S QUESTION NINNY AMMIE DID THAT NIMIE AMMIE THEY ALL EXCLAIMED IN SURPRISE 6db94725-7b0e-4f56-a5bc-95bbd52fb9ae 2317 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 38c8a415-944a-48cc-869a-d375fb00383f 2286 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 bf1a94f9-862a-4772-aee1-d6fc4f7a1cc1 1867 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 7d5b132e-dc03-4a69-9544-38f50370fa7e 2274 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 1fbbb1f2-3a86-4fa3-8dd0-98b81c587071 188 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 4502f84a-1a4b-4729-ac5f-0b36c0d648c9 14 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 f5d166ae-4bda-4144-8f96-9578585be065 2425 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 11c66a79-e508-402c-ad26-214eacfb2767 2425 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 451aae02-2d1d-4b2d-85fa-e9fe8d26bb70 2286 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 6670b41a-7d01-4643-8c27-c7e9be6692c7 402 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 5dc2aaae-3c3e-4651-980a-2a08b1f2891b 2286 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 ccd9a871-6d1c-4b7f-8dde-2aa11e939212 2425 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 551159ea-a71f-4a6f-88da-8343d0a288bb 2368 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 feed30ec-bed3-466e-aa21-7f303b9dad9c 188 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 712f8683-7107-448e-a279-672db637f1cc 2317 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 b2632f57-f20a-4f24-a2e4-098e3371d0f0 402 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 d8774ab7-f358-405a-98e5-5772fcae6f5c 2286 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 2625d890-f42d-4d3e-b120-308f0163a8f6 402 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 8179ba02-731e-4049-a006-d767b49042a1 2317 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 f8a68e72-f6e2-482c-a48a-8469b3ddbe08 451 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 8df9d375-e1fc-4761-b4d0-9e0e8123147a 32 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 639a9cbf-7ebe-4dda-951f-43b70712649f 2425 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 da53f994-f893-4477-baea-76c58dc059f1 2286 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 851d860b-30fc-4176-aac8-df75eeaf569c 188 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 ddd9992f-a1cc-40a5-a493-cfa376a0df35 2108 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 c2fb0a59-0d20-42f9-add2-d8e6c2e6b0a3 2274 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 629bd66b-a1a8-4142-95f1-f6fbf718c488 188 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 84bfd8ee-a04a-4851-b276-bd16a2e1042d 32 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 fd1e988b-67fd-49c0-90ef-83ae86fd4aa5 2425 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 2f35ddc4-7349-4094-89e4-f3e526217fad 451 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 5286add7-89b0-4ebf-924e-6d9721391a76 188 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 931b1a37-2749-4e1d-82b0-ff0d289d9676 2317 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 9fb46d1f-2edf-4eaa-942a-ccfee9ba7582 402 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 6ce1750b-6e37-4146-964b-027ccec622eb 32 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 eb1146a0-47d8-44da-9a4a-4b98487944b9 2368 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 19f17d9d-3b11-43de-a00a-b61575805410 2108 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 096ba452-cfd4-40f3-b06a-274ae197f476 2425 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 c7f4f699-df41-4e55-9e4a-92ac3367ce40 2368 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 acd38c17-0b51-49d8-a1a7-5453edb7bb79 402 THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN SCINTILLATED ABOVE US PETER AND THE STORY GIRL KNEW ALL ABOUT THEM AND IMPARTED THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO US GENEROUSLY 58dd299c-58d0-4284-8188-a84958ff639b 2317 THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER THEN RACE SMILED A SMILE THAT WAS SURPRISINGLY SOFT AND SWEET 29ac523d-bde4-4a52-b5d0-8817e4149e82 451 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 c1e86457-2bec-405b-a34e-e63e6832267f 402 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 8c0f949f-2381-4f98-943a-fdb81ba8e225 2368 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 22891dd2-c13e-4f49-9d94-2908840b4669 2317 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 62e2600e-1e53-4422-af2c-72b56f4aa55a 2108 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 6b3915ea-9420-4599-8dcd-43d0ad948295 451 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 efe1252a-e9b9-4b8f-90de-e7ae17b0d289 2274 DARK LIKEWISE ERGO A HIGH PLACE ON THE DARK SIDE OF THEIR MOON I'M A PIE EYED GRIPIS WHISPERED STETSON THINGS SKIPPED THROUGH THE AIR AROUND THE LURCHING VEHICLE FLITTING AND DARTING THINGS 13686c62-5bd4-4ded-91be-56d20c562f1b 2368 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 d1d7133c-1721-4af2-9b9a-1e07728baea8 2317 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 a86bb059-1f5f-4ae5-a9a9-a262fd212d83 2274 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 23219b9b-c3cb-4e7d-9038-20183c79635c 402 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 64113b17-26fb-4390-9daa-3c3be3e66f94 402 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 0fa1ee62-3bae-4a36-8130-b41e0ca8d2f8 2317 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 b3197666-a998-4d9f-95f9-fbabbd634015 1867 AFTER ALL WHEN A BEACON BREAKS DOWN HOW DO YOU FIND IT NOT THROUGH HYPERSPACE ALL YOU CAN DO IS APPROACH AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN BY USING OTHER BEACONS THEN FINISH THE TRIP IN NORMAL SPACE 195637bc-71e5-4382-bb96-f715a904c872 2108 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 13cb9f64-b4ab-44ed-b6f6-fdaed92febe9 1867 IT WAS A LITTLE SHORT IN THE JAW ME NOT HAVING ONE OF THEIR TOOTHY MANDIBLES BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT I DIDN'T HAVE TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THEM JUST SOMETHING CLOSE TO SOOTHE THE NATIVE MIND c4c70274-0b45-4510-8aa9-53d84e4341ca 402 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 d95735c9-147c-420d-9895-2032b3c5a850 32 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 2da5e500-4d14-4355-b97f-5d10f487ecab 2368 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 9ffba4cc-9f4b-4ad4-8860-1707a189ea64 2108 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 dda77eaa-d6c9-450b-bcc5-b8d64f16c2b3 2274 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 19ab539b-bd10-423f-9f49-e73a904fcc1b 2368 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 cabef88d-e5ae-4d20-988e-d09a94d2c9f6 188 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 84b689af-7ea2-46f7-b3ba-e8b691091920 2274 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 636af036-b29d-4cfd-ab00-fe7102aa3786 188 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 a2f663db-0553-46bc-95a5-2032bed36915 188 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 322245d5-421d-4963-a54f-39792e9cd66f 2368 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 800e014e-3f97-4b04-aec8-a614300120a2 2286 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 56446cba-0064-4c6f-a103-882764dbeb7a 2368 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 7e904de7-65bd-4fcc-a196-9716cd6e8835 451 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 60f910fb-7802-481a-ad40-1ac391d3c73d 2274 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 975466e3-2e09-4cba-9b06-7eb24ceed7b3 2274 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 355ec342-4d7d-4334-80d6-275e014184ce 2108 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 b227bdd7-fccb-4198-b72f-20934ca1a169 2286 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 b27db4dd-e205-41ee-8255-151a36c19bd9 32 UNCLE ALEC WHIPPED HIM FOR IT THE ONLY TIME HE EVER SO PUNISHED ANY OF HIS CHILDREN BUT IT WAS BECAUSE CECILY CRIED ALL NIGHT THAT DAN WAS FILLED WITH SAVOURING REMORSE AND REPENTANCE HE VOWED NEXT DAY TO CECILY THAT HE WOULD NEVER SWEAR AGAIN AND HE KEPT HIS WORD 16c8cd79-097d-437f-9323-147e389b14f8 2368 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 396fe1c7-8e1a-402d-b52a-083f1505d40f 2274 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 37da0201-e56c-4567-a794-b9fe303ac6d4 1867 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 6cf1f4db-afbd-4286-bc71-a8c15eb75f7a 32 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 93ae2ca9-529b-4a38-ada9-e617862d9064 2108 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 2c3b96fd-5881-4db6-8546-e842f6ea742d 402 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 3479f1c9-0d68-4c93-a59e-6e19d67f3cd6 1867 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 a2512f2c-2188-484a-9869-5d5c73df0aa6 1867 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 a5fe71ba-3363-4c01-822c-43b4f41d53cf 402 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 619e6d36-5374-43a1-9d67-3d2cd4f5a3ee 32 LOOKING AROUND ON THE FACE OF THE GROUP I SAW THAT THEY ALL SHARED MY FEELING CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES 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 ad96ef0e-de3d-4ed3-b083-b081699222ca 2368 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 a3ad39f5-1f7e-4d37-812c-a3228fd8f502 2274 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 4714b297-9826-441e-8ed9-e4165b3a9ec1 2274 BEHIND DORN THERE CAME A DEEP RUMBLING ROAR THAT RECEDED AS THE SCOUT CRUISER CLIMBED ITS JETS d2f9489b-4270-463e-a1d0-cddc440fd013 188 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 e0120efb-d04f-45d2-8918-c93feae365de 451 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 15a70ea2-f034-4735-96ef-18b7a474a40c 188 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 01b368ba-eef3-4690-b8c8-f03f0cc77f4a 402 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 54964cf1-abcd-4eae-add3-8d6ec30647e6 2286 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 f556323f-e6fb-4b55-83ba-ff1b7030e3f1 32 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 304fed39-35d4-42f8-9257-3d39fc011a4a 32 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 3e2609cf-f173-4c15-80c2-0c6dae39d6e7 2108 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 29e12bea-b8d0-4a6c-b88b-3ed3084be28d 2108 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 cface510-98bd-4d52-ba02-c1354cda984f 402 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 f5205690-c4e1-46a5-802a-15936e894eb0 451 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 8945e74e-5a03-4bcc-88af-ab72520eb3b7 2108 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 aa465e1c-c0b6-4ff5-80dd-2f80a43f4741 2286 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 92b55ab3-2832-4e6d-8d57-5f000e12c6e9 32 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 35b4cc2d-8cd8-40c4-b948-b46af0af629f 2108 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 e676895a-c831-4e75-aee3-7ad51669dd89 2286 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 c26f553c-2b05-4f76-ac84-7a8aa687bb9a 32 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 4f317ccc-889d-482f-a6c9-4fb2933cb284 451 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 0970832b-161c-47c6-aa31-7b8049b6ac81 188 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 20702dcb-362c-4607-94b4-b390f9c82ded 2286 IS IT STILL BEING BUILT ON TO THE SHIP c3b74f0a-cef9-4b0c-b4c3-db586ea63301 188 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 82ac299b-a7fc-4c94-a42a-94b2a6d4a45a 451 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 aa1bf5db-40d3-47e4-b518-ce0784ce05a8 2286 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 65ac404f-a79f-4937-b314-5ec5ff8f612c 32 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 d444e1b1-ece2-4aa1-8af6-e183a0a89cdc 2108 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 70a7e0be-ce92-43c2-ba4f-c8e7f35776be 32 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 0e13280d-7f9c-4513-9efe-a094c5764eaf 2286 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 3f54333a-e682-40b4-a74a-5f809259ae6f 2286 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 4da57332-84fe-44aa-bd2e-ff13b28048f6 2108 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 49eb9fb4-58ba-470c-89f1-75727e8e65f1 188 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 c9604cfd-7cf8-47e4-8ddc-33099e63fffb 451 OH BUT THAT'S WRONG SAID FELICITY YOU SHOULDN'T PUT SARA UP TO DISOBEYING HER MOTHER b77f5bb3-c68a-4a2a-b5b4-ed42c075e704 2286 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 df04106b-b28c-43b1-840c-d8a70acecaad 2108 FINALLY ONE OF THE DRAGONS WHICH WAS FARTHEST AWAY FROM HIM ASKED IN A DEEP GRAVE VOICE WHAT WAS THAT 2cd8da79-2940-4005-a4f1-0c0c6c01da36 2108 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 9f6facb0-472a-4675-a337-7fb32f5648f4 32 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 3d28bb97-50e3-470b-8353-9db1937fef2e 188 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 4996fc62-a687-4a45-be0d-14426a8b6e08 32 ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING 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 b53b3016-5255-44e6-86f4-7ccad6bcbad3 2286 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 0781af24-6a1a-4bf1-bc69-b19690514e74 2108 THE ICE WERE IN THE HEADS OF ENORMOUS BEASTS WHOSE BODIES TRAILED FAR BEHIND THEM EACH BEAST WAS BIGGER THAN AN ELEPHANT AND THREE TIMES AS LONG AND THERE WERE A DOZEN OR MORE OF THE CREATURES SCATTERED HERE AND THERE ABOUT THE CAVERN 798d1bb0-2c01-4f63-95b3-001ca0c1e688 451 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 3af95e86-5a99-4ce4-9ab5-8e6ba4b36141 188 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 2f9b0f42-7478-47ca-ac87-c3670b1f808e 2108 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 521325af-b21b-4fff-b7f2-3b6b7652b69d 32 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 5056c98a-7723-4cd9-a403-e55edbea0005 2286 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 e7e08736-7d04-479d-99e5-591ee6b231ea 451 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 5cb14e35-2cca-46a4-9e63-ff9524743f26 2108 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 d65e1602-7efe-4db4-b5e2-5e4a2bec0f88 451 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 7593c213-b572-4483-9a84-0f4f5c721d75 451 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 c3d1e3bd-4537-46af-8c58-9effd3abedca 188 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 5a34b6a3-4fae-4031-9873-2da7940b5113 451 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 a12d36cf-3eef-4cce-8efd-cc264cb2c452 188 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 dad2d6fb-a568-4d02-8753-0e04b4f69b7a 451 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 c1acf0d3-138b-4363-a85d-b98ea6f59de8 188 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 8c98e084-4dd5-4cf2-ab2f-63b157c5aec3 2108 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 aa948930-5eee-41e2-90f6-94fb26fcd051 451 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 17c85644-0327-4eae-9099-fa718de628f9 2108 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 0c2f3d25-b2ac-4656-9b76-f2277f3a0cc1 2108 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 ffbea6e7-9006-493f-aa32-3c28f0333c76 2108 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 c927c42d-bb96-44a9-a687-c195ecfb54cf 2108 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 fd6a66a2-6434-409b-94cb-be3de931728a 2108 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 cb7c81ea-3423-4496-a2ff-07933afc0dd3 451 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 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 39dce388-fcdf-4d5f-b46f-ba68e0e368fa 451 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 cbc6b286-0599-458a-92b9-47524c31a762 188 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 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 f29b6e7e-6db2-479a-902f-29fa14b9f80a 2108 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 a99989f2-0ac9-4a86-8f8a-5d704ae72437 188 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 b3ed07a6-70ac-4e0d-8dad-53644cd310a0 451 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 2e306a3a-8485-4d03-8a06-a4cb1701bd2d 188 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 476adef6-da3e-46ce-bb22-9931519e9b9b 188 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 2a29a887-d983-4ea1-9a8f-db9a0a1541b9 451 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 2ad6a9b0-7b21-4d96-a154-73e3328f4a3c 451 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 c1f4b3da-ef55-499b-af2a-acdcf01c44ee 451 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 d0bc05fc-4d65-46bb-9e64-46a029dae412 2108 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 853a0d37-2ef1-47d6-8b58-02cba248286a 177 BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR IT'S IT'S FOUR THAT SEEMS KIND OF QUEER SAID FELICITY DOUBTFULLY 9a865653-ed41-4efa-a019-51ee60eba521 464 NO I DON'T SAID FELICITY YOU NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT HIM THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH HIM WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW 1bba5788-5e1a-4d69-8d6d-880f9cd6dbec 2137 HE COULDN'T FIND THE CAPSULE PARTS WERE STREWN ALONG THE BOTTOM OH NO OF COURSE NOT df7789da-3037-431f-8dce-d2f1271a8019 2312 AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE 69ab7b14-9bf3-477f-b1ce-e7ca2bcc92bf 413 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 a5b48356-e900-4f58-8f16-3165d9b68925 748 WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT SKILFULLY INDEED HAD THAT ASTUTE BILLY PLAYED ON OUR RESPECTIVE WEAKNESSES fdfcd590-0613-4c0f-9dc1-66682af5fa7b 103 WE WERE SHORT OF BOYS BEFORE ONLY DAN AND PETER TO FOUR GIRLS AND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THAT LANE WE SAW A GIRL STANDING WITH A GRAY CAT AT HER FEET 4f6c3797-3c62-40c7-bf9b-c67fa4973bfa 464 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 16f7d932-f377-450e-8b4e-04142daaf82d 464 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 d142a2e9-f657-4124-9b3b-cb30ea8c355c 14 WELL I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY IT WAS NOT AN EASY MATTER BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY d8fa2f3d-43c0-4454-8761-afafe928e26f 2274 FOUND HIMSELF STARING THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AT A NATIVE OF CHINA THREE BUT THEY STILL PUMP THE BOURGEOIS INTO THE RAW BOYS 3060645c-473c-4f4b-87cc-8ad6285dd08d 2137 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 d300148e-2c5d-4221-ad3d-d8e5a0f97ebe 464 HE WAS ROCKING HIMSELF BACK AND FORTH WITH HIS HAND PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH THE PUDDING DID NOT TASTE EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD 17a370c2-227c-486f-8eff-7684730150e1 30 AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE I DO LIKE A ROAD LEST WE SHOULD BE LOST OR KILLED 7dc158d9-8b6b-4407-ba61-902850c5c811 464 THE STORY GIRL'S FACE WORE A QUITE INDESCRIBABLE EXPRESSION COMPOUND OF HORROR AND SHAME SHE NEED NOT HAVE CONFESSED THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN 7325f170-e81a-4c0b-bcf1-34bae8e65b23 14 BUT SHE WAS AS WHITE AS HER VEIL THESE ARE THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS I HAVE CONQUERED WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE 6bd1936a-6956-4f6e-97f7-7b2f4cda62f9 177 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 bb43ade7-3271-47f2-9205-8e85dc0b058c 2108 TINTING THE GLISTENING TIN TOWERS AND THE TIN MINARETS NEITHER OF US CAN BE HAPPY AGAIN UNLESS WE RECOVER OUR RIGHTFUL FORMS dd118a16-3bcb-4e0c-9846-1873f5edc04c 1867 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 0c5ef09e-d989-4b55-9a00-03079ece518b 242 NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT SAID UNCLE ALEC STERNLY I HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS 7272900c-2f08-417f-ad69-bf975e0893d2 14 AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND e79afe1f-8467-45e1-9d67-6ded9ca0edf2 2182 JEFF TOOK THE BROWN HAND SHE PUT UP AND DREW HER TO THE DOCK BESIDE HIM CHAFFY THREE ASSURED HIM ae66c192-bfc7-40ad-a132-b1722f3604ac 242 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 0407c7f6-456f-45bd-988e-b70f301a43ef 2425 I COULD RECOGNIZE THE FACE AND FIGURE OF THE WOMAN I LOVED AND OF HER BROTHER BUT THEY SEEMED TO HAVE NO SUBSTANCE 167bf346-e376-4515-b7ed-6280c5c0d85c 2425 THE BLANKETS ON THE NARROW COT IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM HAD NOT BEEN UNFOLDED PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY'VE FOUND OUT HOW TO ENJOY IT eef8652b-92d4-49df-87b8-c2594eb3d24a 413 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 26a020bf-4980-43d2-81be-1243004cfcd7 2274 OF THE DELPHINAS BUT YOU SAID AN I A SHIP FOUND THIS JOINT THE CALL BELL JANGLED 020e4ad8-1b8e-4a92-8a29-bc6dda2731be 1867 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 b2ab7387-de0e-4b73-9406-4472a874092f 2425 AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE TWENTY ONE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX 34acb52f-1717-40ae-9f69-e66871c62615 451 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 88d67e74-0e49-45da-93fa-2a1d9521a694 198 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 d9c83fa0-e5cb-45f6-80b7-7a0ea9c0d31b 2286 CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE 1b620dd5-a988-403a-a93a-21cc9c0b85fa 177 WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US 297b8181-dfe0-4c8b-945e-0c12d6edfa7d 2137 HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE FROZE HIS EYES ON THE BRUSH b1aa4fea-c5ca-45ac-837f-488ecbe95c86 748 WHAT PETER HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED FOR REMAINED A SECRET LONGER THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS AMONG THE FAIR FRAIL WHITE LADIES OF THE WALK c307d549-339c-449f-bf0b-8c179c0189c9 2182 COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE e4ea15fa-f4b1-409d-9602-6a88100f2bfb 177 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 b2666583-fa31-4360-be90-d8af6061bbc9 2108 THE TINSMITH WAS AS PROUD OF HIS WORKMANSHIP AS WAS I ALWAYS YOUR LOVING AND GRATEFUL FRIEND 6381fe34-750b-41d5-9130-791b1e365065 2137 I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON IS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU THINK YOU MIGHT NEED A BOOSTER SHOT BUT THEY WERE PRETTY SLOW COMING IN THIS TIME f823d1dd-2890-4ddf-b35f-b7e85c2b8c53 30 SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER THE GIRLS WERE PREPARING FOR BED IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN 5752abe9-e51c-41c3-9805-0a5cf22d2e0b 2108 SO I FOR MY PART MAKE IT A RULE TO ANSWER ANY CIVIL QUESTION THAT IS ASKED ME 2af9656a-3260-4b45-a18d-42c4d3e43ced 2312 AND THIS WAS DIFFICULT FOR THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE TOWN HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A DEADLINE BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITIZEN'S GROUP REGA PEN NOSTROS PECCADORES OLDER 29356ae2-39b9-4e3e-ab04-c363824cdcd7 2286 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 aac121c0-acba-4d56-9a13-1c51d0224fa7 14 SHE WAS FULL OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS AND WARNINGS SO EVERY KING WENT TO WAR TO PROVE THAT HE COULD CONQUER EVERYONE ELSE 9009bba6-d8dd-4818-88ee-bdc2b535b61f 177 INDEED I SHALL I'LL TELL STORIES AS LONG AS I'VE A TONGUE TO TALK WITH OR ANYONE TO LISTEN THERE WAS NO PREACHING IN CARLISLE THAT DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS NOT TILL THE EVENING 49d82561-1e51-4916-a3aa-131017a2680e 464 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 1702941d-1cf8-4330-b3f0-49945626314c 14 OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY d709c418-c342-4230-8c9f-a40ec47e9dd9 2368 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 2a443eaf-580d-4acf-b213-c1cbb67255fc 2286 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 07260373-3156-4b16-adcd-cd99e4bdffd5 2182 AS IT WAS THEY HAD BARELY TIME TO TELEPPORT THEMSELVES TO THE AFTER HOLD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IMMEDIATE DANGER 33f001b9-63e6-43b7-b5fb-8fc9eae33f8a 2368 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 e29a3da0-8740-4cb8-9935-d817956e8251 32 THEY USED TO MEET UNDER THE BIRCHES AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE BUT YOU CAN HARDLY EVER COAX PETER TO BE THE POET fe0db0a4-1685-479a-a4de-d8fcd4e19771 2368 THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE MY SON IS GONE IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY 66228dc0-bf5e-4d92-b9cb-dd9054568fb7 748 THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED LOOK HERE BEV IS THAT MAGIC SEED SO IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED 8335f40a-6064-49a6-b799-29cdefca0823 2182 IF THE ISLANDERS WOULD TELL US THEIR SOURCE AND LET US HELP DEVELOP IT FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM bd0d2aab-4ded-4e5e-9e55-6d8e97b24d4b 14 BUT THE STORY GIRL'S BRIEF BITTER ANGER HAD VANISHED I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL ONCE GO TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH UNTIL YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A HORSE 5888d7f5-5a7b-4cb2-b3ba-78c9d3dcdfef 242 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 e3d8167f-c975-42f5-9542-7a427f0c063f 2274 THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE HOW DID YOU CAPTURE THE DELPHINIS TOSSED IT TO ORAN d2eb6138-bd32-4ce9-8e49-fe165d3900b0 2425 BEING HERE WHEN I RETURN FROM TOWN AFTER MAILING THE LETTER TO YOU SIR IT WAS HER DANGER AND NOT HIS OWN THAT HAD BROUGHT THAT HAGGARD PALLOR TO HIS FACE IN SO SHORT A TIME fa646972-792c-4177-8a3a-8926ccfdb66b 198 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 a0b13585-5702-4a78-8be9-3088f188c150 198 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 d9746217-6ba8-442b-aeac-ea89792575e3 451 FELICITY AND CECILY WERE CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND WE BOYS SPRAWLED IDLY ON THE FRAGRANT SUN WARM HEAPS 86361956-066a-4949-9c43-997829c31389 2108 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 a426b331-c418-4ff3-a363-e8b260bd8490 30 AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO BUT CERTAINLY PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND FROGS WERE MORE TUNEFUL AND MELLOW fb414b3c-f344-4a01-aabc-d1a423ff17a9 464 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 0e226e92-4b19-4c10-af86-a17917746152 103 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 320718ad-6413-4f82-b6c6-20b720265f5e 177 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 2a33db62-9bf6-4614-a36e-46c8af7da95e 2312 IT WAS THE SAME NIGHT VERY LATE AND AFTER HE HAD BEEN ASLEEP THAT MARSHALL WAS AWAKENED BY THE RING OF AN AUTHORITATIVE VOICE BUT MISTER MARSHALL HAD NOT ACCEPTED IT AND DIED QUIETLY AS MARILLA HAD DONE 0caab55f-bcd7-4a92-a615-0937a340247e 2286 MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE THE SHIP WOULD NEED A CREW A BASE FOR REFUELING AND OMISSION 88679e9b-0bfd-44be-b3c7-039ab65e32a9 402 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 WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS b41cce61-6fbb-4d1c-af2d-8b0dc197a071 748 WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US EVERY PUPIL OF CARLYLE'S SCHOOL b9e09574-4d22-49fe-8988-0d71f2130aea 30 WE HAD ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD EAGERLY TO THE PROMISED STAY WHEN FATHER WOULD TAKE US DOWN HOME TO 705c4864-fe47-4572-8a79-313c6690b113 30 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 18b8aac8-3830-4df8-9707-e9a23b941d91 1867 I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME cb4ac091-ab0e-4188-84df-49436f8b896f 103 IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT WHEN A SON WAS BORN TO ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH A TREE WAS PLANTED IN THE ORCHARD FOR HIM 5448e564-2d17-44d3-a708-3fc35431b919 14 FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT f777a958-b49a-437a-ab7a-0461ce3e8e36 188 OF COURSE PEG WASN'T A WITCH BUT IT WAS BEST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE AND ADDED PETER DELIBERATELY TAKING HIS GUM FROM HIS MOUTH TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT MORE IMPRESSIVE 6521642b-b481-47a8-8498-51e8b239d872 30 AND A FRILLED MUSLIN APRON CAME TO WELCOME US WE HAD HEARD FROGS SING IN ONTARIO OF COURSE c16db526-cffc-4a85-ab57-9dc1dd290ace 2182 UNFORTUNATELY WE TRUSTED OUR STAR MANUAL STATEMENT THAT THE PLANET IS UNPOPULATED 1c02ce64-44a4-4190-9868-ed1f9d2edc1b 2137 THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW CURSE THIS TULLIT HUCKY AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE 8bc4b993-cf4d-4c25-882c-f83cb6333d49 177 AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GROWLED AS WE WENT IN TO DINNER I WISH IT'D HURRY UP AND HAVE IT OVER IF WE HAD EATEN LITTLE AT BREAKFAST WE COULD EAT STILL LESS AT DINNER 5f4af57c-b7e5-4c27-97d6-f84f7d004dfe 198 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 I THINK WE'LL BE BACK BEFORE HE WAKES SAID MISSUS PATTERSON DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME 2191296c-3d25-49fb-a279-2d19301afad4 32 AS SHADOW WAVES GO OVER RIPE WHEAT BEFORE A WIND I THINK I COULD BE ALWAYS GOOD IF I LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME 2ebeeec8-24e8-4aa0-b312-2cde7f6d2fdd 188 YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE eac30302-a9da-45f4-a871-08edd301c0ac 30 BUT HE'S GOT HIS SHARE OF MISCHIEF THAT SAME LAD BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY IN THE VERY ROOM 3c2624e0-036b-4ad9-8882-14c4461a71a2 748 INCIDENTALLY ADDING THAT HE WAS WELL AND LONESOME HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED IF THE REST OF US HAD JUST SET DOWN AND DONE NOTHING 322f39ab-78d1-4cca-bed7-0df866f331da 402 BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX 2b63d1e8-2770-4229-a6c4-915ade185725 242 BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING I LIKE THEM BEST THAT WAY 5c5ad77b-ee92-47da-858b-df1332f7dba7 464 AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE 8a6d368b-c641-4cb0-9a60-d18bc3d18d5c 177 IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO HAVE THE LESSON LEARNED SHE SAID OH MISS FRUIN AIN'T IT AWFUL HOT I DECLARE I'M ALL IN A PRESBYTERIAN 6b1189a8-f70c-414a-a632-346ea884b88d 2312 BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL 6b0db21c-0c3f-440e-820e-71b046fd227e 2317 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 134eda2c-ea2f-4551-bf1e-4e21411553a8 103 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 09fecbb2-39d5-40af-881c-b7119e778e40 2286 THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA 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 f14d486b-9a21-4bb4-9669-a0934afa5daa 451 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 77beaa2e-dd4f-4bf3-a064-04f2e44641c1 748 BUT UNCLE BLAIR COULD DO AT LEAST ONE THING SURPASSINGLY WELL WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER 5d482e59-4ef0-4947-8d9b-6b2ee6253135 198 BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE USEFUL THAN JUST INTERESTING SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX 71e4b19b-ed82-4ea8-8949-1a2454340099 103 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 e23d6252-7aa0-4664-afa2-3d31e3b7420d 32 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 15209390-3b35-4794-9a6c-f50924e805f6 464 WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST THE STORY GIRL DID NOT BOTHER HER MONTHS b541ea5f-ec28-4ac9-8e5e-b441aeb6a1d2 413 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 bca0ff77-f1c3-4b3d-aa8e-330345389b25 2312 BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL AND THE HILLSIDES STOOD GRAY GREEN WITH OLD CACTUS ddbe2fe8-d975-46e5-b4ca-a0ad61bb7f36 2312 NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE 98ed9756-d43f-4fc3-8e0a-247d46332333 402 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 4460d03d-5909-4b52-8d81-e2adc1f0fc75 32 SHE HAD A LOVER HIS NAME WAS MALCOLM WARD AND HE WAS AS HANDSOME AS A PRINCE 63b13672-db5b-4ac2-b397-b7cfb1b7d8a3 2312 TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS ASKED THE MAD MIDGET IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL FILM THE WRITING IS SO SMALL 0b492fa5-8f21-4cb6-acc0-27038534669b 2274 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 ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL 93a788d1-a5da-4a6a-8bcb-9f5fdff914d9 748 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 383844eb-da26-4a26-ae2f-344ebb0b3846 198 AND ANYHOW HE IS VERY GOOD AND WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE DON'T LET HIM GO OUTSIDE THOUGH HE HAS A COLD NOW 7708df1a-60d0-4049-bf40-e3a2014c9159 2108 RUSHED UP AND SEIZED THE AXE AND CHOPPED MY BODY THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING DURING THESE LAST FEW MOMENTS NONE HAD PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PRISONERS 7244c0a9-24b8-48cf-80bf-ece622f2d125 198 AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE DON'T TELL UNCLE ROGER SHE IMPLORED HUMBLY 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 3a6a59ba-7b00-46da-8f1e-09b65aadbbfc 30 THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING WE DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE VERY TIRED ALSO OFTEN COMES UP TO PLAY WITH US AND IT IS AWKWARD TO HAVE TWO GIRLS OF THE SAME NAME IN THE SAME CROWD f88aa3f1-de63-4d07-9577-6c127eb18909 30 I HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY PETER HE AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION a569bc2e-6759-4c4d-8e4d-46031e6d1414 2312 YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT MISTER MARSHALL IS YES WHO ARE YOU DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM a52e1ad7-d059-4953-9ac4-21f45d1d0ae7 464 WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER AS THE STORY GIRL PROUDLY INFORMED US WHEN WE CAME TO THE DINNER TABLE ALL ON HER OWN HOOK 135db47c-d87b-47d1-a575-5ee24b4496ac 2425 PROVIDED MY WATCH WAS CORRECT AND THE EQUIPMENT WORKED ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE 4f42612d-7ebe-4c95-b701-ea77aea094f6 188 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 313c9739-a89e-47a9-8355-1a133c5926b9 748 HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM WAS THE LARGEST HANDED IN BY ANY OF THE SCHOLARS BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN e7078693-0503-490a-be37-bae378e5444f 2286 WHAT DO YOU WANT THESE WERE THE FIRST WORDS PEPPER HAD SPOKEN SINCE HIS FIRST THREATS INSCAPE WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN THE LATEST INFORMATION AT ONCE READY TO BRING THE INTERSTELLO BLAWBREAKER LOW 6e1ddec7-577e-4063-9dce-41d5d9abf5e4 2317 HE MUMBLED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ALL THE HELL WITH IT BUT SOUNDED LIKE IT AND SOFTLY AND SILENTLY SLID OVERBOARD aa6ebae7-fec4-4226-a8d1-0eda4945bc24 413 HIS COPY OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER 588c7bb2-bdd8-410d-a6ae-833cdb4539d4 2286 GET THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER IN HERE AT ONCE I GLANCED HER WAY AND A SMALL DOOR WAS SWINGING OPEN AND SHE WAS GONE 0301c361-3e85-4439-a9d9-0b65ac04dbd9 242 AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER FELIX WAS VERY INDIGNANT AND AGGRIEVED AS WELL I'LL GO AND TELL HIM SO RIGHT OFF c9c42798-b501-422e-afea-ee0274e3e1d7 198 FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER 8ba13d3e-ed0e-4507-aa2e-17322ad6ce8c 2286 WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL 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 feb6f882-85e2-44c7-9e7a-7dd4d7af568c 103 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 SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS c5c5a0a2-4701-413d-95cc-191eb661df9a 2286 IT WAS TOO MUCH LIKE A COMMAND'S NIGHTMARE TO BE REAL A SECRET WORRY ALSO A COUPLE OF CLERKS WITH TRANSCRIBERS AND FAST THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH 1cac5893-6d1d-4500-ad4c-7ace95f5ca1e 1867 THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING c84596ca-19b1-41bb-863a-da3837342fda 2286 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 73f96d11-538a-4bf7-a020-fb3012a75f81 748 NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM 73addf05-80e8-4de3-8242-8feb24907cfc 2274 RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF HORN STOPPED ON TO NUB'S ORDER AND THEY WAITED ALMOST TEN MINUTES BEFORE PROCEEDING 035d0b94-c134-474b-9e81-4243f7f9d4ca 748 WHERE THE WEST WIND CAME NOW WITH A SIGH AND AGAIN WITH A RUSH AND THEN BRUSHED OUR FACES e550d41e-e50b-46f4-9906-178776b3ab6a 188 A SCARLET PRINT BLOUSE AND A MAN'S HAT I WAS A REGULAR WRUNT BEFORE I BEGUN HE SAID AND LOOK AT ME NOW TO OURSELVES AND DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE REALLY SITTING IN A DEWY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ORCHARD INSTEAD OF WATCHING TWO LOVERS 9ac4d257-325b-4496-b798-37bebe903060 30 BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK AS FATHER HAD OFTEN TOLD US 9209ab8f-0144-4c66-ae86-6d30e8a99a02 30 HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY WE CALL HER THE STORY GIRL PARTLY BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A HAND TO TELL STORIES 45bfaaeb-7e68-4533-be9b-1676c6f90730 464 NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY 714a918c-475b-4a9c-b7fe-3c86479f1bb8 2137 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 581a12a7-e857-42cb-8a12-b0722d7ea840 14 THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS IT SEEMED SO TO STRIKE PETER WHY PATTY JUST SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY 63c24035-72e2-43ff-897a-4b76443decf1 32 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 0d7decb4-00a1-4b65-ada5-a5279c936056 242 THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOW I TELL YOU I THE MORE RELIGIOUS ANYTHING WAS THE MORE FIGHTING THERE WAS ABOUT IT 258f66e8-7c3b-4eb9-ba8c-48aab90d3ee9 32 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DRAM ASKED FELIX SCEPTICALLY SHE LOVED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART 0fb7c4cd-d38c-4c1e-85b1-0b2aedeeb432 177 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 047522d5-91d5-4f30-bf6b-aa0845c292fd 2425 TRUE SMILED VIC WATCH THEM PETE ROARED VIC WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY eaf8c882-731c-49c5-8a4e-3cba9a2e1c56 2274 THEM AND THEIR STUPID ORDERS IN ALL THEIR HISTORY HISTORY NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY f1724651-2617-45ff-910f-65207c306208 30 AND THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD BEFORE IT AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN 1bb12875-b745-4b55-a978-17c870ae157f 103 HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY b283377e-9fcd-4b10-9558-82ce4de5ad04 188 BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED d6a634dd-4408-43f2-82e8-a5a72277e980 30 WE HAD NEVER LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN ANY ONE HOUSE THE SHEETS AND PILLOW SLIPS WERE FRAGRANT WITH LAVENDER 2749daed-0fdb-4bb0-9fff-6097b0cd8e71 2286 I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED I CAN BE CONNED ONCE IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN 42dc7223-3214-4b40-b444-b926a6e640cf 2182 INSTEAD OF DOLING OUT A HANDFUL OF CRYSTALS EVERY TEN DAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY NEED OF ACTION NO HE SAID 8ff7ff1b-d0cf-412c-b154-08c54a160456 2286 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 a84e82f8-99f8-43db-ad47-c5065ae52ecf 177 WHY NOT SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH A FLASH OF HER EYES WE COULD NOT THAT WAS VERY CERTAIN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED 5b4c8b21-9551-4599-973b-b126686af0b1 451 JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THINKING OF GOING BAREFOOTED HE TALKED VERY NICELY AND READ AND PRAYED fd6f0a52-eba1-4015-8ea0-17547c73d350 188 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 a1ed5506-b588-48b3-b2b6-6a2eb1f62c7a 188 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 24ff9df2-47f7-4110-8fe8-af6d04073657 2368 AND IN ANY CASE HE SAID NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE f56161a3-0ce2-4a09-8472-da8c87149026 451 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 WENT TO PIECES EXCEPT CECILY WHO ALONE RETAINED HER PRESENCE OF MIND f369bd26-4782-49b0-84d2-022734bddbe7 2312 HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST DON'T GAPE GET IT SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS ab8440bc-d041-4e02-94aa-93e095a98966 103 I MIGHT SAY IT WAS VIBRANT AND FAR REACHING AND BELL LIKE ALL THIS WOULD BE TRUE WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION 1d5cc86c-0feb-4424-997d-e87a1deb3a33 2286 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 317340a2-44b6-43e8-8554-7576d5a6b88a 30 IN THE END HE DECIDED TO SEND US TO UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET WE KNEW ONLY THAT A COUSIN 5524916d-fd70-4fb3-9e92-62f0f902b518 103 HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION 8e608133-388d-46af-8b25-9a9a38e421e5 2274 MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE THAT IS A QUIBBLE FOR WOMEN KNOW I'M A RECENT CONVERT BUT d0cc83c8-942e-42ba-8fa4-e6dd08b80089 242 BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM 9b0cd32b-1c1b-4025-aea2-997f0f3623e9 2108 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 be155dcc-f416-4339-9edf-16e9c5b2f7dc 2317 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 0a27dd6f-afc3-439b-b1bf-355ec7a994be 177 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 75f774c5-14cb-41ec-bfc5-567c763e5296 177 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 1c22169e-a84a-4e5a-ba31-80af02dbb7f6 2317 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 156fe240-126e-4b00-a83c-0bc9ff9b0630 103 THEY HAD FOURTEEN CHILDREN IN ALL AND EACH CHILD HAD ITS BIRTH TREE WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING cff57b79-3c3d-41c7-ad02-c5d48787e5ba 2182 THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID e68ef2a7-fe7e-4262-9a12-a994154f6a83 103 OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER 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 01f923ad-cb8e-4cba-8e51-5ac6ae997fa8 2274 HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE STETSON CROSSED OVER TO A TILT LOCKER BEHIND THE BIG TRANSLENT MAP 4bea1933-7dbd-4e1c-aa67-afa0ece3292b 402 DID GOD LOOK LIKE THAT AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF EDEN THROWN IN TWO YOU KNOW I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS 8fd36b8f-e22b-4cf7-bb58-1bd724ab9932 198 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 183366ec-bfc7-4b15-a78b-96e80d4d90b3 2368 SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID WAIT THE INQUISITOR SAID HEAVILY 011bb57a-14d4-45ef-bf27-b2a1fe54726a 103 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 be84b53d-0feb-4f86-b623-95353f083248 413 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 f6801fc3-aac6-4883-8431-0b5a237d23b4 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID PETER DID NOT COME OF A CHURCH GOING STOCK 5e7b951d-639b-4644-aa57-f0769034b769 2425 BUT AS HE CRUMPLED HIS BODY SEEMED TO SOFTEN AND SHATTER INTO A SCINTILLATING CLOUD AN INSTANT LATER 1560f578-70d9-4784-950f-d161f89c4ca1 2368 THE TRIALS WILL CEASE YONAS FINISHED IT IS A TRICK HE BEGAN A YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS b6c8497f-31b6-47f6-af47-f5d4f5aa560c 413 IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING 40a5a094-5a68-49fa-8893-b8ab06064dac 402 IF IT IS I WON'T TRY TO GUESS THE REASON AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL BUT HE FELT KEENLY THE WOUNDS AND BRUISES OF THE CRUEL ROCKS b2d79b29-fb3a-4c53-a235-b778c17f33b8 413 IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT 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 f4c8573f-fb64-4a89-9759-e72662a2f7ea 30 SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT TOO TIRED TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE OUR ANCESTRAL DOMAINS 0876ff6e-215f-46cf-9fcb-9ddcb6f723b8 32 AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE GOOD FRIENDS AND HAVE A LOVELY SUMMER TOGETHER SEEING THE ALARMED FACES AROUND HIM ae9a96dc-7daa-4bed-81d1-23bac2e3699c 402 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 d28cc9f8-caaa-419d-a83f-25a7194b526b 2108 AND SHE HAD ALSO PLACED HER LEFT HAND FIRMLY UPON THE SHOULDER OF THE GREEN MONKEY AND NEVER GREW UP 548edc3f-dcf6-429c-9e71-f13df1424029 2317 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 cfcdb106-9594-4b2a-b8a8-9de1d588acae 188 THIS WAS MORE THAN HE HAD EXPECTED AUNT OLIVIA'S SKIM MILK IS AS GOOD AS YOUR MOTHER'S CREAM CRIED THE STORY GIRL HOTLY 56b02286-0fe2-4eda-b8cf-e36365be4a1a 177 A FEW MINUTES PASSED OR A FEW YEARS WE COULD NOT HAVE TOLD WHICH 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 3b889df6-bed5-4a60-b68c-a19fb1f0740c 177 OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY CONVERSATION LANGUISHED THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR ba37daf7-676a-4abd-a458-278cf036114e 413 CICELY'S PRAYER HAD BEEN ANSWERED WE LOVED AUNT OLIVIA BUT JUST NOW WE RESENTED TO HER HAVING LAUGHED AT US WITH AUNT JANET AND WE REFUSED TO SMILE BACK 641c1696-262c-4777-a9d6-33ddea399cb9 14 WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME HERE ELDER FREWIN A TALL PALE MAN WITH LONG SANDY SIDE WHISKERS APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF OUR PEW WITH THE COLLECTION PLATE 250e79f8-2c5b-405a-becb-3a1a3c3dc037 748 I TOOK THE BOX OF SEED OUT OF MY TRUNK IN THE TWILIGHT ROOM AND SWALLOWED THE DECREED PINCH 78687a53-e096-44d6-a419-c35687214c21 198 NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS RIGHT THERE IS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND BUT ONLY CHILDREN CAN FIND THE WAY TO IT 1cc7d1a9-8e9e-41f2-949c-d9dd4020b9b6 30 LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY f1d2b7e3-9330-46cd-962b-f83ef8a241ec 413 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 3fce53ba-7fe2-44cb-9918-7f592b591699 451 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 ba68a3d4-99ac-4f4e-abb7-25c543093356 177 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 3e7375e9-d37e-4bac-9447-80dd759b2dde 1867 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 IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON 297417e1-2eee-45ff-88a0-ea3c803cb548 2274 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SAID STETSON POLITICIANS WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT 7227ab90-254a-4144-b1e5-504959c6e794 413 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 9da174fa-6111-478f-858d-151bbf064927 103 THE SHADOWS OF THE SPRUCES WERE LONG AND CLEAR CUT THE EXQUISITE SKIES OF EARLY MORNING BLUE AND WIND WINNOWED WERE OVER US a7d5d161-044b-44ad-b13d-51cb7ed623b4 242 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 0fa943a1-e28e-457f-90fe-95377cddd704 2286 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 3aaaf39c-63df-40aa-a65f-b2f71a61a369 748 THAT OUR GROWN UP RELATIVES DID NOT ALTOGETHER ADMIRE OR APPROVE OF UNCLE BLAIR WELL WE HAD ALL BEEN BADLY HOAXED d8552880-3f4a-407d-b602-58709cbb7c1e 2312 THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY WE DON'T KNOW THAT MANOEL BUT WE WERE IN A SPOT AND NEEDED A WORLD 2aec9023-0824-4842-8999-4cc9a71ad520 14 BUT WHEN THOSE LONG WHITE CLOUDS SWEEP ACROSS THE SKY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS fc5eccd8-7368-4764-b1f6-e1ca4a10c558 198 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 c99c81a8-fcb2-4c69-9be8-1bf88c26f530 32 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 8c38e7a3-4d63-4111-a1c2-a98464842c8d 177 AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT IMPLORED THE STORY GIRL IT SAID CECILY WITH A GASP 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MORNING WHAT SHE CUT HER VISIT A FEW DAYS SHORT HER AUNT HAVING OTHER HOUSE GUESTS TURN UP UNEXPECTED LIKE 1069485a-c302-4a34-811e-35911a3e0571 2274 ORNE TURNED LOOKED AT TO NUBE IN THE DIM GLOW OF THE CABLIGHT GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES 05c91901-347e-4891-99f1-246a98059169 2312 MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK AND MILLER AND I STOLE THE LISTS OF NAMES AND RAN AWAY 6760a85c-f00f-43de-8c3c-e75114c18693 413 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 271d9915-f8fd-4d87-a800-5e0bfec43994 198 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 80c1e6a9-541b-43d9-a7b3-ee43e6d8929c 242 NEVER AN ARROW OF HIS THAT DID NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE MARK 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 CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER aadcc6a0-6637-4c15-896c-823676b2cf8d 2182 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 911389ef-2427-4043-85a0-3bcee0c3c0e0 748 MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST OR OF DISQUIETING AMBITION AS SOFTLY AS THE DOWN OF A THISTLE f9b69f07-3c3b-4658-839d-570b469242e3 2108 AND THE BROWN BEAR GRUNTED AND GROWLED WITH GLEE AND TROTTED TOWARD OZMA AS FAST AS HE COULD WABBLE 13cc001b-b6eb-402c-bab0-306dcbd1b4c8 2108 BUT WHEN OUR TRAVELLERS ARRIVED THERE THEY FOUND THE PLACE DESERTED AND RUBBED THE BONDS THAT WERE STILL AROUND HIS ARMS AND BODY 5156ed2e-00aa-4080-818f-0012be729ece 451 WE REPEATED HIS JOKES TO EACH OTHER ALL THE WAY HOME AND PETER WHO HAD NO MISSIONARY BOX AT ALL UP TO THIS TIME DETERMINED TO START ONE e226469e-c195-49a2-84d5-71a36bd93464 2368 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 2f241a0d-0939-4011-86d2-414e38b1525a 451 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 fbaa22a4-0bd3-4c24-8b38-a2666f938fed 413 THE STORY GIRL WAS SITTING ON THE MINT BESIDE THE WELL HOUSE WEAVING HERSELF A WREATH OF BUTTERCUPS VERY LIKELY I ASSURED HER REMEMBER SARA RAY AND THE MONEY BACK CAME FROM PRAYING 7fc10956-cceb-480c-b323-613ee24a2ab1 2286 A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL 09b8b918-4493-4eac-b106-c983746cf932 413 AND MARJOR SAID JUDGMENT FIDDLESTICKS I CAN'T TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BETWEEN THIS AND TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW AND THE POSSIBILITY WAS ALMOST AS DREADFUL AS THE CERTAINTY b93e5dbd-74d0-4621-a156-97712e804dea 2274 CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY ON ORAN'S MIDDLE THE NATIVE'S MOUTH OPEN REVEALING LONG CANINES ec8443eb-902d-4a7a-ac36-aec725254db6 748 WERE MERE SCRAWLS TELLING US TO BE GOOD BOYS AND NOT TROUBLE AUNT JANET WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT 3d7ba7cd-6dc9-4def-84d5-3db9cc641493 198 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 326d233f-6ecb-4f2e-a910-8540321d4a5b 748 WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED AND WALKED AMONG THE GLOOMY PILLARS OF BONIVARD'S PRISON dc37d42a-b81c-4b62-a265-f28526214135 2317 TO RAISE INVENTION BEHIND DOOR THE NONIPUS SURGED SLUGGISHLY AND WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYWAY 09cbcc41-99c2-4d96-bdcc-3d2df0778334 188 IT HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO IN GREECE WHERE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAPPENED 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 65711189-2667-40bc-b921-b1e452652fb0 2274 OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN NOW YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY c9625e5b-0385-4c90-a937-0830d9cdbd9a 2286 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 7136f39f-2fdb-442f-a37e-e2ffad1a5556 464 THE PUDDING WAS CONCOCTED AND BAKED WHAT BEING TWINS MEANT AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO 1a84d8df-37d3-4cbd-b32f-f3ede7813a95 1867 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 I COULD ALMOST HEAR THE WHEELS TURNING BEHIND THAT MOSS COVERED FOREHEAD 170f7b1e-dfbe-47d8-a3ef-cbcb75296ebe 198 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 IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU 39de0151-b410-40c3-9d62-160c31492c35 198 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 c44dd003-e059-48b0-aec8-e2a444980782 464 IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE dbc103d0-ef39-44e3-ad52-236664ce0508 14 I KILLED IT STONE DEAD IT WAS HIS DUTY TO TELL ME AND I DO NOT BLAME HIM WELL IF THERE ISN'T ONE IN TORONTO IT ISN'T LIKELY THERE'S ONE ANYWHERE 0ed9172f-7bb9-4c48-b3a7-122c001e0bf1 2368 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 f1bf8499-2e00-4385-ac3e-a22a8f9a391f 177 AFTER DINNER THE CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY AND THE SUN CAME JOYOUSLY AND GLORIOUSLY OUT WE WATCHED HER WHITE CLAD FIGURE PASS THROUGH THE GATE AND ENTER THE FRONT DOOR 85b3649e-3287-4817-98d4-1551db6b2a99 198 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 bc44a250-f19f-4327-b1f0-fb214da9381a 2368 SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY 8989a404-0b9f-4105-a95f-e650859d0ccd 402 MANY A SWAGGERING GALLANT RUFFLED IT BRAVELY IN VELVET AND PLUME ADOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK 1ddc0867-1714-4de0-b06a-92a080a2933b 198 THEY SAY IT'S PITIFUL TO SEE HIM I MUST GET WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THAT MAN NEXT SUMMER SAID THE STORY GIRL ed39e903-5b7a-48ed-b9ea-25d07e7332e7 1867 THERE WAS A GREAT CRUNCHING AND BANGING FROM THE JUNK PILED AGAINST IT AND THEN THE DOOR SWUNG FREE 77a184e4-ae54-42b3-9536-cdbe768b2f99 1867 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 I WASN'T GOING TO PLAY WITH THE FUEL PROBLEM AT ALL d71401fb-1175-44dc-b472-8cfbcf4fe03d 2286 AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS MY MESSAGE WAS IN CODE BUT IT COULD BE QUICKLY BROKEN IF SOME ONE WANTED TO TRY HARD ENOUGH 5e1074df-5e1d-4961-92b0-679ad076f857 413 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 df0a0b88-a379-4b0a-9ab1-055d2c5623ee 177 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 3afdb9f6-3e6e-42c2-9c75-3fd44c27e38f 2274 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 07b6d6fe-d70e-4ae0-8dbd-f8714182ad52 2312 THE OTHER WAS AN UNCANINE LOOKING DOG SIZED BEAST SO FULL OF BIRDS AND THORNS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PORCUPINE 63807689-e52b-45ba-8e0d-7d28025329ae 2182 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 e017e089-c122-4a7b-ae5b-b2de05ac3910 2286 THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR 063f3c17-7b4b-4177-84f3-828002323a18 14 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 aa5aa667-3b9e-441f-9fff-22a60e434ac1 413 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 AT TWO O'CLOCK IN IN THE AFTERNOON adb94075-1412-4d24-991a-fd9e5b1654ac 177 THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT 34c1a728-429f-4a56-b828-8d9ec7dddddf 2368 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 4d2eb589-fb17-4b91-9c6e-8ae96c4f91f1 2286 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 9b176c21-a02d-4b1d-b1c5-0986d9add559 14 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 b1b23d0e-0268-414d-a153-156fc7e42f48 451 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 88d39253-c6e9-4cb6-b233-ed44fca7406c 30 THE STORY GIRL SAID THAT ONCE UPON A TIME BUT WITH THE SWIFT AND UNERRING INTUITION OF CHILDHOOD e1eb483a-7f48-4117-876e-f300fff5b031 2312 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN FROM THE TWO MYSTERIOUS SCENES OF DESOLATION THERE 94d0063a-9d22-471a-9384-95baa24fd0d8 2425 IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE SOUND AND LIGHT IN THE SAME PLACE ISN'TT IT VIC GLANCED TOWARD US AND GRINNED 41738000-98b7-4c02-a225-31a7f384470c 103 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 OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE 9d60f41b-5254-45b9-9cd8-f0aff477cd66 402 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 1c177b01-aa14-4dac-af09-4a8db8e99e09 2182 THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH b08934e9-66bc-4c9f-99c1-aa896057628c 32 BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY AS IF YOU WERE WALKING IN A KING'S PALACE SARA RAY'S OWN DREAMS NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH 1e41f462-0428-45c0-af31-fac637439f48 748 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 8538ceed-b6f6-43fc-bfff-7e636cca563f 2286 HE WAS AT MY MERCY REALLY HE WANTED TO SLEEP SO MUCH IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED BY A MIND AS BRILLIANTLY AS CROOKED AS MY OWN 47690056-7757-4041-bbd2-1e475d8ab3bf 242 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 ed004ecd-64cf-48ee-b6ba-dde13cfd68b2 2108 BUT HOW ASTONISHED THOUGH HE WAS HE BUT HE IS A KIND MASTER DOROTHY HAD NEVER SEEN THIS BOY BEFORE 935dd1d1-9e43-4eeb-9d18-8581a352feed 103 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 aaa7dac5-1edd-4347-96dc-0d2dc201fb78 103 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN 26b10598-3633-4b97-b8ad-b01e90b8fa25 103 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 e7a70f58-86f7-4ef7-af8a-364d5fd34233 413 BUT FELICITY BORE IT VERY PATIENTLY BUT NOW IN THIS TIME OF SHADOWS DREAD BELIEF CLUTCHED US AND WRUNG US WITH TERROR 65a5cc89-b9cd-4c0f-9dad-29d3813b59b7 198 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 af5c7485-bb40-4ca8-ae2d-90f6ef916233 242 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 02d4325e-d118-4028-aa29-aaa52990a569 2182 THE SITUATION WAS DESPERATE ENOUGH AT HOME JEFF HAD TO ADMIT CHAFFY FORE RELIEVED HIS FELLOW OF THE STRAIN BY TRYING HIS OWN RUSTY CROAK 78bd61d4-0e60-4c9b-ba0b-9152eb035e29 451 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 657bd00e-9c4b-49af-a47d-d0855b07a46f 2108 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 634ad13c-69af-4208-b093-b5c9780c4ead 1867 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 eb76b523-5fed-4dda-958b-a1276c400515 32 YOUR APPLES ARE LOVELY TO EAT THE STORY GIRL SAID TO ME IT'S OUR OWN FAMILY GHOST SO OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT US 862bf2fc-c60a-4603-99f9-1d70c7e29ffa 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING 570f8666-bc66-4ba8-bdfe-48c472631fe3 2286 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 08822a0c-19c0-4a65-84e1-c84bf822cd65 14 IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS THERE WAS GREAT GRANDFATHER KING'S FLAT TOMBSTONE OF ROUGH ISLAND SANDSTONE 00895a7e-9e15-4e0f-b2e0-2ff3f3671a9d 242 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO STOP HIM HE'S BOUND TO FIGHT THAT'S MY WAY OF LOOKING AT IT 298b2ae5-3ca5-417c-b776-7ca1bc5db8b8 2312 WHERE IS THE LIST LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE WELL I'LL DO IT TOO I'M TOO WORN OUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE 6d4ce9e8-f464-4ffa-aa68-5679207c2c66 2425 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 729794b4-87bf-4a42-90f3-4546478bad8e 2425 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 ee960367-b8bb-4713-8b7a-f2c46520195a 2286 PRESENT FERERO A BACHELOR WAS EATING HIS DINNER HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS IF SHE EVADED THE NAVY SHIPS THAT WAS THEREFORE NOT MINE a2eb8192-cb36-4b42-a2a3-ec8ccb322c45 198 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 ba7859c0-1d5f-4e20-a49e-5edef083c1ef 30 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 7f662d3d-3b3a-4528-bc2d-dc6c82adfd5a 402 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PICTURE OF GOD FELIX NO HUMAN BEING KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE NO HUMAN BEING CAN KNOW AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE 57b14abf-05ca-4124-9a77-32e8cf311392 14 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 52892221-c213-465e-9489-bd4581edc89b 14 IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL YOU MUST PROVE IT BEFORE I SHALL MARRY YOU SAID THE PROUD PRINCESS 539796dd-492d-4752-abf0-1843aaf51cfa 177 FELICITY OPINED THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE CLEARED UP IF IT WAS THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED cc21221f-f518-4207-b224-5158e7bf55bd 2317 RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK b34e94c0-922d-479a-8a48-eaacbcc581d8 1867 THEY BOUGHT THIS TENTATIVELY AND WE ALL HEAVED OUT OF THE TUB AND TRICKLED MUDDY PATHS ACROSS THE FLOOR ec55316d-a85c-44b5-a968-034f9f97f4f5 2312 I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE aa897ed4-bb7c-4c6a-992c-e7640787edaf 2425 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 f17c4a25-f301-46b3-870f-6b3fb007b7d2 242 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 822f8cca-f462-4da1-9012-7a8d5cedf5fb 103 SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY 7e956266-62f3-4c75-9983-63a22f205d9f 2182 WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE ecfc33c4-f8fc-4004-8f2e-febdfbe70c5e 198 AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE 5a1d4c22-04d3-4399-9f0e-4e7d7f0d70b9 413 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 6456f1e2-528a-4725-9f7c-942cb0b6c7ce 1867 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 e162f136-a184-493f-ac24-a8d4ea6f1f9c 2425 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 c31a101b-8a0a-426c-a012-4f85bbed3729 2425 DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT BE SURE YOUR WEAPON I THEY LOVE LIFE LIKE A MAN OF OUR EARTH 751e09cd-04f8-4c2a-b07f-64d415af5951 2137 HE PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK FROM THE DESK 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 b3ef83bf-8e40-46d2-8b75-51ec34669cbb 2274 OUR EYES DIFFER SAID TO NEWBE HE BENT TOWARD ORAN PEERED HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN 54a14797-865e-40ac-bd12-49c2aaa66f5b 188 I CAUGHT BROOK TROUT IN THE WESTERLING VALLEY OF SPRUCES AND SOLD THEM FOR A CENT APIECE 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 d61a9d36-8cff-458f-884a-25538254ec1e 30 THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION DAN SHARED IT WITH US WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK 2666f97d-cb6b-4aab-9461-87ba56bbfd3c 30 AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL SARAH STANLEY db3c979f-460a-42ca-ad2f-d4f4904d42bb 451 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 183b28b1-c473-41a9-aa05-c3523f5bd7ff 2317 JUST DROPPING A FEW HINTS OF THE MOST ELEMENTARY SORT THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BELONG 1de7d7f1-3608-4853-acb0-78ebc52c666e 2317 I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE FOR VARIOUS REASONS adc78601-e68d-4a7e-af8f-23abe50a1cd6 2108 HE SOON MADE ME A NEW LEG OUT OF TIN AND FASTENED IT CLEVERLY TO MY NEAT BODY 7ae0961a-0443-4c4e-a408-674920a22c1b 103 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 eb3ae0c5-4b3b-4373-bc00-61595fffed54 2108 OF COURSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN DRAGONS BEFORE AND LOOKED AT HIM SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME 02f26fe7-2130-415b-9b20-f0253fe9cd23 2274 IT'S A DEFINITE RAIDING PARTY ONLY THE LOW GRADES OF THE URN ARE SAID ORAN MURRAIN'S NOW MOPPING UP a8ea0653-abc6-4a15-8a00-6e5eb1806574 242 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 5620c8f3-0de6-47eb-b09c-1599aad89aa4 32 THEY WERE TEN CENTS APIECE WITH RULED PAGES AND MOTTLED GREEN COVERS I'M GOING TO HAVE COW SOME DAY SAID PETER FLUSHING 69c7301e-184a-4259-86ac-0839bcb4642f 198 I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY BUT SARA RAY NEVER YOU BREATHE THIS TO A LIVING SOUL I NEVER WILL WHEN I'M GROWN UP I'LL REMEMBER BETTER 54e77126-d36a-476b-b348-c604348e0f8e 242 SHAKING OFF THE SPELL OF FURS AND MOONLIGHT AND ROMANTIC TALE WE SCRAMBLED TO OUR FEET AND WENT HOMEWARD ee68d99e-4765-45de-b1f5-b370ed399b18 1867 BUT STILL THE HOLY WATERS WOULD NOT FLOW I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT 9bd1cdfc-c40e-424b-b553-303259ae9e86 2312 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON 8ba9b762-b1ee-4a64-be74-d1b3e387e6dc 32 LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER c0ac2878-71cc-4f71-bb85-2c82a9421907 451 THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER I SAID COMFORTABLY AND THE YOUNGER YOU ARE THE BETTER f5ebe606-1ca9-4a47-8237-c6f7a388f529 2137 MAY DAY MAY ESTRO THIS IS BRANDON MAY DAY TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM 1906f331-0764-4ad3-a5c7-63c421e4477e 198 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 cab5b164-21db-4588-83f8-18333273b9e8 402 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 948b94bb-fb1a-4ecc-a3f7-bfa61185381d 2182 CHAFFEE'S THREE AND FOUR APPEARED FROM NOWHERE JEFF LOOKED BACK ONCE TO SEE THE ZID CLOSE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AND SPRING UPWARD TO THE TAIL FLUKE BEHIND HIM 6d5b52eb-0201-4e49-ac79-4294803769d4 2286 I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING I HAD BEEN QUITE SURPRISED TO FIND THEY REALLY EXISTED b68c90f1-1b25-4e23-9de4-7886617b8d5e 103 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 cf3aab87-f8bb-4158-98e3-ad90eba361ea 2274 CHERANNA CRUSO IT'S FIVE DAYS FOR SURE THEN HARD RADIATION 1aba5233-ed83-44d3-9af6-ddf9394cb9aa 2108 THAT WAS HOW I LEARNED THE MAGIC POWER OF THE APRON SAID THE SCARECROW WHO SEEMED VERY INTELLIGENT FOR A STRAW MAN 8d9ec514-fd72-4bde-a808-4cf8f33bed2d 2108 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 3e1b22fb-abb3-4406-bd09-d5bc764816dd 2425 THEY GLANCED AT EACH OTHER SWIFTLY ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY UNDERSTOOD FEARING I KNOW NOT WHAT I ENTERED THE FAMILIAR ROOM 4a559bde-8b29-475f-8deb-bfc984fe3d9b 198 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 7346be9f-dd04-46f8-93f9-d293c499b12a 2368 BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR THREE PALLETS LAY AGAINST THE FAR WHITE WALL HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM 74ef0670-9069-49c6-9ae2-917b338b3bdc 402 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 2ea88978-e7a5-452e-aab4-9751aeb140c0 413 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 7453c067-4a80-465a-a915-1363d13b23f5 2108 THEN CHANGED THE SPECKLED HEN INTO A RABBIT MAY I HAVE SOME OF YOUR STRAW ASKED THE SCARECROW I AM SO NOISY JUST NOW THAT I DISTURB MYSELF 82ca43a6-369f-4f39-97c0-73f57884b620 2312 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 df69ffc6-237a-4f97-a696-3d72dddb52f8 188 WE THOUGHT HIM HANDSOME FOR AN OLD MAN 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 1ddd324c-d878-46c0-a029-1cd55b43321d 2286 I WAS NOT IMPRESSED BY HIS ACTING SINCE I COULD CLEARLY REMEMBER THE DEAD MEN FLOATING IN SPACE c645387f-9c16-4ada-8b9d-5a4b8efe8b07 2274 THANKS TO BULL ONE IN COMPANY AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES IN YOUR TONGUE GLASS SAID TO NEW 03ea4d57-32fe-44f4-97b3-9c109362ef58 198 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 fef23fb3-6584-407a-af5c-575795493af4 2368 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 4f024f42-ac32-4341-9da0-7cc2840751ec 1867 A GREAT BEGINNING FOR A JOB AND ONE CLEARLY DESIGNED TO DRIVE A STRONGER MAN THAN ME TO THE BOTTLE de0ff1c6-c92f-4c59-acad-a4b0f295a75f 2137 NEYLON STREAMED OUT BEHIND HIM AND SNAPPED OPEN WITH A TREMENDOUS JAR 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 2075a242-1ff1-4c6d-9484-3026ce529d8a 188 WE HAD HAD BROTHERHOOD WITH WIND AND STAR WITH BOOKS AND TALES AND HEARTH FIRES OF AUTUMN NOW BEST OLD GIRL DO YOUR BONNIEST HE SAID THERE'S MORE THAN YOU KNOW HANGS ON YOUR SPEED 8c53ffec-a5b6-4be6-a33f-f86793ee4540 2425 AND INSTANTLY THE DARK EYES FLASHED ANGRILY AND KEEP IT CLOSED AT LEAST A WEEK THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF f1e8c178-ee0b-498e-8d33-adc2508449fc 413 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 a1f3c285-5b69-4d07-b4c8-25b3588e13d5 402 ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN 17924d05-d0a0-4edc-93cd-794ffc0f18e0 198 IT'S ALL VERY FINE TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD THE STORY GIRL TURNED QUITE PALE abefd816-43cb-4e90-9383-0539155be116 2368 THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME JONAS DID NOT IN SPITE OF HIS POSE LOOK LIKE THE TYPICAL HERO FOLK TALE OR SCRIBE'S TOME 9c950d95-6336-48fe-ada6-65d32c3a2499 2368 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 5e714eb8-9d79-42b1-82f0-160efa1d9662 402 IF SHE'LL LET HIM HE'LL BRING IT TO MORROW WE PICKED APPLES AND DRAGGED THEM TO THE GRANARY DOGGEDLY SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY 57267101-cc70-47d0-85ee-a9c7eead207a 242 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 f1097faa-4163-4aa8-8336-032587d938ed 1867 THEY FOUND OUT I WAS THERE ONLY TO HELP THEM RESTORE THE FLOW OF THE WATERS IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON ab65db49-5ead-40ba-a099-15ac3f2f9f84 402 WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW 3dcaac04-a273-4399-8fbd-38a90dd7f9f3 1867 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 b19b6013-0ff7-4e4d-b496-30182de5650a 2317 ONE OF FARMER'S WEAKNESSES IN FACT WAS THAT THOUGH THOROUGHLY MASCULINE HIMSELF HE COMPLETELY DISTRUSTED WOMEN a51e299f-1ae1-4dbf-9bab-f6adacfbc356 14 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 e21d1e75-6d11-4b54-9ecf-6a47e264ec48 2286 ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW ALL HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SHIP WERE TRUE 4e337cb6-70f0-4f2f-b1e6-d98bf5ed7c0a 413 DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER f6804391-c261-46b7-bc3d-161d4f299879 2425 THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HORRIBLE THAT WE WILL IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY YOUR LUCK 2c4cfa5e-9672-4728-ac2c-1f45efd7675a 402 THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS BUT HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY MORE THAN YOU DO THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND bd5891bc-d9ac-4f34-991d-cdc890280f14 2312 IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM ONLY PEOPLE BESIDES HE WAS POOR AND NEEDED THE MONEY 893c960e-c93d-4549-b1aa-b6b8849324e7 2368 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 ae4a2e37-fe4d-4492-b69b-4df2822c4d54 413 OUR MORNING CHORES WERE DONE AND THE DAY WAS BEFORE US IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER e67b15d1-a2e7-4947-8136-fd434373cacf 32 BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT NO BUT I SHALL SOME DAY IF I KEEP ON BELIEVING IN HER 73053a93-09a1-41b6-8ab1-ef2ab5e25f68 2317 HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE THE OLD MAN DROPPED LIKE A STONE 8c8e2001-96b3-4017-b511-b32e2ca8a8cb 451 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 6c3d6f00-fe03-4510-9f96-db53ebd0bf3f 2425 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 8f375c50-7d8e-4a6c-bb79-d8cb93e80cf5 2274 SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID PAUSE YES e1f443f7-36a7-4234-9f3b-ab6b167c483a 2425 BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED ec30ed27-16d6-42b4-9b10-5a7a2c166760 2286 TEACH HIM DISCIPLINE SHOW HIM WHAT THE CORE STANDS FOR AT THE SAME TIME IT WILL GET THE RECORDS IN SHAPE 4c8ce105-7ffa-44fe-b0d8-f8d0faaf1666 413 IT MIGHT INDEED THIS WAS A NEW HORROR WHICH HAD NOT OCCURRED TO US WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO 72a556a6-2e1e-401b-b671-a6aa3dd51d90 2137 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 cd3d310b-9599-4c2b-99bf-3ab3fc6d5f35 188 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 84cf3227-8aef-4272-860e-bbbf0c85ec7b 2137 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 b8432643-13ce-4133-8401-56a43e63db5b 2182 ALSO ON MONDAY'S NECESSARILY BEFORE CHARLEY MACK'S VISIT THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP 1ca1e909-9fcc-440e-9921-be5a9b26eb82 451 IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM f72a249a-e6dd-4625-97e1-15fb62e316e9 2368 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 d5d27ebc-aabd-4f3e-bf80-8da4165d01f8 242 OH I SEE IT NOW SAID CECILY JOYFULLY IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS WELL MAYBE THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE SAID CECILY ba82c88a-8794-457d-be9d-38f7aaa2ec45 2182 COLLAXY AND CALM CRYSTALS DID WHAT NO REFINEMENT OF TERRAN THERAPEUTICS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE 4353a033-0680-48cf-81d2-1ed491fe9392 2274 YOU'D STILL BE ON THE DEL FINEST MASTERLESS AS AN ARNAR FIELD MAN 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 f7a3fafe-bb34-4db8-879a-7e3483f8c63c 32 BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US 66d009fe-26d3-4df1-938e-4df63a36eefd 188 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 b878db3a-cab7-4b78-956f-b1cb79d98584 242 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 21cc52da-1d6e-4d2c-8c38-0da6037b40e7 2317 THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN AS YOU'VE JUST ILLUSTRATED I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE ad6dfdd8-6c13-4330-9232-cc46325eed6f 2108 YOU ARE ALL HELPLESS AND IN MY POWER SO YOU MAY AS WELL MAKE UP YOUR MINDS TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE AND BE CONTENT 0c7465f3-4d34-40ee-8e6b-d39110bc5ff5 2312 AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM THE DWARF WAS THREE FOOT HIGH A SKELETON STRETCHED OVER WITH BROWN BURNT LEATHER dfc1a6fc-169e-4b8a-a1ac-8dfb3d510131 451 FOR JUST AS THE EVENING STAR WAS LOOKING WHITELY THROUGH THE ROSY WINDOW OF THE WESTECILY CAME FLYING THROUGH THE ORCHARD WRINGING HER HANDS 199b8535-a752-4ee0-b585-85817e81430c 2317 EXTENDED A TENTACLE OPENED A CLOTH AND NIPPED DOOR NEATLY ON THE BEHIND I THINK HE'S CUTE 1ccfc1ba-692b-47b6-b5b9-4114b63acc30 1867 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 d9e6d1fc-cebe-4d64-be0f-8b6a4e904619 198 ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS ecd8ea50-18fb-4cca-b568-6bf0507277f9 2368 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 9e5c95cd-68e1-4d3a-84ad-e24755853869 451 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 bd97e11c-87e7-47dd-93a9-716bc0829ed4 2317 MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY BY BRINGING OUT A PORTABLE TELEVISION SET 2fc38ac6-9b7f-4b91-812b-d82f5eeee7b6 32 ALMOST EVERY NIGHT BATTLE MURDER OR SUDDEN DEATH PLAYED SOME PART OF HER VISIONS AND A SCANTY PAIR OF CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS bbcb7678-0513-489e-8288-290d75c25f7c 413 AND IT'S IN THE PAPER TOO AND THAT'S PRINTED AS WELL AS THE BIBLE SAID DAN SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK 1cd1eefa-48ff-4db1-a250-6545fdd07fb5 2317 AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY 699340af-0cc9-4e4a-b60a-42807e8da13c 402 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 b88874a0-24e2-4514-ba12-cadf11c4f4f2 14 RETORTED FELICITY IN A TONE WHICH IMPLIED THAT WHAT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT 00d3f371-0a1b-4e56-b80e-c8e5f8206189 2274 OR NODDED AT THE RIFLE WOULD YOU MIND POINTING THAT WEAPON SOME OTHER DIRECTION INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE ME SAID ORME b0174872-5a91-4215-be54-f2ab6f05e91e 242 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CARES WHETHER ANYBODY CAN EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE 22659f06-bccb-494b-a6c2-0594cea24890 2312 WHEN THE FINAL COUNT WAS IN ACTUALLY IT SHOWED THE SHARPEST DECLINE ONLY PEOPLE 488fa843-4ccd-40b7-93b6-ef166884ada4 198 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 2eb77012-0132-4b86-bed6-775ba16f8a6a 242 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 e6608be9-64b9-400f-8d2b-38b1d06dbfc4 402 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 0065f56a-67a7-4f2b-b301-a9b72752c571 451 WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER 17c5e8a6-3fdd-4d53-9ccc-9620f3067b60 402 AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE THE RAINBOW HAD FADED OUT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE OCTOBER DUSK WAS FALLING b075dfe8-ba5b-46a8-be98-2c24af3124cc 451 BUT NOW I UNDERSTOOD IT ALL EVEN IF IT'S OLD ISN'T IT IS THAT BOY STARK STARING MAD SAID UNCLE ROGER e2aae458-6a69-480d-8298-f496042ec117 2108 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 ca64f015-77f2-4050-a4b6-5d03179d0c7e 188 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 BUT I GUESS SHE WON'T BEWITCH ANYTHING ON ACCOUNT OF THE PICKLES eb7152a0-0d5b-48f3-a05a-08726b892a65 451 THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY ed735193-73cb-4d9e-94ff-1c15074a200f 2182 UNAWARE IN THEIR CONSTERNATION THAT THEY COMMITTED THE BARBAROUS LAPSE OF VOCALIZING THEY TWITTERED ALOUD WHEN THEY REALIZED THE EXTENT OF THEIR ERROR f3c8faf6-e585-492e-8812-a7e4d804308f 2137 IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED NEVER MIND NOW YOU MAY HAVE ENCOUNTERED OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN RICH ATMOSPHERE 60c71cb9-3188-4bbd-b94d-14e2be8dd614 413 NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME 8b08d57b-61db-4372-b6c0-9b25781e890d 14 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 b90cc679-74cc-4357-bf91-b42d3cd5c3cb 2137 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 17b96f72-902d-4cc3-87aa-eb76fb145a9b 2108 GENTLY GENTLY CAUTIONED THE SCARECROW DON'T BE RUDE TO STRANGERS CAPTAIN d3389a9b-acfe-4852-8795-58671c857438 413 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 0ebbe481-b9a7-4ee8-aa2a-67eb6bc90c28 2368 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 3f65c953-dd9b-4281-b05d-825fa84de646 2312 I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP 88d556db-3fb1-4c74-abf0-142f3519d73f 2108 FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD 6fcd78dc-1453-457f-9c1b-5efc83262652 198 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 d15220ba-7eae-43e4-b6af-967ef192c2c5 2182 THE E I OPERATOR SHOOK HIS HEAD DOUBTFULLY THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED 4859bdfe-beac-4859-804b-6f4fa4507ea7 1867 THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH 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 1c0d8b49-c9dd-4a9a-8d46-fb51b4cf461d 2108 HIS FEATHERS RATTLING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH A TINKLING SOUND AS HE MOVED A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAPPENED TO BE IN A HOUSE WHEN IT WAS CARRIED BY A CYCLONE 30847a3c-01d1-4895-a75a-026e09c4f228 2182 JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY SEARCHING OUT AND USING THE PROPER SYMBOLS FOR EXPLANATION 64c0f4d8-80d3-4d55-82dd-1e2d5e0c7e4b 1867 THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON b6064f19-6a50-423d-b502-68a828d79700 2108 LUKE TRIED TO THINK HOW TO SAVE HER WHO THE WANDERER PUSHED FORWARD TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER f469fbff-586a-49a2-8161-dbe103bfb696 2286 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 5f476da6-01c6-4797-8e16-3a8009b91063 188 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 11f5262a-96a1-4d83-a3c5-3fa71f70fab8 2182 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 1f523ba8-a82a-45af-b987-1abc91652466 2368 THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE SHARP OPENED HIS MOUTH SHUT IT AGAIN AND THEN SHRUGGED HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN 1b4a5c4d-64df-4c22-a6f0-50118e6ea001 2286 IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED 1dd0cfbf-8f79-46cd-96cb-e7aeaa288419 451 SHE ASKED MISERABLY THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK PETER DID NOT THINK BLUEBERRY WINE WOULD DO ANY GOOD 4f3f5f49-4586-487c-9e6f-37a8ab85d6b1 242 THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL 1dcb4b52-b2cc-4d04-89fa-ca568e0b26bd 188 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 67e4f041-e6f5-4251-b080-854ce1bfd69e 451 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 e1eac913-90fd-4c9d-826b-238445d1a622 2108 AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF SO SHE WENT BACKWARD AND PUT IT AWAY IN THE CUPBOARD 203d3f38-011b-4a78-828f-dd5e47db6509 2108 WHO WAS THEN IN THE LEAD OF THE LITTLE PARTY HALTED WITH SUCH AN ABRUPT JERK THAT HE STUMBLED OVER BACKWARD 22474eb6-a001-4a2e-89d5-d80cf1a59044 451 FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS f39a63b1-1ee0-449c-a517-5be2c82ae523 2317 AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID 1d4570fd-4325-42e6-ab74-0bff0c20f021 2108 BEFORE I LEFT MY PALACE I WENT TO MY MAGIC ROOM AND I COULD TAKE THAT OR NONE AT ALL bab9a31d-a21f-43d9-8c45-dcf1d487efae 402 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 a924cb3d-0792-497d-b6b0-ac2a9844468d 32 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF 4f20a412-5d63-45c3-be1f-31caff81c565 2368 IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER IT'S TOO BAD YONAS AGREED POLITELY OF COURSE SHARP SAID 734d660c-ed5f-46ad-a4f6-a5f5e2f479cf 451 I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY FOR COAXING SARA TO DISOBEY HER MOTHER SHE ANNOUNCED WITH CHASTENED TRIUMPH 1b03ad0d-86be-4c59-b7bb-736173d6a658 32 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 c013736d-0ac9-49a3-922e-14f4a34f89ee 2368 HERAKNUFF SHALL REMAIN FOR ALL THAT I CAN DO WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY 863a78b3-5b66-4aea-895b-0182cdb601eb 2137 BRANDON HAD A STRANGE DETACHED FEELING AS HE PUSHED THE EJECTION BUTTON TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON TOO LATE I'M ON FIRE db16f16b-989f-403d-985b-e0e7083bc744 2274 ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY WE GAINED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ALONE fc70436f-cdb8-452d-90e0-b885f22736e3 2317 THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY a7524d7a-7519-42a8-b080-ded7b6dc51d0 451 WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FRID DOING UP AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT HE SAID ANGRILY SHE DEARLY LOVED TO TAKE HER EYES OUT OF FELICITY NOW AND THEN 2a56dee6-f3ea-451d-85c3-686b6d1e2b88 32 AND HOW IN FOREIGN LANDS HE HAD LONGED FOR ITS SPARKLING WATER LIKE CECILY'S THERE ad2016f0-e7ba-4997-8030-6107d9a20d9b 14 AT FIRST GLANCE THEY SEEMED WELL ENOUGH YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY b9d1f0c5-3a9a-470c-9f1d-ebd631808ae2 14 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 c9b55566-97a5-47db-bc58-9a9297913bff 198 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 6f7a0e14-934d-45f1-8678-d17872abc2d0 2137 HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT e46fd678-32e9-47e6-8c10-de504f82da41 2274 SIPHONED TOWARD THE HEADLIGHTS WHY WHEN WE TEEMED UP WITH THE ILERONOIDS NOT TO MENTION THE ee35ca49-e0cf-4c04-ae38-a9d6106c63f5 2108 AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER ASKED DOROTHY I HELPLESSLY BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE WHERE TO GO 6f4812eb-c726-4dd1-a37d-33e616c4b8a5 2425 HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS b4dbd1ff-d268-4e5f-9c3c-62a2b59c9299 451 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 07a75da9-87ff-40c8-b3d2-db49a9eac9da 2286 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 2d320ec3-9354-4882-b5a7-07bc4386b8ca 2286 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 b48e00e0-404c-4c38-b41a-7994ac90efd1 2368 HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER a74721e8-082f-45f0-842f-025e0d761368 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE e5904d80-cc09-4620-8900-94da90827c2d 451 THE STORY GIRL LOOKED PITEOUS SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO PROBABLY MADE THAT EXPLANATION UP ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT JUST TO PACIFY PETER ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS 633e3729-626d-45ee-851c-1e464e2ed515 2425 WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY 5c717479-d318-4d65-8239-6f416832f558 2274 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 a32d026a-695e-4d60-8a09-40bb34b317b8 451 AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA 70453c1d-7b9a-46b6-ac13-2df5bdfeff18 2274 THE LEATHER CHAIRS COMFORTABLE THAT IS WHY I WAS SENT HERE SAID ORAN SWUNG DOWN FROM THE TOWERING FOREST CEILING bf0f241b-4659-49f6-ada3-19dfdb109a32 242 I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE 4f3d3f1c-6672-42ee-a69f-83bf4c5e1a67 2108 NOR DO I SAID THE TIN WOODMAN IN THE CHAMBER WERE GREW DOZENS OF QUEER CREATURES AND SOMEHOW THAT DOESN'T SEEM QUITE RIGHT 07872895-6aed-45d3-ad6a-0c2613155df1 451 MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS OH I DON'T KNOW MILLIONS OF YEARS LIKELY AND EVEN THEN I 16c4b040-2ac0-4140-89ce-9045639b4fb7 2108 THAT IS ALTOGETHER TOO TEDIOUS A PROCESS FOR A YUKABOO BUT THAT WAS A FINE DINNER SAID THE HIPPO 5b863d0d-9e1b-4de6-bf5a-8f10f3fe179f 2368 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 5363bac5-3571-4592-8854-6cd7dfa502d2 402 IS THAT A CONUNDRUM ASKED CECILY CAUTIOUSLY BUT DESPERATE CASES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES INSTEAD WE WENT AT IT WITH FEVERISH ZEAL d8c3cdaa-f3f1-4b55-9674-dd9f2c8e835e 1867 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 91ef081b-4ae7-4335-9b1a-849e2dafd29b 14 AND BESIDES HE ALLEGED HE HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST 23d95bc4-a06f-4dbd-8dd7-5e3a80d87e07 188 OUR RELATIVES STARTED US WITH A QUARTER APIECE FOR THE REST WE KNEW WE MUST DEPEND ON OUR OWN EXERTIONS 48c55832-1ed4-40e3-ab13-4724c35b46b8 2108 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 5fb08d8e-fa0a-4aed-b2f2-c73f83f42463 2182 JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY SHE WAS NEVER LATE 6cb67a37-250a-44bb-a81d-3ccada32f2d9 2368 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 ef8a75ba-3eb2-416e-b2d0-0e024d5a12ea 2182 I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY 06e22ad5-c824-43fe-8fdc-c9d94a1415a0 451 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 91b90696-4cb4-430f-8774-b6b225e5b782 2108 THE OTHERS TURNED THEIR UNWIELDY BODIES IN HIS DIRECTION AND FOLLOWED AND WOOT THE WANDERER 4c6cd6b2-ee80-439d-bfee-6285dedad882 2317 BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY FINALLY HE POINTED TO THE NONIPUS AND SAID WHAT ABOUT THAT MONSTER 56d997a1-3dae-4011-934d-cd2d9c98f862 1867 HE WAS TELLING ME THE GUY WHO DID THE JOB WHILE HE SAT BACK ON HIS FAT PAY CHECK IN AN AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE 30814d76-7a76-4799-896b-df5ebffd00d0 2317 I'M NOT TELLING THEM ANYTHING REALLY SO THAT THEY COULD GIVE A REASONABLE COHERENT VERBAL PICTURE OF WHAT THEIR BOOKS WERE ABOUT 6bcf512a-cf03-404a-959d-ea18925b01b9 2137 THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO 2a088159-d62a-4388-919e-d51ad8f5266a 14 ISN'T IT AWFUL NICE AND HOLY IN HERE CAUSE A CAT CAN'T STAND BEING MESSY THE CRAGS ARE JUST BURIED ANYWHERE THEY HAPPEN TO DIE 719129f9-7dc6-4cef-a52a-b26ff78da4f0 402 DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND 7f9d9852-acc5-4331-bf1b-c5a9733482f4 32 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 9cdcfc46-c60e-4f88-b28d-f172a8c2a684 402 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 687dc761-8db0-489b-96b2-4dd9c249085b 2274 VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES WE WANT THIS PLANET CLEARED FOR CONTACT OR DEAD BEFORE THEN 504d42b5-bdfb-4f76-b855-ea4678f397a4 14 THEY WENT AWAY TOGETHER HAND IN HAND CHILDREN WISE UP THE LANE OF SPRUCES CROSSED WITH BARS OF MOONLIGHT 32ce1447-31e7-4772-bceb-50bd4d92d535 2425 THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY 1d14b250-f999-4be7-8607-7ba6b6f61a44 2317 IT HAD ALL STARTED WITH JUDGE RAY YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID CONNECTING IT TO THE BOAT'S ELECTRICAL GENERATOR 9cf73922-84ed-4264-891e-b37a2189f275 188 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 5bde8f01-b23e-4347-91e6-9be256f5c752 1867 THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH 84e5c5dc-20d6-49ce-bac0-bf29c66b5dcb 2317 BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM 30aea0a5-c38f-4bb2-88d6-591e3e6ea5c7 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE 6fec3318-a3df-4835-9420-1d228925d3f9 2368 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 ef1bc3f2-b41d-4e92-b0a7-8830bf4cdeb7 451 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 7d44c53d-6dd5-4363-8064-2569f591763a 32 FELICITY TOLD AUNT JANET OF THE CUCUMBER BUT AUNT JANET DID NOT THINK THE CUCUMBER ALONE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CECILY'S ALARMING CONDITION 026734a1-1a8e-4ac8-bb00-f660320f8394 413 I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY 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 e63c1163-3d9b-44d3-99ca-98cb77ef2969 402 BUT FELIX YOU MAY BE SURE THAT GOD IS INFINITELY MORE BEAUTIFUL AND LOVING JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US 571e58ce-f424-44c3-9799-982495cb087a 2137 INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY ccc28b8f-ccda-490e-9af6-775061402990 14 I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS b190ba96-191f-471e-a21c-506d83eb1cfa 2137 CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY THE COLONEL HAD SAID A THOUSAND TIMES SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY 5b9b92c7-361b-4bf7-bd10-3a1a0cf44ea8 2137 A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR AS HE STARED AT THE SKY HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS 109f40d0-d70b-4a7c-a99c-7b3abcd3136c 2286 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 a42bd02f-94f1-495a-b715-fa7897bacc30 402 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 0c29d68d-748a-4628-9473-89adbe76b1db 2368 IT WILL TAKE TIME CLARTON SAID THIS TIME HE HEARD REUBEN INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NODDED TO HIMSELF IN A SATISFIED FASHION 2523fed2-18be-47c7-bf53-ec333cbad7a4 188 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 2e1112a5-7270-4e24-8c62-1097ff014ff9 2286 SO THERE BE NO CHANCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING AND I WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY EXCEPT WHERE WAS HE THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE NOT A RIVET FELL BUT THAT ITS FALL WAS NOTED INQUINTUPLICATE c4becea4-7ed2-43e4-abf3-10ae5bb855f0 1867 WE TRAVEL IN WELL STOCKED SHIPS THAT CARRY A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING LOCKING THE EYE IN A CIRCULAR COURSE 0b761e21-1dd2-4e6c-9cc3-4070625a914b 2368 THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM 18c924f3-d26a-47c3-af80-b4fcae5d26a5 242 SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING b62b01c4-1332-4813-bc8d-86cedae761d7 2182 FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE NOTHING IN CERIMIAN EXPERIENCE HAD PREPARED THEM FOR CREATURES INTELLIGENT BUT ILLOGICAL 0c7a3035-beae-438d-abff-085858de673b 2274 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP STETSON'S FACE HARDENED 05af94dc-d771-4a4d-82a2-ce6fbc03f4fd 2182 BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG E I MIGHT STILL DRAG THE SECRET OF THE CALM CRYSTAL SOURCE OUT OF THE ISLANDERS b9daca54-1700-4f27-8a27-0ef3d45dcdc7 2425 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 ac4e6e96-6565-4899-88af-67ce4f44649f 2274 POLITICIANS THERE WAS AN ENDLESS CHITTERING WHISTLING STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER d9403e18-7d36-4935-b8fb-21cdc812af89 2274 THE PLACE IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF YOU HOLD A COURSE ROUGHLY NORTHEAST AND THERE'D BE NO e098d06d-e7ad-4afe-8d22-81dfbb4f0ab9 14 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 3158fbec-896c-4177-9988-81d1836489e6 242 WHAT WOULD AUNT JANE SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT CECILY DEMANDED OF PETER DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX 09201e52-c096-4948-ab78-7f4feaf2726e 2137 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 cd873389-549e-40fb-92c5-e2a19f62e5ea 402 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 b17fea7b-a6b5-4167-8783-bc79f5a3e84c 451 I THOUGHT IT OUT LAST NIGHT THEY ARE GREAT AT MANY THINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT SWEET AND SHOULDN'T BE ff3bca8b-d083-46f4-8b0c-3e4ea8ff9a2e 2425 INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MISTER BUTLER LEAVES A LETTER FOR ME WHICH I'M TO MAIL EARLY THIS MORNING SPECIAL DELIVERY f1bdd8d2-0d85-4e48-82ce-80fc635cf092 2182 WHEN THE CANTHORIAN ZID BROKE OUT OF ITS CAGE IN THE SPECIMEN HOLD THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE fccca541-156e-44ad-9d2e-fbeaec76fd82 2317 BENDING LEAVING A TRAIL OF BUBBLES AS HER HEAD WENT UNDER AND BLAMED THE BOAT'S MOTION HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY 38863cbf-65be-4f32-9c4e-060d3513cb80 14 SHE WENT OVER TO HIM AND HELD OUT HER HAND AND I'M GOING TO CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL REGULAR AND I'LL SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT 52176a4d-be67-4445-8730-0b1138b9ee95 1867 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 e9c2be48-7ddf-4a5a-bc3e-dc50af45e359 188 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 30b580d1-8d09-4184-ad70-446cf8f11160 188 I REMAIN YOUR VERY AFFECTIONATE FRIEND SARA STANLEY THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO 41e6c68e-b217-4fdf-a39c-c2dec57a2cf8 2182 THE SCOOP CONTRACTED ITSELF WITH A SUDDENNESS THAT YANKED THEM YARDS FROM THE COTTAGE AND ALL BUT DISLODGED JEFF 45f2505c-d055-4d9e-9670-4fcdd952a12c 188 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 c33e7824-6842-42c1-b0d8-6c21ecb133e8 32 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 fd75cb46-4ca5-44f5-b70a-9d0dabbc57f4 2286 THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME 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 c2cd9160-0303-41f8-8541-8e134d2cc623 413 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 489fad15-be45-434d-a4c7-ed33915b5c05 2182 IF THEY'RE REAL THEY CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US b3e9d09e-dbe7-43c3-962a-0d90638ec3f8 2274 O ON THE DAUPHINIS WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD WILL THEY GIVE US MORE TIME TO BRIEF HIM e7e6f028-03df-4c3c-897f-bd668a8e10c2 2368 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 7e1d5152-9851-4bf9-8872-585cabb09e4c 2368 IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE YONES HAD MET THE TYPE BEFORE AND WAS UNINTERESTED IN GOING FURTHER THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD c763cdcf-30de-4ccf-8219-142e4cca8638 14 THERE WAS A PRINCESS WHO WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS IN THE WORLD RATHER THAN HAVE HIM GO WITHOUT ONE 1e788726-f668-4238-add5-d4940d252c01 1867 THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS MARK THREE BEACON HE WAS ALSO SIGNALING TO AN UNDER PRIEST WHO CARRIED A BRAZER OF CHARCOAL COMPLETE WITH RED HOT IRONS 99865a94-aaf0-4759-9dbc-457b610324a8 2137 COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS 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 eb157f71-ea9c-4683-bea8-3c27f4384bd9 402 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 34b1dc86-ebdb-4123-8fb4-738aa69455be 2108 SUCH AS DO NO GOOD BUT ARE LIKELY TO DO HARM BECAUSE HIS LEG WAS AS SHAPELY AND STRONG AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT dd497ce9-5ef9-4e7e-83ea-e81526c99d81 2108 SO WE MAY TAKE OUR TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT TO DO NEXT SHE HAD HER BACK TOWARD THEM AND DID NOT EVEN TURN AROUND 8b9f5c4d-42fc-4414-8c43-b2cb7e8b1c79 2137 HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT af03b225-fba0-4067-a375-55fa2f741fd9 188 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 231e58b3-a655-43df-8129-7d7254c548cf 188 BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THAT IS THE LEAST OF PEG BOWEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANSWERED UNCLE ROGER 2f385128-2e68-4483-ab2e-076892ca084f 451 THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TELLING US TALE I SUPPOSE WE MADE IT HORRID OURSELVES SAID THE STORY GIRL CANDIDLY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER 0d2109db-c1f1-42ee-9a6c-95334895d500 2317 I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS 880f5f97-254b-49a2-b41b-9df99ebe9907 32 CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE a7427547-1465-4c2e-810d-9e791af1d7f4 2137 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 d4624bd3-2e2b-4778-9845-f9f8bb39e030 32 IS QUITE FAMOUS AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR ad5c0bd0-e9b0-4761-85ca-0a49b3e0faf7 413 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 501ae905-93ac-46d3-a88c-431ba4f25107 451 THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS 0451d94b-3909-42f1-80b4-f026b4f5f2d6 2137 PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S WE HAVE TISSUE REGENERATION PRETTY WELL UNDER CONTROL NOW MOVING SLOWLY BUT STEADILY 2e344f07-42eb-4eee-9bb1-f9a909b9ad8b 451 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 3f2ae1fc-e8c6-4124-a740-507fe1dc801f 2425 BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN I HELD OUT BOTH HANDS TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE EMPTY TRYING TO EXPRESS MY WILLINGNESS TO BE FRIENDS 7d663e0a-bf9f-468c-a011-a3e23b2d8d9a 2317 HE EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE WITH CARE HE WOULD SICK THE NONIPUS ON RAY AND HIMSELF SHE LOOKED OVER HER SHOULDER ce86d486-a7f3-479e-a079-935e43797f7b 2286 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 e2d917a8-d3f1-48ba-85fd-6644579e65c4 14 THE STORY GIRL LINGERED TO LAY A BUNCH OF WILD VIOLETS AND THEN SHE READ ALOUD THE VERSE ON THE STONE VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME 781bbe5c-843b-458b-9944-c8737e92a2c4 14 SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL 2c16aaa4-ad9a-4c78-8664-d019cb1bc1cb 2182 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM THAT WILL SERVE THE CRYSTAL'S PURPOSE DURING THE INTERIM 03c5e8fd-76cc-4cf4-bf1c-a48d779ba696 2274 YOU THINK I WAS BORN YESTERDAY SETTLED IN HIS CLOSE CROPPED RED HAIR TO BE ASSIGNED HERE WITH FULL EQUIPMENT fdf6b62b-fcd1-4a3c-b965-dbf38c4db9bd 188 I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT THERE ARE FIVE DOLLARS FOR YOU HE SAID AND YOUR STORY WAS WELL WORTH IT 688dc896-d24d-447e-9b8f-61c38494c47b 14 AND WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD a0496336-43c3-4dba-86af-7c6662bda630 2274 SLOWLY THE DISGUISED SLEDS CREPT THROUGH THE JUNGLE WHAT THE JUMPED UP MAZOO ARE WE DOING HERE STEAT 5693d71c-1e7d-4c95-9274-1e4116592d41 2425 THE SHUDDER WHICH RELEASED THE LETHAL FORCE A GREAT CROWD OF CREATURES SIMILAR TO MY CAPTORS HEMMED US IN f0ff2b83-235b-42c2-8950-baef8ac2d1fb 188 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 9e3f3d25-145d-4fd3-bdae-8cd3ded3e239 413 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 7d25f5f8-6089-48a2-803e-36787fa901ff 2274 WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB STETSON SHRUGGED 83f7bc97-06ba-4c63-8875-88a2264e6612 2137 THE TURNED INTO A TORCH AND SANK BENEATH HIM ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS BEYOND A RIDGE OF LOW HILLS 040ca8b3-5457-4656-bbdf-1d174d55ba7b 2137 THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY d74b7d78-255f-4464-921c-67e8b029fe9d 2108 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 00ce4a97-ecbd-443e-b217-e637813ffa93 2182 COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED 4fbaf28c-fac2-4eaf-a49f-3a84957308a2 2108 OH YOU'RE QUITE WRONG DECLARED POLYCHROME LAUGHING AFTER BREAKFAST THE BOY WENT INTO THE THRONE ROOM 85f2c7cb-e14f-4879-92cc-3366a52312d8 2182 A MONSTROUS TAIL FLUKE THAT STRETCHED DOWN THE BEACH TO MERGE INTO A FLAT PURPLISH ACREAGE OF BACK THE FLIMSY CABIN COULD NOT STAND FOR LONG AGAINST THE SORT OF BRUTE THE OWLS HAD SHOWN HIM 5e39a85e-672e-4a00-ad9c-a644dc248cbd 1867 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 00dbc57e-4459-4e0b-9f58-6def3060c86a 2274 IT GREW BRIGHTER AS THE SLED CREPT THROUGH THE LAST OF THE JUNGLE EMERGED IN CLEARED LAND AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY 9e482070-cb4b-4970-8316-d2beb790387a 188 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 c711ccd7-2729-4e00-9d1a-9cd6beab9d87 2368 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 1dfd9645-1bae-443e-af3f-331400d91967 402 THOU DIDST PROMISE ME ETERNAL LIFE AS TO THE OTHERS FELIX ALONE MOST UNJUSTLY AND SPITEFULLY DECLARED THAT PETER WAS SIMPLY SHIRKING 7c9fc9d5-6b93-4255-8ba3-b66bffab872d 2108 DON'T SEEM TO STAND STRAIGHT SOMEHOW BUT MY JOINTS ALL WORK SO I GUESS I CAN WALK fb77c3bd-eea0-410a-9e3e-f68d3fd34424 2425 ON THE PANEL ITSELF FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE DIAL'S ZERO POINT WAS THE RED SCRATCH MARK THAT MATCHED IT 19c743e4-8f43-4df8-bfb7-06f6757aa699 1867 THE OLD BOYS HAD BUILT WELL HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY HE THREW THE MARK THREE FILE AT ME AND WENT BACK TO SCRATCHING IN HIS PAPERS eeb6ba87-0acd-4429-b42f-d83c767bf2f4 2286 FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK IT LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE A MORAL M THREE ALL THE TIME a10cabb0-4196-4307-8067-f894a4f6d0bb 2274 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 CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY 17e5b367-6b91-40c8-8182-9ad0516580ad 14 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 cfec4c8d-9033-43e0-91ae-d5cf15b099c9 2137 LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK BUT NOT MANY LAY MEN REMEMBER 8cd51ff0-968c-4af0-9f80-ee7353abc031 2137 ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK b7e4858f-3f63-4fe5-a892-01cfa7a96868 2425 MAYBE IT'S JUST THE TITLE SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK THE SENSES OF SIGHT AND HEARING AND FEELING ALL LEFT ME 6057e3e2-0e7f-44e8-9dda-eceacb11bc27 2317 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 c31b70b9-f201-46cd-9475-a0fcd2128d70 451 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 3c6bb1e0-a01d-48c7-8ea3-9a1dc5f276f7 188 BUT MISTER CAMPBELL CHUCKLED AGAIN 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 f602ea8a-2cb0-4f2a-8219-9aef98f49a37 2286 WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE 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 95e8b0cb-41e2-44cd-8fc0-d8561c55c299 451 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT 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 e9743fc5-8665-440d-8405-c9fafde5a286 188 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 5dbb3ced-2529-406a-a14a-768c37e4d771 2137 REFERRING TO A MAJOR ADVANCE IN INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL DUE TO A MAXIMUM SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EFFORT PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN 9f51ea5f-871a-48ad-b748-93d467cd5de7 2182 OLD CHARLEY MACK'S RED HAIRED NIECE UNEXPECTEDLY BECAUSE JEFF HAD NOT CONSIDERED THAT IT MIGHT MATTER THE TERRANS DREW TOGETHER AGAIN 875ff4ed-3e7f-41ef-9d4b-20967fd14e87 1867 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 62794cf7-d976-4a08-80cd-fe4a8c7c993b 402 THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM 2fd40b0a-810b-4ec0-b6f2-5159dee951c4 2274 I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM SIR HE BEGAN CHANGING FROM THE I A BLUE TO THE YAR IN OUR WHITE c053faed-5c6e-4d24-bfd0-952cd4cc89fd 2368 HE SHIFTED HIS FEET BUT LET ME ESTABLISH ONE POINT AT A TIME IN THE MOST SCHOLASTIC MANNER IF YOU WILL PERMIT 11f6c826-9ca7-49a4-870b-ce75b05feee4 2425 THE PRIESTS BOWED A SECOND TIME AND I WATCHED THEM WARILY SUSPECTING A TRICK THE ONLY VESTIGE OF COMFORT LEFT ME 104febe0-14e7-49a3-a435-223fb92639c5 14 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 dab70000-ad56-478c-aadb-f5f466334eb1 2317 THE ONE USEFUL QUALITY HE HAD WAS A HOME STUNNED INGRATIATING AIR WHICH PUT NERVOUS YOUNG GENIUSES AT THEIR EASE 2953ee10-9846-4919-8cf3-d11a7885e48b 2108 ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES 86bd3a3d-7610-4f9b-9d44-be424a3214d5 2425 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 59d1825f-e93c-4d8c-8e9e-b0ee09d5dd85 402 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 400d9625-2dc3-462e-a9f6-aa6afdc0b088 2425 IT IS NOW I'LL GO AHEAD YOU BRING UP THE REAR WITH HOPE IN THE MIDDLE READY TWENTY SEVEN 42a015ed-efb3-4fd6-9585-9a96bee2002f 188 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 