398b1b87-b9af-411a-86d6-f54b0d8d90f6 242 PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE 8cbffb01-fcc7-4def-91f6-5c18075e0d32 402 LONG LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE BREATHLESS AND REELING HIS VESTURE TORN HIS GREAT WOUNDS BLEEDING HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE SHORE WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY SPRANG UP HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY f2d4a8de-56b2-4418-8200-b4b24c2b1775 177 WE WERE ALL UP EARLY NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES PETER HOWEVER HAD SLEPT SOUNDLY ENOUGH AFTER TWELVE O'CLOCK WHEN YOU'VE BEEN STUMPING OUT ELDERBERRIES ALL AFTERNOON IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN THE JUDGMENT DAY TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ALL NIGHT HE SAID WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING IT WAS JUST AWFUL I FORGOT IT FOR A MOMENT THEN ALL CAME BACK WITH A RUSH THAT WAS WORSE SCARED THAN BEFORE f295084c-d984-4227-964c-25724783b02b 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 I WONDER WHERE WE ALL BE THIS TIME TO MORROW NIGHT SAID FELIX MOURNFULLY AS WE WATCHED THE SUNSET BETWEEN THE DARK FIR BOUGHS IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN 24c372a2-7c08-426e-946f-daab82debc42 188 IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM IF YOU CAN CURE PATTY FOR US WE WILL ALWAYS BE VERY VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU THE ACCOMPANYING SMALL OFFERINGS ARE A TESTIMONIAL OF OUR RESPECT AND GRATITUDE AND WE ENTREAT YOU TO HONOR US BY ACCEPTING THEM VERY RESPECTFULLY YOURS SARA STANLEY 22136d70-afc2-48bc-9efc-055326a15bb3 177 WELL JUDY PROMISED SHE'D REMEMBER BECAUSE SHE LIKED MISSUS FRUIT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE HER NOT LONG AFTERWARDS JUDY WAS SCRUBBING THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE MORNING AND WHEN MISSUS FRUIN CAME IN JUDY LOOKED UP AND SAT QUITE PROUD OVER USING THE RIGHT WORD OH MISS FRUIN AIN'T IT AWFUL HOT I DECLARE I'M ALL IN A PRESBYTERIAN 46e8e28f-e105-43fd-b032-719cfe3cffef 2137 ODD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT REPLIED THE SECOND MAN IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT WE'LL NINE YEARS PASS ON EARTH WHEN WE MAKE THE TRIP OUR TEA IS MERE MOMENTS GOOD LORD BRANDON SAID YOU MUST HAVE PASSED US UP BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER 24c44eda-9878-4b00-b5b9-593347ead003 464 IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY SHE WOULD HAVE HELD HER TONGUE AS SHE AFTERWARDS CONFIDED IN TO ME IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR A HORRIBLE FEAR WHICH FLASHED INTO HER MIND THAT POSSIBLY SAWDUST PUDDINGS WERE NOT HEALTHY FOR PEOPLE TO EAT ESPECIALLY IF THERE MIGHT BE NEEDLES IN THEM AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY TO UNDO IT IF POSSIBLE AT ANY COST OF RIDICULE TO HERSELF b53f31e3-8840-4f79-bc46-5d40d6dd5c75 413 TELL UNCLE ROGER THAT AND SAY IF TO MORROW IS THE END OF THE WORLD THAT THERE IS NO GOOD IN STUMPING FIELDS ANY MORE I SUGGESTED YES AND IF HE LETS YOU OFF THEN WE'LL KNOW HE WAS IN EARNEST CHIMED IN CICELY BUT IF HE STILL SAYS YOU MUST GO THAT'LL BE A SIGN HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT LEAVING THE STORY YELLOW AND PETER TO PEEL THEIR POTATOES THE REST OF US WENT HOME WHERE AUNT JANET WHO HAD GONE TO THE WELL AND FOUND THE FRAGMENTS OF THE OLD BLUE CUP GAVE POOR FELICITY A BIT OF SCOLDING ABOUT IT BUT FELICITY BORE IT VERY PATIENTLY NAY MORE SHE SEEMED TO DELIGHT IN IT 7468377e-3029-4b6d-bc32-bed9759692c1 32 ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY AND OH I WAS SO HAPPY IT WAS DREADFUL TO WAKE UP AND FIND IT AS STRAIGHT AS EVER 6b4d11c5-ee7c-4770-ac1c-27975e47a9bd 2425 PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE I SWUNG THE AXE AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL I BROUGHT THE AXE DOWN AGAIN AND SOMETHING CRACKED SHARPLY AND THE THIRD BLOW SENT THE DOOR SWINGING WIDE d5b79ac8-cf62-4741-b695-f2d9ef3ed78b 451 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ISN'T TOO LATE HERE'S YOUR OWN GAIT SAYS CECILY BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN 9e534287-36fe-4d11-b63f-e74a65b0f8ee 2108 A GREAT SHINY OWL PERCHED UPON ANOTHER CHAIR AND A BROWN BEAR SQUATTED UPON HER PARLOR RUG GINGER DID NOT NOTICE THE CANARY BUT SHE CAUGHT UP THE BROOMSTICK AND DASHED INTO THE ROOM SHOUTING AS SHE CAME GET OUT OF HERE YOU WILD CREATURES HOW DARE YOU ENTER MY HOUSE ff179543-08c8-4bbb-b8db-dc288231bcc8 30 NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU EVERYBODY DOES IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AWAY FROM HER THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT SHE ISN'T A BIT PRETTY AFTER ALL THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP WONDERING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US 74daeff5-0e8f-4df0-9fd3-99752d7eb29c 188 DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT WE REALIZED ALL THE MINGLED COQUETRY AND FEELING AND DEFIANCE AND ARCHNESS IN BETTY SHERMAN'S DARING SPEECH WE HAD EVEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT MISTER CAMPBELL THAT GENTLEMAN IN SILENCE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET EXTRACTED A NOTE THEREFROM AND HANDED IT GRAVELY TO THE STORY GIRL 5fd27285-9087-4556-b29a-baced27433b2 2317 FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP THE SCENE ASSUMED SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF A BAD MOVIE COMEDY THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED cc974911-ae01-48ab-a7bb-3ba6cf25347a 402 AFTER THE RAIN THE AIR SEEMED DRIPPING WITH THE ODOURS IN THE WARM WEST WIND THE TANG OF FIR BALSAM THE SPICE OF MINT THE WILD WOODSINESS OF FERNS THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES ccb43515-4192-4f4e-9d8b-a85866c4601c 2108 BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS FOR THE GIRL MUST STILL BE LIVING IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE I BELIEVE IT IS MY DUTY TO SET OUT AND FIND HER SURELY IT IS NOT THE GIRL'S FAULT THAT I NO LONGER LOVE HER AND SO IF I CAN MAKE HER HAPPY IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO AND IN THIS WAY REWARD HER FOR HER FAITHFULNESS b180eb64-bf5d-4dae-87f6-5db31798bf45 2312 THEN THEY WENT TO TAKE THE REST OF THE SENSES BUT IN FEAR THERE WAS A CLEAR DUTY TO GET THE JOB DONE BUT THERE WAS ALSO A DREAD OF IT THAT HIS SUPERIORS DID NOT UNDERSTAND THERE WAS REASON ALSO WHY MARILLA WAS LOADED SO SHE COULD HARDLY WALK WITH PACKS OF CENSUS FORMS f05aac79-4ef6-4116-972f-f926ed384165 464 EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER TO THE LAST CRUMB IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT I WISH I WAS TWINS SO'S I COULD EAT MORE SAID DAN WHEN HE SIMPLY HAD TO STOP WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER 43abe5d0-a908-4ea9-b7e8-52863ff4c32e 2274 IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW THE LEATHER CHAIRS COMFORTABLE THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR SMACKED HIS LIPS FOR A WHILE THERE I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE TASTING ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN 999e709c-c494-417d-8721-124bb86e4dea 402 IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND AS THERE ARE NOW AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN IT WAS A LONG AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND SOMETIMES IT TOOK OVER SIXNTHS WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE 1180d925-aab7-4b05-8381-05fbca31f206 2312 BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS MARSHAL DON'T ASK THE LITTLE BUG SO MANY QUESTIONS YOU GOT A MILLION NAMES IN YOUR HAND CERTIFY THEM SEND THEM IN THERE'S ENOUGH OF US HERE RIGHT NOW WE DECLARE THAT PLACE UNANNEXED FORTHWITH THIS WILL MAKE HIGH PLAINS THE BIGGEST TOWN IN THE WHOLE STATE OF TEXAS 48cabf50-14b6-4315-8141-49c5f0e536bc 14 HE'LL LIKELY DO SOMETHING AWFUL AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL ASHAMED AND WISH YOU'D NEVER ASKED HIM TO GO AND WE'LL ALL BE DISGRACED IT'S ALL RIGHT TO HAVE OUR NIGHT BOXES FOR THE HEATHEN AND SEND MISSIONARIES TO THEM BUT THEY'RE FAR AWAY AND WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY de9a8a6a-9119-4d9e-8574-fc0cbdf5d430 2425 HE HESITATED AND THEN UTTERED A HIGH PITCHED SOUND THAT I PRESUMED TO BE A WORD OF COMMAND BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME AND WHILE THEIR FLESH LOOKED MORE UNNATURAL AND UNREAL THAN EVER AT CLOSE RANGE THEIR LONG FINGERS GRIPPED ME LIKE TALONS OF STEEL THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY acaab1ce-8218-4041-a6e2-79567ee89a0a 1867 WHY THIS BEACON WAS BUILT WITHIN REACH OF THE LOCAL CLAUSE I HAD YET TO FIND OUT BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME THE FIRST THING TO DO WAS MAKE CONTACT TO MAKE CONTACT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCAL LANGUAGE AND FOR THAT I HAD LONG BEFORE WORKED OUT A SYSTEM THAT WAS FULL PROOF I HAD A PRY EYE OF MY OWN CONSTRUCTION IT LOOKED LIKE A PIECE OF ROCK ABOUT A FOOT LONG ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY 0de365aa-8f6b-427d-959d-8d0873c285c6 32 CECILY NOW JOINED US IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST THEREFORE SHE COULD NOT COME WE ALL WENT TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD UNCLE STEPHEN WAS THE FIRST BORN OF ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH KING 6dd23841-b168-4308-9aa5-1488725067c5 2182 NO HE SAID I'D LIKE TO STAY THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT FISH AND SAIL AROUND LOOKING FOR SCOOPS READY TO SHED THEIR CRYSTALS JENOFER REMINDED HIM STILL UNCLE CHARLEY HAS TALKED ABOUT SETTLING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND STANDING FOR COUNCIL ELECTION CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT I CAN LEARN HE SAID cad58a98-914d-4da8-bb16-73db8f02a515 1867 THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE TRIANGULATION AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW 9fe504bc-f2f9-4f5c-bf13-d3d5815b73e0 177 A WAGON RUMBLING OVER A PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW MADE SARAH RAY START UP WITH A SHRIEK THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO 1944a255-bd83-42cf-b11b-82f357db1ea5 2317 GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN SHE FOLLOWED IT UP THIS TIME WITH A STRING OF INTRICATE FOREIGN SOUNDING WORDS THAN EVEN FARMER COULD TELL WERE HOT AND STINGING THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE a0f9e358-0bb9-4488-92b5-3411785d2178 32 SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM FROM THE ROOM SHE HAD LEFT CAME MOANS AND CRIES e3d234cd-9770-4677-8c22-ad67f5d2cac5 177 CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL SHE SHOOK HER HEAD NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION bd1b1555-d780-4610-af57-55f221196aac 2137 A SERIES OF MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS ROCKED THE SHIP HE CHOPPED THE POWER BACK ALL THE WAY AND LISTENED INTENTLY MAY DAY MAY ESTRO THIS IS BRANDON MAY DAY A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR THE FACE OF REINHERT THE RADIO MAN APPEARED BEFORE HIM BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER 6d5e313f-f515-4f06-b910-18525f8f31f7 2137 BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS HE LOOKED AT THE MILKY WAY 0b0d5676-af74-4e9a-8f7d-b31ff53b83a1 2137 WITH AN EFFORT HE SAT UP ON THE BACK SEAT AND LOOKED THROUGH THE PERMANS A TANGLE OF CORDS STRETCHED OUT TO THE NILEN OF THE MAIN CHUTE DRAPED OVER A DUST STONE BEYOND IT HE COULD SEE THE GLEAMING METAL RIBBONS OF THE DROG SHOOT AHEAD OF HIM BEHIND SOME LOW HILLS HE COULD SEE A DULL RED GLOW THE SHIP HE THOUGHT ec02df90-04a0-4022-8387-e7e08fab08fa 2286 I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY BUT THERE WAS NO REAL REASON WHY THAT COULDN'T BE CHANGED TOO CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE 38f8c3be-ed0a-495a-90b9-56d709514e29 198 I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED IT'S ALL VERY FINE TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO 441a20fe-08e4-4130-8f04-7080cba0bd88 32 HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS AND THE KINDLY WAYS OF THE WARM RED EARTH GRANDMOTHER KING HAD BEEN A WARD AND IN UNCLE STEPHEN THE BLOOD OF THE SEAFARING RACE CLAIMED ITS OWN TO SEE HE MUST GO DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER AND IT WAS FROM THE SEA HE CAME TO SET OUT HIS AVENUE IN THE ORCHARD WITH TREES BROUGHT FROM A FOREIGN LAND THEN HE SAILED AWAY AGAIN AND THE SHIP WAS NEVER HEARD OF MORE e99016d9-921a-4d87-88e2-199bb13bf7cd 451 THE STORY GIRL WALKED UPRIGHTLY LIKE INCARNATE FLAME IN HER CRIMSON SILK HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE BUT SARA RAY WAS NOT HAPPY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER 63a540e9-1f71-4103-8b3d-5df736a90b10 32 I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP IF YOU HADN'T WOKE UP YOU'D HAVE DIED SAID PETER WITH A DARK SIGNIFICANCE IF YOU DREAM OF FALLING AND DON'T WAKE YOU DO LAND WITH A THUD AND IT KILLS YOU THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR SLEEP HOW DO YOU KNOW ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY NOBODY WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP COULD EVER TELL IT 4f6e6fba-a25e-414a-aa79-338607cd9239 2317 SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE YOUR MACHINE REACTIVATED THE GATE FROM THIS SIDE EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO DORA WENT ON IT'S A GOOD THING I NOTICED THE GATE WAS OPEN OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM 71512441-cb47-4d6b-8c0f-e05669c312c0 2368 MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU KNUPH SHOOK HIS HEAD IT IS A TRICK HE BEGAN A TRICK YONAS SAID BUT THE PRAYERS OF GOD AND HIS CHURCH AND THAT WAS THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD NO WIZARD COULD PRAY 1de7b8f4-9af0-4f7b-aa24-6c8b9772b6aa 748 I GOT IT FROM MY MOUTH SAID DAN WITH A SHAMED FACED GRIN THE GIRLS IN SCHOOL LAUGH AT IT SO KATE MAR SAYS IT'S LIKE A GASH IN A PIE BILLY SAID THAT THE SEED WOULD SHRINK IT FOR SURE WELL THERE IT WAS BILLY HAD DECEIVED US BOTH b302867c-36b9-427e-a444-d3d5588c221d 2317 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND THEN ATTEMPTED A SWAN DYKE JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE THE OLD MAN DROPPED LIKE A STONE FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE e1d3d7c0-38fd-4b06-89d7-d9973969cb20 2317 PROBABLY IN FACT GARF WOULD TRY TO CONQUER THE WORLD ANYWAY THAT WAS HOW IT WENT IN STORIES AS CORNY AS A SITUATION FARMER FURTHER DECIDED THAT RAY WAS TOO EGOCENTRICALLY ECCENTRIC TO BE TRUSTED TO GET HIM OUT OF THIS FIX HE DECIDED HE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HIMSELF 93cc9f92-a055-4022-b230-d8e866dfff56 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 I SMILED AND NODDED AT HIS DECISION AND THEN CONTINUED SO YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD ME SAFELY OUT THE WAY BREAKING MY SPIRIT UNDER THE GUISE OF GIVING ME A LITTLE BACKGROUND INTO THE CAUSE ACTIVITIES WHILE IN THIS SENSE YOUR PLAN FAILED SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED INSTEAD I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING 3dbbc16d-87a6-4ec6-859f-58cfccdf7dea 188 I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU HAVE SUCH A GOOD OPINION OF ME I DON'T DESERVE IT BUT AFTER THIS I'LL TRY TO I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALL YOUR KINDNESS I'D LIKE THE FELLOW THE STORY GIRL WROTE ABOUT THAT WHO COULDN'T GET IT OUT I HAVE THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL GAVE ME FOR MY SERMON ON THE WALL AT THE FOOT OF MY BED I LIKE TO LOOK AT IT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE AUNT JANE 9263203a-8a7b-48d0-b715-66ec9851d4e3 451 WHEN YOUR FATHER'S RUN AWAY AND YOUR MOTHER GOES OUT WASHING AND YOU'RE ONLY OLD ENOUGH TO GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK YOU CAN'T GIVE MUCH TO THE HEATHEN BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN dd8dc3e6-a8a2-4435-8d81-75b7bf2ece64 32 MY AUNT JANE TOLD ME SO SAID PETER I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY WHAT DID I SAY THAT WAS NASTY CRIED FELICITY I DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING 29098aa1-f613-4cdd-9784-963a62269875 2182 SHE WAS A PRETTY SIGHT THERE WAS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTION IN JEFF IN SPITE OF HIS DRAB YEARS OF E I PATROL DUTY THE WHITE PUFF OF SAIL ON DARK GREEN SEA GLIDING ACROSS CALM WATER BANDED WITH LIGHTER AND DARKER STRAYER WHERE SUBMERGED SHOALS LAY STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM 633be1ac-e49e-493d-bc93-2fb736bd310b 2286 UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE THIS WAS ALL STILL HEARSAY TO ME I HAD BEEN PULLED INTO HEADQUARTERS AND GIVEN ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR TRAINING SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT 5342ca0c-fe47-4076-a9d9-bccb5ba39082 451 NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH THIS SEEMED TO BE A RATHER UNANSWERABLE KIND OF CONUNDRUM WE DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM AS WE ROAMED THE WOOD AND DAN AND PETER ALMOST QUARRELLED OVER IT DAN MAINTAINING THAT THE THING WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND PETER BEING OF OPINION THAT THE MUSH WAS SOMEHOW MADE THICKER IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EATEN AND SO TOOK UP LESS ROOM DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES 8f602596-b83a-4ecb-a609-40d61b752e6c 32 LEGENDS OF THE OLD ORCHARD OUTSIDE OF THE ORCHARD THE GRASS WAS ONLY BEGINNING TO GROW GREEN BUT HERE SHELTERED BY THE SPRUCE HEDGES FROM UNCERTAIN WINDS AND SLOPING TO SOUTHERN SUNS IT WAS ALREADY LIKE A WONDERFUL VELVET CARPET THE LEAVES ON THE TREES WERE BEGINNING TO COME OUT IN WOOLLY GREYISH CLUSTERS AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE 1388b935-1e6f-46ae-a7a5-d00e5e2f573c 2312 MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE AND DIED QUIETLY AS MARILLA HAD DONE HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT KNOWING FOR SURE WHETHER HE WAS MANUEL COME BACK OR WHAT HE WAS THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY 5e867a4b-fd58-454e-962b-6f320649fbd1 2274 HE BARKED HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE THE EYE A SECTION CHIEF WAS DARK HAIRED GANGLING WITH LARGE HEAD AND BIG FEATURES HE STOOD IN HIS CUSTOMARY SLOUCH A STANCE NOT IMPROVED BY THE SACK LIKE PATCHED BLUE FATIGUES 4bfe7080-4afe-4076-98aa-334319d37bab 2108 AFTER HE HAD BEEN IN HER SERVICE FOR SOME TIME OZMA SENT HIM INTO THE GILICAN COUNTRY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO KEEP AMONG THE WILD PEOPLE WHO INHABIT SOME PARTS OF THAT UNKNOWN COUNTRY OF OZ AS FOR WOUT BEING A WANDERER BY PROFESSION HE WAS ALLOWED TO WANDER WHEREVER HE DESIRED AND OZMA PROMISED TO KEEP WATCH OVER HIS FUTURE JOURNEYS AND TO PROTECT THE BOY AS WELL AS SHE WAS ABLE IN CASE HE EVER GOT INTO MORE TROUBLE 2b738956-1475-410c-ac5b-7cd1573dc8f7 32 WELL GOD WILL BE ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO ME IF I DON'T PESTER HIM ALL THE TIME ARGUED PETER THIS WAS RANK HERESY TO FELICITY BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN IT YOU NEVER GO TO CHURCH ANYHOW CONTINUED FELICITY DETERMINED NOT TO BE ARGUED DOWN 2d86b1f7-2338-4061-9aff-cdf053bbffec 2368 EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST 8f735b69-db90-4f71-9671-1aaa89f39d2c 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK IT'S SAD AND BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED MISSUS DUNBAR LIVES NEXT DOOR TO AUNT LOUISA IN TOWN SHE IS SO SWEET YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE BUT SHE HAS AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE 19e05a9e-f8de-4cee-8951-76353df59b55 2182 JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE A CHILL CONVICTION OF INSANITY GRIPPED HIM WHEN HE LOOKED DOWN ON WATER LAPPING SMOOTH AND UNDISTURBED BELOW I'VE GOTTEN MAD HE SAID ALOUD OUT ON THE BAY ANOTHER CATASTROPHE JUST AS IMPROBABLE WAS IN PROGRESS 637bcacb-0f01-4981-8dea-6f9efb7efdc7 188 MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE MYSELF IF I HADN'T BEEN SO SCARED OF THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT YOU AIN'T A METHODIST YOU'RE A PRESBYTERIAN AIN'T YOU YES OF COURSE I WAS BORN THAT WAY VERY WELL THEN YOU'VE GOT TO DO THINGS THE PRESBYTERIAN WAY DON'T LET ME HEAR ANY MORE OF YOUR AMENDS OR I'LL AMEN YOU 9c66c932-e21f-48f2-b563-8c876e6b7911 2137 WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER HE TALKED TO THE MILKY BOY TEN SECONDS SHIP WEIGHED AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE RELEASING A DRUG SHOOT SO WILL CLEAR THE SHIP THEN HE SPOKE TO THE DESERT AND MAYBE ANOTHER TEN TO GET THE CAPSULE TIME SLOW DOWN 94127bf4-91bd-4fd4-8a48-d89146cf60e7 2182 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY 4038dfa1-9762-4f63-9d43-317dd05af9c7 188 WITH THAT HE UNTIED NEIL'S HORSE CLIMBED INTO NEIL'S SLEIGH AND TUCKED NEIL'S BUFFALO ROBE ABOUT HIM NOW BEST OLD GIRL DO YOUR BONNIEST HE SAID THERE'S MORE THAN YOU KNOW HANGS ON YOUR SPEED IF THE CAMPBELL WAKES TOO SOON BLACK DAN COULD SHOW YOU A PAIR OF CLEAN HEELS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD START ON MY GIRL d93ac119-0617-46d2-a724-e61f771700fe 2368 KNOCK AT THE DOOR I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS THE OLD WOMAN STILL CLUTCHING HER COIN DISAPPEARED FROM THE WINDOW AS IF SOMEONE HAD YANKED HER BACK YONAS TURNED WITH RELIEF AND GOT BACK ON THE PATH BUT HIS STAYED QUITE AS BADLY AS THE HOUSE HAD HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY SHARP PROVED TO BE A BARROW SHAPED MAN WHO WAS UNACCOUNTABLY CHEERLESS AS IF THE INSIDE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY REMOVED AND THEN REPLACED BY SAWDUST YONAS THOUGHT EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED 029d7a1f-14c5-4ff7-8cf2-811a5805e179 2182 HOMESIDE WILL DENY THEIR AUTONOMY AUBREY I'VE HAD A WARP BEING MESSAGE TO DAY ORDERING ME TO MOVE IN THE SITUATION WAS DESPERATE ENOUGH AT HOME JEFF HAD TO ADMIT COLLAXY AND CALM CRYSTALS DID WHAT NO REFINEMENT OF TERRAN THERAPEUTICS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE THEY ERASED THE FEARS OF THE NEUROTIC AND CALMED THE QUIVERINGS OF THE HY POTENSIVE BOTH AN ALARMING MAJORITY IN THE SHATTERING AFTERMATH OF THE FOURTH WAR WITH NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL ea10a328-19bf-40e8-877a-c3b74aa6172b 402 THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK 1bfdaaa8-baa6-4038-8717-7524eb7dea1e 2274 THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS BELIEVER THAT UD GIVE US FOR YOU SOUND LIKE A UNILACTICAL LECTURE ARE YOU THROUGH MARCHING ARM IN ARM INTO THE MISTY FUTURE HORN TOOK A BREATH WHY'S A FRESHMAN LIKE ME BEING TOSSED INTO THIS DISH e761f85c-7f3b-417a-bb74-2488d9d15bd5 451 THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT THE NEW PEAS WOULDN'T HURT ENOUGH THEY'RE SO SOFT THEY'D SQUASH FLAT I'LL TELL YOU SAID PETER I'LL PICK UP A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND PEBBLES ON MISTER KING'S FRONT WALK AND THEY'LL BE JUST AS GOOD AS PEAS YOU'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID AUNT JANET SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET 5474944a-a433-4363-9f68-a63bf9e3a28e 2182 THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP 1adcb600-c0cd-4b50-9c05-7ed4275ca5f6 2368 HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME BUT SOON AND LATER IT STILL HAD TO HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENED AS THE ONISTS SUSPECTED IT WOULD THROUGH THE WIFE MISSUS SHARP CAME BACK TO THE HUT EARLY ONE DAY THROUGH A FRIGHTENED GLANCE AT YONAH SITTING IN A CORNER DOING NOTHING AT ALL AND LEFT HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY e1928d33-9ff8-4908-8f72-d7610d3dac7b 2137 AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR BUT SAY SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE WHERE DID IT COME FROM SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE DANGEROUS THERE WAS ANOTHER NAME FOR IT DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN 10ee26db-2435-4b8f-8789-3ad81a9648bd 451 ONCE THERE WERE TWO ARCHANGELS IN HEAVEN NAMED ZARA AND ZULEI MYTH HAVE ANGELS NAMES SAME AS PEOPLE INTERRUPTED PETER YES OF COURSE THEY MUST HAVE THEY'D BE ALL MIXED UP IF THEY HADN'T AND WHEN I'M AN ANGEL IF I EVER GET TO BE ONE WILL MY NAME STILL BE PETER b49e10f0-392d-4933-b42e-b00eca611b19 2137 BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA c7445134-9902-4b6d-8a59-281063786f1f 2108 THEN THE TIN WOODMAN STARED HARD AT HIS FRIEND THE SCARECROW BUT FINALLY HE SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE OF VOICE I MUST ADMIT THAT NEVER BEFORE HAVE I THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS FINDING MINNY AND ME AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES 64e0b0ce-6b91-4b55-8233-26e53e463793 2368 HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE BUT CLARTON HAD INSISTED ON AN INTERMITTENT CONTACT IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS 14f79a23-7a9a-4995-bae0-5ac0c0605215 2368 THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS ONE HAD BLACK COARSE HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND A STUBBLE ABOUT HIS FACE THE OTHER WAS BALD AS AN EGG THAT'S HIM MISTER SHARP SAID JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW THE MAN WITH THE BLACK HAIR SAID UGH GER b7c1f5d5-5443-4f6c-aefc-9419111ed687 2286 HE LOOKED DOWN AS IF AWARE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ROBOT HAD BEEN HOLDING BY THE WRIST DURING THE INTERVIEW THAT IS NO ORDINARY ROBOT IT HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVICES BUILT INTO ITS FINGER TIPS THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS THINGS LIKE THAT WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES 52983f6f-665f-40bb-86a7-bd1d875b3b4a 2317 GAR STAGGERED ACROSS THE DECK UNTIL HE BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE RAIL HOLDING HIS JAW AND SHAKING HIS HEAD MUZZILY FARMER BRACED HIMSELF FOR RETALIATION HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LESS THAN A BOLT OF BARBED LIGHTNING BUT GARF REMAINED UNPREDICTABLE HE MUMBLED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ALL THE HELL WITH IT BUT SOUNDED LIKE IT AND SOFTLY AND SILENTLY SLID OVERBOARD HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE c9279dcb-20db-4d79-bfd2-9173738cae44 2312 IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE THE OFFICIAL HAD GIVEN A SNAP JUDGMENT AND IT LED TO DISASTER IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE 02d52624-793d-4b6e-b36c-4932b0470765 14 WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS PRESENTLY THEY WERE SCATTERED BY AN ABRUPT AND STARTLING QUESTION FROM PETER WHAT DOES GOD LOOK LIKE HE SAID IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY I WISH I KNEW SAID PETER GRAVELY I WISH I COULD SEE A PICTURE OF GOD IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL 6790ab54-49a6-4d08-8645-137be728085b 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT UP DAN SAID CECILY ANXIOUSLY I HAD TO SAID DAN THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL BESIDES I'M ALL RIGHT AGAIN I FEEL FINE 051fbf3c-7da8-4fca-b5aa-1d45836066ba 2274 STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES HERE WE ARE HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN YOU WILL HEAD FOR IT AS SOON AS WE DROP YOU THE PLACE IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF YOU HOLD A COURSE ROUGHLY NORTHEAST YOU CAN'T MISS IT 0ecaa7cc-8491-48e2-9683-c14cbac1b09a 402 WE STOPPED PICKING APPLES SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS AND TRIED TO REASON IT OUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT THE REST OF US COULD NOT SEE WHERE ANY CATCH COULD EXIST SINCE FELIX SOLEMNLY VOWED CROSS HIS HEART WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK 44f3efb6-c957-449d-80f1-0ce42c7c07a1 2182 THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED IT FLOATED LIKE A GLISTENING PLUM COLORED ISLAND FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN IT WAS MORE THAN VAST THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS f6e8cfbb-b9bd-4518-950f-1454c5db4a4c 2286 THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK I IMAGINE HE WAS AS FULL OF PETTY LARCENACY AS FORERO NO INNOCENT MAN COULD HAVE LOOKED SO TERROR STRICKEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS 406c8444-d485-410e-a02c-de7d806331d0 2274 WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT STETSON CROSSED OVER TO A TILT LOCKER BEHIND THE BIG TRANSLENT MAP HAULED OUT A WHITE COVER ALL UNIFORM WITH GOLDEN SIGNIA TOSSED IT TO ORAN GET INTO THESE WHILE I BRIEF YOU ON THE MAP BUT THIS IS AN ORN R UNIT BEGAN ORAN GET THAT UNIFORM ON YOUR UGLY FRAME 9be8819c-76a2-4711-ac59-dd4d86a3b9aa 2286 FERERO'S TURNED FACE WENT A DIRTY GREY AT MY WORDS I PRESSED THE ADVANTAGE I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM THIS LAST ORDER WAS DIRECTED AT THE ROBART WHO WAS WELL BRIEFED IN ITS ROLL IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED 4b4f1d38-1acf-4cf3-a99e-74951ea77b9d 2317 THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED IT WAS AS IF A BLAST FURNACE HAD SUDDENLY OPENED BESIDE HIM HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF 90323307-63fe-43a9-833f-e4c4243cec64 2425 NICE WORK PETE SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES IT IS NOW I'LL GO AHEAD YOU BRING UP THE REAR WITH HOPE IN THE MIDDLE READY LET'S GO I PLUNGED ON HOPE'S FINGERS GRIPPING MY BELT FRESH MULTITUDES WERE POURING UP THE RAMP BRUSHING ASIDE THE FIVE OR SIX PRIESTS THAT HAD HURRIED THERE IN AN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE ab5aba17-9041-499d-bc4b-3faf78bc7f4c 188 WHAT WAS A THING SHE COULDN'T BEAR ANY ONE TO SEE I ASKED MA THINKS IT WAS HER WEDDING DRESS BUT FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES IT WAS MIL WILL MONTAGUE'S PICTURE SAID FELICITY HE SAW HER PUT IT IN FATHER KNOWS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE CHESS HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD AND HE SAW HER PACKET THERE'S A WHITE MUSLIN WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL AND AND A A FELICITY DROPPED HER EYES AND BLUSHED PAINFULLY A PETTICOAT EMBROIDERED BY HAND FROM HEM TO BELT SAID THE STORY GIRL CALMLY 6e4fa41d-9318-41b2-820a-de3877006f7d 2425 THE NOTE READ DEAR PETE IF YOU GET THIS I AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION DRIVE OUT IF PLAIN PEDDLING IS PALLING ON YOU AND BUST INTO THE LAB I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO c7835550-c3ec-4908-b7e4-3465c0a026b7 402 SOME OF THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED VERY CAREFULLY BUT WITH OTHERS IT DID NOT MATTER WE BOYS WOULD CLIMB THE TREES AND SHAKE THE APPLES DOWN UNTIL THE GIRLS SHRIEKED FOR MERCY THE DAYS WERE CRISP AND MELLOW WITH WARM SUNSHINE AND A TANG OF FROST IN THE AIR MINGLED WITH THE WOODSY ODOURS OF THE WITHERING GRASSES c4555c97-5666-460e-b261-79c784cb3396 451 WE WERE SITTING THERE WHEN UNCLE ROGER WALKED IN AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FRID DOING UP AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT HE SAID ANGRILY YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR BEDS TWO HOURS AGO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES c9161525-4236-4be5-96aa-3a181f812346 2108 THE SERVANTS OF THE TIN WOODMEN ALL WORE TIN HELMETS AND TIN BREASTPLATES AND UNIFORMS COVERED WITH TINY TIN DISKS SEWED CLOSELY TOGETHER ON THE SILVER CLOTH SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF 97d5e0e1-ab92-41b8-aaab-183f4448b7d5 402 JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT THE GREAT SQUARE OF PEGASUS WAS OVER OUR HEADS CASSIOPEIA SAT ENTHRONED IN HER BEAUTIFUL CHAIR IN THE NORTH EAST AND NORTH OF US THE DIPPERS SWUNG UNTIRINGLY AROUND THE POLE STAR CECILY AND FELIX WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DISTINGUISH THE DOUBLE STAR IN THE HANDLE OF THE BIG DIPPER AND GREATLY DID THEY PLUME THEMSELVES THEREON 6cc2d6e0-2278-4fc6-b9c9-3a9735f3fd16 32 THE DREAM BOOKS THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS THEY WERE TEN CENTS APIECE WITH RULED PAGES AND MOTTLED GREEN COVERS MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO a97eb5ad-580d-41d1-aee1-649d645db03c 451 MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS THE CROWNS ARE JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS THEY LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU CAN GO BY THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY 8a686ac3-cd12-495f-930a-4d4b8dcf8ffc 451 I SUPPOSE MISSUS SCOTT THOUGHT THAT WHAT WAS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE WAS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER FOR SHE SLIPPED OUT AND DROVE OFF TO CHURCH AS HE HAD DONE OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN 45bdb2f6-7dc9-47c5-a9da-6c0a0c8c208b 188 MOTHER SAID TEN O'CLOCK AND SHE'LL STICK TO IT SAID FELICITY CROSSLY IT'S ONLY NINE NOW LET US PUT THE CLOCK ON HALF AN HOUR SAID THE STORY GIRL THE CLOCK IN THE HALL ISN'T GOING SO NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE WE ALL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER I WOULDN'T DARE SAID THE FELICITY IRRESOLUTELY OH IF THAT'S ALL I'LL DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL 49eaf8fa-df57-44fc-8799-fe2f163728f0 188 I HAD ADDED A TRADITION ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVES UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW FELIX HAD PREVIOUSLY ACQUIRED THE KNACK OF EXTRICATING MILK FROM THE UTTER BUT HE HAD NEVER BEFORE TRIED TO MILK A WHOLE COW HE DID NOT GET ON WELL THE COW TRAMPED ON HIS FOOT AND FINALLY UPSET THE BUCKET WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY THAT'S THE QUESTION SAID UNCLE ROGER SHAKING HIS HEAD GRAVELY b8e953e3-51a2-4c65-8c38-e63b11890d9c 402 PETER WAS NO BETTER THE NEXT DAY AUNT OLIVIA REPORTED THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BROKEN HEARTED WE DID NOT ASK AGAIN TO BE RELEASED FROM WORK INSTEAD WE WENT AT IT WITH FEVERISH ZEAL IF WE WORKED HARD THERE WAS LESS TIME FOR GRIEF AND GRIEVOUS THOUGHTS WE PICKED APPLES AND DRAGGED THEM TO THE GRANARY DOGGEDLY 22c74a2d-0aac-4c11-88fa-daa31ac16056 188 SSING WAS DISCOVERED WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH WHEN HE HAD COME TO OURSELVES AND DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE REALLY SITTING IN A DEWY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ORCHARD INSTEAD OF WATCHING TWO LOVERS ON A MOUNTAIN IN THESSALY AND THE GOLDEN AGE I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT OF COURSE WE KNOW IT WASN'T REALLY TRUE SAID FELICITY 71f5874b-fc62-4dcf-ae19-2d394665ecf2 2274 WHY A DISGUISED SLED ASKED HORN IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP STETSON SHRUGGED I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS 02702808-8840-4c18-b6b3-c3e92a33cc32 2108 WHAT DO I CARE FOR A GIRL WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN AND WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ME BUT OZMA IS A FAIRY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN AND THEREFORE SHE IS VERY POWERFUL ALSO WE ARE UNDER OZMA'S PROTECTION AND TO INJURE US IN ANY WAY WOULD MAKE HER EXTREMELY ANGRY 75f66521-5cb3-4c2c-8554-e1fc162de046 402 THERE IS NO MORE SAID THE STORY GIRL THAT WAS THE END OF IT THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR MARGARET IT DIDN'T KILL HER BUT HER HEART DIED I JUST WISH I'D HOLD OF THOSE FELLOWS WHO WOULDN'T LET THE CAPTAIN TAKE HIS WIFE SAID PETER SAVAGELY WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING b32650af-9ae0-4df7-b421-c7785840b409 188 IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS AUNT JULIA HAD BEEN THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK IN THAT RESPECT AND HAD TO BECOME A NOTED CONCERT SINGER THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THEIR MUSIC ECHOED ONLY ALONG THE HIDDEN WAYS OF LIFE AND SERVED BUT TO LIGHTEN THE CARES OF THE TRIVIAL ROUND AND COMMON TASK aebf3bcc-04b2-44bf-812c-2a7b13c93827 2274 WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT YOU INTEND TO START A WAR ASKED SCORN IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN THAT IS A QUIBBLE FOR WOMEN SAID TENUBE IT'S TOO BAD TO FEEL THAT WAY SAID HORN WHEN TWO CULTURES MEET LIKE THIS THEY TEND TO HELP EACH OTHER af3c2026-0512-4e01-8a29-6acc5284ca85 32 AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC CAME STROLLING THROUGH THE ORCHARD AND JOINED OUR CIRCLE AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN c40cbc06-2822-4a4b-8f64-9568cec6c583 188 SUDDENLY THE DOOR ABOVE US OPENED AND PEG BOWEN HERSELF APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD SHE WAS A TALL SINEWY OLD WOMAN WEARING A SHORT RAGGED DRUGGET SKIRT WHICH REACHED SCANTILY BELOW HER KNEES A SCARLET PRINT BLOUSE AND A MAN'S HAT HER FEET ARMS AND NECK WERE BARE AND SHE HAD A BATTERED OLD CLAY PIPE IN HER MOUTH HER BROWN FACE WAS SEAMED WITH A HUNDRED WRINKLES AND HER TANGLED GRIZZLED HAIR FELL UNKEMPTLY OVER HER SHOULDERS SHE WAS SCOWLING AND HER FLASHING BLACK EYES HELD NO FRIENDLY LIGHT f185e769-411f-4486-835d-d4871c1692c9 402 EVEN SCEPTICAL DAN PRAYED HIS SCEPTICISM FALLING AWAY FROM HIM LIKE A DISCARDED GARMENT IN THIS VALLEY OF THE SHADOW WHICH SIFTS OUT HEARTS AND TRIES SOULS UNTIL WE ALL GROWN UP WITH CHILDREN REALIZE OUR WEAKNESS AND FINDING THAT OUR OWN PUNY STRENGTH IS AS A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT 19b234fe-c07f-4563-ac0f-fc28fb38a742 32 FROM THE WALK WE WENT TO THE PULPIT STONE A HUGE GRAY BOULDER AS HIGH AS A MAN'S HEAD IN THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER IT WAS STRAIGHT AND SMOOTH IN FRONT BUT SLOPED DOWN IN NATURAL STEPS BEHIND WITH A LEDGE MIDWAY ON WHICH ONE COULD STAND IT HAD PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE GAMES OF OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS BEING FORTIFIED CASTLE INDIAN AMBUSH THRONE PULPIT OR CONCERT PLATFORM AS OCCASION REQUIRED a47aaa30-2725-4f94-840a-8c629f380ee0 2108 SWEET FRESH GOLDEN STRAW THERE IS SURELY NO FLAW AND IS STUFFING SO CLEAN AND COMPACT IT CREAKS WHILE I WALK AND IT THRILLS WHEN I TALK AND ITS FRAGRANCE IS FINE FOR EFFECT TO CUT ME DON'T HURT FOR I'VE NO BLOOD TO SQUIRT AND I THEREFORE CAN SUFFER NO PAIN THE STRAW THAT I USE DOESN'T LUMP UP OR BRUISE THOUGH IT'S POUNDED AGAIN AND AGAIN f58e94f0-ad6f-46bf-bf15-16f69bf45505 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 IS THAT A CONUNDRUM ASKED CECILY CAUTIOUSLY IF IT IS I WON'T TRY TO GUESS THE REASON I NEVER CAN GUESS CONUNDRUMS IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT THEY DO AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT f21767a2-c062-4c89-a48a-4b68774f25e1 2286 WE AGREED THAT THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP WOULD BE TO SEND ENTERROLA SPACE YARDS HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS I GAVE HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LEAGUE AND THE LEAGUE NAVY IN PARTICULAR WANTED TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP AFTER THAT HE COULD PLAY HIS POLITICS WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN 199f1a60-7622-4d0e-b34f-c3f8e98af1da 188 FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM FELIX PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR HER BUT I KNEW HE DID BECAUSE HIS EARS GREW RED FELIX'S FACE NEVER BLUSHED BUT HIS EARS ALWAYS GAVE HIM AWAY AS FOR FELICITY SHE DID NOT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT OUT OF MALICE PREPENSE IT NEVER OCCURRED TO HER THAT FELIX DID NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED FAT I ALWAYS FEEL SORRY FOR THE POOR WEED SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY IT MUST BE VERY HARD TO BE ROOTED UP 68253dea-5673-4a5a-8428-4aa43d892d7e 242 I S'POSE YOU THINK A HIRED BOY HASN'T ANY BUSINESS TO PRAY FOR PARTICULAR THINGS BUT I'LL SHOW YOU I'LL JUST PRAY FOR WHAT I PLEASE AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY AND STOP ME 2f5909ee-293b-4bf7-9f1d-6bfdbc794b1d 402 WHAT TALES SHE TOLD US ON THOSE FAR AWAY AUTUMN DAYS PEOPLING THE RUSSET ARCADES WITH FOLK OF AN ELDER WORLD bcda3dfb-3986-4b9a-ae96-88ca85fd8619 177 WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE STILL BEFORE US WITH ALL THEIR POTENT LURE OF YEARS UNKNOWN 6d90250d-9053-4b69-b569-2d760e790358 103 WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY HE IS BIG AND JOLLY BUT HE TEASES PEOPLE TOO MUCH YOU ASK HIM A SERIOUS QUESTION AND YOU GET A RIDICULOUS ANSWER HE HARDLY EVER SCOLDS OR GETS CROSS THOUGH AND THAT IS SOMETHING 5058095c-d1fd-46c5-9c35-4d1d0f976fee 413 I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING 6067770c-409a-4f57-83a1-e60051a1736e 1867 THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT e9088020-59aa-4dbb-a386-785fe5b99607 103 NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY 17dec09d-3179-4925-aa45-92d5e765a878 464 NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY AND AUNT OLIVIA WAS WORN TO LABEL ALL THE PINCUSHIONS IN THE HOUSE b84903c4-0196-4f68-aa02-d5eb583e4400 177 CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL SHE SHOOK HER HEAD NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED b0a74451-a720-466d-b0f9-4f17daff425a 402 WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES BUT AS WE WAITED THE CLOUDS BROKE AWAY AND THE SUN CAME OUT FLASHINGLY THE DROPS ON THE SPRUCE BOUGHS GLITTERED LIKE DIAMONDS 0c779d9c-b292-4cfe-b31e-775b292aff2d 451 THOSE OF US WHO HAD NOTHING THE MATTER WITH OUR CONSCIENCES ENJOYED OUR WALK TO THE LITTLE WHITEWASHED SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE VALLEY FELICITY AND CECILY WERE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN 50a4d383-41f4-480a-9fc8-25d2efca144d 2137 REMEMBER YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO LOCATE A FIRM LANDING SITE WITH AMPLE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF IS THAT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET dbd571b0-f95e-4642-a140-5b6155742d5e 464 WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN 27bbcdcb-f0ad-4039-b137-5f3dc806e7e8 2286 THERE ARE NATURAL LAWS IN CRIME AS IN EVERY OTHER FIELD OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR I KNEW THIS WAS IT 43a755ed-607e-48a9-a2cc-5005dd204979 464 LET CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL CACKLE ALL THEY WANTED TO AND LET THOSE STUCK UP TORONTO BOYS GRIN LIKE CHESSY CATS BUT WHEN FELICITY LAUGHED AT HIM THE IRON ENTERED INTO PETER'S SOUL IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON 82c80249-b932-4997-8f81-10f20fcdbc0c 2317 NOT THAT THEY'D HAVE KEPT ME FROM GETTING BORED FOR LONG BUT YOURS LOOKS AS IF IT'S GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY AMUSING AT LEAST 619107f4-ea01-4c70-857f-1f8bf5b33004 177 A CLOUD PASSED OVER THE SUN AND AS THE SUDDEN SHADOW SWEPT ACROSS THE ORCHARD WE TURNED PALE AND TREMBLED d81b9cc3-763f-46d0-92fb-f325567521e4 103 BUT BETWEEN YOU AND ME I BELIEVE THE REAL REASON IS THAT HER MOTHER DOESN'T GIVE HER HALF ENOUGH TO EAT NOT THAT SHE'S MEAN YOU KNOW BUT SHE THINKS IT ISN'T HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN TO EAT MUCH OR ANYTHING BUT CERTAIN THINGS ISN'T IT FORTUNATE WE WEREN'T BORN INTO THAT SORT OF A FAMILY 7737eee6-dd5b-4396-a98c-64645893a03d 30 SOON AFTER WE WERE AT SUPPER IN THE KITCHEN WITH ITS LOW DARK RAFTERED CEILING FROM WHICH SUBSTANTIAL HAMS AND FLITCHES OF BACON WERE HANGING 1bc34928-535a-463b-8c4b-5ca99c879503 464 WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY 9e02f1f9-ce2d-4083-922c-0c7b7fb38802 2368 ALL IN ALL HE THOUGHT SADLY HE WAS NOT A USUAL HERO BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT f012e7ac-400f-4028-bdba-93822ac6401d 2182 NOT LIKELY JEFF SAID THEY DON'T USE THE CRYSTALS THEMSELVES OLD DOCTOR HERMAN PUT HIS CHIN ALMOST ON THE CONSUL'S SHOULDER TO PRESENT HIS WIZENED FACE TO THE SCANNER OF COURSE THEY DON'T HE SAID f70d258c-f9ac-41b1-8cb2-fe1cfe6c39fc 188 OF COURSE SAID THE DELIGHTED STORY GIRL bdfad18b-a262-4565-a5a9-33cf1c0b2f97 2317 JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE ONE OF FARMER'S WEAKNESSES IN FACT WAS THAT THOUGH THOROUGHLY MASCULINE HIMSELF HE COMPLETELY DISTRUSTED WOMEN AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN acef41ad-1d5c-4ce6-8132-7015d868a42c 14 IF SHE WERE ONLY MORE INTERESTING FELICITY HAD NOT A PARTICLE OF THE NAMELESS CHARM AND ALLUREMENT WHICH HUNG ABOUT EVERY MOTION OF THE STORY GIRL AND MADE ITSELF MANIFEST IN HER LIGHTEST WORD AND MOST CARELESS GLANCE 5c0e7516-2e00-4640-8e51-8d951fe79d85 242 ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL 9db0be8c-4a06-4bf4-91ca-0e28fd9b95dd 30 BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN 07bd5e65-f3a5-47b4-ac14-6a0d3054e4e5 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 b0ac1d1d-0f6b-44e2-87f9-205d7e567a97 464 FOR ONE THING THE WHOLE HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN APPLE PIE ORDER AND FOR ANOTHER AN ELABORATE SUPPER MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE EXPECTED RETURN OF THE TRAVELLERS THAT NIGHT FELICITY DEVOTED HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO THIS AND LEFT THE SECONDARY PREPARATION OF THE REGULAR MEALS TO CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL 4f9b313e-fc45-42d1-ab2a-94e2692cef9c 2182 NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR THEN THE DOOR SAGGED AGAIN UNDER THE ZID'S LUNGINGS AND HE LEFT THE BUNK TO FOLLOW JENOFER 533234b4-1836-4928-81ee-b034f2f8a485 402 NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR cfb21a0c-3005-45fe-b333-dea7ed8c122d 188 AUNT OLIVIA SPOILS YOU SAID FELICITY SHE DOESN'T EITHER FELICITY KING AUNT OLIVIA IS JUST SWEET SHE KISSES ME GOOD NIGHT EVERY NIGHT AND YOUR MOTHER NEVER KISSES YOU MY MOTHER DOESN'T MAKE KISSES SO COMMON RETORTED FELICITY BUT SHE GIVES US PIE FOR DINNER EVERY DAY d1c51064-6fe0-4e16-8379-7c5237cb46d0 2317 RAY HELD UP A HAND PURELY FOR DRAMA SINCE THERE WAS SILENCE ALREADY THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY HE SAID c39a4393-1f43-4a34-9a13-604e6d83e48f 2274 THERE APPEARED TO BE THE TIP OF A TAIL PROTRUDING FROM BEHIND ONE OF THE SQUAT LEGS BEHIND THE CREATURE TOWERED THE FAIRY SPIRES OF THE CITY THEY'D OBSERVED FROM THE AIR a843e055-8fbb-4602-8c57-afdfcfefaa50 2274 SLAVE CULTURE PROBABLY 1ce42550-bd5a-407c-9dcb-53a73c429deb 2182 THE ZID UTTERLY OUT OF ITS ELEMENT SCREAMED HIDEOUSLY AND THRESHED WATER TO FROTH ALL ITS EARLIER FEROCITY VANISHED UNDER THE IMMINENT AND UNFAMILIAR THREAT OF DROWNING JEFF SANK AGAIN AND CHURNED DESPERATELY TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM 8afb7e70-31d3-467a-9a73-e7b0e77fdddf 177 PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS c0b88b8a-1fb7-4d23-9104-f213468add9d 2108 COULDN'T THE WIZARD GIVE YOU A HEART THAT WAS BOTH KIND AND LOVING ASKED THE BOY 550fd71f-5936-48f7-984f-fc2beef999a0 30 HE VOWED THAT HE DIDN'T CARE BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG 1dfa9d45-5c55-4bee-9c6c-6f2aa7300e7e 2368 I DO NOT COME FROM THE INQUISITOR HE SAID TRUTHFULLY NOR IS MY QUESTION ONE THAT SHOULD CAUSE YOU ALARM THE OLD WOMAN PONDERED FOR A MINUTE SHE LEANED HER ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL GETTING THEM MUDDY BUT THAT JONAS THOUGHT DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO THIS CREATURE APPARENTLY ASK SHE SAID AT LAST a0c60472-7f20-4650-a5f3-fdcdd3a1438a 2274 WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY WE DESTROYED IT ARE THERE MANY WILD ONES ASKED THORN FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THAT'S HOW THEY GET THEIR SLAVES HIS STETSON b4f27d3e-0ee0-4e0e-9e1d-71386733606f 32 WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST 9ce86441-0869-4cff-aecc-7df1da228c95 2425 THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES 27120c2d-cb08-4c4c-bfc2-d9777ee7daeb 198 FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER 40930675-b273-40f6-b020-1a347286b96b 748 WHAT WILL YOU DO THERE ASKED PETER PRACTICALLY I SHALL LEARN HOW TO TELL STORIES TO ALL THE WORLD SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY 499772dc-3396-42a7-9105-3df3dfe21a40 464 WE HEARD HER RUMMAGING IN THE PANTRY AS WE SAT ON THE COOL SPRUCE SHADOWED CELLAR DOOR OUTSIDE WHERE UNCLE ROGER WAS SHOWING US HOW TO MAKE ELDERBERRY POP GUNS PRESENTLY SHE CAME OUT FROWNING 84ad489d-7f65-4317-ab58-6d5b70d80727 464 SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH CONTENTS SAWDUST NOT INTENDED FOR PUDDINGS 98f1da20-2e1c-4a23-a1ef-9dbd7d37b2b0 2368 AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST bd380630-c3b4-4970-845c-b387eeb2afe6 464 OH DOCTOR MY SON HAS SWALLOWED A MOUSE HE CRIED WHAT SHALL I DO TELL HIM TO SWALLOW A CAT ROARED THE POOR DOCTOR AND SLAMMED HIS DOOR NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION 32038ef8-cb06-45bc-b922-97f9627ffe7b 451 I THINK IT IS VERY VAIN TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE YOURSELF BEING BEAUTIFUL SAID FELICITY b54d64ab-d282-4687-8ff3-494e8897f19e 2274 ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST ORNE CLEARED HIS THROAT WON OUT ASKED STETSON NO 6638be99-1abb-41b1-86ab-252b58454e07 177 YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL TELLS IT NOW OH IT ISN'T THE RIGHT KIND OF STORY TO TELL ON SUNDAY SHE REPLIED BUT I'LL TELL IT TOMORROW MORNING ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD 9c748856-31ec-4406-8aa4-ed6260315bdc 402 AND THE RAINBOW WAS A GREAT BRIDGE BUILT OF LIVING COLORS SO DAZZLING AND WONDERFUL THAT BEYOND IT THE EYE COULD SEE NOTHING ONLY FAR AWAY A GREAT BLINDING SPARKLING GLORY WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE SPRANG UP IN A SHOWER OF DIAMOND FIRE c563d6fa-70c1-466b-a0bc-0b022fecda8e 2182 THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP 02d446fa-0d9e-4a2a-936b-9c44c1d64351 2317 GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL da322aa0-410c-43aa-a901-0b29479a3da6 2317 LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE 0dde4b8c-8927-4930-9265-b23e2a371a6f 2425 THEN GET ME AN AXE I COMMANDED QUICK AN AXE HESITATED PARON AN AXE AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT dd245f49-0edc-4555-95ee-34145f793b9e 2317 BUT THE STARTLING THING WAS THAT HE HAD PICKED UP THE BOATHOOK AND WAS TWIRLING IT UNCONCERNEDLY HE HAD NOT ONLY PICKED IT UP HOWEVER HE HAD ALSO TIED IT IN A KNOT IT SHOULD HAVE SPLINTERED IN HIS HANDS ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL 4ca9328c-fee2-4c38-8a70-9f4ca2de4bd0 2425 WELL I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING I'M GOING TO TAKE A WHIRL AT WHAT I'LL CALL THE INFROMEDIAN EXISTENCE WHAT I'LL FIND THERE I DON'T KNOW LIFE OF SOME KIND HOWEVER FOR MY EXPERIMENTS PROVE THAT POSSIBLY NOT FRIENDLY f8dfd622-23ec-44c5-a89a-b0038b26d29e 464 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DRY EATING INDEED 6e08810b-76b2-40ee-be0a-2ce64e8243a1 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 6e9fcf0e-088b-4197-8ffe-fff796ec785c 402 I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY OR LOOK AT GOD'S PICTURE ecb714ac-cd4d-4137-a8e6-c1eda600d337 2108 STRANGELY ENOUGH IT WAS NOT DARK IN THIS IMMENSE NATURAL CHAMBER IN THE WOODLAND FOR THE PLACE GLOWED WITH THE SOFT WHITE LIGHT THAT SEEMED TO COME FROM SOME UNSEEN SOURCE 4271c66f-50b7-4408-bf79-9871b883173c 402 WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING f3d6c8ba-9a73-432f-8973-4468e409c1f8 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 8a4a75f0-3984-4a06-bf40-be9540d1786d 1867 THERE WAS A SHIMMER OF LIGHT FROM THE TOP AND I TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AT IT ON THE PEAK OF THE PYRAMID WAS A HOLLOW BASIN FILLED WITH WATER COME BACK TO MORROW AND WE WILL TALK SOME MORE I CALLED AFTER THE FLEEING FIGURE I WAS PLEASED TO NOTICE THAT HE TOOK THE CASH BEFORE TAKING OFF b2e09cfb-fe95-461b-b5cd-c661c158c9be 402 CECILY SPRANG UP SHAKING WITH SOBS OH DON'T DON'T GO ON SHE IMPLORED I CAN'T BEAR ANY MORE dd7a0720-cd5a-4c8b-95d2-bf58ac18b7ec 2312 SURE I'M MANUEL JUST LIKE I LEFT THIRTY FIVE YEARS AGO YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SHRUNK THREE FEET AND TWO HUNDRED POUNDS AND AGED A MILLION fb6f1ef4-c56b-4fa2-8e7f-9211a2de8fa9 464 NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE 33145394-640a-46d2-9c40-8476fa160458 2108 THAT REPLIED THE TIN MAN IS A LONG STORY THE LONGER THE BETTER SAID THE BOY WON'T YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE STORY a4fd83a5-06d0-455b-80f1-ce7df3f799df 413 WHAT A SULKY SULKY LOT OF LITTLE PEOPLE SAID AUNT OLIVIA GOING AWAY ACROSS THE YARD HOLDING A PRETTY DRESS UP FROM THE DEWY GRASS 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 b354fc30-27cc-4eef-8b5d-2de2fc9efa6e 242 IT WILL SOON BE WINTER I WISH SUMMER WOULD LAST FOREVER FELICITY LIKES THE WINTER AND SO DOES THE STORY GIRL BUT I DON'T IT ALWAYS SEEMS SO LONG TILL SPRING aacdabf4-f9c3-46cf-b061-2ca52b3604e7 2182 THEY FELL SLACK HOWEVER WHEN THE QUEEN REACHED HIS CHANNEL AND FLAPPED LAZILY REVERSING TO CATCH THE WIND AND NOSE HER CAUTIOUSLY INTO THE SHALLOWS JEFF DISMISSED IT IMPATIENTLY A CHANGE OF WIND OR SOME CRAFTY MANEUVRE OF OLD CHARLEY MAX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT 5bebd0ac-ab2b-410e-8d35-38d775829235 32 I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP I SHOULD THINK YOU DID SCREECH SAID FELICITY WE HEARD YOU CLEAN OVER INTO OUR ROOM 1266da4c-e320-4635-a30a-f218d211591d 2312 THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE LITTLE BIT MORE LITTLE BIT MORE I GET TWO BITS A NAME 090aa89a-5a6b-4e9b-8912-375fab49f404 2108 I AM KNOWN AS WOOT THE WANDERER ANSWERED THE BOY AND I HAVE COME THROUGH MANY TRAVELS AND BY ROUNDABOUT WAYS FROM MY FORMER HOME IN A FAR CORNER OF THE GALLOPIN COUNTRY OF OZ fbc7e0a7-66e4-4de2-9472-adb8551f49df 188 FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER THE STORY GIRL AND CECILY WERE EACH TO BE PAID TEN CENTS A WEEK FOR WASHING DISHES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES FELIX AND DAN CONTRACTED TO KEEP THE GARDENS FREE FROM WEEDS I CAUGHT BROOK TROUT IN THE WESTERLING VALLEY OF SPRUCES AND SOLD THEM FOR A CENT APIECE 9b7fd8e5-6898-4626-9067-45baaa2e7c4d 177 SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED f64e1032-5b03-448f-959d-c34e76231397 748 NOR WERE WE THE ONLY VICTIMS WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US 8957d870-b512-4c0d-8dd1-6b331aac6da2 30 DAN SHARED IT WITH US SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER THE SHEETS AND PILLOW SLIPS WERE FRAGRANT WITH LAVENDER AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US 1344a50e-0228-49dc-bc3a-c8c46a994b4c 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 85ac68fc-a976-493d-9c5d-924c427f6702 2137 HE GOT OUT ALL RIGHT THE COLONEL SAID WE'RE JUST STARTING TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH ARE WE SIR ASKED THE RADIO MAN 6aa6a917-2fe5-41a3-81c8-42a84030a3d8 32 GIVE HER A GOOD DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA AND TRY THAT FIRST SAID AUNT JANET I'VE SAVED MANY A DOCTOR'S BILL IN MY FAMILY BY USING MEXICAN TEA adc9761a-e88d-47dd-b3ec-fb5848e850a4 177 CONVERSATION LANGUISHED WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR WOULD TWO O'CLOCK NEVER COME AND END THE SUSPENSE de7f0280-de29-4d34-8edb-db6491d36cce 2137 HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR f7e059c4-9884-4818-9a7a-2872a3ccece9 2286 CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE 28e46f75-a87e-48a4-a207-404926dc8d72 402 THE APPLES FROM OUR OWN BIRTHDAY TREES WERE STORED IN SEPARATE BARRELS INSCRIBED WITH OUR NAMES WE MIGHT DISPOSE OF THEM AS WE WILLED 2e220372-c9b7-4843-a73a-403aea751e42 14 COME TO MY ARMS MY BRIDE HE CRIED I HAVE WON YOU FAIRLY I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS 995cee05-c9c4-4f91-8f82-ef04fb79fa81 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 a5d4b41a-8d0a-48c8-832c-6c7264fc80c4 14 BUT FELICITY'S THEOLOGY BROKE DOWN AT THIS POINT SHE TURNED HER BACK ON PETER AND WALKED DISDAINFULLY AWAY THE STORY GIRL RETURNED TO THE MAIN POINT WITH A NEW ARGUMENT d9f5a07a-16e7-49f9-bf64-0f66ddba321e 2137 HE READ SILENTLY FOR A FEW MOMENTS THEN BEGAN TO FILL OUT A FORM CLIPPED TO THE FOLDER WELL I THINK YOU PROBABLY ARE DUE FOR ANOTHER BOOSTER ABOUT NOW THERE'LL HAVE TO BE THE USUAL TESTS NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH DOUBT WE LIKE TO BE CERTAIN 674809be-d062-46cc-970e-05d3a794847c 402 MISTER MILWOOD TOLD ME TO BURN IT SAID FELIX IT DOESN'T SEEM REVERENT TO DO THAT SAID CECILY EVEN IF IT ISN'T GOD'S PICTURE IT HAS HIS NAME ON IT 0deeebad-af1f-4447-ae66-bd890f624168 103 SARA'S CONSCIENCE IS ALWAYS TROUBLING HER FOR DOING THINGS SHE'S SURE HER MOTHER WON'T APPROVE BUT IT NEVER PREVENTS HER FROM DOING THEM IT ONLY SPOILS HER FUN aa367ef0-3c4e-4d7c-a384-853f206ebf0d 2286 I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED 28730657-2b02-42a3-b79a-696116902e69 451 SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED 27f2d159-0e86-4cb1-92ff-164924ec635a 2137 THE MIDDLE AGED MAN SEEMED RELIEVED THEN ON SECOND THOUGHT HE HESITATED UNEASILY WHY IS THERE ANY DANGER THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY 7a0d6f2c-86b9-456d-a9f4-a8d359786573 2368 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL 6fb5f4ee-f0c3-45d7-9176-01b60300dbbc 103 CECILY IS EVER SO MUCH CLEVERER CECILY IS A DEAR SO IS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET IS PRETTY NICE TOO WHAT IS AUNT OLIVIA LIKE ASKED FELIX AUNT OLIVIA'S VERY PRETTY SHE IS JUST LIKE A PANSY ALL VELVETY AND PURPLY AND GOLDY 49228557-a52a-4e45-b564-f7a42e7a3912 188 SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US SHE COULD DO NOTHING SHE HAD NO RELATIVES IN CARLISLE EXCEPT HER MOTHER AND HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE 7ac993cf-653a-4104-b16b-7dc35ec1a0cd 464 SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX bf61865f-7836-40c7-a9c1-0362780adbb0 451 FOR A THOUSAND THOUSAND YEARS THEY BOTH BUILT THE BRIDGE OF LIGHT AND AT LAST THEY MET AND SPRANG INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS THEIR TOIL AND LONELINESS AND SUFFERING WERE ALL OVER AND FORGOTTEN AND THE BRIDGE THEY HAD BUILT SPANNED THE GULF BETWEEN THEIR STARS OF EXILE a989b669-1a49-4ea0-a328-816a4d7f3c07 2317 FARMER CHANGED HIS MIND AGAIN ABOUT RAY'S BEING CRACKED LISTEN HE SAID THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO HIS MIND DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU RENTED THIS BOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DAY HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THING DOESN'T LEAK 112a2c31-fac7-4d91-b847-caa52762eb73 2274 AGAIN IT TRIED TO LAND IN HIS HAIR HE DUCKED IT FLEW ACROSS THE BRIDGE OUT THE PORT BESIDE STETSON a9b55750-8af7-4e8e-96f8-a2ecb841fc42 2286 BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS 3eafeede-aee8-4a5a-b4b1-8edca4699c14 1867 PLANET TOO WHERE THE BEACON WAS SITUATED ACCORDING TO THE OLD CHARTS WAS A MUSHY LOOKING WET KIND OF GLOBE I TRIED TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THE ANCIENT DIRECTIONS AND FINALLY LOCATED THE RIGHT AREA 9192c3a4-781e-4033-8e88-a20ff54285ae 2312 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN f804f3f2-8816-4d9b-8fc7-12c386d234d1 2274 DO YOU TOO KNOW MANY THINGS ORN THAT IS WHY I WAS SENT HERE SAID ORAN ARE THERE MANY PLANETS TO TEACH ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM e3f49afb-d69a-4d20-9fc3-28ee1f45b674 748 IT WAS A LOVELY GOLDEN BROWN EVENING THE ORCHARD AND THE FARM LANDS BEYOND WERE FULL OF RUBY LIGHTS AND KISSING SHADOWS 5dbf7143-2405-450e-8f30-78ac1fbd772c 242 I COULDN'T STAND BY AND WATCH FELIX AND PETER POUND EACH OTHER ALL TO PIECES SHE SOBBED THEY'VE BEEN SUCH FRIENDS AND IT WAS DREADFUL TO SEE THEM FIGHTING 30e5255c-dfae-41d7-b550-a3ba77098546 2108 WANDERER SHOULD HAVE NO FEAR OBSERVED THE SCARECROW WHO WAS WOBBLING ALONG IN A FUNNY HALF HAZARD MANNER BUT KEEPING PACE WITH HIS FRIENDS 852817d9-6595-4b53-8235-274eabb7fda1 2182 WHEN PEOPLE BACKSLIDE THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT'S ON THEIR MINDS AND WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE NEGOTIATING OR CONVINCING THEM 8df6d87a-6fca-4827-8773-6d82ffea0ae0 402 THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL THEY SAY HE STOOD ON THE DECK OF THE FANNY AND PLEADED WITH THE MEN WHILE THE TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE BUT THEY WOULD NOT YIELD AND HE HAD TO LEAVE MARGARET BEHIND OH WHAT A PARTING IT WAS 754f3264-36c3-4293-b382-bc4d9da82f7a 30 EVERYTHING WAS JUST AS FATHER HAD DESCRIBED IT WE FELT THAT WE HAD COME HOME LEAVING EXILE BEHIND US f2429d29-05a8-4de3-998a-d6a7b050f4a0 242 FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN 21d61538-6b9e-4d65-bcc6-7974dbfcdcc5 2317 SO THE ODDLY ASSORTED PAIR QUICK BOX LIKE LITTLE RAY AND BIG AWKWARD UNCOMFTABLE FARMER SPURTED OUT INTO LONG ISLAND SOUND IN AN INDESCRIBABLE OLD MOTOR LODGE AND THE ADVENTURE WAS ON 20945346-35ba-4eeb-b152-3b223d6dfaba 188 WELL AIN'T THAT ALL THE MORE REASON FOR CRYING RETORTED PETER I'VE HAD TO DO WITHOUT HER FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT'S WORSE THAN IF IT HAD JUST BEEN A FEW DAYS I BELIEVE YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE PAT IS SO SICK I SAID FIRMLY 2ef55d69-08e1-4369-a1e8-6882e5e1b4ac 1867 WHEN I LIFTED THE PLATE AND POKED HOLES IN THE SEARED PLASTIC I COULD SEE THE PYRAMID GROWING SMALLER BEHIND ME WATER GUSHING OUT OF THE BASE AND A HAPPY CROWD OF REPTILES SPORTING IN ITS RADIOACTIVE RUSH I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING 3aa738ab-d91e-4ce1-baf5-99ba876904a2 2137 BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST b0f70e37-b99e-4cb5-9087-354e23399690 748 MOUTH IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY MOUTH HE SAID IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW TALL e4d970e6-a2ce-49c6-b23f-27423f19a0dc 32 I WONDER WHAT PEG BOWEN WOULD REALLY DO TO A FELLOW IF SHE CAUGHT HIM SPECULATED DAN c7f37908-2064-444f-ace1-202f23b1e803 2108 THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES WHO IS A FAMOUS TIN WOODMAN OF OZ REPLIED THE SERVANT WHO HAD BEEN TRAINED TO TREAT ALL STRANGERS WITH COURTESY 032acf9c-4f29-4751-bd5f-07f612f1652c 2286 I GRABBED UP THE MONITOR RECEIVER AND RAN TOWARDS THE AIRLOCK THIS IS A DIFFERENT BOMB NOW I SAID KEEPING ONE EYE ON THE SCREEN AND THE OTHER ON THE SLOWLY OPENING OUTER DOOR THIS ONE HAS RECEPTORS ON THE HULL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ANY PART OF THE SHIP OR EVEN GAIN ENTRY TO IT AND THIS ONE WILL DETONATE 7374f872-935f-49e8-b548-ea6e4e5c7ce1 32 WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE A HUGE HOLE WAS BURNED IN IT AND WHEN AUNT JANET DISCOVERED IT SHE LIFTED UP HER VOICE WITH NO UNCERTAIN SOUND 3e818895-2424-4863-9920-ab1bd0e465be 413 I LONG FOR THE REMEMBRANCE NOW UNTIL I RECALL THE REAL HORROR OF FEAR THAT ENWRAPPED US IN THAT SUNNY ORCHARD THAT AUGUST MORNING OF LONG AGO AND THEN I LAUGHED NO MORE 17c363a2-5223-4895-bad0-8982b9bd335c 2182 JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY DAMN IT ARE WE GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN ONCE IT GETS ITS WIND BACK COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN 324b9f4c-0fe7-4730-863d-980ee8e8928d 2108 YES I DREAMED IT ALL OUT WHILE I WAS ASLEEP THIS TIN MAN SEEMS A VERY SOLEMN PERSON INDEED THE TIN WOODMAN WAS LOOKING SOLEMN JUST THEN FOR HE GREATLY DISTURBED SO I SHALL CHANGE HIM INTO AN OWL f76c47f5-aa82-497f-be1f-329078cd1346 464 WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY BUT NOBODY HAS TO EAT IT ALL AT ONCE RETORTED UNCLE ROGER WITH ANOTHER GROAN a27ed3ee-bb10-4bf2-896f-fd8f52054212 464 THE POOR STORY GIRL WENT VERY WHITE OH UNCLE ROGER COULD IT BE POSSIBLE YOU COULDN'T HAVE SWALLOWED A NEEDLE WITHOUT KNOWING IT IT WOULD HAVE STUCK IN YOUR TONGUE OR TEETH f3f81f74-5ff1-458a-b402-2ae7b2a7470e 2286 I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS THE YACHT WAS FLUSHED AGAINST THE SPACE FILLING BULK OF THE OTHER SHIP I PRESSED THE BUTTON THAT SENT THE TORCH WIELDING ROWBOT ON HIS WAY 6963a346-84d8-45b5-910b-b098116ff35e 2368 I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHARP SAID BITTERLY THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES 10b6c4cf-c12c-4598-8b2f-55283db5da04 198 UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WERE SUMMONED FROM THE FIELD MISSUS PATERSON BECAME HYSTERICAL AND WAS TAKEN INTO THE SPARE ROOM WITH SUCH REMEDIES AS COULD BE SUGGESTED WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON 69f5c352-5b6b-43c0-9785-a1ee53851d40 748 CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN I DOUBT VERY MUCH IF BILLY'S TROUBLED HIM AT ALL 730624b5-4112-46b9-b8f9-7f08d7d7d05e 2137 THE PRINCIPLE'S THE SAME FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT AND EVENTUALLY WE LEARN TO HARNESS IT FOR A USEFUL PURPOSE HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT e276eb31-9fb5-4bc0-9722-271515578eae 413 HE MUST HAVE GOT SOME BAD USE AT THE OFFICE SAID SARA RAY I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO FATHER I EXPLAINED SPRINGING ANXIOUSLY TO MY FEET A SICK HORRIBLE FEELING OF FEAR RUNNING OVER ME LIKE A COOL RIPPLING WAVE IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY 87b5478a-fcfa-4568-b0ec-a4acfa84235c 2368 BORING IS HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MOVE ALONE WELL HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD WANTED I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME 5711ed50-1a95-41ee-a34d-61c89a1b2742 402 THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON 535a77ef-2408-4fb3-a220-45ca731d4697 2286 A GREAT THEORY ONLY I FELT UNCOMFORTABLY ON THE SPOT WHEN I TRIED TO PUT IT INTO PRACTICE A DRINK HILT AS DID A CIGAR PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT d1a0e3d3-768e-435e-aa25-13313de716c7 198 BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL ef011cf3-c3fe-4710-887f-3f7e08eece04 2312 LITTLE BIT MORE LITTLE BIT MORE I GET TWO BITS A NAME THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME bdcd0354-e117-4d9a-b046-fad12368ac74 242 FELIX PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE 31065ba8-7e87-4f5c-ae2d-e19e964aa96f 32 THERE'S A CUP JUST LIKE THE ONE THAT USED TO BE HERE IN FATHER'S TIME EXCLAIMED FELIX POINTING TO AN OLD FASHIONED SHALLOW CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WARE ON A LITTLE SHELF INSIDE THE CURB d1136b9c-b949-4fb5-8285-de04a9834332 748 WE HAD EARNED OUR CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE SWEAT OF OUR BROW OR BY THE SCARCELY LESS DISAGREEABLE METHOD OF BEGGING AND SARA'S HAD AS GOOD AS DESCENDED UPON HER OUT OF THE SKIES AS MUCH LIKE A MIRACLE AS ANYTHING YOU COULD IMAGINE 60d060ce-9ef9-40b0-b0a3-eda7b8472562 2425 ALL THIS BEING SO THERE'S AN OFT CHANCE THAT I'LL FIND MYSELF TANGLED WITH SOMETHING I CAN'T ANTICIPATE AND IF YOU ARE CALLED UPON TO READ THIS THEN SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY PLANS 4d8be8b8-c4f6-4aed-a150-76686ec24586 2286 CHARACTERS LIKE THAT NEVER THINK IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOME ONE ELSE TO OUTTHINK THEM WHICH IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO MODEST IDEA STANG SAID I TRY NOT TO BE I TOLD HIM c2e906ba-cf68-4a5d-bd47-2660820aef53 464 THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING FELICITY WAS CUMBERED WITH MANY CARES THE NEXT MORNING 54ae25ba-7288-4e29-9bb5-3a458a7f5b75 198 DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME HOWEVER AND WHEREVER JIMMY WAS GONE HE WAS GONE SO MUCH WAS CERTAIN c02fe8ca-cab8-419b-8534-44c4f76321fd 2368 MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU 4a974bf5-286a-4d76-bf7f-db5d6e82bba9 188 IT'S SUCH A GOOD BOOK TO READ ON SUNDAYS IT IS INTERESTING AND RELIGIOUS TOO SO IS THE BIBLE I HADN'T QUITE FINISHED THE BIBLE BEFORE I TOOK THE MEASLES BUT MA'S READING THE LAST CHAPTERS TO ME 15f3e951-d6cc-4df2-8157-a905b2dcbb95 32 ECILY INDEED SEEMED TO HAVE THE MOST DECIDED TALENT FOR DRAMATIC DREAMS THAT MEEKEST AND MILDEST OF GIRLS WAS IN THE HABIT OF DREAMING TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT BATTLE MURDER OR SUDDEN DEATH PLAYED SOME PART OF HER VISIONS 3f064231-6e5e-4535-a574-b2c59f6e7ce7 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 THE OPENING OF THE BLUE CHEST NOVEMBER WAKENED FROM HER DREAM OF MAY IN A BAD TEMPER 34fab291-f6a6-4e66-8ed7-2c05b33f65af 2286 I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE 83154c0f-5ed5-4917-b628-ee271da20ff3 2182 THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY HE CAME UP SPOUTING WATER AND FIGHTING FOR BREATH TO FIND HIMSELF A PERILOUS TWENTY FEET FROM THE ZID 413a6f0e-b938-457d-b625-119dfa9f33d9 2182 YOU WILL BE GLAD TO GET BACK TO YOUR PATROL WORK SHE SAID IT HAD AN ODDLY TENTATIVE SOUND ead92ac8-0a74-42e6-8733-e4f0005b43a9 2317 DORA LAUGHED A TINKLY LAUGH AND CAME INTO HIS WAITING ARMS DARLING'S HE COOED WHAT A THING TO SAY I ACTUALLY BELIEVE YOU'RE JEALOUS AND YOU KNOW I ONLY LOVE YOU 278cd7f1-8e31-49c8-b2a0-a18c95d5c4ba 2286 THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER I BLINKED MYSELF AWAKE READ THE FIRST TWO LINES AND PRESSED THE ACTION STATION ALARM OVER MY BUNK 46a65f1d-d1a0-4407-905c-bc7d9e5fd037 464 AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE THE THREAT WAS EFFECTUAL NEVER DID WE MENTION THAT UNHOLY PUDDING BUT THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT IMPOSE SILENCE ON THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER HE TORMENTED HER FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER 39caca23-d81b-4f40-8094-9f4de70818f7 30 SOMEHOW WE TOO FELT THAT IT WAS WE FELT THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT APPROVE OF US IT MADE LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHO ELSE DID OR DID NOT 59756629-1069-485b-8bb4-f16c3ac7b9f1 2312 AND WONDERINGLY MARSHALL DID I WANT THE LIST THAT WAS STOLEN DON'T GAPE GET IT e8f7851a-7e43-41c7-a6c1-79a4220ab7c6 242 SHE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART BEFORE THE SPRING AND SHE AND KATY WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER WHICH HAS EVER SINCE BORE THEIR NAMES THE RIVER OF SCHUBEN KATY SAID THE STORY GIRL bb0cc582-c230-41f3-b92f-8f4eec2613d5 2425 CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES WEIGHS NOTHING IS INVISIBLE AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER EITHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN TRUE BUT ELECTRICITY ISN'T MATTER 34f2132d-350a-44b3-822f-0bd3bdb05506 2425 AS OUR PARTY APPEARED AN AISLE OPENED AND WE WERE MARCHED THROUGH THE ASSEMBLED CROWD DIRECTLY TOWARD THE IDOL f9220a67-b30c-4813-b20e-5d831ed63d89 2274 OF THE DELPHINAS BUT THE DEA MISSING THE REQUEST WAS A FORGERY NOW YOU SEE WHY I'M MOSTLY FOR RUBBING OUT THIS PLACE WHO DARE FORAGE SUCH A THING UNLESS HE KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL F SEA OFFICER WAS MISSING OR DEAD db10623a-c913-42a6-8a5d-b0241d4fb4bc 2274 I'M GETTING TIRED OF WAITING HE SAID YOU'RE TIRED HA A BREEZE RIPPLED THE TOPS OF THE GREEN OCEAN BELOW THEM HERE AND THERE RED AND PURPLE FLOWERS JUTTED FROM THE VERDURE BENDING AND NODDING LIKE AN ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE 948af86a-d6f3-4c52-a202-cefbaddfdafb 2137 TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT SEEN TWO COMING UP 02e7b968-b52f-4b80-b8b3-8dbb1dac70d0 14 HE CLASPED HER FAINTING FORM TO HIS BREAST AND SPURRED HIS WHITE HORSE TO THE TOMBS A TEMPEST OF RAIN BROKE OVER THE VALLEY AND BLOTTED THEM FROM SIGHT 68ba7752-38db-4f30-8786-75e0dc2d2f57 198 ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS afd89384-ec5f-4259-962d-c0ce4ca12676 198 COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY A BUGGY LOAD OF MARKDALE PEOPLE AND FINALLY MISSUS ELDER FRUEN AND HER SISTER FROM VANCOUVER WITH TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS OF THE LATTER ARRIVED 38d0f3ab-2c1d-453c-8d25-0561db2c75ba 30 WELL THEY'RE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE FROGS HE HEARD SAID FELIX AND THEY'RE SINGING IN THE SAME SWAMP THAT'S NEAR ENOUGH de630283-e4fc-4057-8549-1722f8882db0 14 WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT WHISPERED CECILY WELL WE COULD HAVE A JOLLY FUNERAL YOU KNOW SAID DAN 257c016f-fa1a-4bd8-a493-62158dbb2b1a 103 TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING 04302b4f-0b50-4349-8040-562237c163b3 30 AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX AS FATHER HAD OFTEN TOLD US HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY FAR APART AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE IN THE OLD CARLISLE GRAVEYARD ed551c95-7224-4fe9-9823-511c21e85c0e 103 OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS THEY SAY SHE IS CRAZY PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN US CHILDREN INTO GOOD BEHAVIOR BY TELLING US THAT PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH US IF WE DIDN'T BEHAVE I'M NOT SO FRIGHTENED OF HER AS I ONCE WAS BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAUGHT BY HER 6b5e2233-5403-4fcb-8a43-a7ed32f465ef 2274 AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID MORTALITY'S TERRIFIC I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY 7d1f1b69-7aac-4ecf-b249-067b90fa1a41 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 48b5c1a6-3233-4fb6-b99c-0efd519bbfc1 198 MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK BUT I SUPPOSE FELICITY IS SO DISGUSTED WITH ME NOW THAT SHE WON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE LESSONS I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU 698ef58d-d568-4e53-9a3a-995da9857d79 2182 SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT HE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT HER SAILS BELLIED NOT WITH THE WIND BUT AGAINST 1d2799b5-2538-49ae-9c8f-cebb8cf835bf 30 WHO IS THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELIX OH SARA SARA STANLEY 3fcb7065-9aa6-480f-9aa2-0034ea6dfb1b 451 WHEN WE WENT TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING THAT EVENING THE STORY GIRL WORE HER DRESS AND HAT WHILE FELICITY AND CECILY WERE IN THEIR PRETTY MUSLINS AND SHE HAD TIED HER HAIR WITH A SNUFF BROWN RIBBON WHICH WAS VERY UNBECOMING TO HER d1f832ea-a64e-44d1-b647-4146689fc4f6 748 WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED AND I HASTENED TO DO IT ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT be9b2089-8970-4c35-9df5-f4c5e854116e 2425 NICELY TIMED I'LL SAY THAT CHUCKLED VIC HOW DOES OUR OWN MATERIAL WORLD LOOK GREAT I STEPPED QUICKLY AWAY FROM THE MACHINE DRAWING HOPE WITH ME DOESN'T IT HOPE c58132c1-c264-4e4d-a8ac-26150153fb12 451 AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES 7a21a99f-8223-4423-8944-63d3077534a5 1867 OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY THE WATER FED PIPE FROM THE ROOF FOR EXAMPLE THE PIPE WALLS WERE AT LEAST THREE METERS THICK AND THE PIPE OPENING ITSELF NO BIGGER THAN MY HEAD THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS fda99976-11eb-49d0-9021-5dd39f18fb63 2286 THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK f67cac99-d501-48a9-a4d2-047bb996f83f 748 I HAD NOT GROWN A SINGLE BIT BY THE MERCILESS TESTIMONY OF THE HALL DOOR I TOOK THE BOX OF SEED OUT OF MY TRUNK IN THE TWILIGHT ROOM AND SWALLOWED THE DECREED PINCH AS I DID SO DAN'S VOICE RANG OUT BEHIND ME 12f59843-1d6e-4f38-94ff-4114a4975a29 32 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE 2f27099f-b78e-4979-9f6a-82edbd6a6615 30 FELIX AND I ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HAD NOT THEN HEARD HER SAY IT AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL 38bcc7fb-d23b-4253-b7b6-fe1e3b7befa3 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 BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM f54e9b1d-7295-441e-8853-eb2113ac9521 2317 STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED 5e6c68f5-7597-457c-9e94-0b5872cc8904 30 THE FAT ONE WAS FELIX WHO WAS VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT HIS PLUMPNESS HE WAS ALWAYS TAKING EXERCISES TO MAKE HIM THIN WITH THE DISMAL RESULT THAT HE BECAME FATTER ALL THE TIME 86f04159-76a1-4e1b-9345-ed031a37e8b2 413 UNCLE ROGER WAS ILLIBERAL AND UNCLE ALEC A CONSERVATIVE AND THE GIRLS HELD FAST TO THE POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSEHOLDS BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THE ENTERPRISE EDITOR AT ALL WHO'S SAYING IT IT'S A MAN IN THE STATES WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROPHET IF HE IS A PROPHET PERHAPS HE HAS FOUND OUT SOMEHOW AND IT'S IN THE PAPER TOO AND THAT'S PRINTED AS WELL AS THE BIBLE SAID DAN 50dd0501-b99d-4fad-8a3d-f47c31f6b1b5 2425 ALL FOUR OF THE REFLECTORS SEEMED POINTED DIRECTLY AT MY FACE AND I COULD SEE THAT EACH HELD NOT THE BULB I HAD EXPECTED BUT A CRUDELY SHAPED BLOB OF FUSED QUARTZ 309f0fd2-36b5-46d1-9ced-79a21bf5a382 413 WE WERE ALL IN THE ORCHARD EXCEPT FELIX WHO HAD GONE TO THE POST OFFICE IT WAS THE FORENOON OF AN AUGUST SATURDAY 6f71c2e6-1128-4736-a907-5469175ac70d 2108 BY AND BY THE SCARECROW WHO MIX WHOSE MIXED BRAINS HAD BEEN WORKING STEADILY ASKED THE WOMAN ARE WE TO CONSIDER YOU OUR FRIEND MISSUS UKE OR DO YOU INTEND TO BE OUR ENEMY acad25fd-d16c-4fc1-8852-a6b1760bcaed 32 I LIKE TO HEAR YOU TALK SAID FELIX IN HIS GRAVE STODGY WAY EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME TOO AS WELL AS YOU LIKE FELICITY AND CECILY NOT BETTER 4b156776-ffe0-4cfb-9b6f-e8e1a4352dfd 198 PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS HE SAID NO IT ISN'T PEG BOWEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WALKS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY 50e48731-3070-4fb0-a812-2f7153c69559 2317 GARTH GRINNED WHATEVER YOU SAY MY DEAR HE DIPPED AN EYEBROW IN A WINK BEHIND DOOR THE NONIPUS SURGED SLUGGISHLY EXTENDED A TENTACLE OPENED A CLOTH AND NIPPED DOOR NEATLY ON THE BEHIND SHE SCREECHED f53811d7-8c40-455d-937d-408860a0725a 413 SARA I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THIS JUG SHE SAID SOLEMNLY NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG 3fb01450-7618-4c37-ba43-2265b9a4aec6 402 AND OH HOW GOOD WE WERE HOW ANGELICALLY AND UNNATURALLY GOOD NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A BAND OF KIND SWEET TEMPERED UNSELFISH CHILDREN IN ANY ORCHARD 957f9bae-70bd-45f6-9128-299eed95f507 2108 IT WAS YOU WHO FIRST TOLD ME IT WAS MY DUTY TO FIND AND MARRY NIMI AMID AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY ONCE IT IS POINTED OUT TO HIM f059d567-a406-479f-9a26-8b4081ecb941 30 WE WERE DELIGHTED AT THE THOUGHT OF SEEING FATHER'S OLD HOME AND LIVING AMONG THE HAUNTS OF HIS BOYHOOD 4be2700a-78b6-46fd-90a0-5310eb5d3c10 2317 RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL FARMER GALVANIZED BELATEDLY GAVE CHASE AS WELL 4efa8234-277c-4f4b-95d2-b71173e61067 2368 QUESTION SHE SAID YOU COME FROM HERAK NUFF I'M AN OLD WOMAN BUT I DO NO WRONG AND THERE IS NO ONE CAN ACCUSE ME OF HERESY I AM IN CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND MORE THAN ONCE I KEEP PEACE WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND THERE'S NONE CAN SAY A MYSTERY ABOUT ME THE WOMAN JONAS THOUGHT WAS FULL TO THE EYEBROWS WITH WORDS a802478b-e642-4056-b740-2fba4cf44e56 2317 OF COURSE HE WAS INFERIOR TO HER IN EVERY WAY AND SHE WOULDN'T THINK OF MARRYING HIM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT EVEN HIS INFERIORITY WAS INTERESTING IN A WAY 6c3e98a8-fb60-4e51-b60f-7aec8f47929a 2317 JOHN ANDREW TURNED A DOOR WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED BUT NOW THAT YOU'RE WITH US AGAIN HE SHOT OUT A BIG PAW AND GRABBED HER BY THE WRIST HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING SOME OF THIS 940208d5-21f7-4dc2-90bf-311043f1c08f 748 FELIX HAD BELIEVED BLISSFULLY THAT IT WOULD MAKE HIM THIN CECILY'S HAIR WAS TO BECOME NATURALLY CURLY AND SARA RAY WAS NOT TO BE AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN ANY MORE 21010a7b-3bd8-41e0-a901-720703d3f718 188 UNCLE ALEC AND AUNTS LEFT ON MONDAY MORNING POOR AUNT JANET WAS FULL OF DISMAL FOREBODINGS AND GAVE US SO MANY CHARGES AND WARNINGS THAT WE DID NOT TRY TO REMEMBER ANY OF EM UNCLE ALEC' MERELY TOLD US TO BE GOOD AND MIND WHAT UNCLE ROGER SAID a5c0193a-f909-4e54-a5a2-968c3997474e 2312 THE DWARF WAS THREE FOOT HIGH A SKELETON STRETCHED OVER WITH BROWN BURNT LEATHER THE OTHER WAS AN UNCANINE LOOKING DOG SIZED BEAST SO FULL OF BIRDS AND THORNS THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PORCUPINE IT WAS A NIGHTMARE REPLICA OF A SHRUNKEN MULE 92f5837b-6e1f-4c01-a0fb-116aea9aab8c 1867 I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM 0c8317e1-d63e-4713-a590-754c4d963b53 103 UNCLE ROGER SAYS THAT A MOTHER WHO WON'T LET YOU DO ANYTHING AND A CONSCIENCE THAT WON'T LET YOU ENJOY ANYTHING IS AN AWFUL COMBINATION AND HE DOESN'T WONDER SARA IS PALE AND THIN AND NERVOUS BUT IT TOOK THE STORY GIRL TO MAKE US REALIZE JUST HOW DREADFUL IT WAS AND WHAT A TERRIBLE RISK WE HAD RUN YEARS BEFORE WE OR OUR PARENTS EITHER HAD EXISTED e064cb42-08e3-4216-89f0-9c1366c18f8f 242 DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME cf9e1662-5d3c-49e7-b7da-b226b7be903e 2108 THAT ANSWERED THE SOLDIER IS A SAD SAD STORY I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MUNCHKIN GIRL WHO LIVED WITH A WICKED WITCH THE WITCH DID NOT WISH ME TO MARRY THE GIRL SO SHE ENCHANTED MY SWORD WHICH BEGAN HACKING ME TO PIECES 78fa3d44-3472-408b-9ef9-1d33f26cd7a0 30 I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM f3fae822-9d47-4115-b6a1-aa45146f3c4c 748 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US facf99f0-ceb7-481c-9565-2e2e7f9a7d0c 2286 THERE WAS LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON PEPPY AND ANGELINA THEY HAD COVERED THEIR TRACKS WELL THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN THERE WAS ONE DIM PICTURE OF A PEPPE CHUBBY BUT LOOKING TOO GRIM TO BE A HAPPY FAT BOY THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL 7a2fda70-8557-4b5f-ba73-28163aba5000 2274 JUST LOOK AT THAT BLASTED JUNGLE BARKED STETSON THEM AND THEIR STUPID ORDERS A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE THE RED LIGHT ABOVE THE SPEAKER GRID BEGAN BLINKING STETSON SHOT AN ANGRY GLANCE AT IT YEA HOW fecf12d5-5a4a-4fb0-af02-1499aa7eea7c 2317 RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER bed596b7-c7cf-4c4c-8cc1-22b32223c627 198 FELIX ALSO AVERRED THAT HE HAD HEARD SARA ASK CECILY VERY SERIOUSLY CECILY HOW OLD MUST WE BE BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A REAL BEAU BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF ca19b78b-c71b-43e4-9d01-67a44a58152e 2425 WRIGHT INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS 316626c3-6ac7-4785-9bae-b1ef6642c84e 2274 WHAT IF THE DELPHINIS JUST CRASHED HERE AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE BUT ANSWER ME THIS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY 01708068-d8e3-41e5-80ab-798944d50a98 103 YOU ARE FELIX AND BEVERLY SHE WENT ON SHAKING OUR HANDS WITH AN AIR OF FRANK COMRADESHIP WHICH WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE SHY FEMININE ADVANCES OF FELICITY AND CECILY FROM THAT MOMENT WE WERE AS GOOD FRIENDS AS IF WE HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A HUNDRED YEARS 3a7f16e2-f021-4cc5-9aef-f7c7de2afa00 748 OH WELL IT'S DIFFERENT WITH SARA SAID DAN WE COULD EARN MONEY AND SHE COULDN'T 7402ebed-b527-49af-b20e-913f23100f31 2368 PHILOSOPHY FOR ONE OF THE BROTHERHOOD CLARETON THOUGHT BACK WE ARE TINY AS YET WE HAVE NO FORCE YOU CAN ADD TO THAT FORCE ADD GREATLY BUT YOU MUST BE WISE f8871d8e-f475-45e0-832c-9c85a8159f25 2368 THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID WHILE YOU ARE WITH US IT IS POOR BUT IT WAS ALL WE CAN OFFER I AM HONORED YUNUS SAID cbee30ab-c31b-479b-9910-536fa5586614 2312 MAYBE THEY WERE REALLY ALL PRAIRIE DOGS MANOEL MAYBE THE HEAD GOT YOU AND YOU ONLY DREAMED THAT THEY WERE LITTLE PEOPLE 2cc2b3b8-433d-47b1-9cf1-2633a561e69c 188 AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD b56d1ae3-54ec-4eec-b120-e0cd21d97d87 451 AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS OH OUR ANGELS ARE ANGELS THAT HAVE BEEN ANGELS SO LONG THEY'VE HAD TIME TO GROW BETTER AND BRIGHTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN NEWER ANGELS SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO PROBABLY MADE THAT EXPLANATION UP ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT JUST TO PACIFY PETER e0aa1ffd-e00f-4c0a-a252-31f1213f99e9 2286 FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON 2d7a699a-cd50-49cf-ba4d-5397ff0dccfd 2425 KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOUND ABOVE THE FREQUENCIES TO WHICH THE HUMAN EAR WILL RESPOND YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIGHT RAYS THAT THE HUMAN EYES CAN'T PERCEIVE 6724cfa6-7a88-425e-a819-0b4374da1241 2317 JOHN ANDREWS BRAIN HAD FINALLY RESUMED NORMAL OPERATIONS HE WAS THINKING SLOWLY BUT CLEARLY 0f8035e5-3657-4fe7-9996-24bdca130333 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 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS 3a9d6a52-1a95-4a07-949d-5517530ca8b8 198 IT'S ALL PETER'S FAULT SAID FELICITY I DO THINK HE MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE SENSE THAN TO TAKE A CLOCK STRIKING FOR A BELL RINGING 2e40a198-afd5-4324-aee0-b1fa75f69db7 2317 JOHN ANDREW FARMER SCOWLED AT THE OCCUPANT THAT SPRAWLED ON HIS LIVING ROOM COUCH RUBBED HIS STUBBY JAW WITH A STUBBY FIST AND SAID I LOVE YOU 10703820-92ac-4f74-9806-8b1b1e25cf5e 2312 HE GOT ANOTHER FORM AND FILLED OUT ALL THE DARKER ON HIMSELF NOW IN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT HIS PART OF THE SENSES WAS FINISHED IF ONLY HE HAD LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES 52c82960-05d9-400b-b02f-5b8ad7304bba 2312 BUT THE INSTRUCTIONS THEY HAD GIVEN HIM WERE AMBIGUOUS AND FOR ALL THAT THEY HAD TRIED TO MAKE THEM CLEAR SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL d80c5502-e1a8-4f42-94f7-7d7387c71687 2274 WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING GOT THAT YES STETSON HELD OUT HIS RIGHT HAND HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF ROAD b4d84282-981d-4814-b641-0b336cf374fc 2425 I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS FOR MYSELF I SEEMED STRICKEN DUMB I COULD ONLY STARE AT THIS BLACK AND GHASTLY GOD OF THESE PEOPLE 13b8223f-d4ca-4dd5-8540-36da7361048e 30 WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD AND THOUGH WE HAD SOME IDEA WHAT WOULD BE AT THE END OF IT THERE WAS ENOUGH GLAMOUR OF THE UNKNOWN ABOUT IT TO LEND A WONDERFUL CHARM TO OUR SPECULATIONS CONCERNING IT b7c273c8-8ada-4129-8587-a7a4e4e9a56c 2137 BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET 5d939c84-02ce-4cfa-bb8c-b8d6c25e217f 2368 IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS AND THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING FOR A HERO WOULDN'T IT HE GRIMACED IN THE DARKNESS 6eca8a1d-8577-4584-bb8f-90e1eb300949 2317 JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN BEING ALONG AT SEA IN A RICKETY CRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE MADMAN HAD BEEN BAD ENOUGH TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER ADDED TO THE CREW WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH 217e4796-682e-469d-b45a-547f824e67f4 2286 THE EASY GOING HATRED AND CONTEMPT OF ALL MY ASSOCIATES HAD ANNOYED ME THROWN ME OFF BALANCE I WAS THINKING WITH ANGER NOW NOT WITH LOGIC FORCING A BIT OF CONTROL I ORDERED MY THOUGHTS CHECKING OFF A MENTAL LIST a9639a5c-9e1a-4d55-a352-0bf608121d4d 30 SHE WAS PLUMP AND DIMPLED WITH BIG DARK BLUE HEAVY LIDDED EYES SOFT FEATHERY GOLDEN CURLS AND A PINK AND WHITE SKIN THE KING COMPLEXION THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION 1b5745fe-6d5b-4316-942b-37ab72af8302 2368 WIZARD NO YONIST SAID THE CONFUSION HE WAS BROADCASTING KEPT THE MEN FROM DOING ANYTHING THAT REQUIRED EVEN A SIMPLE PLAN BUT HE COULDN'T KEEP IT UP FOR LONG ec06e8a4-1901-4eae-bdd8-1ee612e4e455 2108 PERHAPS WE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ESCAPE e80de2e0-1d12-49c9-aecb-7f63b4349b8f 451 A WISHING FAIRY MIGHT HAVE HAD THE TIME OF HER LIFE IN THE KING KITCHEN THAT MORNING PARTICULARLY IF SHE WERE A CYNICALLY INCLINED FAIRY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES 4c7be167-545b-4859-8eb8-e36ff891958a 30 WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT d5d6c10e-bc6e-4bc1-892c-9af352ad9256 1867 ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB FOR THIS REASON MOST BEACONS ARE BUILT ON UNINHABITABLE PLANETS IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE b8dcdc00-f639-4c52-880f-910489a807ea 2368 I AM NOT VENGEFUL BUT MY SON WAS NO WIZARD YET THE INQUISITOR TOOK HIM AND HAD A CONFESSION FROM HIM YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER HE TIGHTENED HIS LIPS IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID d249afed-4e71-45f7-8889-e7bb357f5d6f 2425 THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME b4d1e89a-9a9c-4174-b095-c5bfd4273dcd 1867 AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT WE CAN ATTACH THAT BANK ACCOUNT OF YOURS ON ALL GALL TOO LONG BEFORE YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY OUT I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY 6ca91dcc-62a3-4787-bdd8-ba75a1954d1b 2368 IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME SHARP SAID TELL ME NOW NO ONE CAN HEAR US NOT ERK NOOPE HIMSELF 98b518a5-e45f-4901-a6ae-a14d25f1d731 2274 WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT 05453701-84dd-4a64-909f-66cf809dbea1 103 I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD eb3a6033-a946-4919-8c0a-17fa54f40f4b 451 OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN FOR REMORSE SHE HAD UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER DIDN'T JUDY PANOT PROMISE YOU SOLEMNLY SHE WOULDN'T TELL YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA ecfd77f2-adee-4142-b41d-2d20bced97bd 451 THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES 438bbd1b-31ed-4d8d-a1c3-13391aab42f8 242 OF COURSE WE DID WE ALL SAT DOWN AT THE ROOTS OF THE FIRS FELIX HAVING FINALLY SQUARED MATTERS WITH HIS NOSE TURNED AROUND AND LISTENED ALSO THE STORY GIRL PAUSED A DRAMATIC PAUSE IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM 9e61b6a1-d52d-4c88-b758-d7c964c44ccd 198 UNCLE ROGER DID NOT COME TILL NEARLY TEN NEVER WAS THERE A MORE WELCOME SOUND THAN THE RUMBLE OF HIS WHEELS IN THE LANE 8abc5839-3e3d-4bff-b95f-227f0d66cd4f 14 IT ISN'T A BIT OF DIFFERENCE WHICH YOU ARE PLEADED THE STORY GIRL THEY BOTH GO TO HEAVEN 3cc21a41-7103-47cf-bafd-136b71b5e700 103 THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS WE HADN'T A DOUBT OF IT IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD 1834b11e-f5a9-4bbf-8ad3-7592f8a8147f 748 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT 13ee3a6f-42a6-4590-bfb5-bdf7a8d0a307 2317 GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER 933ef054-4ddc-4c50-9f2f-fe7740292cfe 103 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION 1ebf93b7-7d2c-470f-9fcb-8f46472d6a5d 413 LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE AND READ JUST WHAT THE BIBLE DOES SAY ABOUT IT SUGGESTED CECILY WE CREPT IN CAREFULLY LEST WE DISTURB AUNT OLIVIA AND CECILY FOUND AND READ THE SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HOLY WRIT THERE WAS LITTLE COMFORT FOR US IN THAT VIVID AND TERRIBLE PICTURE 4d9d5302-271d-4332-bda3-8f61613a5d69 402 OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER HE NEVER CRIED A SPECK WHEN YOU THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE AND NOW WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BETTER YOU CRY LIKE THAT 7fce0608-6d72-468f-995e-49a04e4a070f 413 BUT TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE FASHIONABLE THEREFORE TIMOTHY ROOFS MUST BE EATEN PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER a8cad772-e515-4748-b6f8-22c601f50739 30 WE DID NOT KNOW HER AT ALL UNDER THAT NAME d95a50c5-28e1-4bc5-a601-55e1d635a044 2312 THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY OF YOU BUCK EYED BEASTS THERE SAID THE SMALL MARTINET YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS WE DECIDED IT WAS TOO CLOSE NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE 197b62dc-1dcd-48aa-b37a-dd34923c745c 413 WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK NEVER FOR SO LONG SAID CECILY THEY HAD A SPELL LIKE THIS LAST SUMMER AND WON THE SUMMER BEFORE BUT THEY ONLY LASTED A COUPLE OF DAYS AND WHO SPOKE FIRST 6d50bceb-7b94-4d47-946a-c4bc08bbe22c 103 AND WHO LIVES IN THAT OTHER HOUSE ASKED FELIX LOOKING OVER THE WESTERING VALLEY WHERE A LITTLE GRAY ROOF WAS VISIBLE AMONG THE TREES bbbfb0c1-a75a-4abb-a6cd-c73c05df5ecf 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM 50b0f234-665c-43de-a5a9-c1071db01727 242 HE HAD NOT FELT VERY KEENLY OVER THE MATTER OF THE SERMONS AND CERTAINLY THE MERE FACT THAT PETER COULD EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT MAKING FACES DID NOT CAST ANY REFLECTION ON THE HONOUR OR ABILITY OF THE OTHER COMPETITORS 46e3be07-aadc-4ebf-a648-c9109c4e3e3a 242 HE WAS NOT ANGRY THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES BUT HE TOOK THE COMBATANTS BY THEIR SHIRT COLLARS AND DRAGGED THEM APART THIS STOPS RIGHT HERE BOYS HE SAID YOU KNOW I DON'T ALLOW FIGHTING 6fd840fe-0c31-4bd3-865d-bed9e8d84880 451 FELICITY WAS SO IMPRESSED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE OF ASTRONOMY THAT SHE DROPPED BACK FROM THE OTHER GIRLS AND WALKED BESIDE HIM 812fdf3b-d3e8-4d41-8fc0-2b797e2f79db 188 BUT DONALD WAS NOT GOING TO SHOW ALL HE THOUGHT SCOTCH PEOPLE NEVER DO AND HE PRETENDED TO BE VERY GLAD TO SEE NEIL AND MADE HIM HEARTILY WELCOME HOW DID THE CHILDREN BEHAVE ROGER LIKE MODELS SAID UNCLE ROGER THEY WERE AS GOOD AS GOLD MOST OF THE DAYS 5e263935-ebb1-4d63-bd02-da5be5a01e4e 2368 ANOTHER DAY DRAGGED BY YUNUS PUT IN HIS TIME ALTERNATELY GOING OVER THE NEW PLAN AND FEELING MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HE HAD EVER BELIEVED POSSIBLE CLARETON REACHED HIM ONCE BUT THE CONTACT WAS WEAK AND FLEETING THE DIRECTOR HADN'T ENOUGH STRENGTH TO REACH HIM AGAIN AT LEAST NOT FOR A DAY OR SO YUNUS WAS EXACTLY WHERE HE WANTED TO BE ON HIS OWN 7f91a19b-62f1-4be7-a4a7-7b9fd8d07753 2312 I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST d576e937-1b67-44c1-a4c6-084241a18710 413 WHAT THE CAUSE OF THE QUARREL WAS I CANNOT TELL YOU BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW IT REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER BUT IT WAS MORE BITTER THAN THE GENERAL RUN OF THEIR TIFFS AND THE CONSEQUENCES WERE APPARENT TO ALL THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE af6d999a-8216-4aad-a07a-238e9c32f414 2425 IN A MOMENT I NODDED AND VIC BEING A GOOD SCOUT THAT HE WAS HURRIED AWAY AND THE MACHINE I ASKED A FEW NIGHTS LATER STILL EXPERIMENTING WITH IT I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES af975321-58da-4c5a-ad4b-e512fe6bedc7 2368 WHERE MIGHT I FIND THIS FAMILY HE SAID IT IS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE OLD WOMAN SAID PERHAPS THEY ARE AT HOME YOU WILL SEE A PATH WHICH TAKES YOU TO THE LEFT FOLLOW IT UNTIL YOU REACH THE LAST HOUSE 1e6d4263-00ac-4970-bd7a-9093dd237fec 2312 WHEN THE FINAL COUNT WAS IN HIGH PLANES DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE GAINING POPULATION IN THE NATION 37d9bcfa-73a6-4502-a9b6-8910d03021bf 2425 IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST AND THE REVERSE IS JUST AS TRUE I STARED AT HIM BEWILDERED WHAT AM I THEN A GHOST 86a88f91-004d-4118-97e9-5bb5a24a7685 2425 I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET BACK I WARNED HOPING THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THE TONE OF VOICE IF NOT THE WORDS BACK OR I'LL POT A COUPLE OF YOU dc246220-4664-41ad-ba98-4f3bc2a616f0 2286 MAYBE HE SAID SUDDENLY SLUMPED AND TIRED NO LONGER LAUGHING MAYBE THEY WILL BUT I GAVE HER A CHANCE IT'S ALL OVER FOR ME NOW BUT SHE KNOWS THAT I LOVED HER TO THE END HE BARED HIS TEETH IN SUDDEN PAIN NOT THAT SHE WILL CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST df5319ca-521e-44d8-81e7-058113cbe3fd 32 WE TOOK A DRINK FROM THE BLUE CUP AND THEN WENT TO FIND OUR BIRTHDAY TREES WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES WHAT IS PETER LIKE I ASKED cb559bb5-ba1f-4eeb-b099-1fc876cb2817 2312 I DON'T EVEN BLINK FOR THINGS LIKE THAT HOW DO YOU TRIGGER IT OFF YOU GAPING GOOSE I DON'T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU I HAVE TO GET TO WASHINGTON 32ad34c8-8f6c-4fb6-92ef-f71853453da3 2108 THERE I STOOD AX IN HAND BUT UNABLE TO MOVE FOR DAYS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS INDEED I HAVE NEVER KNOWN EXACTLY HOW LONG THE TIME WAS BUT FINALLY ALONG CAME DOROTHY AND I WAS SAVED SEE THIS IS THE VERY TREE I WAS CHOPPING AT THE TIME I RESTED cd7b1adb-27c3-42f8-8425-dcd00d60b53b 2425 EXACTLY I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WRIST WATCH AND NOTED WITH RELIEF THAT IT WAS STILL RUNNING 054efcef-8981-4847-878a-a30b2396f69a 32 WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELICITY SHE'S JUST FINE SAID FELIX ENTHUSIASTICALLY I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE HER TO TELL STORIES 2d147212-de82-4b97-a517-92acb9078c65 14 BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS ITS UPPER END WAS DIM WITH A DELICATE SPRING MIST WINDS BLEW UP THE FIELDS LIKE WAVE UPON WAVE OF SWEET SAVOUR SPICE OF BRACKEN AND BALSAM 52039b0f-f1cf-4c7e-b40f-e0f55d3d0928 2312 HE KNEW ALL THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT THEM THEIR NATIVITIES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE ONLY NINE REGULAR PEOPLE IN THE NINE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA dd6036da-ccc5-4306-9d6d-052ff5d846e8 2182 COMMUNICATION BY AUDIBLE SYMBOL CHAFFY THREE SAID HE RUFFLED HIS FEATHERS IN A SHUDDER BARBAROUS 0e937e9c-c324-44ac-80db-f3d17add3082 2137 GET MAY RHINART YES SIR THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS c8a8087d-c524-4cae-a1c4-670c5b3cb605 2368 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING 08464a4e-9b05-4ff2-a74e-31353354020a 2137 AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM 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 f03bdcbe-ec5c-4c43-a38f-ebb3c4e9cd50 2317 GARF PADDLED IDLY AROUND DOR'S APARTMENT PRETENDING INTEREST IN THE SHELL PAINTINGS THAT DECORATED THE WALLS HE HAD PRESENTED HER A BOUQUET IN WHICH RARE BLOSSOMS HID SLIMY SMELLING WEEDS AND SHE WAS SORE AT HIM AGAIN 53967577-8bcd-4ded-8021-b368ea318d57 103 BUT IT WAS A MAY MORNING AND OUR YOUNG BLOOD WAS RUNNING BLITHELY IN OUR VEINS WE SUGGESTED A VISIT TO THE ORCHARD WOULD BE MORE AGREEABLE beea30e2-dcc4-4afa-aab3-b006a08cb796 188 I FELT HE DIDN'T GRUDGE IT AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK I DON'T SUPPOSE THE AWKWARD MAN NOTICED IT AT ALL BUT MISTER CAMPBELL WILL OR I'M VERY MUCH MISTAKEN 28c2e48a-3122-4306-97e4-aa0154acab45 2108 THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I HAVE TO CHIDE HIM GENTLY BOTH WITH MY TONGUE AND WITH MY BROOMSTICK BUT HE IS MY HUSBAND AND I MUST MAKE THE BEST OF HIM 3aee1b28-b592-447a-9bd4-962b17e417bb 32 WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COME OUT IT'S WONDERFUL TO WALK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL IT'S LIKE A DREAM OF FAIRYLAND AS IF YOU WERE WALKING IN A KING'S PALACE THE APPLES ARE DELICIOUS AND IN WINTER IT'S A SPLENDID PLACE FOR COASTING feab9017-a4e6-4952-8992-46210fc9bb43 2137 THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA 70313a04-a13e-4e2c-8c57-dd9ec73b40b2 402 THEY HAD THREE DAYS ONLY THREE DAYS OF HAPPINESS AND THEN THE BLOW FELL THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE FANNY REFUSED TO LET CAPTAIN DUNBAR TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL ad08ea4e-ca0d-420e-b649-82dfa04a1a5f 2286 HE WAS TRYING TO BE FAIR AND CONSIDERATE OF MY VIEWS AND NOT SUCCEEDING IN THE SLIGHTEST IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE HE GROWLED HOW CAN YOU BE SURE THIS KILLOW WILL EVER READ ONE OF THESE THINGS AND IF HE DOES WHY SHOULD HE BE INTERESTED IT LOOKS TO ME AS IF YOU'RE WASTING TIME WHEN HE SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS 6aff62f7-b5b6-46dc-9249-3f0d1539720a 2286 LOOKING OVER THE ORIGINAL BREW PRINTS AGAIN THE BIG SUPERSTRUCTURE HIT MY EYE IN ORDER TO TURN THE SHIP INTO A WARSHIP THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO GO 1330eb17-4a7d-4dd5-9389-7be4fa08ee46 32 IT IS THE VERY SAME CUP SAID THE STORY GIRL IMPRESSIVELY ISN'T IT AN AMAZING THING THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK FROM IT AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN 56d9be55-2585-4d7e-b8ea-36de189386e9 402 WHEN SHE CEASED WE CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING AS IF WE HAD BEEN MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY IN THE BLUE ETHER AND THAT ALL OUR OLD FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS WERE MOMENTARILY FORGOTTEN AND STRANGE 1d1c4a9d-f507-47ca-b764-86b9d99966fa 2425 ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME e1a58fd8-b787-4af2-ae8f-15553e6846ce 188 WHILE HE WAS PLAYING A SLEIGH DROVE UP TO THE DOOR AND NEIL CAMPBELL CAME IN DONALD WAS NOT OVERLY GLAD TO SEE HIM FOR HE SUSPECTED WHERE HE WAS GOING 7c8f35a3-2b28-4884-af21-c1eb3e622c99 451 NO YOU'LL HAVE A NEW NAME UP THERE SAID CECILY GENTLY IT SAYS SO IN THE BIBLE WELL I'M GLAD OF THAT PETER WOULD BE SUCH A FUNNY NAME FOR AN ANGEL de10da39-8d17-45c8-8a60-9d5af8828c2c 402 BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL WREATHED HER NUT BROWN TRESSES WITH CRIMSON LEAVES IT SEEMED AS PETER SAID THAT THEY GREW ON HER AS IF THE GOLD AND FLAME OF HER SPIRIT HAD BROKE OUT IN A CORONAL AS MUCH A PART OF HER AS THE PALE HALO SEEMS A PART OF THE MADONNA IT ENCIRCLES f1b191b3-fb5f-445e-a1c3-1eda0432d8b9 2182 THERE WILL BE NO LOSS TO EITHER FACTION NO LOSS JONIFER REPEATED INDIGNANTLY cb88f543-f74d-4360-9d2b-a5b0d5b064ed 2274 ALL THAT WITH GLASS MURMURED HORN WHAT'S HAPPENING HIS STETSON HORN TOUCHED HIS THROAT CONTACT WE'RE JUST INTO THE CITY CLEARING PROCEEDING TOWARD THE NEAREST BUILDING e4fd165c-e615-4763-b2aa-96a83e3dc65a 14 THERE TOO SLEPT THE EMILY WHOSE FAITHFUL SPIRIT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAUNT THE ORCHARD BUT EDITH WHO HAD KISSED THE POET LAY NOT WITH HER KINDRED SHE HAD DIED IN A FAR FOREIGN LAND AND THE MURMUR OF AN ALIEN SEA SOUNDED ABOUT HER GRAVE c2e66586-b248-4c9d-bf0f-0384bdcb80a6 2312 BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND HE KNEW SPANISH AND ENOUGH ENGLISH d6199eee-86b2-4386-85aa-b9497af314f6 413 AND WHO SPOKE FIRST OH THE STORY YELL SHE GOT EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND SPOKE TO FELICITY BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED AND SUCH A BAD SIGN bed95237-cbab-41cf-9fa6-b908c37ad70c 2108 BUT AT TIMES THEY WERE SILENT FOR THESE THINGS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER MANY TIMES BETWEEN THEM AND THEY FOUND THEMSELVES CONTENTED AND MERELY BEING TOGETHER SPEAKING NOW AND THEN A BRIEF SENTENCE TO PROVE THEY WERE WIDE AWAKE AND ATTENTIVE f425941d-380e-4160-b755-521d1a72f67e 2425 ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WITH ONE ACCORD THEY CAME TOWARD US OBVIOUSLY INTENT UPON BLOCKING OUR WAY I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS 7813fdda-b9f6-47b0-a4c6-f60494d91e9e 2108 IF YOU DESIRE IT PROMISED THE TIN WOODMAN LEANING BACK IN HIS TIN THROAT AND CROSSING HIS TIN LEGS 0c51caf0-932b-4037-989f-c149732d80fb 2274 THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP I GOT YOU INTO THE I A NOW YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY IF YOU PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON ON THIS ONE WITHOUT CAUSE I WILL PERSONALLY FLAY YOU ALIVE 4b1e5d8b-e3f6-46e1-8963-a3a68596d8e8 2137 THERE WAS AN ODD CLICKING SOUND AND HE STOPPED IT SOUNDED AGAIN BRANDON REALIZED HE WAS PERSPIRING DESPITE THE CHILL OF THE DESERT NIGHT 236343ab-e34a-4a61-9eb3-ae3c5299edc3 2317 GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY TO RAISE INVENTION AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK 9f540296-d59a-4f8f-a317-a120bbc1c425 2137 AFTER ALL HE THOUGHT THE EARTH HELD NO LIFE FOR THE BETTER PART OF ITS EXISTENCE AND TOWERS HAD SELECTED THIS PLANET BECAUSE IT BORE RELATIVELY THE SAME RELATIONSHIP TO THE BRIGHTER HOTTER SERIOUS AS DID THE EARTH TO THE SUN 7ebe22e9-cdfd-448c-821e-3f298612fe06 2108 AND NOW THE CANARY PERCHED UPON A STUMP A LITTLE WAY FROM THE FOREST BEAST AND SAID I AM GLAD OUR FRIEND HAS ESCAPED YOU BUT AS IT IS NATURAL FOR A HUNGRY BEAST TO WISH HIS BREAKFAST I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU ONE 82746210-0591-44de-a2fe-0df33b318afb 451 THE STORY GIRL WINKED WITH THE SIGHT OF HER FACE NEXT TO FELIX AND ME BUT THE SIDE NEXT TO THE GIRLS CHANGED NOT A MUSCLE SHE DEARLY LOVED TO TAKE HER EYES OUT OF FELICITY NOW AND THEN INDEED I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE 334d070b-ae19-4f3b-8701-6185d0040e93 242 I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY LET'S ALL GIVE UP THE ORDEAL ANYWAY THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX AND I WON'T 2969ac55-1703-4be8-a211-954490ea080a 451 HE HAD A RETENTIVE MEMORY AND NEVER FORGOT ANYTHING HE HEARD OR READ THE FEW BOOKS LEFT TO HIM BY HIS OFT REFERRED TO AUNT JANE HAD STOCKED HIS MIND WITH MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION WHICH SOMETIMES MADE FELIX AND ME DOUBT IF WE KNEW AS MUCH AS PETER AFTER ALL fc0b7ed8-0c11-4248-8a1f-2fedad29962d 14 BUT SHE WAS AS PROUD AS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN a8f29d1d-a11c-469f-bb97-3711b4ad2c25 2274 TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON HE REACHED OVER TOOK THE RIFLE FOUND THE SAFETY BELTS BOUND TO NOBE WITH HIM THEN HE EASED OFF THE ACCELERATION 55860197-064e-4eaa-bb58-3e762347ddf0 1867 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME da5fd7b8-d568-478e-a2aa-8aeb132f880e 2312 IN THE CENTRE VALLEY THERE WERE FIVE THOUSAND ACRES OF SLAG AND VITRIFIED ROCK FROM SOME FORGOTTEN OLD BLAST THAT HAD MELTED THE HILLS AND DESTROYED THEIR MANTLE REDUCING ALL TO A TERRIBLE FLATNESS 8a5c75e1-d895-4acc-9ea3-a5fca5a28e6c 402 BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX a44b276b-6c67-4353-bf4d-f9fbc3213c71 188 SEE HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL RESOLUTELY I DON'T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING TO IT SUPPOSE THERE IS THE QUESTION IS WHAT CAN WE DO 9da20607-d5da-4b24-aa6f-e27b278ccf4e 2425 FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW WHERE ARE WE SURELY LOOKING AT IT IN ONE WAY WE'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM MY LABORATORY cef8d0c7-4795-434f-8b27-5ed2775ba6c7 2317 AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER eff9383f-76c2-4e7f-a691-7f61ef9cd765 2137 BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST YOU KNOW THE NATURE OF THE TROUBLE NEGATIVE MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE CHOPPED OFF THE POWER 1a2dd469-1509-4e9a-9062-cf8e99f3c08e 2317 WHICH WASN'T STRICTLY TRUE THE BIG EARTH MAN WAS CUTE SHE THOUGHT AND IT WAS QUAINT OF HIM TO BE IN LOVE WITH HER AND TO TELL HER SO EVERY DAY OVER THE RADIO BELT INTO THE ROBOT NONIPUS 78b4ee72-2bdd-4e22-b538-c03f3cfd4ff8 2182 HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM COME OUT OF IT WILL YOU HE YELLED UNGALLANTLY IN HER EAR IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP 68884b98-faae-484d-9e17-86473b1f169e 2286 I WON'T BORE YOU WITH ALL THE DETAILS SEEM YOU SEEM IMPATIENT BUT EVENTUALLY I TURNED UP THIS PLAN HE HAD IT OUT OF MY FINGERS BEFORE IT CLEANSED MY WALLET 2c28ff36-d99d-4aa9-b9f0-d11e74902e98 2274 WHY AM I WEARING THIS THING ASKED HORN DISGUISE BUT THERE'S NO MOUSTACHE 4c6a7ff9-414e-4d3e-87e1-2ca8ea5d7541 2274 SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN EERY SINISTER LOOK 60843926-c346-4f3a-85a5-98c5f2bc691c 1867 THE NATIVES CHOMPED AND RATTLED AND THE TRANSLATION ROLLED OUT ALMOST INSTANTLY I HAD THE VOLUME TURNED UP AND THE WHOLE SQUARE ECHOED SOME OF THE MORE CREDULOUS NATIVES PROSTRATED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS FLED SCREAMING 980b2c9f-eb94-44f0-90dc-019b4287c296 198 NOT THE STORY GIRL HERSELF COULD HAVE INVESTED THAT SOMETHING WITH MORE OF A CREEPY HORROR WE ALL DREW CLOSE TOGETHER I FELT A CRINKLY FEELING ALONG MY BACK WHICH I HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE dddc95f3-f162-4f1b-81de-20671aa3d11b 2317 FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS 24dafa51-bd58-4d09-8a2d-ac2438f931ba 14 FELICITY FROWNED AT HIM AND THE STORY GIRL TOUCHED HER WITH HER SLIPPERED FOOT TO REMIND HIM THAT HE MUST NOT TALK IN CHURCH HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION DEMANDED FELICITY I'VE GOT A YANKEE CENT I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT c3899cc4-4048-41b9-beee-bbbf2ff6cbd6 2108 ASKED THE WANDERER AFTER A MOMENT'S THOUGHT e2418ee9-5dfa-4909-836d-265cd3191087 413 HOW ABOUT AUNT OLIVIA NO AUNT OLIVIA HAS GONE TO BED WITH A SICK HEADACHE AND MUSTN'T BE DISTURBED SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE 259c89d0-88d7-46b5-a48d-ffd6895a61d6 242 AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE I DON'T MEDDLE WITH HIRED BOYS PRAYERS SHE SAID HAUGHTILY c80ca219-52fa-4d15-af8e-1148f97595a5 2425 GOOD KID SAID VIC AND I PRESSED HER HAND AS COMFORTABLY AS I COULD WE TURNED A BEND IN THE LONG RAMP WE HAD BEEN CLIMBING AND CAME OUT UPON THE VAST LEVEL TOP OF THE BUILDING 0dc1ea38-db9d-4b9c-b0c2-522baf29d60f 2425 COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS 79c94121-ed77-4cb9-bea9-192510e89e02 2274 FOUR FINGERED HANDS IT WORE A WIDE BELT FROM WHICH DANGLED NEAT POUCHES AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE TOOLS ALTHOUGH THEIR USE WAS OBSCURE 8a8fa03d-2505-4485-bc14-488169da01c7 2317 AND THE SITUATION HAD THE ASPECTS OF A BURLESQUE ON GRAND HOTEL BUT 9ea9874a-e0a4-4674-b2a4-ad4b237b8549 2286 A LONG CLOAK WOULD CONCEAL THE UNIFORM WHILE I LEFT THE HOTEL BUT THE GOLDEN CRUSTED HELMET AND A BRIEF CASE OF PAPERS WERE A PROBLEM 55a60036-2202-4d2a-9758-199f3caf57e0 2286 THE DRIVE ON THE BATTLESHIP AS WELL AS CONTROLS AND PRIMARY ARMAMENT HAD BEEN STOOD WEEKS BEFORE I SHOWED UP MUCH OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORK REMAINED TO BE DONE WHEN THE SHIP HAD LEFT 20dd1ae3-c7d8-4681-a76c-697395be2859 2137 VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE 23a72d82-526f-490d-bb89-26b22727f5ce 2317 SO DID THE BIG GLASSY EYED DISC OF THE ICE AND FARMER AIMED APPOINTED THE HOOK AT ONE OF THEM STARTED THE THRUST c81aeaea-b039-4edb-b107-9c26248518d9 2317 FARMER'S MIND WORKED CHAOTICALLY THIS WAS PUZZLING HE DECIDED AND DID MAKE HIM FEEL INFERIOR THAT IS IT DID IF A MAN IN THE RED SCALES HAD REALLY PICKED UP ENGLISH SO QUICKLY f6c18174-17e1-4d6b-bec2-0b1ac3819b79 32 HER BEST SET IS STILL COMPLETE AUNT OLIVIA HAS IT YOU MUST GET HER TO SHOW IT TO YOU 0c078691-cd79-499f-a148-bf023dbfe583 2312 HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN MAYBE NOT THEN THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS BUT I WASN'T SURE 2418ca3a-c927-493d-ac02-22afd5843be1 2317 THE DIVING HELMET CAME OFF EASILY NOT HAVING BEEN PROPERLY FASTENED DOWN AT ALL ec968221-3c4f-4263-8fb9-94b7916c849d 413 I COULDN'T GET A LOOK INTO HIS EYES IF HE WAS TRYING TO HOAX US THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TWINKLE IN THEM HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON 3049d6ba-937c-48fe-9b64-abf31f6bf875 2317 PUT THAT DOWN DOORS YELL WAS HIGH PITCHED GARF FACED THEM AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES THE BOAT HEAVED WALLOWED AND SANK a8e88163-1277-4edf-89f8-201f41a4456e 2108 I THINK SHE WAS A VERY NICE GIRL SAID ROOT THE WANDERER BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHY WERE YOU NOT KILLED WHEN YOU WERE CHOPPED TO PIECES 1c6f1b7b-9d30-4fbe-8b03-7c721857faa4 2286 WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE THE COLD SWEAT WAS NOW A RUNNING RIVER OF FEAR I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY 4a625139-1405-4e80-bd97-7d7c7afb1771 2286 SPEAKING SOFTLY BUT CLEARLY HE WAS AT MY MERCY REALLY HE WANTED TO SLEEP SO MUCH AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON caa1243d-1838-451a-a7d4-186086e1a875 413 BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY IT WAS FINALLY DECIDED THAT DAN AND FELIX SHOULD GO I WANTED TO GO ALSO BUT THE GIRLS PROTESTED 9c03ba04-b17e-4722-97f7-906b9f8c8921 2108 PERHAPS IF WE GO NEARER WE SHALL FIND OUT WHETHER ANYBODY LIVES THERE OR NOT SUGGESTED LU LOOKS TO ME AS IF NOBODY LIVED THERE a10a5e18-d195-4081-ab53-deffc9786979 1867 THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE 76a922e1-4c20-4ccf-b883-3cc86c706cc3 2312 HE WASN'T QUALIFIED HE COULDN'T READ A MAP HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MAP WAS HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP d522c315-9e1b-485c-b528-962c4352a9bf 2312 MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A DONKEY A JACK TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT f7259896-5921-4748-a40b-7915ff0d8cbc 2182 BETWEEN THEM THEY WEDGED THE BUNK AGAINST THE DOOR AND HELD IT IN PLACE THEN THEY STOOD LOOKING PALELY AT EACH OTHER AND WAITING FOR THE NEXT ATTACK HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE 9d052d6a-a0c6-4386-839a-4a9ee87d68f0 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 f776e733-808d-43e3-9a0f-2875d54e18a4 2312 A LAFFATY MANOEL SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED AS A CENSUS TAKER HE WASN'T QUALIFIED HE COULDN'T READ A MAP HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MAP WAS 4a8258c7-ce4b-44c2-9521-9f49f95f2c10 2286 GET THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER IN HERE AT ONCE I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME ALSO A COUPLE OF CLERKS WITH TRANSCRIBERS AND FAST THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH 901c93b4-fc5d-492d-910f-4d9b11111559 2137 INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION ec4f299b-e00b-48bb-a0dd-f7d48ec9d89f 2182 THERE WAS A SOUND OF STEALTHY MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND HE FLICKED SWEAT OUT OF HIS EYES WITH A HAND THAT SHOOK E I FOR GOD'S SAKE COME IN I'M IN TROUBLE HERE THE IMAGE ON HIS THREE INCH SCREEN WAS NOT CONSEIL SEDTERFIELD'S BUT THE STARTLED CONSOLATE OPERATORS TROUBLE 9edb0c8d-ed96-42c7-83e6-00bc65e4589e 2137 BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT TINY RED MISTS MARKED DUST STORMS CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST HE RIGHTED THE SHIP baf8805e-cf1c-4d88-8225-c3c1de487d07 2312 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD WE OWN THE WORLD WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE ae6fadab-8a5a-4286-92ba-a304abfd2277 2312 SENT IT TO WASHINGTON YOU BUCK EYED BEEMOFF DO YOU REALIZE WHAT A TRICK THAT WILL BE YOU GRANDFATHER OF INANITIES IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO DESTROY YOU 05cc212c-f052-49c4-a877-508f61071bb8 14 FELICITY STARTED OFF INDIGNANTLY AND WE FOLLOWED PICKING UP SARA RAY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL 6c309fca-823d-436a-9835-633e18e010ee 2182 A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING IF HOMESIDE YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY 4675483a-b6c1-45fc-a963-2a2a68dec005 1867 IT MUST HAVE BEEN A GRAND SIGHT THE EYE WAS CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE A FLYING LIZARD SORT OF A CARDBOARD PTERODACTYL AND THE SLOWLY FLAPPING WINGS OBVIOUSLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR FLIGHT BUT IT WAS IMPRESSIVE ENOUGH FOR THE NATIVES 328f22d8-c079-4824-b421-4dfd025e87e5 2368 MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE 06fd4e51-055b-43cf-8489-8a9dd3556845 2137 WE MAY YET SPOT THE ESCAPE CAPSULE REHNHART WAS SAYING WE'RE STILL CONTINUING THE SEARCH PUT IN TOWERS BUT I DON'T MIND TELLING YOU I'M NOT WASTING MUCH MORE FUEL THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR YES SIR 99fd793a-3409-4cae-9e93-701daf558e5c 2108 SINCE THE SAW HORSE COULD UNDERSTAND HER SPOKEN WORDS OZMA USED NO REINS TO GUIDE HIM SHE MERELY TOLD HIM WHERE TO GO 0457755b-893d-4228-9ab2-2921c8d3812c 32 THIS PETER WAS A SLIM SHAPELY FELLOW WITH LAUGHING BLACK EYES AND THICK BLACK CURLS SHE WAS NOT A GREAT AUNT THEN OF COURSE SHE WAS ONLY EIGHTEEN WITH RED LIPS AND BLACK BLACK HAIR AND EYES 757dd37d-f1a8-49e1-9bdd-dc2f4dcde876 2286 WHAT DO YOU WANT THESE WERE THE FIRST WORDS PEPPER HAD SPOKEN SINCE HIS FIRST THREATS I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ARRANGE A DEAL SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROFITABLE TO BOTH OF US BUT LET ME FIRST SHOW YOU THE REST OF THE BOMBS SO YOU WON'T GET ANY STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CORPORATING c78fbbe6-a3ad-4812-9976-be48c5954918 451 THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS A VERY GOOD YOUNG MAN AND TRIED TO DO HIS DUTY BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY AFRAID OF MEETING OLD MISTER SCOTT BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THE OLD MINISTER WAS VERY ANGRY AT BEING SET ASIDE AND WOULD LIKELY GIVE HIM A SOUND DRUBBING IF HE EVER MET HIM e90a6822-1559-470a-b6a2-b66c6fd5af76 2368 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 3085fb05-3d8e-4429-ab56-c94bb6e665db 198 I HAVE AN IDEA THAT A RASPBERRY PIE FOR TOMORROW NIGHT WHEN THE FOLKS COME HOME WOULD HIT THE RIGHT SPOT ACCORDINGLY AFTER TEA WE ALL SET OFF ARMED WITH JUGS AND CUPS ed8b6426-d108-4379-9b20-09fa7f2c6fc4 188 THE PICNIC OVER WE PLAYED GAMES UNTIL THE EARLY FALLING DUSK AND THEN WE WENT WITH UNCLE ALEC TO THE BACK FIELD TO BURN THE POTATO STOCKS THE CROWNING DELIGHT OF THE DAY e7d5df0d-f1b6-4278-8fa3-521fd22776b3 413 WHAT A BLACK AND ENDLESS LIST THEY MADE THOSE SINS OF OMISSION AND COMMISSION THAT RUSHED ACCUSINGLY ACROSS OUR YOUNG MEMORIES I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN 6cf39725-9425-4a19-b565-d0d1c50e8abf 2368 WELL THEN THE OLD WOMAN SAID AND STARTED TO DRAW BACK JONAS GESTED LAZILY WITH ONE HAND WAIT HE SAID I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR HOUSE AWAY FROM YOU MADAM I AM ONLY HERE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION e5ab3297-f43b-4a4e-a4e7-1cbaf649fca0 2108 THE WITCH COMMANDED ME NEVER TO COME NEAR NIMMY ANNIE AGAIN BUT I TOLD HER I WAS MY OWN MASTER AND WOULD DO AS I PLEASED NOT REALIZING THAT THIS WAS A CARELESS WAY TO SPEAK TO A WITCH 56c07920-671b-42e3-a10c-0c9217b2ee20 402 PRESENTLY THE STORY GIRL WHO HAD BEEN STANDING UP LEANING AGAINST A TALL FIR SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE CRY SO WITH DREADFUL RENDING SONGS 7e04dd06-59d7-46ae-8143-e4ff310908e4 242 THE SKY ABOVE IT WAS CHILL AND ERETHRAL AND MYSTICAL BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS AND THE WEIRD LITTLE TALE TOLD IN A VOICE FRAUGHT WITH MYSTERY AND PATHOS HAD PEOPLED THEM FOR US WITH FURATIVE FOLKS IN BELT AND WAMPUM AND DARK DRESSED INDIAN MAIDENS 4f9a4e39-a0dd-4253-9ec5-7870098ee454 198 BUT AUNT OLIVIA WON'T LET ME WASTE THE STUFF MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK 424167ce-7f44-4cd6-bd90-2aeeb9d7e224 2274 WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON TO NEWBE'S EYES DILATED CONTRACTED YOU READ MINES e08651d0-9d1f-4885-9432-06f9f1c5da89 451 YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE THERE WERE TWO MINISTERS IN PARTICULAR HE BLAMED FOR BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM YOU SHOULD BE RESIGNED TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE 55e5fc0c-6c94-4a24-93ce-4ee05fa956af 242 JUST AS MUCH NONSENSE AS PRAYING ABOUT THE BITTER APPLES IN THE FIRST PLACE OH DAN YOU DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS SOME GOOD IN PRAYING SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY 1651bfda-9d7a-4a40-8015-a75c56e6732d 2108 MISSUS UWKE TOOK AMPLE TIME TO FINISH HER BREAKFAST AND THE PRISONERS HAD NO DESIRE TO HURRY HER BUT FINALLY THE MEAL WAS CONCLUDED AND SHE FOLDED HER NAPKIN AND MADE THE TABLE DISAPPEAR BY CLAPPING HER HANDS TOGETHER 34b37063-66e6-45f2-a8a1-ff0ccb7cc320 2317 HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL JOHN ANDREW GULPED AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT IT HAD MELTED ba0384a9-d5bb-4c26-ab64-8ae14d13efe9 2317 THEN SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND LAUGHED A MERRY LAUGH LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST 6435f3de-cf44-40aa-838a-b05b9f4c7423 2137 WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH AND IT HAD SEAS NOT AS LARGE AS ON EARTH BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE 78b2e747-bf8e-4be8-96d9-c8642e4c0fa5 413 WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT WE WENT 08dfe267-a638-4564-8204-79bb9b2eb267 2368 ON THE SECOND DAY THE RATS BEGAN TO BORE HIM BY THAT EVENING THEY WERE ANNOYING HIM AND WHEN THE THIRD DAY DAWNED BRIGHT AND WARM AS NEAR AS HE COULD TELL FROM THE TINIEST WINDOW AT THE TOP OF HIS CELL YUNUS WAS TELLING HIMSELF THAT ANY MOVE AT ALL WAS A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION 17238ec3-8063-4757-90b9-270e96d02cd6 2182 NO PROGRESS JEFF REPORTED EXCEPT THAT THE FEW ISLANDERS I'VE MET SEEMED TO BE ACCEPTING ME AT LAST ccb897f6-f1d3-4a62-a2c6-8def945f4aa2 1867 THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES 1624f135-cb5f-4fc6-8592-77d6d8575106 451 THE STORY GIRL WAS CRIMSON WITH INDIGNATION TO HAVE SUCH A REMARK MADE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE FOURTEEN AND A HALF AND BEFORE THE BOYS TOO REALLY AUNT JANET COULD BE VERY DREADFUL cf48ae64-df15-40a3-8bb6-800561864092 32 THAT WAS AN UNCANNY EXHIBITION FOR A GIRL OF FOURTEEN YOU KNOW ROGER SAID AUNT OLIVIA MUSINGLY WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THAT CHILD 569b3797-4f0d-4dd4-a859-5fc2a6ddc1a5 188 A SUDDEN BEND IN THE LANE BROUGHT US OUT TO THE LITTLE CLEARING WHERE PEG'S HOUSE WAS BEFORE WE WERE HALF READY TO SEE IT IN SPITE OF MY FEAR I LOOKED AT IT WITH SOME CURIOSITY 4e33c1a7-1f72-40d8-add5-e7e0300b3848 242 SHE WORE I REMEMBER A DRESS OF WARM CRIMSON AND SHE HAD WOUND AROUND HER A STRING OF WAXBERRIES THAT LOOKED LIKE A FILLET OF PEARLS HER CHEEKS WERE STILL FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF THE EVENING IN THE DIM LIGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A WILD MYSTIC LOVELINESS A COMPELLING CHARM THAT WOULD NOT BE DENIED 2a07ee5c-682e-491f-a60c-e6bc60c88a78 451 THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY d58933b5-832c-4dd8-be3f-460cdbe8def0 402 WHAT DO YOU THINK HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE JERRY COWAN TOLD ME AT RECESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN b7279368-7ff3-49ee-ad19-9c347f9fd7e0 242 AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND I DID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IT ebb8c346-85d0-4e7f-8d15-90bff21e2f23 2182 THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY JEFF PANTED THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE 44792233-24ed-4bd9-b957-b5b0cf2d7fa9 2182 JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM ade0acd8-e9f5-445c-9df1-a16afcdf716b 188 AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID 05f977e4-bfcb-4609-91d1-58ad0ffbca22 2425 VIC HOPE I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES THERE WAS NO RESPONSE IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS 56455aef-a9c5-41c4-818f-e8c531ba294a 14 UNCLE ROGER WANDERED BY AT THIS MOMENT AND BEHOLDING PETER SAID IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL THE OLD OLD ARGUMENT I SUPPOSE BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR d5529948-7886-47b8-ab74-2cbcba477349 14 I DON'T SEE WHY BUT ANYHOW I SUPPOSE IT WOULDN'T BE MUCH USE BECAUSE IF HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER HE'D SAY I OUGHT TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND IF HE WAS A METHODIST HE'D TELL ME TO BE ONE TOO LOOK HERE FELICITY WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM 6bd32eaa-3c52-4795-b606-b7633eb17ccd 2108 I SUPPOSE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IN THIS YEAR YOU HAVE SEEN SO MUCH YOU HAVE BECOME VERY WISE 77c3bb99-310e-4ee1-be0f-2b3a09d37eb3 2425 THEY ARE NOT INTELLIGENT THINGS THAT WOULD KILL A MAN OF OUR OWN WORLD HAVE NO EFFECT ON THEM FOR REMEMBER THEY ARE NOT PHYSICAL BEINGS YOU HAVE SEEN THEM APPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR AND DISSOLVE IN THE SAME FASHION 8813e160-4e94-477a-b7f9-d072a73a0d78 2317 JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF ce92460b-42fc-4ed4-a83c-7c7efc0e956e 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 524e1615-3033-478d-8536-5fd9db5415de 2368 HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID ad0e78fb-7229-4d1b-b537-59689377ed67 2368 THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME AT LAST KNOOF NODDED THE DEVIL GRANTS TO MANY HIS POWER OF SEEING THE MINDS OF MEN HE SAID QUIETLY af1f4539-3a0b-401f-baaa-a044f2bf33e9 2368 WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE HE STOOD FOR A SECOND AT THE CREST OF THE HILL HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN OF SPIRE AS IT BAKED IN THE MAY AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK 4c2bce3f-603d-4a76-9e28-1173ac1a5782 188 HIS GAZE WANDERED OVER US WITH UNCOMPLIMENTARY INDIFFERENCE UNTIL IT FELL ON THE STORY GIRL LEANING BACK IN AN ARMCHAIR SHE LOOKED LIKE A SLENDER RED LILY IN THE UNSTUDIED GRACE OF HER ATTITUDE 1a67408a-ed51-40b1-95d2-e6de38d01faa 2425 PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT 5763d26e-372d-4c94-b717-8d985a40b0af 2286 AS BEFITTED THE TOP OFFICIAL OF A RICH PLANET THE PLACE IS A MANSION FOR THE SECURITY PRECAUTIONS WERE LUDICROUS TO SAY THE LEAST I TOOK MYSELF AND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILO ROBOT THROUGH THE GUARDS AND ALARMS WITHOUT CAUSING THE SLIGHTEST STIR cff7bd32-7a32-4b21-acaf-c0c285f74a2f 2137 BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER 388b76fa-b0dd-441a-9b8e-3b4db5ad568c 2182 HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS IT FOUND ROTS IN HIS DAILY RAMBLES OVER THE LITTLE ISLAND GRANTED HIM BY THE TOWNSHIP FOR THE PAINTING HE HAD BEGUN AS A BLIND TO HIS ASSIGNMENT AND IN THE GOSSIP OF OLD CHARLEY MACK AND THE FEW OTHERS HE HAD MET 7b16d7d5-585a-4009-b1ba-20ee4dbf43f3 2274 ALIEN ANY SIGN OF THAT MOB NEGATIVE O K WE'RE TAKING OFF ce8f8bca-7d46-43d9-97d2-0208d22fc5c4 2137 NEGATIVE MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE CHOPPED OFF THE POWER a226e35a-a1e6-4a3f-9360-f39418edf41b 2425 AS MANY AS POSSIBLE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF HERE I WANDERED NEARLY TO THE CITY BEFORE I WAS MOLESTED WHEN THEY DID APPEAR AND TRIED TO LAY HANDS ON ME I WARNED THEM BACK AND FINALLY SHOT ONE OF THEM 8831ecc0-bae0-4da6-a603-34c320cdb6df 2108 EVER SINCE THE MOMENT OF HER TRANSFORMATION SHE HAS REFUSED TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD DON'T YOU THINK YOU'D BETTER LEAVE ME AS I AM ASKED FOOD IN A TREMBLING VOICE 36ab4408-8be2-4fc2-b247-1ca3f20da624 2108 IN THE LAND OF OZ REPLIED THE EMPEROR NO ONE CAN EVER BE KILLED af0c2b24-0cbd-4353-924e-1d0e0e816857 2317 LET'S SEE IF WE CAN CLOSE UP THE GATE OURSELVES OR IF THIS NEEDS TO BE REPORTED AND THEN LET'S GO HOME b712cb26-db0c-4457-8dd5-4cd54b41a545 14 WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR STOCKINGS PETER bc7c4b8e-83ac-4a54-90b0-7570fa958bce 2108 IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE GOOD WILL OF MY UNSEEN FAIRY GUARDIANS SO I'LL TRY AND IF I FAIL YOU WILL BE NO WORSE OFF THAN YOU ARE NOW c137662d-e7dd-456b-9e95-fd23fc58eb7b 1867 STAYING OUTSIDE THE ATMOSPHERE I SENT A FLYING EYE DOWN TO LOOK THINGS OVER IN THIS BUSINESS YOU LEARN EARLY WHEN AND WHERE TO RISK YOUR OWN SKIN de885a78-3d70-4926-89de-2f59645c3ba1 1867 THE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY CALLED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED TROUBLE SHOOTING HYPERSPACE BEACONS ARE TO LAST FOR EVER OR DAMN CLOSE TO IT WHEN ONE OF THEM BREAKS DOWN IT IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT AND REPAIRING THE THING IS NEVER A MATTER OF JUST PLUGGING IN A NEW PART fe9cb60f-42ee-4465-96eb-8d1f129d6e56 402 I DON'T BELIEVE JERRY CAN BE COMING SAID CECILY IN DESPAIR I SUPPOSE HIS MOTHER MUST HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS DREADFUL AFTER ALL TO SELL SUCH A PICTURE 18659768-8526-4fcb-affd-f59671afdb90 402 I RECALL PETER STANDING ON THE PULPIT STONE ONE NIGHT ERE MOONRISE AND POINTING THEM OUT TO US OCCASIONALLY HAVING A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH THE STORY GIRL OVER THE NAME OF SOME PARTICULAR STAR bed48930-fc3d-4ca1-a31a-e89f26dbad7c 32 NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING HE AT ONE THAT NIGHT HE HAD THE DREAM ABOUT BEING CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS I EAT THREE CUCUMBERS IF I COULD HAVE A DREAM LIKE THAT 3d234635-e3bf-4d82-8b03-32e572bc5cfa 2368 YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT 1c99f0ed-d3a6-4fe6-bb6e-a44c36f93a60 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT WE OPENED THE BLUE CHEST SAID THE STORY GIRL AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE THE BLUE CHINA CANDLESTICK ONLY IT WAS BRASS IN THE DREAM AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT 718f552d-b138-4523-8bd5-0457b1be5578 402 I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX HE SAID HE MIGHT BUT HE COULDN'T PROMISE FOR HE'D HAVE TO ASK HIS MOTHER IF HE COULD BRING THE BOOK TO SCHOOL IF SHE'LL LET HIM HE'LL BRING IT TO MORROW OH I'LL BE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK AT IT SAID SARA RAY TREMULOUSLY e4ba7af6-5a38-48e0-8b8c-34732c6b97a3 188 THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO SAID FELICITY IMPATIENTLY I SUPPOSE SOBBED CECILY WE MIGHT GO TO PEG BOWEN AND ASK HER TO FORGIVE PAT AND TAKE THE SPELL OFF HIM SHE MIGHT IF WE APOLOGIZED REAL HUMBLE 52251b3a-fe1a-4433-b4a9-cebd3893a9ac 451 SARA MIGHT BETTER HAVE STAYED HOME SHE WAS OF NO USE AND COULD ONLY ADD TO THE GENERAL CONFUSION WANDERING AIMLESSLY ABOUT CRYING AND ASKING IF DAN WAS GOING TO DIE 823943f8-e47f-4c34-b4c2-d883ea3faa01 2274 WE DON'T KNOW IF IT DID WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPOT IT SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WAY OFF IN THE BALLANDINE SYSTEM BY NOW BUT WE'VE SOMETHING ELSE ON OUR MINDS IT'S THE ONE ITEM THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BLOT OUT THIS PLACE AND RUN HOME WITH MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS 64a41651-67e9-4e66-8b81-6bdc93243830 402 ALWAYS HE WALKED ON ODIN'S RIGHT HAND AND ALWAYS THE FIRST LIGHT OF ODIN'S SMILE FELL ON HIM e6dc019b-822b-48cd-8b20-f3aad33057a1 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 A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME add3e017-51f6-4074-b811-2a4cf3b5c8eb 2137 BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT TOWERS LEANED FORWARD HIS EYES FIXED ON BRANDON I DON'T WANT YOU TO SET FOOT ON THAT PLANET GET ME BUT THERE WASN'T TIME TO TRY ANYTHING 3d03b047-3881-482b-9d8e-04ab037b1b65 2274 OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER cdaf0703-0a8b-4bb1-9800-bf505618e5e8 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER I'M MATTER AND YOU'RE MATTER WHY DON'T WE BUMP INTO THINGS 3490c2a6-4210-4232-b0f2-aa879dfb1c34 198 OH IT MEANS IF ANYTHING HAPPENS SOMETHING ELSE IS SURE TO HAPPEN SAID THE STORY GIRL I'LL ILLUSTRATE THERE'S MISSUS MURPHY SHE NEVER HAD A PROPOSAL IN HER LIFE TILL SHE WAS FORTY AND THEN SHE HAD THREE AND THE ONE WEEK AND SHE WAS SO FLUSTERED SHE TOOK THE WRONG ONE AND HAS BEEN SORRY EVER SINCE 5c675ac7-9d67-4685-b6e7-b6e0530154b9 188 PEG BOWEN'S HOUSE WAS NEARLY A MILE AWAY EVEN BY THE SHORT CUT PAST THE SWAMP AND UP THE WOODED HILL WE WENT DOWN THROUGH THE BROOK FIELD AND OVER THE LITTLE PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW HALF LOST IN ITS SURROUNDING SEA OF FAREWELL SUMMERS WHEN WE REACHED THE GREEN GLOOM OF THE WOODS BEYOND WE BEGAN TO FEEL FRIGHTENED BUT NOBODY WOULD ADMIT IT 8765f3f3-8b52-48d4-8713-5a5f5493c167 1867 I HAD GOT TURNED AROUND AFTER THE EYE BURNING AND MY FLYING BEAST HOOKED ON TO ME BACKWARD b9fa0b45-d3cd-4366-be1b-f21712c33fa7 2274 IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB ORAN FOUGHT THE CONTROLS HE WAS PLAGUED BY THE VAGUE SLOW MOTION FLOATING SENSATION THAT A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE ALWAYS FEELS IN LIGHTER GRAVITY IT GAVE HIM AN UNHAPPY STOMACH 47c73e86-34df-445a-8ce1-f55beb4565a0 2108 CONSIDERING THESE STATEMENTS I WROTE THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR THAT MY BOOKS ARE INTENDED FOR ALL THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE YOUNG NO MATTER WHAT THEIR AGES MAY BE 8d1a8715-3c4c-48c3-9f4b-9d8a7b78a435 242 WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE 32e68fbb-1cc4-49cb-ba82-7ee0b6202843 188 I'LL TELL YOU WHY SAID PETER THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN YOU FELLOWS WERE ALL IN SCHOOL PEG BOWEN CAME HERE YOUR AUNT OLIVIA GAVE HER A LUNCH A GOOD ONE YOU MAY LAUGH AT THE NOTION OF PEG BEING A WITCH BUT I NOTICE YOUR FOLKS ARE ALWAYS AWFUL GOOD TO HER WHEN SHE COMES AND AWFUL CAREFUL NEVER TO OFFEND HER d711d6bb-e4b4-42ee-8668-93386fd8f6ae 2425 THEN A SHRILL CRY WENT UP A CRY THAT DROWNED UTTERLY THE HUMMING SOUND THAT ISSUED FROM THE SHATTERED MOUTH OF THE IDOL 9824d1a5-1c42-4b4a-970d-6f0706a852bf 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 a8af4075-2093-4846-8fc2-e8a9bc345513 2368 HE HAD SMALL ALMOST HIDDEN EYES THAT SEEMED TO SEE A GREAT DEAL THAT FAILED COMPLETELY TO MAKE A FUSS ABOUT THE FACT AND WHILE HIS FIGURE WAS JUST A TRIFLE DUMPY HIS FACE COMPLETED THE RHYME BY BEING EXTRAORDINARILY LUMPY THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD 31c456a5-9b63-4850-a3e4-c27b53781d80 451 FELICITY FLUNG THE LAST SENTENCE AT THE STORY GIRL WHO TURNED VERY PALE OH DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE CAUGHT THEM AT THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW SHE SAID MISERABLY 3876310f-ff8f-4ca6-8f0f-954e1729a9fc 188 SARA RAY'S LETTER DEAR PETER I NEVER WROTE TO A BOY BEFORE SO PLEASE EXCUSE ALL MISTAKES I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE GETTING BETTER f579f971-a65b-43a1-b031-5305fe099b34 2286 I KEPT THE GUN ON HIM AND NEITHER OF US MOVED WHILE THE NAVY SHIPS PULLED UP AND THEIR BOOTS STAMPED OUTSIDE I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER d384634c-64b0-4007-a73d-d5a1e62e4866 1867 I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS WITH THE FAITHFUL PRIEST STUMBLING AROUND ME I LOCATED THE CONTROL ROOM AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS THERE WAS A RESIDUE OF CHARGE IN THE EMERGENCY BATTERIES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE A DIM LIGHT b8f981a0-489a-4272-af07-a41169aee8de 402 BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM THEY HADN'T ANYTHING AGAINST HIM AS A MAN BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT HER TO THROW HERSELF AWAY ON A SAILOR 4ddf0d20-6177-439f-b1d1-83c1e8f2961c 2368 THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY YOU COME TO TURN ME OUT SHE DEMANDED HER EYEBROWS WHICH WERE ALMOST AS BIG AND BLACK AS HER ANCIENT MOUSTACHE CAME DOWN OVER GLITTERING LITTLE EYES 8e6bd23e-c4f3-4652-be28-801c1a7a3d10 2274 O K STET ORDERS JUST CAME THROUGH WE USE PLAN SEA TOM GO SAYS TO BRIEF THE FIELD MAN AND JET OUT OF HERE DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN 8dd1baa2-8bd8-461f-9a50-f9bf01697b35 2368 YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THE BOLD MAN SAID BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID c0051f26-2ae9-4ca8-864b-e1504b184c7e 413 WHEN AUNT OLIVIA CAME OUT TO GO HOME THE STORY GIRL ASKED HER PERMISSION TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH FELICITY AND CECILY 74bc2b82-c572-4823-9cde-bf9027b55fd2 2182 CHAFFAST THREE AND FOUR ON SHY SHIFT IN THE FORWARD CONTROL CUBICLE MIGHT HAVE FALLEN AS EASILY IF THE MENTAL SCREAMINGS OF THEIR FELLOWS HAD NOT WORN THEM IN TIME 341085de-246e-40e1-8210-868787bbbddb 188 AT FIRST ALL WAS NOT HARMONIOUS FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST 3d2f8c0e-6452-4b19-81df-c3fa1d4a2ab8 14 THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL ecb59e2e-df1a-4f66-9384-102f45005dd2 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 YONAS WAS NOT AT ALL SURE WHETHER THE BLACK HAIRED MAN UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE THERE WAS LITTLE TRACE OF IT IN HIS MIND AND VIRTUALLY NOTHING THAT MIGHT BE CALLED INTELLIGENCE 1980de41-ec4a-4690-a35e-06a44e759c31 2317 FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY 52eaa1a0-9010-4231-be66-4053201dc975 1867 I SLUMPED DEFEATED WAITING FOR THE BLOW TO LAND THE OLD MAN FONDLED MY CONTRACT ACCORDING TO THIS CONTRACT YOU CAN'T QUIT EVER THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY eaf6ade3-12d2-454a-8fb6-5014b715bae6 188 WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS OF COURSE IF ANY OF US TRAMPS ON HIS TAIL HE WILL SCRATCH US BUT YOU KNOW A CAT CAN'T BEAR TO HAVE HIS STICK TAIL TRAMPED ON IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM e380cfe4-1a94-49c1-a668-0b351b53e6d3 2137 HAVE YOU GOT A TELETOWKEY BRANDON ASKED SURE SAID THE FIRST MAN PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S 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 7e2fa163-9730-4ff3-b560-1f47d80dbf6b 198 ALL AT ONCE SOMETHING LEAPED FROM THE BOUGH OF A TREE AND ALIGHTED BEFORE US WE SPLIT THE AIR WITH A SIMULTANEOUS SHRIEK 5080720e-e2db-4d8c-9912-96dec43d6602 402 SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS 3a9337e7-fb6d-4874-8165-b3371d23f041 242 MANY AND MANY A SNOW WHITE MOOSE HE SHOT AND GAVE THE BEAUTIFUL SKIN TO HIS SWEETHEART HER NAME WAS SCUBEN AND SHE WAS AS LOVELY AS THE MOON WHEN IT RISES FROM THE SEA AND AS PLEASANT AS A SUMMER TWILIGHT 72b52a06-fa72-4b4e-9d49-b100da35e662 2286 HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE 1b6124c3-44f2-4088-92cb-1a32aed2e0a4 402 HIS SOUL THRILLED WITH RAPTURE AT THE THOUGHT THAT HE AND SHE TOGETHER SHOULD DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY AS ODIN HAD PROMISED AND BE WON THEREAFTER IN ETERNAL YOUTH b2bb7967-03f4-4f6f-875e-6ad3354a777b 2286 OF COURSE THIS COULD ALL BE COINCIDENCE THE PLANS OF A NEWLY BUILT SHIP AGREE INTO SIX PLACES WITH THOSE OF A SHIP BUILT A THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND IF YOU THINK SO I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED TO ONE ODDS YOU ARE WRONG ANY SIZE BET YOU NAME 26949181-b7ef-4662-8e89-36ddd37f402d 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 5a6eb060-e94e-4ab4-9c56-d1fd34686509 198 PERHAPS IT IS EMILY KING'S GHOST WHISPERED FELIX SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM 408a0d7a-883e-48d4-839a-8a09a0923b64 402 THERE WAS A WARDER OF THE BRIDGE A GOD DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE bdcaa0b8-20d4-4a19-973a-86c675c6d0e9 2182 HE FLINCHED WHEN JENIFER TO BE HEARD ABOVE THE ZID'S RAGINGS SHOUTED IN HIS EAR MY SCOOP SHOULD HAVE THE QUEEN AFLOAT BY NOW CAN WE REACH HER 8e9ff6fb-d9d2-4a66-af0e-591d7f6691af 1867 THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO YOU ARE A LIAR YOU ARE NO ANCESTOR OF OURS WE WILL STOP I THUNDERED BEFORE HE GOT SO FAR IN THAT HE COULDN'T BACK OUT 46d68d94-e136-4066-8ad5-21455c97313a 242 I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY 1dedc922-db1f-466e-b71c-0496e0b57bd1 1867 THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS THE PARTS THE NEW POWER PLANT AND A FEW ODDS AND ENDS WERE SHOOTED INTO A NEAT PILE ON THE SHIP c70c32bf-015f-4e35-80a3-a0877217c140 2425 WHEN HOPE HERE ACTED LIKE THE FOOLISH LITTLE KID SHE IS SHE WAS NOT EVEN ARMED AND THEY RUSHED HER HERE WITHOUT DELAY 0c23ca23-7010-4807-b0ee-e5c5df98ffed 2108 AS SOON AS HE REACHED THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH THE HOLE CLOSED AGAIN AND THE BOY MONKEY REALIZED WITH A THRILL OF JOY THAT HE HAD SEEN THE LAST OF THE DANGEROUS DRAGON FAMILY 4eaa5ca0-3f52-43b8-9e58-8ace4fd90224 2274 THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER WANT US TO COME BACK NEGATIVE STAND BY HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE d0331959-9905-451d-bdb9-aacbd7a51746 2286 SHOULD YOU BE POINTING LIKE THAT I ASKED THE ROBART MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE 2db3a542-c419-49bb-8afe-d11ad70fa754 1867 THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THEY ARE BUILT ON PLANETS AND GENERATE TREMENDOUS AMOUNTS OF POWER cc193c40-1daf-4e7e-a3e3-9a2ac79bee82 2274 YOU TOOK THE DAPHINIS BY TREACHERY ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER THE MARKED TWENTY'S MUZZLE CAME ROUND THE CENTER ON ORN'S STOMACH YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION c450f794-4fe0-4ee1-8e0e-9a145338ad68 2108 THEN OF COURSE I QUIT THINKING AND ARE YOU HAPPY HAPPY WHAT'S THAT 8efb7a1a-3549-4714-bc53-4f8bcc6d0051 2108 AS POLYCHROME YOU ARE THE LOVELIEST MAIDEN I HAVE EVER SEEN EXCEPT OF COURSE OZMA SAID THE TAN OWL SO THE GIANTESS DID WELL TO TRANSFORM YOU INTO THE LOVELIEST OF ALL BIRDS IF YOU ARE TO BE TRANSFORMED AT ALL 3d692f23-77a7-413a-9e0a-85b8a9a2154b 2182 BEHIND SATTERFIELD FORESHORTENED TO GNOMISHNESS BY THE PICK UP LURKED DOCTOR HERMAN EARTH INTEREST RESIDENT ZOOLOGIST acc206a2-f64c-4297-9d3a-fe7d54824163 2286 ALL THE GIRLS HAD FOOD POISONING A REGULAR EPIDEMIC IT SEEMED EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL 45e9dafa-4ca2-4f15-abec-c3d73230b741 2286 ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK URGED ON BY THE FIRES OF PATRIOTISM AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SUGGEST A LINE OF SEARCH AND THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WOULD BEGIN APPEARING AT ONCE 71698dc0-23e9-4b64-a731-6fef9ddf6ec9 2137 THOUGHTFULLY THE DOCTOR LEANED BACK IN HIS CHAIR HUM I SEE AS THE MAN BEFORE HIM MADE AN INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT TOWARD HIS POCKET THE DOCTOR SMILED GO ON SMOKE IF YOU WANT TO b19f88e7-decb-474c-834e-060219774587 2108 THEN PLEASE DON'T TRANSFORM US PECKEDW FOR WE ARE QUITE SATISFIED TO REMAIN AS WE ARE 6296e3ae-dcf2-4159-98ef-21a13cf84d17 2108 I NEVER HAVE FRIENDS SHE SAID IN A MATTER OF FACT TONE BECAUSE FRIENDS GET TOO FAMILIAR AND ALWAYS FORGET TO MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS 804f0459-b550-42dd-ad79-ae6b47279f28 2317 ANYWAY HE DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO TAKE SIDES IF THE TWO ALIENS WERE GOING TO FIGHT IT OUT HIS FIRST INTEREST WAS IN SAVING HIS OWN HIDE HIS SECOND IN GETTING BACK TO SHORE TO GIVE WARNING OF THE INVASION 3f009cbb-a1b9-4cd3-88af-b6d1b1830432 1867 IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS 6e49636a-10d6-48ff-9bc5-a2a96154eb21 2425 HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US THEN DARKNESS CLOSED IN SWIFTLY I WAS WHISKED UPWARD ON AND ON BREATHLESSLY I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY I WAS DROPPING IN THE BLACKNESS THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES 129b3302-cfe1-47c7-a0fe-f19d1bf4c9ec 188 NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN IT BUT IT BECAME THE STORY GIRL PERFECTLY HE WAS THINKING OF HER AS HE PLAYED ANNIE LAURIE FOR NANCY WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE LADY OF THE SONG 295bfebf-d4bd-40c3-a20b-4670ce64b0c3 2286 YOU'RE LYING I SAID HOARSELY AND EVEN I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT SORRY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS YOUR BRAINS BOYS WILL PICK MY SKULL TO PIECES AND FIND THE TRUTH OUT ANYWAY THERE'S NO POINT LYING NOW 4f1968f5-78dd-493c-b5fd-564aa3e817ee 2108 ONE DAY IN A BIG FOREST THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME MY JOINTS SUDDENLY BECAME RUSTED BECAUSE I HAD FORGOTTEN TO OIL THEM 3e78606f-90b6-46ce-abb1-e10e8d6c4bc0 413 IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK INDEED I WOULDN'T SAID FELICITY WITH VERY UNUSUAL HUMILITY a9200cf8-8621-4134-9885-3a69bf2a5b30 2108 I DON'T LIKE THIS INVISIBLE COUNTRY SAID HOO WITH A SHUDDER YOU CAN'T TELL HOW MANY DREADFUL INVISIBLE BEASTS ARE ROAMING AROUND US OR WHAT DANGER WE'LL COME TO NEXT 1629e202-e0c5-4ee3-9809-e2e8154f5d6d 2182 SCOOP THE ZID'S AVID CRIES DISCOURAGED CURIOSITY BEFORE IT WAS WELL BORN WE'D NEVER MAKE IT WE COULDN'T POSSIBLY OUTRUN THAT BEAST 5f7c8c05-046c-42a3-9904-34dd4f972e74 2137 ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON OVER A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN A THOUGHT ENTERED HIS MIND MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF fda74fe2-cd05-4ddf-9675-f20d8f8da8fc 402 POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT AT ALL EVENTS HE ANNOUNCED TO US THAT HE COULDN'T BRING THE RED COVERED HISTORY TO SCHOOL BUT IF WE WANTED TO BUY THE PICTURE OUTRIGHT HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT OF THE BOOK AND SELL IT TO US FOR FIFTY CENTS e6974b4f-921b-4a9a-b306-fb339e33d6a8 198 WE WERE JOINED ON THE STAIRS BY FELICITY YAWNING AND ROSY O DEAR ME I OVERSLEPT MYSELF UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX c9f9596b-e431-4f8d-b513-90783ed9fcc9 32 SHE WAS NOT WELL SO AUNT OLIVIA TOLD AUNT JANET I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE CHILD SAID THE FORMER ANXIOUSLY aa4db479-199c-49f6-8d79-67a569751d99 413 I WISH I'D MADE UP MY MIND BEFORE THIS WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST DO YOU SUPPOSE IT'S TOO LATE NOW NO THAT DOESN'T MATTER SAID CERTILY EARNESTLY IF IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN PETER THAT'S ALL THAT'S NECESSARY 5fd9f6dd-b428-43b1-a6c3-def281b45809 2425 DIRECTLY BEFORE ME WAS THE LONG WORK BENCH THAT RAN THE FULL LENGTH OF THE ROOM LITTERED WITH A DOZEN SET UPS FOR AS MANY EXPERIMENTS NOTHING OF THE SORT YOUR OLD PETE GRAHAM A DARNED GOOD HALFBACK IN THE WORLD'S ROTTENIST SCIENTIST 1521993d-5bb5-4580-9fe8-fb58085707c8 2368 C LEE MATERIALS TOWARD A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT VOL d4646aee-d541-405f-a5b0-a31b5fe93d29 402 WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE HERE YOURSELF THAN IN HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL BLUNTLY WOULDN'T YOU NOW FELICITY KING TELL THE TRUTH CROSS YOUR HEART 60545241-243f-4977-bdc5-f4cdc8e9c285 2368 DURING THE DAYS HE HAD DONE THE THINGS HE HAD PLANNED HE DID NO WORK WITH THE SHARPS BUT LET THEM FIND HIM WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HUT OF AN EVENING RECITING STRANGE WORDS ONCE HE BUILT A SMALL OUTDOOR FIRE AND WALKED AROUND IT BITTERSHIN'S FOR SEVERAL MINUTES THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE 31f0f277-6bbc-436b-acca-7b5cb1d26450 2425 THE REST OF THAT UNHOLY CREW WERE GRINNING AND THEIR EYES WERE SHINING WITH ANTICIPATION THEY CLOSED IN UPON ME EAGERLY EACH APPARENTLY DOING EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO INVITE MY ATTENTION 629a244d-6a44-4b98-b434-31a558716728 1867 ALL THIS WITH SOME OIL PAINTING AND FREEFALL WORKOUTS IN THE GEM PASSED THE TIME I WAS ASLEEP WHEN THE ALARM WENT OFF THAT ANNOUNCED PLANETARY DISTANCE c26d633c-4d67-40e2-b8d0-7831b4e29fa0 2286 I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT 1d5d3be1-03d0-4c33-aa79-cba1cc996662 2108 THEY EASILY FOUND THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE ENCLOSURE SO THE TIN WOODMAN PUSHED ASIDE THE UNDERBRUSH AND STARTED FIRST ALONG THE PATH 8bf4dea5-f1c5-484a-af47-ac02336bc609 2274 FIVE DAYS THAT'S ALL THEY CAN GIVE US TOM GOE SAYS HE CAN'T KEEP THE INFORMATION OUT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER BULL ONE'S HANDS ANY LONGER THAN THAT IT'S FIVE DAYS FOR SURE THEN ad5b4b2a-a45b-4ace-a1d2-0f676050b27e 2368 HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE YOUR MEN CANNOT TOUCH ME HE SAID 823944aa-7c6e-4ec5-8b3c-944822e648eb 2182 THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK ee479dd6-a759-4996-875a-88a4e7c8f8ec 1867 IF THE WATER WAS STILL THERE THE BEACON WAS STILL THERE INSIDE THE PYRAMID THE NATIVES WHO OF COURSE WERE NEVER MENTIONED BY THE IDIOTS WHO CONSTRUCTED THE THING HAD BUILT A NICE HEAVY THICK STONE PYRAMID AROUND THE BEACON bcf50095-fde3-4fb3-a330-4ffd5f96a3d9 2286 SINCE I WAS ONLY CHASING MY TAIL WITH THIS LINE OF THOUGHT I PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND AND WORKED ON SOME DRY D CHESS PROBLEMS THIS FILLED THE TIME UNTIL SETANOVO BLINKED INTO THE BOW SCREEN ONE OF MY MOST EFFECTIVE MOTTOES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SECRECY CAN BE AN OBJIOSITY WHAT THE MAGICIANS CALL MISDIRECTION 2d7d7a27-6d53-4334-91ad-e13199274c3f 451 PA'S COUSIN DIED OF EATING SOMETHING FORTY YEARS AGO SOBBED SARA RAY HOLD YOUR TONGUE SAID PETER IN A FIERCE WHISPER YOU OUGHTER HAVE MORE SENSE THAN TO SAY SUCH THINGS TO THE GIRLS THEY DON'T WANT TO BE ANY WORSE SCARED THAN THEY ARE 55814a22-986b-4147-98df-c053c52fcc0b 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 e559b4dd-d423-4954-ba99-3759fab4411f 402 DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS a692b605-e215-459d-992d-f380b28f4e83 402 MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER I HAVE JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS ABOUT POOR DEAR PETER I CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY ARE DREADFUL I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME f7968862-919a-451e-9912-a6e73ad59c7c 451 I SHUT UP FELICITY AND CECILY WERE SETTING OUT A LUNCH IN THE PANTRY WHEN WE WERE ALL STARTLED BY A LOUD GROAN FROM THE SOFA OH I'M SICK I'M AWFUL SICK SAID DAN ABJECTLY ALL THE DEFIANCE AND BRAVADO GONE OUT OF HIM 375a8128-5b0b-4da3-971d-3461ef387371 198 AND NOW IT HAS ALMOST FRIGHTENED YOUR POOR LITTLE MONKEYS TO DEATH WE HEARD UNCLE ROGER CHUCKLING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARN 45bb61ac-4021-4465-b9ac-41b88ea23bf8 14 I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS dfb6b412-2a82-456f-a02e-aeec9e079498 451 AFTER BREAKFAST SHE WASHED THE DISHES AND DID THE BEDROOM WORK A GRIM SILENCE THEN WITH A BOOK UNDER ONE ARM AND PAT UNDER THE OTHER SHE BETOOK HERSELF TO THE WINDOW SEAT IN THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND WOULD NOT BE LURED FROM THAT RETREAT CHARMED WE NEVER SO WISELY eed46fac-675f-4679-abb8-3078cefb370a 14 A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY 7d3200e2-2624-4eee-83e3-2a17f4a9f28e 32 SHE HASN'T SEEMED LIKE HERSELF THE PAST TWO WEEKS SHE COMPLAINS OF HEADACHE AND SHE HAS NO APPETITE AND SHE IS A DREADFUL COLOR I'LL HAVE TO SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT HER IF SHE DOESN'T GET BETTER SOON b751623a-3593-4ff0-80f4-19d9ac1f95da 451 IF THEY HAD BEEN BANISHED TOGETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PUNISHMENT SO ZERO WAS EXILED TO A STAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND ZULEMITH WAS SENT TO A STAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND BETWEEN THEM WAS A FATHOMLESS ABYSS WHICH THOUGHT ITSELF COULD NOT CROSS 0403a0f5-48a0-4ef9-bb27-00bebadb6d66 188 THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY b1912774-5268-4936-bd16-6e0f71c7c758 2108 WELL SAID SHE STILL EYEING THE I'M NOT SURE THEY'LL PUNCTURE LET'S TRY IT AND SEE 0f0deaa0-17dc-4649-8ad9-98ee4a9e9171 2317 IN A WAY HE HAD GARF HAD DELIBERATELY TURNED HIS BACK ON THE OLD FELLOW THE JUDGE'S BLOOD SHOT LITTLE EYES DARTED ABOUT AS IF HE WANTED TO PICK UP SOMETHING HEAVY AND HIT GARF ON THE CREST WITH IT eb433c0e-1c23-4ebe-a4e4-9c13c3a60afc 14 OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH I'LL HAVE TO GO WITHOUT ANY THEN SAID PETER I HAVEN'T ANOTHER CENT I ONLY GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK AND I GIVE IT ALL TO MORROW LAST NIGHT e7bfeb30-c71f-4b4b-bf1b-03c3e3faeea5 451 PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE BUT IS MORE LIKELY THAT OUR CRANKINESS WAS THE RESULT OF SUPPER WE HAD EATEN THE PREVIOUS NIGHT EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY ce642ae9-28e8-478f-9c91-889f04cf58fd 188 WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING POOR RACHEL WAS SO HAPPY THAT WINTER SHE MADE ALL HER WEDDING THINGS WITH HER OWN HANDS GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE bd2e6cc5-1480-49a2-ac13-75e204ee6220 2368 HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER 43e01509-3a08-4946-b6b0-cb09729c7071 2286 I WAS IN SPACE NOW LEAPING ACROSS THE GIGANTIC WALL OF THE OTHER SHIP WHAT DO YOU WANT dd2f51a6-6f82-4424-9d99-6666ccdd330f 2368 I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM 0ed9f5e9-b41a-429e-9518-1473f39b01fe 32 PAT SAT GRAVELY AT ITS FACE AND DAINTILY WASHED HIS FACE WITH HIS BLACK PAWS NOW FOR YOUR STORIES ABOUT THE ORCHARD SAID I ea64fc01-51ae-4888-93c4-c483119fdf13 402 AH I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BREATHED CECILY WE ALL WONDERED NEXT DAY IN SCHOOL WE AGREED TO JERRY COWAN'S TERMS AND JERRY PROMISED TO BRING THE PICTURE UP TO UNCLE ALEC'S THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON c4911e7a-d455-4120-b8f7-d08d7a7c4b4d 188 SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN BEAUTIFUL WIVES HANGING UP BY THE HAIR ALL AROUND THE WALLS I DON'T BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE ASTONISHED 9e7a882a-bba1-48ea-860a-703b31094c61 2182 THE UNGODLY HOUR OF TRANSMISSION NATURALLY WAS SET TO COINCIDE WITH THE CLOSING OF THE CONSUL'S FIELD OFFICE HALF WAY AROUND THE PLANET SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE bda9e0ec-1829-4c65-bf6f-b6f69a4f6954 198 YOU'VE RUINED THE BREAD SAID FELICITY FLATLY IT'S AS HEAVY AS A STONE I DECLARE SARA STANLEY I'D RATHER HAVE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE THAN BE A GREAT STORY TELLER b2d59a50-4ade-4e87-a152-50e252e585b7 2368 IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM YUNUS FOUND THAT HE WAS SWEATING THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL 47b18c4f-4f72-4eab-800d-7404d9993a0a 413 WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK IT TELLS YOU IN THE BIBLE IT'S TO COME JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT BUT IT TELLS YOU ANOTHER THING IN THE BIBLE TOO SAID CICELY EAGERLY aab156a6-bdc6-4c54-8c1b-75c331b572f7 198 DON'T YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I CAN'T BEAR IT DON'T YOU THE STORY GIRL DIDN'T BUT SHE HAD SAID ENOUGH THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE QUALITY OF A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES THAT FROZE HER YOUNG BLOOD c98581cf-c180-4f17-8fbe-78f925fc0a4e 1867 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME I TALKED FIRST BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH 4cc5fcaa-168f-41c8-ba96-e0d702136f9d 2274 GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS THAT WAS THE JUNGLE ONLY THE BAREST WEAK GLIMMERING OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATED TO THE MUD THE DISGUISE SLED ITS PARAGRAPH UNITS TURNED OFF LURCHED AND SKIDDED AROUND BUTTRESS ROOTS b77f3069-2b67-4113-8987-47d2b5f75830 2286 NO I COULDN'T I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A MAN WITH A CURIOSITY BUMP AS BIG AS YOURS WILL ALWAYS TALK FIRST AND SHOOT LATER AND BESIDES NOW THIS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND IN THE DARK WOULD BE NECESSARY IF YOUR SCREAM WAS OPEN AND I COULD HAVE GOT A CALL THROUGH ff6a1483-aca8-478e-a38e-9552cd350712 2137 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND THE TURNED INTO A TORCH AND SANK BENEATH HIM BRANDON CLOSED HIS EYES FOR A MOMENT WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER 595adcdc-aca2-4017-b4f2-5fcc494e2f6e 2108 FINALLY THEY HEARD A STIR FROM WITHIN AND SOME ONE COUGHED WHO'S THERE CALLED A GIRL'S VOICE IT IS I CRIED THE TIN TWINS TOGETHER HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE 23ecbd5d-ebf8-469a-9ffd-0815ce6848ce 198 ON THAT DAY THE GATES OF EDEN ARE SHUT BEHIND THEM AND THE AGE OF GOLD IS OVER HENCEFORTH THEY MUST DWELL IN THE COMMON LIGHT OF COMMON DAY 3faf03ed-ca0b-4285-bf98-6e30a93e838a 2108 THE TIN WOODMAN WAS THEN JUST LEAVING HIS TIN CASTLE IN THE COMPANY OF THE SCARECROW AND THE WANDERER 5ca3cce2-a484-452b-a854-2ee1daed744c 2317 IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR IT WILL BRING IN A PERFECT COLOR PICTURE OF THE OCEAN AT WHAT IN THE DEPTH I SET IT FOR OR WILL SET ITSELF AUTOMATICALLY TO PRESENT A VIEW OF THE OCEAN FLOOR IT WILL 7ff5f778-dd7d-4343-a80a-48ee95fb3a9b 2274 ORAN TURNED LOOKED BACK AT TO NEWBE DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU CAN SEE BY WHAT LIGHT GETS DOWN HERE THROUGH THOSE TREES CAN YOU NOT SEE ASKED TO NEW NOT WITHOUT THE HEADLIGHTS 4e26c21f-09d3-4056-bbf3-68f90fa778df 2108 THE CANARY SWIFTLY DARTED TO A PLACE BESIDE THE OWL AND THE GREEN MONKEY SPRANG UP CAUGHT A LIMB AND SOON SCRAMBLED TO A HIGH PERCH OF SAFETY 443c7b75-4950-4507-a700-74a6b1ff46ab 2425 KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT IT'LL PROBABLY SOUND CRAZY TO YOU ANYWAY 5d967117-224b-48d1-95a0-1cc927d08b9a 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 THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER 75022a12-509b-4ae5-95eb-abb69d2b35bf 2108 BUT IT IS TIME FOR US TO BE OFF AND I AM EAGER TO START BECAUSE I SUPPOSE THAT THAT POOR MUNCHKIN GIRL IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING MY COMING 39614d18-f217-4cb8-97e6-262b5e77bcab 2368 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 NEVERTHELESS A FAMILY WHICH WAIT SHE SAID YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WILL PAY WELL YET YOU DO NOT APPEAR RICH 95e57cd7-c8d9-4825-a7f9-23c7312c2ec3 451 IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED WASN'T THE MISSIONARY SPLENDID THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE f7d14abc-df25-4486-b210-284e89d0c08d 32 WELL ANYWAY THEY CAN'T PREVENT US FROM GROWING UP CONSOLED DAN WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY 77720701-5864-4cbc-80c0-da591988850e 2317 FARMER'S MIND WORKED CHAOTICALLY f41d3bc6-63a6-45e2-abd5-bdd58ddfba02 2425 THEY WERE LIGHTER IN COLOR THAN THE OTHERS AND MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT TO JUDGE BY THEIR FACES THEIR EYES HELD NONE OF THE SADNESS WHICH WAS THE MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OTHERS 73a722fc-8e8b-4848-a6e2-ff9c938fc1b9 402 DEAR SORROWFUL LITTLE PEOPLE I BRING YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY SHE SAID THE DOCTOR HAS JUST BEEN HERE AND HE FINDS PETER MUCH BETTER AND THINKS HE WILL PULL THROUGH AFTER ALL 0fae5b70-aea6-460d-9be8-5773bc241939 14 AFTER THE WEDDING THE BRIDEGROOM LIFTED HIS BRIDE BEFORE HIM ON HIS WHITE HORSE AND HER FATHER AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF HIS COURT MOUNTED TOO AND RODE AFTER THEM 9da837c7-d611-4644-b1d8-ab9712d3678c 1867 ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED TWO THE DOOR WAS SEALED SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SAVAGE ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS cfd47fca-44b3-4e09-85f7-a8166a6e7329 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 f14beab4-0f42-4fc5-ad1e-757b7c288989 2425 THE OLD BOY DOESN'T LIKE THOSE OTHER CHAPS PRIESTS I TAKE IT WHISPERED VIC I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS 51ddb485-3bd1-48d4-be32-3bbf09640670 451 IN THE MAIN THEY DID BUT ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING DAN WAS PLAINLY INCLINED TO REBEL HE HAD HAD TIME TO GROW SORE OVER THE THINGS THAT FELICITY HAD SAID TO HIM WHEN JIMMY PATTERSON WAS THOUGHT LOST AND HE BEGAN THE DAY WITH A FLATLY EXPRESSED DETERMINATION THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO LET FELICITY RULE THE ROOST 3a502efb-fa33-48d0-8c48-b0a02f63484f 2286 AS SOON AS HE WAS FINISHED I TOOK BACK THE SHEET TORE IT UP AND POCKETED TO PIECES I HAD MY ANSWER BACK QUICKLY ENOUGH INSKIT MUST HAVE BEEN HOVERING AROUND WAITING FOR MY MESSAGE THE MIKE WAS TURNED OFF TO THE TRANSCRIBERS OUTSIDE AND I TOOK THE CODE GROUPS DOWN IN SHORTHAND MYSELF a7c636e2-aedd-4540-9da1-b7374d11c534 188 PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS de6b1303-534a-4187-9b36-e1b8d96b9d1d 2286 WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP 1064dacc-98f4-48d4-8ad5-555cd4473ab1 2286 WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON 7e940cf0-dd13-4431-a0d1-79f3a72be1b4 2182 MY SCOPE JINNIFER EXCLAIMED SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK b484d91d-f88d-4a8c-8dc6-d07ca79ed49f 2368 YONAS SIGHED AND WENT FORWARD TO MEET THE TWO BIG MEN LEAVING MISSUS SHARP SOBBING IN THE BACKGROUND THE POOR WOMAN FELT TERRIBLE HE KNEW BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT THAT THEN LET US GO HE SAID AND MARCHED OFF FEELING THAT ONE MORE EFFECT WOULDN'T HURT HE LED THE WAY TO THE TOWN HALL LET THEM FIGURE OUT HOW HE HAD KNOWN JUST WHERE TO GO HE THOUGHT 3515ba2d-8505-415e-9e0a-be059425ca9e 2286 WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL EVEN A TEMPORARY FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE CONTACTED ALL THE STAR SYSTEMS A DAY'S FLIGHT AHEAD OF THE MAXIMUM FLIGHT OF THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP d93fb6b7-7d4f-48a6-b4b2-cd236ef1c911 2317 FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP ec41fcd6-0451-475b-b709-10ee574d6851 32 WELL IN A BOOK THEY WOULD HAVE BUT YOU SEE THIS WAS IN REAL LIFE SAID THE STORY GIRL 1a5c2239-009a-47a3-8dc0-3c7ea9ed411c 2274 THERE WAS A GENERAL UNKEMPT STRAGGLING LOOK ABOUT HIM LOUIS ORNE JUNIOR I A FIELD MAN WITH A MAIDEN DIPLOMA STOOD AT THE OPPOSITE PORT STUDYING THE JUNGLE HORIZON 8b6a28e4-9ea8-4b9e-adca-3bbeb1dbaf99 2108 IT WILL BE RATHER HARD FOR ME YOU MUST ADMIT WHEN I CONFESS TO NINNIE AND ME THAT I HAVE COME TO MARRY HER BECAUSE IT IS MY DUTY TO DO SO AND THEREFORE THE FEWER WITNESSES THERE ARE TO OUR MEETING THE BETTER FOR BOTH OF US 0cacaa5e-21fd-40a6-bd28-023c71e5566d 2182 NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL 43f8b283-8a29-437c-9f7d-0436dc6eedd3 2182 JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN THE BUNK HE PANTED AT JENIFER SHOVE IT OVER 42ef3808-b469-4c50-bce3-ab8abb7168d1 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND 562231e9-0bd6-4dfc-ad4f-6a9c589fba1e 188 WHEN I HAD COMPLETED MY SERVANT I WENT OVER IT VERY CAREFULLY AGAIN AND WROTE WITH RED INK CICELY MADE IT FOR ME OUT OF AN ANALINE DYE THE WORD THUMP WHENEVER I DEEMED IT ADVISABLE TO CHASTISE THE PULPIT 62b710ba-4b21-4c31-b1e7-dc7ff9bb42f6 2425 WELL AFTER THAT HE LOCKS HIMSELF UP IN HIS WORK ROOM SO MISSUS PERWIN SAYS SHE BEING THE HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU KNOW SIR LEAVING WORD NOT TO DISTURB HIM FOR DINNER WE DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF THAT MISTER BUTLER BEING TOOK WITH STREAKS OF WORKING AT ALL HOURS AS YOU KNOW f7bb1424-fe88-4be9-8b3c-caf58341ead8 402 SOMETIMES WE WORKED UNTIL THE COLD YELLOW SUNSET FADED OUT OVER THE DARKENING DISTANCES AND THE HUNTER'S MOON LOOKED DOWN ON US THROUGH THE SPARKLING AIR 2ba77091-40f2-42df-8acc-4b866bc88a5e 14 WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO ANALYZE THE VAGUE SENSATION a14ac9c7-1609-4b8a-b634-87aa6edc67b1 14 THIS PULPIT DOOR WAS MADE FOR SPIRITS AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN MISTER FRUUEN COME AND I THOUGHT OF HER STORY ABOUT HIS SIDE WHISKERS HOW WHEN HIS FIRST WIFE DIED OF INFORMATION OF THE LUNGS HE WENT COURTING CELIA WARD AND CELIA TOLD HIM SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM UNLESS HE SHAVED THEM WHISKERS OFF 20104f0a-3b58-40be-a144-f916ad2dccfa 402 THIS WAS MINGLED BITTER AND SWEET WE WERE SORRY TO HEAR THAT PETER HAD THE MEASLES BUT IT WOULD BE JOLLY TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL LIVING WITH US ALL THE TIME WHAT ORGES OF STORY TELLING WE SHOULD HAVE b133dcfd-9471-4b36-8b51-377c7ab94972 32 ON ANOTHER OCCASION SHE HAD A FRIGHTFUL DREAM AT LEAST IT SEEMED FRIGHTFUL WHILE SHE TOLD US AND DESCRIBED THE DREADFUL FEELING IT HAD GIVEN HER OF BEING CHASED AROUND THE PARLOUR BY THE OTTOMAN WHICH MADE FACES AT HER 3ccf01e8-534c-4b90-8099-c1d9d3f0065a 2286 OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE 4fb3ff52-2668-4ea3-a0d7-45fc0521157d 2182 THE IMPLICATION DREW A COLD FINGER DOWN JEFF'S SPINE THAT WOULD MEAN OTHER CULTURES OUT THERE AND IN ALL OUR YEARS OF PLANET HUNTING WE HAVEN'T FOUND ONE MEMORY CHILLED HIM FURTHER 3a362f6c-d145-45ce-ac0c-f7f6a47953e6 2108 I AM SO NOISY JUST NOW THAT I DISTURB MYSELF HE FLUTTERED HIS WINGS WITH THE CLATTER THAT ECHOED THROUGH THE FOREST 772039c5-c365-4b42-92fe-af38b29f7ddf 2137 I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON REPEAT I WANT THAT SHIP BACK I MAY BE ABLE TO WRITE IT DOWN GET ON THE DECK INTACT 5a19bec9-ec3e-4b5d-bdf3-6ee2c05fcc54 2182 HE SAID INANELY THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE 922a7a97-6e34-41c0-bc7f-745cdf070c58 2274 IMPOSSIBLE BARK TO NEW IT'S ON YOUR MOON SAID ORAN DARK SIGHED IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON fc6ed64c-48f7-4175-b3cf-8f4b67a7efdf 32 I WOULD HAVE AND THE NEXT DAY SHE DRESSED HERSELF BEAUTIFULLY IN HER BEST PALE BLUE MUSLIN AND SLEEKED HER CURLS AND WENT SMILING TO THE BIRCHES 591f4fc5-cb2b-46ee-bd50-3d836cffd842 2368 HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY 5e7fa32d-6b0b-438a-aa35-169d3e06890f 2182 TRADER'S RISK BY ROGER D KEEPING THIS CARGO MEANT DEATH TO JETTICINE IT MEANT TO MAKE FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF A WORL b2a0404f-cbd1-4a5d-8eba-b738c4ddc2d2 1867 NOW I MUST RETURN ON WITH THE CEREMONY THE TORTURE MASTER WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO MOVE SO I GRABBED OUT HIS HOT IRON THERE WERE A FEW MINUTES WHILE THE WATER BEGAN TO GURGLE DOWN THROUGH THE DRY PIPE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS db184ba2-f48b-43f7-8e47-5ed453f3db46 188 HOW BETTY SHERMAN WON A HUSBAND THE REST OF US DID NOT SHARE THE STORY GIRL'S ENTHUSIASM REGARDING OUR CALL AND MISTER CAMPBELL WE SECRETLY DREADED IT b6ace7c6-dbba-4971-b295-6e1b0a43fe85 32 BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS THE SOUL OF HONOUR AND PETER EARLY IN LIFE HAD HAD HIS FEET SET IN THE PATH OF TRUTHFULNESS BY HIS AUNT JANE AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT 634a6a3f-3e5d-4ef6-9c94-05c594330724 32 GHOST STORIES ARE MORE COMFORTABLE IN DAYTIME SAID FELIX THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY 3431c5a5-e3ce-4c86-81bb-6176db438d0f 2317 JOHN ANDREW RUSHED TO HER SIDE AND LOOKED AS SHE GOT SET FOR A DIVE GARF HE SAW MEALY HAD RETURNED AND WAS PICKING UP THE JUDGE'S INVENTION afb69c8f-8aa5-4d58-a8a9-ec55e06dc7fd 2274 ASKED HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT LEFT YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO 6db94725-7b0e-4f56-a5bc-95bbd52fb9ae 2425 THOUSANDS OF THE UNREAL CREATURES OF THIS WORLD WERE CROWDED AROUND A VAST HIDEOUS IMAGE THAT ROSE FROM THE CENTER OF THIS SPACE A MONSTER SO TERRIBLE THAT HOPE CRIED OUT AT SIGHT AND VIC EXCLAIMED UNDER HIS BREATH 38c8a415-944a-48cc-869a-d375fb00383f 2108 DON'T WORRY YOUR POOR BRAINS SAID SHE YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME HOWEVER HARD YOU TRY bf1a94f9-862a-4772-aee1-d6fc4f7a1cc1 188 THERE WAS NOBODY THERE BUT BETTY SHERMAN AND BETTY WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY SHE WAS VERY HANDSOME WITH HAIR AS BROWN AS OCTOBER NUTS AND BLACK EYES AND CRIMSON CHEEKS AND SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH NEIL CAMPBELL HERSELF 7d5b132e-dc03-4a69-9544-38f50370fa7e 1867 LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND 1fbbb1f2-3a86-4fa3-8dd0-98b81c587071 2286 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 4502f84a-1a4b-4729-ac5f-0b36c0d648c9 2368 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 f5d166ae-4bda-4144-8f96-9578585be065 1867 ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ONE OF THE PRIESTS VIOLATED THE TEMPLE AND DESTROYED THE HOLY WATERS THE BEACONS MUST OPERATE I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET 11c66a79-e508-402c-ad26-214eacfb2767 2108 WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY SUGGESTED ONE OF THE LOONS AND THE PRISONERS NOTICED THAT NONE OF THEM SEEMED SURPRISED WERE SHOCKED AT THE SAD ACCIDENT TO PANTA ALL RIGHT GRUMBLED THE KING FETCH TILL TO MEND HIM 451aae02-2d1d-4b2d-85fa-e9fe8d26bb70 451 PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE 6670b41a-7d01-4643-8c27-c7e9be6692c7 451 AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B AUNT JANET WAS VERY DESIROUS THAT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS NICE AS POSSIBLE AS WE WERE ALL SENT TO OUR ROOMS BEFORE TEA TO WASH AND DRESS UP 5dc2aaae-3c3e-4651-980a-2a08b1f2891b 451 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE WE WERE IN THE ORCHARD AT SUNSET LISTENING TO THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID ALL OF US EXCEPT PETER WHO WAS HOEING TURNIPS AND FELICITY WHO HAD GONE DOWN THE HILL ON AN ERRAND TO MISSUS RAY ccd9a871-6d1c-4b7f-8dde-2aa11e939212 2368 GORK KNOPE WAS A TALL MAN WITH SKIN OF THE COLOR AND APPARENT TEXTURE OF GOOD LEATHER HE HAD A FACE LIKE AN EAGLE AND HIS EYES WERE ICE BLUE 551159ea-a71f-4a6f-88da-8343d0a288bb 1867 HOWEVER IF THE SPIKIN WAS WEARING A SUIT OF PLASTER FLESH THAT LOOKED REMOTELY HUMANOID I WOULD AT LEAST STAY AND TALK TO HIM THAT IS WHAT I WAS AIMING TO DO WITH THE CENTAURIANS feed30ec-bed3-466e-aa21-7f303b9dad9c 2286 DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT 712f8683-7107-448e-a279-672db637f1cc 451 AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US SOME OF US HAD FRIGHTFUL DREAMS AND ALL OF US CARRIED CHIPS ON OUR SHOULDERS AT BREAKFAST FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY b2632f57-f20a-4f24-a2e4-098e3371d0f0 451 THE REST OF US HELD OUR TONGUES IT WAS WE TOLD OURSELVES SARA'S OWN OUTLOOK I HAVE A GOOD MIND TO DO IT SAID SARA BUT I CAN'T GET MY GOOD CLOTHES THEY'RE IN THIS BARE ROOM AND MA LO LOCKED THE DOOR FOR FEAR SOMEBODY WOULD GET AT THE FRUIT CAKE I HAVEN'T A SINGLE THING TO WEAR EXCEPT MY SCHOOL GINGHAM d8774ab7-f358-405a-98e5-5772fcae6f5c 451 IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN 2625d890-f42d-4d3e-b120-308f0163a8f6 2425 A NIGHTMARE WORLD THAT WORDS SEEMED INADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE THE SKY WAS AN ANGRY SULPHUROUS GREEN PRESSING LOW UPON A COUNTRY UTTERLY FLAT AND NEARLY BARREN 8179ba02-731e-4049-a006-d767b49042a1 2425 I WAS JUST ABOUT TO RISK ONE MORE CARTRIDGE WHEN ANOTHER FIGURE MATERIALIZED IN THE RANKS OF THE ENEMY A TALLER COMMANDING FIGURE WITH A SHINING JEWEL PERHAPS A MARK OF AUTHORITY DANGLING FROM HIS CORDED BROWN THROAT f8a68e72-f6e2-482c-a48a-8469b3ddbe08 2368 I UNDERSTAND JONAS SAID HELPLESSLY 8df9d375-e1fc-4761-b4d0-9e0e8123147a 402 DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE 639a9cbf-7ebe-4dda-951f-43b70712649f 402 AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON VING HAD WON TO IT THROUGH THE DANGER AND SUFFERING OF THE DARK RIVER da53f994-f893-4477-baea-76c58dc059f1 2108 WHEN THE WATER IN THE KETTLE BUBBLED OZMA DREW FROM HER BOSOM TWO TINY PACKETS CONTAINING POWDERS 851d860b-30fc-4176-aac8-df75eeaf569c 2425 THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN AND FIVE OF THE OLDER MEN LED BY A SIXTH WITH A LARGER JEWEL AT HIS THROAT FILED SOLEMNLY INTO THE ROOM AND MOTIONED THAT WE WERE TO LEAVE ddd9992f-a1cc-40a5-a493-cfa376a0df35 451 THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT c2fb0a59-0d20-42f9-add2-d8e6c2e6b0a3 451 BUT PA'S COUSIN DID DIE REITERATED SARA AUNT JANE USED TO RUB WHISKY ON FOR A PAIN SUGGESTED PETER WE HAVEN'T ANY WHISKY SAID FELICITY DISAPPROVINGLY THIS IS A TEMPERANCE HOUSE 629bd66b-a1a8-4142-95f1-f6fbf718c488 402 PETER AS FELICITY REMINDED US WITH A BURST OF TEARS HAD BEEN SO FOND OF APPLE TURNOVERS 84bfd8ee-a04a-4851-b276-bd16a2e1042d 2317 HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY fd1e988b-67fd-49c0-90ef-83ae86fd4aa5 32 NONE OF THE REST OF US COULD EVER COMPASS SUCH A DREAM NOT EVEN THE STORY GIRL WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED TO DREAM OF FLYING IF ANYBODY DID HE VOWED NEXT DAY TO CECILY THAT HE WOULD NEVER SWEAR AGAIN AND HE KEPT HIS WORD 2f35ddc4-7349-4094-89e4-f3e526217fad 1867 THIS CAN TAKE MONTHS AND OFTEN DOES 5286add7-89b0-4ebf-924e-6d9721391a76 402 IT WAS AS MUCH SARAH RAY'S NORMAL STATE AS ANY OTHER AND EVEN FELICITY AND CECILY AVAILED THEMSELVES OCCASIONALLY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF SEX BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY GIRL CRY LIKE THIS IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY 931b1a37-2749-4e1d-82b0-ff0d289d9676 2425 THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY 9fb46d1f-2edf-4eaa-942a-ccfee9ba7582 188 SHE LOOKED AT ME BUT I BLUSHED TO THE ROOTS OF MY HAIR AND SHOOK MY HEAD SHEEPISHLY AN AWKWARD PAUSE ENSUED IT IT LOOKED AS IF WE WOULD HAVE TO PROCEED WITHOUT GRACE WHEN FELIX SUDDENLY SHUT HIS EYES BENT HIS HEAD AND SAID A VERY GOOD GRACE WITHOUT ANY APPEARANCE OF EMBARRASSMENT 6ce1750b-6e37-4146-964b-027ccec622eb 2317 FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED eb1146a0-47d8-44da-9a4a-4b98487944b9 2286 I COULDN'T TELL AND I COULD WORK MYSELF UP INTO A NEUROTIC STATE IF I KEPT RUNNING THROUGH THE WORRY CYCLE IT TOOK AN EFFORT TO CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE BUT IT HAD TO BE MADE THE NEXT FOUR DAYS PASSED VERY SLOWLY 19f17d9d-3b11-43de-a00a-b61575805410 32 IT MIGHT BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS SAID PETER HAVING DISCOVERED HOW TO PRODUCE EXCITING DREAMS WE ALL PROMPTLY FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF PETER AND THE STORY GIRL 096ba452-cfd4-40f3-b06a-274ae197f476 32 ACCORDINGLY WE WENT ROUND TO THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE THE GIRLS WOULD NOT SEE US TO THE ROUSING OF THEIR CURIOSITY AND THEN PETER TOLD US OF HIS DILEMMA c7f4f699-df41-4e55-9e4a-92ac3367ce40 2108 BUT THEY GOT OUT OF THE INVISIBLE STRIP OF COUNTRY AS SUDDENLY AS THEY HAD ENTERED IT AND THE INSTANT THEY GOT OUT THEY STOPPED SHORT FOR JUST BEFORE THEM WAS A DEEP DITCH RUNNING AT RIGHT ANGLES AS FAR AS THEIR EYES COULD SEE AND STOPPING ALL FURTHER PROGRESS TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH acd38c17-0b51-49d8-a1a7-5453edb7bb79 2368 YOU ARE A HERETIC KNUFF SAID SUDDENLY I CANNOT YOU CAN PRAY YUNUS SAID KNUFF BLINKED PRAY HE SAID 58dd299c-58d0-4284-8188-a84958ff639b 451 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY GOT SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS ON IT SINCE AUNT JANE'S DAY SAID PETER RELIEVED IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW A COMMON MAN WOULD BE QUEER BUT WHEN IT'S A MINISTER IT'S ECCENTRIC 29ac523d-bde4-4a52-b5d0-8817e4149e82 2425 BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED c1e86457-2bec-405b-a34e-e63e6832267f 451 SHE TOOK IT VERY QUIETLY IT'S THE BEST WAY I GUESS WHEN YOU'RE MARRIED TO A MAN LIKE OLD MISTER SCOTT BUT JUST A FEW SUNDAYS AFTER WASN'T HE LATE HIMSELF 8c0f949f-2381-4f98-943a-fdb81ba8e225 2108 BEING THUS URGED THEY ENTERED THE ROOM AND APPROACHED THE GREAT TABLE UNTIL THEY STOOD AND FACED THE GREAT GIANTESS SHE CONTINUED EATING BUT SMILED IN A CURIOUS WAY AS SHE LOOKED AT THEM 22891dd2-c13e-4f49-9d94-2908840b4669 2108 ASKED THE CANARY THE JAGUAR SNARLED IN DERISION AND LASHED HIS TAIL AGAINST THE GROUND ANGRILY GIVE HIM SOME SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOAST POLLY SUGGESTED THE BEAR SCARECROW HE OUGHT TO LIKE THAT 62e2600e-1e53-4422-af2c-72b56f4aa55a 2286 NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM 6b3915ea-9420-4599-8dcd-43d0ad948295 188 THE STORY GIRL CAME OVER EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SARA RAY TO WHOM FAITHFULLY CECILY HAD SENT WORD WAS ALSO ON HAND efe1252a-e9b9-4b8f-90de-e7ae17b0d289 1867 A CRY WENT UP FROM THE CROWD AS I DROPPED THE IRON AND STAGGERED IN BLIND CIRCLES I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL 13686c62-5bd4-4ded-91be-56d20c562f1b 188 I WON'T GO NEAR HER QUIVERED SARA RAY BUT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR PAT AND I'LL SEND THAT PIECE OF APPLE LEAF LACE I LIT LAST WEEK d1d7133c-1721-4af2-9b9a-1e07728baea8 2368 THERE WAS INTEREST IN HIS MIND OVERLAID WITH SKEPTICISM OF COURSE BUT INTEREST ALL THE SAME THAT UNUS THOUGHT WAS A BETTER SIGN THAN HE HAD EVER DARED HOPE FOR VERY WELL HE SAID THINK OF A WORD THINK OF ANY SINGLE WORD I SHALL TELL IT TO YOU a86bb059-1f5f-4ae5-a9a9-a262fd212d83 402 OH PERHAPS WE WON'T HAVE THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL CHEERFULLY PETER CAUGHT THEM AT MARKDALE THE LAST TIME HE WAS HOME HIS MOTHER SAYS I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY 23219b9b-c3cb-4e7d-9038-20183c79635c 32 EARLY IN THE SEASON AS IT WAS HE WAS BAREFOOTED 64113b17-26fb-4390-9daa-3c3be3e66f94 2108 HOWEVER HE FOUND HER AFTER MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES AS YOU WILL DISCOVER WHEN YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY 0fa1ee62-3bae-4a36-8130-b41e0ca8d2f8 2286 EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH THE GIRL WAS OBVIOUSLY ASSISTANT TO THE MUSTER MIND WHO ORIGINATED THE SCHEME HE SAT IN THE CENTER OF THE PLOT LIKE A SPIDER ON ITS WEB PULLING THE STRINGS THAT SET THINGS INTO MOTION b3197666-a998-4d9f-95f9-fbabbd634015 32 WHEN THE TALE ENDED THERE WAS A BRIEF SILENCE THEN AUNT JANET SAID SEVERELY BUT WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF LITTLE GIRLS SHOULDN'T TELL SUCH HORRIBLE STORIES 195637bc-71e5-4382-bb96-f715a904c872 451 PETER DID NOT THINK BLUEBERRY WINE WOULD DO ANY GOOD IT WAS TEN O'CLOCK BEFORE DAN BEGAN TO GET BETTER BUT FROM THAT TIME HE IMPROVED RAPIDLY WHEN THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN UNCLE ROGER REACHED MARKDALE CAME AT HALF PAST TEN HE FOUND HIS PATIENT VERY WEAK AND WHITE BUT FREE FROM PAIN 13cb9f64-b4ab-44ed-b6f6-fdaed92febe9 451 OH I DON'T KNOW I FEEL BETTER SINCE I PUNISHED MYSELF BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE UP FOR IT TO MORROW SAID THE STORY GIRL ENERGETICALLY c4c70274-0b45-4510-8aa9-53d84e4341ca 2108 SHE WAS CLAD IN SILVER ROBES AND EMBROIDERED WITH GAY LAUREL DESIGNS AND WORE OVER THIS SPLENDID RAIMENT A SHORT APRON OF ELABORATE LACE WORK d95735c9-147c-420d-9895-2032b3c5a850 2274 ONE MORE THING STET WHAT NOW I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT THE MARINES ARE ON THEIR WAY HISS STETSON WE'RE COMING IN TO GET YOU I'M GOING TO WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU GUESS THAT ONE 2da5e500-4d14-4355-b97f-5d10f487ecab 2108 OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ I WAS GINGER JUST NOW I'M AS YOU SEE ME A MISERABLE LITTLE BROWN BEAR WITH A POOR QUALITY OF STUFFY 9ffba4cc-9f4b-4ad4-8860-1707a189ea64 451 PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM dda77eaa-d6c9-450b-bcc5-b8d64f16c2b3 32 ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME SAID FELICITY AND THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING ALWAYS GOOD THEY MIGHTN'T HAVE KEPT GOOD AS LONG AS THEY DID IF THEY HADN'T LIVED IN A GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL 19ab539b-bd10-423f-9f49-e73a904fcc1b 2274 I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND MEANT ENEMY AND THAT TOLD YOU WHERE THE DELPHINIS WAS cabef88d-e5ae-4d20-988e-d09a94d2c9f6 2286 NORMALLY I CURSED THE PAPAL TANGLES OF BUREAUCRACY BUT THIS WAS ONE TIME WHEN I BLESSED THEM ALL THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE 84b689af-7ea2-46f7-b3ba-e8b691091920 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 636af036-b29d-4cfd-ab00-fe7102aa3786 1867 WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN THE IMAGE BLINKED FOCUSED AND A GREAT DAMP PYRAMID SWAM INTO VIEW a2f663db-0553-46bc-95a5-2032bed36915 2108 AMUSE YOURSELVES WHILE I AM GONE AND WHEN I RETURN I HOPE TO FIND YOU ALL RECONCILED AND HAPPY 322245d5-421d-4963-a54f-39792e9cd66f 451 WE ALL WENT TO PIECES EXCEPT CECILY WHO ALONE RETAINED HER PRESENCE OF MIND HAVE YOU GOT A PAIN IN YOUR STOMACH SHE DEMANDED I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH OH OH OH 800e014e-3f97-4b04-aec8-a614300120a2 2368 I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL YONA MURDERED HE PASSED THE COIN OVER THE OLD WOMAN'S HAND SNATCHED IT AND CLOSED ON IT 56446cba-0064-4c6f-a103-882764dbeb7a 1867 BEFORE IT COULD FALL I HAD MY SOLAR OUT AND WITH A WIDE ANGLE SHOT BURNED THE CONTRACT TO ASHES THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW 7e904de7-65bd-4fcc-a196-9716cd6e8835 2108 THE CREATURES THEY BEHELD WERE ROUND AND BALL LIKE ROUND IN BODY ROUND IN LEGS AND ARMS ROUND IN HANDS AND FEET AND ROUND OF HEAD 60f910fb-7802-481a-ad40-1ac391d3c73d 32 WELL LET'S GO DOWN TO THE PULPIT STONE AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY I KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL 975466e3-2e09-4cba-9b06-7eb24ceed7b3 2368 THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE 355ec342-4d7d-4334-80d6-275e014184ce 1867 CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR IT'S A MONSTROSITY IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH b227bdd7-fccb-4198-b72f-20934ca1a169 188 WHEN WE GOT AWAY WE COMPARED NOTES AND FOUND THAT WE ALL LIKED HIM AND THIS ALTHOUGH HE HAD SAID LITTLE AND HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT GLAD TO GET RID OF US OH WASN'T THAT AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE EXCLASPED CECILY SHUDDERING I WOULDN'T GO THROUGH IT AGAIN I COULDN'T NOT EVEN FOR PAT b27db4dd-e205-41ee-8255-151a36c19bd9 188 COULD YOU EVER DO WHAT BETTY SHERMAN DID DO YOU SUPPOSE ASKED CECILY ABSENTLY NO BUT I BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL COULD ANSWERED FELICITY RATHER SNAPPISHLY 16c8cd79-097d-437f-9323-147e389b14f8 1867 DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE 396fe1c7-8e1a-402d-b52a-083f1505d40f 451 SARA STANLEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES DEMANDED AUNT JANET WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA 37da0201-e56c-4567-a794-b9fe303ac6d4 451 WHEN NEXT WE ASSEMBLED OURSELVES TOGETHER IT WAS AFTER MILKING AND THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE DONE WITH WE FOREGATHERED IN THE BALSAM FRAGRANT AISLES OF THE FIR WOOD AND ATE EARLY AUGUST APPLES TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THE STORY GIRL SAID WE MADE HER THINK OF THE IRISHMAN'S PIG 6cf1f4db-afbd-4286-bc71-a8c15eb75f7a 451 IF HE TRIES TO AND IF IT ISN'T WHAT PLEASES OTHER PEOPLE THE PARLIAMENT OR SOMETHING SQUELCHES HIM ISN'T SQUELCH A LOVELY WORD SAID THE STORY GIRL IRREVERENTLY IT'S SO EXPRESSIVE 93ae2ca9-529b-4a38-ada9-e617862d9064 32 AUNT JANET AND FELICITY ADMINISTERED ALL THE HOMELY REMEDIES THEY COULD THINK OF BUT TO NO EFFECT FELICITY TOLD AUNT JANET OF THE CUCUMBER BUT AUNT JANET DID NOT THINK THE CUCUMBER ALONE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CECILY'S ALARMING CONDITION 2c3b96fd-5881-4db6-8546-e842f6ea742d 2274 GOOD LUCK I MEANT THAT ABOUT DIVING IN FOR YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I KNOW THE WORD TOO SAID ORNE HELP 3479f1c9-0d68-4c93-a59e-6e19d67f3cd6 402 INSTEAD AFTER DEVOUTLY THANKING GOODNESS THAT OUR GROWN UPS IN SPITE OF SOME IMPERFECTIONS WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE GRANARY LIGHTED A HUGE LANTERN WHICH DAN HAD MADE OUT OF A TURNIP AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR ALL THE APPLES WE MIGHT HAVE EATEN THROUGH THE DAY BUT HAD NOT a2512f2c-2188-484a-9869-5d5c73df0aa6 2286 YOU FOUND THEM THE CRIMINAL RING HE ASKED HIS FINGERS GROPING OVER HIS SCOUT FOR A FRESH HOLD FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER a5fe71ba-3363-4c01-822c-43b4f41d53cf 2286 BEFORE HE GOT OVER THE SHOCK I SNAPPED AN ORDER AT HIM COME UP HERE AND SIT DOWN QUICK THE ROBART HUSTLED HIM ACROSS THE ROOM AT THE SAME TIME SO HE HAD NO CHOICE EXCEPT TO OBEY WHEN HE SAW THE PAPERS ON THE DESK HIS EYES BULGED AND HE JUST GURGLED A LITTLE 619e6d36-5374-43a1-9d67-3d2cd4f5a3ee 2286 HE BROKE DOWN AGAIN SHAKING WITH LAUGHTER WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GROWLED DON'T YOU CATCH IT YET THE STORY SHE TOLD YOU WAS TRUE EXCEPT SHE TWISTED IT AROUND A BIT THE WHOLE PLAN BUILDING THE BATTLESHIP THEN STEALING IT WAS HERS SHE PULLED ME INTO IT PLAYED ME LIKE AN ACCORDION ad96ef0e-de3d-4ed3-b083-b081699222ca 1867 I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE THE SHIP IT WAS A TWENTY FOUR HOUR JUMP SHIP'S TIME AND I CAME THROUGH IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE a3ad39f5-1f7e-4d37-812c-a3228fd8f502 2286 IF MY PLAN DOESN'T WORK CAPTAIN THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH OF MY SKIN LEFT TO PICK UP WITH A TWEEZER NOW IF YOU PLEASE I'D LIKE TO GET TO URDAIDA AND PICK UP MY SHIP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 4714b297-9826-441e-8ed9-e4165b3a9ec1 2286 ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU I TOLD HER TRUTHFULLY THAT'S UP FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE BUT BUT HE MADE ME DO ALL THOSE THINGS SHE WAILED SHE WAS YOUNG DARK AND BEAUTIFUL THE TEARS DID NOTHING TO SPOIL THIS d2f9489b-4270-463e-a1d0-cddc440fd013 451 I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN WHICH BROUGHT THE ORGY OF WISHING TO AN END FOR THE TIME e0120efb-d04f-45d2-8918-c93feae365de 188 SUPPOSE HE WAS MISTAKEN SUPPOSE SHE SAID NO NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN 15a70ea2-f034-4735-96ef-18b7a474a40c 2368 THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP APPEAR TO HAVE BEGUN APPROXIMATELY IN THE YEAR FIFTEEN NINETY FOUR BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH THE FIRST AND PERHAPS THE LAST OF ITS KIND UNTIL THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MASQUERADE IN TWENTY ONE O THREE EXCERPT FROM A SHORT HISTORY THE MASQUERADE BY A 01b368ba-eef3-4690-b8c8-f03f0cc77f4a 2286 THESE CHANGES COULD BE MADE DURING CONSTRUCTION THEN PLANS FILED BY THE TIME ANY ONE IN THE LEAGUE FOUND OUT WHAT WAS BEING BUILT THE SHIP WOULD BE FINISHED AND LAUNCHED 54964cf1-abcd-4eae-add3-8d6ec30647e6 2368 YOU DO NOT TRUST ME PERHAPS YOU ARE WISE I MIGHT TALK FOOLISHLY I AM AN OLD MAN OLDER IN THIS LAST MONTH THAN IN ALL MY YEARS f556323f-e6fb-4b55-83ba-ff1b7030e3f1 451 FELICITY HAD A NATURAL APTITUDE FOR WHAT WE CALLED BOSSING AND IN HER MOTHER'S ABSENCE SHE DEEMED THAT SHE HAD A RIGHT TO RULE SUPREME THERE WAS NO DOUBT DAN WAS SUFFERING INTENSE PAIN HE MOANED AND WRITHED AND CRIED FOR HIS MOTHER 304fed39-35d4-42f8-9257-3d39fc011a4a 2108 PLEADED BOOT THE WANDERER IN AN EAGER VOICE TO BE SURE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN IF YOU CARED TO JOIN OUR PARTY 3e2609cf-f173-4c15-80c2-0c6dae39d6e7 451 AUNT JANET OF COURSE NOTICED THE STORY GIRL'S ABSTINENCE AND ASKED IF SHE WAS SICK 29e12bea-b8d0-4a6c-b88b-3ed3084be28d 32 EVIDENTLY FELICITY THOUGHT ARTISTS AND ACTRESSES AND ALL SUCH POOR TRASH WERE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER cface510-98bd-4d52-ba02-c1354cda984f 2286 SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION NOW THAT THE ROAD WAS WELL OUT OF THE BAG I KNEW JUST WHERE TO LOOK AND HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I WOULD FIND ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME f5205690-c4e1-46a5-802a-15936e894eb0 188 ALEC DO YOU REMEMBER HOW FURIOUS JULIA WAS BECAUSE EDWARD PRAYED ONE DAY THAT SHE MIGHT BE PRESERVED FROM VANITY AND CONCEIT OVER HER SINGING 8945e74e-5a03-4bcc-88af-ab72520eb3b7 2286 YEA YES I'LL TELL YOU WORD FOR IT YOU'RE A FLYING BOMB SO STOP WITH THIS ROBBING REPORT A BIT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND THIS TIME I DIDN'T ANSWER HIM BECAUSE I WAS RUNNING AND PANTING LIKE A DOG AND HAD THE MIKE TURNED OFF aa465e1c-c0b6-4ff5-80dd-2f80a43f4741 32 SARA RAY IS AT HIS LEFT THERE IS SELDOM ANYTHING TO BE SAID OF SARA EXCEPT TO TELL WHERE SHE IS LIKE TENNYSON'S MAUD IN ONE RESPECT AT LEAST SARA IS SPLENDIDLY NULL 92b55ab3-2832-4e6d-8d57-5f000e12c6e9 2108 WHAT HAVE YOU DISCOVERED ASKED WOOT RUBBING THE SLEEP FROM HIS EYES AND WITH HIS KNUCKLES AND GIVING THREE WIDE YAWNS TO PROVE HE WAS FULLY AWAKE 35b4cc2d-8cd8-40c4-b948-b46af0af629f 2286 ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED ALL THIS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE THE TIME ALLOTTED THE NAVY MUST HAVE ADAPTED A LUXURY UP TO MY NEEDS EVERYTHING WAS READY EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE e676895a-c831-4e75-aee3-7ad51669dd89 188 WELL HE TRIED TO KISS ME THAT'S WHAT FOR SAID FELICITY TURNING VERY RED AS IF I WOULD LET A HIRED BOY KISS ME I GUESS MASTER PETER WON'T TRY ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN IN A HURRY c26f553c-2b05-4f76-ac84-7a8aa687bb9a 2286 THESE ARE THE PLANS FOR AN ORDINARY PASSENGER FREIGHTER THAT IS ALL I KNOW HIS WORDS HAD THE SIMPLE INNOCENCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S WAS HE EVER CAUGHT 4f317ccc-889d-482f-a6c9-4fb2933cb284 188 SO NEXT DAY SANDY STARTED OFF ON HORSEBACK WITH A PAIR OF ROPE REINS TO LEAD THE PIANO HOME HE THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF LIVE STOCK 0970832b-161c-47c6-aa31-7b8049b6ac81 451 BUT EVEN THE EFFECTS OF UNHOLY SNACKS WERE AWAY AT LENGTH BY TEA TIME THINGS HAD BRIGHTENED UP 20702dcb-362c-4607-94b4-b390f9c82ded 2108 I AM SURE IT WOULD WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT GIVE ME A COUPLE OF FAT RABBITS SAID THE BEAST c3b74f0a-cef9-4b0c-b4c3-db586ea63301 451 MAYBE SARA WON'T BE SO VERY SICK IF GOD SEES I'M TRULY SORRY HE CAN SEE IT ANYHOW WITHOUT YOUR DOING ANYTHING SAID CECILY A NICE WAY TO TALK TO YOUR SISTER WHEN YOU MAY BE DEAD IN AN HOUR'S TIME RETORTED FELICITY IN TEARS BETWEEN HER ANGER AND HER REAL ALARM ABOUT DAN 82ac299b-a7fc-4c94-a42a-94b2a6d4a45a 188 RICH WERE WE IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE OPULENT MONTHS THAT HAD GONE FROM US RICHER THAN WE THEN KNEW OR SUSPECTED AND BEFORE US WAS THE DREAM OF SPRING IT IS ALWAYS SAFE TO DREAM OF SPRING FOR IT IS SURE TO COME AND IF IT IS NOT JUST AS WE HAVE PICTURED IT IT WILL BE INFINITELY SWEETER aa1bf5db-40d3-47e4-b518-ce0784ce05a8 32 THE STORY GIRL WAS IN GREAT FETTLE THAT NIGHT NEVER HAD HER TAILS SPARKLED WITH SUCH WIT AND ARCHNESS 65ac404f-a79f-4937-b314-5ec5ff8f612c 188 I WAS REALLY PUFFED UP WITH EARTHLY VANITY OVER IT AT THAT TIME FELIX I THOUGHT WOULD BE HARD PUT TO IT TO BEAT IT d444e1b1-ece2-4aa1-8af6-e183a0a89cdc 451 THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT WAS THE MAN WHO THOUGHT THE PULPIT DOOR MUST BE MADE FOR SPIRITS YOU KNOW SHE SAID I HEARD UNCLE EDWARD TELLING EVER SO MANY STORIES ABOUT HIM HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC 70a7e0be-ce92-43c2-ba4f-c8e7f35776be 451 NOW HE'S GONE OFF MAD SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY OH FELICITY WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE HELD YOUR TONGUE WHY WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY 0e13280d-7f9c-4513-9efe-a094c5764eaf 188 GIVE THAT STONE TO ME SAID PAN HOLDING OUT HIS HAND BUT AGLEIA THOUGH SHE WAS FRIGHTENED WOULD NOT GIVE HIM THE STONE 3f54333a-e682-40b4-a74a-5f809259ae6f 32 I DO NOT KNOW WHICH HURT OUR FEELINGS MOST THE SCOLDING WE GOT FROM AUNT JANET OR THE RIDICULE WHICH THE OTHER GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER SHOWERED ON US PETER RECEIVED AN EXTRA SETTING DOWN WHICH HE CONSIDERED RANK INJUSTICE 4da57332-84fe-44aa-bd2e-ff13b28048f6 2286 I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO 49eb9fb4-58ba-470c-89f1-75727e8e65f1 2286 I CHECKED THE MONOTOR SCREEN TO MAKE SURE THEN STARTED INTO THE SPACESUIT IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY c9604cfd-7cf8-47e4-8ddc-33099e63fffb 188 THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF HER LETTER I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH BUT WHEN THE MEASLES STRIKE IN THEY LEAVE YOU STUPID FOR A SPELL b77f5bb3-c68a-4a2a-b5b4-ed42c075e704 451 CECILY CARRIED HIS MEALS TO HIM AND READ A HINTY BOOK TO HIM ALL HER SPARE TIME THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF df04106b-b28c-43b1-840c-d8a70acecaad 188 TAKE IT SHE WHISPERED THE QUESTION WAS HOW WAS HE TO TAKE IT BOTH OF AGLEIA'S ARMS WERE HELD FAST TO HER SIDES BY GLECON'S ARMS AND IF HE LOOSED HIS CLASP EVER SO LITTLE HE WAS AFRAID SHE WOULD FALL SO WEAK AND TREMBLING WAS SHE FROM HER DREADFUL FRIGHT 2cd8da79-2940-4005-a4f1-0c0c6c01da36 188 I HAVE THAT SERMON STILL ALL ITS RED THUMPS UNFADED LYING BESIDE MY DREAM BOOK BUT I'M NOT GOING TO INFLICT IT ON MY READERS I'M NOT SO PROUD OF IT AS I ONCE WAS 9f6facb0-472a-4675-a337-7fb32f5648f4 2108 BUT WHY SHOULD YOU WISH TO ESCAPE I SHALL GIVE YOU NEW FORMS THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES YOU NOW HAVE BE CONTENTED WITH YOUR FATE FOR DISCONTENT LEADS TO UNHAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS IN ANY FORM IS THE GREATEST EVIL THAT CAN BEFALL YOU 3d28bb97-50e3-470b-8353-9db1937fef2e 32 FULL OF FUN AND FROLIC AND MISCHIEF THEY WERE WITH ALL THE DEFECTS OF THEIR QUALITIES AND ALL THE WAYWARD FAULTS OF YOUTH BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE 4996fc62-a687-4a45-be0d-14426a8b6e08 451 SHE KNEW BETTER THAN TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO ASSERT AUTHORITY OVER THE STORY GIRL AND FELIX AND I WERE ALLOWED SOME LENGTH OF TETHER BUT CECILY DAN AND PETER WERE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT DUTIFULLY TO HER DECREES b53b3016-5255-44e6-86f4-7ccad6bcbad3 451 AND THEY WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS EVER AFTERWARDS 0781af24-6a1a-4bf1-bc69-b19690514e74 32 I WAS AFRAID TO TAKE THE LIVER PILLS FOR FEAR THEY'D PREVENT ME FROM DREAMING HE SAID 798d1bb0-2c01-4f63-95b3-001ca0c1e688 2108 FEW THINGS CAN INJURE TIN AND MY AXE IS A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE AGAINST A FOE 3af95e86-5a99-4ce4-9ab5-8e6ba4b36141 32 HARROW THE WOOD FIELD AND DIG YOUR AUNT OLIVIA'S FLOWER BEDS AUNT OLIVIA AND I PLANTED SWEET PEAS YESTERDAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AND I PLANTED A LITTLE BED OF MY OWN I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED IT IS BAD FOR THEM 2f9b0f42-7478-47ca-ac87-c3670b1f808e 188 IT WAS DECIDED THAT I SHOULD LEAD OFF AND I LAY AWAKE FOR AN EXTRA HOUR THAT NIGHT THINKING WHAT TEXT I SHOULD TAKE FOR THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY THEN I WENT TO SLEEP COMFORTED BY THE SIMPLE HOPE THAT THE GREAT FATHER WOULD AFTER IMPORTANT THINGS WERE ALL ATTENDED TO REMEMBER POOR PAT 521325af-b21b-4fff-b7f2-3b6b7652b69d 451 DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THINK HOW SICK YOU WERE LAST NIGHT AND ALL THE TROUBLE YOU MADE FOR EVERYBODY DON'T EAT ANY MORE THERE'S A GOOD CHAP 5056c98a-7723-4cd9-a403-e55edbea0005 32 BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG e7e08736-7d04-479d-99e5-591ee6b231ea 188 IT HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO IN GREECE WHERE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAPPENED BEFORE THAT NOBODY HAD EVER HEARD OF KISSING AND THEN IT WAS JUST DISCOVERED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AND A MAN WROTE IT DOWN AND THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN PRESERVED EVER SINCE 5cb14e35-2cca-46a4-9e63-ff9524743f26 451 NOT THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE DONE MUCH EXCEPT CECILY SHE'S GOT A HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS d65e1602-7efe-4db4-b5e2-5e4a2bec0f88 188 SHE NEEDN'T HAVE GOT SO SCARED IF SHE'D ONLY WAITED FOR THE THIRD HEAD I'D HAVE SHOWED HER HOW EASY IT WAS TO GET CLEAR OF GOING TO THE BAD PLACE AND GO TO HEAVEN INSTEAD BUT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS IN SUCH A HURRY SAID PETER BITTERLY DO YOU SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE HER TO THE ASYLUM SAID DAN IN A WHISPER 7593c213-b572-4483-9a84-0f4f5c721d75 2108 I'D NOT ALLOW YOU TO EAT THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS DECLARED POLYCHROMELY CANARY WELL THREE OR FOUR SQUIRRELS THEN PLEADED THE JAGUAR DO YOU THINK ME SO CRUEL c3d1e3bd-4537-46af-8c58-9effd3abedca 2108 THEY NOW FORMED A LINE HOLDING HANDS AND TURNING THEIR FACES TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH RESUMED THEIR JOURNEY 5a34b6a3-4fae-4031-9873-2da7940b5113 188 WONDER IF THEY'LL BRING US ANYTHING SAID DAN I'M THINKING LONG TO HEAR ALL ABOUT THAT WEDDING SAID FELICITY WHO WAS BRAIDING TIMOTHY STOCKS INTO A COLLAR FOR PAT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT WEDDINGS AND GETTING MARRIED SAID DAN CONTEMPTUOUSLY a12d36cf-3eef-4cce-8efd-cc264cb2c452 32 WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS IN A BRIEF SPACE WE WERE LAUGHING RIGHT MERRILY NO LONGER REMEMBERING OUR WRONGS AT THE HANDS OF THOSE CRUEL GROWN UPS OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH dad2d6fb-a568-4d02-8753-0e04b4f69b7a 2108 WHEN I GOT MY TIN LEGS NIMI AMI BEGAN TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN ME WHEN I GOT MY TIN ARMS SHE BEGAN TO LIKE ME BETTER THAN EVER AND WHEN I WAS ALL MADE OF TIN SHE SAID I LOOKED LIKE HER DEAR NICK CHOPPER AND SHE WOULD BE WILLING TO MARRY ME c1acf0d3-138b-4363-a85d-b98ea6f59de8 2108 THEY AGREED TO THIS AND PROMPTLY SET OFF THIS TIME MOVING MORE DELIBERATELY OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ 8c98e084-4dd5-4cf2-ab2f-63b157c5aec3 188 THERE'S THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS SAID CECILY POINTING TO A LONG DRIFT OF FILMY VAPOUR IN THE SOUTH WESTERN SKY AND LOOK AT THAT SWEET PINK CLOUD BELOW IT SAID FELICITY aa948930-5eee-41e2-90f6-94fb26fcd051 188 NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN SURE HE'S SLEEPIN WELL AND THE SNOW IS COMING SOON TWILL BE A BONNY SWIRL ON THE BAY ERE LONG I HOPE NO HARM WILL COME TO THE LAD IF HE STARTS TO CROSS WHEN HE WAKES HE'LL BE IN SUCH A FINE HIGHLAND TEMPER THAT HE'LL NEVER STOP TO THINK OF DANGER 17c85644-0327-4eae-9099-fa718de628f9 451 I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE 0c2f3d25-b2ac-4656-9b76-f2277f3a0cc1 451 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 ffbea6e7-9006-493f-aa32-3c28f0333c76 451 ANY ONE WHO LIVES WITH YOU FELICITY KING WILL ALWAYS BE WISHING HE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE SAID DAN c927c42d-bb96-44a9-a687-c195ecfb54cf 188 EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT fd6a66a2-6434-409b-94cb-be3de931728a 2286 ROCCA COULDN'T BELIEVE IT NEITHER COULD THE PRESIDENT THEY WANDERED UP AND DOWN THE EMPTY WAYS WHERE IT HAD BEEN BUILT I JUST CRUNCHED DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE CAR CHEWING MY CIGAR TO PIECES AND CURSING MYSELF FOR BEING A FOOL I HAD MISSED THE OBVIOUS FACT BEING CARRIED AWAY BY THE THOUGHT OF A PLANETARY GOVERNMENT BUILDING A WARSHIP cb7c81ea-3423-4496-a2ff-07933afc0dd3 2108 WHERE IS SHE NOW INQUIRED WOOT WHO HAD HEARD TALES OF LOVELY POLYCHROME AND WAS MUCH INTERESTED IN HER 39dce388-fcdf-4d5f-b46f-ba68e0e368fa 188 NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT FANCY HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN cbc6b286-0599-458a-92b9-47524c31a762 2108 WE ARE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE DECLARED THE TIN WOODMAN ALL THE BETTER SHE REPLIED f29b6e7e-6db2-479a-902f-29fa14b9f80a 188 SOMETHING WAS SPARKLING VERY BRIGHTLY AMONG ITS PEBBLES A GLAYA PICKED IT UP AND IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LITTLE STONE THAT SHE HAD EVER SEEN IT WAS ONLY AS LARGE AS A PEA BUT IT GLITTERED AND FLASHED IN THE SUNLIGHT WITH EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW A GLEA WASDED WITH IT THAT SHE RESOLVED TO TAKE IT AS A PRESENT TO GLACON a99989f2-0ac9-4a86-8f8a-5d704ae72437 2286 I'VE ALREADY CALLED THE SPACEPORT IN YOUR NAME OF COURSE I TOLD HIM ORDER THE FAST CORRER SHIP I'LL LEAVE WITHIN THE HOUR b3ed07a6-70ac-4e0d-8dad-53644cd310a0 188 LIKELY A GLAYA SWALLOWED IT SAID FELIX SPARECTICALLY DID GLAUCON AND AGLEIA EVER GET MARRIED ASKED SARA RAY 2e306a3a-8485-4d03-8a06-a4cb1701bd2d 2286 THE GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED FOR SHORE BUT ONLY AS A PAWN NO LITTLE PLANET BOUND POLITICAL MIND COULD HAVE DREAMED UP A SCHEME AS BIG AS THIS I SMELLED A RAT A STAINLESS STEEL ONE 476adef6-da3e-46ce-bb22-9931519e9b9b 451 WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS DESTINED TO STAND BEFORE KINGS HERSELF AND SHE WAS TO BE ONE WHOM THEY DELIGHTED TO HONOR BUT WE DID NOT KNOW THAT AS WE SAT IN THE OLD ORCHARD 2a29a887-d983-4ea1-9a8f-db9a0a1541b9 2108 AFTER THEY HAD GONE AWAY CARRYING MY KINCHIN KING HUSBAND WITH THEM I TRANSFORMED MYSELF BACK INTO MY FORMER SHAPE AGAIN AND HERE I'VE LIVED IN PEACE AND COMFORT EVER SINCE 2ad6a9b0-7b21-4d96-a154-73e3328f4a3c 2286 I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING PARTICULARLY C AND M SET UP THE CATEGORIZEER AND A MEMORY c1f4b3da-ef55-499b-af2a-acdcf01c44ee 2286 HIS WORDS HAD THE SIMPLE INNOCENCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S WAS HE EVER CAUGHT I SAT BACK WITH A RELAXED SIGH AND LIT A CIGAR d0bc05fc-4d65-46bb-9e64-46a029dae412 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 853a0d37-2ef1-47d6-8b58-02cba248286a 242 FELIX AND PETER DREW APART AFTER THAT FIRST ONSET AND THEN CIRCLED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER WARILY 9a865653-ed41-4efa-a019-51ee60eba521 748 FINALLY IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE WHAT WE'D EXPECTED WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HE REMAINED LITTLE MORE THAN A CLEVER AMATEUR 1bba5788-5e1a-4d69-8d6d-880f9cd6dbec 2312 WE SURE DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGNOLENA SEE THEM df7789da-3037-431f-8dce-d2f1271a8019 103 BUT IT WOULD GIVE YOU NO REAL IDEA OF THE PECULIAR QUALITY WHICH MADE THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE WHAT IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE US GIRT ABOUT WITH ITS TRIM SPRUCE HEDGE WAS THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD THE HISTORY OF WHICH WAS WOVEN INTO OUR EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS 69ab7b14-9bf3-477f-b1ce-e7ca2bcc92bf 242 ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS a5b48356-e900-4f58-8f16-3165d9b68925 1867 ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE fdfcd590-0613-4c0f-9dc1-66682af5fa7b 2137 SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS 4f6c3797-3c62-40c7-bf9b-c67fa4973bfa 242 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 16f7d932-f377-450e-8b4e-04142daaf82d 30 CECILY LOOKED PALE AND THIN BESIDE HER ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND WE WERE QUITE WILLING TO GO TO BED d142a2e9-f657-4124-9b3b-cb30ea8c355c 32 AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN DAN IS THE POET BECAUSE HE IS SO FRECKLED AND SCREWS HIS EYES UP SO TIGHT d8fa2f3d-43c0-4454-8761-afafe928e26f 2425 SHE BECAME NERVOUS LIKE AND RAPPED ON THE DOOR I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND POCKETED THE WEAPON I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY 3060645c-473c-4f4b-87cc-8ad6285dd08d 451 I'M NOT A BIT FAIN SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH ENTIRE TRUTHFULNESS THE VIEWS WERE GOOD AND THE LECTURER WITTY d300148e-2c5d-4221-ad3d-d8e5a0f97ebe 242 WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTED IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM A 17a370c2-227c-486f-8eff-7684730150e1 2286 WHAT THE MAGICIANS CALL MISDIRECTION I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT 7dc158d9-8b6b-4407-ba61-902850c5c811 748 ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT AND PURPLE CHALEES UNCLE BLAIR WAS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND 7325f170-e81a-4c0b-bcf1-34bae8e65b23 177 NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED 6bd1936a-6956-4f6e-97f7-7b2f4cda62f9 2425 ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I NOTHING APPARENTLY HAD BEEN DISTURBED bb43ade7-3271-47f2-9205-8e85dc0b058c 188 THEN OUT OF REGARD FOR MATS AND CUSHIONS HE WAS KEPT IN DURRANCE VILE IN THE GRANARY UNTIL HE HAD LICKED HIS FUR CLEAN dd118a16-3bcb-4e0c-9846-1873f5edc04c 188 OH I DON'T BELIEVE THAT STORY IS TRUE SAID FELICITY I BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS WAS JUST ROMANCING SHE DOES ROMANCE MOTHER SAID 0c5ef09e-d989-4b55-9a00-03079ece518b 14 WE WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ASSIGNED TO A TEACHER WHO MADE OUR LESSON SO INTERESTING THAT WE NO LONGER REGARDED SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AS A DISAGREEABLE WEEKLY DUTY THERE IS THE WEDDING BELL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS 7272900c-2f08-417f-ad69-bf975e0893d2 2368 FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES e79afe1f-8467-45e1-9d67-6ded9ca0edf2 2274 I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID ae66c192-bfc7-40ad-a132-b1722f3604ac 402 WHAT IF JERRY DOESN'T BRING THE PICTURE TO DAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN I SUGGESTED MISSUS DUNBAR LIVES NEXT DOOR TO AUNT LOUISA IN TOWN THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND 0407c7f6-456f-45bd-988e-b70f301a43ef 2286 ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE 167bf346-e376-4515-b7ed-6280c5c0d85c 402 WE DID BURY IT AFTER TEA IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPRUCE GROVE IT WAS SO NICE TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL BACK AGAIN eef8652b-92d4-49df-87b8-c2594eb3d24a 242 IT IS SOMETIMES A BITTER THING TO TELL THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY TO A YOUNG LADY FOR WHOM YOU HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION 26a020bf-4980-43d2-81be-1243004cfcd7 30 FELICITY CECILY AND DAN WERE SITTING OPPOSITE US STORY GIRL WAS AWFULLY DISAPPOINTED 020e4ad8-1b8e-4a92-8a29-bc6dda2731be 198 PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS HE SAID NO IT ISN'T PEG BOWEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WALKS b2ab7387-de0e-4b73-9406-4472a874092f 2317 FARMER LOOKED IMPRESSED THEN BEGAN TO REALIZE WHAT SOME OF THIS MEANT HE CAUGHT HIMSELF 34acb52f-1717-40ae-9f69-e66871c62615 2312 THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR 88d67e74-0e49-45da-93fa-2a1d9521a694 748 WE CLIMBED MT BLANC PETER HAD THE LARGEST BILLY HAD DECEIVED US BOTH d9c83fa0-e5cb-45f6-80b7-7a0ea9c0d31b 188 CAMPBELL CHUCKLED THE BEST OF ALL REASONS HE SAID BUT SEE HERE MY DEAR YOUNG LADY I'M AN OLD MISER AND A CURMUDGEON AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD I 1b620dd5-a988-403a-a93a-21cc9c0b85fa 2108 QUITE RIGHT MY FRIEND AGREED THE SCARECROW SO WE WHO GLADLY SERVE HIM THE LACE ONE WHICH THE GIANTESS ALWAYS WEARS I 297b8181-dfe0-4c8b-945e-0c12d6edfa7d 30 AND NOW IT WAS A MASSIVE THING AND GREAT SPREADING BOUGHS SAID DAN SLYLY b1aa4fea-c5ca-45ac-837f-488ecbe95c86 2286 NO MENTION OF ANY OTHER NAVAL SIGNALING EQUIPMENT THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE NOW IT MIGHT BE OVERHEARD c307d549-339c-449f-bf0b-8c179c0189c9 242 FELIX'S PRAYER WAS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ANY ONE ELSE TRULY WE HAD HAD A DELECTABLE SUMMER AND HAVING HAD IT IT WAS OURS FOREVER e4ea15fa-f4b1-409d-9602-6a88100f2bfb 2108 SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE b2666583-fa31-4360-be90-d8af6061bbc9 748 WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER THAN TO TRUST BILLY ROBINSON SAID FELICITY SUMMING UP THE CASE ONE EVENING WHEN ALL HAD BEEN MADE KNOWN 6381fe34-750b-41d5-9130-791b1e365065 2312 TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE THEN THEY WENT TO TAKE THE REST OF THE SENSES BUT IN FEAR f823d1dd-2890-4ddf-b35f-b7e85c2b8c53 748 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE SHE WOULD NEVER BE SATISFIED AS A DABBLER LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT 5752abe9-e51c-41c3-9805-0a5cf22d2e0b 198 THE FIRE WAS ON AND A FLUSHED AND TRIUMPHANT STORY GIRL WAS TAKING A LOAF OF BREAD FROM THE OVEN 2af9656a-3260-4b45-a18d-42c4d3e43ced 32 WELL IIN'T GOING TO CHURCH TILL I'VE MADE UP MY MIND WHETHER I'M GOING TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN 29356ae2-39b9-4e3e-ab04-c363824cdcd7 188 THEN THE STORY GIRL ARRIVED ARRAYED NOT IN ANY SECOND BEST BUT IN HER VERY BEST DRESS AND HAT WHICH HER FATHER HAD SENT HER FROM PARIS aac121c0-acba-4d56-9a13-1c51d0224fa7 198 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 9009bba6-d8dd-4818-88ee-bdc2b535b61f 748 FOR I WAS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT BILLY AND HIS MAGIC SEED WERE ARRANT FRAUDS 49d82561-1e51-4916-a3aa-131017a2680e 2286 IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS 1702941d-1cf8-4330-b3f0-49945626314c 177 WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION d709c418-c342-4230-8c9f-a40ec47e9dd9 14 I'M AWFULLY SORRY I LAUGHED IN CHURCH BUT YOU NEEDN'T BE AFRAID I EVER WILL AGAIN NO SIR 2a443eaf-580d-4acf-b213-c1cbb67255fc 464 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR A HORRIBLE FEAR WHICH FLASHED INTO HER MIND THAT POSSIBLY SAWDUST PUDDINGS WERE NOT HEALTHY FOR PEOPLE TO EAT 07260373-3156-4b16-adcd-cd99e4bdffd5 451 THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES 33f001b9-63e6-43b7-b5fb-8fc9eae33f8a 2286 IN THIS CASE I CHOSE THE NATURAL ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO BLIND CHANCE AND ACCIDENT e29a3da0-8740-4cb8-9935-d817956e8251 188 PETER WAS HANDICAPPED AT THE BEGINNING BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO FAMILY FRIEND TO FINANCE HIM NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT fe0db0a4-1685-479a-a4de-d8fcd4e19771 2317 I COULD GO INTO THEORIES AND SCIENTIFIC DETAILS RAY SAID GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP 66228dc0-bf5e-4d92-b9cb-dd9054568fb7 2182 THEY MUST WARN THE NATIVES BEFORE THE PROWLING ZID FOUND THEM ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO NATIVES THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY 8335f40a-6064-49a6-b799-29cdefca0823 2274 THE NATIVE SHIFTED TO THE LEFT ANSWERED IN PURE UNACCENTED HIGH GALATIES WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING bd0d2aab-4ded-4e5e-9e55-6d8e97b24d4b 2317 AS INSTANTANEOUSLY AS IT HAD COME THE PAIN LEFT HIM AND HE REGAINED CONTROL OF IT QUICKLY THEN 5888d7f5-5a7b-4cb2-b3ba-78c9d3dcdfef 2425 VIC WELL I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED e3d8167f-c975-42f5-9542-7a427f0c063f 103 I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU 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 d2eb6138-bd32-4ce9-8e49-fe165d3900b0 2274 JUST MADE CONTACT WITH THE MOB A THIN BLACK INSECT WITH SHELL LIKE WINGS FLEW IN ORAN'S PORT fa646972-792c-4177-8a3a-8926ccfdb66b 2425 BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN AND FIVE OF THE OLDER MEN LED BY A SIXTH WITH A LARGER JEWEL AT HIS THROAT FILED SOLEMNLY INTO THE ROOM AND MOTIONED THAT WE WERE TO LEAVE THOSE HUGE ROUND EYES UNBLINKING UMBRELLAS WERE NOT HUMAN a0b13585-5702-4a78-8be9-3088f188c150 2317 HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE ALL RIGHT DEAR HE SAID YOU WIN YOU'RE RIGHT OF COURSE AND I'M WRONG d9746217-6ba8-442b-aeac-ea89792575e3 2312 AND IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE MAN WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN BUT THERE WERE OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA OF A GENUS LESS CERTAIN 86361956-066a-4949-9c43-997829c31389 198 THAT'S ONLY MY OLD APRON SAID FELICITY I HUNG IT THERE TO DAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT WHITE HEN'S NEST OH WHAT SHALL WE DO a426b331-c418-4ff3-a363-e8b260bd8490 464 BUT FELICITY HAD NO TIME TO OVERSEE HER THIS MORNING NEVER MIND PETER SAID CECILY YOU KNOW LOTS OF THINGS THEY DON'T fb414b3c-f344-4a01-aabc-d1a423ff17a9 2425 THE GREAT REWARD FOR SOME NOTABLE SERVICE RENDERED I IMAGINE WHISPERED VIC HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM 0e226e92-4b19-4c10-af86-a17917746152 1867 THIS WAS RADIOED BACK TO THE M T AND THE TRANSLATION SHOT BACK TO A SPEAKER IN MY JAWS 320718ad-6413-4f82-b6c6-20b720265f5e 188 I SHOULDN'T THINK YOU'D PUT ON YOUR BEST CLOTHES TO GO BEGGING FOR THE LIBRARY IN SAID FELICITY CUTTINGLY WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY 2a33db62-9bf6-4614-a36e-46c8af7da95e 2286 ROLY POLY PEPPY HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A RUTHLESS KILLER HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED THEN REACHED OUT AND TOOK IT 0caab55f-bcd7-4a92-a615-0937a340247e 464 IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT 88679e9b-0bfd-44be-b3c7-039ab65e32a9 2182 DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US BUT IT WASN'T CHARLIE THEY CAN'T BE DANGEROUS HE SAID b41cce61-6fbb-4d1c-af2d-8b0dc197a071 32 FELIX AND I RECOGNIZED ITS BEAUTIFUL FITNESS AT ONCE WELL GOD WILL BE ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO ME IF I DON'T PESTER HIM ALL THE TIME b9e09574-4d22-49fe-8988-0d71f2130aea 242 I JUST LOVE TO READ A STORY WHERE THE HEROINE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM WHY ARE THERE NEVER NO STORIES ABOUT UGLY PEOPLE 705c4864-fe47-4572-8a79-313c6690b113 177 SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL 18b8aac8-3830-4df8-9707-e9a23b941d91 402 AT ANY OTHER MOMENT WE WOULD HAVE RUSHED TO MEET HER IN WILD JOY HE GAVE UP TRYING AFTER A WHILE YOU ARE THE BEST OF US ALL YOU OPEN THE PARCEL cb4ac091-ab0e-4188-84df-49436f8b896f 188 THE LABEL WAS LOST HE SAID IT WAS A FAMOUSSE AND SHE DECLARED IT WAS A YELLOW TRANSPARENT TAKE NOTICE FELICITY SAID DAN ASIDE 5448e564-2d17-44d3-a708-3fc35431b919 464 I DON'T CARE HE SAID HOW'S A FELLOW TO KNOW TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED f777a958-b49a-437a-ab7a-0461ce3e8e36 30 DRIVING ALONG WE REMEMBERED THAT AUNT OLIVIA HAD WRITTEN TO FATHER THAT CECILY WAS A TRUE WARD WITH RATHER LONG LANK BROWN HAIR 6521642b-b481-47a8-8498-51e8b239d872 2368 SLOWLY HIS MIND OPENED AND BECAME PERCEPTIVE THE PRAYER HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE SMOKY ROOM YONAH SLIPPED IN c16db526-cffc-4a85-ab57-9dc1dd290ace 2425 I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE SIR HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR 1c02ce64-44a4-4190-9868-ed1f9d2edc1b 2312 MANOEL HAD ONCE TOLD MISSA MARSHALL ABOUT THIS YOU GOT A MILLION NAMES IN YOUR HAND IT ISN'T WORDS THAT I WANT FROM YOU 8bc4b993-cf4d-4c25-882c-f83cb6333d49 464 FELICITY AND CECILY STARED BLANKLY AT THE STORY GIRL WE BOYS BEGAN TO LAUGH BUT WERE CHECKED MIDWAY BY UNCLE ROGER 5f4af57c-b7e5-4c27-97d6-f84f7d004dfe 2137 THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS THE FIRE STILL SEEMED TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND YARDS AHEAD 2191296c-3d25-49fb-a279-2d19301afad4 188 DAN AND FELIX SHELLED PEAS AND TORMENTED PAT BY ATTACHING PODS TO HIS EARS AND TAIL FELICITY FLUSHED AND SERIOUS MEASURED AND STIRRED SKILFULLY 2ebeeec8-24e8-4aa0-b312-2cde7f6d2fdd 32 FOR A WEEK WE ATE UNLAWFUL LUNCHES AND DREAMED DREAMS AFTER OUR OWN HEARTS eac30302-a9da-45f4-a871-08edd301c0ac 748 IN WORDS THAT WERE BYRONS BUT SHE HAD FAR MORE FIRE AND INTENSITY AND STRENGTH OF 3c2624e0-036b-4ad9-8882-14c4461a71a2 2286 I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS 322f39ab-78d1-4cca-bed7-0df866f331da 748 IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD EVER GO THERE NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US 2b63d1e8-2770-4229-a6c4-915ade185725 32 IT IS THE VERY SAME CUP SAID THE STORY GIRL IMPRESSIVELY ISN'T IT AN AMAZING THING CONSEQUENTLY HER DREAM BOOK WAS VERY MONOTONOUS 5c5ad77b-ee92-47da-858b-df1332f7dba7 2368 I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING 8a6d368b-c641-4cb0-9a60-d18bc3d18d5c 413 IF THERE HAD BEEN ONE WISE OLDER FRIEND TO TELL US IN SERIOUS FASHION THAT WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT 6b1189a8-f70c-414a-a632-346ea884b88d 2108 I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU INTRUDERS THAT THE PROFESSOR IS A DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL THEY SEEM TO BE COVERED WITH WARTS 6b0db21c-0c3f-440e-820e-71b046fd227e 402 WITH WARM SUNSHINE AND A TANG OF FROST IN THE AIR A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET 134eda2c-ea2f-4551-bf1e-4e21411553a8 242 THE GODS THEMSELVES CANNOT RECALL THEIR GIFTS THEY MAY ROB US OF OUR FUTURE AND EMBITTER OUR PRESENT BUT OUR PAST THEY MAY NOT TOUCH HE WAS THE TALLEST AND BRAVEST AND HANDSOMEST YOUNG MAN IN THE TRIBE 09fecbb2-39d5-40af-881c-b7119e778e40 2368 BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT JONAS TOLD HIMSELF AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS THAT HE SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHAT TO DO WITHOUT THE RATS f14d486b-9a21-4bb4-9669-a0934afa5daa 464 SHE WOULD HAVE HELD HER TONGUE AS SHE AFTERWARDS CONFIDED IN TO ME YOU MUST ATTEND TO THE PUDDING YOURSELF SHE SAID THE RECIPE'S SO PLAIN AND SIMPLE 77beaa2e-dd4f-4bf3-a064-04f2e44641c1 103 ON THE FURTHER SIDE OF IT WAS A THICK PLANTATION OF SLENDER SILVER BIRCHES AND WHISPERING POPLARS AND BEYOND IT WAS UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE 5d482e59-4ef0-4947-8d9b-6b2ee6253135 402 BUT THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF OPINION WAS THAT WE MUST HAVE THE PICTURE NO MATTER WHAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICES WERE INVOLVED SURELY YOU DON'T BELIEVE GOD LOOKS LIKE THAT SHE SAID IMPATIENTLY WHILE HER FINE EYES FLASHED 71e4b19b-ed82-4ea8-8949-1a2454340099 2108 TRAVELLED WITH THEM TO THE EMERALD CITY IN SEARCH OF A HEART THAT COULD LOVE OF EACH HEAD MAKING IT SAUCER SHAPED INSTEAD OF DOME SHAPED e23d6252-7aa0-4664-afa2-3d31e3b7420d 188 MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A TALL MAN WITH A MASSIVE HEAD WELL THATCHED WITH THICK BLACK HAIR GREY STREET 15209390-3b35-4794-9a6c-f50924e805f6 2182 AND ARRIVED LONG AGO AT A WORKING AGREEMENT WITH THE ISLANDERS NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE HE LANDED ON SOMETHING TOUGH AND WARM AND SLIPPERY b541ea5f-ec28-4ac9-8e5e-b441aeb6a1d2 242 IT MUST HAVE BEEN A JOLLY LIFE WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT HUNT AND FIGHT I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT BUT YOU MUST SETTLE YOUR QUARREL IN A DIFFERENT FASHION bca0ff77-f1c3-4b3d-aa8e-330345389b25 2317 FARMER'S HAYMAKER CONNECTED BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER ddbe2fe8-d975-46e5-b4ca-a0ad61bb7f36 2274 IT UD BE PRETTY HARD TO MISS SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THAT THING WE FLEW OVER FOR A WHILE THERE I THOUGHT I'D NEVER BE TASTING ANYTHING LIKE THIS AGAIN 98ed9756-d43f-4fc3-8e0a-247d46332333 2182 JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN 4460d03d-5909-4b52-8d81-e2adc1f0fc75 1867 AFTER ABOUT FIVE OF THE LOCAL DAYS I HAD A SEA OF NATIVE CONVERSATION IN THE MEMORY BANK OF THE MACHINE TRANSLATOR AND TAGGED A FEW EXPRESSIONS 63b13672-db5b-4ac2-b397-b7cfb1b7d8a3 402 THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR MARGARET IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY 0b492fa5-8f21-4cb6-acc0-27038534669b 32 UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER 93a788d1-a5da-4a6a-8bcb-9f5fdff914d9 2182 FORESTED WITH ENDLESS ROWS OF FINS AND SPINES AND ENIGMATIC TENDRILS WE MAY RETURN LATER WITH THE CAMTHORIAN HUNTING PARTY AND RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT 383844eb-da26-4a26-ae2f-344ebb0b3846 32 I WOULD RATHER HAVE DIED THAN HAVE TOUCHED THE SLIM BROWN WRIST ON WHICH SHE SUPPORTED HERSELF 7708df1a-60d0-4049-bf40-e3a2014c9159 2368 HE HAD SMALL ALMOST HIDDEN EYES THAT SEEMED TO SEE A GREAT DEAL THAT FAILED COMPLETELY TO MAKE A FUSS ABOUT THE FACT 7244c0a9-24b8-48cf-80bf-ece622f2d125 2312 OF YOU BUCK EYED BEASTS THERE HOW DO WE GET TO THE PLACE CAN YOU SHOW US ON A MAP HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST 3a6a59ba-7b00-46da-8f1e-09b65aadbbfc 2368 THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY THE NEXT MOVE IS COMING SOON DO NOTHING TO HURRY IT YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS f88aa3f1-de63-4d07-9577-6c127eb18909 413 CICELY PESTERED OUR AUNT JANET'S LIFE OUT ASKING REPEATEDLY MAR WILL YOU BE GOING TO PRAYER MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT MAR WILL YOU BE PRESERVING RASPBERRIES NEXT WEEK AND VARIOUS SIMILAR QUESTIONS a569bc2e-6759-4c4d-8e4d-46031e6d1414 1867 IF THE BEACON CONKED OUT AGAIN THE M T WHISPERED IN MY EAR I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION a52e1ad7-d059-4953-9ac4-21f45d1d0ae7 748 WHATEVER HER FUTURE CAREER SHOULD BE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG 135db47c-d87b-47d1-a575-5ee24b4496ac 188 ALL RIGHT AGREED THE STORY GIRL THE ONLY TROUBLE IS I DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BUT I'LL TELL YOU ALL I DO KNOW 4f42612d-7ebe-4c95-b701-ea77aea094f6 2425 THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL FOR AN INSTANT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT NO SOUND FROM ALL THAT VAST CROWD 313c9739-a89e-47a9-8355-1a133c5926b9 177 WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING WHITE ON IT WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I e7078693-0503-490a-be37-bae378e5444f 2274 ON THE TRANSLIGHT SCREEN GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB 6e1ddec7-577e-4063-9dce-41d5d9abf5e4 32 THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD HER CURLS STREAMING BEHIND HER IN A GOLDEN CLOUD aa6ebae7-fec4-4226-a8d1-0eda4945bc24 2108 HIS IDEA WAS TO SEIZE HER CHAIR AND PULL IT OUT BY THE ROOTS THE TINSMITH MADE ME TIN ARM AND I WAS NOT MUCH WORRIED BECAUSE NIMMY AMY DECLARED SHE STILL LOVED ME 588c7bb2-bdd8-410d-a6ae-833cdb4539d4 30 HAD NOT THEN HEARD HER SAY IT ISN'T SO QUICK TO MOVE AND GET OUT OF YOUR SIGHT WHILE YOU'RE WINKING AS THE THIN ONE 0301c361-3e85-4439-a9d9-0b65ac04dbd9 177 IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR c9c42798-b501-422e-afea-ee0274e3e1d7 413 FELICITY NEEDN'T BE GIVING ANY HINTS THE BUTTERCUPS DROOPED OVER HER HIGH WHITE BROW AND PLAYED PETE WITH HER GLOWING EYES 8ba13d3e-ed0e-4507-aa2e-17322ad6ce8c 2317 SOME A FARMER'S FEAR GAVE WAY TO AMAZEMENT AT THE LITTLE INVENTOR'S AUDACITY ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE feb6f882-85e2-44c7-9e7a-7dd4d7af568c 2182 ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER BRINGING SUPPLIES AND GOSSIP TO LAST JEFF THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TEN DAY c5c5a0a2-4701-413d-95cc-191eb661df9a 413 FELIX KING WHAT HAS SCARED YOU PERHAPS THEY'LL LAUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR FACES TO MORROW SAID DAN WITH GLOOMY SATISFACTION HOW DID YOU EVER HEAR THE LIKE 1cac5893-6d1d-4500-ad4c-7ace95f5ca1e 464 FOR ONE THING THE WHOLE HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN APPLE PIE ORDER AND FOR ANOTHER AN ELABORATE SUPPER MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE EXPECTED RETURN OF THE TRAVELLERS THAT NIGHT FELICITY DEVOTED HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO THIS c84596ca-19b1-41bb-863a-da3837342fda 402 AND WHEREVER HE WENT AMONG MEN HE TAUGHT THEM LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD AND SKILFUL ARTS AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS 73f96d11-538a-4bf7-a020-fb3012a75f81 2368 HE WENT ON LOOKING AT HIS HANDS THERE WAS BITTERNESS IN HIS MIND BITTERNESS THAT HE CHANGED TO HATE I ALSO WISH HE SAID SMOOTHLY TO PAY FOR ANY HELP I MAY RECEIVE SUCH AS THE ANSWERING OF AN INNOCENT QUESTION 73addf05-80e8-4de3-8242-8feb24907cfc 103 BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY 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 035d0b94-c134-474b-9e81-4243f7f9d4ca 2286 WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED A UNIFORM WATCHMAN FRANTICALLY WAVED TO US AND THE WHOLE CONVOY JERKED TO A STOP THE SHIP WAS GONE RAID THE MENTAL HOSPITALS AND JAILS e550d41e-e50b-46f4-9906-178776b3ab6a 413 FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY 9ac4d257-325b-4496-b798-37bebe903060 242 I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GET WHIPPED OR NOT SO LONG AS YOU FIGHT A GOOD SQUARE FIGHT 9209ab8f-0144-4c66-ae86-6d30e8a99a02 2368 AM UNDER NO COMPULSION TO LISTEN TO YOU KENUFF SAID AFTER A PAUSE THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD 45bfaaeb-7e68-4533-be9b-1676c6f90730 402 I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER COME BACK TO HIS FAMILY SAID CECILY SAID DAN AH DAN WHAT MAKES YOU ASK SUCH QUESTIONS EXCLAIMED CECILY IN REAL DISTRESS 714a918c-475b-4a9c-b7fe-3c86479f1bb8 2286 IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE 581a12a7-e857-42cb-8a12-b0722d7ea840 198 HE DIDN'T GO OUT OF THIS DOOR REITERATED DAN STUBBORNLY I KNOW THAT WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU 63c24035-72e2-43ff-897a-4b76443decf1 451 THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED 0d7decb4-00a1-4b65-ada5-a5279c936056 2368 YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WILL PAY WELL YET YOU DO NOT APPEAR RICH ANOTHER DAY DRAGGED BY YUNUS PUT IN HIS TIME ALTERNATELY GOING OVER THE NEW PLAN AND FEELING MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HE HAD EVER BELIEVED POSSIBLE 258f66e8-7c3b-4eb9-ba8c-48aab90d3ee9 177 WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN THE BIBLE IS AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID THE STORY GIRL COMING TO PETER'S RESCUE 0fb7c4cd-d38c-4c1e-85b1-0b2aedeeb432 748 WAS FULL OF THE GLAMOUR OF MOUNTAIN RIMMED LAKES EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON HAD HE BEEN A POOR MAN HE 047522d5-91d5-4f30-bf6b-aa0845c292fd 2137 YOU KNOW THE NATURE OF THE TROUBLE REASSURED THE PATIENT THOUGHT AND BECAME CONFIDENTIAL THE IDEAL WAY TO DEAL WITH THE PEST eaf8c882-731c-49c5-8a4e-3cba9a2e1c56 2286 AFTER THAT HE COULD PLAY HIS POLITICS AS SOON AS HE WAS FINISHED I TOOK BACK THE SHEET TORE IT UP AND POCKETED TO PIECES f1724651-2617-45ff-910f-65207c306208 242 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 1bb12875-b745-4b55-a978-17c870ae157f 198 WE WENT AWAY LEAVING DAN SITTING ON THE DOOR SILL READING HIS BOOK AND JIMMIE P SNOOZING BLISSFULLY ON THE SOFA 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DISLODGED INSTANTLY AND SANK LIKE A STONE AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT CHAFFEE FOUR PROJECTED HIMSELF FIRST TO THE OPENED PORT 5b4c8b21-9551-4599-973b-b126686af0b1 2182 IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SOUNDED RELIEVED fd6f0a52-eba1-4015-8ea0-17547c73d350 32 LISTENED JUST AS EAGERLY AS WE DID I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER a1ed5506-b588-48b3-b2b6-6a2eb1f62c7a 2286 BIT BY BIT A PATENT STARTED TO EMERGE A DELICATE WEB WORK OF FORGERY BRIBERY CHICANERY AND FALSEHOOD 24ff9df2-47f7-4110-8fe8-af6d04073657 464 AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE f56161a3-0ce2-4a09-8472-da8c87149026 2312 MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS TELL US WHAT HAPPENED MANWELL f369bd26-4782-49b0-84d2-022734bddbe7 32 YOU LEAVE PETER ALONE FELICITY TELL THEM BOTH SAID FELIX GREEDILY BUT TELL THE GHOST ONE FIRST OF COURSE THERE WAS NO ORCHARD HERE THEN IT ab8440bc-d041-4e02-94aa-93e095a98966 242 SHE WORE I REMEMBER A DRESS OF WARM CRIMSON AND SHE HAD WOUND AROUND HER A STRING OF WAXBERRIES THAT LOOKED LIKE A FILLET OF PEARLS 1d5cc86c-0feb-4424-997d-e87a1deb3a33 451 IT'S DREADFUL TO SPOIL A WHOLE DAY I'M AWFUL TIRED AND THANKFUL SIGHED CECILY PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH 317340a2-44b6-43e8-8554-7576d5a6b88a 2425 FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED AT MY LEFT WAS A SIZABLE PIECE OF APPARATUS THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME I WAS DROPPING IN THE BLACKNESS 5524916d-fd70-4fb3-9e92-62f0f902b518 402 YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT 8e608133-388d-46af-8b25-9a9a38e421e5 402 AS WE STOOD THERE WRETCHEDLY WE HEARD FLYING FEET BELOW AND A BLITHE VOICE CALLING WHERE ARE YOU CHILDREN d0cc83c8-942e-42ba-8fa4-e6dd08b80089 1867 APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM 9b0cd32b-1c1b-4025-aea2-997f0f3623e9 14 SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER BEHIND US WAS AN OLD GRAY FENCE WITH VIOLETS AND DANDELIONS THICK IN ITS CORNERS be155dcc-f416-4339-9edf-16e9c5b2f7dc 198 OH I WON'T TELL HIM PROMISED FELICITY AMIABLY IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR 0a27dd6f-afc3-439b-b1bf-355ec7a994be 2312 AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL 75f774c5-14cb-41ec-bfc5-567c763e5296 30 AND PARTLY BECAUSE SARA RAY WHO LIVES AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL SO FAR AS WE KNEW SOFT FEATHERY GOLDEN CURLS 1c22169e-a84a-4e5a-ba31-80af02dbb7f6 188 OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST 156fe240-126e-4b00-a83c-0bc9ff9b0630 2312 YET EVEN ABOUT MULA THERE WAS AN ODDITY IN HER ANCESTRY HE WAS BEING HARANGUED BY A FOUR INCH TALL MAN ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE cff57b79-3c3d-41c7-ad02-c5d48787e5ba 30 THE TREE GRANDFATHER KING HAD PLANTED WHEN HE RETURNED ONE EVENING FROM PLOUGHING IN THE BROOK FIELD AND SHOT AN UNSISTERLY GLANCE AT DAN I e68ef2a7-fe7e-4262-9a12-a994154f6a83 14 MY AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST AND EVEN IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A METHODIST IT WON'T HURT YOU TO GO TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 01f923ad-cb8e-4cba-8e51-5ac6ae997fa8 2137 LET'S FACE IT BRANDON IS DEAD APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU IS OF COURSE TO MAKE IT USEFUL TO YOU 4bea1933-7dbd-4e1c-aa67-afa0ece3292b 2425 NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST 8fd36b8f-e22b-4cf7-bb58-1bd724ab9932 2137 THE HILLS WERE STUDDED WITH WEIRD TREES STANDING STIFF BRANCHES OUTSTRETCHED LIKE AN ARMY OF SCARECROWS 183366ec-bfc7-4b15-a78b-96e80d4d90b3 451 PAT WAS WITH US OF COURSE PROWLING ABOUT STEALTHILY OR MAKING FRANTIC BOOTLESS LEAPS AT THE SWALLOWS 011bb57a-14d4-45ef-bf27-b2a1fe54726a 451 JUST SMELL MISSUS SAMPSON'S FLOWERS SAID CECILY AS WE PASSED A TRIM WHITE PALING CLOSE TO THE ROAD OVER WHICH BLEW ODOURS SWEETER THAN THE PERFUME OF ARABY'S SHORE be84b53d-0feb-4f86-b623-95353f083248 2108 IS AT THE WEST OF OZ IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AT THE EAST SHE DID BUT SHE DOESN'T WAS THE REPLY f6801fc3-aac6-4883-8431-0b5a237d23b4 198 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 5e7b951d-639b-4644-aa57-f0769034b769 413 ON THE PRECEDING MONDAY FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD QUARRELLED OVER SOMETHING OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I 1560f578-70d9-4784-950f-d161f89c4ca1 451 OH YOU WOULDN'T SARA STANLEY YOU'RE NOT IN EARNEST EXCLAIMED FELICITY HER BLUE EYES FILLING WITH HORROR b6c8497f-31b6-47f6-af47-f5d4f5aa560c 2274 WILD ONES ASKED THORN YOU ARE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN 40a5a094-5a68-49fa-8893-b8ab06064dac 2368 THAT'S RIGHT YONA SAID SMILING AGAIN I'M A WIZARD A WARLUCK IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID b2d79b29-fb3a-4c53-a235-b778c17f33b8 14 THE STORY GIRL'S EYES GREW DREAMY AND HER ACCENTS FLOATED AWAY ON THE SUMMER AIR LIKE A WIND BLOWN ROSE PETALS f4c8573f-fb64-4a89-9759-e72662a2f7ea 464 WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED 0876ff6e-215f-46cf-9fcb-9ddcb6f723b8 2317 JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER ae9a96dc-7daa-4bed-81d1-23bac2e3699c 2286 THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN d28cc9f8-caaa-419d-a83f-25a7194b526b 451 THERE'S NO USE BEING NAUGHTY IF YOU SPOIL YOUR FUN BY WISHING ALL THE TIME YOU ARE GOOD IN WHICH NOBLE AMBITION HE SUCCEEDED PERFECTLY I 548edc3f-dcf6-429c-9e71-f13df1424029 177 SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS cfcdb106-9594-4b2a-b8a8-9de1d588acae 30 AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I 56b02286-0fe2-4eda-b8cf-e36365be4a1a 413 DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE 3b889df6-bed5-4a60-b68c-a19fb1f0740c 413 IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY AUNT OLIVIA ASSENTED LIGHTLY SWINGING HER HAT ON HER ARM AND INCLUDING US ALL IN A FRIENDLY SMILE ba37daf7-676a-4abd-a458-278cf036114e 2312 AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL 641c1696-262c-4777-a9d6-33ddea399cb9 2108 I HAVE BEEN A WANDERER FOR NEARLY A FULL YEAR AND NOW MY WANDERINGS HAVE BROUGHT ME TO THIS SPLENDID CASTLE 250e79f8-2c5b-405a-becb-3a1a3c3dc037 242 I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE 78687a53-e096-44d6-a419-c35687214c21 402 WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD THE STORY GIRL LOOKED 1cc7d1a9-8e9e-41f2-949c-d9dd4020b9b6 464 WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT HE GROANED AND TWISTED AND DOUBLED HIMSELF UP f1d2b7e3-9330-46cd-962b-f83ef8a241ec 2274 YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEWBE THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR 3fce53ba-7fe2-44cb-9918-7f592b591699 402 CECILY SAID FELICITY IN A HUSHED TONE WE BOYS WOULD CLIMB THE TREES AND SHAKE THE APPLES DOWN UNTIL THE GIRLS SHRIEKED FOR MERCY ba68a3d4-99ac-4f4e-abb7-25c543093356 2108 FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW AND I AM RESOLVED NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO THINK CAREFULLY 3e7375e9-d37e-4bac-9447-80dd759b2dde 30 AND STUCK THE WILLOWS WHICH HE HAD USED ALL DAY IN THE SOFT SOIL BY THE GATE 297417e1-2eee-45ff-88a0-ea3c803cb548 177 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 7227ab90-254a-4144-b1e5-504959c6e794 464 SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX AND LEFT THE SECONDARY PREPARATION OF THE REGULAR MEALS TO CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL 9da174fa-6111-478f-858d-151bbf064927 2317 HE STUDIED THE PROCEEDINGS CAREFULLY I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER a7d5d161-044b-44ad-b13d-51cb7ed623b4 2108 IT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT WE NEED FEAR THESE PUFFED UP CREATURES NO LONGER 0fa943a1-e28e-457f-90fe-95377cddd704 2317 BUT ORDINARY OCEAN AND STRINGING AN INSORTMENT OF WIRES BETWEEN IT AND HIS INVENTION AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID 3aaaf39c-63df-40aa-a65f-b2f71a61a369 103 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 d8552880-3f4a-407d-b602-58709cbb7c1e 188 AM GOING RIGHT OVER TO TELL THE STORY GIRL SAID CECILY WON'T SHE BE EXCITED AT LAST OUR SLUMBERS WERE PEACEFUL AND UNDISTURBED UNTIL OUR ORGY OF DREAMING BEGAN 2aec9023-0824-4842-8999-4cc9a71ad520 2182 THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED IT WAS MORE THAN VAST fc5eccd8-7368-4764-b1f6-e1ca4a10c558 14 THE COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE LAND WHERE SHE LIVED SAY ONLY HE IS OLD AND HIS HAIR IS WHITE THE WEIRD SPELL c99c81a8-fcb2-4c69-9be8-1bf88c26f530 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 8c38e7a3-4d63-4111-a1c2-a98464842c8d 2368 THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY THE POOR WOMAN FELT TERRIBLE HE KNEW BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT THAT 60ce2e31-995b-486b-a9ec-538349f599bd 103 BUT BEFORE WE REACHED THE GATE WE GLANCED TO OUR LEFT ALONG THE GRASSY SPRUCE BORDERED LANE WHICH LED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S 62b2a6e7-cfd5-4140-8947-175a9c903436 198 AND CECILY TRUE'S YOU LIVE THERE WAS EIGHT SEEDS IN IT AND YOU KNOW EIGHT MEANS THEY BOTH LOVE fd19b44e-5d62-463c-9784-2f091956db5e 748 AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY NOR WERE WE THE ONLY VICTIMS THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER 9b6b59a6-1034-4e85-b9a3-6663259163a3 748 AND SARA'S HAD AS GOOD AS DESCENDED UPON HER OUT OF THE SKIES SAID DAN SPITEFULLY PEG BOWEN HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT 9a2b837c-988e-4185-bd1d-9174a7fe1a31 188 IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE FACE OF A CLOCK AND THERE ARE FLOWERS IN IT THAT OPENS AT EVERY HOUR SO YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THE TIME WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX ffa163fd-1af6-443c-b3fc-b59d835d65d9 748 IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I BUT WE DID NOT TRUMPET OUR WRONGS ABROAD 1069485a-c302-4a34-811e-35911a3e0571 2182 ON A TRADE BASIS OF COURSE OFFERING FOR THE FIRST TIME A REAL STEP TOWARD ULTIMATE STABILITY INDIVIDUALLY PERCEPTIVE YET ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER 05c91901-347e-4891-99f1-246a98059169 748 HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER 6760a85c-f00f-43de-8c3c-e75114c18693 464 WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE 271d9915-f8fd-4d87-a800-5e0bfec43994 2274 IS THAT THE NATIVE SPEAKING FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS 80c1e6a9-541b-43d9-a7b3-ee43e6d8929c 402 WE'RE NONE OF US CHURCH MEMBERS BUT OF COURSE PETER COULDN'T BE SENT TO THE BAD PLACE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS aadcc6a0-6637-4c15-896c-823676b2cf8d 2312 EXCEPT THAT IT HAS NO TREES WORTHY OF THE NAME HIGH PLANES DID NOT HAVE THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE GAINING POPULATION IN THE NATION 911389ef-2427-4043-85a0-3bcee0c3c0e0 2312 IS MISTER MARSHALL'S BOY THE CENSUS CHIEF CENSUS LIST NAMES OF EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGDALENA I HAD TO STEAL IT f9b69f07-3c3b-4658-839d-570b469242e3 14 FELICITY HER PINK AND WHITE FACE SHADOWED BY HER DROOPING FORGET ME NOT WREATHED LEGH HORN HAT IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD 13cc001b-b6eb-402c-bab0-306dcbd1b4c8 2425 THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES 5156ed2e-00aa-4080-818f-0012be729ece 2317 GAVE OUT A FLASHING DANCE OF SHE SET THE JUDGE'S INVENTION DOWN ON A LOWER STEP AND PICKED UP THE JUDGE INSTEAD e226469e-c195-49a2-84d5-71a36bd93464 2317 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION 2f241a0d-0939-4011-86d2-414e38b1525a 2182 THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM fbaa22a4-0bd3-4c24-8b38-a2666f938fed 451 EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THINK HOW SICK YOU WERE LAST NIGHT AND ALL THE TROUBLE YOU MADE FOR EVERYBODY DON'T EAT ANY MORE THERE'S A GOOD CHAP 7fc10956-cceb-480c-b323-613ee24a2ab1 1867 THIS RAISED A BUZZ OF CONVERSATION BEHIND ME BUT GOT NO RISE OUT OF THE CHIEF I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING 09b8b918-4493-4eac-b106-c983746cf932 2312 AND THE ROLL GOES ON AND ON FROM SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN TO NOTHING b93e5dbd-74d0-4621-a156-97712e804dea 2368 HERE WE ARE ALONE SHARP WENT ON HIS VOICE LOWERING MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER HAVE GONE TO VISIT A NEIGHBOUR FOR THEY HAVE NOT YET CLOSED US OFF ENTIRELY FROM ALL HUMAN CONTACT ec8443eb-902d-4a7a-ac36-aec725254db6 413 LEAVING THE STORY YELLOW AND PETER TO PEEL THEIR POTATOES THE REST OF US WENT HOME WHERE AUNT JANET WHO HAD GONE TO THE WELL AND FOUND THE FRAGMENTS OF THE OLD BLUE CUP GAVE POOR FELICITY A BIT OF SCOLDING ABOUT IT 3d7ba7cd-6dc9-4def-84d5-3db9cc641493 402 FELIX AND I SPOKE NOT OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID 326d233f-6ecb-4f2e-a910-8540321d4a5b 198 THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES dc37d42a-b81c-4b62-a265-f28526214135 242 I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD 09cbcc41-99c2-4d96-bdcc-3d2df0778334 451 FELIX AND PETER AND I WERE REQUIRED TO HELP UNCLE ROGER AND SOME CARPENTERING WORK THAT DAY AND FELICITY INDULGED IN ONE OF THE HOUSE CLEANING ORGIES SO DEAR TO HER SOUL 65711189-2667-40bc-b921-b1e452652fb0 2368 THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS IT WAS FAR FROM A WARM WELCOME BUT YONAS WAS SATISFIED WITH IT c9625e5b-0385-4c90-a937-0830d9cdbd9a 2137 WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON CAKED AROUND THE CORNERS OF HIS LIPS TRIMMING A FEW SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH GOLD 7136f39f-2fdb-442f-a37e-e2ffad1a5556 32 AS IT WAS WE WERE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK UP IT LEST WE SHOULD SEE THE WADING BLUE CLAD EMILY UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE CAN'T YOU HIDE SOMETHING AWAY THROUGH THE DAY AS WE DO 1a84d8df-37d3-4cbd-b32f-f3ede7813a95 32 AND BY THE TIME AUNT JANET CAME IN WE WERE ALL IN OUR RESPECTIVE BEDS SHINING IN MEMORY WITH A SOFT GLOW OF BEAUTY 170f7b1e-dfbe-47d8-a3ef-cbcb75296ebe 2317 AND THIS SEEMED TO ADD THE FINAL TOUCH OF INSANITY TO THE SCENE JOHN ANDREW TRIED NOT TO STARE AT HIM TOO NOTICEABLY 39de0151-b410-40c3-9d62-160c31492c35 2182 SIR THESE COLONISTS HAD BEEN AUTONOMIST FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS I'D LIKE TO STAY THEY'LL USE FORCE c44dd003-e059-48b0-aec8-e2a444980782 242 WHY IS IT THEY'RE ALWAYS SO HANDSOME IN STORIES ASKED ANNE SHE SAID SHE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL CUTE OF HIM I dbc103d0-ef39-44e3-ad52-236664ce0508 451 OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF SHE STROKED THE PURRING PADDY AND WE READ STEADILY ON WITH MADDENING INDIFFERENCE TO ALL OF OUR PLEADINGS 0ed9172f-7bb9-4c48-b3a7-122c001e0bf1 2317 THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY STUMBLED ON ODDLY TWISTED LEGS AND COLLAPSED ON THE DECK f1bf8499-2e00-4385-ac3e-a22a8f9a391f 2108 IT WAS QUITE A SURPRISE TO THEM AH AND THE BEAST ADVANCED ALONG THE LINE TO WOOD THAT COULD HIDE EVEN A RABBIT NOR ANY HOLE FOR ONE TO FALL INTO 85b3649e-3287-4817-98d4-1551db6b2a99 2274 THAT A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THAT MITE CONTACT THIS RIG HERE AND THERE RED AND PURPLE FLOWERS JUTTED FROM THE VERDURE bc44a250-f19f-4327-b1f0-fb214da9381a 2425 THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME 8989a404-0b9f-4105-a95f-e650859d0ccd 2425 HOPE'S AWAY AT AUNT CLEO'S SO DON'T GET IN TOUCH WITH HER AND SPOIL HER VISIT AND MATTER IS WHAT 1ddc0867-1714-4de0-b06a-92a080a2933b 413 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 FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER ed39e903-5b7a-48ed-b9ea-25d07e7332e7 14 AND WE'LL ALL BE DISGRACED THE NEAREST METHODIST CHURCH IS SIX MILES AWAY AT MARKDALE 77a184e4-ae54-42b3-9536-cdbe768b2f99 32 AND AUNT JULIA WHOSE VOICE WAS TO DELIGHT THOUSANDS SANG HER EARLIEST MAGICALS THERE d71401fb-1175-44dc-b472-8cfbcf4fe03d 188 THERE'S A WHITE MUSLIN WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL I HAD THOUGHT OF IT HE OWNED BUT IT LOOKS A WEE LIKE A STORM AND MY SLEIGH IS AT THE BLACKSMITH'S TO BE SHOD 5e1074df-5e1d-4961-92b0-679ad076f857 2368 I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND HIS CONTROL SLIPPED THE TWO GUARDS CAME TOWARDS HIM df0a0b88-a379-4b0a-9ab1-055d2c5623ee 2286 THEY HAVE BEEN NEED NEEDING REORGANIZATION FOR QUITE A WHILE I TOOK A STADISTIC REVENGE ON THE NAVY BY NOT TELLING HIM A WORD ABOUT MY MISSION 3afdb9f6-3e6e-42c2-9c75-3fd44c27e38f 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 07b6d6fe-d70e-4ae0-8dbd-f8714182ad52 748 HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM WHAT WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND TILL YEARS LATER TO US IN THOSE YEARS 63807689-e52b-45ba-8e0d-7d28025329ae 2425 BUT WHAT THEY'RE UP TO NOW I CAN'T EVEN GUESS THEY DEAL DEATH SPARINGLY AND THAT MAKES THEM GREAT BEHIND HIM HER BIG BLUE EYES BRIMMING HER LIPS QUIVERING e017e089-c122-4a7b-ae5b-b2de05ac3910 413 THE STORY GIRL LAWFULLY TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND AND FELICITY SAID THAT FAT BOYS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS 063f3c17-7b4b-4177-84f3-828002323a18 2286 MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW aa5aa667-3b9e-441f-9fff-22a60e434ac1 2312 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE NOR THE DENAY THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME adb94075-1412-4d24-991a-fd9e5b1654ac 748 WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL 34c1a728-429f-4a56-b828-8d9ec7dddddf 30 SAID AUNT JANET SEVERELY I FEAR SHE HAD AN ANXIOUS TRIP OF IT POOR WOMAN THE OLD HOUSE WITH THE SPRUCES BEHIND IT 4d2eb589-fb17-4b91-9c6e-8ae96c4f91f1 2317 AND WHAT SEEMED TO FARMER AT LEAST TO BE FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC SCIENTIFIC DETACHMENT 9b176c21-a02d-4b1d-b1c5-0986d9add559 2317 FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE AND I'M LEARNING HE'S PRETTY INTELLIGENT TOO b1b23d0e-0268-414d-a153-156fc7e42f48 2368 THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND THE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR THERE ARE FINES TO PAY IN COSTS OF THE INQUISITION 88d39253-c6e9-4cb6-b233-ed44fca7406c 451 MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW e1eb483a-7f48-4117-876e-f300fff5b031 30 HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG 94d0063a-9d22-471a-9384-95baa24fd0d8 451 THE WRETCHED BACHELOR WHO UNDERTAKES TO LOOK AFTER A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN LIKE YOU AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA 41738000-98b7-4c02-a225-31a7f384470c 748 AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER AND I HASTENED TO DO IT 9d60f41b-5254-45b9-9cd8-f0aff477cd66 32 EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET 1c177b01-aa14-4dac-af09-4a8db8e99e09 30 DON'T TALK SILLY NONSENSE DAN STAND ON THE PULPIT STONE WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE b08934e9-66bc-4c9f-99c1-aa896057628c 2274 A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE HE FELT VAGUELY UNEASY ON THIS CHINA THREE 1e41f462-0428-45c0-af31-fac637439f48 413 PERHAPS IT'LL ALL BE BURNED UP TO MORROW IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG 8538ceed-b6f6-43fc-bfff-7e636cca563f 748 I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN AS GOOD A COOK AS FELICITY DAN WAS TOO MUCH IN EARNEST TO RESENT MY BLUNT SPEECH 47690056-7757-4041-bbd2-1e475d8ab3bf 2425 I BELIEVE ILL RUN ALONG AND SEE IF I CAN FIND MISSUS PARR I HAVEN'T HAD A THING TO EAT SINCE NOON YESTERDAY ed004ecd-64cf-48ee-b6ba-dde13cfd68b2 2286 I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE MAIN GATE I IGNORED THE STURD OF ACTIVITY AROUND THE CUSTOMS BUILDING 935dd1d1-9e43-4eeb-9d18-8581a352feed 2108 AND NOW AS THE BRILLIANT SUN SANK LOW OVER THE WINKY COUNTRY OF OZ aaa7dac5-1edd-4347-96dc-0d2dc201fb78 451 SHE WAS SITTING THE JULY SUNLIGHT ON THE LEDGE OF THE OPEN HAYLOFT WINDOW IN UNCLE ROGER'S BIG BARN 26b10598-3633-4b97-b8ad-b01e90b8fa25 2182 THERE WAS A SOUND OF STEALTHY MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND HE FLICKED SWEAT OUT OF HIS EYES WITH A HAND THAT SHOOK e7a70f58-86f7-4ef7-af8a-364d5fd34233 14 OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH 65a5cc89-b9cd-4c0f-9dad-29d3813b59b7 177 OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY IF IT'S A JUDGMENT DAY I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY HAIR IS CURLY OR NOT SHE SAID af5c7485-bb40-4ca8-ae2d-90f6ef916233 14 THEY'RE ANGELS THEN NOT METHODISTS OR ANYTHING BUT JUST ANGELS 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 02d4325e-d118-4028-aa29-aaa52990a569 1867 THEY MILLED AND MOBBED AND PILED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND BY THAT TIME I HAD LANDED IN THE PLAZA FRONTING THE TEMPLE 78bd61d4-0e60-4c9b-ba0b-9152eb035e29 103 NO BUT IT IS TOPSY'S GREAT GREAT GRANDSON SAID THE STORY GIRL GRAVELY HIS NAME IS PATTY AND HE IS MY OWN PARTICULAR CAT 657bd00e-9c4b-49af-a47d-d0855b07a46f 2317 AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG HE STOOD OVER THE THING WEBBED HANDS ON SCALY HIPS PEERING AT IT INTENTLY 634ad13c-69af-4208-b093-b5c9780c4ead 2286 UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND eb76b523-5fed-4dda-958b-a1276c400515 242 YOU'LL BE SURE TO GET WHIPPED IF YOU FIGHT WITH PETER SHE SAID YOU'RE TOO FAT TO FIGHT PETER PRAYS THREE TIMES A DAY REGULAR 862bf2fc-c60a-4603-99f9-1d70c7e29ffa 2108 ALL NEATLY DISPLAYED ON TIN DISHES THAT WERE POLISHED TILL THEY SHONE LIKE MIRRORS 570f8666-bc66-4ba8-bdfe-48c472631fe3 748 BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND 08822a0c-19c0-4a65-84e1-c84bf822cd65 2368 WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE HE STOOD FOR A SECOND AT THE CREST OF THE HILL HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN OF SPIRE AS IT BAKED IN THE MAY AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT 00895a7e-9e15-4e0f-b2e0-2ff3f3671a9d 402 I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY 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 298b2ae5-3ca5-417c-b776-7ca1bc5db8b8 451 OUTSIDE THE LOFT WAS A VAST SUNSHINY GULF OF BLUE SKY AND MELLOW AIR WHEREIN FLOATED ARGUSES A FLUFFY CLOUD AND AIRY TOPS OF MAPLE AND SPRUCE 6d4ce9e8-f464-4ffa-aa68-5679207c2c66 402 I DON'T SEE HOW YOU CAN BE SO UNFEELING SARA STANLEY SAID FELICITY REPROACHFULLY IT WAS FOR US TOO FULL OF HAPPY MEMORIES TO ACCORD WITH OUR BITTERNESS OF SOUL 729794b4-87bf-4a42-90f3-4546478bad8e 2312 I SHOULD EAT SO LATE MAKE THEM REEL FAST THEN I'M ON MY WAY WHO IS CENSUS CHIEF NOW ee960367-b8bb-4713-8b7a-f2c46520195a 1867 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY THERE WAS A RESIDUE OF CHARGE IN THE EMERGENCY BATTERIES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE A DIM LIGHT a2eb8192-cb36-4b42-a2a3-ec8ccb322c45 2368 YOUR SYMPATHY MAY ENDANGER YOU SHARP SAID IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY ba7859c0-1d5f-4e20-a49e-5edef083c1ef 2182 BUT JEFF AUBREY AND JENIFER MAC WOULDN'T BE ON HAND TO WITNESS THEIR SORRY TRIUMPH WE MUST TRY AGAIN 7f662d3d-3b3a-4528-bc2d-dc6c82adfd5a 32 IT BLEW UP AND EVERYTHING BLEW UP BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY 57b14abf-05ca-4124-9a77-32e8cf311392 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE HE WAS NOT ANGRY 52892221-c213-465e-9489-bd4581edc89b 32 BUT THE STORY GIRL WENT ME ONE BETTER EVEN THERE BECAUSE HAVING INHERITED SOMETHING OF HER FATHER'S TALENT FOR DRYING 539796dd-492d-4752-abf0-1843aaf51cfa 2108 BUT I'VE NOTICED THAT THE LAST END OF THE WAY HOWEVER LONG IT HAS BEEN IS THE HARDEST TO ENDURE cc21221f-f518-4207-b224-5158e7bf55bd 413 OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND b34e94c0-922d-479a-8a48-eaacbcc581d8 2108 INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY SO I'M MUCH OBLIGED FOR THE KINDNESS LITTLE FAIRY ec55316d-a85c-44b5-a968-034f9f97f4f5 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 HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHERE YOUR FATHER IS ASKED ANN aa897ed4-bb7c-4c6a-992c-e7640787edaf 30 BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY HE WAS A LEAN FRECKLED FELLOW AND THE SHAPELY KING NOSE f17c4a25-f301-46b3-870f-6b3fb007b7d2 451 AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY 822f8cca-f462-4da1-9012-7a8d5cedf5fb 1867 HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY 7e956266-62f3-4c75-9983-63a22f205d9f 198 I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU YOU OUGHT TO BE BRAVER THAN GIRLS ecfc33c4-f8fc-4004-8f2e-febdfbe70c5e 2274 THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WAY OFF IN THE BALLANDINE SYSTEM BY NOW 5a1d4c22-04d3-4399-9f0e-4e7d7f0d70b9 177 WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION 6456f1e2-528a-4725-9f7c-942cb0b6c7ce 2286 FIRST I HAD TO BE SURE THAT I KNEW HIM WELL JUST AS WHEN I BUMPED INTO A MARK I KNEW HOW MUCH IT COULD BE TAKEN FOR AND JUST HOW TO DO IT e162f136-a184-493f-ac24-a8d4ea6f1f9c 1867 BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES c31a101b-8a0a-426c-a012-4f85bbed3729 402 HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER AT ALL EVENTS HE ANNOUNCED TO US THAT HE COULDN'T BRING THE RED COVERED HISTORY TO SCHOOL BUT IF WE WANTED TO BUY THE PICTURE OUTRIGHT HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT OF THE BOOK AND SELL IT TO US FOR FIFTY CENTS 751e09cd-04f8-4c2a-b07f-64d415af5951 177 SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED b3ef83bf-8e40-46d2-8b75-51ec34669cbb 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES 54a14797-865e-40ac-bd12-49c2aaa66f5b 2182 THERE WAS A SLITHERING SOUND IN THE DISTANCE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MOUNTAIN IN MOTION NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK d61a9d36-8cff-458f-884a-25538254ec1e 2286 THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS 2666f97d-cb6b-4aab-9461-87ba56bbfd3c 32 IT HAD PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE GAMES OF OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS BEING FORTIFIED CASTLE INDIAN AMBUSH db3c979f-460a-42ca-ad2f-d4f4904d42bb 177 THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES 183b28b1-c473-41a9-aa05-c3523f5bd7ff 402 WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN WE ALL SPOKE IN LOW TONES ON THE SUBJECT 1de7d7f1-3608-4853-acb0-78ebc52c666e 198 HE STRODE ALONG RIGHT MASTERFULLY AND LIFTED HIS HEAD WITH THE AIR OF ONE WHO WAS MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED BITTER INDEED WAS THE STORY GIRL'S MORTIFICATION adc78601-e68d-4a7e-af8f-23abe50a1cd6 2137 MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS 7ae0961a-0443-4c4e-a408-674920a22c1b 2274 YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION MIGHT EVEN BE OFF THE DELPHINIS GRATSEY WAS ON THE TRAMP WASN'T ON THE TRANSLATED LIST eb3ae0c5-4b3b-4373-bc00-61595fffed54 188 YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US WE HAD NEVER DREAMED THERE WAS SO MUCH IN THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE 02f26fe7-2130-415b-9b20-f0253fe9cd23 413 WOULDN'T HAVE DISOBEYED US OFTEN IF I'D THOUGHT THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS SO NEAR I PROMISED KITTY MOTHER I'D GO DOWN AND SPEND IT WITH HER IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN a8ea0653-abc6-4a15-8a00-6e5eb1806574 198 I DON'T CARE IF THE JOKE IS AS MUCH ON MYSELF AS ANY ONE A STORY IS A STORY NO MATTER WHO IT'S ON BUT IT IS HATEFUL TO BE LAUGHED AT AND GROWN UPS ALWAYS DO IT 5620c8f3-0de6-47eb-b09c-1599aad89aa4 188 AND HE SAID THAT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A SERMON YOU DON'T HEAR SUCH SERMONS NOWADAYS TIME THE FLOOR HAD TO BE SCRUBBED IT WOULD CURE HER OF HER SENTIMENTAL NONSENSE 69c7301e-184a-4259-86ac-0839bcb4642f 188 AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN I COULD NOT SEE ANY ADVANCE IN GROWTH YET BUT THEN I HAD BEEN TAKING IT ONLY THREE DAYS 54e77126-d36a-476b-b348-c604348e0f8e 2312 A DONKEY A JACK AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER PAPERS AND SEE WHICH ONE I AM ee68d99e-4765-45de-b1f5-b370ed399b18 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 9bd1cdfc-c40e-424b-b553-303259ae9e86 2182 YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT JEFF MADE A PUSHING MOTION FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER 8ba9b762-b1ee-4a64-be74-d1b3e387e6dc 2108 WHICH MARKED THE LINE BETWEEN FOREST AND PLAIN WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST c0ac2878-71cc-4f71-bb85-2c82a9421907 2312 THE VERY GULCHERS STOOD ANGRY AND STARK IN THE EARLY MORNING WE DECIDED IT WAS TOO CLOSE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM f5ebe606-1ca9-4a47-8237-c6f7a388f529 2108 AS LONG AS THEY LIVED THERE WHEN WE GO TO A DANCE YOU WILL NOT GET WEARY BEFORE THE MUSIC STOPS 1906f331-0764-4ad3-a5c7-63c421e4477e 2182 HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM cab5b164-21db-4588-83f8-18333273b9e8 2182 CHAFFEE THREE POINTED OUT AS THEY DODGED TO THE CONTROL CUBICLE AGAIN JUST AHEAD OF THE SLAVERING ZID 948b94bb-fb1a-4ecc-a3f7-bfa61185381d 2368 HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD 6d5b52eb-0201-4e49-ac79-4294803769d4 14 BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED SHE DREW HERSELF HAUGHTILY UP b68c90f1-1b25-4e23-9de4-7886617b8d5e 14 I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT WILL NOT WED UNTIL A KING COMES WHO CAN CONQUER ALL KINGS cf3aab87-f8bb-4158-98e3-ad90eba361ea 413 BUT DIGNITY REMAINED TO BE CONSIDERED WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN BE IT REMEMBERED WITH A VERY FIRM AND SIMPLE FAITH THAT GROWN PEOPLE KNEW MUCH MORE THAN WE DID AND A ROOTED CONVICTION THAT WHATEVER YOU READ IN A NEWSPAPER MUST BE TRUE 1aba5233-ed83-44d3-9af6-ddf9394cb9aa 1867 I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN 8d9ec514-fd72-4bde-a808-4cf8f33bed2d 30 AND AUNT JANET SHE MUST HAVE FELT GREAT RELIEF WHEN SHE REACHED CHARLOTTETOWN 3e1b22fb-abb3-4406-bd09-d5bc764816dd 451 THE PIG ATE THE WHOLE PAILFUL AND THEN THE IRISHMAN PUT THE PIG IN THE PAIL AND IT DIDN'T FILL MORE THAN HALF THE PAIL 4a559bde-8b29-475f-8deb-bfc984fe3d9b 32 NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK 7346be9f-dd04-46f8-93f9-d293c499b12a 402 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT A SACRILEGE MEANT BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER MILWOOD HAD DECLARED THAT THE PICTURE WAS NOT LIKE GOD 74ef0670-9069-49c6-9ae2-917b338b3bdc 14 PETER WAS BY WAY OF SKULKING SHAMEFACEDLY PAST INTO THE SHADOWS PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND 2ea88978-e7a5-452e-aab4-9751aeb140c0 2137 GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE JUST AS THIS PLANET WAS TO ITS MASTER SERIOUS HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT THE WIND HOLLOWING HIS EARS 7453c067-4a80-465a-a915-1363d13b23f5 14 BUT CECILI HAVING TORTURED HER HAIR WITH CURL PAPERS ALL NIGHT HAD A RAMPANT BUSH OF CURLS ALL ABOUT HER HEAD 82ca43a6-369f-4f39-97c0-73f57884b620 2317 HE SAID THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO HIS MIND AND THERE WERE VARIOUS OTHER UNUSUAL APPENDAGES HER FIGURE WAS LEAF AND NICELY CURVED df69ffc6-237a-4f97-a696-3d72dddb52f8 2368 UNIMPORTANT YONAS THOUGHT THE MAN IS CONVINCED HE CAN BE TRAINED FURTHER AND JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD BUT HE MAKETH VERY LITTLE PROGRESS UNLESS HE PICK THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE WHO STICKETH OUT HIS NECK 1ddd324c-d878-46c0-a029-1cd55b43321d 2108 WHAT DO I CARE FOR A GIRL WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN AND WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ME ADDED THE SCARECROW c645387f-9c16-4ada-8b9d-5a4b8efe8b07 1867 OF COURSE I DIDN'T SAY IT OUT LOUD JUST WHISPERED LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE THROAT MIKE TO CATCH THEN HE LUNGED UP AND POINTED A DRIPPING FINGER AT ME 03ea4d57-32fe-44f4-97b3-9c109362ef58 413 THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF fef23fb3-6584-407a-af5c-575795493af4 402 BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE I WANT HIM TO STAY RIGHT HERE THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL 4f024f42-ac32-4341-9da0-7cc2840751ec 242 BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING EXCLAIMED PETER INDIGNANTLY I de0ff1c6-c92f-4c59-acad-a4b0f295a75f 2425 SOME NATURAL FORCE THEY'VE CORRALLED I IMAGINE WE CAN EVEN ADD OTHER THINGS HEAT AND ELECTRICITY FOR EXAMPLE 2075a242-1ff1-4c6d-9484-3026ce529d8a 2368 HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN NEVERTHELESS A FAMILY WHICH WAIT SHE SAID THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD 8c53ffec-a5b6-4be6-a33f-f86793ee4540 402 CECILY SAT DOWN BY HER HALF FILLED BASKET AND BEGAN TO CRY CASSIOPEIA SAT ENTHRONED IN HER BEAUTIFUL CHAIR IN THE NORTH EAST f1e8c178-ee0b-498e-8d33-adc2508449fc 2274 A GLASS BLOWING CULTURE I LIKE YOURN SAID TO NEWBE YOU SHALL BE ONE OF MY SLAVES YOU WILL TEACH ME MANY THINGS a1f3c285-5b69-4d07-b4c8-25b3588e13d5 242 DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS 17924d05-d0a0-4edc-93cd-794ffc0f18e0 2312 I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE WERE TAKEN HE WROTE DOWN ALL THE DATA OF NINE PEOPLE YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SAID MARSHALL abefd816-43cb-4e90-9383-0539155be116 198 I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO THE WORLD CALLS THEM ITS SINGERS AND POETS AND ARTISTS AND STORY TELLERS BUT THEY ARE JUST PEOPLE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND 9c950d95-6336-48fe-ada6-65d32c3a2499 198 AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK TO EARTH BECAUSE WHEN YOU DRANK OF THE MAGIC CUP YOU FORGOT ALL YOUR PAST LIFE EXCEPT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU WERE ALLOWED TO REMEMBER IT I WISH THERE WAS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND AND A WAY TO GET TO IT SAID CECILY 5e714eb8-9d79-42b1-82f0-160efa1d9662 2312 MARILLA JUST LAY DOWN AND DIED MANOEL HE HAD TO PRODUCE A POPULATION OF TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FOR HIGH PLANS TEXAS 57267101-cc70-47d0-85ee-a9c7eead207a 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 f1097faa-4163-4aa8-8336-032587d938ed 2137 THERE WAS A WAR WHICH WE WON UNDER THE OXYGEN MASK HE WAS AWARE OF DRIED BLOOD CLOTTED IN HIS NOSTRILS ab65db49-5ead-40ba-a099-15ac3f2f9f84 2286 EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT 3dcaac04-a273-4399-8fbd-38a90dd7f9f3 402 MISTER MIRWOOD PRESENTLY WALKING BENIGNLY ALONG THE LANE WAS CONFRONTED BY A FAT SMALL 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4c8ce105-7ffa-44fe-b0d8-f8d0faaf1666 198 OFF TO THE WEST WAS A DAFFODIL GLOW HANGING OVER THE VALLEY OF LOST SUNSETS AND GRANDFATHER KING'S HUGE WILLOW ROSE UP AGAINST IT LIKE A ROUNDED MOUNTAIN OF FOLIAGE 72a556a6-2e1e-401b-b671-a6aa3dd51d90 2312 NOW IT IS PROPOSED TO MAKE IT THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STATE PARK IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM cd3d310b-9599-4c2b-99bf-3ab3fc6d5f35 32 I SHALL TRY TO CULTIVATE PATIENCE PETER RECEIVED AN EXTRA SETTING DOWN WHICH HE CONSIDERED RANK INJUSTICE 84cf3227-8aef-4272-860e-bbbf0c85ec7b 402 JERRY HAD BROUGHT IT IN A FISH BASKET AS APPEARED WHEN HE MOUNTED THE GRANARY STAIRS SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL b8432643-13ce-4133-8401-56a43e63db5b 242 WE APOLOGIZED AND PROMISED TO BEHAVE BETTER SHE WENT ON APPEASED THE GIRLS GASPED BUT DAN AND I WERE JUBILANT SNUFFING A BATTLE AFAR OFF 1ca1e909-9fcc-440e-9921-be5a9b26eb82 2137 AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE BURNING SHIP HE WATCHED FOR A WHILE BUT SAW NO MORE FLARES BRANDON SWORE AND 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199b8535-a752-4ee0-b585-85817e81430c 413 IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK 1ccfc1ba-692b-47b6-b5b9-4114b63acc30 2286 DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE HE HAD LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE ENTIRE OPERATION AS A FUTILE ONE d9e6d1fc-cebe-4d64-be0f-8b6a4e904619 14 NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS THE STORY GIRL MADE NO RESPONSE ecd8ea50-18fb-4cca-b568-6bf0507277f9 188 YES BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS THIS HERSELF FELICITY GOT ALL THE GRATITUDE ALTHOUGH THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA AND SEATED THE RAISINS AND BEATEN THE EGGS WHILE CECILY HAD TRUDGED ALL THE WAY TO MISSUS JAMES'S LITTLE SHOP BELOW THE CHURCH TO BUY THE PINK CANDIES BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD 9e5c95cd-68e1-4d3a-84ad-e24755853869 14 AND THEN CELIA GAVE IN AND TOOK HIM BECAUSE SHE SAW THERE WASN'T NO HOPE OF HIM EVER GIVING IN I SAID FELICITY RELUCTANTLY I bd97e11c-87e7-47dd-93a9-716bc0829ed4 188 OR THAT HAPPENED FAR AWAY IT HAPPENED JUST DOWN AT MARKDALE AND I'VE SEEN THAT VERY SPRUCE WOOD MYSELF 2fc38ac6-9b7f-4b91-812b-d82f5eeee7b6 413 BESIDES WHAT IS THE GOOD OF ASKING THE GROWN UPS THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS THAN WE DO IT'S A MAN IN THE STATES WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROPHET bbcb7678-0513-489e-8288-290d75c25f7c 451 I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY 1cd1eefa-48ff-4db1-a250-6545fdd07fb5 32 EXCEPT WHEN I'M HUNGRY THEN I DO LIKE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE NICE LITTLE ROWS OF ONIONS AND BEETS FROM THE ROUGH SIDE OF HER TONGUE 699340af-0cc9-4e4a-b60a-42807e8da13c 2286 ALL EIGHTEEN MEN ABOARD HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY THE THIEVES WERE NOW MURDERERS THEN HOW COULD I FIND IT AND HAVING FOUND IT CATCH IT b88874a0-24e2-4514-ba12-cadf11c4f4f2 2286 I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN POLITICAL CORRUPTION HOWEVER 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 00d3f371-0a1b-4e56-b80e-c8e5f8206189 2286 WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR b0174872-5a91-4215-be54-f2ab6f05e91e 413 ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ANY ONE YOU CHERRY VARS ASKED FELICITY TRYING TO SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN 22659f06-bccb-494b-a6c2-0594cea24890 1867 WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL 488fa843-4ccd-40b7-93b6-ef166884ada4 1867 IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE 2eb77012-0132-4b86-bed6-775ba16f8a6a 2312 MANOEL AND MILLER STOPPED AT NOON ON LOST SOUL CREEK THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST 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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 eb7152a0-0d5b-48f3-a05a-08726b892a65 32 AS FAR AS WRITING THEM DOWN WAS CONCERNED I BELIEVED THAT I BEVERLY KING CARRIED OFF THE PALM WAS JUST A FIELD BUT THERE WAS A CLUMP OF WHITE BIRCHES IN IT ed735193-73cb-4d9e-94ff-1c15074a200f 451 WHEN THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN UNCLE ROGER REACHED MARKDALE CAME AT HALF PAST TEN HE FOUND HIS PATIENT VERY WEAK AND WHITE BUT FREE FROM PAIN f3c8faf6-e585-492e-8812-a7e4d804308f 188 AS SOON AS WE WERE UP THE NEXT MORNING WE RUSHED OFF TO UNCLE ROGER'S BUT WE MET PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IN THE LANE AND THEIR FACES WERE AS THE FACES OF THOSE WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS UPON THE MORNING 60c71cb9-3188-4bbd-b94d-14e2be8dd614 2108 SUPPOSE FOR INSTANCE WE WORKED THE ENCHANTMENT ON WHICH THE EYES NOSE AND MOUTH HAD BEEN PAINTED CONTENT WITH MY LOT I'M GLAD THAT I'M NOT 8b08d57b-61db-4372-b6c0-9b25781e890d 2368 I UNDERSTAND JONAS SAID HELPLESSLY COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE b90cc679-74cc-4357-bf91-b42d3cd5c3cb 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 17b96f72-902d-4cc3-87aa-eb76fb145a9b 2137 THE CABIN WAS FILLING THE FUMES HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT d3389a9b-acfe-4852-8795-58671c857438 242 AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME 0ebbe481-b9a7-4ee8-aa2a-67eb6bc90c28 2108 DO NOT KNOW YOUR NIMMY AMY AND SO I CANNOT TELL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO MAKE HER HAPPY BUT I REFUSE TO DO IT UNLESS 3f65c953-dd9b-4281-b05d-825fa84de646 188 BUT FORTUNATELY WE WERE NOT FORBIDDEN THE USE OF OUR EYES AND TONGUES BEGIN IT RESPECTED MADAM HE SAID THERE WAS A WOMAN'S PICTURE ABOVE THE BOOKCASE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS SHE THINKS IT WAS A COLORED PHOTOGRAPH BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS 88d556db-3fb1-4c74-abf0-142f3519d73f 2425 STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE SQUARE OUTLINED BY THE FOUR UPRIGHTS OF THE DEVICE BESIDE WHICH THIS LITTLE TABLE STANDS 6fcd78dc-1453-457f-9c1b-5efc83262652 451 THERE HAD NEVER BEEN SUCH A THING IN CARLISLE BEFORE WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED MISSUS RAY SAYS IF SHE ISN'T BETTER BY THE MORNING SHE'S GOING TO SEND FOR THE DOCTOR AND SHE IS AFRAID IT'S THE MEASLES d15220ba-7eae-43e4-b6af-967ef192c2c5 1867 I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE IT CAUSED MUTATIONS THAT BRED TRUE 4859bdfe-beac-4859-804b-6f4fa4507ea7 2108 AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES YOU'RE A VERY HONEST AND CLEVER MAN EXCLAIMED THE HIPPOGIRA 1c0d8b49-c9dd-4a9a-8d46-fb51b4cf461d 2368 THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT 30847a3c-01d1-4895-a75a-026e09c4f228 413 I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO FATHER I EXPLAINED SPRINGING ANXIOUSLY TO MY FEET A SICK HORRIBLE FEELING OF FEAR RUNNING OVER ME LIKE A COOL RIPPLING WAVE 64c0f4d8-80d3-4d55-82dd-1e2d5e0c7e4b 188 AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY I'LL GIVE HER A ROLL OF PEPPERMINT CANDY SAID FELIX b6064f19-6a50-423d-b502-68a828d79700 2182 HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW f469fbff-586a-49a2-8161-dbe103bfb696 2317 CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN AND GOT A SPLINTER IN A VITAL SPOT HE FROWNED OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT 5f476da6-01c6-4797-8e16-3a8009b91063 2137 AND I GUESS YOU GUISE WERE ALMOST FORGOTTEN ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT 11f5262a-96a1-4d83-a3c5-3fa71f70fab8 2286 NO ON EMPLOYMENT A SURFACE OF A METALS AND 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bab9a31d-a21f-43d9-8c45-dcf1d487efae 2182 CHAFFEE FOUR ON THE NEXT JUMP SCANNED THE SHIP'S CHARTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH THEY TRAVELED a924cb3d-0792-497d-b6b0-ac2a9844468d 2108 NECK CHOPPER THERE I FINALLY GOT TOGETHER A VERY DECENT BODY AM NOT AT ALL WISE I BEG TO ASSURE YOUR MAJESTY 4f20a412-5d63-45c3-be1f-31caff81c565 451 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 734d660c-ed5f-46ad-a4f6-a5f5e2f479cf 198 AND I VOW PADDY WOULD LICK HIS CHOPS WITH DELIGHT BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT 1b03ad0d-86be-4c59-b7bb-736173d6a658 2425 THESE WERE NOT VIC AND HOPE BEFORE ME THEY WERE UNREAL CREATURES LIKE THE BEINGS WHICH HAD CAPTURED ME c013736d-0ac9-49a3-922e-14f4a34f89ee 242 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY 863a78b3-5b66-4aea-895b-0182cdb601eb 242 AND WHEN HE HAD PRAYED THREE NIGHTS AFTER THIS MANNER HE CONTRIVED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT A GRIMACE UNTIL HE CAME TO THE LAST BITE WHICH PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM db16f16b-989f-403d-985b-e0e7083bc744 2286 FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY fc70436f-cdb8-452d-90e0-b885f22736e3 402 ODIN WAS THE GREAT GOD OF THE NORTHLAND YOU KNOW HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE a7524d7a-7519-42a8-b080-ded7b6dc51d0 2137 BRANDON COULD HEAR TOWER'S VOICE IN A VORTEX OF DARKNESS HE REMEMBERED THE RUSSIAN REPORTS OF THE WEIRD AND DEADLY CREATURES THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED IN THE MARTIAN DESERTS 2a56dee6-f3ea-451d-85c3-686b6d1e2b88 2137 ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE ad2016f0-e7ba-4997-8030-6107d9a20d9b 2274 THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU HE HAD A LITTLE STRANGER I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW b9d1f0c5-3a9a-470c-9f1d-ebd631808ae2 2425 AND WHILE THEIR FLESH LOOKED MORE UNNATURAL AND UNREAL THAN EVER AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH c9b55566-97a5-47db-bc58-9a9297913bff 2274 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 YOU TOOK THE DAPHINIS 6f7a0e14-934d-45f1-8678-d17872abc2d0 188 THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY THERE WAS NOBODY THERE BUT BETTY SHERMAN AND BETTY WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM e46fd678-32e9-47e6-8c10-de504f82da41 2108 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WALKED WHERE I WAS STANDING YOUR FAIRY MAGIC MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THINGS SWEET POLYCHROME ee35ca49-e0cf-4c04-ae38-a9d6106c63f5 1867 IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT 6f4812eb-c726-4dd1-a37d-33e616c4b8a5 2108 BEFORE YOU EXPLODED YOU WERE BIGGER THAN THE REST OF US AND THAT CAUSED YOU TO BE PROUD AND OVERBEARING b4dbd1ff-d268-4e5f-9c3c-62a2b59c9299 2274 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS A STEADY DRIP OF CONDENSATION SPATTERED THE WINDSHIEL 07a75da9-87ff-40c8-b3d2-db49a9eac9da 32 YES THE STORY GIRL WAS FASCINATING AND THAT WAS THE FINAL WORD TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT 2d320ec3-9354-4882-b5a7-07bc4386b8ca 2274 ANY LONGER THAN THAT A L I E N BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A b48e00e0-404c-4c38-b41a-7994ac90efd1 2425 BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY a74721e8-082f-45f0-842f-025e0d761368 2108 THIS IS MY OWN MISFORTUNE AND I WOULD RATHER SUFFER IT WHICH ONE OF MY FRIENDS DID YOU MANAGE TO EAT e5904d80-cc09-4620-8900-94da90827c2d 2137 THERE WAS A PAUSE AND BRANDON COULD ALMOST SEE COLONEL TOWERS DRAWING UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF 633e3729-626d-45ee-851c-1e464e2ed515 2317 IN SPITE OF HER SCALES AND FINS AS IF UNTOUCHED BY ANYTHING AROUND HIM HIS ARMS FOLDED AND A FAINT SMILE UPON HIS DAMP LIPS 5c717479-d318-4d65-8239-6f416832f558 1867 DO NOT TRY TO HARM ME OR THE WRATH OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WILL TURN AGAINST YOU UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID a32d026a-695e-4d60-8a09-40bb34b317b8 2368 HERK NUFF SAID TAKE HIM BACK THE BALD ONE ADDED HERAKNUFF YOU ONA SAID ENTERING THE CONVERSATION WITH A LIGHT PLEASANT TONE SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED 70453c1d-7b9a-46b6-ac13-2df5bdfeff18 451 NO IT'S ONLY AFTER THEY'RE CONVERTED THAT THEY'RE ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR SAID FELICITY BUT YOU JUST BACK HIM UP IN EVERYTHING CECILY I bf0f241b-4659-49f6-ada3-19dfdb109a32 2108 AND I LOST PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY BY DEGREES WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF 4f3d3f1c-6672-42ee-a69f-83bf4c5e1a67 2137 A FRINGE OF BLUE FLAME CREPT ALONG BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND THE BOTTOM OF THE PILOT'S CAPSULE THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE TO SPOT THE PARACHUTE AND SEARCH FOR ME 07872895-6aed-45d3-ad6a-0c2613155df1 242 IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE 16c4b040-2ac0-4140-89ce-9045639b4fb7 451 THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL 5b863d0d-9e1b-4de6-bf5a-8f10f3fe179f 32 FELICITY'S GOLDEN HEAD WOULD HAVE LIFTED ITSELF IN THE HAUGHTY INDIGNATION OF INSULTED WOMANHOOD 5363bac5-3571-4592-8854-6cd7dfa502d2 188 WITH THAT HE UNTIED NEIL'S HORSE CLIMBED INTO NEIL'S SLEIGH AND TUCKED NEIL'S BUFFALO ROBE ABOUT HIM AND IF MY FATHER HADN'T RUN AWAY HE MIGHT HAVE GIVEN ME SOMETHING TOO d8c3cdaa-f3f1-4b55-9674-dd9f2c8e835e 14 WHISPERED PETER REVERENTLY I THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE OLD OLD ARGUMENT I SUPPOSE 91ef081b-4ae7-4335-9b1a-849e2dafd29b 32 ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO 23d95bc4-a06f-4dbd-8dd7-5e3a80d87e07 242 SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO 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 48c55832-1ed4-40e3-ab13-4724c35b46b8 413 HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW AUNT JANET'S THROATY GURGLE AND AUNT OLIVIA'S TRILLING MIRTH FLOATED OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW 5fb08d8e-fa0a-4aed-b2f2-c73f83f42463 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 6cb67a37-250a-44bb-a81d-3ccada32f2d9 32 WRITING DOWN HIS DREAMS IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD ON THE HOMESTEAD HILL BLOWN OVER BY MUSKY WINDS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAD KNOWN HER I WANTED TO DRAW AWAY FROM THE STORY GIRL ef8a75ba-3eb2-416e-b2d0-0e024d5a12ea 2108 AND PRESERVE JUST REWARD FOR HER LOYALTY TO HIM MISSUS UWKE TOOK AMPLE TIME TO FINISH HER BREAKFAST 06e22ad5-c824-43fe-8fdc-c9d94a1415a0 2286 I HAVE FOUND THEM YES I ADDED HOARSELY BUT NOT A CRIMINAL RING YOU'RE UNDER ARREST CRIME KING I TOLD HIM AND A GIRL FRIEND 91b90696-4cb4-430f-8774-b6b225e5b782 32 SHE BLUSHED AS RED AS A ROSE FOR SHE KNEW SHE HAD DONE A DREADFUL THING SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT 4c6cd6b2-ee80-439d-bfee-6285dedad882 1867 I DREW UP MY SCALY FIGURE IN A NOBLE GESTURE AND POINTED TOWARD THE CEILING I DIVED THE EYE LOWER 56d997a1-3dae-4011-934d-cd2d9c98f862 2286 WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL I LEANED OVER AND PUT MY LIPS CLOSE TO HIS EAR 30814d76-7a76-4799-896b-df5ebffd00d0 2286 MANY THE ROEBOT SAID HE HAD THE BAIT NOW BUT WOULD HE GRAB THE HOOK MEANING I AM IN THE HAND HOLDING COTERGHRIE I ASKED WITH AS MUCH SWEETNESS AS I COULD 6bcf512a-cf03-404a-959d-ea18925b01b9 413 UNDER A SENSATIONAL HEADLINE THE LAST TRUMP WILL SOUND AT TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW WAS A PARAGRAPH TO THE EFFECT THAT THE LEADER OF A CERTAIN NOTED SECT IN THE UNITED STATES HAD PREDICTED THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THAT ALL HIS NUMEROUS FOLLOWERS WERE PREPARING FOR THE DREAD EVENT BY PRAYER FASTING AND THE MAKING OF APPROPRIATE WHITE GARMENTS FOR ASCENSION ROBES FELIX HELD OUT THE NEWSPAPER IT WAS A CHARLOTTETOWN DAILY ENTERPRISE 2a088159-d62a-4388-919e-d51ad8f5266a 2108 SO HE SAT ON THE BACK OF HER CHAIR AND CHATTERED TO HER WHILE SHE MENDED HER STOCKINGS SHE USED TO LIVE WITH AN OLD WITCH WHO WAS SUDDENLY DESTROYED 719129f9-7dc6-4cef-a52a-b26ff78da4f0 1867 AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM I HAD TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN I REBUILT MY CAMERA FOR ABOUT THE TWENTIETH TIME AND JUST ABOUT FINISHED A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON NUCLEONICS 7f9d9852-acc5-4331-bf1b-c5a9733482f4 14 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 9cdcfc46-c60e-4f88-b28d-f172a8c2a684 14 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 687dc761-8db0-489b-96b2-4dd9c249085b 2108 I SALUTE YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS MAJESTY AND OFFER YOU MY HUMBLE SERVICES SUCH INCIDENTS HOWEVER WERE VERY UNUSUAL AND SO SELDOM WAS THERE ANYTHING TO WORRY OVER THAT THE OZ PEOPLE 504d42b5-bdfb-4f76-b855-ea4678f397a4 413 I GUESS HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT IT AS A TORY WOULD RETORTED THE STORY GIRL OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS 32ce1447-31e7-4772-bceb-50bd4d92d535 2137 A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO LOCATE A FIRM LANDING SITE WITH AMPLE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS 1d14b250-f999-4be7-8607-7ba6b6f61a44 2108 OF THE TIN CASTLE WITH GLORIOUS SUNSET HUES AND NOT BECAUSE HE LOVES HER INTEND TO PLEASE MYSELF SHE DECLARED 9cf73922-84ed-4264-891e-b37a2189f275 2425 THE CROWD JOSTLING ABOUT ME SEEMED BLIND TO MY PRESENCE EVERY EYE WAS FIXED ON THE ALTAR LIKE HANDS OF THE IDOL AND THE DEATH THAT BLEW ACROSS THEM 5bde8f01-b23e-4347-91e6-9be256f5c752 2182 IT HAD REVERSED ITS UNBELIEVABLE LENGTH TO KEEP THE HEAD SUBMERGED JEFF DISMISSED IT IMPATIENTLY 84e5c5dc-20d6-49ce-bac0-bf29c66b5dcb 1867 THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER THIS PILE OF JUNK IS OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD AND THEY WERE BACK IN BUSINESS 30aea0a5-c38f-4bb2-88d6-591e3e6ea5c7 2425 RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN SOMEWHAT OF A JAM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING HUNGRILY NURSING THE BLACK AND BARREN SOIL AND GNARLED BRIEF ROOTS REACHING OUT TORTURED ARMS TOWARDS THE FORBIDDING SKY 6fec3318-a3df-4835-9420-1d228925d3f9 2108 HOWEVER I DON'T BELIEVE THE OWL COULD STEAL THE APRON OR EVEN THE BEAR THANK YOU VERY MUCH WHILE DIRECTLY BETWEEN THEM LIES THE EMERALD CITY ef1bc3f2-b41d-4e92-b0a7-8830bf4cdeb7 242 NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX 7d44c53d-6dd5-4363-8064-2569f591763a 188 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 026734a1-1a8e-4ac8-bb00-f660320f8394 242 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE e63c1163-3d9b-44d3-99ca-98cb77ef2969 451 I'M GOING TO DENY MYSELF EVERYTHING I LIKE AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF THAT I DON'T LIKE JUST TO PUNISH MYSELF FOR BEING SO WICKED 571e58ce-f424-44c3-9799-982495cb087a 2182 YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES ccc28b8f-ccda-490e-9af6-775061402990 242 IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY b190ba96-191f-471e-a21c-506d83eb1cfa 2317 HE DECIDED THAT GARF'S SUPERIOR ATTITUDE AND POWERS BODED NO GOOD BUT IF THE FISH MAN ONCE BECAME SLIGHTLY IRRITATED 5b9b92c7-361b-4bf7-bd10-3a1a0cf44ea8 402 AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS AND NORTH OF US THE DIPPERS SWUNG UNTIRINGLY AROUND THE POLE STAR 109f40d0-d70b-4a7c-a99c-7b3abcd3136c 2317 AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK BUT HIS PROGRESS IN THE DIVING SUIT WAS WADDLING AND SLOW a42bd02f-94f1-495a-b715-fa7897bacc30 2137 I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT 0c29d68d-748a-4628-9473-89adbe76b1db 2137 WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE DRAGGED THE SURVIVAL KIT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT AND PULLED OUT SOME RATIONS A FIRST STAID KIT 2523fed2-18be-47c7-bf53-ec333cbad7a4 242 YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG 2e1112a5-7270-4e24-8c62-1097ff014ff9 2108 AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS LESS WHAT ALLOWED POLYCHROME c4becea4-7ed2-43e4-abf3-10ae5bb855f0 14 WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL 0b761e21-1dd2-4e6c-9cc3-4070625a914b 242 I MAY BE MISTAKEN BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE STORY GIRL WANTED THAT FIGHT STOPPED 18c924f3-d26a-47c3-af80-b4fcae5d26a5 2368 THE TWO GUARDS CAME INTO THE CELL AND GRIPPED HIS ARMS YUNUS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CARRIED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR AND DOWN IT TO A GREAT WOODEN DOOR b62b01c4-1332-4813-bc8d-86cedae761d7 188 MEANWHILE IN THE PANTRY THE STORY GIRL APRON AND SHROUDED WAS BEING INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF BREAD MAKING 0c7a3035-beae-438d-abff-085858de673b 2108 AND FOUND THAT HIS CLOTHES WERE GONE AND HIS SKIN COVERED WITH A FINE SILKLIKE GREEN FUR 05af94dc-d771-4a4d-82a2-ce6fbc03f4fd 2286 THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR HIS EYES OPENED WIDE HIS JAW DROPPED HE SANK BACK INTO THE CHAIR AS IF HE HAD BEEN TAPPED LIGHTLY WITH A HAMMER b9daca54-1700-4f27-8a27-0ef3d45dcdc7 2274 INSECTS CAME IN TWING CONES WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT ac4e6e96-6565-4899-88af-67ce4f44649f 1867 ONCE THE WATERS FLOW AGAIN I WILL LAUGH AS I HURL MYSELF ON THE BURNING IRON THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER d9403e18-7d36-4935-b8fb-21cdc812af89 242 BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS AND I WON'T e098d06d-e7ad-4afe-8d22-81dfbb4f0ab9 413 THE END OF THE WORLD IT IS COMING TO MORROW I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU EXPECT TO GO WHEN YOU DIE FELICITY SHE SAID TEARFULLY IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE 3158fbec-896c-4177-9988-81d1836489e6 14 WHITE GLADNESS IN THE MOONSHINE IT GOD WON'T NOTICE THE PATCH I TELL YOU WHAT STORY GIRL 09201e52-c096-4948-ab78-7f4feaf2726e 2274 TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF HIS EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED cd873389-549e-40fb-92c5-e2a19f62e5ea 2182 JUST THEN HE WANTED NOTHING SO MUCH AS TO SEE A WELL ARMED PATROL SHIP NOSING DOWN OUT OF THE COLLAXY IN SUNRISE b17fea7b-a6b5-4167-8783-bc79f5a3e84c 413 HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS 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 SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER ff3bca8b-d083-46f4-8b0c-3e4ea8ff9a2e 451 COME YOU TRY YES OF COURSE THEY MUST HAVE I'LL TELL YOU SAID PETER I'LL PICK UP A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND PEBBLES ON MISTER KING'S FRONT WALK AND THEY'LL BE JUST AS GOOD AS PEAS YOU'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID AUNT JANET f1bdd8d2-0d85-4e48-82ce-80fc635cf092 32 IN A BRIEF SPACE WE WERE LAUGHING RIGHT MERRILY NO LONGER REMEMBERING OUR WRONGS AT THE HANDS OF THOSE CRUEL GROWN UPS fccca541-156e-44ad-9d2e-fbeaec76fd82 2182 BOTH AN ALARMING MAJORITY IN THE SHATTERING AFTERMATH OF THE FOURTH WAR JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL 38863cbf-65be-4f32-9c4e-060d3513cb80 2425 STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP 52176a4d-be67-4445-8730-0b1138b9ee95 14 BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT e9c2be48-7ddf-4a5a-bc3e-dc50af45e359 2108 ALL THIS TROUBLE WAS CAUSED BY THE WICKEDNESS OF MISSUS UPE THE GIANTESS AND POLYCHROME FIRST OILED THE STRANGER'S TIN JAWS 30b580d1-8d09-4184-ad70-446cf8f11160 2317 STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE 41e6c68e-b217-4fdf-a39c-c2dec57a2cf8 402 STRONG NOBLE AND VALIANT HE SAID AND EVEN FELICITY AND CECILY AVAILED THEMSELVES OCCASIONALLY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF SEX 45f2505c-d055-4d9e-9670-4fcdd952a12c 2182 WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE c33e7824-6842-42c1-b0d8-6c21ecb133e8 188 AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I WELL BESS OLD GIRL HERE WE ARE fd75cb46-4ca5-44f5-b70a-9d0dabbc57f4 14 THE INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH WAS AS OLD FASHIONED AS ITS EXTERIOR UNCLE ROGER WANDERED BY AT THIS MOMENT AND BEHOLDING PETER SAID c2cd9160-0303-41f8-8541-8e134d2cc623 2182 THEY SAID IN THE TOWNSHIP YOU ARE NO ARTIST BUT UNCLE CHARLEY AND I THE SERIMIAN CROAKED 489fad15-be45-434d-a4c7-ed33915b5c05 32 PETER DROPPED HIS VOICE I'M GOING TO CHURCH SAME AS YOU AND OH I WAS SO HAPPY b3e9d09e-dbe7-43c3-962a-0d90638ec3f8 2137 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM e7e6f028-03df-4c3c-897f-bd668a8e10c2 451 WHAT HAD BEEN DONE THEY FLEW IN FEAR AND ANGER TO GOD'S WHITE THRONE AND CRIED TO HIM SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY 7e1d5152-9851-4bf9-8872-585cabb09e4c 188 FIVE TIMES SIX ALMOST BROUGHT TEARS TO OUR EYES AND DREAMING THAT SOME DAY HE MIGHT HAVE FLOCKS OF HIS OWN IN A DEAR LITTLE COTTAGE DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE HE AND AGLEIA MIGHT LIVE c763cdcf-30de-4ccf-8219-142e4cca8638 1867 IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR TO INSTALL A NEW BEACON BESIDES BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND THIS RELIC IS ON ONE OF THE MAIN ROUTES 1e788726-f668-4238-add5-d4940d252c01 2425 AFTER THAT HE LOCKS HIMSELF UP IN HIS WORK ROOM SO MISSUS PERWIN SAYS SHE BEING THE HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU KNOW SIR 99865a94-aaf0-4759-9dbc-457b610324a8 2108 QUITE RIGHT SAID THE BEAST AND YOU'RE THE STRAW WHICH I'M GOING TO EAT FOR MY DINNER NEAR TO OGABOO eb157f71-ea9c-4683-bea8-3c27f4384bd9 2317 FINALLY HE TURNED TO RAY HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS 34b1dc86-ebdb-4123-8fb4-738aa69455be 14 THE ORCHARD DOESN'T SEEM THE SAME PLACE BY MOONLIGHT AT ALL AND THERE WAS ONE TALL MAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR WE WENT TO SCHOOL OF COURSE dd497ce9-5ef9-4e7e-83ea-e81526c99d81 14 AND THEN WHISPERED TO THE OTHER MINISTER SO THAT EVERYBODY HEARD HIM IT'S LOVELY BUT IT'S DIFFERENT I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T 8b9f5c4d-42fc-4414-8c43-b2cb7e8b1c79 14 AND CERTAIN HOME CHORES WERE ASSIGNED TO EACH OF US FOR THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF WHICH WE WERE HELD RESPONSIBLE WE KNEW ELDER FREWIN QUITE WELL AND LIKE HIM BUT I KNOW WHAT HE MUST EVER SEEM TO ME af03b225-fba0-4067-a375-55fa2f741fd9 1867 SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME THE OLD MAN LEANED OVER HIS DESK BREATHING INTO MY FACE 231e58b3-a655-43df-8129-7d7254c548cf 14 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS WEEK DAY JOLLITY AND THE UNEARTHLY SOLEMNITY OF HIS COUNTENANCE ON SUNDAYS ALWAYS STRUCK US AS VERY FUNNY 2f385128-2e68-4483-ab2e-076892ca084f 2274 I'VE GOT A MANY OVER THAT MOB STEAD THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US IT PUT ME DOWN AND LEFT 0d2109db-c1f1-42ee-9a6c-95334895d500 32 WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE 880f5f97-254b-49a2-b41b-9df99ebe9907 188 UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE WOULDN'T WANT A WIFE HE COULD NEVER QUARREL WITH REMARKED ANNE HE SAYS IT WOULD BE TOO TAME A LIFE FOR HIM a7427547-1465-4c2e-810d-9e791af1d7f4 2108 SO THEY LEFT THE PATH THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING AND BEGAN TO TRAVEL TOWARD THE NORTHEAST IF THAT IS TRUE HOW IS THE WICKED WITCH DESTROYED d4624bd3-2e2b-4778-9845-f9f8bb39e030 1867 THE REPAIRS DIDN'T TAKE LONG THOUGH THERE WAS PLENTY OF GROANING FROM THE BLIND LIZARDS WHEN THEY HEARD ME RIPPING THE WALL OPEN TO GET AT THE POWER LEAGUES ad5c0bd0-e9b0-4761-85ca-0a49b3e0faf7 451 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 501ae905-93ac-46d3-a88c-431ba4f25107 188 BUT WHEN HE WAS BAD HE WAS HORRID CECILY WAS TO ATTEND THE FIRE FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH 0451d94b-3909-42f1-80b4-f026b4f5f2d6 32 MY AUNT JANE TOLD ME SO SAID PETER CECILY'S MIGHT BE MORE DRAMATIC BUT FELIX'S WAS MORE AMUSING 2e344f07-42eb-4eee-9bb1-f9a909b9ad8b 402 THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES 3f2ae1fc-e8c6-4124-a740-507fe1dc801f 413 THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE EXCITEMENT HAD COME WITH A VENGEANCE AND AND UNDER ITS STRESS FELICITY HAD SPOKEN FIRST 7d663e0a-bf9f-468c-a011-a3e23b2d8d9a 1867 ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB ce86d486-a7f3-479e-a079-935e43797f7b 2425 BEFORE US THEY THINNED INTO NOTHINGNESS AS WE APPROACHED ONLY TO SWARM INTO BEING IN SOME OTHER SPOT e2d917a8-d3f1-48ba-85fd-6644579e65c4 2425 THEY STOOD ASIDE FOR US TO ENTER AND THEN FOLLOWED US DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR WHICH WAS NOT LIGHTED BY ANY DEVICE I COULD DISCERN AND YET WHICH WAS NOT DARK 781bbe5c-843b-458b-9944-c8737e92a2c4 2368 IN THE MAN'S BIG EYES BITTERNESS AND HOPELESSNESS GLITTERED HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL 2c16aaa4-ad9a-4c78-8664-d019cb1bc1cb 2368 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 03c5e8fd-76cc-4cf4-bf1c-a48d779ba696 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 fdf6b62b-fcd1-4a3c-b965-dbf38c4db9bd 2182 THERE ARE NO LAND DWELLING CREDITORS ON COLLAXIA 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7d25f5f8-6089-48a2-803e-36787fa901ff 14 RECORDING HIS WHOLE HISTORY IN BRIEF AND FINISHING WITH EIGHT LINES OF ORIGINAL VERSE COMPOSED BY HIS WIDOW 83f7bc97-06ba-4c63-8875-88a2264e6612 2317 HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY 040ca8b3-5457-4656-bbdf-1d174d55ba7b 2286 IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY THEY MUST STILL THINK OF ME AS SITTING IN THE CONTROL ROOM d74b7d78-255f-4464-921c-67e8b029fe9d 1867 SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE 00ce4a97-ecbd-443e-b217-e637813ffa93 188 AS SHE ANNOUNCED IT THE FACT THAT THREE TIMES THREE WAS NINE WAS EXQUISITELY RIDICULOUS OR GATHER IT IN BY CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED ON OUR FRIENDS 4fbaf28c-fac2-4eaf-a49f-3a84957308a2 32 ONE HAND CLUTCHING HIS BLACK CURLS WITH HIS DREAM BOOK ON A SMALL ROUND STONE BEFORE HIM 85f2c7cb-e14f-4879-92cc-3366a52312d8 32 THIS VERY WELL SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE 5e39a85e-672e-4a00-ad9c-a644dc248cbd 2274 A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME 00dbc57e-4459-4e0b-9f58-6def3060c86a 14 SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL I WANT TO FIND THE EASIEST WAY AND I'VE GOT A HANKERING AFTER THE METHODISTS 9e482070-cb4b-4970-8316-d2beb790387a 2425 THEN AS THE PRIESTS COMPLETED THEIR THIRD BOW IF I READ THEIR ACTIONS CORRECTLY THEY CLAIMED THE PRIVILEGE OF DEATH BY VIRTUE OF THEIR GREATER AUTHORITY c711ccd7-2729-4e00-9d1a-9cd6beab9d87 32 BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS 1dfd9645-1bae-443e-af3f-331400d91967 32 AND HE HAS A DISMAL HABIT OF GROANING ALOUD WRITHING HIS WHOLE BODY AND DIGGING HIS TOES INTO THE GRASS WHEN HE CANNOT TURN A SENTENCE TO SUIT HIM 7c9fc9d5-6b93-4255-8ba3-b66bffab872d 2425 I TURNED THE DIAL BACK IN IMPERCEPTIBLE DEGREE AND THE HAND STEADIED DOWN EXACTLY UPON 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a67da027-71e7-4695-a6fd-1c13250d49ae 188 HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST THE STORY GIRL CAME OUT OF HER SHADOWS AND SAT DOWN BESIDE US ON THE GRASS 7d2aa64f-2b39-4e07-82e6-72061f6dfa62 402 AND MANY A TIME HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP THE STRUGGLE HAD NOT THE THOUGHT OF SWEET ALIN'S LOVING EYES BROUGHT HIM THE STRENGTH AND DESIRE TO STRUGGLE AS LONG AS IT WAS POSSIBLE a70b4bae-ffc4-4d56-bf6f-9e2fdd534c72 14 SEEMED TO US THAT THERE WAS IN THE ORCHARD SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ORCHARDS THAT WE HAD KNOWN WE COULD SEE THE LONG ROWS OF TREES A AND WHEN HE LAUGHED HIS LAUGHTER WAS STILL MORE DREADFUL 87801f4d-4e05-4d77-a857-03b9a8116b93 14 JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE SUCH AS SHOULD BE AT A WEDDING AND EVERY ONE LOOKED AT EVERY ONE ELSE WITH FEAR IN HIS EYES I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US b30af796-d77a-46e2-b9e0-e99e8381d8d7 2286 LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN WAS THERE REALLY ANYTHING THAT COULD STOP A PLAN LIKE THIS ONCE IT GOT ROLLING 2c5054d6-9943-405b-b4c5-d3e540796c25 2368 CLARETON REACHED HIM ONCE BUT THE CONTACT WAS WEAK AND FLEETING THE DIRECTOR HADN'T ENOUGH STRENGTH TO REACH HIM AGAIN AT LEAST NOT FOR A DAY OR SO YUNUS WAS EXACTLY WHERE HE WANTED TO BE ON HIS OWN YOU WOULD NOT ACCEPT HELP 46cb5a5d-c0f8-402b-825e-890789b11a66 14 WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR 69f90272-ebf1-4bbc-a3e8-5132b9e7f76b 188 GRANDMOTHER'S COUSIN RACHEL WARD CAME TO SPEND A WINTER WITH THEM HER EYES FLASHED AND BURNED CRIMSON SPOTS GLOWED IN HER CHEEKS bb3226b5-c21b-488c-941a-07f1898b5f53 14 SHE HADN'T OUGHT TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IF SHE DON'T WANT ME TO LAUGH WHEN I SEE THEM AND TRIED TO CARRY OUT OUR TEACHER'S GENTLE PRECEPTS e2401147-bec5-4ea5-891a-a688625fae5b 2286 JUST ABOUT THAT TIME YOU HEAR YOUR FIRST RUMOUR OF THE SPECIAL CALL AND IT FITS THE BAD DREAMS A SHADOWY POWERFUL GROUP THAT SLIPS SILENTLY BETWEEN THE STARS 7a6cca22-151c-44e1-9ad0-e92da090ca33 2182 THE SIMIAN SHIP WAS PASSING IN HYPERDRIVE THROUGH A CLASSIC THREE BODY SYSTEM THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS FROM CABIN TO BEACH PASSED IN A BLUR OF SPEED 6c4a6421-1adc-4520-a21a-6f30117ee7e9 402 ALLAN INTENDED TO TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM TO CALIFORNIA IN THE FANNY HE WAS JUST A REAL GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL I'M NO GOODER THAN THE REST OF YOU BREATHED CECILY dcb7dc9f-5ef7-4aaa-94dc-ba048a802776 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 684d2ca7-8d61-44db-92c3-ee550ec7865b 402 BUT ONLY TO THAT ONE WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT FIRST SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WALK AT ODIN'S RIGHT HAND FOREVER AND SUCH A WORKER SAID FELIX be48123a-3ef7-4c0e-aced-4b16a60b9f0f 451 JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM BUT IT'LL BE A GOOD STORY TO TELL SOMETIME SHE ADDED de44502d-ab5f-47e0-b663-be23d2659c1e 2182 HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE 06262111-2ee9-48af-bd0e-d817e9ae653a 1867 IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW BEFORE HE COULD MOVE I PUSHED A SWITCH AND A HANDFUL OF LOCAL CURRENCY 9e315b93-34ab-4eee-a06d-2658fea184d7 402 BUT ON SOMETHING DEEPER AND MORE ENDURING THAN MIND AN IMPRESSION HAD BEEN MADE THAT WAS NEVER TO BE REMOVED OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER 53668e6f-6a77-4244-b8b8-f92157bd7fc9 32 ON THE OTHER HAND DAN WHO WAS A SOMEWHAT TRUCULENT FELLOW ADDICTED TO THE PERUSAL OF LURID DYING NOVELS HE BORROWED FROM THE OTHER BOYS IN SCHOOL THE STORY GIRL MOUNTED TO THE LEDGE SAT ON THE RIM AND LOOKED AT US c32b5e8c-91b0-4758-bec6-07c537686587 2286 I WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED WHEN I JOINED THEM I PAINFULLY TRACED EACH ONE TO ITS SOURCE I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH 4e9fddbe-0c08-4b99-a9ba-50dec1e5e8b1 2286 BUT ONLY ONCE THE STURDY LITTLE M THREE ROWBOT RUMBLED AFTER ME WITH MY BAGS d33367de-3cad-4498-919e-c93c6a2e1d97 451 DO SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY IT WOULDN'T DO SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT bb9ef478-dfa2-48d4-aad9-363a6f14a566 2108 AND SHE HANGS MY CAGE IN HER BEDROOM EVERY NIGHT SO SHE CAN KEEP HER EYE ON ME UNLESS THEY CAN HELP US WE MUST REMAIN FOREVER AS WE ARE a3d79656-efd7-4df3-9bfb-a03e3bc0b51e 2425 AND THE RABBLE WAS SENT FLYING BY A NUMBER OF MEN WHO SEEMED TO HOLD SOME OFFICE DISTINGUISHED BY A WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK 10c2b9fb-70dc-4446-bbbf-1c3969e10b6b 2317 TO A DEMAND AND THEY STARTED GETTING IN EACH OTHER'S WAY AND SLOWING DOWN THE OPERATION EVEN MORE cfc26f25-0b5a-4402-9e9d-9628024e4122 1867 HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING 817c2d35-5a87-423c-9343-c4909293c29b 1867 TO MAKE CONTACT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCAL LANGUAGE I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR 67cb3f80-f8de-42e7-9dc9-369f21c33b2a 2425 THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY b1006c7f-f57c-4add-9a7f-c7143c6a0544 2286 I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH SHE PULLED ME INTO IT PLAYED ME LIKE AN ACCORDION WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS 5628f7bd-86fc-46cb-b986-c3e5a2631c0e 2425 THEY WERE IN EFFECT MEN THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE e1b727f8-c883-4fe3-86b6-2afb0b264d17 402 OH I WISH I'D NEVER SAID PETER WASN'T FIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH MOANED FELICITY THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES 24d88d75-b9da-4c01-81db-e81a5f332265 2425 I BROUGHT THE AXE DOWN AGAIN AND SOMETHING CRACKED SHARPLY AND THE THIRD BLOW SENT THE DOOR SWINGING WIDE 2b1edd98-ee04-462a-a78e-2f0594afa87e 2108 THEN I'M SURE SHE COULDN'T LIVE IN THAT LITTLE HOUSE SAID WOUT A DOZEN TIMES 254ee603-d5ae-4de0-b51f-81223d8a6582 188 I JUMPED AT THE OFFER 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 35053e03-70a0-48e8-84ca-1f34aa59fcdc 1867 I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE cfda95dc-0bba-49cd-9f61-be6163bd88d3 2286 I WAS STILL TEASED AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A SHIP THIS LARGE COULD BE USED FOR SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS 398f9c54-4446-4f50-b141-9c0ee235120b 1867 EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE BEFORE I SENT FOR IT I CHECKED OVER THE REST OF THE BEACON ce596753-a91b-4ad8-850b-404279d7a2eb 2368 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 19aea590-3dd0-4bd4-b3e0-ac5a46ae8b79 2425 AND BUST INTO THE LAB CAME IN SINGLE FILE FROM BEHIND THE BLACK GOD DIRECTING THE CHANTING WITH MOVEMENTS OF THEIR ARMS 6c68b386-77ce-49e8-b5c9-759c7ae18a95 402 AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED TELL JUDY ALL THE NEWS FOR ME b891aec5-bfb3-4bd3-a411-705e702e7944 451 AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY b78ecd81-5bf6-4b91-aace-3d3ac69c2b89 2317 EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO AND MOST MEMBER RACES HAVE WARS OCCASIONALLY AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN d8521bd5-5022-43d1-89bc-15f90ddb34c0 2317 OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM 08d077a1-b02f-46fd-8e3d-5dd0394b69c5 451 NOTHING WOULD PREVENT CANNIBALS FROM EATING FILLICKS IF THEY CAUGHT HIM GIGGLED FELICITY HE'S SO NICE AND FAT fcf243ab-d98a-444f-88a4-8b3e8c005860 451 AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US 79a0e4f4-1de4-4a25-a6ed-197f2259dabe 2368 THE POSSIBILITIES PRAYED BEFORE HIM ON ONE HAND SUCCESS ON THE OTHER THERE WAS THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF THE INQUISITION 10527f03-ffe8-43b9-884d-1adc0567ceac 32 SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN NOW STARING FIXEDLY INTO SPACE IN SEARCH OF SOME ELUSIVE WORD OR PHRASE WHICH MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE 38ff3451-4d96-4f17-8b1b-f7417ed553e7 2108 WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY LANDS MANY TIMES 274e2140-473d-40c6-967f-cef4902d9f22 188 SOME OF THE MEN AROUND THE CHURCH DOOR HEARD THE SCREAM AND THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE WOOD THEY SAW NOTHING BUT WILLIAM COHEN LYING LIKE A DEAD MAN ON THE PATH THEY TOOK HIM UP AND CARRIED HIM HOME AND WHEN THEY UNDRESSED HIM TO PUT HIM INTO BED 39eae19c-5a88-4bc1-88e8-99a71d5edae2 2274 WHY'S A FRESHMAN LIKE ME BEING TOSSED INTO THIS DISH I'LL FEED US WHAT YOU SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AROUND YOU TOO a4065ca1-83d6-4f88-9eaa-f8a3042d6b2b 2425 ITS HEAD BENT VERY LOW AND AT THE SAME TIME TILTED AT A GROTESQUE ANGLE SO THAT THE FACE SMILED HEAVENWARD SHOULD YOU WISH TO TAKE A FLIER AFTER ME 1b896e80-3dc9-4e18-835f-e71438c01f4b 1867 AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS 44c6e033-fdfd-4de0-999c-ec2908844b79 1867 HO U S A THE WATER FED PIPE FROM THE ROOF FOR EXAMPLE IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON aab3b917-f1ea-410c-954d-436f58dab849 2108 IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR THE BOY IS MADE OF MEAT WHICH NEITHER RESTS NOR GETS SOGGY OR MOULDY 011e19a2-38dd-4197-94bc-c3db61d0249d 32 IF YOU DREAM OF FALLING AND DON'T WAKE YOU DO LAND WITH A THUD AND IT KILLS YOU 1ee9d78b-42d7-48e4-a23c-82e4b35214d9 2317 IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY THE NONIPUS CREPT FORWARD PONDEROUSLY TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN 80064602-3703-48b1-9564-8679fe59c025 14 OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE 56fa7400-be8f-4627-9dbd-3f10426c8732 2286 BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN 6bb2076d-fc6c-4f22-99af-1f27a9a353da 32 AND THERE WAS NOTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THE PLEASING THROES OF COMPOSITION THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER 52d7936b-23d3-44f4-a684-36d98336a50b 1867 I QUIT DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME WHAT A DIRTY JOB YOU HAVE COOKED UP BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT AND YOU DON'T WANT TO REVEAL COMPANY'S SECRETS TO ME 3ede939e-4558-43bc-bcd3-0499637360f0 2274 TO NEWBE SHIFTED BEHIND ORAN KEEP AN EYE ON THEM BUT DON'T IGNORE THE OTHER SECTORS SAID STETSON 8c0bbbe4-e7fc-4c88-9c5f-2e7ffd0844ec 2286 I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD 21bddff4-5ca2-411f-aaa2-8db56327582e 2368 AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE FIRST STEP CLARTON SAID f3da7fcb-cfd4-4b6c-b022-9cf1f5823595 188 THEY SMILED EACH OTHER AMICABLY WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLEAMING WITH IMPISH LAUGHTER 8430b91f-5616-41c9-92a5-7676e4096803 402 WE ARGUED OVER IT SERIOUSLY BUT FINALLY HAD TO GIVE UP THEN WE ROAMED ABOUT IN OUR WRETCHEDNESS AND TRIED TO COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WE WENT TO THE GROWN UPS AND TOLD THEM SO 8946e70d-97fe-4460-934e-8be1ecc6feb7 2108 ALSO SHE HAD A PURPLE FEATHER FASTENED TO A WART ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD AROUND f349c852-afaf-48c3-bb84-4ef9891b499c 2368 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU 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 I WILL NOT YUNUS THOUGHT 55f9c522-eec9-47a0-bc43-2770d1418b6f 32 WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM 0fbf1b44-2989-4f6a-b5cf-6a6de5b70dc0 2274 FACES HAIRLESS PINK SKINNED STETSON SNAPPED A SWITCH THE TRANSLATE MAP BECAME A SCREEN WITH A FIGURE FROZEN ON IT LIKE THAT 964f3be9-107a-46c0-ab76-a66620bdac62 2425 HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIGHT RAYS THAT THE HUMAN EYES CAN'T PERCEIVE 61573854-53f7-447b-8e89-01319c3fea62 402 YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH FRIENDS WITH PETER AND MADE OUT YOU THOUGHT SO MUCH OF HIM AND NOW YOU AIN'T SHEDDING A TEAR FOR HIM 55c024de-875d-4954-98a5-e914e039c744 32 A HUGE HOLE WAS BURNED IN IT AND WHEN AUNT JANET DISCOVERED IT SHE LIFTED UP HER VOICE WITH NO UNCERTAIN SOUND c7da4af7-7c7c-4e97-8ca3-945d0ad6adaf 2286 AND BESIDES NOW THIS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND IN THE DARK WOULD BE NECESSARY IF YOUR SCREAM WAS OPEN AND I COULD HAVE GOT A CALL THROUGH 714006f3-d936-41bc-bb08-29de43c8f63a 2425 WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WERE TAKING ME THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR 6ba70e9a-59b4-4bae-a0af-768e202b2752 451 YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA SO YOU'D BETTER MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MISS 8389c371-929b-4259-b00b-67a17b7cb421 402 OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE THAT ANYBODY EVEN GOD WOULD MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THAT 34a2b23d-dd1a-4f19-a2db-1974129c7715 2425 IN A SORT OF PANIC I SNATCHED UP THE PAPER SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER b709ba23-2f5c-4ddd-99fc-95d98dec4054 2274 THAT'S ALL THEY CAN GIVE US THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU 1a6b1d0a-01ad-45fb-b340-842498cdc16d 32 SHE DECLARED TO ME AFTERWARDS THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD THE STORY IT ALWAYS SEEMED AS NEW AND EXCITING AS IF YOU HAD JUST HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME c12cf05c-8a4d-4301-b35a-580ca3f695fb 2108 WITH EACH BLUE TINTED STOCKINGS AND BLUE LEATHER SHOES TURNED UP AT THE POINTED TOES 918114ea-6211-4fe5-93c1-09937103de07 2425 I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES I PLUNGED ON HOPE'S FINGERS GRIPPING MY BELT IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME 5a2cc396-3ed0-4426-ab05-65c353e1c3b3 2108 HUNGRY EXCLAIMED ALL THE DRAGONS IN A REPROACHFUL CHORUS SO IF WE START NOW WE MAY MEET THEM THERE ca3f1fa7-f03d-4891-9dbc-6ee28aeca5ed 2286 I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM afec6dba-3698-45b1-82e5-333c5a6c3581 402 SO WE CAN I AGREED ONE FEELS ABOUT THEM SHE TOUCHED HER SLENDER THROAT 9d7aa851-64af-4345-9083-3c7dc994b848 2368 BETTER OUT OF YOUR WITS THAN DEAD CLARTON THOUGHT I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM 746486dc-50f6-49bf-a76e-71c2426382eb 451 AN IRISHMAN WHO LIVED AT MARKDALE HAD A LITTLE PIG SHE SAID AND HE GAVE IT A PAILFUL OF MUSH 7713ad85-63a7-4b1d-a033-08b757135029 2286 THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY ae164403-d7c2-4cd7-b3d8-35bfd9ad8266 188 I WOULDN'T SPARE ANY OF IT TO ANY ONE BUT YOU THE STORY OF A BRAW LOVER WHO LED HIS SECRET OUT WHEN THE WHISKEY WAS ABOVE THE WIT 15b054d8-3133-4446-900f-b6a66ba17614 2108 HAD HE REMAINED HIS NATURAL SIZE THE DISTANCE COULD HAVE BEEN COVERED IN A FEW STEPS dcf1cc55-a214-4fd8-8435-0adac8a59620 2286 HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY 08e12404-8451-46ea-bff9-5b6ccf78df84 2425 EAGERLY HE CLAMBERED UPON THE OUTSTRETCHED HANDS AND STOOD THERE FACING THE GRINNING FACE ec7f8a05-6a91-4617-8c26-cf58be328899 32 BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE d5372ca4-6d63-4b18-8de8-3d251aff7eef 2425 IT CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF FOUR TALL SLIM POSTS SET IN THE FORM OF A SQUARE ABOUT A YARD APART 2ed550ce-b564-4473-aa66-015a397ad04b 2368 IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS AND IN HIS OWN WAY HE HAD HIS REWARD 42e3cf01-b979-4e49-a9ad-f8ca614b04a5 188 MA SAID SHE WASHED HER HANDS OF IT MOTH'S OR NO MOSS SHE SAID IF COUSIN RACHEL HAD TO MOVE THAT CHEST EVERY 4e86fc2e-aa95-4d8d-b982-9f12878d5efa 32 THAT HE WAS QUITE DISGUSTED WITH THE RESULTING TAME PAGES OF HIS DREAM BOOK WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS 56ae28f5-635e-4cb1-82e0-eed2f30b2c51 2274 THE FOREFINGERED HAND LOOKED EXTREMELY CAPABLE AROUND THE STOCK OF MARK TWENTY AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED 819f6ed8-0be7-4684-be9a-ffdc74af158a 451 I WISH IT WOULD STOP RAINING THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST 40ae7855-d5bf-421c-b6a7-8d2711f71bd7 2425 WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL THE GUARDS WHO HELD ME FOLLOWED BY THE PRIESTS 6964a7d0-2bb3-4287-89d2-95e0225d65a9 2108 NO SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STOUTLY I REPLIED THE BIG LOON POMPOUSLY THE MAGIC OF A YUKAHU 756edc6b-e7fa-47a5-9a83-c4609bc328c0 2108 THEN HE CREPT OUT AND IN THE DARK BELT AROUND UNTIL HE CAUGHT HOLD OF THE APRON AND THAT WAS THE LAST I EVER SAW OF HIM 6388d275-4dc3-44f6-90f1-d7889398b40f 2368 AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED 96b7b128-fe35-4d4f-8d10-1c44f8764bf9 2368 IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU 4f8cf13a-3c41-4821-9026-377ae0535800 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 281a97c7-ab69-46d9-9b8c-55955843a0f3 2108 IS REALLY TOO BIG FOR ANY USE THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND e17d98b0-9e6e-43d8-8dbe-60217f275e4d 2317 RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT ACTING AS IF HE COULD AFFORD NOT TO GIVE A DAMN HOW BADLY HE HAD BEEN STUNG 3bc17bd6-299e-48dc-98fb-146309b57ba5 2286 PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN SUCH AS SHIP SAILINGS 1a77cff6-a6a1-462a-a671-65adf144b0f3 188 IT DID NOT LOOK TO ME JUST RIGHT FOR A SON IN FACT EVERYTHING LOOKED UNCANNY I WISHED OUR ERRAND WAS WELL OVER 164616d5-d6e1-4f7c-b238-617a0082a09f 188 GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART I AM SAVING SOME OF THE HONORABLE MISTER WHALEN'S HAIRS FOR YOU 143accc3-2c64-4271-b3c4-ce03eeeb867b 2368 MY WIFE HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD 1cac27f6-8fad-48d0-a5ec-c68baeb0cf8f 32 AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS BUT SHE GENEROUSLY GAVE US ALL ONE APIECE FOR THE COVERS OF OUR DREAM BOOKS a29752f8-e641-40d2-9344-8ebc0a3bcaa6 188 WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED WHEN A CAT DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S PRETTY FAR GONE 0de1756e-b2d3-4b5b-b685-634f3899ff2b 402 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 bc9aef22-ab68-448c-9f34-0e61a2b7c0b1 2425 I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES WHAT I'LL FIND THERE I DON'T KNOW 27de61e0-0c12-47f8-b918-c6d43a0c081b 2286 OGT'S DREAM WAS CLEANED OUT OF ALL READING MATTER THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I CHECKED WE CAN'T STOP THE BATTLESHIP FROM ATTACKING AGAIN BUT WE CAN SEE TO IT THAT THE TIME AFTER THAT SHE SAILS INTO A TRAP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE 7234c8ae-4f6c-48f6-9703-208f28cc0305 2108 IN THE FOREST THERE MAY BE FRUITS OR NUTS GROWING OR BERRY BUSHES AT ITS EDGE SO LET US GO THAT WAY c63f08ee-276c-4a39-83b1-0f275acc646c 2425 SHE JUST GOT THE KEY AND WENT IN WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO d3c1613a-df08-40fd-9550-19eff3823251 402 THE MINISTER'S WORDS HAD REMOVED FROM OUR MINDS THE BITTER BELIEF THAT GOD WAS LIKE THAT PICTURE BUT MISSUS RAY WAS INEXORABLE AND CICELY HAD TO CONTENT HERSELF BY SENDING LONG VERBAL MESSAGES WITH A JUDY PILLOW 07ef6ab4-a8a5-4984-b176-fd6372c18d99 2317 FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON 5d1c8457-d341-4fe7-af5c-1c6bb43b6231 32 WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT ce865474-b039-4453-86dd-7d95635cb9f9 402 SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM 09967a6b-1515-4a0c-a933-dfd768d677d7 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 IN THE SWEET SCENTED FADING GRASSES c66aa566-4102-49ec-9645-1d3a5a94a5f6 2425 DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT 598651e9-c96c-462a-a753-9987e4803299 451 OH THERE'S EVERY DIFFERENCE I CAN'T JUST EXPLAIN IT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE e8eebe8b-50ea-423e-9f7d-95c44ff39a90 2108 YET MISSUS YUKE INSISTS THAT NO POWER CAN ALTER TRANSFORMATIONS HE GLANCED AT THE KING WHO NODDED HIS HEAD IN ASCENT 5e121e2e-d581-41f2-8c7d-8f6315d609a2 2317 IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT BUT SEEMED TO HAVE GONE INTO SLOW MOTION SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED b5a51520-4346-4629-b710-d9027056fc62 32 HE CAME INTO THE ORCHARD TO WRITE A POEM AND HE FELL ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON A BENCH THAT USED TO BE UNDER GRANDFATHER'S TREE 5aec9b0f-c16d-4f08-8b98-94fc8e931b6f 32 AND WROTE DOWN OUR DREAMS WHEN THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE OVER THE ONLY THING WORTH MENTIONING IN THE WAY OF DREAMS THAT SARA RAY EVER ACHIEVED WAS THAT SHE DREAMED THAT SHE WENT UP IN A BALLOON AND FELL OUT 7d83c1be-f023-4a1e-977b-f0441614b387 402 WE WERE MUCH TAKEN ABACK TO FIND THAT MISSUS RAY CAME TO THE GATE INSTEAD OF JUDY AND RATHER SOURLY DEMANDED WHAT WE WERE YELLING ABOUT 9a65529b-ddfc-4688-ae47-a9b8011cd954 2108 SAID MISSUS SWINE IN A VOICE THAT WAS HALF PROUD AND HALF IRRITABLE AND MANY OTHERS SUFFERED THE SAME FATE 823bc08f-1130-4710-87f0-e3d94ca3dadc 2286 ALL THE DOUBTS I HAD DISMISSED FOUGHT FOR ATTENTION ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS bef723ea-cf17-4c01-b9ec-c0c82511ba7e 2317 AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST HE HAD INTENDED THAT DISTINCT AND IT DID 1ce05131-b3fb-4b1a-9793-6bcb6673a01a 2368 HE STOOD ALONE IN THE ROOM HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT 8ecd68fe-ab41-40c7-86e6-0727720e6297 2108 MEAT POOH YOU'RE NO GOOD I CAN'T EAT MEAT GRUMBLED THE BEAST AND PASSED ON TO POLYCHROME f2100aa5-c475-4ed9-946a-22fc6cd25a7c 451 I'M GLAD OF IT SAID CECILY VINDICTIVELY HER ROSES ARE ALL OUT AND THAT BED OF SWEET WILLIAM IS A SIGHT BY DAYLIGHT a25b26ba-a61b-46bd-ba6d-ecacbb1bae22 402 THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY bd951b6b-4e3d-459b-9359-b9afb0cd392a 2108 BUT SAID SHE KNEW NOTHING OF THE LOONS BECAUSE SHE NEVER LEFT HER VALLEY THEN THE TIN WOODMAN STARED HARD AT HIS FRIEND 9a7f06c9-a143-404d-9e5c-c3772b3d0ddd 451 BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY 58094aa4-94ed-497e-80f4-3fab28e3dbc8 402 JIMMY FREWEN WALKED HOME WITH NELLIE BOWEN LAST NIGHT FROM PRAYER MEETING AND HER ONLY FOURTEEN 2281493b-f9ce-4a62-96bb-686e74828971 32 AND MY MOTHER SAW HER ONCE IT WAS NOT OUR STORY GIRL WHO SAT THERE TELLING THAT WEIRD TALE IN A SIBILANT CURDLING VOICE 151fdd7a-64a8-4555-ad5a-2ae8147a6d1c 2108 TO THE COMFORT OF THE OZ PEOPLE AND WHILE IT HAD BEEN BLUNTED SOMEWHAT IT WAS STILL SHARP ENOUGH TO HURT 233d623e-67c3-444b-9e0d-a0d2d3886221 2368 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 4f5b69d3-212c-490a-b1cd-57d22345b9db 2368 NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW d478aa86-af15-4623-bb81-b16829c1e160 2286 I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT MY SHIP BUCKED A BIT AS THE TUG BEAMS LOCKED ON AT MAXIMUM DISTANCE d09b88a4-2b84-4750-9a95-62a95ff44f51 2108 YOU MUSTN'T THINK ABOUT IT THOUGH WARNED THE BIRD FOR SHE CAN READ YOUR THOUGHTS WHENEVER SHE CARES TO DO SO YOU DO NOT FORGET BEFORE YOU ESCAPE WE HAVE NINE ANSWERED THE PROFESSOR FOR THEY DO NOT LIVE WITH US 8d66d06d-017d-4bf2-ba51-1886e541320e 2108 UPON WHICH WAS A LARGE PORTION OF SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOES GONE SAID THE SCARECROW BEAR SOLEMNLY 29221e31-00fd-44ea-99f3-2b16d528c0ca 402 THEY HAD THREE DAYS MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS 830d3905-3dd8-4b4b-94dc-baaf8551cce5 2317 AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED 86cea7a1-3b66-4585-b047-df41454759e1 451 WHO'S TALKING TO YOU SAID FELICITY MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING 8caf482a-e80d-4344-8bb3-fc8d60d453dc 188 NOW WHAT EARTHLY GOOD COULD I GET FROM YOUR THREE BY SIX SCHOOL LIBRARY I AM SITTING ON A TRAGEDY SAID THE STORY GIRL SUDDENLY 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THANKFUL MAN I'LL BE WHEN YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER COME HOME 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 686feecb-3df1-497e-bbe4-a82d2bfd85a4 32 AND OUR DREAMS WILL BE PRETTY FLAT AFTER THIS DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR ALL AT ONCE THE STORY GIRL AND PETER BEGAN TO FORGE AHEAD IN THE MATTER OF DREAMING cd79312e-5c3c-4382-8606-7c57891a5996 188 FINALLY HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE TOLD HER TO SHUT UP DAN PROMPTLY DECLARED HE WOULDN'T TRY TO PREACH A SERMON BUT PETER FELIX AND I THOUGHT THE SUGGESTION A VERY GOOD ONE f81ba179-2d2c-4949-a168-e17fd80ead7e 2286 THIS SUPERSTRUCTURE OBVIOUSLY JUST TACKED ON TO THE PLANS GETS THROWN AWAY AND TURRETS TAKE ITS PLACE THE HULLS ARE IDENTICAL A CHANGE HERE A SHIFT THERE AND THE STODGY FRATER BECOMES THE FAST BATTLE WAGON 90532707-dccf-471a-84a5-afa0d4291faf 2317 HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK 61f8812a-233d-40a9-bfee-8064283064bf 451 THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST 345a320a-6591-451e-90db-999478008398 2274 IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS BACK AT DEAR OLD EUNUCH GALACTICA d3d96086-98af-4f00-87ab-44a7615ad2f2 2274 YOUR CARD POPPED OUT IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES 2dcf4a19-a35f-409c-a511-fa869658a982 402 FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE THOUGHT OR THE MENTION OF GOD BRINGS UP BEFORE US INVOLUNTARILY THE VISION OF A STERN c597809f-3001-46c3-92fe-9b7559d7a4c1 32 SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO UNCLE ALEC WHIPPED HIM FOR IT 04405b9a-312e-41e0-95e3-b52752befb84 451 ALL RIGHT SAID DAN I'VE EAT ALL I WANT WE MURMURED IN BEWILDERMENT THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT b9e4ca54-10ae-4970-9a2d-4b7438cad786 402 ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL 05701b89-df3b-4ade-ac64-2006b1272b86 402 WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS 8642d7d9-495b-4019-815a-903eea79f957 402 FOR BY INSTINCT AND TRAINING WE THOUGHT AND UTTERED THE GREAT NAME WITH REVERENCE IN SPITE OF OUR DEVOURING CURIOSITY WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING WELL FELIX WHAT IS IT ASKED MISTER MIREWOOD KINDLY 5e13a735-06c4-4523-baa7-3fd4a261bac4 402 THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED AND THIS WORK FELL MAINLY TO US CHILDREN b7cbb292-459d-4be4-86df-4fa8f5cf3d3b 2274 A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED STETSON SHRUGGED d120202d-8d0c-4bb2-93dd-ba8fe5671d8c 188 WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TOOK EVERYTHING OUT AND LAID IT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE de299150-10a1-4008-b3f6-e97634ac9099 2317 HE MANAGED TO CROAK BEFORE GIVING IT UP BUT IT HAD MELTED THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS 7fb8cfa7-872f-41da-b566-75b1cea35e89 2286 JUST AS GOOD FOR SPACE PIRACY THAT IS BUT NOT FOR HIS PURPOSES ORDERS WERE ORIGINATED MANY PLACES PASSED ON CHANGED AND SHOVELED 36096ec4-9522-4cd1-af07-4fcf3ce5fe13 32 AS UNCONCERNED AS A PIG ON ICE DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH 9b86fcbf-cede-4260-a9b4-dfca7d4de093 2108 INTO SEVERAL SMALL PIECES REMINDED ONE OF DRIFTING CLOUDS IN THE SUMMER SKY fb3082a4-7db0-4c1f-8472-51914e868061 2274 EASY BOY HISS STUTSON DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH HIM NOW REMEMBER THIS RACE IS ARBOREAL HE'S PROBABLY STRONG AS AN APE 0e6f7d19-f296-4e32-8419-367d37171b77 2317 IT STILL MADE SENSE SEE THOSE HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE 786875d2-fc52-42c9-9b65-c9fa22f83e05 451 YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND f50473dd-c22d-4263-b685-a01c7e48c12e 451 I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE fa6bea5a-91f1-4bf2-9a8e-fb51fa5444c2 2108 I HAD NO MORE FEAR OF THE WICKED WITCH FOR SHE WAS POWERLESS TO INJURE ME SHE TIED THEM FAST WITH THE STRING THUS MAKING ONE OF THOSE FURIOUS WARTS bd18dec5-deab-43f4-944d-1a3eeadc9520 2274 WILD ONES DO THIS THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW 5f60b32d-afbe-4e2f-8523-b5d526cd4400 2108 SO MANY WOONS AND POUNDED THE THREE TRAVELLERS AS HARD AS THEY COULD ON ALL SIDES c7ec578d-c66f-4028-8886-e04c6ecb74c9 2286 EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME IN HIS CABIN WORRYING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF IT ON HIS SURFACE RECORD 0143df1a-0d9a-43cb-b229-faa7319aa686 451 I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH I HAVEN'T A SINGLE THING TO WEAR EXCEPT MY SCHOOL GINGHAM 1a64b1a4-8f26-4069-a323-8a29e29bedc8 32 UNCLE EDWARD PREACHED HIS FINEST SERMON ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM WELL WHERE DAVID'S SOLDIERS WENT TO GET HIM WATER 97eeb253-9279-4935-80d8-886b01bf34de 2274 NOW LET'S CHECK THAT EQUIPMENT THE SURGEON'S PUT IN YOUR NET TO NEW BLEEDING CLOSER TO ORANGE SHOULDER WE HAVE NOT DECEIVED YOU HAVE WEARNE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS 7f33ab0c-9a03-4207-a26b-aab8b0b4eb06 2286 IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS BELLONNAIRE 88ad1861-a4f1-43ec-81b0-8868db70cf2a 451 YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON I DON'T BELIEVE PRESBYTERIANS EVER DO PENANCE SAID FELICITY DUBIOUSLY I 7c573e21-cf11-4c6d-ae90-1bb20ad93666 2286 IT'S HELL'S ON JET FOR SPACE PIRACY BUT THAT'S ABOUTABLE WHAT DO YOU MEAN I GROWLED LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS 563d68e1-c6f6-49b1-84f6-2cb36c298b0b 32 AND I REGRET TO SAY BICKERED AND SQUABBLED INCESSANTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAYTIME FOR OUR DIGESTIONS WENT OUT OF ORDER AND OUR TEMPERS FOLLOWED SUIT 45ae05f2-6ff7-40e9-809c-30e36cd0679c 2108 AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY 282946ac-2298-46e3-949f-5d058e9c70bd 2317 THEN ATTEMPTED A SWAN DYKE SO FAR AS OTHER INTELLIGENT RACES OF THE GALAXY ARE CONCERNED fafc7610-55e1-4f4d-af76-02a33f2b2716 32 INSTEAD I REMEMBER SEEING IN HIS DREAM BOOK UNDER THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH AN ENTRY TO THIS EFFECT 02d2e8f1-46be-4ec3-b3f5-2f3ed570238f 188 PETER HAD BEEN READING THE BIBLE STEADILY EVER SINCE WHAT WE ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS e589a3af-02ea-4c8a-8b2d-ec2e32cefd5e 451 HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT ffef067c-6166-456d-a1b6-39319f9eecf5 2317 FARMER GOT MAD RIGHT NOW HE WAS ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT MUST LOOK FOR HIM TO BE MAKING LOVE TO AN OCCUPUS 5925cf15-a7b3-49d4-813b-9f23592390db 2286 DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL 9cbf921d-2428-4636-bbed-0428877fa46a 32 AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER HE WAS VERY FAMOUS AFTERWARD a640289c-b48b-42af-8df7-fc24692e90c7 451 OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER f4de95b5-e6e5-4357-8d9d-fa23a19883cb 188 BUT HE DID NOT PLAY AS MUCH AS HE USED TO BECAUSE HE LIKED BETTER TO TALK WITH AGLEYA SO WAS I BUT SHE COULDN'T HAVE IT CERTAINLY ISN'T HERE I ca6b6d08-8f39-4526-9aa3-e1ae77bbd977 188 AND IF SHE WOULD HAVE HIM THEN DONALD AND ALL THE FOLK SHOULD SEE A WEDDING THAT WAS A WEDDING bb6a6163-c174-4de8-aeb1-ae3e98ad31e2 2286 I SHOOK HIS HAND ENTHUSIASTICALLY AT THIS POINT AND LET ONE HUNDRED CREDIT NOTES SLIP INTO HIS PALM 8b703e4b-da69-4298-935f-5cbca07da787 451 A TALE OF THE STORY GIRLS WHEREIN PRINCES WERE THICKER THAN BLACKBERRIES AND QUEENS AS COMMON AS BUTTERCUPS LED TO OUR DISCUSSION OF KINGS e1348833-a6d4-463f-8b15-6160a4d18f64 2108 IT WAS COOK CLIP WHO MADE ME AND THE TIN WOODMAN ADDED ASKED THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY 5d18cf0b-566d-479a-82b9-881c26e5fa0a 451 IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED 466445c7-fddc-4a2a-9e30-ffbc25af7ad9 451 GET OFF TO BED EVERY ONE OF YOU THERE WERE TWO MINISTERS IN PARTICULAR HE BLAMED FOR BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF IT 8484b342-e484-44ea-965d-0a4a9309d4b6 188 I'LL MANAGE IT SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL AND WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE WOULD IF YOUR WORD IS AS BIG AS YOUR MOUTH I GUESS IT WILL BE SAID FELICITY CRUELLY 00ae93d6-bb94-4572-9438-e222044b12b8 32 AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT 17ce3102-0144-47e9-b540-5e4c8f29e83e 451 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 62bb4c15-7660-4982-8832-df61a75b17fe 2317 SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT MY PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION 79de5378-3277-443b-887c-0b9c23eb1254 188 WHO'S FIGHTING DEMANDED DAN FELICITY THINKS SHE CAN SAY ANYTHING SHE LIKES TO ME BUT I'LL SHOW HER DIFFERENT 278917fb-60f7-4666-ae0e-70df27f05f19 32 CECILY WAS SICK TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW be8f72c7-3b6f-4544-bde1-bb49f200e670 32 SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE BESIDES SHE COAXED ME TO TELL HER WHAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR DREAMS ab964854-e901-4189-a23e-02ced3695a37 2108 BUT WHY SHOULD YOU WISH TO ESCAPE I SHALL GIVE YOU NEW FORMS THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES 90672e8c-7fb2-4777-8f7d-0038b994f78a 451 SO JUST TO TEACH HER A LESSON HE DROVE OFF ALONE AND LEFT HER TO WALK ALL THE WAY IT WAS NEARLY TWO MILES IN THE HEAT AND DUST eb81c1ea-924e-4f9d-a27d-1d0cdce8bbdd 32 PETER WAS STARING AT THE STORY GIRL WITH A FASCINATED HORROR STRICKEN GAZE BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY 7dd5d2a5-2db1-43da-ba74-b92ecd694360 2286 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 4ed1edfb-7d2f-409b-8900-f1982bc89865 32 ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY 23bee984-3c6c-400b-9676-5630cfe28bff 451 YOU COAXED JUDY TO HOLD HER TONGUE THE COHANTS FIGHT ALL THE TIME AND YOU AND DAN WILL SOON BE AS BAD ab5ff496-60c9-4e31-9c64-6b6053324499 451 I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE 3329fdef-c429-4749-a617-706efbb55811 32 I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING THE GROWN UPS LAUGHED a0571f0b-6c2e-4667-bee8-47b51e52a24f 32 YOU AND I OLIVIA NEVER HAD OUR CHANCE WELL UNCLE ROGER ASKED ME TO TELL IT I DON'T LIKE TELLING SUCH STORIES EITHER THEY MAKE ME FEEL DREADFUL 1b8f7ca9-dabc-4b34-a96b-d8580043ab19 2108 THERE IS SOME TRUTH IN THAT MY FRIEND REMARKED THE BROWN BEAR WHERE THE INHABITANTS WERE SOMEWHAT RUDE AND UNCIVILIZED 409ec071-ba4d-4c26-9c9f-9b9c49b11097 2286 THE MESSAGE BROKE INTO CLEAR AT THE END AND THE SIE MAN SMILED AS HE SPOKE THE WORDS I BROKE THE POINT OFF MY STYLERS AND GROWLED AT HIM NOT TO REPEAT ANY OF THIS MESSAGE AS IT WAS CLASSIFIED AND I WOULD PERSON SEE HIM SHOT IF HE DID 0032abf0-6d42-4335-8432-b58cd1d952d9 2286 BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY 963632df-5627-435b-ac56-23cd60225d8d 32 JUST STAND ROOTED TO THE GROUND AND SEE IT COMING AND CAN'T STIR IT I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T LIKE CUCUMBER CECILY DAN REMARKED 99d054d4-bfc7-4b38-8b45-9b10de74272a 2286 FERERO PULLED AWAY FROM THE ROBART'S HAND AS IF IT HAD BEEN A POISONOUS SNAKE ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SNIFFED THEM OUT I DIDN'T TRY TO LOOK FOR FIRST CAUSES THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN TOO LONG 1985c396-136f-446e-87a8-e8ce2a0be0a4 451 DAN SAT ON THE FLOOR AND WHITTLED HIS SOLE AIM AND PROJECT BEING TO MAKE A MESS AND ANNOY FELICITY 3358ced1-4d38-44f0-a89c-48cfb443f7db 2286 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS 658e3ef9-6d3a-4261-8cf0-2eda29b717c9 2108 THEN YOU CAN LIFT US ACROSS BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT NO ONE HAD LIVED THERE FOR A LONG TIME a96f9acf-13b3-4c89-b6c4-52094b16a2f4 188 WELL OF COURSE THAT'S PRETTY OLD ADMITTED PETER BUT SHE MIGHT FIND SOME ONE WHO WOULDN'T MIND THAT SEEING SHE'S SO PRETTY 0d7b1c80-e5c5-4ff8-8587-8b5eb79862e3 2108 JUST NOW I'M AS YOU SEE ME A MISERABLE LITTLE BROWN BEAR WITH A POOR QUALITY OF STUFFY f926cd6b-c5b9-46df-9e62-d18ad5076bde 32 APPLE PIES AND SOUR SEEDLINGS AND PIGS BECAME STRAIGHTWAY INVESTED WITH A GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE 370b5c6c-c0cb-4852-9c2f-a9fb24476c03 32 AND PETER EARLY IN LIFE HAD HAD HIS FEET SET IN THE PATH OF TRUTHFULNESS BY HIS AUNT JANE fb4ed4b4-1c09-4c5f-9f50-9de07a714951 188 BUT NOW THAT YOU ARE OUT OF DANGER WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT IT REALLY FEELS LIKE TO THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DIE DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US deb4ec5b-ea54-4209-939c-01449b2dca14 2108 IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE HALLWAY NOW THAT THE DOOR OUTSIDE WAS SHUT WELL KNOWN IN THE EMERALD CITY 0b3af211-c26b-42e6-9455-f992eac6cc3c 2286 OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW HE QUAVERED THE QUESTION HIS POUCHY JAWS SHOOK AND I SWEAR THERE WERE TEARS IN HIS EYES 1be281f4-15b9-4c4c-8037-b00e59e10195 2286 I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER 9d288f40-6f46-42c5-9b88-33c81933fb3c 188 PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE