398b1b87-b9af-411a-86d6-f54b0d8d90f6 103 FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS SLIM AND STRAIGHT AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON 8cbffb01-fcc7-4def-91f6-5c18075e0d32 464 YOU MUST ATTEND TO THE PUDDING YOURSELF SHE SAID THE RECIPE'S SO PLAIN AND SIMPLE EVEN YOU CAN'T GO ASTRAY AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN ASK ME BUT DON'T BOTHER ME IF YOU CAN HELP IT THE STORY GIRL DID NOT BOTHER HER MONTHS THE PUDDING WAS CONCOCTED AND BAKED AS THE STORY GIRL PROUDLY INFORMED US WHEN WE CAME TO THE DINNER TABLE ALL ON HER OWN HOOK SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH f2d4a8de-56b2-4418-8200-b4b24c2b1775 2312 I'M MARTIAL AND I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE A LATE PIG SANDWICH OR CAUSED BY ONE I SHOULD EAT SO LATE SAY SIR WHEN YOU REPLY TO ME I AM NO PIG SANDWICH AND I DO NOT COMMONLY CALL ON FOOLS GET ON YOUR FEET YOU CLOD f295084c-d984-4227-964c-25724783b02b 103 FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT IS SHE NICE I ASKED THAT WAS THE MAIN QUESTION ABOUT GROWN UPS THEIR LOOKS MATTERED LITTLE TO US SHE'S LOVELY BUT SHE IS TWENTY NINE YOU KNOW THAT'S PRETTY OLD SHE DOESN'T BOTHER ME MUCH AUNT JANET SAYS THAT I'D HAVE NO BRINGING UP AT ALL IF IT WASN'T FOR HER AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU 24c372a2-7c08-426e-946f-daab82debc42 2425 VIC'S PLACE WAS OUT ON THE RIVER ABOUT TEN MILES FROM TOWN AND THAT LITTLE TAN ROADSTER OF MINE MADE IT IN JUST ABOUT TEN MINUTES THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES 22136d70-afc2-48bc-9efc-055326a15bb3 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 AFTER ALL WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG BUT A GRUNT WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND WAS THE LARGEST HANDED IN BY ANY OF THE SCHOLARS CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN 46e8e28f-e105-43fd-b032-719cfe3cffef 103 BY THIS TIME WE WERE ALL SITTING DOWN ON THE GNARLED ROOTS OF THE SPRUCES AND THE BIG GRAY CAT CAME OVER AND MADE FRIENDS WITH US HE WAS A LORDLY ANIMAL WITH A SILVER GREY COAT BEAUTIFULLY MARKED WITH DARKER STRIPES WITH SUCH COLOURING MOST CATS WOULD HAVE HAD WHITE OR SILVER FEET BUT HE HAD FOUR BLACK PAWS AND A BLACK NOSE SUCH POINTS GAVE HIM AN AIR OF DISTINCTION AND MARKED HIM OUT AS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE COMMON OR GARDEN VARIETY OF CATS HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION 24c44eda-9878-4b00-b5b9-593347ead003 177 I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN THERE WAS NO PREACHING IN CARLISLE THAT DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS NOT TILL THE EVENING CICELY GOT OUT HER LESSON SLIP AND STUDIED THE LESSON CONSCIENTIOUSLY THE REST OF US DID NOT SEE HOW SHE COULD DO IT WE COULD NOT THAT WAS VERY CERTAIN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO HAVE THE LESSON LEARNED SHE SAID AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT BUT I NEVER FOUND IT SO HARD TO REMEMBER THE GOLDEN TEXT BEFORE b53f31e3-8840-4f79-bc46-5d40d6dd5c75 177 I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN THE BIBLE IS AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID THE STORY GIRL COMING TO PETER'S RESCUE AND THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT STORIES IN IT YES FELICITY MAGNIFICENT IF THE WORLD DOESN'T COME TO AN END I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY OF RUTH NEXT SUNDAY LOOK HERE I'LL TELL IT ANYHOW THAT'S A PROMISE WHEREVER WE ARE NEXT SUNDAY I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT RUTH WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE 7468377e-3029-4b6d-bc32-bed9759692c1 402 HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER AND AT LAST THERE CAME A LETTER BUT NOT FROM ALLAN ALLAN WAS DEAD HE HAD DIED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD BEEN BURIED THERE WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM AND PRAYING FOR HIM HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY FAR AWAY GRAVE 6b4d11c5-ee7c-4770-ac1c-27975e47a9bd 177 SARA RAY CAME UP STILL CRYING OF COURSE SHE INCREASED OUR UNEASINESS BY SAYING THAT HER MOTHER BELIEVED THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH AND WAS AFRAID THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WAS REALLY AT HAND THAT'S WHY SHE LET ME COME UP SHE SOBBED IF SHE HADN'T BEEN AFRAID I DON'T BELIEVE SHE WOULD HAVE LET ME COME UP BUT I'D HAVE DIED IF I COULDN'T HAVE COME d5b79ac8-cf62-4741-b695-f2d9ef3ed78b 2312 MANUEL WENT WITH MULA A ROUND EASY MAN AND A SPAR SCORNED MULE MULA WAS A MULE BUT THERE WERE OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA OF A GENUS LESS CERTAIN YET EVEN ABOUT MULA THERE WAS AN ODDITY IN HER ANCESTRY HER PATERNAL GRANDFATHER HAD BEEN A GOAT MANOEL HAD ONCE TOLD MISSA MARSHALL ABOUT THIS BUT MISTER MARSHALL HAD NOT ACCEPTED IT 9e534287-36fe-4d11-b63f-e74a65b0f8ee 30 THIS WAS HOME FATHER'S HOME OUR HOME WE HAD NEVER LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN ANY ONE HOUSE TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF AFFECTION FOR IT BUT HERE UNDER THE ROOF TREE BUILT BY GREAT GRANDFATHER KING NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS ff179543-08c8-4bbb-b8db-dc288231bcc8 103 NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS NEVER IN ALL MY LIFE SINCE HAVE I HEARD SUCH A VOICE I CANNOT DESCRIBE IT I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET I MIGHT SAY IT WAS VIBRANT AND FAR REACHING AND BELL LIKE ALL THIS WOULD BE TRUE BUT IT WOULD GIVE YOU NO REAL IDEA OF THE PECULIAR QUALITY WHICH MADE THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE WHAT IT WAS 74daeff5-0e8f-4df0-9fd3-99752d7eb29c 2425 I OBSERVED THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE WATCH MY CLOTHING AND EVEN MY HAND WERE NOT REAL THEY WERE LIKE THE REST OF THE THINGS IN THIS MONSTROUS STATE THAT VIC CALLED IN FROM MEDIA I LEFT IT THREE AFTER TEN IT'S NOW FOURTEEN MINUTES OF ELEVEN GOOD LORD LESS THAN AN HOUR SINCE I STOOD THERE IN YOUR LABORATORY 5fd27285-9087-4556-b29a-baced27433b2 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 WE LOOKED AT HIM IN SUCH HORROR THAT DAN HASTENED TO APOLOGIZE I'D BE AWFUL SORRY MYSELF IF PAT DIED BUT IF HE DID WE'D HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE RIGHT KIND OF FUNERAL HE PROTESTED WHY PATTY JUST SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY cc974911-ae01-48ab-a7bb-3ba6cf25347a 198 CHANCING ACCIDENTALLY I VOW TO OVERHEAR CERTAIN OF THESE SECRETS I LEARNED THAT SARA RAY HAD NAMED AN APPLE FOR JOHNNY PRICE AND CECILY TRUE'S YOU LIVE THERE WAS EIGHT SEEDS IN IT AND YOU KNOW EIGHT MEANS THEY BOTH LOVE WHILE CECILY ADMITTED THAT WILLY FRASER HAD WRITTEN ON HIS SLATE AND SHOWED IT TO HER IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU NO KNIFE CAN CUT OUR LOVE IN TWO BUT SARA RAY NEVER YOU BREATHE THIS TO A LIVING SOUL ccb43515-4192-4f4e-9d8b-a85866c4601c 32 WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COULDN'T WRITE AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL CRUSHINGLY HE NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND HE NEVER SAYS HIS PRAYERS RETORTED FELICITY UNCRUSHED I DO TOO SAID PETER HIMSELF SUDDENLY APPEARING THROUGH A LITTLE GAP IN THE HEDGE I SAY MY PRAYERS SOMETIMES b180eb64-bf5d-4dae-87f6-5db31798bf45 30 IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT AND A FRILLED MUSLIN APRON AND WE UNDERSTOOD FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT SO FAR AS WE KNEW NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE f05aac79-4ef6-4116-972f-f926ed384165 242 I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CARES WHETHER ANYBODY CAN EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S RIGHT TO TALK OF GOD AS IF YOU WERE WELL ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY WHO FELT SURE IT WAS A GOOD CHANCE TO SNUB DAN THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO 43abe5d0-a908-4ea9-b7e8-52863ff4c32e 198 DAN FINALLY VOLUNTEERED TO LOOK AFTER HIM HE HAD A NEW PITY BOOK WHICH HE WANTED TO FINISH AND THAT HE SAID WAS BETTER FUN THAN A WALK TO THE GRAVEYARD I THINK WE'LL BE BACK BEFORE HE WAKES SAID MISSUS PATTERSON AND ANYHOW HE IS VERY GOOD AND WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE DON'T LET HIM GO OUTSIDE THOUGH HE HAS A COLD NOW 999e709c-c494-417d-8721-124bb86e4dea 188 I'LL TELL YOU THESE STORIES WHEN YOU GET WELL I CAN TELL THEM EVER SO MUCH BETTER THAN I CAN WRITE THEM I KNOW FELICITY IS WONDERING WHY I'M WRITING SUCH A LONG LETTER SO PERHAPS I'D BETTER STOP IF YOUR MOTHER READS IT TO YOU THERE IS A GOOD DEAL OF IT SHE MAY NOT UNDERSTAND BUT I THINK YOUR AUNT JANE WOULD I REMAIN YOUR VERY AFFECTIONATE FRIEND SARA STANLEY 1180d925-aab7-4b05-8381-05fbca31f206 2317 DORA HESITATED HER HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER SHE LOOKED AT THE LIMP DIVING SUITED BODY BESIDE HER THEN BACK AT THE LAUNCH AND FARMER AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY BENDING LEAVING A TRAIL OF BUBBLES AS HER HEAD WENT UNDER SHE SET THE JUDGE'S INVENTION DOWN ON A LOWER STEP AND PICKED UP THE JUDGE INSTEAD CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD 48cabf50-14b6-4315-8141-49c5f0e536bc 402 WELL FELIX WHAT IS IT ASKED MISTER MIREWOOD KINDLY PLEASE SIR DOES GOD REALLY LOOK LIKE THIS ASKED FELIX HOLDING OUT THE PICTURE WE HOPE HE DOESN'T BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED de9a8a6a-9119-4d9e-8574-fc0cbdf5d430 32 SARA RAY'S OWN DREAMS NEVER AMOUNTED TO MUCH SHE WAS ALWAYS IN TROUBLE OF SOME SORT COULDN'T GET HER HAIR BRAIDED OR HER SHOES ON THE RIGHT FEET CONSEQUENTLY HER DREAM BOOK WAS VERY MONOTONOUS THE ONLY THING WORTH MENTIONING IN THE WAY OF DREAMS THAT SARA RAY EVER ACHIEVED WAS THAT SHE DREAMED THAT SHE WENT UP IN A BALLOON AND FELL OUT I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP acaab1ce-8218-4041-a6e2-79567ee89a0a 2368 THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID BUT TAKE HIM AWAY SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER 0de365aa-8f6b-427d-959d-8d0873c285c6 1867 THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND 6dd23841-b168-4308-9aa5-1488725067c5 2317 RAY SAID MY NAME IS RAY IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT MY PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS cad58a98-914d-4da8-bb16-73db8f02a515 413 NEITHER ARGUMENT ENTREATY NOR EXPOSTULATION HAD ANY EFFECT ON THOSE TWO STUBBORN GIRLS NOR YET THE TEARS OF SWEET CECILY WHO CRIED EVERY NIGHT ABOUT IT AND MINGLED IN HER PURE LITTLE PRAYERS FERVENT PETITIONS THAT FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL MIGHT MAKE UP I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU EXPECT TO GO WHEN YOU DIE FELICITY SHE SAID TEARFULLY IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING 9fe504bc-f2f9-4f5c-bf13-d3d5815b73e0 188 THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS THERE WAS A LITTLE WHITE BED AND A DRESSING TABLE A BOOKCASE FULL OF BOOKS A STAND WITH A WORK BASKET ON IT AND A ROCKING CHAIR THERE WAS A WOMAN'S PICTURE ABOVE THE BOOKCASE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS SHE THINKS IT WAS A COLORED PHOTOGRAPH BUT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS 1944a255-bd83-42cf-b11b-82f357db1ea5 177 LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS ONE VERY HOT DAY SHE HEARD JUDY PINNOT SAY SHE WAS ALL IN A SWEAT MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION a0f9e358-0bb9-4488-92b5-3411785d2178 2274 BUT YOU SAID AN I A SHIP FOUND THIS JOINT IT DID AND THEN ONE OF OUR SPIES IN R INTERCEPTED A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR TO BE ASSIGNED HERE WITH FULL EQUIPMENT REQUEST SIGNED BY A FIRST CONTACT OFFICER NAME A DISTANT e3d234cd-9770-4677-8c22-ad67f5d2cac5 2274 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM NOT MUCH THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE ONLY WITH BLUE FUR FACES HAIRLESS PINK SKINNED STETSON SNAPPED A SWITCH THE TRANSLATE MAP BECAME A SCREEN WITH A FIGURE FROZEN ON IT LIKE THAT THIS IS LIFE SIZE bd1b1555-d780-4610-af57-55f221196aac 2425 TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY 6d5e313f-f515-4f06-b910-18525f8f31f7 402 THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY WE CAN PRAY FOR HIM SO WE CAN I AGREED I'M GOING TO PRAY LIKE SIXTY SAID FELIX ENERGETICALLY WE'LL HAVE TO BE AWFUL GOOD YOU KNOW WARNED CECILY THERE'S NO USE PRAYING IF YOU'RE NOT GOOD THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART 0b0d5676-af74-4e9a-8f7d-b31ff53b83a1 2317 FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE THE DIVING SUIT HAD SHIPPED SOME WATER AND THE JUDGE HAD GOTTEN A NASTY CRACK ON THE HEAD BUT HE WAS A TOUGH BOSO THERE WAS NO BLOOD HIS BREATHING SEEMED ALMOST NORMAL AND HE ALREADY SHOWED SIGNS OF RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS ec02df90-04a0-4022-8387-e7e08fab08fa 2108 SIGHED THE CANARY COULDN'T YOU MANAGE TO ESCAPE FROM THIS TERRIBLE YUKOH NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED SHE FIRST MADE US HER PRISONERS AND THEN TRANSFORMED US BUT HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO GET YOU POLYCHROME I WAS ASLEEP AND SHE TOOK UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF ME ANSWERED THE BIRD SADLY HAD I BEEN AWAKE I COULD EASILY HAVE PROTECTED MYSELF 38f8c3be-ed0a-495a-90b9-56d709514e29 14 PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO I KILLED IT STONE DEAD THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY WILL YOU BELIEVE IT HE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT IT I'M SO WORRIED UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEEDS A DOSE OF PHYSIC BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION 441a20fe-08e4-4130-8f04-7080cba0bd88 748 IF YOU'D HAD TO PAY FATHER FOR ALL THE EXTRA HANDFULS OF WHEAT YOU FED TO THOSE HENS MISS FELICITY YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SO MUCH SAID DAN SPITEFULLY I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY LOOK HOW AUNT OLIVIA'S HENS LAID TOO AND SHE FED THEM HERSELF JUST THE SAME AS USUAL e99016d9-921a-4d87-88e2-199bb13bf7cd 2108 THERE WAS NO REPLY CAN'T YOU SEE HE'S RESTED JUST AS YOU WERE ONCE ASKED POLYCHROME LAUGHING AGAIN HERE NICK CHOPPER LEND ME YOUR OIL CAN A MINUTE THE TIN WOODMAN SILENTLY HANDED HER HIS OIL CAN WITHOUT WHICH HE NEVER TRAVELED AND POLYCHROME FIRST OILED THE STRANGER'S TIN JAWS AND THEN WORKED THEM GENTLY TO AND FRO TILL THIS TIN SOLDIER SAID THAT'S ENOUGH THANK YOU I CAN NOW TALK 63a540e9-1f71-4103-8b3d-5df736a90b10 2137 AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM HE HEARD RHINARD ASK FOOL STUNT TOWERS SPUTTERED NOD I THINK I THINK YOU WENT DOWN DELIBERATELY JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK 4f6e6fba-a25e-414a-aa79-338607cd9239 32 THEY SAY SHE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF MISCHIEF SHE HAD BEEN AWAY AND HAD JUST COME HOME AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE POET AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM SLEEPING THERE SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A COUSIN THEY HAD BEEN EXPECTING FROM SCOTLAND AND SO SHE TIPTOED UP SO AND BENT OVER SO AND KISSED HIS CHEEK 71512441-cb47-4d6b-8c0f-e05669c312c0 2274 ORN SOBERED ALIEN YES A L I E N A NEVER BEFORE CONTACTED CULTURE THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE IT'S NOT COMPLETE 1de7b8f4-9af0-4f7b-aa24-6c8b9772b6aa 2182 PERMANENT BENEFIT WAS SLOW BUT CUMULATIVE OFFERING FOR THE FIRST TIME A REAL STEP TOWARD ULTIMATE STABILITY THE MEDICAL PSYCHIATRIC AND POLITICAL FIELDS CRIED OUT FOR CRYSTALS AND MORE CRYSTALS IF THE ISLANDERS WOULD TELL US THEIR SOURCE AND LET US HELP DEVELOP IT SATTERFIELD SAID PEEVISHLY INSTEAD OF DOLING OUT A HANDFUL OF CRYSTALS EVERY TEN DAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY NEED OF ACTION HOMESIDE FEELS THEY'RE JUST LETTING US HAVE SOME OF THE SURPLUS b302867c-36b9-427e-a444-d3d5588c221d 2286 DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM HE RUBBED HIS JAW WHILE HE LOOKED IT WELL HE SAID HESITATINGLY I DON'T WANT TO SAY FOR CERTAIN ALL THESE DETAILS AREN'T IN MY DEPARTMENT I'M JUST RESPONSIBLE FOR FINAL ASSEMBLY NOT UNIT WORK BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN e1d3d7c0-38fd-4b06-89d7-d9973969cb20 30 FELIX TWITCHED THE QUILT RATHER VICIOUSLY AND GRUNTED BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING SAID CECILY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM SAID FELICITY AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING 93cc9f92-a055-4022-b230-d8e866dfff56 2317 RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY 3dbbc16d-87a6-4ec6-859f-58cfccdf7dea 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 WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED AWAY THROUGH THE GAP FOLLOWED BY PATTY AND THE REST OF US WALKED UP THE ORCHARD TO THE HOUSE WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL 9263203a-8a7b-48d0-b715-66ec9851d4e3 413 WITH THE GATHERING SHADES OF NIGHT OUR PLIGHT BECAME PITIFUL IN THE DAYLIGHT SURROUNDED BY HOMELY FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IT WAS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO FORTIFY OUR SOULS WITH A CHEERING INCREDULITY BUT NOW IN THIS TIME OF SHADOWS DREAD BELIEF CLUTCHED US AND WRUNG US WITH TERROR IF THERE HAD BEEN ONE WISE OLDER FRIEND TO TELL US IN SERIOUS FASHION THAT WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WELL FOR US BUT THERE WAS NOT OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST dd8dc3e6-a8a2-4435-8d81-75b7bf2ece64 2274 A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY BUT HE CAN IF HE'S SHARP READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN OF EVERY LIVING THING ON IT MUTTERED AMBO STETSON SECTION CHIEF OF INVESTIGATION AND ADJUSTMENT STETSON PACE LENNED AND CONTROL BRIDGE OF HIS SCOUT CRUISER 29098aa1-f613-4cdd-9784-963a62269875 2108 NONE COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION THEY SAT AROUND THE CAGE BROODING OVER THE PROBLEM UNTIL THE MONKEY FELL ASLEEP SEEING THIS THE CANARY TUCKED HER HEAD UNDER HER WING AND ALSO SLEPT AND THE TIN OWL AND THE BROWN BEAR DID NOT DISTURB THEM UNTIL MORNING CAME AND IT WAS BROAD DAYLIGHT 633be1ac-e49e-493d-bc93-2fb736bd310b 402 SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIGGING INTO A COUPLE OF OLD VOLUMES OF CLASSIC MYTHS AND NORTHLAND FOLK LORE WHICH SHE HAD FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S ATTIC AND FOR US GOD AND GODDESS LAUGHING NYMPH AND MOCKING SATYR NORN AND VALCURY ELF AND TROLL AND GREEN FOLK GENERALLY WERE REAL CREATURES ONCE AGAIN INHABITING THE ORCHARDS AND WOODS AND MEADOWS AROUND US UNTIL IT SEEMED AS IF THE GOLDEN AGE HAD RETURNED TO EARTH 5342ca0c-fe47-4076-a9d9-bccb5ba39082 2182 HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK THE ZID LUNGED AGAINST THE DOOR WITH A FORCE THAT CRACKED THE WOODEN HURRICANE BOLT ACROSS AND OPENED A THREE INCH SLIT BETWEEN THE LEADING EDGE AND LINTEL JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN 8f602596-b83a-4ecb-a609-40d61b752e6c 413 THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT WE WENT UNCLE ROGER WAS IN HIS BARN YARD HITCHING HIS BLACK MARE INTO THE BUGGY HIS COPY OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET HE LOOKED AS WE SAW WITH SINKING HEARTS UNUSUALLY GRAVE AND PREOCCUPIED THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE 1388b935-1e6f-46ae-a7a5-d00e5e2f573c 32 THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY CECILY WHO HAD HEARD IT MANY TIMES BEFORE LISTENED JUST AS EAGERLY AS WE DID SHE DECLARED TO ME AFTERWARDS THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD THE STORY IT ALWAYS SEEMED AS NEW AND EXCITING AS IF YOU HAD JUST HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME 5e867a4b-fd58-454e-962b-6f320649fbd1 14 WHEN I HEARD THE STORY GIRL READ IT I MADE A SECRET COMPACT WITH MYSELF THAT I WOULD TRY TO DESERVE SUCH AN EPITAPH I WISH I HAD A FAMILY PLOT SAID PETER RATHER WISTFULLY I HAVEN'T ANYTHING YOU FELLOWS HAVE THE CRAGS ARE JUST BURIED ANYWHERE THEY HAPPEN TO DIE 4bfe7080-4afe-4076-98aa-334319d37bab 188 BUT WHERE THE STORY GIRL LED WE WOULD FOLLOW TO THE DEATH THE NEXT DAY BEING SATURDAY WE STARTED OUT IN THE AFTERNOON WE TOOK A SHORT CUT TO GOLDEN MILE OVER A LONG GREEN DEWY LAND FULL OF PLACID MEADOWS WHERE SUNSHINE HAD FALLEN ASLEEP AT FIRST ALL WAS NOT HARMONIOUS FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST 2b738956-1475-410c-ac5b-7cd1573dc8f7 2274 HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT BUT NOW THE SHIP RESTED ON ITS TAIL FINS ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG ABOVE THE HORIZON PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING 2d86b1f7-2338-4061-9aff-cdf053bbffec 2182 ALSO CHAFFEE THREE POINTED OUT AS THEY DODGED TO THE CONTROL CUBICLE AGAIN JUST AHEAD OF THE SLAVERING ZID WE MAY RETURN LATER WITH THE CAMTHORIAN HUNTING PARTY AND RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT CLOSING THEIR PERCEPTION AGAINST THE ZID'S DISTRACTING RAGINGS THEY SET TO WORK WITH PERFECT CO ORDINATION 8f735b69-db90-4f71-9671-1aaa89f39d2c 2274 PRESENTLY STETSON SAID O K GO AHEAD AS PLANNED BUT FIND OUT WHERE THE DELPHINIS IS IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING YOUR THROAT DEMANDED TO NEW I'M NERVOUS SAID ORAN GUNS ALWAYS MAKE ME NERVOUS THE MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE THE CAB LIGHT ON TONUB'S FACE WAS GIVING THE GIANT AN EERY SINISTER LOOK 19e05a9e-f8de-4cee-8951-76353df59b55 2137 BRANDON THE COLONEL'S GLARING FACE FLICKED OFF AS BRANDON PUSHED THE PRE EJECTION LEVER INTO THE LOCK POSITION SEVERING ALL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE BRANDON HAD A STRANGE DETACHED FEELING AS HE PUSHED THE EJECTION BUTTON THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND 637bcacb-0f01-4981-8dea-6f9efb7efdc7 30 WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO 9c66c932-e21f-48f2-b563-8c876e6b7911 2317 DORA SHRUGGED I'M NOT TELLING THEM ANYTHING REALLY JUST DROPPING A FEW HINTS OF THE MOST ELEMENTARY SORT THINGS THAT HAVE FIGURED OUT SOON ANYWAY AND THINGS THEY STILL HAVE TO WORK HARD TO MAKE PRACTICABLE EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER 94127bf4-91bd-4fd4-8a48-d89146cf60e7 451 SHE WENT TO WORK AND MADE LITTLE RAISIN PIES RIGHT THERE IN THE KITCHEN BEFORE THE STORY GIRL THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES 4038dfa1-9762-4f63-9d43-317dd05af9c7 2317 FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS HE WENT UNDER ONCE AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING HE DECIDED HIS END HAD COME AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN d93ac119-0617-46d2-a724-e61f771700fe 188 MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT HIGH HEELED SLIPPERS AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN 029d7a1f-14c5-4ff7-8cf2-811a5805e179 2108 MY TIN BODY CONTAINED NO HEART WITHOUT A HEART NO ONE CAN LOVE TILL THE WICKED WITCH CONQUERED IN THE END AND WHEN I LEFT THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ THE POOR POOR GIRL WAS STILL THE SLAVE OF THE WITCH AND HAD TO DO HER BIDDING DAY AND NIGHT ea10a328-19bf-40e8-877a-c3b74aa6172b 2286 IT WAS CLOSING FAST USING THE RAW ENERGY OF THE BATTLESHIP ENGINES FOR A HEADLONG APPROACH MY SHIP BUCKED A BIT AS THE TUG BEAMS LOCKED ON AT MAXIMUM DISTANCE THE RADIAT LEAKED AT ME FOR ATTENTION AT THE SAME TIME I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON THE VOICE BOOMED OUT 1bfdaaa8-baa6-4038-8717-7524eb7dea1e 2137 MAYBE THE LIGHT WILL GO OUT BUT IT DIDN'T INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON OVER A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN A THOUGHT ENTERED HIS MIND MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF e761f85c-7f3b-417a-bb74-2488d9d15bd5 2317 AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB AS IT WORKED OUT JOHN ANDREW WAS A PERSON WHO FOUND IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY NO HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS 5474944a-a433-4363-9f68-a63bf9e3a28e 451 HE WAS CALLED TO THIS CONGREGATION AND HE LABOURED HERE LONG AND FAITHFULLY AND WAS MUCH BELOVED THOUGH HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC WHAT DOES THAT MEAN ASKED PETER HUSH IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW A COMMON MAN WOULD BE QUEER BUT WHEN IT'S A MINISTER IT'S ECCENTRIC 1adcb600-c0cd-4b50-9c05-7ed4275ca5f6 2182 THERE IS NO DANGER CHAFFY THREE ASSURED HIM SCOOPS ARE BENEVOLENT AS WELL AS INTELLIGENT AND ARRIVED LONG AGO AT A WORKING AGREEMENT WITH THE ISLANDERS THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN e1928d33-9ff8-4908-8f72-d7610d3dac7b 2317 I COULD GO INTO THEORIES AND SCIENTIFIC DETAILS RAY SAID I COULD EXPLAIN PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE MACHINE FOR HOURS BUT YOU WOULD BE BORED AND WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYWAY IT IS SUFFICIENT TO SAY THAT THE RAY WILL WORK BECAUSE I INVENTED IT 10ee26db-2435-4b8f-8789-3ad81a9648bd 2425 WATCH THEM PETE ROARED VIC WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES HIS GUN ROARED TWICE FROM BEHIND ME AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO HE WENT THE WAY OF THE TWO OTHERS b49e10f0-392d-4933-b42e-b00eca611b19 2368 BUT HE MAKETH VERY LITTLE PROGRESS UNLESS HE PICK THE RIGHT TIME AND PLACE WHO STICKETH OUT HIS NECK WHICH SEEMED QUITE A STICKY PROBLEM FOR A MAN IN A MEDIEVAL CULTURE JONAS DID NOT IN SPITE OF HIS POSE LOOK LIKE THE TYPICAL HERO FOLK TALE OR SCRIBE'S TOME HE WAS NOT EVEN SEVEN FEET TALL FOR INSTANCE NOR DID HE HAVE A HANDSOME LOVESOME FACE WITH FLASHING BLUE EYES OR A BROAD SHOULDERED NARROW WAISTED MARVEL OF A FIGURE HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER c7445134-9902-4b6d-8a59-281063786f1f 402 THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AN EXPRESSION OF SCORN CAME OVER HER FACE SURELY YOU DON'T BELIEVE GOD LOOKS LIKE THAT SHE SAID IMPATIENTLY WHILE HER FINE EYES FLASHED HE DOESN'T HE COULDN'T HE IS WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL I'M SURPRISED AT YOU THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN 64e0b0ce-6b91-4b55-8233-26e53e463793 2425 SHE JUST GOT THE KEY AND WENT IN AFTER A FEW MINUTES I HEARD SOMETHING BUZZING IN THERE AND I THOUGHT MAYBE MISTER BUTLER WAS SHOWING HER SOME NEW GADGET OF HIS LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS DOING THEN THERE WAS A TELEPHONE CALL FOR HIM AND I COULDN'T MAKE NEITHER OF THEM ANSWER THAT'S WHEN MISTER PARIN AND I BEGAN TO GET WORRIED I SEE 14f79a23-7a9a-4995-bae0-5ac0c0605215 2108 BUT ON REFLECTION I CONSIDERED THE TIN HEAD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE NEAT ONE I AM WEARING IT YET SO YOU CAN SEE ITS BEAUTY AND GRACE OF THE OUTLINE AND THE GIRL AGREED WITH ME THAT A MAN ALL MADE OF TIN WAS FAR MORE PERFECT THAN ONE FORMED OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS b7c1f5d5-5443-4f6c-aefc-9419111ed687 2317 HIS VOICE TRAILED OFF THE MACHINE HISSED SNAPPED AND CRACKLED THE TELEVISION SAT FLICKERED HUMMED GAVE OUT A FLASHING DANCE OF SERESTIC DOODLES AND ABRUPTLY PRESENTED A PICTURE IT WAS A PICTURE OF MILTON BOROUGH RAY LOOKED MAD STARTED TO AIM A KICK AT THE SCREAM BUT THOUGHT BETTER OF IT A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING 52983f6f-665f-40bb-86a7-bd1d875b3b4a 451 I URGED JANET AND ALEC TO GO TO HALIFAX AND TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE AWAY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS LETTING MYSELF IN FOR IF ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED I COULD NEVER HAVE FORGIVEN MYSELF THOUGH I BELIEVE IT'S BEYOND THE POWER OF MORTAL MAN TO KEEP WATCH OVER THE THINGS THAT CHILDREN WILL EAT c9279dcb-20db-4d79-bfd2-9173738cae44 2274 OR NODDED AT THE RIFLE WOULD YOU MIND POINTING THAT WEAPON SOME OTHER DIRECTION IT MAKES ME NERVOUS THE GUNMUZZLE REMAINED UNWAVERINGLY ON ORAN'S MIDDLE THE NATIVE'S MOUTH OPEN REVEALING LONG CANINES DO WE NOT LOOK STRANGE TO YOU I TAKE IT THERE'S BEEN A HEAVY MUTATIONAL VARIATION IN THE HUMAN OY NORM ON THIS PLANET SAID HORN WHAT IS IT HARD RADIATION 02d52624-793d-4b6e-b36c-4932b0470765 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 OUR EYES DIFFER SAID TO NEWBE HE BENT TOWARD ORAN PEERED THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF HIS EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED YOU ARE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS O ON THE DAUPHINIS PAUSE YES 6790ab54-49a6-4d08-8645-137be728085b 2425 THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE WHICH SET MY NERVES ON EDGE WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST AND THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN ME AND THE PRIEST FOR A MOMENT DUE TO THIS OBVIOUSLY UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION EVERYTHING IN CONFUSION PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR 051fbf3c-7da8-4fca-b5aa-1d45836066ba 2137 WHEN BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES HE WAS STARING AT THE SILVERY DISKS OF THE TWIN MOONS THEY WERE HIGH IN THE SKY OBSCURING THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY FUNNY HE SHOULD BE LYING ON HIS BACK LOOKING AT THE SKY HE THOUGHT THEN HE REMEMBERED THE CAPSULE WAS ON ITS BACK AND BRANDON WAS STILL STRAPPED SECURELY TO THE SEAT HIS WHOLE BODY ACHED 0ecaa7cc-8491-48e2-9683-c14cbac1b09a 2317 IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE HER FIGURE WAS LEAF AND NICELY CURVED HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM FROM THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER THE OVERALL EFFECT WAS ODDLY BEAUTIFUL FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY AND TRIED TO KEEP HIS EYES ON HER FACE 44f3efb6-c957-449d-80f1-0ce42c7c07a1 188 I WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL SECRETLY WORRIED BECAUSE I DID NOT GROW I HAD OVERHEARD AUNT JANET SAY I WAS GOING TO BE SHORT LIKE UNCLE ALEC NOW I LOVED UNCLE ALEC BUT I WANTED TO BE TALLER THAN HE WAS SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS I JUMPED AT THE OFFER f6e8cfbb-b9bd-4518-950f-1454c5db4a4c 451 AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA EVERY TWO HOURS IT'S SUCH DREADFUL TASTING STUFF BUT IT'S A GOOD BLOOD PURIFIER SO AUNT JANET CAN'T OBJECT TO IT THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY ALL DAY SHE SAT IN THE KITCHEN AND WORKED BUTTONHOLES SUBSISTING ON BREAD AND WATER AND MEXICAN TEA 406c8444-d485-410e-a02c-de7d806331d0 2182 UNEXPECTEDLY BECAUSE JEFF HAD NOT CONSIDERED THAT IT MIGHT MATTER HE WAS DISTURBED BY THE REALIZATION THAT HE WOULDN'T BE SEEN JENIFER OLD CHARLEY MACK'S RED HAIRED NIECE ONCE OCCUPATION BEGAN JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM 9be8819c-76a2-4711-ac59-dd4d86a3b9aa 2182 I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED THE SHIP WAS OURS SAID CHAFFY THREE HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY 4b4f1d38-1acf-4cf3-a99e-74951ea77b9d 32 AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE THE WATER IS LOVELY UNCLE EDWARD PREACHED HIS FINEST SERMON ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM WELL WHERE DAVID'S SOLDIERS WENT TO GET HIM WATER AND HE ILLUSTRATED IT BY DESCRIBING HIS OLD WELL AT THE HOMESTEAD THIS VERY WELL AND HOW IN FOREIGN LANDS HE HAD LONGED FOR ITS SPARKLING WATER SO YOU SEE IT IS QUITE FAMOUS 90323307-63fe-43a9-833f-e4c4243cec64 2317 FINALLY HE SPOKE IN ENGLISH HE CALLED DORA A PUDDLESNAKE THAT WASN'T ALL OF WHAT HE SAID BY ANY MEANS THE NAME WAS PRECEDED BY SEVERAL ADJECTS AND FOLLOWED BY AN OBSCENE COMMAND DORA BLANCHED SLIGHTLY OH YES SHE SAID HER VOICE DRIPPING DANGER I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE ab5aba17-9041-499d-bc4b-3faf78bc7f4c 2286 COULD I BE SURE THAT PEPPE FLYING HIS MOUNTAIN OF A SHIP AND EATING NAVY RATIONS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SOME OF THE COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF LIFE OR IF THE LUXURIES DIDN'T CATCH HIS EYE WOULD HE BE INTERESTED IN THE PLANETARY HOMESTEADING GEAR I HAD LOADED THE CARDS WITH ALL THE THINGS HE MIGHT WANT AND PLANTED THE INFORMATION WHERE HE COULD GET IT HE HAD THE BAIT NOW BUT WOULD HE GRAB THE HOOK 6e4fa41d-9318-41b2-820a-de3877006f7d 2286 IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED I CAN EXPLAIN HE SAID DESPERATELY EVERYTHING CAN BE EXPLAINED THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE SUCH CHARGES I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PAPERS YOU HAVE THERE SO I WOULDN'T ATTEMPT TO SAY THEY ARE ALL FORGERIES I HAVE MANY ENEMIES YOU KNOW IF THE LEAGUE KNEW THE DIFFICULTIES FACED ON A BACKWARD PLANET LIKE THESE THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP c7835550-c3ec-4908-b7e4-3465c0a026b7 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 OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD I'M WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU c4555c97-5666-460e-b261-79c784cb3396 2182 JEFF DUCKED AND STRAINED HIS WEIGHT AGAINST THE BUNK MOMENTARILY PINNING THE ZID'S THRESHING FORELEM CHAFFY THREE CHOSE THAT MOMENT TO REAPPEAR NEARLY CAUSING JEFF TO LET GO OF THE BUNK AND ADMIT THE ZID YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT THE SERIMIAN CROAKED THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM c9161525-4236-4be5-96aa-3a181f812346 2286 I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER AND I COULDN'T BE BLAMED IF THE GIRL HAD SLIPPED AWAY IF SHE EVADED THE NAVY SHIPS THAT WAS THEREFORE NOT MINE I HAD MY VICTORY ALL RIGHT THEN WHY DID IT TASTE LIKE ASHES IN MY MOUTH IT'S A BIG GALAXY BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW I CAN BE CONNED ONCE BUT ONLY ONCE THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT 97d5e0e1-ab92-41b8-aaab-183f4448b7d5 188 THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WENT AWAY TO THEIR WORK FELICITY AT ONCE SET THE PREPARATIONS FOR DINNER GOING AND ALLOTTED TO EACH OF US HIS PORTION OF SERVICE THE STORY GIRL WAS TO PREPARE THE POTATOES FELIX AND DAN WERE TO PICK AND SHELL THE PEAS CECILY WAS TO ATTEND THE FIRE I WAS TO PEEL THE TURNIPS FELICITY MADE HER MOUTH WATER BY ANNOUNCING THAT SHE WAS GOING TO MAKE A ROLY POLY JAM PUDDING FOR DINNER 6cc2d6e0-2278-4fc6-b9c9-3a9735f3fd16 2274 THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED TO NEWBE SHIFTED BEHIND ORAN WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID SLOWLY TO STAY BEHIND MY SCOUTS RIGHT ORAN ESA SLED FORWARD AROUND AN OBSTRUCTING ROUTE SILENCE WHILE THEY CRAWLED AHEAD AROUND THEM SHAPES FLUNG THEMSELVES FROM VINE TO VINE I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL a97eb5ad-580d-41d1-aee1-649d645db03c 2317 HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE OLD AND WORN STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN BUT ORDINARY OCEAN I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED 8a686ac3-cd12-495f-930a-4d4b8dcf8ffc 2286 I WAS STILL TEASED AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A SHIP THIS LARGE COULD BE USED FOR SO I REMOVED THE TIME INTELLECT ON THE C M AND LET IT PICK AROUND THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF SPACE TO SEE IF IT COULD FIND A COMPARISON IT SURE DID RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME 45bdb2f6-7dc9-47c5-a9da-6c0a0c8c208b 2317 APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE EXCUSE ME HE SAID I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID 49eaf8fa-df57-44fc-8799-fe2f163728f0 402 EVEN FELICITY AND DAN FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES GOT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT ANY EXCHANGE OF LEFT HANDED COMPLIMENTS CECILY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE NEVER MEANT TO PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLORS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS PRETENDING SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO REPENT OF SOMETHING SWEET GIRL AND THIS WAS ALL SHE COULD THINK OF b8e953e3-51a2-4c65-8c38-e63b11890d9c 32 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SO IT APPEARED HAD WOOED WILD DREAMS TO THEIR PILLOWS BY THE SIMPLE DEVICE OF EATING RICH INDIGESTIBLE THINGS BEFORE THEY WENT TO BED AUNT OLIVIA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT OF COURSE SHE PERMITTED THEM ONLY A PLAIN WHOLESOME LUNCH AT BEDTIME BUT DURING THE DAY THE STORY GIRL WOULD SMUGGLE UPSTAIRS VARIOUS TIDBITS FROM THE PANTRY PUTTING HALF IN PETER'S ROOM AND HALF IN HER OWN AND THE RESULT WAS THESE VISIONS WHICH HAD BEEN OUR DESPAIR 22c74a2d-0aac-4c11-88fa-daa31ac16056 2108 ALL THESE WONDERS HAD BEEN MADE BY THE CLEVER WINKIE TINSMITHS WHO WOUND THE BIRDS UP EVERY MORNING SO THAT THEY WOULD MOVE ABOUT AND SEE AFTER BREAKFAST THE BOY WENT INTO THE THRONE ROOM WHERE THE EMPEROR WAS HAVING HIS TIN JOINTS CAREFULLY OILED BY A SERVANT WHILE OTHER SERVANTS WERE STUFFING SWEET FRESH STRAW INTO THE BODY OF THE SCARECROW 71f5874b-fc62-4dcf-ae19-2d394665ecf2 402 WELL HIS FATHER RUN AWAY AND HIS MOTHER WAS TOO BUSY EARNING A LIVING TO BRING HIM UPRIGHT ARGUED FELICITY DON'T YOU SUPPOSE THAT ANYBODY EVEN GOD WOULD MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THAT OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE CHILDREN ALWAYS GO TO HEAVEN BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE I WANT HIM TO STAY RIGHT HERE I KNOW HEAVEN MUST BE A SPLENDID PLACE BUT I'M SURE PETER WOULD RATHER BE HERE HAVING FUN WITH US 02702808-8840-4c18-b6b3-c3e92a33cc32 32 WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY MA MADE A RULE LIKE THAT ONCE BEFORE AND KEPT IT FOR A WEEK AND THEN WE JUST SLIPPED BACK TO THE OLD WAY THAT WILL BE WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME TOO BUT OF COURSE WE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANY MORE RICH THINGS FOR SUPPER AND OUR DREAMS WILL BE PRETTY FLAT AFTER THIS 75f66521-5cb3-4c2c-8554-e1fc162de046 2274 WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN WHISPERED TO UBE YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT b32650af-9ae0-4df7-b421-c7785840b409 32 ANYHOW I SAVED MY DREAM SHE SAID PLACIDLY AND THAT OF COURSE WAS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERED GROWN PEOPLE WERE SO STRANGELY OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRULY IMPORTANT THINGS OF LIFE MATERIAL FOR NEW GARMENTS NIGHT OR DAY COULD BE BOUGHT IN ANY SHOP FOR A TRIFLING SUM AND MADE UP OUT OF HAND aebf3bcc-04b2-44bf-812c-2a7b13c93827 188 PERHAPS PIGS MAY WHISTLE BUT THEY'VE POOR MOUTHS FOR IT WAS ALL THE ANSWER PETER GAINED TO THIS CHARMING SUGGESTION THERE GOES MISTER CAMPBELL DOWN THE ROAD SAID DAN THAT'S HIS NEW MARE ISN'T SHE A DANDY SHE'S GOT A SKIN LIKE BLACK SATIN HE CALLS HER BETTY SHERMAN I DON'T THINK IT'S VERY NICE TO CALL A HORSE AFTER YOUR OWN GRANDMOTHER SAID FELICITY BETTY SHERWIN WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT A COMPLIMENT SAID THE STORY GIRL MAYBE SHE WOULD SHE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN VERY NICE HERSELF OR SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE GONE AND ASKED A MAN TO MARRY HER SAID FELICITY af3c2026-0512-4e01-8a29-6acc5284ca85 2108 ONE OR TWO OF THE OTHERS HELPED HIM AND PRETTY SOON AS THEY DREW IN THE COURT THE LEAVES ABOVE THEM PARTED AND A LOON APPEARED AT THE OTHER END OF THE STRING IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO DRAW HIM DOWN TO THE THRONE WHERE HE SEATED HIMSELF AND WAS TIED IN SO HE WOULDN'T FLOAT UPWARD AGAIN c40cbc06-2822-4a4b-8f64-9568cec6c583 2286 WHEN I STRAIGHTENED UP FROM MY DESK THE ACHE IN MY BACK STABBED LIKE A HOT WIRE I SWALLOWED A PAIN KILLER AND LOOKED AROUND AT MY DROOPING SACKIDE ASSISTANTS WHO HAD SHARED THE SLEEPLESS SEVENTY TWO HOUR TASK THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS f185e769-411f-4486-835d-d4871c1692c9 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 I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT PERHAPS IT COULD BE OF HELP YOU THERE SHORTEN CHUNKY I CALLED DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCEALED COMPARTMENTS OR DRAWERS BUILT UNTIL STEEL HARD IF SO LET'S SEE FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES 19b234fe-c07f-4563-ac0f-fc28fb38a742 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 VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU I AM THE GRAND DUKE SAINTE DENGELLIO I SHOOK HIS HAND ENTHUSIASTICALLY AT THIS POINT AND LET ONE HUNDRED CREDIT NOTES SLIP INTO HIS PALM NOW I ADDED I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ASK THE CUSTOMS AGENTS TO LOOK AT MY BAGS HERE DON'T WANT TO WASTE TIME DO WE THE SHIP IS OPEN THEY CAN CHECK THAT WHENEVER THEY PLEASE a47aaa30-2725-4f94-840a-8c629f380ee0 32 BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE HAD ANY OF US BOYS EVER BEEN GUILTY OF SUCH CECILY'S PALE FACE WOULD HAVE COLOURED WITH A BLUSH OF OUTRAGED PURITY FELICITY'S GOLDEN HEAD WOULD HAVE LIFTED ITSELF IN THE HAUGHTY INDIGNATION OF INSULTED WOMANHOOD AND THE STORY GIRL'S SPLENDID EYES WOULD HAVE FLASHED WITH SUCH ANGER AND SCORN AS WOULD HAVE SHRIVELLED THE VERY SOUL OF THE WRETCHED CULPRIT f58e94f0-ad6f-46bf-bf15-16f69bf45505 32 WE SOMETIMES ACT THE STORY OUT I LIKE IT WHEN PETER PLAYS THE POET I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN DAN IS THE POET BECAUSE HE IS SO FRECKLED AND SCREWS HIS EYES UP SO TIGHT BUT YOU CAN HARDLY EVER COAX PETER TO BE THE POET EXCEPT WHEN FELICITY IS EDITH AND DAN IS SO OBLIGING THAT WAY f21767a2-c062-4c89-a48a-4b68774f25e1 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 WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING UP WE FELT SURE OF THAT 199f1a60-7622-4d0e-b34f-c3f8e98af1da 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 WHY A BATTLESHIP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL 68253dea-5673-4a5a-8428-4aa43d892d7e 103 AND NOW WE HAD COME TO THE ORCHARD IT WAS BEFORE US WE HAD ONLY TO OPEN THAT LITTLE WHITEWASHED GATE IN THE HEDGE AND WE MIGHT FIND OURSELVES IN ITS STORY DOMAIN BUT BEFORE WE REACHED THE GATE WE GLANCED TO OUR LEFT ALONG THE GRASSY SPRUCE BORDERED LANE WHICH LED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THAT LANE WE SAW A GIRL STANDING WITH A GRAY CAT AT HER FEET 2f5909ee-293b-4bf7-9f1d-6bfdbc794b1d 748 WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL bcda3dfb-3986-4b9a-ae96-88ca85fd8619 2312 A THING THAT SIZE COULDN'T CRACK A WALNUT YOU FLOUNDERING FOP IT WILL BLAST THIS TOWN FLAT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU NOTHING 6d90250d-9053-4b69-b569-2d760e790358 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 HER ROSES ARE ALL OUT AND THAT BED OF SWEET WILLIAM IS A SIGHT BY DAYLIGHT 5058095c-d1fd-46c5-9c35-4d1d0f976fee 242 HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT I DON'T KNOW I CONFESSED DUBIOUSLY FELIX IS TOO FAT HE'LL GET OUT OF BREATH IN NO TIME 6067770c-409a-4f57-83a1-e60051a1736e 177 CECILY WAS PALE BUT BRAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS SHE HAD NOT PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLS ON SATURDAY NIGHT IT WAS BRUSHED AND BRAIDED WITH PURITAN SIMPLICITY IF IT'S A JUDGMENT DAY I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY HAIR IS CURLY OR NOT SHE SAID e9088020-59aa-4dbb-a386-785fe5b99607 2425 VIC I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING VIC AND I HAD BEEN BUTTIES EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER 17dec09d-3179-4925-aa45-92d5e765a878 177 WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE b84903c4-0196-4f68-aa02-d5eb583e4400 464 FELICITY IF I DIE FROM THE EFFECTS OF EATING SAWDUST PUDDING FLAVORED WITH NEEDLES YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU EVER SAID SUCH A THING TO YOUR POOR OLD UNCLE SAID UNCLE ROGER REPROACHFULLY EVEN IF THERE WERE NO NEEDLES IN IT SIXTY YEAR OLD SAWDUST CAN'T BE GOOD FOR MY TUMMY I DARE SAY IT WASN'T EVEN CLEAN b0a74451-a720-466d-b0f9-4f17daff425a 2182 THE SCOOP SENSING JENOFER'S SURRENDER SLID ITS PONDEROUS BULK NEARER AND OPENED ITS MOUTH LEAVING HALF AN ACRE OF LOWER JAW RESTING FLUSH WITH THE ISLAND QUEEN'S DECK 0c779d9c-b292-4cfe-b31e-775b292aff2d 177 WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN IF THAT CLOCK DOESN'T STRIKE TWO I SHALL GO OUT OF MY SEVEN SENSES DECLARED CECILY WITH UNUSUAL VEHEMENCE 50a4d383-41f4-480a-9fc8-25d2efca144d 2312 A LADY CALLED THE POLICE TO SAVE THE PAIR FROM ROCK THROWING KIDS WHO MIGHT HAVE KILLED THEM AND THE TWO AS YET UNCLASSIFIED THINGS WERE TAKEN TO THE STATION HOUSE dbd571b0-f95e-4642-a140-5b6155742d5e 2108 I SUPPOSE YOU THINK THAT AFTER YOU HAD EATEN THIS FOOD IT WOULD TURN TO STONES AGAIN AND MAKE YOU SICK SHE REMARKED THAT THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE 27bbcdcb-f0ad-4039-b137-5f3dc806e7e8 103 I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED I COULDN'T GO OVER LAST NIGHT I GOT UP EARLY THIS MORNING THOUGH FOR I FELT SURE YOU WOULD BE UP EARLY TOO AND THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE ME TELL YOU ABOUT THINGS I CAN TELL THINGS SO MUCH BETTER THAN FELICITY OR CECILY 43a755ed-607e-48a9-a2cc-5005dd204979 188 YOU MIGHT BE FORGIVEN FOR TELLING LIES IF YOU WAS REAL SORRY FOR THEM BUT IF YOU MURDERED ANY ONE IT WOULD BE PRETTY HARD TO GET FORGIVEN SO YOU'D BETTER BE ON THE SAFE SIDE 82c80249-b932-4997-8f81-10f20fcdbc0c 14 PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO 619107f4-ea01-4c70-857f-1f8bf5b33004 198 I SHALL TELL IT TOO I DON'T CARE IF THE JOKE IS AS MUCH ON MYSELF AS ANY ONE A STORY IS A STORY NO MATTER WHO IT'S ON BUT IT IS HATEFUL TO BE LAUGHED AT AND GROWN UPS ALWAYS DO IT I NEVER WILL WHEN I'M GROWN UP I'LL REMEMBER BETTER d81b9cc3-763f-46d0-92fb-f325567521e4 32 SHE DREW A PICTURE OF THE GRIMACING OTTOMAN ON THE MARGIN OF HER DREAM BOOK WHICH SO SCARED SARA RAY WHEN SHE BEHELD IT THAT SHE CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME AND INSISTED ON SLEEPING THAT NIGHT WITH JUDY PINNOT LEST THE FURNITURE TAKE TO PURSUING HER ALSO 7737eee6-dd5b-4396-a98c-64645893a03d 2312 GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK 1bc34928-535a-463b-8c4b-5ca99c879503 242 NOW SAID DAN I'LL COUNT AND WHEN I SAY THREE YOU PITCH IN AND HAMMER EACH OTHER UNTIL ONE OR TWO OF YOU HAS HAD ENOUGH CECILY KEEP QUIET NOW ONE TWO THREE 9e02f1f9-ce2d-4083-922c-0c7b7fb38802 464 FELICITY HAVING USED UP ALL THE AVAILABLE COOKING MATERIALS IN THE HOUSE HAD TO STOP PERFORCE AND SHE NOW DETERMINED TO STUFF TWO NEW PINCUSHIONS SHE HAD BEEN MAKING FOR HER ROOM f012e7ac-400f-4028-bdba-93822ac6401d 198 BOYS AIN'T ALWAYS HUNGRY SAID FELIX GRAVELY THERE'S TIMES WHEN THEY AIN'T I DON'T BELIEVE IT SAID THE STORY GIRL DREARILY BESIDES ADDED FELIX IN THE TONE OF ONE WHO SAYS WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS YET HOPE YOU MAY LEARN TO COOK YET IF YOU KEEP ON TRYING f70d258c-f9ac-41b1-8cb2-fe1cfe6c39fc 14 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY FELICITY TOSSED HER HEAD IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS bdfad18b-a262-4565-a5a9-33cf1c0b2f97 2425 AT A COMMAND FROM THE PRIESTS THE GUARDS LIFTED ME TO THE ALTAR AND THEN STOOD WATCHFULLY BELOW GAZING UP AT ME WITH PUZZLED MOURNFUL ENVIOUS EYES acef41ad-1d5c-4ce6-8132-7015d868a42c 2425 I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES VIC LOOKED DOWN FROWNING I'M NOT SURE I'M RIGHT HE REPLIED AFTER A MOMENT BUT IF I AM THEY WISH US TO KILL THEM 5c0e7516-2e00-4640-8e51-8d951fe79d85 2425 BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY CAN'T SAY PETE YOU CAN'T NAME THINGS HERE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN WORLD 9db0be8c-4a06-4bf4-91ca-0e28fd9b95dd 2274 PRESENTLY A GREATER GLOOM CAME OVER THE JUNGLE BRINGING A SUDDEN STILLNESS TO THE WILD LIFE 07bd5e65-f3a5-47b4-ac14-6a0d3054e4e5 1867 MOST REPAIR MEN TAKE THESE COURSES BESIDES THEY'RE ALWAYS COMING IN HANDY THE COMPANY GRADES YOUR PAY BY THE NUMBER OF SPECIALTIES YOU CAN HANDLE ALL THIS WITH SOME OIL PAINTING AND FREEFALL WORKOUTS IN THE GEM PASSED THE TIME b0ac1d1d-0f6b-44e2-87f9-205d7e567a97 1867 WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS 4f9b313e-fc45-42d1-ab2a-94e2692cef9c 2108 A MAN WITH A WOODEN LEG OR A TIN LEG IS STILL THE SAME MAN AND I LOST PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY BY DEGREES I ALWAYS REMAINED THE SAME PERSON AS IN THE BEGINNING EVEN THOUGH IN THE END I WAS ALL TIN AND NO MEAT 533234b4-1836-4928-81ee-b034f2f8a485 748 JUST THIS I BOUGHT A BOX FROM HIM FOR FOR SOMETHING HE SAID HE WASN'T GOING TO SELL ANY OF IT TO ANYBODY ELSE DID HE SELL ANY TO YOU cfb21a0c-3005-45fe-b333-dea7ed8c122d 2182 THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM CHAFFEE FOUR RADIATED MAROONED IT CAN DO NO HARM TO MARINE INTELLIGENCES d1c51064-6fe0-4e16-8379-7c5237cb46d0 177 IF WE HAD EATEN LITTLE AT BREAKFAST WE COULD EAT STILL LESS AT DINNER AFTER DINNER THE CLOUDS ROLLED AWAY AND THE SUN CAME JOYOUSLY AND GLORIOUSLY OUT THIS WE THOUGHT WAS A GOOD OMEN FELICITY OPINED THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE CLEARED UP IF IT WAS THE JUDGMENT DAY NEVERTHELESS WE DRESSED OURSELVES CAREFULLY AND THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR WHITE DRESSES c39a4393-1f43-4a34-9a13-604e6d83e48f 2137 PICKING UP A CHART HE MURMURED SIX MONTHS MUCH TOO LONG STRANGE WE DIDN'T CATCH THAT AT THE TIME a843e055-8fbb-4602-8c57-afdfcfefaa50 2286 ALL THE BOARD GUARDS HAD A GREAT TIME WITH THE SIRENS LIGHTS ACCELERATORS ON THE FLOOR AND THAT SORT OF THING WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE A UNIFORM WATCHMAN FRANTICALLY WAVED TO US AND THE WHOLE CONVOY JERKED TO A STOP THE SHIP WAS GONE 1ce42550-bd5a-407c-9dcb-53a73c429deb 242 BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY OH WHOEVER'S LICKED WILL HAVE TO GIVE IN ABOUT PRAYING SAID PETER THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING SIGHED POOR CECILY 8afb7e70-31d3-467a-9a73-e7b0e77fdddf 2368 YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED I DON'T SEE OH I SEE THE WOMAN IN YOUR MIND THE DAUGHTER AND NOW STOP IT YONES THOUGHT STOP IT CUT OFF AFTER ALL HE FINISHED THERE ARE TIMES WHEN EVEN A HERO WANTS A LITTLE PRIVACY c0b88b8a-1fb7-4d23-9104-f213468add9d 1867 IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH THE VALVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE USED ONLY FOR REPAIRS AFTER THE PILE WAS DAMPED WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT 550fd71f-5936-48f7-984f-fc2beef999a0 242 UNCLE ROGER WOULD HAVE LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY UNCLE ROGER BELIEVES IN BOYS FIGHTING HE SAYS IT'S A HARMLESS WAY AS ANY OF WORKING OFF THEIR ORIGINAL SIN 1dfa9d45-5c55-4bee-9c6c-6f2aa7300e7e 2108 I THINK NOT WAS THE REPLY WE ARE ENGAGED UPON A RATHER DELICATE ADVENTURE FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER a0c60472-7f20-4650-a5f3-fdcdd3a1438a 198 AN OLD PROVERB WITH NEW MEANING IT WAS HALF PAST FIVE WHEN WE BOYS GOT UP NEXT MORNING WE WERE JOINED ON THE STAIRS BY FELICITY YAWNING AND ROSY O DEAR ME I OVERSLEPT MYSELF b4f27d3e-0ee0-4e0e-9e1d-71386733606f 14 WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN BUT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS HE SAID 9ce86441-0869-4cff-aecc-7df1da228c95 2286 ALL ROAMS CHECKED RESULTS NEGATIVE EXCEPT FOR ONE OPTIC BUG IN THAT WALL 27120c2d-cb08-4c4c-bfc2-d9777ee7daeb 14 YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY THERE'S A GREAT BIG PATCH ON HIS BEST PAIR OF TROUSERS PROTESTED FELICITY 40930675-b273-40f6-b020-1a347286b96b 188 SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE 499772dc-3396-42a7-9105-3df3dfe21a40 2286 THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER I BUTTONED MY COLLAR STRAIGHTENED MY RIBBONS AND SQUARED MY SHOULDERS BY THE TIME THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOOR I WAS ALL ADMIRAL AGAIN 84ad489d-7f65-4317-ab58-6d5b70d80727 14 AUNT JANET ON THE CONTRARY GAVE US SO MUCH GOOD ADVICE AND WAS SO CONSTANTLY TELLING US TO DO THIS OR NOT TO DO THE OTHER THING THAT WE COULD NOT REMEMBER HALF OF HER INSTRUCTIONS AND DID NOT TRY 98f1da20-2e1c-4a23-a1ef-9dbd7d37b2b0 188 THEY SHOULDN'T GROW IN THE WRONG PLACE SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY WHEN WEEDS GO TO HEAVEN I SUPPOSE THEY WILL BE FLOWERS CONTINUED THE STORY GIRL YOU DO THINK SUCH QUEER THINGS SAID FELICITY bd380630-c3b4-4970-845c-b387eeb2afe6 2317 JUST IMAGINE BEINGS THAT LIVE ON A WORLD WITH ALMOST AS MUCH WATER AS OURS WHO CAN'T USE THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES ANY MORE THAN THAT IT'S RIDICULOUS I NEVER SAW SIST MOROC THE BIG UGLY ONE ESPECIALLY 32038ef8-cb06-45bc-b922-97f9627ffe7b 2317 THE ONLY REAL TROUBLE WITH YOU EARTH PEOPLE IS THAT YOU HAVE A TREMENDOUS INFERIORITY COMPLEX COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUALLY AS YOU'VE JUST ILLUSTRATED GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE b54d64ab-d282-4687-8ff3-494e8897f19e 2286 OH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH THE COVERS WENT ONE WAY AND IN SKIT WENT THE OTHER IN A SINGLE UNFOLDING IN CONCERTED MOTION HE LEFT THE HORIZONTAL AND RECUMBENT AND STOOD TENSELY VERTICAL AGAINST THE WALL EXAMINING THE PICK OF THE BATTLESHIP UNDER THE LIGHT 6638be99-1abb-41b1-86ab-252b58454e07 402 CECILY DEAR HEART SENT MOST OF HERS TO THE HOSPITAL IN TOWN AND NO DOUBT GATHERED IN THEREFROM DIVIDENDS OF GRATITUDE AND SATISFACTION OF SOUL SUCH AS CAN NEVER BE PURCHASED BY ANY MERE PROCESS OF BARGAIN AND SALE 9c748856-31ec-4406-8aa4-ed6260315bdc 2182 CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT I CAN LEARN HE SAID c563d6fa-70c1-466b-a0bc-0b022fecda8e 748 HAD HE BEEN A POOR MAN HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST BUT HE HAD A SMALL FORTUNE OF HIS OWN IN LACKING THE SPUR OF NECESSITY OR OF DISQUIETING AMBITION HE REMAINED LITTLE MORE THAN A CLEVER AMATEUR 02d446fa-0d9e-4a2a-936b-9c44c1d64351 2108 PANTA HAS JUST EXPLODED THE LADY LOON PICKED UP THE BUNCH'S SKIN AND EXAMINED IT CAREFULLY UNTIL SHE DISCOVERED A HOLE IN ONE FOOT da322aa0-410c-43aa-a901-0b29479a3da6 402 I WAS USED TO HEARING GIRLS CRY WE MUST FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR MAKING PETER BETTER SAID CECILY AS WE FINALLY WENT TO THE HOUSE 0dde4b8c-8927-4930-9265-b23e2a371a6f 2312 COUNT EVERYONE ALL RIGHT FILL IN EVERY ONE I NEED MORE PAPERS WE WILL GIVE HIM MORE IF YOU NEED MORE BUT THERE AREN'T SO MANY IN YOUR SCENE LOVE US DIONES SORROS EVEN PEOPLE dd245f49-0edc-4555-95ee-34145f793b9e 198 FELICITY PALE AND TEARFUL DROPPED ON HER KNEES AND LIFTED THE CRETON FRILL OFF THE SOFA THERE HIS HEAD PILLOWED HARDLY ON UNCLE ROGER'S BOOTS LADY JIMMIE PATTERSON STILL SOUND ASLEEP 4ca9328c-fee2-4c38-8a70-9f4ca2de4bd0 177 TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR f8dfd622-23ec-44c5-a89a-b0038b26d29e 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 IT MEANS DANGER SHARP PRESSED HIM BUT I DO NOT MIND DANGER IN SUCH A CAUSE 6e08810b-76b2-40ee-be0a-2ce64e8243a1 2317 IT WAS WRENCHED FROM HIS HANDS AND FORCED DOWNWARD TO STICK QUIVERING IN THE DECK THE DEVELOPMENT TOOK FARMER COMPLETELY UNAWARES NEITHER OF THE ALIENS MOVED IT WAS JUDGE GREY WHO HAD DISARMED HIM 6e9fcf0e-088b-4197-8ffe-fff796ec785c 2274 HOW MANY CITIES HAVE THEY WE FOUND TOO THIS ONE AND ANOTHER ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET BUT THE OTHER ONE'S A RUIN A RUIN WHY YOU TELL US LOTS OF MYSTERIES HERE WHAT'S THE PLANET LIKE ecb714ac-cd4d-4137-a8e6-c1eda600d337 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 DAN DOES SAY SUCH QUEER THINGS I'M SO AFRAID HE'S GONE TO GROW UP JUST LIKE UNCLE ROBER WARD WHO NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T BELIEVE MORE THAN HALF THE BIBLE IS TRUE 4271c66f-50b7-4408-bf79-9871b883173c 30 OUR DOOR WAS OPEN AND IN THEIR ROOM ACROSS THE NARROW HALL THE GIRLS WERE PREPARING FOR BED AND TALKING RATHER MORE LOUDLY THAN THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE HAD THEY REALIZED HOW FAR THEIR SWEET SHRILL VOICES CARRIED f3d6c8ba-9a73-432f-8973-4468e409c1f8 2425 HERE'S THE SPOT I MARKED IT WITH THESE THREE PIECES OF STONE QUICK VIC SWEPT BOTH ARMS ABOUT HOPE AND ME HOLDING US IN A CLOSE EMBRACE SO THAT WE ALL STOOD WITHIN THE TRIANGLE FORMED BY THE THREE BITS OF BLACK ROCK 8a4a75f0-3984-4a06-bf40-be9540d1786d 464 WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST b2e09cfb-fe95-461b-b5cd-c661c158c9be 2425 BOTH HOPE AND VIC WERE FIGHTING DESPERATELY BUT THERE WERE AT LEAST TEN GUARDS TO EACH OF THEM I LIFTED MY HAND AND WAVED A FAREWELL HOPING THAT ONE OF THEM AT LEAST WOULD SEE THE GESTURE AND KNOW THAT MY LAST THOUGHT WAS OF THEM dd7a0720-cd5a-4c8b-95d2-bf58ac18b7ec 2286 PEPPET MADE A STRANGLING NOISE AND I LOOKED BACK TO HIM QUICKLY HE WAS SITTING UP NOW AND HIS FACE WAS DRY OF TEARS IN FACT HE WAS LAUGHING NOT CRYING HE WAS TRYING TO BE FAIR AND CONSIDERATE OF MY VIEWS AND NOT SUCCEEDING IN THE SLIGHTEST IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE HE GROWLED fb6f1ef4-c56b-4fa2-8e7f-9211a2de8fa9 2286 I'LL SAY THIS THE NAVY BOYS KNOW THEIR BUSINESS WHEN THE SIREN SCREAMED THE CREW SECURED SHIP AND BLASTED OFF BEFORE I HAD FINISHED READING REPORT AS SOON AS MY A BALLS UNSQUASHED BACK INTO FOCUS I READ IT THROUGH THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING 33145394-640a-46d2-9c40-8476fa160458 402 BUT THE GENERAL CONSENSUS OF OPINION WAS THAT WE MUST HAVE THE PICTURE NO MATTER WHAT PECUNIARY SACRIFICES WERE INVOLVED IF WE COULD EACH GIVE ABOUT SEVEN CENTS WE WOULD HAVE THE AMOUNT PETER COULD ONLY GIVE FOUR BUT DAN GAVE ELEVEN WHICH SQUARED MATTERS a4fd83a5-06d0-455b-80f1-ce7df3f799df 177 THE LONG DRAGGING HOURS WERE HARD TO ENDURE WE ROAMED RESTLESSLY ABOUT AND WENT TO AND FRO ALL SAVE PETER WHO STILL STEADILY READ AWAY AT HIS BIBLE HE WAS THROUGH GENESIS BY ELEVEN AND BEGINNING ON EXODUS b354fc30-27cc-4eef-8b5d-2de2fc9efa6e 2108 FAITHFUL STORY OF THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURE UNDERTAKEN BY THE TIN WOODMAN ASSISTED BY WOUT THE WANDERER SCARECROW OF OZ AND POLYCHROME THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER BY EL aacdabf4-f9c3-46cf-b061-2ca52b3604e7 30 FOR MY OWN PART I WAS RATHER SORRY TO SEE HER GOING AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL BUT WE HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT HER BY THE TIME WE REACHED THE OPEN COUNTRY DRIVING ALONG ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF UNCLE ALEC WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM 5bebd0ac-ab2b-410e-8d35-38d775829235 402 BUT MANY MEN AND WOMEN FOLLOWED ODIN HIMSELF GIVING UP ALL THEIR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS AND AMBITIONS AND TO THESE HE PROMISED THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE 1266da4c-e320-4635-a30a-f218d211591d 2182 SOMEHOW THE PREDICTABLE MONOTONY OF CONSOLATE WORK HAD NEVER SEEMED LESS INVITING THE PROSPECT OF ENDING HIS COLLAXI IN TOUR AND GOING TO A HALF BARREN AND JUTTERY EARTH APPEALED TO JEFF EVEN LESS 090aa89a-5a6b-4e9b-8912-375fab49f404 2317 FARMER LOOKED IMPRESSED THEN BEGAN TO REALIZE WHAT SOME OF THIS MEANT HE CAUGHT HIMSELF STRAIGHTENED OUT HIS FACE AND LICKED HIS LIPS YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER TRIED THIS THING BEFORE HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK fbc7e0a7-66e4-4de2-9472-adb8551f49df 464 IT WAS TOUGH DECIDEDLY TOUGH AND LACKED THE RICHNESS OF FLAVOUR WHICH WAS CUSTOMARY IN AUNT JANET'S CORNMEAL PUDDINGS IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DRY EATING INDEED 9b7fd8e5-6898-4626-9067-45baaa2e7c4d 2312 ONLY THE PEOPLE MANOEL DO NOT TAKE THE ANIMALS HOW WOULD YOU WRITE UP THE ANIMALS THEY HAVE NO NAMES OH YES ALL HAVE NAMES MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL f64e1032-5b03-448f-959d-c34e76231397 2274 HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE ORAN SWALLOWED GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED 8957d870-b512-4c0d-8dd1-6b331aac6da2 402 P S OH I DO HOPE PETER WILL GET BETTER MI IS GOING TO GET ME A NEW BROWN DRESS FOR THE WINTER S R 1344a50e-0228-49dc-bc3a-c8c46a994b4c 103 FELIX AND I WERE TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND OR ANALYZE THE IMPRESSION IT MADE UPON US BUT WE INSTANTLY FELT AT HER GREETING THAT IT WAS A GOOD MORNING A SURPASSINGLY GOOD MORNING THE VERY BEST MORNING THAT HAD EVER HAPPENED IN THIS MOST EXCELLENT OF WORLDS 85ac68fc-a976-493d-9c5d-924c427f6702 402 THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART 6aa6a917-2fe5-41a3-81c8-42a84030a3d8 2425 THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY adc9761a-e88d-47dd-b3ec-fb5848e850a4 413 PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS de7f0280-de29-4d34-8edb-db6491d36cce 198 WHEN THE JELLY COOKIES WERE ALL EATEN IT WAS HIGH TIME TO BE MOVING HOMEWARD FOR WHEN THE DARK COMES DOWN THERE ARE MORE COMFORTABLE PLACES THAN A RUSTLING MAPLE WOOD AND THE PRECINCTS OF A POSSIBLY ENCHANTED SPRING f7e059c4-9884-4818-9a7a-2872a3ccece9 2317 FARMER CROUCHED THE POINT OF THE BOATHOOK WAVERED AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON 28e46f75-a87e-48a4-a207-404926dc8d72 32 I LIKE PETER WELL ENOUGH IN HIS PLACE SAID FELICITY PRIMLY BUT YOU MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF HIM MOTHER SAYS HE IS ONLY A HIRED BOY AND HE HASN'T BEEN WELL BROUGHT UP AND HASN'T MUCH EDUCATION I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD MAKE SUCH AN EQUAL OF HIM AS YOU DO 2e220372-c9b7-4843-a73a-403aea751e42 242 MANY MOONS AGO AN INDIAN TRIBE LIVED ON THE BANKS OF A RIVER IN NOVA SCOTIA 995cee05-c9c4-4f91-8f82-ef04fb79fa81 464 IN SPITE OF HER DISASTER WITH THE BREAD THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TAKING COOKING LESSONS FROM FELICITY ALL THE WEEK AND GETTING ON TOLERABLY WELL ALTHOUGH MINDFUL OF HER FORMER MISTAKE SHE NEVER VENTURED ON ANYTHING WITHOUT FELICITY'S APPROVAL BUT FELICITY HAD NO TIME TO OVERSEE HER THIS MORNING a5d4b41a-8d0a-48c8-832c-6c7264fc80c4 177 WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK IT SOUNDSIBLY DREADFUL TO HEAR YOU CALL THE BIBLE AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK d9f5a07a-16e7-49f9-bf64-0f66ddba321e 2108 BOTH WERE GLAD TO LEARN THAT A STRANGER HAD ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE FOR THIS WOULD GIVE THEM SOMETHING NEW TO TALK ABOUT SO THE SERVANT WAS ASKED TO ADMIT THE BOY AT ONCE 674809be-d062-46cc-970e-05d3a794847c 30 CECILY LOOKED PALE AND THIN BESIDE HER BUT SHE HAD DAINTY LITTLE FEATURES SMOOTH BROWN HAIR OF SATIN SHEEN AND MILD BROWN EYES WITH JUST A HINT OF DEMURENESS IN THEM NOW AND AGAIN 0deeebad-af1f-4447-ae66-bd890f624168 2425 SUDDENLY HOPE SCREAMED AND I FOLLOWED HER EYES A SCORE OR MORE OF THE STRANGE BEINGS HAD SUDDENLY MATERIALIZED BUT A FEW YARDS AWAY AND THEY WERE CLOSING IN ON US SWIFTLY I TRIED TO DRAW MY GUN aa367ef0-3c4e-4d7c-a384-853f206ebf0d 177 WHY NOT SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH A FLASH OF HER EYES INDEED I SHALL I'LL TELL STORIES AS LONG AS I'VE A TONGUE TO TALK WITH OR ANYONE TO LISTEN I DOUBTLESS THAT DAUNTLESS BIRTH WOULD SOAR TRIUMPHANTLY ABOVE THE WRECK OF MATTER AND THE CRASH OF WORLDS TAKING WITH IT ALL ITS OWN WILD SWEETNESS AND DARING 28730657-2b02-42a3-b79a-696116902e69 188 NEIL DIDN'T WANT MUCH PERSUASION HE TOOK SOME MORE AND SAID SLYLY IS IT WE GOING OVER THE BAY THE NIGHT THAT YOURSELF WILL BE DOING 27f2d159-0e86-4cb1-92ff-164924ec635a 2312 YOU MARSHALL'S LITTLE BOY YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER SAID THE MIDGET THAT VOICE I SHOULD KNOW THAT VOICE EVEN IF IT'S CRACKED TO PIECES THAT HAS TO BE MANUEL'S VOICE 7a0d6f2c-86b9-456d-a9f4-a8d359786573 402 THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE A STERN EXPRESSION CAME INTO HIS GENTLE BLUE EYES AND HE GOT AS NEAR TO FROWNING AS IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED 6fb5f4ee-f0c3-45d7-9176-01b60300dbbc 177 THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT METHODISTS OR PRESBYTERIANS IN THE BIBLE SAID FELICITY SCORNFULLY 49228557-a52a-4e45-b564-f7a42e7a3912 2108 WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE LEG ANYHOW YOU KNEW IT WAS A PRIVATE PROPERTY I SUPPOSE SAID SHE BUTTERING ANOTHER BISCUIT 7ac993cf-653a-4104-b16b-7dc35ec1a0cd 30 CECILY WHO WAS ELEVEN WAS PRETTY ALSO OR WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD FELICITY NOT BEEN THERE FELICITY RATHER TOOK THE COLOR FROM OTHER GIRLS bf61865f-7836-40c7-a9c1-0362780adbb0 413 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE FACT THAT IN ALL OUR FOREGATHERINGS SHE WAS CAREFUL TO SIT AS FAR FROM FELICITY AS POSSIBLE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DECEIVED a989b669-1a49-4ea0-a328-816a4d7f3c07 2312 PRAIRIE DOGS CAN'T WRITE AS GOOD AS ON THAT LIST PRAIRIE DOGS CAN'T WRITE HARDLY AT ALL THAT'S TRUE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO 112a2c31-fac7-4d91-b847-caa52762eb73 2368 BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT AFTER ALL HE WAS A HERO THOUGH OF HIS OWN UNIQUE KIND THERE WAS NO DENYING THAT AND IN HIS OWN WAY HE HAD HIS REWARD HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY a9b55750-8af7-4e8e-96f8-a2ecb841fc42 103 BEFORE THE WEDDING HE HAD FENCED OFF THE BIG SOUTH MEADOW THAT SLOPED TO THE SUN IT WAS THE FINEST MOST FERTILE FIELD ON THE FARM AND THE NEIGHBOURS TOLD YOUNG ABRAHAM KING THAT HE WOULD RAISE MANY A FINE CROP OF WHEAT IN THAT MEADOW 3eafeede-aee8-4a5a-b4b1-8edca4699c14 413 WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL FINALLY I MUST GO AND GET THE POTATOES READY I SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE BAWLED EVEN IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS AND I'VE GOT TO GO AND STUMP ELDERBERRY SAID PETER I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN DO IT GO AWAY BACK THERE ALONE I FEEL SCARED TO DEATH THE WHOLE TIME 9192c3a4-781e-4033-8e88-a20ff54285ae 2108 BRUTE SHIVERED FOR AGAIN THIS TERRIBLE MAGIC FINGER POINTED AND POINTED DIRECTLY HIS WAY f804f3f2-8816-4d9b-8fc7-12c386d234d1 32 WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED AWAY THROUGH THE GAP FOLLOWED BY PATTY AND THE REST OF US WALKED UP THE ORCHARD TO THE HOUSE e3f49afb-d69a-4d20-9fc3-28ee1f45b674 2312 DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM ARE SURE EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGNOLENA SEE THEM EIGHT NINE PEOPLE SEE THEM AND MANWELL HOW DO WE GET TO THE PLACE CAN YOU SHOW US ON A MAP 5dbf7143-2405-450e-8f30-78ac1fbd772c 198 THERE'S SOMETHING DREADFUL IN THERE SOMETHING THAT RINGS A BELL PETER HEARD IT DON'T GO IN THERE'S NO USE ASKING THE MEANING OF THIS I SUPPOSE SAID UNCLE ROGER WITH THE CALM OF DESPAIR I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY 30e5255c-dfae-41d7-b550-a3ba77098546 748 BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER EVERY PUPIL OF CARLYLE'S SCHOOL SO IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY 852817d9-6595-4b53-8235-274eabb7fda1 2312 IT COULD HAVE ONLY BEEN ABOUT THREE DAYS THEN HOW COME I'M SO OLD WE DON'T KNOW THAT MANOEL WE SURE DON'T KNOW THAT HOW BIG WERE THESE PEOPLE WHO KNOWS A FINGER LONG MAYBE TWO 8df6d87a-6fca-4827-8773-6d82ffea0ae0 30 FURTHER THAN THAT WE DID NOT THINK ABOUT HER WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON 754f3264-36c3-4293-b382-bc4d9da82f7a 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 f2429d29-05a8-4de3-998a-d6a7b050f4a0 413 PETER WAS WITH US IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN IF TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FELLOWS HE SAID 21d61538-6b9e-4d65-bcc6-7974dbfcdcc5 748 HE COULD WRITE LETTERS SUCH LETTERS BY CONTRAST FELIX AND I WERE SECRETLY ASHAMED OF FATHER'S EPISTLES 20945346-35ba-4eeb-b152-3b223d6dfaba 402 OH I WISH I'D NEVER SAID PETER WASN'T FIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH MOANED FELICITY IF HE EVER GETS BETTER I'LL NEVER SAY SUCH A THING AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK IT HE'S JUST A LOVELY BOY AND TWICE AS SMART AS LOTS THAT AREN'T HIRED OUT 2ef55d69-08e1-4369-a1e8-6882e5e1b4ac 2425 PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING 3aa738ab-d91e-4ce1-baf5-99ba876904a2 2182 JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER NOT ON YOUR HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW b0f70e37-b99e-4cb5-9087-354e23399690 2286 BEFORE HE COULD TALK I DID FOOT IN THE DOOR AND STAY ON TOP BEAUTIFUL PLANET YOU HAVE HERE DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL e4d970e6-a2ce-49c6-b23f-27423f19a0dc 30 FELICITY CECILY AND DAN WERE SITTING OPPOSITE US STARING AT US WHEN THEY THOUGHT WE WOULD BE TOO BUSY EATING TO SEE THEM WE TRIED TO STARE AT THEM WHEN THEY WERE EATING AND AS A RESULT WE WERE ALWAYS CATCHING EACH OTHER AT IT AND FEELING CHEAP AND EMBARRASSED c7f37908-2064-444f-ace1-202f23b1e803 2425 MY FIRST SHOT SENT ONE OF THE CREATURES SPINNING TO THE GROUND TWO MORE WERE ALMOST UPON ME BEFORE I COULD LEVEL THE WEAPON AND PULL THE TRIGGER AGAIN I GOT THEM BOTH 032acf9c-4f29-4751-bd5f-07f612f1652c 30 OR WAS IT SIMPLY THE GLAMOUR OF OLD FAMILY TRADITIONS AND TALES WHICH WAS OVER US LENDING ITS MAGIC TO ALL SIGHTS AND SOUNDS AROUND US 7374f872-935f-49e8-b548-ea6e4e5c7ce1 1867 THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP 3e818895-2424-4863-9920-ab1bd0e465be 198 WE TOILED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND YARD LIKE MANIACS WE LOOKED INTO EVERY LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACE BUT JIMMY WE COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE THAN IF HE HAD INDEED MELTED INTO AIR MISSUS PATERSON CAME AND WE HAD NOT FOUND HIM THINGS WERE GETTING SERIOUS 17c363a2-5223-4895-bad0-8982b9bd335c 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 THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER I BUTTONED MY COLLAR STRAIGHTENED MY RIBBONS AND SQUARED MY SHOULDERS 324b9f4c-0fe7-4730-863d-980ee8e8928d 748 DAN AND I LOOKED AT EACH OTHER SUSPICION DRAWING IN OUR EYES WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BILLY ROBINSON AND HIS MAGIC SEED I DEMANDED f76c47f5-aa82-497f-be1f-329078cd1346 198 I KNEW HE NEVER WENT OUT OF THE DOOR CRIED DAN TRIUMPHANTLY WHEN THE LAST BUGGY HAD DRIVEN AWAY FELICITY SET A BATCH OF BREAD AND THE REST OF US SAT AROUND THE BACK PORCH STEPS IN THE CAT SLIGHT AND ATE CHERRIES SHOOTING THE STONES AT EACH OTHER a27ed3ee-bb10-4bf2-896f-fd8f52054212 1867 IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP THE REPAIRS DIDN'T TAKE LONG THOUGH THERE WAS PLENTY OF GROANING FROM THE BLIND LIZARDS WHEN THEY HEARD ME RIPPING THE WALL OPEN TO GET AT THE POWER LEAGUES I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN f3f81f74-5ff1-458a-b402-2ae7b2a7470e 2368 YOU HAVE CONFESSED TO ME HE SAID YOUR HERESY NOW YOU WILL BE MADE TO RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR 6963a346-84d8-45b5-910b-b098116ff35e 402 IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE 10b6c4cf-c12c-4598-8b2f-55283db5da04 2274 I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING 69f5c352-5b6b-43c0-9785-a1ee53851d40 413 DO YOU THINK IT IS I'M AFRAID SO SAID UNCLE ROGER GRAVELY THE ENTERPRISE IS ALWAYS VERY CAREFUL TO PRINT ONLY RELIABLE NEWS BUT MOTHER DOESN'T BELIEVE IT CRIED FELICITY 730624b5-4112-46b9-b8f9-7f08d7d7d05e 413 IT WAS A HUGE COMFORT TO HER THAT AUNT JANET ALWAYS SAID YES AND OF COURSE AS IF THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT e276eb31-9fb5-4bc0-9722-271515578eae 2368 NOW YONAH SAID WHEN HE WANTS IF I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID I HAVE POWERS STRANGE POWERS I COULD MAKE YOU HE REFLECTED FOR A MINUTE I COULD MAKE YOU INTO A BEADLE AND SQUASH YOU UNDERFOOT AS A MATTER OF FACT I THINK I WILL HE GAZED REFACTLY AT THE BALD MAN WHO GULPED AND TURNED A LITTLE PALE 87b5478a-fcfa-4568-b0ec-a4acfa84235c 2286 I WAS EVEN MORE SURPRISED WHEN I JOINED THEM OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE 5711ed50-1a95-41ee-a34d-61c89a1b2742 2317 JUDGE RAY WAS NOW FRANTICALLY TRYING TO REMOVE HIS DIVING HELMET AGAIN EXCITEMENT MADE HIS MOTIONS INEFFECTING AND HIS SIGNAL FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM THEN CONTINUED TO FUMBLE WITH THE FASTENINGS HIMSELF 535a77ef-2408-4fb3-a220-45ca731d4697 2425 THEN AS THE PRIESTS COMPLETED THEIR THIRD BOW I TURNED AND FACED THE STATUE AS MY EYES FELL UPON THE SHUTTER BEHIND THE THICK GRINNING LIPS THE SHUDDER WHICH RELEASED THE LETHAL FORCE A WILD AND DESPERATE IDEA CAME TO ME d1a0e3d3-768e-435e-aa25-13313de716c7 14 ONCE WHEN SARAH WAS IN A BROWN STUDY I ASKED HER WHAT SHE WAS THINKING OF I'M TRYING TO THINK OF SOMETHING MA HASN'T FORBID SHE ANSWERED WITH A SIGH ef011cf3-c3fe-4710-887f-3f7e08eece04 402 WHEN WE GET IT WE'LL KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY BIBLE SAID FELICITY THAT'S THE ONLY PROPER PLACE AH I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BREATHED CECILY bdcd0354-e117-4d9a-b046-fad12368ac74 32 WHAT IS PETER LIKE I ASKED PETER IS SPLENDID HIS MOTHER LIVES ON THE MARKDALE ROAD AND WASHES FOR A LIVING PETER'S FATHER RAN AWAY AND LEFT THEM WHEN PETER WAS ONLY THREE YEARS OLD 31065ba8-7e87-4f5c-ae2d-e19e964aa96f 103 HE IS AN OLD BACHELOR DOESN'T HE EVER MEAN TO GET MARRIED ASKED FELIX I DON'T KNOW AUNT OLIVIA WISHES HE WOULD BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND SHE WANTS TO GO TO AUNT JULIE IN CALIFORNIA BUT SHE SAYS HE'LL NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND WHEN HE FINDS HER SHE WON'T HAVE HIM d1136b9c-b949-4fb5-8285-de04a9834332 2137 THE SHIP HE THOUGHT ASTRO MAY ALREADY BE HOVERING OVER IT 60d060ce-9ef9-40b0-b0a3-eda7b8472562 2317 BEHIND THE BARRED FACE PLATE RAY LOOKED PUZZLED THEN ANNOYED FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN AND THIS SEEMED TO ADD THE FINAL TOUCH OF INSANITY TO THE SCENE 4d8be8b8-c4f6-4aed-a150-76686ec24586 748 PEG BOWEN HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT WELL WE HAD ALL BEEN BADLY HOAXED BUT WE DID NOT TRUMPET OUR WRONGS ABROAD WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER c2e906ba-cf68-4a5d-bd47-2660820aef53 30 IT HAD TAKEN ROOT AND GROWN OUR FATHER AND OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS HAD PLAYED IN ITS SHADOW AND NOW IT WAS A MASSIVE THING WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK AND GREAT SPREADING BOUGHS EACH OF THEM AS LARGE AS A TREE IN ITSELF 54ae25ba-7288-4e29-9bb5-3a458a7f5b75 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 c02fe8ca-cab8-419b-8534-44c4f76321fd 188 FELIX'S LETTER DEAR PETER I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU'RE GETTING BETTER WE ALL FELT BAD WHEN WE THOUGHT YOU WOULDN'T BUT I FELT WORSE THAN OTHERS BECAUSE WE HADN'T BEEN ON VERY GOOD TERMS LATELY AND I HAD SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT YOU I'M SORRY AND PETER YOU CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING YOU LIKE AND I WON'T EVER OBJECT AGAIN 4a974bf5-286a-4d76-bf7f-db5d6e82bba9 30 THE HOME OF OUR FATHERS I DO LIKE A ROAD BECAUSE YOU CAN BE ALWAYS WONDERING WHAT IS AT THE END OF IT THE STORY GIRL SAID THAT ONCE UPON A TIME 15f3e951-d6cc-4df2-8157-a905b2dcbb95 2425 YOU AND MISSUS PARENT STAY HERE THERE BY THE DOOR I SUGGESTED I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG HERE BUT SOMETHING'S HAPPENED THERE'S NO NEED FOR ALL OF US ENTERING 3f064231-6e5e-4535-a574-b2c59f6e7ce7 2425 MY SECOND GLANCE AROUND THE ROOM WAS MORE DELIBERATE TO MY RIGHT THERE WERE BIG GENERATORS IN THE SWITCHBOARDS GLEAMING WITH COPPER BUS BAR AND INTRICATE WITH THEIR TORTUOUS WIRING 34fab291-f6a6-4e66-8ed7-2c05b33f65af 2182 YOU'RE AN EARTH INTEREST SPY AFTER ALL SHE ACCUSED THEY SAID IN THE TOWNSHIP YOU ARE NO ARTIST BUT UNCLE CHARLEY AND I JEFF MADE A PUSHING MOTION KEEP AWAY FROM ME DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US 83154c0f-5ed5-4917-b628-ee271da20ff3 242 FELIX WAS VERY INDIGNANT AND AGGRIEVED AS WELL I DON'T SEE WHY GOD SHOULD ANSWER PETER'S PRAYERS INSTEAD OF MINE HE SAID BITTERLY I'VE GONE TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL MY LIFE AND PETER NEVER WENT TILL THIS SUMMER IT ISN'T FAIR 413a6f0e-b938-457d-b625-119dfa9f33d9 32 HE HAS NEVER COME BACK AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR DEAD ISN'T THAT A NICE WAY TO BEHAVE TO YOUR FAMILY PETER HAS WORKED FOR HIS BOARD EVER SINCE HE WAS SIX ead92ac8-0a74-42e6-8733-e4f0005b43a9 188 WE COULD NOT PICTURE HER AS OLD ALWAYS AS LONG AS SHE LIVED SO IT SEEMED TO US MUST SHE HAVE SLEEK BROWN CURLS A VOICE LIKE THE SOUND OF A HARP STRING IN THE WIND AND EYES THAT WERE STARS OF ETERNAL YOUTH 278cd7f1-8e31-49c8-b2a0-a18c95d5c4ba 30 HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD 46a65f1d-d1a0-4407-905c-bc7d9e5fd037 2368 WITH THE BALD MAN AT LEAST HE COULD COMMUNICATE 39caca23-d81b-4f40-8094-9f4de70818f7 2108 WAS THE WITCH OR THE FAIRY OR WHATEVER SHE WAS AN OLD PERSON WITH WRINKLED SKIN AND HALF HER TEETH GONE INQUIRED THE DIN OWL 59756629-1069-485b-8bb4-f16c3ac7b9f1 2137 EXCUSE ME COLONEL TOWERS SAID BRANDON QUIETLY TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON THE COLONEL'S FACE PALED I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU SAID BRANDON GRINNING ABOUT THE QUONUM JUMP e8f7851a-7e43-41c7-a6c1-79a4220ab7c6 103 THEN SHE SPOKE SHE SAID GOOD MORNING NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS bb0cc582-c230-41f3-b92f-8f4eec2613d5 2368 JONAS PUT ON HIS MOST PLEASANT EXPRESSION MADAM HE SAID I WISH TO KNOW IF THERE BE ANY FAMILY IN THIS TOWN TO GIVE ROOM TO A WAYFARER UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED 34f2132d-350a-44b3-822f-0bd3bdb05506 402 WE WERE ALL INTENSELY EXCITED SATURDAY MORNING TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER WHAT IF JERRY DOESN'T BRING THE PICTURE TO DAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN I SUGGESTED NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS f9220a67-b30c-4813-b20e-5d831ed63d89 402 VING STRONG NOBLE AND VALIANT HE SAID RAINBOW BRIDGE IS NOT FOR THEE db10623a-c913-42a6-8a5d-b0241d4fb4bc 103 ALL RIGHT I KNOW STORIES ABOUT IT TOO SHE SAID AS WE WALKED ACROSS THE YARD FOLLOWED BY PATTY OF THE WAVING TAIL OH AREN'T YOU GLAD IT IS SPRING THE BEAUTY OF WINTER IS THAT IT MAKES YOU APPRECIATE SPRING 948af86a-d6f3-4c52-a202-cefbaddfdafb 1867 IT'S LOGICAL IF I WERE AN IGNORANT ABORIGINE OF EARTH AND I RAN INTO A SPICKIN WHO LOOKS LIKE A TWO FOOT GOB OF DRIED SHELLOCK I WOULD IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THE SCENE 02e7b968-b52f-4b80-b8b3-8dbb1dac70d0 2317 JOHN ANDREW HAD STOPPED TRYING TO HIDE HIS OWN FEAR AND THOUGH HE HAD PLENTY OF QUESTIONS OF HIS OWN HE WAS MAINLY CONCERNED WITH LOOKING FOR A MEANS OF ESCAPE 68ba7752-38db-4f30-8786-75e0dc2d2f57 1867 WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED afd89384-ec5f-4259-962d-c0ce4ca12676 177 THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO 38d0f3ab-2c1d-453c-8d25-0561db2c75ba 198 I DO THINK HE MIGHT HAVE HAD MORE SENSE THAN TO TAKE A CLOCK STRIKING FOR A BELL RINGING I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED de630283-e4fc-4057-8549-1722f8882db0 2317 AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER DOR HE SAID SOFTLY SHE LOOKED AT HIM HAUGHTILY DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID I TOLD YOU YOU'D HAVE TO STOP YOUR IRRESPONSIBLE PRACTICAL JOKING AND SETTLE DOWN 257c016f-fa1a-4bd8-a493-62158dbb2b1a 464 CECILY DO YOU KNOW WHERE MOTHER PUT THE SAWDUST SHE EMPTIED OUT OF THAT OLD BEADED PINCUSHION OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S AFTER SHE HAD SIFTED THE NEEDLES OUT OF IT I THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE TIN BOX 04302b4f-0b50-4349-8040-562237c163b3 2182 STILL THEY POSSESSED THEIR SHARE OF OWLISH SYREME LOGIC AND HIT SOON ENOUGH UPON THE ONE PRACTICAL COURSE TO JETUS AND THE ZID ON THE NEAREST WORLD DEMONSTRABLY FREE OF INTELLIGENT LIFE ed551c95-7224-4fe9-9823-511c21e85c0e 14 HE LIFTED HIS VISOR ALL SAW HIS AWFUL FACE THE PROUD PRINCESS SHRIEKED 6b5e2233-5403-4fcb-8a43-a7ed32f465ef 748 OH JESS LOOK SHE SAID HERE ARE THREE DOLLARS AND I'M GOING TO GIVE IT ALL TO THE LIBRARY FUND I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS 7d1f1b69-7aac-4ecf-b249-067b90fa1a41 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 48b5c1a6-3233-4fb6-b99c-0efd519bbfc1 2274 WE CAN GO SOON SAID TO NUBE WILL YOU JOIN ME INSIDE HERE ASKED HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT LEFT 698ef58d-d568-4e53-9a3a-995da9857d79 2368 AND THE BUILDINGS THEMSELVES WOOD MUD AND STONE CLUSTERED IN THE VALLEY BELOW HIM AS IF THEY WERE AFRAID AND NEEDED EACH OTHER'S PROTECTION 1d2799b5-2538-49ae-9c8f-cebb8cf835bf 2274 O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR I OUGHT TO I'M RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW 3fcb7065-9aa6-480f-9aa2-0034ea6dfb1b 2286 THEY HIT AGAIN KNOCKED OUT A NAVY SUPPLY OF SATELLITE THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD IF YOUR PLAN DOESN'T WORK ADMIRAL THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE d1f832ea-a64e-44d1-b647-4146689fc4f6 198 THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE USEFUL THAN JUST INTERESTING SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING be9b2089-8970-4c35-9df5-f4c5e854116e 2274 ANOTHER LONG PAUSE IN WHICH ORAN AND TO NEWBE CONTINUED TO STUDY EACH OTHER PRESENTLY STETSON SAID O K GO AHEAD AS PLANNED BUT FIND OUT WHERE THE DELPHINIS IS IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH c58132c1-c264-4e4d-a8ac-26150153fb12 198 THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS UNDER ECLIPSE SHE WAS FAIR AND LUSTRELESS FROM HER DISTURBED NIGHT AND EARLY RISING AND NO OPPORTUNITY OFFERED TO TELL A MELTING TALE NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER IT WAS FELICITY'S DAY 7a21a99f-8223-4423-8944-63d3077534a5 2286 LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS MUCH PRESTIGE ATTACHED TO THEM AND MY BLACK DRESS OUTFIT SHOULD WRITE AS HIGHLY AS ANY UNIFORM IN THE GALAXY fda99976-11eb-49d0-9021-5dd39f18fb63 177 I TOLD YOU THE BIBLE WAS MORE TO BE DEPENDED ON THAN NEWSPAPERS SAID CECILY TRIUMPHANTLY SARA RAY AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WENT HOME AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES f67cac99-d501-48a9-a4d2-047bb996f83f 30 WE PEERED EAGERLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE'S THE BIG WILLOW BE WHISPERED FELIX EXCITEDLY AS WE TURNED IN AT THE GATE 12f59843-1d6e-4f38-94ff-4114a4975a29 198 WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE 2f27099f-b78e-4979-9f6a-82edbd6a6615 451 NOTHING WOULD PREVENT CANNIBALS FROM EATING FILLICKS IF THEY CAUGHT HIM GIGGLED FELICITY HE'S SO NICE AND FAT I'M SURE FELIX FELT VERY UNLIKE A MISSIONARY AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY 38bcc7fb-d23b-4253-b7b6-fe1e3b7befa3 30 HE WAS A SMALL MAN WITH THIN DELICATE FEATURES CLOSE CLIPPED GREY BEARD AND LARGE TIRED BLUE EYES FATHER'S EYES OVER AGAIN f54e9b1d-7295-441e-8853-eb2113ac9521 30 BEHIND US A YOUNG MOON WAS HANGING OVER SOUTHWESTERN MEADOWS OF SPRINGTIME PEACE BUT ALL ABOUT US WERE THE SOFT MOIST SHADOWS OF A MAY NIGHT 5e6c68f5-7597-457c-9e94-0b5872cc8904 188 NOBODY IS PRETTY AS YOU WILL EVER BE AN OLD MAID FELICITY SAID PETER WHO NEVER PUT TOO FINE AN EDGE ON HIS COMPLIMENTS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PREACH ON ASKED FELIX YOU'LL FIND OUT NEXT SUNDAY SAID PETER SIGNIFICANTLY 86f04159-76a1-4e1b-9345-ed031a37e8b2 177 Y THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY SUNDAY MORNING BROKE DULL AND GRAY 50dd0501-b99d-4fad-8a3d-f47c31f6b1b5 177 THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT METHODISTS OR PRESBYTERIANS IN THE BIBLE SAID FELICITY SCORNFULLY PETER LOOKED AMAZED WHAT HAD THEY HAPPENED THEN HE ASKED WHEN DID THEY BEGIN TO BE 309f0fd2-36b5-46d1-9ced-79a21bf5a382 242 PETER AND FELIX PITCHED IN WITH MORE ZEAL THAN DISCRETION ON BOTH SIDES AS A RESULT PETER GOT WHAT LATER DEVELOPED INTO A BLACK EYE AND FELIX'S NOSE BEGAN TO BLEED 6f71c2e6-1128-4736-a907-5469175ac70d 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS acad25fd-d16c-4fc1-8852-a6b1760bcaed 1867 COMBINATION SPACE JOCKEYS MECHANICS ENGINEERS SOLDIERS CONMEN AND EVERYTHING ELSE IT TAKES TO DO THE REPAIRS 4b156776-ffe0-4cfb-9b6f-e8e1a4352dfd 14 I'VE OFTEN WONDERED MYSELF WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE SAID FELICITY IN A BURST OF CONFIDENCE EVEN IN FELICITY SO IT WOULD SEEM THERE WERE DEPTHS OF THOUGHT UNPLUMED 50e48731-3070-4fb0-a812-2f7153c69559 30 IT'S A WONDER THE STORY GIRL ISN'T OVER TO SEE YOU SAID UNCLE ALEC SHE'S BEEN QUITE WILD WITH EXCITEMENT ABOUT YOUR COMING f53811d7-8c40-455d-937d-408860a0725a 2274 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER HOW'S IT LOOK ALIEN ANY SIGN OF THAT MOB NEGATIVE O K WE'RE TAKING OFF 3fb01450-7618-4c37-ba43-2265b9a4aec6 748 HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY OR UNDERSTOOD HIM I REALIZED NOW THAT UNCLE BLAIR WAS A BIT OF A BOHEMIAN A RESPECTABLE SORT OF TRAMP 957f9bae-70bd-45f6-9128-299eed95f507 2286 MUCH PRESTIGE ATTACHED TO THEM AND MY BLACK DRESS OUTFIT SHOULD WRITE AS HIGHLY AS ANY UNIFORM IN THE GALAXY WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR f059d567-a406-479f-9a26-8b4081ecb941 1867 GREETINGS O NOBLE SERVERS OF THE GREAT GOD I SAID OF COURSE I DIDN'T SAY IT OUT LOUD JUST WHISPERED LOUD ENOUGH FOR THE THROAT MIKE TO CATCH THIS WAS RADIOED BACK TO THE M T AND THE TRANSLATION SHOT BACK TO A SPEAKER IN MY JAWS 4be2700a-78b6-46fd-90a0-5310eb5d3c10 451 JUST IMAGINE THE FEELINGS OF THE YOUNG MINISTER IN THE CHINA CLOSET BUT HE CAME RIGHT OUT LIKE A MAN THOUGH HIS FACE WAS VERY RED AS SOON AS MISTER 4efa8234-277c-4f4b-95d2-b71173e61067 1867 IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM a802478b-e642-4056-b740-2fba4cf44e56 1867 IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE THE FIRST LIZARD KNEW I WAS TALKING SINCE THEN AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A MEETING OF THE SHAMMANS IT OF COURSE TOOK PLACE IN THE PUBLIC BATH TUB AND I HAD TO JOIN THEM THERE 6c3e98a8-fb60-4e51-b60f-7aec8f47929a 2368 VERY WELL HE SAID THINK OF A WORD THINK OF ANY SINGLE WORD I SHALL TELL IT TO YOU 940208d5-21f7-4dc2-90bf-311043f1c08f 198 SARA STANLEY FELICITY FLEW ACROSS THE KITCHEN DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU PUT THE BREAD RIGHT INTO THE OVEN AFTER YOU KNEADED IT WITHOUT LEAVING IT TO RISE A SECOND TIME THE STORY GIRL TURNED QUITE PALE YES I DID SHE FALTERED OH FELICITY WASN'T IT RIGHT 21010a7b-3bd8-41e0-a901-720703d3f718 198 SHE WAS FLUSHED BY EXCITEMENT AND PLEASURE AND WAS SO PRETTY THAT I COULD HARDLY EAT FOR LOOKING AT HER WHICH IS THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT IN A BOY'S POWER TO PAY THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS UNDER ECLIPSE a5c0193a-f909-4e54-a5a2-968c3997474e 413 THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER WREATH AND PUT IT ON THE BUTTERCUPS DROOPED OVER HER HIGH WHITE BROW AND PLAYED PETE WITH HER GLOWING EYES A DREAMY SMILE HOVERED AROUND HER POPPY RED MOUTH A SIGNIFICANT SMILE WHICH TO THOSE OF US SKILLED IN ITS INTERPRETATION BETOKENED THE SENTENCE WHICH SOON CAME 92f5837b-6e1f-4c01-a0fb-116aea9aab8c 402 I THINK WE ALL SHARED HER FEAR TO SOME EXTENT NEVERTHELESS WE WENT TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY BURNING WITH CURIOSITY AND WE WERE DISAPPOINTED 0c8317e1-d63e-4713-a590-754c4d963b53 32 THOSE TWO BIG TREES BEHIND THEM ARE THE TWINS TREES MY MOTHER AND UNCLE FELIX YOU KNOW THE APPLES ARE SO DEAD SWEET THAT NOBODY BUT US CHILDREN AND THE FRENCH BOYS CAN EAT THEM e064cb42-08e3-4216-89f0-9c1366c18f8f 2137 HE HAD A DECISION TO MAKE STAY HERE WITH THE CAPSULE OR HEAD FOR THE FIRE COULDN'T BE MORE THAN A THOUSAND YARDS AWAY HE DECIDED cf9e1662-5d3c-49e7-b7da-b226b7be903e 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 78fa3d44-3472-408b-9ef9-1d33f26cd7a0 242 BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL f3fae822-9d47-4115-b6a1-aa45146f3c4c 2368 IT IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD YANUS OF COURSE YOND THOUGHT DISINTERESTEDLY YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED I DON'T SEE facf99f0-ceb7-481c-9565-2e2e7f9a7d0c 30 THEY CAN HARDLY BE THE SAME FROGS I OBJECTED DOUBTFULLY NOT FEELING VERY CERTAIN ABOUT THE POSSIBLE LONGEVITY OF FROGS IT'S TWENTY YEARS SINCE FATHER LEFT HOME 7a2fda70-8557-4b5f-ba73-28163aba5000 413 AND TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THEIR LAST ACCOUNTING OH IF I HAD ONLY BEEN A BETTER BOY fecf12d5-5a4a-4fb0-af02-1499aa7eea7c 2274 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE CREW OF THE DELPHINIS THEY ARE SLAVES SAID TENUBE THOSE WHO STILL LIVE SOME RESISTED OTHERS OBJECTED TO TEACHING US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW HE WAVED HIS GUN MUZZLE bed596b7-c7cf-4c4c-8cc1-22b32223c627 2286 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS I ASKED HIM POKING A LARGE GLOSSY PICK UNDER HIS LONG BROKEN NOSE ONE EYE OPENED SLOWLY BEGULL SHIP OF SOME KIND LOOKS LIKE AMBALLIANCE NOW FOR THE LAST TIME GO AWAY HE SAID ca19b78b-c71b-43e4-9d01-67a44a58152e 451 WHY WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY I THINK IT'S AWFUL FOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO BE ALWAYS QUARRELLING SIGHED CECILY THE COHANTS FIGHT ALL THE TIME AND YOU AND DAN WILL SOON BE AS BAD 316626c3-6ac7-4785-9bae-b1ef6642c84e 2317 WHAT ABOUT THAT DORA SHRUGGED 01708068-d8e3-41e5-80ab-798944d50a98 2317 HE HAD INTENDED THAT DISTINCT AND IT DID DORA RAISED HER NOSE ANOTHER NOTCH I THINK HE'S CUTE AND I'M LEARNING HE'S PRETTY INTELLIGENT TOO HE CATCHES ON FAST TO EVERYTHING I TELL HIM HE AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND WILL HAVE THEIR SPACESHIP FINISHED SOON NOW AND 3a7f16e2-f021-4cc5-9aef-f7c7de2afa00 2286 NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL YOU WILL FIND IT VERY HARD TO SEPARATE US AND I WOULD ADVISE YOU NOT TO TRY 7402ebed-b527-49af-b20e-913f23100f31 30 DAN WAS THE OLDEST HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN HE WAS A LEAN FRECKLED FELLOW WITH RATHER LONG LANK BROWN HAIR AND THE SHAPELY KING NOSE WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE f8871d8e-f475-45e0-832c-9c85a8159f25 402 THE HENS AND TURKEYS PROWLED ABOUT PECKING AT WINDFALLS AND PAT MADE MAD RUSHES AT THEM AMID THE FALLEN LEAVES WHATEVER IS THE MATTER WITH YOU ALL DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL APPEARING AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS WHAT IS SARAH CRYING ABOUT WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE cbee30ab-c31b-479b-9910-536fa5586614 2425 SHOULD YOU WISH TO TAKE A FLIER AFTER ME STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE SQUARE OUTLINED BY THE FOUR UPRIGHTS OF THE DEVICE BESIDE WHICH THIS LITTLE TABLE STANDS BE SURE YOUR WEAPON I TOLD YOU TO BRING IT AT IS ON YOUR PERSON 2cc2b3b8-433d-47b1-9cf1-2633a561e69c 2274 HE MOVED HIS SPEAKING MUSCLES JUST MADE CONTACT WITH THE MOB ONE ON THE HOOD NOW HAS ONE OF OUR MARKED TWENTY RIFLES AIMED AT MY HEAD THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER WANT US TO COME BACK b56d1ae3-54ec-4eec-b120-e0cd21d97d87 2368 THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER NECESSARY KNUFF SAID LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME HIS GAZE STABBED LIKE A SWORD HE WAS UNEASY YONAS KNEW WITH ANOTHER MIND PROBING HIS HE COULD NOT HELP BUT BE UNEASY BUT HE COULD NOT FIND A CAUSE IT WOULD NEVER OCCUR TO HIM AND HE CONTROLLED HIS FEELINGS SUPERBLY e0aa1ffd-e00f-4c0a-a252-31f1213f99e9 242 PERHAPS UGLY PEOPLE NEVER HAVE STORIES HAPPEN TO THEM SUGGESTED FELICITY I THINK THEY'RE JUST AS INTERESTING AS HANDSOME PEOPLE RETORTED DAN 2d7a699a-cd50-49cf-ba4d-5397ff0dccfd 2286 AREN'T YOU GETTING A LITTLE HEAVY YOURSELF DE GRIZ HE SAID VOICE CHILL AS THE ICE CAP I STILL GIVE THE ORDERS AND I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU'RE READY FOR AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND 6724cfa6-7a88-425e-a819-0b4374da1241 413 ONE GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE TOLD US THAT HE WAS NO BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS HE HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUBICUND INSTEAD HE WAS AS PALE AS ARE THE DEAD I CANNOT HAVE ASKED HIM WHAT WAS THE MATTER HAD MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT IT WAS FELICITY WHO DEMANDED IMPATIENTLY OF MY SHAKING VOICE AS BROTHER FELIX KING WHAT HAS SCARED YOU 0f8035e5-3657-4fe7-9996-24bdca130333 2108 THE SCARECROW WAS GREATLY DELIGHTED AS YOU MAY SUPPOSE AND HE STRUTTED PROUDLY AROUND WHILE THE POWERFUL FAIRY OZMA OF OZ BROKE THE ENCHANTMENT THAT HAD TRANSFORMED THE TIN WOODMAN AND MADE A TIN AL INTO A TIN MAN AGAIN 3a9d6a52-1a95-4a07-949d-5517530ca8b8 2368 AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW THE SECOND STEP HAD BEEN TAKEN THE FACT THAT HE SAT IN THE CELL AT A PRISON WAS PROOF OF THAT THE THIRD STEP THE ALL IMPORTANT FINAL STEP WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN 2e40a198-afd5-4324-aee0-b1fa75f69db7 2286 SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT SINCE NO ONE SEEMED IN A HURRY TO GIVE ME AN ASSIGNMENT I HAD FOUND ONE FOR MYSELF I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT BUT I ALSO HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING UNTIL THE JOB WAS DONE 10703820-92ac-4f74-9806-8b1b1e25cf5e 2182 JINIFER TURNED SUDDENLY FIRM NO I WON'T LET THIS EYE INFORMER KNOW ABOUT THAT THE SERIMIANS WERE FIRMER IT WILL NOT MATTER NOW 52c82960-05d9-400b-b02f-5b8ad7304bba 2108 THE FAITHFUL FELLOW AT ONCE SET TO WORK TO MAKE ME A TIN HEAD AND HE HAD JUST COMPLETED IT WHEN NINNY ANDEY CAME RUNNING UP WITH MY OLD HEAD WHICH SHE HAD STOLEN FROM THE WITCH d80c5502-e1a8-4f42-94f7-7d7387c71687 2108 WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND HOWEVER TIN YOU WERE AND TIN YOU ARE AND AS IT'S TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOU NOW THAT SETTLES IT b4d84282-981d-4814-b641-0b336cf374fc 2274 YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS AND IF SO WHERE IT IS NEXT WE WANT TO KNOW JUST HOW WARLIKE THESE GOONS ARE CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS 13b8223f-d4ca-4dd5-8540-36da7361048e 2108 BUT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER EVEN WHILE DANCING COULD THINK AND REASON VERY CLEARLY AND SUDDENLY SHE SOLVED THE PROS PROBLEM IN THE NICEST POSSIBLE WAY b7c273c8-8ada-4129-8587-a7a4e4e9a56c 14 WE ALL ENJOYED OUR TURNOVERS EXCEPT SARA RAY SHE ATE HERS BUT SHE KNEW SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE SO HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF SNACKS BETWEEN MEALS OR OF JAM TURNOVER AT ANY TIME 5d939c84-02ce-4cfa-bb8c-b8d6c25e217f 242 FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER 6eca8a1d-8577-4584-bb8f-90e1eb300949 2137 THE DOCTOR'S HAND TIGHTENED ON THE DOORKNOB YES I KNOW HE SAID GRIMLY BUT NOT MANY LAY MEN REMEMBER JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT I TOLD YOU WITH ANY OF THESE THINGS THE PATTERN IS PROTECTION THEN CONTROL THEN USEFUL APPLICATION 217e4796-682e-469d-b45a-547f824e67f4 413 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER a9639a5c-9e1a-4d55-a352-0bf608121d4d 242 HE WOULD NOT LOOK AT CECILY BUT EVERYONE ELSE HAD FORGIVEN HER THE STORY GIRL LEANED THAT BROWN HEAD OF HERS AGAINST THE FIR TRUNK BEHIND HER AND LOOKED UP AT THE APPLE GREEN SKY THROUGH THE DARK BOUGHS ABOVE US 1b5745fe-6d5b-4316-942b-37ab72af8302 413 HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW ec06e8a4-1901-4eae-bdd8-1ee612e4e455 188 NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING OH SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL HER HAIR WAS LIKE A SKEIN OF GOLD AND SILK AND HER EYES WERE AS BLUE AS THE GULF WATER WHEN THE SUN BREAKS OUT AFTER A STORM e80de2e0-1d12-49c9-aecb-7f63b4349b8f 188 IT SPOILS THE EFFECT WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF I WENT AND KEPT STIRRING THINGS IT DIDN'T BELONG TO IT INTO THE PUDDING I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING 4c7be167-545b-4859-8eb8-e36ff891958a 188 IT WOULDN'T DO ANY HARM TO TRY SAID CECILY IF SHE DIDN'T MAKE HIM SICK IT WON'T MATTER IF SHE'S CROSS d5d6c10e-bc6e-4bc1-892c-9af352ad9256 103 THE PALE MAY SUNSHINE WAS SHOWERING THROUGH THE SPRUCES AND A CHILL INSPIRING WIND WAS TOSSING THE BOUGHS ABOUT FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT IS SHE NICE I ASKED b8dcdc00-f639-4c52-880f-910489a807ea 2274 STETSON TOOK HIS OWN GLASS COMGO HEARD THE WHOLE THING OVER THE GENERAL MONITOR NET HE SAID DO YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BREVETED TO THE SENIOR FIELD MAN d249afed-4e71-45f7-8889-e7bb357f5d6f 2286 ONE OF THE CLERKS ASKED I SHALL DO NOTHING I TOLD HIM WITH THE SNAP PRECISION OF AN OLD SPACE DOG THE LEAGUE FLEET IS ALREADY CLOSING IN ON THE RENEGADES AND YOU WILL BE INFORMED OF THE CAPTURE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE b4d1e89a-9a9c-4174-b095-c5bfd4273dcd 14 I MIXED A POWDER IN SOME MILK AND TRIED TO POUR IT DOWN HIS THROAT WHILE PETER HELD HIM JUST LOOK AT THE SCRATCHES I GOT AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT 6ca91dcc-62a3-4787-bdd8-ba75a1954d1b 2286 ONE WAS BUILT FOR SELF SUSTAINING COLONY ATTEMPT THE SECOND ALEXY FOR ALL WE KNOW SHE'S STILL ON THE WAY THE OTHER FIVE WERE ALL D CLASS COLONIZERS BUILT DURING THE EXPANSION WHEN LARGE POPULATIONS WERE MOVED TOO BIG TO BE PRACTICAL NOW 98b518a5-e45f-4901-a6ae-a14d25f1d731 2286 NOW I ADDED I WONDER IF YOU WOULD ASK THE CUSTOMS AGENTS TO LOOK AT MY BAGS HERE DON'T WANT TO WASTE TIME DO WE THE SHIP IS OPEN THEY CAN CHECK THAT WHENEVER THEY PLEASE 05453701-84dd-4a64-909f-66cf809dbea1 2108 MEET TIRES AFTER A DAY'S TRAVEL ADDED THE SCARECROW WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY eb3a6033-a946-4919-8c0a-17fa54f40f4b 14 AH DO WE EVER FEEL QUITE THE SAME TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO DESTROY OUR ILLUSIONS SHALL I EVER BE ABLE TO FORGIVE THE BRUTAL CREATURE WHO FIRST TOLD ME THERE WAS NO SUCH PERSON AS SANTA CLAUS ecfd77f2-adee-4142-b41d-2d20bced97bd 2425 OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC WHY YES AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT A BODY WHY MATTER I SUPPOSE AND MATTER IS WHAT 438bbd1b-31ed-4d8d-a1c3-13391aab42f8 1867 THE M T WHISPERED IN MY EAR JUST WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE THIRTEENTH SIN ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE I DREW UP MY SCALY FIGURE IN A NOBLE GESTURE AND POINTED TOWARD THE CEILING I COME FROM YOUR ANCESTORS TO HELP YOU I AM HERE TO RESTORE THE HOLY WATERS 9e61b6a1-d52d-4c88-b758-d7c964c44ccd 32 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE FELIX AND I RECOGNIZED ITS BEAUTIFUL FITNESS AT ONCE YES THE STORY GIRL WAS FASCINATING AND THAT WAS THE FINAL WORD TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT 8abc5839-3e3d-4bff-b95f-227f0d66cd4f 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 SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER BUT THE TALENT WAS NEW ITEDED PRACTICE IT NEEDED TRAINING THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE 3cc21a41-7103-47cf-bafd-136b71b5e700 2368 AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD HIS ADVENTURES TOO WERE A LITTLE OUT OF THE COMMON RUN OF TALES 1834b11e-f5a9-4bbf-8ad3-7592f8a8147f 402 I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES 13ee3a6f-42a6-4590-bfb5-bdf7a8d0a307 30 BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE STORY GIRL'S YET UNUTTERED REMARK WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO 933ef054-4ddc-4c50-9f2f-fe7740292cfe 14 I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU AND LOOK HERE I'VE THOUGHT OF THE WAY MY AUNT JANE USED TO GIVE MEDICINE TO A CAT HE MIXED THE POWDER IN LARD AND SPREAD IT ON HIS PAWS AND HIS SIDES AND HE'LL LICK IT OFF CAUSE A CAT CAN'T STAND BEING MESSY IF PATTY ISN'T ANY BETTER TOMORROW WE'LL DO THAT 1ebf93b7-7d2c-470f-9fcb-8f46472d6a5d 2368 JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW 4d9d5302-271d-4332-bda3-8f61613a5d69 32 DEMANDED AUNT JANET IN BEWILDERMENT OH TO HAVE SOMETHING WORTH WHILE TO WRITE IN HER DREAM BOOK MA 7fce0608-6d72-468f-995e-49a04e4a070f 2286 WAS IT COULD I BE SURE THAT PEPPE FLYING HIS MOUNTAIN OF A SHIP AND EATING NAVY RATIONS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SOME OF THE COMFORTS AND LUXURIES OF LIFE a8cad772-e515-4748-b6f8-22c601f50739 242 SHE DREW HER ARROW TO HER EYE ALAS SHE KNEW THE ART ONLY TOO WELL d95a50c5-28e1-4bc5-a601-55e1d635a044 14 JUST WHEN A KING THOUGHT HE HAD CONQUERED EVERYBODY SOME OTHER KING WOULD COME AND CONQUER HIM AND SO IT WENT ON UNTIL IT DID NOT SEEM LIKELY THE PROUD PRINCESS WOULD EVER GET A HUSBAND AT ALL 197b62dc-1dcd-48aa-b37a-dd34923c745c 451 SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND FORBIDDEN FRUIT WE WERE ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UNCLE ROGER MORE OR LESS GRUMPY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF KING NEXT DAY 6d50bceb-7b94-4d47-946a-c4bc08bbe22c 32 IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT BEVERLY KING IS A BOY ONCE MORE WRITING DOWN HIS DREAMS IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD ON THE HOMESTEAD HILL BLOWN OVER BY MUSKY WINDS bbbfb0c1-a75a-4abb-a6cd-c73c05df5ecf 2425 TURALLY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND VIC'S JARGON ABOUT FREQUENCIES AND LIGHT RAYS FOR I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL THAN PHYSICS IN COLLEGE BUT TWO THINGS WERE CLEAR TO ME ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH 50b0f234-665c-43de-a5a9-c1071db01727 103 THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 46e3be07-aadc-4ebf-a648-c9109c4e3e3a 2425 OVER THE BARREN ROCKY GROUND WE HURRIED PAST THE WRETCHED HOVELS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY AND THROUGH CROOKED DISMAL STREETS TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE CITY THE NOTE READ DEAR PETE IF YOU GET THIS I AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION 6fd840fe-0c31-4bd3-865d-bed9e8d84880 2182 ABOVE THE FAR MURMUROUS WHISPER OF EXPECTED MARINE CEREBRATION THERE ROSE AN UNCOORDINATED MISHMASH OF THOUGHT FROM AT LEAST TWO STRONG AND RELATIVELY COMPLEX INTELLIGENCES 812fdf3b-d3e8-4d41-8fc0-2b797e2f79db 2274 I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS AND THERE'D BE NO YEH HORN SHOOK HIS HEAD THINK OF IT TWO CIVILIZATIONS THAT MATURED ALONG DIFFERENT LINES THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS 5e263935-ebb1-4d63-bd02-da5be5a01e4e 451 I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY DANGER OF CATCHING MEASLES SAID FELICITY IF THERE WAS WE WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO GO I WISH I COULD GET THE MEASLES SAID SARA DEFIANTLY MAYBE I'D BE OF SOME IMPORTANCE TO MA THEN 7f91a19b-62f1-4be7-a4a7-7b9fd8d07753 2137 THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT HE PICKED HIS WAY CAUTIOUSLY HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST HE REMEMBERED THE RUSSIAN REPORTS OF THE WEIRD AND DEADLY CREATURES THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED IN THE MARTIAN DESERTS BUT ASIDE FROM A FEW GREY PATCHES OF BRUSH THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SIGNS OF LIFE d576e937-1b67-44c1-a4c6-084241a18710 188 CAN PEG PORTHON TURN HERSELF INTO A BLACK CAT ASKED FELIX STARING IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THAT IS THE LEAST OF PEG BOWEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANSWERED UNCLE ROGER IT'S THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD FOR A WITCH TO TURN HERSELF INTO ANY ANIMAL YOU CHOOSE TO MENTION YES PAT IS BEWITCHED NO DOUBT OF THAT NOT THE LEAST IN THE WORLD af6d999a-8216-4aad-a07a-238e9c32f414 188 IT WAS NOT LOCKED SHE OPENED IT AND WENT IN WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE FOUND SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE af975321-58da-4c5a-ad4b-e512fe6bedc7 2137 BUT WE CAN'T RAISE HIM SIR THE RADIO OPERATOR SAID MAYBE HE DIDN'T GET OUT OF IT ALIVE COLONEL TOWERS CAN'T YOU HEAR ME BRANDON YELLED INTO HIS OXYGEN MASK 1e6d4263-00ac-4970-bd7a-9093dd237fec 413 AS IN THE CASE OF THE BELL RING GHOST WE DID NOT BELIEVE BUT WE TREMBLED NOBODY MIGHT HAVE KNOWN WHEN THE BILL WAS WRITTEN SAID DAN BUT MAYBE SOMEBODY KNOWS NOW WHY THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO AND THAT PAPER WAS PRINTED THIS VERY MORNING 37d9bcfa-73a6-4502-a9b6-8910d03021bf 242 YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT ME IF YOU KEEP PRAYING AGAINST ME SAID FELIX THE GIRLS GASPED BUT DAN AND I WERE JUBILANT SNUFFING A BATTLE AFAR OFF ALL RIGHT I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY 86a88f91-004d-4118-97e9-5bb5a24a7685 2182 THAT GAVE JEFF TIME ENOUGH TO REACH THE STORM SHUTTERS AND SECURE THEM ONLY TO RUSH AGAIN WITH JENIFER TO THEIR BUNK BARRICADE AS THE ZID PROMPTLY RENEWED ITS FEROCIOUS ATTACK ON THE DOOR dc246220-4664-41ad-ba98-4f3bc2a616f0 2317 A STRUGGLE SHOWED IN RAY'S FACE FARMER SAW INSULTED AND ANGER HURT PRIDE A DESIRE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS GADARY A QUESTION ABOUT GARF'S LAST WORDS AND A CAUTION THAT WAS NOT TOO FAR FROM FEAR df5319ca-521e-44d8-81e7-058113cbe3fd 30 THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD HE ISN'T SO QUICK TO MOVE AND GET OUT OF YOUR SIGHT WHILE YOU'RE WINKING AS THE THIN ONE BUT THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL WITH THOSE YOUNG ONES WOULD BE TO HAVE EM BOTH TIED TO YOU WITH A SHORT ROPE A MIGHTY SHORT ROPE cb559bb5-ba1f-4eeb-b099-1fc876cb2817 2317 FARMER PONDERED THE IDEA OF A TRANSMUTTER THAT WORKED UNDER WATER LIKE A BALL POINT PIN BROAD CASTING WEARY VAUDEVILLE ROUTINES HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED WISTFULLY AT THE NEW ENGLAND SHORE LINE OR WAS THAT LONG ISLAND HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE 32ad34c8-8f6c-4fb6-92ef-f71853453da3 188 NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY THE STORY WAS OLD TO US IT HAD ONCE BEEN PUBLISHED IN A CHARLOTTETOWN PAPER AND WE HAD READ IT IN AUNT OLIVIA'S SCRAP BOOK WHERE THE STORY GIRL HAD LEARNED IT cd7b1adb-27c3-42f8-8425-dcd00d60b53b 2274 UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS EMPTY HANDS THE GUN MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY ORN CALLED INTO HIS MIND THE LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN HYPNO FORCED INTO HIM O CHIRO NO THAT MEANT THE PEOPLE 054efcef-8981-4847-878a-a30b2396f69a 2274 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS EASY ON THE SEXLIME BOY THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY THESE CREATURES ARE OVIPAROUS SEX GLANDS ARE APPARENTLY HIDDEN IN THAT LONG FUR BEHIND WHERE THEIR CHINS OUGHT TO BE 2d147212-de82-4b97-a517-92acb9078c65 1867 HE WAS TELLING ME THE GUY WHO DID THE JOB WHILE HE SAT BACK ON HIS FAT PAY CHECK IN AN AIR CONDITIONED OFFICE HE RAMBLED ON HOW I WISH THAT WERE ALL IT TOOK I WOULD HAVE A FLEET OF PART SHIPS AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL 52039b0f-f1cf-4c7e-b40f-e0f55d3d0928 30 THE TIME HAD COME SOONER THAN WE HAD DARED TO HOPE BUT FATHER COULD NOT TAKE US AFTER ALL dd6036da-ccc5-4306-9d6d-052ff5d846e8 14 I'M GOING TO KEEP ON GOING TO CHURCH PETER TOLD HER I LIKE IT SERMONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT AND I LIKE THE SINGING I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT 0e937e9c-c324-44ac-80db-f3d17add3082 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS c8a8087d-c524-4cae-a1c4-670c5b3cb605 2317 FINALLY RAY SHUT OFF THE RACKETING ENGINE AND LET THE RUSTY ANCHOR HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE 08464a4e-9b05-4ff2-a74e-31353354020a 188 SO PETER RETALIATED BY CHOOSING NEVAKE AND NEZZER WHICH NO ONE COULD EVER UTTER THREE TIMES BEFORE PETER SHRIEKED IT AT ONCE IN THE MIDST OF OUR HILARITY HOWEVER UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET CAME DOWN UPON US IT IS BEST TO DRAW VEIL OVER WHAT FOLLOWED f03bdcbe-ec5c-4c43-a38f-ebb3c4e9cd50 2274 WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS EASY 53967577-8bcd-4ded-8021-b368ea318d57 14 OUTSIDE THE SKY WAS PURPLE AND GOLD AND SILVERY GREEN WITH A DELICATE TANGLE OF ROSY CLOUD ABOVE THE ELMS ISN'T IT AWFUL NICE AND HOLY IN HERE WHISPERED PETER REVERENTLY I DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH WAS LIKE THIS IT'S NICE beea30e2-dcc4-4afa-aab3-b006a08cb796 2108 I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I DON'T CARE FOR MY HUSBAND TREATED ME BADLY AT TIMES FORGETTING THE RESPECT A GIANT OWES TO A GIANTESS BUT THEN THESE TWO QUAINT PERSONS NEVER SLEPT WHY SHOULD THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY NEVER TIRED 28c2e48a-3122-4306-97e4-aa0154acab45 2286 I HAD TO CONSTRUCT A SOLUTION SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY SINCE I COULDN'T BE SURE WHERE PEPPE WAS GOING TO BE NEXT I HAD TO MAKE HIM GO WHERE I WANTED HIM TO PEPEY HAD SWALLOWED THE BAIT THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHIP IN THE GALAXY THAT COULD NOT BACK A BLIP THAT BIG AT SUCH A DISTANCE 3aee1b28-b592-447a-9bd4-962b17e417bb 402 WE ALL STOOD AROUND STRICKEN INCREDULOUS DO YOU MEAN SAID FELIX FINDING VOICE AT LENGTH THAT PETER IS GOING TO DIE THE STORY GIRL NODDED MISERABLY THEY'RE AFRAID SO feab9017-a4e6-4952-8992-46210fc9bb43 188 NOW WHAT EARTHLY GOOD COULD I GET FROM YOUR THREE BY SIX SCHOOL LIBRARY NONE WHATEVER THE STORY GIRL CURTSIED UNTIL HER SILKEN SKIRT SWEPT THE FLOOR THEN SHE FLUNG HERSELF IN HER CHAIR AND LOOKED AT MISTER CAMPBELL FLUSHED TRIUMPHANT DARING 70313a04-a13e-4e2c-8c57-dd9ec73b40b2 2425 THEN THEY ASSUME THEIR ORIGINAL FORM WHERE THEY WILL JUST AGAIN AS ELECTRICITY PASSES FROM THE END OF THE WIRE EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT ENTERED IT ALLOWING ONLY FOR VOLTAGE DROPS AND SOME OTHER FACTORS THAT AREN'T PERTINENT HERE ad08ea4e-ca0d-420e-b649-82dfa04a1a5f 2368 NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE HE WENT ON LOOKING AT HIS HANDS THERE WAS BITTERNESS IN HIS MIND BITTERNESS THAT HE CHANGED TO HATE THEY ARE PLEASED TEND TO BE EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE I DO NOT PLEAD YONAS POINTED OUT IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I COME TO SEE YOU 6aff62f7-b5b6-46dc-9249-3f0d1539720a 242 CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS THERE WAS A PURE YELLOW SUNSET THAT EVENING AND THE AISLES OF THE FIR TREES WERE FLOODED WITH ITS RADIANCE A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY 1330eb17-4a7d-4dd5-9389-7be4fa08ee46 198 LATER ON WE HEARD HER IMPARTING HER NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FELICITY IN THE PANTRY IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS MEANS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO MARRY YOU FOR EVER SO LONG AND THEN LOTS OF PEOPLE DO 56d9be55-2585-4d7e-b8ea-36de189386e9 451 SARA IS REAL SICK SHE SAID WITH REGRET AND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT REGRET MINGLED IN HER VOICE IT WAS A COOL DEWY EVENING AND WE WALKED DOWN THE LONG RED HILL IN THE HIGHEST OF SPIRITS 1d1c4a9d-f507-47ca-b764-86b9d99966fa 188 WELL BESS OLD GIRL HERE WE ARE NOW DONALD FRASER PLUCK UP HEART AND PLAY THE MAN NEVER FLINCH BECAUSE A SLIP OF THE LASS LOOKS SCORNFUL AT YOU OUT OF THE BONNIEST DARK BLUE EYES ON EARTH BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD e1a58fd8-b787-4af2-ae8f-15553e6846ce 2137 REASSURED THE PATIENT THOUGHT AND BECAME CONFIDENTIAL I SEE WELL I SUPPOSE IT'S GONE OF SILLY BUT I DON'T MUCH LIKE SHOTS IT'S NOT THAT THEY HURT IT'S JUST THAT I GUESS I'M OLD FASHIONED I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS 7c8f35a3-2b28-4884-af21-c1eb3e622c99 2286 PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM SIT UP PEPPY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO de10da39-8d17-45c8-8a60-9d5af8828c2c 2368 YONAS SHRUGGED MENTALLY I SUPPOSE SO HE SAID I LIKE TO WORK ON MY OWN DO MY OWN JOB AND IT'S GOT YOU INTO TROUBLE BEFORE CLARETON SAID BUT YOU CAN'T AFFORD ANY MISTAKES THIS TIME f1b191b3-fb5f-445e-a1c3-1eda0432d8b9 188 UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO THE STATION TO MEET THE TRAVELERS AND THE DINING ROOM TABLE WAS SPREAD WITH A FEAST OF FAT THINGS IT'S BEEN A JOLLY WEEK TAKE IT ALL AROUND SAID FELIX BUT I'M GLAD THE GROWN UPS ARE COMING BACK TO NIGHT ESPECIALLY UNCLE ALEC cb88f543-f74d-4360-9d2b-a5b0d5b064ed 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 WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES e4fd165c-e615-4763-b2aa-96a83e3dc65a 198 IT IS ABOUT A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES DON'T CRIED CECILY HYSTERICALLY DON'T YOU GO ON DON'T YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I CAN'T BEAR IT DON'T YOU THE STORY GIRL DIDN'T BUT SHE HAD SAID ENOUGH c2e66586-b248-4c9d-bf0f-0384bdcb80a6 2182 DID YOU SEE IT SHE DEMANDED JEFF WRESTLED HIS EYES AWAY TO THE SCOOP THAT FLOATED LIKE A PURPLE ISLAND IN THE BAY A PROPER MONSTER HE SAID YOU GOT OUT JUST IN TIME d6199eee-86b2-4386-85aa-b9497af314f6 198 CECILY AND SARA RAY FOUND A SWEET NEW KNITTED LACE PATTERN IN AN OLD MAGAZINE AND SPENT AN AFTERNOON LEARNING IT OVER TALKING SECRETS I THINK THERE IS SUCH A PLACE IN SPITE OF UNCLE EDWARD SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY AND I THINK THERE IS A WAY OF GETTING THERE TOO IF WE COULD ONLY FIND IT bed95237-cbab-41cf-9fa6-b908c37ad70c 198 IF PETER HAD NOT BEEN SO MANIFESTLY FRIGHTENED WE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO PASS OFF A JOKE ON US BUT SUCH ABJECT TERROR AS HIS COULD NOT BE COUNTERFEITED THE RASPBERRIES WERE PLENTIFUL AND WE WERE NOT LONG IN FILLING OUT OUR RECEPTACLES f425941d-380e-4160-b755-521d1a72f67e 2312 SODOM AND GOMORRAH TEXAS BY R MANOEL TOOK MULLER AND WENT TO WORK 7813fdda-b9f6-47b0-a4c6-f60494d91e9e 2137 WAIT COLONEL TOWERS BRANDON CALLED BUT HE KNEW IT WAS OF NO USE OBVIOUSLY HE COULD PICK UP ASTRO BUT THEY COULD NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR HIM CAPTAIN BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO CALLING OVER 0c51caf0-932b-4037-989f-c149732d80fb 2317 IT WOULD BE HARD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN AN EARTHLY OCCUPUS IN HIS LIVING ROOM IF THE NECESSITY AROSE FARMER REFLECTED FOR THE TENTH TIME BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS IT HAD ALL STARTED WITH JUDGE RAY 4b1e5d8b-e3f6-46e1-8963-a3a68596d8e8 2286 GET OUT THERE FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON THEN GET BACK NOTHING ELSE AND THAT'S AN ORDER THIS PEPEE IS SMART AND AS TRICKY AS A FIX GAMBLING MACHINE THAT'S HIS STRENGTH AND HIS WEAKNESS AS WELL 236343ab-e34a-4a61-9eb3-ae3c5299edc3 413 I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I WOULDN'T HAVE DISOBEYED US OFTEN IF I'D THOUGHT THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS SO NEAR WHEN I GO HOME I'M GOING TO TELL HER ABOUT GOING TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW I'M NOT SURE THAT UNCLE ROGER MEANT WHAT HE SAID REMARKED THE STORY GIRL 9f540296-d59a-4f8f-a317-a120bbc1c425 2182 THE ZID RAGED INTO THEIR COMMUNAL REST CELL SMASHED THEM DOWN FROM THEIR GIMBLED SLEEPING PERCHES AND WITH THE RAVENING BLOODHUNGER OF ITS KIND DEVOURED THEM BEFORE THEY COULD WAKE ENOUGH TO TELEPPORT TO SAFETY 7ebe22e9-cdfd-448c-821e-3f298612fe06 413 IT CAN'T BE MUCH WORSE THAN DYING I SUPPOSE SAID FELIX GRASPING AT ANY STRAW OF COMFORT I'M AWFULLY GLAD I'VE GOT INTO THE HABIT OF GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY SCHOOL THIS SUMMER SAID PETER VERY SOBERLY I WISH I'D MADE UP MY MIND BEFORE THIS WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST 82746210-0591-44de-a2fe-0df33b318afb 2274 I COULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU SIT GREETED NEW YOU RIGHT FINISH FOR YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IF YOU DO SAID HORN I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK 334d070b-ae19-4f3b-8701-6185d0040e93 2368 ANY MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WIZARD WILL HAVE HIS MIND SEEN BY THE INQUISITOR AND SINCE THERE ARE NO WIZARDS AT LEAST NONE WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE TRIALS WILL CEASE YONAS FINISHED AND THE BROTHERHOOD HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER CLTON SAID A MEMBER WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER 2969ac55-1703-4be8-a211-954490ea080a 1867 AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS fc0b7ed8-0c11-4248-8a1f-2fedad29962d 188 I BELIEVE YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE PAT IS SO SICK I SAID FIRMLY AS IF I'D CRY ABOUT A CAT SCOFFED PETER AND HE MARCHED OFF WHISTLING NEIL HAD PLENTY OF NEWS TO TELL AND THE MORE WHISKY HE DRANK THE MORE HE TOLD HE DIDN'T NOTICE THAT DONALD WAS NOT TAKING MUCH a8f29d1d-a11c-469f-bb97-3711b4ad2c25 1867 IT CAUSED MUTATIONS THAT BRED TRUE A CITY WAS BUILT AROUND THE TEMPLE AND THROUGH THE CENTURIES THE PYRAMID WAS PUT UP AROUND THE BEACON A SPECIAL BRANCH OF THE PRIESTHOOD SERVED THE TEMPLE ALL WENT WELL UNTIL ONE OF THE PRIESTS VIOLATED THE TEMPLE AND DESTROYED THE HOLY WATERS 55860197-064e-4eaa-bb58-3e762347ddf0 2274 OR IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT da5fd7b8-d568-478e-a2aa-8aeb132f880e 188 OUR SUMMER WAS OVER IT HAD BEEN A BEAUTIFUL ONE WE HAD KNOWN THE SWEETNESS OF COMMON JOYS THE DELIGHTS OF DAWNS THE DREAM OF GLAMOUR OF NOONTIDES THE LONG PURPLE PEACE OF CARE FREE NIGHTS 8a5c75e1-d895-4acc-9ea3-a5fca5a28e6c 2425 THE WHOLE EFFECT WAS NOT UNLIKE THE SKELETON OF A MINIATURE SKY SCRAPER I STRODE BETWEEN TWO OF THE HIGH SLIM BLACK PILLARS AND GLANCED UPWARD a44b276b-6c67-4353-bf4d-f9fbc3213c71 451 MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME I'M ALWAYS GLAD WHEN IT GETS WARM ENOUGH TO GO BAREFOOTED BUT WHEN I GROW UP THEY'LL HAVE TO BE COVERED UP ALL THE TIME 9da20607-d5da-4b24-aa6f-e27b278ccf4e 188 ACROSS THE HALL THE STORY GIRL WAS TELLING FELICITY AND CECILY THE OLD OLD TALE OF ARGIVE HELEN AND EVIL HEARTED PARIS BUT THAT'S A BAD STORY SAID FELICITY WHEN THE TALE END ENDED SHE LEFT HER HUSBAND AND RAN AWAY WITH ANOTHER MAN cef8d0c7-4795-434f-8b27-5ed2775ba6c7 402 MARGARET WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM WITH SOFT BLUE EYES AND CLOUDS OF GOLDEN HAIR AND SHE LOVED ALLAN DUNBAR JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM eff9383f-76c2-4e7f-a691-7f61ef9cd765 2182 THE ZID LEARNED QUICKLY SO QUICKLY THAT IT WAS SOON CLEAR THAT ITS PHYSICAL STRENGTH WOULD FAR OUTLAST THEIR CONSIDERABLE BUT LIMITED TELECONETIC ABILITY 1a2dd469-1509-4e9a-9062-cf8e99f3c08e 198 FELICITY THOUGHTFUL CREATURE ALSO TOOK A SMALL BASKETFUL OF JELLY COOKIES ALONG WITH HER WE HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH THE MAPLE WOODS TO THE EXTREME END OF UNCLE ROGER'S FARM A PRETTY WALK THROUGH A WORLD OF GREEN WHISPERING BOUGHS AND SPICED SWEET FERNS AND SHIFTING PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT 78b4ee72-2bdd-4e22-b538-c03f3cfd4ff8 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 WE HAVE BARN CATS BUT PATTY NEVER ASSOCIATES WITH THEM I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY 68884b98-faae-484d-9e17-86473b1f169e 2312 I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I'D RATHER NOT SAY COME OUT OF THAT COT YOU CLOWN 2c28ff36-d99d-4aa9-b9f0-d11e74902e98 2368 WHY IF HE HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN HE WOULD YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING CLARETON'S VOICE SAID YONAS GRINNED SUDDENLY AND SAT STRAIGHTER I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D BE GETTING INTO CONTACT SOONER OR LATER HE THOUGHT I TRIED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OUR MEN CLARETON THOUGHT IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER 4c6a7ff9-414e-4d3e-87e1-2ca8ea5d7541 198 EVERYBODY BLAMED POOR DAN CECILY ASKED HIM WHAT HE WOULD FEEL LIKE IF JIMMY WERE NEVER EVER FOUND 60843926-c346-4f3a-85a5-98c5f2bc691c 2182 ATAVISTIC AGREED CHAFFY FOUR THEY COULD EVEN LIE TO EACH OTHER BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED 980b2c9f-eb94-44f0-90dc-019b4287c296 413 IT WAS FINALLY DECIDED THAT DAN AND FELIX SHOULD GO I WANTED TO GO ALSO BUT THE GIRLS PROTESTED YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY dddc95f3-f162-4f1b-81de-20671aa3d11b 242 NEVERTHELESS WE ALL FELT A LITTLE OF THE SADNESS OF THE WANING YEAR THERE WAS A DISTINCT WEIGHT ON OUR SPIRITS UNTIL FELICITY TOOK US INTO THE PANTRY AND STAYED US WITH APPLE TARTS AND COMFORTED US WITH CREAM 24dafa51-bd58-4d09-8a2d-ac2438f931ba 2368 YONAS WAS THANKFUL FOR THAT AND FOR THE REST WELL HE THOUGHT RESIGNEDLY WHAT WAS A HERO WITHOUT A QUEST c3899cc4-4048-41b9-beee-bbbf2ff6cbd6 2312 HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP HE KNEW BETTER BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND e2418ee9-5dfa-4909-836d-265cd3191087 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 A LITTLE BEFORE DAWN THE EYE HOOKED ON TO MY SHOULDERS AND WE SAILED STRAIGHT UP WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN 259c89d0-88d7-46b5-a48d-ffd6895a61d6 1867 BEFORE HE COULD MOVE I PUSHED A SWITCH AND A HANDFUL OF LOCAL CURRENCY WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS ROLLED OUT OF THE CAVE AND LANDED AT HIS FEET HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE c80ca219-52fa-4d15-af8e-1148f97595a5 2182 IT STOOD SOLIDLY ON CAREFULLY MANICURED YELLOW FEET AND STARED AT HIM OUT OF SQUARE VIOLET EYES INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY 0dc1ea38-db9d-4b9c-b0c2-522baf29d60f 402 PETER IS VERY VERY SICK SHE SAID MISERABLY HE HAS CAUGHT COLD SOMEWAY AND THE MEASLES HAVE STRUCK IN AND AND THE STORY GIRL WRUNG HER BROWN HANDS TOGETHER THE DOCTOR IS AFRAID HE HE WON'T GET BETTER 79c94121-ed77-4cb9-bea9-192510e89e02 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 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL I WOULDN'T LET ON I THOUGHT SHE'D MADE HIM SICK 8a8fa03d-2505-4485-bc14-488169da01c7 242 YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS OH CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT THEM FROM FIGHTING SARA PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO 9ea9874a-e0a4-4674-b2a4-ad4b237b8549 2425 COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS NICE WORK PETE SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES 55a60036-2202-4d2a-9758-199f3caf57e0 2425 IT WAS BEWILDERING AND I WATCHED THEM WARILY SUSPECTING A TRICK THERE WERE ONLY THREE MORE CARTRIDGES LEFT IN MY GUN AND I DID NOT DARE REPLACE THE FIRED SHELLS FOR FEAR THEY WOULD RUSH ME WHEN THE ACTION WAS OPEN AND THE GUN MOMENTARILY USELESS 20dd1ae3-c7d8-4681-a76c-697395be2859 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 DREAMED DREAMS OF SUCH A PEACEFUL AND PASTORAL CHARACTER THAT HE WAS QUITE DISGUSTED WITH THE RESULTING TAME PAGES OF HIS DREAM BOOK 23a72d82-526f-490d-bb89-26b22727f5ce 2368 SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I AM UNDER NO COMPULSION TO LISTEN TO YOU KENUFF SAID AFTER A PAUSE c81aeaea-b039-4edb-b107-9c26248518d9 2425 AND NOW NOW I WAS STANDING IN THE OPEN ON ANOTHER WORLD f6c18174-17e1-4d6b-bec2-0b1ac3819b79 2425 DESPERATELY I QUICKLY TURNED THE DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED MARKS COINCIDED A GREAT WEIGHT SOFT AND ENVELOPING SEEMED TO DROP UPON ME THE SENSES OF SIGHT AND HEARING AND FEELING ALL LEFT ME I COULD ONLY THINK AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HORRIBLE 0c078691-cd79-499f-a148-bf023dbfe583 188 AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY OH YES SHE WAS JUST THE SAME AS SHE USED TO BE SAID THE STORY GIRL WEARILY BUT THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO THE STORY IT STOPS WHERE SHE SPOKE AT LAST YOU'VE NEVER SATISFIED TO LEAVE A STORY WHERE IT SHOULD STOP SARA RAY 2418ca3a-c927-493d-ac02-22afd5843be1 2274 ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT WE DIVERT THE FILES THEN WHAT ec968221-3c4f-4263-8fb9-94b7916c849d 14 SHE MARCHED OFF WITH SARA RAY AND PETER DROPPED BACK TO US WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE WHAT IS IT I HAVE DONE TO HER HE WHISPERED WHAT DOES THAT BIG WORD MEAN 3049d6ba-937c-48fe-9b64-abf31f6bf875 2368 SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY NOBODY'S HERE SHE SAID IN THE VOICE OF A VERY BANANOUS TOAD GO AWAY a8e88163-1277-4edf-89f8-201f41a4456e 2312 NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE A THING THAT SIZE COULDN'T CRACK A WALNUT ONE ELSE NO MANOEL NO ONLY THE PEOPLE NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL 1c6f1b7b-9d30-4fbe-8b03-7c721857faa4 103 HE SEEMED TO BE A CAT WITH A TOLERABLY GOOD OPINION OF HIMSELF AND HIS RESPONSE TO OUR ADVANCES WAS SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH CONDESCENSION THIS ISN'T TOPSY IS IT I ASKED I KNEW AT ONCE THAT THE QUESTION WAS A FOOLISH ONE TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG 4a625139-1405-4e80-bd97-7d7c7afb1771 402 TALL AND STRAIGHT WAS HE AS A YOUNG PINE AND HIS LONG HAIR WAS THE COLOUR OF RIPE WHEAT IN THE SUN AND HIS BLUE EYES WERE LIKE THE NORTHLAND HEAVENS ON A STARRY NIGHT caa1243d-1838-451a-a7d4-186086e1a875 402 WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT TO WAIT 9c03ba04-b17e-4722-97f7-906b9f8c8921 402 MANY A PRINCESS RODE BY US ON HER PALFREY MANY A SWAGGERING GALLANT RUFFLED IT BRAVELY IN VELVET AND PLUME ADOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK MANY A STATELY LADY SILKEN CLAD WALKED IN THAT OPULENT ORCHARD a10a5e18-d195-4081-ab53-deffc9786979 188 WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY I AM GOING TO TAKE A SUBJECT INSTEAD OF A TEXT SAID PETER LOFTILY 76a922e1-4c20-4ccf-b883-3cc86c706cc3 402 THOU MOCKEST ME MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD OH MASTER HE PRAYED TURNING BESEECHINGLY TO ODIN THOU DIDST PROMISE ME ETERNAL LIFE AS TO THE OTHERS WILT THOU NOT KEEP THAT PROMISE COMMAND THE WARDER TO LET ME PASS HE MUST OBEY THEE d522c315-9e1b-485c-b528-962c4352a9bf 188 ANYWAY IT WAS A VERY PRETTY GIRL BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK f7259896-5921-4748-a40b-7915ff0d8cbc 32 LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE 9d052d6a-a0c6-4386-839a-4a9ee87d68f0 413 PETER RESOLVED TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US TOO NOT TROUBLING HIMSELF BY ANYBODY'S PERMISSION IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY f776e733-808d-43e3-9a0f-2875d54e18a4 2274 HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF ROAD YEA GABBOT WHERE IS ALL THIS TRANSLATION GRIFF PUT DON'T BE IMPATIENT GLASS BLOWING CULTURE MEANT THEY WERE JUST OUT OF THE PRIMITIVE STAGE 4a8258c7-ce4b-44c2-9521-9f49f95f2c10 242 AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS 901c93b4-fc5d-492d-910f-4d9b11111559 2286 THE SUIT WAS ON AND I KEPT THE RUNNING CHATTER UP THROUGH THE MIKE IN THE HELMET RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY ec4f299b-e00b-48bb-a0dd-f7d48ec9d89f 2137 BEFORE HIM STRETCHED AN ENDLESS CARPET OF RED DUST THE LIGHT FROM THE TWO MOONS WAS GROWING DIM AS EACH SETTLED TOWARDS DIFFERENT HORIZONS HE SAT DOWN 9edb0c8d-ed96-42c7-83e6-00bc65e4589e 1867 MARK THREE THE OLD MAN REPEATED PRACTICALLY CHARTELING I NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER UNTIL RECORDS DUG UP THE SPECKS THEY FOUND THEM BURIED IN THE BACK OF THE OLDEST WAREHOUSE THIS WAS THE EARLIEST TYPE OF BEACON EVER BUILT BY EARTH NO LESS baf8805e-cf1c-4d88-8225-c3c1de487d07 1867 I DIVED THE EYE LOWER THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS ae6fadab-8a5a-4286-92ba-a304abfd2277 198 WELL HERE'S THE KEY GO AND SEE FOR YOURSELF SAID PETER FELICITY HAD NO INTENTION OF GOING AND SEEING I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX 05cc212c-f052-49c4-a877-508f61071bb8 413 WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN BE IT REMEMBERED WITH A VERY FIRM AND SIMPLE FAITH THAT GROWN PEOPLE KNEW MUCH MORE THAN WE DID AND A ROOTED CONVICTION THAT WHATEVER YOU READ IN A NEWSPAPER MUST BE TRUE IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT 6c309fca-823d-436a-9835-633e18e010ee 402 WHEN WE HAD FILLED OUR BASKETS THEY HAD TO BE CARRIED TO THE GRANARY LOFT AND THE CONTENTS STORED IN BINS OR SPREAD ON THE FLOOR TO RIPEN FURTHER WE ATE A GOOD MANY OF COURSE FEELING THAT A LABOURER WAS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE 4675483a-b6c1-45fc-a963-2a2a68dec005 188 THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE WORKED ITS WILL ON MISTER CAMPBELL AS ON ALL OTHERS HE CAME IN SAT DOWN HOOKED HIS THUMB INTO HIS VEST POCKET AND SMILED AT HER WHAT IS IT HE ASKED WE ARE COLLECTING FOR OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND WE HAVE CALLED TO ASK YOU FOR A CONTRIBUTION SHE REPLIED 328f22d8-c079-4824-b421-4dfd025e87e5 2286 ROCKER COLLAPSED AWAY FROM MY ROAR AND GNAWED HIS EARS YES HE SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME TROUBLE AND WHAT ELSE I INTERRUPTED HIM COLD MOISTURE WAS BEGINNING TO COLLECT ALONG MY SPINE NOW THE DRIVES THE CONTROLS ARE THEY IN TO WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE 06fd4e51-055b-43cf-8489-8a9dd3556845 14 HE WAS A BOY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MYSELF AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND BUT I KNOW WHAT HE MUST EVER SEEM TO ME 99fd793a-3409-4cae-9e93-701daf558e5c 198 THE GHOSTLY BELL FRIDAY WAS A COMFORTABLE DAY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF KING EVERYBODY WAS IN GOOD HUMOUR PADDY HAD A FINER TASTE THE STORY GIRL AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD PAY HIM COMPLIMENTS TO HIS LIKING 0457755b-893d-4228-9ab2-2921c8d3812c 451 IT WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR HIRED BOYS TO GO TO PUBLIC MEETINGS WHEN NOT HELD IN THE CHURCH WITH BARE FEET AND NO PARTICULAR DISGRACE ATTACHED TO IT BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION IT WAS DARK NOW SO NOBODY WOULD NOTICE HIS FEET 757dd37d-f1a8-49e1-9bdd-dc2f4dcde876 242 FELIX PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT HE MIGHT BE ENABLED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE AND WHEN HE HAD PRAYED THREE NIGHTS AFTER THIS MANNER HE CONTRIVED TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT A GRIMACE UNTIL HE CAME TO THE LAST BITE WHICH PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM c78fbbe6-a3ad-4812-9976-be48c5954918 2368 I MUST BE SLOW YOU MEAN I MEAN WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU CLARTON THOUGHT AND ONE MORE THING YONUS YES THE DAUGHTER CURRETON THOUGHT I HAVE SEEN HER IN YOUR MIND IGNORE THE WENCH IS SHE WORTH WHAT YOUR TASK IS WORTH e90a6822-1559-470a-b6a2-b66c6fd5af76 2108 WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SHE ASKED ROOT HE WAS SUSPICIOUS OF MAGIC COFFEE BUT HIS MOUTH SO GOOD THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST IT SO HE ANSWERED IF YOU PLEASE MA'AM THE GIANTESS POURED OUT ANOTHER CUP AND SET IT ON THE FLOOR FOR WOOT 3085fb05-3d8e-4429-ab56-c94bb6e665db 2108 SITTING UPON THE GROUND THE BOY ASKED CAN YOU SEE US POLLY NO INDEED ANSWERED THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WE'VE ALL BECOME INVISIBLE HOW DID IT HAPPEN DO YOU SUPPOSE INQUIRED THE SCARECROW LYING WHERE HE HAD FALLEN ed8b6426-d108-4379-9b20-09fa7f2c6fc4 242 AND THITHER WE ALL RESORTED AT SUNSET I HOPE FELIX WILL BEAT SAID THE STORY GIRL TO ME NOT ONLY FOR THE FAMILY HONOR BUT BECAUSE THAT WAS A MEAN MEAN PRAYER OF PETER'S DO YOU THINK HE WILL e7d5df0d-f1b6-4278-8fa3-521fd22776b3 14 WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES BEHIND US WAS AN OLD GRAY FENCE WITH VIOLETS AND DANDELIONS THICK IN ITS CORNERS BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS 6cf39725-9425-4a19-b565-d0d1c50e8abf 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 WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO e5ab3297-f43b-4a4e-a4e7-1cbaf649fca0 188 NEIL WENT ON TASTING AND THAT SLY DONALD SAT THERE WITH A SOBER FACE BUT LAUGHING EYES AND COAXED HIM ON AT LAST NEIL'S HEAD FELL FORWARD ON HIS BREAST AND HE WAS SOUND ASLEEP 56c07920-671b-42e3-a10c-0c9217b2ee20 2137 ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS HE THOUGHT HE WATCHED UNTIL THE FLARE FLICKERED OUT THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT 7e04dd06-59d7-46ae-8143-e4ff310908e4 2368 AS FOR THE PIETY CLARTON THOUGHT I LEAVE THAT TO THE PRIESTS AND THE WOMEN BUT WISDOM AND CAUTION ON MY TASK YUNUS AS THEY MUST BE YOURS 4f9a4e39-a0dd-4253-9ec5-7870098ee454 402 AS IT WAS NOT IN PETER TO BE A MALINGERER HE WAS LEFT IN PEACE WHILE WE PICKED APPLES 424167ce-7f44-4cd6-bd90-2aeeb9d7e224 2286 HE CLIMBED WEARILY IN AND I DIRECTED THE DRIVER BEFORE HE FULLY REALIZED WHAT WAS HAPPENING BLINKING AT THE SICKLY LIGHT OF DAWN BROUGHT HIM SLOWLY BACK TO REALITY BUT ADMIRAL THE HOUR EVERYONE WILL BE ASLEEP I JUST GROWLED BUT IT WAS ENOUGH ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE e08651d0-9d1f-4885-9432-06f9f1c5da89 2108 WHEN I EXPLAINED THIS TO GINGER THE GIRL AT ONCE PAINTED A STRAW STACK WHICH WAS SO NATURAL THAT I WENT TO IT AND SECURED ENOUGH STRAW TO FILL ALL MY BODY IT WAS A GOOD QUALITY OF STRAW TOO AND LASTED ME A LONG TIME 55e5fc0c-6c94-4a24-93ce-4ee05fa956af 2317 HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT IT STILL MADE SENSE HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE 1651bfda-9d7a-4a40-8015-a75c56e6732d 2274 O K TELL THEM WE'LL COMPLY ONE MORE THING STET WHAT NOW 34b37063-66e6-45f2-a8a1-ff0ccb7cc320 451 I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY ba0384a9-d5bb-4c26-ab64-8ae14d13efe9 451 WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER BUT NOW I DO NOT THINK SHE EITHER NEEDED OUR PITY OR DESERVED OUR ADMIRATION HER AESTHETIC FARE WAS REALLY SWEETER TO HER THAN HONEY OF HYMETTUS 6435f3de-cf44-40aa-838a-b05b9f4c7423 188 ANYHOW IT WAS A FINE LETTER AND THEY WERE ALL FINE AND I'M AWFUL GLAD I HAVE SO MANY NICE FRIENDS EVEN IF I AM ONLY A HIRED BOY PERHAPS I'D NEVER FOUND IT OUT IF THE MEASLES HADN'T STRUCK IN SO I'M VERY GLAD THEY DID BUT I HOPE THEY NEVER WILL AGAIN 78b2e747-bf8e-4be8-96d9-c8642e4c0fa5 1867 IN THE MORNING WHEN THE FIRST WALLOWERS ARRIVED I FLIPPED ON THE RECORDER AFTER ABOUT FIVE OF THE LOCAL DAYS I HAD A SEA OF NATIVE CONVERSATION IN THE MEMORY BANK OF THE MACHINE TRANSLATOR AND TAGGED A FEW EXPRESSIONS THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH 08dfe267-a638-4564-8204-79bb9b2eb267 242 THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND WHY FELIX TOOK PETER'S SUCCESS IN THE ORDEAL OF THE BITTER APPLES SO MUCH TO HEART SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY YES I BELIEVE THERE IS SOME GOOD IN SOME KINDS OF PRAYING BUT NOT IN THAT KIND SAID DAN STURDILY 17238ec3-8063-4757-90b9-270e96d02cd6 2286 PLANETARY POLICE ARE ALL PUSH OVERS AND YOU START TO FEEL YOU CAN GO ON FOR EVER IF THEY'RE YOUR ONLY COMPETITION ccb897f6-f1d3-4a62-a2c6-8def945f4aa2 2425 WHAT WE MUST DO AND RIGHT NOW IS TO SETTLE UPON SOME MEANS OF GETTING TO THE PROPER SPOT AT THE PROPER TIME YOU MARKED A MOMENT OF YOUR DEPARTURE I SUPPOSE 1624f135-cb5f-4fc6-8592-77d6d8575106 188 I'LL GIVE HER THAT SPONGE CAKE I MADE THIS MORNING SAID FELICITY I GUESS SHE DOESN'T GET SPONGE CAKE VERY OFTEN I'VE NOTHING BUT THE RHEUMATISM RING I GOT AS A PREMIUM FOR SELLING NEEDLES LAST WINTER SAID PETER I'LL GIVE HER THAT EVEN IF SHE HASN'T GOT RHEUMATISM IT'S A REAL HANDSOME RING IT LOOKS LIKE SOLID GOLD cf48ae64-df15-40a3-8bb6-800561864092 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER TRUE ENOUGH BUT FOR THE REST YOU'RE WRONG PETE OLD SON YOU'RE NOT MATTER ANY MORE YOU'RE SOMETHING ELSE IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST 569b3797-4f0d-4dd4-a859-5fc2a6ddc1a5 1867 THEN I FILLED THE FRAME WITH ALL THE EQUIPMENT I WOULD NEED AND BEGAN TO WIRE THE SUIT WHEN IT WAS DONE I TRIED IT ON IN FRONT OF A FULL LENGTH MIRROR IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR AND GAVE ME A DUCK WADDLE BUT THAT ONLY HELPED THE RESEMBLANCE 4e33c1a7-1f72-40d8-add5-e7e0300b3848 402 THAT NIGHT WHEN HE POINTED OUT THE STARS TO US FROM THE PULPIT STONE WAS THE LAST TIME FOR SEVERAL WEEKS THAT PETER SHARED OUR TOIL AND PASTIME THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE AND SORE THROAT AND SEEMED TO PREFER LYING ON AUNT OLIVIA'S KITCHEN SOFA TO DOING ANY WORK 2a07ee5c-682e-491f-a60c-e6bc60c88a78 2108 AM I CORRECT FRIEND SCARECROW d58933b5-832c-4dd8-be3f-460cdbe8def0 2286 THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE NOT A RIVET FELL BUT THAT ITS FALL WAS NOTED INQUINTUPLICATE AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY THE FACTS I NEEDED WERE ALL NEATLY TUCKED AWAY IN THEIR PAID PO CATACOMBS ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SNIFFED THEM OUT I DIDN'T TRY TO LOOK FOR FIRST CAUSES THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN TOO LONG b7279368-7ff3-49ee-ad19-9c347f9fd7e0 2108 THEN SHE BEGAN TO UNDRESS FIRST BY TAKING OFF THE LACE APRON AND LAYING IT OVER THE BED POST WHERE IT WAS WITHIN EASY REACH OF HER HAND ebb8c346-85d0-4e7f-8d15-90bff21e2f23 14 WELL IF THERE ISN'T ONE IN TORONTO IT ISN'T LIKELY THERE'S ONE ANYWHERE SAID PETER DISAPPOINTEDLY I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL ONCE HE ADDED IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL 44792233-24ed-4bd9-b957-b5b0cf2d7fa9 2274 SURE I CAN NO HISSED THE VOICE TOUCHED THE MITE CONTACT KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSED JUST USE YOUR SPEAKING MUSCLES WITHOUT SPEAKING ORAN OBEYED ade0acd8-e9f5-445c-9df1-a16afcdf716b 32 WELL IT SOUNDED NASTY SAID PETER WHO KNEW THAT IT IS THE TONE THAT MAKES THE MUSIC WHAT DID YOUR AUNT JANE LOOK LIKE ASKED CECILY SYMPATHETICALLY WAS SHE PRETTY 05f977e4-bfcb-4609-91d1-58ad0ffbca22 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 56455aef-a9c5-41c4-818f-e8c531ba294a 2108 ON THE ENDS OF THEIR LONG TAILS WERE CLUSTERS OF JEWELS AROUND THE GREAT MOONLIKE EYES WERE CIRCLES OF DIAMONDS WHICH SPARKLED IN THE SUBDUED LIGHT THAT GLOWED FROM THE EYES d5529948-7886-47b8-ab74-2cbcba477349 2317 HE PAUSED OF COURSE HE ADDED SMUGLY I'M NOT A TRANSPORTATION EXPERT IF I WERE I'D HAVE MADE MY OWN ACTIVATOR LONG AGO AND DONE SOME VISITING ON THE CLOSED WORLDS BEFORE THIS 6bd32eaa-3c52-4795-b606-b7633eb17ccd 198 PRESENTLY THE MOON ROSE BUT THIS ONLY MADE MATTERS WORSE THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS 77c3bb99-310e-4ee1-be0f-2b3a09d37eb3 2317 THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP 8813e160-4e94-477a-b7f9-d072a73a0d78 451 SHE HAD ALSO GIVEN PETER A BIBLE OF WHICH HE WAS SO PROUD THAT HE HATED TO USE IT LEST HE SHOULD SOIL IT SHE WAS THOUGH QUITE UNCONSCIOUSLY ACTING A PART AND TASTING ALL THE SUBTLE JOY OF THE ARTIST WHICH IS SO MUCH MORE EXQUISITE THAN ANY MATERIAL PLEASURE ce92460b-42fc-4ed4-a83c-7c7efc0e956e 413 WE HAD NOT PASSED A VERY PLEASANT WEEK FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT BEEN SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE HAD BEEN SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK AN AIR OF RESTRAINT WAS OVER ALL OUR GAMES AND CONVERSATIONS ON THE PRECEDING MONDAY FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD QUARRELLED OVER SOMETHING 524e1615-3033-478d-8536-5fd9db5415de 2286 EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS THEY WERE A LITTLE FRIGHTENED TOO THE MANAGER OF THE SPACE YARD THAT WAS BUILDING THE SHIP HAD NO IDEA OF ITS TRUE NATURE ad0e78fb-7229-4d1b-b537-59689377ed67 2108 WHEN HE HAD JOINED THE ARMS AND LEGS TO THE BODY AND SET MY HEAD IN THE TIN COLLAR I WAS A MUCH BETTER MAN THAN EVER FOR MY BODY COULD NOT ACHE OR PAIN ME AND I WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHT THAT I HAD NO NEED OF CLOTHING af1f4539-3a0b-401f-baaa-a044f2bf33e9 413 THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE YOU ASK HIM SAID FELICITY NUDGING THE STORY YELL NO I'M NOT ANSWERED CICELY WITH A CHANGE OF TONE I WILL I DON'T CARE SAID FELICITY QUICKLY OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND 4c2bce3f-603d-4a76-9e28-1173ac1a5782 2368 JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON AND AS A MAID IS WON BY FAITH FIGURE AND DARING AND A WIFE BY RICHES POSITION OR PROSPECTS THERE WAS A NOTABLY PAUCITY OF LICEN LADIES IN JONAS'S CAREER 1a67408a-ed51-40b1-95d2-e6de38d01faa 402 THEY HAD BEEN THERE WHEN GREAT GRANDFATHER KING BOUGHT THE PLACE I HAVE NEVER SEEN THEM ELSEWHERE OR FOUND THEM DESCRIBED IN ANY FLORAL CATALOGUE THE REST OF US ATE OUR APPLES OR CARRIED THEM TO SCHOOL WHERE WE BARTERED THEM FOR SUCH TREASURES AS OUR SCHOOLMATES POSSESSED AND WE COVETED 5763d26e-372d-4c94-b717-8d985a40b0af 32 NEXT TO HER SITS FELICITY BEAUTIFUL AND CONSCIOUS THAT SHE IS BEAUTIFUL WITH HER HAIR OF SPUN SUNSHINE AND SEA BLUE EYES AND ALL THE ROSES OF THAT VANISHED SUMMER ABLOOM IN HER CHEEKS cff7bd32-7a32-4b21-acaf-c0c285f74a2f 2317 RAY JUMPED NOT VERY FAR BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY DIVING SUIT STUMBLED ON ODDLY TWISTED LEGS AND COLLAPSED ON THE DECK WRITHING MOANING AND TURNING RED IN THE FACE THE DIVING HELMET CLATTERED ON THE PLANKS 388b76fa-b0dd-441a-9b8e-3b4db5ad568c 2317 NOW FARMER WASN'T MUCH OF AN EDITOR EVEN AS EDITORS GO THE ONE USEFUL QUALITY HE HAD WAS A HOME STUNNED INGRATIATING AIR WHICH PUT NERVOUS YOUNG GENIUSES AT THEIR EASE SO THAT THEY COULD GIVE A REASONABLE COHERENT VERBAL PICTURE OF WHAT THEIR BOOKS WERE ABOUT 7b16d7d5-585a-4009-b1ba-20ee4dbf43f3 1867 THERE WERE A FEW MINUTES WHILE THE WATER BEGAN TO GURGLE DOWN THROUGH THE DRY PIPE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS SHAKING MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD I WENT DOWN FOR THE EYE BURNING CEREMONY THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL ce8f8bca-7d46-43d9-97d2-0208d22fc5c4 2286 THE BRAIN WAS AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER ROBART BRAIN I HAVE KNOWN PLUS THE FACT THAT THE CHUNKY BODY WAS CRAMMED WITH DEVICES AND MACHINES OF VARYING USE IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR a226e35a-a1e6-4a3f-9360-f39418edf41b 2182 THE SCOOP TOUCHED ITS VAST FACE TO THE QUEEN'S RAIL AND DROPPED THE UNCONSCIOUS BODY TO THE DECK THE ZID TWITCHED WEAKLY AND COUGHED UP FROTH AND WATER JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY 8831ecc0-bae0-4da6-a603-34c320cdb6df 1867 WHEN HE PASSED NEXT DAY I WHISPERED INTO THE MIKE WELCOME O GOAT BOY GRANDSON THIS IS YOUR GRANDFATHER'S SPIRIT SPEAKING FROM PARADISE 36ab4408-8be2-4fc2-b247-1ca3f20da624 2286 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WE ARE THE RADIO BOOMED AGAIN JUST OBEY ORDERS IF YOU CARE TO LIVE STAY AWAY FROM THE CONTROLS UNTIL WE HAVE TIRED ON THEN DO EXACTLY AS I SAY af0c2b24-0cbd-4353-924e-1d0e0e816857 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT FELIX WAS THIN SAID PETER LAUGHING HE DID LOOK SO QUEER HIS CLOTHES JUST HUNG LOOSE AND HE WAS GOING ROUND TRYING TO HOLD THEM ON b712cb26-db0c-4457-8dd5-4cd54b41a545 2108 THE TIN WOODMAN ORDERED FOOD FOR THE STRANGER AND IN A FEW MINUTES THE SERVANT BROUGHT IN A TIN TRAY HEAPED WITH A CHOICE HOORAY OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT ALL NEATLY DISPLAYED ON TIN DISHES THAT WERE POLISHED TILL THEY SHONE LIKE MIRRORS bc7c4b8e-83ac-4a54-90b0-7570fa958bce 242 SHE STOLE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL SHE CAME TO THE BRINK OF A LITTLE VALLEY BELOW HER STOOD THE SNOW WHITE MOOSE c137662d-e7dd-456b-9e95-fd23fc58eb7b 242 THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD I GUESS YOU MEAN PRINCIPLE I SUGGESTED YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS de885a78-3d70-4926-89de-2f59645c3ba1 198 HIS FACE WAS AS WHITE AS A SUNBURNED FACE COULD BE AND HIS EYES WERE BRIMMED WITH PANIC PETER WHAT DOES THE MATTER CRIED CECILY THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE RINGING A BELL SAID PETER IN A SHAKING VOICE fe9cb60f-42ee-4465-96eb-8d1f129d6e56 2108 BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES 18659768-8526-4fcb-affd-f59671afdb90 2182 HIS CY PROJECTION OF THE ZID APPEARED ON THE DOCK BEFORE THEM WITH DEMONIAC ABRUPTNESS CROUCH TO LEAP TWIN TAILS LASHING AND ITS TEN FOOT LENGTH BRISTLING WITH GLASSY MAGENTIVE BRISTLES bed48930-fc3d-4ca1-a31a-e89f26dbad7c 451 TO US FOR EVERMORE THE MILKY WAY WOULD BE NOT PETER'S OVERWHELMING GARLAND OF SONS BUT THE LUCENT BRIDGE LOVE CREATED ON WHICH THE BANISHED ARCHANGELS CROSSED FROM STAR TO STAR 3d234635-e3bf-4d82-8b03-32e572bc5cfa 451 ALL RIGHT SAID DAN I'VE EAT ALL I WANT THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED FELICITY WAS NOT THERE WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE 1c99f0ed-d3a6-4fe6-bb6e-a44c36f93a60 2368 YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN 718f552d-b138-4523-8bd5-0457b1be5578 32 UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA HAD BOTH CHERISHED CERTAIN DREAMS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUTH BUT CIRCUMSTANCES HAD DENIED THEM THEIR CHANCE AND THESE DREAMS HAD NEVER BEEN FULFILLED SOME DAY OLIVIA WENT ON UNCLE ROGER YOU AND I MAY FIND OURSELVES THE AUNT AND UNCLE OF THE FOREMOST ACTRESS OF HER DAY e4ba7af6-5a38-48e0-8b8c-34732c6b97a3 1867 I COULD START THE WATER AGAIN EASILY ENOUGH BUT THERE WAS NO FUEL LEFT IN THE REACTOR I WASN'T GOING TO PLAY WITH THE FUEL PROBLEM AT ALL IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER TO INSTALL A NEW POWER PLANT I HAD ONE IN THE SHIP THAT WAS ABOUT A TENTH THE SIZE OF THE ANCIENT BUCKET OF BOLTS AND PRODUCED AT LEAST FOUR TIMES THE POWER 52251b3a-fe1a-4433-b4a9-cebd3893a9ac 198 UNCLE ROGER MAY NOT BE BACK FOR HOURS I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE MAYBE IT'S ONLY PEG BOWEN SUGGESTED DAN THERE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF COMFORT IN THIS WE WERE ALMOST AS MUCH AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN AS WE WOULD BE OF ANY SPECTRAL VISITANT 823943f8-e47f-4c34-b4c2-d883ea3faa01 2286 I HAVE FOUND THEM YES I ADDED HOARSELY BUT NOT A CRIMINAL RING AN INSPIRED MASKED CRIMINAL WHO APPARENTLY HAS MORE EXECUTIVE ABILITY IN ONE EAR LOBE THAN ALL YOUR BRIBE BLOATED BUREAUCRATS AND HIS FEMALE SISTANT THEY PULLED THE ENTIRE JOB BY THEMSELVES 64a41651-67e9-4e66-8b81-6bdc93243830 188 NEIL WAS RICH AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER IF HE TOLD NANCY SHE MUST TAKE NEIL CAMPBELL SHE WOULD NEVER DREAM OF DISOBEYING HIM e6dc019b-822b-48cd-8b20-f3aad33057a1 188 I'M JUST GOING TO PRAY TO GOD TO SEND ME SOME MONEY SHE ANNOUNCED DESPERATELY AT LAST I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'LL DO ANY GOOD SAID DAN HE GIVES LOTS OF THINGS BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE MONEY BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN EARN THAT FOR THEMSELVES I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT add3e017-51f6-4074-b811-2a4cf3b5c8eb 32 WE HAD SEEN IT ALL THE SLEEPING GENIUS THE ROGUISH RED LIPPED GIRL THE KISS DROPPED AS LIGHTLY AS A ROSE PETAL ON THE SUNBURNED CHEEK THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT MARRIED SAID FELIX 3d03b047-3881-482b-9d8e-04ab037b1b65 14 HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION DEMANDED FELICITY I'VE GOT A YANKEE CENT I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT FELICITY SHOOK HER HEAD VEHEMENTLY OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH cdaf0703-0a8b-4bb1-9800-bf505618e5e8 14 THEN I SHALL BE THE WIFE OF THE KING OF THE WORLD AND NO ONE CAN HOLD HERSELF HIGHER THAN I 3490c2a6-4210-4232-b0f2-aa879dfb1c34 1867 THEY HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE THROWING STICKS AND ARBELASTS AND WERE TRYING TO SHOOT DOWN THE EYE A CLOUD OF ARROWS AND ROCKS FLYING IN EVERY DIRECTION I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP 5c675ac7-9d67-4685-b6e7-b6e0530154b9 242 WHAT WOULD MISS MARWOOD SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT ASKED FELICITY MISS MARWOOD WAS FELIX'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE WAS VERY FOND OF HER BUT THIS TIME FELIX WAS QUITE RECKLESS I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTED 8765f3f3-8b52-48d4-8713-5a5f5493c167 2108 HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE ASK YOUR MOTHER b9fa0b45-d3cd-4366-be1b-f21712c33fa7 198 AND IF YOU DRANK OF THE CUP WITH HER SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLOWING THROUGH THE EMERALD DUSK ABOUT US YOU WERE NEVER SEEN IN THE WORLD AGAIN YOU WERE WHISKED STRAIGHTWAY TO FAIRYLAND AND LIVED THERE WITH A FAIRY BRIDE 47c73e86-34df-445a-8ce1-f55beb4565a0 2317 RAY AND FARMER SHOOK WITH HIM IN TURN HIS HAND WAS DAMP AND WEBBED BUT FELT FAIRLY HUMAN FOR ALL THAT HE ASKED HIS VOICE WAS SNEERING RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL 8d1a8715-3c4c-48c3-9f4b-9d8a7b78a435 14 THEN THEY WERE MARRIED AT ONCE BUT THE BRIDEGROOM NEVER LIFTED HIS VISOR AND NO ONE SAW HIS FACE 32e68fbb-1cc4-49cb-ba82-7ee0b6202843 242 IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT NEVER MIND WE'VE HAD A SPLENDID SUMMER I SAID SLIPPING MY ARM ABOUT HER TO COMFORT SOME CHILDISH SORROW THAT BREATHED IN HER PLAINTIVE VOICE d711d6bb-e4b4-42ee-8668-93386fd8f6ae 188 AUNT OLIVIA REALLY WAS A DUCK WE WANTED TO STAY WITH HER ALSO BUT AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HEAR OF SUCH A THING SHE ORDERED IT OFF US OFF TO BED SAYING THAT IT WAS POSITIVELY SINFUL IN US TO BE SO WORKED UP OVER A CAT 9824d1a5-1c42-4b4a-970d-6f0706a852bf 14 I'D LIKE TO BE BURIED HERE WHEN I DIE SAID FELIX BUT I HOPE IT WON'T BE FOR A GOOD WHILE YET HE SAID IN A LIVELIER TONE AS WE MOVED ONWARD TO THE CHURCH a8af4075-2093-4846-8fc2-e8a9bc345513 32 OVER IT THE QUEER PAGODA LIKE ROOF BUILT BY UNCLE STEPHEN ON HIS RETURN FROM A VOYAGE TO CHINA WAS COVERED WITH YET LEAFLESS VINES 31c456a5-9b63-4850-a3e4-c27b53781d80 2137 HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT THEN SWUNG HIS FEET OVER THE SIDE AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT SATISFACTION HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK 3876310f-ff8f-4ca6-8f0f-954e1729a9fc 413 UNCLE ROGER SHOOK HIS HEAD THAT IS JUST THE TROUBLE HE SAID PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL IT'S TOO LATE I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GOT INTO HIS BUGGY AND DROVE AWAY LEAVING EIGHT DISTRACTED MORTALS BEHIND HIM f579f971-a65b-43a1-b031-5305fe099b34 242 OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT d384634c-64b0-4007-a73d-d5a1e62e4866 2317 IT STILL MADE SENSE HE ADDED A DECISION TO GET THE BOAT BACK TO SHORE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL b8f981a0-489a-4272-af07-a41169aee8de 2108 I AM SURE MY DEAR NICK SAID THE BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL MY NAME THEN WAS NICK CHOPPER YOU SHOULD BE TOLD THAT YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST HUSBAND FOR ANY GIRL COULD HAVE 4ddf0d20-6177-439f-b1d1-83c1e8f2961c 2317 SHE LAUGHED AGAIN OH THE ROEBOT IT'LL FOLLOW ME IT'S DESIGNED TO OH DAMN THE DAM WAS FOR SOMETHING SHE SAW IN THE WATER AS SHE LOOKED BACK OVER THE RAIL AGAIN 8e6bd23e-c4f3-4652-be28-801c1a7a3d10 198 I HAVE A NOTION WHO ALICE IS ALREADY SAID THE MYSTERIOUS CREATURE BUT SHE WOULD TELL US NOTHING MORE I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY 8dd1baa2-8bd8-461f-9a50-f9bf01697b35 2286 A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL AS LONG AS IT STAYED OUT OF THE REGULAR LANES OF COMMERCE AND CLEAR OF DETECTESTATIONS AND PLANETS IT WOULD NEVER BE FOUND THEN HOW COULD I FIND IT AND HAVING FOUND IT CATCH IT c0051f26-2ae9-4ca8-864b-e1504b184c7e 2137 HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK THERE WAS ENOUGH TO LAST THE NIGHT BUT NOT MUCH MORE HE SAT DOWN ON THE CAPSULE TO THINK 74bc2b82-c572-4823-9cde-bf9027b55fd2 2108 YOU ARE CAUSING A DROUGHT AND I SHALL CATCH COLD AND SNEEZE WHEN I SNEEZE I GET CROSS WHEN I CROP AND GET CROSS I'M LIABLE TO DO SOMETHING WICKED COME IN YOU FOOLISH STRANGERS COME IN 341085de-246e-40e1-8210-868787bbbddb 32 FELIX HAD A KNACK OF DREAMING ANYHOW AND HIS DREAM BOOK WHILE SUFFERING SOMEWHAT IN COMPARISON OF LITERARY STYLE WAS ABOUT THE BEST OF THE LOT WHEN IT CAME TO SUBJECT MATTER 3d2f8c0e-6452-4b19-81df-c3fa1d4a2ab8 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 DONALD KNEW THAT IF NEIL PROPOSED FIRST HE WOULD HAVE THE BEST CHANCE NEIL WAS RICH AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER ecb59e2e-df1a-4f66-9384-102f45005dd2 188 POOR SARA DID NOT HAVE TO BE SHE WAS EVENTUALLY QUIETED DOWN AND WAS AS WELL AS USUAL THE NEXT DAY AND SHE HUMBLY BEGGED PETER'S PARDON FOR SPOILING HIS SERMON PETER GRANTED IT RATHER GRUMPILY AND I FEAR THAT HE NEVER REALLY QUITE FORGAVE SARA FOR HER UNTIMELY OUTBURST 1980de41-ec4a-4690-a35e-06a44e759c31 198 BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT 52eaa1a0-9010-4231-be66-4053201dc975 242 THEY'RE ALWAYS SO TALL AND SLENDER WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF ANYONE WROTE A STORY ABOUT A FAT HERO OR ONE WITH TOO BIG A MOUTH IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY eaf6ade3-12d2-454a-8fb6-5014b715bae6 2368 YONAS WENT OVER TO HIS PALLET REMOVED HIS JERKIN AND SHOES AND LAY DOWN HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE e380cfe4-1a94-49c1-a668-0b351b53e6d3 451 YOU CAN HAVE A PAIR OF MINE SAID FELICITY WHO PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT SINCE SARA WAS CERTAIN TO YIELD TO TEMPTATION SHE MIGHT AS WELL BE GARBED DECENTLY FOR HER TRANSGRESSION 7e2fa163-9730-4ff3-b560-1f47d80dbf6b 242 SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AND OFTEN THEY HUNTED TOGETHER FOR SCHUBEN WAS ALMOST AS SKILFUL WITH HER BOW AND ARROW AS THE KATY HIMSELF THEY LOVED EACH OTHER EVER SINCE THEY WERE SMALL PAPOOSES AND THEY VOWED TO LOVE EACH OTHER AS LONG AS THE RIVER RAN 5080720e-e2db-4d8c-9912-96dec43d6602 1867 SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE 3a9337e7-fb6d-4874-8165-b3371d23f041 451 IF YOU COULD HAVE HEARD THE STORY GIRLS BUR R NOT OLD MISTER FORBES HIMSELF COULD HAVE INVESTED IT WITH MORE OF A DORIC SCORN WE ROLLED OVER IN THE COOL GRASS AND SCREAMED WITH LAUGHTER 72b52a06-fa72-4b4e-9d49-b100da35e662 14 AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT 1b6124c3-44f2-4088-92cb-1a32aed2e0a4 2108 HAPPY WHAT'S THAT DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPINESS IS INQUIRED THE TIN WOODMAN I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHETHER IT'S ROUND OR SQUARE OR BLACK OR WHITE OR WHAT IT IS AND IF YOU WILL PARDON MY LACK OF INTEREST IN IT I WILL SAY THAT I DON'T CARE b2bb7967-03f4-4f6f-875e-6ad3354a777b 14 THE TONES OF HER VOICE BROUGHT OUT THE POIGNANT AND IMMORTAL BEAUTY AND PATHOS OF THAT WONDERFUL OLD LAMENT THE GIRLS WIPED THEIR EYES AND WE BOYS FELT AS IF WE MIGHT HAVE DONE SO TOO HAD NOBODY BEEN LOOKING 26949181-b7ef-4662-8e89-36ddd37f402d 2182 ZID JEFF ECHOED CHAFFY FORE RELIEVED HIS FELLOW OF THE STRAIN BY TRYING HIS OWN RUSTY CROAK A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT 5a6eb060-e94e-4ab4-9c56-d1fd34686509 2182 STEPPING OUT INTO THE BRIEF COLLAXY IN DAWN HE CAUGHT HIS GLIMPSE OF THE SERREMEAN SHIP'S LANDING BEFORE THE ISLAND FOREST OF PALM FIRMS CUT IT OFF FROM SIGHT 408a0d7a-883e-48d4-839a-8a09a0923b64 2274 WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST KEEP AN EYE ON THEM BUT DON'T IGNORE THE OTHER SECTORS SAID STETSON YOU THINK I WAS BORN YESTERDAY BARKED THE VOICE FROM THE GRIN THE CONTACT BROKE OFF WITH AN ANGRY SOUND bdcaa0b8-20d4-4a19-973a-86c675c6d0e9 14 DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL 8e9ff6fb-d9d2-4a66-af0e-591d7f6691af 2274 DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY THE SPEAKER SAID YES 46d68d94-e136-4066-8ad5-21455c97313a 2425 THEY GLANCED AT EACH OTHER SWIFTLY ALMOST AS THOUGH THEY UNDERSTOOD IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THEIR MOUTHS LIFTED THAT THEY ALMOST SMILED THEN THEY RUSHED AT ME I HAD ONLY ONE BOX OF CARTRIDGES BESIDES THOSE IN THE CYLINDER OF MY GUN I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR ME AND I TOOK NO CHANCES 1dedc922-db1f-466e-b71c-0496e0b57bd1 2317 THAT'S ANOTHER THING GAR SNAPPED KEEPING HER ON THE DEFENSIVE MAYBE I VIOLATED SECURITY BY GOING TO EARTH WHEN THEY ACCIDENTALLY OPENED A GATE BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING c70c32bf-015f-4e35-80a3-a0877217c140 402 NEVERTHELESS WE WENT TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY BURNING WITH CURIOSITY AND WE WERE DISAPPOINTED POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT 0c23ca23-7010-4807-b0ee-e5c5df98ffed 2137 BRANDON FELL BACK ON THE GROUND HIS BREATHING WAS SHORT STRAINED HIS FACE WAS BATHED IN PERSPIRATION THE OXYGEN HE REALIZED WAS GIVING OUT WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE IS BREATHABLE HE WONDERED ONE AND A HUNDRED 4eaa5ca0-3f52-43b8-9e58-8ace4fd90224 188 NO IT ISN'T AGREED THE STORY GIRL WITH A REGRETFUL SIGH IT'S VERY EXPRESSIVE BUT IT ISN'T NICE THAT IS THE WAY WITH SO MANY WORDS THEY'RE EXPRESSIVE BUT THEY'RE NOT NICE AND SO A GIRL CAN'T USE EM THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AGAIN SHE LOVED EXPRESSIVE WORDS AND TREASURED THEM AS SOME GIRLS MIGHT HAVE TREASURED JEWELS d0331959-9905-451d-bdb9-aacbd7a51746 198 IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK 2db3a542-c419-49bb-8afe-d11ad70fa754 2425 MISSUS PARIN HAD JUST TOLD HER ABOUT THE MASTER AND MISS OAK LOOKS INTO HIS ROOM HE ISN'T THERE AND THE BED HASN'T BEEN SLEPT IN THE POOR DEAR SHE SAYS HE'S WORKED HIMSELF HALF TO DEATH AND DROPPED OFF ON THAT HORRIBLE CART HE KEEPS IN HIS LABORATORY SAYS MISS HOPE I'LL LET HIM SLEEP cc193c40-1daf-4e7e-a3e3-9a2ac79bee82 451 CECILY TOOK COURAGE OF THINGS FELICITY MIGHT CHARM THE PALATE AND THE STORY GIRL BIND CAPTIVE THE SOUL BUT WHEN PAIN AND SICKNESS WRUNG THE BROW IT WAS CECILY WHO WAS THE MINISTERING ANGEL c450f794-4fe0-4ee1-8e0e-9a145338ad68 2317 SOME HARD WORK WOULDN'T HURT YOU EVEN IF YOU DID INHERIT A FORTUNE I DON'T MIND SO MUCH WHEN YOU PULL THOSE DUNKS ON ME BUT WHEN I THINK OF HOW YOU PRACTICALLY DROWNED THOSE POOR DEFENCELESS EARTH CREATURES 8efb7a1a-3549-4714-bc53-4f8bcc6d0051 2317 THAT WAS THE FIRST OF THE INEXPLICTABLE THINGS FARMER COULD HAVE EXPECTED THE ODD LITTLE OLD MAN TO CALL HIMSELF A PROFESSOR OF SOMETHING OR OTHER BUT RAY INSISTED ON JUDGE 3d692f23-77a7-413a-9e0a-85b8a9a2154b 1867 THEY FOUND OUT I WAS THERE ONLY TO HELP THEM RESTORE THE FLOW OF THE WATERS THEY BOUGHT THIS TENTATIVELY AND WE ALL HEAVED OUT OF THE TUB AND TRICKLED MUDDY PATHS ACROSS THE FLOOR THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME acc206a2-f64c-4297-9d3a-fe7d54824163 2425 THEY WERE ANGRY WHEN I REFUSED TO DO ANY MORE SLAUGHTERING AND LED ME HERE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE ONE OF THE CAPTAINS WOULD COME IN AND COMMAND ME TO KILL HIM I REFUSED FOR THAT'S THE ONLY TRUMP CART I HELD 45e9dafa-4ca2-4f15-abec-c3d73230b741 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD 71698dc0-23e9-4b64-a731-6fef9ddf6ec9 188 I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE OH I DON'T BELIEVE THAT STORY IS TRUE SAID FELICITY I BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS WAS JUST ROMANCING SHE DOES ROMANCE MOTHER SAID YES BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS THIS HERSELF SO I BELIEVE IT MUST BE TRUE SAID THE STORY GIRL b19f88e7-decb-474c-834e-060219774587 2317 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS SPACE SHIP 6296e3ae-dcf2-4159-98ef-21a13cf84d17 2368 THE TORTURE CHAMBER WAS BRIGHTLY LIT WITH TORCHES AND BRACKETS ALONG THE WALLS THAT GAVE OFF BY A SMALL FRACTION MORE LIGHT THAN SMOKE IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM 804f0459-b550-42dd-ad79-ae6b47279f28 2274 NO ANSWER IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AM TO NUBE HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP 3f009cbb-a1b9-4cd3-88af-b6d1b1830432 2425 ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN ONE A VIVID ELECTRIC BLUE AND ONE WAS FIERY RED THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL 6e49636a-10d6-48ff-9bc5-a2a96154eb21 2182 IT HAD A LETHAL PAIR OF EXTRA LIMBS THAT SPRANG FROM THE SHOULDERS TO END IN TALONED SEIZING HANDS AND ITS SLANTED RED EYES BURNED MALEVOLENTLY FROM A SNOUTED RAZOR FANGED FACE 129b3302-cfe1-47c7-a0fe-f19d1bf4c9ec 2274 ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM 295bfebf-d4bd-40c3-a20b-4670ce64b0c3 2274 IT MUST BE FIFTY KILOMETERS LONG AND AT LEAST TEN WIDE SWARMING WITH THESE CREATURES TOO WE'VE GOT A ZONE COUNT ESTIMATE THE PLACES OF CITY'S POPULATION AT OVER THIRTY MILLION 4f1968f5-78dd-493c-b5fd-564aa3e817ee 14 WHEN FELIX READ IT ON OUR FIRST SUNDAY IN CARLISLE HE REMARKED DUBIOUSLY THAT IT LOOKED LIKE POETRY BUT DIDN'T SOUND LIKE IT 3e78606f-90b6-46ce-abb1-e10e8d6c4bc0 188 THE PARTICULAR MATTER IN OR OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT OPENING DAY OF AUGUST WAS A PROJECT WHICH UNCLE EDWARD HAD RECENTLY MOOTED UNCLE EDWARD'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WAS TO BE MARRIED AND UNCLE EDWARD HAD WRITTEN OVER URGING UNCLE ALEC AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TO GO DOWN TO HALIFAX FOR THE WEDDING AND SPEND A WEEK THERE a9200cf8-8621-4134-9885-3a69bf2a5b30 2286 SINCE IT WAS STILL DAYLIGHT I DIDN'T TAKE A HELLY BUT RENTED A GROUND CAR INSTEAD WE HAD A LEISURELY DRIVE OUT INTO THE COUNTRY AND REACHED PRESIDENT FERRA'S HOUSE AFTER DARK 1629e202-e0c5-4ee3-9809-e2e8154f5d6d 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 5f7c8c05-046c-42a3-9904-34dd4f972e74 2368 AN INN IN THIS TOWN THE IDEA APPEARED TO STRIKE HER AS THE VERY HEIGHT OF IDIOCY SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HANDS AND SHOOK AFTER A SECOND JONAS DISCOVERED THAT SHE WAS LAUGHING HE WAITED PATIENTLY UNTIL THE FIT HAD LEFT HER fda74fe2-cd05-4ddf-9675-f20d8f8da8fc 2108 SAYING THIS HE BLEW UPON A TIN WHISTLE THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM HIS TIN NECK AND AT THE SUMMONS A SERVANT APPEARED AND BOWED LOW e6974b4f-921b-4a9a-b306-fb339e33d6a8 2137 YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE WITH SIMILAR CONDITIONS AS THE EARTH LIFE MUST HAVE BEEN BORN AND WALKED OUT OF THE SEAS OF SERIOUS THREE JUST AS IT DID ON EARTH c9f9596b-e431-4f8d-b513-90783ed9fcc9 188 AND I HEARD UNCLE ALEX TELL A STORY ONCE ABOUT BEING NEARLY FRIGHTENED TO DEATH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY BY A MINISTER PREACHING ON THE END OF THE WORLD AND HE SAID THAT WAS SOMETHING LIKE A SERMON YOU DON'T HEAR SUCH SERMONS NOWADAYS BUT WHEN PETER PREACHES JUST SUCH A SERMON IT'S A VERY DIFFERENT STORY aa4db479-199c-49f6-8d79-67a569751d99 451 WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD 5fd9f6dd-b428-43b1-a6c3-def281b45809 1867 THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH ONE OF THE LIZARDS GARGLED AT ANOTHER ONE AND THE SECOND ONE TURNED AROUND I TAGGED THIS EXPRESSION WITH THE PHRASE HEY GEORGE AND WAITED MY CHANCE TO USE IT LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM 1521993d-5bb5-4580-9fe8-fb58085707c8 413 WHEN WE WENT TO BED IT WAS SETTLING DOWN FOR A STORMY NIGHT AND THE RAIN WAS STREAMING WETLY ON THE ROOF AS IF THE WORLD LIKE SARA RAY WERE WEEPING BECAUSE ITS END WAS SO NEAR NOBODY FORGOT OR HURRIED OVER HIS PRAYERS THAT NIGHT d4646aee-d541-405f-a5b0-a31b5fe93d29 451 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 60545241-243f-4977-bdc5-f4cdc8e9c285 2137 HE EASED BACK ON THE POWER SETTING MAYBE THE LIGHT WILL GO OUT BUT IT DIDN'T INSTEAD HE FELT THE SURGING RUMBLE DEEP IN THE BOWELS OF THE SHIP LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON 31f0f277-6bbc-436b-acca-7b5cb1d26450 32 IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ANYHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL SOMEWHAT LESS ASSUREDLY THOUGH IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT 629a244d-6a44-4b98-b434-31a558716728 2368 YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN THE TWO GUARDS CAME INTO THE CELL AND GRIPPED HIS ARMS YUNUS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CARRIED OUT INTO THE CORRIDOR AND DOWN IT TO A GREAT WOODEN DOOR THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH c26d633c-4d67-40e2-b8d0-7831b4e29fa0 2137 THE FIRST THING THEY HAD LOCATE IS THE BURNING SHIP HE DECIDED THEN THEY WOULD PROBABLY START SEARCHING IN EVER WIDENING CIRCLES BUT WOULD THEY SEE HIM IN THE FAINT LIGHT OF THE ICE MOONS 1d5d3be1-03d0-4c33-aa79-cba1cc996662 451 OF COURSE ADDED FELICITY HER HEART MELTING AT SIGHT OF THE MISERY IN THE STORY GIRL'S PITEOUS EYES MISSUS RAY ALWAYS LOOKS ON THE DARK SIDE AND IT MAY NOT BE THE MEASLES SARA HAS AFTER ALL BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED 8bf4dea5-f1c5-484a-af47-ac02336bc609 1867 WHAT A LACK OF COURTESY I SHOUTED HE MADE LITTLE BUBBLES IN THE WATER THE ANCESTORS ARE ANNOYED AND HAVE DECIDED TO FORBID ENTRANCE TO THE INNER TEMPLE FOREVER THOUGH OUT OF KINDNESS THEY WILL LET THE WATERS FLOW ad5b4b2a-a45b-4ace-a1d2-0f676050b27e 402 IF HE GETS BETTER I'LL TELL HIM SAID CECILY RESOLUTELY I WISH I HADN'T BOXED HIS EARS THAT DAY HE TRIED TO KISS ME WENT ON FELICITY WHO WAS EVIDENTLY RAKING HER CONSCIENCE FOR PAST OFFENCES IN REGARD TO PETER 823944aa-7c6e-4ec5-8b3c-944822e648eb 14 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS WEEK DAY JOLLITY AND THE UNEARTHLY SOLEMNITY OF HIS COUNTENANCE ON SUNDAYS ALWAYS STRUCK US AS VERY FUNNY IT SEEMED SO TO STRIKE PETER FOR AS PETER DROPPED HIS SCENT INTO THE PLATE HE LAUGHED ALOUD ee479dd6-a759-4996-875a-88a4e7c8f8ec 32 BUT IF THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT DREAM ANYTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE REST OF US SHE SCORED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TELLING bcf50095-fde3-4fb3-a330-4ffd5f96a3d9 2317 A CLINK AND CLATTER BROUGHT HIS ATTENTION TO THE LAUNCH HE GAWKED RAY HAD THROWN BACK A DECK CATCH AND PRODUCED A DIVING SUIT WHICH LOOKED AS UNSHIP SHAPED AS THE REST OF THE BOAT'S EQUIPMENT 2d7d7a27-6d53-4334-91ad-e13199274c3f 14 WITH PETER AND DAN WITH FELICITY AND CECLI AND THE STORY GIRL WITH PALE GRAY EYED LITTLE SARA RAY WE WERE BOON COMPANIONS 55814a22-986b-4147-98df-c053c52fcc0b 198 PETER SAYS THERE'S ANY AMOUNT OF RASPBERRIES BACK IN THE MAPLE CLEARING SAID DAN S'POS'N WE GO AFTER TEA AND PICK SOME I'D LIKE TO SIGHED FELICITY BUT WE'D COME HOME TIRED AND WITH ALL THE MILKING TO DO YOU BOYS BETTER GO ALONE e559b4dd-d423-4954-ba99-3759fab4411f 2286 THE SHIP WAS COMPLETELY CLEAN EVERYTHING I MIGHT NEED FOR THE JOB WAS IN MY LUGGAGE SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY a692b605-e215-459d-992d-f380b28f4e83 2286 I CAN DO THAT AS WELL AS ANY OF THE EXPERIENCED OPERATORS AND IT MAY GIVE ME THE EXPERIENCE I NEED SO THAT SOME DAY I TOO WILL BE QUALIFIED TO JOIN THE RANKS ALL RIGHT HE SAID STOP SHOVELLING ON WHILE I CAN STILL BREATHE f7968862-919a-451e-9912-a6e73ad59c7c 198 THEN WE FOREGATHERED AROUND A TINY WOOD SPRING COLD AND PELLUCID UNDER ITS YOUNG MAPLES AND ATE THE JELLY COOKIES AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US A TALE OF A HAUNTED SPRING IN A MOUNTAIN GLEN WHERE A FAIR WHITE LADY DWELT WHO PLEDGED ALL COMERS IN A GOLDEN CUP WITH JEWELS BRIGHT 375a8128-5b0b-4da3-971d-3461ef387371 2108 BUT AFTER A MOMENT HE REPLIED I HAD HOME IN FRIENDS YOUR HONOURABLE STRAWNESS BUT THEY WERE SO QUIET AND HAPPY AND COMFORTABLE THAT I FOUND THEM DISMALLY STUPID 45bb61ac-4021-4465-b9ac-41b88ea23bf8 2317 STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED DORA'S SMILE DIDN'TALLY LAST THAT LONG FARMERS THOUGHTS WERE GOING FAST NOW SOMEHOW dfb6b412-2a82-456f-a02e-aeec9e079498 402 AT LAST THEY CAME TO THE VERY PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW TOUCHED THE EARTH eed46fac-675f-4679-abb8-3078cefb370a 188 HER WILD SUBTLE NAMELESS CHARM CLOTHED HER AS WITH A GARMENT WE ALWAYS REMEMBERED THE PICTURE SHE MADE THERE AND IN LATER DAYS WHEN WE READ TENNYSON'S POEMS AT A COLLEGE DESK WE KNEW EXACTLY HOW AN AUREID PEERING THROUGH THE GREEN LEAVES ON SOME HAUNTED KNOLL OF SOME FOUNTAIN ITEM MUST LOOK 7d3200e2-2624-4eee-83e3-2a17f4a9f28e 413 FELIX HELD OUT THE NEWSPAPER IT WAS A CHARLOTTETOWN DAILY ENTERPRISE IT'S THERE HE GASPED LOOK READ I'LL DO THINK IT'S TRUE THE END OF THE WORLD IT IS COMING TO MORROW AT TWO O'CLOCK IN IN THE AFTERNOON CRASH b751623a-3593-4ff0-80f4-19d9ac1f95da 402 AS WE STOOD THERE WRETCHEDLY WE HEARD FLYING FEET BELOW AND A BLITHE VOICE CALLING WHERE ARE YOU CHILDREN THE STORY GIRL HAD RETURNED AT ANY OTHER MOMENT WE WOULD HAVE RUSHED TO MEET HER IN WILD JOY BUT NOW WE WERE TOO CRUSHED AND MISERABLE TO MOVE 0403a0f5-48a0-4ef9-bb27-00bebadb6d66 413 BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY USE IN PRAYING THAT FELICITY WILL SPEAK FIRST CAUSE I'M SURE SHE WON'T BUT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE GOD CAN MAKE HER I SAID FEELING THAT IT WASN'T QUITE FAIR THAT THE STORY GIRL SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK FIRST IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME b1912774-5268-4936-bd16-6e0f71c7c758 32 DAN LIKE PETER WRITES LYING DOWN FLAT BUT WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS US AND HE HAS A DISMAL HABIT OF GROANING ALOUD WRITHING HIS WHOLE BODY AND DIGGING HIS TOES INTO THE GRASS WHEN HE CANNOT TURN A SENTENCE TO SUIT HIM 0f0deaa0-17dc-4649-8ad9-98ee4a9e9171 1867 WHEN I SAW THAT SOMETHING CLICKED IN MY MIND LOCKING THE EYE IN A CIRCULAR COURSE I DUG THROUGH THE MARK THREE PLANS AND THERE IT WAS THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY eb433c0e-1c23-4ebe-a4e4-9c13c3a60afc 451 INDEED I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE OH YOU WOULDN'T IT WOULD BE SUCH A DISGRACE SAID POOR FELICITY IN REAL DISTRESS e7bfeb30-c71f-4b4b-bf1b-03c3e3faeea5 2108 EAT FRIEND WANDERER SAID THE EMPEROR CORDIALLY AND I TRUST THE FEAST WILL BEAT TO YOUR LIKING I MYSELF DO NOT EAT BEING MADE IN SUCH MANNER THAT I REQUIRE NO FOOD TO KEEP ME ALIVE ce642ae9-28e8-478f-9c91-889f04cf58fd 2368 HIS PUBLIC PROFESSIONS WERE WELL KNOWN YONAS SEARCHED AND FOUND THE ANSWER KUNUF WAS AN HONEST MAN THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER NECESSARY KNUFF SAID LOOKING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME bd2e6cc5-1480-49a2-ac13-75e204ee6220 2286 THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT BATTLESHIP 43e01509-3a08-4946-b6b0-cb09729c7071 14 WE ADORED AUNT OLIVIA SHE WAS PRETTY AND MERRY AND KIND AND ABOVE ALL SHE HAD MASTERED TO PERFECTION THE RARE ART OF LETTING CHILDREN ALONE dd2f51a6-6f82-4424-9d99-6666ccdd330f 2274 I'M GOING TO WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU GUESS THAT ONE YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEW YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES 0ed9f5e9-b41a-429e-9518-1473f39b01fe 413 OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST AT THAT VERY MOMENT AUNT OLIVIA WHO HAD RECOVERED FROM HER HEADACHE AND AUNT JANET WERE LAUGHING IN THE KITCHEN OVER THE STATE THE CHILDREN WERE IN BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THE END OF THE WORLD WAS CLOSE AT HAND AUNT JANET'S THROATY GURGLE AND AUNT OLIVIA'S TRILLING MIRTH FLOATED OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW ea64fc01-51ae-4888-93c4-c483119fdf13 1867 THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK THE OTHERS CAME RUNNING THEY MILLED AND MOBBED AND PILED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND BY THAT TIME I HAD LANDED IN THE PLAZA FRONTING THE TEMPLE THE PRIESTHOOD ARRIVED I FOLDED MY ARMS IN A REGAL DANCE c4911e7a-d455-4120-b8f7-d08d7a7c4b4d 2317 SHE TURNED TO GO BUT FARMER HELD ON WHAT'S THIS ABOUT A GALACTIC FEDERATION AND IF THEY BAND ALL COMMUNICATION WITH EARTH WHY HAVEN'T THEY JUST BLASTED THE PLANET OUT OF EXISTENCE AND GOTTEN RID OF IT 9e7a882a-bba1-48ea-860a-703b31094c61 198 EVERYBODY WAS IN GOOD HUMOUR THE STORY GIRL SPARKLED THROUGH SEVERAL TALES THAT RANGED FROM THE AFRITES AND JINNS OF EASTERN MYTH THROUGH THE PIPING DAYS OF CHIVALRY DOWN TO THE HOMELY ANECDOTES OF CARLISLE WORKDAY FOLK bda9e0ec-1829-4c65-bf6f-b6f69a4f6954 2137 HIS WHOLE BODY ACHED TENDONS HAD BEEN PULLED MUSCLES STRAINED FROM THE FORCE OF THE EJECTION b2d59a50-4ade-4e87-a152-50e252e585b7 2317 HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT 47b18c4f-4f72-4eab-800d-7404d9993a0a 14 IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVINCE HER THAT THE SA SATIN SMOOTH LUSTRE OF HER WEEK DAY TRESSES WAS MUCH MORE BECOMING TO HER aab156a6-bdc6-4c54-8c1b-75c331b572f7 402 SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY OH OH OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT SHE WAILED SARA STANLEY REBUKED FELICITY I SHOULD THINK YOU WOULDN'T SAY SUCH THINGS AT SUCH A SOLEMN TIME YOU'RE SUCH A QUEER GIRL c98581cf-c180-4f17-8fbe-78f925fc0a4e 188 IF AS WAS SAID HE DETESTED CHILDREN WHO KNEW WHAT SORT OF A RECEPTION WE MIGHT MEET MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A RICH RETIRED FARMER WHO TOOK LIFE EASILY HE HAD VISITED NEW YORK AND BOSTON TORONTO AND MONTREAL HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST 4cc5fcaa-168f-41c8-ba96-e0d702136f9d 2108 ON REACHING THE TOP OF THE HILL THE PLAINS SPREAD OUT BEFORE THEM IN ALL ITS BEAUTY OF BLUE GRASSES AND WILD FLOWERS AND MOUNT LUNCH SEEMED MUCH NEARER THAN IT HAD THE PREVIOUS EVENING b77f3069-2b67-4113-8987-47d2b5f75830 32 THE MEXICAN TEA WAS DULY ADMINISTERED BUT PRODUCED NO IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION OF THE STORY GIRL WHO HOWEVER WENT ON DREAMING AFTER A FASHION WHICH SOON MADE HER DREAM BOOK A VERITABLE CURIOSITY OF LITERATURE ff6a1483-aca8-478e-a38e-9552cd350712 2425 VIC HAD SAID IN HIS NOTE THAT HE WOULD LEAVE ANOTHER NOTE FOR ME HERE AND THIS WAS IT FOR IN A BOLD SCRAWL AT THE TOP WAS MY NAME 595adcdc-aca2-4017-b4f2-5fcc494e2f6e 413 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL BUT I CAN'T TURN IT NOW IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK 23ecbd5d-ebf8-469a-9ffd-0815ce6848ce 2182 A CLASS FIVE CULTURE CHAFFY THREE AGREED SHAKENLY HIS AURA QUIVERED WITH A SHOCK OF BETRAYAL THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE 3faf03ed-ca0b-4285-bf98-6e30a93e838a 402 CECILY SAT DOWN BY HER HALF FILLED BASKET AND BEGAN TO CRY FELICITY SAID VIOLENTLY THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT I CAN'T PICK ANOTHER APPLE TO DAY AND I AIN'T GOING TO TRY SAID DAN 5ca3cce2-a484-452b-a854-2ee1daed744c 451 WE MURMURED IN BEWILDERMENT YES I'M GOING TO DENY MYSELF EVERYTHING I LIKE AND DO EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF THAT I DON'T LIKE JUST TO PUNISH MYSELF FOR BEING SO WICKED AND IF ANY OF YOU THINK OF ANYTHING I DON'T JUST MENTION IT TO ME I THOUGHT IT OUT LAST NIGHT 7ff5f778-dd7d-4343-a80a-48ee95fb3a9b 2182 BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED THEY MUST WARN THE NATIVES BEFORE THE PROWLING ZID FOUND THEM ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO NATIVES WE MUST TRY AGAIN THREE CONCLUDED SEARCHING OUT AND USING THE PROPER SYMBOLS FOR EXPLANATION 4e26c21f-09d3-4056-bbf3-68f90fa778df 2425 WHEN YOU COME DOWN YOU'LL START A NEW CYCLE AND IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW AT JUST WHAT MINUTE WE CAN GET BACK TO OUR OWN PLANE I GLARED AT HIM AND PARIN CLOSED THE DOOR THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT 443c7b75-4950-4507-a700-74a6b1ff46ab 402 WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM AND PRAYING FOR HIM HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY FAR AWAY GRAVE 5d967117-224b-48d1-95a0-1cc927d08b9a 2368 UNDERNEATH THE STRENGTH AND IRON OF THE MIND YUNUS CAUGHT THE SPARK GLOWING AND NEARLY SMILED IN SPITE OF THE REPORTS IN SPITE OF LOGIC THERE HAD BEEN A CHANCE THE BROTHERHOOD TO GUESSED WRONGLY ABOUT THIS MAN NOW THAT CHANCE WAS GONE AND THE BROTHERHOOD WAS RIGHT AGAIN 75022a12-509b-4ae5-95eb-abb69d2b35bf 2137 WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH ARE WE SIR ASKED THE RADIO MAN IT WOULD SERVE US ALL RIGHT THE COLONEL STOPPED PACING AND FACED THE RADIO MAN 39614d18-f217-4cb8-97e6-262b5e77bcab 2286 IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR WHILE THE SIMAN UNFOCUSED HIS EYES AND MUMBLED UNDER HIS BREATH I RIFFLED SOME PAPERS RELAXED AND COOL 95e57cd7-c8d9-4825-a7f9-23c7312c2ec3 2425 THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY f7d14abc-df25-4486-b210-284e89d0c08d 451 I DON'T THINK IT'S ANY HARM TO MENTION THE THAT PERSON WHEN YOU'RE TELLING A STORY SAID CECILY IT'S ONLY IN PLAIN TALKING IT DOESN'T DO IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN 77720701-5864-4cbc-80c0-da591988850e 2286 NOW I HAD TO KEEP PUSHING UNTIL HE FELL THIS MEANT I HAD TO THINK AS HE DID FALL INTO HIS PLAN THINK HEAD THEN TRAP HIM SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF f41d3bc6-63a6-45e2-abd5-bdd58ddfba02 2286 YES I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL OGT'S DREAM WAS CLEANED OUT OF ALL READING MATTER THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I CHECKED WE CAN'T STOP THE BATTLESHIP FROM ATTACKING AGAIN BUT WE CAN SEE TO IT THAT THE TIME AFTER THAT SHE SAILS INTO A TRAP 73a722fc-8e8b-4848-a6e2-ff9c938fc1b9 2317 SOMETHING BIT HIM ON THE ARM HE DISCOVERED RAY'S FINGERS IN THE DRIVING GLOVE DIGGING INTO HIS FLESH IN AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL GRIP FARMER HUNCHED HIS SHOULDERS TRYING TO BREAK LOOSE AND THEN HE SAW WHAT RAY WAS STARING AT 0fae5b70-aea6-460d-9be8-5773bc241939 2108 IT WILL SAVE ME FROM RUSTING SAID THE TIN SOLDIER IT WILL ENABLE ME TO REMAIN HIGHLY POLISHED SAID THE TIN WOODMAN OH AS FOR THAT I PREFER NOT TO GET MY PRETTY CLOTHES WET LAUGHED THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER BUT WHILE WE WAIT I MUST BID YOU ALL ADIEU 9da837c7-d611-4644-b1d8-ab9712d3678c 2286 MANY THE ROEBOT SAID EXACTLY SEVENTY FOUR PER CENT OF ALL STATEMENTS HE MADE WERE FAKE VERY GOOD I NODDED THROWING THE LAST LOCK ON MY TRAP cfd47fca-44b3-4e09-85f7-a8166a6e7329 2137 A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY HE SAT DOWN ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS HE THOUGHT f14beab4-0f42-4fc5-ad1e-757b7c288989 32 DON'T YOU ALL RIGHT THEN LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER 51ddb485-3bd1-48d4-be32-3bbf09640670 2425 WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH 3a502efb-fa33-48d0-8c48-b0a02f63484f 2368 YOU CAN ADD TO THAT FORCE ADD GREATLY BUT YOU MUST BE WISE I MUST BE SLOW YOU MEAN I MEAN WHAT I HAVE TOLD YOU CLARTON THOUGHT a7c636e2-aedd-4540-9da1-b7374d11c534 402 I CAN'T CRY SHE SAID DREARILY I WISH I COULD I'VE A DREADFUL FEELING HERE SHE TOUCHED HER SLENDER THROAT AND IF I COULD CRY I THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER BUT I CAN'T de6b1303-534a-4187-9b36-e1b8d96b9d1d 2317 A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED 1064dacc-98f4-48d4-8ad5-555cd4473ab1 402 OF COURSE PETER BEING A CRAIG HAS HIS FAULTS BUT HE'S A SMART BOY HIS FATHER WAS LAZY BUT HIS MOTHER HASN'T A LAZY BONE IN HER BODY AND PETER TAKES AFTER HER 7e940cf0-dd13-4431-a0d1-79f3a72be1b4 14 I'M NOT A BIT AFRAID SAID THE STORY GIRL STAUNCHLY PETER KNOWS BETTER THAN THAT b484d91d-f88d-4a8c-8dc6-d07ca79ed49f 188 MAYBE THAT LITTLE PINK CLOUD IS A DREAM GETTING ALL READY TO FLOAT DOWN INTO SOMEBODY'S SLEEP SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL HE CAME HERE LAST NIGHT AT SUNSET WITH A HORSE AND SLEIGH NOT HIS OWN OR LATELY GOTTEN AND HE ASKED NAN IN THE STABLE YARD TO MARRY HIM 3515ba2d-8505-415e-9e0a-be059425ca9e 402 WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT TO WAIT OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE MARGARET WAITED FOR NEARLY A YEAR HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER d93fb6b7-7d4f-48a6-b4b2-cd236ef1c911 2108 I EXPECTED SHE'D SING AND TALK AND WE'D HAVE GOOD TIMES TOGETHER BUT SHE HAS PROVED NO COMPANY FOR ME AT ALL EVER SINCE THE MOMENT OF HER TRANSFORMATION SHE HAS REFUSED TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD ec41fcd6-0451-475b-b709-10ee574d6851 2368 FIVE PACES DOWN THE CORRIDOR THE WALK TURNED INTO A RUN YONIC WATCHED HIM GO AND THEN SAT DOWN ON HIS LOUSE AND FESTO COT TO AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS THE MINUTES TICKED BY ENDLESSLY HE THOUGHT OF TRYING TO REACH CLARETON BUT DECIDED NOT ENTIRELY WITH REGRET THAT THE CONTACT WOULD USE UP TOO MUCH ENERGY AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW 1a5c2239-009a-47a3-8dc0-3c7ea9ed411c 32 THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT GLIBLY BUT BEFORE SHE HAD GONE FAR WITH IT I WHO WAS SITTING BESIDE HER FELT AN UNACCOUNTABLE REPULSION CREEPING OVER ME FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAD KNOWN HER I WANTED TO DRAW AWAY FROM THE STORY GIRL 8b6a28e4-9ea8-4b9e-adca-3bbeb1dbaf99 2286 A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS 0cacaa5e-21fd-40a6-bd28-023c71e5566d 2286 THERE WERE TWO DISTANT CLANGS AS MAGNETIC GRAPPLES HIT THE HULL A LITTLE LATER THE SHIP LURCHED DRAWN HOME AGAINST THE BATTLESHIP NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED 43f8b283-8a29-437c-9f7d-0436dc6eedd3 14 WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T WHY NOT OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES 42ef3808-b469-4c50-bce3-ab8abb7168d1 188 I'M AWFUL GLAD MISTER KING IS GOING TO LEAVE THE POTATO STOCKS UNTIL I GET WELL AND I'M OBLIGED TO THE STORY GIRL FOR COAXING HIM I GUESS WE WILL FIND OUT ABOUT ALICE YET THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF HER LETTER I COULDN'T SEE THROUGH BUT WHEN THE MEASLES STRIKE IN THEY LEAVE YOU STUPID FOR A SPELL 562231e9-0bd6-4dfc-ad4f-6a9c589fba1e 2108 YOUR FRIEND MUST HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL WORKMAN EXCLAIMED GROUP HE WAS INDEED ADMITTED THE EMPEROR HE WAS A TINSMITH BY TRADE AND COULD MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF TIN 62b710ba-4b21-4c31-b1e7-dc7ff9bb42f6 2368 BUT YOU CAN TRANSMIT FALSE THOUGHTS AND CONFUSE HIM CLARETON SAID FINE FINE IF YOU'VE EVER MET THE MAN BEFORE f7bb1424-fe88-4be9-8b3c-caf58341ead8 2368 YOUR SYMPATHY MAY ENDANGER YOU SHARP SAID MY SON IS GONE I PRAY THAT THERE IS AN END TO IT YONAS PEERED ONCE INTO THE MIND OF THE MAN EVERY COILED VIOLENTLY BUT HE HAD ENOUGH IN THAT ONE GLIMPSE TO TELL HIM THE REASON FOR SHARP'S MISERY AND IT WAS QUITE REASON ENOUGH HE THOUGHT 2ba77091-40f2-42df-8acc-4b866bc88a5e 32 EMILY PROMISED TO MEET HIM THERE I AM SURE SHE STAYED AWAKE THAT NIGHT THINKING ABOUT IT AND WONDERING WHAT THE IMPORTANT QUESTION WOULD BE ALTHOUGH SHE KNEW PERFECTLY WELL a14ac9c7-1609-4b8a-b634-87aa6edc67b1 1867 A CRUMBLING AND CRACKED STAIRWAY BROUGHT US UP TO THE SOLID METAL DOORWAY LABELLED IN ARCHAIC SCRIPT MARK THREE BEACON AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR 20104f0a-3b58-40be-a144-f916ad2dccfa 2182 HE HAD LEARNED TO APPRECIATE THE EASY LIFE OF THE ISLANDS WELL ENOUGH TO BE DISMAYED NOW BY WHAT MUST HAPPEN UNDER EYE PRESSURE TO OLD CHARLEY AND HIS HANDFUL OF SUN BROWNED FISHER FOLK b133dcfd-9471-4b36-8b51-377c7ab94972 451 FELICITY HAD TOLD HIM AT TEA THAT NIGHT HE WAS GETTING FATTER THAN EVER THIS WAS THE TIT FOR TAT YOU WERE PRETTY GLAD TO LEAVE IT ALL TO CECILY THEN 3ccf01e8-534c-4b90-8099-c1d9d3f0065a 402 WE SAT ON THE MOSSY STONES UNDER THE DARK OLD EVERGREENS AND GAVE OURSELVES UP TO WRETCHEDNESS SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER 4fb3ff52-2668-4ea3-a0d7-45fc0521157d 188 HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD SO HE SAT THERE THAT AFTERNOON AND DREAMED OF HER AS HE PLAYED SWEET OLD SONGS AND ROLLICKING JIGS ON HIS FIDDLE 3a362f6c-d145-45ce-ac0c-f7f6a47953e6 2368 THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ME IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE MEMBER HE THOUGHT 772039c5-c365-4b42-92fe-af38b29f7ddf 1867 I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT WHEN THEY HAD GIVEN UP I BOOMED ORDERS AT THEM THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE CRATE THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP 5a19bec9-ec3e-4b5d-bdf3-6ee2c05fcc54 188 INSTANTLY WE ALL SAW OURSELVES IN EACH OTHER BY INNER VISION OLD AND GREY ALL BUT THE STORY GIRL WE COULD NOT PICTURE HER AS OLD WHERE IS DONALD FRASER SAID NEIL SHAKING HIS FIST IT'S HIM I'M SEEKING AND IT'S HIM I WILL BE FINDING WHERE IS HE BETTY SHERMAN 922a7a97-6e34-41c0-bc7f-745cdf070c58 14 AND ONE DAY ONE OF THEM CAUGHT FIRE AND WHEN HE WAS BURNING BRUSH AND BURNED OFF AND EVERYONE THOUGHT HE'D HAVE TO SHAVE OFF THE OTHER THEN BUT HE DIDN'T AND JUST WENT ROUND WITH ONE WHISKER TILL THE BURNED ONE GREW OUT fc6ed64c-48f7-4175-b3cf-8f4b67a7efdf 2137 IT WAS GOING TO BE A REAL SCORCHER HE DECIDED WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE SAT UP STIFFLY ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND 591f4fc5-cb2b-46ee-bd50-3d836cffd842 402 DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL 5e7fa32d-6b0b-438a-aa35-169d3e06890f 2274 THIS IS FAR ENOUGH SAID TO NEW HORN STOPPED THE SLED IN THE MOONLIGHT HE COULD SEE ARMED GIANS ALL AROUND THE BUTCHER'S PEDESTAL OF ONE OF THE BUILDINGS LOOMED DIRECTLY AHEAD b2a0404f-cbd1-4a5d-8eba-b738c4ddc2d2 402 AND HE PLUNGED FIERCELY IN HE SWAM AND STRUGGLED HE BUFFETED THE TURMOIL THE WAVES WENT OVER HIS HEAD AGAIN AND AGAIN THE WHIRLPOOLS CAUGHT HIM AND FLUNG HIM ON THE CRUEL ROCKS db184ba2-f48b-43f7-8e47-5ed453f3db46 451 WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING b6ace7c6-dbba-4971-b295-6e1b0a43fe85 2286 IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED 634a6a3f-3e5d-4ef6-9c94-05c594330724 2368 THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME 3431c5a5-e3ce-4c86-81bb-6176db438d0f 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 afb69c8f-8aa5-4d58-a8a9-ec55e06dc7fd 2425 YES I SUPPOSE ONE OF THE PRIESTS OPERATES IT FROM SOME HIDDEN ROOM WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK 6db94725-7b0e-4f56-a5bc-95bbd52fb9ae 2137 THOUSAND EIGHT THE QUANUM JUMP BY ROBERT WICKS CAPTAIN BRANDON WAS A PIONEER HE EXPLORED THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE AND REPORTED BACK ON HOW THINGS WERE OUT THERE 38c8a415-944a-48cc-869a-d375fb00383f 188 NANCY DIDN'T SAY SHE WOULD HAVE HIM SHE JUST LOOKED IT AND DONALD KISSED HER RIGHT THERE IN THE SNOW THE NEXT MORNING THE STORM WAS OVER ALL RIGHT BUT JUST YOU WAIT TILL TO MORROW GROWLED DAN SUBSIDING RELUCTANTLY INTO SILENCE UNDER THE REPROACHFUL LOOKS OF THE GIRLS bf1a94f9-862a-4772-aee1-d6fc4f7a1cc1 2425 WITH HIM WERE TWO OTHERS EACH WEARING A SIMILAR JEWEL OF AUTHORITY THEY STOOD ASIDE FOR US TO ENTER AND THEN FOLLOWED US DOWN A LONG CORRIDOR WHICH WAS NOT LIGHTED BY ANY DEVICE I COULD DISCERN AND YET WHICH WAS NOT DARK 7d5b132e-dc03-4a69-9544-38f50370fa7e 451 WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA YES AND THAT IS WHY I PUT IT ON AUNT JANET I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL 1fbbb1f2-3a86-4fa3-8dd0-98b81c587071 2368 HIS ADVENTURES TOO WERE A LITTLE OUT OF THE COMMON RUN OF TALES JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON 4502f84a-1a4b-4729-ac5f-0b36c0d648c9 2137 THERE'LL HAVE TO BE THE USUAL TESTS NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH DOUBT WE LIKE TO BE CERTAIN THE MIDDLE AGED MAN SEEMED RELIEVED THEN ON SECOND THOUGHT HE HESITATED UNEASILY WHY f5d166ae-4bda-4144-8f96-9578585be065 2286 INSTALLED I SHOUTED DID YOU SAY INSTALLED ROCKER COLLAPSED AWAY FROM MY ROAR AND GNAWED HIS EARS YES HE SAID NOT TOO LONG AGO I REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME TROUBLE AND WHAT ELSE I INTERRUPTED HIM 11c66a79-e508-402c-ad26-214eacfb2767 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I THREW A LIGHTED MATCH INTO THAT KEG OF GUNPOWDER IN MISTER COOK'S STORE AT MARKDALE SAID PETER IT BLEW UP AND EVERYTHING BLEW UP AND THEY FISHED ME OUT OF THE MESS BUT I WOKE UP BEFORE I'D TIME TO FIND OUT IF I WAS KILLED OR NOT 451aae02-2d1d-4b2d-85fa-e9fe8d26bb70 2368 IT'S TOO BAD YONAS AGREED POLITELY FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS YOU DON'T THINK SO AT ANY RATE THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU'RE HAVING ADVENTURES AND A FINE TIME IT'S THE SORT OF THING YOU LIKE AFTER ALL 6670b41a-7d01-4643-8c27-c7e9be6692c7 2368 I NEVER THEN MY CAUTION IS UNNECESSARY CLARTON THOUGHT BUT IN THE UNLIKELY CASE THAT SHE MIGHT TEMPT YOU TO FOLLY REMEMBER IT YONUS WHO DISLIKED IRONY SIGHED AND CUT OFF THAT WAS THE THIRD NIGHT 5dc2aaae-3c3e-4651-980a-2a08b1f2891b 188 NOR DID HE MEAN TO TAKE A TEXT WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY ccd9a871-6d1c-4b7f-8dde-2aa11e939212 402 THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY 551159ea-a71f-4a6f-88da-8343d0a288bb 2274 HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE ORN HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND PALM OUT feed30ec-bed3-466e-aa21-7f303b9dad9c 2368 FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD NO WIZARD COULD PRAY SO THE INQUISITION SAID SO KUV SAID SNODKNUFF HAD TO SAY AND SO HE HAD TO BELIEVE 712f8683-7107-448e-a279-672db637f1cc 402 IN THE REACTION OUR SPIRITS ROSE WITH A BOUND OH AIN'T IT GREAT THAT PETER'S GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT SAID DAN SPRINGING UP I WAS NEVER SO GLAD OF ANYTHING IN MY WHOLE LIFE DECLARED FELICITY IN SHAMELESS RAPTURE b2632f57-f20a-4f24-a2e4-098e3371d0f0 2317 OF COURSE I KNOW WE'RE THOROUGHLY UNCIVILIZED TOO UNWARLIKE FOR ANY OTHER RACE TO TRUST AND ALL THAT I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE d8774ab7-f358-405a-98e5-5772fcae6f5c 2317 FARMER MUDDLED LOOKED AGAIN AT THE NONIFICE WHICH HAD APPARENTLY GONE TO SLEEP EVEN SO IT LOOKED DEADLY 2625d890-f42d-4d3e-b120-308f0163a8f6 32 THE GIRLS SAW THIS ENTRY BUT TO THEIR CREDIT BE IT TOLD THEY NEVER TRIED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DRAM WAS AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION 8179ba02-731e-4049-a006-d767b49042a1 2368 LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW f8a68e72-f6e2-482c-a48a-8469b3ddbe08 2108 IN THE ROOM IN WHICH THE TWO SAT WHICH WAS ONE OF OZMA'S PRIVATE SUITE OF APARTMENTS HUNG THE FAMOUS MAGIC PICTURE 8df9d375-e1fc-4761-b4d0-9e0e8123147a 188 AUNT OLIVIA LAUGHED AT US OUT OF HER PANSY BLUE EYES AND TOLD US SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE FELT LIKE AND HOPED WE'D HAVE A GLORIOUS TIME MIND THEY GO TO BED AT A DECENT HOUR AUNT JANET CALLED BACK TO UNCLE ROGER AS SHE DROVE OUT OF THE GATE AND IF ANYTHING DREADFUL HAPPENS TELEGRAPH US 639a9cbf-7ebe-4dda-951f-43b70712649f 2108 IF WE DO WE'LL BREAK YOUR SKIN REPLIED THE KING SO THE LOON STOPPED PUMPING AIR INTO PANTA AND PUSHED HIM AWAY FROM THE PUMP HE WAS CERTAINLY MORE HUMBLE THAN BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE da53f994-f893-4477-baea-76c58dc059f1 451 I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FEEL AS INT'RESTED IN MISSIONARIES AS YOU FOLKS DO HE SAID BUT MAYBE IF I BEGIN TO GIVE SOMETHING I'LL GET INT'RESTED I'LL WANT TO KNOW HOW MY MONEY'S BEING SPENT I WON'T BE ABLE TO GIVE MUCH 851d860b-30fc-4176-aac8-df75eeaf569c 2317 EXCUSE ME HE SAID I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO PUZZLE YOU OR MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR BY ME MAKING YOU ddd9992f-a1cc-40a5-a493-cfa376a0df35 2286 THE COLD FEELING WAS NOW A BALL OF ICE THAT THREATENED TO PARALYZE ME YOU'RE LYING I SAID HOARSELY AND EVEN I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT c2fb0a59-0d20-42f9-add2-d8e6c2e6b0a3 402 WELL WHEN ALLAN DUNBAR KNEW THAT HE MUST GO TO CALIFORNIA IN THE FANNY HE WAS IN DESPAIR HE FELT THAT HE COULD NEVER GO SO FAR AWAY FOR SO LONG AND LEAVE HIS MARGARET BEHIND AND MARGARET FELT THAT SHE COULD NEVER LET HIM GO I KNOW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT 629bd66b-a1a8-4142-95f1-f6fbf718c488 2368 YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN I AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU MAY DO THE SAME YOURSELF THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE 84bfd8ee-a04a-4851-b276-bd16a2e1042d 402 OWING TO THE RAIN WE COULD NOT FOREGATHER IN THE ORCHARD WHERE WE HAD MEANT TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS WITH JERRY WE DID NOT WISH OUR GROWN UPS AROUND AT OUR GREAT MOMENT SO WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE LOFT OF THE GRANARY IN THE SPRUCE WOOD FROM WHOSE WINDOW WE COULD SEE THE MAIN ROAD AND HALE JERRY fd1e988b-67fd-49c0-90ef-83ae86fd4aa5 2274 HE DEPRESSED IT INSTANTLY THE SLEDGE SHOT SKYWARD HEAVY GEES PRESSING THEM DOWN INTO THE SEATS THE GUN INTO NUBES'S HAND WAS SLAMMED INTO HIS LAP HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE IT TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON 2f35ddc4-7349-4094-89e4-f3e526217fad 188 THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS BUT GLAUCON WAS NOT AFRAID AT ALL BECAUSE PAN WAS THE GOD OF SHEPHERDS AND HE WAS BOUND TO GRANT ANY PRAYER A GOOD SHEPHERD WHO ALWAYS DID HIS DUTY MIGHT MAKE 5286add7-89b0-4ebf-924e-6d9721391a76 451 SWEET WILLIAM IS A DREADFUL NAME FOR A FLOWER SAID STORY GIRL WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET 931b1a37-2749-4e1d-82b0-ff0d289d9676 402 I EXPECT WE'D GET TIRED OF IT AFTER A WHILE SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT SHE ADDED I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOODLY WHILE BEFORE I WOULD 9fb46d1f-2edf-4eaa-942a-ccfee9ba7582 32 FAME SAID UNCLE ROGER IF SHE EVER HAS A CHANCE THAT IS AND I SUPPOSE HER FATHER WILL SEEK TO THAT AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL YOU AND I OLIVIA NEVER HAD OUR CHANCE I HOPE SARAH WILL HAVE HERS THIS WAS OUR FIRST INKLING OF WHAT I WAS TO UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY IN LATER YEARS 6ce1750b-6e37-4146-964b-027ccec622eb 451 PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME OH BUT THEY DON'T SAID THE STORY GIRL MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS eb1146a0-47d8-44da-9a4a-4b98487944b9 2425 NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS SEE HE'S MOTIONING US TO WATCH THE PRIEST LED THE OLD MAN BACK TO THE IDOL 19f17d9d-3b11-43de-a00a-b61575805410 402 LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX ACCORDINGLY WE WENT AND HOLLERED WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL WE WERE MUCH TAKEN ABACK TO FIND THAT MISSUS RAY CAME TO THE GATE INSTEAD OF JUDY AND RATHER SOURLY DEMANDED WHAT WE WERE YELLING ABOUT 096ba452-cfd4-40f3-b06a-274ae197f476 451 BUT RUBBING WHISKY ON THE OUTSIDE ISN'T ANY HARM ARGUED PETER IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU TAKE IT INSIDE IT IS BAD FOR YOU WELL WE HAVEN'T ANY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I SUPPOSE BLUEBERRY WINE WOULDN'T DO IN ITS PLACE c7f4f699-df41-4e55-9e4a-92ac3367ce40 402 WE COULD NOT REALLY BELIEVE THAT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE TO DIE OLD PEOPLE DIED GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED acd38c17-0b51-49d8-a1a7-5453edb7bb79 2425 THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY EXAMINING THE PECULIAR MACHINE AND THEREFORE THE ONE QUICK GLANCE SUFFICED IF VIC AND HOPE HAD GONE THIS ROUTE I WAS ANXIOUS TO FOLLOW 58dd299c-58d0-4284-8188-a84958ff639b 32 HERE YOU ADDED UNCLE ROGER PERCEIVING ME CUT ALONG AND GET OFF TO YOUR BED AND MIND YOU DON'T EAT CUCUMBERS AND MILK BEFORE YOU GO 29ac523d-bde4-4a52-b5d0-8817e4149e82 1867 WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH c1e86457-2bec-405b-a34e-e63e6832267f 2286 I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS 8c0f949f-2381-4f98-943a-fdb81ba8e225 32 NO SARA SHOOK HER FAWN COLORED HEAD MOURNFULLY MA ALWAYS KEEPS THE PANTRY LOCKED FOR FEAR JUDY PINNOT WILL TREAT HER FRIENDS 22891dd2-c13e-4f49-9d94-2908840b4669 1867 IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES 62e2600e-1e53-4422-af2c-72b56f4aa55a 2368 HARRIS ALTHOUGH THE MASQUERADE ITSELF AS A NECESSARY PROTECTION AGAINST NON TELEPATHS WAS NOT FORMALLY FORMULATED UNTIL THE LATE YEARS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY GROUPS OF TELEPATHS IN HIDING EXISTED LONG BEFORE THAT DATE 6b3915ea-9420-4599-8dcd-43d0ad948295 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 THAT GOT RID OF THE SMILE BUT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER efe1252a-e9b9-4b8f-90de-e7ae17b0d289 451 NO I'M JUST DOING PENANCE AUNT JANET FOR A SIN I COMMITTED I CAN'T CONFESS IT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BRING TROUBLE ON ANOTHER PERSON SO I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY YOU DON'T MIND DO YOU AUNT JANET WAS IN A VERY GOOD HUMOR THAT MORNING SO SHE MERELY LAUGHED NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY 13686c62-5bd4-4ded-91be-56d20c562f1b 2108 SO WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HIS BREAKFAST THEY ALL SET OUT ALONG THE PATH THAT LED TO LOONVILLE BLESS THE BOY CRIED THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES HOW CARELESS OF ME NOT TO REMEMBER THAT WANDERERS ARE USUALLY HUNGRY d1d7133c-1721-4af2-9b9a-1e07728baea8 2286 THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS WHATEVER ELSE HE'S AFTER HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN a86bb059-1f5f-4ae5-a9a9-a262fd212d83 451 THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY 23219b9b-c3cb-4e7d-9038-20183c79635c 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 HE GRIMACED YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED 64113b17-26fb-4390-9daa-3c3be3e66f94 2286 IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE VERY NICE AND I WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY EXCEPT WHERE WAS HE A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL 0fa1ee62-3bae-4a36-8130-b41e0ca8d2f8 1867 THIS CAN TAKE MONTHS AND OFTEN DOES THIS JOB DIDN'T TURN OUT QUITE THAT BAD ICY RODE IN ON BEDO CERCINA'S BEACON AND RAN A COMPLICATED EIGHT POINT PROBLEM THROUGH THE NAVIGATOR USING EVERY BEACON I COULD GET AN ACCURATE FIX ON b3197666-a998-4d9f-95f9-fbabbd634015 188 SHE LOOKED LIKE A SLENDER RED LILY IN THE UNSTUDIED GRACE OF HER ATTITUDE A SPARK FLASHED IN MISTER CAMPBELL'S BLACK EYES IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL 195637bc-71e5-4382-bb96-f715a904c872 402 THE WARDER POINTED TO THE DARK FLOOD THAT ROLLED UNDER THE BRIDGE THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID BUT YONDER WAY IS OPEN FORD THAT FLOOD ON THE FURTHEST BANK IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE 13cb9f64-b4ab-44ed-b6f6-fdaed92febe9 2108 SUDDENLY A SOFT GLOW ENVELOPED THEM IT GREW BRIGHTER UNTIL THEY COULD SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS DISTINCTLY THEY HAD REACHED THE END OF THE PASSAGE AND BEFORE THEM WAS ANOTHER HUGE DOOR c4c70274-0b45-4510-8aa9-53d84e4341ca 188 THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD MANY OTHER THINGS YOU MUSTN'T DO BUT THESE I'VE NAMED ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT d95735c9-147c-420d-9895-2032b3c5a850 188 COUSIN RACHEL WROTE BACK THAT IF IT WASN'T FOR ONE THING THAT WAS IN THE TRUNK SHE WOULD ASK MOTHER TO OPEN THE CHEST AND DISPOSE OF THE THINGS AS SHE LIKED BUT SHE COULD NOT BEAR THAT ANY ONE BUT HERSELF SHOULD SEE OR TOUCH THAT ONE THING SO SHE WANTED IT LEFT AS IT WAS 2da5e500-4d14-4355-b97f-5d10f487ecab 402 PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON 9ffba4cc-9f4b-4ad4-8860-1707a189ea64 188 I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT DON'T WORRY DEAR SAID CECILY WHO ALWAYS POURED BALM IF YOU CAN'T COLLECT ANY MONEY EVERYBODY WILL KNOW IT ISN'T YOUR FAULT I WON'T EVER FEEL LIKE READING A SINGLE BOOK ON THE LIBRARY IF I CAN'T GIVE SOMETHING TO IT MOURNED SARA dda77eaa-d6c9-450b-bcc5-b8d64f16c2b3 2108 OZMA HERSELF BEING A REAL FAIRY KNEW A LOT OF MAGIC BUT SHE ONLY USED IT TO BENEFIT HER SUBJECTS 19ab539b-bd10-423f-9f49-e73a904fcc1b 188 IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL PIGS SAID FELIX FORCIBLY cabef88d-e5ae-4d20-988e-d09a94d2c9f6 32 SARA STANLEY SAID AUNT OLIVIA SHAKING HER FINGER AT HER AFTER A SIDE SPLITTING YARN IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT YOU'LL BE FAMOUS SOME DAY 84b689af-7ea2-46f7-b3ba-e8b691091920 2108 THERE EXCLAIMED THE KING I EXPECTED THAT WOULD HAPPEN THE CONCEITED RASCAL WANTED TO PUFF HIMSELF UP UNTIL HE WAS BIGGER THAN THE REST OF YOU AND THIS IS THREE YEARS OLD OF HIS FOLLY GET THE PUMP WORKING SOME OF YOU AND BLOW HIM UP AGAIN 636af036-b29d-4cfd-ab00-fe7102aa3786 2274 THERE WAS A THICK MUSCLED NO FAT LOOK TO ORN BUT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS BLOCKY OFF CENTERED FEATURES SUGGESTED A CLOWN DID IT CRACK UP HERE WE DON'T KNOW a2f663db-0553-46bc-95a5-2032bed36915 2274 REASONABLY SO IT UD BE PRETTY HARD TO MISS SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THAT THING WE FLEW OVER IT MUST BE FIFTY KILOMETERS LONG AND AT LEAST TEN WIDE SWARMING WITH THESE CREATURES TOO 322245d5-421d-4963-a54f-39792e9cd66f 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 THEY HAD A SAFETY FACTOR BUILT INTO THE COMPUTER SO YOU CAN'T END UP INSIDE A STAR NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRIED I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION 800e014e-3f97-4b04-aec8-a614300120a2 402 WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW 56446cba-0064-4c6f-a103-882764dbeb7a 402 LONG LONG AGO IN THE GOLDEN AGE WHEN THE GODS USED TO VISIT THE EARTH SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS NOTHING UNCOMMON TO SEE THEM ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD 7e904de7-65bd-4fcc-a196-9716cd6e8835 188 WITH THIS WE WENT TO BED AND SLEPT AS SOUNDLY AS IF TRAGEDIES OF BLUE CHESTS AND TURNIPS AND CROOKED COWS HAD NO PLACE IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS AT ALL 60f910fb-7802-481a-ad40-1ac391d3c73d 402 OLD PEOPLE DIED GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED BUT THAT ONE OF US OF OUR MERRY LITTLE BAND SHOULD DIE WAS UNBELIEVABLE WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW 975466e3-2e09-4cba-9b06-7eb24ceed7b3 2108 SCRAPS OF TIN OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES LAID SCATTERED ROUND THE WORKSHOP THERE WERE HAMMERS AND ANVILS AND SODDERING IRONS AND A CHARCOAL FURNACE AND MANY OTHER TOOLS SUCH AS TINSMITH WORKS WITH 355ec342-4d7d-4334-80d6-275e014184ce 2368 WHETHER SUCH GROUPS WERE THE RESULTS OF NATURAL MUTATIONS OR WHETHER THEY CAME INTO BEING DUE TO SOME OTHER CAUSE HAS NOT YET BEEN FULLY DETERMINED BUT THAT A GROUP DID EXIST IN THE DISTRICT OF OFFENBURGH IN WHAT IS NOW PRUSSIA WE ARE QUITE SURE b227bdd7-fccb-4198-b72f-20934ca1a169 2274 THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES CHERANNA CHERUSOE OUR SATELLITE OUR MOON SAID TO NEW IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORD SAID ORAN CHERANNA CRUSO b27db4dd-e205-41ee-8255-151a36c19bd9 2274 WHERE AGAIN THE CALL BELL RANG WHAT'S IT THIS TIME HAL BARKED STETSON THEY'VE CHANGED TO PLAN H STETT NEW ORDER'S CUT 16c8cd79-097d-437f-9323-147e389b14f8 188 WE DEMANDED THE TALE INSTANTLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD IT TO US AS SHE PEELED HER POTATOES PERHAPS THE POTATOES SUFFERED FELICITY DECLARED THE EYES WERE NOT PROPERLY DONE AT ALL BUT THE STORY DID NOT 396fe1c7-8e1a-402d-b52a-083f1505d40f 2286 RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME INSKIPPED GRABBED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO COMPARE THE PRINTS I LEANED OVER HIS SHOULDER AND POINTED OUT THE INTERESTING PARTS 37da0201-e56c-4567-a794-b9fe303ac6d4 2368 IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER MY FOOLISHNESS YONA'S THOUGHT SOMETIMES WORKS TO MY BENEFIT 6cf1f4db-afbd-4286-bc71-a8c15eb75f7a 2368 COME WITH ME HE SAID AT LAST AND LED THE WAY INTO HIS MUD HOUSE INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR THREE PALLETS LAY AGAINST THE FAR WHITE WALL A SINGLE ONE AGAINST THE LEFT SHARP WENT TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE NEAR THE SINGLE BED THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID WHILE YOU ARE WITH US 93ae2ca9-529b-4a38-ada9-e617862d9064 2368 AND WHAT WAS A QUEST WITHOUT SOMEONE TO SET IT NOW I WISH TO SEE HERKINUFF THE INQUISITOR CALLS YOU WHEN HE WANTS YOU THE BALD MAN SAID 2c3b96fd-5881-4db6-8546-e842f6ea742d 2286 YES I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL WITH THE AUTOMATIC DISREGARD FOR OTHERS OF THE TRULY DEDICATED HE PRESSED THE SCRAMBLE BUTTON ON HIS DESK 3479f1c9-0d68-4c93-a59e-6e19d67f3cd6 32 GENIUS CAN NEVER EXPLAIN HOW IT DOES IT IT WOULD NOT BE GENIUS IF IT COULD AND THE STORY GIRL HAD GENIUS AS WE LEFT THE ORCHARD I WALKED ALONG BEHIND UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA a2512f2c-2188-484a-9869-5d5c73df0aa6 32 THESE FUNNY STORIES ARE ALL RIGHT SAID UNCLE ROGER BUT FOR REAL ENJOYMENT GIVE US SOMETHING WITH A CREEP IN IT SARA TELL US THAT STORY OF THE SERPENT WOMAN I HEARD YOU TELL ONE DAY LAST SUMMER a5fe71ba-3363-4c01-822c-43b4f41d53cf 188 THE GODS WERE NOT ALL BEAUTIFUL YOU KNOW AND BEAUTIFUL OR NOT NOBODY EVER WANTED TO MEET THEM FACE TO FACE 619e6d36-5374-43a1-9d67-3d2cd4f5a3ee 2368 AFTER ALL HE FINISHED THERE ARE TIMES WHEN EVEN A HERO WANTS A LITTLE PRIVACY POSTSCRIPT IN SIXTEEN O FIVE SIXTEEN O SIX IN OFFENBURG THERE WERE NO EXECUTIONS ad96ef0e-de3d-4ed3-b083-b081699222ca 32 THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN a3ad39f5-1f7e-4d37-812c-a3228fd8f502 402 BUT EARLY AS IT WAS WE FOUND THE STORY GIRL IN THE KITCHEN WHEN WE WENT DOWN SITTING ON RACHEL WARD'S BLUE CHEST AND LOOKING IMPORTANT THEN WE SUCKED ON THE JUICE SWEETER WAS IT THAN THE NECTAR DRUNK BY BLISSFUL GODS ON THE THESSALYAN HILL 4714b297-9826-441e-8ed9-e4165b3a9ec1 32 THERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT ONES SAID THE STORY GIRL THE STORY OF THE POET WHO WAS KISSED AND THE TALE OF THE FAMILY GHOST WHICH ONE SHALL I TELL d2f9489b-4270-463e-a1d0-cddc440fd013 2108 DEAR ME SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STARING HARD IT SEEMS AS IF I HAD MET YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE GOOD MORNING SIR YOU HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF ME REPLIED THE HEAD I NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE IN MY LIFE e0120efb-d04f-45d2-8918-c93feae365de 2108 LET THEM COME SHE RETURNED WITH AN ACCENT OF SCORN WHEN THEY GET HERE THEY WILL FIND NEITHER BOY NOR A TIN MAN NOR A SCARECROW FOR TO MORROW MORNING I INTEND TO TRANSFORM YOU ALL INTO OTHER SHAPES SO THAT YOU CANNOT BE RECOGNIZED 15a70ea2-f034-4735-96ef-18b7a474a40c 2108 AGAINST TWO OF THE SIDE WALLS HAD BEEN BUILT ABOUT WORK BENCHES AND IN THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM WAS A LONG TABLE AT THE END OF THE SHOP WHICH ADJOINED THE DWELLING WERE SEVERAL CUPBOARDS 01b368ba-eef3-4690-b8c8-f03f0cc77f4a 2108 WOO UNTIED THE BONDS OF THE SCARECROW AND HELPED HIM GET TO HIS FEET THEN HE FREED THE TIN WOODMAN WHO GOT UP WITHOUT HELP ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ OSCOTT AT HALLEY WOOD IN CALIFORNIA NI 54964cf1-abcd-4eae-add3-8d6ec30647e6 402 PRESENTLY AUNT OLIVIA CAME DOWN THE LONG TWILIGHT ARCADE HER BRIGHT HAIR WAS UNCOVERED AND SHE LOOKED SLIM AND QUEENLIKE IN HER LIGHT DRESS WE THOUGHT AUNT OLIVIA VERY PRETTY THEN f556323f-e6fb-4b55-83ba-ff1b7030e3f1 2108 DURING THE NIGHT THE SCARECROW AND THE EMPEROR TALKED IN LOW TONES TOGETHER AND THEY GOT OUT OF THE CHAIR AND MOVED ALL ABOUT THE ROOM FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW AND PERMIT THEM TO ESCAPE 304fed39-35d4-42f8-9257-3d39fc011a4a 2286 THE NEIGHBOUR WILL GET HER I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT MAYBE HE SAID SUDDENLY SLUMPED AND TIRED NO LONGER LAUGHING MAYBE THEY WILL 3e2609cf-f173-4c15-80c2-0c6dae39d6e7 32 SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN INSTEAD I REMEMBER SEEING IN HIS DREAM BOOK UNDER THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH AN ENTRY TO THIS EFFECT LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DRAM IT WASN'T A POLITE DRAM SO I WON'T WRITE IT DOWN 29e12bea-b8d0-4a6c-b88b-3ed3084be28d 2286 SINCE THEY WERE AS GOOD AS ANY REAL ADMIRALS I DIDN'T WORRY THE SLIGHTEST FERERO WENT THROUGH THEM AS CAREFULLY AS HE COULD IN HIS RATTLED STATE EVEN CHECKING THE SEALS UNDER U V IT GAVE HIM TIME TO REGAIN A LITTLE BITTER SELF CONTROL AND HE USED IT TO BLUSTER cface510-98bd-4d52-ba02-c1354cda984f 188 THE RESULT WAS A DETERMINED RIVALRY AS TO WHICH PUPIL SHOULD COLLECT THE LARGEST SUM AND THIS RIVALRY WAS ESPECIALLY INTENSE IN OUR HOME COTERIE f5205690-c4e1-46a5-802a-15936e894eb0 32 FELIX AND I COULDN'T KEEP OUR EYES OFF HER CRIMSON CHEEKED SHINY EYED FROM HER HASTE HER FACE WAS LIKE A ROSE OF YOUTH BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL SPOKE WE FORGOT TO LOOK AT FELICITY 8945e74e-5a03-4bcc-88af-ab72520eb3b7 451 AND CONCLUDED THE STORY GIRL HER FACE UPTURNED TO THE SKY HER BIG EYES FILLED WITH STARLIGHT IT STANDS STILL THAT BRIDGE IS THE MILKY WAY aa465e1c-c0b6-4ff5-80dd-2f80a43f4741 188 WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MARRIED I THINK IT'S JUST HORRID SO THERE I GUESS YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD DEAL HORRID OR NOT TO BE SAID DAN IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE MARRIED TOO SAID CECILY GRAVELY SEEING THAT FELICITY DISDAINED REPLY 92b55ab3-2832-4e6d-8d57-5f000e12c6e9 451 HE CAN SEE IT ANYHOW WITHOUT YOUR DOING ANYTHING SAID CECILY WELL MY CONSCIENCE WILL FEEL BETTER HOW DID OLD MISTER SCOTT FIND OUT THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS IN THE CLOSET ASKED FELIX NO ONE EVER KNEW 35b4cc2d-8cd8-40c4-b948-b46af0af629f 188 MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A TALL MAN WITH A MASSIVE HEAD WELL THATCHED WITH THICK BLACK HAIR GREY STREET HE HAD BIG BLACK EYES WITH MANY WRINKLES AROUND THEM AND A THIN FIRM LONG LIPPED MOUTH WE THOUGHT HIM HANDSOME FOR AN OLD MAN e676895a-c831-4e75-aee3-7ad51669dd89 32 EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED c26f553c-2b05-4f76-ac84-7a8aa687bb9a 451 SHE STROKED THE PURRING PADDY AND WE READ STEADILY ON WITH MADDENING INDIFFERENCE TO ALL OF OUR PLEADINGS EVEN CECILY THE MEEK AND MILD WAS SNAPPISH AND COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE PETER HAD GONE HOME TO SEE HIS MOTHER AND UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO MARKDALE ON BUSINESS 4f317ccc-889d-482f-a6c9-4fb2933cb284 32 CUCUMBERS ARE INDIGESTIBLE BUT I NEVER KNEW OF THEM MAKING ANY ONE AS SICK AS THIS SHE SAID ANXIOUSLY WHAT MADE THE CHILD EAT A CUCUMBER BEFORE GOING TO BED I DIDN'T THINK SHE LIKED THEM 0970832b-161c-47c6-aa31-7b8049b6ac81 2108 THE BOY ATE IN SILENCE FOR A TIME BEING REALLY HUNGRY BUT AFTER HIS APPETITE WAS SOMEWHAT SATISFI HE SAID HOW HAPPENED YOUR MAJESTY TO BE MADE OF TIN AND STILL BE ALIVE 20702dcb-362c-4607-94b4-b390f9c82ded 32 WHY MILK AND CUCUMBERS TOGETHER MAKE A RANK POISON HE SAID NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK c3b74f0a-cef9-4b0c-b4c3-db586ea63301 32 SHE HAD A LOVER HIS NAME WAS MALCOLM WARD AND HE WAS AS HANDSOME AS A PRINCE SHE LOVED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART AND HE LOVED HER THE SAME BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT THEY USED TO MEET UNDER THE BIRCHES AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE 82ac299b-a7fc-4c94-a42a-94b2a6d4a45a 2108 THE OWL AND THE CANARY FOUND THAT THEY COULD CONVERSE TOGETHER IN THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND SO AT TIMES THEY TWITTERED AWAY TO EACH OTHER AND PASSED THE LONG DREARY WAY THEY QUITE CHEERFULLY aa1bf5db-40d3-47e4-b518-ce0784ce05a8 2108 I WAS BORN HERE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN BUT THE FOREST HAS FEW INHABITANTS EXCEPT THE WILD BEASTS I CANNOT THINK OF ANYONE LIVING NEAR HERE BUT WITH WHOM NIMMY AMY MIGHT CARE TO LIVE WHY NOT GO TO CUT CLIP AND ASK HIM WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GIRL 65ac404f-a79f-4937-b314-5ec5ff8f612c 2108 AS SOON AS WE CAN GET READY ANSWERED THE EMPEROR I'LL CALL MY SERVANTS AT ONCE AND ORDER THEM TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR OUR JOURNEY d444e1b1-ece2-4aa1-8af6-e183a0a89cdc 32 PRESENTLY ALSO THE LAUGHTER OF THE GROWN UPS MINGLED WITH OURS 70a7e0be-ce92-43c2-ba4f-c8e7f35776be 2286 HE APPARENTLY DID NOT BELIEVE IN PYJAMA BOTTOMS AND IT HURT ME TO SEE THE GOOSE BUMPS WRITHING ON THOSE THIN SHANKS VERY QUICKLY SLEEPY EYED CLERKS AND ASSISTANTS WERE BRINGING FILES AND RECORDS WE WENT THROUGH THEM TOGETHER 0e13280d-7f9c-4513-9efe-a094c5764eaf 32 EVEN THE STORY GIRL AND I HAD A FIGHT SOMETHING THAT HAD NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE 3f54333a-e682-40b4-a74a-5f809259ae6f 451 THEY TASTE GREAT HE SAID SMACKING AND HE ATE TWO MORE CLUSTERS REGARDLESS OF THE HORROR STRICKEN PROTESTATIONS AND FELICITY'S PLEADINGS WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT 4da57332-84fe-44aa-bd2e-ff13b28048f6 32 CECILY'S SICK SAID DAN SPRINGING OUT OF BED THAT CUCUMBER MUST HAVE DISAGREED WITH HER IN A FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS ASTIR CECILY WAS SICK VERY VERY SICK THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF IT SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES 49eb9fb4-58ba-470c-89f1-75727e8e65f1 32 NO WONDER THE CHILD IS SICK THERE THERE NOW SEEING THE ALARMED FACES AROUND HIM DON'T BE FRIGHTENED AS OLD MISSUS FRASER SAYS IT'S NO DEEDLY IT WON'T KILL HER BUT SHE'LL PROBABLY BE A PRETTY MISERABLE GIRL FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS c9604cfd-7cf8-47e4-8ddc-33099e63fffb 2108 BUT AT THE WORD THE EARTH OPENED AT THE EXACT SPOT WHERE HE LAY UNDER THE JAGUAR'S PAW HIS BODY SANK DOWNWARD THE EARTH CLOSING OVER IT AGAIN THE LAST THING THE MONKEY SAW AS HE GLANCED UPWARD WAS THE JAGUAR PEERING INTO THE HOLE IN ASTONISHMENT b77f5bb3-c68a-4a2a-b5b4-ed42c075e704 32 CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE BESIDES SHE COAXED ME TO TELL HER WHAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR DREAMS I JUST TOLD HER AS A FAVOR AND NOW YOUR AUNT JANET BLAMES ME FOR THE WHOLE TROUBLE df04106b-b28c-43b1-840c-d8a70acecaad 451 JUST WHAT THESE BAD BERRIES WERE I CANNOT TELL FELICITY WHEN YOU SET THE TABLE FOR DINNER PUT THE BROKEN HANDLED KNIFE FOR ME I HATE IT SO AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA EVERY TWO HOURS 2cd8da79-2940-4005-a4f1-0c0c6c01da36 451 GET OFF TO BED EVERY ONE OF YOU IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I'LL BE WHEN YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER COME HOME THE WRETCHED BACHELOR WHO UNDERTAKES TO LOOK AFTER A HOUSE FULL OF CHILDREN LIKE YOU IS TO BE PITIED NOBODY WILL EVER CATCH ME DOING IT AGAIN 9f6facb0-472a-4675-a337-7fb32f5648f4 2286 PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM BELAY THAT LAST COMMAND I SHOUTED GETTING BACK IN MY OLD SPACE DOG MOOD GET A CALL THROUGH FIRST AND FIND OUT IF ANY OF OUR PLANTS ARE PICKED UP DURING THE RAID 3d28bb97-50e3-470b-8353-9db1937fef2e 2286 LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN THIS IS WHY I LANDED AT MIDDAY ON THE LARGEST FIELD ON THE PLANET AFTER A VERY SHOWY APPROACH I WAS ALREADY DRESSED FOR MY ROLL AND OUT OF THE SHIP BEFORE THE LANDING BRACES STOPPED VIBRATING 4996fc62-a687-4a45-be0d-14426a8b6e08 2108 I SHALL ENJOY YOUR SOCIETY THE MORE ON THAT ACCOUNT FOR I MEAN TO KEEP YOU HERE AS LONG AS I LIVE TO AMUSE ME WHEN I GET LONELY AND SHE ADDED SLOWLY IN THIS VALLEY NO ONE EVER DIES b53b3016-5255-44e6-86f4-7ccad6bcbad3 32 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE BESIDES THEY'RE ALL SUCH LADY LIKE GIRLS I GUESS I'D BETTER NOT RISK IT I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM 0781af24-6a1a-4bf1-bc69-b19690514e74 2286 FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES ONE HELD A GUN AND TWO MORE WAS STUFFED WITH GRENADES THE REST WERE EMPTY I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER 798d1bb0-2c01-4f63-95b3-001ca0c1e688 32 I DIDN'T TELL CECILY TO DRINK THE MILK AND THE CUCUMBER ALONE WOULDN'T HAVE HURT HER HE GRUMBLED CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE 3af95e86-5a99-4ce4-9ab5-8e6ba4b36141 451 IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN 2f9b0f42-7478-47ca-ac87-c3670b1f808e 2286 PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN SUCH AS SHIP SAILINGS YOU'RE JUST GUESSING YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME 521325af-b21b-4fff-b7f2-3b6b7652b69d 2108 THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE AN OWL SAID WOUT I THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE BETTER IN THE DARK 5056c98a-7723-4cd9-a403-e55edbea0005 451 THE AIR WAS SWEET WITH THE BREATH OF MOWN HAY FIELDS WHERE SWATHS OF CLOVER HAD BEEN STEEPING IN THE SUN WILD ROSES GREW PINKLY ALONG THE FENCES AND THE ROADSIDES WERE STAR DUSTED WITH BUTTERCUPS e7e08736-7d04-479d-99e5-591ee6b231ea 2108 SO IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE TIN WOODMAN WOULD CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY AND THAT THE SCARECROW AND WOOT THE WANDERERS SHOULD ACCOMPANY HIM AS BEFORE 5cb14e35-2cca-46a4-9e63-ff9524743f26 2286 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES I HAD LEFT STANDING ORDERS THAT ALL REPORTS FALLING INSIDE THE DANGER AIR TO BE BROUGHT TO ME AT ANY TIME THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER d65e1602-7efe-4db4-b5e2-5e4a2bec0f88 2286 PHARAO STILL HAD THE BAFFLED ACT GOING AS HE FUMBLED WITH THE PAPERS EXAMINING INITIALS AND SUCH I GAVE HIM PLENTY OF TIME HE FINALLY PUT THEM DOWN SHAKING HIS HEAD 7593c213-b572-4483-9a84-0f4f5c721d75 2286 WHAT ARE YOU GETTING AT HE MUMBLED AS HE RAN HIS EYES OVER THE BRUNTS THIS IS AN ORDINARY HEAVY CARGO AND PASSENGER JOB IT'S NO MORE A WAR LORD BATTLESHIP THAN I AM c3d1e3bd-4537-46af-8c58-9effd3abedca 451 NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO SO JUST TO TEACH HER A LESSON HE DROVE OFF ALONE AND LEFT HER TO WALK ALL THE WAY IT WAS NEARLY TWO MILES IN THE HEAT AND DUST 5a34b6a3-4fae-4031-9873-2da7940b5113 2286 THE DECODY MESSAGE TURNED OUT NOT TO BE AS BAD AS I IMAGINED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE I WAS IN CHARGE OF TRACKING AND CAPTURING THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP I COULD CALL ON THE LEAGUE FOR ANY AID I NEEDED I WOULD KEEP MY IDENTITY AS AN ADMIRAL FOR THE REST OF THE JOB I WAS TO KEEP HIM INFORMED OF PROGRESS a12d36cf-3eef-4cce-8efd-cc264cb2c452 451 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 dad2d6fb-a568-4d02-8753-0e04b4f69b7a 2286 MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET c1acf0d3-138b-4363-a85d-b98ea6f59de8 2286 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE I READ PEBE IN EVERY LINE OF THE MESSAGE 8c98e084-4dd5-4cf2-ab2f-63b157c5aec3 451 I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US aa948930-5eee-41e2-90f6-94fb26fcd051 2286 SETANUVO SECOND PLANET OF A BEE STAR AND CORONA BOREALIS NOR THE COLONIZED PLANETS IN THE SYSTEM 17c85644-0327-4eae-9099-fa718de628f9 188 AT SUNSET FELICITY CECILY AND SARA RAY DAN FELIX AND I WERE IN THE ORCHARD SITTING ON THE COOL GRASSES AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE IN THE WEST WAS A FIELD OF CROCUS SKY OVER WHICH PALE CLOUD BLOSSOMS WERE SCATTERED 0c2f3d25-b2ac-4656-9b76-f2277f3a0cc1 188 BUT WE HAD LISTENED ENTRANCED I HAVE WRITTEN DOWN THE BARE WORDS OF THE STORY AS SHE TOLD IT BUT I COULD NEVER REPRODUCE THE CHARM AND COLOR AND SPIRIT SHE INFUSED INTO IT IT LIVED FOR US ffbea6e7-9006-493f-aa32-3c28f0333c76 2286 THE TRIP ONLY TOOK A FEW DAYS MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING I DID TO KNOW ABOUT SET ANUVO THE MORE I KNEW THE LESS I COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED FOR A BATTLESHIP IT DIDN'T FIT SUTANOVO WAS A SECONDARY SETTLEMENT OUT OF THE SELINY SYSTEM AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE c927c42d-bb96-44a9-a687-c195ecfb54cf 451 NOT NOWADAYS EXPLAINED THE STORY GIRL THEN I DON'T SEE ANY USE IN BEING ONE SARA DECIDED A KING CAN'T DO AS HE PLEASES NOW EITHER SAID FELIX fd6a66a2-6434-409b-94cb-be3de931728a 451 FELICITY DID A MEAN THING SHE WENT TO WORK AND MADE LITTLE RAISIN PIES RIGHT THERE IN THE KITCHEN BEFORE THE STORY GIRL THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM cb7c81ea-3423-4496-a2ff-07933afc0dd3 188 PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS 39dce388-fcdf-4d5f-b46f-ba68e0e368fa 2108 COME WITH ME SHE COMMANDED WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ASKED LUTE GIVE YOU A GOOD SCRUBBING SAID GINGER NOW NEITHER BOYS NOR MONKEYS RELISH BEING SCRUBBED SO LUTE SHRANK AWAY FROM THE ENERGETIC GIRL TREMBLING FEARFULLY cbc6b286-0599-458a-92b9-47524c31a762 2286 AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE VERY GOOD I SAID CALMLY SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES f29b6e7e-6db2-479a-902f-29fa14b9f80a 2286 OF COURSE I HAD TO SHOW IN THE REST OF THE BOMBS THERE WAS NO GETTING OUT OF IT THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAM DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS I ASKED HIM POKING A LARGE GLOSSY PICK UNDER HIS LONG BROKEN NOSE a99989f2-0ac9-4a86-8f8a-5d704ae72437 2108 HOWEVER MUMBLED THE SCARECROW WE ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR WHAT CANNOT BE HELPED SO LET US PUSH BRAVELY AHEAD AND SEE WHAT MAY BE SEEN b3ed07a6-70ac-4e0d-8dad-53644cd310a0 2286 I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT HE'S GOING TO HIT AGAIN SOON AND WHEREVER HE HITS THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PERIODICAL WITH MY PLANT IN IT WHATEVER ELSE HE'S AFTER HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN 2e306a3a-8485-4d03-8a06-a4cb1701bd2d 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING 476adef6-da3e-46ce-bb22-9931519e9b9b 2108 VERY GOOD SAID THE GIANTESS LET US ALL BECOME FRIENDS AND HAPPY TOGETHER HOW IS MY TIN OWL FEELING QUITE COMFORTABLE SAID THE OWL I DON'T LIKE IT TO BE SURE BUT I'M NOT GOING TO ALLOW MY NEW FORM TO MAKE ME UNHAPPY BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR 2a29a887-d983-4ea1-9a8f-db9a0a1541b9 188 PETER STOPPED AND GLARED AT HIM OVER THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT STONE YOU HAVEN'T ANY BUSINESS TO CALL OUT A THING LIKE THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SERMON HE SAID THEY DO IT IN THE METHODIST CHURCH AT MARKDALE PROTESTED FELIX SOMEWHAT ABASHED I HEARD THEM 2ad6a9b0-7b21-4d96-a154-73e3328f4a3c 2108 DO LEARN IS SIMPLE DON'T YOU ASK QUESTIONS INQUIRED THE SCARECROW YES I ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS I DARE BUT SOME PEOPLE REFUSE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS c1f4b3da-ef55-499b-af2a-acdcf01c44ee 188 OUR TEACHER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT THING TO HAVE A LIBRARY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL AND HE SUGGESTED THAT EACH OF THE PUPILS SHOULD TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HE OR SHE COULD RAISE FOR THE PROJECT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE d0bc05fc-4d65-46bb-9e64-46a029dae412 188 IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE MARRIED TOO SAID CECILY GRAVELY SEEING THAT FELICITY DISDAINED REPLY IF YOU GOT A MAN LIKE FATHER IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT BUT SUPPOSING YOU GOT ONE LIKE ANDREW WARD 853a0d37-2ef1-47d6-8b58-02cba248286a 103 SO THE MORNING AFTER HE HAD BROUGHT HIS YOUNG WIFE HOME THEY WENT TOGETHER TO THE SOUTH MEADOW AND PLANTED THEIR BRIDAL TREES IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD 9a865653-ed41-4efa-a019-51ee60eba521 402 YOUR OWN TRUE FRIEND SARA RAY NOBODY BUT A COUN WOULD DO IT AND THAT'S A FACT SAID DAN WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE 1bba5788-5e1a-4d69-8d6d-880f9cd6dbec 177 I'LL GO SAID CECILY NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK AT BREAKFAST OUR APPETITES WERE POOR df7789da-3037-431f-8dce-d2f1271a8019 451 UNCLE ROGERS SAYS THAT MARTIN FORBES WIFE HAS SQUELCHED HIM WE HAD STOWED THE HAY IN THE LOFT THAT MORNING FOR UNCLE ROGER SO WE FELT THAT WE HAD EARNED THE RIGHT TO LOLL ON OUR SWEET SMELLING COUCH 69ab7b14-9bf3-477f-b1ce-e7ca2bcc92bf 2425 CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES THERE WAS NO SIGN OF DISORDER ANYWHERE THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT a5b48356-e900-4f58-8f16-3165d9b68925 177 IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT STORIES IN IT YES FELICITY MAGNIFICENT NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL fdfcd590-0613-4c0f-9dc1-66682af5fa7b 2425 ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT BUT NEITHER VIC NOR HOPE WERE ANYWHERE IN SIGHT 4f6c3797-3c62-40c7-bf9b-c67fa4973bfa 177 THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED AFTER BREAKFAST AND THE NECESSARY CHORES THERE WAS THE FORENOON TO BE LIVED THROUGH 16f7d932-f377-450e-8b4e-04142daaf82d 177 MAYBE THE CLOCK STRUCK AND WE DIDN'T HEAR IT SUGGESTED DAN SOMEBODY BETTER GO SEE IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL d142a2e9-f657-4124-9b3b-cb30ea8c355c 402 THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW HE'S IN THE HOUSE THIS VERY MINUTE HE CAME UP WITH US IN THE BUGGY d8fa2f3d-43c0-4454-8761-afafe928e26f 451 THEY BOTH BUILT THE BRIDGE OF LIGHT AND THE BARE FEET BELOW HER PRINT SKIRT WERE BEAUTIFUL OF OLD UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO 3060645c-473c-4f4b-87cc-8ad6285dd08d 2312 SAID THE SMALL MARTINET WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT THERE'S ENOUGH OF US HERE RIGHT NOW d300148e-2c5d-4221-ad3d-d8e5a0f97ebe 2108 VERY WELL THEN YOU MAY KEEP YOUR HEAD SAID THE BEAST THEY HALTED RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD AND ALLOWED WOOT TO GET HIS SUPPER FROM THE BOOT HE CARRIED IN HIS KNAPSACK 17a370c2-227c-486f-8eff-7684730150e1 103 THAT WAS THE MAIN QUESTION ABOUT GROWN UPS THEIR LOOKS MATTERED LITTLE TO US SHE'S LOVELY THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 7dc158d9-8b6b-4407-ba61-902850c5c811 188 WE MIGHT EARN IT BY THE HONEST TOIL SARA RAY WAS ALSO ALLOWED TO COME UNDER PROTEST DON'T WORRY DEAR SAID CECILY WHO ALWAYS POURED BALM 7325f170-e81a-4c0b-bcf1-34bae8e65b23 198 IT ISN'T ANY USE FOR ME TO TRY TO LEARN TO COOK SAID SHE DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED 6bd1936a-6956-4f6e-97f7-7b2f4cda62f9 402 STORY GIRL LOOKED AT PETER WITH A FROWN KNOW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT WE'VE LOST FIFTY CENTS BECAUSE OF IT SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY bb43ade7-3271-47f2-9205-8e85dc0b058c 103 I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I'M NOT SO FRIGHTENED OF HER AS I ONCE WAS dd118a16-3bcb-4e0c-9846-1873f5edc04c 30 AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY 0c5ef09e-d989-4b55-9a00-03079ece518b 464 AND AUNT OLIVIA WAS WORN TO LABEL ALL THE PINCUSHIONS IN THE HOUSE EVEN IF THERE WERE NO NEEDLES IN IT SIXTY YEAR OLD SAWDUST CAN'T BE GOOD FOR MY TUMMY 7272900c-2f08-417f-ad69-bf975e0893d2 464 DO YOU THINK HE REALLY FEELS SICK ASKED THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN e79afe1f-8467-45e1-9d67-6ded9ca0edf2 188 TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE TWO VOICES RANG OUT FOR ME ABOVE ALL OTHERS IN THE MUSIC THAT ECHOES THROUGH THE HALLS OF RECOLLECTION ae66c192-bfc7-40ad-a132-b1722f3604ac 188 THE NEXT DAY BEING SATURDAY WE STARTED OUT IN THE AFTERNOON PRESENTLY MISTER CAMPBELL HIMSELF WAS STANDING IN THE DOORWAY LOOKING US OVER 0407c7f6-456f-45bd-988e-b70f301a43ef 2317 WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE 167bf346-e376-4515-b7ed-6280c5c0d85c 242 WELL I GUESS I WON'T SAID PETER ANGRILY IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL eef8652b-92d4-49df-87b8-c2594eb3d24a 2425 UNDERNEATH IN HOPE'S CLEAR PURPOSEFUL HAND WAS THIS A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY 26a020bf-4980-43d2-81be-1243004cfcd7 2182 BUT THE SCOOP AT THE MOMENT FOUND WATER DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE IN EARNEST THEY ERASED THE FEARS OF THE NEUROTIC AND CALMED THE QUIVERINGS OF THE HY POTENSIVE 020e4ad8-1b8e-4a92-8a29-bc6dda2731be 30 FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING AND PRESENTLY WE FOUND OURSELVES TUCKED AWAY UPSTAIRS THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG b2ab7387-de0e-4b73-9406-4472a874092f 1867 IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE IF THE WATER WAS STILL THERE BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL 34acb52f-1717-40ae-9f69-e66871c62615 2108 NEITHER DOES MY FRIEND THE SCARECROW HOW HAPPENED YOUR MAJESTY TO BE MADE OF TIN AND STILL BE ALIVE 88d67e74-0e49-45da-93fa-2a1d9521a694 1867 THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED I COME FROM YOUR ANCESTORS TO HELP YOU THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED d9c83fa0-e5cb-45f6-80b7-7a0ea9c0d31b 242 THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS 1b620dd5-a988-403a-a93a-21cc9c0b85fa 2317 UNTIL HE BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE RAIL HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE NEITHER OF THE ALIENS MOVED 297b8181-dfe0-4c8b-945e-0c12d6edfa7d 14 I HAVEN'T ANOTHER CENT ITS UPPER END WAS DIM WITH A DELICATE SPRING MIST AND KINGS FROM ALL LANDS CAME TO WOO HER FOR A BRIDE b1aa4fea-c5ca-45ac-837f-488ecbe95c86 2274 YOUR RACE IS NO MATCH FOR US ORN AND THEN THE WEAKEST A HEAVY OBJECT SUDDENLY ARCHED THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS SWINGING ON A VINE c307d549-339c-449f-bf0b-8c179c0189c9 402 THERE WAS HEARTBREAK IN THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE AND TEARS CAME INTO OUR EYES AT ANY OTHER TIME WE WOULD NEVER HAVE DARED CATECHIZE THE MINISTER ABOUT ANYTHING e4ea15fa-f4b1-409d-9602-6a88100f2bfb 748 YES HE DID I SAID IN DISGUST HE CONFESSED TO ME THAT HE HAD TAKEN IT TO MAKE FELICITY FOND OF HIM YOUR MOUTH IS A DECENT SIZE SAID DAN b2666583-fa31-4360-be90-d8af6061bbc9 2317 AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN 6381fe34-750b-41d5-9130-791b1e365065 242 BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY OH WITH ALL ITS LAUGHTER AND DELIGHT AND GLAMOUR IT IS OUR ETERNAL POSSESSION f823d1dd-2890-4ddf-b35f-b7e85c2b8c53 2368 HE WENT ON WHISTLING FOR A TWO NOTE PLINGO VOLNERA UNDER HIS BREATH AND AFTER A TIME HE KNOCKED AGAIN AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE THEN LET US GO HE SAID AND MARCHED OFF 5752abe9-e51c-41c3-9805-0a5cf22d2e0b 402 WE WERE ALSO FOND OF THE BIG SWEET APPLES WE USED TO THROW THEM UP IN THE AIR AND LET THEM FALL ON THE GROUND UNTIL THEY WERE BRUISED AND BATTERED TO THE BURSTING POINT BUT I'LL OPEN IT IF YOU LIKE 2af9656a-3260-4b45-a18d-42c4d3e43ced 14 AND ONE TALK ON THIS SUBJECT INSPIRED THE STORY GIRL TO DO A LITTLE HOME MISSIONARY WORK ON HER OWN ACCOUNT 29356ae2-39b9-4e3e-ab04-c363824cdcd7 32 THEREFORE SHE COULD NOT COME AND IN UNCLE STEPHEN THE BLOOD OF THE SEAFARING RACE CLAIMED ITS OWN aac121c0-acba-4d56-9a13-1c51d0224fa7 188 FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES IT WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE 9009bba6-d8dd-4818-88ee-bdc2b535b61f 32 I AM GOING TO HELP MOTHER PLANT THE VEGETABLE GARDEN TO DAY SAID FELICITY SHE THOUGHT HE WAS A COUSIN THEY HAD BEEN EXPECTING FROM SCOTLAND 49d82561-1e51-4916-a3aa-131017a2680e 198 THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK 1702941d-1cf8-4330-b3f0-49945626314c 451 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 d709c418-c342-4230-8c9f-a40ec47e9dd9 2108 THEN AT ONCE HE BEGAN TO MAKE A TIN LEG FOR ME MY GOOD WIFE AND I BOTH MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE 2a443eaf-580d-4acf-b213-c1cbb67255fc 2108 OZMA WILL HELP YOU I'M SURE SAID DOROTHY AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS WHERE DID THEY COME FROM 07260373-3156-4b16-adcd-cd99e4bdffd5 32 HER NAME WAS EMILY KING EVEN BEFORE GRANDFATHER KING WAS BORN I LIKE IT WHEN PETER PLAYS THE POET 33f001b9-63e6-43b7-b5fb-8fc9eae33f8a 464 OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY e29a3da0-8740-4cb8-9935-d817956e8251 177 REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN LOOK HERE I'LL TELL IT ANYHOW THAT'S A PROMISE IT WAS BRUSHED AND BRAIDED WITH PURITAN SIMPLICITY fe0db0a4-1685-479a-a4de-d8fcd4e19771 2182 ONCE OCCUPATION BEGAN I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN 66228dc0-bf5e-4d92-b9cb-dd9054568fb7 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 8335f40a-6064-49a6-b799-29cdefca0823 2317 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MACHINE HE SAID IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE FARMER REFLECTED FOR THE TENTH TIME bd0d2aab-4ded-4e5e-9e55-6d8e97b24d4b 748 IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY AND IT WAS TO MAKE THE STORY GIRL 5888d7f5-5a7b-4cb2-b3ba-78c9d3dcdfef 2312 HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT IS AN INTERESTING PLACE e3d8167f-c975-42f5-9542-7a427f0c063f 198 WELL WHERE IS HE THEN HE ISN'T HERE DID HE MELT INTO AIR DEMANDED FELICITY OH COME AND LOOK FOR HIM ALL OF YOU DON'T STAND ROUND LIKE NINNIES WE MUST FIND HIM BEFORE HIS MOTHER GETS HERE DAN KING YOU'RE AN IDIOT d2eb6138-bd32-4ce9-8e49-fe165d3900b0 177 CRIED FELICITY AND CECILY TOGETHER IN A CHORUS OF HORROR I WON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT ALL THROUGH I SUPPOSE HE SAID BUT I'LL GET ALONG AS FAR AS I CAN SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD fa646972-792c-4177-8a3a-8926ccfdb66b 2368 ORDINARILY HE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IT A THOUGHT BEYOND A PASSING SIGH FOR THE WAYS OF THE WORLD HE HAD OTHER BUSINESS BUT NOW a0b13585-5702-4a78-8be9-3088f188c150 451 OH I WONDER HOW SARA IS THIS MORNING MOTHER'S GOING DOWN THIS AFTERNOON SAID FELICITY SHE SAYS NONE OF US MUST GO NEAR THE PLACE TILL WE KNOW WHETHER IT IS THE MEASLES OR NOT d9746217-6ba8-442b-aeac-ea89792575e3 402 THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT 86361956-066a-4949-9c43-997829c31389 413 WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY a426b331-c418-4ff3-a363-e8b260bd8490 402 I JUST WISH I'D HOLD OF THOSE FELLOWS WHO WOULDN'T LET THE CAPTAIN TAKE HIS WIFE SAID PETER SAVAGELY THERE AIN'T MANY FELLOWS AS FAIR AND SQUARE AS PETER SAID DAN fb414b3c-f344-4a01-aabc-d1a423ff17a9 242 ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGHT ME IF YOU KEEP PRAYING AGAINST ME SAID FELIX 0e226e92-4b19-4c10-af86-a17917746152 2312 NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA 320718ad-6413-4f82-b6c6-20b720265f5e 402 I LOOKED AT THE STORY GIRL'S DRY PITEOUS EYES BUT AS WE WAITED THE CLOUDS BROKE AWAY AND THE SUN CAME OUT FLASHINGLY 2a33db62-9bf6-4614-a36e-46c8af7da95e 2274 STETSON SHOT AN ANGRY GLANCE AT IT I AM LOUIS HORN OF REDISCOVERY AND REEDUCATION 0caab55f-bcd7-4a92-a615-0937a340247e 2274 REQUEST SIGNED BY A FIRST CONTACT OFFICER NAME A DISTANT HE STOOD IN HIS CUSTOMARY SLOUCH 88679e9b-0bfd-44be-b3c7-039ab65e32a9 30 SHE HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF AFFECTION FOR IT HAD THEY REALIZED HOW FAR b41cce61-6fbb-4d1c-af2d-8b0dc197a071 177 THIS WE THOUGHT WAS A GOOD OMEN WHEN YOU'VE BEEN STUMPING OUT ELDERBERRIES ALL AFTERNOON IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN THE JUDGMENT DAY TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ALL NIGHT HE SAID b9e09574-4d22-49fe-8988-0d71f2130aea 2108 OF COURSE SAID SHE A STRAW MAN A TIN MAN AND A BOY BUT ALL THE CHAIRS IN THE ROOM WERE SO HIGH THAT OUR FRIENDS COULD NOT CLIMB TO THE SEATS OF THEM 705c4864-fe47-4572-8a79-313c6690b113 402 DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY THOSE ARE NOT THINGS ONE KNOWS ABOUT SHE SAID WITH DIGNITY 18b8aac8-3830-4df8-9707-e9a23b941d91 32 THE ONLY TIME HE EVER SO PUNISHED ANY OF HIS CHILDREN THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO DIE IN THEIR SLEEP SAID THE STORY GIRL CONFIDENTLY cb4ac091-ab0e-4188-84df-49436f8b896f 2312 AM NO PIG SANDWICH AND I DO NOT COMMONLY CALL ON FOOLS GET ON YOUR FEET YOU CLOD AS WILD A REGION AS YOU WILL EVER FIND 5448e564-2d17-44d3-a708-3fc35431b919 2108 THE GREEN MONKEY WAS SO STARTLED BY THE SUDDEN ATTACK THAT HE SPRUNG INTO THE FIREPLACE STRAW IS MUCH MORE DELICIOUS IT TWISTED AROUND AND CUT OFF ONE OF MY ARMS f777a958-b49a-437a-ab7a-0461ce3e8e36 2286 URGED ON BY THE FIRES OF PATRIOTISM PUT DEGREES IN CHARGE OF THE RECORD ROOM FOR A WHILE YOU SAID THAT WAY HE CAN LEARN THE ROPES BUYING AROUND IN SENTRY OLD DUSTY FILES WILL BE JUST THE THING FOR A FREE SPIRIT LIKE SLIPPERY GIM DEGREES BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD 6521642b-b481-47a8-8498-51e8b239d872 2312 THE STUNTED TREES WERE LOWER THAN THE GIANT BUSHES AND YUKA WHICH YOU AREN'T BUT TELL US c16db526-cffc-4a85-ab57-9dc1dd290ace 2274 I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID 1c02ce64-44a4-4190-9868-ed1f9d2edc1b 402 PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND IF IT WAS A HARD JOURNEY FOR A MAN IT WAS HARDER STILL FOR A WOMAN BUT MARGARET WOULD HAVE DARED ANYTHING FOR ALLAN'S SAKE I SUPPOSE IF PETER 8bc4b993-cf4d-4c25-882c-f83cb6333d49 103 EVERY FAMILY FESTIVAL WAS COMMEMORATED IN LIKE FASHION AND EVERY BELOVED VISITOR WHO SPENT A NIGHT UNDER THEIR ROOF WAS EXPECTED TO PLANT A TREE IN THE ORCHARD 5f4af57c-b7e5-4c27-97d6-f84f7d004dfe 2286 THIS GAVE ME ENOUGH UNDISTURBED TIME TO SEARCH HIS STUDY BUT THE GOLDEN CRUSTED HELMET AND A BRIEF CASE OF PAPERS WERE A PROBLEM WE COULD FILL THE VIBRATION DISTANTLY THROUGH THE FLOOR 2191296c-3d25-49fb-a279-2d19301afad4 2425 OLD E PAY FIGURES MAYBE WE COULD DO HIM A FAVOR IN THAT LINE AND THAT'S WHY HE'S ARGUING VIC SHOOK HIS HEAD QUITE GRAVELY 2ebeeec8-24e8-4aa0-b312-2cde7f6d2fdd 413 NAY MORE SHE SEEMED TO DELIGHT IN IT THEY HAD A SPELL LIKE THIS LAST SUMMER AND WON THE SUMMER BEFORE WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL FINALLY I MUST GO AND GET THE POTATOES READY eac30302-a9da-45f4-a871-08edd301c0ac 2137 THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN CIUS ROSE WITH A BRASSY GLARE 3c2624e0-036b-4ad9-8882-14c4461a71a2 30 STARING AT US WHEN THEY THOUGHT WE WOULD BE TOO BUSY EATING TO SEE THEM SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE 322f39ab-78d1-4cca-bed7-0df866f331da 188 FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS WE WERE ALL DELIGHTED PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT 2b63d1e8-2770-4229-a6c4-915ade185725 14 SERMONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT AND I LIKE THE SINGING SHE WAS BAREHEADED AS USUAL AND HER SCARLET RIBBON WAS BOUND FILLET WISE ABOUT HER HEAD 5c5ad77b-ee92-47da-858b-df1332f7dba7 2312 MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE A FINGER LONG MAYBE TWO 8a6d368b-c641-4cb0-9a60-d18bc3d18d5c 14 AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED AND MISERY RETORTED PETER SULKILY THE FRAGRANCE OF THE ORCHARD STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A WAVE 6b1189a8-f70c-414a-a632-346ea884b88d 2137 BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL 6b0db21c-0c3f-440e-820e-71b046fd227e 30 AND AS A RESULT WE WERE ALWAYS CATCHING EACH OTHER AT IT SARA STANLEY BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU 134eda2c-ea2f-4551-bf1e-4e21411553a8 2425 IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT HAVE YOU EVER SAT SO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN IN A MOTION PICTURE THEATRE SO THAT THE GRAININESS OF THE MOVING FILM WAS VISIBLE 09fecbb2-39d5-40af-881c-b7119e778e40 177 WHEN SHE REACHED US SHE TREMBLED SO MUCH AT FIRST SHE COULD NOT SPEAK HOW COULD THE GROWN UPS EAT AS THEY DID I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT RUTH f14d486b-9a21-4bb4-9669-a0934afa5daa 188 I WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT WAS DEAD AND GONE BUT THOSE PLUMS CERTAINLY KEPT HIS MEMORY GREEN AS HIS FORGOTTEN SERMONS NEVER COULD HAVE DONE 77beaa2e-dd4f-4bf3-a064-04f2e44641c1 2312 THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE NOW IN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT HIS PART OF THE SENSES WAS FINISHED 5d482e59-4ef0-4947-8d9b-6b2ee6253135 2312 AT THE LITTLE PEOPLE TOWN THERE WAS A CLEAR DUTY TO GET THE JOB DONE BUT AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS THE INCANTO WORE OFF 71e4b19b-ed82-4ea8-8949-1a2454340099 451 I SUPPOSE IT'S JUST THE SAME AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US e23d6252-7aa0-4664-afa2-3d31e3b7420d 413 HE LOOKED AS WE SAW WITH SINKING HEARTS UNUSUALLY GRAVE AND PREOCCUPIED NO IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD SAID CICELY WITH THE HIGH REMOTE AIR OF ONE TO FORGET ME NOT JUGS IN ALL SUCH PUMPS AND VANITIES OF THE WORLD WERE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD 15209390-3b35-4794-9a6c-f50924e805f6 30 STILL WE WERE BOTH INCLINED TO THINK WE WOULD LIKE CECILY BETTER THAN FELICITY OH I CAN'T BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT b541ea5f-ec28-4ac9-8e5e-b441aeb6a1d2 14 I'VE THOUGHT OF THE WAY MY AUNT JANE USED TO GIVE MEDICINE TO A CAT AND PUT ON THE LONG LACE VEIL THAT HAD BEEN SO MANY YEARS A MAKING WELL THAT'S BETTER THAN A HOLE bca0ff77-f1c3-4b3d-aa8e-330345389b25 413 NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS ddbe2fe8-d975-46e5-b4ca-a0ad61bb7f36 2137 A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN WE MAY YET SPOT THE ESCAPE CAPSULE NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL 98ed9756-d43f-4fc3-8e0a-247d46332333 103 DOESN'T HE EVER MEAN TO GET MARRIED ASKED FELIX AUNT OLIVIA WISHES HE WOULD BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND SHE WANTS TO GO TO AUNT JULIE IN CALIFORNIA 4460d03d-5909-4b52-8d81-e2adc1f0fc75 14 OUTSIDE THE SKY WAS PURPLE AND GOLD AND SILVERY GREEN I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT 63b13672-db5b-4ac2-b397-b7cfb1b7d8a3 2108 ONE OF THE SCARECROW'S RECITATIONS WAS LIKE THIS AND ARE NOW ON OUR WAY TO GLINDA THE GOOD TO SEE IF SHE POSSESSES THE POWER TO RESTORE US TO OUR PROPER FORMS 0b492fa5-8f21-4cb6-acc0-27038534669b 2286 MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED 93a788d1-a5da-4a6a-8bcb-9f5fdff914d9 2312 THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS IT WAS A NIGHTMARE REPLICA OF A SHRUNKEN MULE AND ONE MILLION OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE 383844eb-da26-4a26-ae2f-344ebb0b3846 103 BEHIND THE HOUSE WAS A GROVE OF FIR AND SPRUCE A DIM COOL PLACE WHERE THE WINDS WERE FOND OF PURRING AND WHERE THERE WAS ALWAYS A RESINOUS WOODSY ODOUR 7708df1a-60d0-4049-bf40-e3a2014c9159 2137 OH NO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER INVOLVED SUPPOSE IT'S BOBBING IN THE DARK ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT 7244c0a9-24b8-48cf-80bf-ece622f2d125 242 AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING BUT IN STORIES IT'S JUST AS EASY TO MAKE THEM AS HANDSOME AS NOT 3a6a59ba-7b00-46da-8f1e-09b65aadbbfc 2425 THOSE PRIESTS ARE WISER THAN THE REST OF THIS CREW WHICH SET MY NERVES ON EDGE HE ISN'T THERE AND THE BED HASN'T BEEN SLEPT IN f88aa3f1-de63-4d07-9577-6c127eb18909 2425 VIC HOPE DIDN'T NOTICE IT UNTIL LATER THE RAYS OF THE MACHINE CAUGHT IT AND BROUGHT IT BACK WITH US MADE IT SOLID MATTER AS WE KNOW IT HERE a569bc2e-6759-4c4d-8e4d-46031e6d1414 413 NEITHER ARGUMENT ENTREATY NOR EXPOSTULATION HAD ANY EFFECT ON THOSE TWO STUBBORN GIRLS YES AND IF HE LETS YOU OFF THEN WE'LL KNOW HE WAS IN EARNEST CHIMED IN CICELY a52e1ad7-d059-4953-9ac4-21f45d1d0ae7 30 IT HAD TAKEN ROOT AND GROWN BUT SHE HAD DAINTY LITTLE FEATURES AND MILD BROWN EYES 135db47c-d87b-47d1-a575-5ee24b4496ac 402 THEY WERE WONDERFULLY DAINTY WITH A STRANGE FAINT AROMATIC PERFUME WHICH WAS ONLY TO BE DETECTED AT A LITTLE DISTANCE AND VANISHED IF YOU BENT OVER THEM 4f42612d-7ebe-4c95-b701-ea77aea094f6 32 I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING COULD BE BOUGHT IN ANY SHOP FOR A TRIFLING SUM AND MADE UP OUT OF HAND 313c9739-a89e-47a9-8355-1a133c5926b9 2137 ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET FINALLY IN DESPERATION HE SWITCHED OFF THE TELETOCKY TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING e7078693-0503-490a-be37-bae378e5444f 748 YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SO MUCH SAW THE HUNG FRAU SOARING INTO CLOUDLAND THE LETTERS WE HAD RECEIVED FROM HIM SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO 6e1ddec7-577e-4063-9dce-41d5d9abf5e4 30 WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM FELIX AND I aa6ebae7-fec4-4226-a8d1-0eda4945bc24 464 IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON 588c7bb2-bdd8-410d-a6ae-833cdb4539d4 464 AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH OH SARA STANLEY IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I AM THAT YOUR AUNT OLIVIA IS TO BE HOME TO NIGHT 0301c361-3e85-4439-a9d9-0b65ac04dbd9 32 THRONE PULPIT OR CONCERT PLATFORM AS OCCASION REQUIRED I LIKE PETER WELL ENOUGH IN HIS PLACE EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY EXCEPT FELIX c9c42798-b501-422e-afea-ee0274e3e1d7 2108 LET US TRAVEL IN SOME OTHER DIRECTION WHO LIVES HERE HE ASKED WE MIGHT GO STRAIGHT INTO THE EMERALD CITY 8ba13d3e-ed0e-4507-aa2e-17322ad6ce8c 198 BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF feb6f882-85e2-44c7-9e7a-7dd4d7af568c 748 ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY WE LOOKED AT HER WITH A SLIGHTLY INCREDULOUS AWE c5c5a0a2-4701-413d-95cc-191eb661df9a 198 IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS SAID UNCLE ROGER AS HE WENT OUT TO TAKE THEIR HORSE BUT FELICITY'S FOOT WAS ON HER NATIVE HEATH 1cac5893-6d1d-4500-ad4c-7ace95f5ca1e 2182 A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN c84596ca-19b1-41bb-863a-da3837342fda 2274 THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES AND HE HAD THE HEAVY FRICATIVE GREETING SOUND 73f96d11-538a-4bf7-a020-fb3012a75f81 402 OUR CURIOSITY HAD LED US INTO SOME HOLY OF HOLIES NOT TO BE PROFANED BY HUMAN EYES BUT OF COURSE I MEAN TO THANK GOD WHEN I SAY MY PRAYERS TO NIGHT THAT'S ONLY DECENT 73addf05-80e8-4de3-8242-8feb24907cfc 2317 APPARENTLY THE FEASTMAN THOUGHT NOTHING AT ALL OF HIS STATE OF NUDITY AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY AND THE JUDGE HAD GOTTEN A NASTY CRACK ON THE HEAD 035d0b94-c134-474b-9e81-4243f7f9d4ca 413 WHEN A BOY AS FLAT AS FELIX RUNS AT FULL SPEED ON A BROILING AUGUST FORENOON HE HAS SOMETHING TO RUN FOR AS FELICITY REMARKED e550d41e-e50b-46f4-9906-178776b3ab6a 2137 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ALTHOUGH QUITE AS UNJUSTIFIED I ASSURE YOU HE STOPPED AND BLOTTED HIS MOIST BROW WITH HIS SLEEVE 9ac4d257-325b-4496-b798-37bebe903060 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 9209ab8f-0144-4c66-ae86-6d30e8a99a02 2182 SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY 45bfaaeb-7e68-4533-be9b-1676c6f90730 2182 STARTLED JEFF NO MORE THAN THE FACT THAT HE SEEMED TO BE HOLDING JENOFOR MAC TIGHTLY HE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT HER SAILS BELLIED NOT WITH THE WIND BUT AGAINST 714a918c-475b-4a9c-b7fe-3c86479f1bb8 2274 THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW 581a12a7-e857-42cb-8a12-b0722d7ea840 2137 TOWERS SAID IN A TONE THAT IRRITATED BRANDON WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION 63c24035-72e2-43ff-897a-4b76443decf1 2312 MANOEL OFTEN WONDERED ABOUT THAT FOR HE HAD RAISED THE WHOLE STRAIN OF ANIMALS GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED 0d7decb4-00a1-4b65-ada5-a5279c936056 32 EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED 258f66e8-7c3b-4eb9-ba8c-48aab90d3ee9 103 AND THE ORCHARD FORGOTTEN WE FOLLOWED HER SUMMONS FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED 0fb7c4cd-d38c-4c1e-85b1-0b2aedeeb432 451 IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B WE WERE ALL IN THE HAYLOFT 047522d5-91d5-4f30-bf6b-aa0845c292fd 2317 FARMER FURTHER DECIDED THAT RAY WAS TOO EGOCENTRICALLY ECCENTRIC TO BE TRUSTED TO GET HIM OUT OF THIS FIX eaf8c882-731c-49c5-8a4e-3cba9a2e1c56 748 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 f1724651-2617-45ff-910f-65207c306208 177 IF THE WORLD DOESN'T COME TO AN END I'LL TELL YOU THE STORY OF RUTH NEXT SUNDAY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD 1bb12875-b745-4b55-a978-17c870ae157f 2274 THE RED LIGHT ABOVE THE SPEAKER GRID BEGAN BLINKING HE WAS PLAGUED BY THE VAGUE SLOW MOTION FLOATING SENSATION b283377e-9fcd-4b10-9558-82ce4de5ad04 2368 ONCE HE BUILT A SMALL OUTDOOR FIRE AND WALKED AROUND IT BITTERSHIN'S FOR SEVERAL MINUTES VERY WELL THEN CLAYTON THOUGHT d6a634dd-4408-43f2-82e8-a5a72277e980 188 BUT THE MASTER WOULD NOT LET THEM AND NOW WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR HER UNCLES ROARED WITH LAUGHTER OVER THE RECOLLECTION 2749daed-0fdb-4bb0-9fff-6097b0cd8e71 2425 BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO HE WENT THE WAY OF THE TWO OTHERS OFF ON ANOTHER TANGENT NOW 42dc7223-3214-4b40-b444-b926a6e640cf 2425 THEN DARKNESS CLOSED IN SWIFTLY HOW LONG SIR I'D SAY ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE YOU CAME 8ff7ff1b-d0cf-412c-b154-08c54a160456 2182 OLD CHARLEY HAD ABANDONED HIS BOAT AND WAS SWIMMING IN TO ESCAPE THE SCOOP THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM a84e82f8-99f8-43db-ad47-c5065ae52ecf 242 I KIND OF WISH I'D BEEN BORN AN INJUN SAID DAN NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL 5b4c8b21-9551-4599-973b-b126686af0b1 188 A RICH MAN IN TORONTO HAD A FLORAL CLOCK IN HIS GARDEN I SAID SHE SAYS SHE HE KEEPS IT VERY NEAT OH I WISH WE HAD ONE HERE EXCLAIMED CECILY fd6f0a52-eba1-4015-8ea0-17547c73d350 2108 IT FORTUNATELY LANDED ON THE WICKED WITCH AND SMASHED HER FLAT AND WASHING HER DISHES a1ed5506-b588-48b3-b2b6-6a2eb1f62c7a 30 UNDER THE ROOF TREE BUILT BY GREAT GRANDFATHER KING FELIX TWITCHED THE QUILT RATHER VICIOUSLY AND GRUNTED 24ff9df2-47f7-4110-8fe8-af6d04073657 103 WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY f56161a3-0ce2-4a09-8472-da8c87149026 30 HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY f369bd26-4782-49b0-84d2-022734bddbe7 103 BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAUGHT BY HER FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE ab8440bc-d041-4e02-94aa-93e095a98966 464 NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION 1d5cc86c-0feb-4424-997d-e87a1deb3a33 2368 SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE I PRAY THAT THERE IS AN END TO IT 317340a2-44b6-43e8-8554-7576d5a6b88a 402 HE'S A PRESBYTERIAN YOU KNOW SAID FELICITY REASSURINGLY THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY AND SHE LOVED ALLAN DUNBAR JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER 5524916d-fd70-4fb3-9e92-62f0f902b518 2274 IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB WITH ITS GRAVITY OF ONLY SEVEN EIGHTHS TERRAN STANDARD 8e608133-388d-46af-8b25-9a9a38e421e5 103 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 d0cc83c8-942e-42ba-8fa4-e6dd08b80089 402 IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER AND YOU ARE LET'S SEE HIM BEFORE IT HAPPENS DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOMETHING WORSE NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE MY BOY 9b0cd32b-1c1b-4025-aea2-997f0f3623e9 2317 STRAIGHTENED OUT HIS FACE AND LICKED HIS LIPS FARMER CHANGED HIS MIND AGAIN ABOUT RAY'S BEING CRACKED AND ALREADY BEGINNING TO MAKE A PUDDLE ON THE DECK be155dcc-f416-4339-9edf-16e9c5b2f7dc 2368 THE STATE OF COMPLETE AND UTTER QUIET WAS BOTH FOREIGN AND SLIGHTLY REPUGNANT TO HIM AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU 0a27dd6f-afc3-439b-b1bf-355ec7a994be 413 BUT THEY ONLY LASTED A COUPLE OF DAYS FELICITY HAD DROPPED THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WHICH HAD PASSED UNSCATHED THROUGH SO MANY CHANGING YEARS AND NOW AT LAST LAY SHATTERED ON THE STONE OF THE WELL CURB 75f774c5-14cb-41ec-bfc5-567c763e5296 198 CECILY HOW OLD MUST WE BE BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A REAL BEAU BUT WE AIN'T SAID FELIX CANDIDLY I WOULDN'T BE MUCH SCARED OF ANYTHING REAL BUT A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A DIFFERENT THING I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY 1c22169e-a84a-4e5a-ba31-80af02dbb7f6 2182 ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS STANDING THERE ON THE DECK BESIDE ME RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE SO THAT'S WHY YOUR SAILS BELLIED BACKWARD WHEN YOU CAME INTO HARBOR 156fe240-126e-4b00-a83c-0bc9ff9b0630 30 AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING BUT WE HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT HER BY THE TIME WE REACHED THE OPEN COUNTRY cff57b79-3c3d-41c7-ad02-c5d48787e5ba 103 FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US e68ef2a7-fe7e-4262-9a12-a994154f6a83 2425 YOU AND MISSUS PARIN ARE TO LEAVE ME HERE AND NOT DISTURB ANYTHING SIT DOWN PETE AND LET'S TALK 01f923ad-cb8e-4cba-8e51-5ac6ae997fa8 748 EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL 4bea1933-7dbd-4e1c-aa67-afa0ece3292b 413 I SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE BAWLED EVEN IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW WHAT MATTERED IT THAT ALL THE CUPS IN THE WORLD BE BROKEN TODAY IF THE CRACKADOON MUST SOUND TO MORROW 8fd36b8f-e22b-4cf7-bb58-1bd724ab9932 242 I'VE GONE TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL MY LIFE AND PETER NEVER WENT TILL THIS SUMMER A KATY WAS ALL THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE MENTIONED 183366ec-bfc7-4b15-a78b-96e80d4d90b3 2182 IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT THERE IS NO DANGER WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK 011bb57a-14d4-45ef-bf27-b2a1fe54726a 2274 A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED JUST LOOK AT THAT BLASTED JUNGLE BARKED STETSON be84b53d-0feb-4f86-b623-95353f083248 2286 AFTER CHECKING OUT THE CONTROLS AND SPECIAL APPARATUS WITH THE TECHNICIANS I CLEARED THE SHIP OF COURSE YOU DON'T EXPECT THEM TO FIRE WARSHIP PLANS WITH THE LEGAL REGISTRY DO YOU f6801fc3-aac6-4883-8431-0b5a237d23b4 451 I THINK I'LL WRAP IT UP AND KEEP IT IN MY BOX HE SAID ONCE THERE WERE TWO ARCHANGELS IN HEAVEN THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE 5e7b951d-639b-4644-aa57-f0769034b769 2274 HISS STETSON THAT'LL EXPLAIN A LOT OF THINGS I OUGHT TO I'M RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU O K KEEP US POSTED 1560f578-70d9-4784-950f-d161f89c4ca1 103 THE LITTLE DIAL IN POINTER WHICH WOULD INDICATE THE CHANGES OF THE MOON AND THE VERY DENT IN ITS WOODEN DOOR WHICH FATHER HAD MADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY BY KICKING IT IN A FIT OF NAUGHTINESS FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET b6c8497f-31b6-47f6-af47-f5d4f5aa560c 2286 I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT A SMALL WAVE OF CUSTOM MEN HUNG STICKERS ON MY LUGGAGE PEEKED INTO ONE OR TWO FOR CONFORMITY'S SAKE AND WAVED ME THROUGH 40a5a094-5a68-49fa-8893-b8ab06064dac 177 I WISH ADDED CECILY WITH A SIGH SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY b2d79b29-fb3a-4c53-a235-b778c17f33b8 748 THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT f4c8573f-fb64-4a89-9759-e72662a2f7ea 2368 THEN HE SAW WHAT WAS IN THEIR MINDS AND THE DISTASTE CHANGED TO FEAR NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THIS WAS THE PARISH CHURCH OF COURSE A GOOD SOLID WOODEN STRUCTURE 0876ff6e-215f-46cf-9fcb-9ddcb6f723b8 1867 IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGN OF WEAR I COULD HAVE HAD A LIZARD FRY FIXED THE BEACON AND TAKEN OFF BY HARRY HARRISON ae9a96dc-7daa-4bed-81d1-23bac2e3699c 30 THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AND WE HEARD THE FROGS SINGING DOWN IN THE SWAMP OF THE BROOK MEADOW d28cc9f8-caaa-419d-a83f-25a7194b526b 30 AND WE UNDERSTOOD HIS MOUTH WAS HIS OWN HOWEVER AND FEELING CHEAP AND EMBARRASSED 548edc3f-dcf6-429c-9e71-f13df1424029 30 LOOKING OUT EASTWARD INTO THE SPRUCE GROVE NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE cfcdb106-9594-4b2a-b8a8-9de1d588acae 748 INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE 56b02286-0fe2-4eda-b8cf-e36365be4a1a 451 HAY LOFTS ARE DELICIOUS PLACES WITH JUST ENOUGH OF SHADOW AND SOFT UNCERTAIN NOISES TO GIVE AN AGREEABLE TANG OF MYSTERY 3b889df6-bed5-4a60-b68c-a19fb1f0740c 2425 A TREMENDOUS CURRENT OF IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE WIRE CARRYING IT AND ONE WAS FIERY RED ba37daf7-676a-4abd-a458-278cf036114e 242 FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT 641c1696-262c-4777-a9d6-33ddea399cb9 402 WE FELT AS IF A TERRIBLE WEIGHT HAD BEEN LIFTED FROM OUR MINDS FANCY SELLING GOD'S PICTURE SAID CECILY IN A SHOCKED AWED TONE 250e79f8-2c5b-405a-becb-3a1a3c3dc037 1867 OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY GREETINGS O NOBLE SERVERS OF THE GREAT GOD I SAID 78687a53-e096-44d6-a419-c35687214c21 14 THIS IS MY KINGDOM HE'LL LIKELY DO SOMETHING AWFUL AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL ASHAMED AND WISH YOU'D NEVER ASKED HIM TO GO 1cc7d1a9-8e9e-41f2-949c-d9dd4020b9b6 2182 UNCLE CHARLEY HAS TALKED ABOUT SETTLING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND STANDING FOR COUNCIL ELECTION CHAFFY THREE SAID TO JENOFY THEN f1d2b7e3-9330-46cd-962b-f83ef8a241ec 402 IT WAS FOLDED UP IN A NEWSPAPER PACKET ON TOP OF THE DRIED HERRING WITH WHICH THE BASKET WAS FILLED THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE 3fce53ba-7fe2-44cb-9918-7f592b591699 464 IT LOOKED JUST LIKE CORNMEAL SAID THE STORY GIRL GOING FROM WHITE TO RED IN HER SHAME WELL I'M GOING TO GIVE UP TRYING TO COOK AND STICK TO THINGS I CAN DO ba68a3d4-99ac-4f4e-abb7-25c543093356 2286 BUT IT WAS JUST THE THING TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION SETANOVO I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP 3e7375e9-d37e-4bac-9447-80dd759b2dde 2274 TELL THEM WE'LL COMPLY THOSE FAT HEADED LARD BOTTOMED PIG BRAINED 297417e1-2eee-45ff-88a0-ea3c803cb548 32 WE WERE NOT SO SURE OF THIS GHOSTS WERE UNCHANCY FOLK BUT DURING THE DAY THE STORY GIRL WOULD SMUGGLE UPSTAIRS VARIOUS TIDBITS FROM THE PANTRY PUTTING HALF IN PETER'S ROOM AND HALF IN HER OWN 7227ab90-254a-4144-b1e5-504959c6e794 2312 HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING BEFORE YOU DO MANOEL JUST A COUPLE OF LAST QUESTIONS I DON'T SEE MARILLA SINCE I CAME BACK 9da174fa-6111-478f-858d-151bbf064927 2368 HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW a7d5d161-044b-44ad-b13d-51cb7ed623b4 2312 DONKEY A JACK WERE TOO STUPID YEN LORDA DE NOSER MOTE 0fa943a1-e28e-457f-90fe-95377cddd704 2312 HOW DO YOU KNOW MARSHALL DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM MARSHAL DON'T ASK THE LITTLE BUG SO MANY QUESTIONS 3aaaf39c-63df-40aa-a65f-b2f71a61a369 2312 AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT EIGHT NINE PEOPLE SEE THEM THERE WAS REASON ALSO WHY MARILLA WAS LOADED SO SHE COULD HARDLY WALK WITH PACKS OF CENSUS FORMS d8552880-3f4a-407d-b602-58709cbb7c1e 242 MISS MARWOOD WAS FELIX'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE WAS VERY FOND OF HER BUT THIS TIME FELIX WAS QUITE RECKLESS 2aec9023-0824-4842-8999-4cc9a71ad520 1867 I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME fc5eccd8-7368-4764-b1f6-e1ca4a10c558 413 I CANNOT HAVE ASKED HIM WHAT WAS THE MATTER HAD MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT I THOUGHT OF ALL THE EVIL DEEDS OF MY SHORT LIFE SHE BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE TRUE c99c81a8-fcb2-4c69-9be8-1bf88c26f530 413 I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU PUT MY THOUGHTS INTO IT WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY MAY BE TO MORROW 8c38e7a3-4d63-4111-a1c2-a98464842c8d 30 SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM DRINK FROM THE DEEP WELL WITH A CHINESE ROOF OVER IT 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LIPS I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING ffa163fd-1af6-443c-b3fc-b59d835d65d9 30 WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE ON A FARM ADJOINING THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD IN CARLISLE 1069485a-c302-4a34-811e-35911a3e0571 402 PRESENTLY THE STORY GIRL WHO HAD BEEN STANDING UP LEANING AGAINST A TALL FIR AND HE HAD TO LEAVE MARGARET BEHIND 05c91901-347e-4891-99f1-246a98059169 2182 MAROONED IT CAN DO NO HARM TO MARINE INTELLIGENCES A THIN HIGH STREAK OF VAPOR TRAIL KNEELING DOWN TOWARD THEM FROM THE SUNRISE RAINBOW 6760a85c-f00f-43de-8c3c-e75114c18693 2274 ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB 271d9915-f8fd-4d87-a800-5e0bfec43994 2137 THE THIRD MILE BROUGHT HIM TO THE SCENE OF THE CRASH THE OXYGEN HE REALIZED WAS GIVING OUT THE SOUND FADING IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND HIM 80c1e6a9-541b-43d9-a7b3-ee43e6d8929c 413 BUT IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID PETER MISERABLY BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WON'T WANT IT BACK IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY aadcc6a0-6637-4c15-896c-823676b2cf8d 2368 I CAN DO MANY THINGS YANUS WENT ON IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I BRING THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION AND TURNED AGAIN TOWARD THE DOOR 911389ef-2427-4043-85a0-3bcee0c3c0e0 14 IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY f9b69f07-3c3b-4658-839d-570b469242e3 103 WE HAVE BARN CATS BUT PATTY NEVER ASSOCIATES WITH THEM I THINK IT'S AWFULLY LUCKY WE WERE ALL BORN INTO THE SAME FAMILY FELIX REMARKED ISN'T IT I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT SO 13cc001b-b6eb-402c-bab0-306dcbd1b4c8 413 ON THE CONTRARY IT PASSED SPEEDILY AWAY NOT EVEN ONE LOW DESCENDING SUN GOING DOWN AND THEREOF IF HE IS A PROPHET PERHAPS HE HAS FOUND OUT SOMEHOW 5156ed2e-00aa-4080-818f-0012be729ece 464 THEN WE LAUGHED UNTIL PETER GOT SULKY BUT PETER WAS NOT TO BE CONCILIATED AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF IN HIGH DUDGEON 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FELLOWS TO LAUGH I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID ec8443eb-902d-4a7a-ac36-aec725254db6 2182 TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT THE THING WAS TOWING YOU CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY 3d7ba7cd-6dc9-4def-84d5-3db9cc641493 242 FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS OH BUT UNCLE ALEC IT WAS THIS WAY BEGAN FELIX EAGERLY 326d233f-6ecb-4f2e-a910-8540321d4a5b 30 WE TRIED TO STARE AT THEM WHEN THEY WERE EATING OUR DOOR WAS OPEN AND IN THEIR ROOM ACROSS THE NARROW HALL THE KING COMPLEXION dc37d42a-b81c-4b62-a265-f28526214135 14 A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY IT'S ALL RIGHT TO HAVE OUR NIGHT BOXES FOR THE HEATHEN AND SEND MISSIONARIES TO THEM 09cbcc41-99c2-4d96-bdcc-3d2df0778334 402 AN EXPRESSION OF SCORN CAME OVER HER FACE IT'S SAD AND BEAUTIFUL AND YET THE POSSIBILITY STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A BLOW 65711189-2667-40bc-b921-b1e452652fb0 2312 THEY BURIED HIM NOT KNOWING FOR SURE WHETHER HE WAS MANUEL COME BACK IF ONLY HE HAD LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY c9625e5b-0385-4c90-a937-0830d9cdbd9a 413 PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST 7136f39f-2fdb-442f-a37e-e2ffad1a5556 2286 THIS FILLED THE TIME UNTIL SETANOVO BLINKED INTO THE BOW SCREEN IF YOUR PLAN DOESN'T WORK THEN WHY DID IT TASTE LIKE ASHES IN MY MOUTH 1a84d8df-37d3-4cbd-b32f-f3ede7813a95 198 IF I PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER IT WILL BE TOO LATE I'M GROWING SO FAST AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I'LL HAVE TO WEAR ANKLE SKIRTS NEXT SUMMER IF I BEGIN TO LOOK GROWN UP HE'LL GET FRIGHTENED OF ME AND THEN I'LL NEVER FIND OUT THE GOLDEN MILESTONE MYSTERY I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY 170f7b1e-dfbe-47d8-a3ef-cbcb75296ebe 242 I DON'T SEE WHY GOD SHOULD ANSWER PETER'S PRAYERS INSTEAD OF MINE HE SAID BITTERLY 39de0151-b410-40c3-9d62-160c31492c35 242 CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS ONE OF THE YOUNG BRAVES WAS NAMED A KATY c44dd003-e059-48b0-aec8-e2a444980782 30 TO BE SURE FELICITY WAS A STUNNING BEAUTY EXPLAINED CECILY EACH OF THEM AS LARGE AS A TREE IN ITSELF dbc103d0-ef39-44e3-ad52-236664ce0508 2274 THAT WASN'T ON THE LANGUAGE LIST EITHER THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES ORAN FOUGHT THE CONTROLS 0ed9172f-7bb9-4c48-b3a7-122c001e0bf1 188 AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL f1bf8499-2e00-4385-ac3e-a22a8f9a391f 413 I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN DO IT GO AWAY BACK THERE ALONE IT CAN'T BE TRUE SAID SARA RAY SEEKING REFUGE AS USUAL IN TEARS BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THE ENTERPRISE EDITOR AT ALL WHO'S SAYING IT 85b3649e-3287-4817-98d4-1551db6b2a99 188 IT WAS SO LARGE AND HAD SUCH GREEN MALICIOUS EYES I ALWAYS FEEL SORRY FOR THE POOR WEED SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY PRESENTLY WE WERE IN THE FIELD BEYOND THE BROOK bc44a250-f19f-4327-b1f0-fb214da9381a 402 LET'S GO OVER TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK AND SIT ON THE BRANCHES OF THE BIG TREE WE DID NOT WISH OUR GROWN UPS AROUND AT OUR GREAT MOMENT SO WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE LOFT OF THE GRANARY IN THE SPRUCE WOOD FROM WHOSE WINDOW WE COULD SEE THE MAIN ROAD AND HALE JERRY 8989a404-0b9f-4105-a95f-e650859d0ccd 2137 THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE THE CAPSULE WAS ON ITS BACK AND BRANDON WAS STILL STRAPPED SECURELY TO THE SEAT 1ddc0867-1714-4de0-b06a-92a080a2933b 1867 I HAD A PRY EYE OF MY OWN CONSTRUCTION I HAD THE SPEAKER ON FULL VOLUME AND THE VIBRATION ALMOST SHOOK MY HEAD OFF ed39e903-5b7a-48ed-b9ea-25d07e7332e7 2425 AND NOTHING TO ITS BULK UNLESS WE HAVE A HEATING OVERLOAD THEN SUDDENLY THERE WAS A TERRIFIC CRASH OF SOUND IT SEEMED THAT AN INSTANT BEFORE I HAD BEEN STANDING THERE IN VIC'S LABORATORY SLOWLY TURNING THE SECOND OF THE TWO DIALS WHILE THE FOUR LIGHTS BEAT DOWN UPON MY BODY 77a184e4-ae54-42b3-9536-cdbe768b2f99 2312 THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER d71401fb-1175-44dc-b472-8cfbcf4fe03d 177 THEN CICELY CAME RUNNING AT FULL SPEED BACK TO US OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED YES BUT IT TOOK THE JUDGMENT DAY TO MAKE HER 5e1074df-5e1d-4961-92b0-679ad076f857 2317 A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY df0a0b88-a379-4b0a-9ab1-055d2c5623ee 242 WELL HE'S GOT TO STOP PRAYING AGAINST ME ANYHOW SAID FELIX RESOLUTELY 3afdb9f6-3e6e-42c2-9c75-3fd44c27e38f 14 WHAT WILL YOU FEEL LIKE IF HE GOES TO CHURCH WITH THE SKIN OF HIS LEGS SHOWING THROUGH THE HOLES MISS STORY GIRL 07b6d6fe-d70e-4ae0-8dbd-f8714182ad52 30 WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE 63807689-e52b-45ba-8e0d-7d28025329ae 30 DOWN ON THE HOMESTEAD TOOK CHARGE OF US ON THE JOURNEY WE SAW THAT FELICITY WAS VAIN e017e089-c122-4a7b-ae5b-b2de05ac3910 748 AND SHE FED THEM HERSELF JUST THE SAME AS USUAL HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS I HAD NOT GROWN A SINGLE BIT BY THE MERCILESS TESTIMONY OF THE HALL DOOR 063f3c17-7b4b-4177-84f3-828002323a18 30 HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I WHO BELONGED TO THE ISLAND AND WAS NOW RETURNING TO IT AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US aa5aa667-3b9e-441f-9fff-22a60e434ac1 2286 WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS THE PLAN THAT SEEMED SO CLEAR AND LOGICAL NOW BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A PATCHED AND CRAZY MAKESHIFT adb94075-1412-4d24-991a-fd9e5b1654ac 2368 THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE 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 34c1a728-429f-4a56-b828-8d9ec7dddddf 2274 THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS THIS ONE AND ANOTHER ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET BUT THE OTHER ONE'S A RUIN 4d2eb589-fb17-4b91-9c6e-8ae96c4f91f1 188 DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR HE WAS A TALL SLENDER MAN WHO DID NOT LOOK HIS FORTY YEARS 9b176c21-a02d-4b1d-b1c5-0986d9add559 2182 INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY b1b23d0e-0268-414d-a153-156fc7e42f48 103 WITH SUCH COLOURING MOST CATS WOULD HAVE HAD WHITE OR SILVER FEET BUT HE HAD FOUR BLACK PAWS AND A BLACK NOSE SUCH POINTS GAVE HIM AN AIR OF DISTINCTION AND MARKED HIM OUT AS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE COMMON OR GARDEN VARIETY OF CATS 88d39253-c6e9-4cb6-b233-ed44fca7406c 32 IT'S LIKE A DREAM OF FAIRYLAND THIS TRULY AUNT JANITY REMARK BROKE THE SPELL e1eb483a-7f48-4117-876e-f300fff5b031 177 ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD CECILY WAS PALE BUT BRAVE AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS 94d0063a-9d22-471a-9384-95baa24fd0d8 14 I REMEMBERED THE WAY SHE SHOOK HIM OFF AND I WANTED TO LAUGH SHE HAD DIED IN A FAR FOREIGN LAND IT WAS A STRANGE WOOING AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS BEGGED HER TO REFUSE 41738000-98b7-4c02-a225-31a7f384470c 413 I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY WELL WHAT DOES SHE SAY ASKED CICELY TREMULOUSLY OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST 9d60f41b-5254-45b9-9cd8-f0aff477cd66 748 IT WAS TO MAKE FELICITY AS CLEVER AS THE STORY GIRL WHEN THE TIME CAME TO HAND IN OUR COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY FUND 1c177b01-aa14-4dac-af09-4a8db8e99e09 1867 AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK b08934e9-66bc-4c9f-99c1-aa896057628c 2137 HE HESITATED FOR A MOMENT HE WALKED THREE PERHAPS FOUR MILES NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST 1e41f462-0428-45c0-af31-fac637439f48 177 MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION 8538ceed-b6f6-43fc-bfff-7e636cca563f 2274 YOU KNOW THAT TOO HIGHWAYMEN SAID STETSON CONTACTED CULTURE 47690056-7757-4041-bbd2-1e475d8ab3bf 451 OH PLEASE DON'T DO SUCH A THING SARA CECILY AND DAN AND FELIX WERE WALKING BEFORE US HAND IN HAND SINGING A HYMN ed004ecd-64cf-48ee-b6ba-dde13cfd68b2 2368 IT IS A TRICK KNUFF SAID BUT THE TALENT WAS NEW ITEDED PRACTICE IT NEEDED TRAINING I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY 935dd1d1-9e43-4eeb-9d18-8581a352feed 2182 HIS AURA QUIVERED WITH A SHOCK OF BETRAYAL PERMANENT BENEFIT WAS SLOW BUT CUMULATIVE HE WAS STILL SCOWLING OVER WHAT HE SHOULD TELL CHARLIE MACK WHEN THE ISLAND QUEEN HOVE INTO VIEW aaa7dac5-1edd-4347-96dc-0d2dc201fb78 2368 UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE HE GRIMACED IN THE DARKNESS I PERMIT KENNEFF SAID 26b10598-3633-4b97-b8ad-b01e90b8fa25 2368 THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE IF IT IS POSSIBLE YERS SAID OVERPOWERED AND HELD HIM IN A BRIEF SECOND e7a70f58-86f7-4ef7-af8a-364d5fd34233 103 BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND SHE DOESN'T BOTHER ME MUCH AUNT JANET SAYS THAT I'D HAVE NO BRINGING UP AT ALL IF IT WASN'T FOR HER 65a5cc89-b9cd-4c0f-9dad-29d3813b59b7 413 BUT IF THEY JUST SAY THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT IT'LL BE A SORT OF COMFORT SAID CECILY I FEEL SCARED TO DEATH THE WHOLE TIME af5c7485-bb40-4ca8-ae2d-90f6ef916233 402 THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN 02d4325e-d118-4028-aa29-aaa52990a569 451 WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY EVERY ONE HAS TO HAVE THE MEASLES SOMETIME NOW SARA SHE SAID 78bd61d4-0e60-4c9b-ba0b-9152eb035e29 413 I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT SAID FELIX BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL 657bd00e-9c4b-49af-a47d-d0855b07a46f 32 I LIKE TO HEAR YOU TALK SAID FELIX IN HIS GRAVE STODGY WAY PETER THIS IS BEVERLY KING AND THIS IS FELIX 634ad13c-69af-4208-b093-b5c9780c4ead 188 AND HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY IT DON'T SEEM MUCH USE IN HAVING A PLATE JUST FOR ORNAMENT SAID FELICITY eb76b523-5fed-4dda-958b-a1276c400515 1867 I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS 862bf2fc-c60a-4603-99f9-1d70c7e29ffa 2317 AND TRIED TO KEEP HIS EYES ON HER FACE A STRUGGLE SHOWED IN RAY'S FACE IT LEFT HIM WEAK AND QUIVERING 570f8666-bc66-4ba8-bdfe-48c472631fe3 2317 GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING BUT HE WAS A TOUGH BOSO 08822a0c-19c0-4a65-84e1-c84bf822cd65 402 THE STORY GIRL HAD RETURNED AND AT LAST THERE CAME A LETTER WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK 00895a7e-9e15-4e0f-b2e0-2ff3f3671a9d 413 LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY BUT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE GOD CAN MAKE HER I SAID FEELING THAT IT WASN'T QUITE FAIR THAT THE STORY GIRL SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK FIRST 298b2ae5-3ca5-417c-b776-7ca1bc5db8b8 30 THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX A BIG BUSTLING 6d4ce9e8-f464-4ffa-aa68-5679207c2c66 1867 THE LIZARDS CRINGED AND I SET MY SOLAR FOR NARROW BEAM AND RAN IT AROUND THE DOOR JAM 729794b4-87bf-4a42-90f3-4546478bad8e 30 BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND EAT APPLES FROM OUR BIRTHDAY TREES THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD HE ee960367-b8bb-4713-8b7a-f2c46520195a 242 WHAT WOULD MISS MARWOOD SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT ASKED FELICITY AND I'M AFAR FROM BEING SURE THAT FELICITY DID EITHER a2eb8192-cb36-4b42-a2a3-ec8ccb322c45 1867 I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS THE TEMPLE WAS A SMALL ONE BUILT AGAINST THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL ba7859c0-1d5f-4e20-a49e-5edef083c1ef 2274 ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT IN PROWESS OF THE MIND 7f662d3d-3b3a-4528-bc2d-dc6c82adfd5a 2182 THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE 57b14abf-05ca-4124-9a77-32e8cf311392 2286 BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDE THE RELEASE AND FOLLOW UP ALL HARPED ON ONE THEME BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW 52892221-c213-465e-9489-bd4581edc89b 30 WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP DAN WAS THE OLDEST FOR MY OWN PART I WAS RATHER SORRY TO SEE HER GOING 539796dd-492d-4752-abf0-1843aaf51cfa 2137 HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON THE RADIO OPERATOR STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING HESITATED AND FINALLY SETTLED FOR cc21221f-f518-4207-b224-5158e7bf55bd 1867 THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM b34e94c0-922d-479a-8a48-eaacbcc581d8 2286 AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT THE FACTS I NEEDED WERE ALL NEATLY TUCKED AWAY IN THEIR PAID PO CATACOMBS SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION ec55316d-a85c-44b5-a968-034f9f97f4f5 413 BETOKENED THE SENTENCE WHICH SOON CAME DAN DOES SAY SUCH QUEER THINGS AT ANY OTHER TIME WE SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN AGHAST OVER SUCH A CATASTROPHE BUT IT PASSED UNNOTICED NOW aa897ed4-bb7c-4c6a-992c-e7640787edaf 2312 WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU A KIND MAN REALLY f17c4a25-f301-46b3-870f-6b3fb007b7d2 30 A MIGHTY SHORT ROPE SHE WAS CONSTANTLY IN A QUITE JUSTIFIABLE TERROR THE HOME OF OUR FATHERS 822f8cca-f462-4da1-9012-7a8d5cedf5fb 2368 JONAS CAME OVER THE HILL WHISTLING AS IF HE HAD NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD WHICH IS NOT EVEN APPROXIMATELY TRUE HE REFLECTED HAPPILY 7e956266-62f3-4c75-9983-63a22f205d9f 451 OH I'M SICK I'M AWFUL SICK SAID DAN ABJECTLY OH OH OH WAILED CECILY ON THE SOFA ecfc33c4-f8fc-4004-8f2e-febdfbe70c5e 30 BECAUSE YOU CAN BE ALWAYS WONDERING WHAT IS AT THE END OF IT LONG AND NARROW AND TWISTED 5a1d4c22-04d3-4399-9f0e-4e7d7f0d70b9 30 WHEN WE MIGHT RAMBLE IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK SHE WAS PLUMP AND DIMPLED 6456f1e2-528a-4725-9f7c-942cb0b6c7ce 2108 WAS BALLOON AND AT THE SUMMONS A SERVANT APPEARED AND BOWED LOW NO SOUND OF ACTIVITY CAME FROM THE HOUSE EITHER e162f136-a184-493f-ac24-a8d4ea6f1f9c 242 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO AND HE WAS THE BEST HUNTER IN THE TRIBE BESIDES c31a101b-8a0a-426c-a012-4f85bbed3729 2317 FARMER PONDERED THE IDEA OF A TRANSMUTTER THAT WORKED UNDER WATER LIKE A BALL POINT PIN THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM 751e09cd-04f8-4c2a-b07f-64d415af5951 14 AT LEAST ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS I AM SURPRISED AT YOU FELICITY KING SAID CECILIA SEVERELY b3ef83bf-8e40-46d2-8b75-51ec34669cbb 413 I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL IT'S TOO LATE 54a14797-865e-40ac-bd12-49c2aaa66f5b 451 AND THE BRIDGE THEY HAD BUILT SPANNED THE GULF BETWEEN THEIR STARS OF EXILE HE HAD A RETENTIVE MEMORY d61a9d36-8cff-458f-884a-25538254ec1e 2425 IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME 2666f97d-cb6b-4aab-9461-87ba56bbfd3c 2137 THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES db3c979f-460a-42ca-ad2f-d4f4904d42bb 2317 AND WHAT LOOKED AT FIRST LIKE A RED SKIN TIGHT COSTUME BECAME A SCALY HEIGHT 183b28b1-c473-41a9-aa05-c3523f5bd7ff 2108 AND CREATED TWO ROWS OF ENORMOUS TEETH AGAINST THE EMPEROR'S TIN BODY 1de7d7f1-3608-4853-acb0-78ebc52c666e 2137 COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS DISAPPEARING THROUGH A BULKHEAD DOOR THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK adc78601-e68d-4a7e-af8f-23abe50a1cd6 188 BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN BEAUTIFUL WIVES HANGING UP BY THE HAIR ALL AROUND THE WALLS EVERYBODY LOOKED SUDDENLY ALERT I CAN'T SAID SARA WITH PASSIONATE DEFIANCE 7ae0961a-0443-4c4e-a408-674920a22c1b 1867 ROLLED OUT OF THE CAVE AND LANDED AT HIS FEET NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I HOPED I WASN'T BREAKING TOO MANY TABOOS BY GOING IN eb3ae0c5-4b3b-4373-bc00-61595fffed54 30 WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US 02f26fe7-2130-415b-9b20-f0253fe9cd23 2317 THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE a8ea0653-abc6-4a15-8a00-6e5eb1806574 2137 ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE THE DOCTOR LOOKED UP QUIZZICALLY 5620c8f3-0de6-47eb-b09c-1599aad89aa4 2368 TRYING TO TRAP AND KILL THEM WITH NO WEAPONS BEYOND HIS BARE HANDS EVEN AN EATING KNIFE HE HAD CARRIED IN HIS JERKIN HAD BEEN TAKEN AWAY LEAVING HIM TO THE UNCOMFORTABLE REFLECTION THAT HE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO DINE WITH HIS FINGERS WAS A PASTIME THAT OCCUPIED HIM FOR SEVERAL HOURS ON THE FIRST DAY 69c7301e-184a-4259-86ac-0839bcb4642f 2286 USING THEIR DISCLOSURE AS A PROD I COULD HAVE MADE HIM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS IT WASN'T NECESSARY I WAS UNDER PRESSURE NOW TO ACT AND A GREATER PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES 54e77126-d36a-476b-b348-c604348e0f8e 2425 AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK MY VOICE TRAILED OFF THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT ee68d99e-4765-45de-b1f5-b370ed399b18 2108 SINCE I WAS A YOUNG GIRL I'VE NEVER MISSED GETTING A BOMBOOK FOR CHRISTMAS BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS 9bd1cdfc-c40e-424b-b553-303259ae9e86 2425 EACH WEARING A SIMILAR JEWEL OF AUTHORITY FIRST OF ALL LET ME SAY THAT YOU'VE NO PARTICULAR CALL TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS 8ba9b762-b1ee-4a64-be74-d1b3e387e6dc 2274 WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO TOM GOE SAYS HE CAN'T KEEP THE INFORMATION OUT OF HIGH COMMISSIONER BULL ONE'S HANDS c0ac2878-71cc-4f71-bb85-2c82a9421907 2317 RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL f5ebe606-1ca9-4a47-8237-c6f7a388f529 451 IF YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OF OF HIM YOU MIGHT SAY THE OLD SCRATCH THAT IS WHAT MOTHER CALLS HIM 1906f331-0764-4ad3-a5c7-63c421e4477e 2312 OH YOU CAN'T HARM US WE'RE TOO POWERFUL TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS SAY HA SIR WHEN YOU ADDRESS ME cab5b164-21db-4588-83f8-18333273b9e8 188 WERE I YOU I WOULD SHOW DONALD FRAGER THAT I COULD WOO AND WIN A LASS AS SPEEDILY AS ANY LOWLANDER OF THEM ALL THAT I WOULD THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE HE HAD LARGE HANDS AND FEET AND WALKED WITH A SLIGHT STOOP 948b94bb-fb1a-4ecc-a3f7-bfa61185381d 32 I THOUGHT IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE AND I WALKED UP THE AISLE TO YOUR PEW AND SAT DOWN AND DAN IS SO OBLIGING THAT WAY 6d5b52eb-0201-4e49-ac79-4294803769d4 2312 BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR b68c90f1-1b25-4e23-9de4-7886617b8d5e 1867 DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE cf3aab87-f8bb-4158-98e3-ad90eba361ea 2182 WE MUST HAVE YOUR FRIEND'S HELP FINDING OUT WHERE THE ISLANDERS GOT THEIR CALM CRYSTALS HAD BECOME SUDDENLY UNIMPORTANT 1aba5233-ed83-44d3-9af6-ddf9394cb9aa 188 I WOULDN'T GO NEAR HER AGAIN FOR A BUSHEL OF MAGIC SEED MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT NEVER BELONGED TO JASPER DALE'S MOTHER FOR SHE THOUGHT IT A SIN TO WEAR ANYTHING BUT PRINT AND DRUGGET 8d9ec514-fd72-4bde-a808-4cf8f33bed2d 2312 DON'T STALL DON'T STUTTER GIVE ME OUR TAX LIST THAT WAS STOLEN 3e1b22fb-abb3-4406-bd09-d5bc764816dd 30 SAUCY WOMAN WITH FULL BLOWN PEONY CHEEKS FOR IT WAS AN UNDENIABLY UGLY ONE 4a559bde-8b29-475f-8deb-bfc984fe3d9b 30 WHICH FATHER HAD ONCE OCCUPIED HE HAD TALKED SO MUCH TO US ABOUT IT AND SO MINUTELY 7346be9f-dd04-46f8-93f9-d293c499b12a 14 WHEN HE SAID HE HAD COME TO MARRY THE PRINCESS EVERYONE LAUGHED FOR HE HAD NO RETINUE AND NO BEAUTIFUL APPAREL AND NO GOLDEN CROWN NO BUT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE WILL I WISH I HAD A FAMILY PLOT 74ef0670-9069-49c6-9ae2-917b338b3bdc 2182 WITH NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN HE WAS DISTURBED BY THE REALIZATION THAT HE WOULDN'T BE SEEN JENIFER 2ea88978-e7a5-452e-aab4-9751aeb140c0 2108 AND HIS EARS STUCK OUT FROM HIS HEAD LIKE TWO FANS IT WAS QUITE A CLEVER IDEA I THINK FOR IT DOESN'T MAR THE BEAUTY OF THE LANDSCAPE SOLID AIR BEING INVISIBLE 7453c067-4a80-465a-a915-1363d13b23f5 1867 IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER TO INSTALL A NEW POWER PLANT I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID 82ca43a6-369f-4f39-97c0-73f57884b620 2182 IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING df69ffc6-237a-4f97-a696-3d72dddb52f8 242 EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE 1ddd324c-d878-46c0-a029-1cd55b43321d 242 FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT WHOEVER'S LICKED WILL HAVE TO GIVE IN ABOUT PRAYING SAID PETER c645387f-9c16-4ada-8b9d-5a4b8efe8b07 188 WASN'T IT A HARD PLIGHT FOR POOR DONALD BUT HE WAS A SCOTCHMAN YOU KNOW AND IT'S PRETTY HARD TO STICK A SCOTCHMAN ALONG 03ea4d57-32fe-44f4-97b3-9c109362ef58 1867 WE HAVE SHIPS MAKING FIFTEEN LIGHT YEAR DETOURS NOW THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT fef23fb3-6584-407a-af5c-575795493af4 2425 I HAD ONLY ONE BOX OF CARTRIDGES BESIDES THOSE IN THE CYLINDER OF MY GUN PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS 4f024f42-ac32-4341-9da0-7cc2840751ec 451 THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE de0ff1c6-c92f-4c59-acad-a4b0f295a75f 2317 HE WAS PECULIAR JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE 2075a242-1ff1-4c6d-9484-3026ce529d8a 30 SMOOTH BROWN HAIR OF SATIN SHEEN WHICH FEELS IN A MOMENT WHAT IT SOMETIMES TAKES MATURITY MUCH TIME TO PERCEIVE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE 8c53ffec-a5b6-4be6-a33f-f86793ee4540 188 YOU MUST TAKE A PINCH OF THE SEED EVERY THREE HOURS WALKING BACKWARD YOU ARE A WONDER SOME DAY YOU WILL MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE IT AND IT MADE US FEEL WRETCHEDLY UNCOMFORTABLE SOMEHOW f1e8c178-ee0b-498e-8d33-adc2508449fc 30 THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT AND DESCRIBED ITS SCENES SO OFTEN WHO LIVED ON THE HOMESTEAD AND WOULD THEREFORE BE OUR ROOF MATES FOR A SEASON a1f3c285-5b69-4d07-b4c8-25b3588e13d5 2182 HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL TELL HIM TO HURRY YET 17924d05-d0a0-4edc-93cd-794ffc0f18e0 2286 DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS IT HAD BEEN INTERESTING AT FIRST PARTICULARLY SINCE UP TO THE TIME I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SPECIAL CORPS I WASN'T EVEN CERTAIN IT REALLY EXISTED WILL THEY DO ANYTHING TO ME abefd816-43cb-4e90-9383-0539155be116 2286 OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL 9c950d95-6336-48fe-ada6-65d32c3a2499 30 NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS 5e714eb8-9d79-42b1-82f0-160efa1d9662 2182 CHAFFEE THREE WHILE THEY WERE STILL IN THE CONTROL CUBICLE THREW THE SHIP OUT OF HYPERDRIVE WITHIN SCANT MILES OF THE NEIGHBORING SUN'S SINGLE PLANET 57267101-cc70-47d0-85ee-a9c7eead207a 2368 BUT THERE IS NONE YONAH SAID HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH f1097faa-4163-4aa8-8336-032587d938ed 2368 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 AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD NOW HE SAID QUIETLY ab65db49-5ead-40ba-a099-15ac3f2f9f84 2274 BARKED THE VOICE FROM THE GRIN THE CONTACT BROKE OFF WITH AN ANGRY SOUND THIS IS FAR ENOUGH 3dcaac04-a273-4399-8fbd-38a90dd7f9f3 14 WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS PROTESTED FELICITY WAIT FOR ME PETER SHE CALLED b19b6013-0ff7-4e4d-b496-30182de5650a 2182 SO DID MINE JEFF SAID THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES a51e299f-1ae1-4dbf-9bab-f6adacfbc356 2368 IF I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID I HAVE POWERS STRANGE POWERS HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID e21d1e75-6d11-4b54-9ecf-6a47e264ec48 2312 HE KNEW IT BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM 4e337cb6-70f0-4f2f-b1e6-d98bf5ed7c0a 242 PETER WENT OFF RATHER SULLENLY AND FELIX ALSO SULLENLY SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO NURSE HIS NOSE HE TURNED HIS BACK ON CECILY HER CHEEKS WERE STILL FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF THE EVENING SIGHED POOR CECILY f6804391-c261-46b7-bc3d-161d4f299879 2274 BECAUSE THE BIG DOMES FED A SET OF REQUIREMENTS INTO THEIR IRON MONSTERS YOUR CARD POPPED OUT 2c4cfa5e-9672-4728-ac2c-1f45efd7675a 14 THERE TOO SLEPT THE EMILY WHOSE FAITHFUL SPIRIT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAUNT THE ORCHARD WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS bd5891bc-d9ac-4f34-991d-cdc890280f14 2317 THE DIVING HELMET CLATTERED ON THE PLANKS LOOKING DOWN HIS NOSE AT IT AT THE SAME TIME BUT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OUTFIT BACK AND DESTROY IT ANYWAY 893c960e-c93d-4549-b1aa-b6b8849324e7 2286 I IMAGINE HE WAS AS FULL OF PETTY LARCENACY HE LOOKED DOWN AS IF AWARE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ROBOT HAD BEEN HOLDING BY THE WRIST DURING THE INTERVIEW ae4a2e37-fe4d-4492-b69b-4df2822c4d54 2137 THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER THEY WERE SPOTTED WITH CLUMPS OF GRAY GRASS EVEN AS WAS THE DESERT JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT I TOLD YOU e67b15d1-a2e7-4947-8136-fd434373cacf 2108 TWISTING HIS STUFFED HEAD AROUND IN MISSUS UBES'S DIRECTION IN THE PLACE OF THIS CREATURE CHOP FIGHT 73053a93-09a1-41b6-8ab1-ef2ab5e25f68 188 MISSUS GRIGGS MAKES HIS BREAD FOR HIM AND SHE CLEANS UP HIS HOUSE NOW AND THEN PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT 8c8e2001-96b3-4017-b511-b32e2ca8a8cb 413 AND I'VE GOT TO GO AND STUMP ELDERBERRY SAID PETER WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IT WAS FELICITY WHO DEMANDED IMPATIENTLY OF MY SHAKING VOICE AS BROTHER 6c3d6f00-fe03-4510-9f96-db53ebd0bf3f 2317 HE STARTED TO CHARGE ACROSS THE DECK AT GARF BUT HIS OWN FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE LANDED FLAT ON HIS NOSE 8f375c50-7d8e-4a6c-bb79-d8cb93e80cf5 2425 THE PRIESTS SANK TO THE FLOOR BENDING THEMSELVES IN MOCKERY OF THE IMAGE THAT'S WHEN MISTER PARIN AND I BEGAN TO GET WORRIED e1f443f7-36a7-4234-9f3b-ab6b167c483a 1867 I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH ec30ed27-16d6-42b4-9b10-5a7a2c166760 32 AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE THE CECILY WHO HAD HEARD IT MANY TIMES BEFORE 4c8ce105-7ffa-44fe-b0d8-f8d0faaf1666 2317 JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS TO HIS SURPRISE GARF DID NOTHING TO STOP HIM BUT YOU WOULD BE BORED 72a556a6-2e1e-401b-b671-a6aa3dd51d90 2182 THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN cd3d310b-9599-4c2b-99bf-3ab3fc6d5f35 402 ONLY THREE DAYS THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE 84cf3227-8aef-4272-860e-bbbf0c85ec7b 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 PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK THE SHIP WAS COMPLETELY CLEAN b8432643-13ce-4133-8401-56a43e63db5b 2137 WITH AN EFFORT HE SAT UP ON THE BACK SEAT AND LOOKED THROUGH THE PERMANS THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY 1ca1e909-9fcc-440e-9921-be5a9b26eb82 1867 PRACTICALLY CHARTELING HOW I WISH THAT WERE ALL IT TOOK I WOULD HAVE A FLEET OF PART SHIPS f72a249a-e6dd-4625-97e1-15fb62e316e9 198 WE TOILED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND YARD LIKE MANIACS WE LOOKED INTO EVERY LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACE BUT JIMMY WE COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE THAN IF HE HAD INDEED MELTED INTO AIR MISSUS PATERSON CAME AND WE HAD NOT FOUND HIM THINGS WERE GETTING SERIOUS I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY d5d27ebc-aabd-4f3e-bf80-8da4165d01f8 198 I'M DREADFULLY TIRED SIGHED CECILY WE WERE ALL DREADFULLY TIRED FOR THIS WAS THE THIRD NIGHT OF LATE HOURS AND NERVE RACKING STRAIN BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE ba82c88a-8794-457d-be9d-38f7aaa2ec45 2425 AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE IT DOESN'T SEEM REAL NOW MORE LIKE A NIGHTMARE BUT IT WAS TERRIBLE ENOUGH AT THE TIME IT'S NOW FOURTEEN MINUTES OF ELEVEN 4353a033-0680-48cf-81d2-1ed491fe9392 402 NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS THEY NEVER SEEMED TO HAPPEN NOW THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE f7a3fafe-bb34-4db8-879a-7e3483f8c63c 2137 SO I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACCURATE RECORDS IN DATA ARE VERY NECESSARY FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND PROGRESS IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON 66d009fe-26d3-4df1-938e-4df63a36eefd 32 AND IT WAS FROM THE SEA HE CAME TO SET OUT HIS AVENUE IN THE ORCHARD WITH TREES BROUGHT FROM A FOREIGN LAND SHE HAD BEEN AWAY AND HAD JUST COME HOME AND SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE POET b878db3a-cab7-4b78-956f-b1cb79d98584 32 PETER IS A REAL GENTLEMAN AND HE IS MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU COULD EVER BE IF YOU WERE BROUGHT UP AND EDUCATED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS SHE SAID 21cc52da-1d6e-4d2c-8c38-0da6037b40e7 2274 THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY WE'VE MANAGED TO PUT SPIES AND KEEP PLACES AT OUR N ARE ad6dfdd8-6c13-4330-9232-cc46325eed6f 2182 JEFF SANK AGAIN AND CHURNED DESPERATELY TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM SHE WAS A PRETTY SIGHT 0c7465f3-4d34-40ee-8e6b-d39110bc5ff5 451 SHE LEFT ME IN CHARGE NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO dfc1a6fc-169e-4b8a-a1ac-8dfb3d510131 2274 IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW WE DIVERT THE FILES HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT 199b8535-a752-4ee0-b585-85817e81430c 2137 SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM 1ccfc1ba-692b-47b6-b5b9-4114b63acc30 2317 AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN d9e6d1fc-cebe-4d64-be0f-8b6a4e904619 2286 THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES BEAUTIFUL PLANET YOU HAVE HERE DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL ecd8ea50-18fb-4cca-b568-6bf0507277f9 1867 THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS 9e5c95cd-68e1-4d3a-84ad-e24755853869 2425 SPEAKING OF ELECTRICITY A SCARLET HAZE OF LIGHT SHOT FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF THE BLACK GOD AND THE OLD MAN STEPPED BACK SHARPLY AS THOUGH STRUCK BY SOME INVISIBLE AGENT HE WOULD HAVE FALLEN bd97e11c-87e7-47dd-93a9-716bc0829ed4 2368 IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER DO YOU KNOW WHY I WAS PUT HERE 2fc38ac6-9b7f-4b91-812b-d82f5eeee7b6 402 WE ALL EVEN DAN CRIED I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING PASS ON AND DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN HE SAID bbcb7678-0513-489e-8288-290d75c25f7c 402 A SHOWER CAME UP IN THE EVENING AND WE HAD TO STOP PICKING FELICITY HAS NOT GOTTEN OVER THAT TO THIS DAY RING THE AFTERNOON JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP A TEAR BLOTTED NOTE FROM SARA RAY 1cd1eefa-48ff-4db1-a250-6545fdd07fb5 2286 A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL 699340af-0cc9-4e4a-b60a-42807e8da13c 14 THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER TURN OVER AND STRETCHED HERSELF OUT ON THE GRASSES IT WAS THIS WAY DON'T YOU EVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN b88874a0-24e2-4514-ba12-cadf11c4f4f2 32 AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE AN ORPHAN COUSIN OF HIS LIVED HERE WITH HIS PARENTS 00d3f371-0a1b-4e56-b80e-c8e5f8206189 402 ACCORDINGLY WE WENT AND HOLLERED WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE BEEN SO CROSS ABOUT IT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED b0174872-5a91-4215-be54-f2ab6f05e91e 2312 AND SO TORRID IN THE AFTERNOONS WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE A MAN OF DOMINATING PRESENCE AND ACID VOICE 22659f06-bccb-494b-a6c2-0594cea24890 413 IT'S TO COME JUST LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY UNCLE ROGER SHOOK HIS HEAD 488fa843-4ccd-40b7-93b6-ef166884ada4 188 THE FLOOR WAS COVERED WITH A CARPET LIKE GREEN VELVET AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED 2eb77012-0132-4b86-bed6-775ba16f8a6a 2317 HIS VOICE BROKE OFF AS IF HE HAD BEEN STRUCK IN THE FACE AND JOHN ANDREW FARMER LAY ON HIS BACK WAITING FOR HIS STRENGTH TO SEEP BACK e6608be9-64b9-400f-8d2b-38b1d06dbfc4 2317 OLD MOTOR LODGE AND THE ADVENTURE WAS ON IT CERTAINLY HADN'T BEEN THERE BEFORE HE STARTED FEELING OVER THE MACHINE WITH HIS WEBBED HANDS 0065f56a-67a7-4f2b-b301-a9b72752c571 2286 IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE VERY NICE 17c5e8a6-3fdd-4d53-9ccc-9620f3067b60 1867 THEN I FILLED THE FRAME WITH ALL THE EQUIPMENT I WOULD NEED AND BEGAN TO WIRE THE SUIT I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY b075dfe8-ba5b-46a8-be98-2c24af3124cc 188 IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO e2aae458-6a69-480d-8298-f496042ec117 2425 THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH ca64f015-77f2-4050-a4b6-5d03179d0c7e 242 AND I WON'T THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED eb7152a0-0d5b-48f3-a05a-08726b892a65 2368 YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW ed735193-73cb-4d9e-94ff-1c15074a200f 14 AS FOR THAT POOR UNLUCKY PETER SOMETIMES WE BELIEVED UNCLE ROGER WAS MAKING FUN OF US GO AND BE A METHODIST OR A MOHAMMEDAN OR ANYTHING I f3c8faf6-e585-492e-8812-a7e4d804308f 2286 THE RADIAT LEAKED AT ME FOR ATTENTION AT THE SAME TIME THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS 60c71cb9-3188-4bbd-b94d-14e2be8dd614 188 CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES WE HAVEN'T SEEN SARA RAY SINCE YOU GOT SICK SHE IS AWFUL LONESOME AND JUDY SAYS SHE CRIESARLY ALL THE TIME BUT THAT'S NOTHING NEW 8b08d57b-61db-4372-b6c0-9b25781e890d 402 WHERE THE HUSH AND THE SOMBRE SHADOWS AND THE SOFT MELANCHOLY SIGHING OF THE WIND IN THE BRANCHES OVER US DID NOT JAR HARSHLY ON OUR NEW SORROW COMMAND THE WARDER TO LET ME PASS HE MUST OBEY THEE b90cc679-74cc-4357-bf91-b42d3cd5c3cb 2274 STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP BUT IT WAS EASY RAIDER CHIEF 17b96f72-902d-4cc3-87aa-eb76fb145a9b 2425 WE'RE ALL RIGHT ONLY OBVIOUSLY INTENT UPON BLOCKING OUR WAY MISSUS PARIN HAD JUST TOLD HER ABOUT THE MASTER d3389a9b-acfe-4852-8795-58671c857438 2286 THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS 0ebbe481-b9a7-4ee8-aa2a-67eb6bc90c28 451 PETER WENT EVERYWHERE WITH US NOW HE WAS A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE HIS BEHAVIOR WAS AS IRREPROACHABLE AS IF HE HAD BEEN RAISED IN THE CASE OF VERE DE VERE 3f65c953-dd9b-4281-b05d-825fa84de646 1867 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 88d556db-3fb1-4c74-abf0-142f3519d73f 14 HE WAS AUNT JANET'S COUSIN AND OFTEN VISITED HER HE WAS A BOY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MYSELF MY AUNT JANE WAS CLEVER 6fcd78dc-1453-457f-9c1b-5efc83262652 402 SOMETIMES I FEAR OUR REGULAR PRAYERS WAS SLURRED OVER OR MUMBLED IN ANYTHING BUT REVERENT HASTE THE TANG OF FIR BALSAM d15220ba-7eae-43e4-b6af-967ef192c2c5 413 THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS NOW IF THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN DON'T KNOW IT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE CAN KNOW IT AND HIM A GRIP TOO 4859bdfe-beac-4859-804b-6f4fa4507ea7 2286 DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS BEFORE HE FOUND IT THE ROBART CLOSED THE DOOR AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS 1c0d8b49-c9dd-4a9a-8d46-fb51b4cf461d 2286 THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS AND AS FIERCE A SCOW AS I COULD RAISE SMEARED ACROSS MY FACE I MIGHT BE WRONG ON SOME OF THE MINOR DETAILS THEY WEREN'T IMPORTANT 30847a3c-01d1-4895-a75a-026e09c4f228 2368 NOR OF COURSE DID HE CARRY THE SWORD OF A GREAT HERO OR A NOBLE AND SO YOU MUST HAVE A PLAN FOR RIDDING US OF HYRKNUP AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN 64c0f4d8-80d3-4d55-82dd-1e2d5e0c7e4b 413 NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS b6064f19-6a50-423d-b502-68a828d79700 402 OH WHISPERED FELICITY I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX SO THAT HE COULD SEE NOTHING f469fbff-586a-49a2-8161-dbe103bfb696 32 IT WAS ALREADY LIKE A WONDERFUL VELVET CARPET BUT THEY FISHED IT UP NOT HURT A BIT EXCEPT FOR THAT LITTLE NICK IN THE RIM DO YOU KNOW FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE I FELT EXACTLY LIKE A SNAKE 5f476da6-01c6-4797-8e16-3a8009b91063 2108 IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE OTHERS HOWEVER HE FOUND HER FOR TIN DOES NOT TIRE OR REQUIRE SLEEP 11f5262a-96a1-4d83-a3c5-3fa71f70fab8 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE 1f523ba8-a82a-45af-b987-1abc91652466 402 BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON SOME OF THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED VERY CAREFULLY EVEN SCEPTICAL DAN PRAYED 1b4a5c4d-64df-4c22-a6f0-50118e6ea001 402 WE WERE ALL OF US TOO TIRED THOSE NIGHTS TO DO ANY SPECIAL PRAYING THE STORY GIRL WRUNG HER BROWN HANDS TOGETHER 1dd0cfbf-8f79-46cd-96cb-e7aeaa288419 2317 TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN THEN WAVED THE TWO TO THE RAIL WITH HIM BLOWING YOURSELF UP 4f3f5f49-4586-487c-9e6f-37a8ab85d6b1 2108 THE TIN WOODMAN ORDERED FOOD FOR THE STRANGER AND IN A FEW MINUTES THE SERVANT BROUGHT IN A TIN TRAY HEAPED WITH A CHOICE HOORAY OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL 1dcb4b52-b2cc-4d04-89fa-ca568e0b26bd 2368 IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL 67e4f041-e6f5-4251-b080-854ce1bfd69e 1867 I FOLDED MY ARMS IN A REGAL DANCE IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE e1eac913-90fd-4c9d-826b-238445d1a622 14 BUT EDITH WHO HAD KISSED THE POET LAY NOT WITH HER KINDRED AND PEACE IN OUR LITTLE HEARTS I WISH I COULD SEE A PICTURE OF GOD 203d3f38-011b-4a78-828f-dd5e47db6509 242 DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT 22474eb6-a001-4a2e-89d5-d80cf1a59044 2425 EACH OF THE LITTLE BLOBS OF QUARTZ WAS GLOWING STROKING THE POLISHED CHEEKS WITH BESEECHING FINGERS BUT THAT'S OVER YOUR HEAD PETE OLD SON f39a63b1-1ee0-449c-a517-5be2c82ae523 32 THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH I SAY MY PRAYERS SOMETIMES 1d4570fd-4325-42e6-ab74-0bff0c20f021 402 CECILY AND FELIX WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DISTINGUISH THE DOUBLE STAR IN THE HANDLE OF THE BIG DIPPER WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES MANY A PRINCESS RODE BY US ON HER PALFREY bab9a31d-a21f-43d9-8c45-dcf1d487efae 14 BUT WE HAD LONG HOURS FOR PLAY AND THE MURMUR OF AN ALIEN SEA SOUNDED ABOUT HER GRAVE IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES a924cb3d-0792-497d-b6b0-ac2a9844468d 14 SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN HE IS A MINISTER SO OF COURSE I KNEW HE SPOKE THE TRUTH IT WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL VEIL 4f20a412-5d63-45c3-be1f-31caff81c565 1867 BEFORE THEY COULD THINK UP A GOOD ANSWER I WAS INSIDE WITH THE FAITHFUL PRIEST STUMBLING AROUND ME I LOCATED THE CONTROL ROOM AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS 734d660c-ed5f-46ad-a4f6-a5f5e2f479cf 2368 THE MINUTES TICKED BY ENDLESSLY BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH 1b03ad0d-86be-4c59-b7bb-736173d6a658 2274 AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN A NEVER BEFORE BUT WE'VE SOMETHING ELSE ON OUR MINDS IT'S THE ONE ITEM THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BLOT OUT THIS PLACE c013736d-0ac9-49a3-922e-14f4a34f89ee 188 HE TOOK SOME MORE AND SAID SLYLY FELIX AND DAN CONTRACTED TO KEEP THE GARDENS FREE FROM WEEDS 863a78b3-5b66-4aea-895b-0182cdb601eb 198 WELL I SUPPOSE THE FIRE IS ON ANYHOW FOR THE STORY GIRL IS UP I GUESS SHE GOT UP EARLY TO KNEAD THE BREAD SHE COULDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT FOR WORRYING OVER IT db16f16b-989f-403d-985b-e0e7083bc744 32 AND HE ILLUSTRATED IT BY DESCRIBING HIS OLD WELL AT THE HOMESTEAD HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS fc70436f-cdb8-452d-90e0-b885f22736e3 188 I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY FIRST DONALD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HE FELT SURE DEEP DOWN IN HIS HEART THAT NANCY LIKED HIM a7524d7a-7519-42a8-b080-ded7b6dc51d0 188 TWILL BE A BONNY SWIRL ON THE BAY ERE LONG I BUT WHERE THE STORY GIRL LED WE WOULD FOLLOW TO THE DEATH I'M AFRAID IT'S ALL UP WITH PAT HE SAID 2a56dee6-f3ea-451d-85c3-686b6d1e2b88 14 AND HIS TIE WAS NEATLY BOWED BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT QUITE THE SAME TO UNCLE EDWARD SINCE MISTY BLUE AND FAINTLY SWEET ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE ad2016f0-e7ba-4997-8030-6107d9a20d9b 1867 ONLY NATIVE LIFE FORMS WERE QUITE WELL PROTECTED ONE LIZARD MERELY TURNED THE HANDLE AND WE WERE INSIDE THE BEACON b9d1f0c5-3a9a-470c-9f1d-ebd631808ae2 451 ZULEMITH YEARNED FOR ZERA WITH SUCH FIDELITY AND LONGING THAT HE BEGAN TO BUILD UP A BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HIS STAR AND ZERA NOT KNOWING THIS BUT LOVING AND LONGING FOR HIM c9b55566-97a5-47db-bc58-9a9297913bff 2425 SHE SIGHED A LONG SHUDDERING SIGH AND SNUGGLED INTO MY ARMS I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES 6f7a0e14-934d-45f1-8678-d17872abc2d0 242 WELL THAT'S THE SAME THING CRIED FELIX YOU'VE JUST BEEN PRAYING FOR THE OPPOSITE TO ME OUT OF SPITE AND YOU'VE GOT TO STOP IT PETER CRAIG e46fd678-32e9-47e6-8c10-de504f82da41 14 DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH WAS LIKE THIS EVEN PETER HAD PLENTY OF SPARE TIME WHEN THE PLANTING WAS OVER AND IF HE WAS A METHODIST HE'D TELL ME TO BE ONE TOO ee35ca49-e0cf-4c04-ae38-a9d6106c63f5 198 WE RAN TO THE ORCHARD GATE AND SWARMED ACROSS THE YARD JUST AS UNCLE ROGER ALIGHTED AT THE FRONT DOOR HE STARED AT US IN THE MOONLIGHT HAVE YOU BEEN TORMENTING ANY ONE INTO EATING MORE BAD BERRIES FELICITY 6f4812eb-c726-4dd1-a37d-33e616c4b8a5 2317 FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE THE QUOTES AROUND INTELLIGENT WERE CLEAR IN HIS INTONATION b4dbd1ff-d268-4e5f-9c3c-62a2b59c9299 14 OH I HADN'T A PAIR WITHOUT HOLES IN THE LEGS BUT INSTEAD LOOKED FORWARD TO IT WITH PLEASURE THE HOLES DON'T COME IN THE SAME PLACES AND YOU'D NEVER NOTICE THEM UNLESS YOU LOOK QUITE CLOSE 07a75da9-87ff-40c8-b3d2-db49a9eac9da 14 WITH A DELICATE TANGLE OF ROSY CLOUD ABOVE THE ELMS AND THERE WAS PEACE OVER ALL THAT FRESH AND FLOWERY LAND THAT IS IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN 2d320ec3-9354-4882-b5a7-07bc4386b8ca 242 SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE b48e00e0-404c-4c38-b41a-7994ac90efd1 2108 NO NO YELLED PANT I'M NOT BIG ENOUGH YET NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED a74721e8-082f-45f0-842f-025e0d761368 2182 A CLASS FIVE CULTURE AND TO CHECK IT THEY MUST BREAK A PRIME RULE OF GALACTIC PROTOCOL IN ASKING THE HELP OF A NEW AND UNTESTED SPECIES e5904d80-cc09-4620-8900-94da90827c2d 188 DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF TWILL BE A MATCH NOW FOR I SUPPOSE SOMETHING DREADFUL WILL COME OF IT TOO 633e3729-626d-45ee-851c-1e464e2ed515 2274 AFTER THAT IT JUST FELL INTO PLACE MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US IF IT DID WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO SPOT IT 5c717479-d318-4d65-8239-6f416832f558 2368 ASK SHE SAID AT LAST WERE THERE SUCH A PLAN HE SAID BE ASSURED I WOULD TELL YOU THAT'S RIGHT YONAS SAID PATIENTLY HE RUBBED AT HIS FACE a32d026a-695e-4d60-8a09-40bb34b317b8 2137 SEVERING ALL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND 70453c1d-7b9a-46b6-ac13-2df5bdfeff18 2368 AND IT HAPPENED AS THE ONISTS SUSPECTED IT WOULD THROUGH THE WIFE ONE WHICH YOU WOULD TELL ME THIS IS NOT DEVIL'S WORK AS I SHALL PROVE YUNUS SAID bf0f241b-4659-49f6-ada3-19dfdb109a32 2425 WITH HIM WERE TWO OTHERS SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES 4f3d3f1c-6672-42ee-a69f-83bf4c5e1a67 402 THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR SECOND BEST DRESSES AND WE BOYS DONNED WHITE COLLARS THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY 07872895-6aed-45d3-ad6a-0c2613155df1 2108 I CONSIDERED THE TIN HEAD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE NEAT ONE I SO AS THEY STUMBLED ALONG A STONE PASSAGE THEY KEPT CLOSE TOGETHER 16c4b040-2ac0-4140-89ce-9045639b4fb7 2182 AND IN THE GOSSIP OF OLD CHARLEY MACK AND THE FEW OTHERS HE HAD MET AND WITH IT A STERTOROUS GRUNTING THAT ALL BUT DROWNED OUT THE ZID'S CRIES 5b863d0d-9e1b-4de6-bf5a-8f10f3fe179f 2274 A NEVER BEFORE WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT 5363bac5-3571-4592-8854-6cd7dfa502d2 2368 YOU KNOW WHY I'M HERE DON'T YOU HE SAID IN A VOICE AS CLOSE TO SILKY AS HE COULD MAKE IT YOU THE BALD MAN SAID YOU'RE HERE IN A CELL d8c3cdaa-f3f1-4b55-9674-dd9f2c8e835e 451 SHE TOLD US THAT SARA HAD NOTHING WORSE THAN A FEVERISH COLD OVER A VALLEY FILLED WITH BEECH AND SPRUCE WAS A SUNSET AFTERGLOW CREAMY YELLOW AND A HUE THAT WAS NOT SO MUCH RED AS THE DREAM OF RED WITH A YOUNG MOON SWUNG LOW IN IT 91ef081b-4ae7-4335-9b1a-849e2dafd29b 2274 THERE ARE POLAR OCEANS THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED 23d95bc4-a06f-4dbd-8dd7-5e3a80d87e07 2182 HOW COULD THEY STOP US FROM MOVING IN WHEN JEFF AUBREY PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE PLANKING THE APPARITIONS WERE GONE 48c55832-1ed4-40e3-ab13-4724c35b46b8 2425 HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME 5fb08d8e-fa0a-4aed-b2f2-c73f83f42463 2368 WONDERING BRIEFLY IF HE HAD MANAGED TO PICK UP LICE IN THE LAST TOWN HE HAD VISITED AND HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CITY 6cb67a37-250a-44bb-a81d-3ccada32f2d9 1867 I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH THE FIRST THING TO DO WAS MAKE CONTACT IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP ef8a75ba-3eb2-416e-b2d0-0e024d5a12ea 2368 HE SAT CROSS LEGGED IN A CORNER OF THE CELL AND CLOSED HIS EYES I AM NOT VENGEFUL BUT MY SON WAS NO WIZARD SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY 06e22ad5-c824-43fe-8fdc-c9d94a1415a0 413 AND I CAN'T NEAR ANY AT MY LACE I JUST KEEP THINKING WHAT IS THE USE SHE LOOKED VERY PRETTY WITH HER BIG BLUE EYES AND WARM HUED GOLDEN HAIR 91b90696-4cb4-430f-8774-b6b225e5b782 2425 THEY CONTROL IT WITH THAT SHUDDER BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE DID YOU NOTICE IT PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM 4c6cd6b2-ee80-439d-bfee-6285dedad882 2368 I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME AND THE BROTHERHOOD HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER CLTON SAID A 56d997a1-3dae-4011-934d-cd2d9c98f862 2108 ASKED THE HIPPOCRIFT IN A DISAPPOINTED VOICE BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO MEND TIN LIKES WITH IT SO I'M NOT SURE I CAN HELP YOU 30814d76-7a76-4799-896b-df5ebffd00d0 2137 KNOW THAT MEANS REINART BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP IT'S WASTE A ROCKET FUEL TOTALING AROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERE HE MUTTERED 6bcf512a-cf03-404a-959d-ea18925b01b9 2182 CHAFFY THREE CHOSE THAT MOMENT TO REAPPEAR NEARLY CAUSING JEFF TO LET GO OF THE BUNK AND ADMIT THE ZID 2a088159-d62a-4388-919e-d51ad8f5266a 2368 WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE 719129f9-7dc6-4cef-a52a-b26ff78da4f0 2182 THE SCOOP HE SAW AND ONLY HALF BELIEVED IT THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS 7f9d9852-acc5-4331-bf1b-c5a9733482f4 2108 SO I PROPOSE HE WAITS HERE WHILE YOU AND I FRIEND SCARECROW EVEN SO I AM NOT SURE IT ISN'T THE BEST FOR THE GIRL 9cdcfc46-c60e-4f88-b28d-f172a8c2a684 2317 BEINGS THAT LIVE ON A WORLD WITH ALMOST AS MUCH WATER AS OURS WHO CAN'T USE THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES ANY MORE THAN THAT AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST 687dc761-8db0-489b-96b2-4dd9c249085b 2368 THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES 504d42b5-bdfb-4f76-b855-ea4678f397a4 402 AS FOR THIS THIS SACRILEGE TAKE IT AND BURN IT WE STOPPED PICKING APPLES SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS AND TRIED TO REASON IT OUT 32ce1447-31e7-4772-bceb-50bd4d92d535 2108 AND THROUGH THE MANY TIN ROOMS ALL SET WITH BEAUTIFUL TIN FURNITURE IT'S TOO BAD HE HASN'T A LOVING HEART SAID ROOT 1d14b250-f999-4be7-8607-7ba6b6f61a44 1867 THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR THIS WAS THE EARLIEST TYPE OF BEACON EVER BUILT BY EARTH NO LESS 9cf73922-84ed-4264-891e-b37a2189f275 402 HE NEVER CRIED A SPECK WHEN YOU THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE AND NOW WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BETTER YOU CRY LIKE THAT AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY 5bde8f01-b23e-4347-91e6-9be256f5c752 2108 AND THEIR JOURNEY NOW BECAME TEDIOUS BECAUSE ON CLIMBING EACH HILL WHY THAT IS EASY THE TIN MAN ASSURED HIM 84e5c5dc-20d6-49ce-bac0-bf29c66b5dcb 188 WAS I MISTAKEN IN THINKING THAT DONALD FRAGON SAID ONCE THAT HIS FAVOURITE HORSE SHOULD NEVER BE BACKED BY ANY MAN BUT HIM 30aea0a5-c38f-4bb2-88d6-591e3e6ea5c7 2317 I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED 6fec3318-a3df-4835-9420-1d228925d3f9 32 SHE SAID PLACIDLY MA NEVER LOOKS SO I WON'T HAVE TO SAID FELICITY TRIUMPHANTLY ef1bc3f2-b41d-4e92-b0a7-8830bf4cdeb7 2108 LIKE OTHERS THAT I MEET DAY BY DAY I GET NEWLY STUFFED RIOT AWAY AND PUSHED HIM AWAY FROM THE PUMP 7d44c53d-6dd5-4363-8064-2569f591763a 451 WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD 026734a1-1a8e-4ac8-bb00-f660320f8394 2368 YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID 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 e63c1163-3d9b-44d3-99ca-98cb77ef2969 2368 YONAS STARTED MUSING ON HEROES AGAIN BUT HE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A MOVE TOWARDS HER HE WOULD ACCEPT PAYMENT WERE IT GENEROUS IN RETURN FOR SHARING ROOM IN HIS HOUSE 571e58ce-f424-44c3-9799-982495cb087a 402 THE SPICE OF MINT THE GREAT SQUARE OF PEGASUS WAS OVER OUR HEADS ON THE FURTHEST BANK IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE ccc28b8f-ccda-490e-9af6-775061402990 1867 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 b190ba96-191f-471e-a21c-506d83eb1cfa 2274 TALK TALKING IN THE GLOOM BEYOND THE LIGHTS TENUBE'S WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE WAS GRATZIE 5b9b92c7-361b-4bf7-bd10-3a1a0cf44ea8 188 WE WERE NEAR GOLDEN MILESTONE NOW THE HOUSE WAS A BIG WEATHER GREY STRUCTURE OVERGROWN WITH VINES AND CLIMBING ROSES 109f40d0-d70b-4a7c-a99c-7b3abcd3136c 2182 UNLESS CHECK THE ZID WOULD RAPIDLY DEPOPULATE THE ISLAND BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE HE KNEW WHEN HE PUT DOWN THE MICROPHONE THAT THE SHIP WOULD BE TOO LATE a42bd02f-94f1-495a-b715-fa7897bacc30 32 THAT IT WOULD BE WELL TO KEEP AS THE PIQUANT COUNTRY PHRASE WENT FROM THE WALK WE WENT TO THE PULPIT STONE DAN DID NOT COME DOWN UNTIL BREAKFAST WAS HALF OVER 0c29d68d-748a-4628-9473-89adbe76b1db 2182 THE CEREMIAN VANISHED THEY FELL SLACK HOWEVER WHEN THE QUEEN REACHED HIS CHANNEL AND FLAPPED LAZILY REVERSING TO CATCH THE WIND AND NOSE HER CAUTIOUSLY INTO THE SHALLOWS APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR 2523fed2-18be-47c7-bf53-ec333cbad7a4 32 RETORTED FELICITY UNCRUSHED BUT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WE LIKED THE PROSPECT OF OUR SUMMER VERY MUCH 2e1112a5-7270-4e24-8c62-1097ff014ff9 2368 THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY BUT TAKE HIM AWAY c4becea4-7ed2-43e4-abf3-10ae5bb855f0 32 WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT THE BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS IN IT AS FOR PUNCTUATION HE NEVER ATTEMPTS IT BEYOND AN OCCASION PERIOD JOTTED DOWN WHENEVER HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT WHETHER IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT 0b761e21-1dd2-4e6c-9cc3-4070625a914b 32 EACH WITH OPEN DREAM BOOKS AND PENCIL IN HAND LONG LONG AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL HER VOICE GIVING US AN IMPRESSION OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY 18c924f3-d26a-47c3-af80-b4fcae5d26a5 32 THEY SAY SHE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF MISCHIEF SHE CAN PUT ILL LUCK ON YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU AND SHE WILL IF YOU OFFEND HER LAUGHTER RIPPLED OVER THE STORY GIRL'S FACE b62b01c4-1332-4813-bc8d-86cedae761d7 451 OF COURSE ADDED FELICITY HER HEART MELTING AT SIGHT OF THE MISERY IN THE STORY GIRL'S PITEOUS EYES 0c7a3035-beae-438d-abff-085858de673b 2317 AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB FARMER WAS UNCOMFORTABLE SAID GOOD BY AND HEADED FOR THE RAIL 05af94dc-d771-4a4d-82a2-ce6fbc03f4fd 14 THERE WASUD SCHOOL THE NEXT AFTERNOON AS THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TEACHERS WISHED TO ATTEND A COMMUNION SERVICE AT MARKDALE b9daca54-1700-4f27-8a27-0ef3d45dcdc7 188 I WON'T EVER FEEL LIKE READING A SINGLE BOOK ON THE LIBRARY IF I CAN'T GIVE SOMETHING TO IT MOURNED SARA THAT GENTLEMAN IN SILENCE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET EXTRACTED A NOTE THEREFROM AND HANDED IT GRAVELY TO THE STORY GIRL ac4e6e96-6565-4899-88af-67ce4f44649f 2137 BUT IT WAS CAPTAIN BRANDON WHO DREW THE ASSIGNMENT OF SCOUTING SERIOUS THREE FOR A SUITABLE LANDING PLACE FOR ASTRO d9403e18-7d36-4935-b8fb-21cdc812af89 2182 IT WAS JENIFER CHARLIE'S NIECE A SHIP LANDED INLAND A FEW MINUTES AGO HE SAID KEPT DISMANTLED AND HIDDEN FROM SUSPICIOUS LOCAL LIES e098d06d-e7ad-4afe-8d22-81dfbb4f0ab9 32 AND SO SHE TIPTOED UP SO AND BENT OVER SO AND KISSED HIS CHEEK A HUGE GRAY BOULDER AS HIGH AS A MAN'S HEAD IN THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER 3158fbec-896c-4177-9988-81d1836489e6 2425 TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY 09201e52-c096-4948-ab78-7f4feaf2726e 413 WE HAVE JUST GOT TO THINK OF SOME FOOL EXCITER THAT'S ALL I SAID I WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET cd873389-549e-40fb-92c5-e2a19f62e5ea 2108 HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT AND WEAR A TIN CROWN ON HER HEAD b17fea7b-a6b5-4167-8783-bc79f5a3e84c 188 THAT IS THE WAY WITH SO MANY WORDS THEY'RE EXPRESSIVE BUT THEY'RE NOT NICE AND SO A GIRL CAN'T USE EM ff3bca8b-d083-46f4-8b0c-3e4ea8ff9a2e 2108 IF NINNY AMMY IS CONTENT WITH THAT MISS BITMAN FOR A HUSBAND AND ASKED HIM TO HELP ME f1bdd8d2-0d85-4e48-82ce-80fc635cf092 1867 AND GAVE ME A DUCK WADDLE RATHER THAT HAD STARTED THE TROUBLE I'M A REPAIRMAN NOT AN ARCHAEOLOGIST fccca541-156e-44ad-9d2e-fbeaec76fd82 2137 THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS 38863cbf-65be-4f32-9c4e-060d3513cb80 2368 THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER THEIR MINDS WERE VERY VERY BORING AND QUITE BLANK HYRCUFF YUNUS REFLECTED MIGHT BE A DEFINITE RELIEF 52176a4d-be67-4445-8730-0b1138b9ee95 2425 MAYBE TWENTY FIVE I WASN'T PAYING ANY PARTICULAR ATTENTION SIR KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH e9c2be48-7ddf-4a5a-bc3e-dc50af45e359 2182 TOGETHER THEY RELAXED THEIR PERCEPTION SHIELDS IN RELIEF JUST AHEAD OF HIM JONIFER CAUGHT AN ERECT FIN SPINE AND CLUNG WITH BOTH ARMS SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY 30b580d1-8d09-4184-ad70-446cf8f11160 2425 AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER INVERTED TREES WITH WIDE SPREADING BRANCHES 41e6c68e-b217-4fdf-a39c-c2dec57a2cf8 1867 HE TOOK A GOOD THIRTY SECONDS TO THINK THIS OVER AND HAD TO AGREE WITH ME A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT 45f2505c-d055-4d9e-9670-4fcdd952a12c 451 I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN BUT IS MORE LIKELY THAT OUR CRANKINESS WAS THE RESULT OF SUPPER WE HAD EATEN THE PREVIOUS NIGHT c33e7824-6842-42c1-b0d8-6c21ecb133e8 2317 HE WENT UNDER ONCE JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE fd75cb46-4ca5-44f5-b70a-9d0dabbc57f4 2137 A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS THE LAST THING HE REMEMBERED WAS THE TASTE OF BLOOD ON HIS LIPS LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM c2cd9160-0303-41f8-8541-8e134d2cc623 2317 HE DECIDED HIS END HAD COME PUT THAT DOWN DOORS YELL WAS HIGH PITCHED AND THAT ONLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE WORSE 489fad15-be45-434d-a4c7-ed33915b5c05 14 THE PULPIT WAS A WINE GLASS ONE AND WAS REACHED BY A STEEP NARROW FLIGHT OF STEPS b3e9d09e-dbe7-43c3-962a-0d90638ec3f8 451 WHO HAD CURLED HIMSELF UP AT THE FOOT OF THE BED THE NEW PEAS WOULDN'T HURT ENOUGH THEY'RE SO SOFT THEY'D SQUASH FLAT e7e6f028-03df-4c3c-897f-bd668a8e10c2 402 THE TROUBLE WAS THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER THINGS HE LIKED BETTER THAN WORK IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART 7e1d5152-9851-4bf9-8872-585cabb09e4c 2317 THE WORK OF GENIUS WHICH WILL ALLOW MANKIND AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER c763cdcf-30de-4ccf-8219-142e4cca8638 188 WHAT IF THIS WERE ONE OF HIS HORRID DAYS MA SAYS THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT AS LONG AS HE'S A BACHELOR BECAUSE HE WON'T TAKE ANY ONE SAID FELICITY 1e788726-f668-4238-add5-d4940d252c01 32 THE LEAVES ON THE TREES WERE BEGINNING TO COME OUT IN WOOLLY GREYISH CLUSTERS I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT 99865a94-aaf0-4759-9dbc-457b610324a8 451 LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED I THOUGHT OF THAT MYSELF BUT I CAN'T STAY HOME CECILY IT WOULD BE FAR MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD COULD ENDURE eb157f71-ea9c-4683-bea8-3c27f4384bd9 2425 I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS 34b1dc86-ebdb-4123-8fb4-738aa69455be 32 MA MADE A RULE LIKE THAT ONCE BEFORE AND KEPT IT FOR A WEEK AND THEN WE JUST SLIPPED BACK TO THE OLD WAY THAT WILL BE WHAT WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME TOO dd497ce9-5ef9-4e7e-83ea-e81526c99d81 2274 REASONABLY SO THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS 8b9f5c4d-42fc-4414-8c43-b2cb7e8b1c79 2317 THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THING DOESN'T LEAK af03b225-fba0-4067-a375-55fa2f741fd9 2108 EVEN FOR THE ONE WHO IS BRAVE AND DETERMINED FOR A LOVING HUSBAND IS NOT ALWAYS KIND NIMMY AMY LIVED WITH THE WICKED WITCH 231e58b3-a655-43df-8129-7d7254c548cf 2274 ABOUT TEN KILOMETERS OUT STETSON PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT THAT'S HOW THEY GET THEIR SLAVES 2f385128-2e68-4483-ab2e-076892ca084f 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 YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT 0d2109db-c1f1-42ee-9a6c-95334895d500 2274 LURCHED AND SKIDDED AROUND BUTTRESS ROOTS WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS I'M GETTING TIRED OF WAITING 880f5f97-254b-49a2-b41b-9df99ebe9907 2368 I TRIED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OUR MEN CLARETON THOUGHT THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD BUT TAKE HIM AWAY a7427547-1465-4c2e-810d-9e791af1d7f4 188 AUNT JANE USED TO SAY IF A MAN DIDN'T HAVE HEADS AND STICK TO THEM HE'D GO WANDERING ALL OVER THE BIBLE AND NEVER GET ANYWHERE IN PARTICULAR d4624bd3-2e2b-4778-9845-f9f8bb39e030 2425 EITHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN IT LACKED BUT A FEW SECONDS OF THE MOMENT WHEN THE MACHINE BACK IN VIC'S LABORATORY WOULD FUNCTION ad5c0bd0-e9b0-4761-85ca-0a49b3e0faf7 14 FOR WE HAD NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OF THE PERSON REFERRED TO AND WE WERE RATHER CURIOUS REGARDING IT FOR AS PETER DROPPED HIS SCENT INTO THE PLATE HE LAUGHED ALOUD 501ae905-93ac-46d3-a88c-431ba4f25107 2368 IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT 0451d94b-3909-42f1-80b4-f026b4f5f2d6 2274 A BREEZE RIPPLED THE TOPS OF THE GREEN OCEAN BELOW THEM IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I 2e344f07-42eb-4eee-9bb1-f9a909b9ad8b 2137 SURE THE MAN SAID AGAIN BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON 3f2ae1fc-e8c6-4124-a740-507fe1dc801f 2108 I WAS A MUCH BETTER MAN THAN EVER FAMOUS TINSMITH WHO MADE MY PRESENT BEAUTIFUL FORM THE DOOR TO OPEN AND THE DOOR WOULD NOT MOVE 7d663e0a-bf9f-468c-a011-a3e23b2d8d9a 2108 AT NIGHT THEY STOPPED AT A HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE WELL ENTERTAINED AND WHERE WHO CREATURES COULD NOT ESCAPE FROM THE ENCLOSURE BUT IN THEIR FRIGHT MANY BOUNDED UPWARD AND CAUGHT THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES ce86d486-a7f3-479e-a079-935e43797f7b 14 AND JUST IN THE TWILIGHT THEY RODE INTO A DARK VALLEY FILLED WITH TOMBS AND GRAVES FELICITY AND CECILIA WERE WEARING THEIR NEW SUMMER MUSLINS FOR THE FIRST TIME e2d917a8-d3f1-48ba-85fd-6644579e65c4 402 HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM 781bbe5c-843b-458b-9944-c8737e92a2c4 2182 NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HATCHED OUT ON COLLAXIA SAID JENOFER I LOST MY HEAD AND GROUNDED THE QUEEN AND IT VANISHED MOMENTARILY PINNING THE ZID'S THRESHING FORELEM 2c16aaa4-ad9a-4c78-8664-d019cb1bc1cb 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 A 03c5e8fd-76cc-4cf4-bf1c-a48d779ba696 2368 HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE fdf6b62b-fcd1-4a3c-b965-dbf38c4db9bd 402 EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE EXCLAIMED PETER HAS THE MEASLES 688dc896-d24d-447e-9b8f-61c38494c47b 2108 WITH STORIES OF ADVENTURES THEY HAD FORMERLY MET AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE a0496336-43c3-4dba-86af-7c6662bda630 2425 THEY WERE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY WERE IMAGES OF DESPAIR THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET WE'LL HAVE TIME TO TALK OVER DETAILS WHEN WE GET BACK 5693d71c-1e7d-4c95-9274-1e4116592d41 451 IT WAS PERMISSIBLE FOR HIRED BOYS TO GO TO PUBLIC MEETINGS I WANT TO MORTIFY THE FLESH f0ff2b83-235b-42c2-8950-baef8ac2d1fb 2368 I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID TRUE YUNUS SAID PLEASANTLY KNOUGHF WAS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE YONOS HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO SIT HE REMAINED STANDING AND HE WAS RECENTLY SURE THAT HIS FEET WERE GOING TO HURT A MINUTE 9e3f3d25-145d-4fd3-bdae-8cd3ded3e239 2286 AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR 7d25f5f8-6089-48a2-803e-36787fa901ff 451 FELICITY'S SO FOND OF MAKING A FUSS OVER EVERYTHING AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT 83f7bc97-06ba-4c63-8875-88a2264e6612 2182 THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS A CHANGE OF WIND OR SOME CRAFTY MANEUVRE OF OLD CHARLEY MAX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT 040ca8b3-5457-4656-bbdf-1d174d55ba7b 1867 NOT AS BAD AS I HAD THOUGHT A SIX WEEK RUN GIVE HER TAKE A FEW DAYS WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED d74b7d78-255f-4464-921c-67e8b029fe9d 2317 IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE 00ce4a97-ecbd-443e-b217-e637813ffa93 2274 ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW 4fbaf28c-fac2-4eaf-a49f-3a84957308a2 1867 WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION 85f2c7cb-e14f-4879-92cc-3366a52312d8 2425 WE DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF THAT MISTER BUTLER BEING TOOK WITH STREAKS OF WORKING AT ALL HOURS AS YOU KNOW 5e39a85e-672e-4a00-ad9c-a644dc248cbd 2137 MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES 00dbc57e-4459-4e0b-9f58-6def3060c86a 2137 ANOTHER THOUGHT RAN THROUGH HIS MIND INDICATING THAT THE SESSION WAS ENDING I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS 9e482070-cb4b-4970-8316-d2beb790387a 2182 AND STOOD SOLEMNLY BY WHILE THE ZID WEAKENED AND SANK WITH A FINAL GOUT OF BUBBLES IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP c711ccd7-2729-4e00-9d1a-9cd6beab9d87 2317 HE CATCHES ON FAST TO EVERYTHING I TELL HIM SHOWING INTEREST IN THE LITTLE FELLOW'S CONDITION RAY TURNED ON HIM WITH A LOOK THAT WOULD HAVE SEARED THE SPHINX 1dfd9645-1bae-443e-af3f-331400d91967 1867 AFTER FEEDING A COURSE INTO THE ROBOT PILOT I STRAPPED INTO THE ACCELERATOR TANK AND WENT TO SLEEP 7c9fc9d5-6b93-4255-8ba3-b66bffab872d 2286 THAT WASN'T MY CONCERN NOW THE NAVIGATOR AND I PLOTTED THEIR LOCATIONS IN HIS TANK KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT fb77c3bd-eea0-410a-9e3e-f68d3fd34424 451 THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE THEIR TOIL AND LONELINESS AND SUFFERING WERE ALL OVER AND FORGOTTEN 19c743e4-8f43-4df8-bfb7-06f6757aa699 14 MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU AND LOOK HERE BUT PETER MUST HAVE A CENT eeb6ba87-0acd-4429-b42f-d83c767bf2f4 2368 NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES a10cabb0-4196-4307-8067-f894a4f6d0bb 402 YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY I HAD BLACK HAIR BUT NOW WE WERE TOO CRUSHED AND MISERABLE TO MOVE WHY DON'T YOU TALK SENSE IF YOU MUST TALK SAID FELICITY 17e5b367-6b91-40c8-8182-9ad0516580ad 2108 AGREE TO IT SAID THE TIN WOODMAN SHAKING THE HAND OF HIS TWIN TO SHOW THE MATTER WAS SETTLED cfec4c8d-9033-43e0-91ae-d5cf15b099c9 188 NEIL HADN'T BEEN COURTING NANCY VERY LONG AND DONALD NEVER DREAMED HE WOULD PROPOSE TO HER QUITE SO SOON 8cd51ff0-968c-4af0-9f80-ee7353abc031 2317 THE GATE'LL STAY OPEN NOW UNTIL IT'S CLOSED FROM OUR SIDE HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LESS THAN A BOLT OF BARBED LIGHTNING SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE b7e4858f-3f63-4fe5-a892-01cfa7a96868 2274 THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS TWO CIVILIZATIONS THAT MATURED ALONG DIFFERENT LINES BUSTER IN FIVE DAYS 6057e3e2-0e7f-44e8-9dda-eceacb11bc27 2425 THESE CREATURES WERE LIKE SUCH SHADOWS SEEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO JUST BEFORE YOU ARRIVED SIR c31b70b9-f201-46cd-9475-a0fcd2128d70 2368 KUFF'S EYEBROWS WERE WHITE UP SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I 3c6bb1e0-a01d-48c7-8ea3-9a1dc5f276f7 2317 IF HE HADN'T BEEN FEELING JUST THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH OF SEA SICKNESS JOHN EDGEW WOULD HAVE BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF f602ea8a-2cb0-4f2a-8219-9aef98f49a37 2317 EXPLAIN THIS TO ME DORA WASTED NO TIME BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB 95e8b0cb-41e2-44cd-8fc0-d8561c55c299 402 HOW COULD ANYONE IN THE WORLD BE HAPPY WHEN WE WERE SO UNHAPPY WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW e9743fc5-8665-440d-8405-c9fafde5a286 14 I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION 5dbb3ced-2529-406a-a14a-768c37e4d771 188 NEVER FLINCH BECAUSE A SLIP OF THE LASS LOOKS SCORNFUL AT YOU OUT OF THE BONNIEST DARK BLUE EYES ON EARTH 9f51ea5f-871a-48ad-b748-93d467cd5de7 2274 I GOT YOU INTO THE I A IF YOU PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON ON THIS ONE WITHOUT CAUSE A RUIN WHY 875ff4ed-3e7f-41ef-9d4b-20967fd14e87 2108 TO WANDER FROM ONE'S HOME REMARKED THE SCARECROW THE MAGIC APRON PROVED AND ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS 62794cf7-d976-4a08-80cd-fe4a8c7c993b 2274 BUT THIS IS AN ORN R UNIT YES SIR ADMIRAL STETSON SIR YEA GABBOT WHERE IS ALL THIS TRANSLATION GRIFF PUT 2fd40b0a-810b-4ec0-b6f2-5159dee951c4 2182 E I FOR GOD'S SAKE COME IN I'M IN TROUBLE HERE JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE c053faed-5c6e-4d24-bfd0-952cd4cc89fd 2286 I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME THIS TRIPE AND NONSENSE I TOLD HIM IS THE BAIT THAT WILL SNAG OUR FISH A TRAP FOR PEPPET AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME 11f6c826-9ca7-49a4-870b-ce75b05feee4 2182 SAID CHAFFY FOUR HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE SOMETHING NUDGED THE COTTAGE WITH A FORCE THAT ALL BUT KNOCKED IT FLAT 104febe0-14e7-49a3-a435-223fb92639c5 2425 AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN TO HOPE AND VIC dab70000-ad56-478c-aadb-f5f466334eb1 451 WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS 2953ee10-9846-4919-8cf3-d11a7885e48b 451 MISSUS RAY ALWAYS LOOKS ON THE DARK SIDE AND IT MAY NOT BE THE MEASLES SARA HAS AFTER ALL SHE SAID YESTERDAY YOU CAN GO 86bd3a3d-7610-4f9b-9d44-be424a3214d5 2286 I THOUGHT IT A LITTLE SHOWY MYSELF THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN MY FAVOUR THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS 59d1825f-e93c-4d8c-8e9e-b0ee09d5dd85 2368 AND HE GRIN TURNED TO A LAUGH AS HE STARTED DOWN THE HILL HE THOUGHT OF TRYING TO REACH CLARETON BUT DECIDED NOT ENTIRELY WITH REGRET THAT THE CONTACT WOULD USE UP TOO MUCH ENERGY AND HE NEEDED ALL THE ENERGY HE COULD CONSERVE NOW 400d9625-2dc3-462e-a9f6-aa6afdc0b088 32 MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE AND EMILY LIKED TO SIT AMONG THE FERNS UNDER THE BIRCHES AND READ OR SEW 42a015ed-efb3-4fd6-9585-9a96bee2002f 1867 I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN 58743252-9b4d-46f4-9cbf-6cea6f8a16cc 2182 SEA WATER HAD PLASTERED JENIFER'S WHITE BLOUSE AND KNEE LENGTH DUNGARIES TO HER BODY LIKE A SECOND SKIN b78ffe39-7e2a-462f-83b4-eec3efdd59e5 451 THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT ee48324a-c080-415f-8955-e3c519ede398 402 ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME a14f9875-fce8-43dc-a0e1-21a23b53c073 2274 WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE BY THE SACK LIKE PATCHED BLUE FATIGUES THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE 76783344-ed8a-45fd-8693-c5b1e129e6d8 402 HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE FANNY REFUSED TO LET CAPTAIN DUNBAR TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM 0fbf7f3a-471e-4ccc-8347-8e6bdf662696 14 I'M AWFUL SORRY DAN HOWEVER LENT HIM ONE ON THE DISTINCT UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS TO BE REPAID THE NEXT WEEK I'M GOING TO KEEP ON GOING TO CHURCH 0ebc1664-3763-4ebd-83b5-c209ba45a0bd 2182 OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US SAID CHAFFY THREE THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY ca459067-b561-4808-b667-c87be2dc3109 2425 KNOWING YOUR DISLIKE FOR SCIENCE OTHER THAN THAT RELATED TO AERONAUTICS ALL CUT IS PRETTY SHORT THOSE WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING HOPE AND VIC WERE SURGING FORWARD WITH THE REST THEIR ERSTWHILE PRISONERS FORGOTTEN IN THEIR MAD GREED FOR DEATH 70e3bb93-9079-477b-a507-ecf697104f19 2137 THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET I'M GOING TO BRING US DOWN TO FORTY THOUSAND FEET AND SEARCH THE AREA WHERE HE WENT DOWN 35939431-2f9c-49c5-af8e-6d638d8516bd 2182 THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS 4df8169e-6eb3-4b6b-b7f4-2d3c40e34198 188 SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WOMEN WHO WERE ALWAYS SAYING I TOLD YOU SO WHERE IS DONALD FRASER SAID NEIL SHAKING HIS FIST IT'S HIM I'M SEEKING AND IT'S HIM I WILL BE FINDING WHERE IS HE BETTY SHERMAN 8f428f33-6881-4105-aaaa-fed8aa9a602d 402 AND THE ROAR OF THE RIVER DEAFENED HIM SO THAT HE COULD HEAR NOTHING AND IF I COULD CRY I THINK IT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER AND THOUGH IT WAS THUS SUDDENLY REMOVED THE CHILL AND THE SHADOW OF IT WERE ABOUT US STILL 820c9249-16d4-4cfc-875a-3f1466b64020 451 PETER HAD GONE HOME TO SEE HIS MOTHER AND UNCLE ROGER HAD GONE TO MARKDALE ON BUSINESS 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 0a0029f6-af79-4265-af9b-77559faa0adc 32 POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION 55efc553-b909-4c9b-9350-4804793e3104 2317 NOT ONLY OUR OWN COPSE BUT THE GALACTIC FEDERATION WOULD BE ON OUR NECKS IF THEY KNEW NOW LET US KISS AND MAKE UP FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY ae8a3af6-27b2-4bd3-8b0c-46db90a6c0e4 2108 YES THE DITCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING JUST NOW BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY FOR THE SCARECROW'S BODY WAS ONLY A SUIT OF CLOTHES FILLED WITH STRAW 82cb5f77-6a8c-45b1-81ed-524b00570e07 2425 THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER I STARED AT HIM BEWILDERED e1824661-af50-4448-b314-9fc1321b6443 32 SHE WAS ALWAYS IN TROUBLE OF SOME SORT COULDN'T GET HER HAIR BRAIDED OR HER SHOES ON THE RIGHT FEET 928d8394-a282-40d2-982d-46156d583553 2368 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO MISSUS SHARP TRIED TO GET THE WORD OUT AND THEN PUSHED BY THE TWO MEN AND CAME INTO THE HUT 8e6edce1-6dd7-43ce-8d3a-aab4b19eb328 188 MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A RICH RETIRED FARMER WHO TOOK LIFE EASILY IF AS WAS SAID HE DETESTED CHILDREN TURN HERSELF INTO A BLACK CAT ASKED FELIX STARING a67da027-71e7-4695-a6fd-1c13250d49ae 1867 I COULDN'T SEE IT OF COURSE BUT I KNEW IT HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE GRAPPLES IN THE CLAWS LATCHED ON TO THE STEEL PLATES ON MY SHOULDERS 7d2aa64f-2b39-4e07-82e6-72061f6dfa62 2368 YONAS HEARD SQUEAKING AND THOUGHT OF THE RATS BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO TRY FOR THEM YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM a70b4bae-ffc4-4d56-bf6f-9e2fdd534c72 1867 I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS UNDER THE PLASTER SKIN 87801f4d-4e05-4d77-a857-03b9a8116b93 188 HARD FACT TO REALISE HAD BEEN CHILDREN I HEARD UNCLE ROGER TELLING IT THE OTHER NIGHT THERE WAS A FINE MOCKERY IN HIS TONE THAT PUT THE STORY GIRL ON HER MEDDLE INSTANTLY b30af796-d77a-46e2-b9e0-e99e8381d8d7 2274 AND RUN HOME WITH MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT IF WE GET THAT BACK WE PULL THEIR TEETH 2c5054d6-9943-405b-b4c5-d3e540796c25 1867 WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN 46cb5a5d-c0f8-402b-825e-890789b11a66 2108 SO THE BOY WONDERED IF THE SCARECROW WOULD BE ABLE TO TRAVEL WITH THEM ALL THE WAY TO THE FORESTS OF THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ 69f90272-ebf1-4bbc-a3e8-5132b9e7f76b 2368 YONAS MADE CONTACT TWICE WITH CLARTON WHO TOLD HIM OVER AND OVER TO WAIT TO DO NOTHING NOW WAS THE TIME FOR HIS PLAY bb3226b5-c21b-488c-941a-07f1898b5f53 402 WHEN SHE TOLD US SAD TALES IN A VOICE LADEN WITH ALL THE TEARS THAT HAD EVER BEEN SHED e2401147-bec5-4ea5-891a-a688625fae5b 2368 I SEE THE WOMAN IN YOUR MIND WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL 7a6cca22-151c-44e1-9ad0-e92da090ca33 1867 WHILE DOING THIS HE HAD THROWN ONE OF THE SWITCHES AND THAT HAD CAUSED THE TROUBLE I WASN'T STOPPED SO IT LOOKED ALL RIGHT 6c4a6421-1adc-4520-a21a-6f30117ee7e9 2368 THE MAN WITH THE BLACK HAIR SAID THE OTHERS HE MET ONLY BRIEFLY FOR AL SHARP WAS A LITTLE WOMAN WITH THE FACE OF A WALNUT WHO LOOKED AS IF SHE HAD NEVER REALLY BEEN CHEERFUL dcb7dc9f-5ef7-4aaa-94dc-ba048a802776 32 WE WERE GLAD WE HAD NOT HEARD IT IN THE EVENING BUT I LIT AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER AND WOKE RIGHT UP BUT I LOVE A FLOWER GARDEN 684d2ca7-8d61-44db-92c3-ee550ec7865b 2182 CIRCLED BY A FAINTER COMPANION AND A SINGLE PLANET THAT SWUNG IN PRECISE BALANCE THERE WAS ONE ON THE DOCK BUT I THOUGHT be48123a-3ef7-4c0e-aced-4b16a60b9f0f 14 CRIED THE PROUD PRINCESS ANGRILY WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS de44502d-ab5f-47e0-b663-be23d2659c1e 2368 AFTER IT HAD BEEN EATEN AND THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE GREW TO FULL NIGHT IT WAS TIME TO RETIRE IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE 06262111-2ee9-48af-bd0e-d817e9ae653a 2274 THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB ROARED STETSON INTO THE SPEAKER IN THE MOONLIGHT HE COULD SEE ARMED 9e315b93-34ab-4eee-a06d-2658fea184d7 32 I GUESS I'D BETTER NOT RISK IT THE DREAM WHICH WE ALL COUNTED HIS MASTERPIECE WAS THE ONE IN WHICH A MENAGERIE WAS CAMPED IN THE ORCHARD AND THE RHINOCEROS CHASED AUNT JANET AROUND AND ROUND THE PULPIT STONE BUT TURNED INTO AN INOFFENSIVE PIG WHEN IT WAS ON THE POINT OF CATCHING HER 53668e6f-6a77-4244-b8b8-f92157bd7fc9 2368 IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE HE TRIED NOT TO LET THE THOUGHT DISTURB HIM SHE WAS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY HE THOUGHT c32b5e8c-91b0-4758-bec6-07c537686587 402 MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER 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 4e9fddbe-0c08-4b99-a9ba-50dec1e5e8b1 188 YOU HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF A WREN NEIL CAMPBELL AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK AND MINDFUL OF THE NEED OF MAKING AN IMPRESSION I DREW A HARROWING PICTURE OF THE MISERABLE PLIGHT OF THE HEATHEN WHO IN THEIR DARKEST DARKNESS BOWED DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE d33367de-3cad-4498-919e-c93c6a2e1d97 32 AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED WHERE WE SAT ON THOSE SEPTEMBER EVENINGS bb9ef478-dfa2-48d4-aad9-363a6f14a566 14 AND THE LAUGH JUST LAUGHED ITSELF BEFORE I COULD HELP IT OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS USUAL a3d79656-efd7-4df3-9bfb-a03e3bc0b51e 2274 OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB 10c2b9fb-70dc-4446-bbbf-1c3969e10b6b 2137 OF COURSE THIRTEEN YEARS HAD PASSED ON EARTH SINCE THEY HAD LEFT TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK OBSCURING THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY cfc26f25-0b5a-4402-9e9d-9628024e4122 188 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THAT WHEN YOU GO ARE GOING TO HAVE ANY IMPORTANT INTERVIEW WITH A MAN YOU OUGHT TO LOOK YOUR VERY BEST SAID THE STREET STORY GIRL GIVING HER SKIRT A LUSTROUS SWIRL AND ENJOYING THE EFFECT 817c2d35-5a87-423c-9343-c4909293c29b 32 I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US 67cb3f80-f8de-42e7-9dc9-369f21c33b2a 32 ONE SLENDER HAND PROPPING HER HIGH WHITE BROW ON EITHER SIDE OF WHICH FALL HER GLOSSY CURLS b1006c7f-f57c-4add-9a7f-c7143c6a0544 2108 AND SHE INSISTED THAT NIMY AMY SHOULD NEVER MARRY ME SLIPPED THE DEW THAT WAS CLUSTERED THICK ON THE FOREST FLOWERS 5628f7bd-86fc-46cb-b986-c3e5a2631c0e 1867 I DUG THROUGH THE MARK THREE PLANS IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON IT SWISHED DOWN AND LANDED AT NIGHT IN THE BANK OF A LOCAL MUD WALLOW e1b727f8-c883-4fe3-86b6-2afb0b264d17 2274 I'M NERVOUS SAID ORAN GUNS ALWAYS MAKE ME NERVOUS SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED ORAN BRAKED TO A CREAKING STOP THAT SHIFTED THE LOAD BEHIND HIM 24d88d75-b9da-4c01-81db-e81a5f332265 2108 THIS IS STRANGE MUSED THE SCARECROW I I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR HAD ALREADY MENDED HIM 2b1edd98-ee04-462a-a78e-2f0594afa87e 2286 HE HAD NO IDEA I WASN'T INTEREST IN HIS OTHER HANKEY PANKY BUT COULD TELL THAT I HAD A LOW BLOW 254ee603-d5ae-4de0-b51f-81223d8a6582 1867 THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR 35053e03-70a0-48e8-84ca-1f34aa59fcdc 188 THE STORY GIRL WAS BAREFOOTED AND BARE ARMED HAVING ROLLED THE SLEEVES OF HER PINK GINGHAM UP TO HER SHOULDERS cfda95dc-0bba-49cd-9f61-be6163bd88d3 2368 DO YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME YONAH SAID YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED 398f9c54-4446-4f50-b141-9c0ee235120b 2274 THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES ce596753-a91b-4ad8-850b-404279d7a2eb 402 I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO REPENT OF SOMETHING SWEET GIRL AND THIS WAS ALL SHE COULD THINK OF 19aea590-3dd0-4bd4-b3e0-ac5a46ae8b79 2274 A STANCE NOT IMPROVED LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY WE'LL BE RIGHT DOWN WHY A DISGUISED SLED 6c68b386-77ce-49e8-b5c9-759c7ae18a95 188 AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER THE NEXT MORNING THE STORM WAS OVER b891aec5-bfb3-4bd3-a411-705e702e7944 2425 AND MISS OAK LOOKS INTO HIS ROOM I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL b78ecd81-5bf6-4b91-aace-3d3ac69c2b89 2425 I GLANCED UP SWIFTLY NO SIR WELL EACH WITH A LIGHT OF A DIFFERENT COLOR d8521bd5-5022-43d1-89bc-15f90ddb34c0 188 JUST TO MAKE YOU LAUGH I'LL WRITE YOU A LITTLE STORY I HEARD UNCLE ALEC TELLING LAST NIGHT LET'S GO AND ASK THE AWKWARD MAN AND MISTER CAMPBELL FOR A CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND SHE SAID 08d077a1-b02f-46fd-8e3d-5dd0394b69c5 2108 I SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO COOK FOR YOU HE HAD WORRIED MORE OVER WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO LUKE THAN TO HIMSELF fcf243ab-d98a-444f-88a4-8b3e8c005860 2286 SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL 79a0e4f4-1de4-4a25-a6ed-197f2259dabe 451 FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY NOW LOOK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL 10527f03-ffe8-43b9-884d-1adc0567ceac 2368 I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS YUNUS SHOOK HIS HEAD NOT AT ALL I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH 38ff3451-4d96-4f17-8b1b-f7417ed553e7 451 WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT BUT NOTHING OCCURRED IMMEDIATELY WHEN AN HOUR HAD PASSED WE CONCLUDED THAT THE BAD BERRIES WERE NOT POISON AFTER ALL AND WE LOOKED UPON DAN AS QUITE A HERO FOR DARING TO EAT THEM 274e2140-473d-40c6-967f-cef4902d9f22 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 PETER GOES TO CHURCH SAID THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF COLD CONCENTRATED FURY 39eae19c-5a88-4bc1-88e8-99a71d5edae2 402 FELICITY SOLD HERS TO UNCLE ALEC'S HIRED MAN AND SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN HER CRY WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING a4065ca1-83d6-4f88-9eaa-f8a3042d6b2b 2317 TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING 1b896e80-3dc9-4e18-835f-e71438c01f4b 2108 OVER THE DOOR BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER EUP IS A PRISONER IN A CAGE IN A FAR OFF I SHALL BE ABLE TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY A 44c6e033-fdfd-4de0-999c-ec2908844b79 402 SHE HAD NEVER SHARED ONE OF HER OWN STORY GIRL NODDED MISERABLY DIES HE'LL GO TO HEAVEN ANYHOW SOBBED CECILY HE'S BEEN REAL GOOD ALL THIS SUMMER BUT HE ISN'T A CHURCH MEMBER aab3b917-f1ea-410c-954d-436f58dab849 402 SHE WAS AN UNHAPPY LITTLE EXILE HER TONE EXPRESSED HER CONVICTION THAT THAT WOULD CARRY PETER THROUGH IF ANYTHING WOULD 011e19a2-38dd-4197-94bc-c3db61d0249d 2286 I FLIPPED THROUGH MY CASE AND DREW OUT A PLAN WHEN FERERO ROLLED INTO HIS STUDY AFTER DINNER THE ROOM WAS DARK I HEARD HIM MURMUR SOMETHING ABOUT THE SERVANTS AND FUMBLE FOR THE SWITCH NOW THAT THE ROAD WAS WELL OUT OF THE BAG I KNEW JUST WHERE TO LOOK 1ee9d78b-42d7-48e4-a23c-82e4b35214d9 2286 ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY IF THERE ARE TWO CHOICES TO TAKE TAKE THE SIMPLER 80064602-3703-48b1-9564-8679fe59c025 402 THE DOCTOR IS AFRAID HE HE HE HAD DIED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD BEEN BURIED THERE SARA HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HILL FARM SINCE PETER HAD DEVELOPED MEASLES 56fa7400-be8f-4627-9dbd-3f10426c8732 1867 THE PRIESTS WERE A HARD HEADED LOT AND WEREN'T BUYING ANY LIZARDS IN A POKE THEY JUST STOOD AND MUTTERED BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD 6bb2076d-fc6c-4f22-99af-1f27a9a353da 1867 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME 52d7936b-23d3-44f4-a684-36d98336a50b 2108 VERY WELL DONE MY WANDERER SAID THE TIN WOODMAN FOR I AM ALMOST A STRANGER TO THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY HIS DESERTED CASTLE 3ede939e-4558-43bc-bcd3-0499637360f0 2108 AND THEN HE RUSHED FORWARD AND STUCK THE THORN INTO THE LEG OF THE SCARECROW SO BE KIND ENOUGH TO UNFASTEN OUR BONDS AND WE WILL PROCEED UPON OUR JOURNEY 8c0bbbe4-e7fc-4c88-9c5f-2e7ffd0844ec 402 FELICITY SAID VIOLENTLY THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT SHE HAD BEEN OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S YARD TO HEAR THE LATEST BULLETIN FROM THE SICK ROOM THEY BECAME HER VASTLY 21bddff4-5ca2-411f-aaa2-8db56327582e 451 SARA RAY CAME UP BUT WAS SO SNUBBED BY FELICITY THAT SHE WENT HOME CRYING f3da7fcb-cfd4-4b6c-b022-9cf1f5823595 2286 PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING 8430b91f-5616-41c9-92a5-7676e4096803 2274 THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB THAT WAS THE JUNGLE THE EYE A SECTION CHIEF WAS DARK HAIRED 8946e70d-97fe-4460-934e-8be1ecc6feb7 188 THE STORY GIRL AND CECILY WERE EACH TO BE PAID TEN CENTS A WEEK FOR WASHING DISHES IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES f349c852-afaf-48c3-bb84-4ef9891b499c 2274 WAS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT OUT OF THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES HORN SAW MORE SHADOWS DROPPING TO THE MUD AROUND HIM 55f9c522-eec9-47a0-bc43-2770d1418b6f 2108 BUT HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO GET YOU POLYCHROME AND THIS GAVE LOOT TIME TO CLIMB THROUGH THE OPENING FOR WOOT WAS NOT VERY BIG AND NOT VERY OLD 0fbf1b44-2989-4f6a-b5cf-6a6de5b70dc0 2108 OF COURSE ANSWERED THE LITTLE GIRL I WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING WELL SAID THE GIANTESS WHAT EXCUSE HAVE YOU TO OFFER YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE LIVED HERE MADAM 964f3be9-107a-46c0-ab76-a66620bdac62 402 THOSE ARE ONLY PROVERBS SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY I HAVE JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS ABOUT POOR DEAR PETER I EXCEPT THE STORY GIRL 61573854-53f7-447b-8e89-01319c3fea62 2286 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 55c024de-875d-4954-98a5-e914e039c744 2274 THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT WE'RE SETTING UP OUR OWN SEARCH SYSTEM TO FIND THE PLANETS BEFORE THEY DO c7da4af7-7c7c-4e97-8ca3-945d0ad6adaf 402 THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER HE FELT THAT HE COULD NEVER GO SO FAR AWAY FOR SO LONG AND LEAVE HIS MARGARET BEHIND 714006f3-d936-41bc-bb08-29de43c8f63a 2368 IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK 6ba70e9a-59b4-4bae-a0af-768e202b2752 2274 NEXT HE SAID THEIR MOON WAS CERANNA CRUSOE TRANSLATED AS A LIMB OF VICTORY 8389c371-929b-4259-b00b-67a17b7cb421 451 WISH JANET AND UNCLE ALEC WERE HOME SAID FELIX IT'S NOT HALF SO MUCH FUN HAVING THE GROWN UPS AWAY AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE I 34a2b23d-dd1a-4f19-a2db-1974129c7715 2317 HER VOICE DRIPPING DANGER AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE THE ONLY REAL TROUBLE WITH YOU EARTH PEOPLE b709ba23-2f5c-4ddd-99fc-95d98dec4054 2368 MEMBER WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE 1a6b1d0a-01ad-45fb-b340-842498cdc16d 188 NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT c12cf05c-8a4d-4301-b35a-580ca3f695fb 2286 WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES THERE ARE OTHER METALS WITH A HIGHER ALBIDO BUT NONE THAT GIVE A RICHER EFFECT 918114ea-6211-4fe5-93c1-09937103de07 2286 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES 5a2cc396-3ed0-4426-ab05-65c353e1c3b3 2274 WHO DARE FORAGE SUCH A THING UNLESS HE KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL F SEA OFFICER WAS MISSING OR DEAD SAID TO NEW HORN STOPPED THE SLED CONTACTED CULTURE ca3f1fa7-f03d-4891-9dbc-6ee28aeca5ed 188 I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS EITHER OF EM SAID DAN AND I NEVER PART WITH ANY OF IT UNLESS I'M TO RECEIVE SOME BENEFIT FROM THE EXPENDITURE afec6dba-3698-45b1-82e5-333c5a6c3581 451 EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN CAME DOWN WITH SMILES AND SPARKLING EYES FELICITY GOT THE DINNER BY HERSELF DISDAINING TO ASK OR COMMAND ASSISTANCE 9d7aa851-64af-4345-9083-3c7dc994b848 188 HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE IF THE CAMPBELL WAKES TOO SOON BLACK DAN COULD SHOW YOU A PAIR OF CLEAN HEELS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD START 746486dc-50f6-49bf-a76e-71c2426382eb 2425 OLD LAW OF SIMPLE PHYSICS IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN INTERRUPTED VIC IN AN EFFORT TO STEM THE TIDE 7713ad85-63a7-4b1d-a033-08b757135029 32 I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP ae164403-d7c2-4cd7-b3d8-35bfd9ad8266 32 DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER SHE ILLUSTRATED HER DREAMS WITH SKETCHES THAT CERTAINLY CAUGHT THE SPIRIT OF THEM WHATEVER MIGHT BE SAID OF THEIR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE 15b054d8-3133-4446-900f-b6a66ba17614 32 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 dcf1cc55-a214-4fd8-8435-0adac8a59620 188 NEIL WENT ON TASTING HALF WAY BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE HARBOUR THERE WAS A THICK SPRUCE WOOD AND THE PATH RAN THROUGH IT 08e12404-8451-46ea-bff9-5b6ccf78df84 2368 HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE ec7f8a05-6a91-4617-8c26-cf58be328899 188 IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS WELL AIN'T THAT ALL THE MORE REASON FOR CRYING RETORTED PETER I'VE HAD TO DO WITHOUT HER FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT'S WORSE THAN IF IT HAD JUST BEEN A FEW DAYS d5372ca4-6d63-4b18-8de8-3d251aff7eef 451 ALL DAY SHE SAT IN THE KITCHEN AND WORKED BUTTONHOLES SUBSISTING ON BREAD AND WATER AND MEXICAN TEA 2ed550ce-b564-4473-aa66-015a397ad04b 2425 COME TO THINK OF IT HE REMARKED AND EACH POST BORE AT ITS TOP LOOK UP HOPE VIC'S VOICE WAS KINDLY YET FIRM AND GRAVELY COMMANDING 42e3cf01-b979-4e49-a9ad-f8ca614b04a5 2286 THEY WERE ALL PULLED DOWN IN THE END SINCE THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDED ON ONE MAN RULE BUT THE PRICE THAT HAD TO BE PAID FIRST 4e86fc2e-aa95-4d8d-b982-9f12878d5efa 2425 THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING 56ae28f5-635e-4cb1-82e0-eed2f30b2c51 188 IF HE LIKED YOU THERE WAS NOTHING HE WOULD NOT DO FOR YOU BUT IF HE DISLIKED YOU FELICITY IN ESPECIAL SEEMED TO BE IN SEVENTH HEAVEN 819f6ed8-0be7-4684-be9a-ffdc74af158a 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 40ae7855-d5bf-421c-b6a7-8d2711f71bd7 2317 THE DIVING HELMET CAME OFF EASILY NOT HAVING BEEN PROPERLY FASTENED DOWN AT ALL FARMER REALIZED WITH A SHOCK THAT THE CREATURE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING 6964a7d0-2bb3-4287-89d2-95e0225d65a9 2286 THE MORE I KNEW THE LESS I COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED FOR A BATTLESHIP IT DIDN'T FIT I'LL SAY THIS THE NAVY BOYS KNOW THEIR BUSINESS EVERYTHING I MIGHT NEED FOR THE JOB WAS IN MY LUGGAGE 756edc6b-e7fa-47a5-9a83-c4609bc328c0 2425 PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR WAS THE HIDEOUS GRINNING FACE OF THE IDOL CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS 6388d275-4dc3-44f6-90f1-d7889398b40f 402 I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE 96b7b128-fe35-4d4f-8d10-1c44f8764bf9 2425 SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK WHAT'S THE MATTER PARON WHERE'S MISTER BUTLER THAT'S IT SIR THAT'S EXACTLY IT WHERE'S MISTER BUTLER AND JUST A MOMENT PLEASE CUT IT SHORT PARRON WHAT'S HAPPENED 4f8cf13a-3c41-4821-9026-377ae0535800 2108 AND CACLIP HAD A GREY BEARD THAT WAS ALMOST AS LONG AS HIS APRON THIS WAS THE SOURCE OF CONSTANT INTEREST TO LITTLE DOROTHY 281a97c7-ab69-46d9-9b8c-55955843a0f3 2274 AND IF SO WHERE IT IS NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN e17d98b0-9e6e-43d8-8dbe-60217f275e4d 2108 I'M ALMOST SURE I CAN SEE A STRAWSTACK IN THE BACK YARD THEY TALKED IT OVER FOR A WHILE AND THEN MISSUS EWKE RETURNED 3bc17bd6-299e-48dc-98fb-146309b57ba5 2274 THE GUN INTO NUBES'S HAND WAS SLAMMED INTO HIS LAP HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE IT A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM 1a77cff6-a6a1-462a-a671-65adf144b0f3 402 INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX 164616d5-d6e1-4f7c-b238-617a0082a09f 2425 THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL 143accc3-2c64-4271-b3c4-ce03eeeb867b 2425 STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED 1cac27f6-8fad-48d0-a5ec-c68baeb0cf8f 2368 FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE a29752f8-e641-40d2-9344-8ebc0a3bcaa6 32 I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE 0de1756e-b2d3-4b5b-b685-634f3899ff2b 2286 THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE bc9aef22-ab68-448c-9f34-0e61a2b7c0b1 2274 WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER 27de61e0-0c12-47f8-b918-c6d43a0c081b 402 UNTIL WE ALL GROWN UP WITH CHILDREN IT WAS AS MUCH SARAH RAY'S NORMAL STATE AS ANY OTHER WE WERE ALL INTENSELY EXCITED SATURDAY MORNING 7234c8ae-4f6c-48f6-9703-208f28cc0305 402 BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY GIRL CRY LIKE THIS CECILY DID NOT WRITE BACK BECAUSE MISSUS RAY HAD DECREED THAT NO LETTERS MUST BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE HILL FARM LEST THEY CARRY INFECTION I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THE MINISTER KNOWS c63f08ee-276c-4a39-83b1-0f275acc646c 2286 I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ARRANGE A DEAL SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROFITABLE TO BOTH OF US BUT LET ME FIRST SHOW YOU THE REST OF THE BOMBS SO YOU WON'T GET ANY STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CORPORATING d3c1613a-df08-40fd-9550-19eff3823251 32 PETER DAN FELIX CECILY FELICITY SARA RAY THE STORY GIRL 07ef6ab4-a8a5-4984-b176-fd6372c18d99 2286 THE YACHT WAS FLUSHED AGAINST THE SPACE FILLING BULK OF THE OTHER SHIP I PUT IT OUT OF MY MIND AND WORKED ON SOME DRY D CHESS PROBLEMS 5d1c8457-d341-4fe7-af5c-1c6bb43b6231 2108 THEN THE SCARECROW LAID HIMSELF DOWN SO THAT WOOT COULD USE HIS STUFFED BODY AS A PILLOW HIS EYES HAD GROWN BIGGER THAN EVER AND HIS WHOLE LITTLE BODY THRILLED WITH AMAZEMENT ce865474-b039-4453-86dd-7d95635cb9f9 2286 THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG 09967a6b-1515-4a0c-a933-dfd768d677d7 188 CECILY'S LETTER IS FROM M FREWIN SHE ALWAYS PUTS IN HASTE ON HER LETTERS NO MATTER WHAT'S IN THEM IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING c66aa566-4102-49ec-9645-1d3a5a94a5f6 402 THIS WAS IN FORTY NINE WHEN PEOPLE WERE RUSHING TO THE GOLD FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA RAINBOW BRIDGE IS NOT FOR THEE LIFE WAS AS A RED ROSE ONCE MORE 598651e9-c96c-462a-a753-9987e4803299 188 COME NOW AND DO YOUR PRETTIEST YOU'VE BEEN PROMISING EDWARD FOR YEARS TO VISIT HIM AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A BETTER CHANCE e8eebe8b-50ea-423e-9f7d-95c44ff39a90 2274 THERE'D BE A HIGH PLACE ORAN PULLED THE INSECT GENTLY FROM HIS HAIR RELEASED IT 5e121e2e-d581-41f2-8c7d-8f6315d609a2 402 LAST NIGHT I FELT JUST LIKE PRAYING AND TO NIGHT I FEEL JUST LIKE COOKING DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG b5a51520-4346-4629-b710-d9027056fc62 2274 THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT THE RIFLE WAS HELD BUT NOW THE SHIP RESTED ON ITS TAIL FINS 5aec9b0f-c16d-4f08-8b98-94fc8e931b6f 2274 WHEN HE COMBED IN HIS NET OF SNEAKERS TO CHECK THE TAPES AND FILMS WHAT DO YOU CARRY IN THIS VEHICLE 7d83c1be-f023-4a1e-977b-f0441614b387 2286 THERE WAS NO PLACE I COULD GO THAT WOULD BE BETTER SITUATED FOR THE CHASE THAN SETANOVO THE GIRL WAS OBVIOUSLY ASSISTANT TO THE MUSTER MIND WHO ORIGINATED THE SCHEME HE SAT IN THE CENTER OF THE PLOT LIKE A SPIDER ON ITS WEB PULLING THE STRINGS THAT SET THINGS INTO MOTION 9a65529b-ddfc-4688-ae47-a9b8011cd954 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 823bc08f-1130-4710-87f0-e3d94ca3dadc 2274 YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU HIS MOUTH REMAINED CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A SURF HISSING VOICE IN ORNE'S EARS I SAID WHY DO YOU bef723ea-cf17-4c01-b9ec-c0c82511ba7e 2286 X HIMSELF HAD THE PERMANENT JOB OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERING DESIGNER THE WAR LORD CLASS BATTLESHIP THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AT THE CENT ORANTOLA SPACE YARDS I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO 1ce05131-b3fb-4b1a-9793-6bcb6673a01a 451 NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY 8ecd68fe-ab41-40c7-86e6-0727720e6297 2317 IT SHOULD HAVE SPLINTERED IN HIS HANDS JOHN ANDREW GULPED DOR HE SAID SOFTLY f2100aa5-c475-4ed9-946a-22fc6cd25a7c 2108 AT THE EAST IN THE DIRECTION WE WERE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCED THE CANARY THERE IS A FINE FOREST WITH A BROOK TREADING THROUGH IT AND THEN CLIMBED OUT OF REACH OF THE DREADED THORN a25b26ba-a61b-46bd-ba6d-ecacbb1bae22 451 THE YOUNG MINISTER TURNED PALE AS THE DEAD AND IMPLORED MISSUS CRAWFORD TO HIDE HIM DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT UP DAN SAID CECILY ANXIOUSLY bd951b6b-4e3d-459b-9359-b9afb0cd392a 451 I URGED JANET AND ALEC TO GO TO HALIFAX AND TOOK THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHILDREN WHILE THEY WERE AWAY 9a7f06c9-a143-404d-9e5c-c3772b3d0ddd 2274 TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON WANT US TO COME BACK 58094aa4-94ed-497e-80f4-3fab28e3dbc8 32 AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND I HOPE SARAH WILL HAVE HERS 2281493b-f9ce-4a62-96bb-686e74828971 2286 I BLEW A RELAXED SMOKE RING REPORT I SAID TO THE ROBOT HAS THIS MAN TOLD ANY LIES 151fdd7a-64a8-4555-ad5a-2ae8147a6d1c 2274 A SCOUT SWOOPED DOWN INTO THE HEADLIGHTS AND WAVED HE MOVED HIS SPEAKING MUSCLES A GLOWING OF MANY LIGHTS GREW VISIBLE THROUGH THE GIANT TREE TRUNKS 233d623e-67c3-444b-9e0d-a0d2d3886221 2108 THE EMPEROR DISCOVERED A HEAD IT SIGN ANOTHER PATH ARE APT TO FORGET THAT HE IS NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE 4f5b69d3-212c-490a-b1cd-57d22345b9db 402 EVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM WE HAD HEARD DIED P S OH I DO HOPE PETER WILL GET BETTER WHAT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE FOR EVER IN THIS WORLD d478aa86-af15-4623-bb81-b16829c1e160 451 YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE FOR SHE SLIPPED OUT AND DROVE OFF TO CHURCH AS HE HAD DONE d09b88a4-2b84-4750-9a95-62a95ff44f51 188 SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE BUT NOW THAT IT IS OVER I BELIEVE I AM SORRY THAT IT IS OPEN IT ISN'T MYSTERIOUS ANY LONGER DON'T LET ME HEAR ANY MORE OF YOUR AMENDS OR I'LL AMEN YOU 8d66d06d-017d-4bf2-ba51-1886e541320e 402 SHOULD DIE WAS UNBELIEVABLE WELL WHAT IS THE REASON ASKED FELICITY MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER 29221e31-00fd-44ea-99f3-2b16d528c0ca 188 I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT POOR RACHEL WAS SO HAPPY THAT WINTER SHE MADE ALL HER WEDDING THINGS WITH HER OWN HANDS 830d3905-3dd8-4b4b-94dc-baaf8551cce5 2108 AND PATHS OF BLUE GROUND AND THE PURPLE HUES OF THE GRASS AND TREES WARNED THEM THAT THEY WERE NOW IN THE COUNTRY OF THE GILICANS WHERE STRANGE PEOPLE DWELT IN PLACES THAT WERE QUITE UNKNOWN TO THE OTHER INHABITANTS OF OZ 86cea7a1-3b66-4585-b047-df41454759e1 2317 GARF LOOKED HESITATE HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS 8caf482a-e80d-4344-8bb3-fc8d60d453dc 32 AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SO IT APPEARED AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS f2449170-cd9e-44d2-9ea3-20a7d7155021 402 IF HE EVER GETS BETTER I'LL NEVER SAY SUCH A THING AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK IT EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL IS ABOUT THE SAME f6be488f-9e45-4588-8928-fd6d2e90ea99 2317 HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED 7c3c17bc-2e9c-45ab-a880-b90c02ad56ba 2286 SO HE HAD SIMPLY ROARED UP TO UNSUSPECTING FREIGHTER AND BLASTED OVER THE MONSTER GUNS HIS BATTLESHIP PACKED BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES 151f00a7-2245-4806-9f15-d82820595fe1 188 TO BE LEFT IN SOLE CHARGE OF A BIG HOUSE WITH THREE MEALS A DAY TO PLAN AND PREPARE WITH POULTRY AND COWS AND DAIRY AND GARDEN TO SUPERINTEND aa10556c-431e-48a7-83e6-eb78f0c54509 2286 THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES 6eb189fe-38fa-4ca4-aa08-ed759a9435c5 32 THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR ME TO HAVE ANY HORRIDID DREAMS LAMENTED SARA RAY MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE 686feecb-3df1-497e-bbe4-a82d2bfd85a4 2274 IT GAVE HIM AN UNHAPPY STOMACH BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF VINE LANES THROUGH THE JUNGLES OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD cd79312e-5c3c-4382-8606-7c57891a5996 2286 OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH f81ba179-2d2c-4949-a168-e17fd80ead7e 188 THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THE NEXT MORNING HE STRETCHED HIMSELF DOWN ON THE PLATFORM BY UNCLE ROGER'S BACK DOOR 90532707-dccf-471a-84a5-afa0d4291faf 402 AFTER THE RAIN THE AIR SEEMED DRIPPING WITH THE ODOURS IN THE WARM WEST WIND FINDING THAT OUR OWN PUNY STRENGTH IS AS A REED SHAKEN IN THE WIND 61f8812a-233d-40a9-bfee-8064283064bf 2274 WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY 345a320a-6591-451e-90db-999478008398 2108 POLYCHROME ALTHOUGH DANCING LIGHTLY BACK AND FORTH HAD LISTENED TO EVERY WORD OF THE CONVERSATION d3d96086-98af-4f00-87ab-44a7615ad2f2 402 I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY AH 2dcf4a19-a35f-409c-a511-fa869658a982 2286 I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO 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 c597809f-3001-46c3-92fe-9b7559d7a4c1 188 WHEN AUNT JANET SAID SERIOUSLY THAT ANYTHING WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION IT MEANT THAT SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT IT AND WOULD PROBABLY END UP DOING IT 04405b9a-312e-41e0-95e3-b52752befb84 2274 WHEN DO WE GO ASKED ORAN I CANNOT TAKE THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE LYING SAID TO NUB SECTION CHIEF OF INVESTIGATION AND ADJUSTMENT b9e4ca54-10ae-4970-9a2d-4b7438cad786 2274 WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS THE SPEAKER SAID YES YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING 05701b89-df3b-4ade-ac64-2006b1272b86 2286 INSTANT YAWNED AND POURED HIMSELF A GLASS OF WATER FROM THE DISPENSER UNIT ABOVE THE BED I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP 8642d7d9-495b-4019-815a-903eea79f957 32 SAID THE STORY GIRL AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK FROM IT WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY 5e13a735-06c4-4523-baa7-3fd4a261bac4 451 ALL THE DEFIANCE AND BRAVADO GONE OUT OF HIM BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE b7cbb292-459d-4be4-86df-4fa8f5cf3d3b 2108 I SHOULD HAVE MORE STUFFING AND I'M SURE HER WITS WILL SHOW HER HOW TO GET PLENTY TO EAT d120202d-8d0c-4bb2-93dd-ba8fe5671d8c 2286 FERERO'S TURNED FACE WENT A DIRTY GREY AT MY WORDS I PRESSED THE ADVANTAGE UNDOUBTEDLY THEY HAD STARTED THE PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT TRANSPORT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED LATER de299150-10a1-4008-b3f6-e97634ac9099 32 UNCLE ROGER AND UNCLE ALEC LULLED IN THE GRASS LIKE BOYS LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS IN CHURCH HE SAID 7fb8cfa7-872f-41da-b566-75b1cea35e89 451 DAN FED MOST OF IT TO PATTY 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 36096ec4-9522-4cd1-af07-4fcf3ce5fe13 2317 HE LOOKED ALMOST LIKE A MAN THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE 9b86fcbf-cede-4260-a9b4-dfca7d4de093 451 GIVING THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A CAT BY HIS MALLIPHUOUS PURRING IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM fb3082a4-7db0-4c1f-8472-51914e868061 451 IN AUGUST IT WAS A PLACE OF SHADY SWEETNESS FRAGRANT WITH THE ODOUR OF RIPENING APPLES OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES HE KNOWS I'M KIND OF SICK JUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN 0e6f7d19-f296-4e32-8419-367d37171b77 451 IT JUST MEANS QUEER SAID CECILY NUDGING HIM WITH HER ELBOW THROUGH ITS OPENINGS WE LOOKED AFAR TO THE BLUE RIMS OF THE HILLS AND OVER GREEN OLD TRANQUIL FIELDS LINED THE SUNSET GLOW 786875d2-fc52-42c9-9b65-c9fa22f83e05 32 LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHAT IS BOTHERING ME IS THIS f50473dd-c22d-4263-b685-a01c7e48c12e 32 UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA HAD BOTH CHERISHED CERTAIN DREAMS AND AMBITIONS IN YOUTH RIGHT WHERE THAT BIG SPREADING TREE OF UNCLE ALEC'S IS NOW fa6bea5a-91f1-4bf2-9a8e-fb51fa5444c2 32 SOME DAY OLIVIA WENT ON UNCLE ROGER YOU AND I MAY FIND OURSELVES THE AUNT AND UNCLE OF THE FOREMOST ACTRESS OF HER DAY bd18dec5-deab-43f4-944d-1a3eeadc9520 451 I HAD TO SAID DAN MARTIN FORBES IS THE BROTHER OF A HORRID MAN IN SUMMERSIDE WHO CALLED ME JOHNNY THAT'S WHY 5f60b32d-afbe-4e2f-8523-b5d526cd4400 2274 YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON EASY ON THE SEXLIME BOY THEY SAID WE HAVE TO USE ORAN BECAUSE THE RECORDS ON THE DELPHINIS c7ec578d-c66f-4028-8886-e04c6ecb74c9 2274 NO NEED FOR YOU TO DIE SAID HORN AND WHAT HAPPENS IF R N R STUMBLES ON TO ME WHILE I'M DOWN THERE PLAYING PADDY CAKE 0143df1a-0d9a-43cb-b229-faa7319aa686 2286 IT WASN'T CHANCE THAT HE HAD LEFT THE SAME DAY I ARRIVED ON SETANOVO WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE 1a64b1a4-8f26-4069-a323-8a29e29bedc8 2317 THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT NOW FARMER WASN'T MUCH OF AN EDITOR EVEN AS EDITORS GO SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED 97eeb253-9279-4935-80d8-886b01bf34de 188 BECAUSE A LADY ASKS YOU AND SHE HUMBLY BEGGED PETER'S PARDON FOR SPOILING HIS SERMON 7f33ab0c-9a03-4207-a26b-aab8b0b4eb06 2274 CHERANNA CHERUSOE THE STRONGEST FIRST CHERANNA CRUSO 88ad1861-a4f1-43ec-81b0-8868db70cf2a 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE 7c573e21-cf11-4c6d-ae90-1bb20ad93666 2108 AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND INSTANTLY THEY ALL TOOK ALARM GOOD ADVICE LAUGHED POLYCHROME DANCING 563d68e1-c6f6-49b1-84f6-2cb36c298b0b 2108 DID IT HURT HE ASKED THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR ALTHOUGH I HAVE THOUGHT THAT WE SKY FAIRIES HAVE MORE POWER THAN IS ACCORDED TO EARTH FAIRIES 45ae05f2-6ff7-40e9-809c-30e36cd0679c 188 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 282946ac-2298-46e3-949f-5d058e9c70bd 32 SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT IT SEEMED TO US THAT THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN THE SAPLING STAGE CORRESPONDING TO OUR BOYHOOD fafc7610-55e1-4f4d-af76-02a33f2b2716 2108 MIGHT PERHAPS BE INJURED IF THE PEOPLE OF LOONVILLE ARE REALLY DANGEROUS WITH A COLD AND INDIFFERENT STARE THAT WAS ALMOST INSOLENT 02d2e8f1-46be-4ec3-b3f5-2f3ed570238f 32 AND IN THE MORNING SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER THE DREAM AT ALL IT WASN'T A POLITE DRAM SO I WON'T WRITE IT DOWN YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY e589a3af-02ea-4c8a-8b2d-ec2e32cefd5e 32 AUNT OLIVIA LOOKING MORE LIKE A PANSY THAN EVER IN THE PRETTIEST DRESS OF PALE PURPLE PRINT WITH A KNOT OF YELLOW RIBBONS AT HER THROAT SAT WITH HER ARM ABOUT CECILY AND SMILED ON US ALL AND AUNT JANET'S MOTHERLY FACE LOST ITS EVERY DAY LOOK OF ANXIOUS CARE ffef067c-6166-456d-a1b6-39319f9eecf5 451 I SUPPOSE MISSUS SCOTT THOUGHT THAT WHAT WAS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE WAS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER A CAT IN A HAY LOFT IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS 5925cf15-a7b3-49d4-813b-9f23592390db 2317 IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE 9cbf921d-2428-4636-bbed-0428877fa46a 2274 YEA THERE ARE BOREAL NOT A ROAD ON THE WHOLE PLANET WE CAN FIND HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO a640289c-b48b-42af-8df7-fc24692e90c7 188 AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN TWO WAGONS WERE DRIVING UP THE LANE WE RUSHED TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WAS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA f4de95b5-e6e5-4357-8d9d-fa23a19883cb 2317 IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN ca6b6d08-8f39-4526-9aa3-e1ae77bbd977 32 IN A FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS ASTIR THE STORY GIRL'S WORDS FELL ON THE MORNING AIR LIKE PEARLS AND DIAMONDS bb6a6163-c174-4de8-aeb1-ae3e98ad31e2 188 AROUND HER WAIST WAS TWISTED A GIRDLE OF THE BLOOD RED ROSES THAT BLOOMED IN AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN WELL SAID PETER DESFIANTLY IF YOUR OWN FATHER HAD RUN AWAY WHEN YOU WAS A BABY AND LEFT YOUR MOTHER TO EARN HER LIVING BY WASH WASHING AND WORKING OUT I GUESS YOU WOULDN'T CARE MUCH ABOUT HIM EITHER 8b703e4b-da69-4298-935f-5cbca07da787 2317 THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID e1348833-a6d4-463f-8b15-6160a4d18f64 451 DAN PICKED A CLUSTER AND HELD IT UP PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME 5d18cf0b-566d-479a-82b9-881c26e5fa0a 2286 I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN HE RUBBED HIS JAW WHILE HE LOOKED IT WELL HE SAID HESITATINGLY I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON 466445c7-fddc-4a2a-9e30-ffbc25af7ad9 2108 AND AROUND HER WAIST WAS A SASH OF VIPER AND AT ONCE A SCENE WOULD FLASH UPON THE MAGIC CANVAS WHICH SHOWED 8484b342-e484-44ea-965d-0a4a9309d4b6 2317 GARTH GRINNED WHATEVER YOU SAY MY DEAR HE HAD FINISHED THOSE JUST DESCRIBED BEFORE DOOR SAID TO FACE THE MONSTER WITH A SICK FEELING IN HIS STOMACH 00ae93d6-bb94-4572-9438-e222044b12b8 2317 APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED 17ce3102-0144-47e9-b540-5e4c8f29e83e 2108 GOOD BYE MISTER AND MISSUS SWINE YES IT WAS A SEEMING MISFORTUNE THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THEIR ROUNDNESS WAS A SLIGHT HOLLOW ON THE TOP 62bb4c15-7660-4982-8832-df61a75b17fe 2108 WHEN I HAVE TRANSFORMED YOU THREE PEOPLE YOU MUST ALWAYS WEAR THE SHAPES THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU 79de5378-3277-443b-887c-0b9c23eb1254 2317 HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING SOME OF THIS 278917fb-60f7-4666-ae0e-70df27f05f19 451 THE STORY GIRL SLIPPED OVER HOME AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK WE GASPED SHE HAD COMBED HER HAIR OUT STRAIGHT AND BRAIDED IT IN A TIGHT KINKY PUDGY BRAID AND SHE WORE AN OLD DRESS OF FADED PRINT WITH HOLES IN THE ELBOWS AND RAGGED FLOUNCES WHICH WAS MUCH TOO SHORT FOR HER AND I KNOW HOW MANY EGGS MOTHER SAID YOU COULD USE WHILE SHE WAS AWAY be8f72c7-3b6f-4544-bde1-bb49f200e670 451 OLD MISTER FORBES HADN'T GONE TO CHURCH FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE WAS SO RHEUMATIC BUT HE WENT THE FIRST SUNDAY THE CHOIR SANG BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE SING BASS AND WANTED TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE ab964854-e901-4189-a23e-02ced3695a37 32 SHE HAD SOFT BROWN EYES THAT WERE TOO TIMID TO LOOK STRAIGHT AT ANYBODY THERE WAS NO FINDING IT OUT FROM THE STORY GIRL 90672e8c-7fb2-4777-8f7d-0038b994f78a 2108 I EXPECTED SHE'D SING AND TALK AND WE'D HAVE GOOD TIMES TOGETHER BUT THE BODY WAS VERY LONG FOR IT HAD TWENTY LEGS eb81c1ea-924e-4f9d-a27d-1d0cdce8bbdd 2108 ON THE SPOT WHERE THE BIG FELLOW HAD STOOD A LITTLE HEAP OF FLABBY WRINKLED SKIN 7dd5d2a5-2db1-43da-ba74-b92ecd694360 451 THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME I THINK KINGS AND QUEENS WERE THICKER LONG AGO SAID THE STORY GIRL 4ed1edfb-7d2f-409b-8900-f1982bc89865 2286 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 23bee984-3c6c-400b-9676-5630cfe28bff 32 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER AND SHE HAD A TINY BERTH MARK LIKE A PINK BUTTERFLY ON ONE CHEEK ab5ff496-60c9-4e31-9c64-6b6053324499 32 BESIDES THEY'RE ALL SUCH LADY LIKE GIRLS I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM DID YOU EVER SEE HER 3329fdef-c429-4749-a617-706efbb55811 451 AND YOU'VE NO BUSINESS TO ESPECIALLY WHEN MOTHER'S AWAY 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 a0571f0b-6c2e-4667-bee8-47b51e52a24f 188 IT IS BEST TO DRAW VEIL OVER WHAT FOLLOWED BUT WE KNEW NOTHING OF SUCH A THING IN OUR EXPERIENCE AND WE THOUGHT SHE HAD GONE MAD 1b8f7ca9-dabc-4b34-a96b-d8580043ab19 188 I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MARRIED I THINK IT'S JUST HORRID SO THERE I IF ONLY WE KNEW WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH HIM WE MIGHT DO SOMETHING SOBBED THE STORY GIRL STROKING HER POOR PET'S UNRESPONSIVE HEAD 409ec071-ba4d-4c26-9c9f-9b9c49b11097 188 IT IS LIKE A SPIDER'S WEB HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD 0032abf0-6d42-4335-8432-b58cd1d952d9 188 AND SIT BESIDE GLAUCON AS HE WATCHED THE FLOCKS AND PLAYED ON HIS FLUTE WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND 963632df-5627-435b-ac56-23cd60225d8d 2108 SUGGESTED DOROTHY SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY 99d054d4-bfc7-4b38-8b45-9b10de74272a 2108 WE CAN ENTER AND TAKE POSSESSION AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME DOROTHY APPEARED MUCH YOUNGER THAN OZMA 1985c396-136f-446e-87a8-e8ce2a0be0a4 188 WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY DEMANDED MISTER CAMPBELL DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY ONE BUT THE ONE KIND OF TRUENESS SAID FELICITY ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN 3358ced1-4d38-44f0-a89c-48cfb443f7db 451 HE WANTED TO GET UP BUT CECILY ORDERED HIM TO STAY IN BED WISH I WAS BACK IN TORONTO 658e3ef9-6d3a-4261-8cf0-2eda29b717c9 2286 I SMILED AND NODDED AT HIS DECISION AND THEN CONTINUED OH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH THE COVERS WENT ONE WAY AND IN SKIT WENT THE OTHER IN A SINGLE UNFOLDING IN CONCERTED MOTION HE LEFT THE HORIZONTAL AND RECUMBENT AND STOOD TENSELY VERTICAL AGAINST THE WALL a96f9acf-13b3-4c89-b6c4-52094b16a2f4 32 SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE 0d7b1c80-e5c5-4ff8-8587-8b5eb79862e3 188 TOLD YOU SO AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT f926cd6b-c5b9-46df-9e62-d18ad5076bde 2286 NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET YOU'RE JUST GUESSING YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS THEY HAVE AN EXPANDING COUCHER 370b5c6c-c0cb-4852-9c2f-a9fb24476c03 451 YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE fb4ed4b4-1c09-4c5f-9f50-9de07a714951 451 TWAS THE MC CLOSKEYS AND THE OLD SCRATCH SAID THE STORY GIRL REFLECTIVELY HER AESTHETIC FARE WAS REALLY SWEETER TO HER THAN HONEY OF HYMETTUS deb4ec5b-ea54-4209-939c-01449b2dca14 451 IT WOULDN'T DO SHE DECIDED SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME 0b3af211-c26b-42e6-9455-f992eac6cc3c 2108 LIKE VINES DRIED AND TOUGH THAT LOOKED LIKE STRINGS BUILT OF PURPLE STONE 1be281f4-15b9-4c4c-8037-b00e59e10195 2108 ALSO LUKE HAD TO TELL HIS STORY WHICH WAS VERY SIMPLE AND DID NOT TAKE LONG 9d288f40-6f46-42c5-9b88-33c81933fb3c 2108 WHEN THEY GET HERE THEY WILL FIND NEITHER BOY NOR A TIN MAN NOR A SCARECROW I ALSO REMEMBER MISTER UT