58743252-9b4d-46f4-9cbf-6cea6f8a16cc 402 ONLY FAR AWAY A GREAT BLINDING SPARKLING GLORY WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE SPRANG UP IN A SHOWER OF DIAMOND FIRE b78ffe39-7e2a-462f-83b4-eec3efdd59e5 188 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 ee48324a-c080-415f-8955-e3c519ede398 1867 ONE OF THE LIZARDS GARGLED AT ANOTHER ONE AND THE SECOND ONE TURNED AROUND THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY a14f9875-fce8-43dc-a0e1-21a23b53c073 2182 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 76783344-ed8a-45fd-8693-c5b1e129e6d8 2368 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 0fbf7f3a-471e-4ccc-8347-8e6bdf662696 2108 BUT THE WITCH WAS MORE FURIOUS THAN EVER SAID THE GIANTESSING ANOTHER BISCUIT I'M A GREAT GIRL THIRTEEN YEARS OLD SO YOU'LL BE SURPRISED WHEN I TELL YOU 0ebc1664-3763-4ebd-83b5-c209ba45a0bd 188 NAN LASS I LOVE YOU RICHER THAN WE THEN KNEW OR SUSPECTED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID ca459067-b561-4808-b667-c87be2dc3109 2274 IN OUR TONGUE IT MEANS THE LIMB OF VICTORY STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES 70e3bb93-9079-477b-a507-ecf697104f19 32 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 35939431-2f9c-49c5-af8e-6d638d8516bd 2368 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 4df8169e-6eb3-4b6b-b7f4-2d3c40e34198 2182 CLOSING THEIR PERCEPTION AGAINST THE ZID'S DISTRACTING RAGINGS THEY SET TO WORK WITH PERFECT CO ORDINATION 8f428f33-6881-4105-aaaa-fed8aa9a602d 1867 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 820c9249-16d4-4cfc-875a-3f1466b64020 2368 THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY 0a0029f6-af79-4265-af9b-77559faa0adc 2286 BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT 55efc553-b909-4c9b-9350-4804793e3104 14 WHEN WE REACHED OUR LANE AND PASSED UNDER GRANDFATHER KING'S BIG WILLOW AND THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER ae8a3af6-27b2-4bd3-8b0c-46db90a6c0e4 2425 THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST THE ONLY SIGN OF VEGETATION I COULD PERCEIVE WERE STRANGE GROWTHS THAT REMOTELY RESEMBLED TREES 82cb5f77-6a8c-45b1-81ed-524b00570e07 2317 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 e1824661-af50-4448-b314-9fc1321b6443 2368 IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT AND IT WAS QUITE REASON ENOUGH HE THOUGHT 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 928d8394-a282-40d2-982d-46156d583553 2137 THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO 8e6edce1-6dd7-43ce-8d3a-aab4b19eb328 2425 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 a67da027-71e7-4695-a6fd-1c13250d49ae 2286 BEFORE HE COULD TALK I DID FOOT IN THE DOOR AND STAY ON TOP ALL THE BOARD GUARDS HAD A GREAT TIME WITH THE SIRENS LIGHTS ACCELERATORS ON THE FLOOR AND THAT SORT OF THING 7d2aa64f-2b39-4e07-82e6-72061f6dfa62 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL a70b4bae-ffc4-4d56-bf6f-9e2fdd534c72 2274 AND MEANT ENEMY CAN'T YOU IMAGINE THE FUND THE POLITICIANS MY MA MEA 87801f4d-4e05-4d77-a857-03b9a8116b93 2137 HIS OXYGEN MASK WAS STILL IN PLACE BUT HIS HELMET HUNG PARTLY LOOSE HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT b30af796-d77a-46e2-b9e0-e99e8381d8d7 2108 ROUND THE WORKSHOP THE STRAW MAN WAS AWKWARD IN HIS MOVEMENTS AS I HAVE FORGOTTEN YOU 2c5054d6-9943-405b-b4c5-d3e540796c25 32 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 46cb5a5d-c0f8-402b-825e-890789b11a66 2317 FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES FARMER SAW INSULTED AND ANGER 69f90272-ebf1-4bbc-a3e8-5132b9e7f76b 2274 ORN CALLED INTO HIS MIND THE LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN HYPNO FORCED INTO HIM AROUND THEM SHAPES FLUNG THEMSELVES FROM VINE TO VINE bb3226b5-c21b-488c-941a-07f1898b5f53 2286 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 e2401147-bec5-4ea5-891a-a688625fae5b 1867 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 7a6cca22-151c-44e1-9ad0-e92da090ca33 2368 KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED SHARP TURNED AND LOOKED AT HIM FULL IN THE FACE I AM SURE YOU DO HE SAID 6c4a6421-1adc-4520-a21a-6f30117ee7e9 2317 FARMER DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY BUT HE WANTED TO DELAY HER WHO WASN'T OBVIOUSLY MORE CAPABLE OF HELPING HERSELF THAN HE WAS dcb7dc9f-5ef7-4aaa-94dc-ba048a802776 2137 A TANGLE OF CORDS STRETCHED OUT TO THE NILEN OF THE MAIN CHUTE DRAPED OVER A DUST STONE BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS 684d2ca7-8d61-44db-92c3-ee550ec7865b 14 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 be48123a-3ef7-4c0e-aced-4b16a60b9f0f 2425 PETE SHOUTED A FAMILIAR VOICE AND I SCRAMBLED TO MY FEET VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING de44502d-ab5f-47e0-b663-be23d2659c1e 32 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 06262111-2ee9-48af-bd0e-d817e9ae653a 2317 THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE 9e315b93-34ab-4eee-a06d-2658fea184d7 2274 NOW ONLY THE GET THAT UNIFORM ON YOUR UGLY FRAME THE ENGINEERS OF THE DELPHINAS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 53668e6f-6a77-4244-b8b8-f92157bd7fc9 451 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 c32b5e8c-91b0-4758-bec6-07c537686587 2317 AND FOLLOWED BY AN OBSCENE COMMAND AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG 4e9fddbe-0c08-4b99-a9ba-50dec1e5e8b1 2317 RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR SCIENCE AND THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM d33367de-3cad-4498-919e-c93c6a2e1d97 1867 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 bb9ef478-dfa2-48d4-aad9-363a6f14a566 2137 AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE a3d79656-efd7-4df3-9bfb-a03e3bc0b51e 188 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 SHE IS SO FOND OF RED WILL MONTAGUE NEVER CAME 10c2b9fb-70dc-4446-bbbf-1c3969e10b6b 2425 THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH cfc26f25-0b5a-4402-9e9d-9628024e4122 2274 DEW GLITTERING WEB WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT ONLY WITH BLUE FUR 817c2d35-5a87-423c-9343-c4909293c29b 402 CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY HOT REBELLION ROSE IN HIS HEART AND RUSHED OVER HIS PALE LIPS 67cb3f80-f8de-42e7-9dc9-369f21c33b2a 2137 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 b1006c7f-f57c-4add-9a7f-c7143c6a0544 2137 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 5628f7bd-86fc-46cb-b986-c3e5a2631c0e 2368 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 e1b727f8-c883-4fe3-86b6-2afb0b264d17 2368 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 24d88d75-b9da-4c01-81db-e81a5f332265 2368 KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE 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 2b1edd98-ee04-462a-a78e-2f0594afa87e 402 HE'S JUST A LOVELY BOY AND TWICE AS SMART AS LOTS THAT AREN'T HIRED OUT OH WHAT A PARTING IT WAS 254ee603-d5ae-4de0-b51f-81223d8a6582 2425 AND THEN AT LAST THE CHANTING CEASED ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER 35053e03-70a0-48e8-84ca-1f34aa59fcdc 2425 I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE cfda95dc-0bba-49cd-9f61-be6163bd88d3 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I THREW A LIGHTED MATCH INTO THAT KEG OF GUNPOWDER IN MISTER COOK'S STORE AT MARKDALE SAID PETER 398f9c54-4446-4f50-b141-9c0ee235120b 2137 HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY HE STOOD FOR A LONG MOMENT ce596753-a91b-4ad8-850b-404279d7a2eb 2286 I KNEW THE GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE IDEA RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS 19aea590-3dd0-4bd4-b3e0-ac5a46ae8b79 2317 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 6c68b386-77ce-49e8-b5c9-759c7ae18a95 2425 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 b891aec5-bfb3-4bd3-a411-705e702e7944 2274 WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR b78ecd81-5bf6-4b91-aace-3d3ac69c2b89 32 HE WAS JUST BEGINNING TO BE FAMOUS HE WOULD NOT SPEAK TO PETER FOR TWO DAYS BECAUSE OF IT NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK d8521bd5-5022-43d1-89bc-15f90ddb34c0 2108 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 08d077a1-b02f-46fd-8e3d-5dd0394b69c5 402 WE PAID HIM HIS MONEY BUT WE WOULD NOT OPEN THE PACKET UNTIL HE HAD GONE I'M GOING TO MAKE A BIG BATCH OF PATTY PANS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING SAID FELICITY JUBILANTLY fcf243ab-d98a-444f-88a4-8b3e8c005860 14 I DON'T SEE WHY BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY 79a0e4f4-1de4-4a25-a6ed-197f2259dabe 32 ONE NIGHT SHE WOKE UP HAVING JUST HAD A VERY EXCITING DREAM AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN 10527f03-ffe8-43b9-884d-1adc0567ceac 2425 THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOUND ABOVE THE FREQUENCIES TO WHICH THE HUMAN EAR WILL RESPOND 38ff3451-4d96-4f17-8b1b-f7417ed553e7 188 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 274e2140-473d-40c6-967f-cef4902d9f22 402 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 39eae19c-5a88-4bc1-88e8-99a71d5edae2 32 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 a4065ca1-83d6-4f88-9eaa-f8a3042d6b2b 1867 THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP 1b896e80-3dc9-4e18-835f-e71438c01f4b 2274 I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT 44c6e033-fdfd-4de0-999c-ec2908844b79 451 THEN SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO THE SHOW ANYHOW YOUR MOTHER WON'T EVER KNOW IF WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ASKED PETER aab3b917-f1ea-410c-954d-436f58dab849 2317 THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A 011e19a2-38dd-4197-94bc-c3db61d0249d 402 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 1ee9d78b-42d7-48e4-a23c-82e4b35214d9 32 WATER IS LOVELY SHE HAD PUT ON A NEW PERSONALITY LIKE A GARMENT ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY 80064602-3703-48b1-9564-8679fe59c025 2368 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 56fa7400-be8f-4627-9dbd-3f10426c8732 402 AND COULD ONLY RELIEVE HER ANGUISH OF SOUL BY DAILY LETTERS TO CECILY WHICH THE FAITHFUL AND OBLIGING JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP FOR HER 6bb2076d-fc6c-4f22-99af-1f27a9a353da 188 EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH 52d7936b-23d3-44f4-a684-36d98336a50b 32 I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID 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 3ede939e-4558-43bc-bcd3-0499637360f0 32 IT'S MORE RESPECTABLE TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN OR SOMETHING THAN NOT TO BE ANYTHING 8c0bbbe4-e7fc-4c88-9c5f-2e7ffd0844ec 451 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 21bddff4-5ca2-411f-aaa2-8db56327582e 2274 SILENCE WHILE THEY CRAWLED AHEAD BELIEVER THAT UD GIVE US FOR I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL f3da7fcb-cfd4-4b6c-b022-9cf1f5823595 2108 AND DID NIMI AMMY RETURN YOUR LOVE AND WISHED HIM GOOD LUCK ON HIS JOURNEY WHICH WAS OZMA'S FAVOURITE STEED 8430b91f-5616-41c9-92a5-7676e4096803 32 BUT ALL WE SAW WAS FELICITY TEARING OVER THE GREEN SWARD BEVERLY KING IS A BOY ONCE MORE 8946e70d-97fe-4460-934e-8be1ecc6feb7 2274 ABOVE THE HORIZON THE DISGUISE SLED ITS PARAGRAPH UNITS TURNED OFF f349c852-afaf-48c3-bb84-4ef9891b499c 451 THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE 55f9c522-eec9-47a0-bc43-2770d1418b6f 2286 WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE 0fbf1b44-2989-4f6a-b5cf-6a6de5b70dc0 2368 WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS 964f3be9-107a-46c0-ab76-a66620bdac62 451 THROUGH THE SILENT SOUNDS OF THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE 61573854-53f7-447b-8e89-01319c3fea62 188 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 OH SAID THE STORY GIRL LOOKING AT CECILY HALF REPROACHFULLY 55c024de-875d-4954-98a5-e914e039c744 2286 IN THE FEW CASES WHERE FORGERY WASN'T ADEQUATE MY MYSTERIOUS X HAD APPARENTLY HIRED HIMSELF TO DO THE JOB c7da4af7-7c7c-4e97-8ca3-945d0ad6adaf 188 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 714006f3-d936-41bc-bb08-29de43c8f63a 402 AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS FELIX TOOK HER ADVICE 6ba70e9a-59b4-4bae-a0af-768e202b2752 32 I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER I SAID FELICITY PRIMLY 8389c371-929b-4259-b00b-67a17b7cb421 2317 SHE LOOKED AT HIM HAUGHTILY WRITHING MOANING AND TURNING RED IN THE FACE DORA BLANCHED SLIGHTLY 34a2b23d-dd1a-4f19-a2db-1974129c7715 2368 I HAVE READ THE SITUATION IN YOUR MIND AND YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL HAVE TO BE RATHER MORE SPECTACULAR THAN USUAL b709ba23-2f5c-4ddd-99fc-95d98dec4054 32 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 1a6b1d0a-01ad-45fb-b340-842498cdc16d 402 I KNOW HEAVEN MUST BE A SPLENDID PLACE BUT I'M SURE PETER WOULD RATHER BE HERE HAVING FUN WITH US TO ALL WHO TASTE OF IT SHALL IMMORTALITY BE GIVEN CHILDREN ALWAYS GO TO HEAVEN c12cf05c-8a4d-4301-b35a-580ca3f695fb 2317 THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS 918114ea-6211-4fe5-93c1-09937103de07 451 I SAID SULKILY THE MINCE PIE WAS TO BLAME FOR THAT WISH WHAT IF SARA DOES TAKE THE MEASLES 5a2cc396-3ed0-4426-ab05-65c353e1c3b3 2368 UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED 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 ca3f1fa7-f03d-4891-9dbc-6ee28aeca5ed 2368 BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAINTAIN ON NUMBERS PASS THE GIFT ON TO OUR CHILDREN CLARETON'S THOUGHT CARRIED A WRY ECHO afec6dba-3698-45b1-82e5-333c5a6c3581 2286 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 9d7aa851-64af-4345-9083-3c7dc994b848 32 THIS WAS RANK HERESY TO FELICITY BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN IT 746486dc-50f6-49bf-a76e-71c2426382eb 2368 EXACTLY JONAS SAID HASTILY HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP 7713ad85-63a7-4b1d-a033-08b757135029 2317 EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL JOHN ANDREW GULPED BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED ae164403-d7c2-4cd7-b3d8-35bfd9ad8266 2286 OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE AND VERY NICE CADGETS TOO THESE CORBOTS ME I SAID I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE RICH 15b054d8-3133-4446-900f-b6a66ba17614 2317 IS THAT YOU HAVE A TREMENDOUS INFERIORITY COMPLEX COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY dcf1cc55-a214-4fd8-8435-0adac8a59620 2108 ANYWAY IT SERVES HER RIGHT DECLARED DOROTHY BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS 08e12404-8451-46ea-bff9-5b6ccf78df84 451 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 ec7f8a05-6a91-4617-8c26-cf58be328899 2317 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 d5372ca4-6d63-4b18-8de8-3d251aff7eef 2317 AS FOR THE FEDERATION THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY THEY'LL UNDOUBTEDLY ACCEPT YOU ONCE YOU DEVELOP SPACE TRAVEL 2ed550ce-b564-4473-aa66-015a397ad04b 2274 THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE 42e3cf01-b979-4e49-a9ad-f8ca614b04a5 2425 HIGHLY POLISHED REFLECTOR POINTING INWARD AND DOWNWARD IN A MOMENT I NODDED AND VIC BEING A GOOD SCOUT THAT HE WAS 4e86fc2e-aa95-4d8d-b982-9f12878d5efa 2368 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 56ae28f5-635e-4cb1-82e0-eed2f30b2c51 32 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 819f6ed8-0be7-4684-be9a-ffdc74af158a 2274 THE O'LERENOIDS DIDN'T KNOCK OVER ONE OF OUR SURVEYSHIPS FIRST TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE 40ae7855-d5bf-421c-b6a7-8d2711f71bd7 451 FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN 6964a7d0-2bb3-4287-89d2-95e0225d65a9 188 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 756edc6b-e7fa-47a5-9a83-c4609bc328c0 2368 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 6388d275-4dc3-44f6-90f1-d7889398b40f 2286 ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS ANY PLANS ELABORATE AS HIS CERTAINLY INCLUDED WARNING OF APPROACHING DANGER 96b7b128-fe35-4d4f-8d10-1c44f8764bf9 402 CECILY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE NEVER MEANT TO PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLORS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS PRETENDING 4f8cf13a-3c41-4821-9026-377ae0535800 2317 AND WAS STROLLING AROUND THE LAUNCH AS IF HE HAD JUST BOUGHT IT RAY POLISHED OFF THE SOMEWHAT RABBIT FROM HATTIE ROUTINE 281a97c7-ab69-46d9-9b8c-55955843a0f3 402 WE AVOIDED THE ORCHARD FELICITY DON'T CALL PETER A HIRED BOY WHEN HE'S SICK PROTESTED CECILY e17d98b0-9e6e-43d8-8dbe-60217f275e4d 32 FAME SAID UNCLE ROGER IF SHE EVER HAS A CHANCE THAT IS AND I SUPPOSE HER FATHER WILL SEEK TO THAT 3bc17bd6-299e-48dc-98fb-146309b57ba5 2368 BORING IS AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I 1a77cff6-a6a1-462a-a671-65adf144b0f3 2425 BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT 164616d5-d6e1-4f7c-b238-617a0082a09f 451 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 143accc3-2c64-4271-b3c4-ce03eeeb867b 2274 CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES THE MARKED TWENTY'S MUZZLE CAME ROUND THE CENTER ON ORN'S STOMACH NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE 1cac27f6-8fad-48d0-a5ec-c68baeb0cf8f 2108 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 a29752f8-e641-40d2-9344-8ebc0a3bcaa6 2425 DRIVE OUT IF PLAIN PEDDLING IS PALLING ON YOU 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 0de1756e-b2d3-4b5b-b685-634f3899ff2b 188 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 bc9aef22-ab68-448c-9f34-0e61a2b7c0b1 2286 IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS 27de61e0-0c12-47f8-b918-c6d43a0c081b 2317 HE AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND WILL HAVE THEIR SPACESHIP FINISHED SOON NOW HE SETTLED A HELMET ON HIS HEAD MOTIONED FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM CHECK THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SOUP'S 7234c8ae-4f6c-48f6-9703-208f28cc0305 2368 WHICH SEEMED QUITE A STICKY PROBLEM FOR A MAN IN A MEDIEVAL CULTURE 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 THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE c63f08ee-276c-4a39-83b1-0f275acc646c 451 BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO GO TO A METHODIST MISSIONARY YOU CAN GIVE IT TO THE METHODIST MINISTER AT MARKDALE d3c1613a-df08-40fd-9550-19eff3823251 2274 AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY 07ef6ab4-a8a5-4984-b176-fd6372c18d99 2425 AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH 5d1c8457-d341-4fe7-af5c-1c6bb43b6231 2286 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 ce865474-b039-4453-86dd-7d95635cb9f9 2108 YOU'RE AS BIG AS YOU'RE GOING TO BE DECLARED THE KING UNTIL DOROTHY AND THE SCARECROW CAME ALONG AND RESCUED ME 09967a6b-1515-4a0c-a933-dfd768d677d7 2317 BUT SHE DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER WITHOUT IN FACT EVER SEEING ONE THAT HE COULD REMEMBER c66aa566-4102-49ec-9645-1d3a5a94a5f6 32 NOW WRITING BUSILY AND LONG SLEEK BROWN CURLS I SEE THAT BOWERY ORCHARD 598651e9-c96c-462a-a753-9987e4803299 32 THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID OF SAID THE STORY GIRL REASSURINGLY THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON LAND OR SEA e8eebe8b-50ea-423e-9f7d-95c44ff39a90 2317 THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR IT WASN'T EVEN A RESPECTABLE ORDINARY LOOKING OCCUPANT 5e121e2e-d581-41f2-8c7d-8f6315d609a2 2108 MARRIED CHOP FIGHT A LONG TIME AGO BECAUSE MY OTHER TWO SWEETHEARTS LET HIM ALONE SUGGESTED THE SCARECROW b5a51520-4346-4629-b710-d9027056fc62 2317 AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY SERIOUS THE MACHINE HISSED SNAPPED AND CRACKLED FOR VARIOUS REASONS 5aec9b0f-c16d-4f08-8b98-94fc8e931b6f 2108 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 7d83c1be-f023-4a1e-977b-f0441614b387 32 THE GIRLS SAW THIS ENTRY BUT TO THEIR CREDIT BE IT TOLD THEY NEVER TRIED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DRAM WAS 9a65529b-ddfc-4688-ae47-a9b8011cd954 188 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 823bc08f-1130-4710-87f0-e3d94ca3dadc 2368 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 bef723ea-cf17-4c01-b9ec-c0c82511ba7e 32 AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED 1ce05131-b3fb-4b1a-9793-6bcb6673a01a 2274 VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS IN THEIR EYES SAID HORN HE STUDIED THE FIGURE THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE WE MUST BREED AND BE BORN IN THE SUNLIGHT 8ecd68fe-ab41-40c7-86e6-0727720e6297 402 OF COURSE I COULDN'T BE EXPECTED TO THAT HIRE TO LET A BOY KISS ME AND I TOLD HIM I JUST HATED HIM THE DAYS WERE CRISP AND MELLOW f2100aa5-c475-4ed9-946a-22fc6cd25a7c 2317 EARTH MAY BE A SORT OF FENCED OFF AREA FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE a25b26ba-a61b-46bd-ba6d-ecacbb1bae22 2274 INSTANTLY THE SLEDGE SHOT SKYWARD HEAVY GEES PRESSING THEM DOWN INTO THE SEATS bd951b6b-4e3d-459b-9359-b9afb0cd392a 402 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 9a7f06c9-a143-404d-9e5c-c3772b3d0ddd 2368 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 58094aa4-94ed-497e-80f4-3fab28e3dbc8 2274 TO NEWBOLTED PRESENTLY SAID SEND ME BACK ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE 2281493b-f9ce-4a62-96bb-686e74828971 188 UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE WAS TO BE CLOSED AND HE AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WOULD TAKE UP THEIR ABODE WITH US 151fdd7a-64a8-4555-ad5a-2ae8147a6d1c 2317 THE GATE IS A MATTER TRANSFITTER BETWEEN MY WORLD AND YOURS HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM 233d623e-67c3-444b-9e0d-a0d2d3886221 32 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COULDN'T WRITE AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL CRUSHINGLY PETER WAS NOT PROOF AGAINST THIS DOUBLE ATTACK 4f5b69d3-212c-490a-b1cd-57d22345b9db 451 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 d478aa86-af15-4623-bb81-b16829c1e160 188 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 d09b88a4-2b84-4750-9a95-62a95ff44f51 32 I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG 8d66d06d-017d-4bf2-ba51-1886e541320e 188 I WANT IT FOR GLECON SHE SAID I WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS 29221e31-00fd-44ea-99f3-2b16d528c0ca 2108 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 830d3905-3dd8-4b4b-94dc-baaf8551cce5 32 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 86cea7a1-3b66-4585-b047-df41454759e1 32 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 8caf482a-e80d-4344-8bb3-fc8d60d453dc 2286 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 f2449170-cd9e-44d2-9ea3-20a7d7155021 2286 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 f6be488f-9e45-4588-8928-fd6d2e90ea99 2274 THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE 7c3c17bc-2e9c-45ab-a880-b90c02ad56ba 32 SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED 151f00a7-2245-4806-9f15-d82820595fe1 2286 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 aa10556c-431e-48a7-83e6-eb78f0c54509 451 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 6eb189fe-38fa-4ca4-aa08-ed759a9435c5 2108 ALL DAY LONG WHILE YOU ARE CHOPPING WOOD IN THE FOREST BUT OUR BOY FRIEND HE CONTINUED LOOKING SOLEMNLY AT RUTH SO ASTONISHED THE TIN MEN 686feecb-3df1-497e-bbe4-a82d2bfd85a4 451 NOBODY WILL EVER CATCH ME DOING IT AGAIN AND IF YOU BEGIN TELLING TALES FELICITY KING YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER cd79312e-5c3c-4382-8606-7c57891a5996 2108 AND I WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHT THAT I HAD NO NEED OF CLOTHING OZMA AND DOROTHY WERE BEST FRIENDS AND WERE MUCH TOGETHER f81ba179-2d2c-4949-a168-e17fd80ead7e 402 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 90532707-dccf-471a-84a5-afa0d4291faf 188 HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL 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 61f8812a-233d-40a9-bfee-8064283064bf 2317 HE HAD ALSO TIED IT IN A KNOT GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL 345a320a-6591-451e-90db-999478008398 2317 THESE DETAILS WERE THE FIRST THINGS THAT MADE FARMER THINK RAY MIGHT NOT BE A COMPLETE CRACK PICK AFTER ALL d3d96086-98af-4f00-87ab-44a7615ad2f2 2317 BUT RAY MADE NO BONES ABOUT HIM YOU CAN JUMP IN EITHER DIRECTION OR TAKING THE BIG STEP INTO SPACE 2dcf4a19-a35f-409c-a511-fa869658a982 2274 AND EXPENDABLE INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY c597809f-3001-46c3-92fe-9b7559d7a4c1 451 HE WAS VISITING HERE WITH HIS WIFE TWO AGO AND HE CALLED ME JOHNNY EVERY TIME HE SPOKE TO ME 04405b9a-312e-41e0-95e3-b52752befb84 2286 TALK BLESS YOU DECORES TALK HE ROARED WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE ABOUT A BARRESHIP WHO'S BUILDING IT b9e4ca54-10ae-4970-9a2d-4b7438cad786 2317 CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE BUT ORDINARY OCEAN 05701b89-df3b-4ade-ac64-2006b1272b86 188 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 8642d7d9-495b-4019-815a-903eea79f957 2274 WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN HAVE A HUNCH ABOUT THESE CREATURES WHAT IS IT THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD 5e13a735-06c4-4523-baa7-3fd4a261bac4 32 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 b7cbb292-459d-4be4-86df-4fa8f5cf3d3b 451 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 d120202d-8d0c-4bb2-93dd-ba8fe5671d8c 2274 A L I E N ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST de299150-10a1-4008-b3f6-e97634ac9099 451 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 SARA'S INTENTIONS WERE GOOD 7fb8cfa7-872f-41da-b566-75b1cea35e89 2274 IT'S TOO BAD IF YOU FORMED YOUR OPINION OF US BY OBSERVING 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 36096ec4-9522-4cd1-af07-4fcf3ce5fe13 188 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 9b86fcbf-cede-4260-a9b4-dfca7d4de093 2317 THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS fb3082a4-7db0-4c1f-8472-51914e868061 2317 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 0e6f7d19-f296-4e32-8419-367d37171b77 2274 THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT 786875d2-fc52-42c9-9b65-c9fa22f83e05 2317 DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU RENTED THIS BOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DAY JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE f50473dd-c22d-4263-b685-a01c7e48c12e 2274 ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES ASKED HORN PERHAPS SAID TO NIB fa6bea5a-91f1-4bf2-9a8e-fb51fa5444c2 2286 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 bd18dec5-deab-43f4-944d-1a3eeadc9520 188 FINALLY WE CAME TO THE LANE WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO OUR ABODE WE WERE ALL VERY PALE NOW AND OUR HEARTS WERE BEATING 5f60b32d-afbe-4e2f-8523-b5d526cd4400 188 I KNOW THEY DO THAT'S THE METHODIST WAY AND IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR THEM I SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY c7ec578d-c66f-4028-8886-e04c6ecb74c9 2108 SLOWLY IT SWELLED OUT UNTIL THE KING CRIED STOP AND THE SCARECROW PUSHED WOOT ASIDE 0143df1a-0d9a-43cb-b229-faa7319aa686 188 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 1a64b1a4-8f26-4069-a323-8a29e29bedc8 2274 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 97eeb253-9279-4935-80d8-886b01bf34de 2317 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 7f33ab0c-9a03-4207-a26b-aab8b0b4eb06 32 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 88ad1861-a4f1-43ec-81b0-8868db70cf2a 2286 AN INSPIRED MASKED CRIMINAL WHO APPARENTLY HAS MORE EXECUTIVE ABILITY IN ONE EAR LOBE THAN ALL YOUR BRIBE BLOATED BUREAUCRATS 7c573e21-cf11-4c6d-ae90-1bb20ad93666 2317 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 563d68e1-c6f6-49b1-84f6-2cb36c298b0b 188 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 45ae05f2-6ff7-40e9-809c-30e36cd0679c 2286 THIS WAS ALL STILL HEARSAY TO ME I HAD BEEN PULLED INTO HEADQUARTERS AND GIVEN ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR TRAINING 282946ac-2298-46e3-949f-5d058e9c70bd 2108 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 fafc7610-55e1-4f4d-af76-02a33f2b2716 188 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 MY FRIEND YOU ARE VERY LATE FOR THIS SERVICE WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH 02d2e8f1-46be-4ec3-b3f5-2f3ed570238f 2274 YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL e589a3af-02ea-4c8a-8b2d-ec2e32cefd5e 2108 THE HEART OF THE TIN WOODMAN WHEREVER YOU WISH TO GO I WILL GO VISIT THE FORBIDDEN CITY OF LOOMVILLE ffef067c-6166-456d-a1b6-39319f9eecf5 32 HE YIELDED AND TOLD THE SECRET YOU LOOK LIKE ONE SAID UNCLE ROGER HOW ON EARTH DO YOU DO IT 5925cf15-a7b3-49d4-813b-9f23592390db 2274 WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE ONLY THE BAREST WEAK GLIMMERING OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATED TO THE MUD 9cbf921d-2428-4636-bbed-0428877fa46a 188 MAMMA WON'T LET ME GO UP THE HILL AT ALL NOW HE CALLS HER BETTY SHERMAN DO I THINK PEG BOWEN IS A WITCH a640289c-b48b-42af-8df7-fc24692e90c7 2274 BUT THE DEA YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN f4de95b5-e6e5-4357-8d9d-fa23a19883cb 32 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 AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER ca6b6d08-8f39-4526-9aa3-e1ae77bbd977 451 WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS bb6a6163-c174-4de8-aeb1-ae3e98ad31e2 451 IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN 8b703e4b-da69-4298-935f-5cbca07da787 188 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 e1348833-a6d4-463f-8b15-6160a4d18f64 188 HOW DID WILLIAM COAN BEHAVE AFTERWARD ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE 5d18cf0b-566d-479a-82b9-881c26e5fa0a 188 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 466445c7-fddc-4a2a-9e30-ffbc25af7ad9 32 WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE A PAIR OF WILD CANARIES COME HERE EVERY SUMMER 8484b342-e484-44ea-965d-0a4a9309d4b6 2286 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 00ae93d6-bb94-4572-9438-e222044b12b8 451 EVEN FELIX AND I WHO HAD SEEN SUCH SHOWS GALORE WERE INTERESTED AND THE REST WERE QUITE WILD YOU SHOULD BE RESIGNED TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE 17ce3102-0144-47e9-b540-5e4c8f29e83e 32 BUT SHE WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN SO WE ATE OUR SNACKS OPENLY WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO WAYS THAT WERE DARK 62bb4c15-7660-4982-8832-df61a75b17fe 188 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 79de5378-3277-443b-887c-0b9c23eb1254 451 IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH WE ROSE IN A BODY AND RUSHED TOWARDS THE HOUSE TO US FOR EVERMORE THE MILKY WAY WOULD BE 278917fb-60f7-4666-ae0e-70df27f05f19 2286 ESTABLISHING CONTACT ONLY TOOK A FEW SECONDS THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL be8f72c7-3b6f-4544-bde1-bb49f200e670 188 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 ab964854-e901-4189-a23e-02ced3695a37 451 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 90672e8c-7fb2-4777-8f7d-0038b994f78a 32 AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER eb81c1ea-924e-4f9d-a27d-1d0cdce8bbdd 188 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 7dd5d2a5-2db1-43da-ba74-b92ecd694360 188 WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT IT'S EARLY ABROAD YOU ARE AND ON BLACK DAN NO LESS AFTER THAT ALMOST EVERY DAY AGLEYA WOULD GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN 4ed1edfb-7d2f-409b-8900-f1982bc89865 188 EVERYBODY TALKED AND LAUGHED AT ONCE AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE WERE ALL SEATED ABOUT THE SUPPER TABLE THAT CONVERSATION GREW COHERENT WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY 23bee984-3c6c-400b-9676-5630cfe28bff 188 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 ab5ff496-60c9-4e31-9c64-6b6053324499 2108 AND FOR A LONG TIME THEY COULD HEAR THE YELLS AND STRUGGLES OF THE IMPRISONED GIANTESS THE CLATTER OF THE TIN OWL'S WINGS SOUNDED ABOVE HIM 3329fdef-c429-4749-a617-706efbb55811 2108 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 a0571f0b-6c2e-4667-bee8-47b51e52a24f 451 YOU DIDN'T TAKE MUCH CHARGE LAST NIGHT WHEN DAN GOT SICK SAID FELIX MALICIOUSLY 1b8f7ca9-dabc-4b34-a96b-d8580043ab19 2286 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 409ec071-ba4d-4c26-9c9f-9b9c49b11097 451 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 0032abf0-6d42-4335-8432-b58cd1d952d9 32 AND I PLANTED A LITTLE BED OF MY OWN WE SOMETIMES ACT THE STORY OUT FROM THE ROOM SHE HAD LEFT CAME MOANS AND CRIES 963632df-5627-435b-ac56-23cd60225d8d 451 I'LL TELL SOME TOO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY 99d054d4-bfc7-4b38-8b45-9b10de74272a 32 I THINK IT IS BOUND UP WITH THE FORTUNES OF THE KING FAMILY LIKE THE LUCK OF EDENHALL IN LONGFELLOW'S POEM BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING 1985c396-136f-446e-87a8-e8ce2a0be0a4 32 HAD ANY OF US BOYS EVER BEEN GUILTY OF SUCH CECILY'S PALE FACE WOULD HAVE COLOURED WITH A BLUSH OF OUTRAGED PURITY 3358ced1-4d38-44f0-a89c-48cfb443f7db 2108 IT IS TRUE RESPONDED THE SCARECROW IN THIS VALLEY NO ONE EVER DIES I NAMED HIM CHOP BY USING 658e3ef9-6d3a-4261-8cf0-2eda29b717c9 32 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 a96f9acf-13b3-4c89-b6c4-52094b16a2f4 451 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 0d7b1c80-e5c5-4ff8-8587-8b5eb79862e3 451 HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES HE SAYS MARTIN CAN'T CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN SINCE HE WAS MARRIED f926cd6b-c5b9-46df-9e62-d18ad5076bde 451 DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL WASN'T THE MISSIONARY SPLENDID THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND 370b5c6c-c0cb-4852-9c2f-a9fb24476c03 188 THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS THE HANGING IS OVER AND HARVEST ISN'T ON AND ALEC NEEDS A CHANGE HE ISN'T LOOKING WELL AT ALL fb4ed4b4-1c09-4c5f-9f50-9de07a714951 32 WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM IT'S NOT AS IF IT WERE A STRANGE GHOST deb4ec5b-ea54-4209-939c-01449b2dca14 32 THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES 0b3af211-c26b-42e6-9455-f992eac6cc3c 188 A GLEA WASDED WITH IT THAT SHE RESOLVED TO TAKE IT AS A PRESENT TO GLACON FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING 1be281f4-15b9-4c4c-8037-b00e59e10195 188 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 9d288f40-6f46-42c5-9b88-33c81933fb3c 451 DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL