6157ee20-ed3d-4db6-9bcd-522b8fc269bb 242 PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED NOW IT CAN'T BE UNLESS FELICITY CAN COAX PETER TO GIVE UP PRAYING AGAINST FELIX FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE 3e14a2da-35df-41c1-bf14-ce1a767823f7 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 96606dc5-d28e-4bdd-96db-09da85999444 402 LONG LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE BREATHLESS AND REELING HIS VESTURE TORN HIS GREAT WOUNDS BLEEDING HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE SHORE WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY SPRANG UP HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY e3ef3172-e648-4740-bb0a-0290b9c0a7f9 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 a3cca047-0939-40e9-975d-c9af2c2d43ee 177 WE WERE ALL UP EARLY NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES PETER HOWEVER HAD SLEPT SOUNDLY ENOUGH AFTER TWELVE O'CLOCK WHEN YOU'VE BEEN STUMPING OUT ELDERBERRIES ALL AFTERNOON IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN THE JUDGMENT DAY TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ALL NIGHT HE SAID WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING IT WAS JUST AWFUL I FORGOT IT FOR A MOMENT THEN ALL CAME BACK WITH A RUSH THAT WAS WORSE SCARED THAN BEFORE fcced727-9fb2-4327-baae-5f46920e69a7 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 02aa3bbf-ee58-4d92-9b73-d477df722e5f 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 725cec19-8c91-4adf-b2f7-84a1d357cf18 451 WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM FELIX HELD OUT TO FELICITY A REMARKABLY FINE APPLE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAVING FOR HIS OWN CONSUMPTION AND THE STORY GIRL BEGAN A TALE OF AN ENCHANTED MAIDEN IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA BUT WE NEVER HEARD THE END OF IT 4fee0322-ac9a-4fa9-9895-3e5ebc442893 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 d829f7c5-1d3d-437f-ab8d-45bff0f6be7d 242 DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME WHO BEAT IT IS SOMETIMES A BITTER THING TO TELL THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY TO A YOUNG LADY FOR WHOM YOU HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION I HAD A STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION IN WHICH I FRANKLY CONFESS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSTED HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR A SAVING AND TIMELY REMEMBRANCE OF A CERTAIN RESOLUTION MADE ON THE PRECEDING JUDGMENT SUNDAY 6be242e0-6f77-478e-9918-a4dc78ba3286 177 WELL JUDY PROMISED SHE'D REMEMBER BECAUSE SHE LIKED MISSUS FRUIT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE HER NOT LONG AFTERWARDS JUDY WAS SCRUBBING THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE MORNING AND WHEN MISSUS FRUIN CAME IN JUDY LOOKED UP AND SAT QUITE PROUD OVER USING THE RIGHT WORD OH MISS FRUIN AIN'T IT AWFUL HOT I DECLARE I'M ALL IN A PRESBYTERIAN 966e4d7f-b607-4531-89b8-e7bd2ebff03d 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 b08bc81c-23ad-4313-b657-96f202956ddc 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 25bfb665-8a48-493a-81bb-c85e14dbf9ee 2425 THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES PARON FIX MAN OF ALL WORK CAME HURRYING OUT OF THE HOUSE TO GREET ME AS I LOCKED MY WHEELS ON THE DRIVE BEFORE THE DOOR I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE SIR HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK 5e2eb8fb-07f1-4a9d-9fcc-756da4f54e69 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 6252bfe0-dca5-48aa-ace6-5aa1f8427680 32 I SEE THAT BOWERY ORCHARD SHINING IN MEMORY WITH A SOFT GLOW OF BEAUTY THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS ON LAND OR SEA WHERE WE SAT ON THOSE SEPTEMBER EVENINGS AND WROTE DOWN OUR DREAMS WHEN THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE OVER AND THERE WAS NOTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THE PLEASING THROES OF COMPOSITION 952f0eff-849a-450f-8265-39874e358eeb 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 8f5548d6-9c9a-4944-887e-804c06ffeaac 464 I DIDN'T CHEW THE PUDDING GROANED UNCLE ROGER IT WAS TOO TOUGH I JUST SWALLOWED THE CHUNKS WHOLE HE GROANED AND TWISTED AND DOUBLED HIMSELF UP BUT HE OVERDID IT HE WAS NOT AS GOOD AN ACTOR AS THE STORY GIRL FELICITY LOOKED SCORNFULLY AT HIM UNCLE ROGER YOU ARE NOT ONE BIT SICK SHE SAID DELIBERATELY YOU ARE JUST PUTTING ON 757b7f8a-6f4b-42dd-9b5c-157f91e49ace 30 WE WERE VERY HUNGRY BOYS AND WHEN WE HAD EATEN ALL WE COULD AND OH WHAT SUPPERS AUNT JANET ALWAYS SPREAD WE DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE VERY TIRED ALSO TOO TIRED TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE OUR ANCESTRAL DOMAINS AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK b430ef85-6abd-4958-99bd-90740d1926e5 14 OH IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS YOU KNOW ARE NOT TRUE IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES I WAS JUST SEVEN HE IS A MINISTER SO OF COURSE I KNEW HE SPOKE THE TRUTH IT WAS HIS DUTY TO TELL ME AND I DO NOT BLAME HIM BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT QUITE THE SAME TO UNCLE EDWARD SINCE d3cf98fd-99a9-471d-8042-97c6a3d55cd5 32 ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY AND OH I WAS SO HAPPY IT WAS DREADFUL TO WAKE UP AND FIND IT AS STRAIGHT AS EVER da0b2b16-4b3b-4061-bf38-94a3e3155c4f 451 THEY WERE SMALL RED CLUSTERED BERRIES OF A GLOSSY SEDUCTIVE APPEARANCE AND WE WERE FORBIDDEN TO EAT THEM BECAUSE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE POISONOUS DAN PICKED A CLUSTER AND HELD IT UP DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE THEY'RE POISON DROP THEM RIGHT AWAY c96de54e-5419-42ec-9d86-3b97fdc7375a 2425 PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE I SWUNG THE AXE AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL I BROUGHT THE AXE DOWN AGAIN AND SOMETHING CRACKED SHARPLY AND THE THIRD BLOW SENT THE DOOR SWINGING WIDE dfd66f4c-567f-4a0a-bba7-1bb721d01f9a 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 THE SCOOP CAME UP OUT OF THE WATER SO SMOOTHLY THAT THE ISLAND QUEEN HARDLY ROCKED DANGLING THE LIMP FORM OF THE ZID FROM ITS GREAT RUBBERY LIPS LIKE A DROWNED KITTEN HERE JENOFER SAID cdca2bd8-824b-4ca1-98a7-062802198798 451 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ISN'T TOO LATE HERE'S YOUR OWN GAIT SAYS CECILY BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN 645ad164-f5fd-4567-8a6e-45e27d0d08bc 242 SHAKING OFF THE SPELL OF FURS AND MOONLIGHT AND ROMANTIC TALE WE SCRAMBLED TO OUR FEET AND WENT HOMEWARD I KIND OF WISH I'D BEEN BORN AN INJUN SAID DAN IT MUST HAVE BEEN A JOLLY LIFE WITH NOTHING TO DO BUT HUNT AND FIGHT IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY 04667442-cf57-4c9b-945c-bcab6560088c 464 OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I THOUGHT THAT STUFF IN THE BOX WAS CORN MEAL AND USED IT TO MAKE THE PUDDING FELICITY AND CECILY STARED BLANKLY AT THE STORY GIRL WE BOYS BEGAN TO LAUGH BUT WERE CHECKED MIDWAY BY UNCLE ROGER HE WAS ROCKING HIMSELF BACK AND FORTH WITH HIS HAND PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH OH HE GROANED I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THESE SHARP PAINS I'VE BEEN FEELING EVER SINCE DINNER MEANT I KNOW NOW 73771f8c-aa9f-4be5-b663-0b6cdb9b7388 30 NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU EVERYBODY DOES IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AWAY FROM HER THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT SHE ISN'T A BIT PRETTY AFTER ALL THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP WONDERING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US 5bb32843-c070-45c0-82e5-6411cb8e4247 103 IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT GRANDFATHER KING WAS IN NO HURRY HE DID NOT SET HIS WHOLE ORCHARD OUT AT ONCE FOR HE WISHED IT TO GROW WITH HIS LIFE AND HISTORY AND BE BOUND UP WITH ALL OF GOOD AND JOY THAT SHOULD COME TO HIS HOUSEHOLD SO THE MORNING AFTER HE HAD BROUGHT HIS YOUNG WIFE HOME THEY WENT TOGETHER TO THE SOUTH MEADOW AND PLANTED THEIR BRIDAL TREES THESE TREES WERE NO LONGER LIVING BUT THEY HAD BEEN WHEN FATHER WAS A BOY AND EVERY SPRING BEDECKED THEMSELVES IN BLOSSOM AS DELICATELY TINTED AS ELIZABETH KING'S FACE WHEN SHE WALKED THROUGH THE OLD SOUTH MEADOW IN THE MORN OF HER LIFE AND LOVE 0b9b9358-54ca-4bd0-9b9b-f14da28bb815 188 DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT WE REALIZED ALL THE MINGLED COQUETRY AND FEELING AND DEFIANCE AND ARCHNESS IN BETTY SHERMAN'S DARING SPEECH WE HAD EVEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT MISTER CAMPBELL THAT GENTLEMAN IN SILENCE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET EXTRACTED A NOTE THEREFROM AND HANDED IT GRAVELY TO THE STORY GIRL bd42979f-b2a8-4417-9793-c6eec3a3dee6 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 05e4e8f5-b0c8-4b20-aa15-d05faa100f1b 2317 FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP THE SCENE ASSUMED SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF A BAD MOVIE COMEDY THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED e0faa2dd-b5d3-40f1-8d97-8ffc268a9a7d 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 0b25c68f-7e9a-4d7f-9cc5-ab81df1da8a3 402 AFTER THE RAIN THE AIR SEEMED DRIPPING WITH THE ODOURS IN THE WARM WEST WIND THE TANG OF FIR BALSAM THE SPICE OF MINT THE WILD WOODSINESS OF FERNS THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES e07b3168-fd6b-426d-b95a-d49e30cb7180 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 a21671cf-20a8-4048-8d0b-a5b162254c2e 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 1e993483-239a-49fd-8789-92def932d0e2 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 cc91b251-713d-41a6-82e5-c30934e137db 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 10b446dd-161c-4727-8ed7-82770dc03310 748 WE CLIMBED MT BLANC SAW THE HUNG FRAU SOARING INTO CLOUDLAND AND WALKED AMONG THE GLOOMY PILLARS OF BONIVARD'S PRISON FINALLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE TALE OF THE PRISONER OF CHILI IN WORDS THAT WERE BYRONS BUT IN A VOICE THAT WAS ALL HER OWN IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY 2a5fc8bb-fb99-4c53-bbb4-04c26ce3cfa7 2425 ANYTHING THAT OCCUPIES SPACE I REPLIED TRIUMPHANTLY I HAD REMEMBERED THAT MUCH FROM MY PHYSICS CLASSES TRUE SMILED VIC BUT LET'S SEE IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE SOUND AND LIGHT IN THE SAME PLACE ISN'TT IT WE CAN EVEN ADD OTHER THINGS HEAT AND ELECTRICITY FOR EXAMPLE SPEAKING OF ELECTRICITY A TREMENDOUS CURRENT OF IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE WIRE CARRYING IT AND NOTHING TO ITS BULK UNLESS WE HAVE A HEATING OVERLOAD 321b84d6-fb05-4dd6-8ec9-bfa193b778bc 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 ac2902ac-a3c5-4c62-bacd-81171933ff03 748 TO US IN THOSE YEARS EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD EVER GO THERE BUT AUNT JULIA HAD GONE AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO c32dfe6f-62d3-42fe-948d-72a8f9246c50 2108 WELL FOR MY PART I AM GLAD HE DID RESPONDED THE CANARY YOUR JOURNEY RESULTED IN SAVING ME FROM THE GIANTESS AND HAD YOU NOT TRAVELLED TO THE EUBE VALLEY I WOULD STILL BE MISSUS EWPES'S PRISONER IT IS MUCH NICER TO BE FREE EVEN THOUGH I STILL BEAR THE ENCHANTED FORM OF A CANARY BIRD DO YOU THINK WE SHALL EVER BE ABLE TO GET OUR PROPER FORMS BACK AGAIN ASKED THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY cb5f12e2-a4f4-4f9d-a67b-996e6ade37c3 198 SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE WAS SOMETHING SOMETHING THAT WAVERED AND FLUTTERED ADVANCED RETREATED THAT'S ONLY MY OLD APRON SAID FELICITY I HUNG IT THERE TO DAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT WHITE HEN'S NEST OH WHAT SHALL WE DO c2ecbe08-d823-40b5-b5b5-f79cec6e3344 198 WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS RIGHT THERE IS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND BUT ONLY CHILDREN CAN FIND THE WAY TO IT AND THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT IT IS FAIRYLAND UNTIL THEY HAVE GROWN SO OLD THAT THEY FORGET THE WAY ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE ad32ef54-e317-4b35-82b6-34ea514f4163 242 I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTEDLICITY TRIED ANOTHER TACT YOU'LL BE SURE TO GET WHIPPED IF YOU FIGHT WITH PETER SHE SAID YOU'RE TOO FAT TO FIGHT AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS c456451a-d71c-4d7f-a126-2b659904c146 32 CECILY NOW JOINED US IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST THEREFORE SHE COULD NOT COME WE ALL WENT TO UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD UNCLE STEPHEN WAS THE FIRST BORN OF ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH KING 3b8b1db6-f1ff-403d-a5bc-238de23bf19f 451 DAN SAT ON THE FLOOR AND WHITTLED HIS SOLE AIM AND PROJECT BEING TO MAKE A MESS AND ANNOY FELICITY IN WHICH NOBLE AMBITION HE SUCCEEDED PERFECTLY I WISH JANET AND UNCLE ALEC WERE HOME SAID FELIX IT'S NOT HALF SO MUCH FUN HAVING THE GROWN UPS AWAY AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE I WISH I WAS BACK IN TORONTO I SAID SULKILY THE MINCE PIE WAS TO BLAME FOR THAT WISH I WISH YOU WERE I'M SURE SAID FELICITY RIDDLING THE FIRE NOISILY eb78957f-8cdf-47ca-8225-9c50a8356dde 32 SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM FROM THE ROOM SHE HAD LEFT CAME MOANS AND CRIES ab135307-99e6-4673-957e-8fdb51a0b04d 32 HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS AND THE KINDLY WAYS OF THE WARM RED EARTH GRANDMOTHER KING HAD BEEN A WARD AND IN UNCLE STEPHEN THE BLOOD OF THE SEAFARING RACE CLAIMED ITS OWN TO SEE HE MUST GO DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER AND IT WAS FROM THE SEA HE CAME TO SET OUT HIS AVENUE IN THE ORCHARD WITH TREES BROUGHT FROM A FOREIGN LAND THEN HE SAILED AWAY AGAIN AND THE SHIP WAS NEVER HEARD OF MORE 70136624-1fe2-4cf1-91c7-c97dfef9df15 2137 HAVE YOU GOT A TELETOWKEY BRANDON ASKED SURE SAID THE FIRST MAN PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S COULD YOU TUNE IT TO TWENTY EIGHT POINT SIX MICROCYCLES SURE THE MAN SAID AGAIN HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON a0352082-0478-4bcb-af6f-02c1792528a7 402 IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND AS THERE ARE NOW AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN IT WAS A LONG AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND SOMETIMES IT TOOK OVER SIXNTHS WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE e8f4574e-1418-48e2-88ef-ace447d6ef05 2312 THEN THEY WENT TO TAKE THE REST OF THE SENSES BUT IN FEAR THERE WAS A CLEAR DUTY TO GET THE JOB DONE BUT THERE WAS ALSO A DREAD OF IT THAT HIS SUPERIORS DID NOT UNDERSTAND THERE WAS REASON ALSO WHY MARILLA WAS LOADED SO SHE COULD HARDLY WALK WITH PACKS OF CENSUS FORMS cc28bd78-2560-4ade-8b3f-2c3418a93ec5 198 THE STORY GIRL AND I WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD PAY HIM COMPLIMENTS TO HIS LIKING THE STORY GIRL WOULD BOX HIS EARS WITH HER FIST AND SAY BLESS YOUR GRAY HEART PADDY YOU'RE A GOOD SORT OF OLD RASCAL AND PAT WOULD PURR HIS SATISFACTION I USED TO TAKE A HANDFUL OF THE SKIN ON HIS BACK SHAKE HIM GENTLY AND SAY PAT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVER KNEW AND I VOW PADDY WOULD LICK HIS CHOPS WITH DELIGHT BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT b382fcc4-e71b-41bd-a08d-5136e02cd867 2425 WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL SOMETHING HAPPENED I WAS CONSCIOUS OF A FAINT GLOW FROM ABOVE AS I MOVED THE DIAL SLOWLY SO THAT ITS RED MARK APPROACHED THE STATIONARY ONE UPON THE PANEL I GLANCED UP SWIFTLY EACH OF THE LITTLE BLOBS OF QUARTZ WAS GLOWING EACH WITH A LIGHT OF A DIFFERENT COLOR ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN ONE A VIVID ELECTRIC BLUE AND ONE WAS FIERY RED THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL 8c034e67-2c88-4a9e-911a-bd67c5873aae 198 I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT DON'T SOUND A BIT LIKE OTHER CLOCKS AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT AND THE SOUND KIND OF MUFFLED IT'S ALL VERY FINE TO SAY YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT WAS BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO 7e54accc-138a-4076-a5d6-8a1272ed8086 2425 HE HESITATED AND THEN UTTERED A HIGH PITCHED SOUND THAT I PRESUMED TO BE A WORD OF COMMAND BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME AND WHILE THEIR FLESH LOOKED MORE UNNATURAL AND UNREAL THAN EVER AT CLOSE RANGE THEIR LONG FINGERS GRIPPED ME LIKE TALONS OF STEEL THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY 3a4cb729-39cb-4a00-a563-d248317ab253 2274 STETSON SMILED WITHOUT HUMOR THAT'S ONE OF I A'S ANSWERS TO THOSE FAT KEASTERED POLITICIANS WE'RE SETTING UP OUR OWN SEARCH SYSTEM TO FIND THE PLANETS BEFORE THEY DO WE'VE MANAGED TO PUT SPIES AND KEEP PLACES AT OUR N ARE ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT WE DIVERT THE FILES THEN WHAT THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN 2926791e-a719-49c5-9e8a-e4c284aacdad 2108 THE WITCH WITH THE SILVER SHOES HATED ME FOR HAVING DEFIED HER RESUMED THE EMPEROR HIS VOICE NOW SOUNDING CLEAR AS A BELL AND SHE INSISTED THAT NIMY AMY SHOULD NEVER MARRY ME THEREFORE SHE MADE THE ENCHANTED AXE CUT OFF MY OTHER ARM AND THE TINSMITH ALSO REPLACED THAT MEMBER WITH TIN INCLUDING THESE FINELY JOINTED HANDS THAT YOU SEE ME USING BUT ALAS 7f411ef0-d697-4e57-b0a6-ccf5fd51f0e2 2137 BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS HE LOOKED AT THE MILKY WAY 3e06e3c4-63ce-45ae-9e81-680d5d7a40f9 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 49770cb4-9439-484b-a083-5ccd238650e2 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 63481948-7df5-4866-8614-23ebb5e5c4cf 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 66105935-1df0-49b9-bb16-87013fb0826e 2317 GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN HE LOOKED FAINTLY FRIGHTENED MODERATELY WORRIED AND DEFINITELY EMBARRASSED THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN SHE FOLLOWED IT UP THIS TIME WITH A STRING OF INTRICATE FOREIGN SOUNDING WORDS THAN EVEN FARMER COULD TELL WERE HOT AND STINGING THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE 2a937dd9-2f51-474b-afeb-3acc54e8318c 2286 I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY BUT THERE WAS NO REAL REASON WHY THAT COULDN'T BE CHANGED TOO CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE 15effbdf-5252-482b-8d26-2bd630f56633 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 8727e36d-cbbd-40a5-b9a2-b3e69fe6aa86 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 c3de87dc-7147-4bc3-97fd-ca6d0809e1f2 188 CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES OH BEB WAIT FOR ME AND OH BEB HURRY HURRY MORE BY BLIND INSTINCT THAN ANYTHING ELSE WE KEPT TOGETHER AND FOUND OUR WAY OUT OF THE WOODS PRESENTLY WE WERE IN THE FIELD BEYOND THE BROOK OVER US WAS A DAINTY SKY OF SHELL PINK PLACID CLOUDS WERE PLEASURE PASTURING AROUND US THE FAREWELL SUMMER NODDED TO US IN THE FRIENDLY BREEZES WE HALTED WITH A GLAD REALIZATION THAT WE WERE BACK IN OUR OWN HAUNTS AND THAT PEG BOWEN HAD NOT CAUGHT US faf87022-a92f-4ab8-b316-7b147cb0403b 188 I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU HAVE SUCH A GOOD OPINION OF ME I DON'T DESERVE IT BUT AFTER THIS I'LL TRY TO I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW I FEEL ABOUT ALL YOUR KINDNESS I'D LIKE THE FELLOW THE STORY GIRL WROTE ABOUT THAT WHO COULDN'T GET IT OUT I HAVE THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL GAVE ME FOR MY SERMON ON THE WALL AT THE FOOT OF MY BED I LIKE TO LOOK AT IT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE AUNT JANE f6c8fc67-7ae4-433a-b232-d11609c64e4a 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 92fd5c91-d7ec-4f94-8642-6db5747ead82 2425 ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT d766dfe0-c9fb-4dd3-9115-aa458d33b2a7 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 0fc3b579-0d4a-4d29-a6b1-22e0c3ce697e 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 15457cb2-2fad-4db9-be9f-47e0ac38b76c 32 BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH cbe5c48a-820c-428f-957a-f51df019085e 2274 WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME I AGREE BUT THE CALL BELL JANGLED STETSON'S VOICE SOUNDED TIRED YEAH HOW THAT MOB'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE KILOMETERS OUTSTIT WE GOT HORN'S GEAR OUTSIDE ON THE DISGUISED AIR SLED 713aac2e-04cc-4c7f-97de-a93ad691e93c 1867 THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE TRIANGULATION AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW 60272c4c-655d-427a-938f-314b1e15d83a 748 HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US WE FELT THEN WHAT WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND TILL YEARS LATER THAT OUR GROWN UP RELATIVES DID NOT ALTOGETHER ADMIRE OR APPROVE OF UNCLE BLAIR HE BELONGED TO A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THEIRS THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY OR UNDERSTOOD HIM fe916b1d-1d95-4a64-b9b3-2aa999881620 413 ONLY IF TO MORROW IS THE LAST DAY THE CHERRY VARNS WON'T BE MUCH USE TO YOU I GUESS IT'LL BE AS MUCH USE TO ME AS TO ANY ONE ELSE SAID CECILY INDIGNANTLY SHE'S SACRIFICED HER DEAR FORGET ME NOT JUG TO SATISFY SOME PANG OF CONSCIENCE OR PROPITIATE SOME THREATENING FATE BUT SURRENDER HER PRECIOUS SHERRY VASE SHE COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT FELICITY NEEDN'T BE GIVING ANY HINTS 6553c078-0c9c-45a8-b7aa-03fb26eb0805 2368 MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU KNUPH SHOOK HIS HEAD IT IS A TRICK HE BEGAN A TRICK YONAS SAID BUT THE PRAYERS OF GOD AND HIS CHURCH AND THAT WAS THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD NO WIZARD COULD PRAY d6f39438-5b11-4be4-b61a-f6d522848453 2137 SOMETHING SCURRIED INTO A WISP OF BRUSH AS IF TO BEAR OUT BRANDON'S REALIZATION HE FROZE HIS EYES ON THE BRUSH HIS HAND REACHING FOR HIS HYDROSTATIC SHOCK PISTOL HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT THE WIND HOLLOWING HIS EARS HE STOOD FOR A LONG MOMENT THEN CAUTIOUSLY SKIRTED THE BRUSH AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE BURNING SHIP 3cd5d6ea-afb1-40c1-8291-8003539be45d 2182 TERRA HAS NO REAL NEED OF THE CRYSTALS WE CAN OFFER A TESTEDETICS PROGRAMME THAT WILL ELIMINATE RACIAL ANXIETY WITHIN A FEW GENERATIONS AND SUPPLY NEURAL THERAPY EQUIPMENT ON A TRADE BASIS OF COURSE THAT WILL SERVE THE CRYSTAL'S PURPOSE DURING THE INTERIM be60b409-88fa-4939-bb63-a6c93da75e9e 2368 AS ANY WIZARD MIGHT DO WHO HAD THE HELP OF HIS LORD THE DEVIL KUTUFF MUTTERED DO YOU SPECT THIS TO PROVE ONE THING AT A TIME YUNUS SAID KUTUFF NODDED A SECOND PASSED YONAS LICKED HIS LIPS THE POSSIBILITIES PRAYED BEFORE HIM ON ONE HAND SUCCESS ON THE OTHER THERE WAS THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF THE INQUISITION YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH HE CLOSED HIS EYES CABBAGES HE SAID KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED 7cd53267-ef07-48aa-877f-0c27d55318c2 14 IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IT'S THE STORY GIRL'S DOINGS UNCLE ROGER SAT DOWN ON THE DOORSTEP AND GAVE HIMSELF OVER TO ONE OF THE SILENT INWARD PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER WE ALL FOUND SO VERY AGGRAVATING HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED NOT HER FAULT OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT 1f20c439-6e15-497f-be81-e4860ed59e32 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 cf61a277-d908-45a4-b335-c48e6ec9d2e4 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 cbb5715c-ef8f-420f-8ac4-ed4d55a419f7 2425 HERE'S THE SPOT I MARKED IT WITH THESE THREE PIECES OF STONE QUICK VIC SWEPT BOTH ARMS ABOUT HOPE AND ME HOLDING US IN A CLOSE EMBRACE SO THAT WE ALL STOOD WITHIN THE TRIANGLE FORMED BY THE THREE BITS OF BLACK ROCK I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH IT LACKED BUT A FEW SECONDS OF THE MOMENT WHEN THE MACHINE BACK IN VIC'S LABORATORY WOULD FUNCTION PROVIDED MY WATCH WAS CORRECT AND THE EQUIPMENT WORKED ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE SUDDENLY HOPE SCREAMED AND I FOLLOWED HER EYES 469793af-eacd-46dd-8ba3-fef10797ac01 32 MY AUNT JANE TOLD ME SO SAID PETER I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY WHAT DID I SAY THAT WAS NASTY CRIED FELICITY I DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING bbbefe65-7bb6-4eca-8bd9-0bd269bfcc67 2317 AS HE ROSE ROPY TENTACLES TWINED AROUND HIM AND HE SAW WHAT HAD SAVED HIM HE WAS BEING CRADLED GENTLY BUT FIRMLY BY THE NONNIPUS WHICH HAD JUDGE RAY IN ANOTHER SET OF TENTACLES AN ANONIPUS THAT BECAME APPARENT WAS NOT ONLY A WATER CREATURE IT COULD ALSO FLY 60294e80-e703-4986-9141-07ec6d3457ae 2368 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING BY THE TIME HE REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL HE WAS WHISTLING LOUDLY HE STOPPED AT THE FIRST HOUSE A MUD CONSTRUCTION WITH A BADLY CARPENTERED WOODEN DOOR AND A SINGLE BARE WINDOW THAT LOOKED OUT ON THE STREET IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER HE WENT ON WHISTLING FOR A TWO NOTE PLINGO VOLNERA UNDER HIS BREATH AND AFTER A TIME HE KNOCKED AGAIN 192dce89-c391-4d5b-946e-563cb30b1067 2425 THE CROWD JOSTLING ABOUT ME SEEMED BLIND TO MY PRESENCE EVERY EYE WAS FIXED ON THE ALTAR LIKE HANDS OF THE IDOL AND THE DEATH THAT BLEW ACROSS THEM 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 5d4ba358-70bf-4aee-b65f-15b027d74bfa 2182 CHAFFEE FOUR TELEPORTED INSIDE AGAIN CHAFFEE THREE CLOSED THE PORT TOGETHER THEY RELAXED THEIR PERCEPTION SHIELDS IN RELIEF UNAWARE IN THEIR CONSTERNATION THAT THEY COMMITTED THE BARBAROUS LAPSE OF VOCALIZING THEY TWITTERED ALOUD WHEN THEY REALIZED THE EXTENT OF THEIR ERROR ABOVE THE FAR MURMUROUS WHISPER OF EXPECTED MARINE CEREBRATION THERE ROSE AN UNCOORDINATED MISHMASH OF THOUGHT FROM AT LEAST TWO STRONG AND RELATIVELY COMPLEX INTELLIGENCES 640caf41-fdbb-44a2-8909-e027579a96cd 2108 NOTHING I TRANSFORM EVER GETS BACK INTO ITS FORMER SHAPE AGAIN SO I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF MY TRANSFORMATIONS SHE ADDED BUSILY EATING WHILE SHE TALKED FOR WHILE I CAN CHANGE FORMS AT WILL I CAN NEVER CHANGE THEM BACK AGAIN WHICH PROVES THAT EVEN THE POWERS OF A CLEVER YUKU WHO ARE LIMITED WHEN I HAVE TRANSFORMED YOU THREE PEOPLE YOU MUST ALWAYS WEAR THE SHAPES THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU 449050d5-e08f-437c-a138-960caf34637a 2317 SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE YOUR MACHINE REACTIVATED THE GATE FROM THIS SIDE EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO DORA WENT ON IT'S A GOOD THING I NOTICED THE GATE WAS OPEN OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM 11244030-a8dd-4612-bb9b-2272a7ed6164 402 I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY AH FELICITY DON'T CALL PETER A HIRED BOY WHEN HE'S SICK PROTESTED CECILY DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM ONLY IN THE FROSTY DUSK DID WE HAVE TIME TO WANDER AFAR IN REALMS OF GOLD WITH THE STORY GIRL 4d04a31f-6e13-4f31-9ff7-474dd2cce6ad 2317 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND THEN ATTEMPTED A SWAN DYKE JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE THE OLD MAN DROPPED LIKE A STONE FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE bec68f9a-9329-4bc3-bad0-acac27d93a5f 2137 HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN ATOMIC CONFIGURATION DUE TO THE APPLICATION OF SUFFICIENT ENERGY RATHER IT WAS A SLANG EXPRESSION REFERRING TO A MAJOR ADVANCE IN INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL DUE TO A MAXIMUM SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EFFORT LET EM HAVE MARS AND VENUS THE COLONEL WOULD SAY LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP BLAKE FROG AHEAD OF EM WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM a9b8306b-c245-4111-ad4d-6e5c6032ce4f 32 NO CONCEDED PETER RELUCTANTLY SHE WASN'T PRETTY BUT SHE LOOKED LIKE THE WOMAN IN THAT PICTURE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER SENT HER LAST WEEK THE ONE WITH THE SHINY RING AROUND HER HEAD AND THE BABY IN HER LAP I'VE SEEN AUNT JANE LOOK AT ME JUST LIKE THAT WOMAN LOOKS AT HER BABY MA NEVER LOOKS SO POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING I WISH I COULD DREAM OF MY AUNT JANE I NEVER DO DREAM OF THE DEAD YOU'LL HEAR OF THE LIVING QUOTED FELIX ORACULARLY c793ad1b-c632-40ab-8589-72e3c37f4807 2286 UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE THIS WAS ALL STILL HEARSAY TO ME I HAD BEEN PULLED INTO HEADQUARTERS AND GIVEN ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR TRAINING SIX MONTHS OF THIS HAD LEFT ME SLIGHTLY GARGER AND I WANTED OUT 82a11f46-d2de-4486-9600-025c0d325b9a 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 f1fb816d-7022-4c23-8f25-d9f836f424e2 30 PETER I QUESTIONED I HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY PETER HE IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY SAID UNCLE ALEC HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG AND HE IS A REAL SMART LITTLE CHAP BUT HE'S GOT HIS SHARE OF MISCHIEF THAT SAME LAD HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU SAID DAN SLYLY DON'T TALK SILLY NONSENSE DAN SAID AUNT JANET SEVERELY 78b434d7-d61c-4a2d-a2de-1fa785d950fe 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 b119d4c0-a8d8-4ee5-a3e3-0cb145d78241 451 WHEN YOUR FATHER'S RUN AWAY AND YOUR MOTHER GOES OUT WASHING AND YOU'RE ONLY OLD ENOUGH TO GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK YOU CAN'T GIVE MUCH TO THE HEATHEN BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS I SUPPOSE I OUGHT TO GIVE MY BOX TO THEM RATHER THAN TO PRESBYTERIAN HEATHEN 446a5744-c8b6-498f-ba9a-9257e5510012 32 CECILY'S MIGHT BE MORE DRAMATIC BUT FELIX'S WAS MORE AMUSING THE DREAM WHICH WE ALL COUNTED HIS MASTERPIECE WAS THE ONE IN WHICH A MENAGERIE WAS CAMPED IN THE ORCHARD AND THE RHINOCEROS CHASED AUNT JANET AROUND AND ROUND THE PULPIT STONE BUT TURNED INTO AN INOFFENSIVE PIG WHEN IT WAS ON THE POINT OF CATCHING HER 120f28b7-e62a-4703-b244-c2c3f8c17e0e 14 NO BUT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE WILL RETORTED FELICITY IN A TONE WHICH IMPLIED THAT WHAT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT PETER HAS GOT A DECENT STOCKING TO HIS NAME WHAT WILL YOU FEEL LIKE IF HE GOES TO CHURCH WITH THE SKIN OF HIS LEGS SHOWING THROUGH THE HOLES MISS STORY GIRL 275a588e-2abb-440d-8b9c-eaad84501147 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 WE HAD TO GO UP TO SARA RAY'S LANE WITH HER TO HER VERY DOOR FOR SHE WAS AFRAID PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH HER IF SHE WENT ALONE THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER d5dc5461-cdc5-4085-b0b9-13171da03e11 2368 EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT YOU DO NOT BETRAY THAT TRUST b3c4fe27-4059-482c-9d2f-9a859f6d0b08 451 I'D GIVE ANYTHING IF I'D NEVER PUT SARA UP TO GOING TO THAT SHOW SHE SAID IT'S ALL MY FAULT BUT THE PUNISHMENT FALLS ON SARA AND THAT ISN'T FAIR I'D GO THIS MINUTE AND CONFESS THE WHOLE THING TO MISSUS RAY BUT IF I DID IT IT MIGHT GET SARA INTO MORE TROUBLE AND I MUSTN'T DO THAT I SHA'N'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT 39dae9ad-d037-4aaf-97d4-c9ff4e605878 32 WELL GOD WILL BE ALL THE MORE LIKELY TO LISTEN TO ME IF I DON'T PESTER HIM ALL THE TIME ARGUED PETER THIS WAS RANK HERESY TO FELICITY BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN IT YOU NEVER GO TO CHURCH ANYHOW CONTINUED FELICITY DETERMINED NOT TO BE ARGUED DOWN c1d7e297-e96f-48af-9139-71ee4fe57b4d 451 NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH THIS SEEMED TO BE A RATHER UNANSWERABLE KIND OF CONUNDRUM WE DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM AS WE ROAMED THE WOOD AND DAN AND PETER ALMOST QUARRELLED OVER IT DAN MAINTAINING THAT THE THING WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND PETER BEING OF OPINION THAT THE MUSH WAS SOMEHOW MADE THICKER IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EATEN AND SO TOOK UP LESS ROOM DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES 92ae5430-a53e-4d96-a7a3-8122edb1d802 2368 MADAM HE SAID I WISH TO KNOW IF THERE BE ANY FAMILY IN THIS TOWN TO GIVE ROOM TO A WAYFARER UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED THE OLD WOMAN BLINKED YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN INN SHE SAID AN INN IN THIS TOWN THE IDEA APPEARED TO STRIKE HER AS THE VERY HEIGHT OF IDIOCY SHE COVERED HER FACE WITH HER HANDS AND SHOOK 624bd6a5-a3f9-40a4-b113-6808793e9482 30 WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE HIS MOUTH WAS HIS OWN HOWEVER FOR IT WAS LIKE TO NO MOUTH ON EITHER THE KING OR THE WARD SIDE AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN ANXIOUS TO CLAIM IT FOR IT WAS AN UNDENIABLY UGLY ONE LONG AND NARROW AND TWISTED BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN edc4eb49-3dfc-490f-878c-e86e7fb1bd19 30 HE HAD TALKED SO MUCH TO US ABOUT IT AND DESCRIBED ITS SCENES SO OFTEN AND SO MINUTELY THAT HE HAD INSPIRED US WITH SOME OF HIS OWN DEEP SEATED AFFECTION FOR IT AN AFFECTION THAT HAD NEVER WANED IN ALL HIS YEARS OF EXILE WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE SOMEHOW BELONGED THERE IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY THOUGH WE HAD NEVER SEEN IT 9ea6eaed-d65c-4b48-a768-8b07806faead 2274 A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE HE FELT VAGUELY UNEASY ON THIS CHINA THREE WITH ITS GRAVITY OF ONLY SEVEN EIGHTHS TERRAN STANDARD THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED ITCHED MADDENINGLY HE SCRATCHED bf280a58-574d-420c-8228-1b9a591858ed 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 74664df3-f6fe-46ac-a08b-4467f88a840c 451 THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT THE NEW PEAS WOULDN'T HURT ENOUGH THEY'RE SO SOFT THEY'D SQUASH FLAT I'LL TELL YOU SAID PETER I'LL PICK UP A LOT OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND PEBBLES ON MISTER KING'S FRONT WALK AND THEY'LL BE JUST AS GOOD AS PEAS YOU'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID AUNT JANET SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY SHE WOULD WEAR HOLES IN HER STOCKINGS AND MIGHT SERIOUSLY BRUISE HER FEET a0210adb-18ac-41b1-89e8-c1185a23e7bb 14 HE'LL LIKELY DO SOMETHING AWFUL AND THEN YOU'LL FEEL ASHAMED AND WISH YOU'D NEVER ASKED HIM TO GO AND WE'LL ALL BE DISGRACED IT'S ALL RIGHT TO HAVE OUR NIGHT BOXES FOR THE HEATHEN AND SEND MISSIONARIES TO THEM BUT THEY'RE FAR AWAY AND WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY ba4c5bad-0510-4199-b100-35ee11570427 32 OPPOSITE TO HIM SITS THE STORY GIRL WITH HER SCARLET ROSETTE HEAD HER BEAUTIFUL BARE FEET CROSSED BEFORE HER ONE SLENDER HAND PROPPING HER HIGH WHITE BROW ON EITHER SIDE OF WHICH FALL HER GLOSSY CURLS THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN 6b5fa316-c4f5-4f70-81b6-3704447ecc24 14 AH NEVER MIND I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T IT WAS THE STORY GIRLS STORIES MADE ME WANT TO LAUGH AND SO I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR FOR HER TO BE MAD AT ME SHE HADN'T OUGHT TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IF SHE DON'T WANT ME TO LAUGH WHEN I SEE THEM 3aae6022-767d-49e1-97ac-dfe03ec9b1ab 32 I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER NOW NEVER MIND QUARRELLING SAID CECILY YOU LEAVE PETER ALONE FELICITY PETER THIS IS BEVERLY KING AND THIS IS FELIX AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE GOOD FRIENDS AND HAVE A LOVELY SUMMER TOGETHER THINK OF THE GAMES WE CAN HAVE BUT IF YOU GO SQUABBLING YOU'LL SPOIL IT ALL PETER WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO DAY 45904508-1238-44f9-b638-c84be55df92b 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 85769341-388c-4bcf-8bb6-fc844451da72 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 a908077d-a15c-4ac6-9e3b-bfe9cc6e576e 2274 A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED IT IS PERMITTED STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER ALL BET'S OFF WE'RE COMING IN AFTER YOU THAT MARK TWENTY IS OF FINAL STRAW IT MEANS THEY HAVE THE DELPHINAS FOR SURE ORAN TOUCHED HIS THROAT NO GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME WHY I HAVE A HUNCH ABOUT THESE CREATURES WHAT IS IT NO TIME NOW TRUST ME 1a680e18-02eb-4143-b1e0-cf1dda7ee272 32 I DID AN EXCITING DREAM LAST NIGHT FOR ONCE SAID DAN TRIUMPHANTLY I DREAMT OLD PEG BOWEN CHASED ME I THOUGHT I WAS UP TO HER HOUSE AND SHE TOOK AFTER ME YOU BET I SCOOTED AND SHE CAUGHT ME YES SIR I FELT HER SKINNY HAND REACH OUT AND CLUTCH MY SHOULDER I LET OUT A SCREECH AND WOKE UP f93cc480-b71f-4ac0-bfa0-2197f3f2c34a 2182 THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE UNLESS CHECK THE ZID WOULD RAPIDLY DEPOPULATE THE ISLAND AND TO CHECK IT THEY MUST BREAK A PRIME RULE OF GALACTIC PROTOCOL IN ASKING THE HELP OF A NEW AND UNTESTED SPECIES BUT THEY HAD NO CHOICE THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE 3fb3b799-fba9-4839-8ef3-359643e30c69 2425 WE PAUSED AND THE CHANTING WENT ON AND ON UNTIL I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANYTHING WOULD EVER HAPPEN AND THEN AT LAST THE CHANTING CEASED AND THREE OF THE PRIESTS MOVED TOWARD US FOLLOWED BY AN ELDERLY BEING WHO WORE THE SAME SYMBOL OF POWER OR AUTHORITY THAT I HAD ALREADY NOTED UPON THE CREATURE VIC CALLED E PAI ONE OF THE PRIESTS SPOKE SHARPLY COMMANDINGLY TO E PAY AND THE LATTER NODDED NOT AGREEABLY IT SEEMED TO ME a84647f9-740d-4bca-a119-a6be5922be53 2368 THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE ANOTHER DAY AND HERE WOULD HAVE DROVE ME OUT OF MY WITS YUNUS THOUGHT BETTER OUT OF YOUR WITS THAN DEAD CLARTON THOUGHT YUNA SIGHED HOWEVER CLARTON WENT ON THERE IS STILL A WAY OUT FOR YOU I HAVE READ THE SITUATION IN YOUR MIND AND YOUR NEXT MOVE WILL HAVE TO BE RATHER MORE SPECTACULAR THAN USUAL SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED IT WILL WORK CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL 3e8a1486-2690-4ceb-ab9b-ee74e9dec646 2368 KNOCK AT THE DOOR I SHALL YONA SAID AND MANY THANKS THE OLD WOMAN STILL CLUTCHING HER COIN DISAPPEARED FROM THE WINDOW AS IF SOMEONE HAD YANKED HER BACK YONAS TURNED WITH RELIEF AND GOT BACK ON THE PATH BUT HIS STAYED QUITE AS BADLY AS THE HOUSE HAD HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY SHARP PROVED TO BE A BARROW SHAPED MAN WHO WAS UNACCOUNTABLY CHEERLESS AS IF THE INSIDE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY REMOVED AND THEN REPLACED BY SAWDUST YONAS THOUGHT EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED 1b17e763-6e48-4e68-98b2-e0d29698a04e 2368 HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME BUT SOON AND LATER IT STILL HAD TO HAPPEN AND IT HAPPENED AS THE ONISTS SUSPECTED IT WOULD THROUGH THE WIFE MISSUS SHARP CAME BACK TO THE HUT EARLY ONE DAY THROUGH A FRIGHTENED GLANCE AT YONAH SITTING IN A CORNER DOING NOTHING AT ALL AND LEFT HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY e77ceed2-4e26-4e29-8a26-bf5ee24182d3 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 8c177176-f3d8-47e9-8949-d82c9cc22824 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 7b80aad1-b079-455b-8748-dccec4a036e3 188 BUT IT WAS ALSO KNOWN THAT MISTER CAMPBELL WAS NOT ALWAYS IN A GOOD HUMOUR IF HE LIKED YOU THERE WAS NOTHING HE WOULD NOT DO FOR YOU BUT IF HE DISLIKED YOU WELL YOU WERE NOT AND LEFT IN IGNORANCE OF IT IN SHORT WE HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT MISTER CAMPBELL RESEMBLED THE FAMOUS LITTLE GIRL WITH THE CURL IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FOREHEAD WHEN HE WAS GOOD HE WAS VERY VERY GOOD BUT WHEN HE WAS BAD HE WAS HORRID WHAT IF THIS WERE ONE OF HIS HORRID DAYS 89a56434-758c-4e27-b644-fa741db05206 30 OFF TO THE RIGHT WAS A DIM BRANCHING PLACE WHICH WE KNEW WAS THE ORCHARD AND ON OUR LEFT AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS WAS THE OLD WHITEWASHED HOUSE FROM WHICH PRESENTLY A LIGHT GLEAMED THROUGH AN OPEN DOOR AND AUNT JANET A BIG BUSTLING SAUCY WOMAN WITH FULL BLOWN PEONY CHEEKS CAME TO WELCOME US 86c4ef31-8689-4877-9994-8db299aba212 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 15caf870-04c7-4794-8d65-3aaae85d848d 2317 GOOD DORA SAID BRISKLY NOW I'LL JUST A SHE STRODE DIRECTLY TO RAISE INVENTION AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK DORA WASTED NO TIME SHE BENT OVER PICKED UP THE MACHINE YANKING WIRING LOOSE CARELESSLY STRAIGHTENED UP TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY SAID GOOD BY AND HEADED FOR THE RAIL f95f01e0-75cd-477c-bc51-473e39620bbe 451 AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT AND I'M GOING TO WORK BUTTONHOLES ALL OVER THIS COTTON I HATE WORKING BUTTONHOLES WORSE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD SO I'M GOING TO WORK THEM ALL DAY WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY 707a32f5-65f5-49ce-be37-b45791d8db80 2312 A DONKEY A JACK TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT MANOEL AND MILLER STOPPED AT NOON ON LOST SOUL CREEK THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON BUT MANOEL HAD A JOB TO DO AND HE DID IT HE TOOK THE FORMS FROM ONE OF THE PACKS THAT HE HAD UNSLUNG FROM MILLER AND COUNTED OUT NINE OF THEM HE WROTE DOWN ALL THE DATA OF NINE PEOPLE e268ed44-077f-43e5-a3c8-69afcdbc63e5 188 PAT JUST GOT SICK AND GOT BETTER AGAIN OF HIS OWN ACCORD I'M GOING TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE PRAYING SAID CECILY DECIDEDLY IT'S SO MUCH NICER TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CURED PAT THAN THAT PEG BOWEN DID BUT YOU OUGHTN'T TO BELIEVE A THING JUST CAUSE IT WILL BE MORE COMFORTABLE OBJECTED PETER MIND YOU I AIN'T SAYING GOD COULDN'T CURE PAT BUT NOTHING AND NOBODY CAN'T EVER MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WASN'T AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL THUS FAITH SUPERSTITION AND INCREDULITY STROVE TOGETHER AMONGST US AS IN ALL HISTORY be177f60-5007-4d88-80a8-5565eaf98882 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 1a460390-e237-404e-bfd0-90787c0abe9b 2368 THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS ONE HAD BLACK COARSE HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND A STUBBLE ABOUT HIS FACE THE OTHER WAS BALD AS AN EGG THAT'S HIM MISTER SHARP SAID JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW THE MAN WITH THE BLACK HAIR SAID UGH GER e4e77824-28e1-432b-a4eb-bb59ce337cc3 188 HE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SHERMAN HOUSE THE SCENE OF A QUARREL SO HE RESOLVED TO GET AWAY BEFORE THE CAMPBELL CAME HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID 8a9b9967-1ede-4f54-99cd-b7bcd6cf9e9d 2137 AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR BUT SAY SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE WHERE DID IT COME FROM SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE DANGEROUS THERE WAS ANOTHER NAME FOR IT DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN 635d5f53-0216-4c4f-b9e5-5105700ae706 2274 YOU ARE LYING WE'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER SAID ORNE WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO EXTERMINATE YOU WE'LL GIVE YOU LIMITED MEMBERSHIP IN THE GALACTIC FEDERATION UNTIL YOU PROVE YOU'RE NO MENACE TO US KEEP TALKING HIS STETS AND KEEP HIM INTERESTED YOU DARE INSULT ME GROWLED NUBE YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE ME SAID ORME dfb6bf37-e4e9-4527-bfea-080f6c06164b 402 IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID MISTER MARWOOD INDIGNANTLY THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PICTURE OF GOD FELIX NO HUMAN BEING KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE NO HUMAN BEING CAN KNOW WE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO THINK WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE BUT FELIX YOU MAY BE SURE THAT GOD IS INFINITELY MORE BEAUTIFUL AND LOVING AND TENDER AND KIND THAN ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE OF HIM NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE MY BOY AS FOR THIS THIS SACRILEGE TAKE IT AND BURN IT c461ab83-24e9-4d0b-8414-cd1720880926 2286 HE LOOKED DOWN AS IF AWARE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ROBOT HAD BEEN HOLDING BY THE WRIST DURING THE INTERVIEW THAT IS NO ORDINARY ROBOT IT HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVICES BUILT INTO ITS FINGER TIPS THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS THINGS LIKE THAT WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES 1ccb3f85-bdba-4dda-8863-7322a3471f64 2425 DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND NO SIR WELL YOU UNDERSTAND THE ORDERS ANYWAY THAT'S ALL IT'S NECESSARY CLOSE THE DOOR AND KEEP IT CLOSED AT LEAST A WEEK ac6628a6-dd21-423b-b97d-19a83f33755c 2137 BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA fde028d0-8cef-4ed7-b7ac-fcf64e24bd9a 2108 AFTER HE HAD BEEN IN HER SERVICE FOR SOME TIME OZMA SENT HIM INTO THE GILICAN COUNTRY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO KEEP AMONG THE WILD PEOPLE WHO INHABIT SOME PARTS OF THAT UNKNOWN COUNTRY OF OZ AS FOR WOUT BEING A WANDERER BY PROFESSION HE WAS ALLOWED TO WANDER WHEREVER HE DESIRED AND OZMA PROMISED TO KEEP WATCH OVER HIS FUTURE JOURNEYS AND TO PROTECT THE BOY AS WELL AS SHE WAS ABLE IN CASE HE EVER GOT INTO MORE TROUBLE f73a7c7d-b8ef-4cfe-871b-91c918e20998 2317 AS INSTANTANEOUSLY AS IT HAD COME THE PAIN LEFT HIM IT LEFT HIM WEAK AND QUIVERING AND JOHN ANDREW FARMER LAY ON HIS BACK WAITING FOR HIS STRENGTH TO SEEP BACK AS A RED HAZE DRIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES HE REALIZED THAT THE LAUNCH HAD ACQUIRED ANOTHER OCCUPANT 91034d8b-2abb-441a-aac2-329ed3a06bd3 2286 WHEN WE WERE ALONE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT COURTEOUS TO ME HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF BY NOT TOO SUBTLE QUESTIONING THAT I WAS A SPURIOUS ADMIRAL THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL THIS TRIPE AND NONSENSE I TOLD HIM IS THE BAIT THAT WILL SNAG OUR FISH A TRAP FOR PEPPET AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS BELLONNAIRE ME I SAID I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE RICH BUT THE SHIP THE SPACE YACHT WHERE IS IT BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDE 86bac090-78ce-4cfd-be46-8ef68bb88ee8 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT UP DAN SAID CECILY ANXIOUSLY I HAD TO SAID DAN THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL BESIDES I'M ALL RIGHT AGAIN I FEEL FINE b3d14b70-28c7-43c8-a055-565e07ac8498 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 27c6dcf5-5051-4048-bd1e-d84095af8a29 2182 THE SCOOP HE SAW AND ONLY HALF BELIEVED IT HAD WALLOWED INTO THE SHALLOWS ALONGSIDE HIS DOCK IT HAD REVERSED ITS UNBELIEVABLE LENGTH TO KEEP THE HEAD SUBMERGED AND AT THE SAME TIME HAD BACKED OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL ITS LEVIATHAN TAIL SPANNED THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS OF SLOPING BEACH FROM SURF TO CABIN c27cdf18-22a9-4001-9b66-a29c0f7fd48b 2274 A L I E N A NEVER BEFORE CONTACTED CULTURE THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE IT'S NOT COMPLETE ALL WE HAVE OFF THE MINNIES AND WE EXCLUDED DATA ON THE NATIVES BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HOPING TO DUMP THIS PROJECT AND NOBODY THE WISER HOLY MAZOO 8586d0bc-f7c3-42e8-a8f0-c1e9c3105067 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 DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR MAY YOUR SLEEP BE LONG AND SWEET MAN HE SAID LAUGHING SOFTLY AND AS FOR THE WAKING TWILL BE BETWIXT YOU AND ME 687ac3ce-0d06-4d8b-aaf3-b41d36e56f9e 451 DAN HAD PICKED OUT A SOFT SPOT IN THE GRASS FOR HIMSELF AND WAS IN THE ACT OF SITTING DOWN WHEN FELICITY'S TACTFUL SPEECH ARRESTED HIM MIDWAY HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK eebbcc15-165b-44d5-aa9b-09d2b1b6ce98 32 PETER DAN FELIX CECILY FELICITY SARA RAY THE STORY GIRL THEY ARE ALL AROUND ME ONCE MORE IN THE SWEET SCENTED FADING GRASSES EACH WITH OPEN DREAM BOOKS AND PENCIL IN HAND NOW WRITING BUSILY NOW STARING FIXEDLY INTO SPACE IN SEARCH OF SOME ELUSIVE WORD OR PHRASE WHICH MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE d4d0dfe4-167c-4b79-9e73-50095b327031 2274 ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY THE SPEAKER SAID YES THEY SAID WE HAVE TO USE ORAN BECAUSE THE RECORDS ON THE DELPHINIS WELL THEN WILL THEY GIVE US MORE TIME TO BRIEF HIM NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY 7b9a0f0b-964c-49fc-a081-ff5c556a6c67 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 1bcb524f-697d-4db3-91a2-d92636867aa0 2312 OH YOU CAN'T HARM US WE'RE TOO POWERFUL BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT HA SAY HA SIR WHEN YOU ADDRESS ME DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM I KNOW THE PLACE IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR 8802e13a-508b-4395-a419-4ab0289697fb 32 I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER I JUST STAND ROOTED TO THE GROUND AND SEE IT COMING AND CAN'T STIR IT DON'T SOUND MUCH WRITTEN OUT BUT IT'S AWFUL TO GO THROUGH I'M SURE I HOPE I'LL NEVER DREAM PEG BOWEN CHASES ME I'LL DIE IF I DO a3cce79b-06a4-4391-8acb-f82c55a00119 2108 ALL DAY LONG WHILE YOU ARE CHOPPING WOOD IN THE FOREST I SHALL BE ABLE TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY A PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME FINALLY I SHALL TAKE PRIDE IN BEING THE WIFE OF THE ONLY LIFE TIN WOODMAN IN ALL THE WORLD WHICH SHOWS THAT NIMI AMMY WAS AS WISE AS SHE WAS BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL 91ce664f-b10b-4534-a2e9-2e86d3a4b3f0 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 f8dc058b-46d1-4f7c-919b-ec1a99bebe26 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 455ddd3d-4a40-49a8-bfd7-7aef58bb546d 451 WE WERE SITTING THERE WHEN UNCLE ROGER WALKED IN AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU FRID DOING UP AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT HE SAID ANGRILY YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR BEDS TWO HOURS AGO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES 929ce971-805e-45c2-8aac-fafca8dc0401 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 b770ffc5-5053-47b1-b0c8-603b0d047e59 451 I SUPPOSE MISSUS SCOTT THOUGHT THAT WHAT WAS SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE WAS SAUCE FOR THE GANDER FOR SHE SLIPPED OUT AND DROVE OFF TO CHURCH AS HE HAD DONE OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN ac52598f-c9bf-4005-a4b6-0d51b35e299c 2286 THE RELEASE AND FOLLOW UP ALL HARPED ON ONE THEME I EXPANDED ON IT WAXED ENTHUSIASTIC CONDEMNED IT AND WORKED IT INTO AN INTERVIEW I WROTE AS MANY VARIATIONS AS I COULD SO IT COULD BE SLIPPED INTO AS MANY DIFFERENT FORMATS AS POSSIBLE IN ONE FORM OR OTHER I WANTED THE BASIC INFORMATION IN EVERY MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL INSIDE THAT EXPANDING SPHERE fd52a97b-b40d-4940-833c-07306528e33d 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 f6c7cc91-9521-4a6c-8f4e-1bc126cbaba4 32 PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH WELL MISS FELICITY YOU'RE PRETTY SMART BUT HOW WILL YOU LIKE TO WALK TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH A BOY WHO WEARS PATCHED TROUSERS I WON'T HAVE TO SAID FELICITY TRIUMPHANTLY PETER IS HAVING A NEW SUIT MADEAID IT'S TO BE READY BY SATURDAY I KNEW THAT BEFORE I PROMISED fe0f910c-9cd2-41b8-ba40-dcbc8261a176 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 8c2f27b6-f2ac-46c1-a7e6-78980fb6ae8b 2286 HE HAD LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE ENTIRE OPERATION AS A FUTILE ONE AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME IN HIS CABIN WORRYING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF IT ON HIS SURFACE RECORD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS b0aa1851-bc9e-43ab-9269-df4e081a2e53 2286 THE SPACE YARD MANAGER WAS NAMED ROCKER AND HE WAS HAPPILY ASLEEP WHEN WE ARRIVED BUT NOT FOR LONG THE PARADE OF UNIFORMS AND GUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HAD HIM FRIGHTENED INTO A STATE WHERE HE COULD HARDLY WALK I IMAGINE HE WAS AS FULL OF PETTY LARCENACY AS FORERO NO INNOCENT MAN COULD HAVE LOOKED SO TERROR STRICKEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS 5d1a8285-b086-4e3e-a6a4-4c6302e10bb6 14 ONE DAY A HORN WAS BLOWN AT THE PALACE GATE AND THERE WAS ONE TALL MAN IN COMPLETE ARMOUR WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE 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 9d9f067e-0fa1-45ed-95be-79c75b2bbbd6 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 18f6f808-5326-46b4-a5e0-7c53f326c7c3 2286 I WAS UNDER PRESSURE NOW TO ACT AND A GREATER PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES ROLY POLY PEPPY HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A RUTHLESS KILLER HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED THEN REACHED OUT AND TOOK IT DESTROYING ANY ONE WHO STOOD IN HIS WAY MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE cf448367-aaf2-4544-8be9-14533d7a84ba 32 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS IN CHURCH HE SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE AND I WALKED UP THE AISLE TO YOUR PEW AND SAT DOWN AS UNCONCERNED AS A PIG ON ICE AND THEN I FOUND THAT I HADN'T A STITCH OF CLOTHES ON NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH NOW PETER DROPPED HIS VOICE WHAT IS BOTHERING ME IS THIS WOULD IT BE PROPER TO TELL A DREAM LIKE THAT BEFORE THE GIRLS 6f56843d-ef01-4609-9b5b-9a80ac3cb579 2286 FERERO'S TURNED FACE WENT A DIRTY GREY AT MY WORDS I PRESSED THE ADVANTAGE I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM THIS LAST ORDER WAS DIRECTED AT THE ROBART WHO WAS WELL BRIEFED IN ITS ROLL IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED a903030d-916d-4ad4-ace4-7a38db04af7d 2312 THERE WERE SOME SAWHEADS IN HOUSTON WHO SAID THAT IT WASN'T POSSIBLE THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT AND IN THE DAYS THAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOING ON THEY CLEANED UP AND FED MANWELL IF IT WERE HE AND TRIED TO GET FROM HIM A COGENT STORY ae106e60-f570-402b-8a6a-2ebefdcb0b5f 2317 GAR STAGGERED ACROSS THE DECK UNTIL HE BROUGHT UP AGAINST THE RAIL HOLDING HIS JAW AND SHAKING HIS HEAD MUZZILY FARMER BRACED HIMSELF FOR RETALIATION HOPING IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LESS THAN A BOLT OF BARBED LIGHTNING BUT GARF REMAINED UNPREDICTABLE HE MUMBLED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T ALL THE HELL WITH IT BUT SOUNDED LIKE IT AND SOFTLY AND SILENTLY SLID OVERBOARD HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE 9e6f7763-3716-4492-930d-6a580f153eb2 14 SO EVERY KING WENT TO WAR TO PROVE THAT HE COULD CONQUER EVERYONE ELSE AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED AND MISERY BUT THE PROUD PRINCESS LAUGHED AND SANG AND SHE AND HER MAIDENS WORKED AT A WONDERFUL LACE VEIL WHICH SHE MEANT TO WEAR WHEN THE KING OF ALL KINGS CAME IT WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL VEIL BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT 589cd13f-6854-405c-a596-a0265756d1ad 188 WHAT WAS A THING SHE COULDN'T BEAR ANY ONE TO SEE I ASKED MA THINKS IT WAS HER WEDDING DRESS BUT FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES IT WAS MIL WILL MONTAGUE'S PICTURE SAID FELICITY HE SAW HER PUT IT IN FATHER KNOWS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE CHESS HE WAS TEN YEARS OLD AND HE SAW HER PACKET THERE'S A WHITE MUSLIN WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL AND AND A A FELICITY DROPPED HER EYES AND BLUSHED PAINFULLY A PETTICOAT EMBROIDERED BY HAND FROM HEM TO BELT SAID THE STORY GIRL CALMLY 8d054856-e280-43e6-b826-f664ad370603 2312 IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE THE OFFICIAL HAD GIVEN A SNAP JUDGMENT AND IT LED TO DISASTER IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE 6a4e6b99-b19b-48b7-9027-76670b4e6abb 2108 IT PUZZLED ME TO ANSWER THAT PROPERLY UNTIL I HAD LOOKED OVER SOME OF MY LETTERS I HAD RECEIVED ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES MY SISTER WHO IS WRITING THIS FOR ME READS ME THE OZ BOOKS BUT I WISH I COULD READ THEM MYSELF 3e9eff28-fe0d-462d-bd08-36f23975cbab 402 WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN THE MINISTER'S WORDS HAD REMOVED FROM OUR MINDS THE BITTER BELIEF THAT GOD WAS LIKE THAT PICTURE BUT ON SOMETHING DEEPER AND MORE ENDURING THAN MIND AN IMPRESSION HAD BEEN MADE THAT WAS NEVER TO BE REMOVED THE MISCHIEF WAS DONE FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE THOUGHT OR THE MENTION OF GOD BRINGS UP BEFORE US INVOLUNTARILY THE VISION OF A STERN ANGRY OLD MAN 351cd725-e564-44ca-a402-b56103511a8f 14 I'LL FORGIVE YOU SHE SAID GRACIOUSLY FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND I TELL YOU WHAT STORY GIRL I'M AWFULLY SORRY I LAUGHED IN CHURCH BUT YOU NEEDN'T BE AFRAID I EVER WILL AGAIN NO SIR AND I'M GOING TO CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL REGULAR AND I'LL SAY MY PRAYERS EVERY NIGHT I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU 2a92a9b0-7ced-4dc2-9853-2dba1abce037 32 AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC CAME STROLLING THROUGH THE ORCHARD AND JOINED OUR CIRCLE AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN a4a8ee61-4985-40c1-826a-3f72ae05f03c 188 OUR TEACHER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT THING TO HAVE A LIBRARY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SCHOOL AND HE SUGGESTED THAT EACH OF THE PUPILS SHOULD TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY HE OR SHE COULD RAISE FOR THE PROJECT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE WE MIGHT EARN IT BY THE HONEST TOIL OR GATHER IT IN BY CONTRIBUTIONS LEVIED ON OUR FRIENDS THE RESULT WAS A DETERMINED RIVALRY AS TO WHICH PUPIL SHOULD COLLECT THE LARGEST SUM AND THIS RIVALRY WAS ESPECIALLY INTENSE IN OUR HOME COTERIE 392dfec4-c6ce-4c8e-b549-c9b2846645ba 2182 THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP 5388d3fa-5145-4029-afcd-99580920670f 402 BURY IT SAID THE STORY GIRL WE DID BURY IT AFTER TEA IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPRUCE GROVE AND THEN WE WENT INTO THE ORCHARD IT WAS SO NICE TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL BACK AGAIN SHE HAD WREATHED HER HAIR WITH CANTERBURY BELLS AND LOOKED LIKE THE INCARNATION OF RHYME AND STORY AND DREAM bb1d6d52-ba31-45e3-8199-387405bd454f 2108 POLYCHROME WAS AS SWEET AND MERRY IN DISPOSITION AS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL AND WHEN SHE DANCED AND CAPERED AROUND IN DELIGHT HER BEAUTIFUL HAIR FLOATED AROUND HER LIKE A GOLDEN MIST AND HER MANY HAIRED HARAIMENT AS SOFT AS COBWEBS REMINDED ONE OF DRIFTING CLOUDS IN THE SUMMER SKY 339048c6-7b3f-45c4-92bc-1c3593cd4fa3 2108 BUT OZMA WILL SOON FIX YOU UP AGAIN THE GREEN MONKEY HAD HUNG BACK BASHFUL AT MEETING TWO LOVELY GIRLS WHILE IN THE FORM OF A BEAST BUT GINGER NOW TOOK HIS HAND AND LED HIM FORWARD WHILE SHE INTRODUCED HIM TO OZMA AND WOOD MANAGED TO MAKE A LOW BOW NOT REALLY UNGRACEFUL BUT FOR HER GIRLISH MAJESTY THE RULER OF OZ b97f97fb-41a2-4534-840a-3e802c7abc9c 14 IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL MY AUNT JANE WAS CLEVER IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN A VERY GOOD BOOK IF THERE WAS SUCH A PICTURE IN IT SAID FELICITY IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY 9eaefc20-5abb-4ac4-8138-bee80092b6d9 2286 THE RATINGS AND OFFICERS WAITED TENSELY AND MADE SOME SLIGHT ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THEIR HATRED OF ME IT TOOK ABOUT TEN MINUTES GET AN ANSWER AFFIRMATIVE SIAM SAID A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE 01347aa0-b6f3-4386-929f-bf299f2de99f 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 64bf2d0b-7592-49e6-8caf-59f191992a09 2317 FARMER MANAGED TO PUT MORE CURIOSITY THAN IMPATIENCE INTO HIS TONE BACK TO MY OWN PLANET TAM DAVAR SON NOGHOR MEMBER OF THE GALATSKI FERREDORATION SHE SAID PATIENTLY THE GATE IS A MATTER TRANSFITTER BETWEEN MY WORLD AND YOURS IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH 60839078-30f6-413d-8bd0-9c5f3a5d7085 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 7c02bcb1-f266-4562-9067-38f4c6d4cf38 14 WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS PRESENTLY THEY WERE SCATTERED BY AN ABRUPT AND STARTLING QUESTION FROM PETER WHAT DOES GOD LOOK LIKE HE SAID IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY I WISH I KNEW SAID PETER GRAVELY I WISH I COULD SEE A PICTURE OF GOD IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL 869878f2-9bc6-4292-83d4-0254039443cf 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 2e9c9100-eeec-4675-95e8-05bb099a0e21 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 3e2af9a0-adf0-4f2b-9716-cc156e44f49c 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 ODIN WAS THE GREAT GOD OF THE NORTHLAND YOU KNOW AND WHEREVER HE WENT AMONG MEN HE TAUGHT THEM LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD AND SKILFUL ARTS AND GREAT CITIES SPRANG UP WHERE HE HAD TRODDEN AND EVERY LAND THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED WAS BLESSED BECAUSE ONE OF THE GODS HAD COME DOWN TO MEN 3935f471-b270-47fa-9ce9-f89f4e2444d4 2182 THE SCOOP THAT HAD SURFACED JUST BEHIND HER WAS SO CLOSE THAT JEFF WONDERED IF ITS SPECIES LEGENDARY GOOD NATURE HAD BEEN MISREPRESENTED IT FLOATED LIKE A GLISTENING PLUM COLORED ISLAND FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN IT WAS MORE THAN VAST THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS 75537812-1c93-4e0e-9e12-f1e958ee481d 402 JERRY HAD BROUGHT IT IN A FISH BASKET AS APPEARED WHEN HE MOUNTED THE GRANARY STAIRS SHORTLY AFTERWARDS IT WAS FOLDED UP IN A NEWSPAPER PACKET ON TOP OF THE DRIED HERRING WITH WHICH THE BASKET WAS FILLED WE PAID HIM HIS MONEY BUT WE WOULD NOT OPEN THE PACKET UNTIL HE HAD GONE CECILY SAID FELICITY IN A HUSHED TONE YOU ARE THE BEST OF US ALL YOU OPEN THE PARCEL OH I'M NO GOODER THAN THE REST OF YOU BREATHED CECILY BUT I'LL OPEN IT IF YOU LIKE 34f25ed3-b46b-46da-965b-2163895e50c2 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 56682a51-3e1a-4a82-a010-d088300c732f 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 210daa92-ad23-4a71-984e-4667ddda18ce 2286 WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE SAID ANGRILY LOOKING AT THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF HIM THE GIRL CAUGHT WHYS FIRST SHE SPUN AROUND AND POINTED HE'S HERE THEY BOTH STARED GAPED AT ME CAUGHT OFF GUARD AND COMPLETELY UNPREPARED YOU'RE UNDER ARREST CRIME KING I TOLD HIM AND A GIRL FRIEND ANGELINA ROLLED HER EYES UP AND SLID SLOWLY TO THE FLOOR REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL b389c854-4bb7-4dd4-ac6c-3eb32f28960e 2108 AFTER I HAVE FOUND NIMI AND ME AND SHE HAS MANAGED TO CONTROL HER JOY AT OUR UNION I SHALL TAKE HER TO THE EMERALD CITY AND INTRODUCE HER TO OZMA AND DOROTHY AND TO BETSY BOBBIN AND TINY TROT AND ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS BUT IF I REMEMBER RIGHTLY POOR NIMIA ME HAS A SHARP TONGUE WHEN ANGRY AND SHE MAY BE A TRIFLE ANGRY WITH ME AT FIRST BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN SO LONG IN COMING TO HER 0bbef6c5-4310-468f-a347-1718c24268e0 2108 THE SERVANTS OF THE TIN WOODMEN ALL WORE TIN HELMETS AND TIN BREASTPLATES AND UNIFORMS COVERED WITH TINY TIN DISKS SEWED CLOSELY TOGETHER ON THE SILVER CLOTH SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF bda0cf66-1cb9-4134-a41b-5ff96e8ea603 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 7801132f-6da3-4986-bb5e-f0b53a778cc6 2182 JEFF LOOKED BACK ONCE TO SEE THE ZID CLOSE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AND SPRING UPWARD TO THE TAIL FLUKE BEHIND HIM HE HAD AN INSTANT CONVICTION THAT THE BRUTE'S SECOND SPRING WOULD SEE HIM TORN TO BITS BUT THE SCOOP AT THE MOMENT FOUND WATER DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE IN EARNEST THE ZID COULD ONLY SINK IN ALL SIX TALONED LIMBS AND HOLD FAST 76e71105-0f07-4341-b3c8-a1579c21e421 2425 I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING ANXIOUSLY I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL TOUCH IT MOVE ON IT WAS NOT FAR AS VIC HAD SAID BUT WE WERE WEARY FROM OUR BATTLE WITH THE CRAZED MOB AND THE BEST WE COULD FORCE FROM OUR LEGS WAS A SORT OF DOG TROT ONE MINUTE AFTER TWO 5566e424-3747-4d29-8a41-d640fd07eafc 2108 WERE THE SCARECROW AND I ALONE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN WE WOULD TRAVEL BY NIGHT AS WELL AS BY DAY BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST MEET TIRES AFTER A DAY'S TRAVEL ADDED THE SCARECROW WHILE STRAWN TIN NEVER TIRE AT ALL WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY 39f57ed4-cee3-4f65-a22f-f2ff9a624cf8 402 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT A SACRILEGE MEANT BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER MILWOOD HAD DECLARED THAT THE PICTURE WAS NOT LIKE GOD THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR US WE FELT AS IF A TERRIBLE WEIGHT HAD BEEN LIFTED FROM OUR MINDS I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THE MINISTER KNOWS SAID DAN HAPPILY WE'VE LOST FIFTY CENTS BECAUSE OF IT SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN 72db6c77-e7ea-4248-adfb-68e578283aaf 402 WE ALL WISHED THAT TOO LATE OUR CURIOSITY HAD LED US INTO SOME HOLY OF HOLIES NOT TO BE PROFANED BY HUMAN EYES AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY OR LOOK AT GOD'S PICTURE c420b633-e8cd-4fe1-bd78-0a719a1b6825 2286 SINCE HE WAS FLYING AN UNDER MANNED BATTLESHIP HE HAD USED IT IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE IF HE ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE OR THREATEN ANOTHER SHIP THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE WOULD BE INTRODUCED SO HE HAD SIMPLY ROARED UP TO UNSUSPECTING FREIGHTER AND BLASTED OVER THE MONSTER GUNS HIS BATTLESHIP PACKED ALL EIGHTEEN MEN ABOARD HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY THE THIEVES WERE NOW MURDERERS fda5f674-b204-4016-97a6-5697ffe2ba96 188 MOTHER SAID TEN O'CLOCK AND SHE'LL STICK TO IT SAID FELICITY CROSSLY IT'S ONLY NINE NOW LET US PUT THE CLOCK ON HALF AN HOUR SAID THE STORY GIRL THE CLOCK IN THE HALL ISN'T GOING SO NO ONE WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE WE ALL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER I WOULDN'T DARE SAID THE FELICITY IRRESOLUTELY OH IF THAT'S ALL I'LL DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL 18bf0aca-208c-4fb7-a9b9-1c598305ff9e 2317 TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT a8b26de5-78de-4403-bfe5-e76ac6dffbbe 402 FELIX ALONE MOST UNJUSTLY AND SPITEFULLY DECLARED THAT PETER WAS SIMPLY SHIRKING HE'S JUST LAZY THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM HE SAID WHY DON'T YOU TALK SENSE IF YOU MUST TALK SAID FELICITY THERE'S NO SENSE IN CALLING PETER LAZY YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY I HAD BLACK HAIR OF COURSE PETER BEING A CRAIG HAS HIS FAULTS BUT HE'S A SMART BOY HIS FATHER WAS LAZY BUT HIS MOTHER HASN'T A LAZY BONE IN HER BODY AND PETER TAKES AFTER HER a8e6b9b8-b0d1-4bf4-90a9-e9faff354f08 2274 THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP OPENED THE DOOR THE RIFLE WAS HELD READY AGAIN THE LIPLESS MOUTH FORMED GALLANT TEESE WORDS WHAT DO YOU CARRY IN THIS VEHICLE THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES b4b1e305-e0f2-474c-aa32-6f99478c29b9 2286 ANY ONE WITH LESS SELF ESTEEM THAN MYSELF WHO HAD LED A MORE HONEST EARLY LIFE MIGHT HAVE DOUBTED HIS OWN REASONING AT THAT MOMENT I DIDN'T THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY 31fb6199-0bfc-48d0-a766-00dd7700a975 2108 ARE WE GOING TO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY BY WAY OF THE EMERALD CITY INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY I THINK NOT WAS THE REPLY WE ARE ENGAGED UPON A RATHER DELICATE ADVENTURE FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER 1f273359-e043-4f36-ba7f-1253a2d4e337 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 7d47b666-ef73-496f-a9d6-648782ba1f9a 188 NOT A BIT OF FEAR OF IT SCOFFED UNCLE ROGER FELICITY IS AS GOOD A HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU ARE AND I SHALL BE HERE TO LOOK AFTER THEM ALL AND KEEP THEM FROM BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN TOO YOU'VE BEEN PROMISING EDWARD FOR YEARS TO VISIT HIM AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE A BETTER CHANCE THE HANGING IS OVER AND HARVEST ISN'T ON AND ALEC NEEDS A CHANGE HE ISN'T LOOKING WELL AT ALL 30a74a28-54be-4919-abed-a052eb0573dd 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 WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THAT MITE CONTACT THIS RIG I'LL FEED US WHAT YOU SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AROUND YOU TOO WE'LL MONITOR EVERYTHING 04914768-30fd-48a6-86a8-07d4c73f29a9 2317 IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE 22ff20d7-603f-4a65-81e0-39f70ed7f4d8 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 eff884e0-a7dc-48e6-a92f-4f596fe29cf2 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 75a02ced-31c2-43c3-adb9-25544256debb 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 bca9ad1e-12e1-4c01-bb20-3935133c4558 2317 GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP HE STOOD OVER THE THING WEBBED HANDS ON SCALY HIPS PEERING AT IT INTENTLY AFTER A LONG SILENCE HE KNELT HE STARTED FEELING OVER THE MACHINE WITH HIS WEBBED HANDS FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY 7bc60e64-f924-43ba-a1ea-641f6776e723 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 e6af263b-ee6a-4167-8430-11ec08f4dfc7 2274 WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO WITH IT ASKED THORN WITHIN A YEAR WE WILL HAVE A COPY WITH OUR OWN IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THAT YOU INTEND TO START A WAR ASKED SCORN IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN THAT IS A QUIBBLE FOR WOMEN SAID TENUBE IT'S TOO BAD TO FEEL THAT WAY SAID HORN WHEN TWO CULTURES MEET LIKE THIS THEY TEND TO HELP EACH OTHER c212b4ec-1606-45c9-8323-73138a19a75b 188 SSING WAS DISCOVERED WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH WHEN HE HAD COME TO OURSELVES AND DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE REALLY SITTING IN A DEWY PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ORCHARD INSTEAD OF WATCHING TWO LOVERS ON A MOUNTAIN IN THESSALY AND THE GOLDEN AGE I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT OF COURSE WE KNOW IT WASN'T REALLY TRUE SAID FELICITY fffc5ef6-c911-470f-9ff5-6c371ffca67f 188 IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS AUNT JULIA HAD BEEN THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK IN THAT RESPECT AND HAD TO BECOME A NOTED CONCERT SINGER THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THEIR MUSIC ECHOED ONLY ALONG THE HIDDEN WAYS OF LIFE AND SERVED BUT TO LIGHTEN THE CARES OF THE TRIVIAL ROUND AND COMMON TASK 59129145-9c62-42eb-a34f-5b7ab5edc08b 2108 WHAT DO I CARE FOR A GIRL WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN AND WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ME BUT OZMA IS A FAIRY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN AND THEREFORE SHE IS VERY POWERFUL ALSO WE ARE UNDER OZMA'S PROTECTION AND TO INJURE US IN ANY WAY WOULD MAKE HER EXTREMELY ANGRY 1afa0ef5-3794-4fb5-a876-4cd879ecb501 2108 IT IS A PLACE I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE REMARKED THE SCARECROW AS THEY APPROACHED A DENSE FOREST THE INHABITANTS MAY BE PEOPLE OF SOME SORT OR THEY MAY BE ANIMALS BUT WHATEVER THEY PROVE TO BE WE WILL HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY CHARLEY TO DOROTHY AND OZMA ON OUR RETURN ebde3487-a565-4138-a994-5f1c0255834b 2286 OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL I WAITED UNTIL HIS ATTENTION CLICKED BACK INTO THE ROOM AND HANDED HIM THE SHEETS OF PAPER LEAGUE CENTRAL FOURTEEN RUSH I TOLD HIM HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS BUT DIDN'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS ESTABLISHING CONTACT ONLY TOOK A FEW SECONDS AS THEY HAD AN ENTIRE BATTERY OF SIAM FOR THEIR COMMUNICATIONS HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE 4d22ebed-c6cb-4c41-9f96-25bc2a0aad8b 2286 WE AGREED THAT THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP WOULD BE TO SEND ENTERROLA SPACE YARDS HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS I GAVE HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LEAGUE AND THE LEAGUE NAVY IN PARTICULAR WANTED TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP AFTER THAT HE COULD PLAY HIS POLITICS WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN b47d827c-fe2e-4117-b36a-606f4cad22b4 2108 THE BOY WAS NOW FREE AND THE THORN WHICH THE LOON HAD STUCK INTO HIS LEG WAS LYING UNNOTICED ON THE GROUND WHERE THE CREATURE HAD DROPPED IT WHEN HE EXPLODED BOOT LEANED FORWARD AND PICKED UP THE THORN AND WHILE THE LOONS WERE BUSILY WATCHING THE PUMP THE BOY SPRANG TO HIS FEET AND SUDDENLY RUSHED UPON THE GROUN 775ee7e7-15d8-405a-bd13-2210ac5c7c6c 402 WE WERE ALL OF US TOO TIRED THOSE NIGHTS TO DO ANY SPECIAL PRAYING SOMETIMES I FEAR OUR REGULAR PRAYERS WAS SLURRED OVER OR MUMBLED IN ANYTHING BUT REVERENT HASTE OCTOBER WAS A BUSY MONTH ON THE HILL FARMS THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED AND THIS WORK FELL MAINLY TO US CHILDREN 4dabbd1e-32a2-4fd2-854c-9c01e168b27e 188 SUDDENLY THE DOOR ABOVE US OPENED AND PEG BOWEN HERSELF APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD SHE WAS A TALL SINEWY OLD WOMAN WEARING A SHORT RAGGED DRUGGET SKIRT WHICH REACHED SCANTILY BELOW HER KNEES A SCARLET PRINT BLOUSE AND A MAN'S HAT HER FEET ARMS AND NECK WERE BARE AND SHE HAD A BATTERED OLD CLAY PIPE IN HER MOUTH HER BROWN FACE WAS SEAMED WITH A HUNDRED WRINKLES AND HER TANGLED GRIZZLED HAIR FELL UNKEMPTLY OVER HER SHOULDERS SHE WAS SCOWLING AND HER FLASHING BLACK EYES HELD NO FRIENDLY LIGHT 23d627dc-ecb3-451d-b5b8-a60000ebd636 2286 OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS THERE WAS NO PLACE I COULD GO THAT WOULD BE BETTER SITUATED FOR THE CHASE THAN SETANOVO THE MISSING SHIP COULD HAVE GONE IN ANY DIRECTION WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP 711ebc58-fb8f-479c-a8af-785731d05c81 2286 I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL 3522eb44-c42a-41ff-9ea1-68e48f40d698 2286 A VERY GOOD GUESS FOR THIS LATE AT NIGHT I TOLD HIM CHEERILY IT IS A LATE EMPIRE BATTLESHIP OF THE WAR LORD CLASS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TRULY EFFICIENT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION EVER MANUFACTURED OVER HALF A MILE OF THE FENCES SCREENS AN ARMAMENT THAT COULD PROBABLY TURN ANY FLEET EXISTENT TO DAY INTO FINE RADIOACTIVE ASH EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT THE LAST ONE WAS BROKEN UP A SCRAP OVER A THOUSAND YEARS AGO HE MUMBLED I LEANED OVER AND PUT MY LIPS CLOSE TO HIS EAR SO THERE BE NO CHANCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING f059be37-1b7e-44e6-aa09-362ad00ddcf0 402 I SUPPOSE IF PETER DIES HE'LL GO TO HEAVEN ANYHOW SOBBED CECILY HE'S BEEN REAL GOOD ALL THIS SUMMER BUT HE ISN'T A CHURCH MEMBER HE'S A PRESBYTERIAN YOU KNOW SAID FELICITY REASSURINGLY HER TONE EXPRESSED HER CONVICTION THAT THAT WOULD CARRY PETER THROUGH IF ANYTHING WOULD WE'RE NONE OF US CHURCH MEMBERS BUT OF COURSE PETER COULDN'T BE SENT TO THE BAD PLACE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH HIM THERE WHEN HE'S SO GOOD AND POLITE AND HONEST AND KIND 41f6d423-7a0b-417b-80fa-19c6ba96727e 188 WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED MUCH IF IT HADN'T EVER BEEN DISCOVERED THE STORY GIRL SCATTERED HER ROSES AROUND HER ON THE GRASS AND CLASPED HER SLIM HANDS OVER HER KNEES GAZING DREAMILY AFAR AT THE TINTED SKY BETWEEN THE APPLE TREES AS IF SHE WERE LOOKING BACK TO THE MERRY DAYS OF THE WORLD'S GAY YOUTH SHE BEGAN HER VOICE GIVING TO THE WORDS AND FANCIES OF THE OLD TALE THE DELICACY OF HOAR FROST AND THE CRYSTAL SPARKLE OF DEW 6955db47-fb06-425e-8c9b-ae9fcde3740a 2108 SWEET FRESH GOLDEN STRAW THERE IS SURELY NO FLAW AND IS STUFFING SO CLEAN AND COMPACT IT CREAKS WHILE I WALK AND IT THRILLS WHEN I TALK AND ITS FRAGRANCE IS FINE FOR EFFECT TO CUT ME DON'T HURT FOR I'VE NO BLOOD TO SQUIRT AND I THEREFORE CAN SUFFER NO PAIN THE STRAW THAT I USE DOESN'T LUMP UP OR BRUISE THOUGH IT'S POUNDED AGAIN AND AGAIN f80c4d72-e6ba-4975-83a6-e796fd01262d 188 THE STORY GIRL PEELED THE POTATOES SOMEWHAT SLOWLY AND AWKWARDLY FOR SHE WAS NOT DEFT AT HOUSEHOLD TASKS DAN AND FELIX SHELLED PEAS AND TORMENTED PAT BY ATTACHING PODS TO HIS EARS AND TAIL FELICITY FLUSHED AND SERIOUS MEASURED AND STIRRED SKILFULLY I AM SITTING ON A TRAGEDY SAID THE STORY GIRL SUDDENLY 311a6a18-e474-4b95-83c9-50704b5b83af 402 HOW DARED HE WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS IF PETER WERE GOING TO GOING TO WELL IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PETER WE FELT SO MISERABLY SURE THAT THE MUSIC OF LIFE WOULD BE STILLED FOR US FOR EVER HOW COULD ANYONE IN THE WORLD BE HAPPY WHEN WE WERE SO UNHAPPY 8951f769-5f87-4143-97b5-b5008bf38a40 402 WHAT IF YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME I SUPPOSE YOU'LL BELIEVE THE MINISTER SAID THE STORY GIRL GO AND ASK HIM HE'S IN THE HOUSE THIS VERY MINUTE HE CAME UP WITH US IN THE BUGGY AT ANY OTHER TIME WE WOULD NEVER HAVE DARED CATECHIZE THE MINISTER ABOUT ANYTHING BUT DESPERATE CASES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES WE DREW STRAWS TO SEE WHO SHOULD GO AND DO THE ASKING AND THE LOT FELL TO FELIX BETTER WAIT UNTIL MISTER MILWOOD LEAVES AND CATCH HIM IN THE LANE ADVISED THE STORY GIRL YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF GROWN UPS AROUND YOU IN THE HOUSE a1a8d25f-2037-453c-8a10-460fba4d0110 2108 THEY WERE TRAVELING QUIETLY ALONG UNDER THE SHADE OF TREES WHEN SUDDENLY AN ENORMOUS JAGUAR LEAPED UPON THEM FROM A LIMB AND WITH ONE BLOW OF HIS PAW SENT THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR TUMBLING OVER AND OVER UNTIL HE WAS STOPPED BY A TREE TRUNK INSTANTLY THEY ALL TOOK ALARM THE TIN OWL SHRIEKED HOOT HOOT AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE ALTHOUGH HE COULD SCARCELY SEE WHERE HE WAS GOING 19c936b8-70ce-4ad9-a9f0-df112033083a 402 THE WILD COLD SPRAY BEAT ON HIS EYES AND BLINDED HIM SO THAT HE COULD SEE NOTHING AND THE ROAR OF THE RIVER DEAFENED HIM SO THAT HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT HE FELT KEENLY THE WOUNDS AND BRUISES OF THE CRUEL ROCKS AND MANY A TIME HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN UP THE STRUGGLE HAD NOT THE THOUGHT OF SWEET ALIN'S LOVING EYES BROUGHT HIM THE STRENGTH AND DESIRE TO STRUGGLE AS LONG AS IT WAS POSSIBLE 595a014e-1c82-4305-a01c-66e391b8400a 2108 FEW THINGS CAN INJURE TIN AND MY AXE IS A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE AGAINST A FOE BUT OUR BOY FRIEND HE CONTINUED LOOKING SOLEMNLY AT RUTH MIGHT PERHAPS BE INJURED IF THE PEOPLE OF LOONVILLE ARE REALLY DANGEROUS SO I PROPOSE HE WAITS HERE WHILE YOU AND I FRIEND SCARECROW VISIT THE FORBIDDEN CITY OF LOOMVILLE DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME ADVISED WOO CALMLY WHEREVER YOU WISH TO GO I WILL GO AND SHARE YOUR DANGERS 2c079b27-2294-44da-9223-45e1b9adf789 2108 ONE OR TWO RAN AWAY AND PRESENTLY RETURNED FOLLOWED BY A LADY LOOM WEARING HUGE PUFFED UP RUBBER SKIRTS ALSO SHE HAD A PURPLE FEATHER FASTENED TO A WART ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD AROUND AND AROUND HER WAIST WAS A SASH OF VIPER LIKE VINES DRIED AND TOUGH THAT LOOKED LIKE STRINGS GET TO WORK TILL COMMANDED KING BALL 36891879-d355-4c24-a990-a8e1e95927ea 2108 CHAPTER ELEVEN GINGER'S RANCH AS THEY FOLLOWED A PATH DOWN THE BLUE GRASS HILLSIDE THE FIRST HOUSE THEY MET THE VIEW OF THE TRAVELLERS WAS JOYOUSLY RECOGNIZED BY THE SCARECROW BARRA AS THE ONE INHABITED BY HIS FRIEND GINGER SO THEY INCREASED THEIR SPEED AND HURRIED TOWARD IT ON REACHING THE PLACE HOWEVER THEY FOUND THE HOUSE DESERTED cfb5c540-91a1-4133-818b-82d6e62874d2 2108 SO THEY LEFT THE PATH THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING AND BEGAN TO TRAVEL TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AND ALL THAT DAY THEY WERE IN THE PLEASANT WINKY COUNTRY AND ALL THE PEOPLE THEY MET SALUTED THE EMPEROR WITH GREAT RESPECT AND WISHED HIM GOOD LUCK ON HIS JOURNEY AT NIGHT THEY STOPPED AT A HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE WELL ENTERTAINED AND WHERE WHO WAS GIVEN A COMFORTABLE BED TO SLEEP IN e6109c8a-c40a-444d-ae9a-9cdfef835ab0 188 I HAVEN'T ANYTHING ELSE VALUABLE SINCE I GAVE SARA RAY MY FORGET BENOCK JUG BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANYTHING I'VE GOT LET ME KNOW AND I'LL LEAVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOU TO HAVE IT THE STORY GIRL HAS TOLD US SOME SPLENDID STORIES LATELY I WISH I WAS CLEVER LIKE HER MA SAYS IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'RE NOT CLEVER AS LONG AS YOU'RE GOOD BUT I'M NOT EVEN VERY GOOD b7a47879-a68b-47ba-981f-5e37026b71d0 188 FELICITY VOICED THIS CONVICTION WHEN SHE SAID I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE RIGHT TO PRAY ABOUT A CAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY NOT RETORTED CECILY GOD MADE PATTY JUST AS MUCH AS HE MADE YOU FELICITY KING THOUGH PERHAPS HE DIDN'T GO TO SO MUCH TROUBLE AND I'M SURE HE'S ABLER TO HELP HIM THAN PEG BOWEN ANYHOW I'M GOING TO PRAY FOR PAT WITH ALL MY MIGHT AND MAIN AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY TO STOP ME OF COURSE I WON'T MIX IT UP WITH MORE IMPORTANT THINGS I'LL JUST TACK IT ON AFTER I'VE FINISHED ASKING THE BLESSINGS BUT BEFORE I SAY AMEN 57ce3bf3-0a59-4f23-b186-bd5eb02fed2f 188 THE STORY GIRL CAME OUT OF HER SHADOWS AND SAT DOWN BESIDE US ON THE GRASS WELL IN THAT CASE SHE SAID GRAVELY I THINK YOU DID RIGHT TO SLAP HIS EARS NOT BECAUSE HE IS A HIRED BOY BECAUSE IT WOULD BE IMPERTINENT IN ANY BOY BUT TALKING OF KISSING MAKES ME THINK OF A STORY I FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S SCRAPHOOK THE OTHER DAY WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HEAR IT IT'S CALLED HOW KISSING WAS DISCOVERED WASN'T KISSING ALWAYS DISCOVERED ASKED ANNE NOT ACCORDING TO THIS STORY IT WAS JUST DISCOVERED ACCIDENTALLY c0570350-915e-4282-a6b8-67e85d54c3c2 2108 NOW PUMP UP THE OTHER ONE ORDERED THE KING TILL HAD ALREADY MENDED HIM AND LOON SENT TO WORK TO PUMP HIM FULL OF AIR DURING THESE LAST FEW MOMENTS NONE HAD PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PRISONERS SO WOOT FINDING HIS LEGS FREE CREPT OVER TO THE TIN WOODMAN AND RUBBED THE BONDS THAT WERE STILL AROUND HIS ARMS AND BODY AGAINST THE SHARP EDGE OF THE AXE WHICH QUICKLY CUT THEM 31340400-1a9d-4299-98d0-ea27fa39652e 2108 THIS WAS THE SOURCE OF CONSTANT INTEREST TO LITTLE DOROTHY ONE HAD TO BUT STAND BEFORE IT AND WISH TO SEE WHAT ANY PERSON WAS DOING AND AT ONCE A SCENE WOULD FLASH UPON THE MAGIC CANVAS WHICH SHOWED EXCTLY WHERE THAT PERSON WAS AND LIKE OUR OWN MOVING PICTURES WOULD REPRODUCE THE ACTIONS OF A PERSON AS LONG AS YOU CARED TO WATCH THEM 7968c629-1528-4c3b-91e5-2eed57b41d67 188 PAT OUR OWN DEAR FROLICSOME PADDY WAS SICK AGAIN VERY VERY SICK ON FRIDAY HE MOPED AND REFUSED HIS SAUCER OF NEW MILK AT MILKING TIME THE NEXT MORNING HE STRETCHED HIMSELF DOWN ON THE PLATFORM BY UNCLE ROGER'S BACK DOOR LAID HIS HEAD ON HIS BLACK PAWS AND REFUSED TO TAKE ANY NOTICE OF ANYTHING OR ANYBODY IN VAIN WE STROKED AND ENTREATED AND BROUGHT HIM TITBITS ONLY WHEN THE STORY GIRL CARESSED HIM TO GIVE ONE PLAINTIVE LITTLE MEW AS IF TO ASK PITEOUSLY WHY SHE COULD NOT DO SOMETHING FOR HIM d0cde1e2-5e45-4a10-9182-704cfc9748d1 188 OF COURSE I NEVER SAID A WORD ABOUT HIS ALICE ROOM BUT I GAVE HIM A HINT ABOUT HIS LITTLE BROWN BOOK I SAID I LIKED POETRY AND OFTEN FELT LIKE WRITING IT AND THEN I SAID DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE THAT MISTER DALE HE SAID YES HE SOMETIMES FELT THAT WAY BUT HE DID NOT MENTION THE BROWN BOOK I THOUGHT HE MIGHT BUT AFTER ALL I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE FIRST TIME YOU MEET THEM LIKE SARA RAY WHEN HE WENT AWAY HE SAID I HOPE I SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU AGAIN JUST AS SERIOUSLY AND POLITELY AS IF I WAS A GROWN UP YOUNG LADY 335e65a9-ee88-43e0-93df-84bcc17cae1e 2108 BUT THE WITCH WAS MORE FURIOUS THAN EVER AND AS SOON AS I RAISED MY AXE TO CHOP IT TWISTED AROUND AND CUT OFF ONE OF MY ARMS THE TINSMITH MADE ME TIN ARM AND I WAS NOT MUCH WORRIED BECAUSE NIMMY AMY DECLARED SHE STILL LOVED ME 3085b709-ca91-4df7-847f-ed741df09a8d 188 WHEN WE HAD PICKED ENOUGH WE SAT DOWN ON THE MOSS GROWN STONES AT THE END OF A LONG ARCADE WHERE IT OPENED OUT ON TO THE HARVEST GOLDEN VALLEY BELOW US OUR JAWS EXERCISING THEMSELVES VIGOROUSLY ON THE SPOIL OF OUR CLIMBINGS WE WERE NEVER ALLOWED TO CHEW GUM IN SCHOOL OR IN COMPANY BUT IN WOOD AND FIELD ORCHARD AND HAYLOFT SUCH RULES WERE IN ABEYANCE fd4801c8-ee5b-443b-9316-fd9008acce82 2108 BUT THEN THESE TWO QUAINT PERSONS NEVER SLEPT WHY SHOULD THEY SLEEP WHEN THEY NEVER TIRED AND NOW AS THE BRILLIANT SUN SANK LOW OVER THE WINKY COUNTRY OF OZ TINTING THE GLISTENING TIN TOWERS AND THE TIN MINARETS OF THE TIN CASTLE WITH GLORIOUS SUNSET HUES THERE APPROACHED ALONG A WINDING PATHWAY WOOT THE WANDERER WHO MET AT THE CASTLE ENTRANCE A WINKY SERPENT a3113446-3e3f-4ed9-986d-a200cbee7bf8 188 BUT I SHALL MAKE YOU A FAIR OFFER I HAVE HEARD FROM MY HOUSEKEEPER'S URCHIN OF A SON THAT YOU ARE A MASTER HAND TELL STORIES TELL ME ONE HERE AND NOW AND I SHALL PAY YOU IN PROPORTION TO THE ENTERTAINMENT YOU AFFORD ME COME NOW AND DO YOUR PRETTIEST THERE WAS A FINE MOCKERY IN HIS TONE THAT PUT THE STORY GIRL ON HER MEDDLE INSTANTLY SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET AN AMAZING CHANGE COMING OVER HER HER EYES FLASHED AND BURNED CRIMSON SPOTS GLOWED IN HER CHEEKS d6fcac8d-a8ef-4890-8e23-d8a43fa31488 188 WE WALKED VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER AND WE DID NOT TALK WHEN YOU ARE NEAR THE RETREAT OF WITCHES AND THE FOLK OF THAT ILK THE LESS YOU SAY THE BETTER FOR THEIR FEELINGS ARE NOTORIOUSLY TOUCHY OF COURSE PEG WASN'T A WITCH BUT IT WAS BEST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE FINALLY WE CAME TO THE LANE WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO OUR ABODE WE WERE ALL VERY PALE NOW AND OUR HEARTS WERE BEATING THE RED SEPTEMBER SUN HUNG LOW BETWEEN THE TALL SPRUCES TO THE WEST IT DID NOT LOOK TO ME JUST RIGHT FOR A SON IN FACT EVERYTHING LOOKED UNCANNY 54e85e02-1669-4bbd-973c-4071f29a1cc2 188 WE WERE NEAR GOLDEN MILESTONE NOW THE HOUSE WAS A BIG WEATHER GREY STRUCTURE OVERGROWN WITH VINES AND CLIMBING ROSES SOMETHING ABOUT THE THREE SQUARE WINDOWS IN THE SECOND STORY GAVE IT AN APPEARANCE OF WINKING AT US IN A FRIENDLY FASHION THROUGH ITS VINES AT LEAST SO THE STORY GIRL SAID AND INDEED WE COULD SEE IT FOR OURSELVES AFTER SHE HAD ONCE POINTED IT OUT TO US WE DID NOT GO INTO THE HOUSE HOWEVER WE MET THE AWKWARD MAN IN HIS YARD AND HE GAVE US A QUARTER APIECE FOR OUR LIBRARY 17af1c98-c1af-4a00-b66f-e034dc815752 2108 TILLOON WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO RAN AGAINST HIS THORN AND MANY OTHERS SUFFERED THE SAME FATE CREATURES COULD NOT ESCAPE FROM THE ENCLOSURE BUT IN THEIR FRIGHT MANY BOUNDED UPWARD AND CAUGHT THE BRANCHES OF THE TREES AND THEN CLIMBED OUT OF REACH OF THE DREADED THORN c35c0636-0571-4c66-a03d-aca8579f4108 188 THEN OUT OF REGARD FOR MATS AND CUSHIONS HE WAS KEPT IN DURRANCE VILE IN THE GRANARY UNTIL HE HAD LICKED HIS FUR CLEAN THIS TREATMENT BEING REPEATED EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK PAT RECOVERED HIS USUAL HEALTH AND SPIRITS AND OUR MINDS WERE SET AT REST TO ENJOY THE NEXT EXCITEMENT COLLECTING FOR A SCHOOL LIBRARY FUND f01152d0-5afc-4fe1-91ee-b88c0fc53b40 2108 UNTIL NOW THE SCARECROW HAD RATHER DOUBTED THE POSSIBILITY OF MISSUS EWPES'S BEING ABLE TO TRANSFORM HIM OR HIS FRIEND THE TIN WOODMAN FOR THEY WERE NOT MADE AS ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE HE HAD WORRIED MORE OVER WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO LUKE THAN TO HIMSELF BUT NOW HE BEGAN TO WORRY ABOUT HIMSELF a0b0afac-bf69-49e8-b7b0-42dfb158c088 2108 WHEN FINALLY THE DAY CAME WHEN THE ADVENTURERS HEADED SOUTH INTO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY DOROTHY ASKED ANXIOUSLY CAN'T SOMETHING BE DONE FOR THEM OZMA CAN'T YOU CHANGE EM BACK INTO THEIR OWN SHAPES THEY'VE SUFFERED ENOUGH WRITTEN THESE DREADFUL TRANSFORMATIONS SEEMS TO ME 740d0799-f7d3-4d65-a751-4867fd1d21d8 188 THAT WAS A VERY GOOD SERMON FOR A FIRST ATTEMPT SAID THE STORY GIRL GRACIOUSLY IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE REAL SERMONS I HAVE HEARD FOR A MOMENT THE CHARM OF HER VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I HAD NOT DONE SO BADLY AFTER ALL BUT THE OTHER GIRLS THINKING IT THEIR DUTY TO PAY ME SOME SORT OF COMPLIMENT ALSO QUICKLY SPELLED THIS PLEASING DELUSION EVERY WORD OF IT WAS TRUE SAID CECILY HER TONE UNCONSCIOUSLY IMPLYING THAT THIS WAS ITS SOLE MERIT I OFTEN FEEL SAID FELICITY PRIMLY THAT WE DON'T THINK ENOUGH ABOUT THE HEATHENS WE OUGHT TO THINK A GREAT DEAL MORE 448dd68d-04ea-4dbd-8de0-54c56e572133 2108 YOU'RE NOT LIABLE TO GET LOST SAID SHE FOR YOUR WINGS AND FEATHERS WILL MAKE A RACKET WHEREVER YOU GO AND ON MY WORD A TIN OWL IS SO RARE AND PRETTY THAT IT IS AN IMPROVEMENT ON THE ORDINARY BIRD I DID NOT INTEND TO MAKE YOU TIN BUT I FORGOT TO WISH YOU TO BE NEAT d7c9aeb2-7aaa-4f71-ab27-c22a3afff7f6 2108 COMING CLOSE TO OZMA SHE SAID YOUR MAJESTY ALL THIS TROUBLE WAS CAUSED BY THE WICKEDNESS OF MISSUS UPE THE GIANTESS YET EVEN NOW THAT CRUEL WOMAN IS LIVING IN HER SECLUDED CASTLE ENJOYING THE THOUGHT THAT SHE HAS PUT THIS TERRIBLE ENCHANTMENT ON LUTE THE WANDERER EVEN NOW SHE IS LAUGHING AT OUR DESPAIR BECAUSE WE CAN FIND NO WAY TO GET RID OF THE GREEN MONKEY b1f7f9fa-5e11-45de-bd2e-9120581cd910 188 WE THOUGHT HIM A REGULAR WONDER WE LOVED TO HEAR HIM PREACH BUT WE DIDN'T LIKE TO HEAR HIM PRAY BECAUSE HE ALWAYS INSISTED ON PRAYING FOR EACH OF US BY NAME AND IT MADE US FEEL WRETCHEDLY UNCOMFORTABLE SOMEHOW ALEC DO YOU REMEMBER HOW FURIOUS JULIA WAS BECAUSE EDWARD PRAYED ONE DAY THAT SHE MIGHT BE PRESERVED FROM VANITY AND CONCEIT OVER HER SINGING 7c3c414f-3dd7-4901-8652-c9e676515a3b 2108 THE FRONT DOOR STOOD OPEN BUT NO ONE WAS IN SIGHT IN THE GARDEN SURROUNDING THE HOUSE WERE NEAT ROWS OF BUSHES BARE CREAM PUFFS AND MACAROONS SOME OF WHICH WERE STILL GREEN BUT OTHERS RIPE AND READY TO EAT FARTHER BACK WERE FIELDS OF CARMAL AND ALL THE LAND SEEMED WELL CULTIVATED AND CAREFULLY TENDED THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE FIELDS FOR THE GIRL FARMER BUT SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN 389b192a-977b-444c-ba33-ad9312993f7b 2108 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 IT WAS AS BIG AS A TUB AND THE GOLDEN SPOON IN THE SAUCER BESIDES THE CUP WAS SO HEAVY THE BOY COULD SCARCELY LIFT IT BUT WOOT MANAGED TO GET A SIP OF THE COFFEE AND FOUND IT DELICIOUS MIS 62d9f01d-6199-452e-9df8-ab731c586f1d 188 MISTER MARWOOD HIMSELF COULD NOT HAVE BETTERED THE WAY IN WHICH PETER SAID WE WILL SING THE WHOLE HYMN OMITTING THE FOURTH STANZA THAT WAS A FINE TOUCH THAT I HAD NOT THOUGHT OF I BEGAN TO THINK THAT AFTER ALL PETER MIGHT BE A FOEMAN WORTHY OF MY STEEL WHEN PETER WAS READY TO BEGIN HE THRUST HIS HANDS INTO HIS POCKETS A TOTALLY UNORTHODOX THING THEN HE PLUNGED IN WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SPEAKING IN HIS ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL TONE ANOTHER UNORTHODOX THING c43eac0f-5f29-4959-9d21-4498fccc7af4 188 FIVE HEART BROKEN CHILDREN WHO KNEW THAT THERE ARE MANY WORSE FRIENDS THAN DUMFERRY FOLK CLIMBED UNCLE ALEC'S STAIRS TO BED THAT NIGHT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO NOW EXCEPT PRAY TO GOD TO MAKE PAT BETTER SAID CECILY I MUST CANDIDLY SAY THAT HER TONES SAVOURED STRONGLY OF A LAST RESORT BUT THIS WAS OWING MORE TO EARLY TRAINING THAN ANY LACK OF FAITH ON CECILY'S PART 95bc23bf-b96d-4d20-8ed8-ded506b5402b 188 I ONLY SAY YOU'RE RUNNING A RISK THE DEVIL IS LOOKING OUT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DO THESE THINGS AND HE'LL BE MORE LIKELY TO GET AFTER THEM THAN TO WASTE TIME OVER THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T DO THEM BUT THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE FIRST HEAD OF MY SERMON AT THIS POINT SARA RAY ARRIVED SOMEWHAT OUT OF BREATH PETER LOOKED AT HER REPROACHFULLY YOU'VE MISSED MY WHOLE FIRST HEAD SARA HE SAID THAT ISN'T FAIR WHEN YOU'RE TO BE ONE OF THE JUDGES I THINK I OUGHT TO PREACH IT OVER AGAIN FOR YOU 4d40f654-1042-4186-9760-75221e2ae25a 188 BUT THEY HAVE BEEN CHILDREN AND I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND US OF COURSE PERHAPS WE SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE CONTEST ON SUNDAYS BUT ALL THE SAME I THINK IT'S MEAN OF UNCLE ALEC TO BE SO CROSS OH I DO HOPE POOR SARA WON'TT HAVE TO BE TAKEN TO THE ASYLUM 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 06512436-57ae-444b-9a59-8de5831fe2e8 188 WHEN PETER WAS READY TO BEGIN HE THRUST HIS HANDS INTO HIS POCKETS A TOTALLY UNORTHODOX THING THEN HE PLUNGED IN WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SPEAKING IN HIS ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL TONE ANOTHER UNORTHODOX THING THERE WAS NO SHORTHAND REPORTER PRESENT TO TAKE THAT SERMON DOWN BUT IF NECESSARY I COULD PREACH IT OVER VERBATIM AND SO I DOUBT NOT COULD EVERYONE THAT HEARD IT IT WAS NOT A FORGETABLE KIND OF SERMON d98cc92b-a4f3-4c73-ad1f-0dd1e8fe13a4 2108 NEXT WOKE TRIED TO FIND THE CANARY AND THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH MOONLIGHT SHOWING THROUGH THE WINDOW TO ENABLE HIM TO SEE WHERE THE CAGE HUNG BUT IT WAS OUT OF HIS REACH AT FIRST HE WAS TEMPTED TO LEAVE POLYCHROME AND ESCAPE WITH HIS OTHER FRIENDS BUT REMEMBERING HIS PROMISE TO THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER LUKE TRIED TO THINK HOW TO SAVE HER 61d57bee-221c-4b84-8dcf-e4749ef288d5 188 WE ARE HAVING BEAUTIFUL WEATHER AND THE SCENERY IS FINE SINCE THE LEAVES TURN I THINK THERE IS NOTHING SO PRETTY AS NATURE AFTER ALL I HOPE ALL DANGER FROM THE MEASLES WILL SOON BE OVER AND WE CAN ALL MEET AGAIN AT THE HOME ON THE HILL TILL THEN FAREWELL YOUR TRUE FRIEND SARA RAY P S DON'T LET FELICITY SEE THIS LETTER S R d3195b7a-10ec-4de2-b235-e69b9b3e1b91 188 THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS NOW AND ADDED PETER DELIBERATELY TAKING HIS GUM FROM HIS MOUTH TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT MORE IMPRESSIVE I DON'T CARE O PETER THAT SOUNDS DREADFUL SAID CECILY YOUR OWN FATHER 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 4f2eb71a-8ff7-4104-a4e5-84335d5ca4fe 188 I THINK THIS IS ALL MY NEWS EXCEPT THAT I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH WE ALL THINK OF YOU PETER WHEN WE HEARD YOU WERE SICK WE ALL SAID NICE THINGS ABOUT YOU BUT WE WERE AFRAID IT WAS TOO LATE AND I SAID IF YOU GOT BETTER I'D TELL YOU IT'S EASIER TO WRITE THAN TO TELL IT OUT TO YOUR FACE WE THINK YOU'RE SMART AND POLITE AND A OBLIGING AND A GREAT WORKER AND A GENTLEMAN YOUR TRUE FRIEND CECILY KING P S IF YOU ANSWER MY LETTER DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE PEARS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT DAN TO FIND OUT THERE'S ANY LEFT a2c285c7-a7ee-44f0-81e6-12e8132dabd3 2108 THOUGHTLESS PEOPLE ARE NOT UNUSUAL OBSERVED THE SCARECROW BUT I CONSIDER THEM MORE FORTUNATE THAN THOSE WHO HAVE USEDLESS OR WICKED THOUGHTS AND DO NOT TRY TO CURB THEM YOUR OIL CAN FRIEND WOODMAN IS FILLED WITH OIL BUT YOU ONLY APPLY THE OIL TO YOUR JOINTS DROP BY DROP AS YOU NEED IT AND DO NOT KEEP SPILLING IT WHERE IT WILL DO NO GOOD ad1999cd-ed67-489a-8336-bfe761da924c 188 UNCLE ROGER BURNED HIS LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS SUCH FUN PAT IS SPLENDID HE HAS NEVER HAD A SIX BELL SINCE THAT BAD ONE I WOULD SEND HIM OVER TO BE COMPANY FOR YOU BUT AUNT JANET SAYS NO BECAUSE HE MIGHT CARRY THE MEASLES BACK I DON'T SEE HOW WE COULD BUT WE MUST OBEY AUNT JANET SHE IS VERY GOOD TO US ALL BUT I KNOW SHE DOES NOT APPROVE OF ME SHE SAYS I'M MY FATHER'S OWN CHILD I KNOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING COMPLIMENTARY BECAUSE SHE LOOKED SO QUEER WHEN SHE SAW THAT I HAD HEARD HER BUT I DON'T CARE I'M GLAD I'M LIKE FATHER 0d1992c7-75ad-4811-a229-ef1b76beaf35 2108 WHAT IS MAGIC GLUE ASKED BOOT IT IS A MAGIC PREPARATION WITH WHICH TO MEND PEOPLE WHEN THEY CUT THEMSELVES ONE TIME LONG I CUT OFF ONE OF MY FINGERS BY ACCIDENT AND I CARRIED IT TO THE WITCH WHO TOOK DOWN HER BOTTLE AND GLUED IT ON AGAIN FOR ME a692b675-dab7-45ab-956b-786c8987d6ff 2108 THE LOONS FOR SO THESE FOLKS WERE CALLED HAD BEEN DOING MANY THINGS SOME PLAYING TOGETHER SOME WORKING AT TASKS AND SOME GATHERED IN GROUPS TO TALK BUT AT THE SOUND OF STRANGE VOICES WHICH ECHOED RATHER LOUDLY THROUGH THE CLEARING ALL TURNED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE INTRUDERS ad4c699b-7996-4e8f-8dc8-68a22e3b806b 2108 HE'S GONE CRIED THE BEAST WITH A LONG DRAWN SIGH OF DISAPPOINTMENT HE'S GONE AND NOW I SHALL HAVE NO BREAKFAST THE CLATTER OF THE TIN OWL'S WINGS SOUNDED ABOVE HIM AND THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR CAME TROTTING UP AND ASKED WHERE IS THE MONKEY HAVE YOU EATEN HIM SO QUICKLY 1724937d-3dd4-4e09-bb87-f337fea119e3 2108 AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS INCLUDING THE WINKIES LIKE A GOOD MANY KINGS AND EMPERORS I HAVE A GRAND TITLE BUT VERY LITTLE REAL POWER WHICH ALLOWS ME TIME TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY 45e48365-ad7d-4570-9757-0c2ce21dd13e 2108 SHE HAS SIX MAGIC HAIRPINS WHICH SHE WEARS IN HER HAIR AND A MAGIC RING WHICH SHE WEARS ON HER THUMB AND WHICH IS INVISIBLE TO ALL EYES EXCEPT THOSE OF A FAIRY AND MAGIC BRACELETS ON HER ANKLES SO I AM POSITIVE THAT SHE WILL MANAGE TO FIND A WAY OUT OF HER PRISON c655fad7-5b90-4c3b-b80e-24227e2574db 188 WE ARE ALL AWFUL GLAD YOU ARE GETTING BETTER IT GAVE US AN AWFUL SCARE WHEN WE HEARD YOU WERE GOING TO DIE BUT YOU WILL SOON BE ALL RIGHT AND ABLE TO GET OUT AGAIN BE CAREFUL AND DON'T CATCH COLD I'M GOING TO MAKE SOME NICE THINGS FOR YOU AND SEND THEM OVER NOW THAT THE DOCTOR SAYS YOU CAN EAT THEM AND I'LL SEND YOU MY ROSEBUD PLATE TO EAT OFF OF I'M ONLY LENDING IT YOU KNOW NOT GIVING IT I LET VERY FEW PEOPLE USE IT BECAUSE IT IS MY GREATEST TREASURE MIND YOU DON'T BREAK IT AUNT OLIVIA MUST ALWAYS WASH IT NOT YOUR MOTHER dc279249-7452-4a07-9df3-3c9555a233b6 188 MA SAYS THAT IT'S ALL RIGHT AS LONG AS HE'S A BACHELOR BECAUSE HE WON'T TAKE ANY ONE SAID FELICITY BUT IF HE WAKES UP SOME DAY AND FINDS HE'S AN OLD BACHELOR BECAUSE HE CAN'T GET ANY ONE IT'LL HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT FLAVOR IF YOUR AUNT OLIVIA WAS UP AND GET MARRIED WHAT WOULD YOUR UNCLE ROGER DO FOR A HOUSEKEEPER ASKED PETER OH BUT AUNT OLIVIA WILL NEVER BE MARRIED NOW SAID FELICITY WHY SHE'LL BE TWENTY NINE NEXT JANUARY WELL OF COURSE THAT'S PRETTY OLD ADMITTED PETER BUT SHE MIGHT FIND SOME ONE WHO WOULDN'T MIND THAT SEEING SHE'S SO PRETTY d734428a-1522-4cd3-81ad-cb4b241b451d 188 I'M AWFUL SORRY FOR SARA BUT I'M GLAD I'M NOT HER SHE IS GOING TO WRITE YOU A LETTER TOO YOU'LL LET ME SEE WHAT SHE PUTS IN IT WON'T YOU YOU'D BETTER TAKE SOME MEXICAN TEA NOW IT'S A GOOD BLOOD PURIFIER I'M GOING TO GET A LOVELY DARK BLUE DRESS FOR THE WINTER IT IS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN SARA RAY'S BROWN ONE SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE 13482af6-db3b-4e72-a110-b6e839ad0d98 2108 THE FLAME WAS BRIGHT BUT NOT VERY HOT YET LUKE SCREAMED WITH TERROR AND SPRANG FORWARD WITH A GREAT BOUND THIS TIME HE LANDED ON THE PAW OF THE GREAT CHIEF DRAGON WHO ANGRILY RAISED HIS OTHER PAW AND STRUCK THE GREEN MONKEY WITH A FIERCE BLOW BOOT SCENT WENT SAILING THROUGH THE AIR AND FELL SPRAWLING UPON THE ROCKY FLOOR FAR BEYOND THE PLACE WHERE THE DRAGON TRIPE WAS GROUPED 15a572bd-a2a2-49c2-91ec-e3692922b982 188 AUNT JANET ALLOWED US TO COVER IT WITH AN OLD TABLECLOTH THE WORN PLACES IN WHICH THE GIRLS ARTFULLY CONCEALED WITH FROST WHITENED FERNS WE HAD THE KITCHEN DISHES AND THE TABLE WAS GAYLY DECORATED WITH CECILY'S THREE SCARLET GERANIUMS AND MAPLE LEAVES AND CHERRY VASES AS FOR THE VIANDS THEY WERE FIT FOR THE GODS ON HIGH OLYMPUS 77c837b1-bf74-46a6-8447-592816d1763b 2108 VERY WELL AND IF WE MEET THE WITCH WE WILL BOTH FIGHT HER YOU WITH HER AXE AND I WITH MY SWORD THE WITCHES DESTROYED ANNOUNCED THE SCARECROW AND AS THEY WALKED AWAY HE TOLD THE TIN SOLDIER OF MUCH THAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE LAND BUT SINCE HE HAD STOOD RESTED IN THE FOREST 1e232e11-18ee-444f-8d09-24b4de59ac4f 2108 HAD HE REMAINED HIS NATURAL SIZE THE DISTANCE COULD HAVE BEEN COVERED IN A FEW STEPS BUT TO A THUMB HIGH ROOT IT WAS QUITE A PROMENADE WHEN HE EMERGED FROM THE BOROUGH HE FOUND HIMSELF BUT A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE HOUSE IN THE CENTRE OF THE VEGETABLE GARDEN WHERE THE LEAVES OF RHUBARB WAVING ABOVE HIS HEAD SEEMED LIKE TREES OUTSIDE THE HOLE AND WAITING FOR HIM HE FOUND ALL HIS FRIENDS 037e26bc-cf7a-4ecd-bd27-4c382cef9fca 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 WE HAD HAD THE PLEASURE OF BIRD SONG OF SILVER RAIN ON GREENING FIELDS OF STORM AMONG THE TREES OF BLOSSOMING MEADOWS AND OF THE CONVERSE OF WHISPERING LEAVES WE HAD HAD BROTHERHOOD WITH WIND AND STAR WITH BOOKS AND TALES AND HEARTH FIRES OF AUTUMN 18272915-2013-4fd4-a44c-914af02a4cd3 2108 THE BIG WOMAN MIGHT HAVE GIVEN ME A BED ANYHOW HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS AND SCARCELY HAD HE SPOKEN WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PRESS AGAINST HIS LEGS WHICH WERE THEN DANGLING FROM THE SEAT OF THE CHAIR LEANING DOWN HE PUT OUT HIS HAND AND FOUND THAT A BEDSTEAD HAD APPEARED WITH MATTRESS SHEETS AND COVERS ALL COMPLETE HE LOST NO TIME IN SLIPPING DOWN UPON THE BED AND WAS SOON FAST ASLEEP fb3f6563-c853-475b-8048-07467774cb1c 188 I TOLD THE CHILDREN A BEAUTIFUL NEW FAIRY STORY TO DAY I MADE THEM GO TO THE SPRUCE WOOD TO HEAR IT A SPRUCE WOOD IS THE PROPER PLACE TO TELL FAIRY STORIES IN FELICITY SAYS SHE CAN'T SEE THAT IT MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE WHERE YOU TELL THEM BUT OH IT DOES I WISH YOU'D BEEN THERE TO HEAR IT TOO BUT WHEN YOU'RE WELL I WILL TELL IT OVER AGAIN FOR YOU eca9c4c8-8bf1-4833-9e78-28a8d130184e 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 THEN SHE PULLED A STRAND OF STRING FROM HER SASH AND DRAWING THE EDGES OF THE HOLE TOGETHER SHE TIED THEM FAST WITH THE STRING THUS MAKING ONE OF THOSE FURIOUS WARTS WHICH THE STRANGERS HAD NOTICED ON SO MANY WOONS 33e495d8-8e74-421c-8f7e-af47b12a3900 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 IF A THING REALLY WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION SHE MERELY LAUGHED AND REFUSED TO DISCUSS IT AT ALL THE PARTICULAR MATTER IN OR OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT OPENING DAY OF AUGUST WAS A PROJECT WHICH UNCLE EDWARD HAD RECENTLY MOOTED e804a21a-20b4-48eb-b806-a08ed97cbc68 188 FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED DOWN TO THE POST OFFICE FOR THE MAIL ALONG A ROAD WHERE FALLEN LEAVES WERE EDDYING FITFULLY UP AND DOWN BEFORE US IN WEIRD UNCANNY DANCES OF THEIR OWN THE EVENING WAS FULL OF EERIE SOUNDS THE CREAKING OF FIR BOUGHS THE WHISTLE OF THE WIND IN THE TREE TOPS THE VIBRATIONS OF STRIPS OF DRIED BARK ON THE RAIL FENCES 12b6a6d0-6b1b-4518-aa9b-de92982305ef 188 PATTY STOOD THE TEST FAIRLY WELL AT LEAST HE MADE AN ADORABLE LISTENER SAVE AS SUCH TIMES AS IMAGINARY RATS DISTRACTED HIS ATTENTION MISTER MARWOOD HAD AT LEAST THREE ABSORBED LISTENERS THE NEXT SUNDAY MORNING FELIX PETER AND I WERE ALL AMONG THE CHEELS WHO WERE TAKING MENTAL NOTES ON THE ART OF PREACHING A SERMON NOT EMOTION OR GLANCE OR INTONATION ESCAPED US TO BE SURE NONE OF US COULD REMEMBER THE TEXT WHEN WE GOT HOME BUT WE KNEW JUST HOW YOU SHOULD THROW BACK YOUR HEAD AND CLUTCH AT THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT WITH BOTH HANDS WHEN YOU ANNOUNCED IT 1922efa5-b0ea-45e1-ba93-5f12ba2e3e31 188 YOU CHILDREN WON'T SLEEP A WEEK TO NIGHT IF WE OPENED IT NOW YOU'D GO WILD WITH EXCITEMENT I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP ANYHOW SAID FELICITY WELL AT LEAST YOU'LL OPEN IT THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING WON'T YOU MA NO I'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT WAS AUNT JANET'S PITEOUS DECREE I WANT TO GET THE WORK OUT OF THE WAY FIRST AND ROGER AND OLIVIA WILL WANT TO BE HERE TOO WE'LL SAY TEN O'CLOCK TO MORROW FORENOON THAT'S SIXTEEN WHOLE HOURS YET SIGHED FELICITY I AM GOING RIGHT OVER TO TELL THE STORY GIRL SAID CECILY WON'T SHE BE EXCITED f0227835-d85e-4b0a-bd85-814895141dbb 2108 AIR REPLIED A SMALL VOICE BESIDE HIM SOLID AIR THAT'S ALL THEY ALL LOOKED DOWNWARD AND FOUND A SKYBLUE RABBIT HAD STUCK ITS HEAD OUT OF A BURROW IN THE GROUND THE RABBIT'S EYES WERE A DEEPER BLUE THAN HIS FUR AND THE PRETTY CREATURE SEEMED FRIENDLY AND UNAFRAID 7a8414f8-bdb9-4275-a653-cba8bbfc00d3 188 HER GOLDEN CURLS FRAMED HER LOVELY FACE AND THE WIND STUNG THE PINK OF HER CHEEKS TO CRIMSON ON MY LEFT WALKED THE STORY GIRL HER RED CAP ON HER JAUNTY BROWN HEAD SHE SCATTERED HER WORDS ALONG THE PATH LIKE DIAMONDS AND PEARLS OF THE OLD FAIRY TALE I REMEMBER THAT I STRUTTED ALONG QUITE INSUFFERABLY FOR WE MET SEVERAL OF THE CARLISLE BOYS AND I FELT THAT I WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY FELLOW TO HAVE SUCH BEAUTY ON ONE SIDE AND SUCH CHARM ON THE OTHER 16e527c7-a600-4c0c-8c1d-6844e3dc44af 188 OH WON'T SHE BE INSULTED EXCLAIMED FELIX RATHER HORRIFIED NAW GRINNED DAN PEG CHEWS TOBACCO LIKE A MAN AND SHE'D RATHER HAVE IT THAN YOUR RUBBISHY PEPPERMINTS I CAN TELL YOU I'LL RUN DOWN TO OLD MISSUS SAMPSON'S AND GET A PLUG NOW WE MUST WRITE THE LETTER AND TAKE IT AND THE PRESENTS TO HER RIGHT AWAY BEFORE IT GETS DARK SAID THE STORY GIRL 90c94b0c-d645-4055-b048-83abb3f039e7 2108 EVEN THE SCARECROW WAS MUCH HEAVIER THAN THE PUFFY LOONS BUT FINALLY THE PARTY HALTED BEFORE A RAISED PLATFORM ON WHICH STOOD A SORT OF THRONE CONSISTING OF A BIG WIDE CHAIR WITH A STRING TIED TO ONE ARM OF IT THIS STRING LED UPWARD TO THE ROOF OF THE DOME 0a6cbd07-9ff4-4e8b-a355-37ddc57ae06a 242 I S'POSE YOU THINK A HIRED BOY HASN'T ANY BUSINESS TO PRAY FOR PARTICULAR THINGS BUT I'LL SHOW YOU I'LL JUST PRAY FOR WHAT I PLEASE AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY AND STOP ME bba5f187-3185-4eae-8d83-138229028e7c 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 194f05b9-c1d1-4e99-8feb-a135e8898ea1 402 WHAT TALES SHE TOLD US ON THOSE FAR AWAY AUTUMN DAYS PEOPLING THE RUSSET ARCADES WITH FOLK OF AN ELDER WORLD ffafb096-05d5-4fa1-8f24-e9e2c872138e 464 I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO IF YOU'D WORKED OUT EVER SINCE YOU WAS SEVEN AND JUST GOT TO SCHOOL IN THE WINTER THERE'D BE LOTS OF THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW EITHER 3dc8c6eb-62d9-4d68-bf43-69299761e667 177 WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE STILL BEFORE US WITH ALL THEIR POTENT LURE OF YEARS UNKNOWN 8c76a8e0-0989-4b7b-98c9-fc7b1f9faf0f 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 7d98d92e-6032-4cb0-a02b-c5d61985a0d1 103 WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY HE IS BIG AND JOLLY BUT HE TEASES PEOPLE TOO MUCH YOU ASK HIM A SERIOUS QUESTION AND YOU GET A RIDICULOUS ANSWER HE HARDLY EVER SCOLDS OR GETS CROSS THOUGH AND THAT IS SOMETHING 52e9cb98-671d-4e27-9964-b3670f252137 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 31e3e0b4-fa02-4670-8505-a1bbcbb88fd5 2425 THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN THOSE HUGE ROUND EYES UNBLINKING UMBRELLAS WERE NOT HUMAN NOR WERE THEIR SLITTED SUNKEN MOUTHS THEY WERE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY WERE IMAGES OF DESPAIR d4f90a03-e9b5-4c98-9d11-2b8de4c4ba14 188 I WON'T CRIED SARA RAY IN TERROR I WON'T GO NEAR PEG BOWEN'S HOUSE FOR THE WORLD NO MATTER WHO WAS WITH ME ec1e483c-e4ba-4266-92fe-998d7f741389 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 41fc320e-0d65-47fb-9bde-754b77bb40f9 1867 THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN WHEN THE WATER WAS CUT OFF WITH THE PILE IN OPERATION IT HAD STARTED TO OVERHEAT AND THE AUTOMATIC SAFETIES HAD DUMPED THE CHARGE DOWN THE PIT a6419219-6700-475e-b638-b146b4cdd0ec 103 NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY 1647d9e3-992c-4f79-8699-cc1e79d54eba 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 b04349a3-bc95-4cf7-a182-a1a83714539e 177 WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE a4dc3bf8-a2e7-43d5-99f4-348da49f209f 32 WE HAD EXPECTED THAT THE STORY GIRL WOULD ECLIPSE US ALL IN THE MATTER OF DREAMS BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL 5133e9be-4567-4ead-8870-2b19e4650473 177 CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL SHE SHOOK HER HEAD NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY BUT IF THIS ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY I'LL HAVE A GREAT ONE TO TELL OF US BEING SO SCARED 42c1af60-3a06-4093-8e25-26a448887093 177 IF THAT CLOCK DOESN'T STRIKE TWO I SHALL GO OUT OF MY SEVEN SENSES DECLARED CECILY WITH UNUSUAL VEHEMENCE WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK I DIDN'T MEAN ANY HARM SAID PETER CRESTFALLEN 9f16b664-13e3-47ed-a53d-0e45984facc5 402 WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES BUT AS WE WAITED THE CLOUDS BROKE AWAY AND THE SUN CAME OUT FLASHINGLY THE DROPS ON THE SPRUCE BOUGHS GLITTERED LIKE DIAMONDS 346941f8-f5f9-4024-a23f-40fb67ce92fe 14 PRESENTLY PETER AND THE STORY GIRL APPEARED AND WE WERE ALL MORE OR LESS RELIEVED TO SEE THAT PETER LOOKED QUITE RESPECTABLE DESPITE THE INDISPUTABLE PATCH ON HIS TROUSERS 57bb4dbf-8cf0-4c01-85f9-23379893c308 32 ABOUT TEN YEARS AFTER GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE MARRIED A YOUNG MAN CAME TO VISIT THEM HE WAS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF GRANDMOTHER'S AND HE WAS A POET 17f25bfc-2ae6-49cc-8544-d736dd583da3 451 THOSE OF US WHO HAD NOTHING THE MATTER WITH OUR CONSCIENCES ENJOYED OUR WALK TO THE LITTLE WHITEWASHED SCHOOLHOUSE IN THE VALLEY FELICITY AND CECILY WERE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN 63002671-037d-4ea5-bf87-09834f970b10 2425 WITH A SHOUT I JERKED THE GUN FROM MY POCKET AND LEAPED ASIDE AS I DID SO I FIRED TWICE INTO THE GAPING MOUTH AND SAW THE BULLETS SHATTER THE HEAVY SHUTTER 08c78e44-da24-496c-9595-a8cd525f7619 2137 REMEMBER YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TO LOCATE A FIRM LANDING SITE WITH AMPLE PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF IS THAT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD BRANDON NODDED WAS LAUNCHED AND NOW WAS CRUISING ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE ALIEN PLANET 55669e56-717f-4531-9203-98993e9786a7 451 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOOK A WHIP AND WHIPPED MY BARE SHOULDERS TILL THE BLOOD CAME DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL AGGRIEVED I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING RETORTED AUNT JANET I'D SIMPLY TURN YOU OVER MY KNEE AND GIVE YOU A SOUND SOLID SPANKING MISS SARA YOU'D FIND THAT PENANCE ENOUGH fe1c776c-fcdd-418d-b7bf-ea160b4b354c 242 PETER PRAYS THREE TIMES A DAY REGULAR IN THE MORNING AND AT DINNER TIME AND AT NIGHT AND BESIDES THAT ANY TIME THROUGH THE DAY WHEN HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT HE JUST PRAYS STANDING UP DID YOU EVER HEAR OF SUCH GOINGS ON 209b5c21-59e3-4286-ba91-d33cda799dab 464 WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN d7ed7b80-ee66-423b-8328-d0e7a7d25deb 30 WE KNEW THAT UNCLE ALEC WAS FOND OF CHILDREN AND WAS HEART GLAD TO WELCOME ALLEN'S BOYS a81c28a3-934d-4105-a442-29d6b8c50602 103 BUT BETWEEN YOU AND ME I BELIEVE THE REAL REASON IS THAT HER MOTHER DOESN'T GIVE HER HALF ENOUGH TO EAT NOT THAT SHE'S MEAN YOU KNOW BUT SHE THINKS IT ISN'T HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN TO EAT MUCH OR ANYTHING BUT CERTAIN THINGS ISN'T IT FORTUNATE WE WEREN'T BORN INTO THAT SORT OF A FAMILY 4c986948-500d-4687-a3a2-daf665810400 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 b6c072ba-d8d6-4b28-a155-44f67ded33e2 2425 HUM THE GREAT REWARD FOR SOME NOTABLE SERVICE RENDERED I IMAGINE WHISPERED VIC THOSE PRIESTS ARE WISER THAN THE REST OF THIS CREW THEY DEAL DEATH SPARINGLY AND THAT MAKES THEM GREAT THEY LOVE LIFE LIKE A MAN OF OUR EARTH PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY'VE FOUND OUT HOW TO ENJOY IT b1a29941-8855-4dfe-9205-c8ea5ca8637d 2317 NOT THAT THEY'D HAVE KEPT ME FROM GETTING BORED FOR LONG BUT YOURS LOOKS AS IF IT'S GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY AMUSING AT LEAST e7ddf585-52b5-43fa-8443-719ba8d0b416 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 2f8c1f2c-a46a-4da7-b821-7e65b62880e6 402 BUT WHEN EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK 7aebed88-0cb4-41fd-976f-d14854b2f2d3 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 438979cf-83e1-47f7-8e33-c451d7655cc4 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 037250a4-1cf8-4062-a4a2-2ebef9ea6494 188 DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR MAY YOUR SLEEP BE LONG AND SWEET MAN HE SAID LAUGHING SOFTLY AND AS FOR THE WAKING TWILL BE BETWIXT YOU AND ME 939af0b6-0ae8-43c1-8f15-765eb8df2bc4 2312 GIVE HIM A NAME ANYHOW AND GET HIM COUNTED WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK 9db1498c-ff5a-4253-a271-8b42226815d4 30 SOON AFTER WE WERE AT SUPPER IN THE KITCHEN WITH ITS LOW DARK RAFTERED CEILING FROM WHICH SUBSTANTIAL HAMS AND FLITCHES OF BACON WERE HANGING 58c713a4-6961-4d74-b635-c5f26b5200af 464 WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY 1be44a43-f1f7-4362-96be-abde602535ed 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 0336b130-f4cc-4705-bff6-d98fd7107fe5 2368 ALL IN ALL HE THOUGHT SADLY HE WAS NOT A USUAL HERO BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT bdd1dd26-6609-49ab-9b15-36f9f22e3e2f 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 58601184-00f1-4df3-aaeb-a1d6f9c0b2b0 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 d45bb8c7-ca3d-4340-a1c9-c605ed3580dd 188 PERHAPS WE'D BETTER GIVE UP AND GO HOME SUGGESTED DAN YOU CAN GO HOME IF YOU LIKE SAID THE STORY GIRL SCORNFULLY BUT I'M GOING TO GO SEE MISTER CAMPBELL I KNOW I CAN MANAGE HIM BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU 1f501168-574d-4f0a-af0a-f75de00e0c7d 188 OF COURSE SAID THE DELIGHTED STORY GIRL fc15fafa-953b-457c-a907-306e6f4c60ee 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 032153ed-3762-4df9-88b7-86d45aaddd59 2317 JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE ONE OF FARMER'S WEAKNESSES IN FACT WAS THAT THOUGH THOROUGHLY MASCULINE HIMSELF HE COMPLETELY DISTRUSTED WOMEN AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN 65122ec5-4406-49fa-b14f-c129c7c1e2a8 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 817fed93-6d5e-410c-a81f-70af5a191369 402 WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP WE SAW IT SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY OH OH OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT SHE WAILED d2ea3351-f1ae-4933-a2db-1b4965cd527c 14 IF SHE WERE ONLY MORE INTERESTING FELICITY HAD NOT A PARTICLE OF THE NAMELESS CHARM AND ALLUREMENT WHICH HUNG ABOUT EVERY MOTION OF THE STORY GIRL AND MADE ITSELF MANIFEST IN HER LIGHTEST WORD AND MOST CARELESS GLANCE ca4a27aa-e039-48b7-bb35-9d7320658c1e 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 e884b9ff-f563-4309-b086-15203b531d79 198 IN THE EAST ABOVE THE MAPLE WOODS WAS A SILVERY SHEEN THAT HINTED THE MOONRISE BUT THE ORCHARD WAS A PLACE OF SHADOWS AND MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS MIDWAY UP THE OPEN SPACE IN ITS HEART WE MET PETER AND IF EVER A BOY WAS GIVEN OVER TO SHEER TERROR THAT BOY WAS PETER ea3090b2-0e57-4f1c-b10e-cfa5be214350 30 BUT IT COULD GRIN IN FRIENDLY FASHION AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN bcc680eb-0b54-4bd3-9f59-981a529f1d48 2274 PRESENTLY A GREATER GLOOM CAME OVER THE JUNGLE BRINGING A SUDDEN STILLNESS TO THE WILD LIFE 59bc0709-4785-4d27-9f17-415ad3e619f9 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 5b51c3c4-9390-4e52-b7f4-4e08ad1cce1b 2368 KENUPH NEITHER APPLAUDED NOR LOOKED SURPRISED AS I HAVE SAID HE MURMURED THAT WHICH THE DEVIL CAN GRANT HE PAUSED AND LOOKED DOWN AT HIS HANDS AM I TO TAKE THIS AS A CONFESSION HE SAID 0a42724f-2652-4277-934e-8d172facdf13 30 WE FELT AT HOME WITH HIM AND WERE NOT AFRAID TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS ON ANY SUBJECT THAT CAME UPPERMOST IN OUR MINDS WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH HIM ON THAT TWENTY FOUR MILE DRIVE 04ef18bc-dfde-499f-b738-02d5b1b07f7a 2425 HAVE YOU EVER SAT SO CLOSE TO THE SCREEN IN A MOTION PICTURE THEATRE SO THAT THE GRAININESS OF THE MOVING FILM WAS VISIBLE THESE CREATURES WERE LIKE SUCH SHADOWS SEEN IN THREE DIMENSIONS I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET c28c4e66-cc3b-4371-b8b9-51cf62f023e0 464 FOR ONE THING THE WHOLE HOUSE MUST BE PUT IN APPLE PIE ORDER AND FOR ANOTHER AN ELABORATE SUPPER MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE EXPECTED RETURN OF THE TRAVELLERS THAT NIGHT FELICITY DEVOTED HER WHOLE ATTENTION TO THIS AND LEFT THE SECONDARY PREPARATION OF THE REGULAR MEALS TO CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL 1a2127e1-18fa-4220-87aa-4697d515be6e 451 NOW FELICITY FOR ONCE WAS UNDOUBTEDLY RIGHT THE STORY GIRL'S SUGGESTION WAS WRONG AND IF IT HAD BEEN CECILY WHO PROTESTED THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY HAVE LISTENED TO HER AND PROCEEDED NO FURTHER IN THE MATTER 919da380-f32d-48b7-a204-cc01c237b983 2312 LISTEN YOU SICK CARTER I'LL TAKE YOU AND YOU WILL NOT YOU WILL NOTICE THAT YOU ARE PARALYZED FROM NECK DOWN I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST 745d196d-befe-4f43-8879-d92934fb16de 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 10f4be6b-b55d-450a-b2e5-d326de974f05 402 NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR f6a533b0-0e20-4385-86d1-60d9125decc4 188 AUNT OLIVIA SPOILS YOU SAID FELICITY SHE DOESN'T EITHER FELICITY KING AUNT OLIVIA IS JUST SWEET SHE KISSES ME GOOD NIGHT EVERY NIGHT AND YOUR MOTHER NEVER KISSES YOU MY MOTHER DOESN'T MAKE KISSES SO COMMON RETORTED FELICITY BUT SHE GIVES US PIE FOR DINNER EVERY DAY e6907576-f615-4e60-9a3b-4384617cc9f6 242 SHE DREW HER ARROW TO HER EYE ALAS SHE KNEW THE ART ONLY TOO WELL AND TOOK CAREFUL AIM THE NEXT MOMENT A KATY FELL DEAD WITH HER ARROW IN HIS HEART 404cab7f-74d8-4fe0-b374-3c11f486e873 177 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 641096ed-223e-463e-85f8-2d3d2948f21f 2108 AND PERHAPS SHE IS STILL CRYING HER POOR LITTLE HEART OUT BECAUSE NO TIN MAN COMES TO MARRY HER SUGGESTED POLYCHROME a56d6aaf-4735-45e5-b4a3-ac1c61236a3f 2274 THERE APPEARED TO BE THE TIP OF A TAIL PROTRUDING FROM BEHIND ONE OF THE SQUAT LEGS BEHIND THE CREATURE TOWERED THE FAIRY SPIRES OF THE CITY THEY'D OBSERVED FROM THE AIR 131910b2-7684-4b04-b29b-661270af2317 2137 PICKING UP A CHART HE MURMURED SIX MONTHS MUCH TOO LONG STRANGE WE DIDN'T CATCH THAT AT THE TIME e4e99570-1afd-4375-b51d-a12e8121906c 177 PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS 96c09552-35cb-4d2e-a48c-0be1ec9b8eb5 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 cf74a2e1-11a8-440d-909b-a9ca68f04d49 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 a877c6da-3390-4fb6-8b3b-ae13f6026c89 402 WE DID INDEED PRAY MOST SINCERELY FOR PETER'S RECOVERY WE DID NOT AS IN THE CASE OF PADDY TACK IT ON AFTER MORE IMPORTANT THINGS BUT PUT IT IN THE VERY FOREFRONT OF OUR PETITIONS 97ded806-6ba2-4760-8342-510f52eec406 177 IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR e4cd15fe-5e63-4d35-b6b9-84fc464062bd 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 b7e4517d-2a12-4021-bc94-f71ea9c93f69 1867 THE ROBOT ANALYZER CHUCKLED TO ITSELF AND SCANNED ALL THE STARS COMPARING THEM TO A SPECTRA OF PROXIMUS AND CHEERY IT FINALLY RANG A BELL AND BLINKED A LIGHT I PEEPED THROUGH THE EYE PIECE 25d9ae63-51d3-4e6d-ad97-0be149f48008 2108 COULDN'T THE WIZARD GIVE YOU A HEART THAT WAS BOTH KIND AND LOVING ASKED THE BOY 756df44f-28f4-48a6-8702-f72b48454599 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 86066cf4-4812-4ca0-a206-aac6b575c173 2137 AFTER FOUR YEARS I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE STORE OF PHOTOPHLASH FLARES HE WATCHED FOR A WHILE BUT SAW NO MORE FLARES FINALLY HE SCRAMBLED DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAVA SHEET AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE WRECK MOVING SLOWLY BUT STEADILY d738304a-75b4-4d0b-a64e-317a05ddfe67 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 47d247b9-4b63-4379-abad-e150bbdc35e5 748 OVER IN THE EAST ABOVE THE AWKWARD MAN'S HOUSE THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS FLOATED ACROSS THE SKY PRESENTLY TURNING AS ROSY AS IF IT WAS BEDEWED WITH HER HEART'S BLOOD 1e5bb0a8-e6f0-46fd-99f4-36704b20960e 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 73147ff8-afdc-4b9d-b5b0-0660644a3a5c 2108 THE NEXT DAY AS I WAS CUTTING WOOD IN THE FOREST THE CRUEL WITCH ENCHANTED MY AXE SO THAT IT SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY RIGHT LEG HOW DREADFUL CRIED WOOT THE WANDERER 1a083be1-846b-47b4-9f79-b0ea31ea2e2e 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 2372dd13-f306-4e45-b13c-58c19285c18c 32 WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST fe3188ca-0c31-404b-8294-dcc1c561db73 2425 THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES fbf2c6ae-4e36-4270-accd-d033674a4f9c 2425 THEN GET ME AN AXE I COMMANDED QUICK AN AXE HESITATED PARON AN AXE AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT 580b0c76-0f5d-44ee-a71f-4efb4e309f1e 188 WE GASPED WAS THE STORY GIRL CRAZY OR HAD SHE FORGOTTEN THAT BETTY SHERMAN WAS MISTER CAMPBELL'S OWN GREAT GRANDMOTHER AND THAT HER METHOD OF WINNING A HUSBAND WAS NOT EXACTLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH MAIDENLY TRADITIONS BUT MISTER CAMPBELL CHUCKLED AGAIN 3cc988b7-3311-4282-ba46-6058b1f2c2e1 413 CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS 50320f56-f089-45d1-b431-e2dad51b33ee 188 WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING WE DEMANDED THE TALE INSTANTLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD IT TO US AS SHE PEELED HER POTATOES 263b6cee-8181-46e7-ba07-11da1c78ad8f 177 YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL TELLS IT NOW OH IT ISN'T THE RIGHT KIND OF STORY TO TELL ON SUNDAY SHE REPLIED BUT I'LL TELL IT TOMORROW MORNING ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD 8e984a9c-0179-4e24-9b3b-3be375e4fb59 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 c4234c38-f0d0-48af-9f32-680ea26893f6 103 RIGHT BEFORE US GIRT ABOUT WITH ITS TRIM SPRUCE HEDGE WAS THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD THE HISTORY OF WHICH WAS WOVEN INTO OUR EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS WE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT FROM FATHER'S DESCRIPTIONS AND IN FANCY WE HAD ROAMED IN IT MANY A TIME AND OFT IT WAS NOW NEARLY SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT HAD HAD ITS BEGINNING WHEN GRANDFATHER KING BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME 9cf9bdd2-c81c-4234-8505-890cee11754f 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 b704e9e2-600f-48ce-b04a-0a6cb350c325 451 I THINK I'LL WRAP IT UP AND KEEP IT IN MY BOX HE SAID I'VE AN OLD BIBLE OF AUNT JANE'S AT HOME THAT I CAN USE I SUPPOSE IT'S JUST THE SAME EVEN IF IT'S OLD ISN'T IT OH YES CECILY HAD ASSURED HIM THE BIBLE IS ALWAYS THE SAME 29b64508-c4db-4d45-bef4-24f19236409b 188 SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE 47f3bfe9-06d7-48f3-9608-3ff5210e7727 14 WELL I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY SHE'S DEAD SAID PETER REBUKINGLY DO PEOPLE GO ON BEING JUST THE SAME AFTER THEY'RE DEAD NO OF COURSE NOT THEY'RE ANGELS THEN NOT METHODISTS OR ANYTHING BUT JUST ANGELS THAT IS IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN 33d944a6-295d-4b25-910b-647d66384fc0 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 adc380eb-09d1-44dc-9c45-12d3fae52829 2108 YOU TWO MISS A GREAT DEAL BY NOT EATING HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS IT IS TRUE RESPONDED THE SCARECROW WE MISS SUFFERING FROM HUNGER WHEN FOOD CANNOT BE HAD AND WE MISS A STOMACH ACHE NOW AND THEN 4d041b3b-0bc8-4363-9e91-5112ded911dc 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 51baf161-408f-4211-a33a-801ec3637ffb 32 DON'T YOU REMEMBER OLD MISS BAXTER IN TORONTO BETH AND HOW SHE TOLD MISSUS MC LAREN THAT SHE WAS SUBJECT TO TERRIBLE DREAMS AND FINALLY SHE TOOK TWO LIVER PILLS AND NEVER HAD ANY MORE DREAMS AFTER THAT I'D RATHER HAVE DIED THAN RISK IT CONCLUDED FELIX SOLEMNLY f2eaa64d-9b94-4f93-bfaa-7c240ccccd88 2274 ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST ORNE CLEARED HIS THROAT WON OUT ASKED STETSON NO 7577bb01-8995-4444-80a0-80ffc6b09b5d 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 b52d2930-8642-44be-a4e4-e81f670581d1 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 ff906f54-7a89-4832-9c3c-b4b265886a41 32 THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST 3d8a9203-ad8b-44e7-af5d-c3bbd8825a9c 2182 CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT I CAN LEARN HE SAID 64814665-6691-4abc-9613-bfea7c3aabb7 2317 THE GIRL HE THOUGHT WAS SOMEHOW RADIANT REALLY LOVELY IN SPITE OF HER SCALES AND FINS HE WAS PECULIAR HE HAD NEVER LIKED WOMEN AT ALL AND HAD CERTAINLY NEVER THOUGHT HE'D LIKE A MERMAID BUT bbb2f38b-9bba-453e-bfe8-a087f2234d4d 2182 THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP 0aa3ede1-eedb-44cb-a3dd-5e8d874eaa54 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 2ff686bb-6d0d-492b-b028-b05eca183398 2317 GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL 83db07f9-4fc2-4586-a887-179cd1ebb251 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 ccd743a6-ea1a-4d58-af67-2b981e73adaa 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 93279ae9-9774-45ed-a50d-99265024c102 2317 LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE 974c959d-279a-439d-a71d-ab802bc82f79 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 d704f9cc-d97f-4473-9be1-d88cbfd8c951 2137 TOWERS FROWNED WHAT INNER USE STRAIGHT ROCKET POWER WELL SIR NEVER MIND NOW YOU MAY HAVE ENCOUNTERED OXYGEN OR HYDROGEN RICH ATMOSPHERE MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES TRY AN AIR START ON STRAIGHT ROCKET I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON REPEAT I WANT THAT SHIP BACK 874d574f-db23-45e3-aece-3a240e382637 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 a7493ee1-5e1c-4a69-86f0-a5af43ae750f 2274 IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT THE BRIDGES WOVE BACK AND FORTH FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING UNTIL THE ENTIRE VISIBLE NETWORK APPEARED TO BE ONE GIGANTIC DEW GLITTERING WEB cab029e6-ae07-48a4-bf7d-d0d516aec78c 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 29c942b6-cf55-4a97-8436-edadd4687796 2317 HE BROKE OFF APPARENTLY HE INTERPRETED THE LOOKS OF CONSTERNATION ON THE FACES OF HIS AUDIENCE CORRECTLY FOR HIS SMILE BECAME MORE FRIENDLY AND HE CONTINUED IN A CASUAL TONE 23e9f757-7343-47d1-b2e3-757e3a488b9c 464 IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF SAUCE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DRY EATING INDEED ed089338-0be3-4215-b037-73f5ba44073b 2425 BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO JUST BEFORE YOU ARRIVED SIR SHE BECAME NERVOUS LIKE AND RAPPED ON THE DOOR THERE WASN'T A SOUND SO SHE WENT UP TO THE MASTER'S ROOM AND FOUND A KEY AND WENT IN AND NOW SHE DON'T ANSWER AND WE WERE JUST ABOUT READY TO CALL THE POLICE 6e7cd282-b3ef-48bb-9031-3537521b23a8 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 91f77ecc-1824-468e-8105-597c752287cf 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 5cc0f914-1d21-484e-ab63-825c308cde82 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 b7ea8ae2-8b46-4afc-abb3-2327c7b3a5f5 2312 THIS WAS CALLED SODOM IT WAS STREWN WITH LOW LYING GHOSTS AS OF PEOPLE AND OBJECTS FORMED WHEN THE GRANITE BUBBLED LIKE WATER 7f4e45a9-c48f-4bc8-882d-dcf5b3157456 2312 COUNT EVERYONE ALL RIGHT FILL IN EVERY ONE I NEED MORE PAPERS WHAT HE HELD UP WAS THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF SAND MARSHALL COULD NOT SEE IT IN DETAIL befe89ff-c55d-420b-ad8e-766bcfb3b267 2108 STRANGELY ENOUGH IT WAS NOT DARK IN THIS IMMENSE NATURAL CHAMBER IN THE WOODLAND FOR THE PLACE GLOWED WITH THE SOFT WHITE LIGHT THAT SEEMED TO COME FROM SOME UNSEEN SOURCE bd469d97-e89e-4d90-b02c-39ae9cdce4d0 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 377c684d-b52d-48de-b500-dab051c7cb46 242 OH BUT UNCLE ALEC IT WAS THIS WAY BEGAN FELIX EAGERLY PETER NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT SAID UNCLE ALEC STERNLY I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT BUT YOU MUST SETTLE YOUR QUARREL IN A DIFFERENT FASHION REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX 290e341f-ccd8-487a-8ee9-d4257b51f7d9 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 ecdf3e83-e99c-4c42-b4ae-a8c3957723ef 103 WHO LIVES OVER THERE I ASKED POINTING TO A HOUSE ACROSS THE FIELDS OH THAT BELONGS TO THE AWKWARD MAN HIS NAME IS JASPER DALE BUT EVERYBODY CALLS HIM THE AWKWARD MAN AND THEY DO SAY HE WRITES POETRY 5bfe8f99-efd7-440c-8b93-64d510e1c4d1 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 b82d5529-75e4-411b-a9cd-4831a658c1b8 103 FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM WHAT'S THE MATTER HE MURMURED RELUCTANTLY IT'S MORNING LET'S GET UP AND GO DOWN AND OUT I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE TO SEE THE PLACE HIS FATHER TOLD US OF WE SLIPPED OUT OF BED AND DRESSED WITHOUT AROUSING DAN WHO WAS STILL SLUMBERING SOUNDLY HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND HIS BEDCLOTHES KICKED OFF ON THE FLOOR bbbd095d-d0f0-4613-bc23-8492e962e9c9 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 ebfa5ffb-4d66-4fdd-957a-7bae503943f2 188 WHEN WE GOT AWAY WE COMPARED NOTES AND FOUND THAT WE ALL LIKED HIM AND THIS ALTHOUGH HE HAD SAID LITTLE AND HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT GLAD TO GET RID OF US HE GAVE US THE MONEY LIKE A GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL I FELT HE DIDN'T GRUDGE IT AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK b198d160-1f67-4f6e-a1f9-26581d538db4 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 d5eb9de1-e495-445d-85d2-70252354a876 2274 ORN HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND PALM OUT HE HAD A SECOND THOUGHT HELD UP HIS LEFT HAND TOO UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF PEACEFUL INTENTIONS EMPTY HANDS THE GUN MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY f37dca13-b666-4aab-ab09-927f34f96e69 464 NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE 5916384b-3a4a-4014-a462-e3a943a1ab77 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 a6a60149-7bc4-409c-ac0f-6a1dc803cbb1 2274 WE YOU THOSE ARE TALL BUILDINGS TOO WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE FORM AND UNLESS YOU BRING THEM INTO THE FOLD THERE'LL BE NOTHING BUT ASHES FOR OUR ARCHAEOLOGIST TO PICK OVER ce33c8b5-3b55-4055-990f-ba1040e857b1 2108 THAT REPLIED THE TIN MAN IS A LONG STORY THE LONGER THE BETTER SAID THE BOY WON'T YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE STORY f3a2cf3e-b35b-4e2d-a466-395f95080b32 2182 OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY UNFORTUNATELY WE TRUSTED OUR STAR MANUAL STATEMENT THAT THE PLANET IS UNPOPULATED THE TERRANS DREW TOGETHER AGAIN 8618d250-6724-4c1c-8d64-ebd02b3a597a 32 SHE GOT PALER AND PALER EVERY DAY BUT THE PINK BUTTERFLY GREW REDDER UNTIL IT LOOKED JUST LIKE A STAIN OF BLOOD ON HER WHITE CHEEK WHEN THE WINTER CAME SHE DIED 6977139d-0667-4a5b-af20-67930d7f4ed3 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 3be30bde-ed0f-4582-a300-c6602697fc89 2286 WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED THE WAR LORD CLASS BATTLESHIP THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AT THE CENT ORANTOLA SPACE YARDS DISGUISED BEHIND THESE BLUE PRINTS I THREW THEM ACROSS THE DESK TO HIM AND POINTED TO ONE CORNER THOSE YOUR INITIALS THERE AUTHORIZING CONSTRUCTION fe2746b6-b7c4-4274-9270-9a2e408f752e 2286 NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING I SNAPPED INTO THE MIKE WORKING AWAY THE WORRIED BILLIONAIRE EXPRESSION FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE 3a6f7152-3e3a-4383-8fc1-026ad5d95b48 2182 THEY FELL SLACK HOWEVER WHEN THE QUEEN REACHED HIS CHANNEL AND FLAPPED LAZILY REVERSING TO CATCH THE WIND AND NOSE HER CAUTIOUSLY INTO THE SHALLOWS JEFF DISMISSED IT IMPATIENTLY A CHANGE OF WIND OR SOME CRAFTY MANEUVRE OF OLD CHARLEY MAX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT 958c8e56-a5d3-456d-9cee-35dd64990aa8 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 9e2c64c6-7e8c-49e6-94ed-4a30ca8a4136 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 bd2a53d5-c908-4260-b4ee-f7e9bb13d104 1867 PLANET TOO WHERE THE BEACON WAS SITUATED ACCORDING TO THE OLD CHARTS WAS A MUSHY LOOKING WET KIND OF GLOBE I TRIED TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THE ANCIENT DIRECTIONS AND FINALLY LOCATED THE RIGHT AREA 95f0533c-a36c-48e9-ab6e-3c3eec47f14a 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 716ab73f-20e0-4830-91ea-892351207b2a 188 SHE SAYS SHE NEVER SAW A ROOM LIKE IT IN A COUNTRY FARMHOUSE IT WAS LIKE A BEDROOM AND A SITTING ROOM COMBINED THE FLOOR WAS COVERED WITH A CARPET LIKE GREEN VELVET THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS 37ba0817-8170-46d0-b38c-2080be53f136 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 f248111c-5ee0-446c-9bd5-95feaba43476 464 NEVER MIND PETER SAID CECILY YOU KNOW LOTS OF THINGS THEY DON'T BUT PETER WAS NOT TO BE CONCILIATED AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF IN HIGH DUDGEON TO BE LAUGHED AT BEFORE FELICITY TO BE LAUGHED AT BY FELICITY WAS SOMETHING HE COULD NOT ENDURE 093af37e-f4c9-4d04-ae58-7741156e04df 2108 I AM KNOWN AS WOOT THE WANDERER ANSWERED THE BOY AND I HAVE COME THROUGH MANY TRAVELS AND BY ROUNDABOUT WAYS FROM MY FORMER HOME IN A FAR CORNER OF THE GALLOPIN COUNTRY OF OZ 723e0bae-8f46-4e36-af99-672b06a14dd0 188 ONE DAY THE STORY GIRL HAD AN INSPIRATION LET'S GO AND ASK THE AWKWARD MAN AND MISTER CAMPBELL FOR A CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND SHE SAID I AM SURE NO ONE ELSE HAS ASKED THEM BECAUSE NOBODY IN CARLISLE IS RELATED TO HIM LET US ALL GO AND IF THEY GIVE US ANYTHING WE'LL DIVIDE IT EQUALLY AMONG US 5e2a9615-a020-4d15-bc26-7e9bd7d1a922 30 THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP WONDERING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US 728db388-3ca9-42dd-84a4-d003e4c5acb8 2368 THEIR MINDS WERE VERY VERY BORING AND QUITE BLANK HYRCUFF YUNUS REFLECTED MIGHT BE A DEFINITE RELIEF FIRST THERE WAS THE CELL WHICH WAS IN THE BASIN OF THE TOWN HALL IT WAS DAMP AND THE AIR WAS NOT TOO GOOD BUT THERE WERE COMPENSATIONS RATS FOR INSTANCE c26a06af-6452-4e5b-bc7a-4b5ad9d6f56f 2274 GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE ORAN SWALLOWED 2f89e083-95d6-401d-b3d8-b45bc325da53 2182 HOMESIDE HADN'T BEEN BLUFFING HE THOUGHT ASSUMING AS A MATTER OF COURSE THAT THIS WAS THE TASK FOR SATTERFIELD HAD BEEN ORDERED TO SEND THEY DIDN'T WASTE ANY TIME JEFF GROWLED DAMN THEM 377befaf-c1a9-4a5d-85f2-9141ec906630 2425 THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY 301b7390-cdd6-471a-b759-e5672bf4b2cc 2137 THE THIRD MILE BROUGHT HIM TO THE SCENE OF THE CRASH A SMOKING CYLINDER OF FUSED METAL LAY IN A GULLY PARTS WERE STREWN ALONG THE BOTTOM A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY HE SAT DOWN 094ba010-96fa-41eb-adc4-e1515af9b025 30 DAN SHARED IT WITH US SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER THE SHEETS AND PILLOW SLIPS WERE FRAGRANT WITH LAVENDER AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US 1fda9c6c-a55e-4ddf-9b37-3b46b9251bc6 451 A DAUGHTER OF EVE I HATE THE THOUGHT OF GROWING UP SAID THE STORY GIRL REFLECTIVELY BECAUSE I CAN NEVER GO BAREFOOTED THEN AND NOBODY WILL EVER SEE WHAT BEAUTIFUL FEET I HAVE 056a5ddb-685b-48f3-9255-67a313dc2b55 464 UNCLE ROGER HOBBLED OFF TO THE BARN STILL HOLDING ON TO HIS STOMACH DO YOU THINK HE REALLY FEELS SICK ASKED THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY NO I DON'T SAID FELICITY YOU NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT HIM THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH HIM I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WERE ANY NEEDLES IN THAT SAWDUST 67d64ae6-f712-40a7-8f17-54c5025e687c 2286 CARS GUNS I BELLOWED TO THE SPACE YARD IF THAT SHIP IS ANYWHERE NEAR COMPLETION WE ARE IN BIG BIG TROUBLE 0e1fdaf1-3e23-40f1-a1e4-b522703df629 2137 HE GOT OUT ALL RIGHT THE COLONEL SAID WE'RE JUST STARTING TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD WE ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THE SEARCH ARE WE SIR ASKED THE RADIO MAN f6529ba3-46f6-4585-b46b-d11c585ecba2 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 a074cb4c-f5f1-4e78-bf00-a015c866e6ed 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 ae08f87f-e810-4d49-9324-1427390f5c69 32 GIVE HER A GOOD DOSE OF MEXICAN TEA AND TRY THAT FIRST SAID AUNT JANET I'VE SAVED MANY A DOCTOR'S BILL IN MY FAMILY BY USING MEXICAN TEA 0b23dee9-8ebe-4234-9eb4-2c6de9f45fbe 413 WELL I BELIEVE IT WOULD PUZZLE HIM SAID CECILY OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF HER EXPERIENCE WITH FELICITY PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE 14c016b5-a356-4edf-894b-765f59bac8c4 188 I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF THAT YARN SAID DAN TRYING TO SPEAK WITH HIS USUAL INCREDULITY I DON'T SEE YOU YOU CAN HELP BELIEVING IT SAID CECILY IT ISN'T AS IF IT'S SOMETHING WE'D READ OF OR THAT HAPPENED FAR AWAY IT HAPPENED JUST DOWN AT MARKDALE AND I'VE SEEN THAT VERY SPRUCE WOOD MYSELF 4cf6e6a8-92fc-4d47-ac03-b0fa02e758cd 2137 HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR 9315573d-392b-4bd2-b665-37156ad4dbb3 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 b0ac1df7-865c-407a-a3c5-65355b937d4e 30 JUST THINK THOSE ARE THE VERY FROGS FATHER LISTENED TO WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY WHISPERED FELIX ff46078b-4827-4df2-96d3-76cf8a8f3f9b 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 0041b997-6090-4fa2-9f4e-63702960c780 188 OH SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE WHEN UNCLE ROGER HAD PASSED BY UNCLE ROGER SWORE OH NO HE DIDN'T SAID THE STORY GIRL QUICKLY DEVILTREE ISN'T SWEARING AT ALL IT ONLY MEANS EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF WELL IT'S NOT A VERY NICE WORD ANYHOW SAID FELICITY 6bdf7d1a-44f1-43e3-a0fc-153f5e8b74d5 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 37994f96-f023-41a6-bd03-2535f595cbff 32 OH I NEVER LIKE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL EXCEPT WHEN I'M HUNGRY THEN I DO LIKE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE NICE LITTLE ROWS OF ONIONS AND BEETS BUT I LOVE A FLOWER GARDEN I THINK I COULD BE ALWAYS GOOD IF I LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME b6164000-5e83-4a4f-b0c4-919f9ce843e6 413 DAN HAD NO PATIENCE WITH EITHER OF THE GIRLS ESPECIALLY FELICITY OR THEY BOTH WANT IS A RIGHT GOOD SPANKING HE SAID a216c1be-3226-4b97-a722-a3d19c91b93d 14 BUT FELICITY'S THEOLOGY BROKE DOWN AT THIS POINT SHE TURNED HER BACK ON PETER AND WALKED DISDAINFULLY AWAY THE STORY GIRL RETURNED TO THE MAIN POINT WITH A NEW ARGUMENT e5704ed9-665b-45f8-a831-7082ebd941df 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 39eb4d50-293e-40eb-a6eb-36c4978ff518 464 WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE IT LOOKED JUST LIKE CORNMEAL SAID THE STORY GIRL GOING FROM WHITE TO RED IN HER SHAME WELL I'M GOING TO GIVE UP TRYING TO COOK AND STICK TO THINGS I CAN DO c6203a02-75d6-4a9a-adb8-d1b8f58d92c7 14 EVEN FELICITY LAUGHED FELICITY WAS NOT NEARLY SO ANGRY WITH PETER AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED SHE EVEN WALKED BESIDE HIM AND LET HIM CARRY HER BIBLE THEY TALKED QUITE CONFIDENTIALLY bbe82cea-105d-424a-8484-dd793d98a108 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 fbc04ee6-9572-4316-992d-4e61def7b879 2286 I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED fa2d36f1-42a7-42f4-9e66-e0566a69fe9a 413 BUT TO WHOM COULD WE APPEAL UNCLE ALEC WAS AWAY AND WOULD NOT BE BACK UNTIL LATE THAT NIGHT NEITHER AUNT JANET NOR UNCLE ROGER WERE PEOPLE TO WHOM WE CARED TO APPLY IN SUCH A CRISIS WE WERE AFRAID OF THE JUDGMENT DAY BUT WE WERE ALMOST EQUALLY AFRAID OF BEING LAUGHED AT e3edabe9-028a-4b8b-97c7-cc180b2f7c30 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 9cf5444c-5c91-494a-b670-437bb8fe9c97 748 IT MUST BE SPLENDID TO GO TO EUROPE SIGHED CECILY LONGINGLY I AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY 0de5306c-4555-4354-bd56-2be03207bcfb 402 THERE HE IS NOW CRIED DAN WAVING EXCITEDLY FROM THE WINDOW HE'S CARRYING A FISH BASKET SAID FELICITY YOU SURELY DON'T SUPPOSE HE WOULD BRING THAT PICTURE IN A FISH BASKET 03caa85c-bdce-459e-b6ac-537d9ba1d376 14 AND THEN CELIA GAVE IN AND TOOK HIM BECAUSE SHE SAW THERE WASN'T NO HOPE OF HIM EVER GIVING IN I JUST REMEMBERED THAT STORY AND I THOUGHT I COULD SEE HIM TAKING UP THE SENSE SO SOLEMN WITH ONE LONG WHISKER AND THE LAUGH JUST LAUGHED ITSELF BEFORE I COULD HELP IT d369c290-3970-4124-8e9f-32d69da0b72a 242 YOU MIGHT SETTLE IT BY DRAWING LOTS SAID CECILY DESPERATELY DRAWING LOTS IS WICKEDER THAN FIGHTING SAID DAN IT'S KIND OF GAMBLING a1dfe77a-fa70-4207-9ea6-35e8957ee00c 2274 ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC THE LIPLESS MOUTH HAD LOOKED SO ODD FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS 1618e5e1-a2ec-4d64-9f95-1a7242760e8d 2286 BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS 7fd06f16-fcf8-4d3a-ae34-807ffb8f2c2c 2425 MY THEORY IS THAT THESE PEOPLE LIVE IN A DREARY WORLD IN WHICH THERE IS NO PLEASURE THEIR FACES SEEM TO SHOW THAT APPARENTLY THEY LIVE A VERY LONG TIME AND HAVE NO MEANS OF SHORTENING THAT LIFE cd6862ef-6261-4358-9074-4f4b62318c82 451 BUT FELICITY HAD DONE HER WORK TOO THOROUGHLY THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT TO BE COMFORTED SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA 3d021bee-605b-4290-a436-f33db3f0761d 748 WE WENT PROMPTLY A LETTER FROM THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER WAS ALWAYS AN EVENT AND TO HEAR HER READ IT WAS ALMOST AS GOOD AS HEARING HER TELL A STORY b65c187d-b1b5-4613-931d-5381bd2027e7 2312 IT WAS THE SAME NIGHT VERY LATE AND AFTER HE HAD BEEN ASLEEP THAT MARSHALL WAS AWAKENED BY THE RING OF AN AUTHORITATIVE VOICE HE WAS BEING HARANGUED BY A FOUR INCH TALL MAN ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE A MAN OF DOMINATING PRESENCE AND ACID VOICE 25fb57e5-1eb4-4362-9e3f-c5ec6a5d1491 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 d4577f08-84f8-4a62-96d7-229e0f3e196b 198 DO YOU SEE WHAT IT MEANS NOW YEAH I GUESS SO SAID CECILY SOMEWHAT DOUBTFULLY LATER ON WE HEARD HER IMPARTING HER NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FELICITY IN THE PANTRY 170ac18b-307a-48d8-9051-c34baa357181 451 ANY ONE WHO LIVES WITH YOU FELICITY KING WILL ALWAYS BE WISHING HE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE SAID DAN I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU DAN KING RETORTED FELICITY SPEAK WHEN YOU'RE SPOKEN TO COME WHEN YOU'RE CALLED 713d3e7b-ce15-4bcc-acca-3467c3093c8b 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 19b00544-0ec5-46d0-a805-31a68af18df8 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 11bff163-bf20-4a17-bc1e-7bce64675610 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 42221783-4919-4cba-a8c1-93e97b7db14a 188 SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US SHE COULD DO NOTHING SHE HAD NO RELATIVES IN CARLISLE EXCEPT HER MOTHER AND HER MOTHER DID NOT APPROVE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY PROJECT ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE d01bae72-99c3-4fea-87c9-160a6fc5ac9e 2182 THE DISCOVERY RELIEVED THEM GREATLY FOR THE REASON THAT NO SERIMIAN EVEN TO SAVE HIS OWN FEATHERED SKIN WOULD HAVE SET DOWN SUCH A MONSTER AS THE ZID AMONG RATIONAL BUT VULNERABLE ENTITIES 1920f686-1e3b-4bc5-b933-bd92a98b8bfd 14 EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT THE STORY GIRL TURNED WHITE AND CECILID AS FOR THAT POOR UNLUCKY PETER THE SHAME OF HIS COUNTENANCE WAS PITIFUL TO BEHOLD 3e8a4d74-c7a9-4403-98cb-a9c78adee329 242 WHAT WOULD AUNT JANE SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT CECILY DEMANDED OF PETER DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN PERSISTED CECILY 042a7ae2-2ae4-4e2c-a181-81fc6c09af75 413 OH I WISH FATHER WAS HERE HE WILL BE SAID CECILY IF IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND IT WILL BE FOR EUROPE TOO I WISH WE COULD JUST KNOW WHETHER WHAT THE PAPER SAYS IS TRUE OR NOT SAID FELIX DESPERATELY IT SEEMS TO ME I COULD BRACE UP IF I JUST KNEW 0fb3a311-f45c-46f7-8107-a7a9d4dbc982 2274 INTO HIS EARS CAME STETSON'S VOICE BETTER ADMIT IT THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN I LIKE YOURN SAID TO NEWBE YOU SHALL BE ONE OF MY SLAVES YOU WILL TEACH ME MANY THINGS 3ab7cc1c-750c-4181-807f-f1532980f92f 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 78ff1d23-2fa4-4966-9097-7e73f1b06422 2137 AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE OH NO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO DANGER INVOLVED NONE AT ALL WE HAVE TISSUE REGENERATION PRETTY WELL UNDER CONTROL NOW SO I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ACCURATE RECORDS IN DATA ARE VERY NECESSARY FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND PROGRESS 981a3c19-8d1f-4cd5-9a95-73428d0618b6 103 AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS SHE IS A SPLENDID COOK TOO THOUGH SHE IS ONLY TWELVE I CAN'T COOK I AM TRYING TO LEARN BUT I DON'T MAKE MUCH PROGRESS AND OLIVIA SAYS I HAVEN'T ENOUGH NATURAL GUMPTION EVER TO BE A COOK BUT I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE AS GOOD CAKES AND PIES AS FELICITY CAN MAKE 56acb5b9-f27d-44bd-b27a-d223701f668c 2182 DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US SHE FELL QUIET REMEMBERING THE ZID AND HE MADE HIS CALL IT WAS MORE THAN VAST THE THING MUST WEIGH JEFF THOUGHT DIZZILY THOUSANDS OR MAYBE MILLIONS OF TONS 7c84403d-04ad-4e5b-b553-561ecd23d2db 1867 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM I COULD HAVE HAD A LIZARD FRY FIXED THE BEACON AND TAKEN OFF ONLY NATIVE LIFE FORMS WERE QUITE WELL PROTECTED THERE WERE SPYSAILS ON MY SHIP ALL OF WHICH I HADN'T FOUND THAT WOULD CHEERFULLY RAT ON ME WHEN I GOT BACK dc1e23d2-2efd-4805-838a-d51e572429fa 413 I LONG FOR THE REMEMBRANCE NOW UNTIL I RECALL THE REAL HORROR OF FEAR THAT ENWRAPPED US IN THAT SUNNY ORCHARD THAT AUGUST MORNING OF LONG AGO AND THEN I LAUGHED NO MORE f9d2fcda-5a7e-42e9-89d1-ec3b58261ed6 2108 WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE LEG ANYHOW YOU KNEW IT WAS A PRIVATE PROPERTY I SUPPOSE SAID SHE BUTTERING ANOTHER BISCUIT 64f5dc6f-60af-4b77-a225-407f51d5e7aa 402 FIFTY CENTS WOULD BE PRETTY DEAR FOR ANY OTHER PICTURE BUT OF COURSE THIS IS DIFFERENT SAID DAN AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF EDEN THROWN IN TWO YOU KNOW ADDED FELICITY FANCY SELLING GOD'S PICTURE SAID CECILY IN A SHOCKED AWED TONE NOBODY BUT A COUN WOULD DO IT AND THAT'S A FACT SAID DAN 2abc8335-5b91-4df0-a294-8ccc0b58dfc1 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 5f896a48-793a-4257-8b06-020c0409f2cf 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 f63b037b-88fd-4b9f-863c-fef56ad44672 2312 SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL HE CALLED MULA FROM THE THORN PATCH WHERE SHE WAS GRAZING GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN 95abb78a-f607-4211-a1a6-2b6f61cee41e 748 IT WAS A LOVELY GOLDEN BROWN EVENING THE ORCHARD AND THE FARM LANDS BEYOND WERE FULL OF RUBY LIGHTS AND KISSING SHADOWS 48da682f-16ee-49fe-9eb5-b077322cb1eb 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 c75e10f0-cdd4-4311-84e6-69cac7150165 198 THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK IT ISN'T ANY USE FOR ME TO TRY TO LEARN TO COOK SAID SHE NEVER MIND I SAID CONSOLINGLY YOU CAN TELL SPLENDID STORIES df183417-2dff-49e1-9ab8-5d23ea5d31c0 32 BUT IF A DREAM ESCAPES YOU IN WHAT MARKET PLACE THE WORLD WIDE OVER CAN YOU HOPE TO REGAIN IT WHAT COIN OF EARTHLY MINTING WILL EVER BUY BACK FOR YOU THAT LOST AND LOVELY VISION 53435076-fb6d-4f32-89e8-c479c8e110c2 2368 THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHARP SAID BITTERLY THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES 59461ccc-5a05-4ed4-9b47-65e1cd3b11a0 2108 BRUTE SHIVERED FOR AGAIN THIS TERRIBLE MAGIC FINGER POINTED AND POINTED DIRECTLY HIS WAY 7f722f51-a98e-402d-8b72-c8f8ec98d6f9 2182 WHEN PEOPLE BACKSLIDE THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT'S ON THEIR MINDS AND WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE NEGOTIATING OR CONVINCING THEM ef9c7d78-f644-43d9-ac76-4bd848bb1ac5 2312 CENSUS LIST NAMES OF EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGDALENA I HAD TO STEAL IT IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL FILM THE WRITING IS SO SMALL AND THE ROLL GOES ON AND ON THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE 565fb6dc-5ad2-4fcb-99ef-97f68a728382 2368 A MAN LIKE YOURSELF A MAN WITH A PARTICULAR CAT TALENT GIVEN BY GOD THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT IT IS A TRICK KNUFF SAID YUNUS SHOOK HIS HEAD NOT AT ALL I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY fe7a4507-3019-4df0-b2a8-519cda0ac417 2425 PARON MISTER BUTLER AND MISS HOPE ARE SAFE EVERYTHING'S EXPLAINED IN THIS NOTE YOU AND MISSUS PARIN ARE TO LEAVE ME HERE AND NOT DISTURB ANYTHING DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME ea2e47f9-f557-4570-ab57-f3f1eeaecf0a 402 WHEN YOU GOT THERE YOU HAD NO WAY OF SENDING WORD HOME AGAIN EXCEPT BY THE SAME PLAN IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE 343603b0-29e4-4f43-a678-204ee80ef439 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 66dae34e-c8e6-410c-9c14-c8639c0fd23c 242 FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN 70181bf8-65c2-47cd-b24a-fb104268c021 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 c9daf5c3-7fd2-4cbe-bd62-09a2018c5fa3 748 HE COULD WRITE LETTERS SUCH LETTERS BY CONTRAST FELIX AND I WERE SECRETLY ASHAMED OF FATHER'S EPISTLES 9c0249f0-b51b-4988-8444-70963bf5cf23 30 FELICITY HAD ALSO DELIGHTFUL HANDS AND WRISTS AT EVERY TURN OF THEM A DIMPLE SHOWED ITSELF IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE 7e62b77f-cbb4-4234-9309-abd4ab5eeb3e 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 7a5e9697-590c-44f6-91ca-fffdc1f050cf 1867 WHEN I LIFTED THE PLATE AND POKED HOLES IN THE SEARED PLASTIC I COULD SEE THE PYRAMID GROWING SMALLER BEHIND ME WATER GUSHING OUT OF THE BASE AND A HAPPY CROWD OF REPTILES SPORTING IN ITS RADIOACTIVE RUSH I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING d4f62d96-0850-48d5-bb58-dd1d5965886c 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 914e7557-f599-4c14-aec7-95d3ba9113aa 32 BUT FELIX FLATLY REFUSED TO TAKE LIVER PILLS MEXICAN TEA HE WOULD DRINK BUT LIVER PILLS HE WOULD NOT TAKE IN SPITE OF HIS OWN SUFFERING AND AUNT JANET'S COMMANDS AND ENTREATIES c38258d9-429d-47c4-adf5-4483c388a42d 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 b0078491-b0b9-40af-a957-1e5457713376 748 IT WAS TO MAKE FELICITY AS CLEVER AS THE STORY GIRL AND IT WAS TO MAKE THE STORY GIRL AS GOOD A COOK AS FELICITY WHAT PETER HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED FOR REMAINED A SECRET LONGER THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS e11f889f-867d-430c-9733-9a1caf2914d4 2286 I GRABBED UP THE MONITOR RECEIVER AND RAN TOWARDS THE AIRLOCK THIS IS A DIFFERENT BOMB NOW I SAID KEEPING ONE EYE ON THE SCREEN AND THE OTHER ON THE SLOWLY OPENING OUTER DOOR THIS ONE HAS RECEPTORS ON THE HULL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ANY PART OF THE SHIP OR EVEN GAIN ENTRY TO IT AND THIS ONE WILL DETONATE 81aee4a3-5efa-4ef6-a96c-80c304e4fd76 2274 NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID THOSE FAT HEADED LARD BOTTOMED PIG BRAINED 9cde2b14-37e3-4ef4-8516-ad81b18d009a 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 d20fc07d-d32c-4a01-833e-220d380a7ef6 2317 YES IT WAS NICE TO KNOW HE LOVED HER AND SHE LOVED HIM TOO LIKE AN AMUSING BABY BROTHER 73a43f38-3821-4546-8646-07a7d925d563 2108 WANDERER SHOULD HAVE NO FEAR OBSERVED THE SCARECROW WHO WAS WOBBLING ALONG IN A FUNNY HALF HAZARD MANNER BUT KEEPING PACE WITH HIS FRIENDS 613be719-6e29-4a95-a0b5-4ad547bda3c9 2425 ALL THIS BEING SO THERE'S AN OFT CHANCE THAT I'LL FIND MYSELF TANGLED WITH SOMETHING I CAN'T ANTICIPATE AND IF YOU ARE CALLED UPON TO READ THIS THEN SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG WITH MY PLANS 004d6109-5f11-4c9b-9072-88711ed07bc9 464 WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY BUT NOBODY HAS TO EAT IT ALL AT ONCE RETORTED UNCLE ROGER WITH ANOTHER GROAN b33d15de-32c0-4948-a6a7-30686b56ec0e 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 bf0f0e0c-9b96-404f-9bee-a0dd2b0f4f02 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 7b467d8b-0ae5-46ca-8139-e3a154d6692d 32 WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE A HUGE HOLE WAS BURNED IN IT AND WHEN AUNT JANET DISCOVERED IT SHE LIFTED UP HER VOICE WITH NO UNCERTAIN SOUND 902d5900-b75d-4fc0-b76c-fa24b9faa2c9 177 EVEN THE YOUNG EYED CHERUBIM CHOIRING ON MEADOWS OF ASPHODEL MIGHT CEASE THEIR HARPING FOR A TIME TO LISTEN TO A TALE OF THE VANISHED EARTH TOLD BY THAT GOLDEN TONGUE ac23975e-7c01-4716-b471-1136cfeb5e80 198 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY IT IS ABOUT A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES DON'T CRIED CECILY HYSTERICALLY DON'T YOU GO ON d9bdd4e1-511a-4693-95bd-26e5fbe995e1 2286 WHY A BATTLESHIP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL JUST AS GOOD FOR SPACE PIRACY THAT IS BUT NOT FOR HIS PURPOSES 003934e8-bf92-45a0-a4e7-6a5337eb8df1 2317 THE NONIPUS CREPT FORWARD PONDEROUSLY AND FARMER SEARCHED DAZEDLY FOR A WEAPON IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH 806d68ca-9362-4402-a0ae-85f780c32f6b 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 a1343e80-925c-4621-92a2-2dff80c3661e 2182 THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL AND IS READY TO BE RELIEVED OF IT ELSE IT WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACHED ITSELF TO A CONVENIENT HUMAN JEFF SAID DIZZILY THE SCOOPS MAKE THE CRYSTALS ac4773af-135f-44c2-a010-e454daf9473b 198 WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON UNCLE ROGER AND PETER WERE SUMMONED FROM THE FIELD MISSUS PATERSON BECAME HYSTERICAL AND WAS TAKEN INTO THE SPARE ROOM WITH SUCH REMEDIES AS COULD BE SUGGESTED 7e9a4b76-f053-4e4c-a489-2fdc7223526d 2286 I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS THE YACHT WAS FLUSHED AGAINST THE SPACE FILLING BULK OF THE OTHER SHIP I PRESSED THE BUTTON THAT SENT THE TORCH WIELDING ROWBOT ON HIS WAY 553227fa-33b8-4a78-9478-7c313c92b444 1867 I HAVE TO BROWBEAT BRIBE BLACKMAIL AND BULL DOSE YOU THUGS INTO DOING A SIMPLE JOB IF YOU THINK YOU'RE FED UP JUST THINK HOW I FEEL BUT THE SHIPS MUST GO THROUGH THE BEACONS MUST OPERATE 4448a67c-55ec-4454-bed3-af87441f5b6f 14 HE CLASPED HER FAINTING FORM TO HIS BREAST AND SPURRED HIS WHITE HORSE TO THE TOMBS A TEMPEST OF RAIN BROKE OVER THE VALLEY AND BLOTTED THEM FROM SIGHT 0a066f7d-0ee8-4fb8-8483-97e95aac4837 2182 WITHOUT HESITATION JENIFER STEPPED OVER THE RAIL AND VANISHED INTO THE YAWNING PINKISH CAVERN BEYOND APPALLED JEFF RUSHED AFTER HER GENEFER HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND 5c5189a7-8e2a-4618-bc02-d2f0c9b3cae4 2286 THIS IS A HEARTLESS WORLD WE LIVE IN THIS MOMENT A SELF PITY RELAXED ME AND I IMMEDIATELY WENT TO BED SINCE MY MAIN JOB WAS NOW WAITING I COULD WAIT JUST AS WELL ASLEEP 59b457ae-9b0f-4d1b-9475-7c43a22b28a5 402 THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON f5c01f45-4887-4a50-9f43-9c278b4642ec 748 FATHER COULD TALK WELL BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT THE LETTERS WE HAD RECEIVED FROM HIM SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO WERE MERE SCRAWLS TELLING US TO BE GOOD BOYS AND NOT TROUBLE AUNT JANET INCIDENTALLY ADDING THAT HE WAS WELL AND LONESOME 8b35b409-7bf8-4176-beff-5bbf85a064b1 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 THEN WE LAUGHED UNTIL PETER GOT SULKY I DON'T CARE HE SAID HOW'S A FELLOW TO KNOW TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED 6e1865d2-ed44-4e87-8791-eb0c4a0f7ee9 2317 THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG AT THE OTHER END WHERE THE RAY IS FOCUS AND I INTEND TO FIND OUT 4bfbff57-9e71-4d2c-8f28-fc3d24cf8ca2 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 20c7449e-f195-4f4c-b97c-99c9154a4974 413 IF ONLY A SPANKING WOULD MEND THE MANOR IT WAS NOT LIKELY IT WOULD EVER BE MENDED BOTH FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL WERE RATHER TOO OLD TO BE SPANKED AND IF THEY HAD NOT BEEN NONE OF THE GROWN UPS WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO ADMINISTER SO DESPERATE A REMEDY FOR THEY USUALLY CONSIDERED SO INSIGNIFICANT A TROUBLE c930515f-3113-4482-b4c9-725b66f608f0 748 CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE BUT I AM AFRAID SHE MEASURED HIS CONSCIENCE BY HER OWN I DOUBT VERY MUCH IF BILLY'S TROUBLED HIM AT ALL 1fb6f1ad-eeed-4125-be44-54b40ddfdd4b 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 3ceb7049-0bb3-4e81-92b2-b690f0f1edb3 188 WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE CAMPBELL DID WHY JUST THE THING HE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE HE TOOK BETTY AT HER WORD ON THE SPOT AND THERE WAS A DOUBLE WEDDING SOON AFTER AND IT IS SAID THAT NEIL AND BETTY WERE THE HAPPIEST COUPLE IN THE WORLD HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL a1b8510a-0e56-48b1-9342-64658dee2da6 413 WHY DON'T YOU TELL HIM SO ASKED DAN IT AIN'T MY BUSINESS TO TELL HIM THINGS RETORTED PETER I'M HARD TO DO WHAT I'M TOLD AND I DO IT BUT I CAN HAVE MY OWN OPINION ALL THE SAME IT'S GOING TO BE A BROILING HOT DAY 72e13c41-0d57-43bc-b2fa-a5e900489d44 413 I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL BUT I CAN'T TURN IT NOW IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY f104b371-de22-4b57-b205-36bce4c7a945 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 b36e867c-7d54-4445-8687-bfd9293a6231 2286 A GREAT THEORY ONLY I FELT UNCOMFORTABLY ON THE SPOT WHEN I TRIED TO PUT IT INTO PRACTICE A DRINK HILT AS DID A CIGAR PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT 73316885-4f26-47c5-9428-8f7779a6effb 2182 CHAFFEE THREE SET DOWN THE SHIP ON AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONLY ONE OF A FRECKLING CHAIN OF SIMILAR ISLANDS CHAFFEE FOUR PROJECTED HIMSELF FIRST TO THE OPENED PORT THEN WHEN THE ZID CHARGED AFTER HIM TO THE URBIVOIR CROP SWARD OF TROPICAL SETTING OUTSIDE fbc30b72-9901-4030-b278-bcfc86f7c4f4 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 7e9f555c-509a-423e-984e-00e6c9031137 464 THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING FELICITY WAS CUMBERED WITH MANY CARES THE NEXT MORNING 78ffd433-497f-4979-bb01-8a859bf67f3e 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 a906334d-1a23-4d26-8a32-ab53dce0c3d6 2274 HOW MANY A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM NO WHAT ARE THEY DOING MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON O K KEEP US POSTED RIGHT 72fd80db-b67c-44e8-8536-4a505d405add 198 DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME HOWEVER AND WHEREVER JIMMY WAS GONE HE WAS GONE SO MUCH WAS CERTAIN 6719b20f-0ac3-43fd-912a-0f8592149528 198 WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO fc09c930-e94e-4ace-96d2-53d4716072e0 2137 IN THE CASE OF TISSUE REGENERATION OR THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE SO RAPIDLY IN JUST A GENERATION OR SO THAT INSTINCTIVE FEAR IS EVEN MORE UNDERSTANDABLE ALTHOUGH QUITE AS UNJUSTIFIED I ASSURE YOU THE DOCTOR STOOD UP INDICATING THAT THE SESSION WAS ENDING 1aa7ef0f-aadf-43c9-bb80-6df97b524b17 32 HIS ATTIRE CONSISTED OF A FADED GINGHAM SHIRT AND A SCANTY PAIR OF CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS BUT HE WORE IT WITH SUCH AN UNCONSCIOUS AIR OF PURPLE AND FINE LINEN THAT HE SEEMED TO BE MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN HE REALLY WAS YOU DON'T PRAY VERY OFTEN INSISTED FELICITY 28d308ff-92f5-4df8-a4dc-cf55047c85e8 451 ZERA AND ZULEITH LOVED EACH OTHER JUST AS MORTALS LOVE AND THIS IS FORBIDDEN BY THE LAWS OF THE ALMIGHTY AND BECAUSE ZERA AND ZULEIMANTH HAD SO BROKEN GOD'S LAW THEY WERE BANISHED FROM HIS PRESENCE TO THE UTTERMOST BOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE b9cdcdec-63b4-4b71-b245-9aff1a9be3cf 2108 I SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO COOK FOR YOU FOR NOW YOU DO NOT EAT I SHALL NOT HAVE TO MAKE YOUR BED FOR TIN DOES NOT TIRE OR REQUIRE SLEEP WHEN WE GO TO A DANCE YOU WILL NOT GET WEARY BEFORE THE MUSIC STOPS AND SAY YOU WANT TO GO HOME f25b12bb-835f-4ebc-a5e8-086b8ba055fe 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 e4fb1b15-538a-4fbd-b8ed-868c488532fb 32 THERE'S A CUP JUST LIKE THE ONE THAT USED TO BE HERE IN FATHER'S TIME EXCLAIMED FELIX POINTING TO AN OLD FASHIONED SHALLOW CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WARE ON A LITTLE SHELF INSIDE THE CURB 38a882a6-80a6-496e-bb6b-e77ca871931c 177 PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO WELL DON'T WHISTLE ON SUNDAY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY SEVERELY c3cb7b93-9e36-4db4-b4bb-1855630dacbf 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 I WAS VERY MUCH AFRAID THAT WE DID NOT REJOICE QUITE AS UNSELFISHLY IN SARAH'S GOOD FORTUNE AS WE SHOULD HAVE DONE 4532e01c-9778-40c7-8f29-0a295dc54f2f 177 THE RAIN HAD CEASED BUT THE CLOUDS HUNG DARK AND BROODING ABOVE A WORLD WHICH IN ITS WINDLESS CALM FOLLOWING THE SPENT STORM THROW SEEMED TO US TO BE WAITING TILL JUDGMENT SPOKE THE DOOM OF FATE df6a76c0-d084-4e0b-afd0-80de090cb60a 451 BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION IT WAS DARK NOW SO NOBODY WOULD NOTICE HIS FEET I KNOW A STORY ABOUT THE MILKY WAY SAID THE STORY GIRL BRIGHTENING UP 640fb6ea-d069-4c39-8290-d8e6cc14baf4 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 cf4e375f-5367-4f69-87c4-b2a196a3277b 2317 IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH 78b4f100-ae41-4d0e-ac46-1a3eae7bfd9c 748 NEVER MIND SAID CECILY WE HAVE ALL GOT SOMETHING TO GIVE IF YOU WERE LIKE POOR SARA RAY AND HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT ANYTHING YOU MIGHT FEEL BAD a623a1dd-e007-46b1-9c65-a04e6c4853be 30 IT WAS TOO GOOD A CHANCE TO LOSE FOR FATHER WAS A POOR MAN AND IT MEANT PROMOTION AND INCREASE OF SALARY BUT IT ALSO MEANT THE TEMPORARY BREAKING UP OF OUR HOME a72e37c0-56f0-48f1-b098-cc58fb79069c 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 84c5aa74-83b0-4cf0-a35b-d8a1948d17ee 464 AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE THE THREAT WAS EFFECTUAL NEVER DID WE MENTION THAT UNHOLY PUDDING BUT THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT IMPOSE SILENCE ON THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER HE TORMENTED HER FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER da7a2a90-a56a-4c00-a01e-7adb821147d5 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 daf347fe-9e67-48f6-8474-08a195416650 30 MUCH TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT IT WAS DARK DARK WHEN WE REACHED CARLISLE TOO DARK TO SEE ANYTHING VERY DISTINCTLY AS WE DROVE UP THE LANE OF THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD ON THE HILL ae3f4064-3c3e-427e-8288-ef8ca47bbce9 188 AND THEN HE JUST PREACHED THE SERMON OVER AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING IT IS SAID THAT THAT PARTICULAR MAN WAS NEVER KNOWN TO BE LATE FOR CHURCH AGAIN OUTSIDE IN THE OAT FIELD THEY ARE ALWAYS CHASING EACH OTHER THEY ARE THE WILD SHADOWS THE SHADOWS IN THE ORCHARD ARE THE TAME SHADOWS 551fcee1-6f32-431d-a864-6e30043558a7 2368 MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU e5370587-bd02-4b08-8dac-c6b4211a5adf 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 4c09c949-2641-4f37-ba07-82191119e43c 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 5b94d38d-67fd-4e40-bca8-052faea52942 2425 CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES WEIGHS NOTHING IS INVISIBLE AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER EITHER BY ACCIDENT OR DESIGN TRUE BUT ELECTRICITY ISN'T MATTER 7e0abd30-a9d4-4759-adc8-dd80cb18418b 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 6899e5d0-886e-4a1b-a924-124d2f9fb41f 188 IT'S SUCH A GOOD BOOK TO READ ON SUNDAYS IT IS INTERESTING AND RELIGIOUS TOO SO IS THE BIBLE I HADN'T QUITE FINISHED THE BIBLE BEFORE I TOOK THE MEASLES BUT MA'S READING THE LAST CHAPTERS TO ME 58d3f40d-388d-4ff9-adb6-fccda40479b8 2368 WHICH IN A WAY THEY DID JONES REFLECTED ON THAT A TRIFLE GRIMLY THINKING OF THE HOLY INQUISITION WITH ITS HIERARCHY OF PRIESTS AND LAY FOLK BUSILY WORKING IN SPIRE JUST AS IT WORKED IN EVERY OTHER TOWN THROUGHOUT OFFENBURG AND THROUGHOUT THE CIVILIZED WORLD 2f19844f-ebb7-4fc0-ab35-b54eb5a01831 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 9252e270-b7ad-48c3-afc9-90aa610ccbae 198 COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY A BUGGY LOAD OF MARKDALE PEOPLE AND FINALLY MISSUS ELDER FRUEN AND HER SISTER FROM VANCOUVER WITH TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS OF THE LATTER ARRIVED 1fd880c9-cf94-42bb-9a56-505fb9d6e4a8 2137 SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY IS THAT UNUSUAL THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY THROUGH HIS PURMA GLASS CANOPY HE COULD SEE IT TRAILING ACROSS THE BLACK VELVET OF SPACE LIKE A WHITE BRIDAL VEIL 4c697cc6-a2af-498c-9d86-d37b5ac65673 242 WELL MAYBE THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE SAID CECILY BUT IN STORIES IT'S JUST AS EASY TO MAKE THEM AS HANDSOME AS NOT I LIKE THEM BEST THAT WAY I JUST LOVE TO READ A STORY WHERE THE HEROINE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM 7e17976a-df18-4ef9-8958-9ce4c6b72b68 2182 HE CAME UP SPOUTING WATER AND FIGHTING FOR BREATH TO FIND HIMSELF A PERILOUS TWENTY FEET FROM THE ZID THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY 1e374dd3-8567-4197-9671-578b79619510 451 BECAUSE OF THE MEASLES IN MARKDALE SOBBED SARA SHE SAYS MARKDALE IS FULL OF THEM AND THERE'LL BE SURE TO BE SOME OF THE MARKDALE PEOPLE AT THE SHOW SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO AND I'VE NEVER SEEN A MAGIC LANTERN AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING a780b7cb-743c-4c5f-9161-bb52a46c1420 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 ad1b7aff-1259-4d62-8b25-48f4cafdc1de 188 I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'LL EVER GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY HE NEVER GOES ANYWHERE EXCEPT TO CHURCH HE JUST STAYS HOME AND READS BOOKS WHEN HE ISN'T WORKIN MOTHER SAYS HE'S A PERFECT HERMIT I'LL MANAGE IT SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL AND WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE WOULD 17ddab95-ed6c-4c76-8db1-c1b1a38c6dd2 2108 BUT PRESENTLY WOOD GOT HIS FEET TANGLED IN THE LACE APRON WHICH HE WAS STILL WEARING AND THAT TRIPPED HIM IN HIS FLIGHT AND MADE HIM FALL TO THE GROUND WHERE THE JAGUAR PLACED ONE HUGE PAW UPON HIM AND SAID GRIMLY I'VE GOT YOU NOW c4400bbe-65a4-44ff-aec2-ab780ff84a34 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 6e78ec29-c31c-4657-8ab0-16a56e728d9d 2286 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 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT BUT I ALSO HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING UNTIL THE JOB WAS DONE 424d8a4d-82c7-4815-b759-623de84e5b8e 464 IT WAS AGREED THAT THE LATTER WAS TO MAKE A CORNMEAL PUDDING FOR DINNER c2ca6935-c08b-43a7-8c57-b9d89a9cc006 2368 WITH THE BALD MAN AT LEAST HE COULD COMMUNICATE 24f06941-e2b1-49d0-9ad5-063eb3f79eb2 103 HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY THEN SHE SPOKE SHE SAID GOOD MORNING bbe0e8e0-9e36-440a-beee-596b7d22198a 2312 I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST YOU CAN'T BE MANUEL SAID MARSHALL HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN a7e158a9-b7dd-440a-8b90-bdfb3a4fd281 2137 NO SIGN OF HIM AT THE SCENE OF THE CRASH TOWERS TOLD RYNEHART IF HE GOT OUT OBSERVED RHIN HART HE COULD BE A HUNDRED MILES AWAY OR MORE WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH AND IT HAD SEAS NOT AS LARGE AS ON EARTH BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS 429b7ab1-2f73-41ab-93b3-e4a588c97309 32 SHE CAN'T COOK SAID FELICITY AND SHE HASN'T A GOOD COMPLEXION MIND YOU SHE SAYS SHE'S GOING TO BE AN ACTRESS WHEN SHE GROWS UP ISN'T THAT DREADFUL WE DIDN'T EXACTLY SEE WHY 000588d4-1805-418e-bc07-863cbec0e92a 103 WHEN A SON WAS BORN TO ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH A TREE WAS PLANTED IN THE ORCHARD FOR HIM THEY HAD FOURTEEN CHILDREN IN ALL AND EACH CHILD HAD ITS BIRTH TREE EVERY FAMILY FESTIVAL WAS COMMEMORATED IN LIKE FASHION AND EVERY BELOVED VISITOR WHO SPENT A NIGHT UNDER THEIR ROOF WAS EXPECTED TO PLANT A TREE IN THE ORCHARD 90cf89ac-9e82-46bd-9905-8bf751012b15 242 BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT BUT HOW WILL THAT SETTLE IT ASKED CECILY 8c74c235-81c5-4d51-93f5-00c68b79f493 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 f93ff49c-ba4e-4c29-ae7e-dbab96af0ac3 2368 BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I LET IT BE SHARP SAID QUIETLY I BELIEVE YOU IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT I BELIEVE YOU HE SHRUGGED AGAIN MOVING OUT TOWARD THE DOOR OF THE HUT AND IN ANY CASE HE SAID THE MONEY IS NEEDED FOR THERE ARE FINES TO PAY IN COSTS OF THE INQUISITION 16caa647-04a0-49de-8572-004a9f48a421 451 THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES BUT SHE WORKED ON AT HER BUTTONHOLES SHE WOULD NOT LOOK AT THE EXCITING SERIAL IN THE NEW MAGAZINE DAN BROUGHT HOME FROM THE POST OFFICE NEITHER WOULD SHE OPEN A LETTER FROM HER FATHER dba72eef-bb22-4f33-9449-5ee16e0e8ca6 30 EVIDENTLY PETER WAS NOT AN ADMIRER OF WHOM FELICITY WAS PROUD 72fc7551-a9d6-46d2-9c37-5ef30a437678 402 I LOOKED AT THE STORY GIRL'S DRY PITEOUS EYES AND SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN HER CRY WHEN SHE TOLD US SAD TALES IN A VOICE LADEN WITH ALL THE TEARS THAT HAD EVER BEEN SHED SHE HAD NEVER SHARED ONE OF HER OWN b9b37038-9d59-4d55-adb3-7a46643f9e4c 2274 OF THE DELPHINAS BUT THE DEA MISSING THE REQUEST WAS A FORGERY NOW YOU SEE WHY I'M MOSTLY FOR RUBBING OUT THIS PLACE WHO DARE FORAGE SUCH A THING UNLESS HE KNEW FOR SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL F SEA OFFICER WAS MISSING OR DEAD d3ee5cd4-b220-42a2-a000-69e489c487fc 402 FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A SMALL SPAT OVER SOMETHING BUT STOPPED AT ONCE WHEN CECILY SAID SEVERELY HOW DARE YOU QUARREL WHEN WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A PICTURE OF GOD TO DAY f7f87e94-824b-4ac9-b151-582df7a29784 103 SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS SLIM AND STRAIGHT AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY 124bb515-70b4-4f5a-a9d4-1fe59dd353b2 1867 ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN d5e5efe3-1dc1-4388-b092-5c9618743e71 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 76f66f02-e8de-40af-9d34-d9eabf4dfacf 2137 HE LOOKED AT IT AS A MAN LOOKS AT A FLICKERING FIREPLACE AND THINKS OF OTHER THINGS HE THOUGHT OF THE SUN FIFTY TWO TRILLION MILES AWAY A PIN POINT OF LIGHT LOST IN THE DAZZLE OF THE MILKY WAY THE EARTH A SPECK OF DUST IN ORBIT JUST AS THIS PLANET WAS TO ITS MASTER SERIOUS 265d63b8-532f-4ff4-bc95-b61aa425ca24 2368 THE QUESTION WAS HE TOLD HIMSELF EXACTLY WHAT WERE THE INQUISITOR'S REAL BELIEFS HIS PUBLIC PROFESSIONS WERE WELL KNOWN YONAS SEARCHED AND FOUND THE ANSWER cf830dda-1bcb-4fe5-b8a9-221e0e5c214c 14 OH I HADN'T A PAIR WITHOUT HOLES IN THE LEGS ANSWERED PETER EASILY BECAUSE MA HADN'T TIME TO DARN THEN THIS WEEK SO I PUT ON TWO PAIRS THE HOLES DON'T COME IN THE SAME PLACES AND YOU'D NEVER NOTICE THEM UNLESS YOU LOOK QUITE CLOSE 75680688-18ae-454a-8a57-23ec78cba09b 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 3316bbb7-c304-435d-898f-2a94eb8fe8cc 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 1644161c-ecf3-43f8-b495-83f78c9e9ac2 198 OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS 3ec64cee-b6ea-4624-8e09-351de58a70e9 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 6767fde5-74b7-4bb4-a094-c92e1650937b 198 MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK BUT I SUPPOSE FELICITY IS SO DISGUSTED WITH ME NOW THAT SHE WON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE LESSONS I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU ee8857d1-39f6-4fc2-b7b4-ec3e73d25712 177 BUT THE LONG DRAWN OUT DREAD WAS BEGINNING TO GET ON DAN'S NERVES IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GROWLED AS WE WENT IN TO DINNER I WISH IT'D HURRY UP AND HAVE IT OVER OH DAN CRIED FELICITY AND CECILY TOGETHER IN A CHORUS OF HORROR BUT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED AS IF SHE RATHER SYMPATHIZED WITH DAN 5ae9376d-6c45-4a04-8af3-3d06112a838c 2317 THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE SOME A FARMER'S FEAR GAVE WAY TO AMAZEMENT AT THE LITTLE INVENTOR'S AUDACITY AND WHAT SEEMED TO FARMER AT LEAST TO BE FOOLISHLY OPTIMISTIC SCIENTIFIC DETACHMENT 6c640b83-5df7-488f-bea0-54f905704086 188 DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US WE SAW THE FLASHES OF EXPRESSION ON THEIR FACES WE HEARD THEIR VOICES ANGRY OR TENDER MOCKING OR MERRY IN LOWLAND AND HIGHLAND ACCENT 51aa9546-17c4-4000-9ecc-5c0b23b148d8 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 3c05ea58-5f2f-4215-85e5-457ea87b133b 103 OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS THEY SAY SHE IS CRAZY PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN US CHILDREN INTO GOOD BEHAVIOR BY TELLING US THAT PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH US IF WE DIDN'T BEHAVE I'M NOT SO FRIGHTENED OF HER AS I ONCE WAS BUT I DON'T THINK I WOULD LIKE TO BE CAUGHT BY HER dd9cd09f-6c6a-41f2-b684-7f3b71b0b995 30 AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX AS FATHER HAD OFTEN TOLD US HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY FAR APART AND WERE BURIED SIDE BY SIDE IN THE OLD CARLISLE GRAVEYARD 25315fd8-1a30-4da6-b396-f7652a156477 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 b8d73175-f897-4613-9e30-fd84bcf47973 103 THEN WE OPENED THE FRONT DOOR AND STEPPED OUT RAPTURE SWELLING IN OUR BOSOMS 6b0f6e60-dce3-43fc-82d6-5c078263d6c3 2368 NOR OF COURSE DID HE CARRY THE SWORD OF A GREAT HERO OR A NOBLE JONAS HAD NO VAUGHAN TO STICK ON HIS NAME AND HE HAD NEVER THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO CLAIM ONE AND ACCEPT THE TINY RISK OF DISCLOSURE AFTER ALL A NOBLE WAS ONLY A MAN LIKE OTHER MEN AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD fc9e2553-7e73-4060-bf76-76ff6c97efe7 103 SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US AND THE ORCHARD FORGOTTEN WE FOLLOWED HER SUMMONS FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY 8a288894-fe95-4f30-aeb9-56abdb55f15c 198 I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX YOU OUGHT TO BE BRAVER THAN GIRLS BUT WE AIN'T SAID FELIX CANDIDLY I WOULDN'T BE MUCH SCARED OF ANYTHING REAL BUT A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A DIFFERENT THING I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY 288e42b0-5d6e-42f7-aaa5-1583739a5538 413 CRASH FELICITY HAD DROPPED THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WHICH HAD PASSED UNSCATHED THROUGH SO MANY CHANGING YEARS AND NOW AT LAST LAY SHATTERED ON THE STONE OF THE WELL CURB AT ANY OTHER TIME WE SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN AGHAST OVER SUCH A CATASTROPHE BUT IT PASSED UNNOTICED NOW WHAT MATTERED IT THAT ALL THE CUPS IN THE WORLD BE BROKEN TODAY IF THE CRACKADOON MUST SOUND TO MORROW 1f4012c3-e2c7-47cc-937f-fa6c0f6f7bde 402 SCATTERED THROUGH THE GRASS IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK WERE BLOSSOMING PALE AERIAL FLOWERS WHICH HAD NO NAME THAT WE COULD EVER DISCOVER NOBODY SEEMED TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM 981f85a8-1e37-426f-9d4b-0349a01c158e 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 4aa3721f-249f-4524-9217-8e2fafce5a19 242 PRETTY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS CONCEITED SAID FELIX WHO WAS GETTING TIRED OF HOLDING HIS TONGUE THE HEROES AND STORIES ARE ALWAYS NICE SAID FELICITY WITH APPARENT IRRELEVANCE d8b2671b-f17c-450e-8fe7-6cd54e9d807a 2182 SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT HE COULD HAVE SWORN THAT HER SAILS BELLIED NOT WITH THE WIND BUT AGAINST c4f3fde9-10f9-48de-8f89-c0dc5cee7b58 2368 I YOU ARE A HERO OUT ON AN ADVENTURE CLARETON THOUGHT WITHERINGLY BUT SET YOUR COURSE WITH SENSE TRAVEL IT WITH CAUTION YOU'LL THE MORE CERTAINLY ARRIVE PHILOSOPHY FOR A DULL PLOTTER JONAS THOUGHT 3e2c791c-855c-4bdf-9d7b-9bad0926b5ee 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 02a5cf0d-9753-410f-8069-fcf130389a22 103 BUT THEN FELICITY IS STUPID IT'S NOT ILL NATURED OF ME TO SAY THAT IT'S JUST THE TRUTH AND YOU'D SOON FIND IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES I LIKE FELICITY VERY WELL BUT SHE IS STUPID 01e311b1-4dbb-4112-8db8-b32e0eeb3b7f 451 NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD OH I DON'T KNOW I FEEL BETTER SINCE I PUNISHED MYSELF 4c08b139-54b5-4623-b0c5-a3eb93c27668 451 WHEN WE WENT TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING THAT EVENING THE STORY GIRL WORE HER DRESS AND HAT WHILE FELICITY AND CECILY WERE IN THEIR PRETTY MUSLINS AND SHE HAD TIED HER HAIR WITH A SNUFF BROWN RIBBON WHICH WAS VERY UNBECOMING TO HER 7f29cb24-8f5e-4182-a7f5-13005891fffb 2108 ONLY POLYCHROME KEPT GOING IN AND GOING OUT HUMMING SOFTLY TO HERSELF AS SHE DANCED FOR THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER COULD NOT KEEP STILL FOR LONG AND THE FOUR WALLS OF HER ROOM ALWAYS MADE HER NERVOUS AND ILL AT EASE b0d15e21-3370-40a1-af69-9f0bd426383a 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS be850174-9ceb-4354-a781-7fe4603d5c13 2274 NOW AND THEN HE GLANCED AT THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE THE CHRONOMETER ABOVE IT THE BIG TRANS LIKE MAP OF THEIR POSITION TILTED FROM THE OPPOSITE BULKHEAD 5934b9e3-e90f-4dd3-967b-226c9b781a96 413 I SUPPOSE THE MINISTER WOULD KNOW BUT HE IS AWAY ON HIS VACATION SAID FELICITY ANYHOW I'LL GO AND ASK MOTHER WHAT SHE THINKS OF IT FELICITY PICKED UP THE ENTERPRISE AND BETOOK HERSELF TO THE HOUSE WE AWAITED HER RETURN IN DIRE SUSPENSE 8fab100f-0e12-4b10-ac5d-05aa781d3d1a 103 OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES WE WERE SHORT OF BOYS BEFORE ONLY DAN AND PETER TO FOUR GIRLS FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE a7cfb65f-b869-4d88-84eb-118a5bee7fca 198 PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS HE SAID NO IT ISN'T PEG BOWEN IT'S SOMETHING THAT WALKS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY 778b143e-b836-4442-a849-68d6d9cc6413 451 AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES 1df626d7-8bb6-453e-8a7a-fcbe91eed048 413 SARA I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THIS JUG SHE SAID SOLEMNLY NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG 3034ece0-54e9-4e05-af73-78e8b5e5695d 1867 BEFORE I SENT FOR IT I CHECKED OVER THE REST OF THE BEACON IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGN OF WEAR THE OLD BOYS HAD BUILT WELL I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER fc018331-52d6-48b5-92bb-46083e6d423e 402 TO THINK THAT JERRY COWAN SHOULD HAVE SEEN SUCH A PICTURE OFTEN WE WERE AS DEEPLY IMPRESSED AS FELIX HAD MEANT US TO BE c2a7a6bd-e06b-4c0c-9eb3-de921e516389 402 IN THE MORNINGS IT WAS VERY DELIGHTFUL IN THE AFTERNOONS TOLERABLE BUT IN THE EVENINGS WE LAGGED AND THE LAUGHTER AND ZEST OF FRESHER HOURS WERE LACKING fada6ee7-cb11-4454-9537-214f61964c92 30 SHE WAS CONSTANTLY IN A QUITE JUSTIFIABLE TERROR LEST WE SHOULD BE LOST OR KILLED SHE MUST HAVE FELT GREAT RELIEF WHEN SHE REACHED CHARLOTTETOWN AND HANDED US OVER TO THE KEEPING OF UNCLE ALEC INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH e60044d9-05fe-41c6-b075-0b7675775eaf 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 8558e07d-1bcc-48c5-9deb-3cc61686c4d8 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 f36858c2-376c-4668-a8fd-5a759e48323d 30 FELIX AND I ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HAD NOT THEN HEARD HER SAY IT AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL f6d6727d-c711-4399-9b6f-988f90b3ddd3 2317 STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED e9ccf67e-e628-4c54-9e33-0f396e581222 32 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE 223ebf15-4334-4d2d-88ea-e7e6943636fa 2286 WHEN WE WERE ALONE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT COURTEOUS TO ME HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF BY NOT TOO SUBTLE QUESTIONING THAT I WAS A SPURIOUS ADMIRAL THERE WAS NO DOUBT I WAS STILL IN CHARGE BUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ANYTHING BUT FORMAL f1b1dd1e-d151-42e2-a21e-35409502548a 402 THE SHADOW FEARED OF MAN WE WERE ALL UP EARLY THE NEXT MORNING DRESSING BY CANDLE LIGHT DID HE SAY WHAT IT WAS LIKE ASKED PETER NO ONLY THAT IT WAS A PICTURE OF GOD WALKING IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN 68a30c8c-2d45-4420-a81e-68c65161e2ae 32 WE ALL HAVE DREAM BOOKS YOU KNOW AND EVERYONE WANTS THEIR OWN TO BE THE MOST EXCITING AND WE'VE BEEN EATING RICH THINGS TO MAKE US DREAM AND IT DOES BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM c20f365f-4c9b-4445-ad11-756f2337599e 451 WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS FELICITY CALLED AFTER HER TO TELL DAN THERE WAS A JAM TURN OVER SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM 9b348cd5-c1ba-4721-8c9d-23c34ec847b3 1867 COMBINATION SPACE JOCKEYS MECHANICS ENGINEERS SOLDIERS CONMEN AND EVERYTHING ELSE IT TAKES TO DO THE REPAIRS d45a1640-1f9b-405d-a9f1-5c421b177624 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 d01bf16c-840d-484b-b288-d8d61b257487 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 e5901c4d-8fb0-4c17-9a54-0b5b2d511be1 451 HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK e31b3e1c-9a69-4222-ad52-23b5d67ec729 451 I THOUGHT OF THAT MYSELF BUT I CAN'T STAY HOME CECILY IT WOULD BE FAR MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD COULD ENDURE I MUST HEAR THAT MISSIONARY SPEAK THEY SAID HE WAS ALL BUT EATEN BY CANNIBALS ONCE JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM b5b06d17-33a4-4399-b2b9-9a2eb7cb630b 413 BUT IT'S TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID PETER MISERABLY I CAN'T TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BETWEEN THIS AND TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW I'LL JUST HAVE TO BE SATISFIED WITH MAKING UP MY MIND TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I WANTED TO WAIT TILL I GOT OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE OUT WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM BUT I'LL HAVE TO CHANCE IT NOW db9e6539-a8f3-4d42-85ef-0f9e7cd3dddc 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 b6f53c71-9314-47de-90e0-5d7b34769ea6 2425 WRIGHT INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS d1f8e478-92f7-4b3a-a4e1-938190c4ba84 103 DO YOU THINK FELICITY IS VERY PRETTY SHE'S THE PRETTIEST GIRL I EVER SAW I SAID ENTHUSIASTICALLY REMEMBERING THAT FELICITY HAD CALLED ME HANDSOME THE BOYS ALL THINK SO SAID THE STORY GIRL NOT I FANCIED QUITE WELL PLEASED 30cd8a7e-b72a-4067-b99d-05cc7f021ba0 14 IF WE KEPT OURSELVES TOLERABLY CLEAN AND REFRAIN FROM QUARRELLING OR TALKING SLANG AUNT OLIVIA DID NOT WORRY US BUT SPOS'N ID GET TOO FOND OF BEING PRESBYTERIAN AND COULDN'T CHANGE IF I WANTED TO OBJECTED PETER d2bf1f00-6ab4-4a9e-b357-716d3ce1cf96 451 MISSUS RAY NOW APPEARED LOOKING FOR SARA AND SAID SHE WOULD STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US I'LL BE MUCH OBLIGED TO YOU IF YOU WILL SAID UNCLE ROGER I FEEL A BIT SHOOK 04528cc3-6577-447c-bc1f-359407e2824d 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 2706aba5-2c44-48cc-b760-c0ea26bf0605 402 AND OH HOW GOOD WE WERE HOW ANGELICALLY AND UNNATURALLY GOOD NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A BAND OF KIND SWEET TEMPERED UNSELFISH CHILDREN IN ANY ORCHARD 140fbefe-a978-40ad-b0b4-d17a10291155 413 AND TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THEIR LAST ACCOUNTING OH IF I HAD ONLY BEEN A BETTER BOY 8e1261e9-6bf7-482a-b8aa-abbf92aaa5f5 2274 YOUR SHIP LANDED TO REPAIR ITS TUBES VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES ORNE TURNED LOOKED AT TO NUBE IN THE DIM GLOW OF THE CABLIGHT HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE I A TO NUBE I A WHAT IS THAT 0c67d32d-fb4c-47bd-b973-ba43c030b1bc 413 PERHAPS THEY'LL LAUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THEIR FACES TO MORROW SAID DAN WITH GLOOMY SATISFACTION WE WERE SITTING ON THE CELL HATCH WATCHING WHAT MIGHT BE OUR LAST SUNSET OVER THE DARK HILLS OF TIME PETER WAS WITH US IT WAS HIS LAST SUNDAY TO GO HOME BUT HE HAD ELECTED TO REMAIN IF TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FELLOWS HE SAID 8001e93f-4d5d-4032-9317-c89011120f0b 413 OH JUST THE NICE PARTS HE SAYS THERE'S A HEAVEN ALL RIGHT BUT NO NO HELL I DON'T WANT DOWN TO GROW UP LIKE THAT IT ISN'T RESPECTABLE AND YOU WOULDN'T WANT ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE CROWDING HEAVEN NOW WOULD YOU 46d40f7c-2a15-4515-8295-63a689406ba8 451 MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME THEN SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO TO THE SHOW ANYHOW YOUR MOTHER WON'T EVER KNOW IF YOU COAXED JUDY TO HOLD HER TONGUE 9bca2efb-31cb-4461-8913-8bd9a0d53348 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 4beb0077-5480-4268-9d3e-53a55f4737c2 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 b8b5f77b-40b3-4a6c-988c-cc857ea638b1 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 55b0e809-9c81-45ef-aa7b-5a72e903252a 32 OH BECAUSE ACTRESSES ARE ALWAYS WICKED PEOPLE SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE BUT I DARE SAY THE STORY GIRL WILL GO AND BE ONE JUST AS SOON AS SHE CAN HER FATHER WILL BACK HER UP IN IT HE IS AN ARTIST YOU KNOW e909fa00-5dbe-437d-bd15-c5c434631895 188 JUST TO MAKE YOU LAUGH I'LL WRITE YOU A LITTLE STORY I HEARD UNCLE ALEC TELLING LAST NIGHT IT WAS ABOUT ELDER FRUIN'S GRANDFATHER TAKING A PAIR OF ROPE REINS TO LEAD A PIANO HOME EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH faa247ff-7941-461d-8038-1ded78ed0083 103 SO IT CAME TO PASS THAT EVERY TREE IN IT WAS A FAIR GREEN MONUMENT TO SOME LOVE OR DELIGHT OF THE VANISHED YEARS AND EVERY GRANDCHILD HAD ITS TREE THERE ALSO SET OUT BY GRANDFATHER WHEN THE TIDINGS OF ITS BIRTH REACHED HIM NOT ALWAYS AN APPLE TREE PERHAPS IT WAS A PLUM OR CHERRY OR PEAR 9a378d2f-0533-4381-add9-6a5e3707c16b 1867 I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM 0dec2942-8d83-4667-b490-9d70e5e63c77 2286 IN SKIPPED OPENED HIS MOUTH MADE A CHOKING NOISE AND ENCLOSED IT HE UNDOUBTEDLY REALIZED THAT ANY INTERRUPTION WOULD ONLY LENGTHEN MY EXPLANATION NOT SHORTEN IT 32016396-a57d-4af5-b552-06249af694b8 451 IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN I KNOW ANOTHER STORY ABOUT MISTER SCOTT SAID THE STORY GIRL JAMES CLARK WHOSE PEW WAS BEHIND OURS NEVER TOOK HER EYE OFF OF IT OR SO FELICITY AVERRED 16dcb962-3747-4e55-8e5c-005dfd315d49 451 IT IS MEAN YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR SHOES AND STOCKINGS ON WHEN YOU GO TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW TO NIGHT SAID FELICITY IN A TONE OF SATISFACTION 280f3bf0-0f12-4f09-a895-41e4aa4e3136 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 0261b4d6-580d-4ea9-a2cf-92f857a4c2cd 2368 PHILOSOPHY FOR ONE OF THE BROTHERHOOD CLARETON THOUGHT BACK WE ARE TINY AS YET WE HAVE NO FORCE YOU CAN ADD TO THAT FORCE ADD GREATLY BUT YOU MUST BE WISE 25a8b079-5334-4536-96e0-ce88d968ea2b 1867 BEFORE THEY COULD THINK UP A GOOD ANSWER I WAS INSIDE THE TEMPLE WAS A SMALL ONE BUILT AGAINST THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID I HOPED I WASN'T BREAKING TOO MANY TABOOS BY GOING IN I WASN'T STOPPED SO IT LOOKED ALL RIGHT THE TEMPLE WAS A SINGLE ROOM WITH A MURKY LOOKING POOL AT ONE END 7f440824-75a3-4e0c-ac75-da85bfd95ac7 1867 HE WAS JUST DRAWING A BEAD ON MY RIGHT EYE WHEN MY BRAIN GOT BACK IN GEAR OF COURSE I SAID BLINDING IS ONLY RIGHT BUT IN MY CASE YOU WILL HAVE TO BLIND ME AFTER I LEAVE THE HOLY OF HOLIES NOT NOW 42f6845d-ab11-4fd1-a3a2-0d871730454d 748 I HAD NOT GROWN A SINGLE BIT BY THE MERCILESS TESTIMONY OF THE HALL DOOR I TOOK THE BOX OF SEED OUT OF MY TRUNK IN THE TWILIGHT ROOM AND SWALLOWED THE DECREED PINCH AS I DID SO DAN'S VOICE RANG OUT BEHIND ME 3e65dae4-7937-437a-99aa-d847c4dd463a 2317 HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL BUT SHE DIDN'T SEEM TO MIND I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK 618c06dc-1ab1-40b8-9c8b-5e2dd76993f5 2317 FARMER GOT MAD HE STARTED TO CHARGE ACROSS THE DECK AT GARF BUT HIS OWN FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE LANDED FLAT ON HIS NOSE THERE WERE WAVES OF FIRE CHASING EACH OTHER AROUND HIS BODY AND HIS STOMACH WAS TRYING TO TURN ITSELF INSIDE OUT 5d97b7f8-5c60-4965-a754-503e67e483bb 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 2ba20ec4-27e8-4d42-9b4f-f5a4bd0dc309 198 IT APPEARED THAT EVERYBODY WANTED TO GO WITH THEM BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT SOMEBODY MUST STAY HOME WITH JIMMIE PATTERSON WHO HAD JUST FALLEN SOUND ASLEEP ON THE KITCHEN SOFA 4838118f-32e8-429f-a0df-811cc86f63df 2317 RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER 3ea42c13-17dd-4d6a-9ebd-fc20c8e45f1e 188 AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD 1fe446fd-c32f-48ea-84aa-949909c9c485 2274 WE MUST REUNITE THE LOST PLANETS WITH OUR CENTERS OF CULTURE AND INDUSTRY AND TAKE UP THE GLORIOUS ONWARD MARCH OF MANKIND THAT WAS SO BRUTALLY CAN IT 13af26ae-bca1-4ce0-abb7-062062e4f10d 2108 BY AND BY THE SCARECROW WHO MIX WHOSE MIXED BRAINS HAD BEEN WORKING STEADILY ASKED THE WOMAN ARE WE TO CONSIDER YOU OUR FRIEND MISSUS UKE OR DO YOU INTEND TO BE OUR ENEMY e098ed8b-d846-4be8-b07f-62efbb120206 451 SAID THE STORY GIRL IRREVERENTLY IT'S SO EXPRESSIVE SQUELCH CERTAINLY IT WAS A LOVELY WORD AND AS THE STORY GIRL SAID IT f0557772-a7a6-493b-9290-0452f41116d0 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 a178c439-cc2e-430d-bdd4-e2c2148f8cd9 30 WE WERE DELIGHTED AT THE THOUGHT OF SEEING FATHER'S OLD HOME AND LIVING AMONG THE HAUNTS OF HIS BOYHOOD dfb42983-071e-42f1-a0fa-72e361ff49e8 1867 ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB FOR THIS REASON MOST BEACONS ARE BUILT ON UNINHABITABLE PLANETS IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE b3a228e8-565c-4723-83d9-be4ea5cf2240 242 DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME 0532e262-b135-4ff9-be20-211168c8cde1 103 I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD 2a8fb117-49a7-4494-9ab1-32acaa82c3d9 2312 IT MAY BE THAT MARSHALL DID NOT BELIEVE HIMSELF QUITE AWAKE HE CERTAINLY DID NOT TAKE THE THREAT SERIOUSLY ENOUGH FOR THE LITTLE MAN DID TRIGGER IT OFF 08d9fdd3-37d8-47be-94ff-c6b55b7a232c 402 CANTERBY BELLS IS A LOVELY NAME FOR A FLOWER ISN'T IT SHE SAID IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CATHEDRALS AND CHIMES DOESN'T IT 818896de-2249-467a-af95-6e5d1082c278 451 OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN FOR REMORSE SHE HAD UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER DIDN'T JUDY PANOT PROMISE YOU SOLEMNLY SHE WOULDN'T TELL YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA 89216e49-9f80-4006-a247-18db721dd0e4 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 0cf05cb7-3bca-44a6-9578-193a339ea08c 2108 SHE ASKED FROWNING BY NO MEANS SAID THE SCARECROW I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE YOU ACT MORE LADYLIKE OH INDEED IN MY OPINION MISTER SCARECROW YOU ARE NOW ACTING LIKE A BEAR SO A BEAR YOU SHALL BE a95688a1-c9d2-4d92-b01b-a4fb7f4565b1 30 DAN SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME RATHER SHEEPISHLY VOLUNTEERED THE INFORMATION THAT PETER HAD ALSO BEEN INTENDING TO COME OVER BUT HAD TO GO HOME TO TAKE SOME FLOUR TO HIS MOTHER INSTEAD 7fcd97a3-708a-4410-8e99-72ec91c0fc7f 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 a85f3801-59b2-4f49-99ea-5afc3e40e546 30 I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM 34474a16-f685-44c1-b53f-0709cd5afa67 2368 THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD 07303f11-f78c-4678-8dbe-7cd3933f8c53 413 YOU ASK HIM SAID FELICITY NUDGING THE STORY YELL UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY YELL THE GOLDEN NOTES OF HER VOICE THREADED WITH FEAR AND APPEAL THE ENTERPRISE SAYS THAT TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY IS IT 036065d3-0fde-4f26-a278-ec105ada9e19 2274 JUST LOOK AT THAT BLASTED JUNGLE BARKED STETSON THEM AND THEIR STUPID ORDERS A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE THE RED LIGHT ABOVE THE SPEAKER GRID BEGAN BLINKING STETSON SHOT AN ANGRY GLANCE AT IT YEA HOW f815cf84-7127-411f-9b6b-bde3e689ecc4 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 85c069de-532b-4753-ba5a-e21467eb677a 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 d942a988-85b1-43ee-8d20-f7664c16c155 2182 THEIR CASE WAS THE MORE DESPERATE BECAUSE THE CHAFFAS WERE PROFESSIONAL FREIGHTERS WITH LITTLE EXPERIENCE OF EMERGENCY SO THAT YOU MAY IDENTIFY IT CHAFFEE THREE FINISHED HELPFULLY THE ZID HAS THIS APPEARANCE 86f80f02-7077-4f24-b0ec-076f4581975f 2286 HE FINALLY PUT THEM DOWN SHAKING HIS HEAD I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANY BATTLESHIP THESE ARE THE PLANS FOR A NEW CARGO LINA THOSE ARE MY INITIALS I RECALL PUTTING THEM THERE 4fc18131-5086-48f5-8a56-1dbcc6b93723 198 FELICITY TRIED AND HAD THE MOST GRATIFYING LUCK WITH A NEW AND COMPLICATED CAKE RECIPE A GORGEOUS COMPOUND OF A PLUMMINESS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER THE NUMBER OF EGGS SHE USED IN IT WOULD HAVE SHOCKED AUNT JANET'S THRIFTY SOUL BUT THAT CAKE LIKE BEAUTY WAS ITS OWN EXCUSE 356185c1-1957-4996-9ec4-45024a29c908 748 FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL 38d4ba93-48a3-4fdf-b6a8-6c77fe65fdf8 2425 YES THAT IS SIMPLY THEIR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THEY PASS INVISIBLY THROUGH THE AIR JUST AS ELECTRICITY PASSES THROUGH A WIRE QUICKLY INVISIBLY SILENTLY 5c9063f7-c08f-475a-a3bf-7cca0b85e662 2274 WHAT IF THE DELPHINIS JUST CRASHED HERE AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE BUT ANSWER ME THIS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY 6b1f16a0-9587-41fa-b4cc-e591dac88151 2317 JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME HE WAS CLIMBING OVER THE RAIL AT THE STERN AND ALREADY BEGINNING TO MAKE A PUDDLE ON THE DECK FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY 5cbcd45e-6de3-436b-a56c-4b498e712e7b 2317 JOHN ANDREWS BRAIN HAD FINALLY RESUMED NORMAL OPERATIONS HE WAS THINKING SLOWLY BUT CLEARLY 4ee35a27-510d-4162-8b7f-5fe931eb9824 32 CECILY WAS NO BETTER WHEN THE DOCTOR CAME LIKE AUNT JANET HE DECLARED THAT CUCUMBERS ALONE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE HER SO ILL BUT WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT SHE HAD DRUNK A GLASS OF MILK ALSO THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED 7fd5e6c6-6771-4d32-b778-99b97d022ccf 2137 HE TURNED TO FACE HIS PATIENT BACK IN THE DAYS BEFORE WE PUT IT TO WORK FOR US REBUILDING TISSUE ALMOST ENDING AGING IN DISEASE THE ACTIVE BASIS FOR OUR VAC SCENE CAUSED A WHOLE GROUP OF DISEASES IN ITSELF df4d6d67-a1ea-43b1-8e41-67212df6c62d 2286 FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE FIRST OF COURSE THE HULL WAS MAGNETIZED AND THE BOMBS FUSED A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON c1e99394-c979-4f98-a7bb-e8594b4ad016 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 1cc095d5-d06c-44dc-821e-b094744b5b2a 748 MOUTH IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY MOUTH HE SAID IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW TALL AND IT HASN'T NOT AN INCH I DON'T SEE WHAT YOU WANTED IT FOR YOU'RE TALL ENOUGH 0dc699e1-845e-4a90-87a4-b1e2ff3d9dfb 2312 HE GOT ANOTHER FORM AND FILLED OUT ALL THE DARKER ON HIMSELF NOW IN ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT IT HIS PART OF THE SENSES WAS FINISHED IF ONLY HE HAD LOOKED AT IT THAT WAY HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES a7d4a770-4b3c-473b-b622-83a593b7f393 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 a551c1fa-3980-492b-b3b6-34560260a9c3 2274 AH AND HE HAD THE HEAVY FRICATIVE GREETING SOUND FLORI GOTSY HE SAID THE NATIVE SHIFTED TO THE LEFT ANSWERED IN PURE UNACCENTED HIGH GALATIES WHO ARE YOU bf1df9cd-6a48-4b13-8a8f-3571bdadf9f0 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 2bc7c3d6-2a09-4996-b0fb-464b659a2e3b 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 6bc635fd-cae1-49cd-aa1c-79c5c0ec3833 748 FELIX HAD BELIEVED BLISSFULLY THAT IT WOULD MAKE HIM THIN CECILY'S HAIR WAS TO BECOME NATURALLY CURLY AND SARA RAY WAS NOT TO BE AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN ANY MORE 5f0a79ef-5edf-4828-be7e-a282339d3563 2312 BUT THE INSTRUCTIONS THEY HAD GIVEN HIM WERE AMBIGUOUS AND FOR ALL THAT THEY HAD TRIED TO MAKE THEM CLEAR SO VERY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE ROSE AND COOKED BEANS AND SAID MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL 88863e44-b72f-4ff4-951a-01e90e2a2abc 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 67763bcb-6d5a-439d-afe8-9d39b70a2b23 188 WHEN WE WENT TO BED THAT WONDERFUL WHITE ENCHANTRESS THE MOON WAS MAKING AN ELFLAND OF THE SNOW MISTED WORLD OUTSIDE FROM WHERE I LAY I COULD SEE THE SHARP TOPS OF THE SPRUCES AGAINST THE SILVERY SKY THE FROST WAS ABROAD AND THE WINDS WERE STILL AND THE LAND LAY IN GLAMOUR 0abc102a-67e7-4441-bd3a-d24a6c8b3dee 2317 JOHN ANDREW FARMER SCOWLED AT THE OCCUPANT THAT SPRAWLED ON HIS LIVING ROOM COUCH RUBBED HIS STUBBY JAW WITH A STUBBY FIST AND SAID I LOVE YOU 58101f88-818a-4984-be0a-594fdfda8c1c 2317 JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN BEING ALONG AT SEA IN A RICKETY CRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE MADMAN HAD BEEN BAD ENOUGH TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER ADDED TO THE CREW WAS A LITTLE TOO MUCH 70fbc2d8-195e-4d6a-a4f2-c614ed028697 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 d9a91816-79e6-42e6-b92e-9da01b97a8e6 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 5cabd19d-9643-4e92-86c6-99de03b8dabf 2274 I A WHAT IS THAT THERE WAS A WARY TENSENESS IN THE GIANT'S FIGURE HIS MOUTH OPEN TO REVEAL THE LONG CANINES 5fdbb882-eca7-497a-a8df-4e6bf702871f 2108 THERE STILL REMAINS THE GREEN MONKEY REMARKED THE JAGUAR HUNGRILY HE IS NEITHER MADE OF TIN NOR STUFFED WITH STRAW NOR CAN HE FLY I'M PRETTY GOOD AT CLIMBING TREES MYSELF SO I THINK I'LL CAPTURE THE MONKEY ANY IN FOR MY BREAKFAST 815717e9-07c9-4eae-ae75-5828d50c1985 413 LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE AND READ JUST WHAT THE BIBLE DOES SAY ABOUT IT SUGGESTED CECILY WE CREPT IN CAREFULLY LEST WE DISTURB AUNT OLIVIA AND CECILY FOUND AND READ THE SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HOLY WRIT THERE WAS LITTLE COMFORT FOR US IN THAT VIVID AND TERRIBLE PICTURE 00763725-22e0-4864-9703-8e67fa920d27 2137 ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK WE DID IT TO SPITE ME 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 3b309b1c-604d-4cba-9b0b-f884c72c8a2b 14 THE ORCHARD DOESN'T SEEM THE SAME PLACE BY MOONLIGHT AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY IT'S LOVELY BUT IT'S DIFFERENT WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL I USED TO BELIEVE THE FAIRIES DANCED IN IT ON MOONLIGHT NIGHTS I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T a54f4605-cefd-44c5-aa29-a4382f6caa2c 2368 WIZARD NO YONIST SAID THE CONFUSION HE WAS BROADCASTING KEPT THE MEN FROM DOING ANYTHING THAT REQUIRED EVEN A SIMPLE PLAN BUT HE COULDN'T KEEP IT UP FOR LONG da6054c4-13cc-4d1e-801b-bae767b4a09f 2425 FOUR TIMES THEY TOUCHED THEIR FOREHEADS TO THE GROUND AND AS THE FOURTH GESTURE WAS COMPLETED SOMETHING MOVED SWIFTLY BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE AS THOUGH A PLATE HAD LIFTED FOR A MOMENT AND DROPPED AGAIN 649d0697-596c-4378-833f-d2053a984a33 748 SHE THINKS IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE BUT SHE ALWAYS GOES BY WHAT UNCLE ARTHUR SAYS OH I'VE PRAYED SO HARD THAT SOME MONEY MIGHT COME SOME WAY AND NOW IT HAS SEE WHAT PRAYING DOES 14be78ad-aead-4a8d-806c-0ca4b454215f 2368 I AM NOT VENGEFUL BUT MY SON WAS NO WIZARD YET THE INQUISITOR TOOK HIM AND HAD A CONFESSION FROM HIM YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER HE TIGHTENED HIS LIPS IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID b79aa25d-574b-4c36-9775-45b47f6e80d3 2286 IT'S A BIG GALAXY BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW I CAN BE CONNED ONCE BUT ONLY ONCE THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT b2e50960-776f-4921-8345-02e0984c907c 242 IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY WHAT DID SCHUBEN DO WHEN SHE FOUND OUT SHE HAD KILLED A KATY ASKED FELICITY ae21c463-8d28-4265-9db0-ea3290d5c12f 2274 THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK IT WOULD RUN LIKE THE GLASS YOU USED FOR YOUR BUILDINGS 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TRANSFORMED THE TIN WOODMAN AND MADE A TIN AL INTO A TIN MAN AGAIN 50ed7045-5c5e-42e1-9620-2f1075b85ba1 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 b8bc1c0d-66a9-4b30-9d37-adcdc304ce83 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 a736f7b1-cade-42e6-8fd9-31d23c642958 1867 AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT WE CAN ATTACH THAT BANK ACCOUNT OF YOURS ON ALL GALL TOO LONG BEFORE YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY OUT I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY 8a29894f-d0c4-4cac-aa22-728abc543a78 32 THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR ME TO HAVE ANY HORRIDID DREAMS LAMENTED SARA RAY BECAUSE MA WON'T LET ME HAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO EAT BEFORE I GO TO BED I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR CAN'T YOU HIDE SOMETHING AWAY THROUGH THE DAY AS WE DO ASKED FELICITY 29697b68-8b52-43fa-894a-3de9d040fb3f 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 01777aeb-aded-4be6-9512-df69b982d511 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 6a2f4d44-7086-4f91-a4d2-605fdb1140c1 2137 HE GAZED ACROSS THE SHIMMERING DESERT TO A RIDGE OF SCRUBBY HILLS BLUE MOUNTAINS ROSE UP BEHIND THEM GREAT FLOWS OF BLACK LAVA HAD ROLLED DOWN ON TO THE DESERT FLOOR AT SOME DISTANT TIME ca5c7b66-2e45-4439-b376-0a31f9332683 198 IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL I'M GLAD FATHER AND MOTHER WILL BE BACK TO MORROW NIGHT SHE SAID dee494da-f6fc-4fae-92e9-ce0401092fbe 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 85d8a404-350f-43b4-9554-1898f6a0007a 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 99f69782-3a70-4b1f-b810-cdbc3ff9c470 198 I DO HOPE THAT BABY HASN'T WANDERED DOWN TO THE SWAMP IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE HE COULDN'T WALK SO FAR BUT I MUST GO AND SEE FELICITY HAND ME MY HIGH BOOTS OUT FROM UNDER THE SOFA THERE'S A GIRL 1a4f82a2-3e1d-4926-b902-b951655414ea 2317 RAY YELPED HE STARTED AFTER HER BUT HIS PROGRESS IN THE DIVING SUIT WAS WADDLING AND SLOW SHE REACHED THE RAIL FIRST AND WENT OVER RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL c0b374d9-40f4-4d00-9f4e-c5fba9268425 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 5af525a8-5a01-4e47-80d8-abfca414f81b 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 c75f55b7-5844-44a2-8602-35c1a0256946 30 WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD AND THOUGH WE HAD SOME IDEA WHAT WOULD BE AT THE END OF IT THERE WAS ENOUGH GLAMOUR OF THE UNKNOWN ABOUT IT TO LEND A WONDERFUL CHARM TO OUR SPECULATIONS CONCERNING IT 2387877a-b493-4d1a-8f14-2b7ee9f404f8 2182 THAT WILL BE SATTERFIELD AND HIS TASK FOR US JEFF TOLD THE COFFEES I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND YOURSELVES IN AN ARGUMENT OVER THAT MATTER OF SQUEEZING TERRA OUT OF THE CRYSTAL TRADE THEY REASSURED HIM SOLEMNLY e1130c06-f6f3-4079-abdd-e9a4950610ff 413 WHAT THE CAUSE OF THE QUARREL WAS I CANNOT TELL YOU BECAUSE I NEVER KNEW IT REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER BUT IT WAS MORE BITTER THAN THE GENERAL RUN OF THEIR TIFFS AND THE CONSEQUENCES WERE APPARENT TO ALL THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE 60b72ddc-3981-4aca-9bda-dde64f9905d1 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 e3e09976-3c59-4a59-8a03-4f57cb71f512 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 5902044b-504d-4a90-9b3e-883e91f9da6d 14 IT ISN'T A BIT OF DIFFERENCE WHICH YOU ARE PLEADED THE STORY GIRL THEY BOTH GO TO HEAVEN 0a1ab9a7-84a6-49e7-a3ce-3dbf51fa550a 188 NO RACHEL WARD WAS NOT PRETTY THAT HAD TO BE ADMITTED THE PICTURE SHOWED A FRESH YOUNG FACE WITH STRONGLY MARKED IRREGULAR FEATURES LARGE BLACK EYES AND BLACK CURLS HANGING ACROSS THE SHOULDERS IN OLD TIME STYLE RACHEL WASN'T PRETTY SAID UNCLE ALEC BUT SHE HAD A LOVELY COLOR AND A BEAUTIFUL SMILE SHE LOOKS FAR TOO SOBER IN THAT PICTURE 270759b5-6853-4382-ac73-592c6dffff4c 198 JUST LOOK SHE SAID PROUDLY I HAVE EVERY BIT OF THE BREAD BAKED I GOT UP AT THREE AND IT WAS LOVELY AND LIGHT SO I JUST GAVE IT A RIGHT GOOD KNEADING AND POPPED IT INTO THE OVEN AND IT'S ALL DONE AND OUT OF THE WAY BUT THE LOAVES DON'T SEEM QUITE AS BIG AS THEY SHOULD BE SHE ADDED DOUBTFULLY fb6891aa-5cb7-4957-b0db-664eb9c198ca 30 BEVERLY IS HANDSOME BUT FELIX IS TOO FAT ANSWERED FELICITY PROMPTLY dccca112-9790-406b-85c0-2b4dde5e9498 188 CAN'T I JUST SEE HIM AT IT NOW SAID UNCLE ROGER LEANING OVER THAT OLD BOULDER HIS CHEEKS RED AND HIS EYES BURNING WITH EXCITEMENT BANGING THE TOP OF IT AS HE HAD SEEN THE MINISTERS DO IN CHURCH IT WASN'T CUSHIONED HOWEVER AND HE ALWAYS BRUISED HIS HANDS IN HIS SELF FORGETFUL EARNESTNESS 61fce277-0f86-466a-9887-8c8a911c1961 103 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS CHILDREN SHOULD JUST BE LET COME UP THAT EVERYTHING ELSE IS SETTLED FOR THEM LONG BEFORE THEY ARE BORN I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU NO WE DID NOT BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION 039666f1-239f-4bc1-9d82-43944704fbb5 2137 FOUR YEARS HAD GONE BY IN THIS SHIP THIRTEEN YEARS ON EARTH FOUR YEARS OF COLONEL TOWERS MILITARY DISCIPLINE GREW MORE STRICT EACH DAY SPACE DOES FUNNY THINGS TO SOME MEN 81edfb31-039e-48cf-87a2-b8cc453dd7ef 2312 WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE STUPIDER A CREATURE THE MORE OF A NUISANCE IT IS I HAD ABOUT DECIDED THE SAME THING ABOUT THE SMALLER A CREATURE WE MAY HAVE TO FUMIGATE THAT OLD MOUNTAIN MESS 8df03d54-46b9-4cfd-9632-10ba6347b6f9 2274 WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT 3ac8798e-733b-4060-8762-c54c2dfc224a 242 SHE DREW HER ARROW TO HER EYE ALAS SHE KNEW THE ART ONLY TOO WELL 55f25a66-89bb-46ab-9f7e-9c2db0920df2 748 BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER HER ADORING AND FREQUENT MENTION OF HIM ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US f974aaf1-2a3d-4907-a832-5e6efc0c9cfb 2182 THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED e6c429ec-b588-42f4-89b6-3d5970542a1b 1867 WE WILL STOP I THUNDERED BEFORE HE GOT SO FAR IN THAT HE COULDN'T BACK OUT I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS 9fef7f1d-b811-4cb0-a2c1-77494e3ae77e 14 BUT STILL HER PRIDE WAS SO GREAT THAT SHE WOULD NOT YIELD EVEN THOUGH EVERYBODY EXCEPT THE KINGS WHO WANTED TO MARRY HER HATED HER FOR THE SUFFERING SHE HAD CAUSED c52eea4d-ee64-4d43-947a-7af087fe4751 2286 USING THEIR DISCLOSURE AS A PROD I COULD HAVE MADE HIM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS IT WASN'T NECESSARY AS SOON AS I SHOWED HIM THE DIFFERENT BLUE PRINTS AND EXPLAINED THE POSSIBILITIES HE UNDERSTOOD IF ANYTHING HE WAS MORE EAGER THAN I WAS TO FIND OUT WHO WAS USING HIS ADMINISTRATION AS A CAT'S PAW BY SILENT AGREEMENT THE DOCUMENTS WERE FORGOTTEN a6b687ad-4c4a-4a7c-b6e9-a92a16ef8b49 32 EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET BUT HE WROTE ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS ON IT AFTERWARDS AND SENT IT TO HER AND IT WAS PUBLISHED IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS f3641e5c-28b3-4b8b-a2c2-dccb9032c180 32 WE WERE NOT SO SURE OF THIS GHOSTS WERE UNCHANCY FOLK EVEN IF THEY WERE OUR FAMILY GHOSTS AND STORY GIRL HAD MADE THE TALE VERY REAL TO US WE WERE GLAD WE HAD NOT HEARD IT IN THE EVENING HOW COULD WE EVER HAVE GOT BACK TO THE HOUSE THROUGH THE SHADOWS AND SWAYING BRANCHES OF A DARKENING ORCHARD 020348fa-97a1-40bc-a854-ec2897ac3e3e 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 c8c43927-c08d-4825-b24b-9717c928d530 2108 NOTHING IN THAT CORNER OF OZ INTERESTED ME BUT I BELIEVED THAT IN OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY I WOULD FIND STRANGE PEOPLE AND SEE NEW SIGHTS AND SO I SET OUT UPON MY WANDERING JOURNEY 7ec5602b-33dc-4996-ac18-7f70ad511b5c 2312 THE MIDGET WAS MAD THE ANIMAL HAD MORE PRESENCE OF MIND SHE LAY DOWN QUIETLY AND DIED WHICH WAS THE BEST SHE COULD DO CONSIDERING THE STATE THAT SHE WAS IN e0377dff-f0f4-40df-9823-62b521461434 103 AND WHO LIVES IN THAT OTHER HOUSE ASKED FELIX LOOKING OVER THE WESTERING VALLEY WHERE A LITTLE GRAY ROOF WAS VISIBLE AMONG THE TREES 0f8506c5-08e6-43af-ac1b-e47594ae06d8 2312 THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY OF YOU BUCK EYED BEASTS THERE SAID THE SMALL MARTINET YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS WE DECIDED IT WAS TOO CLOSE NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE 6a51a593-c905-46c9-a17e-80c8d6de2f89 2312 I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST 65ad3df1-fd04-4b6f-b792-38f02549b131 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 6feac77c-8ce4-4908-beef-e9ec78c17bd9 242 WHY THERE WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RELIGION IN OLD TIMES SAID FELIX THE MORE RELIGIOUS ANYTHING WAS THE MORE FIGHTING THERE WAS ABOUT IT A FELLOW'S GOT A RIGHT TO PRAY AS HE PLEASES SAID PETER AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO STOP HIM HE'S BOUND TO FIGHT THAT'S MY WAY OF LOOKING AT IT 07672daa-aac9-4022-86fa-a355acf43604 1867 I HAD THE SPEAKER ON FULL VOLUME AND THE VIBRATION ALMOST SHOOK MY HEAD OFF THE LIZARDS CRINGED AND I SET MY SOLAR FOR NARROW BEAM AND RAN IT AROUND THE DOOR JAM THERE WAS A GREAT CRUNCHING AND BANGING FROM THE JUNK PILED AGAINST IT AND THEN THE DOOR SWUNG FREE I THREW IT OPEN b20b6fbf-932b-4f1d-9716-0f2b798691be 748 SHE PRAYED FOR IT YOU KNOW SAID FELIX AFTER SARA HAD GONE HOME THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY IF THE REST OF US HAD JUST SET DOWN AND DONE NOTHING ONLY PRAYED HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE IT DON'T SEEM FAIR TO ME a419fea2-b6c6-4ddc-8b6c-469bbb16a72b 32 FELICITY WORMED THE SECRET OUT OF PETER BY THE DEPLOYMENT OF DELILA WILES SUCH AS HAVE BEEN THE UNDOING OF MANY A MISERABLE MALE CREATURE SINCE SAMSON'S DAY 4cc9d151-95a9-4316-b965-4f7850281125 198 ONE BITTER DAY WHEN THEY SEEK IT AND CANNOT FIND IT THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE LOST AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING c9fe3f97-c1d6-4d5f-97a9-4706582f0656 2368 WHERE MIGHT I FIND THIS FAMILY HE SAID IT IS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE OLD WOMAN SAID PERHAPS THEY ARE AT HOME YOU WILL SEE A PATH WHICH TAKES YOU TO THE LEFT FOLLOW IT UNTIL YOU REACH THE LAST HOUSE 6fa16447-78e8-4abd-9fca-e4ab474023ac 30 WE KNEW ONLY THAT A COUSIN SARAH STANLEY WHOSE MOTHER OUR AUNT FELICITY WAS DEAD WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING ON A FARM ADJOINING THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD IN CARLISLE 014f296a-3c28-4792-af78-a6da787c147a 2368 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING 3164f93e-7df4-4d47-9bb3-76db7c424aed 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM 97baed4a-95e5-43d8-8712-643c927dd879 748 A DIMPLE OR TWO CAME INTO SIGHT AND SHE HAD VERY NICE TEETH SMALL AND WHITE LIKE THE TRADITIONAL ROW OF PEARLS d0f87e8a-6659-4b57-8a14-b0d1b5204d19 748 BEVERLY KING WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY c9cc1f5d-c7fc-4624-8594-c5ac554208d1 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 db8968a3-bebf-472c-9608-25ab11b4ed5b 1867 BEFORE THEY COULD PROTEST I HAD PUSHED THE PRIESTS OUT THROUGH IT THE REST OF THEIR CLAN SHOWED UP AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS AND MADE A GREAT BRUCK US WHILE I FINISHED WELDING THE DOOR SHUT 5dd32548-2ed6-4958-b3a2-00e105f0bb4f 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 59bfbb16-df43-422b-9d07-3ddbbd4aff01 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 ce3521c2-5929-4990-bbed-cc2685b5b58b 30 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY STILL WE WERE BOTH INCLINED TO THINK WE WOULD LIKE CECILY BETTER THAN FELICITY 5a62d392-3c02-42ec-9d69-bc5266c2d52d 748 THE KEENEST EDGE TO OUR HUMILIATION WAS GIVEN BY THE DISCOVERY THAT THE MAGIC SEED WAS NOTHING MORE OR LESS THAN CARROWAY WHICH GREW IN ABUNDANCE AT BILLY ROBINSON'S UNCLE'S IN MARKDALE 554d821b-3430-4428-97c5-1256ffdcfbf5 103 FOUR GIRLS OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE JUST DOWN THE HILL YOU CAN'T SEE THE HOUSE FOR THE SPRUCE BUSH SARA'S A NICE GIRL SHE'S ONLY ELEVEN AND HER MOTHER IS DREADFULLY STRICT SHE NEVER ALLOWS SARA TO READ A SINGLE STORY JUST YOU FANCY 7e0aeb1a-a1ab-4a32-bb1a-3e61bf14cd93 451 THE REST OF US CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING THAT WE HAD BEEN WANDERING AMONG THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN WE WERE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO APPRECIATE FULLY THE WONDERFUL MEANING OF THE LEGEND BUT WE FELT ITS BEAUTY AND ITS APPEAL 9c951437-5678-4495-983a-ed0f3bb682ec 2182 SO THAT'S WHY YOUR SAILS BELLIED BACKWARD WHEN YOU CAME INTO HARBOR SAID JEFF THE THING WAS TOWING YOU A THIN HIGH STREAK OF VAPOR TRAIL KNEELING DOWN TOWARD THEM FROM THE SUNRISE RAINBOW TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT 9d508d71-196e-4d59-83b3-9b6058e829a1 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 0da23a72-3ad7-43d2-8745-e6ec437f836c 2274 WHY IT WAS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT OUT OF THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES HORN SAW MORE SHADOWS DROPPING TO THE MUD AROUND HIM THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB THE SOMEONE SCUTTLED AGILELY FOR A MOMENT 483616ef-d459-4197-9ad3-4b931f1e8ab0 402 JOB'S COFFIN AND THE NORTHERN CROSS WERE TO THE WEST OF US SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT 8f2fb070-a795-460f-b2a8-b698e48482d0 2274 WE'VE A AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED NOW WHAT b47d7198-337e-4ea3-b40b-941f9df90e70 748 ONCE IN A WHILE HE PAINTED A PICTURE WHICH SHOWED WHAT HE COULD DO BUT FOR THE REST HE WAS SATISFIED TO WANDER OVER THE WORLD LIGHT HEARTED AND CONTENT 22119632-fa85-418c-b5f8-6789facfd55f 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 c951d53a-f5c1-4192-8182-eea76b631c72 2286 HE SHOOK HIS HEAD AT ONCE AND SAID NO THE PLANS WERE CHANGED WE HAD TO FIT IN SOME KIND OF NEW METEOR REPELLING GEAR FOR OPERATING IN THE PLANETARY DEBRIS BELT I FLIPPED THROUGH MY CASE AND DREW OUT A PLAN DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM 5b0aa9ab-f21d-428f-b5f4-4614dd37ec8f 2312 AND WHAT IS THEIR TOWN IT IS AN OLD PRAIRIE DOG TOWN THAT THEY FIXED UP YOU HAVE TO DIG DOWN WITH A SPADE TO GET TO THE STREETS a2230cee-2032-4c93-b825-8700e11838cc 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 9884e310-d0ae-4711-9335-9b4e6b7a28d6 2425 IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST AND THE REVERSE IS JUST AS TRUE I STARED AT HIM BEWILDERED WHAT AM I THEN A GHOST bea17850-cd0f-40af-b41f-ce7f92778174 402 HIS NAME WAS ALLAN DUNBAR AND HE WAS YOUNG AND HANDSOME HEROES ALWAYS ARE YOU KNOW BUT AUNT LOUISA SAYS HE REALLY WAS AND HE WAS IN LOVE WILDLY IN LOVE WITH MARGARET GRANT 71ef55c7-8b97-470c-8fbc-b3a46ad542d0 2137 HIS OXYGEN MASK WAS STILL IN PLACE BUT HIS HELMET HUNG PARTLY LOOSE HE ADJUSTED IT AUTOMATICALLY THEN UNBUCKLED THE SEAT STRAPS HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH UNDER THE OXYGEN MASK HE WAS AWARE OF DRIED BLOOD CLOTTED IN HIS NOSTRILS CAKED AROUND THE CORNERS OF HIS LIPS e60b3eb1-e59a-4db3-b2a2-8eaac69bf9e4 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 a123ba7b-b121-4aa3-8e30-c6ee43fc911a 103 WHEN I THINK IT ALL OVER I CAN'T FEEL TOO THANKFUL THAT GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING HAPPENED TO MARRY EACH OTHER WHEN THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE THEY MIGHT HAVE MARRIED FELIX AND I SHIVERED WE FELT SUDDENLY THAT WE HAD ESCAPED A DREADFUL DANGER THE DANGER OF HAVING BEEN BORN SOMEBODY ELSE 1ab1a4f6-a2e8-441d-b6e6-27ae67669eb2 32 DEMANDED AUNT JANET IN BEWILDERMENT OH TO HAVE SOMETHING WORTH WHILE TO WRITE IN HER DREAM BOOK MA 97653656-c58c-4523-89ab-8d3adab0aa8f 2425 I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET BACK I WARNED HOPING THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THE TONE OF VOICE IF NOT THE WORDS BACK OR I'LL POT A COUPLE OF YOU ff425672-f7c5-43c8-a6ed-d0e8b6f06e5a 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 f616670e-c663-48a1-b953-14eb3ce59c73 103 I AM VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL CATS THEY ARE SO SLEEK AND COMFORTABLE AND DIGNIFIED AND IT IS SO EASY TO MAKE THEM HAPPY d4244c56-3e7c-41a9-a53d-453fff6c4ccb 14 WE WERE ALL GLAD TO HEAR THAT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH EXCEPT FELICITY SHE WAS FULL OF GLOOMY FOREBODINGS AND WARNINGS I AM SURPRISED AT YOU FELICITY KING SAID CECILIA SEVERELY YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY 197a6300-a34d-4232-b573-f2287afe4784 451 WE FELT WE COULD NEVER DO IT BUT THE STORY GIRL DID IT WE ADMIRED AND PITIED HER fce682dc-0b7b-4da0-b4ec-ece9c9cd7700 242 BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE BECAUSE PETER CONTINUED TO HOLD THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF BITTER APPLES IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT b8686bb7-7081-44ce-9c6d-36d0cd783448 1867 THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING I CHECKED THE READINGS CAREFULLY AND FOUND JUST WHAT I SUSPECTED ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE da9cc173-3bf1-486b-85fe-cffac9ca32c9 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 72b9039a-8d99-49a8-a023-c42d6926eaa1 14 BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS ITS UPPER END WAS DIM WITH A DELICATE SPRING MIST WINDS BLEW UP THE FIELDS LIKE WAVE UPON WAVE OF SWEET SAVOUR SPICE OF BRACKEN AND BALSAM 726f34ce-7fc6-42e0-ba9b-4c4f0bc13da6 748 WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY 8589d7bb-0754-4840-8046-357f0e921428 2274 CLEAN AS AN EGG HE BARKED HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE GLARED OUT THE STARBOARD PORT SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE e0892143-cdc7-431d-b047-ada6c93dc2aa 2137 GET MAY RHINART YES SIR THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS 31a6945e-b6c9-46df-bb6b-5b5245e01454 402 ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE GOOD AND NOBLE AND UNSELFISH AND KIND BUT THE BEST AND NOBLEST OF THEM ALL WAS A YOUTH NAMED VING AND THIS YOUTH WAS BELOVED OF ODIN ABOVE ALL OTHERS FOR HIS BEAUTY AND STRENGTH AND GOODNESS 1b43046b-5896-4424-89c1-a71fd87798f0 2137 TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM bdd171c2-58ac-4921-95d2-eecf94988130 188 I'VE THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT IT OH MOTHER PLEASE LET ME HOLD IT FOR A MINUTE I'LL BE AS CAREFUL AS CAREFUL THERE COMES A CHINA SET GRANDFATHER KING GAVE US SAID THE STORY GIRL WISTFULLY OH IT MAKES ME FEEL SAD 980003d8-6191-4819-9b6e-29d761cbe488 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 9a59bf6e-4ef7-47ef-b8de-811bfd26b234 1867 THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE EVERY BEACON HAS A CODE SIGNAL AS PART OF ITS RADIATION AND REPRESENTS A MEASURABLE POINT IN HYPER SPACE d2705606-83f2-434d-a386-408946d716c4 188 BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED I WAS A REGULAR WRUNT BEFORE I BEGUN HE SAID AND LOOK AT ME NOW I GOT IT FROM PEG BOWEN SHE'S A WITCH YOU KNOW 6ae775b4-5620-4b62-840f-883610c53dc0 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 6f845211-3374-4d11-9377-9bb5498e0fba 2368 HE HATED THE IDEA TIME PASSED SOMEHOW WHEN MORNING DAWNED YONAS AWOKE TO FIND THE DOOR OF HIS CELL BEING UNLOCKED THE BALD MAN AND THE BLACK HAIRED MAN WERE BOTH THERE HE LOOKED UP WITH THEM WITH DISTASTE THEN HE SAW WHAT WAS IN THEIR MINDS AND THE DISTASTE CHANGED TO FEAR e573ba3c-c533-4a17-a68d-851dd972f8ce 2137 THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD BE SURE TO STAND BY WITH THE MOTION PICTURE CAMERA f92a88a5-a5cc-494b-9159-24f11e3117cb 413 THE FAD WAS AT ONCE TAKEN UP BY THE CARLISLE SCHOOL GIRLS TIMOTHY ROOTS QUITE OUSTED SOURS AND YOUNG RASPBER SPROUTS BOTH OF WHICH HAD THE REAL MERIT OF BEING QUITE TOOTHSOME WHILE TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE TOUGH AND TASTELESS 2a721b8f-14c5-4f72-b316-bbadd6f47e64 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 5828be74-1b4f-4d41-a065-56913ea8b905 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 59536106-f07d-477c-8b4f-e7de73b94f71 242 PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO 5d491ecc-4b59-4001-b6f2-38092b9fe3c8 2182 COMMUNICATION BY AUDIBLE SYMBOL CHAFFY THREE SAID HE RUFFLED HIS FEATHERS IN A SHUDDER BARBAROUS 5d726437-cee2-4649-a528-584f16f24859 413 WE WERE ALL IN THE ORCHARD EXCEPT FELIX WHO HAD GONE TO THE POST OFFICE IT WAS THE FORENOON OF AN AUGUST SATURDAY CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS 1f772959-a47b-4a36-bd8b-3b75bc80f41d 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 929a8c46-e9ec-4f5a-aadf-ef91db0508fb 32 WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES IT SEEMED TO US THAT THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN THE SAPLING STAGE CORRESPONDING TO OUR BOYHOOD YOUR APPLES ARE LOVELY TO EAT THE STORY GIRL SAID TO ME BUT FELIXES ARE ONLY GOOD FOR PIES ab571172-5fcd-4da5-83a8-3ba38d451d2b 2312 THAT'S TRUE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO WHERE IS MARILLA I DON'T SEE MARILLA SINCE I CAME BACK MARILLA JUST LAY DOWN AND DIED MANOEL 53e3dcdf-434c-490f-a533-9cb95bc1f847 2286 PEPEY HAD SWALLOWED THE BAIT THERE WAS ONLY ONE SHIP IN THE GALAXY THAT COULD NOT BACK A BLIP THAT BIG AT SUCH A DISTANCE I HAD TO CONSTRUCT A SOLUTION SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY SINCE I COULDN'T BE SURE WHERE PEPPE WAS GOING TO BE NEXT I HAD TO MAKE HIM GO WHERE I WANTED HIM TO fa03b0e1-6bd7-4fb5-a3bc-1234bdd42ac0 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 fdaa5224-37fc-4e79-b20f-5265e9107246 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 9dff5fd0-7011-4b6e-819f-96544905f67a 2317 SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS f174ac79-5366-4a73-8cef-9cd93c227d92 2312 BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND HE KNEW SPANISH AND ENOUGH ENGLISH 8b2989f0-3f41-484d-8536-ff6e3295b54c 198 AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE CECILY WAS IN QUEST OF INFORMATION WHAT DOES IT NEVER RAIN BUT IT POURS MEAN I'M GLAD FATHER AND MOTHER WILL BE BACK TO MORROW NIGHT SHE SAID IT'S TOO EXCITING WHEN THEY'RE AWAY c8ce713d-b33a-482a-981a-055e10f9d86c 188 I FELT HE DIDN'T GRUDGE IT AND NOW FOR MISTER CAMPBELL IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK I DON'T SUPPOSE THE AWKWARD MAN NOTICED IT AT ALL BUT MISTER CAMPBELL WILL OR I'M VERY MUCH MISTAKEN 092d305b-5c75-4f87-82eb-21c979a8f2f2 242 IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY I MAY BE MISTAKEN BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE STORY GIRL WANTED THAT FIGHT STOPPED AND I'M AFAR FROM BEING SURE THAT FELICITY DID EITHER 8d03d281-ce73-4925-baca-a1bf968dfe59 32 WE TOOK A DRINK FROM THE BLUE CUP AND THEN WENT TO FIND OUR BIRTHDAY TREES WE WERE RATHER DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THEM QUITE LARGE STURDY ONES WHAT IS PETER LIKE I ASKED 39585823-1cdc-4015-baf4-1197b12535fe 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 27d4d1d1-5fc9-41b0-99de-ae2c93d96fc5 2274 WHAT IS THE I A I AM OF THE I A SAID HORN WHERE HAVE YOU HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS IN THE PLACE THAT SUITS US BEST SAID TO NEWBE IN ALL OUR HISTORY THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER PLACE d5442d6e-6c12-4cb9-b7fa-a1475a925885 1867 WHICH IS OF COURSE WHAT HAPPENED A LITTLE GEOLOGY TURN OVER A SWAMPY LAND BRIDGE FORMED IN THE RIGHT SPOT AND THE LIZARDS BEGAN TO WANDER UP THE BEACON VALLEY AND FOUND RELIGION 110e2b0e-8fa3-4344-88b4-02e618fc6f6a 413 BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT THE STORY GIRL SNATCHED THE PAPER AND READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO A GROUP ON WHICH SUDDEN TENSE SILENCE HAD FALLEN 8a1c62a9-d9bc-4729-aa04-e98a4b239cb2 30 I AM GOING TO CLIMB IT TO MORROW I SAID JOYFULLY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOYS ASKED CECILY 3157c4fb-95c6-4389-afe6-bee6419dfcca 2312 FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP HE KNEW IT BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER BESIDES HE WAS POOR AND NEEDED THE MONEY THEY INSTRUCTED HIM AND SENT HIM OUT OR THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD INSTRUCTED HIM THEY COULDN'T BE SURE 50ed2110-8e72-4476-a08f-54868d42b7ba 32 WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELICITY SHE'S JUST FINE SAID FELIX ENTHUSIASTICALLY I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE HER TO TELL STORIES c8e638df-e04e-45bd-b6c5-6728da3c7776 402 WHEN SHE CEASED WE CAME BACK TO EARTH FEELING AS IF WE HAD BEEN MILLIONS OF MILES AWAY IN THE BLUE ETHER AND THAT ALL OUR OLD FAMILIAR SURROUNDINGS WERE MOMENTARILY FORGOTTEN AND STRANGE 0662f093-747f-4dcf-b8fc-8b90aba6690b 2182 THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS FROM CABIN TO BEACH PASSED IN A BLUR OF SPEED THE SCOOP REACHED DEEPER WATER AND SUBMERGED THROWING A MOUNTAINOUS BILLOW THAT SENT THE ISLAND QUEEN REELING AND ALL BUT FOUNDED HER JEFF WAS DISLODGED INSTANTLY AND SANK LIKE A STONE 9357094f-c66b-4dfe-b132-17fe2826b428 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 50cc65a4-6574-455a-b376-bf8d603c07ff 188 HARD WORDS BREAK NO BONES OBSERVED FELICITY PHILOSOPHICALLY BUT THEY HURT YOUR FEELINGS I'M AFRAID OF MISTER CAMPBELL SAID CECILY CANDIDLY 825c781b-00f4-42a4-b23f-886702ab9c7c 2368 WELL HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT WAS WHAT HE HAD WANTED I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME e1d8d1db-0bc6-42a0-bcd4-df6227bc277b 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 d96bf5c0-2572-4f1c-a46a-d45170efd944 2274 WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS EASY 3ebf23cd-d3c1-4666-937f-40d8f0fcc50c 451 NO IT'S ONLY AFTER THEY'RE CONVERTED THAT THEY'RE ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR SAID FELICITY BEFORE THAT THEY'RE JUST PLAIN HEATHEN BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO GO TO A METHODIST MISSIONARY YOU CAN GIVE IT TO THE METHODIST MINISTER AT MARKDALE I GUESS THE PRESBYTERIANS CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT IT AND LOOK AFTER THEIR OWN HEATHEN 40deea56-698f-4062-8e66-d0aca330608d 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 036873a4-3678-4071-a78f-51b4a4455d4e 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 8366b222-4169-43fc-83e6-d2403a789e47 32 SHE WAS CHANGED SHE WAS NEVER NEVER LIKE HERSELF AGAIN AND SHE WAS NEVER CONTENTED UNLESS SHE WAS DRESSED IN HER BLUE MUSLIN AND WAITING UNDER THE BIRCHES df673522-1682-4106-9767-27b0cf4c7bef 14 PETER'S APPEARANCE DID NOT ATTRACT AS MUCH ATTENTION AS WE HAD FONDLY EXPECTED INDEED NOBODY SEEMED TO NOTICE HIM AT ALL THE LAMPS WERE NOT YET LIGHTED AND THE CHURCH WAS FILLED WITH A SOFT TWILIGHT AND HUSH 9fbe88db-c5e7-42a6-87fa-573430089e8d 2425 ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WITH ONE ACCORD THEY CAME TOWARD US OBVIOUSLY INTENT UPON BLOCKING OUR WAY I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS 833877a3-2a89-4486-8738-a97cf9385f3d 242 I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY LET'S ALL GIVE UP THE ORDEAL ANYWAY THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX AND I WON'T 5bd9b0ac-af36-4ea7-98ac-536b6c7b2916 2137 A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR THE FACE OF REINHERT THE RADIO MAN APPEARED BEFORE HIM BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO ONE WHAT IS YOUR POSITION OVER b6c5f294-ba37-4160-b488-de2bb4034c17 2286 LOOKING OVER THE ORIGINAL BREW PRINTS AGAIN THE BIG SUPERSTRUCTURE HIT MY EYE IN ORDER TO TURN THE SHIP INTO A WARSHIP THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO GO 3441f316-63db-43be-a377-98436b29db51 2274 HOLY MAZOO TWENTY SIX DAYS AGO AND I A SEARCHIP CAME THROUGH HERE HAD ROUTINE MINNY SNEAKER LOOK AT THE PLACE 6320919b-d69e-4209-bbf4-021df5afde49 242 BUT FELIX WAS VASTLY ENCOURAGED ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS af65afaa-94e3-42a1-8530-ae210b1399c7 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 db12c864-fce2-4713-9786-748705cfd8b4 1867 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME b5e86120-28d7-408c-b175-6c783731ab30 2312 HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES WERE TOO STUPID TO BE A NUISANCE fa1df05f-db87-44c9-9445-5defa13694d0 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 4c31ac71-dbf3-4d93-ad17-b7c90d495a72 451 YOU CAN REPENT AFTERWARDS BUT THERE IS NO USE IN MIXING THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER I'M NOT REPENTING PROTESTED SARA I'M ONLY SCARED OF MA FINDING IT OUT OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN eace6495-9fc5-499b-93cc-20761a0fb752 32 WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COME OUT IT'S WONDERFUL TO WALK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL IT'S LIKE A DREAM OF FAIRYLAND AS IF YOU WERE WALKING IN A KING'S PALACE THE APPLES ARE DELICIOUS AND IN WINTER IT'S A SPLENDID PLACE FOR COASTING 0ecc8fab-1b19-4032-adec-a57b33e7fcfe 2368 SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE YONAS STARTED MUSING ON HEROES AGAIN BUT HE NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO MAKE A MOVE TOWARDS HER SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY 7bfbdc7e-4dfd-4679-ad4a-eb3200f12d86 2286 WHAT IN THE DEVIL DOES THIS NONSENSE MEAN CAPTAIN STEIG ASKED PEEVISHLY HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME 93335ded-edd3-49a6-bc43-10c0e3abdd81 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 e1460046-c8b9-4f72-b383-63fbf3fcd499 14 BUT SHE WAS AS PROUD AS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL SHE LAUGHED ALL HER SUITORS TO SCORN dbd800be-6468-4edd-bfaa-955ac3031bf0 402 IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY 2c63bd91-9124-4422-b12f-7d040f27c158 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 d4ad5c6e-b5ec-419e-a33c-ef9f84487408 32 MY OWN LIES OPEN BESIDE ME AS I WRITE ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING e323f516-dd05-4c45-82f0-0cd455ffb8e0 32 IT IS THE VERY SAME CUP SAID THE STORY GIRL IMPRESSIVELY ISN'T IT AN AMAZING THING THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE HAVE DRUNK FROM IT AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN BROKEN 5d62bc92-1bab-4308-8a84-0deab3833cd1 2312 IN THE CENTRE VALLEY THERE WERE FIVE THOUSAND ACRES OF SLAG AND VITRIFIED ROCK FROM SOME FORGOTTEN OLD BLAST THAT HAD MELTED THE HILLS AND DESTROYED THEIR MANTLE REDUCING ALL TO A TERRIBLE FLATNESS e196d29b-81b9-427d-82b9-f74fab1366dc 2182 THERE WILL BE NO LOSS TO EITHER FACTION NO LOSS JONIFER REPEATED INDIGNANTLY 8e9339d0-7d58-4ce7-b318-d97438a78a6f 402 FELICITY SOLD HERS TO UNCLE ALEC'S HIRED MAN AND WAS BADLY CHEATED TO BOOT FOR HE LEVANTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS TAKING THE APPLES WITH HIM HAVING PAID HER ONLY HALF HER RIGHTFUL DUE FELICITY HAS NOT GOTTEN OVER THAT TO THIS DAY 8a293695-0c8b-472c-a649-75a0da0ae913 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 274d3332-604d-4c7b-9502-1ef5eca5f85e 188 ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT AND DARK WE CELEBRATED THE NOVEMBER DAY WHEN PETER WAS PERMITTED TO REJOIN US BY A PICNIC IN THE ORCHARD SARA RAY WAS ALSO ALLOWED TO COME UNDER PROTEST AND HER JOY OVER BEING AMONG US ONCE MORE WAS ALMOST PATHETIC bb6f3f7e-1a2c-40fa-bb2e-cb704712667d 2137 THERE WAS AN ODD CLICKING SOUND AND HE STOPPED IT SOUNDED AGAIN BRANDON REALIZED HE WAS PERSPIRING DESPITE THE CHILL OF THE DESERT NIGHT f3836b12-5390-45e0-98cf-d74f8c7b3275 451 WELL THAT'S NEW AND PRETTY SAID THE STORY GIRL WE'LL LEND YOU SOME THINGS YOU CAN HAVE MY LACE COLLAR THAT'LL MAKE THE GINGHAM QUITE ELEGANT AND CECILY WILL ENDURE HER SECOND BEST HAT BUT I'VE NO SHOES OR STOCKINGS THEY'RE LOCKED UP TOO e6abb1fe-5629-425a-b07a-ff1786ad85d9 2286 I SAT BACK WITH A RELAXED SIGH AND LIT A CIGAR WOULDN'T YOU BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT ROBART WHO IS HOLDING YOU I SAID 2285958e-a627-4d88-b6f4-c9dd8cd5f565 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 5b8c8507-a607-4bc1-8786-5a69998a5cbe 2137 AFTER ALL HE THOUGHT THE EARTH HELD NO LIFE FOR THE BETTER PART OF ITS EXISTENCE AND TOWERS HAD SELECTED THIS PLANET BECAUSE IT BORE RELATIVELY THE SAME RELATIONSHIP TO THE BRIGHTER HOTTER SERIOUS AS DID THE EARTH TO THE SUN dafde4e3-432e-4ae2-9999-d956d7418e34 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 0274feb1-81fa-48c2-b7c9-5a9eb677bfd1 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 b7e6b30a-b73a-4546-8546-ccff141b84ac 2286 RAID THE MENTAL HOSPITALS AND JAILS DO THAT OFTEN ENOUGH AND YOU WOULD HAVE A CREW THAT WOULD MAKE ANY PIRATE CHIEF PROUD THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE efa864d1-260d-4bf8-b5ec-ce3d982bd7db 402 BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX cdf03bc9-9e1d-4ab8-97cd-61a5d9b5402e 198 VERY FEW CATS HAVE AND MOST OF THEM HAVE SUCH AN INORDINATE APPETITE FOR FLATTERY THAT THEY WILL SWALLOW ANY AMOUNT OF IT AND THRIVE THEREON 4d46f7fe-a114-4aaa-a6d4-efa3d442e04c 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 b033ab38-909d-4f40-aa6c-4a2a9e38d7ea 2368 THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF UNIMPORTANT YONAS THOUGHT THE MAN IS CONVINCED HE CAN BE TRAINED FURTHER AND JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD IT WILL TAKE TIME CLARTON SAID A FEW YEARS PERHAPS f9236951-bc08-4bae-9b30-d6abab56c91e 2425 FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW WHERE ARE WE SURELY LOOKING AT IT IN ONE WAY WE'RE LESS THAN A MILE FROM MY LABORATORY cf29ac68-9d96-4d88-8a18-a9e9fbb09042 2108 THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I HAVE TO CHIDE HIM GENTLY BOTH WITH MY TONGUE AND WITH MY BROOMSTICK BUT HE IS MY HUSBAND AND I MUST MAKE THE BEST OF HIM 7f56c6d9-abcc-4f2f-93dd-19a88aee00b8 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 15f4fb06-931b-441a-b195-2195378d44d0 32 FELICITY HAD NEVER RECEIVED A SHARPER SCOLDING BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY PHILOSOPHICALLY SHE WAS USED TO HER MOTHER'S BITTER TONGUE AND SHE WAS NOT UNDUALLY SENSITIVE 622feee8-8449-4343-844a-8e4b630b967e 2312 GAVE ME THE SLIP WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT WELL I'LL DO IT TOO I'M TOO WORN OUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE YOU DO MANOEL JUST A COUPLE OF LAST QUESTIONS MAKE THEM REEL FAST THEN I'M ON MY WAY 3f400dcf-929a-4cd8-97fc-c5721ac5e2d5 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 28b01a45-e1be-4be8-b759-3a245fd2eb85 2425 WELL I FINALLY DECIDED THAT MY GUN DID ANYTHING BUT FRIGHTEN THEM THEY WERE ANGRY WHEN I REFUSED TO DO ANY MORE SLAUGHTERING AND LED ME HERE 06b83cd1-b5dc-4d9b-9675-78006a18c07e 2317 THE GATE'LL STAY OPEN NOW UNTIL IT'S CLOSED FROM OUR SIDE BUT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OUTFIT BACK AND DESTROY IT ANYWAY OUR COPS WOULD BE TOUGH WITH YOU IF THEY FOUND YOU OPERATING THE THING AND FEDERATION SECURITY MEN WOULD BE EVEN TOUGHER TAKE IT AS A WARNING DON'T DO IT AGAIN 559534b8-cf1b-454b-a599-f2ecb4ebe127 2182 NO LOSS JONIFER REPEATED INDIGNANTLY BUT THEN THERE WON'T BE ANY DEMAND FOR OUR CRYSTALS WE'LL LOSE EVERYTHING WE'VE GAINED 060a647a-fd3d-4f9b-b448-16e1da135dd1 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 538afc87-218e-4f3d-ae5e-de68a57958dd 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 60dfadee-375a-41aa-b2b2-4900765301b8 32 FELICITY IS AFRAID SHE'S MISSED SOMETHING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF QUIET AMUSEMENT IS YOUR BREAKFAST READY FELICITY OR HAVE I TIME TO TELL THE BOYS THE STORY OF THE POET WHO WAS KISSED fb483e25-eb2f-4be9-a9c4-9b4df28a4720 2137 BRANDON COULD HEAR TOWER'S VOICE IN A VORTEX OF DARKNESS LET'S FACE IT BRANDON IS DEAD MUST IT BURNED WITH THE SHIP AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY THE REPORT WILL AID GET MAY RHINART YES SIR THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY 8ed35cd2-44c0-499e-9d19-01ee277de5ef 2368 YONAS WAS THANKFUL FOR THAT AND FOR THE REST WELL HE THOUGHT RESIGNEDLY WHAT WAS A HERO WITHOUT A QUEST a3ac1191-0d48-49ae-9cf8-9cfbbd2bf51f 2317 WHICH WASN'T STRICTLY TRUE THE BIG EARTH MAN WAS CUTE SHE THOUGHT AND IT WAS QUAINT OF HIM TO BE IN LOVE WITH HER AND TO TELL HER SO EVERY DAY OVER THE RADIO BELT INTO THE ROBOT NONIPUS 6a79d715-c5ec-40af-b7ce-62af1339f2c3 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 a5e9dd32-606c-4515-8cb4-ffe436c62c1d 2182 SHE FELL QUIET REMEMBERING THE ZID AND HE MADE HIS CALL AUBREY CHAIN ONE FORTY SEVEN COME IN CONSULATE HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS e63e6d6f-9cf6-4cb4-a1f5-1501484b8e50 2317 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION IN FARMER'S BRAIN THIS WAS TOO MUCH GARF HAD GONE TOO FAR THE BLURLY EDITOR PLUNGED ACROSS THE DESK SWINGING A FIST be11992b-63ef-4111-95f3-9fec28cfae82 2108 BUT AT TIMES THEY WERE SILENT FOR THESE THINGS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER MANY TIMES BETWEEN THEM AND THEY FOUND THEMSELVES CONTENTED AND MERELY BEING TOGETHER SPEAKING NOW AND THEN A BRIEF SENTENCE TO PROVE THEY WERE WIDE AWAKE AND ATTENTIVE e1b7165c-0eec-4da5-a542-f9b5170621b6 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 baca5cf4-eaff-410f-9fb3-ebd88d79c565 242 AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE I DON'T MEDDLE WITH HIRED BOYS PRAYERS SHE SAID HAUGHTILY 641b8e46-8e08-4193-86a3-bdbadee4e5b2 413 THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE THE RANCORVIE THAT LASTED SO LONG ON THE CONTRARY IT PASSED SPEEDILY AWAY NOT EVEN ONE LOW DESCENDING SUN GOING DOWN AND THEREOF BUT DIGNITY REMAINED TO BE CONSIDERED NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS 1d8d4ebf-6d20-4158-8258-04b4f342f7d2 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 3cc7cbaa-42c3-42eb-b6b8-c7080c684d45 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 481a6119-d738-4c08-a0d3-b49c06abf266 2368 CLARETON TRANSMITTED THE ENTIRE PICTURE IN ONE SUDDEN BLOW THE CHANCE THAT YONAS WOULD NOT BE KILLED IMMEDIATELY BUT WILL WE DISCOVERED THE CHANCE THAT THE INQUISITOR WOULD GET FROM HIM THE SECRET OF THE BROTHERHOOD THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE YONA SAID SAID CLARETON SOUNDED RESIGNED NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID 129d423f-ed56-4afb-bd1d-ac05e7b5e801 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 11ec1816-65fe-4717-8566-3def2b639208 14 I AM AFRAID THE REMEMBRANCE GREW A LITTLE DIM THE REST OF THE WEEK IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY b5fc86f0-758b-4756-8a1d-4b9b246a8f2f 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 dbab14c7-1b8b-445f-bc9e-faa1ee2fbe6f 1867 THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE 1bc7cd5a-bffe-4ac4-99b3-321e632a7649 32 BUT IF THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT DREAM ANYTHING MORE WONDERFUL THAN THE REST OF US SHE SCORED WHEN IT CAME TO THE TELLING TO HEAR HER TELL A DREAM WAS SO GOOD OR AS BAD AS DREAMING IT YOURSELF AS FAR AS WRITING THEM DOWN WAS CONCERNED I BELIEVED THAT I BEVERLY KING CARRIED OFF THE PALM 415d6831-df02-40c2-9ae4-98d3dc72c40a 2182 HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM COME OUT OF IT WILL YOU HE YELLED UNGALLANTLY IN HER EAR IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP 68a755df-4cb3-4cf3-bf46-83e118188027 2108 IF YOU DESIRE IT PROMISED THE TIN WOODMAN LEANING BACK IN HIS TIN THROAT AND CROSSING HIS TIN LEGS 21acd633-1f94-441a-b66f-3dbd5e9aa46b 1867 THE GRIN WAS EVEN WIDER NOW AND HE ACTUALLY CHORTELED AS HE THUMBED A BUTTON ON HIS CONSOLE A THICK LEGAL DOCUMENT SLID OUT OF THE DELIVERY SLOT ON HIS DESK THIS IS YOUR CONTRACT HE SAID IT TELLS HOW AND WHEN YOU WILL WORK a95ea0fe-2c1a-43f8-b28f-87e5e28c0b76 2312 HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN MAYBE NOT THEN THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS BUT I WASN'T SURE 32ffcb15-013b-45ef-bd08-5ea85d1e5978 2317 LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED 055c9455-48b3-4314-b336-0eb46bc0f8b1 198 NOT THE STORY GIRL HERSELF COULD HAVE INVESTED THAT SOMETHING WITH MORE OF A CREEPY HORROR WE ALL DREW CLOSE TOGETHER I FELT A CRINKLY FEELING ALONG MY BACK WHICH I HAD NEVER KNOWN BEFORE 01b1e9b4-0a02-4074-8634-8933d5cfc49b 2425 COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS f172dcec-1b38-41f5-bfe0-f41a6ff95ba1 242 REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX PETER ROGER IS LOOKING FOR YOU TO WASH HIS BUGGY BE OFF 54552dbe-2916-4683-bb80-376e3280a980 188 FELIX AND I LOOKED THE CHEST REVERENTLY I HAD TAKEN ON A NEW SIGNIFICANCE IN OUR EYES AND SEEMED LIKE A TOMB WHEREIN LAY BURIED SOME DEAD ROMANCE OF THE VANISHED YEARS WHAT HAPPENED TO WILL MONTAGUE I ASKED NOTHING d00937f7-ec35-4c6b-b831-455745b2c923 2108 AND NOW THE CANARY PERCHED UPON A STUMP A LITTLE WAY FROM THE FOREST BEAST AND SAID I AM GLAD OUR FRIEND HAS ESCAPED YOU BUT AS IT IS NATURAL FOR A HUNGRY BEAST TO WISH HIS BREAKFAST I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU ONE 0525764e-d2e1-44e0-bedc-06cd61bae0b7 402 THE RAINBOW HAD FADED OUT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE OCTOBER DUSK WAS FALLING I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT WHAT WOULD BE LIKE TO LIVE FOR EVER IN THIS WORLD 4381d15f-f6fa-4d67-a0f7-66abbc713519 2317 FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS 795c1eed-7451-4fd0-a13d-8a803c29d1cc 413 I COULDN'T GET A LOOK INTO HIS EYES IF HE WAS TRYING TO HOAX US THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A TWINKLE IN THEM HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON 899fed3a-c44f-432f-a7ca-36d9215ce99b 2137 NINE LIGHT YEARS AWAY OF COURSE THIRTEEN YEARS HAD PASSED ON EARTH SINCE THEY HAD LEFT BECAUSE THE TRIP TOOK FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA RELATIVE TIME BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS ea0c0e41-f8d4-4da0-89d5-743c422dd1fc 103 A QUEEN OF HEARTS I WAKENED SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE THE BOYS ALL THINK SO SAID THE STORY GIRL NOT I FANCIED QUITE WELL PLEASED AND I SUPPOSE SHE IS SHE IS A SPLENDID COOK TOO THOUGH SHE IS ONLY TWELVE 1d047d03-8f90-4986-a15d-fdba26e2c062 198 UNCLE ROGER ATE THREE SLICES OF IT AT TEA TIME AND TOLD FELICITY SHE WAS AN ARTIST THE POOR MAN MEANT IT AS A COMPLIMENT BUT FELICITY WHO KNEW UNCLE BLAIR WAS AN ARTIST AND HAD A POOR OPINION OF SUCH FRY LOOKED INDIGNANT AND RETORTED INDEED SHE WASN'T 38da0b2a-fcc0-4e9e-aa93-bc13369977f5 2317 AND THE SITUATION HAD THE ASPECTS OF A BURLESQUE ON GRAND HOTEL BUT 1f0363dc-6336-4a95-9d5b-cc340ed102d7 103 ABRAHAM KING SMILED AND BEING A MAN OF FEW WORDS SAID NOTHING BUT IN HIS MIND HE HAD A VISION OF THE YEARS TO BE AND IN THAT VISION HE SAW NOT RIPPLING ACRES OF HARVEST GOLD BUT GREAT LEAFY AVENUES OF WIDE SPREADING TREES LADEN WITH FRUIT TO GLADDEN THE EYES OF CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN YET UNBORN IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT fc55705e-6b07-4662-9b3c-17674e0bb5e0 14 I CAN EASILY PROVE IT BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS HE SAID BUT YOU MUST GO WITH ME TO MY KINGDOM FOR THE PROOF 701dba48-42a4-4557-ac16-17d9ba206fff 2137 ASTRO ONE THE MAN REMOVED HIS PITH HELMET TO WIPE HIS BROW AND BRANDON NOTICED THE GLEAMING U S INSIGNIA ON THE FRONT OF THE HELMET ASTRO ONE LEFT HER THIRTEEN YEARS AGO THE MAN SAID 0998eabd-302b-4147-a110-67a130e3fa6c 2312 ONE ELSE NO MANOEL NO ONLY THE PEOPLE NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL NOW I HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE TOO CLOSE A THING THAT SIZE COULDN'T CRACK A WALNUT 9ba93bc0-bb9f-43cf-b98e-a82ab60bcf6c 2368 AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND 43e9159a-2d96-4930-a6c8-9e474ef509e1 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 3cc8a9e5-09b0-4898-8b3a-c4f3b0cf3be8 2274 GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED ORAN BRAKED TO A CREAKING STOP THAT SHIFTED THE LOAD BEHIND HIM FOUND HIMSELF STARING THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD AT A NATIVE OF CHINA THREE 6215e86d-949a-4e5a-b338-59d15e10e6ae 2368 YONAH NODDED WERE THERE SUCH A PLAN HE SAID BE ASSURED I WOULD TELL YOU BUT THERE IS NONE YONAH SAID HERAKNUFF SHALL REMAIN FOR ALL THAT I CAN DO WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS SHARP OPENED HIS MOUTH SHUT IT AGAIN AND THEN SHRUGGED I SEE HE SAID AT LAST 91800bc2-597b-452b-9f36-24b826efd90a 1867 I DIVED THE EYE LOWER THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS 1e0bc790-aba6-41d7-9c66-514a382ff276 2182 LIKE A MAN IN A DREAM JEFF CAUGHT UP HIS COMMUNICATOR FROM THE TABLE AND HURLED IT THE ZID CAUGHT IT DEFTLY SANK GLISTENING TEETH INTO THE UNIT AND DEMOLISHED IT WITH A SINGLE SNAP d4065eec-91b7-4a8e-8531-a28afd0f2fbd 413 BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND IT BACK THERE ALONE SOME OF YOU FELLOWS MUST COME WITH ME I DON'T WANT YOU TO WORK BUT JUST FOR COMPANY IT WAS FINALLY DECIDED THAT DAN AND FELIX SHOULD GO I WANTED TO GO ALSO BUT THE GIRLS PROTESTED 7dfc1a93-f94e-4925-a96e-b49ce8601a81 188 WELL I PREACHED MY SERMON AND IT FELL HORRIBLY FLAT I REALIZED THAT BEFORE I WAS HALF WAY THROUGH IT I THINK I PREACHED IT VERY WELL AND NEVER A THUMP DID I FORGET OR MISPLACE BUT MY AUDIENCE WAS PLAINLY BORED 5febaa85-baaf-4097-ad39-22d7aee59389 242 HER EYES WERE DARK AND SOFT HER FOOT WAS AS LIGHT AS A BREEZE AND HER VOICE SOUNDED LIKE A BROOK IN THE WOODS OR THE WIND THAT COMES OVER THE HILLS AT NIGHT 5c8e9e7c-0690-49b1-9424-9b2283909897 402 WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER IN SERIOUS CONCLAVE IN THE ORCHARD THAT EVENING WE WERE ALL RATHER SHORT OF HARD CASH HAVING DEVOTED MOST OF OUR SPARE MEANS TO THE SCHOOL LIBRARY FUND 3c0c4a3d-975c-45cb-93e4-fe228f09757b 451 SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WAS A SPLENDID ONE THE VIEWS WERE GOOD AND THE LECTURER WITTY WE REPEATED HIS JOKES TO EACH OTHER ALL THE WAY HOME 172bdac5-2347-4911-bcec-314810594f43 451 JUST THINK HOW MANY NEW STORIES I'D HAVE TO TELL AFTER I'D HEARD HIM NO I MUST GO BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO I'LL WEAR MY SCHOOL DRESS AND HAT THAT WILL BE PENANCE OH IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR A MINISTER TO SPEAK OF HIM BUT IT ISN'T NICE FOR LITTLE GIRLS 5c37cf5e-026c-4273-adbd-d7ae1bafab52 451 YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE THERE WERE TWO MINISTERS IN PARTICULAR HE BLAMED FOR BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM YOU SHOULD BE RESIGNED TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE f5c929a9-4bbc-4102-90f4-c2cdc5909b41 242 FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE 4e1c861f-2a85-49c9-9cda-4f9475c62f8b 2312 HE WASN'T QUALIFIED HE COULDN'T READ A MAP HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A MAP WAS HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP 523e822b-dd54-435e-a2c2-775acbd8daad 1867 IT MUST HAVE BEEN A GRAND SIGHT THE EYE WAS CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE A FLYING LIZARD SORT OF A CARDBOARD PTERODACTYL AND THE SLOWLY FLAPPING WINGS OBVIOUSLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR FLIGHT BUT IT WAS IMPRESSIVE ENOUGH FOR THE NATIVES e13175b3-4ed5-4357-9f2f-dbbddc2f09d1 2317 FARMER'S MIND WORKED CHAOTICALLY THIS WAS PUZZLING HE DECIDED AND DID MAKE HIM FEEL INFERIOR THAT IS IT DID IF A MAN IN THE RED SCALES HAD REALLY PICKED UP ENGLISH SO QUICKLY 77fe6309-ffdf-4b27-91d3-ff007674a565 1867 I CURSED AND WHEELED THE EYE IN CIRCLES SCANNING THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP f4235300-a826-4106-bae7-16ebde35430e 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 5413d32d-a3b5-41aa-bc05-615a60e4aab2 2425 A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE AND A PROCESSION OF VERY ANCIENT BEINGS WHOM I TOOK TO BE THE PRIESTS OF THIS GOD CAME IN SINGLE FILE FROM BEHIND THE BLACK GOD DIRECTING THE CHANTING WITH MOVEMENTS OF THEIR ARMS f3e95ce0-70c0-4381-b855-5bc2121d166e 2182 THE CEREMIAN VANISHED THERE WAS A SLITHERING SOUND IN THE DISTANCE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MOUNTAIN IN MOTION AND WITH IT A STERTOROUS GRUNTING THAT ALL BUT DROWNED OUT THE ZID'S CRIES SOMETHING NUDGED THE COTTAGE WITH A FORCE THAT ALL BUT KNOCKED IT FLAT 5692c99f-dd96-46e4-b023-141dce79028d 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK af51cf2c-c55c-4b4f-b1de-4ae1262b62af 2368 MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE 5cce7518-747f-4171-bc31-b76fc13cd4ad 2274 YOUR CARD POPPED OUT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE DEPENDABLE AND EXPENDABLE HEY THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP 0d6eee79-c5c5-4246-9ec0-e19a2f4792e9 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 b5f1050c-f363-4743-b350-cff3af0afcb2 242 AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING HE WOULD HAVE FACED AN ARMY WITH BANNERS 2824cfae-aabd-4655-bda9-6da83b26c61a 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 73e0c8a2-4bd4-49d1-935a-bd816e23d2b8 2425 BELOW ME HEMMING ME IN WERE THE GUARDS A TRIPLE RING OF THEM THROUGH WHICH I KNEW I COULD NOT ESCAPE BEHIND ME FOR I WAS FACING THE MULTITUDE WAS THE HIDEOUS GRINNING FACE OF THE IDOL THE PRIESTS BOWED A SECOND TIME 8729a8ff-7e5a-4f03-876f-8ad6de72146a 2286 HE WAS AT MY MERCY REALLY HE WANTED TO SLEEP SO MUCH AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON SPEAKING SOFTLY BUT CLEARLY fbbbd3df-a9ee-4d7a-8698-5c21e98c9ba0 2425 I CAN'T PROVE IT WASN'T A NIGHTMARE CHUCKLED VIC COME ALONG AND I'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING YOU MISSED HE LED THE WAY TO THE LABORATORY AND UNLOCKED A DRAWER ONE OF SEVERAL BENEATH THE WORK TABLE 52590dd3-bd70-4ae4-bf4b-d35c787fff22 2286 BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDER WE'RE ALMOST READY TO GO THERE NOW AS SOON AS THIS BATCH OF INSTRUCTIONS GOES OUT CAPTAIN STAIN DROPPED THE RELEASES ON TO THE TABLE THEN CAREFULLY WIPED HIS HANDS OFF TO REMOVE ANY POSSIBLE INFECTION c1b2b6e5-162f-409a-80f6-c3ba250c88bb 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 850c92e7-2b0d-4b3d-85ba-8d5445cd49dd 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 40bd0817-a141-4351-91b6-a9f0c4de0188 14 MARRY ME NOW AND YOU AND I AND YOUR FATHER AND ALL YOUR COURT WILL RIDE STRAIGHTWAY TO MY KINGDOM AND IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED THEN THAT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS YOU MAY GIVE ME BACK MY RING AND RETURN HOME FREE OF ME FOR EVERMORE 1977f8e8-814f-4973-9b23-07210220705c 2317 RIGHT NOW HE WAS ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF HOW RIDICULOUS IT MUST LOOK FOR HIM TO BE MAKING LOVE TO AN OCCUPUS BUT HE WAS EVEN MORE CONSCIOUS OF THE VERY REAL PAINS OF UNREQUITTED LOVE f0e42c4e-40e2-4c90-8d4e-75c6b750dc64 14 FELICITY STARTED OFF INDIGNANTLY AND WE FOLLOWED PICKING UP SARA RAY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL 7f9c6a01-4359-4dea-a05b-653a749a594e 451 I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY 3595da9c-43ff-4df5-82c9-0bfce52404b5 2182 BETWEEN THEM THEY WEDGED THE BUNK AGAINST THE DOOR AND HELD IT IN PLACE THEN THEY STOOD LOOKING PALELY AT EACH OTHER AND WAITING FOR THE NEXT ATTACK HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE 5eb5bb97-67d0-49b7-98b2-26e43216058d 1867 HE WAS THE STENTORIAN VERSION OF A GOAT BOY HE HERDED A PARTICULARLY LOATHSOME FORM OF LOCAL LIFE IN THE SWAMPS OUTSIDE THE TOWN I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM e3296d9d-31c1-4358-b13b-f61c49ffc698 198 THERE HIS HEAD PILLOWED HARDLY ON UNCLE ROGER'S BOOTS LADY JIMMIE PATTERSON STILL SOUND ASLEEP WELL I'LL BE JIGGERED SAID UNCLE ROGER I KNEW HE NEVER WENT OUT OF THE DOOR CRIED DAN TRIUMPHANTLY ac92388d-7686-4394-b698-c708dcf35d24 198 I HAVE AN IDEA THAT A RASPBERRY PIE FOR TOMORROW NIGHT WHEN THE FOLKS COME HOME WOULD HIT THE RIGHT SPOT ACCORDINGLY AFTER TEA WE ALL SET OFF ARMED WITH JUGS AND CUPS 00f3c111-ced8-4ce4-a202-f40cd9dcf1b5 2286 HIS NAME OR UNDOUBTEDLY PSEUDA NAME IS PEPPET NERO THE GIRL IS CALLED ANGELINA ARREST THEM AT ONCE GUARDS DANCE PHARAOH'S VOICE DIED AWAY AS HE RAN OUT OF THE ROOM I TALKED TO HIS VANISHING BACK 5155f004-6106-43ae-8f46-07cb1247c958 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 c8130781-e0fe-4464-8d57-2e4bd59f4949 2182 HAULING A ZID FROM CANTHORIAN JUNGLES TO A SERIMIAN ZOO WAS A PROSAIC ENOUGH ASSIGNMENT SO LONG AS THE CAGE HELD BUT WITH THE RAGING BRUTES SWIFTLY SMELLING THEM OUT THEY WERE HELPLESS TO CATCH AND RESTRAIN IT ca2c18f2-4e32-47f1-a252-2728e1763350 451 SARA IS REAL SICK SHE SAID WITH REGRET AND SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT REGRET MINGLED IN HER VOICE SHE HAS A COLD AND A SORE THROAT AND SHE'S FEVERISH MISSUS RAY SAYS IF SHE ISN'T BETTER BY THE MORNING SHE'S GOING TO SEND FOR THE DOCTOR AND SHE IS AFRAID IT'S THE MEASLES 161144cf-0ae4-4b5f-9248-e0825f4243ad 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 204ad6d1-2762-4f33-8ead-9a31e049b3f0 242 IT WAS ULTIMATELY ARRANGED THAT THE COMBAT SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN THE FIR WOOD BEHIND UNCLE ROGER'S GRANARY IT WAS A NICE REMOTE BOSKY PLACE WHERE NO PROWLING GROWN UP WOULD BE LIKELY TO INTRUDE 6489eda1-a436-485f-a742-313b979eb2e2 32 HER BEST SET IS STILL COMPLETE AUNT OLIVIA HAS IT YOU MUST GET HER TO SHOW IT TO YOU 7d14c4ae-5f0f-4c01-b16b-99c51bbe30d3 2274 WE STETSON'S VOICE INTERRUPTED HIM GOT IT ORNE THEY CAUGHT THE DELPHINIS ON THE GROUND RIGHT WHERE YOU SAID IT'D BE BLEW THE TUBES OFF IT MURRAIN'S NOW MOPPING UP IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD bbd95c96-51ff-488e-8c58-982c42bffa5d 2425 NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY I THINK HIS NAME IS E PAY THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT MAYBE IT'S JUST THE TITLE BUT WHAT THEY'RE UP TO NOW I CAN'T EVEN GUESS KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH c5af5bcb-0b52-4247-8473-07851aca6813 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 d6dcae1c-bad5-4218-b5c7-73ab23660ba4 2312 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD WE OWN THE WORLD WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE 36c9220c-641b-4547-8af1-db5e8cbf0eb4 2312 SENT IT TO WASHINGTON YOU BUCK EYED BEEMOFF DO YOU REALIZE WHAT A TRICK THAT WILL BE YOU GRANDFATHER OF INANITIES IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO DESTROY YOU 1ada522e-15a0-47d1-adb6-036535b125fb 413 WHAT A BLACK AND ENDLESS LIST THEY MADE THOSE SINS OF OMISSION AND COMMISSION THAT RUSHED ACCUSINGLY ACROSS OUR YOUNG MEMORIES FOR AS THE LEAVES OF THE BOOK OF JUDGMENT WERE ALREADY OPENED AND WE STOOD AT THE BAR OF OUR OWN CONSCIENCES THAN WHICH FOR YOUTH OR ELSE THERE CAN BE NO MORE DREAD TRIBUNAL c04b057d-fcff-4f2e-9077-bce922e7cb9e 451 THE STORY GIRL WAS CRIMSON WITH INDIGNATION TO HAVE SUCH A REMARK MADE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE FOURTEEN AND A HALF AND BEFORE THE BOYS TOO REALLY AUNT JANET COULD BE VERY DREADFUL 3c59a546-8ada-4a87-95fe-85fdd5b3970f 242 PETER'S PRAYER WAS WRONG BECAUSE IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER I GUESS SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT 50fef8a3-150f-43a4-b1f2-0509a50329e4 451 NEVERTHELESS WHEN IT GREW DARK AND WE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE I NOTICED THAT DAN WAS RATHER PALE AND QUIET HE LAY DOWN ON THE KITCHEN SOFA DO YOU FEEL ALL RIGHT DAN I WHISPERED ANXIOUSLY SHUT UP HE SAID 3abf1053-f0f3-492c-8982-ebec10befc4c 198 BUT AUNT OLIVIA WON'T LET ME WASTE THE STUFF MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK 2eb9dc78-6d40-420a-9cc7-b5428bb73028 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 42ea15e5-4b8d-46d4-ac0e-ae474f4462d8 2368 WELL THEN THE OLD WOMAN SAID AND STARTED TO DRAW BACK JONAS GESTED LAZILY WITH ONE HAND WAIT HE SAID I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR HOUSE AWAY FROM YOU MADAM I AM ONLY HERE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION eb020ec9-b21a-457d-b6d6-1f2e724467c0 451 SARA RAY CAME UP BUT WAS SO SNUBBED BY FELICITY THAT SHE WENT HOME CRYING FELICITY GOT THE DINNER BY HERSELF DISDAINING TO ASK OR COMMAND ASSISTANCE SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA b80d3d9d-d8ac-4c30-b09e-4e092114ff07 198 THERE WE STOOD IN A HUDDLED DEMORALIZED GROUP OH WHAT AN EERIE PLACE THAT ORCHARD WAS WHAT SHADOWS WHAT NOISES WHAT SPOOKY SWOOPING BATS YOU COULDN'T LOOK EVERY WAY AT ONCE AND GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHAT MIGHT BE BEHIND YOU THERE CAN'T BE ANYBODY AT THE HOUSE SAID FELICITY 1cf779c7-e083-404c-8c5c-aafcd81d2969 413 HE WOULDN'T BE RUNNING SO FAST FOR GOOD NEWS SAID DAD CYNICALLY WE WERE NOT LEFT LONG IN DOUBT THE AUTCHA GOAT FLEW OPEN AND FELIX WAS AMONG US ONE GLIMPSE OF HIS FACE TOLD US THAT HE WAS NO BEARER OF GLAD TIDINGS HE HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUBICUND 9bcc7251-1f3d-4c1c-abde-1483bceed0cb 413 WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT WE WENT 61aa83ca-0fe4-46ab-a78e-b769e88c3abc 2274 USE THE BACK DOOR RULE SON ALWAYS LEAVE YOURSELF AWAY OUT NOW LET'S CHECK THAT EQUIPMENT THE SURGEON'S PUT IN YOUR NET STETSON PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT HIS MOUTH REMAINED CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A SURF HISSING VOICE IN ORNE'S EARS YOU READ ME 8c4f625f-8c47-4577-8117-7462c6f6026a 2108 WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF ANSWERED THE EMPEROR AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS INCLUDING THE WINKIES bb805abf-2512-46ed-85f5-92fd6a084d8d 2425 VIC HOPE I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES THERE WAS NO RESPONSE IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS d5f80a0e-1fc4-47d4-bfe3-1eb9803782ab 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 a56d967b-3bcc-457c-a84a-d6ed009223ec 198 BITTER INDEED WAS THE STORY GIRL'S MORTIFICATION DON'T TELL UNCLE ROGER SHE IMPLORED HUMBLY OH I WON'T TELL HIM PROMISED FELICITY AMIABLY IT'S LUCKY THERE IS ENOUGH OLD BREAD TO DO TO DAY THIS WILL GO TO THE HENS BUT IT'S AN AWFUL WASTE OF GOOD FLOUR 3e758898-0405-42f8-8dbf-b60cdaafeed5 32 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT THERE WAS NO FINDING IT OUT FROM THE STORY GIRL SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER cbecaf6c-7072-4c27-97c7-5b56f3676f7a 14 HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED NOT HER FAULT OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT 75a4314e-5963-4d2c-98bb-247dc186f270 2425 THEY ARE NOT INTELLIGENT THINGS THAT WOULD KILL A MAN OF OUR OWN WORLD HAVE NO EFFECT ON THEM FOR REMEMBER THEY ARE NOT PHYSICAL BEINGS YOU HAVE SEEN THEM APPEAR OUT OF THIN AIR AND DISSOLVE IN THE SAME FASHION a506ca3e-59fa-4cbe-b3ec-ae9c13aaad94 413 THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN 67151085-bf35-4c49-905b-2017cf721c10 2286 WHAT DO YOU WANT THESE WERE THE FIRST WORDS PEPPER HAD SPOKEN SINCE HIS FIRST THREATS I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ARRANGE A DEAL SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROFITABLE TO BOTH OF US BUT LET ME FIRST SHOW YOU THE REST OF THE BOMBS SO YOU WON'T GET ANY STRANGE IDEAS ABOUT CORPORATING 044187de-4d77-402b-8929-b9f3511d8fa9 413 CECILY AND SARA RAY WHO HAD COME UP TO SPEND THE DAY WITH US HER MOTHER HAVING GONE TO TOWN WERE EATING TIMOTHY ROOTS BERTHA LAURANCE A CHARLOTTETOWN GIRL WHO HAD VISITED KITTY MARIN JUNE AND HAD GONE TO SCHOOL ONE DAY WITH HER HAD EATEN TIMOTHY ROOTS AFFECTING TO CONSIDER THEM GREAT DELICACIES b0c09ab8-9100-4f95-b112-e090ffab320e 2137 A CLOUD OF POWDERY DUST SETTLED OVER HIS LEGS THE LIGHTNESS IN HIS HEAD TOLD HIM THAT HIS OXYSM WAS RUNNING OUT THE WEAKNESS IN HIS MUSCLES REMINDED HIM THAT IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE HE HAD WALKED IN THE PLANET'S GRAVITY 60830e88-7fcc-4e30-b7fa-f66f490bda50 2425 PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR LISTEN PETE I THINK I SEE THROUGH THIS THESE PRIESTS HAVE HEARD ABOUT US AND OUR DEATH DEALING ABILITY THEY'RE JEALOUS THEY WANT A CORNER ON THAT 6a9e7d88-94bb-4eaa-8b48-ed3d9be66e0f 1867 IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING 38872571-030e-4278-afe4-41c84284ae77 2368 A STRANGER KENUF SAID WHO ENTERS A SMALL CITY IS SEEN AT MYSTERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS PLUCKS WORDS OUT OF THE CENTRE OF A MAN'S MIND WHY THE PICTURE IS A CLASSIC ONE DELRIO HIMSELF HOLSINGER OR ANY OF THE OTHERS COULD NOT DESCRIBE A BETTER e5470949-a1e6-46e6-b759-b35ec4577b89 1867 A TOUCH ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE DROPPED A STEEL PLATE OVER MY EYES UNDER THE PLASTER SKIN I JAMMED THE IRON HARD INTO MY PHONY EYE SOCKETS AND THE PLASTI GAVE OFF AN AUTHENTIC ODOR A CRY WENT UP FROM THE CROWD AS I DROPPED THE IRON AND STAGGERED IN BLIND CIRCLES 6b7f4a2a-eafa-4651-a195-68a5c2ecaf63 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 1f41c4b8-d511-40e6-8669-2024c9f0bc51 198 AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN AWKWARD MAN THERE IN THE HEART OF THE MAPLE WOODS HE STRODE ALONG RIGHT MASTERFULLY AND LIFTED HIS HEAD WITH THE AIR OF ONE WHO WAS MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED 8d83ce48-e415-4666-a623-1dedda627eb4 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 da424622-5c70-4cac-8d39-c84713861aa6 32 AND WHILE SHE WAS WAITING THERE THINKING SUCH LOVELY THOUGHTS A NEIGHBOR'S BOY CAME RUNNING UP A BOY WHO DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HER ROMANCE AND CRIED OUT THAT MALCOLM WARD HAD BEEN KILLED BY HIS GUN GOING OFF ACCIDENTALLY 7f9144b1-85a2-438b-ab9c-bbe2d15e7c7c 32 SHE WAS NOT A GREAT AUNT THEN OF COURSE SHE WAS ONLY EIGHTEEN WITH RED LIPS AND BLACK BLACK HAIR AND EYES THIS PETER WAS A SLIM SHAPELY FELLOW WITH LAUGHING BLACK EYES AND THICK BLACK CURLS f132eb27-ab0f-4330-9148-b3c50bd4b898 2286 ACTING ON MY ORDERS THE SHIP DROPPED OUT OF WARP DRIVE SO OUR SIAMEN COULD GET THROUGH TO THE OTHER OPERATORS CAPTAIN STENG GRUMBLED AS WE FLOATED THERE WITH THE ENGINES SILENT WASTING PRECIOUS DAYS WHILE HALF HIS CREW WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING OUT WHAT APPEARED TO BE INSANE INSTRUCTIONS MY PLAN WAS BEYOND HIS UNDERSTANDING ff1bc0a2-6eda-44f8-aa02-280c929196af 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 1b11bfbe-0773-4a52-8234-c2d3dafafda4 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 ec36a9c8-784c-47f7-b36b-c0bcb39a0432 2425 AS MANY AS POSSIBLE WHEN I FOUND MYSELF HERE I WANDERED NEARLY TO THE CITY BEFORE I WAS MOLESTED WHEN THEY DID APPEAR AND TRIED TO LAY HANDS ON ME I WARNED THEM BACK AND FINALLY SHOT ONE OF THEM ab7e84b4-2531-4e87-885a-da382d3a0a22 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 f780ef5a-a7e4-44e6-b4c6-479a2d033eca 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 31f2e100-ce1b-49a9-baab-92728a3ccd3e 2274 WE'VE A AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED NOW WHAT ROARED STETSON INTO THE SPEAKER I'VE GOT A MANY OVER THAT MOB STEAD THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US IT'S A DEFINITE RAIDING PARTY WHAT ARMAMENT 3a7dc88d-2e44-4a74-b0d6-ddeb59cadb23 2274 WHAT THE JUMPED UP MAZOO ARE WE DOING HERE STEAT ASKED THORN ALIEN CALLS FOR FULL CONTACT TEAM WITH ALL THAT IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB BUSTER IN FIVE DAYS 769d4c1a-f522-4f9a-b231-e1ce461d864e 2368 TO SAY TO YOU REGARDING YOUR PLAN SHARP SAID SURELY YOU HAVE A PLAN AND IF I MAY PLAY ANY PART IN IT YOU'RE JUST BLINKED PLAN HE SAID 2ada5bf5-fd52-4791-9415-3dd3ee381de9 2182 MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY bc976ae3-3182-479a-98e9-21830be4a852 2182 HE CUT THE CIRCUIT HURRYING TO HAVE HIS COMMUNICATOR STOWED AWAY BEFORE OLD CHARLEY'S ARRIVAL NOT HE THOUGHT BITTERLY THAT BEING FOUND OUT NOW WOULD MAKE ANY GREAT DIFFERENCE 9b071b79-d8f7-43cb-b18a-e3b94959d9e0 451 THEY CEASED AND ALL HEAVEN WAS HUSHED THROUGH THE SILENT SOUNDS OF THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY NAY HE SAID WHATSOEVER IN MY UNIVERSE TRUE LOVE HAVE BUILT NOT EVEN THE ALMIGHTY CAN DESTROY THE BRIDGE MUST STAND FOREVER a23d1fac-aa7e-4d37-b5e8-44e4ca805f6a 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 c520000d-5a52-4156-b44d-6b9ca187fe56 2274 YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY I DON'T LIKE THIS STEP YOU DON'T LIKE IT 86f02e09-97e0-411b-8696-b9b4a9572c2a 2286 IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED OF COURSE YOU DON'T EXPECT THEM TO FIRE WARSHIP PLANS WITH THE LEGAL REGISTRY DO YOU BUT AS I SAID I KNOW MORE THAN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SHIPS IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED 92b0380b-0a1a-4fa6-8812-a8bbd7712af1 2368 HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID 1b1cb8c6-4f2a-496b-9f6d-e1099e97f04f 2286 FERERO PULLED AWAY FROM THE ROBART'S HAND AS IF IT HAD BEEN A POISONOUS SNAKE I BLEW A RELAXED SMOKE RING REPORT I SAID TO THE ROBOT HAS THIS MAN TOLD ANY LIES MANY THE ROEBOT SAID EXACTLY SEVENTY FOUR PER CENT OF ALL STATEMENTS HE MADE WERE FAKE 6761d299-ed06-4760-971f-50477872d84b 198 UNCLE ROGER CAN LAUGH SAID CICELY WITH A QUIVER IN HER VOICE BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER TO BE SO SCARED I FEEL JUST SICK I WAS SO FRIGHTENED I WOULDN'T MIND IF HE'D LAUGH ONCE AND HAVE IT DONE WITH IT SAID FELICITY BITTERLY BUT HE'LL LAUGH AT US FOR A YEAR AND TELL THIS STORY TO EVERY SOUL THAT COMES TO THE PLACE 23872853-76f6-451a-bc85-defd4d26d76a 1867 I CHECKED ALL THE PARTS BY SCREEN BEFORE THEY WERE LOADED IN A METAL CRATE IN THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE DAWN THE HEAVY DUTY EYE DROPPED THE CRATE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND DARTED AWAY WITHOUT BEING SEEN I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT e2d51709-84f8-4c0b-b24d-3389fba8339c 2274 STETSON SHRUGGED I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ROUGH AS THAT EH ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST d8a5a198-4d47-4aae-81bf-4f38d46cf146 14 NONE OF THE GROWN UPS WERE GOING TO CHURCH AUNT OLIVIA HAD A SICK HEADACHE AND UNCLE ROGER STAYED HOME WITH HER AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE TO THE MARKDALE SERVICE AND HAD NOT YET RETURNED f1cf2325-dd37-4783-b3fa-bda8c5575e10 32 I DIDN'T TELL CECILY TO DRINK THE MILK AND THE CUCUMBER ALONE WOULDN'T HAVE HURT HER HE GRUMBLED I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF 62ce0bee-cb27-490d-a30e-b30a03aeec81 2368 THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME AT LAST KNOOF NODDED THE DEVIL GRANTS TO MANY HIS POWER OF SEEING THE MINDS OF MEN HE SAID QUIETLY 382800a7-a362-41b0-b383-aeba73318186 2108 SINCE THE SAW HORSE COULD UNDERSTAND HER SPOKEN WORDS OZMA USED NO REINS TO GUIDE HIM SHE MERELY TOLD HIM WHERE TO GO 11c0c8f0-0b1b-4b2e-9c41-fbecdf69713e 2108 AIR EXCLAIMED WOOT STARING IN ASTONISHMENT INTO THE RABBIT'S BLUE EYES WHO EVER HEARD OF AIR SO SOLID THAT ONE CANNOT PUSH IT ASIDE f4982089-4cb0-4856-ae9f-fe3d1211dec2 2286 PLANETARY POLICE ARE ALL PUSH OVERS AND YOU START TO FEEL YOU CAN GO ON FOR EVER IF THEY'RE YOUR ONLY COMPETITION acbee218-1ceb-4fcb-af7b-f2917be856ee 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 a8e2e223-53ac-4967-bbc4-86f0a9da5469 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 3f1ba58c-7c3c-44a5-989f-ed4c14daaadb 402 HE GAVE UP TRYING AFTER A WHILE AND HE ALSO GAVE UP PRAYING ABOUT IT SAYING IN BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT THAT THERE WAS NO USE IN PRAYING WHEN OTHER FELLOWS PRAYED AGAINST YOU OUT OF SPITE HE AND PETER REMAINED ON BAD TERMS FOR SOME TIME HOWEVER ed76d414-cf52-4c58-8c06-a53c09463427 14 NONE OF US UTTERED A WORD UNTIL WE REACHED THE ROAD LYING IN THE WHITE MOONSHINE OF THE MAY NIGHT THEN FELICITY BROKE THE TENSE SILENCE BY REMARKING TO THE STORY GIRL I TOLD YOU SO 73b1a0be-72ea-4f73-8b0b-6d9cb6c4b51c 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 0c55dddc-6066-4132-8702-fcf5c65a1d7d 2286 ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW 9c220339-e5e9-4788-8101-92f77e970fef 2317 IT WASN'T EVEN A RESPECTABLE ORDINARY LOOKING OCCUPANT TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS EACH OF THE NINE TINNACLES HAD A LOBSTERISH CLAW AT ITS TIP AND THERE WERE VARIOUS OTHER UNUSUAL APPENDAGES 2f64b950-9bcb-41e9-9b87-22e2a9301b24 413 DO YOU SUPPOSE IT WILL DO ANY GOOD BETH VERY LIKELY I ASSURED HER REMEMBER SARA RAY AND THE MONEY BACK CAME FROM PRAYING I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE 5c560051-c8bd-4c3d-b263-4589c1d5ab64 2425 INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE IT WAS HER DANGER AND NOT HIS OWN THAT HAD BROUGHT THAT HAGGARD PALLOR TO HIS FACE IN SO SHORT A TIME THAT'S WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT OF THESE PEOPLE IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT WANT OF US b0d1e2f6-24db-42ed-8dd4-104e774322e5 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 3ffddd2f-2301-42dc-b71f-7598f705d114 451 THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS WE WERE ALL IN THE HAYLOFT THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TELLING US TALE OF OLD UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO fb4980a6-a822-41e8-8728-a5adf51accf5 1867 THE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY CALLED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED TROUBLE SHOOTING HYPERSPACE BEACONS ARE TO LAST FOR EVER OR DAMN CLOSE TO IT WHEN ONE OF THEM BREAKS DOWN IT IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT AND REPAIRING THE THING IS NEVER A MATTER OF JUST PLUGGING IN A NEW PART 6481b4a1-72b6-4167-a085-31009e528b30 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 aab1ee92-eec8-492f-a496-78466f876393 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER I'M MATTER AND YOU'RE MATTER WHY DON'T WE BUMP INTO THINGS cb3a8e6b-d8a5-482d-ac4e-1eab8011c5f7 242 SHE WORE I REMEMBER A DRESS OF WARM CRIMSON AND SHE HAD WOUND AROUND HER A STRING OF WAXBERRIES THAT LOOKED LIKE A FILLET OF PEARLS HER CHEEKS WERE STILL FLUSHED WITH THE EXCITEMENT OF THE EVENING IN THE DIM LIGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A WILD MYSTIC LOVELINESS A COMPELLING CHARM THAT WOULD NOT BE DENIED 03b2b32d-5b6c-43e2-ad0b-aa8e405b08c7 413 YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I'M EVER GOING TO PUT IN THE AFTERNOON 8a486173-24c6-4f8b-a9fa-e8bd14fe0ed1 2182 OF THE SHIP'S SOCIAL QUARTET CHAFFISH ONE AND TWO WERE ASLEEP AT THE MOMENT DREAMING WISTFUL DREAMS OF CONICAL SERIMIAN CITIES SPEARING UP TO A SOFT AND PLUM COLORED SKY fe1f4d3e-c5fc-440e-82be-848841494bc3 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 bc9eeb4b-494d-4bc0-9974-a274cdebbb13 242 AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND I DID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IT a2e1519f-cf17-4257-bf23-6988d5fe46cc 2137 CHARGING A WALK AROUND OXYGEN BOTTLE HE TRANSFERRED HIS OXYGEN HOSE TO IT HE SNAPPED THE SURVIVAL KID TO HIS BELT AND PICKED UP THE TELETOKEY THE SHIP WAS MORE THAN A THOUSAND YARDS AWAY 7e47046e-0109-4f9b-906a-c51b5a6b00ad 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 26673350-6a79-4816-af29-29dc81c54399 188 I WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT HE ADVANCED THREATENINGLY BUT AGLEIA RAN AS HARD AS SHE COULD UP THE MOUNTAIN IF SHE COULD ONLY REACH GLECON SHE WOULD PROTECT HER PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS 9e4e7018-961b-4e27-b73f-f015b9c516e1 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 e4b6ec17-16fc-4176-8f4f-f0c3623e04b6 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 0f1938cb-c1d9-4de9-a542-c8367ea5c887 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 2661b25d-0b70-4ee5-867f-a7840791c640 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 b9452fc1-49f6-4d7b-9c0c-ebdee0dc45e1 2286 FUEL HAD BEEN TAKEN CARE OF FIRST THE GUTTED HULL OF OCKITT'S DREAM WAS SILENT WITNESS TO THAT THERE WERE COUNTLESS PLANETS THAT COULD BE USED AS A BASE GETTING A CREW WOULD BE MORE DIFFICULT IN THESE PEACE TIMES THOUGH I COULD THINK OF A FEW ANSWERS TO THAT ONE TOO 1a9cf60d-c3a1-42c0-84ee-1f34b44e9cd2 2137 AGAIN HE MOVED ON THE SOUND FADING IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND HIM THE NEXT MILE BROUGHT HIM TO A GREAT SHEET OF ANCIENT LAVA LAID BARE BY THE ELEMENTS HE CLIMBED TO THE TOP THE FIRE STILL SEEMED TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND YARDS AHEAD BEYOND A RIDGE OF LOW HILLS 56865bd6-1d61-4f89-a1fd-ef59da914f49 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 d016cc5d-4e41-4358-9f61-c8b4bc2df0ae 14 UNCLE ROGER WANDERED BY AT THIS MOMENT AND BEHOLDING PETER SAID IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL THE OLD OLD ARGUMENT I SUPPOSE BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR fdabe87b-4126-474b-aaf0-89efaeec4abf 32 THAT WAS AN UNCANNY EXHIBITION FOR A GIRL OF FOURTEEN YOU KNOW ROGER SAID AUNT OLIVIA MUSINGLY WHAT IS IN STORE FOR THAT CHILD a38cbdd2-4a8f-4f1d-80bc-514851578fac 2137 BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER 4a62cfc3-4bae-4184-96b4-c639a10dc04c 32 UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER AND AUNT JULIA WHOSE VOICE WAS TO DELIGHT THOUSANDS SANG HER EARLIEST MAGICALS THERE THE STORY GIRL MOUNTED TO THE LEDGE SAT ON THE RIM AND LOOKED AT US c558025e-5d88-4f24-99cd-2005ee5ff5a2 188 NEIL CAMPBELL WHO WAS HIGHLAND SCOTCH AND LIVED DOWN AT BERWICK WAS COURTING NANCY SHERMAN TOO AND WHAT WAS FAR WORSE NANCY'S FATHER FAVOURED HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A RICHARD MAN THAN DONALD FRASER 33e0187f-dcb2-486e-8276-dbb3263836b1 242 TRULY WE HAD HAD A DELECTABLE SUMMER AND HAVING HAD IT IT WAS OURS FOREVER THE GODS THEMSELVES CANNOT RECALL THEIR GIFTS THEY MAY ROB US OF OUR FUTURE AND EMBITTER OUR PRESENT BUT OUR PAST THEY MAY NOT TOUCH WITH ALL ITS LAUGHTER AND DELIGHT AND GLAMOUR IT IS OUR ETERNAL POSSESSION 282227af-9a11-4fc1-9698-036576b4f047 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 7e355f5e-d0e5-4e34-80d9-ad6c3191120d 242 ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM THEN HE HE WENT THROUGH THE WOODS IN STARLIGHT AND FELT SO HAPPY AND LIGHT OF HEART THAT HE SOMETIMES FRISKED AND CAPERED ABOUT JUST AS A REAL MOOSE WOULD DO b1276e60-3982-4c6b-bc6d-33a83b971c41 1867 THIS FITTED IN WITH WHAT I COULD MAKE OUT OF THE LOCAL RELIGION GOAT BOY STOPPED AS IF HE'D BEEN SHOT 1460882e-e88d-4d7d-b417-b51740faae7a 451 FELICITY FLUNG THE LAST SENTENCE AT THE STORY GIRL WHO TURNED VERY PALE OH DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE CAUGHT THEM AT THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW SHE SAID MISERABLY 2c25c818-3e90-4f3f-90bf-f4155614ca86 451 IF SARA RAY HAD REALLY ENJOYED THE SHOW I WOULDN'T MIND BUT SHE DIDN'T I COULD SEE THAT SO I'VE DONE WRONG AND MADE HER DO WRONG AND THERE'S NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT ab5fb4bf-16d9-43b4-bb5d-f20cc7e4ec97 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 58c86f8d-ad7d-463d-83d0-25b04c30bbba 2182 AS IT WAS THEY HAD BARELY TIME TO TELEPPORT THEMSELVES TO THE AFTER HOLD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IMMEDIATE DANGER AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL e0a1f063-5440-475a-906a-0d21f666331f 2425 AT MY LEFT WAS A SIZABLE PIECE OF APPARATUS THAT WAS STRANGE TO ME ON A SMALL ENAMELED TABLE BESIDE IT WAS A RATHER LARGE SHEET OF PAPER WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A CRACKED FLORENCE FLASK IN A SORT OF PANIC I SNATCHED UP THE PAPER cdaddbb1-8c1c-4336-8db6-ea662112ca95 198 OH IT MEANS IF ANYTHING HAPPENS SOMETHING ELSE IS SURE TO HAPPEN SAID THE STORY GIRL I'LL ILLUSTRATE THERE'S MISSUS MURPHY SHE NEVER HAD A PROPOSAL IN HER LIFE TILL SHE WAS FORTY AND THEN SHE HAD THREE AND THE ONE WEEK AND SHE WAS SO FLUSTERED SHE TOOK THE WRONG ONE AND HAS BEEN SORRY EVER SINCE 4d3605e3-f20c-4a2e-a8d3-3371c799aa23 2274 I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE 0bb0c48b-f15b-44d3-8591-7dbde5c6d9f7 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 f11d7eec-d91f-42da-a96c-15ad2bda9148 198 THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE QUALITY OF A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES THAT FROZE HER YOUNG BLOOD THERE NEVER WERE IN ALL THE WORLD SIX MORE BADLY SCARED CHILDREN THAN THOSE WHO HUDDLED IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD THAT AUGUST NIGHT 4d89a289-d4ff-4901-9c83-6ddfccfbff06 2108 IF POLYCHROME THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WHO WAS A REAL FAIRY HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED IN SLAVE BY THIS HUGE WOMAN THAT CLAIMED TO BE A YUKEO WHAT WAS LIABLE TO HAPPEN TO THEM 8a27e106-5c41-49e3-b2bd-7dabf88bdf6f 2286 IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SHIP AND THE DOCK YARD HAD BEEN LAVISH WITH HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM BOW TO REAR TUBE SHE WAS PLAITED IN PURE GOLD A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME 1213431e-f7b9-4fce-9769-bc871806a052 2425 THEN A SHRILL CRY WENT UP A CRY THAT DROWNED UTTERLY THE HUMMING SOUND THAT ISSUED FROM THE SHATTERED MOUTH OF THE IDOL 112cd059-e90d-4e57-a8e6-cd2c99f6437e 451 ONE DAY THE YOUNG MINISTER WAS VISITING THE CRAWFORDS IN MARKDALE WHEN THEY SUDDENLY HEARD OLD MISTER SCOTT'S VOICE IN THE KITCHEN 9ed6dc39-a8de-472a-b3ea-0e84a0fe6e2a 2425 LET'S GO INSIDE I HURRIED BY PEERING AND THROUGH THE COOL QUIET HALL TO THE BROAD DOOR THAT OPENED INTO THE BIG ROOM AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WHICH WAS VIC'S LABORATORY 6129a5a9-30b8-4d19-a776-10cbb712e13c 188 AS HE BROUGHT NEIL'S SLEIGH UP TO THE DOOR HE SAW A BLACK SPECK FAR OUT ON THE BAY AND LAUGHED BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID 2eba8529-5f01-45d8-b68e-adb909200da6 188 SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS I JUMPED AT THE OFFER BILLY WAS TALLER THAN ANY OF THE BOYS OUR AGE IN CARLISLE AND HE ASSURED ME IT ALL CAME FROM TAKING MAGIC SEED e0540c23-7568-4351-834c-b3f30f0516eb 2425 HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT EACH WORE UPON HIS FOREHEAD A GLEAMING SCARLET STONE BOUND IN PLACE BY A CIRCLET OF BLACK METAL OR WHAT LOOKED LIKE METAL b27b335e-cb42-4e49-b592-16aa6dc968f5 2286 I KEPT THE GUN ON HIM AND NEITHER OF US MOVED WHILE THE NAVY SHIPS PULLED UP AND THEIR BOOTS STAMPED OUTSIDE I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER 749731aa-e1d0-46ef-88dd-bb883fd648b0 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 7573c8b9-388e-410c-b1d6-2ff9738f06a5 2137 NEGATIVE MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE CHOPPED OFF THE POWER 0a1fd94a-2e07-4f82-84f4-d66a9a68f78c 2317 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM 37ae4483-3dad-4008-917c-e716f076f55a 2182 JENIFER WHO SAILED WITH HER UNCLE AND DID A CREWMAN'S WORK AS A MATTER OF COURSE WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM 532e986d-b4ce-4c79-97cb-95427fc82bbe 2368 I HOLD THIS HOUSE FREE AND PROPER SHE SAID IN A DETERMINED ROAR AND NOBODY CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME IT BELONGS TO ME AND TO MY CHILDREN AND TO THEIR CHILDREN AND TO THE CHILDREN OF THOSE CHILDREN THE CATALOGUE SEEMED LIKELY TO GO ON FOR EVER EXACTLY JONAS SAID HASTILY a48049f2-fbcd-4891-be1b-68fe4b31da61 198 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 I HAVE A NOTION WHO ALICE IS ALREADY SAID THE MYSTERIOUS CREATURE BUT SHE WOULD TELL US NOTHING MORE 00de33b7-7099-4516-8956-9e40f09d4c4f 402 AS IT WAS NOT IN PETER TO BE A MALINGERER HE WAS LEFT IN PEACE WHILE WE PICKED APPLES 6c06736d-b2a1-494d-a6fe-2a14e1680d3b 2425 WE PAUSED AND THE CHANTING WENT ON AND ON UNTIL I BEGAN TO WONDER IF ANYTHING WOULD EVER HAPPEN de7ee444-be51-416a-b364-14d6887f2087 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 00d985ab-2a41-4c78-b341-d856bfbc13bd 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 f18553a0-95d9-4168-b5e6-73505c415146 2286 OF COURSE THIS COULD ALL BE COINCIDENCE THE PLANS OF A NEWLY BUILT SHIP AGREE INTO SIX PLACES WITH THOSE OF A SHIP BUILT A THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND IF YOU THINK SO I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED TO ONE ODDS YOU ARE WRONG ANY SIZE BET YOU NAME 9c51bd0a-18c7-41b7-bfe0-fa85327c9924 2137 WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS THERE WAS A PAUSE AND BRANDON COULD ALMOST SEE COLONEL TOWERS DRAWING UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT ON A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM KNOW THAT MEANS REINART d1fc16d1-31eb-4f2b-971a-fc577b6c2f7b 1867 NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY 07dc716a-c352-40ea-a6b8-4590b73dd470 14 I I DON'T KNOW SAID FELICITY RELUCTANTLY I SUPPOSE CHILDREN CAN'T UNDERSTAND SUCH THINGS THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS ANYHOW I'M A PRESBYTERIAN AND I'M GLAD OF IT e4fc1452-ae64-4d97-90fb-3bc2ff36f457 242 SHE STOLE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL SHE CAME TO THE BRINK OF A LITTLE VALLEY BELOW HER STOOD THE SNOW WHITE MOOSE c0e695b1-0a17-40fd-ad67-47367950b1bf 2137 HE DRAGGED THE SURVIVAL KIT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT AND PULLED OUT SOME RATIONS A FIRST STAID KIT FINALLY A TELE TALKING RAISING THE ANTENNAE HE PLUGGED IN THE MIGHT CORD FROM HIS MASK AND HELD DOWN THE TALK KEY WITH HIS THUMB ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN fe1a85d6-2494-43ce-9dce-2a60a0ba3e3e 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 0980a519-7e0a-4325-a9b2-e6158b52139e 198 BUT TO BE CALLED A SWEET CAT 3adf121f-6d3d-477b-8248-95321be07d6f 1867 I SLUMPED DEFEATED WAITING FOR THE BLOW TO LAND THE OLD MAN FONDLED MY CONTRACT ACCORDING TO THIS CONTRACT YOU CAN'T QUIT EVER THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY 164abac7-fac4-4900-849d-bd477a041616 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 b4b5a101-2012-4102-b65e-d54cb7ad22fb 32 PETER IS BESIDE HER OF COURSE SPRAWLED FLAT ON HIS STOMACH AMONG THE GRASSES ONE HAND CLUTCHING HIS BLACK CURLS WITH HIS DREAM BOOK ON A SMALL ROUND STONE BEFORE HIM FOR ONLY SO CAN PETER COMPOSE AT ALL AND EVEN THEN HE FINDS IT HARD WORK afe9a006-84a5-4c37-9cc2-c315b6ee18ca 14 WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOUR STOCKINGS PETER 7ac0d094-1db2-4bc9-b815-b852ee02840e 32 NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING HE AT ONE THAT NIGHT HE HAD THE DREAM ABOUT BEING CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS I EAT THREE CUCUMBERS IF I COULD HAVE A DREAM LIKE THAT d49c64ca-eba4-4ac4-b10d-c9bf6dcbe4d9 2286 SHOULD YOU BE POINTING LIKE THAT I ASKED THE ROBART MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE 0fe6f458-3c30-4293-879a-3a05ede9a8c4 451 FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN AND IF YOU BEGIN TELLING TALES FELICITY KING I'LL TELL SOME TOO AND I KNOW HOW MANY EGGS MOTHER SAID YOU COULD USE WHILE SHE WAS AWAY I KNOW HOW MANY YOU HAVE USED I COUNTED SO YOU'D BETTER MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MISS f1d76ff1-0160-46f3-b0c4-2c971b826903 198 WE WENT AWAY LEAVING DAN SITTING ON THE DOOR SILL READING HIS BOOK AND JIMMIE P SNOOZING BLISSFULLY ON THE SOFA WHEN WE RETURNED FELIX AND THE GIRLS AND I WERE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS DAN WAS STILL SITTING IN PRECISELY THE SAME PLACE AND ATTITUDE BUT THERE WAS NO JIMMY IN SIGHT b152c48b-d357-4e8e-a150-ba5a1b87dea3 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT WE OPENED THE BLUE CHEST SAID THE STORY GIRL AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE THE BLUE CHINA CANDLESTICK ONLY IT WAS BRASS IN THE DREAM AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT 1d52601d-ef85-4e8e-8087-38088c2b9ae6 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 bab64d3f-2cbd-4102-8cc8-b0ab78c81010 413 SO I STAYED WITH THE GIRLS AND A MISERABLE AFTERNOON WE HAD OF IT THE STORY YELL AGAIN AND AGAIN DECLARED THAT SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IT BUT WHEN WE ASKED HER TO TELL A STORY SHE EVADED IT WITH A FLIMSY EXCUSE 3e8f7c93-51a8-4cb2-80e8-6c8f6742d131 188 HIS GAZE WANDERED OVER US WITH UNCOMPLIMENTARY INDIFFERENCE UNTIL IT FELL ON THE STORY GIRL LEANING BACK IN AN ARMCHAIR SHE LOOKED LIKE A SLENDER RED LILY IN THE UNSTUDIED GRACE OF HER ATTITUDE 5ba41ed2-5793-48b4-ba55-a98d86fabfd9 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 DO YOU THINK HE'LL EVER TELL YOU WHO ALICE IS I ASKED 8dc5acfa-4c9b-4d43-b489-58c2156fbad5 2286 ALL THE GIRLS HAD FOOD POISONING A REGULAR EPIDEMIC IT SEEMED EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL 6fb69892-7157-467b-a969-2302873e4cb3 402 WHAT DO YOU THINK HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE JERRY COWAN TOLD ME AT RECESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN 33355b47-75a4-4f83-ad3b-dfb516700b5c 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 eff89df8-9bda-450a-b0fa-74eeb32f76a5 2286 ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK URGED ON BY THE FIRES OF PATRIOTISM AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SUGGEST A LINE OF SEARCH AND THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WOULD BEGIN APPEARING AT ONCE 641b2a7b-96a5-4036-8c50-e5a790233e14 242 PETER WENT OFF RATHER SULLENLY AND FELIX ALSO SULLENLY SAT DOWN AND BEGAN TO NURSE HIS NOSE HE TURNED HIS BACK ON CECILY CECILY CAUGHT IT AFTER UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE DAN CALLED HER A TELL TALE AND A BABY AND SNEERED AT HER UNTIL CECILY BEGAN TO CRY c5915efc-145a-49c7-9deb-f9532ac5cf05 242 IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT IF ANYTHING COULD HAVE MADE HIM THIN THE WAY HE WORRIED OVER THIS MATTER WOULD HAVE DONE IT FOR MYSELF I CARED NOT A GROAT I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE eda2e852-d3bf-4565-81e3-ced59649d9aa 1867 A SHINY METAL TEMPPLE OUT OF WHICH POURED A CONSTANT STREAM OF MAGIC WATER THE REACTOR COOLING WATER PUMPED DOWN FROM THE ATMOSPHERE CONDENSER ON THE ROOF THE RADIO ACTIVITY IN THE WATER DIDN'T HURT THE NATIVES ad54bc32-c13a-4f24-9052-3b5f4bf7227c 402 IN ODIN'S BAND WAS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN NAMED ALIN SHE WAS AS FAIR AND DELICATE AS A YOUNG BIRCH TREE IN THE SPRING AMONG DARK OLD PINES AND FIRS AND VING LOVED HER WITH ALL HIS HEART 0f9822e8-49a7-48f7-92bc-6a599ee26112 1867 THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO YOU ARE A LIAR YOU ARE NO ANCESTOR OF OURS WE WILL STOP I THUNDERED BEFORE HE GOT SO FAR IN THAT HE COULDN'T BACK OUT 13fcc3ec-bc6c-43ec-8071-a7f579df25c4 198 PERHAPS IT IS EMILY KING'S GHOST WHISPERED FELIX SHE NEVER APPEARED ANYWHERE BUT IN THE ORCHARD SAID THE STORY GIRL OH OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM 923d0776-f6fb-4a58-ae35-14e9b6d86882 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 87a6ed1d-1782-4492-964d-a2e3d3de91ae 2368 THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO 19a0cadd-bf6d-4d05-88c7-1730c0100008 2108 AND WHATEVER OF WHOM EVER SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY 6b5bd7a4-d01f-4fa2-a151-eb7f2b61068b 1867 THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS THE PARTS THE NEW POWER PLANT AND A FEW ODDS AND ENDS WERE SHOOTED INTO A NEAT PILE ON THE SHIP 5e75a408-16cb-4bba-9d34-2534c22c6c61 198 THE STORY GIRL HAD A GRUESOME RECOLLECTION OF SOME BABY AT MARKDALE WHO HAD WANDERED AWAY LIKE THAT AND THEY NEVER FOUND HIM TILL THE NEXT SPRING AND ALL THEY FOUND WAS HIS SKELETON WITH THE GRASS GROWING THROUGH IT SHE WHISPERED THAT BEATS ME SAID UNCLE ROGER WHEN A FRUITLESS HOUR HAD ELAPSED c68f0b45-a1b2-4410-96d8-e3a7d9c1a55c 198 AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK TO EARTH BECAUSE WHEN YOU DRANK OF THE MAGIC CUP YOU FORGOT ALL YOUR PAST LIFE EXCEPT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU WERE ALLOWED TO REMEMBER IT I WISH THERE WAS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND AND A WAY TO GET TO IT SAID CECILY 1b0a39ce-b355-4eff-8fef-3666fc847cfd 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 347c8efc-40d8-4376-9a4d-3bdd417348a6 2317 AMAZINGLY HIS TONGUE ONLY GOT TANGLED ONCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SPEECH AND HE REGAINED CONTROL OF IT QUICKLY THEN JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION 5c2e4532-2177-4c93-8712-d80c98116739 14 WHY NOT WHAT ARE MINISTERS FOR IF THEY AIN'T TO TELL PEOPLE HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN OH WELL IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR GROWN UPS TO ASK THEM THINGS OF COURSE BUT IT ISN'T RESPECTFUL FOR LITTLE BOYS ESPECIALLY HIRED BOYS f20311c5-1499-4d05-a8be-be17d4d23459 188 NOTHING SAID THE STORY GIRL VICIOUSLY HE JUST WENT ON LIVING AND FLOURISHING HE PATCHED UP MATTERS WITH HIS CREDITORS AFTER A WHILE AND CAME BACK TO THE ISLAND AND IN THE END HE MARRIED A REAL NICE GIRL WITH MONEY WAS VERY HAPPY DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYTHING SO UNJUST 20cd6bdd-e2d5-4eb8-b8f1-63501c4a843f 2182 JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE THE E I OPERATOR SHOOK HIS HEAD DOUBTFULLY CONSEIL'S GONE FOR THE DAY AUBREY I'LL SEE IF I CAN REACH HIM HE WAS ABOUT TO SEND OUT AN E I PATROL SHIP TO TAKE OVER HERE IN THE ISLANDS JEFF SAID TELL HIM TO HURRY YET b733eac7-43a1-4859-a709-0d2d065a2b26 413 IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK INDEED I WOULDN'T SAID FELICITY WITH VERY UNUSUAL HUMILITY 6ffe4de3-cf5f-4956-9922-d282ba4306eb 413 I THOUGHT OF ALL THE EVIL DEEDS OF MY SHORT LIFE OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS OF PLAYING TRUANT FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GOING FISHING ONE DAY OF A CERTAIN FIB NO NO AWAY FROM THIS AWFUL HOUR WITH ALL SUCH EUPHONIOUS OF AGENTS OF A LIE I HAD ONCE TOLD OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION 04940208-38b2-43ea-bec9-0ecae9c384f3 32 HE CAN HANDLE A HOE MORE DEFTLY THAN A PENCIL AND HIS SPELLING EVEN WITH ALL HIS FREQUENT APPEALS TO CECILY IS A FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL THING 69981187-62ca-45de-97ba-4a6259e81c64 2182 JUST AHEAD OF HIM JONIFER CAUGHT AN ERECT FIN SPINE AND CLUNG WITH BOTH ARMS HANG ON WE'RE GOING THE SCOOP CONTRACTED ITSELF WITH A SUDDENNESS THAT YANKED THEM YARDS FROM THE COTTAGE AND ALL BUT DISLODGED JEFF 2e81fd02-89cb-466e-99ba-3320115c6bdb 2182 HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS IT FOUND ROTS IN HIS DAILY RAMBLES OVER THE LITTLE ISLAND GRANTED HIM BY THE TOWNSHIP FOR THE PAINTING HE HAD BEGUN AS A BLIND TO HIS ASSIGNMENT AND IN THE GOSSIP OF OLD CHARLEY MACK AND THE FEW OTHERS HE HAD MET 40c74951-dc8c-493c-a905-37eeb5e2fc0d 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 546a3c3c-1b99-45f4-9ad9-fbc89d5e015d 2317 HE WASN'T GOING TO START RESCUING FAIR MAIDENS NOW EVEN IF SHE NEEDED RESCUING STILL THERE WAS SOMETHING AWFULLY ATTRACTIVE DAMN BUT HE WAS CONFUSED 1088a15c-d33d-419a-bc0a-e2e4e814b627 413 BUT FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER IT CARRIED CONVICTION OF THE VERY OPPOSITE KIND IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE SHE BELIEVED IT MIGHT BE TRUE AND THE POSSIBILITY WAS ALMOST AS DREADFUL AS THE CERTAINTY 6562d56b-cdc7-4e05-a106-ffb25f19370a 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 181b2974-8c87-44d5-8808-1496c8be6e1f 2317 GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL AND TURNED HIS BACK ON THE FEASTMAN GARF LOOKED ASTONISHED THEN ANGRY AND RAISED A HAND badf151e-ceca-4195-ade7-9d679e41ae0d 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 7c66da58-01fe-482c-9f41-bbe6561c5d9b 451 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY GOT SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS ON IT SINCE AUNT JANE'S DAY SAID PETER RELIEVED SARA RAY IS COMING ALONG THE LANE AND SHE'S CRYING ANNOUNCED DAN WHO WAS PEERING OUT OF THE KNOTHOLE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE LOFT 78401ee3-d1b7-4045-98ec-1a334f7a75d7 32 WHAT COIN OF EARTHLY MINTING WILL EVER BUY BACK FOR YOU THAT LOST AND LOVELY VISION 0659e7df-4136-4e1a-94cc-0b8f36748228 2274 ALIEN ANY SIGN OF THAT MOB NEGATIVE O K WE'RE TAKING OFF 4819d6bb-fd81-409d-9d66-3cd1d78c7925 2182 JEFF AUBREY GLIMPSED THE SERIMIAN SHIP'S LANDING BECAUSE THE MORNING WAS A ONE DAY AND ON ONE DAY'S HIS MISSION TO THE ISLAND DEMANDED THAT HE BE UP AND ABOUT AT SUNRISE 922aac2d-5a66-4915-9a92-5b01cff848a4 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 632df3f0-ab32-42eb-b283-400913f6f825 2274 NO NEED FOR YOU TO DIE SAID HORN BETTER TO DIE THAN BE SLAVES SAID TO NEWBE WE DON'T NEED THE DORN WE I CANNOT TAKE THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE LYING SAID TO NUB I MUST KILL YOU NOW HORN'S FOOT RESTED ON THE AIR SLED CONTROL PEDAL b98d3cba-3f5f-4dfe-94a8-b9d8cca68fc6 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 ee7e547d-9d80-4203-abf3-7eb8ffccb08f 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 a9ca75cd-0f41-455e-bb8a-23c6de18640f 451 SUPPOSE CECILY GOES DOWN WITH YOU AND COAXES YOUR MOTHER SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL PERHAPS SHE'D LET YOU GO THEN SHE LIKES CECILY SHE DOESN'T LIKE EITHER FELICITY OR ME SO IT WOULD ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE FOR US TO TRY e216543e-24d1-49d8-9b51-a77e025d28dd 2317 TO HIS SURPRISE GARF DID NOTHING TO STOP HIM PROBABLY JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER THE POLICEMAN EXPECTED NO FURTHER TROUBLE FROM THE HUMANS AFTER THE TREATMENT THEY HAD FARMER'S HAYMAKER CONNECTED 12e127d2-894e-4267-a2f6-bb23fb57846b 413 I WISH I'D MADE UP MY MIND BEFORE THIS WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST DO YOU SUPPOSE IT'S TOO LATE NOW NO THAT DOESN'T MATTER SAID CERTILY EARNESTLY IF IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN PETER THAT'S ALL THAT'S NECESSARY 10a599d6-9fb5-496b-9657-3ea482ad9df6 188 PEG BOWEN'S HOUSE WAS NEARLY A MILE AWAY EVEN BY THE SHORT CUT PAST THE SWAMP AND UP THE WOODED HILL WE WENT DOWN THROUGH THE BROOK FIELD AND OVER THE LITTLE PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW HALF LOST IN ITS SURROUNDING SEA OF FAREWELL SUMMERS WHEN WE REACHED THE GREEN GLOOM OF THE WOODS BEYOND WE BEGAN TO FEEL FRIGHTENED BUT NOBODY WOULD ADMIT IT cce8e929-e6ed-49be-8fd3-eef82a003036 32 AS FOR PUNCTUATION HE NEVER ATTEMPTS IT BEYOND AN OCCASION PERIOD JOTTED DOWN WHENEVER HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT WHETHER IN THE RIGHT PLACE OR NOT THE STORY GIRL GOES OVER HIS DREAMS AFTER HE HAS WRITTEN THEM OUT AND PUTS IN THE COMMAS AND SEMI COLENS AND STRAIGHTENS OUT THE SENTENCES 630f369c-825a-4ccd-b945-dae97114722d 2368 HE SET UP A SHOUT FOR ONE OF THE GUARDS THE BALD ONE HAD BROUGHT HIS MEALS EVERY DAY BUT THE BLACK HAIRED ONE WAS THE MAN WHO CHECKED HIS SAIL AT NIGHT FOR ONCE YONAS THOUGHT HE WAS LUCKY THE BALD MAN APPEARED AFTER SOME FIFTY MINUTES SCREAMING AND CURSING YONAS WAS NOT AT ALL SURE WHETHER THE BLACK HAIRED MAN UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE THERE WAS LITTLE TRACE OF IT IN HIS MIND AND VIRTUALLY NOTHING THAT MIGHT BE CALLED INTELLIGENCE 8c660f14-678d-43a8-b86c-13c75ca4b124 2108 IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE GOOD WILL OF MY UNSEEN FAIRY GUARDIANS SO I'LL TRY AND IF I FAIL YOU WILL BE NO WORSE OFF THAN YOU ARE NOW b1691744-5877-47e4-b701-6369632ba4a4 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 151427c0-703f-4333-9111-c66766eeaead 188 I'LL TELL YOU WHY SAID PETER THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN YOU FELLOWS WERE ALL IN SCHOOL PEG BOWEN CAME HERE YOUR AUNT OLIVIA GAVE HER A LUNCH A GOOD ONE YOU MAY LAUGH AT THE NOTION OF PEG BEING A WITCH BUT I NOTICE YOUR FOLKS ARE ALWAYS AWFUL GOOD TO HER WHEN SHE COMES AND AWFUL CAREFUL NEVER TO OFFEND HER 11c6c8f8-c2ed-4a8a-8fb0-b3486289aa26 1867 HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE IT HAS BEEN DECIDED A LIZARD SAID THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN HERE FOR EVER AND TEND THE HOLY WATERS WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED cf78f3c6-9df2-4b2b-92de-9a61b762e1fa 2317 YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID THE QUOTES AROUND INTELLIGENT WERE CLEAR IN HIS INTONATION 3d976982-9ddd-4cea-9d12-7705c0d1db2a 2108 WHEN I RETURNED TO MY WORK THE AXE SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY HEAD WHICH WAS THE ONLY PART OF ME THEN REMAINING 16b61e6f-42cf-4fed-81ae-1355537de5eb 2274 OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER 4f95d64f-7c5d-4e70-9337-47d35b6f2734 402 WHEN SHE HEARD OUR NEWS HOWEVER SHE HAD THE DECENCY TO SAY SHE WAS GLAD AND TO PROMISE SHE WOULD CONVEY THE GOOD TIDINGS TO SARAH WHO IS ALREADY IN BED WHERE ALL CHILDREN OF HER AGE SHOULD BE ADDED MISSUS RAY SEVERELY dae54ee0-e299-4c9b-9b75-343e728064c1 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 e843f9e4-de91-4050-9401-c5755ce7ee3d 2274 RIM WAR ALL OVER AGAIN BUT THIS IS A DIFFERENT BREED OF FISH IT'S NOT REPEAT NOT A REDISCOVERY 2dbf9067-f66d-4e73-b673-135627afa5e5 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 3d4e8d16-3749-4d19-a31b-b3b0778358a0 198 WHEN WE REACHED THE FOOT OF THE ORCHARD AND ENTERED IT THROUGH A GAP IN THE HEDGE IT WAS THE MAGICAL MYSTICAL TIME OF BETWEEN LIGHTS OFF TO THE WEST WAS A DAFFODIL GLOW HANGING OVER THE VALLEY OF LOST SUNSETS AND GRANDFATHER KING'S HUGE WILLOW ROSE UP AGAINST IT LIKE A ROUNDED MOUNTAIN OF FOLIAGE 539f8914-52bd-452a-8432-0c2eea7d4de5 2108 HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE ASK YOUR MOTHER 29da6979-b729-4166-afcc-1e34c2d5382a 451 PA'S COUSIN DIED OF EATING SOMETHING FORTY YEARS AGO SOBBED SARA RAY HOLD YOUR TONGUE SAID PETER IN A FIERCE WHISPER YOU OUGHTER HAVE MORE SENSE THAN TO SAY SUCH THINGS TO THE GIRLS THEY DON'T WANT TO BE ANY WORSE SCARED THAN THEY ARE 24c9801f-0cd9-4bbf-a2a6-4774abdb05bf 451 AN IRISHMAN WHO LIVED AT MARKDALE HAD A LITTLE PIG SHE SAID AND HE GAVE IT A PAILFUL OF MUSH THE PIG ATE THE WHOLE PAILFUL AND THEN THE IRISHMAN PUT THE PIG IN THE PAIL AND IT DIDN'T FILL MORE THAN HALF THE PAIL NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH 0a57c42a-4af5-4b5e-923a-e10bdb2194a9 2286 MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS IN THE FEW CASES WHERE FORGERY WASN'T ADEQUATE MY MYSTERIOUS X HAD APPARENTLY HIRED HIMSELF TO DO THE JOB X HIMSELF HAD THE PERMANENT JOB OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERING DESIGNER 72b8a829-2b43-4e20-8fcd-dde701d1eac2 2286 IT LOOKED LIKE THE ONE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR THERE WERE NO WITNESSES TO THE TRAGEDY BUT A NUMBER OF MONITOR STATIONS HAD PICKED UP THIS DISCHARGED STATIC OF A LARGE ENERGY WEAPON BEING FIRED ff28fa44-4050-4cad-acf7-c094cfa709d6 14 AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT f22417a8-e87b-4687-94df-c0cdc2bd3545 242 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE I SAID FEELING THAT FELIX AND DAN WERE CATCHING IT RATHER TOO HOTLY HE MUST BE A GOOD SORT OF CHAP AND DO HEAPS OF THINGS THAT'S ALL THAT'S NECESSARY 79b7ec0e-8ef7-44d1-ad80-5e0076103b8e 198 THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS THE OLD HOUSE WITH ITS DREADFUL SECRET WHITE AND CLEAR AGAINST THE DARK BACKGROUND OF SPRUCES WE WERE WOEFULLY TIRED BUT WE COULD NOT SIT DOWN BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS REEKING WITH DEW THE FAMILY GHOST ONLY APPEARS IN DAYLIGHT SAID THE STORY GIRL 5cd09c52-c35e-4f5a-ba55-d7514a736076 2425 IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT TELL PARENT TO DO NOTHING FOR AT LEAST A WEEK IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT WE COULD NEVER CLIMB BACK AND LEAVE WORD WITH THEM FOR HOPE TELL HER ALL SCRAMBLE OUT SOMEHOW THAT WE WILL IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY YOUR LUCK 6b11153e-57e9-4afa-ae9b-287ab8589145 2274 WE DON'T NEED SLAVES SAID ORAN WE HAVE MACHINES TO DO OUR WORK WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN eb423e6e-74be-4731-ac48-edab12cb5d0f 451 AFTER BREAKFAST SHE WASHED THE DISHES AND DID THE BEDROOM WORK A GRIM SILENCE THEN WITH A BOOK UNDER ONE ARM AND PAT UNDER THE OTHER SHE BETOOK HERSELF TO THE WINDOW SEAT IN THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND WOULD NOT BE LURED FROM THAT RETREAT CHARMED WE NEVER SO WISELY 73368211-1fc3-42ff-b71e-2b3c45482a34 14 WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME HERE CRIED THE PROUD PRINCESS ANGRILY THIS IS MY KINGDOM HE ANSWERED THESE ARE THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS I HAVE CONQUERED BEHOLD ME BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS I AM DEATH 46058d30-8b43-4efd-b1e4-93b9357bbf4d 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 dec321c0-46d7-4386-8a23-d02b429977d0 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 fe1826bf-c9ac-44ba-804c-d75319ffc092 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 e2024343-778f-4dcd-8d14-467c0f5096b6 198 YOU MUST HAVE IMAGINED IT PETER OR ELSE UNCLE ROGER IS TRYING TO FOOL US YOUR UNCLE ROGER WENT TO MARKDDVILLE RIGHT AFTER MILKING SAID PETER HE LOCKED UP THE HOUSE AND GAVE ME THE KEY 50e0e7d5-81f7-461c-b4b0-84a4db12bf5b 1867 IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS 7b852115-e290-47d7-9adc-30f4764a6aa1 451 OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS IT WOULDN'T DO SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT WHICH SEEMED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION OF MOONSHINE DRESSES EFFECTUALLY e7087920-6d93-4b1f-9acc-c0be45a7f6e2 32 LAUGHTER RIPPLED OVER THE STORY GIRL'S FACE AS SHADOW WAVES GO OVER RIPE WHEAT BEFORE A WIND PETER IS A REAL GENTLEMAN AND HE IS MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU COULD EVER BE IF YOU WERE BROUGHT UP AND EDUCATED FOR A HUNDRED YEARS SHE SAID f5c0c437-dc2d-4867-8136-878dd4aa6d56 2108 WHOOP FOLLOWED NEXT AND LAST OF THE THREE CAME THE SCARECROW WHO COULD NOT HAVE KEPT THE PATH AT ALL HAD NOT HIS COMRADES BROKEN THE WAY FOR HIS STUTE 20c21da6-90af-4a56-ace0-09bb4cacb7a1 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 e8d2e0de-ecb0-41c9-918a-f958eeba8ae5 2368 BUT IN THE MEANTIME THERE WILL BE NO TRIALS IN SPAIR NO TRIALS YOND THOUGHT BUT OH I SEE OF COURSE CLETON THOUGHT ANY MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A WIZARD WILL HAVE HIS MIND SEEN BY THE INQUISITOR 3e5e1543-af79-4232-b9f5-ffce8ca77d8d 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 165c7f7c-ab5e-4126-9958-4078d5818912 2108 BUT THE STRING THAT HE WAS TIED TO HIS BODY WAS STILL CONNECTED WITH THE ARM OF THE THRONE AND THEY KNEW THEY COULD PULL HIS MAJESTY DOWN AGAIN IF THEY WANTED TO f1c5355f-6dd3-4a71-bd62-26e9aa394102 2425 HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US THEN DARKNESS CLOSED IN SWIFTLY I WAS WHISKED UPWARD ON AND ON BREATHLESSLY I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY I WAS DROPPING IN THE BLACKNESS THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES b18dd6c7-107d-4391-b4e1-4ce64c267457 2274 O K STET ORDERS JUST CAME THROUGH WE USE PLAN SEA TOM GO SAYS TO BRIEF THE FIELD MAN AND JET OUT OF HERE DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN 5f8112ea-b410-4374-a877-41a53441ba83 14 DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL 1b51566c-d7df-4204-992a-dcdf17d8a37c 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 cedba48c-6c1b-4c78-80d9-2ba20bc9d1fb 402 ALWAYS HE WALKED ON ODIN'S RIGHT HAND AND ALWAYS THE FIRST LIGHT OF ODIN'S SMILE FELL ON HIM ac228a15-a802-4341-993b-f07454cf90f8 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 ee184ba0-a1ec-42ed-8297-7227bf9cb68f 2286 HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL f9674aca-22c4-4e34-9b4c-a4719f882487 14 ELDER FREWIN A TALL PALE MAN WITH LONG SANDY SIDE WHISKERS APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF OUR PEW WITH THE COLLECTION PLATE WE KNEW ELDER FREWIN QUITE WELL AND LIKE HIM HE WAS AUNT JANET'S COUSIN AND OFTEN VISITED HER 5ac5ddef-7748-4e43-86c2-f97cd369a9c3 32 CECILY FINISHED HER CUCUMBER AND THEN DRANK A GLASS OF MILK JUST AS WE HEARD THE WHEELS OF UNCLE ALEC'S BUGGY RAMBLING OVER THE BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW a814cbc8-d688-445f-8a6c-1255adef7fb9 32 BUT NEXT SPRING THE STORY GIRL DROPPED HER VOICE IN A WHISPER THAT WAS AS AUDIBLE AND THRILLING AS HER LOUDER TONES PEOPLE BEGAN TO TELL THAT EMILY WAS SOMETIMES SEEN WAITING UNDER THE BIRCHES STILL 87a84bb2-e087-46be-80be-3b603f3f2c61 188 AT FIRST ALL WAS NOT HARMONIOUS FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST 749d83cd-9fb0-4493-8d2c-c8ea8f88556a 413 CICELY PESTERED OUR AUNT JANET'S LIFE OUT ASKING REPEATEDLY MAR WILL YOU BE GOING TO PRAYER MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT MAR WILL YOU BE PRESERVING RASPBERRIES NEXT WEEK AND VARIOUS SIMILAR QUESTIONS 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 7c2e116e-b6da-40d3-b9b3-d3405ff1e71c 402 BUT HER PARENTS WERE BITTERLY OPPOSED TO HIM AND THEY HAD FORBIDDEN MARGARET TO SEE HIM OR SPEAK TO HIM THEY HADN'T ANYTHING AGAINST HIM AS A MAN BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT HER TO THROW HERSELF AWAY ON A SAILOR b5e45031-897a-4f93-a40f-7d4af0ddad8a 451 IF THEY HAD BEEN BANISHED TOGETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PUNISHMENT SO ZERO WAS EXILED TO A STAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND ZULEMITH WAS SENT TO A STAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND BETWEEN THEM WAS A FATHOMLESS ABYSS WHICH THOUGHT ITSELF COULD NOT CROSS 174cf4c7-878d-4efd-b015-3e00379450e1 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 3459d2de-1ccd-4d00-a145-8a8588f716a0 2317 RAY HAD NOT BEEN A REAL JUDGE OBVIOUSLY BUT HAD USED THE TITLE IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER FIRST NAME f63c5f5d-3af0-48c1-ae1f-d5a61f49bd97 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 ab9ed9c0-3486-4d5a-837c-b0e602096b89 2317 FARMER WAS NOT ABLE TO SAY NO TO RAY BUT EVEN HE LOOKED DUBIOUS AT THE SMALL GREY FELLOW'S VOLLE OUTPOURING OF PSEUDO SCIENTIFIC JARGON 0a459a24-72db-4f79-b179-0f8cd45857a6 402 SARAH CHILD COME WITH ME SAID AUNT OLIVIA BENDING OVER HER THE STORY GIRL GOT UP AND WENT AWAY WITH AUNT OLIVIA'S ARMS AROUND HER THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS 40d7a15e-6a62-4976-9ad2-4cc73683e693 14 THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS WHEN WE HAD LIVED FOR A FORTNIGHT IN CARLISLE WE BELONGED THERE AND THE FREEDOM OF ALL ITS SMALL FRY WAS CONFERRED ON US 654ae983-416d-4e0d-ba05-12640484574a 242 MANY AND MANY A SNOW WHITE MOOSE HE SHOT AND GAVE THE BEAUTIFUL SKIN TO HIS SWEETHEART HER NAME WAS SCUBEN AND SHE WAS AS LOVELY AS THE MOON WHEN IT RISES FROM THE SEA AND AS PLEASANT AS A SUMMER TWILIGHT 079e5fdf-02d0-4178-898a-368ab636b028 2425 I COULD HARDLY SUPPORT MY OWN WEIGHT MY LEGS WERE TREMBLING WITH THE BURDEN SWEAT BROKE OUT OVER MY WHOLE BODY THE RAYS OF LIGHT BEAT DOWN UPON ME FIERCELY AND OVERPOWERINGLY 939b0317-ce0e-40de-a7e3-601fb6e4fb64 2368 THIS TIME HE HEARD REUBEN INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NODDED TO HIMSELF IN A SATISFIED FASHION BUT ALMOST A MINUTE PASSED BEFORE THE HUT OF AN OLD WOMAN SHOWED ITSELF AT THE WINDOW SHE WAS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY HE THOUGHT SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY c09e3b23-d451-4f93-922d-8770215062dc 402 THING WE BEGAN TO BREATHE EASIER WE BOUGHT IT FROM JERRY COWAN HE FOUND IT IN A RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD IT SAYS IT'S GOD'S PICTURE SAID FELIX 25ae15fa-b6b2-4259-b38a-65f720b8b61a 2425 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 56bf4158-9578-4570-adb8-07b5ee4bb956 2108 I SEE SAID THE BOY THOUGHTFULLY AND DID YOU MARRY NINNY OF ME NO ANSWERED THE TIN WOODMAN I DID NOT WHAT WAS THE MUNCHKIN GIRL'S NAME ASKED WOOT NIMMY AMMY 475b96ad-f155-4e13-800a-c0d412eba2f9 242 ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL 541d61bf-6b1e-4df5-82c4-911aaa6f205a 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 4d0fe410-2deb-4ab7-a9af-cc7fd960806e 2425 DIRECTLY BEFORE ME WAS THE LONG WORK BENCH THAT RAN THE FULL LENGTH OF THE ROOM LITTERED WITH A DOZEN SET UPS FOR AS MANY EXPERIMENTS NOTHING OF THE SORT YOUR OLD PETE GRAHAM A DARNED GOOD HALFBACK IN THE WORLD'S ROTTENIST SCIENTIST 696967c5-4bbb-4e2f-9362-bf7707c7beb7 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 ce49c12b-61f1-429c-a896-79b9b3e37338 2137 LET EM HAVE MARS AND VENUS THE COLONEL WOULD SAY LET HIM HAVE THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP BLAKE FROG AHEAD OF EM WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM 2d7c8e8e-b94b-4bc6-9555-ea6e8eb4e0f4 32 I WANTED THAT ONCE BUT I'VE GOT OVER IT I FOUND OUT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL THE DAY THE MINISTER TAUGHT OUR CLASS THAT IT WAS SELFISH BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME AS WELL 8bc4de3a-935e-470b-8acb-50c4e2b94dc1 1867 IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON OR WASN'T IT I DIVED THE EYE LOWER THE PYRAMID WAS A CRUDE LOOKING THING OF UNDRESSED STONE WITHOUT CARVINGS OR DECORATIONS 3c50d512-db9a-4824-bff5-53424def0468 402 THERE WAS A WARDER OF THE BRIDGE A GOD DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE 5510bd68-cf31-48ba-95be-4423764ffd4c 32 FELICITY DETERMINED SHE WOULD NEVER LET ANOTHER DREAM GET AWAY FROM HER IN SUCH A FASHION AND THE NEXT TIME SHE WAKENED IN THE NIGHT HAVING DREAMED THAT SHE WAS DEAD AND BURIED SHE PROMPTLY AROSE LIGHTED A CANDLE AND PROCEEDED TO WRITE THE DREAM DOWN THEN AND THERE cb8e86cb-82cf-4c0e-a258-c5bedf591aea 2137 BRANDON'S BODY TENSED THANK GOD I'VE FINALLY GOT THROUGH TO YOU LISTEN RIGHTHEART I MUST BE ABOUT THREE BRANDON THIS IS ASTRO SAID REHINHART IN A MONOTONE HE SAID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN 25e2dd8a-33d9-4b98-a625-dd9fc07a8686 2274 YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU SEE THINGS OUR WAY WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES fa1688c4-b99f-4878-bc90-e8732193c3c9 2108 WHEN THEY WERE ALL SEATED IN A ROW ON THE CUSHION OF THE CHAIR THE GIANTESS CONTINUED NOW TELL ME HOW YOU HAPPENED TO TRAVEL IN THIS DIRECTION AND WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHAT YOUR ERRAND IS f13116fa-1d72-42fb-b403-751d50e61947 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 4432f893-607a-468b-8fe3-b0bcb7e62d75 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 3fcd5f26-3ce4-41a5-a77f-3f44844a6157 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 75e8b926-2413-4598-a25c-b06a970db44c 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 4b7a302c-5866-4d33-aff8-1b6ec5632b24 242 I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY I THINK IT WOULD BE DREADFUL SURELY YOU CAN ARRANGE IT SOME OTHER WAY cf739aa8-ec41-46a6-a902-4a0ad73010b1 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 e85e63fc-05d1-48b9-9513-219a6f9d3171 198 AND NOW IT HAS ALMOST FRIGHTENED YOUR POOR LITTLE MONKEYS TO DEATH WE HEARD UNCLE ROGER CHUCKLING ALL THE WAY TO THE BARN 42b808ca-f142-442a-a943-9f4f73ac6731 2137 FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT A FIRE WARNING INDICATOR LIGHT BLINKED ON INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION 61e8b636-2ac9-4794-b8c9-b865d8d6a95a 2274 DID YOU ASK THEM ABOUT USING ANOTHER FIELD MAN ORN LOOKED UP ATTENTIVELY THE SPEAKER SAID YES abc691d9-387b-4a74-99ca-6f1ef6e64340 2137 VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE IT BILLOWED IN THE WIND HE SEARCHED AROUND FOUND SOME GLASSY BLACK ROCKS AND ANCHORED DOWN THE CHUTE THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP 527204a6-6bb3-4763-89f5-e450672e85d0 188 WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS OF COURSE IF ANY OF US TRAMPS ON HIS TAIL HE WILL SCRATCH US BUT YOU KNOW A CAT CAN'T BEAR TO HAVE HIS STICK TAIL TRAMPED ON IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM 41339c73-e09f-4a04-8b7d-ddcb7b80ecb4 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 271588b4-3df7-4c99-a232-739eb5f257e4 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 4b5f5ab8-e934-45d2-9240-6d683c4fe587 402 THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY THE BIG WILLOW BY THE GATE WAS A SPLENDID GOLDEN DOME AND THE MAPLES THAT WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE SPRUCE GROVE WAVED BLOOD RED BANNERS OVER THE SOMBRE CONE BEARERS 69bb1f2a-40c7-495d-b5f7-90bea9ef6ccb 242 THERE ISN'T MUCH FUN IN IT AND THEN NEITHER OF YOU NEED TO PRAY ABOUT IT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX AND I WON'T OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX 4ca8b63d-da46-4b05-900f-d2f34e6637c9 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 dc1ca76c-25a6-48b6-9c98-d042ddc52c8d 1867 ALL THIS WITH SOME OIL PAINTING AND FREEFALL WORKOUTS IN THE GEM PASSED THE TIME I WAS ASLEEP WHEN THE ALARM WENT OFF THAT ANNOUNCED PLANETARY DISTANCE 42022f7f-c535-417b-9e99-5a27467afa24 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 34e478c1-1835-4c6f-b2f7-7b3d5e65beb9 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 d71e0eaf-0303-42e4-876e-52aa6d695a0b 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 87555d65-2a94-44a1-a95f-4f9413457c40 198 PATTY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY CATCHING A RAT AND BEING INTOLERABLY CONCEITED ABOUT IT UNTIL SARA RAY CURED HIM BY CALLING HIM A DEAR SWEET CAT AND KISSING HIM BETWEEN THE EARS THEN PAT SNEAKED ABJECTLY OFF HIS TAIL DROOPING HE RESENTED BEING CALLED A SWEET CAT e263ffd1-792b-4313-8b9e-c9cb6c1843b8 2274 THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER WANT US TO COME BACK NEGATIVE STAND BY HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE 02fc4a02-3856-46dd-ac6e-6ca057cc5b78 2286 INSTEAD I CONCENTRATED MY ATTENTION ON THE RECENT MODIFICATIONS LIKE THE GUN TURRET THAT WOULD QUICKLY GIVE ME A TRAIL TO THE GUILTY PARTIES e113deaf-0492-4096-89ca-ac086a0a370f 2182 HE FLINCHED WHEN JENIFER TO BE HEARD ABOVE THE ZID'S RAGINGS SHOUTED IN HIS EAR MY SCOOP SHOULD HAVE THE QUEEN AFLOAT BY NOW CAN WE REACH HER b7f03162-3cec-4311-b5c8-7f02cb9d3247 2108 WERE THE SCARECROW AND I ALONE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN WE WOULD TRAVEL BY NIGHT AS WELL AS BY DAY BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY WE MUST HALT AT NIGHT TO PERMIT HIM TO REST e512113d-356f-4fd9-9060-1eaf6c643d3c 32 WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT IT WAS A VERY DEEP WELL AND THE CURB WAS OF ROUGH UNDRESSED STONES 48b73193-ad6b-4474-9529-a10a1b89ddfc 2317 THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS 1302f917-fd25-4470-91dc-e0becfcef052 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 db75cd42-b091-40ac-8880-753c7b7a0ea8 32 SHE WAS NOT WELL SO AUNT OLIVIA TOLD AUNT JANET I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE CHILD SAID THE FORMER ANXIOUSLY aa5ce8e7-0014-4869-9dab-771b7ec618a7 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 86d03f27-a259-409b-82e3-5a8a75b3a1fd 2108 I NEVER HAVE FRIENDS SHE SAID IN A MATTER OF FACT TONE BECAUSE FRIENDS GET TOO FAMILIAR AND ALWAYS FORGET TO MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS 645b90dc-4292-4ad0-b30f-7727aa84338e 451 IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED WASN'T THE MISSIONARY SPLENDID THAT CANNIBAL STORY WAS SIMPLY GRAND I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE 0cc8cd1d-1ae4-44a4-b2c6-f3ddfdf390ab 32 WELL IIN'T GOING TO CHURCH TILL I'VE MADE UP MY MIND WHETHER I'M GOING TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST MY MOTHER AIN'T MUCH OF ANYTHING BUT I MEAN TO BE SOMETHING IT'S MORE RESPECTABLE TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN OR SOMETHING THAN NOT TO BE ANYTHING d79a0f35-a508-4e27-98af-173761cbe1f2 2274 YOU TOOK THE DAPHINIS BY TREACHERY ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER THE MARKED TWENTY'S MUZZLE CAME ROUND THE CENTER ON ORN'S STOMACH YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION e82b44bd-6752-4906-9162-e3122c20d2e8 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 e23e0844-4286-4293-a43e-81582015ba49 2108 I DON'T LIKE THIS INVISIBLE COUNTRY SAID HOO WITH A SHUDDER YOU CAN'T TELL HOW MANY DREADFUL INVISIBLE BEASTS ARE ROAMING AROUND US OR WHAT DANGER WE'LL COME TO NEXT 642d46ef-e1bd-4692-ba76-e26119811750 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 f8c73127-65e4-46e7-a32d-7343c84167f8 198 UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX WELL I SUPPOSE THE FIRE IS ON ANYHOW FOR THE STORY GIRL IS UP I GUESS SHE GOT UP EARLY TO KNEAD THE BREAD SHE COULDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT FOR WORRYING OVER IT THE FIRE WAS ON AND A FLUSHED AND TRIUMPHANT STORY GIRL WAS TAKING A LOAF OF BREAD FROM THE OVEN 1296308b-6c9e-4144-a959-8afc323c06c5 1867 IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH I'M A REPAIRMAN NOT AN ARCHAEOLOGIST THIS PILE OF JUNK IS OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD JUST FORGET ABOUT IT AND BUILD A NEW ONE THE OLD MAN LEANED OVER HIS DESK BREATHING INTO MY FACE f3d6b89e-46be-4f96-b128-ac43c8607c62 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 dc679088-013d-4915-86a5-78c401fcc359 188 BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL f357ef01-dc6e-4eea-94b6-9d4fdcf76626 2286 NO I COULDN'T I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A MAN WITH A CURIOSITY BUMP AS BIG AS YOURS WILL ALWAYS TALK FIRST AND SHOOT LATER AND BESIDES NOW THIS PUSSY FOOTING AROUND IN THE DARK WOULD BE NECESSARY IF YOUR SCREAM WAS OPEN AND I COULD HAVE GOT A CALL THROUGH 752bb849-7a84-4b1e-b49e-666d23e68b1d 2286 BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN 2cf231ae-afad-43e4-b5d6-8467ddaf3490 14 THE STORY GIRL LINGERED TO LAY A BUNCH OF WILD VIOLETS MISTY BLUE AND FAINTLY SWEET ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE AND THEN SHE READ ALOUD THE VERSE ON THE STONE THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED 26dec5ab-0d1d-4dca-81cc-3af2fd9f2c9c 2274 ALL OTHER SOUNDS HUNG SUSPENDED IN THE AFTER SILENCE THEN RESUMED THE STRONGEST FIRST AND THEN THE WEAKEST A HEAVY OBJECT SUDDENLY ARCHED THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS SWINGING ON A VINE IT DISAPPEARED BEHIND A TREE ANOTHER bc5e163b-f365-4941-bde9-0e594536f4aa 1867 THE GATE CRASHED OPEN AND I STALKED THROUGH THEN IT BANGED BEHIND ME AND I WAS ALONE IN THE DARK BUT NOT FOR LONG THERE WAS A SHUFFLING NEAR BY AND I TOOK A CHANCE AND TURNED ON MY FLASH 58a66ad8-32f5-425d-bc27-b7b9f9b8cccc 2425 AND NOW NOW I WAS STANDING IN THE OPEN ON ANOTHER WORLD A NIGHTMARE WORLD THAT WORDS SEEMED INADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT A BODY WHY MATTER I SUPPOSE AND MATTER IS WHAT df5e99c3-2cd9-4804-8bc4-e610b44d291e 1867 TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BEACONS YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HYPERSPACE NOT THAT PEOPLE DO BUT IT IS EASY ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT IN THIS NON SPACE THE REGULAR RULES DON'T APPLY 4f088545-7088-4264-beb1-cf739c36611b 188 HE WAS THINKING OF HER AS HE PLAYED ANNIE LAURIE FOR NANCY WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE LADY OF THE SONG NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN IT BUT IT BECAME THE STORY GIRL PERFECTLY 8c386620-7159-400f-ac36-f6c7b21c3e33 2368 JONAS CAME OVER THE HILL WHISTLING AS IF HE HAD NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD WHICH IS NOT EVEN APPROXIMATELY TRUE HE REFLECTED HAPPILY THE STATE OF COMPLETE AND UTTER QUIET WAS BOTH FOREIGN AND SLIGHTLY REPUGNANT TO HIM HE WAS NEVER MORE PLEASED THAN WHEN HE HAD A JOB IN HAND A JOB THAT INVOLVED A SLIGHT AND UNAVOIDABLE RISK THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT 2a721493-ce93-43d7-a111-5a448ee5c36a 2425 AND AS THE STRANGE CREATURES CLOSED IN QUICKLY I SAW THAT THEIRS WAS NOT SOLID FLESH BUT LIKE THE CLOTHING THAT PARTIALLY COVERED THEM AN ATTENUATED SUBSTANCE THAT WAS NOT QUITE REAL dfb92e85-6391-436f-bec9-d3ace8ed3671 2182 AMAZINGLY HIS IMMEDIATE PROBLEM WAS NOT THE POSSIBILITY OF HARM FROM THE OWLS BUT WHETHER HE SHOULD REASSURE JENOFER BEFORE OR AFTER RELEASING HER HE COMPROMISED BY LEAVING THE CHOICE TO HER 11a2f644-626d-4d2a-b3ce-2ceae1269c75 2182 A SHIP LANDED INLAND A FEW MINUTES AGO HE SAID I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED 3961d16d-98f9-4c42-a161-624bee9db7c5 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 72a7ec05-3475-406b-9a58-1c0e11b23cd9 2182 THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK 3f6bbd68-d615-444e-886f-d2e80fd1234d 1867 WHEN THE HEAD WAS DONE I PEELED IT OFF AND ATTACHED IT TO AN ATTRACTIVE SUIT OF GREEN PLASTICK COMPLETE WITH TAIL I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS LIZARDS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES AND I WANTED TO TAKE ALONG A LOT OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT I BUILT THE TAIL OVER A METAL FRAME THAT ANCHORED AROUND MY WAIST f8abe74d-f006-4722-9ed9-351d18b32680 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 715e41d1-4294-4621-8a9a-9d251d6fa465 413 BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED AND SUCH A BAD SIGN WE HAVE JUST GOT TO THINK OF SOME FOOL EXCITER THAT'S ALL I SAID I I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS b8861105-b596-4066-abf7-84f62ce5c550 2425 I COULD NOT ONLY SEE THE LIGHT I COULD FEEL IT IT BEAT UPON MY BODY THROBBED ALL AROUND ME I HAD A FEELING THAT THE MINGLING RAYS OF LIGHT CONFLICTED WITH EACH OTHER ff900db8-2a16-4b9b-bcd0-0953f49a35ef 242 THEN WE ALL BRIGHTENED UP IT REALLY WAS A DECENT WORLD AFTER ALL I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY 517fdaa6-009b-42dc-8a54-cf21080a6da5 242 CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT I SAID THEY OUGHT TO NOT FIGHT FOR FUN OR FOR BAD TEMPER RETORTED PETER THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD 208576ea-bb98-4b9b-b094-bcc08324f443 198 DON'T YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I CAN'T BEAR IT DON'T YOU THE STORY GIRL DIDN'T BUT SHE HAD SAID ENOUGH THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE QUALITY OF A GHOST WITH EYEHOLES BUT NO EYES THAT FROZE HER YOUNG BLOOD 8cd7d6dc-5ff4-4f73-becb-c70ab8600cf8 2317 AS FOR DOR JOHN ANDREW HAD LIVED THIS LONG WITHOUT GOING TO THE AID OF A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS WITHOUT IN FACT EVER SEEING ONE THAT HE COULD REMEMBER WHO WASN'T OBVIOUSLY MORE CAPABLE OF HELPING HERSELF THAN HE WAS 2c64b660-dc55-48c3-a427-eda86de39560 32 SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON PETER TOOK DAN AND ME ASIDE ONE EVENING AS WE WERE ON OUR WAY TO THE ORCHARD WITH OUR DREAM BOOKS SAYING SIGNIFICANTLY THAT HE WANTED OUR ADVICE 54847d3d-5276-471f-903f-58df018cef48 32 SHE HASN'T SEEMED LIKE HERSELF THE PAST TWO WEEKS SHE COMPLAINS OF HEADACHE AND SHE HAS NO APPETITE AND SHE IS A DREADFUL COLOR I'LL HAVE TO SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT HER IF SHE DOESN'T GET BETTER SOON 295cddab-6f68-43e4-8d5a-6c62f9327007 451 THE STORY GIRL IMPERSONATED THE BEGGAR MAID SO VIVIDLY AND WITH SUCH AN ILLUSION OF BEAUTY THAT WE DID NOT WONDER IN THE LEAST AT THE KING'S LOVE FOR HER I HAD READ THE STORY BEFORE AND IT HAD BEEN MY OPINION THAT IT WAS ROT 6ca81290-2c8a-46ae-a2b7-1faa2ca536de 2274 HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN fe28cb62-1d27-4597-9082-3fc73064fed9 198 I WASN'T CRIED NAN HE MUST BE IN THE HOUSE I'VE BEEN SITTING RIGHT ACROSS A DOOR EVER SINCE YOU LEFT AND HE COULDN'T HAVE GOT OUT UNLESS HE CRAWLED RIGHT OVER ME HE MUST BE IN THE HOUSE ced77750-75b3-4efc-ba53-54f64465780d 2425 THE ONLY VESTIGE OF COMFORT LEFT ME WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WERE TAKING ME TO HOPE AND VIC AT THE ENTRANCE OF ONE OF THE HUGE MISSHAPEN BLACK BUILDINGS THE CREATURE WITH THE BRILLIANT STONE AT HIS THROAT APPEARED AS SUDDENLY AS A LIGHT FLASHES UP IN THE DARKNESS fa01a18c-75dd-4e3e-88e7-018b7f959a3f 2317 IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR IT WILL BRING IN A PERFECT COLOR PICTURE OF THE OCEAN AT WHAT IN THE DEPTH I SET IT FOR OR WILL SET ITSELF AUTOMATICALLY TO PRESENT A VIEW OF THE OCEAN FLOOR IT WILL 2e0161c1-d217-4a3f-ae82-1d627e173aee 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 2a4b333d-6086-4fc8-b985-2eee071c986f 2317 EVEN IF SOME OF THE INVENTIONS THEY WORKED OUT SO FAR HAVEN'D THEM TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON NICELY AFTER ALL THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER 469906e4-7556-4f45-acc5-9b42ecda4520 2368 HE WAS INSTEAD SOMEWHAT SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE OF MEN IN EUROPE IN SIXTEEN O FIVE AND FOR SOME TIME THEREAFTER c842fe54-4cac-4cb0-826d-bea34eded321 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND 3de97e12-ebab-4e77-9365-2e418e105a87 2286 THAT IS JUST WHAT WE INTEND TO DO BUT IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT AT THE MOMENT SINCE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NOT ONLY BUILT THE BATTLESHIP BUT UNDOUBTEDLY STOLE IT AS WELL IT WAS FULLY AUTOMATED SO NO CREW IS NECESSARY WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO DO d84cdfbc-3b64-4f42-a916-e3b464cddf35 2274 ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM 41f6b4da-3591-4953-91bf-03d31a3a38ce 188 RIGHT BUT FELICITY HAD ALREADY WHISKED THE TURNIPS OUT AND WAS SLICING THEM WHILE ALL THE OTHERS WERE LAUGHING AT ME b271aeeb-e09e-45f5-b160-d005f7b1669d 198 ON THAT DAY THE GATES OF EDEN ARE SHUT BEHIND THEM AND THE AGE OF GOLD IS OVER HENCEFORTH THEY MUST DWELL IN THE COMMON LIGHT OF COMMON DAY 030ef352-1359-4583-8e70-fa60e1721596 2368 I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM f815ce71-7d7b-414a-b5a7-78d13a4a002f 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 5d92b70f-d551-4146-880f-bace1acbee00 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 03f24c0f-e1b1-454a-bb18-6580e2de1472 402 WE STAYED HOME FROM SCHOOL TO DO IT IT WAS PLEASANT WORK AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF FUN IN IT BUT IT WAS HARD TOO AND OUR ARMS AND BACKS ACHED ROUNDLY AT NIGHT b0642b3f-5ab6-418f-bbf3-cb6dfdf85cc7 14 EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT ffc92d59-3327-42dc-a58c-04ab75b41869 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 cb9d9ba8-e113-4f06-a9ec-d56bc2419db2 2368 SHE HAD A VERY NICE SMILE AND FOR MEMORIES IN THE OTHERS MINDS HE COULD HEAR THE VOICE LOW AND QUIET AND ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY YONAS SIGHED THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD 4f081623-1141-4b51-bb4a-2fc9d83e6d20 32 SHE HAD AN ESPECIAL KNACK FOR DRAWING MONSTROSITIES AND I VIVIDLY RECALL THE PICTURE OF AN ENORMOUS AND HIDEOUS LIZARD LOOKING LIKE A REPTILE OF THE PTERODACTYL PERIOD WHICH SHE HAD DREAMED OF SEEING CRAWL ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE 080f932e-ff86-4848-baf7-cbc75eef30b8 2317 HE WAS VERY GENTLE WITH THE WRIST HE DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HER HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL dfc04f0d-e793-468a-9300-15d005ca36b1 2182 SHE LOOKED AT ONCE STARTLED AND IMPATIENT NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL BEYOND THE SURF THE SHALLOWS BOILED WHITELY WHERE THE SCOOP FOUGHT FOR TRACTION TO DRAW ITS GROUNDED BULK INTO THE WATER 2de34923-01fa-404e-a54c-96cb4570bc44 14 ALTOGETHER THE STORY GIRL HAD A HARD TIME OF IT BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED HE'S GOING TO CHURCH WITH US TO MORROW SHE SAID TRIUMPHANTLY 9f5cf874-f6ab-4ba6-8dd6-ab0a110ca052 188 WE HAD A CALL FROM PEG BOWEN YESTERDAY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE STORY GIRL HUSTLING PAT OUT OF THE WAY FOR ALL SHE SAYS SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT HE WAS BEWITCHED PEG HAD YOUR RHEUMATISM RING ON AND THE STORY GIRL'S BLUE BEADS AND SARA RAY'S LACE SEWED ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER DRESS 3d1438db-5de0-48f9-a03e-acfb90e6a38f 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 a124cc5c-e5c3-4a3c-8c2f-3cfaef743ade 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 0e976ec1-f188-4a7e-97a0-060f4bc3a6d5 402 FELIX TOOK HER ADVICE MISTER MIRWOOD PRESENTLY WALKING BENIGNLY ALONG THE LANE WAS CONFRONTED BY A FAT SMALL BOY WITH A PALE FACE BUT RESOLUTE EYES THE REST OF US REMAINED IN THE BACKGROUND BUT WITHIN HEARING 3c761f76-2632-4878-b627-542dc118e943 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 459843e7-5fbd-442a-983b-eadd05223739 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 c0ffa929-c411-46af-9595-3632ff84c802 32 FOR A WEEK WE ATE UNLAWFUL LUNCHES AND DREAMED DREAMS AFTER OUR OWN HEARTS AND I REGRET TO SAY BICKERED AND SQUABBLED INCESSANTLY THROUGHOUT THE DAYTIME FOR OUR DIGESTIONS WENT OUT OF ORDER AND OUR TEMPERS FOLLOWED SUIT c61c0580-8b5d-473d-96e4-88d0c67bc601 2425 BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED THOSE WHO HAD BEEN HOLDING HOPE AND VIC WERE SURGING FORWARD WITH THE REST THEIR ERSTWHILE PRISONERS FORGOTTEN IN THEIR MAD GREED FOR DEATH 1dbaab5c-ab21-4cb3-8ffa-eebdb819adcd 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 2a95b2bf-1ea8-48d5-921f-3a5dc1e933d9 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 a6d508c6-c052-4957-980e-bd791e482fe2 2368 THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE WELL SHE SAID IT IS SAID THAT THE FAMILY COLLEGE SHARP HAS A HOUSE TOO LARGE FOR THEM NOW THAT THE ELDER SON IS GONE THERE IS ONLY THE MAN HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY HE WOULD ACCEPT PAYMENT WERE IT GENEROUS IN RETURN FOR SHARING ROOM IN HIS HOUSE d06f4872-28f4-4098-a0b0-9ed61627ec6a 2317 FARMER WAS UNCOMFORTABLE HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE FOR VARIOUS REASONS THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE cd074bfa-3506-43ad-a260-0694ebe873f3 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 ce804009-6d70-4811-aff8-187920c30d98 2317 FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP 0f801869-74bb-40fe-8ead-d3a8c8da60ff 1867 AT LEAST I HAD DONE NOTHING LIKE BUTCHERING A FEW OF THEM THAT WOULD MAKE THEM ANTAGONISTIC TOWARD FUTURE ANCESTRAL MESSENGERS I STRIPPED OFF MY TATTERED LIZARD SUIT BACK IN THE SHIP VERY GLAD THAT IT WOULD BE SOME OTHER REPAIRMAN WHO'D GET THE JOB END OF be4ffa6c-dc48-4f35-bdf6-2527d6c73dc2 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 f8e5c1b6-c45a-451d-b6ee-63439a82f5be 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 9917be3f-cffc-4f29-9325-5907159f72d7 2317 I'LL BE RIGHT BACK HE SETTLED A HELMET ON HIS HEAD MOTIONED FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM CHECK THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SOUP'S SELF CONTAINED OXYGEN SUPPLY JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME 7fbb4e8c-43b5-4408-a1c0-c5eb82c329bf 2182 THE UNGODLY HOUR OF TRANSMISSION NATURALLY WAS SET TO COINCIDE WITH THE CLOSING OF THE CONSUL'S FIELD OFFICE HALF WAY AROUND THE PLANET SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE 9992ed21-8b1d-4e31-b88c-617919fba556 1867 TRIANGULATION AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES THE RULES ARE COMPLEX AND VARIABLE BUT THEY ARE STILL RULES THAT A NAVIGATOR CAN FOLLOW 13ccd001-55bd-43b3-be7f-fa992204f80e 2368 IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM YUNUS FOUND THAT HE WAS SWEATING THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL bd2a995b-80a4-48bc-83f3-8705cd4064b2 2137 FINALLY IN DESPERATION HE SWITCHED OFF THE TELETOCKY HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR 66e7846f-95ca-4637-a1a2-35c6c887d717 2274 THAT WE COULD CONTROL NEXT HE SAID THEIR MOON WAS CERANNA CRUSOE TRANSLATED AS A LIMB OF VICTORY AFTER THAT IT JUST FELL INTO PLACE HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU 40ed1e86-37f2-4390-91d9-197b23c3994f 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 303dd58a-555e-490b-8994-0b72b555abf5 1867 SINCE WE WERE ALONE IT TOOK NO GREAT FEAT OF INTELLIGENCE TO FIGURE IT WOULD BE ME I TALKED FIRST BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH I QUIT DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME WHAT A DIRTY JOB YOU HAVE COOKED UP BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT AND YOU DON'T WANT TO REVEAL COMPANY'S SECRETS TO ME 108cf2f1-f744-4d83-a92b-7fcccf7b7827 2317 I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS 018f95c0-763c-4599-a0e2-a155a36379cf 402 MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER I HAVE JUST HEARD THE SAD NEWS ABOUT POOR DEAR PETER I CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY ARE DREADFUL I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME e7e82b7f-b20a-4ce7-a7ef-162c8f70afdc 2368 AND SO CLARTON THOUGHT THE JOB WAS ACCOMPLISHED NATURALLY YANAS THOUGHT CLARTON'S THOUGHT HAD AN OVERTONE OF WEARINESS THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF ad72ca27-fd84-4a23-9249-b0554ad1032c 451 PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE 0d64ce4f-4312-41fa-b1eb-8ccd4d353383 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 eb0d9086-7201-4f49-9601-be393debf1d4 2286 WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL EVEN A TEMPORARY FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE CONTACTED ALL THE STAR SYSTEMS A DAY'S FLIGHT AHEAD OF THE MAXIMUM FLIGHT OF THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP 54939091-a4f6-4cd4-892a-659cfa7ca6b5 14 HE NEVER LIFTED HIS HEAD FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SERVICE HE FOLLOWED US DOWN THE AISLE AND ACROSS THE GRAVEYARD LIKE A BEATEN DOG NONE OF US UTTERED A WORD UNTIL WE REACHED THE ROAD LYING IN THE WHITE MOONSHINE OF THE MAY NIGHT dfec88b4-27b3-45a3-a436-bedd78cb9a20 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 3a870852-77bc-42b8-8bc7-781c4d79c9d4 14 WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES ada8a6c6-7d75-4158-9145-52d8c983ffa6 2182 ALSO ON MONDAY'S NECESSARILY BEFORE CHARLEY MACK'S VISIT JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR KEPT DISMANTLED AND HIDDEN FROM SUSPICIOUS LOCAL LIES AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED 00390819-40ed-412e-a905-b7ce0abf93de 14 IN LATER YEARS WE WERE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS BECAUSE THE ORCHARD BLOSSOMED NOT ONLY APPLE BLOSSOMS BUT ALL THE LOVE FAITH JOY PURE HAPPINESS AND PURE SORROW OF THOSE WHO HAD MADE IT AND WALKED THERE 6c9a6ce5-b13f-4714-a39e-a7c86861722a 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 cf3939ec-22fd-4122-b706-8d88bdf7ce92 402 AT LAST THEY CAME TO THE VERY PLACE WHERE THE RAINBOW TOUCHED THE EARTH e8d1d6a2-69b8-4c04-9008-84282b170a34 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 1cc582dd-6ef3-470a-9d01-bf7fee4dec96 451 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE WE WERE IN THE ORCHARD AT SUNSET LISTENING TO THE STORY OF KING COPHETUA AND THE BEGGAR MAID ALL OF US EXCEPT PETER WHO WAS HOEING TURNIPS AND FELICITY WHO HAD GONE DOWN THE HILL ON AN ERRAND TO MISSUS RAY 2b5b3764-87bf-435d-9b8b-6373d1e49e23 2108 THERE ARE WICKED PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO CAPTURE ME AS THEY DID MY GIANT HUSBAND MISTER HUGH SAID SHE SO I STAY AT HOME AND MIND MY OWN BUSINESS 87f570ed-11cf-4848-aed4-6538f5e996e1 2425 THEIR THIN LEGS SEEMED TO BUCKLE AT THE KNEES THEIR ARMS DROOPED FROM THEIR SHOULDERS THEIR MOUTHS SAGGED AT THE CORNERS AND EVEN THEIR HUGE EARS HUNG DOWN LIKE A HOUND'S 92a2335b-b63b-413c-be74-3edc4f7637cd 2368 WHICH MEANT JONAS REFLECTED THAT HE WAS IN A FAIR WAY TO GET HIMSELF BURNED AS A HERETIC UNLESS HE WATCHED HIS STEP CAREFULLY HERC NUF'S FAME HAS REACHED MY OWN COUNTRY FAR AWAY HE SAID WITH SOME TRUTH NEVERTHELESS A FAMILY WHICH WAIT SHE SAID YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WILL PAY WELL YET YOU DO NOT APPEAR RICH 5079657b-bb0a-487a-a930-146410276e25 402 MAY BE PETER WILL GET BETTER AFTER ALL SAID DAN SWALLOWING A SOB I'VE HEARD OF LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO WENT AND GOT BETTER AFTER THE DOCTOR SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DIE 2e7b6d20-b82c-4d95-bbe6-a74bc540c21b 2317 HE SWUNG TO FACE THE MONSTER WITH A SICK FEELING IN HIS STOMACH AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE THE THING HAD STOPPED MOVING GAR'S EXPLANATIONS IT SEEMED ONLY COMPOUNDED THE CONFUSION CAUSED BY HIS PRESENCE b3b257e4-035e-419a-abdf-dd98c2ebcd07 2286 AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN THE BATTERY OF SIAMEN THERE CONTACTED THE INDIVIDUAL PLANETS AND ALL WE HAD TO DO WAS KEEP ADDING TO THE LIST OF PLANETS 655141c4-6457-48f6-8de4-f98d2b2730cc 32 UNCLE ROGER AND UNCLE ALEC LULLED IN THE GRASS LIKE BOYS AUNT OLIVIA LOOKING MORE LIKE A PANSY THAN EVER IN THE PRETTIEST DRESS OF PALE PURPLE PRINT WITH A KNOT OF YELLOW RIBBONS AT HER THROAT SAT WITH HER ARM ABOUT CECILY AND SMILED ON US ALL AND AUNT JANET'S MOTHERLY FACE LOST ITS EVERY DAY LOOK OF ANXIOUS CARE 12efa550-a600-4722-85a9-c10380267f08 1867 I HAVE A FLEET OF EXPENSIVE SHIPS THAT ARE EQUIPPED TO DO ALMOST ANYTHING MANNED BY A BUNCH OF IRRESPONSIBLES LIKE YOU I NODDED MOODILY AT HIS POINTING FINGER HOW I WISH I COULD FIRE YOU ALL 2ecf06aa-6831-4fd8-adbb-7d68e75a6a10 32 WELL ANYWAY THEY CAN'T PREVENT US FROM GROWING UP CONSOLED DAN WE NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE BREAD AND MILK RULE ADDED FELICITY 25ecdfb7-1acb-4913-8bc1-52ddfb4006d9 402 PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN e8f4faf8-b0cf-44da-a82b-cd6dba6d853b 2182 THERE SHOULD BE A FLAW SOMEWHERE JEFF FELT BUT HE FAILED TO SEE ONE HE GAVE UP TRYING WHEN HE FOUND JENIFER EYEING HIM WITH UNCHARACTERISTIC UNCERTAINTY a2cb4501-0270-44e6-bcea-667965b7cf21 2425 THEY WERE LIGHTER IN COLOR THAN THE OTHERS AND MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT TO JUDGE BY THEIR FACES THEIR EYES HELD NONE OF THE SADNESS WHICH WAS THE MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC OF THE OTHERS 115d71d0-5c1b-4662-b593-0f756a5cab81 451 IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE SWEARING THEN c330773d-dca0-44bb-bd6c-dedbd21e9aea 188 WE WERE SITTING IN A CIRCLE BEFORE THE PULPIT STONE EACH WRITING DILIGENTLY IN AN EXERCISE BOOK AND EATING THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT'S PLUMS WHICH ALWAYS REACHED THEIR PRIME OF JUICY GOLDEN GREEN FLESH AND BLOOMY BLUESKIN IN SEPTEMBER bf06e4ac-32d2-4d6b-a745-0abd2ef9ac11 402 THESE EPISTLES WERE AS DASHINGLY UNDERLINED AS IF SARAH HAD BEEN A CORRESPONDENT OF EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS 5ce06bff-06c3-491f-829b-dc979d389be2 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 36a74f8b-e50a-43d7-a17f-e86f3f7d70f2 2182 MY SCOPE JINNIFER EXCLAIMED SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK 8d1d9c70-b068-429b-8261-017b5146c1c9 188 BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING e210d11c-e7e1-47f6-aa4f-f624e4bbdb83 2274 THERE WAS A GENERAL UNKEMPT STRAGGLING LOOK ABOUT HIM LOUIS ORNE JUNIOR I A FIELD MAN WITH A MAIDEN DIPLOMA STOOD AT THE OPPOSITE PORT STUDYING THE JUNGLE HORIZON c749cee0-4548-4f65-8041-ab86f9d2527e 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 128d0ae4-fcee-434d-9ecb-48b391e284a2 2108 ONCE A LONG TIME AGO SHE RAISED AN ARMY OF GIRLS AND CALLED HERSELF GENERAL GINGER WITH HER ARMY SHE CAPTURED THE EMERALD CITY AND DROVE ME OUT OF IT BECAUSE I INSISTED THAT AN ARMY IN OZ WAS HIGHLY IMPROPER eb6b1366-3c63-4b3f-9ceb-55ae4e1ef135 14 WE ALL EXPLODED WITH LAUGHTER ON THE SPOT MUCH TO THE HORROR OF MISSUS ABRAHAM WARD WHO WAS JUST DRIVING PAST AND WHO CAME UP THE NEXT DAY AND TOLD AUNT JANET WE HAD ACTED SCANDALOUS ON THE ROAD HOME FROM CHURCH 97c9e1ca-2786-498b-be12-3ee7f57aa4e3 2274 YOU WILL NOT BE THAT FOOLISH WILL YOU ORN NO NEED TO BE SAID ORAN I'VE ANOTHER LITTLE LESSON TO TEACH YOU I ALREADY KNOW WHERE YOU'VE HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS GO BOY HISSED STUTSON WHERE IS IT 30568638-f809-4cb9-9619-b93acb666947 402 AH I WONDER WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE BREATHED CECILY WE ALL WONDERED NEXT DAY IN SCHOOL WE AGREED TO JERRY COWAN'S TERMS AND JERRY PROMISED TO BRING THE PICTURE UP TO UNCLE ALEC'S THE FOLLOWING AFTERNOON 82144408-c01c-42e7-b360-5685f4076f0e 2425 SO I WAS TO RECEIVE A CORDIAL WELCOME AFTER ALL I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND POCKETED THE WEAPON AND INSTANTLY THE DARK EYES FLASHED ANGRILY I HELD OUT BOTH HANDS TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE EMPTY TRYING TO EXPRESS MY WILLINGNESS TO BE FRIENDS 82a03f82-cc35-4954-93ac-931d043221b3 188 OH YES SAID NEIL FIERCELY IS IT IS LAUGHING AT ME OVER THE COUNTRY SIDE AND TELLING THAT STORY THAT DONALD FRASER WILL BE DOING IS IT BUT WHEN I MEET HIM IT IS NOT LAUGHING HE'LL BE DOING OH NO THERE WILL BE ANOTHER STORY TO TELL 337a664c-8353-4d78-97b0-710c98731ea1 2274 O K HORNE PAY ATTENTION STETSON GESTURED AT THE MAP WITH ITS GREEN SUPERPOSED GRID SQUARES HERE WE ARE HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN 6809128f-28c7-418f-a66b-5fe7243d72f5 2425 THE OLD BOY DOESN'T LIKE THOSE OTHER CHAPS PRIESTS I TAKE IT WHISPERED VIC I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS 7d748c78-387c-4e04-b55c-d5d18bcf2f44 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 e7356c93-4d7d-49fe-8b48-b6bd3dbde712 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 d4937794-18b9-4d13-827d-c9357296fcfd 2368 YONAS SIGHED AND WENT FORWARD TO MEET THE TWO BIG MEN LEAVING MISSUS SHARP SOBBING IN THE BACKGROUND THE POOR WOMAN FELT TERRIBLE HE KNEW BUT THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT THAT THEN LET US GO HE SAID AND MARCHED OFF FEELING THAT ONE MORE EFFECT WOULDN'T HURT HE LED THE WAY TO THE TOWN HALL LET THEM FIGURE OUT HOW HE HAD KNOWN JUST WHERE TO GO HE THOUGHT becb9e4a-b822-4351-8d55-27f3ebfe04ff 2182 NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL 2515270b-29ad-41e7-9f52-4e43331eec4b 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 9d8e9419-ffd6-43bb-bc14-a5a677751f38 2425 THEN WITH THE HUMMING SOUND RINGING IN MY EARS LIKE A NOTE OF DEATH I LEAPED CLEAR INTO THE MIDST OF THE WAITING GUARDS FOR AN INSTANT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT NO SOUND FROM ALL THAT VAST CROWD EVEN THE GUARDS SEEMED STUNNED AND I TORE MY WAY THROUGH THEM WITH HARDLY A PAUSE IN MY STRIDE 3008e4fa-6146-4d10-a85b-37daf5e0ca88 2317 JOHN ANDREW THINKING IT OVER SAID OH AND LET GO OF HER RISK SHE TURNED AND WENT BACK TO THE RAIL AGAIN AFTER FLASHING HIM THE MOST DELUCT SMILE SO FAR 8b47784b-10ab-4888-96fb-a4d44819c8ad 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 I'VE THOUGHT OF A GREAT PENANCE SAID CECILY EAGERLY DON'T GO TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING TO NIGHT THE STORY GIRL LOOKED PITEOUS 974d36b1-ef9f-49d7-90fe-01e539dff3dc 2108 WELL SAID SHE STILL EYEING THE I'M NOT SURE THEY'LL PUNCTURE LET'S TRY IT AND SEE e3a4e1eb-f843-43dd-9047-2b8e071adb01 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 9bbf57e1-c6aa-44a3-b9ba-da4b2926a9cd 451 THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD a769cef8-05b0-4bb1-ab9b-717758dafc8e 2286 OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE UNDER THE MOTTO SET A THIEF TO CATCH ONE THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE 416bcb3d-52ef-4683-9651-1f36a300d70b 32 WELL IN A BOOK THEY WOULD HAVE BUT YOU SEE THIS WAS IN REAL LIFE SAID THE STORY GIRL 33714f7b-7832-4ef6-9e7f-661d9538b9d2 2317 THIS OFTEN SAVED STEIN FINE AND BRYAN'S A LOT OF READING OF UNPUBLISHABLE MANUSCRIPTS IT WAS RAY WHO BROUGHT THE CONVERSATION BACK TO EARTH OR SEA AGAIN HE ASKED GARF DIRECTLY EXACTLY WHERE HE DID COME FROM 30ef6a40-7408-425a-a0f6-7e0d7c3943d1 2368 OF COURSE SHARP SAID YOU SPEAK OF AN END TO TROUBLES AND END TO THE INQUISITION AND THE BUILDINGS AND END TO THE QUESTION AND SO YOU MUST HAVE A PLAN FOR RIDDING US OF HYRKNUP ONE WHICH YOU WOULD TELL ME YONA SHOOK HIS HEAD I HAVE NO PLAN HE SAID 99a0b87f-2cd7-4b0d-b431-3bb46d9070b8 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 adeaced5-e69b-48a2-a634-ed1f8cdbcc5d 2425 I GLANCED DOWN AT THE PAPERS IN MY HAND AND SLOWLY TURNED THE FIRST DIAL ON THE LITTLE INSTRUMENT BOARD NARROWLY WATCHING THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT AS VIC HAD INSTRUCTED 5e90f0ae-f4f1-43a8-9a4d-f6854fee6c35 2317 I CAN SEE HOW EARTH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE PLAGUE SPOT OF THE UNIVERSE DORA GOT AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY SERIOUS THEN SHE THREW BACK HER HEAD AND LAUGHED A MERRY LAUGH LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST cb7c0467-8e15-44d8-9b0f-e7753d6de10c 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 0a89b9eb-7c66-47ab-be90-3f3dacf747a4 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 e02ec841-6699-467a-8037-03f77f2520d5 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 66460ae8-7180-4ec0-a693-75085c73b47a 2368 HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY 25925593-4ecb-478c-9cff-9e9c6b2b18a5 2137 BRANDON TOOK A DEEP BREATH HIS HEAD SPUN AND FOR THE FIRST TIME HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE HE GAZED ACROSS THE SHIMMERING DESERT TO A RIDGE OF SCRUBBY HILLS BLUE MOUNTAINS ROSE UP BEHIND THEM 373bc762-b33d-43f5-9020-682b0e75c7c9 451 THANK YOU AND WILL YOU GIVE ME A HANDFUL OF HARD PEAS AFTER BREAKFAST AUNT JANET I WANT TO PUT THEM IN MY SHOES THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED THEN I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO DO WITHOUT da1cc94c-ac52-4953-b76d-19f95bbb44a0 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 3cdc9e68-3b9c-4081-9fe9-f701b63bc30d 2274 IS THIS THE USUAL ARE FOWL UP ASKED ORNE STETSON NODDED MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE 2771d987-929a-4d23-b63a-622fbf2bac86 188 WHEN I HAD COMPLETED MY SERVANT I WENT OVER IT VERY CAREFULLY AGAIN AND WROTE WITH RED INK CICELY MADE IT FOR ME OUT OF AN ANALINE DYE THE WORD THUMP WHENEVER I DEEMED IT ADVISABLE TO CHASTISE THE PULPIT 1daaec20-00c1-4f09-840e-0bc2baf6c145 1867 I HAD MEANT TO SAIL OUT BRAVELY BLIND EYES FACING INTO THE SUNSET INSTEAD I FACED THE CROWD AS I SOARED AWAY SO I MADE THE MOST OF A BAD SITUATION AND THREW THEM A SNAPPY MILITARY SALUTE THEN I WAS OUT IN THE FRESH AIR AND AWAY 7045ae90-8185-4ec8-99b4-38237107daf6 2182 HE SAID INANELY THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE 25642252-a6ab-4af5-b2b3-5d99df6dfad5 2182 GAS BREATHING CHAFFY FORE SAID UNBELIEVINGLY WARM BLOODED LAND DWELLING MAMMALIAN 60ecefcb-b1dc-4bb7-ac99-015a69e8a9c9 451 BUT PA'S COUSIN DID DIE REITERATED SARA AUNT JANE USED TO RUB WHISKY ON FOR A PAIN SUGGESTED PETER WE HAVEN'T ANY WHISKY SAID FELICITY DISAPPROVINGLY THIS IS A TEMPERANCE HOUSE 99bd6a58-e0d1-49d0-b37b-b154252c5d66 2274 IMPOSSIBLE BARK TO NEW IT'S ON YOUR MOON SAID ORAN DARK SIGHED IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON a918fb52-8704-4e75-a48f-b3baed21a2bd 451 THERE'S FOUR HUNDRED MILLION STARS IN THE MILKY WAY QUOTED PETER WHO FREQUENTLY ASTONISHED US BY KNOWING MORE THAN ANY HIRED BOY COULD BE EXPECTED TO d6bbe743-79db-47cd-bd90-229e81f6c730 188 SHE TOLD US ONE OF HANS ANDERSEN'S MOST EXQUISITE TALES AND THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE CHARMED AWAY ALL OUR FEAR SO THAT WHEN WE REACHED THE BRACKEN HOLLOW A LAKE OF SHADOWS SURROUNDED BY THE SILVER SHORE OF MOONLIGHT FIELDS WE ALL WENT THROUGH IT WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF HIS SATANIC MAJESTY AT ALL d2b9a2c2-fe3c-4853-b522-d92e90deb7bf 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 3b4c0f63-7ad3-483c-9b64-3f47234c08a7 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 36507779-7136-4f79-9e9a-69a8c95fa44e 2108 OH WELL NEVER MIND SAID THE WANDERER I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT ANY ONE WANTS OF A CAST OFF HEAD ANYHOW c991d430-3ab8-4b0d-99bf-51d79e6f36be 1867 THREE PRIESTS WERE GROPING TOWARDS ME THEIR EYE SOCKETS RED PITS OF BURNED FLESH THEY KNEW WHAT I WANTED AND LED THE WAY WITHOUT A WORD THE COMPUTER GAVE ME A COURSE WITH AN ESTIMATED POINT OF ARRIVAL AS WELL AS A BUILT IN SAFETY FACTOR I NEVER COULD ELIMINATE FROM THE MACHINE 3c367548-4a15-4159-b748-ba8d131b50b0 32 IT MIGHT BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS SAID PETER AS IF YOU HAD ANY COWS GIGGLED FELICITY I'M GOING TO HAVE COW SOME DAY SAID PETER FLUSHING I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE e33fc8ff-7b41-4d06-9f49-f10464148de3 2368 THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME 55154cd4-963c-4f10-af46-f4effe184d91 14 WHEN I LOOKED AT SAMUEL WARD I THOUGHT OF HIM GETTING UP IN MEETING ONE NIGHT AND PRAYING THAT HE MIGHT BE GUIDED IN HIS UPSETTING AND DOWN RISING JUST LOOK AT THE SCRATCHES I GOT AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT b646d814-889c-47da-9432-ad90aab8be8f 32 WELL I WILL FOR ONE SAID FELIX EMPHATICALLY I THINK HE WAS REMEMBERING THAT FELICITY HAD CALLED HIM FAT 9c5d126e-71c6-43bf-9b70-a5e98ebcc7e2 2274 ASKED HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME TO NUBES'S EYES MOVED CATLIKE RIGHT LEFT YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO fe7c1d7f-26dc-498b-aade-eb0f091246fe 402 WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE YOU KNOW SAID FELIX WE SHOULDN'T CROSS BRIDGES TILL WE COME TO THEM THOSE ARE ONLY PROVERBS SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY PROVERBS ARE ALL VERY FINE WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO WORRY YOU BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN REAL TROUBLE THEY'RE NOT A BIT OF HELP ea73867a-4303-4fa5-9ad0-7f66ec46e95f 188 AUNT JANE USED TO SAY IF A MAN DIDN'T HAVE HEADS AND STICK TO THEM HE'D GO WANDERING ALL OVER THE BIBLE AND NEVER GET ANYWHERE IN PARTICULAR WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PREACH ON ASKED FELIX YOU'LL FIND OUT NEXT SUNDAY SAID PETER SIGNIFICANTLY 62bf0f59-4d44-44e7-bc84-eff332b055eb 14 WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO ANALYZE THE VAGUE SENSATION ec922ed1-35e8-48be-b765-642df36fc568 402 WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY SOME ONE GALLOPED DOWN THE ROAD ON HORSEBACK LUSTILY SINGING A COMIC SONG HOW DARED HE WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS 66618ee0-cd8c-45ad-b03c-fe72f4339152 2286 FALSE MODESTY IS THE REFUGE OF THE INCOMPETENT I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT HE'S GOING TO HIT AGAIN SOON AND WHEREVER HE HITS THERE WILL BE SOME KIND OF PERIODICAL WITH MY PLANT IN IT 377a8bf6-23f4-40da-9a60-527216624bfe 2286 THIS IS AN ORDINARY HEAVY CARGO AND PASSENGER JOB IT'S NO MORE A WAR LORD BATTLESHIP THAN I AM IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED eeaf5392-7ed2-4f4e-97e0-7a4431d31054 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 166e4427-244e-4e18-9e03-d33c8f70e967 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 e1564116-3b6a-48fb-b7a2-b864d49da614 2317 IT WAS IRONIC HE SHOULD HAVE ASKED DORA TO TELL HIM MORE ABOUT GAR WAS HE A TRAITOR OR A TAM DIVERIAN GANGSTER OR WHAT JOHN ANDREW GASPED AND STARTED SINKING AGAIN a8159c18-ae73-4d02-92df-8cf50b48f3c3 2425 AND AS I TOOK MY FIRST STEP THERE MATERIALIZED SUDDENLY OUT OF THE THIN AND ILL SMELLING AIR FIGURES OF PERHAPS A DOZEN MONSTROUS CREATURES THEY WERE IN EFFECT MEN THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN 68d7896b-f4fb-4727-b592-588f7fb40f0e 32 ON ANOTHER OCCASION SHE HAD A FRIGHTFUL DREAM AT LEAST IT SEEMED FRIGHTFUL WHILE SHE TOLD US AND DESCRIBED THE DREADFUL FEELING IT HAD GIVEN HER OF BEING CHASED AROUND THE PARLOUR BY THE OTTOMAN WHICH MADE FACES AT HER 3db8bf70-36b4-4ed7-8f65-19dca1ff64a6 2286 DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME PLEASE ANGELINA WAS ON HER FEET NOW HER BACK PRESSED TO THE WALL THEY'LL PUT ME IN PRISON DO THINGS TO MY MIND SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT 174a8293-4281-463f-b40f-d2e370fd309b 2182 IT WAS TOO REAL TO BEAR JEFF STEPPED BACK ON SUDDENLY UNRELIABLE LEGS JONOFOR FAINTED AGAINST HIM AND THE UNEXPECTED WEIGHT OF HER SENT THEM BOTH SPRAWLING TO THE DOCK b77378b9-9e23-4021-abc8-65417233ec6b 14 THIS PULPIT DOOR WAS MADE FOR SPIRITS AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN MISTER FRUUEN COME AND I THOUGHT OF HER STORY ABOUT HIS SIDE WHISKERS HOW WHEN HIS FIRST WIFE DIED OF INFORMATION OF THE LUNGS HE WENT COURTING CELIA WARD AND CELIA TOLD HIM SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM UNLESS HE SHAVED THEM WHISKERS OFF 922d8688-0834-4abb-8014-8956e3ed6871 451 SWEET WILLIAM IS A DREADFUL NAME FOR A FLOWER SAID STORY GIRL WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET eefaae80-00da-4df4-ae83-b47a0f86a163 2425 IT MAY BE THAT THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE IN MAKING SOME PLANS FIRST OF ALL I INSISTED TELL ME WHERE WE ARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US DO YOU KNOW 63b01ee9-5cd2-4aea-a49f-723375574c34 1867 DIPLOMACY WAS CALLED FOR I SIGHED AND DRAGGED OUT THE PLASTER FLESH EQUIPMENT HE SANK SLOWLY BENEATH THE SURFACE WHAT A LACK OF COURTESY I SHOUTED d9ff01f0-e61f-4a73-b339-96b72155378a 1867 LATER THE SAME DAY I CAUGHT ONE OF THEM ALONE AND SHOUTED HEY GEORGE AT HIM IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND cd9f8f99-79fc-4651-9e35-60ed5cee0291 402 OH I THINK HE'LL BE ALL RIGHT TOO SIGHED CECILY BUT YOU KNOW HE NEVER DID GO TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL BEFORE THIS SUMMER 7ec9900b-b063-4e76-937e-726acf0f1271 402 SOMETIMES WE WORKED UNTIL THE COLD YELLOW SUNSET FADED OUT OVER THE DARKENING DISTANCES AND THE HUNTER'S MOON LOOKED DOWN ON US THROUGH THE SPARKLING AIR 0ca70d88-9006-49ed-bb43-4c0cc5d0b189 2368 GORK KNOPE WAS A TALL MAN WITH SKIN OF THE COLOR AND APPARENT TEXTURE OF GOOD LEATHER HE HAD A FACE LIKE AN EAGLE AND HIS EYES WERE ICE BLUE 7ac510f7-614d-4429-a07c-ef4787a1d19f 2274 HE LOOKS CAUTIOUS RATHER THAN HOSTILE ORN HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND PALM OUT bcec5caa-c3e6-423d-8f46-48fb52dd053c 2286 EVERYTHING WAS READY EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE b133e403-8266-42c2-8137-03403413c28d 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 28e0b64a-e923-4b27-9b27-a3a229ae10d2 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 f4906ff2-e519-48ec-88ac-c11d6225c6d9 402 THIS WAS MINGLED BITTER AND SWEET WE WERE SORRY TO HEAR THAT PETER HAD THE MEASLES BUT IT WOULD BE JOLLY TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL LIVING WITH US ALL THE TIME WHAT ORGES OF STORY TELLING WE SHOULD HAVE f9ad63ea-2790-4b60-ba5a-3705389a9e57 2286 I COULDN'T TELL AND I COULD WORK MYSELF UP INTO A NEUROTIC STATE IF I KEPT RUNNING THROUGH THE WORRY CYCLE IT TOOK AN EFFORT TO CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING ELSE BUT IT HAD TO BE MADE THE NEXT FOUR DAYS PASSED VERY SLOWLY 59bc2f86-9b74-44d2-8726-d4a5e7b9184d 2286 I DON'T KNOW THE CAPTAIN SAID IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE I NEVER HEARD WHAT IT SOUNDED LIKE WHICH IS ALL RIGHT SINCE HE WAS GETTING UNDER MY SKIN AND MIGHT HAVE BEEN TEMPTED TO PULL MY PSEUDO RANK THE ALARM SIRENS CUT HIS SENTENCE OFF AND WE FOOT RACED TO THE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM 10724425-17d2-42f5-8d7a-72258127fc87 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 093a6505-9095-4ca4-b6a4-c22f2fc4e24c 32 I WOULD HAVE AND THE NEXT DAY SHE DRESSED HERSELF BEAUTIFULLY IN HER BEST PALE BLUE MUSLIN AND SLEEKED HER CURLS AND WENT SMILING TO THE BIRCHES 2971190c-02e7-4f21-bb02-13877f2d1e87 1867 HOWEVER IF THE SPIKIN WAS WEARING A SUIT OF PLASTER FLESH THAT LOOKED REMOTELY HUMANOID I WOULD AT LEAST STAY AND TALK TO HIM THAT IS WHAT I WAS AIMING TO DO WITH THE CENTAURIANS 473025f1-f651-425c-b947-7af70e171171 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 70d4fecd-1615-4951-ba80-572fa5031f95 2368 I UNDERSTAND JONAS SAID HELPLESSLY 47540cfa-de01-4fe9-8e16-278abec2466c 2425 THE OTHERS FELL BACK INSTANTLY AND THE NEWCOMER APPROACHED ME SWIFTLY HOLDING OUT HIS HANDS AS THOUGH IN SUPPLICATION 2489ab7a-00dd-4be1-aea7-d0f5f93a62e7 2274 MAKING A BEE LINE FOR US YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON O K KEEP US POSTED RIGHT STITSON LOOKED ACROSS AT HIS JUNIOR FIELD MAN OR IF YOU DECIDE YOU WANT OUT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT YOU JUST SAY THE WORD I OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT 501660ac-6e96-467a-9145-4252e41b3ef8 2317 HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY 1e564d59-ddfc-442e-b078-587faea51f86 2425 VIC TRIED TO SHOUT SOMETHING BUT A CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND WAS IMMEDIATELY THRUST OVER HIS MOUTH THE GUARDS WHO HELD ME FOLLOWED BY THE PRIESTS MADE THEIR WAY TOWARD THE EXTENDED PALMS WHICH FORMED THE ALTAR OF THIS STRANGE BLACK GOD WHOSE FAVOR WAS DEATH 9b30952a-c083-48e8-be27-6aa754de8298 188 THERE'S MANY A GIRL WOULD GLADLY SAY YES FOR YOUR ASKING AND HERE STANDS ONE WHY NOT MARRY ME NEIL CAMPBELL 8ba06d13-9a23-4634-87ed-5d1bedb790c2 2108 THE CANARY SWIFTLY DARTED TO A PLACE BESIDE THE OWL AND THE GREEN MONKEY SPRANG UP CAUGHT A LIMB AND SOON SCRAMBLED TO A HIGH PERCH OF SAFETY 6002d646-df70-46b8-b705-bad93b296d3f 1867 IT WOULD TAKE A YEAR TO INSTALL A NEW BEACON BESIDES BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND THIS RELIC IS ON ONE OF THE MAIN ROUTES WE HAVE SHIPS MAKING FIFTEEN LIGHT YEAR DETOURS NOW HE LEANED BACK WIPED HIS HANDS ON HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND GAVE ME LECTURE FORTY FOUR ON COMPANY DUTY AND MY TROUBLES 80562e0f-645b-4c36-832b-0df333d64175 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 5cfbe4c3-6db1-4fd3-a91d-a6ba656c542d 1867 I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET HE THREW THE MARK THREE FILE AT ME AND WENT BACK TO SCRATCHING IN HIS PAPERS JUST AS I REACHED THE DOOR HE LOOKED UP AND IMPALED ME ON HIS FINGER AGAIN d91456de-e6d0-4d85-acdb-9d0afa45283f 188 THERE WAS ONE OF FATHER'S THIN LETTERS FOR FELIX A FAT FOREIGN LETTER FOR THE STORY GIRL ADDRESSED IN HER FATHER'S MINUTE HANDWRITING A DROP LETTER FROM FOR CECILY FROM SOME SCHOOL FRIEND WITHIN HASTE WRITTEN ACROSS THE CORNER AND A LETTER FOR AUNT JANET POSTMARKED MONTREAL 800e809e-d36f-4b70-a926-1e29db6f68d0 2425 THOUSANDS OF THE UNREAL CREATURES OF THIS WORLD WERE CROWDED AROUND A VAST HIDEOUS IMAGE THAT ROSE FROM THE CENTER OF THIS SPACE A MONSTER SO TERRIBLE THAT HOPE CRIED OUT AT SIGHT AND VIC EXCLAIMED UNDER HIS BREATH 33afd572-258e-4416-9e41-9f81251ce0b9 2286 MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS 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 a61595cb-3ba5-40cb-af95-6db87fa0b3db 2137 CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY TRIMMING A FEW SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH GOLD AS HE STARED AT THE SKY CIUS ROSE WITH A BRASSY GLARE NEAR IT HE COULD SEE ITS WHITE HOT DWARF STAR COMPANION IT WAS GOING TO BE A REAL SCORCHER HE DECIDED WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE SAT UP STIFFLY ce8071d0-cff2-40a1-a9d9-be226e2b0214 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 b1bbd4c8-1e6b-4c54-bca0-bec912d968dc 2368 YONAS MADE CONTACT TWICE WITH CLARTON WHO TOLD HIM OVER AND OVER TO WAIT TO DO NOTHING THE NEXT MOVE IS COMING SOON DO NOTHING TO HURRY IT YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL 3c851e1a-7f91-4499-89c3-d58067c5069b 451 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 I THOUGHT MAYBE THEY GOT SOME NEW IMPROVEMENTS ON IT SINCE AUNT JANE'S DAY SAID PETER RELIEVED 7a0e675a-2922-4b07-8f05-019fc58d853c 2274 MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL GRATSEY WAS ON THE TRAMP WASN'T ON THE TRANSLATED LIST I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND MEANT ENEMY 19737ffc-f5cc-4604-8429-790bc1ff0800 2317 FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED 6db13776-2aa3-4d15-8ab0-d28b7c97cd04 2368 I WILL ASK YOU TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THE FAITH I MERELY ASK YOU TO TEST FOR YOURSELF WHAT I SAY YOU ARE A HERETIC KNUFF SAID SUDDENLY I CANNOT YOU CAN PRAY YUNUS SAID KNUFF BLINKED PRAY HE SAID aac1cee8-83c6-466a-8ce0-ed9516204bc1 14 VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND NEVER NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS f40704d2-8c64-4544-b811-639623697c0b 14 AND HE WOULDN'T JUST TO BE STUBBORN 93f19c33-bf36-4bb0-835c-e72e0d960fbb 2425 A GREAT CROWD OF CREATURES SIMILAR TO MY CAPTORS HEMMED US IN BEFORE US THEY THINNED INTO NOTHINGNESS AS WE APPROACHED ONLY TO SWARM INTO BEING IN SOME OTHER SPOT IT WAS TERRIFYING AN UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE THAT MADE ME QUESTION MY SANITY 18709c3c-6d23-4130-bbc6-9ddd65a987d6 188 HOW BETTY SHERMAN WON A HUSBAND THE REST OF US DID NOT SHARE THE STORY GIRL'S ENTHUSIASM REGARDING OUR CALL AND MISTER CAMPBELL WE SECRETLY DREADED IT a42c9a45-c7e1-42ba-91ee-91437296a62c 2425 HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL YOU YOU AND VIC YOU AREN'T REAL TO ME EITHER WE'RE JUST SHADOWS LOST SOULS LOOK UP HOPE bedcce7e-574f-44c2-b757-d62bafc11ba0 2425 ALL EXCITED SHE TRIED TO SMILE AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED HOPE WAS GAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH WHAT AN ADVEN THIS WILL BE TO TALK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE OLD AND RHEUMATIC 24911d55-9ef6-4959-87b0-c2835331b52b 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 4198d532-cc00-4a0c-8881-19eb4f744e41 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 bef5bd0c-9278-4ee9-8fb5-f9da31494bbe 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 71ec85cd-2885-43cf-a70d-082b248ed592 2137 SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY IS THAT UNUSUAL THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT d9202d86-6db6-4942-a0ed-3c668baa4b9b 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 44f0ff54-c97e-4991-bac3-0b7b8332d9b4 2137 AS REIN HART ROSE TO HIS FEET BRANDON REACHED OVER AND TURNED OFF THE SET BRANDON TOOK A DEEP BREATH HIS HEAD SPUN AND FOR THE FIRST TIME HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE 8d5ab7ff-694f-494b-b60f-647aedbd0fe6 32 I HEAR THEIR LAUGHING VOICES I SEE THEIR BRIGHT UNCLOUDED EYES 1582bd21-d62a-4652-963c-f4d5bac922dc 2274 WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES TO NEWBOLTED PRESENTLY SAID SEND ME BACK I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW dce600e7-e596-476e-aeff-fd9830ff8d1d 2317 RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR 450ce3b8-4fa4-48de-a5fe-ab45ca343e5f 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 6133097c-5f1d-4801-a02f-f9a02eb09376 32 WHEN I'VE SETTLED WHAT I'M GOING TO BE I'M GOING TO CHURCH SAME AS YOU THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS BEING BORN SOMETHING SAID FELICITY LOFTILY I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER b0c6d05c-9ecc-4c2a-80f2-313f80773b4a 188 ALL RIGHT BUT JUST YOU WAIT TILL TO MORROW GROWLED DAN SUBSIDING RELUCTANTLY INTO SILENCE UNDER THE REPROACHFUL LOOKS OF THE GIRLS 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 175fc531-4dbf-428d-85cc-e4cb7b7dc71d 2368 YOU KNOW A GREAT DEAL CLARETON SAID WHICH I SOMETIMES FIND IT NECESSARY TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION I'VE DONE ALL RIGHT YONETS THOUGHT SULLENLY CLARETON AGREED OF COURSE YOU HAVE HE THOUGHT YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW 01f1590b-30bf-4ab0-a349-f0b79862adc1 32 I SHOULD THINK YOU DID SCREECH SAID FELICITY WE HEARD YOU CLEAN OVER INTO OUR ROOM WELL I WONDER WHAT ON EARTH YOU YOUNG ONES WILL DO NEXT SAID AUNT JANET IN THE HELPLESS TONE OF A WOMAN WHO GIVES IT UP c27d8db9-ccff-448f-ae8d-cda12bc382f3 2368 AND IF THE SECRET IS LET OUT WHY THE BROTHERHOOD IS FINISHED FINISH BEFORE IT'S BARELY STARTED BECAUSE YOU CAN READ A MAN'S MIND DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM YONES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO AND IF HE'S GOT YOU IN A WOODEN HOUSE AND HE'S GOING TO BURN IT DOWN WHAT GOOD DOES THAT YOUR KNOWLEDGE DO YOU 65ea1eae-dc52-4df2-888a-7a7b62ce752e 2425 A NIGHTMARE WORLD THAT WORDS SEEMED INADEQUATE TO DESCRIBE THE SKY WAS AN ANGRY SULPHUROUS GREEN PRESSING LOW UPON A COUNTRY UTTERLY FLAT AND NEARLY BARREN b0480323-0b98-458b-ae91-6212f02f07f8 188 THERE WAS NOBODY THERE BUT BETTY SHERMAN AND BETTY WAS NOT AFRAID OF HIM SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY SHE WAS VERY HANDSOME WITH HAIR AS BROWN AS OCTOBER NUTS AND BLACK EYES AND CRIMSON CHEEKS AND SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH NEIL CAMPBELL HERSELF aea95f43-d535-483e-88a8-534a0c19a299 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 4dc63b37-aa42-4509-9e8d-92b602792805 2108 IT WILL BE RATHER HARD FOR ME YOU MUST ADMIT WHEN I CONFESS TO NINNIE AND ME THAT I HAVE COME TO MARRY HER BECAUSE IT IS MY DUTY TO DO SO AND THEREFORE THE FEWER WITNESSES THERE ARE TO OUR MEETING THE BETTER FOR BOTH OF US 342c006b-ac95-4e0b-84e4-5e88a968cc04 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 aa63c3fb-5bb7-4be5-aeb7-8b4ff2476bdd 2286 IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT PEPPE WAS A MONOMANIAC AN EGOMANIAC AND A SARCOTIC AS A SORTED COMPUTER SOME DAY THE MYSTERY OF HOW HE HAD SLIPPED THROUGH THE SCREEN OF OFFICIAL TESTING WOULD HAVE TO BE INVESTIGATED THAT WASN'T MY CONCERN NOW HE STILL HAD TO BE CAUGHT bf8b1d3f-647f-4f7d-befe-9af5c1309789 14 I REMEMBERED THE WAY SHE SHOOK HIM OFF AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN I LOOKED AT THE PULPIT AND THOUGHT OF THE STORY SHE TOLD ABOUT THE OLD SCOTCH MINISTER WHO WAS TOO FAT TO GET IN AT THE DOOR OF IT AND HAD TO HISS HIMSELF UP BY HIS TWO HANDS OVER IT AND THEN WHISPERED TO THE OTHER MINISTER SO THAT EVERYBODY HEARD HIM 0d817590-e5dc-4e57-9a56-5358c2ff1ea2 32 THE LIGHT IN HER NARROWED ORBS WAS THE COLD MERCILESS GLEAM OF THE SERPENT'S EYE I FELT FRIGHTENED OF THIS UNHOLY CREATURE WHO HAD SUDDENLY COME IN OUR DEAR STORY GIRL'S PLACE b1d59553-c9cf-4b4f-8c81-2872dbc438cc 2274 NIGHT HUNTING PREDATOR ACCUSTOMED TO DROPPING UPON ITS VICTIMS FROM ABOVE NO OTHER TYPE OF CREATURE EVER HAS HAD THE VERTICAL SLIT AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN IN THE BEST PLACE IN ALL THEIR HISTORY HISTORY THERE'D BE A HIGH PLACE f79568a6-6ce1-4e5f-b096-7d08ab8ca9e9 402 CAN'T WE SEND WORD SOMEHOW TO SARA RAY TO NIGHT ASKED CECILY THE EVER THOUGHTFUL SHE'S FEELING SO BAD AND SHE'LL HAVE TO FEEL THAT WAY TILL TO MORROW IF WE CAN'T d8e77d8b-9463-4335-aa65-5cd02f515afa 2274 EXCEPT FOR THE CAPTURED ARMAND YOU STILL HOLD YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS IF YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH THEN WE SHALL DIE BRAVELY SAID TO NUB 574a0c99-525c-4249-9e49-e4ecac19cd0b 2286 CAPTAIN STENG WON BY NOSE IT WAS HIS SHIP AND HE KNEW ALL THE SHORT CUTS THE SIER MAN WAS HOLDING A TO OUT OF TRANSCRIPTION BUT HE SUMMED IT UP IN ONE SENTENCE HE LOOKED AT ME WHILE HE TALKED AND HIS FACE WAS HARD AND COLD a4bd6458-9c3a-4eaf-a569-afc9dddbdfe8 2368 HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE IT'S REALLY TOO BAD WE CAN'T WORK THIS SORT OF THING AT A DISTANCE CLARETON'S VOICE SAID SUDDENLY BUT THEN NONE OF US HAS EVER MET THE MAN AND YOU CAN'T READ A MIND IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD SOME PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH THE MAN WHO OWNS IT dfa0828d-808a-4104-83b7-04c3113e93e4 1867 I NEED MY EYES TO SEE AND MEND THE FOUNT OF HOLY WATERS ONCE THE WATERS FLOW AGAIN I WILL LAUGH AS I HURL MYSELF ON THE BURNING IRON HE TOOK A GOOD THIRTY SECONDS TO THINK THIS OVER AND HAD TO AGREE WITH ME THE LOCAL TORTURER SNIFFED A BIT AND THREW A LITTLE MORE CHARCOAL ON THE FIRE b9b244f7-101a-4c75-9cb4-93ee822f86b2 2108 THERE WERE NO PATHS BUT THE WAY WAS QUITE OPEN AND CLEAR AND THEY WERE DRAWING NEAR TO THE DWELLING WHEN BOOT THE WANDERER WHO WAS THEN IN THE LEAD OF THE LITTLE PARTY HALTED WITH SUCH AN ABRUPT JERK THAT HE STUMBLED OVER BACKWARD AND LAY FLAT ON HIS BACK IN THE MEADOW 79898cbe-6791-4ca8-873f-5cc797d6d47d 188 THE WORLD HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE REST THEIR MUSIC ECHOED ONLY ALONG THE HIDDEN WAYS OF LIFE AND SERVED BUT TO LIGHTEN THE CARES OF THE TRIVIAL ROUND AND COMMON TASK 670ddf14-fd10-4fd1-894e-12305589ec02 2368 AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY BUT IT'S A SENSE CLARETON SAID LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP b670cff6-f785-42fb-a961-cefa01646939 2286 MUCH OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORK REMAINED TO BE DONE WHEN THE SHIP HAD LEFT ONE WITNESS OF THE THEFT HAD GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED THE POWER LINES AND CABLES DANGLING FROM THE SHIP'S LOCKS WHEN SHE LIFTED MY ARRIVAL HAD FORCED PEPE OFF BALANCE 8921b307-b15a-4530-93ed-c426cbb5e9e7 2286 NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED THIS SUPERSTRUCTURE OBVIOUSLY JUST TACKED ON TO THE PLANS GETS THROWN AWAY AND TURRETS TAKE ITS PLACE THE HULLS ARE IDENTICAL A CHANGE HERE A SHIFT THERE AND THE STODGY FRATER BECOMES THE FAST BATTLE WAGON e0a2f28a-1c9e-4ffc-ac80-845667e8fb5b 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 f023919e-f3d3-4bfb-a176-c96aae6d6bb9 188 NOR DID HE MEAN TO TAKE A TEXT WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY bb008d48-5569-4b84-b6bf-f4fd86aa1076 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 caaeb963-ec54-473b-a8af-cf80383fc644 2274 STETSON NODDED THANKS TO BULL ONE IN COMPANY WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE BUT THEY STILL PUMP THE BOURGEOIS INTO THE RAW BOYS BACK AT DEAR OLD EUNUCH GALACTICA YOU'RE MAKING LIGHT OF MY REVERED ALMA MATER SAID ORAN HE STRUCK A POSE 80011b94-8f46-4ffb-b992-3da80a699ae8 2108 HOW ABOUT A PLUMP OWL ASKED THE BEAST NOT A TIN ONE YOU KNOW BUT A REAL MEAT OWL NEITHER BEAST NOR BIRD SHALL YOU HAVE SAID POLYCHROME IN A POSITIVE VOICE 33a09b81-b348-4aea-b8b6-4375cb47e01a 2368 I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL YONA MURDERED HE PASSED THE COIN OVER THE OLD WOMAN'S HAND SNATCHED IT AND CLOSED ON IT 519fde54-8414-4dc2-b3de-d3bce31387bb 2317 MER CAUGHT HIMSELF NODDING AND BLAMED THE BOAT'S MOTION HE SHIFTED UNEASILY ON THE BUILT IN SEAT AND GOT A SPLINTER IN A VITAL SPOT HE FROWNED RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK 16bbd77b-4d1e-41ac-a353-8677a0aff69d 402 UNCLE ROGER SAYS PETER'S FATHER WASN'T EXACTLY LAZY SAID THE STORY GIRL THE TROUBLE WAS THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER THINGS HE LIKED BETTER THAN WORK I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER COME BACK TO HIS FAMILY SAID CECILY JUST THINK HOW DREADFUL IT WOULD BE IF OUR FATHER HAD LEFT US LIKE THAT d7894323-6199-4d6a-b125-47de89c9d93c 451 SARA RAY IS CRYING HALF HER TIME SAID CECILY IMPATIENTLY I'M SURE SHE CRIES A QUART FULL OF TEARS A MONTH THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN'T HELP CRYING BUT I HIDE THEM SARA JUST GOES ON AND CRIES IN PUBLIC 887792a7-919d-45ad-b6b4-3b8a2c115147 2317 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE SHE LAUGHED AGAIN OH THE ROEBOT ed1dada8-71ee-4e84-bd09-52ce7967a0cc 451 FELICITY IS THERE ANYTHING FIT TO EAT IN THE PANTRY THE LAST QUESTION WAS THE MOST UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL FELICITY COULD HAVE FORGIVEN UNCLE ROGER ANYTHING BUT THAT IT REALLY WAS UNPARDONABLE 89482f93-9e1c-4bff-ac99-b6b3307f11c6 402 WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT BUT WE WERE VERY QUIET NOW fa5ee664-c67c-47f8-b38e-b50e4bfcd821 451 NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS MARRIED HIS WIFE WASN'T QUITE READY FOR CHURCH ONE MORNING WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO 1ea542d8-7cd5-41ea-8258-33d3149aec69 1867 I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL BEFORE THEY COULD GET ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS I THREW THE SWITCH AND MY PLASTIC PTERODACTYL SAILED THROUGH THE DOOR I COULDN'T SEE IT OF COURSE BUT I KNEW IT HAD ARRIVED WHEN THE GRAPPLES IN THE CLAWS LATCHED ON TO THE STEEL PLATES ON MY SHOULDERS b4902830-93ca-435f-88cb-9069a9ece158 2317 HE EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE WITH CARE HE DECIDED THAT GARF'S SUPERIOR ATTITUDE AND POWERS BODED NO GOOD BUT IF THE FISH MAN ONCE BECAME SLIGHTLY IRRITATED HE WOULD SICK THE NONIPUS ON RAY AND HIMSELF bafad93c-b968-452c-a96b-1b8017b13416 2286 THEY WERE ALL UNITED IN A LOOSE ALLIANCE AND BICKET A LOT AMONG THEMSELVES BUT NEVER CAME TO BLOWS IF ANYTHING THEY SHARED A UNIVERSAL ABHORRENCE OF WAR YET THEY WERE SECRETLY BUILDING A BATTLESHIP 3ffa06cb-9d56-4271-9d66-888fe08e8f88 1867 ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE WHILE DOING THIS HE HAD THROWN ONE OF THE SWITCHES AND THAT HAD CAUSED THE TROUBLE RATHER THAT HAD STARTED THE TROUBLE IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH dd48be89-dc01-4dd4-963b-c972cdf45a30 188 YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US ALL RIGHT AGREED THE STORY GIRL THE ONLY TROUBLE IS I DON'T KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BUT I'LL TELL YOU ALL I DO KNOW I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE b2067d9c-dba5-4a22-8582-e01e11a136a9 451 EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US 83d3a5b6-b24e-48cf-8a68-216134120cc7 32 ACCORDINGLY WE WENT ROUND TO THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE THE GIRLS WOULD NOT SEE US TO THE ROUSING OF THEIR CURIOSITY AND THEN PETER TOLD US OF HIS DILEMMA dc2a2c6b-5c74-4aab-92bf-3b367638e244 1867 DIPLOMACY WAS CALLED FOR I SIGHED AND DRAGGED OUT THE PLASTER FLESH EQUIPMENT WORKING FROM THREETY SNAPS OF GRANDSON I MODELLED A PASSABLE REPTILE HEAD OVER MY OWN FEATURES e1f34a98-c3a5-4227-8131-823fe09a3a49 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 0bb9c752-77b6-4711-8f3f-96f15ae44de6 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 2090631d-5aa5-4317-ba0d-0587a780520a 2286 WITH THE AUTOMATIC DISREGARD FOR OTHERS OF THE TRULY DEDICATED HE PRESSED THE SCRAMBLE BUTTON ON HIS DESK YES I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL f6bec57c-24db-4fdd-a8ec-19ccae0f4922 2108 WHO PUT THE AIR WALL AROUND THE HOUSE WAS THE SCARECROW'S QUESTION NINNY AMMIE DID THAT NIMIE AMMIE THEY ALL EXCLAIMED IN SURPRISE 376a1af7-fe9a-4387-8d15-02d17e96216a 2108 DON'T WORRY YOUR POOR BRAINS SAID SHE YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME HOWEVER HARD YOU TRY 7b31887a-0f04-461c-a00c-9c37a9e8ab22 188 HARVEST WAS ENDED AND THOUGH SUMMER WAS NOT YET GONE HER FACE WAS TURNING WESTERING THE ASTERS LETTERED HER RETREATING FOOTSTEPS IN A PURPLE SCRIPT AND OVER THE HILLS AND VALLEYS HUNG A FAINT BLUE SMOKE AS IF NATURE WERE WORSHIPPING AT HER WOODLAND ALTAR 0cc04b26-bcc0-4ea3-8ebd-828e01555400 402 BUT FELICITY TOOK REFUGE FROM THIS INCONVENIENT QUESTION IN TEARS IF WE COULD ONLY DO SOMETHING TO HELP PETER I SAID DESPERATELY IT SEEMS DREADFUL NOT TO BE ABLE TO DO A SINGLE THING 533a7156-7f7c-4113-b84a-93e36626ebc9 2286 FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER YOU FOUND THEM THE CRIMINAL RING HE ASKED HIS FINGERS GROPING OVER HIS SCOUT FOR A FRESH HOLD 6c4753d2-64a8-4a35-8a86-d957d337c8a7 1867 WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN THE IMAGE BLINKED FOCUSED AND A GREAT DAMP PYRAMID SWAM INTO VIEW 981a6f48-e663-4bd2-b43f-507d64a77660 32 NO SARA SHOOK HER FAWN COLORED HEAD MOURNFULLY MA ALWAYS KEEPS THE PANTRY LOCKED FOR FEAR JUDY PINNOT WILL TREAT HER FRIENDS 98a36e27-5ed3-49b6-be64-de056e57071e 2108 WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY SUGGESTED ONE OF THE LOONS AND THE PRISONERS NOTICED THAT NONE OF THEM SEEMED SURPRISED WERE SHOCKED AT THE SAD ACCIDENT TO PANTA ALL RIGHT GRUMBLED THE KING FETCH TILL TO MEND HIM dbc3ab56-45ef-4344-8fbd-374d11a35d51 451 OH I DON'T KNOW I FEEL BETTER SINCE I PUNISHED MYSELF BUT I'M GOING TO MAKE UP FOR IT TO MORROW SAID THE STORY GIRL ENERGETICALLY cae4cf3a-9159-4a5b-b81c-0a2eb2067e44 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 a9cf8eba-52e6-4526-be4e-078bc793e27c 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 e9c2b01a-47ed-4a2b-886d-676c7a5c40a5 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 0fe05b4f-5c4d-4c0f-ad4e-79368077fb91 2425 WRIGHT INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE THERE WAS NO SENSE TO ANYTHING THAT VIC BUTLER DID FOR THAT MATTER 62244a9e-7d1c-42a5-bfba-028d81798317 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 9ce7faa8-8fe6-498d-9443-fdce4055ebcd 2274 YES HE TURNED BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN WHEN DO WE GO ASKED ORAN THE GREAT SUN WILL BE DOWN SOON SAID TO NEWBE WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES 46ba4f04-8c14-405b-b467-ccf241e83821 1867 BEFORE IT COULD FALL I HAD MY SOLAR OUT AND WITH A WIDE ANGLE SHOT BURNED THE CONTRACT TO ASHES THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW 2b9f82d7-7590-4ca3-be40-0be587e5ec76 402 PETER AS FELICITY REMINDED US WITH A BURST OF TEARS HAD BEEN SO FOND OF APPLE TURNOVERS 53915608-1559-422e-97d6-a0afc412fb18 2274 I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND MEANT ENEMY AND THAT TOLD YOU WHERE THE DELPHINIS WAS 44ec0284-cf9a-4f68-b2cc-c55211beb559 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 f8d3ca36-7bff-4db3-b79b-4dbfef76340d 188 BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU THAT SETTLED IT WE WERE NOT GOING TO LET THE STORY GIRL GET AHEAD OF US IN THE MANNER OF COLLECTING d0adf830-2aed-49c8-9fbf-dc121a28c17f 2274 WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS EASY TENUBE'S WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE WAS GRATZIE MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL 57e043a0-71b6-4503-9850-e68b6990fc32 32 CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES PETER WAS STARING AT THE STORY GIRL WITH A FASCINATED HORROR STRICKEN GAZE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED ALL LOOKED AS IF THEY WERE HELD PRISONERS IN THE BONDS OF A FEARSOME SPELL WHICH THEY WOULD GLADLY BREAK BUT COULD NOT d9e0072e-75c5-4295-a6c5-37ae892cf01c 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 711d4cd2-e964-4e1e-82e3-636e2e43a341 188 THE STORY GIRL CAME OVER EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SARA RAY TO WHOM FAITHFULLY CECILY HAD SENT WORD WAS ALSO ON HAND ff479a3d-9625-4189-9bde-9bc50f9ec73e 2368 THIS NEW SENSE IS OF GREAT VALUE PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN TO TEACH IT TO OTHERS IN TIME THOUGH WE HAVE HAD LITTLE SUCCESS WITH THAT BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAINTAIN ON NUMBERS PASS THE GIFT ON TO OUR CHILDREN IF IT IS POSSIBLE YERS SAID WE MUST TRY CLETON SAID AND YOUR DAUB IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT I KNOW THAT YOURS THOUGHT WEARILY 791ecdd5-8cfa-4b63-a2cc-92fc16479bf7 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 223c8b17-1c7e-479b-baf5-f762f68ebea9 451 WE ALL WENT TO PIECES EXCEPT CECILY WHO ALONE RETAINED HER PRESENCE OF MIND HAVE YOU GOT A PAIN IN YOUR STOMACH SHE DEMANDED I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH OH OH OH 40f98233-f466-4267-b4bc-281a3de13ebf 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 ac7eda25-b9a1-4a14-a5be-5d2cbd41e524 2286 THE MORE I LOOK AT THIS THING HE SAID THE FISHERY GETS THIS PLANET SEEMS TO HAVE NO POSSIBLE MOTIVE OR USE FOR A BATTLESHIP OR THEY HAVE BUILDING ONE THAT I WILL SWEAR ON A STACK OF ONE THOUSAND CREDIT NOTES AS HIGH AS THIS BUILDING YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT 910da490-296f-4adc-84a8-7c436d79af5a 2286 THESE CHANGES COULD BE MADE DURING CONSTRUCTION THEN PLANS FILED BY THE TIME ANY ONE IN THE LEAGUE FOUND OUT WHAT WAS BEING BUILT THE SHIP WOULD BE FINISHED AND LAUNCHED 4bf0abfc-0939-4caa-8f62-71686d3d9b36 2368 IN A CASE LIKE YOURS I TRY HARDER MY FOOLISHNESS YONA'S THOUGHT SOMETIMES WORKS TO MY BENEFIT e76af9b9-3209-488a-a5ff-b826690854a8 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 7bdec085-64a2-4e13-af71-144b1288ee9f 32 I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID SAID CECILY WITH A SHIVER THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING TO BE AFRAID OF SAID THE STORY GIRL REASSURINGLY IT'S NOT AS IF IT WERE A STRANGE GHOST IT'S OUR OWN FAMILY GHOST SO OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT US 5e505720-d93d-4622-983d-1bdabbc51030 2368 THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT 8667d562-24b4-4c29-8bc6-47a239707c78 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING EVEN FELIX AND I WHO HAD SEEN SUCH SHOWS GALORE WERE INTERESTED AND THE REST WERE QUITE WILD THERE HAD NEVER BEEN SUCH A THING IN CARLISLE BEFORE WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED 2fe0c0e8-bfb8-4498-ada8-bb47b1133cab 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 dd91b21f-437d-4a73-9293-d3d5fda4d167 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 3c394a31-1ae9-47b2-aa1e-b8818f709d8f 32 IT WAS THAT WRETCHED PETER SOBBED FELICITY INDIGNANTLY HE TOLD HER IT WOULD MAKE HER DREAM SOMETHING EXTRA WHAT ON EARTH DID SHE WANT TO DREAM FOR DEMANDED AUNT JANET IN BEWILDERMENT 7d2c016a-7a4b-47e0-b347-9b6ed917596c 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 ab2fe32a-5496-4821-b0b3-e66b1a3c7e7c 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 97199376-db56-4499-9d5d-64663e1db943 2286 THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN MY FAVOUR THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS THE FACT I HAD FORCED HIM TO MAKE HIS PLAY BEFORE HE WAS ABSOLUTELY READY IT WASN'T CHANCE THAT HE HAD LEFT THE SAME DAY I ARRIVED ON SETANOVO ANY PLANS ELABORATE AS HIS CERTAINLY INCLUDED WARNING OF APPROACHING DANGER 24a43e88-bbd2-40f8-baf5-ed1c809e071b 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 824889ee-0a6d-4bd2-a9f9-fb73d8c8288e 451 FELICITY HAD PUT ON HER BLUE MUSLIN AND LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL IN IT THAT HER GOOD HUMOR WAS QUITE RESTORED CECILY'S HEADACHE WAS BETTER AND THE STORY GIRL REFRESHED BY AN AFTERNOON SIESTA CAME DOWN WITH SMILES AND SPARKLING EYES b0588461-5800-4ee4-98e8-e294e013b2a4 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 8a3cca17-5718-4df2-aa13-b5deb411613e 402 THE CONSTELLATIONS OF AUTUMN SCINTILLATED ABOVE US PETER AND THE STORY GIRL KNEW ALL ABOUT THEM AND IMPARTED THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO US GENEROUSLY d28eacae-8969-4ea5-8f52-263d8b529006 451 SARA STANLEY HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES DEMANDED AUNT JANET WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PUTTING ON SUCH A RAG DON'T YOU KNOW I HAVE COMPANY TO TEA 0a756257-9ed9-425e-b32c-d85887579344 2425 BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED 5d394a43-b853-4c4d-be93-48c365898ca2 2286 SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION NOW THAT THE ROAD WAS WELL OUT OF THE BAG I KNEW JUST WHERE TO LOOK AND HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I WOULD FIND ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME 9018d71d-6ed9-4520-8ffa-428b75385af5 402 WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING AND THOUGH IT WAS THUS SUDDENLY REMOVED THE CHILL AND THE SHADOW OF IT WERE ABOUT US STILL 4ee73a76-9309-4ba9-a9f8-dba57cb26508 32 WELL LET'S GO DOWN TO THE PULPIT STONE AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY I KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL 45ea5276-1928-41fe-8454-92ad74cbbd79 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 f307ccf2-c382-4687-9d44-ef624a610037 1867 I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE THE SHIP IT WAS A TWENTY FOUR HOUR JUMP SHIP'S TIME AND I CAME THROUGH IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE 4af628fe-33fb-4e8f-8598-916d600f9e7f 188 THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD MANY OTHER THINGS YOU MUSTN'T DO BUT THESE I'VE NAMED ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT f78b5460-ca9a-4a54-b2bc-4f333fa10911 2368 YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM THE BLACK HAIRED MAN NODDED VERY SLOWLY GURR HE SAID 8a1cc89d-08eb-4671-9615-e4e5bdbf5d6e 451 OH ISN'T THIS DREADFUL SAID FELICITY WRINGING HER HANDS AS SHE WALKED THE KITCHEN FLOOR OH WHY DOESN'T THE DOCTOR COME I TOLD DAN THE BAD BERRIES WERE POISON BUT SURELY THEY CAN'T KILL PEOPLE ALTOGETHER c79d61c0-2ba3-4c34-ba5d-23aa3cb9ecd9 1867 IT WAS ALL VERY DEPRESSING SO I STOPPED FOR A DRINK AND THEN WENT TO THE SPACEPORT BY THE TIME THE SHIP WAS SERVICED I HAD A COURSE CHARTED RUNNING THROUGH THE CROWD I FACED THE FIRST LIZARD IN HIS TUB HE SANK SLOWLY BENEATH THE SURFACE 17de5501-6639-4ddc-8cf3-8074ea53ad66 2274 IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD EXCEPT FOR THE CAPTURED ARMAND YOU STILL HOLD YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN cf13322c-84a9-4bb5-85a1-ef9966d19590 2274 THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN I'M A PIE EYED GRIPIS WHISPERED STETSON ERNE GRINN SAID IT PROBABLY ARE SIR 2c614868-a928-4919-9b8a-424baa0fa423 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 0dc3a09c-8516-412c-b88f-890a27e28a56 2286 YEA YES I'LL TELL YOU WORD FOR IT YOU'RE A FLYING BOMB SO STOP WITH THIS ROBBING REPORT A BIT AND TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND THIS TIME I DIDN'T ANSWER HIM BECAUSE I WAS RUNNING AND PANTING LIKE A DOG AND HAD THE MIKE TURNED OFF 9b1aabd6-0631-4464-97f4-74bbc8f317f3 402 OH PERHAPS WE WON'T HAVE THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL CHEERFULLY PETER CAUGHT THEM AT MARKDALE THE LAST TIME HE WAS HOME HIS MOTHER SAYS I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY 0ee5c039-5cd0-4cdc-9681-742596733df2 402 RING THE AFTERNOON JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP A TEAR BLOTTED NOTE FROM SARA RAY SARA HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HILL FARM SINCE PETER HAD DEVELOPED MEASLES SHE WAS AN UNHAPPY LITTLE EXILE AND COULD ONLY RELIEVE HER ANGUISH OF SOUL BY DAILY LETTERS TO CECILY WHICH THE FAITHFUL AND OBLIGING JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP FOR HER 5298b297-6dce-4888-93df-b53f6bc37e41 32 LOOKING AROUND ON THE FACE OF THE GROUP I SAW THAT THEY ALL SHARED MY FEELING CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES FAME SAID UNCLE ROGER IF SHE EVER HAS A CHANCE THAT IS AND I SUPPOSE HER FATHER WILL SEEK TO THAT AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL 66313743-a002-4031-a4cc-17a904517f26 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 d474708d-6c4c-48de-a76e-942c1552099e 451 I WISH GIRLS HAD SOME SENSE SAID DAN WHICH BROUGHT THE ORGY OF WISHING TO AN END FOR THE TIME 8e9677bd-f05d-49fa-bfbc-803ccbaa1872 2286 I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP QUIET AS I WAS THOUGH INSKIPT STILL HEARD ME THE LIGHT CAME ON AND THERE HE WAS SITTING UP IN BED POINTING A POINT SEVEN CALIBI ROYALUS AT MY STERN YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE BRAINS THAN THAT DAGREES HE SNARLED CREEPING INTO MY ROOM AT NIGHT YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SHOT aa5b6010-b62f-4f9a-975a-9db4c1cae10e 2286 ONE BY ONE THE UNTANGLED THREADS RAN TO THIS OFFICE HE ALSO HAD A SECRETARY WHOSE ILLNESSES COSIDED WITH HER EMPLOYMENT IN THE OTHER OFFICES WHEN I STRAIGHTENED UP FROM MY DESK THE ACHE IN MY BACK STABBED LIKE A HOT WIRE b241e67e-7584-4076-9750-ec08944f8c92 451 SARA WHO HAD NOT ENJOYED THE EXHIBITION AT ALL SEEMED TO FEEL MORE CHEERFUL WHEN IT WAS OVER AND SHE WAS GOING HOME THE STORY GIRL ON THE CONTRARY WAS GLOOMY 6ebc4e6f-890c-4a9d-85b0-d9a7c1f12eef 451 NOW YOU YOUNG FRY GET STRAIGHT OFF TO YOUR BEDS DAN IS OUT OF DANGER AND YOU CAN'T DO ANY MORE GOOD NOT THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE DONE MUCH EXCEPT CECILY SHE'S GOT A HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS d0335751-6495-4de9-8a7e-dc69170737ab 2368 THE ACTIVITIES OF THE GROUP APPEAR TO HAVE BEGUN APPROXIMATELY IN THE YEAR FIFTEEN NINETY FOUR BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH THE FIRST AND PERHAPS THE LAST OF ITS KIND UNTIL THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MASQUERADE IN TWENTY ONE O THREE EXCERPT FROM A SHORT HISTORY THE MASQUERADE BY A ce06bcc2-294e-40c1-8b84-562597305d05 2286 ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED ALL THIS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE THE TIME ALLOTTED THE NAVY MUST HAVE ADAPTED A LUXURY UP TO MY NEEDS EVERYTHING WAS READY EITHER PEPPER WOULD MAKE HIS MOVE OR I WOULD SAIL ON TO MY BILLIONAIRES PARALYSED PLANET IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE 0dd62f8b-b86f-4456-84ae-3114f9c9c332 188 THEREFORE HIS UTTERANCE CARRIED ALL THE WEIGHT OF INSPIRATION AND WE SAT APPALLED BEFORE HIS LURID PHRASES HE USED HIS OWN WORDS TO CLOTHE THE IDEAS HE HAD FOUND AND THE RESULT WAS A FORCE AND A SIMPLICITY THAT STRUCK HOME TO OUR IMAGINATIONS 20349b19-b22d-4bd3-ac22-e3a86a9dfbe4 2274 BEHIND DORN THERE CAME A DEEP RUMBLING ROAR THAT RECEDED AS THE SCOUT CRUISER CLIMBED ITS JETS f4fee48d-6638-47e8-bc58-008b5223e7dc 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 7ff68765-f1ea-43fc-9bc3-0049798ac226 2368 IA WIZARD BY LARRY M YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US ae07f51c-8432-48a5-81db-4e85d842c94e 32 WELL THERE WE SIT AND WRITE IN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND UNCLE ROGER PASSES BY AND ACCUSES US OF BEING UP TO DEATH TO VERY BAD MISCHIEF 0c99de01-fde8-4ed4-b26c-a07417215e1b 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 4afa17ce-6654-4542-8885-09a54c250913 2108 I HAVE HAD NO ONE TO TALK TO SINCE I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW INTO A CANARY BIRD HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT POLYCHROME IS A POWERFUL FAIRY bd883cec-5669-4b8a-9c6a-9a85da60903f 2286 A QUICK STOP AT SUPPLY AND RECORD SECTIONS GAVE ME EVERYTHING I NEEDED THE SUN WAS BARELY CLEAR OF THE HORIZON WHERE THE SILVER NEEDLE OF MY SHIP LIFTED IN THE GRAY FIELD THEN BLASTED INTO SPACE 283ef9b6-ce0a-415e-90b9-85d4003d8741 188 ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THERE MIGHT BE HAVE BEEN IN THE GOLDEN AGE ASKED THE STORY GIRL 122814d5-c2af-4319-821d-e85dc5ddfb7f 402 PETER CRUSHED BUT NOT CONVINCED SUBSIDED AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON 7f675690-b85b-439e-94d5-139c6d28f553 2286 I WAS SWEETNESS AND LIGHT BECAUSE A LOT DEPENDED ON HIS DECISION JUST TRYING TO HELP CHIEF GET THINGS READY IN CASE YOU WANTED MORE IN FOLK AND THIS REALLY ISN'T AN OPERATION JUST A RECONNAISSANCE bcead414-088b-41af-8e64-c0126cffa381 188 THEN THE STORY GIRL ARRIVED ARRAYED NOT IN ANY SECOND BEST BUT IN HER VERY BEST DRESS AND HAT WHICH HER FATHER HAD SENT HER FROM PARIS A DRESS OF SOFT CRIMSON SILK AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES 5508e9dd-b0e7-4841-a931-47fa5fb4800b 451 IT WAS NOT A PLEASANT DAY AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE IT RAINED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT RECOVERED FROM THE MORTIFICATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SHE WOULD NOT TALK AND SHE WOULD NOT TELL A SINGLE STORY SHE SAT ON RACHEL WARD'S CHEST AND ATE HER BREAKFAST WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR 507a3e4e-ea2d-4285-a823-fd4e0bbaf18c 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 2f6f74e8-9ad4-4ff8-a561-6bdcbe55430e 2286 THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAMME I MADE LIGHT TALK ABOUT ALL MY MASSIVE ARMAMENT WOULD CARRY US BOTH TO PERDITION WHILE I CLIMBED THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE BATTLESHIP'S HULL THERE WAS NO ARMOR OR WARNING DEVICES AT THIS SPOT IT HAD BEEN CHOSEN CAREFULLY FROM THE BLUE PRINTS d14e4ec0-167f-4753-b23b-32b05f29d750 402 OF COURSE I COULDN'T BE EXPECTED TO THAT HIRE TO LET A BOY KISS ME BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE BEEN SO CROSS ABOUT IT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED AND I TOLD HIM I JUST HATED HIM THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS OH DEAR ME WHAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY THINGS THEY'VE GOT TO BE SORRY FOR AFTERWARDS 8f4acce3-0571-4460-9fbd-961ab0bbab0d 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 08079dba-614f-43ec-b5c5-3178920cb9b5 451 HE WAS RETIRED AND A YOUNG MAN WAS CALLED TO CARLISLE MISTER SCOTT WENT TO LIVE IN TOWN BUT HE CAME OUT TO CARLISLE VERY OFTEN AND VISITED ALL THE PEOPLE REGULARLY JUST THE SAME AS WHEN HE WAS THEIR MINISTER 78f2611c-1b57-4e85-b9dc-29ef6c91ba97 32 AND AUNT JANET SAYS WE ARE NEVER TO HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT BEFORE WE GO TO BED AFTER THIS EXCEPT PLAIN BREAD AND MILK SAID FELIX SADLY THEY'D LIKE TO STOP US FROM DREAMING ALTOGETHER IF THEY COULD SAID THE STORY GIRL WRATHFULLY 871d00a3-ff19-49af-a94c-3fbda50f2c07 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 0af27c5d-af25-48b9-82fe-f7b91464d61d 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 dff50d4b-efd2-4e75-9989-f2e12bfc5aad 32 SARA RAY IS AT HIS LEFT THERE IS SELDOM ANYTHING TO BE SAID OF SARA EXCEPT TO TELL WHERE SHE IS LIKE TENNYSON'S MAUD IN ONE RESPECT AT LEAST SARA IS SPLENDIDLY NULL 4ce85f54-750e-401a-9f1b-857e02a208ec 2286 PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP YOU CAN'T RUN A BIG CON BLOW SAVES OR MAKE BOMMERDECKS WITH IT IT'S HELL'S ON JET FOR SPACE PIRACY BUT THAT'S ABOUTABLE GREAT GREAT BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP ee93e954-6b2c-4f96-9525-571df8c36455 32 PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT b714d874-df86-4e2c-8f79-d943f5c3bc42 188 UNCLE ROGER'S LAUGHTER WAS HARD TO BEAR BUT HIS GRAVITY WAS EVEN HARDER MEANWHILE IN THE PANTRY THE STORY GIRL APRON AND SHROUDED WAS BEING INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF BREAD MAKING UNDER FELICITY'S EYES SHE SET THE BREAD AND ON THE MORROW SHE WAS TO BAKE IT 1d74fd04-a539-4fee-a58d-ca5cf8329bae 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 3755bbc9-54bc-410b-9bba-241282b331f8 32 DAN WAS ONCE GUILTY OF SWEARING UNCLE ALEC TIRED AS HE WAS FROM HIS HARD DAY'S WORK AND EVENING OUTING WAS DESPATCHED FOR THE DOCTOR 3a99018e-0b53-403f-8076-73695d5e250a 2286 THE MAN WAS A GREAT ACTOR HIS EYES OPENED WIDE HIS JAW DROPPED HE SANK BACK INTO THE CHAIR AS IF HE HAD BEEN TAPPED LIGHTLY WITH A HAMMER WHEN HE MANAGED TO SPEAK THE WORDS WERE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY HE HAD ALREADY REGISTERED EVERY EVIDENCE OF INJURED INNOCENCE ad5e5e0b-f024-4eff-a9da-bb7323124798 32 WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING UP WE FELT SURE OF THAT PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT 236ed587-ebeb-46f2-b543-b66dcbbd3848 451 THEY SUPPOSED HE HAD SEEN HIM THROUGH THE WINDOW BEFORE HE CAME INTO THE HOUSE AND GUESSED HE MUST HAVE BEEN IN THE CLOSET BUT THERE WAS NO WAY FOR HIM TO GET OUT OF THE ROOM 0caf0a6e-d305-4bf7-988b-5c37a6aa143b 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 5c7ba9e3-83c5-4e7c-abd7-3e8bc549e195 188 PERHAPS THE POTATOES SUFFERED FELICITY DECLARED THE EYES WERE NOT PROPERLY DONE AT ALL BUT THE STORY DID NOT IT'S A SAD TALE SAID THE STORY GIRL AND IT HAPPENED FIFTY YEARS AGO WHEN GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE QUITE YOUNG GRANDMOTHER'S COUSIN RACHEL WARD CAME TO SPEND A WINTER WITH THEM 0a5c2f3a-84de-4bdf-b179-f0599188b58d 451 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 94044ece-cd13-40e6-b14f-070665d5767a 2286 I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY WHEN IN REALITY THE VENGEFUL FLEET WAS JUST AS IMAGINARY AS MY ADMIRAL'S WRITING THIS WAS STILL THE JOB FOR THE CORPS INSCAPE WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN THE LATEST INFORMATION AT ONCE c7f1f859-10d4-4ec5-abc9-28b2ec7a9df0 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 c5a91d76-343b-4bcd-abb1-08a1d8f6a2d3 2286 I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO be3cb357-6ff8-4196-9f85-001cbcf72d72 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 b9d70d5a-0c34-4ad5-9e60-be6de3d8680f 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 525e5572-e182-417c-910a-52a510b46b87 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 6defea79-39c9-49d5-8988-aeb0568ca91b 402 THE STORY GIRL GENERALLY HAD HER HEAD GARLANDED WITH THEIR LEAVES THEY BECAME HER VASTLY NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN THEM THOSE TWO GIRLS WERE OF A DOMESTIC TYPE THAT ASSORTED ILL WITH THE WILDFIRE IN NATURE'S VEINS f00ecf67-262f-4644-8720-2b0e1c7c6a09 32 THE STORY GIRL WAS IN GREAT FETTLE THAT NIGHT NEVER HAD HER TAILS SPARKLED WITH SUCH WIT AND ARCHNESS 3d4ac1e4-38a3-439f-a555-ef8e614c73b7 451 DOCTOR GREYOR PATTED CECILY ON THE HEAD TOLD HER SHE WAS A LITTLE BRICK AND HAD DONE JUST THE RIGHT THING EXAMINED SOME OF THE FATAL BERRIES AND GAVE IT AS HIS OPINION THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY POISONOUS ADMINISTERED SOME POWDERS TO DAN AND ADVISED HIM NOT TO TAMPER WITH FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN THE FUTURE AND WENT AWAY fa5713ed-e3da-4bba-b43a-2be89503a9dd 2108 HE HAD LEARNED A GREAT MANY POEMS FROM PROFESSOR WOGGLE BUG AND LOVED TO REPEAT THEM WHENEVER ANYBODY WOULD LISTEN TO HIM HORSEBOOT AND LIEU TIN WOODMAN NOW LISTEN BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT DO OTHERWISE UNLESS THEY RUDELY RAN AWAY FROM THEIR STUFFED COMRADE f6de287e-f1b3-4747-a656-097eabf6b0bf 188 ALEC DO YOU REMEMBER HOW FURIOUS JULIA WAS BECAUSE EDWARD PRAYED ONE DAY THAT SHE MIGHT BE PRESERVED FROM VANITY AND CONCEIT OVER HER SINGING e6f6a7dc-cdeb-42ee-9844-2cb65f262e9b 2108 THE CREATURES THEY BEHELD WERE ROUND AND BALL LIKE ROUND IN BODY ROUND IN LEGS AND ARMS ROUND IN HANDS AND FEET AND ROUND OF HEAD 76868af6-a81c-4d25-afe9-16d7612d0a17 32 PRESENTLY ALSO THE LAUGHTER OF THE GROWN UPS MINGLED WITH OURS 43d07582-b927-40a8-9fb3-8216674c5093 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 f7204840-4297-4db5-a548-92290a7c5ebc 32 EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED APPLE PIES AND SOUR SEEDLINGS AND PIGS BECAME STRAIGHTWAY INVESTED WITH A GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE 9f5240c0-6648-4e8b-947f-a62a89b0a8b4 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 01bc08e6-746f-4838-b789-b89dc7090723 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 61072965-e498-4604-ad9d-d4cc97fd0c77 2286 MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE 9e04e414-c8e6-4cc0-8d31-f07516a1f062 451 MAYBE SARA WON'T BE SO VERY SICK IF GOD SEES I'M TRULY SORRY HE CAN SEE IT ANYHOW WITHOUT YOUR DOING ANYTHING SAID CECILY A NICE WAY TO TALK TO YOUR SISTER WHEN YOU MAY BE DEAD IN AN HOUR'S TIME RETORTED FELICITY IN TEARS BETWEEN HER ANGER AND HER REAL ALARM ABOUT DAN 25598eeb-a946-47e2-969c-56e2805c00d0 188 SO NEXT DAY SANDY STARTED OFF ON HORSEBACK WITH A PAIR OF ROPE REINS TO LEAD THE PIANO HOME HE THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF LIVE STOCK 3783918c-29c4-4afe-a8f7-4a223e590555 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 0e051302-f797-439a-89cd-6bd7150b57d6 402 THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE MYTHS AND LEGENDS WOVEN AROUND THESE IMMEMORIAL CLUSTERS HER VERY VOICE TAKING ON A CLEAR REMOTE STARRY SOUND AS SHE TALKED OF THEM fd9e7d4a-c10b-45aa-b0a4-7156d7315e81 451 OH DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE CAUGHT THEM AT THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW SHE SAID MISERABLY WHERE ELSE SHOULD SHE HAVE CAUGHT THEM SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY I DIDN'T SEE HER OF COURSE MISSUS RAY MET ME AT THE DOOR AND TOLD ME NOT TO COME IN 910a350d-b88b-4fad-8a07-e3c6b79587ce 2108 AFTER THAT THEY WERE ALL SILENT FOR A TIME BUT THEN THE SCARECROW SAID BRAVELY FRIENDS LET US AGREE TO THE BEAST'S TERMS GIVE HIM MY STRAW AND CARRY THE REST OF ME WITH YOU ACROSS THE DITCH 224abaad-ef76-47b6-b096-c12ca1dc6aed 451 NOW HE'S GONE OFF MAD SAID CECILY REPROACHFULLY OH FELICITY WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE HELD YOUR TONGUE WHY WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY 6f073c88-5cb0-4570-8585-d657734b6a45 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 ca62320e-872a-4da5-a45c-60bb05631837 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 d845a672-be2e-4d95-ac2c-cba1ed6e1507 2108 ONE OF THE SCARECROW'S RECITATIONS WAS LIKE THIS WHAT SOUND IS SO SWEET AS THE STRAW FROM THE WHEAT WHEN IT CRINKLES SO TENDER AND LOW IT IS YELLOW AND BRIGHT SO IT GIVES ME DELIGHT TO CRINKLE WHEREVER I GO a8772fed-ff23-4c41-ae61-67f1f5fde304 188 THE BEWITCHMENT OF PAT WE WERE ALL IN A DOLEFUL DUMPS AT LEAST ALL WE YOUNG FRY WERE AND EVEN THE GROWN UPS WERE SORRY AND CONDESCENDED TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN OUR TROUBLES PAT OUR OWN DEAR FROLICSOME PADDY WAS SICK AGAIN VERY VERY SICK 7f4f2765-3b65-4254-a563-e8765f07d452 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 45aba622-b2bb-4cb3-99c0-a213534f9d7b 188 SO HE TOOK HIS KNAPSACK AND HIS SHEPHERD'S CROOK AND WANDERED AWAY UNTIL HE CAME TO THESSALY THAT IS THE LAND OF THE GODS HILL YOU KNOW THE NAME OF THE HILL WAS OLYMPUS BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS STORY THAT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER MOUNTAIN MOUNT PELICON 226a43e0-97d6-445a-abdf-1997c4233b62 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 eca19e8e-644d-4f07-ab92-e136fd5c1576 32 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER 9e03cf4d-a0a7-46b4-b275-1a71f5d07e01 2108 ROYAL HISTORIAN OF OZ OSCOTT AT HALLEY WOOD IN CALIFORNIA NI WOO UNTIED THE BONDS OF THE SCARECROW AND HELPED HIM GET TO HIS FEET THEN HE FREED THE TIN WOODMAN WHO GOT UP WITHOUT HELP 49128f02-39d0-43f1-9175-022c3264f0fe 32 FULL OF FUN AND FROLIC AND MISCHIEF THEY WERE WITH ALL THE DEFECTS OF THEIR QUALITIES AND ALL THE WAYWARD FAULTS OF YOUTH BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE 76d4f57a-b151-4f62-b1e3-80f2f2954d21 32 ON THE COVER IS PASTED A LADY'S VISITING CARD ON WHICH IS WRITTEN THE DREAM BOOK OF BEVERLY KING SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT I WAS JUST DROPPING INTO AN UNEASY SLUMBER WHEN I HEARD A COMMOTION IN THE GIRLS ROOM ACROSS THE HALL e8d1ce8a-7bd5-44b8-ab40-7ad126082a4e 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 7d925f50-7b12-4853-8105-5d911c77c7b3 451 THE YOUNG MINISTER TURNED PALE AS THE DEAD AND IMPLORED MISSUS CRAWFORD TO HIDE HIM BUT SHE COULDN'T GET HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS TO HIDE HIM IN THE CHINA CLOSET THE YOUNG MINISTER SLIPPED INTO THE CHINA CLOSET AND OLD MISTER SCOTT CAME INTO THE ROOM 7f32d53d-6bd2-4dcc-b0e5-c6c41c38adbb 451 OH BUT THAT'S WRONG SAID FELICITY YOU SHOULDN'T PUT SARA UP TO DISOBEYING HER MOTHER 3055367f-7b51-4a0a-8705-910b0c2b21af 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 213ce6ce-35f7-4366-a41d-d8b634399bb8 32 HARROW THE WOOD FIELD AND DIG YOUR AUNT OLIVIA'S FLOWER BEDS AUNT OLIVIA AND I PLANTED SWEET PEAS YESTERDAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AND I PLANTED A LITTLE BED OF MY OWN I AM NOT GOING TO DIG THEM UP THIS YEAR TO SEE IF THEY HAVE SPROUTED IT IS BAD FOR THEM 8baf031f-c804-40ba-b6f7-ed39e8f81403 2286 INSKIPPED GRABBED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO COMPARE THE PRINTS I LEANED OVER HIS SHOULDER AND POINTED OUT THE INTERESTING PARTS NOTICE IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED 16210d2c-d549-43a2-a7d9-52481667956c 32 I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T LIKE CUCUMBER CECILY DAN REMARKED NEITHER I DO SAID CECILY WITH A GRIMACE BUT PETER SAYS THEY'RE SPLENDID FOR DREAMING 41eae745-a8a9-40aa-9273-a7b0dbd51d92 32 BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG f7839ed3-63e0-402d-8588-ec07cc6c9f63 188 GIVE THAT STONE TO ME SAID PAN HOLDING OUT HIS HAND BUT AGLEIA THOUGH SHE WAS FRIGHTENED WOULD NOT GIVE HIM THE STONE 642377b5-b67d-42c3-846d-157ef6116d46 32 I'M PRETTY SURE AUNT JANE WOULDN'T THINK IT WAS PROPER TO TELL SUCH A DREAM AND I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND PHIL ANY OF THEM SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN e4df92a9-53df-42f7-8377-49d1fdde7166 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 ee3e85b2-eb03-4602-8437-00dbd0a5e573 2108 WHEN ONE TRAVELS IT IS FOOLISH TO MISS ANY INTERESTING SIGHT ADDED THE SCARECROW BUT A WARNING MEANS DANGER PROTESTED THE WANDER AND I BELIEVE IT SENSIBLE TO KEEP OUT OF DANGER WHENEVER WE CAN THEY MADE NO REPLY TO THIS SPEECH FOR A WHILE a2546367-5609-4ad3-9f9e-4e31ac928078 188 LIKELY A GLAYA SWALLOWED IT SAID FELIX SPARECTICALLY DID GLAUCON AND AGLEIA EVER GET MARRIED ASKED SARA RAY THE STORY DOESN'T SAY IT JUST STOPS THERE SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THEY DID I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK 5e9512bb-a2a8-4eb5-ad2f-9bd1261e3363 2108 TRUE ENOUGH BUT WE SHALL GO TOWARD THE NORTH FIRST OF ALL INTO THE GELICAN COUNTRY AND SO PASS AROUND THE EMERALD CITY EXPLAINED THE TIN WOODMAN 00539c76-b8e9-4b58-8910-cd8bc1b93fc1 451 JUST IMAGINE THE FEELINGS OF THE YOUNG MINISTER IN THE CHINA CLOSET ca079170-6b6a-44e3-91a8-734fa9a79155 451 SHE KNEW BETTER THAN TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO ASSERT AUTHORITY OVER THE STORY GIRL AND FELIX AND I WERE ALLOWED SOME LENGTH OF TETHER BUT CECILY DAN AND PETER WERE EXPECTED TO SUBMIT DUTIFULLY TO HER DECREES 80533e56-167a-4db7-803b-820448413fba 32 WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS IN A BRIEF SPACE WE WERE LAUGHING RIGHT MERRILY NO LONGER REMEMBERING OUR WRONGS AT THE HANDS OF THOSE CRUEL GROWN UPS OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH c67b8fc5-3f5b-4983-881a-e10c4894de0e 2108 IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO DRAW HIM DOWN TO THE THRONE WHERE HE SEATED HIMSELF AND WAS TIED IN SO HE WOULDN'T FLOAT UPWARD AGAIN 681ee479-5329-455d-8d16-4e0bd782e666 188 TAKE IT SHE WHISPERED THE QUESTION WAS HOW WAS HE TO TAKE IT BOTH OF AGLEIA'S ARMS WERE HELD FAST TO HER SIDES BY GLECON'S ARMS AND IF HE LOOSED HIS CLASP EVER SO LITTLE HE WAS AFRAID SHE WOULD FALL SO WEAK AND TREMBLING WAS SHE FROM HER DREADFUL FRIGHT fa7209d1-a7ec-489d-950f-edc81aadbf32 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 a2b60b5d-99ed-4b2c-ae7b-4d5a8a1164d2 188 I HAVE THAT SERMON STILL ALL ITS RED THUMPS UNFADED LYING BESIDE MY DREAM BOOK BUT I'M NOT GOING TO INFLICT IT ON MY READERS I'M NOT SO PROUD OF IT AS I ONCE WAS 8b20fc26-918e-4762-832e-ad7a8adefdf7 451 IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN 8d045d3e-3bc3-4f3a-9f6d-3a321d24fba7 188 YOU MUST NOT PLAY ANY GAMES ON SUNDAY WENT ON PETER THAT IS ANY WEEK A DAY GAMES OR WHISPER IN CHURCH OR LAUGH IN CHURCH I DID THAT ONCE BUT I WAS AWFUL SORRY AND YOU MUSTN'T TAKE ANY NOTICE OF PATTY I MEAN OF THE FAMILY CAT AT FAMILY PRAYERS NOT EVEN IF HE CLIMBS ON YOUR BACK AND YOU MUSTN'T CALL NAMES OR MAKE FACES 00da7b7d-ab9a-4967-8a9d-9588c7d7e8b7 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 87af5457-95f3-417b-a245-ae8b4968b5d7 451 WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET THEY ARE GREAT AT MANY THINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT SWEET AND SHOULDN'T BE THAT IS FOR WOMEN OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS 8a56f1b6-8086-4de1-96e3-ebcc07b0367a 2108 I AM SURE IT WOULD WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT GIVE ME A COUPLE OF FAT RABBITS SAID THE BEAST 9b936f49-2cee-47d1-af50-d4cec858f999 188 I'M GOING TO GET A LOVELY DARK BLUE DRESS FOR THE WINTER IT IS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN SARA RAY'S BROWN ONE SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER IS SENDING HER A NEW RED DRESS AND A RED VELVET CAP FROM PARIS SHE IS SO FOND OF RED I CAN'T BEAR IT IT LOOKS SO COMMON 6bf937ae-49e4-436f-91f9-5ac1f089035e 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 dbcb3020-12a0-4aa8-b48c-ef37660214a2 188 NOWADAYS I SUPPOSE A WEALTHY MAN LIKE AGLEIA'S FATHER WOULD BE WILLING TO LET HER HIS DAUGHTER MARRY A HIRED MAN BUT THIS WAS IN THE GOLDEN AGE YOU KNOW AND NOTHING LIKE THAT MATTERED AT ALL dc2eb5b5-58a5-4b1d-908b-f11fddc6ec97 2286 SETANUVO SECOND PLANET OF A BEE STAR AND CORONA BOREALIS NOR THE COLONIZED PLANETS IN THE SYSTEM dcaaafff-8b2e-47db-a505-fc07e4088a65 188 IT HAPPENED LONG LONG AGO IN GREECE WHERE SO MANY OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS HAPPENED BEFORE THAT NOBODY HAD EVER HEARD OF KISSING AND THEN IT WAS JUST DISCOVERED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE AND A MAN WROTE IT DOWN AND THE ACCOUNT HAS BEEN PRESERVED EVER SINCE c4aa3bc8-77d5-4358-ad7c-67aac7390ead 451 WHO'S TALKING TO YOU SAID FELICITY NOW LOOK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL THE FIRST THING WE KNOW WILL ALL BE QUARRELLING AND THEN SOME OF US WILL SULK ALL DAY TOMORROW IT'S DREADFUL TO SPOIL A WHOLE DAY JUST LET'S ALL SIT STILL AND COUNT A HUNDRED BEFORE WE SAY ANOTHER WORD cf6d8bfa-c374-42a1-b058-b76e6aa0988c 451 NOT THAT ANY OF YOU HAVE DONE MUCH EXCEPT CECILY SHE'S GOT A HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS 7f1e2ef4-d9b9-43f4-85df-a6c61fe786e7 451 UNCLE ROGERS SAYS THAT MARTIN FORBES WIFE HAS SQUELCHED HIM SAID FELICITY HE SAYS MARTIN CAN'T CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN SINCE HE WAS MARRIED I'M GLAD OF IT SAID CECILY VINDICTIVELY WE ALL STARED THIS WAS SO VERY UNLIKE CECILY 054cf7d6-c4aa-419b-be1d-0969222c7ca9 451 THE NIGHT WAS SCENTED AND MYSTERIOUS THE WIND WAS PLAYING AN EERIE FLESHLESS MELODY IN THE WREATHS OF THE BROOK BELOW THE SKY WAS DARK AND STARRY AND ACROSS IT THE MILKY WAY FLUNG ITS SHIMMERING MISTY RIBBONS 5f775178-a896-43db-b58c-a93b1e77cc0a 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 dd39a861-b66a-40ac-a30a-8846068ab065 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 b8cbfbb4-5cd7-4672-a4d5-ca6c7e0ba791 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 dda500ed-3e3f-4db0-8913-b4f6a3d50e19 2286 THAT BUILDING FULL OF MACHINERY THAT TAKES IN AND DIGESTS NEWS AND REPORTS AND ALL THE PLANETS IN THE GALAXY INDEXES IT TO EVERY CATEGORY IT CAN POSSIBLY RELATE AND THEN FILES IT d6e4ae3a-a5de-4295-aedc-b3e479002eb1 451 I'D LIKE TO BE A MISSIONARY AND HAVE ADVENTURES LIKE THAT SAID FELIX IT WOULD BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COULD BE SURE THE CANNIBALS WOULD BE INTERRUPTED IN THE NICK OF TIME AS HIS WERE SAID DAN BUT SPOSEN THEY WEREN'T 4af17d9e-be5f-4c0a-9e00-58a87b411b9d 451 FELICITY KING IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT YOU'LL GROW UP INTO A SORT OF WOMAN WHO DRIVES HER HUSBAND TO DRINK SAID UNCLE ROGER GRAVELY HOW CAN I TELL DAN WOULD ACT SO LIKE A MULE CRIED FELICITY 77062bef-a2b4-48eb-82a9-45e338118924 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 74bf3e93-1d21-4af5-98f1-07b5dcd665c9 2286 IT HAD TO BE DONE FAST AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS NECESSARY TO TALK NATURALLY THEY MUST STILL THINK OF ME AS SITTING IN THE CONTROL ROOM THAT'S THE SHIP'S GENERATORS YOU'RE LOOKING AT I SAID NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL 232d2435-b580-45a7-bfd2-7c073673b7d6 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 f1bb0fd1-8189-4bb1-bcde-98b3670d4147 2286 ROCCA COULDN'T BELIEVE IT NEITHER COULD THE PRESIDENT THEY WANDERED UP AND DOWN THE EMPTY WAYS WHERE IT HAD BEEN BUILT I JUST CRUNCHED DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE CAR CHEWING MY CIGAR TO PIECES AND CURSING MYSELF FOR BEING A FOOL I HAD MISSED THE OBVIOUS FACT BEING CARRIED AWAY BY THE THOUGHT OF A PLANETARY GOVERNMENT BUILDING A WARSHIP 0d9ac08f-a12e-42a8-b5dc-a6606b613525 2108 YES I CAN IT IS TRUE ANSWERED THE HIPPO BUT I REFUSE TO DO IT UNLESS HE ADDED AND STOPPED SHORT LESS WHAT ALLOWED POLYCHROME UNLESS YOU ALLOW ME TO EAT THE STRAW WITH WHICH THE SCARECROW IS STUFFED b46405eb-2ca2-4e4d-909c-7bf1ce4f14c5 2286 NEVER HEARD OF IT INSKIPP SAID AS WE TOOK THE PRIVATE DROP SHOOT TO HIS OFFICE WHICH MAY BE A GIRL BAD SIGN ONLY THE FIRST TIME TROUBLE CAME FROM SOME ALLOY SPOT I NEVER KNEW EXISTED WITH THE AUTOMATIC DISREGARD FOR OTHERS OF THE TRULY DEDICATED HE PRESSED THE SCRAMBLE BUTTON ON HIS DESK cc7d21ed-43c7-43c9-80c8-c97bf97a27a0 2108 FINALLY ONE OF THE DRAGONS WHICH WAS FARTHEST AWAY FROM HIM ASKED IN A DEEP GRAVE VOICE WHAT WAS THAT 44723a26-e327-4236-b71d-695a8c5de9ef 451 I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE 61a4e755-0616-4a69-b0d4-ef680bce8a3e 188 THERE'S THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS SAID CECILY POINTING TO A LONG DRIFT OF FILMY VAPOUR IN THE SOUTH WESTERN SKY AND LOOK AT THAT SWEET PINK CLOUD BELOW IT SAID FELICITY 389b4bb4-cfd4-4795-a44c-7e5e9e9a5359 451 ANY ONE WHO LIVES WITH YOU FELICITY KING WILL ALWAYS BE WISHING HE WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE SAID DAN 05f3abd1-fc95-43a2-afdb-7e28bc614fd3 2286 TRUE TRUE I SAID BUT WOULDN'T YOU JUST BE A LEETLE BIT INTERESTED IF I WAS TO TELL YOU THAT ONE IS BEING BUILT TO DAY ce07f707-682e-48c8-84d9-1f3984698930 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 e6315824-b582-4804-bfa8-f1e56173cad1 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 b4916616-f765-49a6-90ac-db1c6f4eac27 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 c3659891-00c3-4404-afb9-912d7bb54569 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 72f29956-18b4-4b53-bd2b-f1bac3db1aa9 451 GO FOR UNCLE ROGER COMMANDED CECILY PALE BUT COMPOSED FELICITY PUT ON THE KETTLE DAN I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU MUSTARD AND WARM WATER WE WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A KING PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME 0bb55f20-2b55-4475-8eb6-3b32bfd99dd7 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 136b972a-2a60-42ae-beb0-ca3770b18498 188 EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT 64dd15ea-995d-42e7-9c51-dd0a29b9832e 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 f78df54d-7331-4191-8dd2-87e7de9d785b 451 SUPPOSE SHE DOES CATCH THE MEASLES FELICITY SAID ASIDE I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'LL BE ANYBODY THERE FROM MARKDALE THE LECTURER IS GOING TO MARKDALE NEXT WEEK THEY'LL WAIT FOR THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY ae3c53ed-4272-45ed-89f5-265603f05eaf 2286 THE GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED FOR SHORE BUT ONLY AS A PAWN NO LITTLE PLANET BOUND POLITICAL MIND COULD HAVE DREAMED UP A SCHEME AS BIG AS THIS I SMELLED A RAT A STAINLESS STEEL ONE d5fa43cb-75f4-4c13-bb4c-03b36e066de8 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 50163bd5-d1ed-4d70-bdac-ee92086e1664 451 SHE CONFIDED TO ME AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS THAT SHE HATED UNCLE ROGER HER RED LIPS QUIVERED AND THE TEARS OF WOUNDED PRIDE BRIMMED OVER IN HER BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES bd1eb561-fed2-41a1-8f12-8b98becb4f94 2286 SOME MILITARISTIC CLIQUE THAT MEANT TO OVERTHROW HIM AND TAKE POWER I DIDN'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT THE PLANETS WHEN ENLISTED FERERA ON MY SIDE THIS WAS EASY EVEN WITHOUT THE THREAT OF EXPOSURE OF THE DOCUMENTS I HAD FOUND IN HIS FILES 2e5fdd95-bbd9-4852-bb10-036d6d3018c1 188 NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT FANCY HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN 84e48efe-6809-417f-b4df-0110bd7ff38c 2286 I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING PARTICULARLY C AND M SET UP THE CATEGORIZEER AND A MEMORY a5b4a529-1b80-4a76-b102-4c59114c4c46 2286 HIS WORDS HAD THE SIMPLE INNOCENCE OF A YOUNG CHILD'S WAS HE EVER CAUGHT I SAT BACK WITH A RELAXED SIGH AND LIT A CIGAR c69f3ba8-8978-4ed7-a0f9-926dcc1630e4 451 FELIX HELD OUT TO FELICITY A REMARKABLY FINE APPLE WHICH HE HAD BEEN SAVING FOR HIS OWN CONSUMPTION AND THE STORY GIRL BEGAN A TALE OF AN ENCHANTED MAIDEN IN A CASTLE BY THE SEA BUT WE NEVER HEARD THE END OF IT 8b2978eb-8ced-4b1c-a42f-a953be1ad7fd 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING 727e6b82-5b4b-4380-b218-70a0319f3a59 2286 PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP 90d7cb7d-ba39-4502-8db6-bfce493709ca 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 184ea74e-39e3-43ab-b460-5a008093f3bb 188 DAN AND THE GIRLS AND I WERE SITTING IN A ROW ON AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN FENCE WATCHING FELIX WEED FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM 8b7caf0a-eb77-4896-931e-280b71c73870 188 NEVER MIND TELL US THE STORY SAID THE PREACHER HIMSELF EAGERLY LEANING OVER THE PULPIT IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL HE WAS PREACHING SOMEWHERE IN NOVA SCOTIA AND WHEN HE WAS MORE THAN HALF WAY THROUGH HIS SERMON AND YOU KNOW SERMONS WERE VERY LONG IN THOSE DAYS A MAN WALKED IN 331af455-743c-4d7d-9986-f37b1de14cca 451 OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS HURRY IN THE WORLD WHILE WE LINGERED THERE AND TALKED OF CABBAGES AND KINGS b7460d52-b440-4ab3-b474-c091af2493b2 451 CERTAINLY IT WAS A LOVELY WORD AND AS THE STORY GIRL SAID IT EVEN A KING WOULD NOT HAVE MINDED BEING SQUELCHED IF IT WERE DONE TO MUSIC LIKE THAT 189cbc16-7f39-4e07-8763-4c376b0eb2eb 2108 I'D NOT ALLOW YOU TO EAT THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS DECLARED POLYCHROMELY CANARY WELL THREE OR FOUR SQUIRRELS THEN PLEADED THE JAGUAR DO YOU THINK ME SO CRUEL 727874d9-3b8f-466e-9f42-586c2d6f3cbc 451 POOR DAN SAID CECILY COMPASSIONATELY HE'S THERE ALL ALONE IN HIS ROOM MISSING ALL THE FUN I SUPPOSE IT'S MEAN OF US TO BE HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME HERE WHEN HE HAS TO STAY IN BED 79360970-ddd5-487e-952b-c72b78b81453 451 SHE HAD NOT DONE SO BEFORE BECAUSE HE WAS BAREFOOTED 719d21f7-943e-4642-abe1-37d907630cd1 188 BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE 3175f92e-347c-4fc9-8189-eb53413f000c 2108 THEY NOW FORMED A LINE HOLDING HANDS AND TURNING THEIR FACES TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH RESUMED THEIR JOURNEY d1a04084-0718-4057-ae3d-eec9688f874c 451 FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED 48990c73-2780-4574-8a32-0f48ac289b00 2108 PERHAPS WE'LL CONDEMN AND PUNCTURE THEM ANSWERED THE KING WELL SAID SHE STILL EYEING THE I'M NOT SURE THEY'LL PUNCTURE b1dd8170-f24d-400a-83ca-8ab69dd2030e 451 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MARTIN FORBES'S GRANDFATHER SAID THE STORY GIRL LONG AGO THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHOIR IN THE CARLISLE CHURCH JUST A PRESENTOR YOU KNOW ec65a2bf-772d-40c1-aec0-b5fe8c06c44d 188 GOOD MORNING MISTER CAMPBELL SHE SAID WITH A TOSS OF HER HEAD IT'S EARLY ABROAD YOU ARE AND ON BLACK DAN NO LESS WAS I MISTAKEN IN THINKING THAT DONALD FRAGON SAID ONCE THAT HIS FAVOURITE HORSE SHOULD NEVER BE BACKED BY ANY MAN BUT HIM DOUBTLESS A FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY AND BROWN BESS IS A GOOD MARE IN HER WAY 77358a44-1f5f-4668-89b0-4cc616ce0dfa 2108 WHEN I GOT MY TIN LEGS NIMI AMI BEGAN TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN ME WHEN I GOT MY TIN ARMS SHE BEGAN TO LIKE ME BETTER THAN EVER AND WHEN I WAS ALL MADE OF TIN SHE SAID I LOOKED LIKE HER DEAR NICK CHOPPER AND SHE WOULD BE WILLING TO MARRY ME 8b422773-8056-46cc-be5a-6c29d804e962 188 WELL I ALWAYS LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARD SAID SARA RAY UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE WOULDN'T WANT A WIFE HE COULD NEVER QUARREL WITH REMARKED ANNE HE SAYS IT WOULD BE TOO TAME A LIFE FOR HIM I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER 1ec58f17-5152-47ff-bc1e-69126329aa1b 2108 WENT THREE OF THE LOOMS WHEN THE WANDERER PRICKED THEM WITH HIS THOR AND AT THE SOUNDS AND AT THE SOUNDS THE OTHERS LOOKED AROUND AND SAW THEIR DANGER WITH YELLS OF FEAR THEY BOUNDED AWAY IN ALL DIRECTIONS SCATTERING ABOUT THE CLEARING WITH WOOT THE WANDERER IN FULL CHASE a9ce246f-1149-4841-b8c1-38c85da0447e 451 THERE ISN'T ONE IN THIS COUNTRY ANYWHERE PERHAPS I'LL GET A GLIMPSE OF SOME WHEN I GO TO EUROPE 172931bd-fbb6-4d6a-b0d8-83fbf8eb47de 451 HAY LOFTS ARE DELICIOUS PLACES WITH JUST ENOUGH OF SHADOW AND SOFT UNCERTAIN NOISES TO GIVE AN AGREEABLE TANG OF MYSTERY THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST bc48e4c1-2988-42f4-a971-e113558a6fea 2108 AS HE SAID THIS THE SCARECROW GLANCED AT THE TIN WOODMAN WHO NODDED HIS ASSENT HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT POLYCHROME IS A POWERFUL FAIRY c631f7b5-a0f7-409a-986f-cf73904c52c5 188 ONE COLD WINTER DAY EIGHTY YEARS AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL WITHOUT FURTHER PARLEY DONALD FRASER WAS SITTING BY THE WINDOW OF HIS NEW HOUSE PLAYING HIS FIDDLE FOR COMPANY AND LOOKING OUT OVER THE WHITE FROZEN BAY BEFORE HIS DOOR 49f40824-a0ce-4fd7-b201-fdbac5272043 2108 EVERY ONE TO HIS TASTE SAID THE GIANTESS CARELESSLY AND HAVING NOW FINISHED HER SUPPER SHE ROSE TO HER FEET CLAPPED HER HANDS TOGETHER AND THE SUPPER TABLE AT ONCE DISAPPEARED e0fd598d-fae4-46fa-b8ba-72c0cbd1e132 2108 THEREFORE SHE MADE THE ENCHANTED AXE CUT OFF MY OTHER ARM AND THE TINSMITH ALSO REPLACED THAT MEMBER WITH TIN INCLUDING THESE FINELY JOINTED HANDS THAT YOU SEE ME USING 71568b29-acf4-4049-adf7-c0a08c832022 2108 ON THEY WENT AND WHEN THEY REACHED THE CENTRE OF THE VALLEY WHERE THE GREAT STONE CASTLE STOOD IT WAS BEGINNING TO GROW DARK SO THEY HESITATED AS TO WHAT TO DO a53c8417-5b7c-4af5-b662-5ab863f591d8 2108 NEVER MIND SHE SAID TO HIM YOU ARE A VERY BEAUTIFUL COLOR AND A MONKEY CAN CLIMB BETTER THAN A BOY AND DO A LOT OF OTHER THINGS NO BOY CAN EVER DO 263bc0a8-85b7-4239-869e-b43c143f4250 451 BEV FILL THE KETTLE WITH WATER AND PUT IT ON THE HEAT SHE SAID IN A RESIGNED TONE IF DAN'S GOING TO BE SICK AGAIN WE'VE GOT TO BE READY FOR IT I WISH MOTHER WAS HOME THAT'S ALL I HOPE SHE'LL NEVER GO AWAY AGAIN 0bf772c4-3abb-4ef5-a7b9-3d5b9bfee0bb 451 SHE TOLD HIM SHE GUESSED HE'D LEARNED A LESSON AND WOULDN'T DO WHAT SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO AGAIN SO HE WENT AND AT EM JUST BECAUSE SHE VEXED HIM SO 53b73fd4-d470-464f-b38c-d5bc7d53f832 451 SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY TO DAY SHE SAID AND I'M NOT GOING TO TELL A SINGLE STORY AUNT JANET WON'T LET ME PUT PEBBLES IN MY SHOES BUT I'D PUT A THISTLE NEXT MY SKIN ON MY BACK AND IT STICKS INTO ME IF I LEAN BACK THE LEAST BIT ce3cede6-045b-4beb-80f7-4a97cc0b24b6 2108 WE ARE VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE DECLARED THE TIN WOODMAN ALL THE BETTER SHE REPLIED c856d232-46ca-4605-a3f9-cb28cf610467 451 THERE WERE MARKDALE PEOPLE THERE SHE CONFIDED TO AND THE WILLIAMSONS LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE COHENS WHO HAVE MEASLES I WISH I'D NEVER EGGED SARA ON TO GOING BUT DON'T TELL FELICITY I SAID SO b08b348f-cdf6-43a4-9db3-16ea7c003cfd 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 7c23e62c-ad78-4848-97bd-defaa5ebb70d 188 MAYBE THAT LITTLE PINK CLOUD IS A DREAM GETTING ALL READY TO FLOAT DOWN INTO SOMEBODY'S SLEEP SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL I HAD A PERFECTLY AWFUL DREAM LAST NIGHT SAID CECILY WITH A SHUDDER OF REMEMBRANCE I DREAMED I WAS ON A DESERT ISLAND INHABITED BY TIGERS AND NATIVES WITH TWO HEADS 73885a7c-7e8c-4207-9687-35c8e30a0d92 451 IF YOU HAVE TO SPEAK OF OF HIM YOU MIGHT SAY THE OLD SCRATCH THAT IS WHAT MOTHER CALLS HIM GIVE HIM COURAGE NOT TO FEAR THE FACE OF MAN MAKE HIM A BURNING AND SHINING LIGHT TO THE SADLY ABUSED CONGREGATION 455db535-fde0-4944-86a5-175e468230b7 451 NO KING I FELT CERTAIN WOULD EVER MARRY A BEGGAR MAID WHEN HE HAD PRINCESSES GALORE FROM WHOM TO CHOOSE BUT NOW I UNDERSTOOD IT ALL WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD db4648f1-af5a-4a3c-86dc-9d462ef3f8da 451 DAN KING YOU JUST WAIT TILL I TELL HER OF THE WAY YOU HAVE ACTED FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN THE STORY GIRL RESENTED FELICITY'S SUPERIOR TONE AND PROCEEDED TO TEMPT SARA IN RIGHT GOOD EARNEST 06eafaf2-5c8b-47d9-b3e2-92e64d7fd386 188 BUT OF COURSE THEY DID I WILL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK I DON'T THINK A GLAYA SWALLOWED THAT STONE I THINK IT JUST FELL TO THE GROUND AND AFTER A WHILE THEY FOUND IT AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE OF SUCH VALUE THAT GLECON COULD BUY ALL THE FLOCKS AND HERDS IN THE VALLEY AND THE SWEETEST COTTAGE AND HE AND AGLEIA WERE MARRIED RIGHT AWAY eda70fd5-3cc2-4f73-ba9a-a109efcafd5d 2108 AFTER THEY HAD GONE AWAY CARRYING MY KINCHIN KING HUSBAND WITH THEM I TRANSFORMED MYSELF BACK INTO MY FORMER SHAPE AGAIN AND HERE I'VE LIVED IN PEACE AND COMFORT EVER SINCE 7348152d-6ee7-444e-9285-7a5c2efdd1fa 188 IT WAS WEEKS BEFORE THE BURNS HEALED AND THE SCARS NEVER WENT AWAY ALWAYS AS LONG AS WILLIAM COAN LIVED HE CARRIED ON HIS SHOULDERS THE PRINTS OF THE DEVIL'S HAND d3e1df89-26cc-4d83-923d-a4ef165f2c69 188 I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT A SPECIAL KIND OF DEVILTRY YOU FRIAR UP TO AT THIS TIME SAID UNCLE ROGER ONE EVENING AS HE PASSED THROUGH THE ORCHARD WITH HIS GUN IN HIS SHOULDER BOUND FOR THE SWAMP e93e8198-48c5-4c30-80fe-68dd79183059 188 I DID NOT FIND IT AS EASY IN A TASK AS I HAD ANTICIPATED BUT I PEGGED GRIMLY AWAY AT IT AND BY DINT OF SEVERE LABOUR FOR TWO EVENINGS I EVENTUALLY GOT MY FOUR PAGES OF FOOLSCAP FILLED ALTHOUGH I HAD TO PAD THE SUBJECT MATTER NOT A LITTLE WITH VERSES OF QUOTABLE HYMNS c9d3606e-923e-4d7d-a8a5-59173da90eb0 188 SHE DID TOO HE RETORTED MY AUNT JANE WAS A REAL LADY EVEN IF SHE WAS ONLY A CRAIG SHE KNEW ALL THOSE RULES AND SHE KEPT THEM WHEN THERE WAS NOBODY ROUND TO SEE HER JUST THE SAME AS WHEN ANY ONE WAS AND SHE WAS SMART IF FATHER UD HALF HER GET UP AND GIT I WOULDN'T BE A HIRED BOY TO DAY 4b3df573-2218-495e-8f42-91c762741506 451 THE STORY GIRL DOES PENANCE TEN DAYS LATER AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER WENT TO TOWN ONE EVENING TO REMAIN OVER NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY 62ddfbb0-f2ce-49c8-878e-04eb8fbb0115 188 WHEELS IT WAS TWO WAGONS WERE DRIVING UP THE LANE WE RUSHED TO THE HOUSE AND THERE WAS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA THE EXCITEMENT WAS QUITE TREMENDOUS EVERYBODY TALKED AND LAUGHED AT ONCE AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE WERE ALL SEATED ABOUT THE SUPPER TABLE THAT CONVERSATION GREW COHERENT cd429546-7edc-4da3-bff9-d43452bb5055 2108 CLIMB UP THEN WAS THE REPLY AND WHEN THE BOY WAS PERCHED UPON THE TIN SHOULDERS OF NICK CHOPPER HE WAS JUST ABLE TO REACH THE LATCH AND RAISE IT e750ce21-986a-4306-9277-d175fd5dfe15 451 IF DAN HADN'T DONE WRONG EATING THE BAD BERRIES WHEN HE WAS TOLD NOT TO HE WOULDN'T BE SICK SAID FELICITY YOU'RE BOUND TO CATCH IT WHEN YOU DO WRONG IT WAS JUST A PROVIDENCE HE DIDN'T DIE 9923c182-4358-4576-9157-03c0e1a4ddcf 188 OH SHE TURNED UPON US A FACE ILLUMINATED WITH A SUDDEN INSPIRATION I'VE AN IDEA LET'S EACH OF US GET AN EXERCISE BOOK AND WRITE DOWN ALL HER DREAMS JUST AS WE DREAM THEM WE'LL SEE WHO'LL HAVE THE MOST INTERESTING COLLECTION AND WE'LL HAVE THEM TO READ AND LAUGH OVER WHEN WE'RE OLD AND GREY a94afdba-7148-43c0-b59d-607546cd9729 2108 PERHAPS ALL PARTS OF OZ MIGHT NOT BE CALLED TRULY DELIGHTFUL BUT IT WAS SURELY DELIGHTFUL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE EMERALD CITY WHERE OZMA REIGNED 5aa75bc2-dbc5-475f-bbd9-bef5258eb271 2108 ONCE WHEN I CAME TO HER HOUSE MY STRAW WAS OLD AND CRUMPLED SO THAT MY BODY SAGGED DREADFULLY THE TRAVELLERS WERE SILENT FOR A TIME UNEASILY CONSIDERING THIS STATEMENT AND THE EFFECT IT MIGHT HAVE ON THEIR FUTURE 855e291c-87f6-441c-ae38-78b8415cebd4 2108 I SEE REMARKED THE GIANTESS NODDING HER HEAD AND SMILING AGAIN IN THAT CURIOUS WAY THAT MADE WOOT SHUDDER bcae7714-6d6f-45f2-90a1-0df500bf830d 451 BUT IN AN HOUR'S TIME DAN WAS STILL IN GOOD HEALTH AND ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF GOING TO BED HE WENT AND WAS SOON SLEEPING AS PEACEFULLY AS IF HE HAD NOTHING ON EITHER CONSCIENCE OR STOMACH 9dcb527e-8677-4772-8026-b0e88ada7072 2108 THERE ARE NO FIELDS OF GRAIN IN YOUR VALLEY SAID HE WHERE THEN DID YOU GET THE FLOWER TO MAKE YOUR BISCUITS 61814a57-df2a-4c33-b4a2-30fc51105c9e 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 PRESENTLY A TWINKLE CAME INTO HIS EYES FOR HE REMEMBERED THAT HE WAS ALWAYS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE 98983c3e-0296-424f-9758-34921f749aec 451 HE WENT AND WAS SOON SLEEPING AS PEACEFULLY AS IF HE HAD NOTHING ON EITHER CONSCIENCE OR STOMACH BUT FELICITY DECLARED SHE MEANT TO KEEP THE WATER HOT UNTIL ALL DANGER WAS PAST AND WE SAT UP TO KEEP HER COMPANY ec253b57-254d-4ef0-ab21-3e35d2fd591b 188 IF WRITING DOWN YOUR DREAMS WITH AGONIZING CARE AS DECOMPOSITION AND SPELLING FOR WHO KNEW THAT THE EYES OF GENERATIONS UNBORN MIGHT NOT READ THE RECORD WERE NOT A HARMLESS AMUSEMENT COULD ANYTHING BE CALLED SO I TROW NOT e741a493-7f6c-43fa-aba1-c9883deb78dd 2108 TELL ME SAID THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY AS HE CAME CLOSE TO THE CAGE WHAT MUST WE DO DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW TO ESCAPE FROM THESE TRANSFORMATIONS CAN'T YOU HELP US BEING A FAIRY AT PRESENT I AM POWERLESS TO HELP EVEN MYSELF REPLIED THE CANARY d1f3f4cf-4388-44bc-855a-bbbbd79db853 451 IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS c54a8336-9d74-4616-98f6-925f18ec656e 188 THEY PORED OVER THE ETIQUETTE COLUMN EVERY WEEK AND COULD HAVE TOLD YOU ON DEMAND JUST EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF GLOVES SHOULD BE WORN AT A WEDDING WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY WHEN INTRODUCING OR BEING INTRODUCED AND HOW YOU OUGHT TO LOOK WHEN YOUR BEST MAN WAS COMING TO SEE YOU THEY SAY MISSUS RICHARD COOK ASKED HER HUSBAND TO MARRY HER SAID DAN 352ed9f7-429f-4b83-b3a1-38f15c3cba21 451 DURING THE DISCUSSION WE CAME OUT TO THE FENCE OF THE HILL PASTURE WHERE GREW THE BAD BERRY BUSHES 7f3eb1cd-9123-401d-922a-efcc44554877 188 I SUPPOSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD TEACH HIM MANNERS FOR WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT THE WOMAN DID SHUT UP AND NEVER SPOKE ONE SINGLE WORD TO HER HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I TOLD YOU SO deeb369b-74a4-4691-9fc7-b1b71e85d82e 2108 THIS IS STRANGE MUSED THE SCARECROW I HAD NO IDEA SUCH A BIG CASTLE EXISTED IN THE GALLIKIN COUNTRY I WONDER WHO LIVES HERE IT SEEMS TO ME FROM THIS DISTANCE REMARKED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IT'S THE BIGGEST CASTLE I EVER SAW c1af3d79-fb74-461c-bd12-94d18a8a25da 2108 I HAVEN'T SEEN HER OF COURSE SINCE THE WITCH WAS CRUSHED FOR AT THAT TIME I WAS STANDING RESTED IN THE FOREST AND HAD BEEN THERE A LONG TIME BUT THE POOR GIRL MUST HAVE FELT VERY HAPPY TO BE FREE FROM HER CRUEL MISTRESS 67fa9486-1f14-4874-a6d6-7d4b0d1fa154 2108 I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR FOR IN THE BEGINNING I WAS A MAN OF FLESH AND BONE AND BLOOD AND LIVED IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ d3561a06-6bdf-496b-bf18-7c96a8219c5c 2108 MOREOVER TO ABANDON OUR ERRAND AND SO DEPRIVE THE GREAT EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES OR THIS NOBLE SOLDIER OF HIS BRIDE WOULD BE EQUALLY HUMILIATING IF NOT MORE SO c62f36d8-1f6c-418f-be9c-e59924946eb9 451 DAN KING DON'T YOU DARE EAT THOSE BERRIES SAID FELICITY IN HER BOSSIEST TONE THEY'RE POISON DROP THEM RIGHT AWAY 41ab8dfc-54eb-479f-8aa9-49fc86c351eb 188 THAT WHOLE SCENE COMES OUT CLEARLY FOR ME IN MEMORY THE ARC OF PRIMROSE SKY OVER THE TREES BEHIND THE OLD HOUSE THE FRUIT LADEN BOUGHS OF THE ORCHARD THE BANK OF GOLDEN ROD LIKE A WAVE OF SUNSHINE BEHIND THE PULPIT STONE THE NAMELESS COLOURS SEEN ON A FIR WOO IN A RUDDY SUNSET 85b2ee40-338e-49e5-a1b3-4df7e91a37a3 451 I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE I GUESS SHE WON'T FORGET IT IN A HURRY YOU WON'T GO EATING THE BAD BERRIES ANOTHER TIME WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOLD TO 98dd686c-be81-4aad-8424-3144fa4d0986 451 FELIX AND PETER AND I WERE REQUIRED TO HELP UNCLE ROGER AND SOME CARPENTERING WORK THAT DAY AND FELICITY INDULGED IN ONE OF THE HOUSE CLEANING ORGIES SO DEAR TO HER SOUL SO THAT IT WAS EVENING BEFORE WE WERE ALL FREE TO MEET IN THE ORCHARD AND THE LAW ON THE GRASSES OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK d2ce76b7-42f7-43b0-adf2-2fc4595ff659 188 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MISSUS RICHARD COOK'S GRANDMOTHER SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WOMEN WHO WERE ALWAYS SAYING I TOLD YOU SO TAKE NOTICE FELICITY SAID DAN ASIDE AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD THE LABEL WAS LOST 432ca904-bdaa-4adb-97f6-d1016f87f207 188 WHICH WAS INDEED AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR FELICITY I WONDER WHAT BECAME OF THE BEAUTIFUL STONE ASKED CECILY 48c88539-c93e-435e-86af-0e4a5f6f8fd8 2108 SCARCELY WERE THE THREE INSIDE HOWEVER WHEN THEY HEARD THE DOOR SLAM SHUT BEHIND THEM AND THIS ASTONISHED THEM BECAUSE NO ONE HAD TOUCHED IT c53faa2f-2ee6-4437-b485-9d6f4c999944 451 PAT WAS WITH US OF COURSE PROWLING ABOUT STEALTHILY OR MAKING FRANTIC BOOTLESS LEAPS AT THE SWALLOWS A CAT IN A HAY LOFT IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS WE HAD NOT HEARD OF THIS FITNESS THEN BUT WE ALL FELT THAT PATTY WAS IN HIS OWN PLACE IN A HAYLOFT 4a2fbb30-a16d-48b4-b4a3-f6f87be957fc 451 GRANDFATHER KING ASKED HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THE CHOIR MISTER FORBES SAID IT WAS VERY GLEE BUT AS FOR ANDREWS BASS THEN IT WAS NAY BASS O BUODDITT IT WAS JUST BURR THE HAILTIME 5c573681-cac9-4f5f-b04f-b1f5f77ba726 2108 THIS NOISELESSLY SWUNG OPEN BEFORE THEM WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY ONE AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER THE WALLS OF WHICH WERE LINED WITH PLATES OF PURE GOLD HIGHLY POLISHED 345f556c-f006-4233-bd4e-a5ce13c682c8 188 Y ONE DREAMER OF DREAMS AUGUST WENT OUT AND SEPTEMBER CAME IN 146f8d1d-50fc-4336-aedd-83fb16014bf5 2108 SHE WAS SAID THE GIANTESS BUT NOW SHE'S A CANARY BIRD ONE DAY AFTER RAIN POLYCHROME DANCED OFF THE RAINBOW AND FELL ASLEEP ON A LITTLE MOUND IN THIS VALLEY NOT FAR FROM MY CASTLE ad878c52-1047-4b11-80cd-4e69d0757cc6 451 SARA DID YIELD WHEN THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE ENTREATED IT WAS NOT EASY TO RESIST ITS TEMPTATION EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO THAT EVENING WHEN WE STARTED FOR THE SCHOOLHOUSE SARA RAY WAS AMONG US DECKED OUT IN BORROWED PLUMES b6d88d61-9bd8-44f4-82f2-a4bb520c5dac 188 WHEN HE WENT AWAY HE SAID I HOPE I SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU AGAIN JUST AS SERIOUSLY AND POLITELY AS IF I WAS A GROWN UP YOUNG LADY I AM SURE HE COULD NEVER HAVE SAID IT IF I HAD BEEN REALLY GROWN UP I TOLD HIM IT WAS LIKELY HE WOULD AND THEN HE WASN'T TO MIND IF I HAD A LONGER SKIRT ON NEXT TIME BECAUSE I'D BE JUST THE SAME PERSON ab461131-d875-4207-a9db-e3efe9c58356 188 PAT JUST GOT SICK AND GOT BETTER AGAIN OF HIS OWN ACCORD I'M GOING TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS THE PRAYING SAID CECILY DECIDEDLY IT'S SO MUCH NICER TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CURED PAT THAN THAT PEG BOWEN DID 04e214eb-cfae-4a66-ba77-2a883d5fc867 2108 THIS PLEASED THE GIANTESS AND SHE WOULD PAUSE AT TIMES TO PAT THE MONKEY'S HEAD THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND LAY STILL ALL DAY 91c68c40-75e8-4a2e-ac2f-be9e6d8322e1 188 I'M GLAD UNCLE ALEC INTERFERED AND STOPPED TO FIGHT IF I HAD LICKED YOU AND YOU HAD DIED OF THE MEASLES IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DREADFUL THING 9678d8fb-4987-45b2-9cb0-ba7b549ba973 188 TO SARA THIS WAS HUMILIATION INDESCRIBABLE SHE FELT HERSELF AN OUTCAST AND AN ALIEN TO OUR BUSY LITTLE CIRCLE WHERE EACH MEMBER COUNTED EVERY DAY WITH MISERLY DELIGHT LOWLY INCREASING HORDE OF SMALL CASH 433592d8-add2-4b8c-ac14-c60636387558 188 UNCLE ALEC SAYS THAT UNCLE EDWARD SAYS THAT HEADS ARE BEGINNING TO GO OUT OF FASHION I SAID DEFIANTLY ALL THE MORE DEFIANTLY THAT I FELT I SHOULD HAVE HAD HEADS IN MY SERMON IT WOULD HAVE DOUBTLESS HAVE MADE A MUCH DEEPER IMPRESSION BUT THE TRUTH WAS I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT SUCH THINGS 12633cdd-8979-472e-bab8-58b94b509875 2108 I REMEMBER THAT OLD CUCK CLIP CAREFULLY PUT MY NEAT LEG IN A BARREL I THINK THAT IS THE SAME BARREL STILL STANDING IN THE CORNER YONDER AND THEN AT ONCE HE BEGAN TO MAKE A TIN LEG FOR ME 0bc79773-6458-4fe2-9c3d-8f738932f9d5 2108 NO WONDER REMARKED THE SCARECROW BUT LISTEN NIMMY AMY SAID THE ASTONISHED ROOT HE REALLY IS BOTH OF THEM FOR HE IS MADE OF THEIR CAST OFF PARTS OH YOU'RE QUITE WRONG DECLARED POLYCHROME LAUGHING FOR SHE WAS GREATLY ENJOYING THE CONFUSION OF THE OTHERS fea6edb1-cddc-4365-86a5-30532f2a544e 2108 HIS IDEA WAS TO SEIZE HER CHAIR AND PULL IT OUT BY THE ROOTS AND SO HAVE REVENGE ON HER WICKED TRANSFORMATIONS BUT SHE RAISED HER HAND AND SAID GENTLY MY DEAR MONKEY GENTLY YOU'RE NOT ANGRY YOU'RE HAPPY AS CAN BE a53bbd0e-35b4-4e6d-ad37-e983144ff4ff 2108 AT ONCE THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN ITS GREAT HINGES MAKING A GROANING SOUND AS IF IN PROTEST SO LUTE LEAPED DOWN AND FOLLOWED HIS COMPANIONS INTO A BIG BARE HALLWAY aa3e5708-3ed1-46ae-a9c8-6128bfcbd4bb 2108 MERCY ME DID YOU THINK I'D BOTHER TO MAKE BISCUITS OUT OF FLOWER SHE REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN WAS SO SURPRISED AT THIS FRANK SPEECH THAT FOR A TIME HE DID NOTHING BUT STARE HARD AT THE BOY WANDERER 28f8cf52-7b12-4f5c-88e0-905865e9ef8a 2108 I HAVE POLISHED THE INSIDE OF IT AND MADE A DOOR AT EACH END AND THAT'S A VERY COMFORTABLE RESIDENCE FOR ME BECAUSE IT JUST FITS MY SHAPE 646a7bbf-9a0e-446c-b238-e5365dedb427 188 FINALLY HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE TOLD HER TO SHUT UP THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A FAMILY GUIDE IN THOSE DAYS SO HE DIDN'T KNOW IT WASN'T POLITE TO SAY SHUT UP TO YOUR WIFE I SUPPOSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD TEACH HIM MANNERS FOR WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT THE WOMAN DID SHUT UP AND NEVER SPOKE ONE SINGLE WORD TO HER HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS 223cfc42-7a12-48b3-8f02-647d0066df9a 2108 HE CAPTURED THEM REPLIED ONE OF THE LOONS AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THEM INQUIRED THE GIRL LOON PERHAPS WE'LL CONDEMN AND PUNCTURE THEM ANSWERED THE KING 517da8f5-06e9-4eb0-890b-da38a4f0f9c5 188 HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHERE YOUR FATHER IS ASKED ANN NO SAID PETER INDIFFERENTLY THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS NOW AND ADDED PETER DELIBERATELY TAKING HIS GUM FROM HIS MOUTH TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT MORE IMPRESSIVE I DON'T CARE dc60c7c5-c33d-40df-bbb6-3cab7d5024fe 188 FELICITY HAD SPENT THE WHOLE PREVIOUS DAY AND THE FORENOON OF THE PICNIC DAY IN CONCOCTING THEM HER CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT WAS A RICH LITTLE PLUM CAKE ON THE WHITE FROSTING OF WHICH THE WORDS WELCOME BACK WERE LETTERED IN PINK CANDIES a12f30c3-3832-43b1-80ae-a3b867f92ccc 2108 COME IN YOU FOOLISH STRANGERS COME IN ab5f643c-4c15-42f0-8f2c-178722902993 2108 IF FRIENDLY PEOPLE HAPPEN TO LIVE HERE SAID WOO I SHALL BE GLAD OF A BED BUT SHOULD ENEMIES OCCUPY THE PLACE I PREFER TO SLEEP UPON THE GROUND AND IF NO ONE AT ALL LIVES HERE ADDED THE SCARECROW WE CAN ENTER AND TAKE POSSESSION AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME 61e0cdc2-2596-445e-bb88-ca071494ca25 2108 COME IN SHE SAID LEADING THE WAY INSIDE EVEN SWEETHEARTS ARE FORGOTTEN AFTER A TIME BUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE WELCOME 258e257c-b5ee-4b66-9b0a-8547bccd75a6 2108 SO DO I ADDED THE SCARECROW NODDING I AM GLAD TO HEAR THIS SAID THE WANDERER FOR IT MAKES ME BOLD TO ASK FOR SOMETHING TO EAT 6886a940-1d39-4cd9-9dfe-8ec185b26b64 2108 WELL NOT EXACTLY A WITCH SEARCH SHE REPLIED BUT I AM AN ARTIST IN TRANSFORMATION IN OTHER WORDS I'M MORE OF A YUKU HOO THAN A WITCH AND OF COURSE YOU KNOW THAT THE YUKUBOOS ARE THE CLEVEREST MAGIC WORKERS IN THE WORLD 5fe7bcf4-a6ef-4427-9444-6a3a3f400728 188 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 5daec2a7-dac8-4121-8635-5aa7c2d7cbc4 188 IT WAS A SMALL SHAKY BUILDING WITH A SAGGING ROOF SET AMID PERFECT JUNGLE OF WEEDS TO OUR EYES THE ODD THING ABOUT IT WAS THAT THERE WAS NO ENTRANCE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AS THERE SHOULD BE IN ANY RESPECTABLE HOUSE THE ONLY DOOR WAS IN THE UPPER STORY AND WAS REACHED BY A FLIGHT OF RICKETY STEPS 0edf11f2-833f-4306-839c-eff9dcd25d40 188 I LET VERY FEW PEOPLE USE IT BECAUSE IT IS MY GREATEST TREASURE MIND YOU DON'T BREAK IT AUNT OLIVIA MUST ALWAYS WASH IT NOT YOUR MOTHER I DO HOPE THE REST OF US WON'T CATCH THE MEASLES IT MUST LOOK HORRID TO HAVE RED SPOTS ALL OVER YOUR FACE WE ALL FEEL PRETTY WELL YET ec2e94cd-c8be-48b5-8501-5976cec4ade5 188 YOU CHILDREN WON'T SLEEP A WEEK TO NIGHT IF WE OPENED IT NOW YOU'D GO WILD WITH EXCITEMENT I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP ANYHOW SAID FELICITY WELL AT LEAST YOU'LL OPEN IT THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING WON'T YOU MA 0ec5f12a-36c1-4ffe-8e51-35f661128b98 188 IT COME ON A FELLOW SO SUDDEN SAID PETER SHAMEFACEDLY I THINK I COULD HA STOOD MY GROUND IF I KNOWN SHE WAS GOING TO COME OUT BUT WHEN SHE POPPED OUT LIKE THAT I THOUGHT I WAS DONE FOR WE SHOULDN'T HAVE RUN SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY IT SHOWED WE WERE AFRAID OF HER AND THAT ALWAYS MAKES HER AWFUL CROSS SHE WON'T DO A THING FOR PAT NOW b41b5e48-0198-446d-beb1-d51aed0fed4b 188 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 SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THE RECOLLECTION GAVE POINT TO CECILY'S QUESTION bb5d0a82-9cb0-4c44-853f-15af9c27bdbb 188 HER BROWN FACE WAS SEAMED WITH A HUNDRED WRINKLES AND HER TANGLED GRIZZLED HAIR FELL UNKEMPTLY OVER HER SHOULDERS SHE WAS SCOWLING AND HER FLASHING BLACK EYES HELD NO FRIENDLY LIGHT ffe774b0-b39b-4014-9b99-5217c5133cf4 188 THERE WAS A YOUNG SHEPHERD NAMED GLECON A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG SHEPHERD WHO LIVED IN A LITTLE VILLAGE CALLED THEBES e348b505-a58f-4174-ac42-e7d1cc4f38c3 2108 OF COURSE I CONSENTED AND TAKING THE MEDICINE I HURRIED AWAY IT WAS A LONG DISTANCE MOSTLY UPHILL AND MY LEGS BEGAN TO GROW WEARY e623fb53-6ed8-4542-88e6-158adda94fb1 188 THERE ARE FIVE DOLLARS FOR YOU HE SAID AND YOUR STORY WAS WELL WORTH IT YOU ARE A WONDER SOME DAY YOU WILL MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE IT I'VE BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND HEARD SOME GOOD THINGS BUT I'VE NEVER ENJOYED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT THREADBARE OLD STORY I HEARD IN MY CRADLE 3d78e2a8-76a2-4731-b312-3f290bc513ab 188 WE HAVE GOT ALL THE APPLES PICKED AND ARE ALL READY TO TAKE THE MEASLES NOW IF WE HAVE TO BUT I HOPE WE WON'T IF WE HAVE TO THOUGH I'D RATHER CATCH THEM FROM YOU THAN FROM ANY ONE ELSE BECAUSE WE ARE ACQUAINTED WITH YOU 5eff5b1b-2d97-43de-b226-259a47bdf1ee 2108 MADAM HE SAID HASTILY I CONSIDER THIS ACTION VERY IMPOLITE IT MAY EVEN BE CALLED RUDE CONSIDERING WE ARE YOUR GUESTS YOU ARE NOT MY GUESTS FOR I DO NOT INVITE YOU HERE SHE REPLIED 745c4a9f-f312-41b3-a5e7-7558dcd84656 2108 SAID THE SCARECROW TWISTING HIS TWISTING HIS STUFFED HEAD AROUND IN MISSUS UBES'S DIRECTION DO YOU KNOW MAN WHO WE ARE OF COURSE SAID SHE A STRAW MAN A TIN MAN AND A BOY 35940ede-8a92-439d-98e6-d0a6e0d9e99d 2108 I WAS ASLEEP AND SHE TOOK UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF ME ANSWERED THE BIRD SADLY HAD I BEEN AWAKE I COULD EASILY HAVE PROTECTED MYSELF e17ab94f-e327-4286-aa02-3e600d88fba3 2108 IT SEEMS TO ME FROM THIS DISTANCE REMARKED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IT'S THE BIGGEST CASTLE I EVER SAW IT IS REALLY TOO BIG FOR ANY USE AND NO ONE COULD OPEN OR SHUT THOSE BIG DOORS WITHOUT A STEP LADDER 719da7b1-5e6a-407b-9f53-57f2b278b7bc 2108 THEN HE CROUCHED TREMBLING IN THE FIREPLACE HIS PRETTY GREEN HAIR ALL BLACKENED WITH SOOT AND COVERED WITH ASHES 3b8ebe40-cdbc-4e78-926d-4aa808c8d48b 188 SO POOR RACHEL IS GONE SAID UNCLE ALEC SHE MUST HAVE BEEN AN OLD WOMAN SEVENTY FIVE I SUPPOSE I REMEMBER HER AS A FINE BLOOMING YOUNG WOMAN WELL WELL AND SO THE OLD CHEST IS TO BE OPENED AT LAST WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH ITS CONTENTS 3301afb7-1bf7-47e0-baab-c8f69477c8bd 2108 ALSO LUKE HAD TO TELL HIS STORY WHICH WAS VERY SIMPLE AND DID NOT TAKE LONG THE GIANTESS LAUGHED HEARTILY WHEN THE BOY RELATED THEIR ADVENTURES AT LOONVILLE BUT SAID SHE KNEW NOTHING OF THE LOONS BECAUSE SHE NEVER LEFT HER VALLEY 24420ef4-a06a-4988-9f32-b169f408f4fe 188 RESPECTED MADAM WROTE THE STORY GIRL WE WANT TO ASK A VERY GREAT FAVOR OF YOU AND WE HOPE YOU WILL KINDLY GRANT IT IF YOU CAN OUR FAVOURITE CAT PATTY IS VERY SICK AND WE ARE AFRAID HE'S GOING TO DIE DO YOU THINK YOU COULD CURE HIM AND WILL YOU PLEASE TRY adf01379-bb46-4b56-85e3-a9a72e1c509b 188 YOU LOOK COLD SAID DONALD IN HIS GREAT HEARTY VOICE SIT DOWN NEARER THE FIRE MAN AND PUT A BIT OF WARMTH IN YOUR VEINS IT'S A BITTER COLD THE DAY K FELICITY'S LETTER DEAR PETER AUNT OLIVIA SAYS FOR US ALL TO WRITE A COMPOUND LETTER TO CHEER YOU UP 6b4d2f5f-12bd-4da1-899c-2a5c7fde096b 188 WHEN WILLIAM COHEWEN WAS HALF WAY THROUGH IT SOMETHING CAME OUT OF THE WOOD AND WALKED BESIDE HIM 79f302a4-e364-420f-be29-3bc611f288ac 188 PAT'S BETTER CRIED THE STORY GIRLS BLITHE TRIUMPHANT LAST NIGHT JUST AT TWELVE HAD BEGUN TO LICK HIS PAWS THEN HE LICKED HIMSELF ALL OVER AND WENT TO SLEEP TOO ON THE SOFA WHEN I WOKE PAT WAS WASHING HIS FACE AND HE HAD TAKEN A WHOLE SAUCERFUL OF MILK OH ISN'T IT SPLENDID 74fbfa6c-d4ed-46d2-813b-b45f4ba80735 188 BUT ALL AT ONCE SHE HEARD A STAMPING OF HOOFS BEHIND HER AND WHEN SHE TURNED SHE ALMOST DIED FROM FRIGHT FOR THERE WAS THE GREAT GOD PAN AND HE WAS A VERY TERRIBLE OBJECT LOOKING QUITE AS MUCH LIKE A GOAT AS A MAN THE GODS WERE NOT ALL BEAUTIFUL YOU KNOW AND BEAUTIFUL OR NOT NOBODY EVER WANTED TO MEET THEM FACE TO FACE cd86ab2c-0466-428f-834f-dec3b17653c7 2108 I WONDER SAID DOROTHY THOUGHTFULLY IF WE COULDN'T FIND SOMEONE IN THE LAND OF OZ WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO BECOME A GREEN MONKEY 30a58a27-a04b-413e-9303-fa669895b368 188 FELIX AND I STARED WE WERE NOT QUITE SURE WHAT A TRAGEDY WAS BUT WE DID NOT THINK IT WAS AN OLD BLUE WOODEN CHEST SUCH AS THE STORY GIRL WAS UNDOUBTEDLY SITTING ON IF EYESIGHT COUNTED FOR ANYTHING bcf5201d-2584-4762-b6ba-50d464fb7866 188 IN VAIN WE STROKED AND ENTREATED AND BROUGHT HIM TITBITS ONLY WHEN THE STORY GIRL CARESSED HIM TO GIVE ONE PLAINTIVE LITTLE MEW AS IF TO ASK PITEOUSLY WHY SHE COULD NOT DO SOMETHING FOR HIM 1f76423b-c2d8-451d-9b74-c6a2d509851e 188 AND HIS SERMONS AND PRAYERS WERE ALWAYS JUST ABOUT AS OUTSPOKEN AS THOSE JULIA OBJECTED TO SAID UNCLE ALEC I TELL YOU THAT LAST SENTENCE HAS A FINE SOUND SAID PETER ADMIRINGLY I DIDN'T MAKE IT UP ADMITTED THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I READ IT SOMEWHERE AND REMEMBERED IT d3d2b90c-d52d-472b-b92c-2b9799c6f0f2 188 I AIN'T ANY HAND TO WRITE LETTERS SO I GUESS I'LL STOP HOPE YOU'LL BE OUT SOON DAN bda4d88f-42c1-4514-9fa0-d48364a05f3e 188 WE MUSTN'T OFFER HER ANY MONEY SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE'S VERY INDIGNANT WHEN ANY ONE DOES THAT SHE SAYS SHE ISN'T A BEGGAR BUT SHE'LL TAKE ANYTHING ELSE I SHALL GIVE HER MY STRING OF BLUE BEADS SHE'S FOND OF FINERY d1c48e0a-3c3b-4944-945e-268bc345a77a 2108 AND I AM RESOLVED NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO THINK CAREFULLY ON WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY FOR I REALIZE THAT SPEECH WITHOUT THOUGHT IS DANGEROUS AND AFTER I HAVE DELIVERED THE NOTE I SHALL RUN ERRANDS AGAIN FOR ANY ONE WHO NEEDS MY SERVICES 995914ea-9f64-4dee-a84b-4b2e118c58e1 188 WE TOO DESIROUS OF BEING CONVINCED ALSO THOUGHT SO AND FOR A MERRY HOUR LAZARUS AND MARTHA AND MOSES AND AARON AND SUNDRY OTHER WORTHIES OF HOLY WRIT HAD A LIVELY TIME OF IT IN THE KING ORCHARD 795e0a28-1339-4b8a-a733-84643eda3a45 2108 WOOD WAS AMAZED BUT HE ALSO WAS THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENED DID IT HURT HE ASKED THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR NO OF COURSE NOT GROWLED THE SCARECROW IN THE BEAR'S FORM BUT I DON'T LIKE WALKING ON FOUR LEGS IT'S UNDIGNIFIED af5cec3a-ac17-4a50-828d-65d9f1293eb6 2108 HIS FOOT CAUGHT THE LOON WHO WAS LEANING OVER HIM FULL ON HIS PUFFY STOMACH AND SENT HIM SHOOTING UP INTO THE AIR WHEN WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND cf89b5c8-b3d5-4e05-974b-3d85b889a8c3 2108 BUT THERE WAS NO FOOD UPON THE TABLE NOR ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT A PITCHER OF WATER A BUNDLE OF WEEDS AND A HANDFUL OF PEBBLES BUT THE GIANTESS POURED SOME WATER INTO HER COFFEE POT PATTED IT ONCE OR TWICE WITH HER HAND AND THEN POURED OUT A CUPFUL OF STEAMING HOT COFFEE 7a4685e7-a296-463d-b0d1-7d0b93fd1581 188 WELL DID ANY EVER ANY MORTAL SHE SAID WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE MATTER SAID UNCLE ALEC THIS LETTER IS FROM JAMES WARD'S WIFE AND MONTREAL SAID AUNT JANET SOLEMNLY RACHEL WARD IS DEAD AND SHE TOLD JAMES'S WIFE TO WRITE TO ME AND TELL ME TO OPEN THE OLD BLUE CHEST HURRAH SHOUTED DAN a434c78e-a048-4f1e-ad36-c62723583b73 2108 SEEING THIS ISOLATION THE FAIRY BAND OF QUEEN LEARLIN PASSING OVER OSWALD ON A JOURNEY ENCHANTED THE COUNTRY AND SO MADE IT A FAIRYLAND 115c3328-e716-459d-af35-f4f650e6dfc6 188 YES BUT YOUR UNCLE ROGER WAS NEVER CLAPPED IN THE SHOULDER AND CALLED BROTHER BY THE DEVIL SAID PETER IF HE HAD HE MIGHTN'T HAVE BEEN SO PRECIOUS JOLLY AFTERWARDS HIMSELF DAN'S LETTER DEAR OLD PETE AWFUL GLAD YOU CHEATED THE DOCTOR 8ccf7b88-78cb-4375-945b-54532b7f0a1d 2108 IN A FEW SECONDS HE HAD BECOME A SMALL BROWN BEAR BUT HE WAS STUFFED WITH STRAW AS HE HAD BEEN BEFORE AND WHEN THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR SHUFFLED ACROSS THE FLOOR HE WAS JUST AS WOGGLY AS THE SCARECROW HAD BEEN AND MOVED JUST AS AWKWARDLY 577c276c-773e-46a7-a5a2-b3e17243906c 2108 I AM SURE THAT WILL DELIGHT NIMY AND ME FOR ALL GIRLS ARE FOND OF FINERY 27173256-b154-44d9-bf12-923eaae40641 2108 I KNOW SAID THE CANARY I'M ONLY REMOVING WITH MY MAGIC THE CORNS FROM YOUR LAST TEN TOES THANK YOU FOR BEING SO THOUGHTFUL HE SAID GRATEFULLY AND NOW THEY NOTICED THAT TOMMY QUICKSTEP WAS QUITE A NICE LOOKING YOUNG FELLOW f4a4e6fc-b403-44db-b5d2-f42aad1e4194 2108 BUT GINGER GRABBED HIM BY HIS PAW AND DRAGGED HIM OUT TO THE BACK YARD WHERE IN SPITE OF HIS WHINES AND STRUGGLES SHE PLUNGED HIM INTO A TUB OF COLD WATER AND BEGAN TO SCRUB HIM WITH HIS STIFF BRUSH AND A CAKE OF YELLOW SOAP 9eb37861-4b13-4abc-9aba-2bcb9fee616e 188 YOU SEE PEG BOWEN DID PUT A SPELL ON HIM SAID PETER AND THEN SHE TOOK IT OFF I GUESS CICELY'S PRAYER HAD MORE TO DO IT THAN PAT'S GETTING BETTER THAN PEG BOWEN SAID FELICITY SHE PRAYED FOR PAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT'S WHY HE'S BETTER 2826f908-546d-4daa-9a0c-1694b76dfa2e 188 KIT MAR WAS UP HERE THURSDAY TO SEE THE GIRLS 267f671c-f90a-4fcb-b350-5f906c46b990 188 NONSENSE SAID THE STORY GIRL AGAIN ALL RIGHT SAID PETER YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE ME IF PEG BOWEN COULD BEWITCH ANYTHING AND I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD WHY SHOULD SHE BE WITCH PAT ASKED THE STORY GIRL EVERYBODY HEERED AT UNCLE ALEC IS ALWAYS KIND TO HER 609c4424-7fa7-4469-a1ab-54fe073e222d 188 THE FIRST THING YOU MUST DO IN THE MORNING IS NEAT IT WELL SAID FELICITY AND THE EARLIER IT'S DONE THE BETTER BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A WARM NIGHT 2135e557-9151-4215-9d6a-0681adad8d9a 188 LET'S GO AND GET THE BITTER APPLES SAID CECILY HASTILY SEEING THAT FELIX FELICITY AND DAN WERE ON THE VERGE OF A QUARREL MORE BITTER THAN THE APPLES WE WENT TO THE SEEDLING TREE AND GOT AN APPLE APIECE THE GAME WAS THAT EVERY ONE MUST TAKE A BITE IN TURN CHEW IT UP AND SWALLOW IT WITHOUT MAKING A FACE 74d61813-0c03-4bb4-be37-d73d3dc649e5 2108 A CHAIR STOOD NEAR THE WINDOW AND THIS SHOWING DIMLY IN THE MOONLIGHT GAVE HIM AN IDEA BY PUSHING AGAINST IT WITH ALL HIS MIGHT HE FOUND THAT HE COULD MOVE THE GIANT CHAIR A FEW INCHES AT A TIME e4a2e8eb-31ce-40dc-81a5-5334a2d0b764 2108 I AM A BIRD AS YOU ARE DEAR POLLY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN BUT ALAS A TIN OWL IS NOT AS BEAUTIFUL AS A CANARY BIRD 8729606c-37e2-4470-8437-bb2e354d8bdd 188 FINALLY WE CAME TO THE LANE WHICH LED DIRECTLY TO OUR ABODE WE WERE ALL VERY PALE NOW AND OUR HEARTS WERE BEATING THE RED SEPTEMBER SUN HUNG LOW BETWEEN THE TALL SPRUCES TO THE WEST IT DID NOT LOOK TO ME JUST RIGHT FOR A SON IN FACT EVERYTHING LOOKED UNCANNY I WISHED OUR ERRAND WAS WELL OVER e33b10c5-3953-4e97-9652-174a8f622688 188 WHEN WE REACHED THE GREEN GLOOM OF THE WOODS BEYOND WE BEGAN TO FEEL FRIGHTENED BUT NOBODY WOULD ADMIT IT WE WALKED VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER AND WE DID NOT TALK WHEN YOU ARE NEAR THE RETREAT OF WITCHES AND THE FOLK OF THAT ILK THE LESS YOU SAY THE BETTER FOR THEIR FEELINGS ARE NOTORIOUSLY TOUCHY OF COURSE PEG WASN'T A WITCH BUT IT WAS BEST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE 4503651b-e879-49ad-ad8a-1b594d0372ca 188 AND WILL YOU PLEASE TRY WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS MOTHER WROTE COUSIN RACHEL TEN YEARS AGO SAID CECILY AND ASKED HER IF SHE MIGHT OPEN THE CHEST TO SEE IF THE MOTHS HAD GOT INTO IT THERE'S A CRACK IN THE BACK AS BIG AS YOUR FINGER b4cb1c0f-0d92-47c4-8029-43e6463a1de4 188 WELL I'M THANKFUL TO BE HOME AGAIN SAID AUNT JANET BEAMING ON US WE HAD A REAL NICE TIME AND EDWARD'S FOLKS WERE AS KIND AS COULD BE BUT GIVE ME HOME FOR A STEADY THING HOW WAS EVERYTHING HERE GONE HOW DID THE CHILDREN BEHAVE ROGER 334fd574-0e31-435a-a620-33faa9f3fd0e 188 IT SHOWED WE WERE AFRAID OF HER AND THAT ALWAYS MAKES HER AWFUL CROSS SHE WON'T DO A THING FOR PAT NOW I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD DO ANYTHING ANYWAY SAID THE STORY GIRL I THINK WE'VE JUST BEEN A LOT OF GEESE 0e53acc3-ef7f-4b9f-952d-18a1f8dbd88e 188 CECILY'S LETTER DEAR PETER I AM SO VERY GLAD AND THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET BETTER WE WERE SO AFRAID YOU WOULD NOT LAST TUESDAY AND WE FELT DREADFUL EVEN FELICITY 7cdebb56-3d93-4a06-9bb6-a9772129dbd9 188 IT LOOKS LIKE SOLID GOLD I'LL GIVE HER A ROLL OF PEPPERMINT CANDY SAID FELIX I'LL GIVE HER ONE OF THE LITTLE JARS OF CHERRY PRESERVES I MADE SAID CECILY I WON'T GO NEAR HER QUIVERED SARA RAY BUT I WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR PAT AND I'LL SEND THAT PIECE OF APPLE LEAF LACE I LIT LAST WEEK ebf631f2-e7ba-4756-b3d2-25fa4820cfa9 188 THE REST OF US LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN TERRIFIED QUESTIONING YOU'VE MADE RATHER TOO MUCH OF AN IMPRESSION PETER SAID THE STORY GIRL MISERABLY RACHEL WASN'T PRETTY SAID UNCLE ALEC BUT SHE HAD A LOVELY COLOR AND A BEAUTIFUL SMILE SHE LOOKS FAR TOO SOBER IN THAT PICTURE 80b02089-cf11-474c-8b71-23b9c89a79e4 188 AGLEYA WAS HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER SHE WAS SO SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL THAT GLAUCON FELL IN LOVE WITH HER THE VERY MOMENT HE FIRST SAW HER AND WHEN HE WAS NOT PLAYING HIS FLUTE ON THE MOUNTAIN HE WAS THINKING ABOUT AGLE AND DREAMING THAT SOME DAY HE MIGHT HAVE FLOCKS OF HIS OWN IN A DEAR LITTLE COTTAGE DOWN IN THE VALLEY WHERE HE AND AGLEIA MIGHT LIVE 32910ebe-eb77-4254-bcb0-d7a2687902e0 2108 BUT I HAD NO IDEA A MONKEY COULD LOOK SO COMICAL AS THIS MONKEY DID WHILE HE WAS BEING BATHED NOT A MONKEY DECLARED BOOT RESENTFULLY I'M JUST A BOY IN A MONKEY'S SHAPE THAT'S ALL 63336af2-450f-4113-897a-a39f216e6707 2108 IN OTHER WORDS MY REMARKABLE BRAINS CAN TIRE THROUGH HUMILIATION ALTHOUGH MY BODY CANNOT TIRE b67444f3-97dc-4f19-a236-2d5ba1cb60cd 188 IT WON'T MATTER TO PAT BUT IT MIGHT TO THE ONE WHO GOES TO HER SAID FELICITY SHE ISN'T A WITCH BUT SHE'S A SPITEFUL OLD WOMAN AND GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT SHE DO AS SHE CAUGHT US I'M SCARED OF PEG BOWEN AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT EVER SINCE I CAN MIND MA'S BEEN SAYING IF YOU'RE NOT GOOD PEG BOWEN WILL CATCH YOU 6565d27f-bcd1-4525-9323-70d7088ae03e 188 SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE TWILL KEEP THE HEART IN YOU IN THE TEETH OF THAT WIND HELP YOURSELF THERE'S PLENTY MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM 58620746-8c5f-4d28-bc87-fa8cd79e2096 2108 AH I SEE YOU ARE A PHILOSOPHER REMARKED THE SCARECROW NO I'M JUST A HIPPOCRIFT WAS THE REPLY 9dd6407c-80df-432c-a3e5-2915d8dcee2d 188 RECITE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE FOR ME SAID MISTER CAMPBELL WE STARED WELL MIGHT MISTER CAMPBELL BE CALLED ECCENTRIC WHAT ON EARTH DID HE WANT THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE RECITED FOR EVEN THE STORY GIRL WAS SURPRISED BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE b7a05e58-a98e-4e0d-bcd5-7f808b68752c 188 I THINK HE WOULD HAVE OBEYED IF SHE IN THAT TONE AND WITH THOSE EYES HAD ORDERED HIM TO CAST HIMSELF INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA I KNOW I SHOULD HE'S BEWITCHED THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM SAID PETER HALF DEFIANTLY HALF SHAMEFACEDLY BEWITCHED NONSENSE THERE NOW WHAT'D I TELL YOU be823537-231e-4381-b7f4-87d9244403f3 2108 NOW SOLDIER CUT THE HAY SAID THE SCARECROW'S HEAD WHICH WAS STILL HELD BY ROOT THE WANDERER c7963f7e-ba35-413a-9fd1-48c69435c872 2108 THE WOMAN WAS NOT UNPLEASANT TO LOOK AT HER FACE WAS NOT CEL HER VOICE WAS BIG BUT GRACIOUS IN TONE BUT HER WORDS SHOWED THAT SHE POSSESSED A MERCILESS HEART AND NO PLEADINGS WOULD ALTER HER WICKED PURPOSE aee8c40f-7231-45f3-b2f7-769f8f154254 188 IN THE AFTERNOON WE ALL REPAIRED TO THE ORCHARD BIBLES AND HYMN BOOKS IN HAND WE DID NOT THINK IT NECESSARY TO INFORM THE GROWN UPS OF WHAT WAS IN THE WIND YOU COULD NEVER TELL WHAT KINK A GROWN UP WOULD TAKE THEY MIGHT NOT THINK IT PROPER TO PLAY ANY SORT OF A GAME ON SUNDAY EVEN A CHRISTIAN GAME 59d80543-6094-4408-806e-1f126828943e 2108 COME TO THINK OF IT SAID THE TAN OWL WAKING UP AND BLINKING COMICALLY AT HIS FRIENDS THERE IS NO OBJECT NOW IN OUR TRAVELLING TO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY 4c8caa51-b1a4-4ac4-8f7a-26f3567b1670 188 JULIA AND CALIFORNIA EDWARD AND HALIFAX ALLAN IN SOUTH AMERICA FELIX AND FELICITY AND STEPHEN GONE TO THE LAND THAT IS VERY FAR OFF dcfba870-0eff-4aa9-8aea-6d8385525bb5 188 GIVE THAT STONE TO ME SAID PAN HOLDING OUT HIS HAND BUT AGLEIA THOUGH SHE WAS FRIGHTENED WOULD NOT GIVE HIM THE STONE I WANT IT FOR GLECON SHE SAID I WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT HE ADVANCED THREATENINGLY BUT AGLEIA RAN AS HARD AS SHE COULD UP THE MOUNTAIN e0bf59f5-75d3-4e21-ae97-8cca9cb1a05b 2108 POLYCHROME WHO HAD WANDERED OUTSIDE NOW POKED HER PRETTY HEAD THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW AND EXCLAIMED IN A PLEASED VOICE IT'S GETTING CLOUDY PERHAPS IT IS GOING TO RAIN ee069998-3d19-4b48-a99b-30ce51b4a72e 188 IF I THOUGHT SHE REALLY MADE PAT SICK AND COULD MAKE HIM BETTER I'D TRY TO PACIFY HER SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL DECIDEDLY I'M FRIGHTENED OF HER TOO BUT JUST LOOK AT POOR DARLING PATTY WE LOOKED AT PATTY WHO CONTINUED TO STARE FIXEDLY BEFORE HIM WITH UNWINKING EYES be9fb60f-e99f-45ca-b3f7-100cf426155f 188 NO IT ISN'T THAT SORT OF GAME AT ALL SAID THE STORY GIRL IT IS THIS EACH OF YOU BOYS MUST PREACH A SERMON AS UNCLE EDWARD USED TO DO ONE OF YOU NEXT SUNDAY AND ANOTHER THE NEXT AND SO ON AND WHOEVER PREACHES THE BEST SERMON IS TO GET A PRIZE f88d961c-4eb7-4bcb-bd76-fddd67873311 188 PETER MADE QUITE A HANDSOME LITTLE MINISTER IN HIS NAVY BLUE COAT WHITE COLLAR AND NEATLY BOWED TIE 8f11dc6e-d797-4021-9623-cfecc56bdb91 188 THE SERMON WRITTEN THE NEXT THING WAS TO LEARN IT OFF BY HEART AND THEN PRACTISE IT THUMPS INCLUDED UNTIL I WAS LETTER AND GESTURE PERFECT I PREACHED IT OVER SEVERAL TIMES IN THE GRANARY WITH ONLY PATTY SITTING IMMOVABLY ON A PUNCHEON FOR AUDIENCE c11849ae-a087-4568-8a6f-9f66c3096215 2108 SO THE TIN WOODMAN TOLD HER ALL ABOUT NINNIE ANNIE AND HOW HE DECIDED TO FIND HER AND MARRY HER ALTHOUGH HE HAD NO LOVING HEART 3432a0a2-b827-4c11-bed6-3041830047f6 188 AND HIS SERMONS AND PRAYERS WERE ALWAYS JUST ABOUT AS OUTSPOKEN AS THOSE JULIA OBJECTED TO SAID UNCLE ALEC WELL WE'RE ALL GETTING ON IN LIFE AND EDWARD IS GREY BUT WHEN I THINK OF HIM I ALWAYS SEE HIM AS A LITTLE ROSY CURLY HEADED CHAP LAYING DOWN THE LAW TO US FROM THE PULPIT STONE f0e959d2-e75b-4e85-8f8c-4548642835b6 2108 I WON'T SAY THAT MY FRIEND VAMPER ISN'T ALL RIGHT FOR A TIN MAN BUT ANY JUDGE OF BEAUTY CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE SCARECROW IS FAR MORE ARTISTIC AND REFINED YOU ARE TOO SOFT AND FLIMSY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN ab288835-e6dc-4f51-826b-9562e69ab68f 188 I SUPPOSE IT WAS BAD FOUR THOUSAND YEARS AGO ADMITTED THE STORY GIRL BUT BY THIS TIME THE BAD MUST HAVE ALL GONE OUT OF IT IT'S ONLY THE GOOD THAT COULD LAST SO LONG fe0358f8-a30b-4a6e-8384-f627ea8cd258 188 I THINK IT WAS UNCLE ROGER'S LAST ARGUMENT WHICH CONVINCED AUNT JANET IN THE END SHE DECIDED TO GO UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE WAS TO BE CLOSED AND HE AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WOULD TAKE UP THEIR ABODE WITH US WE WERE ALL DELIGHTED 51e39927-d8c9-4d9a-b529-c9230ce9de1a 2108 I REALLY BELIEVE SAID THE KING ROLLING HIS SPOT LIKE EYES IN A FRIGHTENED WAY THAT PANTA WAS RIGHT IN CLAIMING THESE PRISONERS AS ER DANGEROUS IS THE PUMP READY aeb7450a-8595-448d-bc0f-72871ca93e6c 188 BUT NAN THOUGHT DIFFERENTLY AND THEY SAT LATE TOGETHER LAST NIGHT AND TWAS A BONNY STORY NAN WHITE ME TO HEAR WHEN SHE CAME TO BED THE STORY OF A BRAW LOVER WHO LED HIS SECRET OUT WHEN THE WHISKEY WAS ABOVE THE WIT AND THEN FELL ASLEEP WHILE HIS RIVAL WAS AWAY TO WOO AND WIN HIS LASS dd7851ac-6a0b-4f28-86a8-ffe317f96cef 2108 NOTHING THAT'S ANOTHER FOOLISH QUESTION LOWER REFLECTION WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT I'VE NOTHING TO THINK ABOUT EXCEPT THE BOARDS ON THE INSIDE OF THE CUPBOARD DOOR IT'N'T TAKE ME LONG TO THINK OF EVERYTHING ABOUT THOSE BOARDS THAT COULD BE THOUGHT OF THEN OF COURSE I QUIT THINKING 5c5fa171-8a56-463f-9a33-1de9aa342794 188 AFTER THAT ALMOST EVERY DAY AGLEYA WOULD GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN AND SIT BESIDE GLAUCON AS HE WATCHED THE FLOCKS AND PLAYED ON HIS FLUTE BUT HE DID NOT PLAY AS MUCH AS HE USED TO BECAUSE HE LIKED BETTER TO TALK WITH AGLEYA AND IN THE EVENING THEY WOULD LEAD THE SHEEP HOME TOGETHER a67a9791-3337-4bee-b0bc-3bf9ba335480 188 FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE THREE SCORE AND TEN AND IF BY REASON OR STRENGTH THEY BE FOURSCORE YEARS YET IT IS THEIR STRENGTH LABOUR AND SORROW FOR IT IS SOON CUT OFF AND WE FLY AWAY 4fd11eeb-f08e-4eee-8b2e-aaed31cfbc75 2108 HE HAD LEARNED A GREAT MANY POEMS FROM PROFESSOR WOGGLE BUG AND LOVED TO REPEAT THEM WHENEVER ANYBODY WOULD LISTEN TO HIM HOW DREADFUL IT ALL IS SIGHED THE CANARY aa8ecf8e-a443-46f7-81b3-553e1a382cd7 188 IT WAS DECIDED THAT I SHOULD LEAD OFF AND I LAY AWAKE FOR AN EXTRA HOUR THAT NIGHT THINKING WHAT TEXT I SHOULD TAKE FOR THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY THE NEXT DAY I BOUGHT TWO SHEETS OF FOOLSCAP FROM THE SCHOOLMASTER AND AFTER TEA I BETOOK MYSELF TO THE GRANARY BARRED THE DOOR AND FELL TO WRITING MY SERMON 46b118cb-363c-4bc3-959d-d25927cbc0c3 188 BUT THEN THERE WAS POOR PAT WOULD IT DO ANY GOOD SAID THE STORY GIRL DESPERATELY 6068cd9f-faef-49e5-a219-15106db3c9a0 2108 I'VE BEEN A MONKEY FOR SOME TIME NOW AND I DON'T LIKE IT MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE A BEAST OF THIS SORT WHEN BY BRIDE OF BIRTH I'M A BOY SO I'M SURE IT WOULD BE WICKED TO ASK ANY ONE ELSE TO TAKE MY PLACE 6c81aac3-0b36-4398-8fd3-3e61165b0880 188 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 2a936cfe-bdbb-4654-bbfc-1841d9a537dd 188 I SHOULD THINK I DO LAUGHED UNCLE ALEX SHE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE WITH CECILY IS NOW AND SHE GOT UP AT ONCE AND MARCHED RIGHT OUT OF THE ORCHARD BUT AT THE GATE SHE TURNED AND CALLED BACK INDIGNANTLY I GUESS YOU'D BETTER WAIT TILL YOU'VE PRAYED THE CONCEIT OUT OF YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN ON ME NED KING fd780921-fe53-4b59-a3e4-1dbe0010e901 188 ONE DAY LAST FALL THE AWKWARD MAN WENT TO SUMMERSIDE AND MISSUS GRIGGS SCRUBBED HIS KITCHEN THEN SHE WENT OVER THE WHOLE HOUSE AND TRIED THE DOOR OF THE WEST ROOM MISSUS GRIGGS IS A VERY CURIOUS WOMAN 9f998155-8976-441d-a962-aa0bd764a208 188 HE LIT ON A BIG SCOTCH THISTLE SAID UNCLE ROGER CHUCKLING AND BESIDES THAT HE SKINNED HIS FOREHEAD ON A STONE BUT HE WAS DETERMINED TO FINISH HIS SERMON AND FINISH IT HE DID c18e4bcc-ac67-40f5-a8c9-66edc00bf8a8 2108 BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR YOU ARE ONLY GOOD TO MAKE ME LAUGH REPLIED THE GIANTESS 6e07f66b-cfb0-446b-b494-d74e347633cc 2108 HOWEVER I DON'T BELIEVE THE OWL COULD STEAL THE APRON OR EVEN THE BEAR BUT PERHAPS THE MONKEY COULD HIDE IN HER ROOM AT NIGHT AND GET THE APRON WHILE SHE IS ASLEEP I'LL TRY IT SAID ROOT THE MONKEY I'LL TRY IT THIS VERY NIGHT IF I CAN MANAGE TO STEAL INTO HER BEDROOM 1a5f72f5-9932-4965-a82f-195fa73518bb 188 IF YOUR WORD IS AS BIG AS YOUR MOUTH I GUESS IT WILL BE SAID FELICITY CRUELLY I PITY THE MAN THAT GETS YOU FELICITY KING THAT'S ALL RETORTED DAN NOW DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY WHO'S FIGHTING DEMANDED DAN FELICITY THINKS SHE CAN SAY ANYTHING SHE LIKES TO ME BUT I'LL SHOW HER DIFFERENT 7bb75de6-c44b-4a88-9794-e30a6c837fd0 2108 SO HE PUSHED AND PUSHED UNTIL THE CHAIR WAS BENEATH THE BIRD CAGE AND THEN HE SPRANG NOISELESSLY UPON THE SEAT FOR HIS MONKEY FORM ENABLED HIM TO JUMP HIGHER THAN HE COULD DO AS A BOY AND FROM THERE TO THE BACK OF THE CHAIR HE SO MANAGED TO REACH THE CAGE AND TAKE IT OFF THE PEG 7ff53da0-da85-4163-b24c-55dab82fefb0 188 I'LL GIVE HER THAT SPONGE CAKE I MADE THIS MORNING SAID FELICITY I GUESS SHE DOESN'T GET SPONGE CAKE VERY OFTEN d0103dd7-e7b1-4703-a47c-b6dbabf507a0 188 NOT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION SAID DAN SERIOUSLY YOU MUST HAVE SOME THINGS SORT OF DIFFERENT FOR THAT PETER NOW HE'LL HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT O PETER I DON'T BELIEVE HE CAN PREACH A SERMON I SAID 0e2be2f0-eb62-4e3b-bad0-bb5c271d2540 188 PRESENTLY HE ARRIVED AND MOUNTED THE GRANITE BOULDER AS IF TO THE MANNER BORN HE WAS DRESSED IN HIS NEW SUIT AND I PERCEIVING THIS FELT THAT HE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF ME WHEN I HAD PREACHED I HAD TO WEAR MY SECOND BEST SUIT FOR IT WAS ONE OF AUNT JANET'S LAWS THAT WE SHOULD TAKE OUR GOOD SUITS OFF WHEN WE CAME HOME FROM CHURCH 8e3a1d60-6c9e-4458-853b-5c1b4c199064 2108 TO JUDGE OZMA OF OZ BY STANDARDS OF OUR WORLD YOU WOULD THINK HER VERY YOUNG PERHAPS FOURTEEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE YET FOR YEARS SHE HAD RULED THE LAND OF OZ AND NEVER SEEMED A BIT OLDER e368b4bf-a2ee-4c2b-8f4f-3afb91754e7b 188 FACE IT IS FAIREST THAT E'ER THE SUN SHONE ON HUMMED DONALD AND OH HE THOUGHT SO TOO HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER NANCY CARED FOR HIM OR NOT 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 3329b95c-1299-454d-a843-2cb309af5a62 2108 BAH THAT'S NOT STRAW SAID THE HARSH VOICE AND THE BEAST ADVANCED ALONG THE LINE TO WOOD MEAT POOH YOU'RE NO GOOD I CAN'T EAT MEAT GRUMBLED THE BEAST AND PASSED ON TO POLYCHROME 46171a30-e008-4b75-bbba-b431f181ba1d 2108 THAT MAY PROVE A DANGEROUS JOURNEY REPLIED THE BOY DIDN'T YOU SAY SHE LIVES WITH THE WICKED WITCH WHO MAKES HER A SLAVE ASKED THE BOY eaafbe5c-95ee-40c6-87c5-c9903e3f4c70 188 IN EVERY SUBSEQUENT TRIAL IT WAS THE SAME PETER NEVER MADE A FACE AND NO ONE ELSE COULD HELP MAKING THEM IT SENT HIM UP FIFTY PER CENT IN FELICITY'S ESTIMATION 84ffaf6d-58e2-406b-b626-9e9d16aca546 188 THE STORY GIRL WAS BAREFOOTED AND BARE ARMED HAVING ROLLED THE SLEEVES OF HER PINK GINGHAM UP TO HER SHOULDERS AROUND HER WAIST WAS TWISTED A GIRDLE OF THE BLOOD RED ROSES THAT BLOOMED IN AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN ON HER SLEEK CURLS SHE WORE A CHAPLET OF THEM AND HER HANDS WERE FULL OF THEM 9eaee087-5d09-4cac-b754-c62609e19507 2108 SURELY IT IS NOT THE GIRL'S FAULT THAT I NO LONGER LOVE HER AND SO IF I CAN MAKE HER HAPPY IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO AND IN THIS WAY REWARD HER FOR HER FAITHFULNESS c8ff705a-3a1c-4a27-8c7e-861aa92bc9d7 188 BLESS THE CHILDREN SAID UNCLE ALEC AS HE CARRIED THE MILK PAILS ACROSS THE YARD NOTHING CAN QUENCH THEIR SPIRITS FOR LONG THEN I URGED A RESPONSIBILITY CONCERNING THEM AND MEANT TO WIND UP BY RECITING IN A VERY SOLEMID AND EARNEST VOICE THE VERSE BEGINNING CAN WE WHOSE SOULS ARE LIGHTED acc56d6b-e283-4827-9555-828551b66caa 188 OH WASN'T DONALD TAKEN ABACK THIS WAS MORE THAN HE HAD EXPECTED NEIL HADN'T BEEN COURTING NANCY VERY LONG AND DONALD NEVER DREAMED HE WOULD PROPOSE TO HER QUITE SO SOON FIRST DONALD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HE FELT SURE DEEP DOWN IN HIS HEART THAT NANCY LIKED HIM 779c66af-91a7-4d77-b7e5-fa6a20ccacd9 188 DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF EVERY ONE PUT A SCENT ON IT WELL I PREACHED MY SERMON AND IT FELL HORRIBLY FLAT I REALIZED THAT BEFORE I WAS HALF WAY THROUGH IT 29ce1ffb-68eb-4b98-aec9-aba028df6889 2108 BESIDE HIM IN A CHAIR OF WOVEN STRAW SAT HIS BEST FRIEND THE SCARECROW OF OZ AT TIMES THEY SPOKE TO ONE ANOTHER OF CURIOUS THINGS THEY HAD SEEN AND STRANGE ADVENTURES THEY HAD KNOWN SINCE FIRST THEY TWO HAVE MET AND BECOME COMRADES 9d2f6324-0215-4952-b0a7-f569dbc40c8e 2108 THE GREEN MONKEY DASHED THROUGH THE DOORWAY CARRYING THE CAGE WITH HIM AND BEFORE THE GIANTESS COULD REACH THE DOOR IT SLAMMED SHUT AND IMPRISONED HER IN HER OWN BEDCHAMBER ad9f634d-31d8-4f35-bdb7-2d8573373cce 2108 MEAT POOH YOU'RE NO GOOD I CAN'T EAT MEAT GRUMBLED THE BEAST AND PASSED ON TO POLYCHROME SWEETMEATS AND PERFUME COBWEBS AND DEW NOTHING TO EAT IN A FAIRY LIKE YOU SAID THE CREATURE 49d27a30-bd60-4c76-8d6f-e62dc7e685de 188 WE COULD ALL SING MORE OR LESS EXCEPT SARA RAY WHO HAD ONCE DESPAIRINGLY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHATEVER SHE'D DO WHEN SHE WENT TO HEAVEN BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T SING A NOTE 70dd0d3f-1324-4614-bd1e-dd82af5742f4 2108 THE TIN MAN BORE A SWORD WHILE THE TIN WOODMAN BORE AN AX IT'S A DREAM IT MUST BE A DREAM GASPED LUTE THAT'S IT OF COURSE SAID THE SCARECROW THERE COULDN'T BE TWO TIN WOODMEN a74bdd74-74a5-455c-8900-aa9ee746e345 188 A CUP OF FAILURE ONE WARM SUNDAY EVENING IN THE MOON OF GOLDENROD WE ALL GROWN UPS AND CHILDREN WERE SITTING IN THE ORCHARD BY THE PULPIT STONE SINGING SWEET OLD GOSPEL HYMNS bb67c26a-8287-48ad-abcd-6aada350829c 188 THE BLUE CHEST OF RACHEL WARD IT'S UTTERLY OUT OF THE QUESTION SAID AUNT JANET SERIOUSLY 90ede638-2cd1-43bf-bc1a-e5882b4e8d0a 188 DAN MADE A FACE TO BEGIN WITH I DON'T BELIEVE ANY OF US CAN DO THAT HE SAID YOU CAN'T IF YOU TAKE BITES BIG ENOUGH TO FILL YOUR MOUTH GIGGLED FELICITY WITH CRUELTY AND WITHOUT PROVOCATION eee6879c-58b7-43c3-a3c7-025b35181af1 2108 BUT ALL THE CHAIRS IN THE ROOM WERE SO HIGH THAT OUR FRIENDS COULD NOT CLIMB TO THE SEATS OF THEM MISSUS EWPE OBSERVED THIS AND WAVED HER HAND WHEN INSTANTLY A GOLDEN LADDER APPEARED LEANING AGAINST A CHAIR OPPOSITE HER OWN bdbb2c2b-5beb-4f8c-9183-b1412fe8cba7 188 WE HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR OUR PICNIC NOVEMBER DREAMED THAT IT WAS MAY THE AIR WAS SOFT AND MELLOW WITH PALE AERIAL MISTS IN THE VALLEYS AND OVER THE LEAFLESS BEECHES ON THE WESTERN HILL 85655779-62fb-4884-a94d-d1d5bd2e8545 188 AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD THE LABEL WAS LOST HE SAID IT WAS A FAMOUSSE AND SHE DECLARED IT WAS A YELLOW TRANSPARENT THEY FOUGHT OVER IT TILL THE NEIGHBOURS CAME OUT TO LISTEN FINALLY HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE TOLD HER TO SHUT UP 4af421d5-6719-46c9-b523-8b41dd5acd5f 2108 SHE WAS NOW OCCUPYING THE BIG HOLIPPER CASTLE AS SHE USED TO DO b197ad05-6c34-4eff-9abb-91a74bbffe8a 188 I PEELED MY TURNIPS ON THE BACK PORCH PUT THEM IN THEIR POT AND SET THEM ON THE STOVE THEN I WAS AT LIBERTY TO WATCH THE OTHERS WHO HAD LONGER JOBS THE KITCHEN WAS A SCENE OF HAPPY ACTIVITY be3e2327-ac84-4120-8b0b-aa88d14714ba 188 PETER AGAIN DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF HE AND HE ALONE PASSED THE ORDEAL MUNCHING THOSE DREADFUL MOUTHFULS WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A CHANGE OF EXPRESSION ON HIS COUNTENANCE WHILE THE FACIAL CONTORTIONS THE REST OF US WENT THROUGH BAFFLED DESCRIPTION 5096b950-c37c-4e01-9206-c31a07f3702c 2108 THE JAGUAR CREPT CLOSER TO THE STUMP AND SNIFFED THE FRAGRANCE OF THE SCRAMBLED EGGS THEY SMELT SO GOOD THAT HE TASTED THEM AND THEY TASTED SO GOOD THAT HE ATE THE STRANGE MEAL IN A HURRY PROVING HE HAD BEEN REALLY HUNGRY f59afbc5-cca6-46e4-b32a-984de323536f 2108 I PREFER RABBITS HE MUTTERED LICKING HIS CHOPS BUT I MUST ADMIT THE MAGIC BREAKFAST HAS FILLED MY STOMACH FULL AND BROUGHT ME COMFORT SO I'M MUCH OBLIGED FOR THE KINDNESS LITTLE FAIRY AND I'LL NOW LEAVE YOU IN PEACE e3aaae75-4bd4-43ba-9916-dd4e1b99c5c3 188 ON THIS PARTICULAR EVENING UNCLE ROGER TOLD MANY STORIES OF UNCLE EDWARD AND ONE IN WHICH THE SAID EDWARD HAD PREACHED SERMONS AT THE MATURE AGE OF TEN FROM THE PULPIT STONE FIRED AS A SEQUEL WILL SHOW THE STORY GIRL'S IMAGINATION c9874836-8e26-4206-8615-cb6e2ff4f8f2 2108 THIS THEY FOUND TO BE AN IMMENSE HOLLOW SHAPED LIKE A SAUCER AND ON ITS FARTHER EDGE APPEARED THE FOREST WHICH POLYCHROME HAD SEEN FROM THE SKY 33652edb-1dbe-4268-b156-607b0c7585f7 2108 LET US GET UP OUT OF HER VALLEY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE a5f74a10-8ac9-4cab-87b4-b1a402637c4f 2108 DO YOU THINK A MAGIC BREAKFAST WOULD TASTE GOOD OR RELIEVE THE PANGS OF HUNGER I NOW SUFFER ASKED THE JAGUAR I AM SURE IT WOULD WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO EAT 5fcfc29f-2432-4f64-849f-eed96a28c8ff 2108 I HAVE TRAVELED SOME IN THE GILKIN COUNTRY REMARKED THE SCARECROW AND WELL I MUST SAY I HAVE MET SOME STRANGE PEOPLE THERE AT TIMES I HAVE NEVER YET BEEN HARMED BY THEM d172003e-0951-456b-ba52-17b249a1db1b 188 ALL I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RESULT WILL BE TO THAT NERVOUS DELICATE CHILD SHE IS SHRIEKING IN THERE AND NOTHING WILL QUIET HER WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PLAYING SUCH A GAME ON SUNDAY AND MAKING A JEST OF SACRED THINGS NO NOT A WORD FOR THE STORY GIRL HAD ATTEMPTED TO SPEAK c42b76cb-8bce-4494-860d-5871ca255fe8 2108 SHE HAD TO CUT FIREWOOD TOO UNTIL I FOUND HER ONE DAY IN THE FOREST AND FELL IN LOVE WITH HER NOW HERE IS ANOTHER IDEA SAID THE SCARECROW MY BRAINS ARE WORKING FINELY TO DAY YOU MUST ADMIT MIGHT 92d79634-8940-4131-a611-13f2be1d2404 2108 THE TINSMITH WAS AS PROUD OF HIS WORKMANSHIP AS WAS I FOR THE THREE WHOLE DAYS ALL ADMIRED ME AND PRAISED MY BEAUTY BEING NOW COMPLETELY FORMED OF TIN I HAD NO MORE FEAR OF THE WICKED WITCH FOR SHE WAS POWERLESS TO INJURE ME f425d112-fc11-4496-bd3e-de48c9c875eb 2108 IN THAT CASE SAID THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR LET US RETURN SOUTHWARD AND TRY TO GET TO GLINDA'S CASTLE IT LIES IN THE QUADLING COUNTRY YOU KNOW SO IT IS A GOOD WAY FROM HERE d6769f0d-9f70-4415-bbce-e73a2918f6a6 2108 WHO WILL GOVERN THE WINKIE COUNTRY DURING YOUR ABSENCE ASKED THE BOY WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF ANSWERED THE EMPEROR THE FACT THAT THE APRON HAD TRIPPED HIM MADE ROOT REMEMBER ITS MAGIC POWERS AND IN HIS TERROR HE CRIED OUT OPEN d123f31c-680a-45ad-8330-31f28e90d878 2108 A SIGN SAID THE TIN WOODMAN A SIGN ANOTHER PATH WHAT DOES THE SIGN SAY INQUIRED THE BOY IT SAYS THAT ALL STRANGERS ARE WARNED NOT TO FOLLOW THIS PATH TO LOONVILLE ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WHO COULD READ VERY WELL WHEN HIS EYES HAD BEEN FRESHLY PAINTED 55151864-b088-40ac-a954-1344ad27d991 188 YOU AND PETER MARCH OFF HOME AND THE NEXT TIME I FIND YOU UP TO SUCH DOINGS ON SUNDAY OR ANY OTHER DAY I'LL GIVE YOU CAUSE TO REMEMBER IT TO YOUR LATEST HOUR 81c42122-a9e4-4118-8b84-ec5b70061642 2108 THE PEOPLE OF OZ HAVE BUT ONE LAW TO OBEY WHICH IS BEHAVE YOURSELF SO IT IS EASY FOR THEM TO ABIDE BY THIS LOT AND YOU'LL NOTICE THEY BEHAVE VERY WELL 94c43235-99e9-4cda-af12-4e567f68f402 2108 YOU'RE TRYING TO DECEIVE ME YOU NAUGHTY BEAST I CAN SEE PLAINLY THAT YOU ARE A BEAR AND A MIGHTY POOR SPECIMEN OF A BEAR TOO RETORTED THE GIRL c26357db-d535-467e-9fed-ac79ba18d68b 188 SHE PAUSED UNDER THE UTMOST TREE IN A GOLDEN GREEN GLOOM AND LAUGHED AT US OVER A BIG BRANCH HER WILD SUBTLE NAMELESS CHARM CLOTHED HER AS WITH A GARMENT 0c05949d-b8b4-496c-9fb6-a1199663dca2 2108 WELL ANYHOW SAID BOOT THE WANDERER CHOP FIGHT BEING KEPT A PRISONER BY HIS WIFE IS TOO FAR AWAY FROM ANY ONE TO BOTHER EITHER OF YOU TWO TIN MEN IN ANY WAY IF YOU HADN'T GONE WHERE HE IS AND DISCOVERED HIM YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE WORRIED ABOUT HIM 3eeda06b-f12e-4b75-8a54-a0513e24bd2a 188 OF COURSE WE WERE ALL TO HELP BUT FELICITY WAS TO RUN THINGS AND SHE GLORIED IN IT THE STORY GIRL WAS PLEASED TOO f28d4306-b2dd-4edc-9348-571b0f01fc00 2108 AT THE EAST IN THE DIRECTION WE WERE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCED THE CANARY THERE IS A FINE FOREST WITH A BROOK TREADING THROUGH IT IN THE FOREST THERE MAY BE FRUITS OR NUTS GROWING OR BERRY BUSHES AT ITS EDGE SO LET US GO THAT WAY 0e44d9b5-106b-4290-8b7f-b6398cf3954d 2108 GLINDA IS YOU KNOW IS THE MOST POWERFUL SORCERESS IN THE WORLD AND THERE ARE FEW THINGS SHE CANNOT DO IF SHE TRIES d6de83bd-cba0-4b3a-b2cd-aa3e2582478e 2108 QUEER THINGS HAPPEN IN THE LAND OF OZ REPLIED THE CANARY AGAIN PERCHING ON THE GREEN MONKEY'S SHOULDER AND TURNING ONE BRIGHT EYED THOUGHTFULLY TOWARD HER QUESTIONER 16a0017b-3580-44ea-a71b-19b8289731b4 188 IT WAS VERY LOVELY MUSIC BECAUSE HE WAS ALWAYS THINKING OF AGLEIA WHEN HE PLAYED THOUGH HE LITTLE DREAMED HOW NEAR SHE WAS OFTEN TO HIM BUT AFTER A WHILE GLECON FOUND OUT THAT AGLEYA LOVED HIM AND EVERYTHING WAS WELL e3188684-fb96-4347-a8bd-17f2061cabaa 2108 THERE IS NO USE IN YOUR LUGGING MY CAGE ANY FARTHER DECLARED THE CANARY LET ME OUT AND THROW THE CAGE AWAY THEN I CAN FLY WITH YOU AND FIND MY OWN BREAKFAST OF SEEDS ALSO I CAN SEARCH FOR WATER AND TELL YOU WHERE TO FIND IT 0099d4fe-45c5-405b-9bec-2048132b593d 2108 THE SCARECROW SUSPECTED SHE WAS GOING TO LAUGH SO HE SLIPPED BEHIND HIS FRIENDS TO ESCAPE THE WIND FROM HER BREATH d1434eea-22ab-4a71-9609-350e3f1b43ee 188 THEREFORE PETER PROCEEDED WITH THE SERVICE HE READ THE CHAPTER AND GAVE OUT THE HYMN WITH AS MUCH SANG FROID AS IF HE HAD BEEN DOING IT ALL HIS LIFE c07bb088-673b-45df-b7e2-5ed94bec1c99 2108 OUR BUSINESS NOW IS TO FIND POOR NIMY ANNIE AND LET HER CHOOSE HER TIN HUSBAND TO DO THAT IT SEEMS FROM THE INFORMATION CUCKLET HAS GIVEN US WE MUST TRAVEL TO MOUNT MUCH 43166392-0a56-42c6-aa98-822eac0a59e2 2108 FIRST HOWEVER LET US VISIT THE FOREST AND SEARCH FOR SOMETHING TO EAT PLEADED WOOT SO THEY CONTINUED ON TO THE EDGE OF THE FOREST WHICH CONSISTED OF MANY TALL AND BEAUTIFUL TREES 4820beb3-08b5-454b-bdaa-4bd1a97f4849 2108 BOOT DREW A LONG SIGH WELL THAT'S PRETTY HARD LUCK HE SAID BRAVELY BUT IF IT CAN'T BE HELPED I MUST ENDURE IT THAT'S ALL I DON'T LIKE BEING A MONKEY BUT WHAT'S THE USE OF KICKING AGAINST MY FATE d0075142-1648-4106-bd17-1d3f785ae9b5 188 WE WE WE JUST WERE HAVING A SERMON CONTEST EXPLAINED THE STORY GIRL TREMULOUSLY AND PETER PREACHED ABOUT THE BAD PLACE AND IT FRIGHTENED SARA THAT IS ALL UNCLE ALEC f8729cf7-b770-4eb0-a356-1136aa5533b8 188 I DID NOT KEEP A COPY OF MY OWN LETTER AND I HAVE FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN IT EXCEPT THE FIRST SENTENCE IN WHICH I TOLD PETER I WAS AWFUL GLAD HE WAS GETTING BETTER f6fdbe3e-50dc-4fd8-93c7-73c6b8aa6154 2108 SO THE GREEN MONKEY UNFASTENED THE DOOR OF THE GOLDEN CAGE AND THE CANARY HOPPED OUT 3041f3fa-e72f-4d2d-957e-869192ba2bff 2108 PLEASE BE SEATED SHE SAID TO THEM AS SHE SAT HERSELF DOWN IN A GREAT ARMCHAIR THAT SPREAD HER BEAUTIFUL EMBROIDERED SKIRTS FOR THEM TO ADMIRE 4e3a8259-9ded-490f-b79a-d9497d832c76 2108 SO THE GREEN MONKEY UNFASTENED THE DOOR OF THE GOLDEN CAGE AND THE CANARY HOPPED OUT AT FIRST SHE FLEW HIGH IN THE AIR AND MADE GREAT CIRCLES OVERHEAD BUT AFTER A TIME SHE RETURNED AND PERCHED BESIDE HER THEN 13e380c9-bafe-428b-a7d6-6858d4f596a3 188 AND YOU MUSTN'T COMMIT SUICIDE BECAUSE IF YOU DID THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY CHANCE OF REPENTING IT ANNE YOU MUSTN'T FORGET TO SAY YOUR PRAYERS AND YOU MUSTN'T QUARREL WITH YOUR SISTER a69626d7-91ff-4562-b546-d22629cc7c69 2108 THE CANARY SOMETIMES PERCHED UPON THE GREEN MONKEY'S SHOULDER AND SOMETIMES FLUTTERED ON AHEAD OF THE PARTY AND IN THIS MANNER THEY TRAVELLED IN GOOD SPIRITS ACROSS THE VALLEY AND INTO THE NEXT ONE TO THE EAST OF IT 358b9f4f-1e18-489d-bdaf-c3e2b42027bf 188 DEARLY BELOVED SAID PETER MY SERMON IS ABOUT THE BAD PLACE IN SHORT ABOUT HELL AN ELECTRIC SHOCK SEEMED TO RUN THROUGH THE AUDIENCE EVERYBODY LOOKED SUDDENLY ALERT PETER HAD IN ONE SENTENCE DONE WHAT MY WHOLE SERMON HAD FAILED TO DO HE HAD MADE AN IMPRESSION b4494851-4a8a-47f8-87a4-a43eb6c8afb9 2108 THE DOOR WAS PARTLY OFF ITS HINGES THE ROOF HAD FALLEN IN AND THE REAR AND THE INTERIOR OF THE COTTAGE WAS THICK WITH DUST NOT ONLY WAS THE PLACE VACANT BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT NO ONE HAD LIVED THERE FOR A LONG TIME 60325561-b823-496c-a738-d4186bef8a90 188 PETER MADE QUITE A HANDSOME LITTLE MINISTER IN HIS NAVY BLUE COAT WHITE COLLAR AND NEATLY BOWED TIE HIS BLACK EYES SHONE AND HIS BLACK CURLS WERE BRUSHED UP IN QUITE A MINISTERIAL POMPADOUR BUT THREATENED TO TUMBLE OVER AT THE TOP IN GRACELESS RINGLETS 41e9d908-135f-432f-aaf5-3171fc7014a4 2108 THAT WAS HOW I GOT THE NAME OF TOMMY QUICKSTEP I COULD RUN AN ERRAND MORE QUICKLY THAN ANY OTHER BOY AND SO I WAS VERY PROUD OF MYSELF 9098d413-4736-4ec7-81c6-8491242b3d60 2108 HOWEVER THEY WERE NOT LONG IN REACHING THE RIDGE THAT LED OUT OF MISSUS EWPES'S VALLEY AND WHEN THEY HAD PASSED THIS RIDGE AND DESCENDED INTO THE NEXT VALLEY THEY STOPPED TO REST FOR THE GREEN MONKEY WAS TIRED 308e8d4c-66ea-437a-a99f-9d54fccc0bf0 188 WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY DEMANDED MISTER CAMPBELL THIS WAS A POSER FOR US WHY SHOULD HE INDEED BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS QUITE EQUAL TO IT LEANING FORWARD AND THROWING AN INDESCRIBABLE WITCHERY INTO TONE AND EYES AND SMILE SHE SAID BECAUSE A LADY ASKS YOU 1c188674-d10c-463d-a1f4-9cf8a817ef93 2108 MISSUS UPE HAS DECLARED THAT NONE OF HER TRANSFORMATIONS CAN EVER BE CHANGED EVEN BY HERSELF BUT I BELIEVE THAT IF WE COULD GET TO GLINDA THE GOOD SORCERESS SHE MIGHT FIND A WAY TO RESTORE US TO OUR NATURAL SHAPES ef8d67b2-24b1-40a9-9861-741251a46e55 2108 THAT'S THE EXACT TRUTH EXCLAIMED THE GIANTESS WHO SEEMED PLEASED HEAR THE BIRD TALK EVEN THOUGH IT COMPLAINED YOU ARE ALL HELPLESS AND IN MY POWER SO YOU MAY AS WELL MAKE UP YOUR MINDS TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE AND BE CONTENT a8314172-d852-432b-bbf6-0f90be7bc228 2108 GIVE ME A COUPLE OF FAT RABBITS SAID THE BEAST RABBITS NO INDEED I'D NOT ALLOW YOU TO EAT THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS DECLARED POLYCHROMELY CANARY 73debd55-7e39-411a-b400-02a8f0b4dfa5 188 WHO'S TOUCHING YOU DEMANDED PETER I DIDN'T MENTION NO NAMES THE MINISTER CAN SAY ANYTHING HE LIKES IN THE PULPIT AS LONG AS HE DOESN'T MENTION ANY NAMES AND NOBODY CAN ANSWER BACK 93e1f7e1-35a4-4c54-a4f1-32d0e5bf72a4 188 MISSUS GRIGGS MAKES HIS BREAD FOR HIM AND SHE CLEANS UP HIS HOUSE NOW AND THEN SHE SAYS SHE HE KEEPS IT VERY NEAT BUT TILL LAST FALL THERE WAS ONE ROOM SHE NEVER SAW IT WAS ALWAYS LOCKED THE WEST ONE LOOKING OVER HIS GARDEN 21f7beb5-daf6-44cd-ba9b-4cbb7052f3be 188 OH TELL US WHAT IT IS EVERYBODY ENTREATED 37a2d709-4ae4-4513-a2f7-130669d1a815 2108 INDEED CRIED THE JAGUAR IN A DISAPPOINTED VOICE THEN YOU MUST BE A MAGIC BEAR OR ENCHANTED AND I MUST SEEK MY BREAKFAST FROM AMONG YOUR COMPANIONS 4ea99ad7-7681-4187-aea0-2cdf151ce7d9 2108 HERE ALSO FOR IT IS A BIG FOREST NIMMY AMY LIVED WITH THE WICKED WITCH AND AT THE OTHER EDGE OF THE TREE STANDS THE COTTAGE OF MY FRIEND CUCLIP THE FAMOUS TINSMITH WHO MADE MY PRESENT BEAUTIFUL FORM 68919fbf-5f39-4e9b-ae7b-939a4e816750 188 PERHAPS THAT'S WHY HE'S MEANING CROSS SAID THE FELIX I TELL YOU IT ISN'T ALWAYS THE MAN'S FAULT SAID DAN DARKLY WHEN I GET MARRIED I'LL BE GOOD TO MY WIFE BUT I MEAN TO BE BOSS WHEN I OPEN MY MOUTH MY WORD WILL BE LAW 043afc53-a9b3-46dd-a055-d151e6288607 188 THAT CHEST HAS BEEN LOCKED UP FOR FIFTY YEARS AND IT'LL STAND BEING LOCKED UP ONE MORE NIGHT YOU CHILDREN WON'T SLEEP A WEEK TO NIGHT IF WE OPENED IT NOW YOU'D GO WILD WITH EXCITEMENT 38054815-3470-4d26-a166-88eff95bfe3a 188 NOW IF GLAUCON HAD NOT BEEN A GOOD SHEPHERD DEAR KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO HIM IN AGLEIA BUT HE WAS AND WHEN HE BEGGED PAN TO GO AWAY AND NOT FRIGHTEN NEGLEYA ANY MORE PAN HAD TO GO GRUMBLING A GOOD DEAL AND PAN'S GRUMBLING HAD A VERY UGLY SOUND BUT STILL HE WENT AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING e1c632a0-93f8-4061-a20c-c3ad410e1e74 188 THE CONGREGATION WILL EXCUSE ME IF I RECAPITULATE THE SERMON FOR OUR FRIENDS BENEFIT e6b8e821-c99d-49c3-92a8-964cfe821c4d 2108 SOMEONE MUST HELP ME UP SAID THE SCARECROW LYING NEAR THEM SO THEY FOUND THE STRAW MAN AND SAT HIM UPON HIS FEET AFTER WHICH HE POKED FAST TO POLYCHROME'S OTHER HAND 84e10769-b3f4-4bb4-abf3-be75e4ce16cd 188 MISTER SCOTT STOPPED UNTIL HE HAD TAKEN HIS SEAT THEN HE SAID MY FRIEND YOU ARE VERY LATE FOR THIS SERVICE I HOPE YOU WON'T BE LATE FOR HEAVEN THE CONGREGATION WILL EXCUSE ME IF I RECAPITULATE THE SERMON FOR OUR FRIENDS BENEFIT 2640a28e-1045-4fb1-8368-ea9e3724c231 188 BEVERLY KING SUDDENLY CRIED FELICITY WHO HAD BEEN PEERING INTO A POT YOU'VE GONE AND PUT THE TURNIPS ON TO BOIL WHOLE JUST LIKE POTATOES WASN'T THAT RIGHT I CRIED IN AN AGONY OF SHAME 8e07056c-b01f-42ca-bc2c-cf24c1e9299c 188 AT THIS POINT FELICITY GAVE DAN A SIGNIFICANT POKE WITH HER ELBOW AND DAN WAS UP IN ARMS ABOUT IT DON'T YOU BE PREACHING AT ME PETER CRAIG HE CRIED OUT I WON'T STAND IT I DON'T QUARREL WITH MY SISTER ANY OFTENER THAN SHE QUARRELS WITH ME YOU CAN JUST LEAVE ME ALONE 80a11331-feb4-4bf6-b006-d1ce2cd2b2c9 2108 WITHOUT STOPPING TO CONSIDER HOW THIS COMMAND MIGHT SAVE HIM 84d0672e-6cda-451c-852c-33b0c22ad6d9 2108 THEN ORDER THE RED WAGON SAID OZMA OF OZ AND WE WILL START AT ONCE DOROTHY RAN TO DO AS SHE WAS BID WHILE OZMA WENT TO HER MAGIC ROOM TO MAKE READY THE THINGS SHE BELIEVED SHE WOULD NEED d3b0bc6b-9157-4641-a7cb-d873ecb095b2 2108 SAID THE BEAR EAT YOUR BREAKFAST FRIEND JAGUAR AND BE CONTENT 42ddc1b8-8579-4273-8691-816f994b2083 188 BUT THE TRUTH WAS I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT SUCH THINGS WELL I'M GOING TO HAVE THEM AND I DON'T CARE IF THEY AREN'T FASHIONABLE SAID PETER THEY'RE GOOD THINGS 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 819b0b72-c3e6-4a11-9ee5-9f055e830f8f 2108 THE HEART IN MY BODY WHEN I HAD A BODY MIGHT HAVE LOVED SOMEONE FOR ALL I KNOW BUT A HEAD ISN'T MADE TO LOVE IT'S MADE TO THINK OH DO YOU THINK THEN I USED TO THINK 62f7f742-8971-45a1-b3e1-37106e663566 2108 NO ANSWERED THE TIN WOODMAN I DID NOT SHE SAID SHE STILL LOVED ME BUT I FOUND THAT I NO LONGER LOVED HER 4db7932a-b3ab-4807-9f7c-da31bbfcaa99 188 HERE ARE HER QUILTS SAID AUNT OLIVIA YES THERE IS THE BLUE AND WHITE COUNTERPANE GRANDMOTHER WARD GAVE HER AND THE RISING SUN QUILT HER AUNT NANCY MADE FOR HER AND THE BRAIDED RUG THE COLORS ARE NOT FADED ONE BIT I WANT THAT RUG JANET 90917b1f-1bc1-4c34-98c7-64100586ed4d 2108 BESIDE HIM IN A CHAIR OF WOVEN STRAW SAT HIS BEST FRIEND THE SCARECROW OF OZ a01683b0-effe-4b44-85f1-2ade1059f812 188 HE CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU WITH US YOU KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL HE MAY BE RUDE BUT THAT WON'T HURT ANY ONE BUT HIMSELF 6ae4c709-2888-4251-a30f-d7efba29b787 188 THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE FINE ELUSIVE AIR THAT RECALLED BEAUTIFUL FORGOTTEN THINGS AND SUGGESTED DELICATE FUTURE HOPES THE WOODS HAD WRAPPED FINE WOVEN GOSSAMERS ABOUT THEM AND THESTERING HILL WAS CRIMSON AND GOLD WE SAT AROUND THE PULPIT STONE AND WAITED FOR PETER AND SARA RAY 05326363-36fa-4f0b-b0fb-bacedd173be4 188 WE HAD A VERY INTERESTING TALK AND I TOLD HIM TWO OF MY BEST STORIES AND A GREAT MANY OF MY SECRETS INTO THE BARGAIN THEY MAY SAY WHAT THEY LIKE BUT HE WAS NOT ONE BIT SHY OR AWKWARD AND HE HAS BEAUTIFUL EYES ebb960bb-5f8c-4318-837d-c3414b005647 2108 HE STARTED OFF TOWARDS THE EAST INTO THE PLAINS OF THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AND THAT WAS THE LAST I EVER SAW OF HIM SEEMS TO ME SAID THE TIN WOODMAN REFLECTIVELY THAT YOU DID WRONG IN MAKING A MAN OUT OF OUR GASTOV HEARTS 8c26ffef-fe4d-4210-8e60-59867a23760f 188 FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN TRUSSED HEAD AND TRIED TO LOOK ANGRY BUT MADE A DISMAL FAILURE OF IT IT WOULDN'T BE LADY LIKE TO ASK ANY ONE TO MARRY YOU YOU KNOW ARGUED CECILY 42fe8def-ff2d-4472-818c-b1105de7946c 188 WE AIN'T GOING TO SCHOOL TILL WE ARE SURE WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE MEASLES THIS IS ALL I CAN THINK OF SO I WILL DRAW TO A CLOSE REMEMBER YOU CAN PRAY FOR ANYTHING YOU LIKE FELIX KING bee55b2b-9177-4698-8c4e-9b7ba1a4a470 2108 NO DON'T SAID AN OLD DRAGON IN THE BACKGROUND HAVEN'T I ENOUGH WORRIES WHAT WITH BEING WAKENED IN THE MIDDLE OF A NAP WITHOUT BEING OBLIGED TO KEEP TRACK OF MY CHILDREN'S WIT AGES 4028ff9a-17c6-4df0-b05c-5f8b3e50457c 188 I HAD A SPLENDID LETTER FROM HIM THIS WEEK AND THE DARLINGEST PICTURES IN IT HE IS PAINTING A NEW PICTURE WHICH IS GOING TO MAKE HIM FAMOUS I WONDER WHAT AUNT JANET WILL SAY THEN e9f32195-7898-432b-9207-fb5687ddc207 188 OVER US WAS A GREAT DARK SKY BLOSSOMING WITH SILVER STARS AND ALL AROUND LAY DUSKY MYSTERIOUS REACHES OF MEADOW AND WOOD IN THE SOFT EMPURPLED NIGHT a3735705-7011-4674-ab4f-3f47e4f274d7 188 YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT PETER CRAIG f0a92073-aa97-4121-ae43-8e32084ac17b 188 HE CLIMBED BACK INTO THE PULPIT WITH THE TEARS ROLLING OVER HIS CHEEKS AND PREACHED FOR TEN MINUTES LONGER WITH SOBS IN HIS VOICE AND DROPS OF BLOOD ON HIS FOREHEAD HE WAS A PLUCKY LITTLE BEGGAR NO WONDER HE SUCCEEDED IN LIFE 2856d046-a136-4a91-ba3a-69053863b6ad 188 I DO HOPE THE REST OF US WON'T CATCH THE MEASLES IT MUST LOOK HORRID TO HAVE RED SPOTS ALL OVER YOUR FACE AND IN THE EVENING THEY WOULD LEAD THE SHEEP HOME TOGETHER ONE DAY A GEYA WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN BY A NEW WAY AND SHE CAME TO A LITTLE BROOK efeabc6d-350f-484b-83e1-57e838fbec36 188 EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE RATHER TIRED GROWING EXCEPT THE SPRUCES AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN AUNT OLIVIA'S GARDEN THE SUNSHINE IS SO THICK AND YELLOW AND LAZY AND THE CRICKETS SING ALL DAY LONG THE BIRDS ARE NEARLY ALL GONE AND MOST OF THE MAPLE LEAVES HAVE FALLEN JUST TO MAKE YOU LAUGH I'LL WRITE YOU A LITTLE STORY I HEARD UNCLE ALEC TELLING LAST NIGHT 7b792ff9-46ad-4d88-9c14-8285726c40b8 2108 GOODNESS GRACIOUS WHAT A CHILD TO ASK QUESTIONS DO YOU WANT ME TO KEEP THINKING ALL THE TIME DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THINKING IS VERY BAD FOR DRAGONS RETURNED THE BIG ONE IMPATIENTLY 2c897ccd-d792-4df4-a697-d46c532b94b9 2108 YOU'VE BEEN FAST ASLEEP FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS MOTHER SAID THE CHILD DRAGON HOW LONG ENOUGH DO YOU WISH POLYCHROME HOPED FOR A THUNDER STORM FOLLOWED BY A RAINBOW BUT THE TWO TIN MEN DID NOT RELISH THE IDEA OF GETTING WET 1ac7aaba-9aae-4b00-bef1-f6487f449ffe 2108 BUT AFTER WE HAD OILED HIM UP HE WAS AS GOOD AS NEW AND ACCOMPANIED US TO THE EMERALD CITY IN HIS JUMP HE BUMPED AGAINST THE NOSE OF A DRAGON BEHIND HIM WHICH OPENED ITS MOUTH TO GROWL AND SHOT ANOTHER SHEET OF FLAME AT HIM 9684cb99-f0e6-4056-b6cd-64732fa261da 188 DO YOU KNOW PETER YESTERDAY I THOUGHT I SAW THE FAMILY GHOST AT LAST I WAS COMING THROUGH THE GAP IN THE HEDGE AND I SAW SOMEBODY IN BLUE STANDING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE HOW MY HEART BEAT MY HAIR SHOULD HAVE STOOD UP ON END WITH TERROR BUT IT DIDN'T I FELT TO SEE AND IT WAS LYING DOWN QUITE FLAT 44ddadf2-ba97-4eb5-a44f-2f2f1d069de9 2108 SO BOOT GATHERED A LOT OF CREAM PUFFS THAT WERE GOLDEN YELLOW AND FILLED WITH SWEET CREAMY SUBSTANCE AND ATE UNTIL HIS HUNGER WAS SATISFIED 60af091c-898b-4165-afd8-b0c70c017877 2108 AND QUEEN LEARLIN LEFT ONE OF HER FAIRIES TURREL THIS ENCHANTED LAND OF OZ AND THEN PASSED ON AND FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT FROM THAT MOMENT NO ONE IN OZ EVER DIED 06be04b7-283d-4208-8620-1cffda4f58a6 188 CECILY IS WELL AND SAYS SHE ISN'T GOING TO CURL HER HAIR ANY MORE SHE IS SO CONSCIENTIOUS I'M GLAD MY HAIR CURLS OF ITSELF AIN'T YOU 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 ff04f105-822a-4146-8303-87f07fbc64f1 188 I HAVE THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL GAVE ME FOR MY SERMON ON THE WALL AT THE FOOT OF MY BED I LIKE TO LOOK AT IT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE AUNT JANE BUT WHERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL STONE HE ASKED WHEN SHE HAD FINISHED DIDST THOU DROP IT IN THY ALARM 6640147d-df43-4962-9660-f06d82cbc35a 2108 HOW OLD ARE YOU ASKED FU FORGETTING HIS OWN DANGEROUS POSITION HIS INTEREST IN THE CONVERSATION WHY I'M I'M HOW OLD AM I FATHER ASKED THE LITTLE DRAGON b1532c21-bab6-4e63-830c-9a2cfc8f6b8b 188 WHEN TEN O'CLOCK STRUCK AUNT JANET CAME INTO THE KITCHEN REMARKING INNOCENTLY THAT IT HADN'T SEEMED ANY TIME SINCE NINE WE MUST HAVE LOOKED HORRIBLY GUILTY BUT NONE OF THE GROWN UPS SUSPECTED ANYTHING 8c4c5c6a-c166-4f67-ac24-2647b5a9cc4d 188 HOW DID WILLIAM COAN BEHAVE AFTERWARD HE WAS A CHANGED MAN SAID THE STORY GIRL SOLEMNLY TOO MUCH CHANGE HE NEVER WAS KNOWN TO LAUGH AGAIN OR EVEN SMILE HE BECAME A VERY RELIGIOUS MAN WHICH WAS A GOOD THING BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY GLOOMY AND THOUGHT EVERYTHING PLEASANT SINFUL a799741b-0721-4bad-a87e-52f942fd2bfb 188 LATER I HAVING AT THAT TIME A MANIA FOR PRESERVING ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO OUR LIFE IN CARLISLE COPIED THOSE LETTERS IN THE BLANK PAGES AT THE BACK OF MY DREAM BOOK ec48b7ee-a673-4db8-8807-a8d71e1dbc81 2108 SHE'S WAITED A LONG TIME ALREADY SEEMS TO ME REMARKED THE SCARECROW AS THEY LEFT THE GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE AND FOLLOW THE PATH THAT LED EASTWARD d0d3deb3-f0a3-4999-a9ea-b9c6a0a8215c 188 WE HAVE ALL THE APPLES IN AND HAVEN'T MUCH TO DO JUST NOW AND WE ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN BUT WE WISH YOU WERE HERE TO JOIN US I'M A LOT THINNER THAN I WAS I GUESS WORKING SO HARD PICKING APPLES IS A GOOD THING TO MAKE YOU THIN 73c5a69c-d107-42d7-88ec-92876c4d7f7a 188 DID PAT SCRATCH PEG ASKED UNCLE ROGER WITH HORROR STRICKEN FACE DEAR ME DEAR ME THAT'S MYSTERY IS SOLVED POOR PAT UNCLE ROGER NODDED HIS HEAD AS IF RESIGNING HIMSELF AND PAT TO THE WORST 143e379a-9a6b-4c5e-9f02-041a667bdea0 2108 IN THEM LIES OUR ONLY HOPE UNLESS THEY CAN HELP US WE MUST REMAIN FOREVER AS WE ARE OPEN SAID HOOKE THE MONKEY STILL FACING THE DOOR BUT HIS COMMAND HAD NO EFFECT AND HE SLOWLY REJOINED THE OTHERS d0e49d68-3d17-4e76-b4c8-8e835c798db5 188 PETER HAD BEEN READING THE BIBLE STEADILY EVER SINCE WHAT WE ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY AND HE WAS BY NOW ALMOST THROUGH IT NONE OF THE REST OF US HAD EVER READ THE BIBLE COMPLETELY THROUGH AND WE THOUGHT PETER MUST HAVE FOUND HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD OF THE LOST IN SOME PORTION WITH WHICH WE WERE NOT ACQUAINTED a4cb7230-0443-405e-b3c9-148acf5777b0 2108 ASKED THE BOY NO INDEED NIMIE AMMIE IS A FULL SIZED WOMAN THEN I'M SURE SHE COULDN'T LIVE IN THAT LITTLE HOUSE SAID WOUT LET'S GO DOWN SUGGESTED THE SCARECROW I'M ALMOST SURE I CAN SEE A STRAWSTACK IN THE BACK YARD d665602e-7f7a-49d1-b761-ca11632b8207 188 WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED MUCH IF IT HADN'T EVER BEEN DISCOVERED fc6644d7-f6aa-4255-85ce-5583b818aac4 2108 NO SAID THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER THAT IS TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY OUR FRIEND'S STRAWS NICE AND FRESH FOR IT WAS RESTUFFED ONLY A LITTLE WHILE AGO 48478fc5-f3d6-4002-8864-a00fcb980de4 188 SHE'S GONE CLEAN CRAZY SAID PETER COMING DOWN OUT OF HIS PULPIT WITH A VERY PALE FACE YOU'VE FRIGHTENED HER CRAZY WITH YOUR DREADFUL SERMON SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY 0281ed40-2fbc-4118-983f-3006c7b7d20b 188 K FELICITY'S LETTER DEAR PETER AUNT OLIVIA SAYS FOR US ALL TO WRITE A COMPOUND LETTER TO CHEER YOU UP WE ARE ALL AWFUL GLAD YOU ARE GETTING BETTER IT GAVE US AN AWFUL SCARE WHEN WE HEARD YOU WERE GOING TO DIE BUT YOU WILL SOON BE ALL RIGHT AND ABLE TO GET OUT AGAIN 7cab2be3-78a9-4bac-962d-3be56bcf826c 2108 ASKED THE LITTLE DRAGON I HAVEN'T EATEN IT ELEVEN YEARS fb7ca3ac-47a4-403a-84b5-cc9504f15bff 188 I HAVE COAXED UNCLE ALEX NOT TO BURN HISTATO STOCKS TILL YOU GET WELL BECAUSE I REMEMBER HOW YOU ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE THE POTATO STOCKS BURN UNCLE ALEC CONSENTED THOUGH AUNT JANET SAID IT WAS HIGH TIME THEY WERE BURNED UNCLE ROGER BURNED HIS LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS SUCH FUN 6838b124-d017-411e-9f17-d2b9232c6ec2 188 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 I COULD TELL YOU WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM BUT YOU'D ONLY LAUGH AT ME WE ALL LOOKED AT HIM PETER CRAIG WHAT DO YOU MEAN ASKED FELICITY 45f1d0af-3eaf-41a1-83c0-3b145db543bd 2108 ARE YOU A WITCH OR FAIRIES OR SOMETHING OF THE SORT HE ASKED AS HE WATCHED HER WONDERINGLY 8e009ef5-6920-43ed-95dc-862ef9bd58ed 188 I AM SAVING SOME OF THE HONORABLE MISTER WHALEN'S HAIRS FOR YOU I'VE GOT THEM HID WHERE NOBODY CAN FIND THEM THERE'S ONLY A DOZEN BECAUSE DAN ET ALL THE REST BUT I GUESS YOU WILL LIKE EM WE HAVE GOT ALL THE APPLES PICKED AND ARE ALL READY TO TAKE THE MEASLES NOW IF WE HAVE TO BUT I HOPE WE WON'T ba2b28b2-e50f-4ab5-b9d0-835575bc87b6 188 THEN GLECON HAD A BRILLIANT IDEA HE WOULD TAKE THE BEAUTIFUL STONE FROM ACCLAIA'S LIPS WITH HIS OWN LIPS HE BENT OVER UNTIL HIS LIPS TOUCHED HERS AND THEN HE FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL PEBBLE AND SO DID A GLA 106c250c-d61a-41f5-9290-22eba9f48615 188 THE GIRLS ARE ALL WELL FELICITY PUTS ON AS MANY AIRS AS EVER BUT SHE MAKES GREAT THINGS TO EAT I HAVE HAD SOME SPLENDID DREAMS SINCE WE GAVE UP WRITING THEM DOWN THAT IS ALWAYS THE WAY 0c910ce7-f4f7-4e8d-9e8f-62188aa72513 188 BROWN BESS WENT OVER THE ICE LIKE A DEER AND DONALD KEPT THINKING OF WHAT HE SHOULD SAY TO NANCY AND MORE STILL OF WHAT SHE WOULD SAY TO HIM f69ed062-c55d-447e-9a4f-ce12353957ce 2108 SO DOROTHY LIFTED THE LITTLE DOG INTO THE WAGON FOR WHILE HE COULD RUN FAST HE COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THE SPEED OF THE WONDERFUL SAW AWAY THEY WENT OVER HILLS AND THROUGH MEADOWS COVERING THE GROUND WITH ASTONISHING SPEED fca66676-1041-4582-b694-4c21de1a1c29 188 P S THE STORY GIRL PIEED OVER MY SHOULDER AND SAYS I OUGHT TO HAVE SIGNED IT YOURS AFFECTIONATELY BUT I KNOW BETTER BECAUSE THE FAMILY GUIDE HAS TOLD LOTS OF TIMES HOW YOU SHOULD SIGN YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE WRITING TO A YOUNG MAN WHO IS ONLY A FRIEND 92cff887-b7ee-47dc-b648-bbea8227a23a 2108 BUT THE SCARECROW WHO WAS A VERY THOUGHTFUL PERSON SAID TO HIS FRIENDS IF WE REMAIN HERE UNTIL AFTER THE STORM AND POLYCHROME GOES AWAY ON HER RAINBOW THEN WE WILL BE PRISONERS INSIDE THE WALL OF SOLID AIR SO IT SEEMS BEST TO START UPON OUR RETURN JOURNEY AT ONCE c90c8a91-cc75-4e8a-a05f-b0722692cb9c 188 I DECIDED TO GIVE THE REDOUBTABLE PEG SOME OF APPLES FROM MY BIRTHDAY TREE AND DAN DECIDED HE WOULD GIVE HER A PLUG OF TOBACCO OH WON'T SHE BE INSULTED EXCLAIMED FELIX RATHER HORRIFIED 6e438bf5-7da9-42f3-aa5c-2372a06fd497 2108 SO BEING ALL OF ONE MIND THEY TURNED SOUTHWARD TRAVELLING STEADILY ON UNTIL THE WOODS WERE LEFT BEHIND AND THE LANDSCAPE TURNED FROM PURPLE TINTS TO BLUE TINTS WHICH ASSURED THEM THEY HAD ENTERED THE COUNTRY OF THE MUNCHKINS 01a9e552-2a61-45a3-9147-9dd41f3574ca 2108 IT WAS AS BIG AS A TUB AND THE GOLDEN SPOON IN THE SAUCER BESIDES THE CUP WAS SO HEAVY THE BOY COULD SCARCELY LIFT IT BUT WOOT MANAGED TO GET A SIP OF THE COFFEE AND FOUND IT DELICIOUS 19fe7cdb-2c58-4a4e-b621-592daac059df 2108 THE SCARECROW WAS GLAD TO BE RID OF HIS HAY FOR DURING THE LONG WALK IT HAD SAGGED DOWN AND MADE HIM FAT AND SQUATTY MORE BUMPY THAN AT FIRST d440bab0-43c7-4128-82c9-0c3e2c277eb4 2108 WELL THREE OR FOUR SQUIRRELS THEN PLEADED THE JAGUAR DO YOU THINK ME SO CRUEL DEMANDED THE CANARY INDIGNANTLY THE SQUIRRELS ARE MY ESPECIAL FRIENDS 4b011371-e566-4488-b317-735502c75466 2108 I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR HER EVER SINCE BUT NEVER CAN I FIND HER CONTINUED POOR TOMMY QUICKSTEP SADLY I SUPPOSE SAID THE TIN OWL BLINKING AT HIM YOU CAN TRAVEL VERY FAST WITH THOSE TWENTY LEGS 23d597ca-000e-46ed-89fa-83e28e940076 2108 NO SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THAT WOULD NOT BE JUST FAIR THEY WERE QUITE RIGHT TO CAPTURE US BECAUSE WE HAD NO BUSINESS TO INTRUDE HERE HAVING BEEN WARNED TO KEEP AWAY FROM LOUISVILLE cb783934-252a-48c9-90ad-1b4b05aaa966 188 HER CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT WAS A RICH LITTLE PLUM CAKE ON THE WHITE FROSTING OF WHICH THE WORDS WELCOME BACK WERE LETTERED IN PINK CANDIES THIS WAS PUT BEFORE PETER'S PLACE AND ALMOST OVERCAME HIM TO THINK YOU'D GO TO SO MUCH TROUBLE FOR ME HE SAID WITH A GLANCE OF ADORING GRATITUDE AT FELICITY 4a7daa03-2c2d-426f-b7ec-4e39fd08a120 188 THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER IS SENDING HER A NEW RED DRESS AND A RED VELVET CAP FROM PARIS SHE IS SO FOND OF RED I CAN'T BEAR IT IT LOOKS SO COMMON 2146956d-4704-40b7-93e4-a3a895b6fd2c 188 TIN PATTY PANS AREN'T VERY ROMANTIC SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY I NOTICE THAT YOU ARE AS FOND AS ANY ONE OF WHAT IS BAKED IN THEM SAID AUNT JANET I HAVE HEARD OF THOSE PATTY PANS AN OLD SERVANT GRANDMOTHER KING HAD GAVE THEM TO RACHEL NOW WE ARE COMING TO THE LINEN THAT WAS UNCLE EDWARD'S WORD'S PRESENT HOW YELLOW IT HAS GROWN e31feeef-a12c-4f3e-8fee-efca73da8bb8 2108 BEFORE I WAS SO CUT OFF REPLIED THE OTHER I WAS KNOWN AS CAPTAIN FIGHTER BUT AFTERWARD I WAS MERELY CALLED THE TIN SOLDIER WELL CAPTAIN IF YOU ARE AGREEABLE LET US NOW GO TO NIMI AMMY'S HOUSE AND LET HER CHOOSE BETWEEN US 8a6dea8a-a4d8-4330-8ef3-d46c3288f1f8 188 MOTHER SAYS I CAN GET A VELVET HOOD TOO CECILY SAYS SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT'S RIGHT TO WEAR VELVET WHEN IT'S SO EXPENSIVE AND THE HEATHEN ARE CRYING FOR THE GOSPEL SHE GOT THAT IDEA FROM A SUNDAY SCHOOL PAPER BUT I'M GOING TO GET MY HOOD ALL THE SAME b4102b08-15a0-499b-ab23-62151fa1a8f0 2108 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE TIN WOODMAN TALKS TO HIMSELF THE TIN WOODMAN HAD JUST NOTICED THE CUPBOARDS AND WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THEY CONTAINED SO HE WENT TO ONE OF THEM AND OPENED THE DOOR 48c98beb-8724-4e55-b8e4-d4940b0b7ecf 188 AND NOW TELL ME THE BERWICK NEWS HAS JEAN MC LAY MADE UP WITH HER MAN YET AND IS IT TRUE THAT SANDY MC QUERIE IS TO MARRY BUT KATE FERGUSON TWILL BE A MATCH NOW SURE WITH HER RED HAIR SANDY WILL NOT BE LIKE TO LOSE HIS PRIDE PAST FINDING a21a37a0-c6dd-4d53-bc37-4d2023af4398 2108 SHE SHOOK HANDS WITH THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOOD AND KISSED THE WANDERER LIGHTLY UPON HIS FOREHEA fd94f7d9-2d74-4de6-8f4b-d71a3ae568be 2108 I WOULD INDEED WAS THE EARNEST REPLY THEN I WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU PROMISED THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER AND FLYING TO THE GROUND SHE TOOK A SMALL TWIG IN HER BILL AND WITH IT MADE SEVERAL MYSTIC FIGURES ON EACH SIDE OF TOMMY CLICKSTEP 8b7fc201-7434-402e-bcea-9f5dcbc41c6e 2108 NOR AM I EXCLAIMED THE TIN WOODMAN SWINGING HIS GLITTERING AXE AROUND HIS TIN HEAD IN A SERIES OF CIRCLES 83abef00-b464-42c7-a7c7-5c8d43dc9605 2108 ALL THIS WHILE POLYCHROME WAS RUNNING AROUND HIM AND CHIRPING MYSTICAL WORDS AND WHEN ALL THE YOUNG MAN'S LEGS HAD DISAPPEARED BUT TOO HE NOTICED THAT THE CANARY WAS STILL BUSY AND CRIED OUT IN ALARM STOP STOP LEAVE ME TWO OF MY LEGS OR I SHALL BE WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE f1f35174-5aed-4941-8302-7c735aadc9b5 188 I AM GOING TO CALL THE SOUTHERN WOOD A PLURGEONY AFTER THIS BEVERLY SAYS THAT IS WHAT IT'S CALLED IN SCOTLAND AND I THINK IT SOUNDS SO MUCH MORE POETICAL THAN SOUTHERN WOOD FELICITY SAYS THE RIGHT NAME IS BOY'S LOVE BUT I THINK THAT SOUNDS SILLY d63b817d-7fdc-481a-83dc-27df71701293 188 DEAR ME DEAR ME THAT'S MYSTERY IS SOLVED POOR PAT UNCLE ROGER NODDED HIS HEAD AS IF RESIGNING HIMSELF AND PAT TO THE WORST DO YOU REALLY THINK PEG BOWEN IS A WITCH UNCLE ROGER DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL INCREDULOUSLY DO I THINK PEG BOWEN IS A WITCH 75d88942-3108-4eaa-a64a-b24d885ee34a 188 PETERS LETTER DEAR EVERYBODY BUT ESPECIALLY FELICITY I WAS AWFUL GLAD TO GET YOUR LETTERS IT MAKES YOU REAL IMPORTANT TO BE SICK BUT THE TIME SEEMS AWFUL LONG WHEN YOU'RE GETTING BETTER 0ee40de9-b975-4c7b-a4fb-fc562e722117 188 I NEVER HEARD SUCH STUCK UP SHARP SERMONS AS YOU PREACH 9d354d3e-fd89-4918-9770-14a2eefdc181 2108 I AM NOW GOING TO BED AND IN THE MORNING I WILL GIVE YOU ALL NEW FORMS AT SUCH AS WILL BE MORE INTERESTING TO ME THAN THE ONES YOU NOW WEAR GOOD NIGHT AND PLEASANT DREAMS 2e8cc16f-f579-41d5-b553-7056d4f2cf5f 188 IT WAS TALL AND BLACK AND HAIRY SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLOWING WITH UNCANNY INTENSITY IN THE RED GLARE OF THE FIRES AND IT LIFTED ONE GREAT HAIRY HAND WITH CLAWS ON THE END OF IT AND CLAPPED WILLIAM COHEN FIRST ON ONE SHOULDER AND THEN ON THE OTHER AND SAID GOOD SPORT TO YOU BROTHER 52e6638f-24c8-4a15-9857-93c849520b44 2108 THE SCARECROW INQUIRED I HAD NEVER HEARD 6d77ef8c-2f46-4da2-8c7a-1f154c15b80f 2108 THE CANARY MADE NO ANSWER FOR SHE WAS BUSY BUT THE SCARECROW BEAR REPLIED YES SHE'S SOMETHING OF THE SORT AND A BIRD OF A MAGICIAN 25f10142-0447-4e50-aa71-41f0d4756ce0 2108 WOL COULD NOT DENY THAT HE WAS TIRED AND HE SLEPT SOUNDLY UNTIL MORNING WHEN HE WAS GIVEN A GOOD BREAKFAST SMOKING HOT 5b3061ac-5375-4617-8d7c-932c7c861b13 188 THAT NIGHT WE HEARD FELICITY TALKING TO CECILY IN THEIR ROOM MISTER CAMPBELL NEVER NOTICED ONE OF US EXCEPT THE STORY GIRL SHE SAID BUT IF I'D PUT ON MY BEST DRESS AS SHE DID MAYBE SHE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TAKEN ALL THE ATTENTION 57e9b22d-4367-4147-aeee-341c58f16a71 188 I'M GLAD YOU ARE STILL PRAYING FOR ME CECILY FOR YOU CAN'T TRUST THE MEASLES AND I'M GLAD YOU'RE KEEPING YOU KNOW WHAT FOR ME I DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING WILL HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU DO TAKE THE MEASLES BUT IF ANYTHING DOES I'D LIKE THAT LITTLE RED BOOK OF YOURS THE SAFE COMPASS JUST TO REMEMBER YOU BY 8babed4c-1140-4764-bb73-d0d1b2c2cf59 188 WE LOOKED AT HIM WHEN IT WAS OVER WITH AN INCREASE OF RESPECT WHERE ON EARTH DID YOU LEARN THAT FELIX I ASKED IT'S THE GRACE UNCLE ALEC SAYS AT EVERY MEAL ANSWERED FELIX 61e13c63-c46f-46f0-a31a-14f0147914bb 188 I'M GLAD PIG BOWEN DIDN'T CATCH YOU DAN MAYBE SHE BEWITCHED ME THAT NIGHT WE WERE AT HER PLACE AND THAT IS WHY THE MEASLES STRUCK IN 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 d4c2608d-d4d8-4365-9ec2-ffcb4999122a 188 DID A MAN ASK ME TO MARRY HIM AT THE COW'S SIDE WITH A MILKING PAIL IN HIS HAND IT'S A COLD ANSWER HE'D A GOT FOR HIS PAINS 4130176b-076a-4106-8381-6d8828e02481 188 BUT PETER'S INDIVIDUALITY SEEMED MERGED AND LOST IN AUNT OLIVIA'S BIG DASHING SCRIPT NOT UNTIL THE STORY GIRL READ THE LETTER TO US IN THE GRANARY BY JACKAL AND HER LIGHT IN A MIMICRY OF PETER'S VERY VOICE DID WE SAVOUR THE REAL BOUQUET OF IT 8ace60f2-1b51-4918-a8e8-8774d3e531af 2108 A MORE CURIOUS CREATURE THEY HAD SELDOM SEEN EVEN IN THE LAND OF OZ WHERE CURIOUS CREATURES ABOUND HAD THE HEAD OF A YOUNG MAN EVIDENTLY A MUNCHKIN WITH THE PLEASANT FACE AND HAIR NEATLY COMBED 083eac02-9679-44e4-9730-56d4e31d26a0 2108 BUT I AM CERTAIN WE HAVE PASSED BEYOND THE EMERALD CITY THE CANARY ASSURED HIM SAILING LIGHTLY AROUND THEIR HEADS NOW A WINDOW AT THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE OPENED AND A QUEER HEAD APPEARED IT WAS WHITE AND HAIRY AND HAD A LONG SNOUT AND LITTLE ROUND EYES 41657d9f-7746-49c0-9aa9-e2081bab81b2 188 THEN I WENT TO SLEEP COMFORTED BY THE SIMPLE HOPE THAT THE GREAT FATHER WOULD AFTER IMPORTANT THINGS WERE ALL ATTENDED TO REMEMBER POOR PAT AS SOON AS WE WERE UP THE NEXT MORNING WE RUSHED OFF TO UNCLE ROGER'S BUT WE MET PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IN THE LANE AND THEIR FACES WERE AS THE FACES OF THOSE WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS UPON THE MORNING 9c65f1b5-146d-4c08-958b-5175d5bda298 2108 I AGREE TO IT SAID THE TIN WOODMAN SHAKING THE HAND OF HIS TWIN TO SHOW THE MATTER WAS SETTLED MAY I ASK YOUR NAME SIR HE CONTINUED d4ea99a4-d91a-429a-b527-f259414da9b5 2108 POLYCHROME AGREED TO THIS REQUEST AND IN HALF A MINUTE ALL OF THEM INCLUDING HERSELF HAD BEEN ENLARGED AGAIN TO THEIR NATURAL SIZES NO INDEED ANSWERED THE JAGUAR HE DISAPPEARED INTO THE EARTH BEFORE I COULD TAKE ONE BITE OF HIM 80346d76-eb23-4688-8831-01e2bb3a382c 188 I DO WISH TO GOODNESS SAID FELICITY IN EXASPERATION THAT YOU'D STOP TALKING OF THE THE OF SUCH SUBJECTS IN THE DARK I'M SO SCARED NOW THAT I KEEP THINKING FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS BEHIND US ARE SOME THINGS JUST THINK MY OWN FATHER c6c8770c-0bc1-45a3-9e62-4f6d0f2cc6fe 188 FELICITY IS GOING TO GIVE ME COOKING LESSONS SHE CONFIDED TO ME AS WE WALKED IN THE ORCHARD ISN'T THAT FINE IT WILL BE EASIER THAN WHEN THERE ARE NO GROWN UPS AROUND TO MAKE ME NERVOUS AND LAUGH IF I MAKE MISTAKES cc415f77-eea4-47b2-a9d6-21f59bf8a51c 2108 INSTEAD OF PULLING MISSUS EWPES'S HAIR HE PERCHED ON HER SHOULDER AND SMOOTHED HER SOFT CHEEK WITH HIS HAIRY PAW IN HER TURN SHE SMILED AT THE FUNNY GREEN ANIMAL AND PATTED HIS HEAD 68455082-9149-49bc-89ae-2388a1bf9d0c 2108 SEEMS TO ME INDEED THAT I EVEN REMEMBER THAT GROUP OF TALL TREES AHEAD OF US AND IF I DO WE ARE NOT FAR FROM THE HOME OF MY FRIEND GINGER 6732b1f2-cafd-4947-b726-3c823e76ca90 188 I CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY 0ee42bc6-997c-4f91-a6a9-4289c8ab32d0 188 THIS WAS TO HAVE BEEN HER APPEARING OUT DRESS SAID AUNT OLIVIA LIFTING OUT A SHOT GREEN SILK IT IS ALL CUT TO PIECES BUT WHAT A PRETTY SOFT SHADE IT WAS LOOK AT THE SKIRT JANET HOW MANY YARDS MUST IT MEASURE AROUND HOOP SKIRTS WERE IN THEN SAID AUNT JANET I DON'T SEE HER WEDDING HAT HERE I WAS ALWAYS TOLD SHE PACKED IT AWAY TOO fecff701-3985-4a03-adde-4e25be395bfa 2108 NO SAID WOUT IS GINGER A MAN A WOMAN A BEAST OR A BIRD GINGER IS A GIRL EXPLAINED THE SCARECROW BEAR SHE'S A FINE GIRL TOO ALTHOUGH A BIT RESTLESS AND LIABLE TO GET EXCITED d955153e-82c1-4a19-8b5f-322e465501f3 2108 THEN DOWN HE SPRANG TO THE FLOOR AND MADE HIS WAY TO THE DOOR OPEN 6574c658-de53-4cf1-88a2-edc554aaa2ae 2108 BUT OZMA PUNISHED THE RASH GIRL AND AFTERWARDS GINGER AND I BECAME FAST FRIENDS NOW GINGER LIVES PEACEFULLY ON A FARM NEAR HERE AND RAISES FIELDS OF CREAM PUFFS CHOCOLATE CARMALS AND MACAROONS f5486aba-4a84-49ae-8de5-03f750a87e0e 188 NO THANK YOU SAID AUNT OLIVIA WITH A LITTLE SHUDDER I SHOULD FEEL LIKE A GHOST MAKE IT OVER FOR YOURSELF JANET ce2d4ed8-af5e-4b2a-b41c-a87e3377173b 188 I'VE BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND HEARD SOME GOOD THINGS BUT I'VE NEVER ENJOYED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT THREADBARE OLD STORY I HEARD IN MY CRADLE AND NOW WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR OF COURSE SAID THE DELIGHTED STORY GIRL RECITE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE FOR ME SAID MISTER CAMPBELL WE STARED 58b02dc7-721c-4ee0-b687-2193c1e85f09 188 I KNOW A STORY SHE SAID INFUSING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF WEIRDNESS INTO HER VOICE ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY I CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY 2c6b28c1-d8d6-4343-944d-ed63c81596fa 188 I AM GOING TO TAKE A SUBJECT INSTEAD OF A TEXT SAID PETER LOFTILY I AIN'T GOING TO TIE MYSELF DOWN TO A TEXT AND I'M GOING TO HAVE HEADS IN IT THREE HEADS YOU HADN'T A SINGLE HEAD IN YOURS HE ADDED TO ME 5ff79658-b5bb-4967-bb5f-a03b599f449d 188 OH I SUPPOSE WILLIAM COAN GOT A FRIGHT OF SOME KIND CONCEDED DAN BUT I DON'T BELIEVE HE SAW THE DEVIL OLD MISTER MORRISON AT LOWER MARKDALE WAS ONE OF THE MEN WHO UNDRESSED HIM AND HE REMEMBERS SEEING THE MARK SAID THE STORY GIRL TRIUMPHANTLY 59e514d5-998a-4a7b-99f7-16e52a3c50ab 2108 THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE FIELDS FOR THE GIRL FARMER BUT SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN c527f2a6-3486-476b-8347-a4a144f6d22c 2108 AND PERHAPS EVEN HER MAJESTY OZMA OF OZ MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO TRANSFORM ANY ONE ELSE INTO THE SHAPE OF WOOT THE WANDERER f0d94aa0-ca2c-400b-a56a-4e70823e31f8 188 FELICITY SAID THE STORY GIRL REPROACHFULLY WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING TO PETER HE'S UP THERE SULKING IN THE GRANARY AND HE WON'T COME DOWN AND HE SAYS IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT YOU MUST HAVE HURT HIS FEELINGS DREADFULLY f27d6242-0671-42d7-ae4f-3f09501eae9a 188 WE CHILDREN WERE FORBIDDEN TO TOUCH ANYTHING BUT FORTUNATELY WE WERE NOT FORBIDDEN THE USE OF OUR EYES AND TONGUES THERE THE PINK AND GOLD VASES GRANDMOTHER KING GAVE HER SAID FELICITY AS AUNT OLIVIA UNWRAPPED FROM THEIR TISSUE PAPER SWATHINGS A PAIR OF SLENDER OLD FASHIONED TWISTED VASES OF PINK GLASS OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED aed3cbd3-c128-4010-8a6e-ef07e98c61b7 188 PLAINLY THERE WAS SOMETHING OUT OF THE COMMON ABOUT THE BEASTY IN A TENSE BREATHLESS SILENCE THE STORY GIRL PLACED OUR PARCELS ON THE LOWEST STEP AND LAID HER LETTER ON THE TOP OF THE PILE HER BROWN FINGERS TREMBLED AND HER FACE WAS VERY PALE e5cba908-eb14-4a26-bbde-a22b931ca4a2 188 HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS SITTING ON THE CELLAR HATCH OUTSIDE THE WINDOW I DON'T SUPPOSE HE WOULD HAVE TOLD IT MISSUS MARTIN'S UNCLE'S NAME WAS WILLIAM COHEN AND HE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR TWENTY YEARS BUT SIXTY YEARS AGO HE WAS A YOUNG MAN AND A VERY WILD WICKED YOUNG MAN 580973e5-7c31-419d-b864-b97d17670e51 2108 IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO ME THE DIFFERENCE SAID GINGER I'LL AGREE NOT TO WASH YOU AGAIN THAT IS UNLESS YOU FOOLISHLY GET INTO THE FIREPLACE ALL PERSONS ARE USUALLY JUDGED BY THE SHAPES IN WHICH THEY APPEAR TO THE EYES OF OTHERS LOOK AT ME WOOT WHAT AM I ba5a1daf-8cb1-41b3-96d6-0e353cdfe1a8 2108 WE REALLY HAD NO RIGHT TO DISTURB THEIR PEACE AND COMFORT SO LET US GO AWAY ea516cf1-3532-42cb-975c-b73982193102 188 OF COURSE I KNOW I WOULDN'T HAVE GOT THE PRIZE FOR I COULDN'T HAVE MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION AS PETER HE SAID TO US MOURNFULLY BUT I'D LIKE TO HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO SHOW WHAT I COULD DO THAT'S WHAT COMES OF THOSE CRY BABY GIRLS MIXED UP IN THINGS CECILY WAS JUST AS SCARED AS SARA RAY BUT SHE'D MORE SENSE THAN TO SHOW IT LIKE THAT 6b130246-2774-44b1-8604-e8b8c9977c36 188 NEVER HAD THE OLD KING ORCHARD KNOWN A BLITHER MERRYMAKING OR LIGHTER HEARTS OLD ELIAS SHERMAN WAS A MAN WHO HAD TO BE OBEYED BUT IF NANCY HAD ONLY PROMISED SOME ONE ELSE FIRST HER FATHER WOULD NOT MAKE HER BREAK HER WORD 510334f2-dfda-43d1-9e51-73c0cc9ae953 2108 DO YOU SUPPOSE NIMIE AMY STILL LOVES YOU AFTER ALL THESE YEARS 574f6683-076b-48fa-b5f9-c846e2d9f6d0 2108 DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THAT ADVISED CUCLIP CHEERFULLY IT IS NOT LIKELY THAT YOU WILL EVER MEET THE FELLOW AND IF YOU SHOULD MEET HIM HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS MADE OF FOR I NEVER TOLD HIM THE SECRET OF HIS MANUFACTURE 4efee650-ea95-4060-9c3e-21235a6c0508 188 IT LOOKS LIKE SPRING BUT IT ISN'T SPRING IT'S AS IF EVERYTHING WAS RESTING GETTING READY TO SLEEP IN SPRING THEY'RE GETTING READY TO GROW CAN'T YOU FEEL THE DIFFERENCE I THINK IT'S JUST LIKE SPRING INSISTED FELICITY 19f36c3b-c4cd-4bfb-b186-8b6d54170259 2108 THE BOY WAS NOW FREE AND THE THORN WHICH THE LOON HAD STUCK INTO HIS LEG WAS LYING UNNOTICED ON THE GROUND WHERE THE CREATURE HAD DROPPED IT WHEN HE EXPLODED 4af1a110-8cfc-439b-993c-5403ca2be6a4 2108 THEN HE ENTERED THE HOUSE WITH HIS FRIENDS AND SAT IN A ROCKING CHAIR JUST AS HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO DO WHEN THE BOY 023e7aed-a6e2-4037-986f-1747588a10d5 188 THERE ARE FIVE DOLLARS FOR YOU HE SAID AND YOUR STORY WAS WELL WORTH IT YOU ARE A WONDER SOME DAY YOU WILL MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE IT f5305001-3c33-4a5c-85bc-9a6fa0f087b7 188 SOME OF THE MEN AROUND THE CHURCH DOOR HEARD THE SCREAM AND THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE WOOD THEY SAW NOTHING BUT WILLIAM COHEN LYING LIKE A DEAD MAN ON THE PATH THEY TOOK HIM UP AND CARRIED HIM HOME AND WHEN THEY UNDRESSED HIM TO PUT HIM INTO BED ON EACH SHOULDER WAS THE MARK OF A BIG HAND BURNED INTO THE FLESH e7edbaeb-c597-441f-8a96-e0b51abdb32d 2108 SO MAKE YOUR CHOICE I THINK WE'D BETTER GO BACK SAID LUKE SERIOUSLY NO SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STOUTLY I HAVE DECIDED THAT IT IS MY DUTY TO MAKE NIMY AMY HAPPY IN CASE SHE WISHES TO MARRY ME 62951fa8-8ab8-4a21-a857-46fafe608432 2108 LOOKS AS IF WE'D HAD OUR JOURNEY FOR NOTHING REMARKED WOOT WHO WAS A LITTLE ASHAMED AND DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE HE HAD PROPOSED THE JOURNEY d4fa3c91-18c6-4ce9-b02f-cfe7749a4be8 188 HER UNCLES ROARED WITH LAUGHTER OVER THE RECOLLECTION WE ALL LAUGHED INDEED ESPECIALLY OVER ANOTHER TALE IN WHICH UNCLE EDWARD LEANING TOO FAR OVER THE PULPIT IN HIS EARNESTNESS LOST HIS BALANCE ALTOGETHER AND TUMBLED INGLORIOUSLY INTO THE GRASS BELOW ae9e7ce4-0464-45f8-87d2-d253ec8b4079 2108 AT THIS DECLARATION OF PEACE THE BEAR GOT UP UPON HIS FEET AND THE OWL RESUMED HIS PERCH UPON THE CHAIR AND THE MONKEY CREPT OUT OF THE FIREPLACE GINGER LOOKED AT WOO CRITICALLY AND SCOWLED cf683889-008a-40d6-b099-897fef71863d 188 ANYWAY THIS IS THE STORY BOYS YOU KNOW THE AWKWARD MAN HAS LIVED ALONE EVER SINCE HIS MOTHER DIED TEN YEARS AGO ABEL GRIGGS IS HIS HIRED MAN AND HE AND HIS WIFE LIVE IN A LITTLE HOUSE DOWN THE AWKWARD MAN'S LANE 1052a6ca-70b6-4e6f-acfc-0832457df5ca 2108 YES I'M POLYCHROME THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER ANNOUNCED THE CANARY GOODNESS ME CRIED DOROTHY HOW DREADFUL a6730cf5-c824-4998-9fb0-a596f74a9631 2108 THE BLOWS WERE QUITE SOFT AND IT DID NOT HURT OUR FRIENDS AT ALL BUT THE ONSLAUGHT QUITE BEWILDERED THEM SO THAT IN A BRIEF PERIOD ALL THREE WERE KNOCKED OVER AND FELL FLAT UPON THE GROUND ee0a114d-c4e2-4236-b007-aba121b825b9 188 SARA RAY I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO DIE TILL I GOT BETTER HE BECAME A VERY RELIGIOUS MAN WHICH WAS A GOOD THING BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY GLOOMY AND THOUGHT EVERYTHING PLEASANT SINFUL 0cf52deb-e602-4049-9a8b-d9ab69df3336 2108 WITH THIS MISSUS EWPE WENT INTO THE NEXT ROOM AND SOON RETURNED BEARING A GOLDEN CAGE IN WHICH SAT UPON A SWINGING PERCH A LOVELY YELLOW CANARY 39654cb4-9f98-4847-a790-4fbb6b992e16 188 WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN MISERABLE PERPLEXED SILENCE WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN AND WE BELIEVED THAT THERE HAD BEEN SUCH THINGS AS WITCHES ONCE UPON A TIME AND PEG BOWEN WAS AN EERIE CREATURE dde98f40-9fd3-4924-8856-45b45d2cc945 2108 THE BEASTS HAD ALMOST REACHED HIM WHEN WOOT REMEMBERING HIS LACE APRON NOW SADLY TORN IN SOIL RECOVERED HIS WITS AND SHOUTED OPEN d0162ea8-92ac-4460-8d56-47049e033687 2108 ONCE ON THE OTHER SIDE THE TIN SOLDIER CAN CUT SOME OF THE HAY WITH HIS SHARP SWORD AND YOU CAN STUFF ME WITH THAT MATERIAL UNTIL WE REACH A PLACE WHERE THERE IS STRAW 50d70305-d3ab-4449-b263-65292c485664 188 I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING MORE HORRIBLY SUGGESTIVE IN THAT INNOCENT WORD SOMETHING AS ENUNCIATED BY THE STORY GIRL I FELT CECILY'S HAND ICY COLD CLUTCHING MINE 947fb1b6-9d4d-41ab-95df-958f180a96d1 188 IT IS ABOUT MISSUS JOHN MARTIN'S UNCLE AT MARKDALE SAID THE STORY GIRL I HEARD UNCLE ROGER TELLING IT THE OTHER NIGHT HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT I WAS SITTING ON THE CELLAR HATCH OUTSIDE THE WINDOW I DON'T SUPPOSE HE WOULD HAVE TOLD IT MIS f5191e6c-8662-4786-9a85-f3fbbd1421b9 2108 I EVEN MADE HIM A TIN ARM TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE MISSING ONE THAT PLEASED HIM VERY MUCH SO THAT WE PARTED GOOD FRIENDS 121bb3fd-148b-493e-9b30-071e3e832188 2108 OF COURSE ANSWERED THE LITTLE GIRL I WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING THEN ORDER THE RED WAGON SAID OZMA OF OZ AND WE WILL START AT ONCE a211869e-71df-44cc-90c9-dc722ed7c812 188 SHE BELONGED TO MONTREAL AND SHE WAS AN ORPHAN TOO JUST LIKE THE FAMILY GHOST I'VE NEVER HEARD WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE BUT SHE MUST HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL OF COURSE MOTHER SAYS SHE WAS AWFUL SENTIMENTAL AND ROMANTIC INTERJECTED FELICITY 0827e5bd-df62-4a50-b61c-452652dd9b55 188 POOR RACHEL WARD SAID AUNT OLIVIA SOFTLY HERE IS HER POINT LACE HANDKERCHIEF SHE MADE IT HERSELF b52d4dcc-5ef0-4121-8b75-cba523354e29 188 AND I'LL SEND YOU MY ROSEBUD PLATE TO EAT OFF OF I'M ONLY LENDING IT YOU KNOW NOT GIVING IT I LET VERY FEW PEOPLE USE IT BECAUSE IT IS MY GREATEST TREASURE MIND YOU DON'T BREAK IT AUNT OLIVIA MUST ALWAYS WASH IT NOT YOUR MOTHER 743e7569-b41a-451d-a126-420616e33115 188 INSIDE WAS LAYING A DRESS OF SOFT SILK THAT HAD ONCE BEEN WHITE BUT WAS NOW YELLOWED WITH AGE AND ENFOLDING IT LIKE A MIST A LONG WHITE BRIDAL VEIL REDOLENT WITH SOME STRANGE OLD TIME PERFUME THAT HAD KEPT ITS SWEETNESS THROUGH ALL THE YEARS bd22204c-54d5-4a46-ad53-195dca27e2ea 188 SO HE SAT THERE THAT AFTERNOON AND DREAMED OF HER AS HE PLAYED SWEET OLD SONGS AND ROLLICKING JIGS ON HIS FIDDLE 6f9ca449-5245-4a44-a936-46794461e3f6 2108 THE BARON THE OWL GRAVELY WATCHED THIS OPERATION AND NODDED APPROVAL IN WUTE'S SILKY GREEN FURS SHONE CLEAR AND BRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON SUN 4186fb6a-d6b1-43da-a711-ca52ae77a79c 188 THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO AND HE WOULD HAVE FOUND THE TIME VERY LONG IF HE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO PLAY ON A FLUTE SO HE PLAYED VERY OFTEN AND VERY BEAUTIFULLY AS HE SAT UNDER THE TREES AND WATCHED THE WONDERFUL BLUE SEA AFAR OFF AND THOUGHT ABOUT AGLEYA eee03e08-310c-41bd-b20c-d1e0e2f43aec 188 FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THIS SARA RAY ISN'T ANY RELATION TO OUR FAMILY SHE SCOLDED CECILY AND SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO BE PRESENT 33ba8584-7f62-4aa2-af18-866dd531947f 2108 THAT AFTERNOON DOROTHY AGAIN SAW THE TRAVELLERS IN THE MAGIC PICTURE BUT THEY WERE MERELY TRAMPING THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND DOROTHY WAS NOT MUCH INTERESTED IN THEM 73de5af3-48aa-462e-a0e2-4ff5a04146a5 2108 I HOPE I'M NOT TOO PARTICULAR ABOUT MY ASSOCIATES BUT I DRAW THE LINE AT PIGS THEY WERE INDEED SORRY TO PART WITH THEIR DAINTY AND BEAUTIFUL COMPANION AND ASSURED HER OF THEIR DEVOTION IF THEY EVER CHANCED TO MEET AGAIN 71cd4f3b-f50d-4938-bcd8-bb6b9a65f390 2108 IT WAS ALMOST A QUARREL SO POLYCHROME SAID SOOTHINGLY NEVER MIND FRIENDS AS SOON AS WE HAVE TIME I AM SURE WE CAN STRAIGHTEN THE SOLDIER'S LEG AND GET THE DENT OUT OF THE WOODMAN'S BODY 9ccddbb8-82f9-48c2-a942-94cccc25c8eb 188 THERE IS NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A THICKLY GROWING WOOD OF FIRS LIGHTLY POWDERED WITH NEW FALLEN SNOW AS THE SUN REMAINED HIDDEN BY GRAY CLOUDS THIS FAIRY BEAUTY LASTED ALL DAY THE STORY GIRL CAME OVER EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SARA RAY TO WHOM FAITHFULLY CECILY HAD SENT WORD WAS ALSO ON HAND 623f9382-fbd2-4090-8583-7f2703f392ff 2108 IF YOU FOUND HER DO YOU SUPPOSE SHE'D CHANGE YOU BACK INTO A TWO LEGGED BOY ASKED WOOD PERHAPS SO IF I COULD RUN ANOTHER ERRAND FOR HER AND SO EARN ANOTHER WISH f60bb89a-dd6c-4d11-b563-5d82bb179053 2108 SO TO DAY WHEN DOROTHY TIRED OF HER EMBROIDERY SHE DREW THE CURTAINS FROM BEFORE THE MAGIC PICTURE AND WISHED TO SEE WHAT HER FRIEND BUTTON BRIGHT WAS DOING 2dca5cc8-900f-42bd-98b7-fdd0a60c907d 2108 THE SUN CAME OUT AND DROVE THE RAINBOW AWAY AND BEFORE POLLY WAKENED I STOLE OUT AND TRANSFORMED HER INTO A CANARY BIRD IN A GOLD CAGE STUDDED WITH DIAMONDS 6b23e27c-715d-4db1-8491-d183a79e4455 188 FELICITY WORE HER NEW VELVET HOOD WITH A COQUETTISH LITTLE COLLAR OF WHITE FUR ABOUT HER NECK HER GOLDEN CURLS FRAMED HER LOVELY FACE AND THE WIND STUNG THE PINK OF HER CHEEKS TO CRIMSON ON MY LEFT WALKED THE STORY GIRL HER RED CAP ON HER JAUNTY BROWN HEAD a145e359-c592-4290-b7b4-7c787111ebca 2108 THEY WERE ON A LITTLE HILL LOOKING DOWN UPON THIS FAVORED COUNTRY BUT HAD NOT QUITE REACHED THE SETTLED PARTS WHEN ON TURNING A BEND IN THE PATH THEY WERE HALTED BY A FORM THAT BARRED THEIR WAY 160ae62a-7f34-4798-b019-3883a49f2a81 2108 WHEN ONE LOSES HIS HEAD HE LOSES HIS BRAINS VERY WELL THEN YOU MAY KEEP YOUR HEAD SAID THE BEAST ON REACHING THE PLACE HOWEVER THEY FOUND THE HOUSE DESERTED THE FRONT DOOR STOOD OPEN BUT NO ONE WAS IN SIGH a759177c-18ae-4882-b1dd-c829185be406 2108 OZMA WAS STUDYING A ROLL OF MANUSCRIPT WHEN SHE HAD TAKEN FROM THE ROYAL LIBRARY WHILE DOROTHY WORKED AT HER EMBROIDERY AND AT TIMES STOPPED TO PAT A SHAGGY LITTLE DOG THAT LAY AT HER FEET 37de1508-0025-43c9-8eb6-7007f08c1103 2108 WOOT WAS GETTING PRETTY TIRED CHASING THEM SO HE STOPPED AND CAME OVER PANTING TO WHERE HIS FRIENDS WERE SITTING STILL BOUND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR THE GIRL SAID THE TIN SOLDIER FOR I AM ALMOST A STRANGER TO THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY 025431f3-a167-4ca0-967b-10f0583ca9a0 2108 YOU'RE AS BIG AS YOU'RE GOING TO BE DECLARED THE KING BEFORE YOU EXPLODED YOU WERE BIGGER THAN THE REST OF US AND THAT CAUSED YOU TO BE PROUD AND OVERBEARING NOW YOU'RE A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THE REST AND YOU'LL LAST LONGER AND BE MORE HUMBLE 81b29e32-0e67-42c4-bf25-a9a0ac87a6be 2108 THE LITTLE DOG'S NAME WAS TOTO AND HE WAS DOROTHY'S FAITHFUL COMPANION c240e1bc-d1d0-4c44-86b4-30471afbccd5 188 THE MORNING DAWNED ON A BEAUTIFUL WORLD A VERY SLIGHT FALL OF SNOW HAD COME IN THE NIGHT JUST ENOUGH TO LOOK LIKE A FILMY VEIL OF LACE FLUNG OVER THE DARK EVERGREENS AND THE HARD FROZEN GROUND A NEW BLOSSOM TIME SEEMED TO HAVE REVISITED THE ORCHARD THE SPRUCE WOOD BEHIND THE HOUSE APPEARED TO BE WOVEN OUT OF ENCHANTMENT 23d30cc3-f29c-4d0b-89b4-7d5cee5cd3c4 188 FELICITY GOT ALL THE GRATITUDE ALTHOUGH THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA AND SEATED THE RAISINS AND BEATEN THE EGGS WHILE CECILY HAD TRUDGED ALL THE WAY TO MISSUS JAMES'S LITTLE SHOP BELOW THE CHURCH TO BUY THE PINK CANDIES BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD 4d3e1921-dbcb-4107-8dc8-2f2255df2736 2108 BEAUTIFUL THINGS MAY BE ADMIRED IF NOT LOVED ASSERTED THE TIN MAN FLOWERS ARE BEAUTIFUL FOR INSTANCE BUT WE ARE NOT INCLINED TO MARRY THEM 02b09cac-1198-442e-a929-f84f30e59ab5 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 499529e5-2464-4db2-b324-c98f593d7f80 2108 WELL I WAS TOO CLEVER FOR THEM SAID SHE GIVING A SUDDEN LAUGH THAT CAUSED SUCH A BREEZE THAT THE WOBBLY SCARECROW WAS ALMOST BLOWN OFF HIS FEET AND HAD TO CRAB HIS FRIEND MC CHOPPER TO STEADY HIMSELF 61c914dd-8a41-482a-a347-b45a1e27c91a 2108 THE LIGHT WAS DIM HERE BECAUSE VINES AND BUSHES AND LEAFY FOLIAGE WERE ALL ABOUT THEM AND OFTEN THE TIN MAN HAD TO PUSH ASIDE THE BRANCHES THAT OBSTRUCTED THEIR WAY OR CUT THEM OFF WITH HIS AXE df61d118-7145-4310-b152-683313835863 2108 OH INDEED RETURNED THE GREEN MONKEY IN A TONE BOTH SORRY AND STARTLED WHICH ONE OF MY FRIENDS DID YOU MANAGE TO EAT NONE OF THEM RETURNED THE JAGUAR WITH A SLY GRIN HAD A DISH OF MAGIC SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOES AND IT WASN'T A BAD FEAST AT ALL ae1f7b99-89d8-400e-89b3-b76c862411d6 188 I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT ONE WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH FOR JAMES' WIFE BUT OF COURSE WE MUST DO JUST AS RACHEL WISHED I DECLARE HERE'S A DOZEN TIN PATTY PANS SO DOES AUNT OLIVIA YES BUT LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SIZE OF THE PIECES AND AUNT OLIVIA ONLY GIVES YOU SKIM MILK MY MOTHER GIVES US CREAM fd8fc2eb-96a6-4823-8c5b-72095335099c 2108 IT HAD JOINTS AT THE KNEE AND AT THE ANKLE AND WAS ALMOST AS COMFORTABLE AS THE LEG I HAD LOST 960b412f-3b28-4b0b-a6e0-4e9073d4d9f9 188 IT'S BETTER TO KNOW THAN TO IMAGINE SAID FELICITY OH NO IT ISN'T SAID THE STORY GIRL QUICKLY WHEN YOU KNOW THINGS YOU HAVE TO GO BY FACTS BUT WHEN YOU JUST DREAM ABOUT THINGS THERE'S NOTHING TO HOLD YOU DOWN YOU'RE LETTING THE CAFEE SCORCH AND THAT'S A FACT YOU'D BETTER GO BY SAID FELICITY SNIFFING HAVEN'T YOU GOT A NOSE acb75e32-1cfc-4977-b570-c0a8d13d1883 2108 THE GIANTESS BEING SLEEPY DID NOT NOTICE THIS AND ENTERING HER ROOM SHE MADE THE DOOR CLOSE BEHIND HER AND THEN HUNG THE BIRD CAGE ON A PEG BY THE WINDOW 4b88a879-920d-499b-b1e0-cc30ef178aab 188 UNDERNEATH THE LINEN WERE RACHEL WARD'S WEDDING CLOTHES THE EXCITEMENT OF THE GIRLS WAXED RED HOT OVER THESE THERE WAS A PASLY SHAWL IN THE WRAPPINGS IN WHICH IT HAD COME FROM THE STORE AND A WIDE SCARF OF SOME YELLOWED LACE 3ebb67cc-371a-48be-8287-5ea074265f69 2108 POLYCHROME SAID THE GIANTESS PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO A GREEN MONKEY WHICH USED TO BE A BOY CALLED BOOT THE WANDERER AND A TIN OWL WHICH USED TO BE A TIN WOODMAN NAMED NICK CHOPPER AND A STUFFED STRAW LITTLE BROWN BEAR WHICH USED TO BE A LIVE SCARECROW 437f0ad9-c780-4946-943f-1ba9107720a6 188 WELL SAID FELICITY WITH A GLANCE AT THE CLOCK IT'S ALL OVER AND IT HAS BEEN VERY INTERESTING BUT THAT CLOCK HAS GOT TO BE PUT BACK RIGHT TO THE RIGHT TIME SOME TIME THROUGH THE DAY I DON'T WANT BEDTIME COMING A WHOLE HALF HOUR BEFORE IT OUGHT TO 3db89087-3673-4ea5-bd2c-698b7e04139f 188 IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN AUNT AUNT JANET WAS OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S SEEING HIM AND AUNT OLIVIA OFF TO TOWN THE CLOCK WAS RIGHTED THE STORY GIRL AND PETER CAME OVER TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US AND WE MADE TAFFY IN THE KITCHEN WHICH THE GROWN UPS KINDLY GAVE OVER TO US FOR THAT PURPOSE bad25739-e81b-4eb2-a87e-fb3b9c4b045d 2108 CLIMB UP SAID SHE AND THEY OBEYED THE TIN WOODMAN AND THE BOY ASSISTING THE MORE CLUMSY SCARECROW fcef9b8f-8550-45f6-ad34-25aa1689ad52 188 GOOD AND PROPER AS THEY WERE NOW ONCE SO IT SEEMED THEY HAD GOTTEN INTO MISCHIEF AND EVEN HAD THEIR QUARRELS AND DISAGREEMENTS bd87a631-a883-4dea-88b4-9bfcb9b19f36 2108 THE LACE ONE WHICH THE GIANTESS ALWAYS WEARS I HAVE BEEN HER PRISONER IN THIS CAGE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND SHE HANGS MY CAGE IN HER BEDROOM EVERY NIGHT SO SHE CAN KEEP HER EYE ON ME EXPLAINED POLYCHROME THE CANARY 757311b1-2c06-4a16-8cbb-fd5c6b613f68 2108 WELL I MAKE A RATHER PRETTY BIRD I THINK RETURNED POLYCHROME BUT OF COURSE I'M ANXIOUS TO RESUME MY OWN SHAPE AND GET BACK UPON MY RAINBOW f7375f47-cc2a-4de5-bea8-341f7988ddc9 2108 NIMY AND ME WILL BECOME AN EMPRESS ANNOUNCED THE TIN WOODMAN PROUDLY I SHALL HAVE A TIN GOWN MADE FOR HER WITH TIN RUFFLES AND TOCS ON IT AND SHE SHALL WEAR TIN SLIPPERS AND TIN EARRINGS AND BRACELETS AND WEAR A TIN CROWN ON HER HEAD 723622c8-dabd-4b6e-b329-3be9ae8b746c 2108 NOW THEN CHIRPED THE CANARY EAGERLY I'M NEXT OZMA BUT YOUR CASE IS DIFFERENT REPLIED OZMA NO LONGER SMILING BUT WEARING A GRAVE EXPRESSION ON HER SWEET FACE cbff6e76-bad9-4ca4-8f13-8d7129ed71a2 2108 THE GREEN MONKEY WAS SO STARTLED BY THE SUDDEN ATTACK THAT HE SPRUNG INTO THE FIREPLACE WHERE THERE WAS FORTUNATELY NO FIRE AND TRIED TO ESCAPE BY CLIMBING UP THE CHIMNEY BUT HE FOUND THE OPENING TOO SMALL AND SO WAS FORCED TO DROP DOWN AGAIN 4d91c89f-56bb-44e2-ab96-10b3f4252345 2108 WEEPING IS LIABLE TO REST TEN AND THE EMPEROR PRIDED HIMSELF UPON HIS HIGHLY POLISHED BODY NOW DOUBLY DEAR TO HIM BECAUSE FOR A TIME HE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF IT e016c3c8-7540-41f6-8fec-9d641c6b601a 2108 BOOT THE WANDERER LOOKED AT THE MAN SERVANT ALL BRIGHT AND GLITTERING AND AT THAT MAGNIFICENT CASTLE ALL BRIGHT AND GLITTERING AND AS HE LOOKED HIS EYES GREW BIG WITH WONDER eb8f4558-cfcf-4006-b23d-7154ee74d9e6 2108 I WON'T SAY HE IS A HUSBAND TO BE PROUD OF BECAUSE HE HAS A MIXED NATURE AND ISN'T ALWAYS AN AGREEABLE COMPANION LEAVE ME OUT OF YOUR MAGIC PLEASE SAID TOTO WITH A REPROACHFUL GROWL I WOULDN'T BECOME A GREEN MONKEY FOR ANYTHING 20cea58e-248f-4e7f-b58b-91d994d04d3a 2108 MAKE YOURSELVES AT HOME IN THE GARDEN AND STAY ALL NIGHT IF YOU LIKE BUT IN THE MORNING YOU MUST GO AWAY FOR WE ARE QUIET PEOPLE AND DO NOT CARE FOR COMPANY 62b9d64b-901d-4935-bbc3-65acf602c114 188 THE NEXT SUNDAY WAS IN OCTOBER AND A LOVELY DAY IT WAS WARM AND BLAND AS JUNE THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE FINE ELUSIVE AIR THAT RECALLED BEAUTIFUL FORGOTTEN THINGS AND SUGGESTED DELICATE FUTURE HOPES 6a057b6e-773c-49f6-99cb-5428d109646c 188 THIS PURPLE CLOTH DRESS IS QUITE GOOD HOWEVER IT CAN BE MADE OVER NICELY AND IT WOULD BECOME YOU VERY WELL OLIVIA 14231b4e-4e21-4f9c-9a5d-134fc2621c96 188 HE CAUGHT HER HAND AND STAMMERED OUT NAN LASS I LOVE YOU YOU MAY THINK TIS A HASTY WOOING BUT THAT'S A STORY I CAN TELL YOU LATER MAYBE I KNOW WELL I'M NOT WORTHY OF YOU BUT IF YOUR TRUE LOVE COULD MAKE A MAN WORTHY THERE'D BE NONE BEFORE ME WILL YOU HAVE ME NAN 1fd41a12-e005-4efc-8402-2c5579c48acd 2108 I SHALL HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON YOU POLYCHROME AND I MAY FAIL IN ALL MY ATTEMPTS aba736a7-944a-4d40-a0b7-e23ce94cdb07 188 PATTY SAT ON THE PULPISTONE AND WATCHED US WITH GREAT YELLOW EYES KNOWING THAT TIDWITS WOULD COME HIS WAY LATER ON MANY WITTY THINGS WERE SAID OR AT LEAST WE THOUGHT THEM WITTY AND UPROARIOUS WAS THE LAUGHTER NEVER HAD THE OLD KING ORCHARD KNOWN A BLITHER MERRYMAKING OR LIGHTER HEARTS 7f793d18-00cd-4874-8dd3-9744f7a59129 2108 BUT SEE HERE SAID THE SCARECROW WHO HAD LISTENED INTENTLY TO THIS EXPLANATION WHY NOT PUT THE MONKEY'S FORM ON SOME ONE ELSE 2dd0a748-a94d-4791-b90f-6b78a6d4832d 2108 WE WON'T FORGET OUR FAIRY FRIEND PROMISED THE BOY BUT PERHAPS YOU CAN TELL ME HOW TO GET INTO THE BEDROOM NO DECLARED POLYCHROME I CANNOT ADVISE YOU AS TO DO THAT 2399b34e-7ad6-4684-ae9c-9806c6a5c6c6 188 WE HAD HAD BROTHERHOOD WITH WIND AND STAR WITH BOOKS AND TALES AND HEARTH FIRES OF AUTUMN IT WAS DECIDED THERE WAS NO USE IN WAITING FOR SARA RAY WHO MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT COME ACCORDING TO THE HUMOUR IN WHICH HER MOTHER WAS 0a8d0386-2337-417e-a517-01dc1f3ed8a4 188 RACHEL WARD IS DEAD AND SHE TOLD JAMES'S WIFE TO WRITE TO ME AND TELL ME TO OPEN THE OLD BLUE CHEST HURRAH SHOUTED DAN DONALD KING SAID HIS MOTHER SEVERELY RACHEL WARD WAS YOUR RELATION AND SHE IS DEAD WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SUCH BEHAVIOR 5ab07cf9-b0ba-4b82-a5a1-1d02b58d054a 2108 CHAPTER SEVEN THE LACE APRON NOW SAID THE CANARY IN A TONE MORE BRISK THAN BEFORE WE MAY TALK TOGETHER MORE FREELY AS MISSUS UWPEKE CANNOT HEAR US PERHAPS WE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ESCAPE 8a3889ab-6ab2-45c8-abc0-21332d2f6b74 188 THERE WAS THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT WHICH HAD COST FELICITY SUCH PAINFUL BLUSHES AND A DOZEN BEAUTIFULLY WORKED SETS WITH THE FINE MUSLIN UNDER SLEEVES WHICH HAD BEEN THE FASHION IN RACHEL WARD'S YOUTH 5d0c19f1-30be-49fc-abd8-7f1ad6292c8c 188 THE STALKS WERE IN HEAPS ALL OVER THE FIELD AND WE WERE ALLOWED THE PRIVILEGE OF SETTING FIRE TO THEM TWAS GLORIOUS IT WAS FRIDAY BUT WE WERE NOT GOING TO BE GOING TO SCHOOL AGAIN UNTIL MONDAY SO WE SPENT THE DAY IN THE GRANARY SORTING APPLES AND HEARING TALES 317221d0-168d-497a-aa5e-e9b54955ecd0 2108 NO SAID TOTO I DON'T LIKE THAT PLAN THE LEAST BIT DECLARED DOROTHY FOR THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY LITTLE DOG 4e3afc13-4aef-4b9f-9e63-5a7c42df4f5b 2108 I TOOK YOU TO BE A LOT OF WILD UNMANNERLY ANIMALS AS WAS QUITE NATURAL YOU ARE VERY WELCOME TO MY HOME AND I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T THE POWER TO HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR TROUBLES PLEASE USE MY HOUSE AND ALL THAT I HAVE AS IF IT WERE YOUR OWN ef92f238-15d4-4556-a370-e6dc534d9319 188 THE COLORS ARE NOT FADED ONE BIT I WANT THAT RUG JANET UNDERNEATH THE LINEN WERE RACHEL WARD'S WEDDING CLOTHES WE FELT AS MUCH OF A SHOCK AS IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EXPECTANT GUESTS OURSELVES WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX c49888ef-59a9-4edc-9b2e-0c3091eadea7 188 PETER MAKES AN IMPRESSION PETER'S TURN CAME NEXT HE DID NOT WRITE HIS SERMON OUT THAT HE AVERED WAS TOO HARD WORK NOR DID HE MEAN TO TAKE A TEXT WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY e5785da9-792c-4ca8-98d5-683fb0af724e 188 MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT I SHALL NEVER USE IT TO EAT OFF OF SAID SARAH RAPTUROUSLY I'LL PUT IT ON THE PARLOR MANTELPIECE IT DON'T SEEM MUCH USE IN HAVING A PLATE JUST FOR ORNAMENT SAID FELICITY 2d196170-f6bd-454e-bc75-8256b3f5978c 2108 BUT THE WIZARD'S STOCK OF HEARTS WAS LOW AND HE GAVE ME A KIND HEART INSTEAD OF A LOVING HEART SO THAT I COULD NOT LOVE NIMI AND ME ANY MORE THAN I DID WHEN I WAS HEARTLESS fd69b31b-2422-403e-a9d5-ed9ab04fb683 2108 YOUR FORM OF ENCHANTMENT MY POOR BOY SHE SAID PITYINGLY IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE OTHERS 7ea69a6f-439c-4deb-b769-4df3ec6d5df6 2108 THE GIANTESS SEEMED RATHER UNEASY AS IF SHE HAD A FAINT IDEA THAT SOMEONE WAS FYING UPON HER FOR SHE KEPT LOOKING BEHIND HER AND THIS WAY AND THAT AS THOUGH EXPECTING DANGER FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE 6c1e0cea-cb9c-44f2-9b54-5d4ade0d42ca 188 WE ALL PREACHER INCLUDED LOOKED AT HER AGHAST CECILY AND FELICITY SPRANG UP AND CAUGHT HOLD OF HER SARA RAY WAS REALLY IN A BAD FIT OF HYSTERICS BUT WE KNEW NOTHING OF SUCH A THING IN OUR EXPERIENCE AND WE THOUGHT SHE HAD GONE MAD SHE SHRIEKED CRIED LAUGHED AND FLUNG HERSELF ABOUT f20fd44e-794e-436d-8199-f87815d5a74a 2108 I WONDER SAID WOOD IF THOSE CAST OFF PARTS OF YOU TWO UNFORTUNATES ARE STILL IN THAT BARREL IN THE CORNER I SUPPOSE SO REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN IN THE LAND OF OZ NO PART OF A LIVING CREATURE CAN EVER BE DESTROYED bc959d60-7ac9-4cc8-9248-519822c27242 1867 TWO THE DOOR WAS SEALED SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SAVAGE ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR c0f9a3c8-4d33-4a21-9640-e5d7514ce3fc 103 IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD SO THE MORNING AFTER HE HAD BROUGHT HIS YOUNG WIFE HOME THEY WENT TOGETHER TO THE SOUTH MEADOW AND PLANTED THEIR BRIDAL TREES f39dab05-8304-4258-916e-1122811fea03 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 36ba3a8a-08e5-4359-aaf9-df5173dcd436 748 HE REMAINED LITTLE MORE THAN A CLEVER AMATEUR FINALLY IT WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE WHAT WE'D EXPECTED WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY 64c78f95-fa47-4510-a186-d125427d9215 177 I'LL GO SAID CECILY NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK AT BREAKFAST OUR APPETITES WERE POOR fd5fc254-7772-475f-b6eb-86f87f847637 2137 OH NO OF COURSE NOT HE COULDN'T FIND THE CAPSULE PARTS WERE STREWN ALONG THE BOTTOM bc066f6f-ac0a-4da1-9167-d47a4801609a 2312 NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE c198ff5e-a462-4c4f-a08a-ceddc9ba76d8 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 1c0fbe92-d96a-4bb6-8cec-e0d77c90e668 2425 THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT CURRENT ENOUGH TO KILL A THOUSAND MEN OR TO DO THE WORK OF A MILLION HORSES THERE WAS NO SIGN OF DISORDER ANYWHERE 0ebd58e2-978a-4058-a9e8-02e3c17de1ab 242 ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS 23b1f50b-3adc-45b5-a421-e1505207a5fd 177 AND THERE ARE MAGNIFICENT STORIES IN IT YES FELICITY MAGNIFICENT NONE OF US IT APPEARED HAD SLEPT WELL AND SOME OF US NOT AT ALL IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY e424b801-7258-4eba-956b-451d39279741 1867 ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE 5c81b415-1e12-46c2-997a-d398e00d0940 103 AND AT THE ENTRANCE OF THAT LANE WE SAW A GIRL STANDING WITH A GRAY CAT AT HER FEET WE WERE SHORT OF BOYS BEFORE ONLY DAN AND PETER TO FOUR GIRLS 918a5b07-abd1-4575-8589-25b3441e62d5 2425 BUT NEITHER VIC NOR HOPE WERE ANYWHERE IN SIGHT ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT 00b10edf-68ad-4e27-bb8a-201b3e7e9922 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 67a9dbf1-2152-4b81-b294-685088b4c896 32 CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM ec8768e8-1d6b-4c8e-9d45-01d67e68de3b 177 TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME MAYBE THE CLOCK STRUCK AND WE DIDN'T HEAR IT SUGGESTED DAN SOMEBODY BETTER GO SEE 50b0ce22-58ee-47f9-a306-78e8db982491 177 I SUPPOSE EVEN IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I'LL HAVE TIME TO GET BACK TO YOU SARA RAY AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WENT HOME BUT THE LONG DRAWN OUT DREAD WAS BEGINNING TO GET ON DAN'S NERVES 0702bb39-c478-44fe-924a-94a016a4ab4a 30 WE WERE QUITE WILLING TO GO TO BED CECILY LOOKED PALE AND THIN BESIDE HER ON THE MAY MORNING WHEN WE LEFT TORONTO FOR PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 8dbd9f93-3f79-4a68-b5aa-233dd32b43bc 14 BUT I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO SIT IN A PEW WITH A HIRED BOY WELL I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY IT WAS NOT AN EASY MATTER b4adcd6a-eb45-4233-b125-1bb83b5e93be 177 AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN PAT PRESENTLY CAME GALLOPING UP THE ORCHARD CARRYING IN HIS MOUTH A BIG FIELD MOUSE 925d21a8-34ee-4e0e-9395-b0685c070e06 451 AND THE BARE FEET BELOW HER PRINT SKIRT WERE BEAUTIFUL THEY BOTH BUILT THE BRIDGE OF LIGHT OF OLD UNHAPPY FAR OFF THINGS AND BATTLES LONG AGO e3c4812a-e3aa-4c87-9e4c-7cf791a4f675 2425 I WAS SUDDENLY VERY HEAVY SHE BECAME NERVOUS LIKE AND RAPPED ON THE DOOR I BREATHED A SIGH OF RELIEF AND POCKETED THE WEAPON 672595d8-5499-402d-8286-c5aed829ecd0 2182 CHAFFEE THREE SET DOWN THE SHIP ON AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONLY ONE OF A FRECKLING CHAIN OF SIMILAR ISLANDS ONCE IT GETS ITS WIND BACK CHAFFEE FOUR TELEPORTED INSIDE AGAIN ad67a936-a55d-495e-a4eb-82709363b3bd 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 d2dc2597-f20a-4fe3-9ca8-54f83eeb236f 242 WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE I DON'T CARE WHAT SHE WOULD SAY HE RETORTED IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM A bdb5f1d6-0640-4d5a-abae-3c0df1615bf6 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 ec0da012-b526-4464-8950-f710fcc35c0e 177 MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED NO IT WOULD BE NO USE TO TRY 863bcf27-28f5-486f-add7-2800d2ced233 2286 I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT WHAT THE MAGICIANS CALL MISDIRECTION 06e3fe35-7551-4c46-b81f-bfd44e5d0b11 188 DON'T WORRY DEAR SAID CECILY WHO ALWAYS POURED BALM SARA RAY WAS ALSO ALLOWED TO COME UNDER PROTEST WE MIGHT EARN IT BY THE HONEST TOIL f1fbf700-1f67-4552-8adc-0eb767e546a6 2425 DO NOTHING AT ALL FOR AT LEAST A WEEK AND LEAVE WORD WITH THEM FOR HOPE SEVERED CLEANLY AT THE WRIST 51e471f7-9774-46df-aea1-64bd13a3013e 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 62d2a133-eaf0-40a1-80b1-2cdee0f04fe6 14 BUT SHE WAS AS WHITE AS HER VEIL WITH HIS VISOR DOWN RIDING ON A WHITE HORSE THESE ARE THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS I HAVE CONQUERED c468e8ef-a326-4da2-bb7e-860de2c1c5c5 2425 NOTHING APPARENTLY HAD BEEN DISTURBED ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I e9c181d6-f5b9-4328-b57d-c21c9828c15d 198 BOYS AIN'T ALWAYS HUNGRY SAID FELIX GRAVELY THERE'S TIMES WHEN THEY AIN'T THEY AND ONLY THEY CAN BRING US TIDINGS FROM THAT DEAR COUNTRY WHERE WE ONCE SOJOURNED AND FROM WHICH WE MUST EVERMORE BE EXILES 866ab563-dfce-4b23-9f4f-e01d2f8c5ded 2108 NEITHER OF US CAN BE HAPPY AGAIN UNLESS WE RECOVER OUR RIGHTFUL FORMS TINTING THE GLISTENING TIN TOWERS AND THE TIN MINARETS 3835cfa7-1481-4090-9bb5-7a4c1dbbf3bd 188 THEN OUT OF REGARD FOR MATS AND CUSHIONS HE WAS KEPT IN DURRANCE VILE IN THE GRANARY UNTIL HE HAD LICKED HIS FUR CLEAN 224df52a-6986-4278-933c-cbcb24725866 2312 WE GOT TO GET TO THAT TEN THOUSAND MARK BUT THEY PUT AN ENCANTO ON ME AND MADE ME AND TRIED TO GET FROM HIM 9d16a484-dd4c-4681-97ad-8749bf80dc3c 30 SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS 63ea444e-5d2f-40b5-b2b4-5223809af665 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 de48894e-f6b8-436e-9a90-a8df8f9c1683 14 THERE IS THE WEDDING BELL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS WE WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ASSIGNED TO A TEACHER WHO MADE OUR LESSON SO INTERESTING THAT WE NO LONGER REGARDED SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AS A DISAGREEABLE WEEKLY DUTY e416fcbb-b2a8-4d1e-8895-e4917a8d466f 2368 FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES 01469afa-67d7-4153-a950-b2dc912319d4 14 AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND 0901ddf3-6d58-452e-b319-74873a687ecd 198 DO YOU THINK HE'LL EVER TELL YOU WHO ALICE IS I ASKED SAID FELICITY BITTERLY BUT HE'LL LAUGH AT US FOR A YEAR AND TELL THIS STORY TO EVERY SOUL THAT COMES TO THE PLACE f4566a33-0580-49ad-b2f3-3804333166fb 2274 I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID 28dc009d-1912-4c95-9773-5b4dd6049328 188 THE NEXT DAY BEING SATURDAY WE STARTED OUT IN THE AFTERNOON PRESENTLY MISTER CAMPBELL HIMSELF WAS STANDING IN THE DOORWAY LOOKING US OVER 88f1ce9c-2186-4cd2-8a3e-609d7562e894 14 BUT ANYHOW I SUPPOSE IT WOULDN'T BE MUCH USE BECAUSE IF HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER HE'D SAY I OUGHT TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN 75160311-e5dc-45ac-97c0-752e44b87f33 2317 WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE c8fd93d7-c9f3-4240-8d73-17a79bab30b1 2425 I COULD RECOGNIZE THE FACE AND FIGURE OF THE WOMAN I LOVED AND OF HER BROTHER BUT THEY SEEMED TO HAVE NO SUBSTANCE 3bbfd2d4-d36f-46b6-ac18-445e04e8e29b 402 IT WAS SO NICE TO HAVE THE STORY GIRL BACK AGAIN WE DID BURY IT AFTER TEA IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SPRUCE GROVE f783493d-7a78-415d-bee1-49683da23fa9 14 HE'S GOING TO CHURCH WITH US TO MORROW ALTOGETHER THE STORY GIRL HAD A HARD TIME OF IT BUT I AM THE KING WHO CONQUERS ALL KINGS HE SAID 2424eb84-ec68-4062-aa8e-bdf9c3a65f14 2425 UNDERNEATH IN HOPE'S CLEAR PURPOSEFUL HAND WAS THIS A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY 1bc5dcf1-135e-4abc-b7b4-f86a22f98aee 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 1aa9bc1e-2931-4096-82e3-768bcbdac312 242 LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY WHY THERE WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RELIGION IN OLD TIMES SAID FELIX WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL 8d7a33f6-8875-4ab5-879b-3df576bcfd8b 2182 THEY ERASED THE FEARS OF THE NEUROTIC AND CALMED THE QUIVERINGS OF THE HY POTENSIVE BUT THE SCOOP AT THE MOMENT FOUND WATER DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE IN EARNEST 88645ee9-9733-44d2-a19a-c4c62f908588 1867 THE TEMPLE WAS A SINGLE ROOM WITH A MURKY LOOKING POOL AT ONE END I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND ee9acb3c-ef67-4138-aa43-55f82c819a71 2368 THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID IT IS SAID THAT THE FAMILY COLLEGE SHARP HAS A HOUSE TOO LARGE FOR THEM NOW THAT THE ELDER SON IS GONE THERE IS ONLY THE MAN HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER STRANGER SHARP SAID ffe2baaf-fd62-49ab-bfcc-26420112407b 30 AND PRESENTLY WE FOUND OURSELVES TUCKED AWAY UPSTAIRS FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG ff7753a6-b101-4efc-97f2-10a1fe87de9b 2425 AND AFTER YOU READ IT YOU CAN LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE TWENTY ONE TWENTY FIVE TWENTY SIX 5379ad00-b7dd-4088-a5cc-69d56ea0547d 2182 THE BOAT HEELED ON SHOAL SAND LISTED AND HUNG AGROUND WITH WINDFILLED SAILS HOLDING HER FAST THE SCOOP CAME UP OUT OF THE WATER SO SMOOTHLY THAT THE ISLAND QUEEN HARDLY ROCKED 9886a826-f0d1-46c9-af1d-3a387218909c 451 UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED fb333949-a806-4c4d-b8f9-7c4d92bbc2e0 2312 THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE NOT CLEAR THAT IS WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE 84f49094-de70-4f5e-8776-d1d7012eaf36 748 WE CLIMBED MT BLANC BILLY HAD DECEIVED US BOTH PETER HAD THE LARGEST 04521580-e7af-4164-a13c-d7576b30e3e7 402 WHAT IF YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME I SUPPOSE YOU'LL BELIEVE THE MINISTER SAID THE STORY GIRL ASKED FELIX HOLDING OUT THE PICTURE 29e1f00c-61d6-4f0a-8419-bb4a75721013 188 CAMPBELL CHUCKLED THE BEST OF ALL REASONS HE SAID BUT SEE HERE MY DEAR YOUNG LADY I'M AN OLD MISER AND A CURMUDGEON AS YOU MAY HAVE HEARD I e2034af9-f618-41f0-bdb6-ab4095eca36a 242 AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL LOOK IN HIS EYES 218215ed-ce12-40e9-9996-35b01266cd8e 177 A WAGON RUMBLING OVER A PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW MADE SARAH RAY START UP WITH A SHRIEK CICELY GOT OUT HER LESSON SLIP AND STUDIED THE LESSON CONSCIENTIOUSLY WELL SAID AUNT JANET WHEN WE ALL DESCENDED TO THE KITCHEN a276f3f3-74ec-4db4-9319-a1ad4a5eea2d 2108 QUITE RIGHT MY FRIEND AGREED THE SCARECROW THE LACE ONE WHICH THE GIANTESS ALWAYS WEARS I SO WE WHO GLADLY SERVE HIM f05c0bed-4e21-458b-bc36-cf75b5dd81f5 2274 ALL OTHER SOUNDS HUNG SUSPENDED IN THE AFTER SILENCE THEN RESUMED THE MUZZLE LOWERED SLIGHTLY YOU TELL US LOTS OF MYSTERIES HERE 03dfca71-d05e-43ea-8e91-5bf11ad5d966 2137 HE FROZE HIS EYES ON THE BRUSH LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO 5ecb66f3-6666-4c4c-a22d-f8416a4285be 748 AMONG THE FAIR FRAIL WHITE LADIES OF THE WALK WHAT PETER HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED FOR REMAINED A SECRET LONGER THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS 851e1c40-b25c-4e10-b2da-3813e826c03a 2274 AND THEN THE WEAKEST A HEAVY OBJECT SUDDENLY ARCHED THROUGH THE HEADLIGHTS SWINGING ON A VINE YOUR RACE IS NO MATCH FOR US ORN 69f9c8df-e5e2-4a50-b517-3b26ca73ac70 242 FELIX'S PRAYER WAS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ANY ONE ELSE TRULY WE HAD HAD A DELECTABLE SUMMER AND HAVING HAD IT IT WAS OURS FOREVER df56a4da-bab4-47d0-a1aa-55168bbca255 2182 JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME 04905882-618c-461c-ae3c-d528b4daafd4 177 WHICH SITTING DOWN BEFORE US HE PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR BODY AND BONES AFTERWARDS LICKING HIS CHOPS WITH GREAT SATISFACTION da827905-ce72-4025-a4fe-2950248decc6 2368 YET THE INQUISITOR TOOK HIM AND HAD A CONFESSION FROM HIM THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE AFTER ALL YOU DID NOT DO THE JOB YOURSELF 49bfe3e0-1add-4c2a-9d27-2ccd096227ac 2317 SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER 72dd3106-4c20-4dab-863c-1193ef80054c 2108 THE TINSMITH WAS AS PROUD OF HIS WORKMANSHIP AS WAS I ALWAYS YOUR LOVING AND GRATEFUL FRIEND 64cbe93a-917a-41b1-ac78-5891eaea175c 30 THEIR SWEET SHRILL VOICES CARRIED AND TALKING RATHER MORE LOUDLY THAN THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE a70d05fd-a7cb-41ef-b505-321bca6740dd 2137 I WANT THAT SHIP BACK BRANDON IS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU THINK YOU MIGHT NEED A BOOSTER SHOT BUT THEY WERE PRETTY SLOW COMING IN THIS TIME a3f29477-1497-4051-ab0c-366770e9517d 2108 AFTER MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES AS YOU WILL DISCOVER WHEN YOU HAVE READ THIS STORY I'M MARRIED NOW BUT I'M AS EAGER TO GET AND READ THE OZ STORIES AS EVER 89040418-60fc-4674-905e-de48b9b931ff 748 SHE WOULD NEVER BE SATISFIED AS A DABBLER LEST THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY THAT TERRIBLE UNCLE ROGER SHOULD HEAR OF IT BEFORE COMING TO CARLISLE 747ee802-246e-4912-bd39-fea35d3cb4d3 198 THE FIRE WAS ON AND A FLUSHED AND TRIUMPHANT STORY GIRL WAS TAKING A LOAF OF BREAD FROM THE OVEN 31eafd1d-1989-4ae3-8e94-d41ac2ff9755 2274 THEY CAME IN LIKE A PRIMITIVE RAIDING PARTY THE LEADER DROPPED RIGHT ON TO THE HOOD OF MY SLED AN ACT OF BRAVERY NO LESS COUNTING COOP YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU 2414af31-0104-42a5-a90a-3dedb3362b38 14 AND ONE TALK ON THIS SUBJECT INSPIRED THE STORY GIRL TO DO A LITTLE HOME MISSIONARY WORK ON HER OWN ACCOUNT 5efb300d-e9f4-43bf-b0fa-2bb629f869a5 32 WELL IIN'T GOING TO CHURCH TILL I'VE MADE UP MY MIND WHETHER I'M GOING TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN e3dd4cc4-2f5f-4f68-bed6-e68a1003c267 2425 HE EXCLAIMED BREATHLESSLY I WAS JUST ABOUT TO PHONE FOR THE POLICE I WAS FOR CERTAIN SIR I NODDED SHUDDERING e9089869-722d-413f-a000-c50b5c787971 2425 I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING VIC WELL DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED 0fbccc62-7295-40e5-b993-03edcc0c13e9 188 THEN THE STORY GIRL ARRIVED ARRAYED NOT IN ANY SECOND BEST BUT IN HER VERY BEST DRESS AND HAT WHICH HER FATHER HAD SENT HER FROM PARIS f0b1e59a-aa1b-4262-80c4-074d031339cf 413 IS AS NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY IS TO COME NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN BUT SARAH DEPARTED WEEPING 0a9dc3a0-af73-4671-9c7f-6e260b5420ef 188 FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES IT WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE 55adc637-70c0-41a8-9d86-cc10f737fafc 177 REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN IT WAS BRUSHED AND BRAIDED WITH PURITAN SIMPLICITY LOOK HERE I'LL TELL IT ANYHOW THAT'S A PROMISE c66a9753-fff5-44bc-98be-3a47fc815838 198 THE STORY GIRL CREPT OUT WITH FELIX AND ME TO THE MORNING ORCHARD WHILE DAN AND PETER WENT TO DO THE BARN WORK 490de20b-82fd-4cb9-be30-44ca35346e4a 103 I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU THESE TREES WERE NO LONGER LIVING BUT THEY HAD BEEN WHEN FATHER WAS A BOY AND EVERY SPRING BEDECKED THEMSELVES IN BLOSSOM AS DELICATELY TINTED AS ELIZABETH KING'S FACE WHEN SHE WALKED THROUGH THE OLD SOUTH MEADOW IN THE MORN OF HER LIFE AND LOVE 311d659e-ea6a-44fa-a4e9-e79740ee1e11 14 OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY 04f4da05-565d-4183-b4b2-5e38a4c6e962 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 072f07c8-6e2e-48a4-99ea-83b6dd88ff44 188 O PETER SHADOWS ARE SUCH PRETTY THINGS NOW DON'T MEDDLE WITH THE MAN CRIED BETTY WHAT A STATE TO BE IN BECAUSE ONE GOOD LOOKING LASS LIKE STAND SANDY HAIR AND GREY EYES BETTER THAN HIGHLAND BLACK AND BLUE 1c967178-a0f8-48af-ac21-e863fac6d1eb 14 I'M AWFULLY SORRY I LAUGHED IN CHURCH BUT YOU NEEDN'T BE AFRAID I EVER WILL AGAIN NO SIR 7d509999-cb1b-4eb6-9626-3da7d0cb4b5a 2317 AS A RED HAZE DRIFTED FROM BEFORE HIS EYES HE REALIZED THAT THE LAUNCH HAD ACQUIRED ANOTHER OCCUPANT BROAD CASTING WEARY VAUDEVILLE ROUTINES A DESIRE TO BRAG ABOUT HIS GADARY c50a3c7b-43a5-40c7-a0b8-f54926d073a1 2108 AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS OZMA WILL HELP YOU I'M SURE SAID DOROTHY WHERE DID THEY COME FROM 2eca2c20-a3ae-45dc-b317-7623a38dd000 2317 MER CAUGHT HIMSELF NODDING THE DIVING SUIT HAD SHIPPED SOME WATER OR WAS THAT LONG ISLAND 19d9154d-b218-4d99-ac7d-40041791c3f8 32 HER NAME WAS EMILY KING EVEN BEFORE GRANDFATHER KING WAS BORN I LIKE IT WHEN PETER PLAYS THE POET 22efa41b-403e-4ee1-90fe-e2d4c1f84b62 2274 YOU'RE TIRED HA INTO HIS EARS CAME STETSON'S VOICE IN THE HUMAN OY NORM ON THIS PLANET SAID HORN 7b903d9c-6cb3-46ff-9051-3f731c1b73cb 2286 IN THIS CASE I CHOSE THE NATURAL ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO BLIND CHANCE AND ACCIDENT da6fe116-71fa-4b9f-861b-a5764de47675 402 PETER IS VERY VERY SICK SHE SAID MISERABLY MARGARET WAITED FOR NEARLY A YEAR 8bdb8f0c-342c-4d4c-903b-d78b03603aac 32 THEY USED TO MEET UNDER THE BIRCHES AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT LOVE BUT YOU CAN HARDLY EVER COAX PETER TO BE THE POET ffed9fd3-13ab-40e6-9cef-21d7948e83c9 2368 THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY MY SON IS GONE 669fd6c0-23d8-4096-9b7f-f4c223b9cd13 2317 I COULD GO INTO THEORIES AND SCIENTIFIC DETAILS RAY SAID GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP 43420351-bdf2-4671-afe5-75fa7bb6a3e2 30 BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME AND OUR HOUSEKEEPER WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT 10d72040-602c-4381-abab-14129619305b 748 THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED LOOK HERE BEV IS THAT MAGIC SEED SO IT EVENTUALLY APPEARED efacc8ee-fbbe-4f1e-a003-41ef06dfe59c 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 0e033a87-c352-4427-90ae-86e29348f839 2108 IS A JUST PUNISHMENT FOR WICKEDNESS BUT I WISH I COULD READ THEM MYSELF AND I SAID THE CANARY FLYING CLOSE TO GINGER 9a3cd3cc-98f4-4367-9fdd-9bf62234b539 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 fd47013f-6745-4aa1-9e5d-ef53a106b73e 14 I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL ONCE BUT THE STORY GIRL'S BRIEF BITTER ANGER HAD VANISHED GO TO THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH UNTIL YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A HORSE 9346bdf9-1ccd-4bc6-9222-b7f4e4dca231 2312 HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE IT IS AN INTERESTING PLACE HE WOULD HAVE SAVED WORRY AND TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE a95d8ef9-2362-4c9e-9f13-ee74ea2fc67f 2137 AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR MAYBE IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE 7b81fc82-cd8c-427f-a8e3-6fc29ca3c2a0 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 0313f5e2-cb5d-4c3a-a6a3-f65fde710661 2274 THEY LOOK SOMETHING LIKE AN ANCIENT TERRAN CHIMPANZEE TOSSED IT TO ORAN HOW DID YOU CAPTURE THE DELPHINIS 300b6d99-490c-4be7-ba0a-f7aec479cdb0 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 ee033ac7-b1b4-4533-a922-c2dcd1a70f2f 2317 I THINK YOU'LL TURN OUT O K BUT NOT EVERYBODY AGREES CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD 2fb4e19a-c42f-457c-b7b8-4f75e3f7a8f6 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 I'VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THESE SHARP PAINS I'VE BEEN FEELING EVER SINCE DINNER MEANT 49a2ff7c-f7f9-401e-8ff1-2f2dfe72de16 2425 HIS GUN ROARED TWICE FROM BEHIND ME I WAS CONSCIOUS OF A FAINT GLOW FROM ABOVE AS I MOVED THE DIAL SLOWLY SO THAT ITS RED MARK APPROACHED THE STATIONARY ONE UPON THE PANEL 62e52900-08f4-46ab-86e4-e3accc7f5bc0 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 3c150fd9-1b73-4524-9a33-776eab33763b 2425 HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM THE GREAT REWARD FOR SOME NOTABLE SERVICE RENDERED I IMAGINE WHISPERED VIC 2f3b64c1-9150-4184-9f15-d36045b5157d 402 HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS 055207d2-6aac-449e-80ca-e407d790f4cf 2312 BUT THERE WERE OTHER INHABITANTS OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA OF A GENUS LESS CERTAIN GAVE HER SALT AND LOADED HER AGAIN AND IT IS RECOMMENDED FOR THE MAN WHO HAS SEEN EVERYTHING dbf4dd15-04b3-4014-bb59-4773ebd7dce3 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 825ecd97-bb36-4a67-b65b-4880621e132c 2108 AND THIS IS THREE YEARS OLD OF HIS FOLLY WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP BUT THE WITCH HAPPENED TO OVERHEAR OUR CONVERSATION 48cc664f-b00f-4a5a-b366-d8ab11c1e112 30 AS THE TRAIN PULLED OUT OF TORONTO BUT CERTAINLY PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND FROGS WERE MORE TUNEFUL AND MELLOW 253be013-4c3c-4e58-b45a-2d1beb3063de 242 WHEN WE ARRIVED BEHIND THE GRANARY THE OTHERS WERE ALL THERE YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN PERSISTED CECILY c4d4c28a-1283-44d9-8d15-1e0db7719598 2425 FRESH MULTITUDES WERE POURING UP THE RAMP BRUSHING ASIDE THE FIVE OR SIX PRIESTS THAT HAD HURRIED THERE I TURNED AND FACED THE STATUE AND THE REVERSE IS JUST AS TRUE 04ecc2e1-f683-47b5-8794-9aa372cb73df 103 WE KNEW ALL ABOUT IT FROM FATHER'S DESCRIPTIONS AND IN FANCY WE HAD ROAMED IN IT MANY A TIME AND OFT NEVER HAD WE HEARD A VOICE LIKE HERS NEVER IN ALL MY LIFE SINCE HAVE I HEARD SUCH A VOICE 56f71f12-3d19-4c5e-9e52-5ad75e17147d 1867 I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME a7f003af-1fb1-46fb-8e64-cab19571ac45 2312 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA 4dab346b-a639-433d-ba38-8493fd5c065e 177 YOU SAID YOU KNEW A STORY THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH PRESBYTERIANS I SAID TO THE STORY GIRL SAID CECILY IN A VERY TIMID VOICE 7968d4dd-d71f-4e20-84c7-4c2557299967 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 1975ee15-0f07-44ed-a05c-ec609bc6935a 2286 ROLY POLY PEPPY HAD SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A RUTHLESS KILLER HE KNEW WHAT HE WANTED THEN REACHED OUT AND TOOK IT 06afd205-c23e-4927-a0bc-3397edc19de6 464 SO I S'POSED THAT WAS EVEN YOU CAN'T GO ASTRAY AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU CAN ASK ME BUT DON'T BOTHER ME IF YOU CAN HELP IT e67fe84a-d854-4351-a00e-e9fbb5eab3c0 464 IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT e6683892-f8a5-4665-8ca5-df580ee63db5 2286 THE SHIP WOULD NEED A CREW A BASE FOR REFUELING AND OMISSION MORE PEOPLE WOULD DIE BEFORE THIS WAS OVER IT WAS UP TO ME TO KEEP THAT NUMBER AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE 688911b2-3e73-485c-98c7-b3635ba31677 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY THOSE ARE NOT THINGS ONE KNOWS ABOUT SHE SAID WITH DIGNITY DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG 44cc2bc6-7cf8-4600-8efb-01166b4806d5 30 SHE HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR HAD THEY REALIZED HOW FAR TO DEVELOP A FEELING OF AFFECTION FOR IT f2fa44f8-c2ab-4502-8ace-66e87a46ff48 2182 BUT IT WASN'T CHARLIE THEY CAN'T BE DANGEROUS HE SAID DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US 887ba66a-9cf8-4415-b20b-33172f9ab82f 748 THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE EVERY PUPIL OF CARLYLE'S SCHOOL e4df5085-b298-4684-99c0-56aee1e17e0b 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 9b898ef2-d1df-4c8a-aca7-ffb28156c7b0 2286 I GAVE HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE LEAGUE AND THE LEAGUE NAVY IN PARTICULAR WANTED TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP 5694706f-a1f7-4939-b868-cf827ffaa2e1 242 WHY ARE THERE NEVER NO STORIES ABOUT UGLY PEOPLE I JUST LOVE TO READ A STORY WHERE THE HEROINE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS A DREAM 63976bc6-5b67-4525-8352-afb999c48acf 2182 THEY TELEPHORTED AT ONCE INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO NEARBY NATIVES HIS SENSE OF LOSS AT SATTERFIELD'S GRIM NOD STEMMED FROM SOMETHING DEEPER THAN SYMPATHY FOR THE ISLANDERS f99e0d59-db71-4f24-97e4-fa39e99c17aa 30 IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GO AWAY FROM HER THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT SHE ISN'T A BIT PRETTY AFTER ALL HE VOWED THAT HE DIDN'T CARE 6cceca01-36bd-4ef4-a3b8-220dbf2347cd 402 PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND I SUPPOSE IF PETER 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 41634a14-2d47-442f-9b24-e05c74551b18 1867 AFTER ABOUT FIVE OF THE LOCAL DAYS I HAD A SEA OF NATIVE CONVERSATION IN THE MEMORY BANK OF THE MACHINE TRANSLATOR AND TAGGED A FEW EXPRESSIONS dc7333be-9b9a-4f58-a9f1-c170a993f1df 2182 AND SUPPLY NEURAL THERAPY EQUIPMENT AND THE EFFECT BORDERED ON THE SPECTACULAR FORCING US TO MAROON IT HERE FOR OUR OWN SAFETY 701d2fff-30f8-430e-a051-efd205498bf5 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 dde6946f-693e-42aa-910e-93715bf19043 14 FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT a4e22739-2c0a-4436-b428-f11cf8641a8b 464 I DON'T CARE HE SAID HOW'S A FELLOW TO KNOW TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED a5a706a0-0018-4d76-b341-d2d50cfef491 2108 STRAW IS MUCH MORE DELICIOUS IT TWISTED AROUND AND CUT OFF ONE OF MY ARMS THE GREEN MONKEY WAS SO STARTLED BY THE SUDDEN ATTACK THAT HE SPRUNG INTO THE FIREPLACE 50b2a784-7f36-42b8-9d83-0772f2cf8309 188 THE LABEL WAS LOST HE SAID IT WAS A FAMOUSSE AND SHE DECLARED IT WAS A YELLOW TRANSPARENT TAKE NOTICE FELICITY SAID DAN ASIDE 053fb38a-4baf-4816-b8e6-012425480157 2312 WHICH YOU AREN'T BUT TELL US THE STUNTED TREES WERE LOWER THAN THE GIANT BUSHES AND YUKA 0b4cf7d6-bf84-423a-a58b-9d541626f177 2368 SLOWLY HIS MIND OPENED AND BECAME PERCEPTIVE THE PRAYER HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE SMOKY ROOM YONAH SLIPPED IN 82e7b455-3be9-4eea-a930-53e22da53931 2274 I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID 6b7894c7-b866-43dc-8640-433b3ac3424d 748 FROM KING AND WARD LOOK HOW AUNT OLIVIA'S HENS LAID TOO IT DON'T SEEM FAIR TO ME afa3dd6c-0a3b-4a76-896c-69db246056cd 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 2b080de2-b965-47b7-98a5-b220fae03b35 2137 THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW CURSE THIS TULLIT HUCKY AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE 95cded34-9e05-406c-a705-d4f1ed78c691 177 WELL JUDY PROMISED SHE'D REMEMBER BECAUSE SHE LIKED MISSUS FRUIT AND WAS ANXIOUS TO PLEASE HER BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK THAT'S WHY SHE LET ME COME UP SHE SOBBED 5ed37c3f-8a2d-405f-8c9e-47ff60db74fc 451 BEGAN TO BUILD A SIMILAR BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HER STAR NEVER MIND IF IT IS BAD FOR A THOUSAND THOUSAND YEARS 2c1a48e1-cdb4-4198-a24a-f26490031192 402 WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME 550623ca-33b3-40b3-a241-4d8179bdc07a 2286 I LET MY EYES ROLL IN FEAR LOOKING AROUND FOR A WAY TO ESCAPE AND TAKING A PEEK AT THE OUTSIDE SCANNERS b7be8e34-deec-4bb1-9aa4-c1762ae52aa3 2137 I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS THE FIRE STILL SEEMED TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND YARDS AHEAD THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER cce02b0c-c3fc-46e1-b5e6-49cfaf597b9a 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 02fa5d8d-81f7-4387-9b7c-3d08eaa5e953 464 IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH 12cb5a3c-b6d4-4cad-a52f-6b2ad22a8942 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 d0a53977-6918-4e53-8de7-eb5d5e0c0b58 413 AFTER THAT PHILEAS DECLARED IT WOULD SERVE FELICITY WRITE IF THE STORY GIRL NEVER SPOKE TO HER AGAIN FELICITY HAD NEVER ADMIRED THE FORGET ME NOT JUG BUT SHE HAD ALWAYS HANKERED AFTER THE CHERRY VARS AN AFFAIR OF WHITE GLASS WITH A CLUSTER OF RED GLASS CHERRIES AND GOLDEN GREEN GLASS LEAVES ON ITS SIDE WHICH AUNT OILBY HAD GIVEN CECILY ONE CHRISTMAS 1efc8b0f-2801-4ac8-a978-1ed6cfbb4245 188 DAN AND FELIX SHELLED PEAS AND TORMENTED PAT BY ATTACHING PODS TO HIS EARS AND TAIL FELICITY FLUSHED AND SERIOUS MEASURED AND STIRRED SKILFULLY dcbc9901-2a1b-4836-bb0e-6684f1c13b0f 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 6b5e0cb6-dcee-4546-9c04-6c72c12624ec 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 8cd81f6e-63da-4909-9646-ee805b7e4bed 748 IF THE REST OF US HAD JUST SET DOWN AND DONE NOTHING INCIDENTALLY ADDING THAT HE WAS WELL AND LONESOME HAD BOUGHT MAGIC SEED f20dc7e3-2382-4f07-a5cc-170a72674ce2 2317 THIS IS A GREAT MOMENT IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN HISTORY HE SAID IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE BUT GARF REMAINED UNPREDICTABLE 1fa00504-0557-407e-8bbc-212d042c879a 188 YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE 592399a6-322b-4fae-9ae7-233cdf744eec 32 THE APPLES ARE DELICIOUS AND IN WINTER IT'S A SPLENDID PLACE FOR COASTING I JUST TOLD HER AS A FAVOR AND NOW YOUR AUNT JANET BLAMES ME FOR THE WHOLE TROUBLE be8bf109-3476-4294-838c-dba5a39038b9 413 BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT IF THERE HAD BEEN ONE WISE OLDER FRIEND TO TELL US IN SERIOUS FASHION THAT WE NEED NOT BE AFRAID c981491f-ece5-43f7-a7ab-29fed09d93a7 413 UNCLE ROGER WAS IN HIS BARN YARD HITCHING HIS BLACK MARE INTO THE BUGGY A SIGNIFICANT SMILE WHICH TO THOSE OF US SKILLED IN ITS INTERPRETATION d112cc2b-502b-474b-9b73-6df7b1dcd307 2312 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE A FINGER LONG MAYBE TWO MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE ffc4b872-a0e5-4085-8e9f-00908ce0b06a 2312 HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE 2e0edbf8-7821-4c92-9fe5-63b26a3554c8 2368 I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME AFTER ALL HE TOLD HIMSELF THERE WAS NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE DANGER DESPISED THE BORING BUSINESS OF LIVING ea0f7141-262c-4b03-b33b-5083b588c7de 14 OF THE TALE RESTED ON US FOR SOME MOMENTS AFTER THE STORY GIRL HAD FINISHED HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT FURTHER SOMEWHAT TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT f0a4dc6f-b652-4187-be7e-793e95cf799b 413 BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS e959b718-24ba-4573-8ed4-b146687c8d72 2286 BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES THE FREIGHTER'S CARGO PLUTONIUM WAS GONE ef0cd9f0-92e2-4021-be92-7ab901d45f2b 413 NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS ef20de00-0e5b-4cbd-9855-fdd35c65d96b 30 SARA STANLEY AND AS A RESULT WE WERE ALWAYS CATCHING EACH OTHER AT IT BUT YOU'LL THINK SHE IS WHILE SHE'S TALKING TO YOU ab7bf156-16f4-4478-836a-de12516adf5d 2317 THE SCENE ASSUMED SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF A BAD MOVIE COMEDY SHOVED PAST HIM AND GRABBED THE FRAGILE LOOKING THING FROM ITS CLEACH GARF WAS A CHANGED FEASTMAN c2ad2403-7bd4-40cc-9c6b-adb4e49e0914 402 I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE PETER COULD ONLY GIVE FOUR BUT DAN GAVE ELEVEN WHICH SQUARED MATTERS THE WILD WOODSINESS OF FERNS ea694788-8867-487a-93f2-8f7d447a3b6a 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 c2f14d89-b32c-4488-97d0-933e10082f9c 177 WANTED TO HAVE SOMETHING WHITE ON IT WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I 0af9191f-5983-4587-81c0-a329f1e4783c 2368 BUT HE REFUSED TO LET THE THOUGHT SPOIL HIS ENJOYMENT JONAS TOLD HIMSELF AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE OF HOURS THAT HE SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHAT TO DO WITHOUT THE RATS 6d2120fa-96cf-4658-b457-ed483449d327 2286 I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT THERE WAS A TAPE IN THE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR THAT WOULD PUT ME ON THE COURSE MENTIONED IN ALL THE ARTICLES JUST AT PRESS OF THE BOTTOM AND I WOULD BE ON MY WAY d8afb9a1-ed4d-43b3-88a2-a79d9e990fa0 464 THE STORY GIRL DID NOT BOTHER HER MONTHS WE THOUGHT HE WAS TRYING TO BE FUNNY UNTIL WE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS QUITE IN EARNEST 7250a7e1-7fdf-476d-8659-93f1a755b7d7 451 AND AT LAST THEY MET AND SPRANG INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS CECILY HAD A VERY SWEET VOICE AND I LISTENED IN DELIGHT BUT THE STORY GIRL SIGHED e56b7353-c887-4fc1-a78a-58f711163e10 748 WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER BUT UNCLE BLAIR COULD DO AT LEAST ONE THING SURPASSINGLY WELL bbf99d14-a787-4c71-aa45-c5ac78cd1eb2 2312 AT THE LITTLE PEOPLE TOWN BUT AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS THE INCANTO WORE OFF THERE WAS A CLEAR DUTY TO GET THE JOB DONE 850695d8-807a-487b-b866-b284002ac195 2368 THE HOUSES OF THE RICH WERE NATURALLY WOODEN THE POOR BUILT OF BAKED MUD ONE HAD BLACK COARSE HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND A STUBBLE ABOUT HIS FACE THE OTHER WAS BALD AS AN EGG 8c807e69-6200-4e10-a486-979475f0f9df 177 IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR 7d5e58d2-5ebe-4d1b-8555-b031d94c1f8a 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 f6ff569b-53f2-4159-a748-b36898733daa 413 AND EACH WAS DESIROUS OF CONVINCING THE REST OF US THAT THE OTHER WAS LESS THAN NOTHING TO HER ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF b231fd41-dd1d-488c-a7d1-b8bf1cc6f6ee 413 CICELY PESTERED OUR AUNT JANET'S LIFE OUT ASKING REPEATEDLY MAR WILL YOU BE GOING TO PRAYER MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT MAR WILL YOU BE PRESERVING RASPBERRIES NEXT WEEK AND VARIOUS SIMILAR QUESTIONS 4d83fdf9-b6e2-42be-9392-467bace4f491 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 6567228f-179d-4955-8f64-4709e1904e14 188 MISTER CAMPBELL WAS A TALL MAN WITH A MASSIVE HEAD WELL THATCHED WITH THICK BLACK HAIR GREY STREET 80cb85ef-b7f0-4407-8f6a-bd6b489c18cf 2182 HE LANDED ON SOMETHING TOUGH AND WARM AND SLIPPERY NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE AND ARRIVED LONG AGO AT A WORKING AGREEMENT WITH THE ISLANDERS 1ae1209f-450b-4901-8e28-6d731b3b3206 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 5d310db7-9df1-4429-bdf8-e7518d353584 2312 AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE f1ee1851-3560-4c77-ad08-cd63c68754a1 413 REMAINED A DEAD SECRET BETWEEN THE PARTIES OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PART FOREVER HIS COPY OF THE ENTERPRISE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS POCKET 6b2a70c3-37c3-449f-a186-43a22d4178b8 2317 THIS PASSED AND HE STARTED TO SMILE IN A PLACATING MANNER BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS FARMER'S HAYMAKER CONNECTED c1f4e829-70f5-4529-bed1-be04b59187d4 2368 YONAS SMILED SOFTLY BUT ALMOST A MINUTE PASSED BEFORE THE HUT OF AN OLD WOMAN SHOWED ITSELF AT THE WINDOW f8566fd6-c5ff-40f2-afa0-43a033876ee9 2137 NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL WE MAY YET SPOT THE ESCAPE CAPSULE A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN 577bef75-2018-4525-97af-bd185a8fdd69 2286 MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE ae2abec8-d806-4a0b-809e-b32e0bd645f5 402 LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT IT IS NOTHING OF THE SORT SAID MISTER MARWOOD INDIGNANTLY BUT THEY WOULD NOT YIELD 99cad044-4ec8-4248-8d18-701e049dad17 1867 IF THE BEACON CONKED OUT AGAIN THE M T WHISPERED IN MY EAR I'M SURE THERE WAS NO HUMANNESS IN THIS DECISION 1c3ea4dc-712d-4fc3-9dd9-c192dc29b540 14 PETER SIDLED UP TO HER WELL WE COULD HAVE A JOLLY FUNERAL YOU KNOW I SUPPOSE IT WILL DO WON'T IT 7e28c2ca-1513-435f-8abf-08a61891a265 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 babe377f-860f-4fee-975a-8041542d1a80 402 IT'S TOO WET ON THE GRASS AND I KNOW A STORY A TRUE STORY ABOUT AN OLD LADY I SAW IN TOWN AT AUNT LOUISE'S 93e549b3-da7d-42fb-8a97-245409118b0a 32 UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER 2d8e5ef1-9017-481b-be16-426fb57342dc 2274 ABOUT FIVE FEET TALL DO WE NOT LOOK STRANGE TO YOU IF THEY THINK IT'S A GROUND BUGGY THEY MIGHT GET CARELESS WHEN YOU MOST NEEDN'T ADVANTAGE WE COULD ALWAYS SCOOP YOU OUT OF THE AIR YOU KNOW WHAT ARE MY CHANCES ON THIS ONE STEP d28b895b-291e-4dbd-971d-3d26e46cb561 2182 WE MAY RETURN LATER WITH THE CAMTHORIAN HUNTING PARTY AND RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT FORESTED WITH ENDLESS ROWS OF FINS AND SPINES AND ENIGMATIC TENDRILS 69d38fa5-9c70-435a-9679-fe47278f9db7 748 FINALLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE TALE OF THE PRISONER OF CHILI SHE PRAYED FOR IT YOU KNOW SAID FELIX AFTER SARA HAD GONE HOME c40f4887-f96d-4e3e-8621-b162e445047d 198 AND ANYHOW HE IS VERY GOOD AND WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE DON'T LET HIM GO OUTSIDE THOUGH HE HAS A COLD NOW 2217b40a-732a-4553-bd89-e0c5d0dc27e3 103 AND NOW WE HAD COME TO THE ORCHARD IT WAS BEFORE US WE HAD ONLY TO OPEN THAT LITTLE WHITEWASHED GATE IN THE HEDGE AND WE MIGHT FIND OURSELVES IN ITS STORY DOMAIN SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS 422e1744-a106-4378-882d-de5f4845e3f2 748 FATHER COULD TALK WELL THAT WAS ALL HER OWN THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN HIM VERY INTIMATELY ebfd1fe1-4452-44be-b9de-5cd6f731305a 2368 HE HAD SMALL ALMOST HIDDEN EYES THAT SEEMED TO SEE A GREAT DEAL THAT FAILED COMPLETELY TO MAKE A FUSS ABOUT THE FACT f60a05dc-ce08-4ea3-971b-4073b4eeb9b5 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 bc879671-eabc-4948-aecc-57362d44fce6 2182 HE YELLED UNGALLANTLY IN HER EAR CHAFFY FOUR AGREED RELUCTANTLY EVER SINCE THE FOURTH WORK CUT THEM OFF FROM US 33bfc8c5-c030-4a27-949f-a475070d6574 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 534b0a2d-02e1-4221-8eb4-dcbb70fd7be1 30 WE DISCOVERED THAT WE WERE VERY TIRED ALSO OFTEN COMES UP TO PLAY WITH US AND IT IS AWKWARD TO HAVE TWO GIRLS OF THE SAME NAME IN THE SAME CROWD THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING f985b568-d789-46d5-be1d-1dbeb4d0637d 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 16849f6d-8f12-4e62-94dd-b93e7a0707ca 402 AND WHEREVER HE WENT AMONG MEN HE TAUGHT THEM LOVE AND BROTHERHOOD AND SKILFUL ARTS AND ALTHOUGH STRANGERS GREATLY ADMIRING THEM OFTEN CARRIED AWAY ROOTS AND SEEDS d2ddb12d-b8f3-4b46-bd8c-b7b8731695f8 2425 FOR AN INSTANT THERE WAS NO MOVEMENT NO SOUND FROM ALL THAT VAST CROWD THE KNOB DROPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A CLATTER BUT THE DOOR GAVE NOT AT ALL b78e9ba5-823d-43d0-afd0-a00114899eac 242 UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I 3ed7a960-bd63-4716-8792-81dcea063f93 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 220c8580-582a-4b91-80dc-e328bff64808 748 WHATEVER HER FUTURE CAREER SHOULD BE UNCLE BLAIR STANLEY HAD BEEN A MERE NAME TO US WHAT COULD YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG bdc8c9fd-51ce-4670-b34c-10cbc29dc8ce 30 BUT SHE HAD DAINTY LITTLE FEATURES AND MILD BROWN EYES IT HAD TAKEN ROOT AND GROWN 7d7a7c41-38df-45d9-9fc7-5813c8c43e18 188 WHO KNEW WHAT SORT OF A RECEPTION WE MIGHT MEET SHE'S A PARTICULAR FRIEND OF MINE SAID CECILY WITH DIGNITY WE HAVE HER EARN EVERYTHING AND IT WOULD HURT HER FEELINGS DREADFULLY TO BE LAUGHED AT THIS aaadfb62-3506-4f2b-ace9-57fb49a8ac55 1867 I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN e66120e9-b794-43f9-91fe-1f536458327b 1867 HYPERSPACE BEACONS ARE TO LAST FOR EVER OR DAMN CLOSE TO IT SHAKING MY HANDS OVER MY HEAD I WENT DOWN FOR THE EYE BURNING CEREMONY 817e21da-a223-439d-a47c-462fda5567b6 32 COULD BE BOUGHT IN ANY SHOP FOR A TRIFLING SUM AND MADE UP OUT OF HAND I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING d61b667e-5625-4eb7-af34-1de0187de71d 2137 FINALLY IN DESPERATION HE SWITCHED OFF THE TELETOCKY TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET dc54fdff-5aeb-4d05-953b-bd08dc98a98e 177 NO BETTER PLAN BEING SUGGESTED WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE ORCHARD AND SAT ON THE BOUGHS OF UNCLE ALEC'S TREE BECAUSE THE GRASS WAS WET IT SOUNDSIBLY DREADFUL TO HEAR YOU CALL THE BIBLE AN INTERESTING BOOK abfc016c-91ff-4c85-8b06-11aec6da3709 2317 RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND OH YES SHE SAID WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE aca906b0-022c-4a06-b379-e03a21605cd0 2274 GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME ON THE TRANSLIGHT SCREEN THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB 886766ff-6233-4f73-adec-4346119580a0 30 WE WERE FARING FORTH ON A LONG ROAD WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM FELIX AND I 91ce25d0-dd27-440d-814d-79e1b316c5d7 32 HER CURLS STREAMING BEHIND HER IN A GOLDEN CLOUD THERE WAS A DOUBLE ROW OF APPLE TREES RUNNING DOWN THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE ORCHARD f3f45dc9-b9fb-4186-938e-7544179e7a51 2108 DURING THESE LAST FEW MOMENTS NONE HAD PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PRISONERS THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING RUSHED UP AND SEIZED THE AXE AND CHOPPED MY BODY 25979a43-a2c4-4f21-831a-7881e37345a9 464 OH SARA STANLEY IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I AM THAT YOUR AUNT OLIVIA IS TO BE HOME TO NIGHT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH dbb3fd97-76f8-43d6-940c-54cecc57b2ea 242 DAN CALLED HER A TELL TALE AND A BABY AND SNEERED AT HER UNTIL CECILY BEGAN TO CRY OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I 298951ab-5845-4d63-8e22-c8a16e0b9ba3 2286 WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL DURING THE KINGLY WARS ANY NUMBER OF TYPES WITH A COUPLE OF SHIPS AND LESS BRAINS THAN PEPPY HAD SET UP JUST THIS KIND OF EMPIRE e16a16e7-f3c7-4e1c-a1eb-7508d97bcf52 1867 THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING ddebc972-5b30-4aff-bec0-feadf327d9c4 32 EVERYBODY THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY EXCEPT FELIX I LIKE PETER WELL ENOUGH IN HIS PLACE THRONE PULPIT OR CONCERT PLATFORM AS OCCASION REQUIRED 8e7c2402-3767-4c1c-ac61-cc629a614c9a 2108 THE TINSMITH MADE ME TIN ARM AND I WAS NOT MUCH WORRIED BECAUSE NIMMY AMY DECLARED SHE STILL LOVED ME HIS IDEA WAS TO SEIZE HER CHAIR AND PULL IT OUT BY THE ROOTS 3424503f-2e39-44bd-9b84-a55bd3552d33 198 BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF 636f7182-6a61-49c5-9246-7cfed3d5e46a 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 9dde754a-8ffb-4217-8264-b33cc44ceb0b 2182 HAD WALLOWED INTO THE SHALLOWS ALONGSIDE HIS DOCK HANG ON WE'RE GOING CHAFFY THREE AGREED SHAKENLY d9d62171-89fc-4355-8629-1019d4096caf 748 WE LOOKED AT HER WITH A SLIGHTLY INCREDULOUS AWE I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US 1d6da43b-abae-4d5a-b75c-bde47b8f710a 2182 ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER BRINGING SUPPLIES AND GOSSIP TO LAST JEFF THROUGH THE FOLLOWING TEN DAY 1519d6a6-826f-4569-975f-a9d53911a364 198 HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN AWKWARD MAN THERE IN THE HEART OF THE MAPLE WOODS THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU 77cd6b45-26aa-4fc1-9dd1-e640f13207a6 2286 MAN WITH A CURIOSITY BUMP AS BIG AS YOURS WILL ALWAYS TALK FIRST AND SHOOT LATER ROCCA COULDN'T BELIEVE IT NEITHER COULD THE PRESIDENT THEY WANDERED UP AND DOWN THE EMPTY WAYS WHERE IT HAD BEEN BUILT 15b14087-f1cf-4599-9b2f-df4e629137ac 14 WHY PATTY JUST SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS IT SEEMED SO TO STRIKE PETER 30ab0b5a-5afc-4248-b1c7-b81da7b44c8b 14 SHE'S JUST MAD AND NO WONDER WHATEVER MADE YOU ACT SO CRAZY PETER BEHIND US WAS AN OLD GRAY FENCE WITH VIOLETS AND DANDELIONS THICK IN ITS CORNERS a2fa2f96-d7e8-4ea6-b98f-64ac6790a092 2182 THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY bf17c3bc-52a0-436c-8fb9-763c7f6e5292 2286 A UNIFORM WATCHMAN FRANTICALLY WAVED TO US AND THE WHOLE CONVOY JERKED TO A STOP THE SHIP WAS GONE WHAT BATTLESHIP HE GASPED RAID THE MENTAL HOSPITALS AND JAILS 7e75db04-a989-4596-ae71-3582298ee45d 402 I WANTED TO SEE THE PICTURE AS SOON AS YOU DID SAID DAN AH DAN WHAT MAKES YOU ASK SUCH QUESTIONS EXCLAIMED CECILY IN REAL DISTRESS I WONDER IF HE'LL EVER COME BACK TO HIS FAMILY SAID CECILY 58994eb4-562d-4e4a-acc9-af592450a78a 748 NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM 23552536-c3a9-4a70-9253-4d13a42cec97 464 NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY 555e98fc-e9b2-45aa-bf5a-0c91553ad663 2317 AGAIN SHE CAME TO A DECISION QUICKLY AND THE JUDGE HAD GOTTEN A NASTY CRACK ON THE HEAD APPARENTLY THE FEASTMAN THOUGHT NOTHING AT ALL OF HIS STATE OF NUDITY cf32ba13-644d-4a20-a9c2-64da77ffaa1a 2274 HORN STOPPED ON TO NUB'S ORDER AND THEY WAITED ALMOST TEN MINUTES BEFORE PROCEEDING RATE ITSELF SAID ORNE AN ANCIENT TERRAN LANGUAGE CORRUPTION OF beb4432e-5692-42e8-9224-fe272d8fc75c 2274 KEEP TALKING HIS STETS AND KEEP HIM INTERESTED DON'T BE IMPATIENT GLASS BLOWING CULTURE MEANT THEY WERE JUST OUT OF THE PRIMITIVE STAGE abee6870-7c33-4d35-97e2-69a0d984c72b 2286 EXAMINING THE PICK OF THE BATTLESHIP UNDER THE LIGHT FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY c8a6022b-4b7e-4d04-aeef-3fd779bcfbbc 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 aaba297d-6f91-42ed-a8d1-08a2931fc034 188 DOUBTLESS A FAIR EXCHANGE IS NO ROBBERY AND BROWN BESS IS A GOOD MARE IN HER WAY APPARENTLY FURNISHED FORTH FELICITY'S CONCEPTION OF PARADISE 5090291b-e506-4820-8b46-8e60f9de470c 413 THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER WREATH AND PUT IT ON FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT BEEN SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER AND CONSEQUENTLY THERE HAD BEEN SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK adf84368-3945-4325-b931-2e570cb8e6c5 413 OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I ON THE PRECEDING MONDAY FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL HAD QUARRELLED OVER SOMETHING 19786a7c-1c14-4977-96ca-5e5056c6a754 2368 AND SUPPOSE YOU HAVEN'T THEN YOU CAN'T TRANSMIT A THING TO HIM YOU'RE TRAPPED IN THE HOUSE REMEMBER AND THE FIRE'S STARTED WHAT GOODS YOU'D TELEPATHY d61bf100-18ef-4ea2-bf90-32157944c6cb 2286 IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE 47a3dfc0-efa5-41b7-8811-c0b7ea28a362 2182 SOMETHING ODD IN THE SET OF THE QUEEN'S SAILS PUZZLED HIM UNTIL HE IDENTIFIED THE ABNORMALITY 0d565db0-016d-437d-8ba9-b0b5917e072a 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 924334b6-697a-4172-a24b-762584fca6f7 402 THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY HE'S A PRESBYTERIAN YOU KNOW SAID FELICITY REASSURINGLY AND SHE LOVED ALLAN DUNBAR JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER 1c750b82-3b65-4ccb-8252-92452faefc10 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 c01c2840-f262-4962-87cb-687add0edb38 2137 BRANDON CLOSED HIS EYES FOR A MOMENT THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS BEYOND IT HE COULD SEE THE GLEAMING METAL RIBBONS OF THE DROG SHOOT 00f6cf1a-acb4-4602-b042-ee774ec57a54 2368 HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF HE WERE ABOUT TO SPIT OUT AN INCANTATION MEDITATE ON A PRAYER YONAS SAID YONAS GRINNED SUDDENLY AND SAT STRAIGHTER I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D BE GETTING INTO CONTACT SOONER OR LATER HE THOUGHT c0334571-d487-4ac2-8e8f-a2dcbd1d1be4 198 THERE WE STOOD IN A HUDDLED DEMORALIZED GROUP 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 850677e9-0a1b-4947-8a11-01b3647fd28f 2137 THE TAIL PIPE TEMPERATURE SEEMED ALL RIGHT IT COULD BE A FALSE INDICATION TOWERS SAID IN A TONE THAT IRRITATED BRANDON WE'RE GOING TO SET HER DOWN ON A SOLID PIECE OF GROUND NEAR ONE OF THE OCEANS 8a490028-d5c5-4ec7-89b6-febeb3fcd7cf 2312 HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS DON'T GAPE GET IT 7edcf269-ae0d-447b-9b3e-2f6ab2b7b252 451 WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED 9fd14b44-643e-431f-b95d-11b7d0a3a335 2108 WHO WORE SILVER SHOES AND WHO HAD GINGER IS A GIRL EXPLAINED THE SCARECROW BEAR SHE'S A FINE GIRL TOO df9513a6-a056-45b0-a208-ebbb6146b33f 103 HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY 0d0eaa48-bdc2-48c9-973d-b9d6277cf541 32 SHE LOVED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART LAST NIGHT I DREAMED A DRAM ASKED FELIX SCEPTICALLY 36434847-aa3d-4383-bdf4-968a4f540199 177 IF SHE HADN'T BEEN AFRAID I DON'T BELIEVE SHE WOULD HAVE LET ME COME UP BUT I'D HAVE DIED IF I COULDN'T HAVE COME a4715599-b4da-41f0-a86f-2ee005001f6d 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 322823df-97ae-4e2c-8cbd-a5fbc2b9ada2 177 WHY YOU WOULDN'T TELL STORIES IN HEAVEN THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN WHEREVER WE ARE NEXT SUNDAY 903034d9-a415-40ed-a6b2-d7378aa50dd7 451 WE WERE ALL IN THE HAYLOFT IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B cae7752d-4703-433d-9c7c-d2a13906bccb 748 BILLY SAID THAT THE SEED WOULD SHRINK IT FOR SURE KATE MAR SAYS IT'S LIKE A GASH IN A PIE THE GIRLS IN SCHOOL LAUGH AT IT SO 17e3ef07-54f4-4d7b-a8bf-94ca12d9def5 2317 GARF PADDLED IDLY AROUND DOR'S APARTMENT PRETENDING INTEREST IN THE SHELL PAINTINGS THAT DECORATED THE WALLS 06f2c41e-6f27-43cd-806e-4b18549ce825 2274 NEGATIVE IT'S CRASH PRIORITY THEM AND THEIR STUPID ORDERS IN ALL THEIR HISTORY HISTORY 20d1d959-51be-4d9d-8d69-15adc26d62e9 2286 I HAD VERY LITTLE SITTING DOWN PATIENCE ANYWAY AND IT HAD BEEN LONG SINCE EXHAUSTED IT WAS A FOUR HOUR DRIVE AND WE MADE PLANS ON THE WAY DOWN I CAN BE CONNED ONCE d884446d-4f0e-4f6e-8254-75527e193ecf 30 HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL AND THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD BEFORE IT 70741e0f-44c7-4fa6-940c-6537acc544e0 464 AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE 862010b8-d0f6-4cba-8c5c-24e48b744ce7 103 WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION WELL I LIKE UNCLE ROGER SAID THE STORY GIRL MEDITATIVELY ca653883-8253-4bcc-91a1-a974574ef679 30 WE WERE VERY HUNGRY BOYS AND WHEN WE HAD EATEN ALL WE COULD AND OH WHAT SUPPERS AUNT JANET ALWAYS SPREAD 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THE POSSIBILITIES HE UNDERSTOOD THE DOT YARD COMMANDER SHOWED ME THE SHIP AND MADE A NOBLE EFFORT TO CONTROL HIS CURIOSITY e571a475-59af-4a6f-a43d-5a6c85e172a4 188 BUT THE MASTER WOULD NOT LET THEM AND NOW WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR HER UNCLES ROARED WITH LAUGHTER OVER THE RECOLLECTION e08ca37c-037f-4073-9eaa-a52b10ec3287 2368 HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND FELT THE STRENGTH IN HIM GATHER TO A SINGLE POINT AND FLOW OUTWARD THE TWO MEN SUDDENLY SEEMED TO STAGGER THERE WAS A SECOND OF CONFUSION AND THEY HAD LET HIM GO 00c35b87-4637-4049-b699-332fd635fd32 2182 OLD CHARLEY HAD ABANDONED HIS BOAT AND WAS SWIMMING IN TO ESCAPE THE SCOOP THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM cbeb6491-3cb6-4666-bd35-afe9e723a29f 177 THAT DAUNTLESS BIRTH WOULD SOAR TRIUMPHANTLY ABOVE THE WRECK OF MATTER AND THE CRASH OF WORLDS TAKING WITH IT ALL ITS OWN WILD SWEETNESS AND DARING e46c1b4f-a232-4ba7-8c80-0fe009d44bc8 242 BUT HE THOUGHT THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED WHEN CECILY CAME TO HIM ONE DAY AND TOLD HIM THAT PETER WAS PRAYING AGAINST HIM 083aed16-0632-4dc7-8937-3eb980de9c76 2137 BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY HIS BREATHING WAS SHORT STRAINED HE COUNTED THEM PULLED THE CHUTE RELEASE 2ea4b658-86b6-410f-81bb-b1bcdfd8a553 177 I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO aaf849e8-ad6d-4e0f-9ad2-6623683aebea 451 HE TALKED VERY NICELY AND READ AND PRAYED JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THINKING OF GOING BAREFOOTED 46fdbb44-6fc1-4d90-b1a2-a0c2ee03c623 32 BUT HE WORE IT WITH SUCH AN UNCONSCIOUS AIR OF PURPLE AND FINE LINEN THAT HE SEEMED TO BE MUCH BETTER DRESSED THAN HE REALLY WAS aeb628c5-4957-4a29-b608-81c8d2c73972 188 A RICH MAN IN TORONTO HAD A FLORAL CLOCK IN HIS GARDEN I SAID OH I WISH WE HAD ONE HERE EXCLAIMED CECILY SHE SAYS SHE HE KEEPS IT VERY NEAT 3bb1f74e-8b89-4149-9bb4-70418f6fb284 32 I THINK IT'S A GOOD DEAL BETTER TO PICK YOUR OWN RELIGION THAN HAVE TO TAKE IT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHAT YOUR FOLKS HAD RETORTED PETER LISTENED JUST AS EAGERLY AS WE DID 6d52bfaa-b53e-4cca-8868-107f2a87b96c 188 OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND THIS LETTER IS FROM JAMES WARD'S WIFE AND MONTREAL SAID AUNT JANET SOLEMNLY c93b7c9b-9db8-47f9-bc76-56fab20abcf8 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 801098d3-a316-4edf-9a5d-1353db739412 413 FELICITY WAS SIPPING FROM THE CUP OF CLOUDED BLUE WITH AN OVERDONE AIR OF UNCONCERN EACH WAS ACUTELY AND MISERABLY CONSCIOUS OF THE OTHER'S PRESENCE IF THE DAILY ENTERPRISE SAID THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WAS TO BE THE JUDGMENT DAY HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AROUND IT 53e111dd-368b-4f30-be6d-e0c8c8924be6 2368 AND IN ANY CASE HE SAID NO ONE KNOWS WHY OR HOW THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO BE SURE 212342aa-5bed-4831-ad35-588e440175d6 30 HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD 9a60bd9a-9a70-459e-9fa2-9c6109a42959 2312 GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH ONLY PEOPLE MANOEL AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL 06d99d1f-3f00-49ca-a27c-747c4477ee03 2137 THE PLANET HAS WATER AND BOTH ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE HE WATCHED UNTIL THE FLARE FLICKERED OUT EXCUSE ME COLONEL TOWERS b95f0129-188e-46c8-bb63-004057761a30 103 I MIGHT SAY IT WAS VIBRANT AND FAR REACHING AND BELL LIKE ALL THIS WOULD BE TRUE WHAT IS UNCLE ROGER LIKE WAS OUR NEXT QUESTION c7b84bb3-23cb-4391-b44e-88cac37d53f6 2312 HE WAS BEING HARANGUED BY A FOUR INCH TALL MAN ON HIS BEDSIDE TABLE YET EVEN ABOUT MULA THERE WAS AN ODDITY IN HER ANCESTRY 02abcd37-fd33-40e9-9f48-3ef3121014ab 2137 FUNNY HE SHOULD BE LYING ON HIS BACK LOOKING AT THE SKY HE THOUGHT PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE NOXIOUS GASES MIGHT BE PRESENT 4911c1ce-3ed8-4db6-8d23-fa10b02e8e0d 464 AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW 52b45618-931f-4bcc-9a0f-80bc068f7ffd 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER TRUE ENOUGH BUT FOR THE REST YOU'RE WRONG PETE OLD SON YOU'RE NOT MATTER ANY MORE fbf0aa76-b914-4998-aba3-3f55cd3d7e37 2368 OF COURSE BUT INTEREST ALL THE SAME BUT HE HAD ENOUGH IN THAT ONE GLIMPSE TO TELL HIM THE REASON FOR SHARP'S MISERY a3288049-c38a-46ba-b83d-c12e55bcddf2 451 PUTTING HIS HAND ON A PORTION OF HIS ANATOMY CONSIDERABLY BELOW HIS STOMACH I'M AWFUL TIRED AND THANKFUL SIGHED CECILY IT'S DREADFUL TO SPOIL A WHOLE DAY 39df021e-bea0-43f2-987a-e04ddc5c70be 2137 BUT THERE'S NO GAMBLE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE VERY MUCH AWARE OF GRAVITY AFTER YEARS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS HE WALKED TO THE CANOPY OF THE CHUTE AND SPREAD IT OUT ON THE FLAT GROUND IN A FULL CIRCLE 2106b405-d421-41ec-a076-db56a7331a95 402 NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING ELSE MY BOY IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER AND YOU ARE LET'S SEE HIM BEFORE IT HAPPENS DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOMETHING WORSE 52d513b9-b715-481a-9e6d-6749e19624c3 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 96ae4560-5293-4e59-b131-809ae9fd27ac 402 I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS DID GOD LOOK LIKE THAT AND THERE'S A PICTURE OF EDEN THROWN IN TWO YOU KNOW 7e731c3e-5098-4a3c-8db2-2dd221ddfcf2 103 SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US 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 1ca1aafd-09af-4058-9043-7f99fd159a4f 748 EUROPE SEEMED ALMOST AS REMOTE AND UNREACHABLE AS THE MOON THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL 2a98d701-6c99-494a-afbe-3a30e445b1b9 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 ca918fe6-a44e-4917-86be-7ba197b9ec76 2137 THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF RHINHARD REPLIED QUIETLY BRANDON'S VOICE SOUNDED STRANGE AND DISTANT AS HE TALKED TO HIS OXYGEN MASK ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN 15d4946c-4a25-4f60-9c3a-4f5a5e3414b9 2317 I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO PUZZLE YOU OR MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR BY ME MAKING YOU HE PROTESTED HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WILL WORK RAY YELPED HE STARTED AFTER HER 95999775-4e33-450f-938d-10e8f7617ebd 14 AND THE STORY GIRL SPRANG TO HER FEET AND FOR A MOMENT WE SAW THE PROUD PRINCESS OF THE OLD TALE IN ALL HER SCORNFUL LOVELINESS fac40555-a148-4cc7-a9a2-73c670a20b5c 2368 SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING 4fda5de6-695a-4490-ac88-9af9c656244e 1867 I HAD MEANT TO SAIL OUT BRAVELY BLIND EYES FACING INTO THE SUNSET I JAMMED THE IRON HARD INTO MY PHONY EYE SOCKETS AND THE PLASTI GAVE OFF AN AUTHENTIC ODOR 2448f1e1-81c4-4b2e-890f-0b114859610d 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 658ca5c7-e778-4440-92a1-3f9dbbf50b4e 2312 THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS 2fb9fbb9-a883-4cf6-aeb5-a497cdbf91dd 2137 IS OF COURSE TO MAKE IT USEFUL TO YOU APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU LET'S FACE IT BRANDON IS DEAD d7ae8c5c-2d50-4b7c-b698-248841adba80 177 SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED PADDY WOULD NEVER BE EATEN MICE IF IT WAS 6e261777-e287-4434-93cb-e4b9562374ca 2317 JOHN ANDREW YELLED AT HIM AS HE ARCHED FORWARD BUT IT WAS TOO LATE AS SHE FINISHED HER CONVERSATION AND SWITCHED OFF THE TWO WAY RADIO HE TURNED TO HER 4402422f-5dca-4be1-8f4e-039f215b163b 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 388a5ff0-24a8-484d-9c71-a03c6002678a 464 NEVERTHELESS ALTHOUGH NONE OF US NOT EVEN UNCLE ROGER OR FELICITY SAID A WORD AT THE TIME FOR FEAR OF HURTING THE STORY GIRL'S FEELINGS 7b20797d-7d57-4bc4-a929-742e0106ea20 103 WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY IT WAS A VISION TO DEVELOP SLOWLY INTO FULFILMENT OLD PEG BOWEN SHE'S VERY QUEER 61faae37-2d3e-4e90-be07-c72d7d98771a 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID AND YOU CAN'T ATTEND THERE JUST NOW UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEEDS A DOSE OF PHYSIC 826688cf-34f8-4f76-b2f8-24c046253664 2182 THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID 220eaa14-66f5-4e4a-8f85-a273e19642c1 103 IT WAS NOW NEARLY SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT HAD HAD ITS BEGINNING WHEN GRANDFATHER KING BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME THIS ISN'T TOPSY IS IT I ASKED I KNEW AT ONCE THAT THE QUESTION WAS A FOOLISH ONE 74330593-02b6-43c7-9c7a-8d6eac4db69e 2368 THE TRIALS WILL CEASE YONAS FINISHED YOU KNOW WELL THE WORTH OF SUCH CONFESSIONS IT IS A TRICK HE BEGAN A e8b7673e-4ae6-4cd9-aed9-c607db084290 103 I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM 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 3f0d1684-22dd-472e-b566-e9d59e946376 198 DID HEAR A BELL RING SAID PETER STUBBORNLY BESIDES ADDED FELIX IN THE TONE OF ONE WHO SAYS WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS YET HOPE YOU MAY LEARN TO COOK YET IF YOU KEEP ON TRYING 4cca9f5c-51fe-4bc6-999c-789f6eefad2d 2137 THE HILLS WERE STUDDED WITH WEIRD TREES STANDING STIFF BRANCHES OUTSTRETCHED LIKE AN ARMY OF SCARECROWS 67c2db7f-92f1-4793-9a44-65cebc07d3e4 2425 A TREMENDOUS CURRENT OF IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE WEIGHT OF THE WIRE CARRYING IT AND ONE WAS FIERY RED 4cf84993-1bb8-4271-880a-0d8ab155a85e 2274 SECTION A B SIX NO TIME NOW TRUST ME NO THAT MEANT THE PEOPLE 7c50ca77-d1bd-46ec-87b1-10e741639c94 2137 AND EVENTUALLY WE LEARN TO HARNESS IT FOR A USEFUL PURPOSE BECAUSE THE TRIP TOOK FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA WE'LL MAKE A QUANUM JUMP f39a1d00-88c9-4e46-ad92-5728395497f5 198 UNCLE ROGER DID NOT COME TILL NEARLY TEN NEVER WAS THERE A MORE WELCOME SOUND THAN THE RUMBLE OF HIS WHEELS IN THE LANE d92acb09-544e-4019-9558-26eb7fbddc93 2182 WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK THERE IS NO DANGER IN SPITE OF DISTANCE AND THE SWIFT APPROACH OF THE OLD FISHING BOAT a3c19af5-40c2-4df4-b979-8cb573a3e8e4 2368 IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID THAT'S RIGHT YONA SAID SMILING AGAIN I'M A WIZARD A WARLUCK 2860fda7-6a42-4d27-a6c0-aac7a218d162 30 WITH JUST A HINT OF DEMURENESS IN THEM NOW AND AGAIN TO LEND A WONDERFUL CHARM TO OUR SPECULATIONS CONCERNING IT efb78d4f-e5ed-4c4a-a3df-8af934ea0d5f 103 LET'S GET UP AND GO DOWN AND OUT I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE TO SEE THE PLACE HIS FATHER TOLD US OF THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS 5d348c99-2a9e-499a-a332-5d317d040287 2286 A SMALL WAVE OF CUSTOM MEN HUNG STICKERS ON MY LUGGAGE PEEKED INTO ONE OR TWO FOR CONFORMITY'S SAKE AND WAVED ME THROUGH I THREW THEM AS SNAPPY A SALUTE AS I COULD MUSTER AND I FILED OUT 3646498e-871b-41df-95d2-07e79d0ded5c 451 MISTER SCOTT PLANTED THE YELLOW PLUM TREE IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME SAID CECILY PEELING ONE OF THE PLUMS 4e5d79eb-4a0d-4998-a50c-ddd54ec00f98 2108 BY CHOPPING UP THE TREES OF THE FOREST TO MAKE FIREWOOD IF YOU WISH TO MEET WITH REAL CLEVERNESS REMARKED THE SCARECROW YOU SHOULD VISIT THE MUNCHKIN FARMER WHO FIRST MADE ME AND THE YUKAH OO MAGIC IS VERY PECULIAR a83bcc56-723d-4359-a310-bb8b5f957cae 748 THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO a7b0f11e-2407-451a-9266-67bdf26d28d0 451 THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE I THINK I'LL WRAP IT UP AND KEEP IT IN MY BOX HE SAID ONCE THERE WERE TWO ARCHANGELS IN HEAVEN 34493b4f-4532-41cb-9440-de1e89052f3c 413 BUT I'LL HAVE TO CHANCE IT NOW SHE SAID RUN AWAY AND DON'T BOTHER ME I HADN'T ANY TIME FOR YOUR NONSENSE RESPONDED FELICITY IN AN INJURED TONE AND I SAID BUT MA THE PAPER SAYS TO MORROW IS THE JUDGMENT DAY EVERYTHING LOOKS JUST THE SAME cfc335fa-f580-4387-8767-4416fe977e91 2425 THIS SECOND DIAL WAS NO MORE THAN A THIN DISK OF HARD RUBBER OR BAKE LIGHT WITH A RED SCRATCH MARK ON ONE SIDE a140f93e-9108-4076-b8f5-7eed61c02025 2368 THEN HE SAW WHAT WAS IN THEIR MINDS AND THE DISTASTE CHANGED TO FEAR THIS WAS THE PARISH CHURCH OF COURSE A GOOD SOLID WOODEN STRUCTURE NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID c824c703-45a3-4c72-bbe1-7417d8041895 2368 YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE 94e97862-7745-4652-b502-3eadb33b2cc7 413 OF PLAYING TRUANT FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GOING FISHING ONE DAY OF A CERTAIN FIB NO NO AWAY FROM THIS AWFUL HOUR WITH ALL SUCH EUPHONIOUS OF AGENTS OF A LIE I HAD ONCE TOLD BUT THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT'S TO COME I SAID UNCOMFORTABLY WE BOYS WERE SPRAWING ON THE GRASS 64b70358-536d-47f9-adb6-eb54666375e5 2274 YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEWBE THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR f9e417e8-903f-4ab8-b592-a90fb075d1e8 402 WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS THE STORY GIRL LOOKED MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD 40f715e8-7ec7-400d-9071-9984b5122532 402 SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE c95b2b9f-cb57-4d44-aae4-e5287345628f 2286 THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN e064c225-0471-4a60-922e-19ab5ee5d061 748 INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE 9d15b7a8-7b4e-4cad-b43e-8eb19c7b2fa1 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 5fdb1bda-7ef3-4e12-a76d-2a42c570b03c 2368 HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS I KNOW PERFECTLY WELL THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ME IF THERE WERE ANY OTHER AVAILABLE MEMBER HE THOUGHT 7b05cafc-3cc3-4054-9185-465b8463ae4a 30 THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AND WE HEARD THE FROGS SINGING DOWN IN THE SWAMP OF THE BROOK MEADOW dc1f2b70-710f-486c-9608-bdfd91f3af65 2317 YOUR MACHINE REACTIVATED THE GATE FROM THIS SIDE FARMER CROUCHED THE POINT OF THE BOATHOOK WAVERED THAT WAS HOW IT WENT IN STORIES AS CORNY AS A SITUATION 6da98fb6-37a8-4fd8-8d87-fe8eddb7fdd4 30 HIS MOUTH WAS HIS OWN HOWEVER AND WE UNDERSTOOD AND FEELING CHEAP AND EMBARRASSED 5fc4645a-72ef-4c3f-ac68-f5477d0aff70 2286 SEND IT BY SIAM ONLY I LOOKED BACK AT PEPPET NOT WANTING TO HAVE MY EYES OFF HIM FOR AN INSTANT 27e88e22-0cda-424a-af58-5a2e2c0526cf 30 LOOKING OUT EASTWARD INTO THE SPRUCE GROVE NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE f66b9131-1b62-4405-8a99-e3426b3a2c5e 2108 IS AT THE WEST OF OZ IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AT THE EAST SHE DID BUT SHE DOESN'T WAS THE REPLY 76d3f8ae-7dba-4bfe-86f8-8eb838e41c1f 30 DEAR LITTLE SOUL I AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY 71060699-2a34-4826-a597-44fbb1efa551 1867 OTHER PARTS THEY HAD BEEFED UP FIGURING THEY WOULD WEAR BUT SLOWLY GREETINGS O NOBLE SERVERS OF THE GREAT GOD I SAID 69ee0bec-7fee-4ab6-b8bf-e4f162f5518f 177 CONVERSATION LANGUISHED THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY afac706a-72d2-4a4d-8ebb-2a870fe58576 30 LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU 6efce759-d7cf-4252-8f3f-e741a2d9b18c 188 OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST fcc91216-00fc-44d8-9dbf-8a4c8042eb97 451 WE HAD TO GO UP TO SARA RAY'S LANE WITH HER TO HER VERY DOOR FOR SHE WAS AFRAID PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH HER IF SHE WENT ALONE THEY CEASED AND ALL HEAVEN WAS HUSHED 52a3da1f-83a2-4701-8b1d-5da34ae52bdf 2286 I KEPT THE ON WATCH CREW OF THE CRUISER AT DUTY STATION TO CONFINED THE REST WITHIN A HUNDRED YARD RADIUS OF THE SHIP BUT IT WAS JUST THE THING TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION SETANOVO e80965f2-8fae-4e4d-9a48-fe5c82f187bf 413 AN AIR OF RESTRAINT WAS OVER ALL OUR GAMES AND CONVERSATIONS HE SAID HE BELIEVED THE OTHER PLACE MUST BE LOTS MORE INTERESTING THAN HEAVEN CAUSE FIRES WERE SUCH JOLLY THINGS 0b29252e-159a-44d7-b94f-4edb01fca52f 2182 SCOOPS ARE BENEVOLENT AS WELL AS INTELLIGENT ABRUPTLY HE SWITCHED TO HIS OWN INTEREST HER VOICE SEEMED TO TRIGGER THE ATTACK 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THE FIRST LIZARD KNEW I WAS TALKING SINCE THEN AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A MEETING OF THE SHAMMANS MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON e210887b-819b-4eb9-8343-f97dab4a82b7 242 ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY THIS IS DIFFERENT I KNOW WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR BUT I CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD 8e5fbfa2-1490-4fa2-8439-fb76c9947af2 32 HARROW THE WOOD FIELD AND DIG YOUR AUNT OLIVIA'S FLOWER BEDS THEN HE SAILED AWAY AGAIN AND THE SHIP WAS NEVER HEARD OF MORE WHEN I'VE SETTLED WHAT I'M GOING TO BE a94455b6-3018-4408-97b0-ef906aab2328 402 THAT PETER IS GOING TO DIE THE LAST OF ALL CAME VING I CAN'T PICK ANOTHER APPLE TO DAY AND I AIN'T GOING TO TRY SAID DAN e9ce386b-0557-4e11-86bc-225bb81e291c 2182 UNCLE CHARLEY HAS TALKED ABOUT SETTLING IN THE TOWNSHIP AND STANDING FOR COUNCIL ELECTION CHAFFY THREE SAID TO JENOFY THEN a381a533-fcb0-4647-83c6-72263149de85 402 WE DREW STRAWS TO SEE WHO SHOULD GO AND DO THE ASKING AND THE LOT FELL TO FELIX THEY SAY HE STOOD ON THE DECK OF THE FANNY AND PLEADED WITH THE MEN WHILE THE TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE 8f1dc23d-4ddd-4ad4-973f-8a76dd7e7f33 2317 JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER HE STUDIED THE PROCEEDINGS CAREFULLY I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM 65217a6b-7433-4a89-917b-5ad09cdfd9ac 413 BUT IT WAS MORE BITTER THAN THE GENERAL RUN OF THEIR TIFFS AND THE CONSEQUENCES WERE APPARENT TO ALL SHE STOPPED CRYING LONG ENOUGH TO CLUTCH IT DELIGHTEDLY OH CICELY THANK YOU a77bed4b-7751-4b60-af1b-4e1b13b57c21 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 IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY df9c6d0f-aa9b-422d-b213-c9fecdf1bd49 402 WE'RE NONE OF US CHURCH MEMBERS BUT OF COURSE PETER COULDN'T BE SENT TO THE BAD PLACE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS 6546e4c9-0288-4d08-b697-496652a2900a 2286 SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS IT WAS A FAST RUN TO UDRIDA WHEN MY BILLIONAIRES YACHT THE EL DORADO WAS WAITING e3a45a55-28fb-417f-a6ca-f119ca03e678 2286 I BRIDLED MY TEMPER AND TRIED ONE LAST TIME DISGUISED BEHIND THESE BLUE PRINTS I SHUDDERED A BIT AS THE THOUGHT HIT ME 53211ddc-e8fd-4870-b41e-3a071b854113 177 SAID CECILY WITH A GASP IMPLORED THE STORY GIRL IT AND IF IT IS I I'LL FEEL I'VE DONE WHAT WAS RIGHT 167861a5-4378-4302-b213-e8f5b5fe743a 2137 RATHER IT WAS A SLANG EXPRESSION OR THE CHANGE TOOK PLACE SO RAPIDLY IN JUST A GENERATION OR SO WE'RE STILL CONTINUING THE SEARCH de6f69dc-34e2-455d-a3e6-ec07ef2043cc 2274 SAID STETSON POLITICIANS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT 82f1e0f8-d0d7-4a62-bb6d-10bf3a84bea9 177 PETER HOWEVER HAD SLEPT SOUNDLY ENOUGH AFTER TWELVE O'CLOCK SHE INCREASED OUR UNEASINESS BY SAYING THAT HER MOTHER BELIEVED THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH AND WAS AFRAID THAT THE END OF THE WORLD WAS REALLY AT HAND SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY 8d606bb7-8572-4409-a800-b6f37a07ee9d 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 450fb69b-7e1a-4bd2-b50f-a254fda0f4c6 2312 MARSHAL DON'T ASK THE LITTLE BUG SO MANY QUESTIONS HOW DO YOU KNOW MARSHALL DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM 9c4934d3-a285-4e37-9f26-bcfb3d87486a 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 4a715a89-5174-436a-ad0b-a59e507f6204 451 AND NEVER FORGOT ANYTHING HE HEARD OR READ WE HAD NOT HEARD OF THIS FITNESS THEN BUT WE ALL FELT THAT PATTY WAS IN HIS OWN PLACE IN A HAYLOFT a8546a78-e78a-4f4b-a21b-cf1cc94407b9 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 4f318c70-f68a-4420-a8b4-fdaeb5c85ce0 2317 AND FARMER BEGAN TO FEEL SLIGHTLY AFRAID BUT ORDINARY OCEAN AND STRINGING AN INSORTMENT OF WIRES BETWEEN IT AND HIS INVENTION e1d37fa9-0b6b-43eb-a19c-c21a8dade351 2108 FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW AND I AM RESOLVED NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO THINK CAREFULLY b92f548d-1ba4-4b9c-8474-a51a760f199c 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 4651b843-3c65-401d-b09b-d9337aa9dfde 2286 AFTER THE ROEBOT HAD CHECKED THE ROOM FOR BUGS WHEN I STRAIGHTENED UP FROM MY DESK THE ACHE IN MY BACK STABBED LIKE A HOT WIRE 37e3fd4b-e363-4fd1-adb0-3b526f029e1c 2312 BUT WE WERE IN A SPOT AND NEEDED A WORLD THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY WE DON'T KNOW THAT MANOEL a7743317-3fc8-4659-a401-04d21c388544 2312 THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU HOW BIG WERE THESE PEOPLE THIS WILL MAKE HIGH PLAINS THE BIGGEST TOWN IN THE WHOLE STATE OF TEXAS a7ffee07-1b52-4aec-819b-d53aaaad0946 1867 WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET aa562110-0122-4391-b282-888b275dc497 242 CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT b247f9f1-6410-4d4f-85d4-96bef911f916 2312 MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK AND MILLER AND I STOLE THE LISTS OF NAMES AND RAN AWAY 3274a69e-84fc-4727-ae5a-3ff3a908da36 1867 THIS RAISED A BUZZ OF CONVERSATION BEHIND ME BUT GOT NO RISE OUT OF THE CHIEF I COUNTED OFF ON MY TALONS TO SEE IF I HAD FORGOTTEN ANYTHING 4ad935f5-afc6-489f-b01b-2c038de88d32 14 IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH DON'T CARE WHAT YOU ARE AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT PETER HAS GOT A DECENT STOCKING TO HIS NAME 66f04dec-4818-4a67-9152-ecdb35d7345e 402 THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID FELIX AND I SPOKE NOT OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE cb794bd3-c5a4-45fc-935e-8512a997f507 14 IT APPEARED THAT NONE OF US HAD ANY IDEA THE STORY GIRL WOULD PROBABLY KNOW SAID CECILY b6a96c1d-5809-491d-91f8-0d4838a4eae7 2286 A BATTLESHIP MAY BE GIGANTIC ON SOME TERMS OF REFERENCE BUT IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE GALAXY IT IS MICROSCOPICALLY INFINITESIMAL bfbaccd4-fa35-4f0e-9a19-1e07ce4385e6 413 AND MARJOR SAID JUDGMENT FIDDLESTICKS I CAN'T TURN INTO A CHRISTIAN BETWEEN THIS AND TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW AND THE POSSIBILITY WAS ALMOST AS DREADFUL AS THE CERTAINTY e847add4-2a3c-4fcd-8dc9-fb2c3ab958b3 413 LEAVING THE STORY YELLOW AND PETER TO PEEL THEIR POTATOES THE REST OF US WENT HOME WHERE AUNT JANET WHO HAD GONE TO THE WELL AND FOUND THE FRAGMENTS OF THE OLD BLUE CUP GAVE POOR FELICITY A BIT OF SCOLDING ABOUT IT be595673-427f-45de-b7e3-90a8c7718015 30 WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE ON A FARM ADJOINING THE OLD KING HOMESTEAD IN CARLISLE 5e89f194-6730-4326-b557-9bce15935934 464 WHY TWINS ARE JUST PEOPLE THAT SQUINT AREN'T THEY SAID PETER NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE fd59148c-4394-4074-9545-1c870c0c2895 103 I DON'T SUPPOSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SINGLE ONE OF US CHILDREN HERE AT ALL OR IF WE WERE WE WOULD BE PART SOMEBODY ELSE AND THAT WOULD BE ALMOST AS BAD OH I'M SO GLAD YOU BOYS HAVE COME TO LIVE HERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS HERE EXCEPT DAYS SO WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN GOOD TIMES 1e0b8809-0517-49d1-8434-09272dc1bb91 2286 NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL acb693a2-fe32-43a3-9d46-55ed5b515add 32 IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME AUNT OLIVIA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT OF COURSE b0a4781d-28bd-4fdd-bee2-b3c8d84751fe 402 OH I'LL BE ALMOST AFRAID TO LOOK AT IT SAID SARA RAY TREMULOUSLY DOES GOD REALLY LOOK LIKE THIS 731849b3-079e-441e-9c27-9f36c661303d 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 5c5c23b8-5102-4fbd-9dd7-6e874502b653 198 I THINK YOU BOYS OUGHT TO GO SHE SAID RETREATING BEHIND THE DEFENCE OF SEX IN THE EAST ABOVE THE MAPLE WOODS WAS A SILVERY SHEEN THAT HINTED THE MOONRISE cec71c4a-569b-4725-b879-3246ba76c363 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 3a3f4c9a-e2be-4362-b272-5b6c08f79e42 2425 THEY WERE CLOTHED IN SOME COARSE BLACK STUFF THAT BRISTLED AS THOUGH LOOSELY WOVEN OF STIFF HAIR AND YET WHICH WAS NOT A TRUE FABRIC FOR IT SEEMED TO MOVE WITHIN ITSELF AND SCINTILLATE AS THOUGH COMPOSED OF BILLIONS OF RESTLESS MOTES d1d21197-603d-4f35-aa3b-d8c39179be3b 451 BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS LETTING MYSELF IN FOR YES AND THAT IS WHY I PUT IT ON AUNT JANET THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WAS A SPLENDID ONE 59783f22-b480-4daa-97eb-2f136aaea275 2317 HE DISCOVERED RAY'S FINGERS IN THE DRIVING GLOVE DIGGING INTO HIS FLESH IN AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL GRIP HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS IT COULD ALSO FLY d4563e68-aa35-4c91-8dc4-e13f0a292228 2425 ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I AND MY SENSES RETURNED AND MISS HOPE ARRIVES FIRST THING THIS MORNING 3c679831-e00d-4415-8dee-f74d423a7ea2 748 WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL 6aa21a79-c956-46fa-a6dc-80c18778401c 2274 ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB 33855398-ecba-4cee-8511-851003612efe 402 SO DAZZLING AND WONDERFUL THAT BEYOND IT THE EYE COULD SEE NOTHING OF HAPPINESS AND THEN THE BLOW FELL bdf8330a-7916-45a6-b675-c1e34bc48702 188 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE FACE OF A CLOCK AND THERE ARE FLOWERS IN IT THAT OPENS AT EVERY HOUR SO YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THE TIME IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL e4c74635-4d86-4011-8a13-7722f89a9aae 2312 CENSUS LIST NAMES OF EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGDALENA I HAD TO STEAL IT IS MISTER MARSHALL'S BOY THE CENSUS CHIEF 20c1cd04-4ca8-4618-8d0f-337dac653782 748 MIGHT HAVE BEEN A MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTIST AS SOFTLY AS THE DOWN OF A THISTLE OR OF DISQUIETING AMBITION 94db22a9-5cff-4bec-9d13-403d08ba975c 413 BUT IT ISN'T REALLY THE ENTERPRISE EDITOR AT ALL WHO'S SAYING IT I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN DO IT GO AWAY BACK THERE ALONE IT CAN'T BE TRUE SAID SARA RAY SEEKING REFUGE AS USUAL IN TEARS 82c1cb25-0541-49fd-b263-64874e202226 2274 FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS IS THAT THE NATIVE SPEAKING IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS 463299f6-b6d6-4492-94b9-319aabbea023 2274 WE'LL MAKE YOU AN OFFER SAID ORNE WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO EXTERMINATE YOU THAT'S AN ALIEN LANGUAGE BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL 3f382cf6-87ff-4f6f-8f6f-2bfcc0410d98 413 IT'S NOT TO BE TILL TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SO YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET UP HIP FOR ANYTHING HAPPENS BUT FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER 9252c5c5-c8ef-4f53-b58d-483498093f59 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 52fbfc55-e146-4077-9012-da5639c0c8cd 14 IT WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD FELICITY HER PINK AND WHITE FACE SHADOWED BY HER DROOPING FORGET ME NOT WREATHED LEGH HORN HAT 4f395d67-14a9-406c-abb7-f30274df54ca 2368 IT WAS FAR FROM A WARM WELCOME BUT YONAS WAS SATISFIED WITH IT THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS cf95b5f9-5ac1-475c-8cb7-18d7b3f2b7c1 14 I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO THERE'S A GREAT BIG PATCH ON HIS BEST PAIR OF TROUSERS PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN ef01bdbf-5104-4aad-860d-956193dfc485 451 WHICH SEEMED TO SETTLE THE QUESTION OF MOONSHINE DRESSES EFFECTUALLY BUT SHE COULDN'T GET HIM OUT OF THE ROOM AND ALL SHE COULD DO WAS TO HIDE HIM IN THE CHINA CLOSET THE YOUNG MINISTER SLIPPED INTO THE CHINA CLOSET AND OLD MISTER SCOTT CAME INTO THE ROOM ccf83c50-1850-4848-b8dc-c34bcdf6c683 748 WERE MERE SCRAWLS TELLING US TO BE GOOD BOYS AND NOT TROUBLE AUNT JANET WE DID NOT EVEN CALL BILLY TO ACCOUNT 3c3f63a5-b603-466d-b1ce-e978672b4d0e 30 OUR FATHER AND OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS HAD PLAYED IN ITS SHADOW INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP 41745d1c-7255-4b4f-8444-d9b85baa24f4 2108 SO HE SHUT THEM TIGHT AND PERCHED UPON THE BACK SCRUBBING AND SWEEPING HER HUT AND COOKING HER MEALS be6f1fe8-2f53-4dbb-a4a5-0e828309339b 2274 STETSON SMILED WITHOUT HUMOR HORRENT STARED UPWARD IN AWE IT MAKES ME NERVOUS dae05d33-6673-42b5-90eb-f29923f3f916 464 WHAT BEING TWINS MEANT THE PUDDING WAS CONCOCTED AND BAKED AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO afb54a78-c3db-4df9-928d-a799f7c50071 2317 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION 78627286-035f-439a-8fd7-8246774a81b9 464 IT SEEMS AWFUL TO THINK OF EATING A SAWDUST PUDDING HOW ON EARTH DID YOU MAKE SUCH A MISTAKE 4ac8e6b1-2e80-4d77-b7b7-df0b75cee96e 32 THIS WAS OUR FIRST INKLING OF WHAT I WAS TO UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY IN LATER YEARS NOW NEVER MIND QUARRELLING SAID CECILY 6dd5f25b-77cd-45a8-95e8-fcdd6790d256 2317 AN ANONIPUS THAT BECAME APPARENT WAS NOT ONLY A WATER CREATURE HE DECIDED HE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HIMSELF NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME 99c171d8-e9c4-4653-a11a-4b15f3b3672d 242 I DON'T SEE WHY GOD SHOULD ANSWER PETER'S PRAYERS INSTEAD OF MINE HE SAID BITTERLY 28413da8-df8a-49fc-b9a2-8b929573388d 451 FELIX AND PETER AND I WERE REQUIRED TO HELP UNCLE ROGER AND SOME CARPENTERING WORK THAT DAY AND FELICITY INDULGED IN ONE OF THE HOUSE CLEANING ORGIES SO DEAR TO HER SOUL a59083ba-e82d-49ef-a42f-3f0541edd270 14 I KILLED IT STONE DEAD WELL IF THERE ISN'T ONE IN TORONTO IT ISN'T LIKELY THERE'S ONE ANYWHERE IT WAS HIS DUTY TO TELL ME AND I DO NOT BLAME HIM cc13fece-6996-4f7c-b165-9360c302a2d9 451 WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOOK A WHIP AND WHIPPED MY BARE SHOULDERS TILL THE BLOOD CAME DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL AGGRIEVED 552a71e4-aec9-424f-a702-64f5f54cc958 2286 YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT I HAD MY VICTORY ALL RIGHT I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER e6df0a31-0f0f-4422-bd22-5414824434e9 2108 AND RUBBED THE BONDS THAT WERE STILL AROUND HIS ARMS AND BODY BUT WHEN OUR TRAVELLERS ARRIVED THERE THEY FOUND THE PLACE DESERTED b8b2af57-a2a9-43c5-bc89-fcb3526c0861 1867 I COULD ALMOST HEAR THE WHEELS TURNING BEHIND THAT MOSS COVERED FOREHEAD ONE DOUBTFUL TYPE RAISED A SPEAR BUT NO ONE ELSE TRIED THAT AFTER THE PTERODACTYL EYE PICKED HIM UP AND DROPPED HIM IN THE SWAMP dc7bb71f-d535-48df-a74d-f99174bc4ab1 413 OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST WELL WHAT DOES SHE SAY ASKED CICELY TREMULOUSLY I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY 1a6731fd-4e77-49ce-80a3-242cfe370028 2312 HE CAN'T BE MAN WELL SAID THE BIG POLICEMAN AND THE LITTLE POLICEMAN AWAY FROM THE DEAD CENTRE THE RAVINES WERE BODY DEEP IN CHAPARRAL 239b8663-cbf9-41cd-993c-ec540df0ea44 2274 O K KEEP US POSTED TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES b08f35b4-e130-4758-bc3f-1a4088025bf0 2182 THE THING WAS TOWING YOU TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY 1226baa7-2db4-4401-9db5-58b78caf55d1 413 IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG PERHAPS IT'LL ALL BE BURNED UP TO MORROW 48de17f2-d824-4ca7-b450-8469f46e1095 242 ONE OF THE YOUNG BRAVES WAS NAMED A KATY CECILY WAS VERY PALE AND FELIX AND PETER WERE TAKING OFF THEIR COATS 6ed6e028-abd6-416d-8464-c58760627995 2312 THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER 7158e6e0-d079-429d-9be0-da40fbfb3745 30 EACH OF THEM AS LARGE AS A TREE IN ITSELF TO BE SURE FELICITY WAS A STUNNING BEAUTY EXPLAINED CECILY 90a26128-92c4-4a75-b924-6e0aa1c26339 2317 HE HAD PRESENTED HER A BOUQUET IN WHICH RARE BLOSSOMS HID SLIMY SMELLING WEEDS AND SHE WAS SORE AT HIM AFTER ALL IT'S ILLEGAL FOR US TO BE HERE RAY LOOKED PUZZLED THEN ANNOYED dfb6659a-bc91-41e5-bbef-9f859659cbc2 402 THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF GROWN UPS AROUND YOU IN THE HOUSE BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN 0f4ad8a5-6b1e-49d7-a219-e56d9d0b0945 402 IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER AND THEN WE WENT INTO THE ORCHARD 1923be24-3a2c-41bb-8cd4-652858022f07 2137 TRIMMING A FEW SCATTERED CLOUDS WITH GOLD CAKED AROUND THE CORNERS OF HIS LIPS WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR TROUBLE BRANDON f14904db-aaa7-45b2-89e1-d720bf408c27 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 4d0e58cc-3b4b-4118-91d8-19ddeca9eb70 2312 THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED TO YOU THEY INSTRUCTED HIM AND SENT HIM OUT OR THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD INSTRUCTED HIM c5bf44c1-d943-435a-be74-f8901bd44302 2182 OUT ON THE BAY ANOTHER CATASTROPHE JUST AS IMPROBABLE WAS IN PROGRESS AND STRODE IRRITABLY DOWN TO HIS MINIATURE DOCK AND THERE WAS NO SORT OF WEAPON AT HAND 5fa9ee4f-5bc7-4484-a117-ea3b7b2eb47b 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 70354ceb-d856-4399-ad63-4ee2407c6fa9 242 WELL HE'S GOT TO STOP PRAYING AGAINST ME ANYHOW SAID FELIX RESOLUTELY c9d6fc81-c8f8-43a4-a2e1-1505840be4cf 2286 THEY HAVE BEEN NEED NEEDING REORGANIZATION FOR QUITE A WHILE I TOOK A STADISTIC REVENGE ON THE NAVY BY NOT TELLING HIM A WORD ABOUT MY MISSION f4bc524f-9e98-4071-809e-add2da8fad48 451 THE SMELL OF RAISIN PIES IS SOMETHING TO TEMPT AN ANCHORITE AND THE STORY GIRL WAS EXCEEDINGLY FOND OF THEM 507090bf-6adc-4be3-ac7f-b09b8e606f4d 198 IF YOU LOVE ME AS I LOVE YOU THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER BELLS DON'T RING OF THEMSELVES I SUPPOSE SPECIFICALLY WHEN THERE AIN'T ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE TO RING OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS fea8a2d9-d008-4c08-acea-35e27bc129e6 198 COMPANY DESCENDED ON US THAT AFTERNOON THE STORY GIRL KISSED HER FINGERTIPS TO HIM WITH THE DELIGHTFUL AUDACITY WHICH WAS A PART OF HER AND THE AWKWARD MAN PLUCKED OFF HIS HAT AND SWEPT HER A STATELY AND GRACEFUL BOW I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY CALL HIM THE AWKWARD MAN SAID CECILY WHEN HE WAS OUT OF EAR SHOT db3e684f-33f1-4802-bbed-bab639ca2c67 242 IN THE MORNING AND AT DINNER TIME AND AT NIGHT AND BESIDES THAT ANY TIME THROUGH THE DAY WHEN HE HAPPENS TO THINK OF IT HE JUST PRAYS STANDING UP 951fc6b0-450c-4c84-bb65-306597d4b637 2182 SIR THESE COLONISTS HAD BEEN AUTONOMIST FOR OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS I'D LIKE TO STAY THEY'LL USE FORCE c14073a1-760c-470a-b00a-0fcfb8cde561 177 THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT 12316921-5aab-4144-9053-f6285134cd55 30 AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE b696059e-93ed-44aa-b8b3-4a94c85dca10 748 INTO WHICH SHE WOULD THROW ALL HER POWERS OF MIND AND HEART AND SOUL CECILY SAID SHE DIDN'T ENVY HIM HIS CONSCIENCE HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL a64a1bd7-83b0-4300-a3e9-3caf14f77738 451 NOW YOU SEE ALL YOUR PENANCE WAS WASTED SAID FELICITY AS WE WALKED HOME KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE RUMOUR THAT PEG BOWEN WAS ABROAD b9afab6d-78cc-45fb-a4eb-6453cf456a5b 2274 THAT A HEAVY PLANET NATIVE WHEN YOU'RE NOT TOUCHING THAT MITE CONTACT THIS RIG HERE AND THERE RED AND PURPLE FLOWERS JUTTED FROM THE VERDURE dd088ece-8cd3-4844-89ce-dc5eb402e6d0 2317 GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE HE WAS CLIMBING OVER THE RAIL AT THE STERN HE SHIFTED UNEASILY ON THE BUILT IN SEAT aa1b3bf4-e529-465f-894e-f67ef968b936 2368 I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME I SHALL WORK TO DO YOU GOOD HE SAID AND NOT EVIL d1bf369b-f54a-4afd-be05-00ef592f1804 177 CECILY WAS PALE BUT BRAVE ACCORDINGLY WE HEARD IT THE NEXT MORNING IN THE ORCHARD AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS 7228e3ad-1d47-4229-99e5-eb6daf56e895 2108 I AM KNOWN AS WOOT THE WANDERER ANSWERED THE BOY FINALLY I ASKED HER TO MARRY ME SO I SHALL CHANGE HIM INTO AN OWL ed7c03cf-9c7c-44fe-9ef3-4b2156b2f15d 2274 HE TOOK TOO DEEP BREATH FLORI GOTSY I SAID WHY DO YOU 9450b737-0fcc-47fa-81ae-4d6bcd176e14 2274 CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WE'LL GIVE YOU LIMITED MEMBERSHIP IN THE GALACTIC FEDERATION UNTIL YOU PROVE YOU'RE NO MENACE TO US ba2efca0-1b61-49a7-af76-e17b81263c03 402 SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK BUT NOW IT WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT THAT SHE HAD BAD NEWS 0221bc25-e195-40a9-9c13-ca6308527b7a 2425 THEN SUDDENLY THERE WAS A TERRIFIC CRASH OF SOUND AND NOTHING TO ITS BULK UNLESS WE HAVE A HEATING OVERLOAD 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 a2661677-b1a9-417b-bb00-2941e719d044 2137 A SMOKING CYLINDER OF FUSED METAL LAY IN A GULLY HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT 35ed783e-34cf-46d0-b5e4-4cf1f97d8f50 402 THAT HE HAS IT AT HOME IN AN OLD RED COVERED HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND HAS LOOKED AT IT OFTEN HE SAID IN A VERY SOLEMN YET EXCITED TONE THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS 230fd617-ccfb-4e00-bb2a-2400213faf5c 2317 A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY 901252b6-ac81-4926-b396-6c65ea745a87 198 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A GHOST SAID THE STORY GIRL THE RULING PASSION STRONG EVEN IN EXTREMITY PAT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN ANY HUMAN BEING EVER KNEW 2290c205-0b5e-428a-a403-87b95090dd2c 1867 I WASN'T GOING TO PLAY WITH THE FUEL PROBLEM AT ALL THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE THIS WAS A FAVORITE SPOT THAT DREW A GOOD CROWD DURING THE DAY 7c4122a1-b24e-4163-8c2d-005310538843 1867 NORMALLY A REPAIR MAN STAYS AWAY FROM NATIVE CULTURES THERE WERE SPYSAILS ON MY SHIP ALL OF WHICH I HADN'T FOUND THAT WOULD CHEERFULLY RAT ON ME WHEN I GOT BACK 6d34d3e3-a81a-469c-844a-96c7a4ae389b 1867 ONLY ONE MAN TO A SHIP BECAUSE THAT IS ALL IT TAKES TO OPERATE THE OVERLY EFFICIENT REPAIR MACHINERY WHY THIS BEACON WAS BUILT WITHIN REACH OF THE LOCAL CLAUSE THAT IS WHERE I AND THE OTHER TROUBLE SHOOTERS COME IN ce712cf6-4c0a-4a3f-a840-dd5f072243bd 2425 ASKED A FEW NIGHTS LATER I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL 38ccde1f-8f67-4e00-972e-d1d4f248dee1 1867 WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT ce45810e-77fb-40f2-8398-099fbf55de6e 103 OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE BY THIS TIME WE WERE ALL SITTING DOWN ON THE GNARLED ROOTS OF THE SPRUCES AND THE BIG GRAY CAT CAME OVER AND MADE FRIENDS WITH US d37aef37-2044-4cda-85a2-de2c96fa28ca 188 HE WAS A TALL SLENDER MAN WHO DID NOT LOOK HIS FORTY YEARS DONALD GOT UP PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND CAP AND WENT TO THE DOOR 17ae6633-39b7-4514-a5ce-dd0fa9564298 2286 THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR 7c0b60b2-fc1a-4f9c-9185-074dcfe1c274 413 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 LET'S ALL GO OVER AND ASK UNCLE ROGER SAID FELIX DESPERATELY 61a7eff9-e2dd-4d80-90f9-7a7eba4f6c18 2368 AND SOON HE MIGHT BE TESTING THEM OUT FOR HIMSELF YOU MAY DO THE SAME YOURSELF JONAS HAD HE THOUGHT REGRETFULLY FEW DUELS TO LOOK FORWARD TO AND HE HAD HAD EVEN FEWER TO LOOK BACK ON 4ffef114-9e81-46e7-887f-415b7b1ea9a5 451 WHY HAS SHE CHANGED HER MIND WE ALL SHOWED THE SYMPATHY WE FELT SEE WHAT THESE REBELLIOUS ONES HAVE DONE 367305db-108f-4145-928a-da742b87a4d2 2312 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE OR IF YOU ARE REALLY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU EVEN BELONG ON THE WORLD FROM THE TWO MYSTERIOUS SCENES OF DESOLATION THERE THE LIST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN c602d8d8-71fb-47c5-967f-b28a345518a3 177 OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY IF IT'S A JUDGMENT DAY I DON'T CARE WHETHER MY HAIR IS CURLY OR NOT SHE SAID a5603043-900d-47f4-8327-fa29ad19b937 14 AND THE DEADLY SERIOUSNESS OF YOUTH IN US RESENTED THAT FELICITY WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM ONE HERSELF AND SHE WAS NONE TOO LAVISH OF HER COPPERS 3ff3427c-eb8a-4800-8978-d287e249cc8c 2108 DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO DRAW HIM DOWN TO THE THRONE YOU TWO MISS A GREAT DEAL BY NOT EATING HE SAID TO HIS COMPANIONS 8b5ee74e-071e-447f-84c8-53d632e1b8ed 451 SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED c68877fb-fc89-4dca-95cf-3eeb0c0c48db 2312 WE OWN THE WORLD THE OFFICIAL HAD GIVEN A SNAP JUDGMENT WE DECLARE THAT PLACE UNANNEXED FORTHWITH 6d4d6631-547f-4779-81d5-f3a0684fa16b 30 WHO BELONGED TO THE ISLAND AND WAS NOW RETURNING TO IT HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I AND ONE OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S NOTED PATCHWORK QUILTS WAS OVER US a50b857f-418b-469f-8cd4-9aa2216e4438 2425 VIC GLANCED TOWARD US AND GRINNED IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE SOUND AND LIGHT IN THE SAME PLACE ISN'TT IT ae13a489-ab6f-4288-88c3-f7f5d85b4346 2182 AND AT THE SAME TIME HAD BACKED OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL ITS LEVIATHAN TAIL SPANNED THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS OF SLOPING BEACH FROM SURF TO CABIN 93d5b1bd-4dbe-4e6a-aa22-ef70fd14c01c 198 OH WHAT AN EERIE PLACE THAT ORCHARD WAS WHAT SHADOWS WHAT NOISES WHAT SPOOKY SWOOPING BATS YOU COULDN'T LOOK EVERY WAY AT ONCE AND GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHAT MIGHT BE BEHIND YOU THERE CAN'T BE ANYBODY AT THE HOUSE SAID FELICITY fc03fbd3-07a0-4e5b-a42e-704b442678da 413 OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND 873b239a-cb73-489d-bc12-9e19ca02ab07 14 IT WAS A STRANGE WOOING AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS BEGGED HER TO REFUSE I REMEMBERED THE WAY SHE SHOOK HIM OFF AND I WANTED TO LAUGH SHE HAD DIED IN A FAR FOREIGN LAND 2933292d-aaf0-4c80-a01b-96bd682c824b 30 THE OLD HOUSE WITH THE SPRUCES BEHIND IT I FEAR SHE HAD AN ANXIOUS TRIP OF IT POOR WOMAN SAID AUNT JANET SEVERELY 6659111e-4b92-4f29-a40d-aef711b748af 2312 LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE WHERE IS THE LIST WELL I'LL DO IT TOO I'M TOO WORN OUT FOR ANYTHING ELSE 53d04ad2-0a1a-418e-9296-a9b9f320ac0a 1867 THEY MILLED AND MOBBED AND PILED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND BY THAT TIME I HAD LANDED IN THE PLAZA FRONTING THE TEMPLE 8718b6c9-299e-49fb-b71c-0c079a8e557f 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 5646f43b-1c16-4753-8efa-1d327f2a1ec1 748 THE PICTURES AND SKETCHES HE SENT HER AM GOING SOME DAY SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY AND I HASTENED TO DO IT 0afc1e81-f859-4c13-8d05-b3fc8a06fc10 451 MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW 6e60d223-7aa1-4aad-9e4c-03a999e1f266 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 88c63788-d194-4048-b6ec-6505daa658da 2286 I TOLD HIM AS HE STOWED THE CANNON BACK UNDER HIS PILLOW A HEADING DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE MAIN GATE I IGNORED THE STURD OF ACTIVITY AROUND THE CUSTOMS BUILDING 77c5477b-7638-462b-a9a0-3ad14271115f 2182 INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY f9d234af-ba57-4954-99f8-ac46b03ee59a 2425 I BELIEVE ILL RUN ALONG AND SEE IF I CAN FIND MISSUS PARR I HAVEN'T HAD A THING TO EAT SINCE NOON YESTERDAY 0fe75dcd-9b66-481e-a34d-e5d4fa0d4d1b 2317 IT IS SUFFICIENT TO SAY THAT THE RAY WILL WORK BECAUSE BEING ALONG AT SEA IN A RICKETY CRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE MADMAN HAD BEEN BAD ENOUGH c3d251cf-a3bc-45a6-9682-7cc11c93bd3a 2368 IF IT IS POSSIBLE YERS SAID OVERPOWERED AND HELD HIM IN A BRIEF SECOND THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE 2fd48820-96bb-4222-8f28-431988e7316a 2137 WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR THIS IS A WONDERFUL AGE WE LIVE IN CAN'T STAY HERE ANY LONGER 8c16cd00-9e1b-422e-bcf3-9e1e1127bfaf 30 HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG 5deb682a-ba43-4a0c-aaed-544eeeae9fad 402 WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK AND AT LAST THERE CAME A LETTER THE STORY GIRL HAD RETURNED ba109f9e-6fdf-47e8-888a-ee9ff1088f40 177 AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US AFTERWARDS AS WE DRESSED FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL UPSTAIRS OUR SPIRITS CARRIED US AWAY HATE TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT AUNT JANE HAD TO COME TWICE TO THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS AND INQUIRE SEVERELY CHILDREN HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT DAY IT IS ENTREATED THE STORY GIRL 849d6471-8bdf-4738-a316-8ec6b16ed311 30 WE RECOGNIZED IT AT ONCE STAND ON THE PULPIT STONE DON'T TALK SILLY NONSENSE DAN b61bcfaf-203c-46ec-88f2-b2f7d0b118cb 2312 I SHOULD EAT SO LATE WHO IS CENSUS CHIEF NOW MAKE THEM REEL FAST THEN I'M ON MY WAY 25168624-667c-44b8-b72c-dd671f6ff805 14 BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH 46a81adc-3aab-4fab-80b7-41f2e1f451d1 14 OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH 9915c696-3b2c-4e82-bec6-094415ba41f9 748 WHEN THE TIME CAME TO HAND IN OUR COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY FUND IT WAS TO MAKE FELICITY AS CLEVER AS THE STORY GIRL 2c51094d-9910-4d19-be35-6aed7af078cd 32 EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET 0ce27f0d-5061-409f-98be-d6de1c83c21b 748 FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF BUT HE HAD A SMALL FORTUNE OF HIS OWN IN LACKING THE SPUR OF NECESSITY ee3ecf6d-5e92-4ddb-abdd-ebb3444cdfe8 1867 I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY 2db7d281-ae75-4a6d-98ae-2a9bfb757925 2317 AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG HE STOOD OVER THE THING WEBBED HANDS ON SCALY HIPS PEERING AT IT INTENTLY 8e5484b0-111a-464c-81eb-fd2996156a7f 30 OUR AUNT FELICITY WAS DEAD FOR IT WAS LIKE TO NO MOUTH ON EITHER THE KING OR THE WARD SIDE e7cd5bb7-b136-45ce-a400-f2ce3cd5e243 2182 WOULD DESPISE THE SIGHT OF HIM CHAFFEE FOUR RADIATED IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE a42570ee-5411-493f-8242-2f3ae4104fea 2274 ANY TOUCHY PLANETS OUR SPIES REPORT THERE'S A WORD IN ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE IN HISTORY THAT MEANS RAIDER AND DRIVES FROM WORD FOR ROAD PATH OR HIGHWAY ed9f08c6-3250-446e-8f46-d64eca786087 451 WILD ROSES GREW PINKLY ALONG THE FENCES AND THE ROADSIDES WERE STAR DUSTED WITH BUTTERCUPS 48a2ce37-6ddd-470b-9e48-d763fd0551c3 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 0fe47d9a-705a-4d35-8e55-daec3466f480 2274 ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT IN PROWESS OF THE MIND 2950a366-cf75-4734-9c90-9c6bb469ac86 748 WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER 6b0f9672-6730-45b6-9522-c0353e07e046 2425 AND AS I TOOK MY FIRST STEP THERE MATERIALIZED SUDDENLY OUT OF THE THIN AND ILL SMELLING AIR FIGURES OF PERHAPS A DOZEN MONSTROUS CREATURES 7e731c1d-6236-4af0-b2c0-c40e666f59a0 451 SHE WAS SITTING THE JULY SUNLIGHT ON THE LEDGE OF THE OPEN HAYLOFT WINDOW IN UNCLE ROGER'S BIG BARN b47e6df4-075e-4209-853e-a973d4125b76 242 DID YOU EVER HEAR OF SUCH GOINGS ON THERE WAS A PURE YELLOW SUNSET THAT EVENING AND THE AISLES OF THE FIR TREES WERE FLOODED WITH ITS RADIANCE WHEN HOWEVER HE TOOK TO PRAYING ABOUT IT 5232d32a-b641-44a6-8310-e0cf0943a8de 32 AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT 8240a6e2-2b43-44a9-81d3-3df5d4078ae3 2182 HE WAS STILL SCOWLING OVER WHAT HE SHOULD TELL CHARLIE MACK WHEN THE ISLAND QUEEN HOVE INTO VIEW PERMANENT BENEFIT WAS SLOW BUT CUMULATIVE HIS AURA QUIVERED WITH A SHOCK OF BETRAYAL dedcd762-e41b-4564-9bc4-ecc66748f81c 451 NOW SARA SHE SAID WHAT'S THE GOOD OF WORKING BUTTONHOLES ON AN OLD RAG ASKED FELICITY EVERY ONE HAS TO HAVE THE MEASLES SOMETIME 6fa7624f-a8fe-4c74-9768-3b76923fb4d8 30 THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX A BIG BUSTLING 41a2bff3-998e-4c28-ad6d-f429f3779146 103 WE LOOKED AT HER AS WE DREW NEAR WITH SUCH INTEREST THAT WE FORGOT TO FEEL SHY SHE LIVES THERE WITH A LOT OF PET ANIMALS IN WINTER AND IN SUMMER SHE ROAMS OVER THE COUNTRY AND BEGS HER MEALS ca4b6dfa-45ae-41bb-ab39-1e880c113ac3 242 AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO STOP HIM HE'S BOUND TO FIGHT THAT'S MY WAY OF LOOKING AT IT THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY 6d7add91-9e47-4672-a795-b3d2d49dcbde 2182 THERE WAS A SOUND OF STEALTHY MOVEMENT OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND HE FLICKED SWEAT OUT OF HIS EYES WITH A HAND THAT SHOOK 24d6f600-e877-4356-adf1-ac6095839baa 103 OH YES SARA RAY FELICITY MENTIONED HER WHAT IS SHE LIKE WHERE DOES SHE LIVE ABRAHAM KING SMILED AND BEING A MAN OF FEW WORDS SAID NOTHING BUT IN HIS MIND HE HAD A VISION OF THE YEARS TO BE AND IN THAT VISION HE SAW NOT RIPPLING ACRES OF HARVEST GOLD BUT GREAT LEAFY AVENUES OF WIDE SPREADING TREES LADEN WITH FRUIT TO GLADDEN THE EYES OF CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN YET UNBORN 2e7c346d-91f1-4f50-928b-d8f166e4a3df 14 I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS cd543f65-ee04-412e-a593-9a5a4c66128b 413 IT CARRIED CONVICTION OF THE VERY OPPOSITE KIND CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF THIS WAS NOT BECAUSE THE RANCORVIE THAT LASTED SO LONG 4369085e-8884-4547-9a18-87fd588da56c 198 FIRST CAME AUNT JANET'S SISTER MISSUS PATERSON WITH A DAUGHTER OF SIXTEEN YEARS AND A SON OF TWO THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY A BUGGY LOAD OF MARKDALE PEOPLE AND FINALLY MISSUS ELDER FRUEN AND HER SISTER FROM VANCOUVER WITH TWO SMALL DAUGHTERS OF THE LATTER ARRIVED bcd498de-08b0-4bc8-9878-c95b18a1b14d 177 THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES d702b211-9149-435a-9da7-f87564b8b18f 2137 THE DOCTOR SMILED OPENLY NOW BRANDON FELL BACK ON THE GROUND WHATEVER IT WAS IT WAS BEYOND EMERGENCY REPAIR 3d583f82-c166-474c-a49a-2ad47ba8de49 2137 HIS FACE WAS BATHED IN PERSPIRATION THE COLONEL'S GLARING FACE FLICKED OFF AS BRANDON PUSHED THE PRE EJECTION LEVER INTO THE LOCK POSITION 2998eb70-e0c6-42c4-85f9-d7bd1664514b 1867 THE LIZARDS CRINGED AND I SET MY SOLAR FOR NARROW BEAM AND RAN IT AROUND THE DOOR JAM 0eb5b98e-c4bf-4509-b010-72ca9fb407be 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 a0fe4406-b3da-413f-898c-ef9afd16f7e4 14 I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE SHE WAS ALSO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN MISSIONS I'D BE AWFUL SORRY MYSELF IF PAT DIED 29390a18-e819-4e96-a1cd-6615bb2e9944 2137 AND RIGHT NOW I'M WALKING AROUND IN YOUR PRECIOUS PLANET LIKE A BOY'S SCOUT FINALLY HE SCRAMBLED DOWN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAVA SHEET AND CONTINUED ON TOWARD THE WRECK HE PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK FROM THE DESK c3a95028-bf28-44cd-a47f-7a84d8f64ab2 188 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 b193ab26-a5ac-4e4d-b073-1d2510eea74c 188 HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHERE YOUR FATHER IS ASKED ANN 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 5b372a2f-de9b-4465-a1c2-3ce21296bd19 1867 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY ENOUGH IF WE WERE ALLOWED A LITTLE MAYHAM THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY THERE WAS A RESIDUE OF CHARGE IN THE EMERGENCY BATTERIES JUST ENOUGH TO GIVE A DIM LIGHT 1ff1a72d-e4a3-4f4f-8360-dd0da9546ed6 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 f9236f07-cde0-4b9c-9167-2056e969bf69 177 NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED BUT I NEVER FOUND IT SO HARD TO REMEMBER THE GOLDEN TEXT BEFORE ONE VERY HOT DAY SHE HEARD JUDY PINNOT SAY SHE WAS ALL IN A SWEAT 212ef332-3c64-4416-b227-116aa3c9e7eb 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 af28bbfa-97f5-43f0-ab3e-f920eecae13e 2137 THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES 3262eb21-2ed6-416d-b0e9-ae5a01782ceb 413 BUT DIGNITY REMAINED TO BE CONSIDERED WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN BE IT REMEMBERED WITH A VERY FIRM AND SIMPLE FAITH THAT GROWN PEOPLE KNEW MUCH MORE THAN WE DID AND A ROOTED CONVICTION THAT WHATEVER YOU READ IN A NEWSPAPER MUST BE TRUE 7442518e-2ca2-4b68-a3cf-5fd1ff1d930b 2425 THERE WERE ONLY THREE MORE CARTRIDGES LEFT IN MY GUN AND I DID NOT DARE REPLACE THE FIRED SHELLS FOR FEAR THEY WOULD RUSH ME WHEN THE ACTION WAS OPEN AND THE GUN MOMENTARILY USELESS I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING WE MUST GIVE VIC A HAND MUSTN'T WE H 62748e36-6cdc-4d8a-97b4-f210560bef08 2425 VIC AND I HAD BEEN BUTTIES EVER SINCE WE WERE KIDS FOR A MOMENT DUE TO THIS OBVIOUSLY UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION EVERYTHING IN CONFUSION ce04c3d7-68f1-4131-83cd-684fc982017b 2274 A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW 3b30b3aa-f976-47bb-9060-26352a72c703 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES 15f433a4-750b-44da-940e-24e72887d8f4 2368 YONAS PEERED ONCE INTO THE MIND OF THE MAN EVERY COILED VIOLENTLY HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY ONE THING AT A TIME YUNUS SAID 90776811-7510-4493-8222-fe37ae2250d3 402 HE WAS ALWAYS SO POLITE AND GOOD NATURED AND OBLIGING SIGHED CECILY WELL HIS FATHER RUN AWAY AND HIS MOTHER WAS TOO BUSY EARNING A LIVING TO BRING HIM UPRIGHT ARGUED FELICITY 222a1eac-ed3a-49f4-b252-3efb51706dec 2312 AND ALSO TEN THOUSAND LIVES LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER PAPERS AND SEE WHICH ONE I AM A DONKEY A JACK ae0806bf-9a2b-47ed-a78d-30628aeca8dc 198 AS WE SAT THERE THE AWKWARD MAN PASSED BY WITH HIS GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER AND HIS DOG AT HIS SIDE 910cbc4a-57cd-407a-a4c8-793b4a988bf7 402 WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS 11e6d07c-b39e-4a80-affe-b97a3cab4e68 32 IT'S OUR OWN FAMILY GHOST SO OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T HURT US YOUR APPLES ARE LOVELY TO EAT THE STORY GIRL SAID TO ME 6a32bbf9-363b-49d4-bbba-aee69e2cc086 30 HE WAS A LEAN FRECKLED FELLOW BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY AND THE SHAPELY KING NOSE 4cf87b28-a500-4202-8acf-e8600be714ca 2108 BUT HOW ASTONISHED THOUGH HE WAS HE BUT HE IS A KIND MASTER DOROTHY HAD NEVER SEEN THIS BOY BEFORE 1db4ac0f-9627-4fb1-9bbb-57bc9b252aa3 2137 COME OVER HERE YOU FOOLS THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK DISAPPEARING THROUGH A BULKHEAD DOOR 2806fb38-16ad-4837-a474-617f5fb657f1 2286 HE HAD SOME IDEA OF SNIFFING AROUND QUIETLY FIRST TRYING TO GET A LINE TO HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS IF SHE EVADED THE NAVY SHIPS THAT WAS THEREFORE NOT MINE PRESENT FERERO A BACHELOR WAS EATING HIS DINNER d8d27b48-b8b0-45db-b3e8-956bde6650f9 2312 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP d9f11cf8-f977-45a7-8c69-a6013f93dc3d 2286 BUT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE BIG ENOUGH TO HIDE ANGELINA NOW BEING BUILT NOW IN THE NAVAL SHIPYARD AT EUDORIDE THE RELEASE AND FOLLOW UP ALL HARPED ON ONE THEME ad37cfa4-48e3-4f02-8d3d-de5af70378fd 2286 AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT SOME ONE WHO OPERATED THE WAY I HAD DONE BEFORE MY CONVERSION THE FACTS I NEEDED WERE ALL NEATLY TUCKED AWAY IN THEIR PAID PO CATACOMBS 4a483a4d-c9c5-4407-97bb-10f1588a742a 413 OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE 25018dc8-7ea7-4838-a664-3f1e566d3130 32 AND HE LOVED HER THE SAME BUT HE WROTE ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS ON IT AFTERWARDS AND SENT IT TO HER e73c60e1-971a-410c-8b03-0ccbc05f0f15 2317 RAY WAS BENDING OVER HIS MACHINE MAKING MOTIONS DESIGNED TO IMPRESS AS WELL AS TO MAKE IT WORK 49301ffd-8053-4ee7-bf26-3e709bb031d3 198 I'VE GAVE UP TRYING TO FATHOM YOU YOUNG ONES PETER WHERE'S THE KEY I NEVER WILL WHEN I'M GROWN UP I'LL REMEMBER BETTER BUT SARA RAY NEVER YOU BREATHE THIS TO A LIVING SOUL 256f7761-b8b1-4efc-a0de-18c7dd0ece7e 413 WHEN I GO HOME I'M GOING TO TELL HER ABOUT GOING TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW ALL THINGS CONSIDERED HER DEPARTURE WAS A RELIEF I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE ce7ff18b-6530-487d-8a77-67db80a44b8c 2274 SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WAY OFF IN THE BALLANDINE SYSTEM BY NOW THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY d67383de-d271-4d1c-afed-791fee005cd1 2182 ME GO DOWN THERE AFTER THAT MONSTER HERE JENOFER SAID THEY BROUGHT IT ASHORE TO HELP US OUT OF THE CABIN 2c84ae99-4322-4669-9a18-b65b0890cbdd 198 WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL UNCLE ROGER STOPPED LAUGHING BEFORE WE HEARD THE EXPLANATION WE THOUGHT HE NEVER WOULD STOP THAT'S GRANDFATHER KING'S OLD CLOCK STRIKING HE SAID AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE TO SPEAK SAMMY PROT CAME ALONG AFTER TEA WHEN YOU WERE AWAY TO THE FORGE PETER AND I GAVE HIM PERMISSION TO CLEAN THE OLD CLOCK HE HAD IT GOING MERRILY IN NO TIME c4a23638-a99f-4ca4-9907-49231bb45f4b 242 HE WAS NOT ANGRY IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE 4817ad46-ebf8-49a7-a9c2-3a4553318b61 198 I LEARNED THAT SARA RAY HAD NAMED AN APPLE FOR JOHNNY PRICE AND FELICITY WHO WAS USEFUL WOULD IN HER SECRET SOUL HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE INTERESTING d6fa3c81-f720-4d7e-984d-09a2ec2e806c 2182 THE SCOOP REACHED DEEPER WATER AND SUBMERGED THROWING A MOUNTAINOUS BILLOW THAT SENT THE ISLAND QUEEN REELING AND ALL BUT FOUNDED HER 1d7946d8-a119-4b87-a287-f2642148d330 413 CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC f89d415b-7153-483d-9965-f482cd0e77e5 451 THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF f5169fa6-b86e-49dd-b433-3e4cc64a9a10 2286 THAT WILL BE ENTIRELY ENOUGH WITH THIS POINT UNDERSTOOD HE CALLED HIS CAR AND SQUADRON OF GUARDS AND WE MADE A PARADE TO THE SHIP YARDS b785ed06-2f21-41b6-a84e-c71a0edbf86d 32 IT BLEW UP AND EVERYTHING BLEW UP BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT AND WE LISTENED AVIDLY 2da9951a-02f5-4630-8228-7b5de380fb31 402 BUT I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO THERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE I WANT HIM TO STAY RIGHT HERE THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL 0d308f1c-be3f-483c-8b42-c6e90e06216f 1867 HERE IS SOME MONEY FROM PARADISE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY 9f29ae5a-bd35-4109-8b3e-7d6cc279ca0f 14 IT WOULD MAKE HIM SEEM LOTS MORE REAL YOU MUST PROVE IT BEFORE I SHALL MARRY YOU SAID THE PROUD PRINCESS 25ad3b8b-002f-4a93-9f6d-3f78e326de29 198 I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO LET US BE FAIR FELICITY 8ab414d6-d988-49c4-90b8-bb5046252075 2286 SOME DAY THE MYSTERY OF HOW HE HAD SLIPPED THROUGH THE SCREEN OF OFFICIAL TESTING WOULD HAVE TO BE INVESTIGATED MOISTLY WHILE HE DRAINED THE GLASS 371afbbb-3b4e-4080-873a-7510a27e228f 2425 TURALLY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND VIC'S JARGON ABOUT FREQUENCIES AND LIGHT RAYS FOR I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL THAN PHYSICS IN COLLEGE ef446ed1-b0c2-4b6f-b818-c3b32636ae12 2137 ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST MIGHT HAVE THROWN A COMPRESSOR BLADE THE DOCTOR LOOKED UP QUIZZICALLY 2cc534c7-a049-41f0-a439-dd9d8a27f495 32 BUT THE STORY GIRL WENT ME ONE BETTER EVEN THERE BECAUSE HAVING INHERITED SOMETHING OF HER FATHER'S TALENT FOR DRYING 70b3c1b9-9845-4b50-9716-a78d48dbb0a7 402 FINALLY MARGARET RAN AWAY WITH ALLAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN CHARLOTTETOWN ODIN MADE A PILGRIMAGE OVER THE WORLD TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER 93c42c6b-6602-4be3-969b-df752cf74dad 2182 HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE 34922905-8bb6-4657-b73f-1673b20ed2df 30 HEAVY LIDDED EYES AND A PINK AND WHITE SKIN AND THOUGH WE HAD SOME IDEA WHAT WOULD BE AT THE END OF IT 3a38e2a2-995f-45a0-83bd-56b8a20ae149 30 DAN SHARED IT WITH US THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK 17313cbc-f2c3-4c95-8bbd-779df86b22c3 32 IT WAS STRAIGHT AND SMOOTH IN FRONT BUT SLOPED DOWN IN NATURAL STEPS BEHIND I DON'T KNOW THE STORY GIRL LOOKED DUBIOUS 3aa92ca5-8f47-4a44-bbb3-73af42bb9896 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 63ab3dcd-d272-4a50-b83d-42117034edca 2312 I WANT THE LIST THAT WAS STOLEN BUT THERE WAS ALSO A DREAD OF IT THAT HIS SUPERIORS DID NOT UNDERSTAND 7e0b69f7-227c-4c50-b6c1-2b3e030daee1 2425 IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW 3a664e0e-4576-45df-ad68-179b059b3fbb 402 SUDDENLY SARAH BEGAN TO CRY WE PICKED APPLES AND DRAGGED THEM TO THE GRANARY DOGGEDLY IF SHE'LL LET HIM HE'LL BRING IT TO MORROW 1b8edbf2-8b93-4e93-ab51-10b5ea675dd2 402 WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW bbed23af-79ff-462b-a1c4-00c3310d5150 2312 DON'T STALL DON'T STUTTER GIVE ME OUR TAX LIST THAT WAS STOLEN d8d0c9c6-74d7-486a-9f9a-7d019a713062 32 IT HAD PLAYED AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE GAMES OF OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS BEING FORTIFIED CASTLE INDIAN AMBUSH 681fab20-41ee-4157-95ff-380d232cfc9c 402 MISTER MIRWOOD PRESENTLY WALKING BENIGNLY ALONG THE LANE WAS CONFRONTED BY A FAT SMALL BOY WITH A PALE FACE BUT RESOLUTE EYES 2b0717f1-8389-4cac-9d06-95204324a9a5 2274 OUR EYES DIFFER SAID TO NEWBE HE BENT TOWARD ORAN PEERED HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN 8ae9c88c-52a4-4bea-983c-2edb81f6c30c 2274 SMACKED HIS LIPS AGAIN THE LIPLESS MOUTH FORMED GALLANT TEESE WORDS a2b84937-8682-41ad-aa19-88985f5ceb3c 402 THERE WERE NO RAILROADS ACROSS THE LAND BUT HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY MORE THAN YOU DO THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS b2a5f201-d7ed-4585-9160-11bda6fe7af3 242 YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS e6b64da5-5b60-42e1-8437-8de3e7322820 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 HE HAD LARGE HANDS AND FEET AND WALKED WITH A SLIGHT STOOP THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE 92b384a9-f500-4059-bc10-a9b7f5908287 2182 THEY SHUDDERED AND TELEPARTED THE SUDDEN REAPPEARANCE OF HIS HALLUCINATION DOUBLED 8e697259-cabb-4959-89c8-49261ead7d9a 451 THEN THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED UP THE HILL TOGETHER I SAID COMFORTABLY AND THE YOUNGER YOU ARE THE BETTER THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES f9e06f80-4967-478d-b9e6-cf730fcd191b 2274 YOU HAVE NOT ANSWERED MY QUESTION GRATSEY WAS ON THE TRAMP WASN'T ON THE TRANSLATED LIST MIGHT EVEN BE OFF THE DELPHINIS fd1f4532-a285-40b2-9505-4d14c6e9a128 242 FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE HE TOLD FELICITY AND FELICITY TOLD ME I WON'T PUT UP WITH IT d03c1310-68cd-4664-a71e-c0fb8f295bca 2182 LEFT THE DARKER GREEN STRIPE OF SAFE CHANNEL AND PLUNGED INTO WATER TOO SHALLOW FOR HER DRAUGHT 22249619-1b35-488f-92ad-a23d41f3359a 2108 HERE'S ANOTHER LETTER IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO AND IN THIS MANNER THEY TRAVELLED IN GOOD SPIRITS ACROSS THE VALLEY AND INTO THE NEXT ONE TO THE EAST OF IT ffc77097-a5b5-4b12-9671-e24f1e5b0be4 14 WE'LL ASK PETER TO DESCRIBE IT SOME TIME WHEN HE'S IN A BETTER HUMOUR WHISPERED FELIX BUT IT WAS HIS LEGS WHICH WE SCRUTINIZED MOST ANXIOUSLY 46f5a18a-dd51-4908-9a81-0db453ceb814 2312 AND WONDERINGLY MARSHALL DID AND IN THE DAYS THAT THE ARGUMENT WAS GOING ON THEY CLEANED UP AND FED MANWELL ea7781cb-724b-4cc9-9274-883294becf34 402 AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE a0a9791c-a817-48ee-a90e-87c7334f7842 2108 ALL NEATLY DISPLAYED ON TIN DISHES THAT WERE POLISHED TILL THEY SHONE LIKE MIRRORS 1ecc3c91-902f-40b6-ab59-4ea84e9d4f5b 451 THE PIG ATE THE WHOLE PAILFUL AND THEN THE IRISHMAN PUT THE PIG IN THE PAIL AND IT DIDN'T FILL MORE THAN HALF THE PAIL 77fdf4f2-abb4-4047-a353-223e24283093 242 I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN c29c5b7b-9f1b-467d-a053-a72f6e07df4e 30 WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US 97895a35-c745-4cce-8752-87da5d4dcef1 2137 MAY DAY MAY ESTRO THIS IS BRANDON MAY DAY TURNED INTO MEN WEARING DESERT UNIFORMS AND LEANED OVER HIM 30e20450-8c65-4b0a-9ed8-b050c1b79f41 413 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM fa3bc812-0346-44f8-b6c1-e813999a3107 32 LAST SUMMER SHE CALLED AT LEM HILLS IN MARKDALE AND HE TOLD HER TO CLEAR OUT OR HE'D SET THE DOG ON HER c2f39604-7d98-4183-a093-c2963eaf0282 2317 THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE e5c668cd-fe5e-4ab6-97a2-c7493ad7cb37 2108 INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY SO I'M MUCH OBLIGED FOR THE KINDNESS LITTLE FAIRY ecfe4d24-8542-41cb-bc78-1988dab57ac7 30 OFF TO THE RIGHT WAS A DIM BRANCHING PLACE THE GIRL'S DOOR SHUT WITH A BANG AND ON OUR LEFT 112bedd6-3f65-4311-9ced-5650f4f8044f 2137 THAT INSTINCTIVE FEAR IS EVEN MORE UNDERSTANDABLE HE EASED BACK ON THE POWER SETTING A PIN POINT OF LIGHT LOST IN THE DAZZLE OF THE MILKY WAY 7310e4e3-5719-468d-91e7-703e2c885503 2182 THERE WAS A SLITHERING SOUND IN THE DISTANCE THAT SOUNDED LIKE A MOUNTAIN IN MOTION NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK da27335b-6645-4686-862c-18f2e04171ff 198 AND YOU NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK TO EARTH BECAUSE WHEN YOU DRANK OF THE MAGIC CUP YOU FORGOT ALL YOUR PAST LIFE EXCEPT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU WERE ALLOWED TO REMEMBER IT I WISH THERE WAS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND AND A WAY TO GET TO IT SAID CECILY 9abe9a5c-76e6-4f30-a746-51d5958e518b 402 UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEVER HAD A BOY HE COULD DEPEND ON LIKE PETER BURY IT SAID THE STORY GIRL 7d777575-29aa-4a36-81f0-c55783de8859 32 EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH f9e1428a-560e-4155-9afc-ee53cd221d58 2182 THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT FISH AND SAIL AROUND LOOKING FOR SCOOPS READY TO SHED THEIR CRYSTALS YOU'RE AN EARTH INTEREST SPY AFTER ALL f1c78dc2-1479-4431-8398-a1fb0152a6cb 188 FELIX I'VE GIVEN UP PRAYING THAT I'LL BE THE ONLY ONE TO EAT THE BITTER APPLES AND I'LL NEVER PRAY FOR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN IT IT NEVER OCCURRED TO HER THAT FELIX DID NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED FAT 2f0a3aef-c8d4-441c-b2c3-4c80bfafece1 242 FOR ONCE IN HER LIFE THE STORY GIRL WAS NOT AS TACTFUL AS HER WONT UNCLE ALEC WALKED AROUND THE CORNER OF THE GRANARY WITH CECILY BEHIND HIM d40d484f-0693-400f-b5b9-063d7364c7bd 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 55ead456-a348-4186-aa3c-bd054d8e43c3 2182 FLAT DORSAL FLIPPERS UNDULATING GENTLY ON THE WATER JEFF MADE A PUSHING MOTION YOUR FEMALE SUGGESTION IS RIGHT b60e1423-fc4e-461d-9bf9-0f4dbee5c792 2368 NEVERTHELESS A FAMILY WHICH WAIT SHE SAID HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD f2aea4b0-dffd-4895-8a3d-68e47789f76d 2137 JUST AS THIS PLANET WAS TO ITS MASTER SERIOUS GOT A FIRE INDICATION THEN A COMPRESSOR SURGE HE COULD HEAR NOTHING BUT THE WIND HOLLOWING HIS EARS 023ef546-71ed-4cd7-92b8-d3a42e152b06 2108 WAS BALLOON NO SOUND OF ACTIVITY CAME FROM THE HOUSE EITHER AND AT THE SUMMONS A SERVANT APPEARED AND BOWED LOW 6faf640e-8ae8-44a5-a233-d0797f09d1bd 2425 MY VOICE TRAILED OFF THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK adcd07b9-d396-4a9b-8c5b-a849e558f35d 30 THAT HE HAD INSPIRED US WITH SOME OF HIS OWN DEEP SEATED AFFECTION FOR IT THERE WAS ENOUGH GLAMOUR OF THE UNKNOWN ABOUT IT WAS THE OLD WHITEWASHED HOUSE 82c4d0aa-b1cc-4ca8-91b6-1ca0993c03d3 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 e1d9c6cd-c3fb-4071-b69c-c2a47141918c 2274 ALIEN CALLS FOR FULL CONTACT TEAM WITH ALL THAT AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN THAT WE COULD CONTROL 562dd955-e323-4bbf-afe2-83e6ab992fde 242 BUT I HAD NO BURNING DESIRE TO EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT GRIMACING EXCLAIMED PETER INDIGNANTLY I b1389dcd-d80d-4d32-944e-b80585fb4c7c 188 I WONDER IF IT IS TRUE THAT HE WRITES POETRY MISSUS GRIGGS SAYS IT IS SHE SAYS SHE HAS SEEN HIM WRITING IT IN A BROWN BOOK d86e7569-fdeb-472d-b85e-b7a826fd7fad 1867 I HOPED I WASN'T BREAKING TOO MANY TABOOS BY GOING IN ROLLED OUT OF THE CAVE AND LANDED AT HIS FEET NOT REALLY FROM PARADISE 989f028e-7c99-4582-a086-66544d6f2109 1867 BUT STILL THE HOLY WATERS WOULD NOT FLOW I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT c365fdc4-b7fa-4167-975e-ca06aa7b4abf 14 IT WAS UNCLE EDWARD WHO TOLD ME THERE WERE NO SUCH THINGS AS FAIRIES BUT CLOSER INSPECTION REVEALED SOMETHING NOT ALTOGETHER CUSTOMARY bb494e7c-6d2b-48e8-a7d9-1263ab01d3cf 2286 OUTSIDE THE RUSHING TRANSCRIBERS COPIED COATED AND FILED MESSAGES BUT NO SOUND PENETRATED THE INSULATED WALL 99b52432-ed6a-4b86-a901-cdc0cd967f68 2274 AND THE LOCALS PICKED UP TO PIECES THANKS TO BULL ONE IN COMPANY IN YOUR TONGUE GLASS SAID TO NEW 5509af83-77ff-4788-81d3-d0cd1af8a3ea 2137 I'D GIVE A YEAR'S PAY IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW TOWERS AND MAYBE ANOTHER TEN TO GET THE CAPSULE TIME SLOW DOWN NEYLON STREAMED OUT BEHIND HIM AND SNAPPED OPEN WITH A TREMENDOUS JAR 41964190-f5c4-402d-b5a5-1bdfb3242d2f 198 OH CHILDREN ISN'T THERE SOMETHING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE WE PEERED FEARFULLY THROUGH THE GLOOM THERE WAS SOMETHING SOMETHING THAT WAVERED AND FLUTTERED ADVANCED RETREATED FELIX ALSO AVERRED THAT HE HAD HEARD SARA ASK CECILY VERY SERIOUSLY 397e201d-0138-4db6-8b6a-5e5fd4575cac 2317 BACK TO MY OWN PLANET TAM DAVAR SON NOGHOR MEMBER OF THE GALATSKI FERREDORATION SHE SAID PATIENTLY d90e9177-450c-491c-a4ca-bf93eb5cea8b 2368 JONAS DID NOT IN SPITE OF HIS POSE LOOK LIKE THE TYPICAL HERO FOLK TALE OR SCRIBE'S TOME THIS HERE KUNUCH HE SAID HE WANTS TO SEE ME d40af400-32bc-43ad-8c16-f3514de5fefd 2108 AND CREATED TWO ROWS OF ENORMOUS TEETH AGAINST THE EMPEROR'S TIN BODY 8da0b49e-9759-4840-a543-c08582565016 198 OFF TO THE WEST WAS A DAFFODIL GLOW HANGING OVER THE VALLEY OF LOST SUNSETS AND GRANDFATHER KING'S HUGE WILLOW ROSE UP AGAINST IT LIKE A ROUNDED MOUNTAIN OF FOLIAGE 96aebed1-78a9-4b64-b8d7-9e0cb94d33e9 30 HE HAD TALKED SO MUCH TO US ABOUT IT WHICH FATHER HAD ONCE OCCUPIED AND SO MINUTELY 6d5ca590-f850-462f-bf73-353c1ada4c32 32 NOBODY WHO DIED IN HIS SLEEP COULD EVER TELL IT WHEN THE BLOSSOMS COME OUT IT'S WONDERFUL TO WALK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL edb87d32-220e-4a50-b4c8-b13375ea51c9 2137 THE SCREEN GLOWED INTO LIFE IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE b8564dac-a420-4e6c-b1b5-5b9d926536a4 402 ONLY THREE DAYS THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE 36398631-6679-4d21-8fc2-0edacae9b839 402 AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL JERRY HAD BROUGHT IT IN A FISH BASKET AS APPEARED WHEN HE MOUNTED THE GRANARY STAIRS SHORTLY AFTERWARDS a3f9c10c-e251-4e42-975d-d373d67dc019 413 WE ALL MADE MUCH OF HIM EXCEPT FELICITY WHO NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A STORY GIRL'S CAT 57e12e8e-d229-45bc-a35d-7a105f34713e 2182 HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM 365de46c-36b3-486a-9000-80763e787795 2274 A GLASS BLOWING CULTURE I LIKE YOURN SAID TO NEWBE YOU SHALL BE ONE OF MY SLAVES YOU WILL TEACH ME MANY THINGS 9bae359e-94b1-45ee-852a-5dcc5785d360 2108 OF COURSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN DRAGONS BEFORE AND LOOKED AT HIM SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME a589ce69-6ac2-444c-9591-9f528c85b65f 2368 HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN HEROISM LOOKED A LITTLE EMPTY THOUGH BUT THERE IS NONE YONAH SAID e6effbe2-8abd-4a4d-b742-701b19ab3946 14 SHE DREW HERSELF HAUGHTILY UP BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED 8a5f70e3-1691-422a-9f1e-2314729d1b08 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 ead792be-236e-4914-b78e-8cf1743372cf 188 WE HAD HAD BROTHERHOOD WITH WIND AND STAR WITH BOOKS AND TALES AND HEARTH FIRES OF AUTUMN NOW BEST OLD GIRL DO YOUR BONNIEST HE SAID THERE'S MORE THAN YOU KNOW HANGS ON YOUR SPEED d07c5c71-375c-4cab-b361-4587bdb30ec1 2312 HE HAD TO PRODUCE A POPULATION OF TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FOR HIGH PLANS TEXAS MARILLA JUST LAY DOWN AND DIED MANOEL 174f01cc-5149-4493-be3f-0bc77d47292c 242 ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY 6a0b75bf-591b-41fb-b947-f946bd39590e 188 AND IT MADE US FEEL WRETCHEDLY UNCOMFORTABLE SOMEHOW YOU ARE A WONDER SOME DAY YOU WILL MAKE THE WORLD REALIZE IT YOU MUST TAKE A PINCH OF THE SEED EVERY THREE HOURS WALKING BACKWARD a4c96c3a-a7ef-4b7a-9f59-4017fad72897 2286 STARING GLOOMILY AT THEIR BACKS I ENVIED FOR ONE MOMENT THEIR SIMPLE FAITH IN THE LEAGUE NAVY THIS ONE HAS RECEPTORS ON THE HULL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY ANY PART OF THE SHIP OR EVEN GAIN ENTRY TO IT AND THIS ONE WILL DETONATE d6b2f226-41ea-445e-a74a-72a368339eb5 242 AND THE WEIRD LITTLE TALE TOLD IN A VOICE FRAUGHT WITH MYSTERY AND PATHOS HAD PEOPLED THEM FOR US WITH FURATIVE FOLKS IN BELT AND WAMPUM AND DARK DRESSED INDIAN MAIDENS 9c9343b2-f758-425d-9238-b6e7d7637bbb 1867 DUE TO THE VERY NATURE OF OUR JOB WE SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME JUST ROCKETING THROUGH NORMAL SPACE a24745f7-313c-435f-bcfa-547768dd568b 2274 BECAUSE THE BIG DOMES FED A SET OF REQUIREMENTS INTO THEIR IRON MONSTERS YOUR CARD POPPED OUT 87c2a250-6d7d-4eb0-be1d-10aa2f70f473 413 OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE OUR MORNING CHORES WERE DONE AND THE DAY WAS BEFORE US 5b5e08e6-585a-47c9-b335-dd8b087e1bf0 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 294b29f9-230d-4810-bd25-63785ae77ebf 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 5fb08ff8-d78a-4185-bb1f-ae0841f16621 402 OH PERHAPS WE WON'T HAVE THEM SAID THE STORY GIRL CHEERFULLY IT WAS JUST LIKE A FEVER AUNT LOUISA SAYS WOULD JERRY COWN BRING IT TO SCHOOL THEN LET US SEE IT f9c89ace-308c-4925-ac9f-a8a04ed5ce7e 451 DON'T SUPPOSE ALL THE ANGELS DO IF THEY HAD BEEN BANISHED TOGETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NO PUNISHMENT SO ZERO WAS EXILED TO A STAR ON ONE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND ZULEMITH WAS SENT TO A STAR ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE AND BETWEEN THEM WAS A FATHOMLESS ABYSS WHICH THOUGHT ITSELF COULD NOT CROSS THE REST OF US HELD OUR TONGUES 424122a1-0a1e-4624-a8e4-c93aa8f52747 451 I HAVE A GOOD MIND TO DO IT SAID SARA BUT I CAN'T GET MY GOOD CLOTHES THEY'RE IN THIS BARE ROOM AND MA LO LOCKED THE DOOR FOR FEAR SOMEBODY WOULD GET AT THE FRUIT CAKE f3740c2e-9a37-4701-b774-6bbba3f2e53e 451 I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF 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 fd28a3bb-ef0f-4b78-b841-13a836a6f7c2 2312 IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM IT'S BEEN A FEW HUNDRED YEARS HE KNEW IT BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE 1d7fcc9d-413b-4049-8796-409f97954e30 2137 RAISING THE ANTENNAE HE PLUGGED IN THE MIGHT CORD FROM HIS MASK AND HELD DOWN THE TALK KEY WITH HIS THUMB PERHAPS CONDITIONS WERE MORE PROMISING THERE b4641773-42df-42be-98ee-6f744c7626e4 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 2d5b3f3d-bcf6-4556-baa5-b52c5b4a3434 2368 THE GRISLIER METHODS OF THE INQUISITORIAL PROCESS WERE WELL KNOWN TO HIM BY REPUTATION HE CAME TO THE BARRED DOOR STILL SMILING WE DO NOT MENTION THAT NAME SHARP SAID 6652b3fb-b4a0-45fd-a277-2521d55ab922 188 I THINK I OUGHT TO PREACH IT OVER AGAIN FOR YOU TO OUR EYES THE ODD THING ABOUT IT WAS THAT THERE WAS NO ENTRANCE ON THE GROUND FLOOR AS THERE SHOULD BE IN ANY RESPECTABLE HOUSE OF COURSE I NEVER SAID A WORD ABOUT HIS ALICE ROOM 3316092f-6da3-4627-95e2-7f3a81753d20 402 BETTER WAIT UNTIL MISTER MILWOOD LEAVES AND CATCH HIM IN THE LANE ADVISED THE STORY GIRL THAT I HOPE WE WILL ALL MEET IN A BETTER WORLD 8fb2f595-24b2-444e-b8bc-42261373f7b2 30 AND HANDED US OVER TO THE KEEPING OF UNCLE ALEC AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN ANXIOUS TO CLAIM IT WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING 8c29a12f-696b-48a7-9000-af637ace5ec0 2274 PAUSE YES SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID 2162d056-5778-4e97-ae21-c304b60556ed 2182 JEFF LOOKED BACK ONCE TO SEE THE ZID CLOSE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN AND SPRING UPWARD TO THE TAIL FLUKE BEHIND HIM CHAFFEE'S THREE AND FOUR APPEARED FROM NOWHERE c746fa10-de32-40ab-b09a-e4cce37491b1 30 NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS 9e78ac29-843a-4aee-84c5-efca50decb6c 451 ONE TIME A FRIEND OF HIS WAS TRYING TO CONSOLE HIM AND SAID TO HIM IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS 23ffaf24-ca96-4304-af72-7afeb9f6ab86 198 ONLY A FEW WHO REMAIN CHILDREN AT HEART CAN EVER FIND THAT FAIR LOST PATH AGAIN AND BLESSED ARE THEY ABOVE MORTALS 2f928e55-ded3-4fac-b0c6-9423b22efc67 2368 YONAS SET A THOUGHT OF UNCERTAINTY WHAT BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA HE HARDLY NEEDED TO SEE INTO HER MIND TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS GOING abad876c-cb2d-4d42-ad5c-738fb4e0f9fd 198 WHAT YARN HAVE YOU BEEN TELLING I WE HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH THE MAPLE WOODS TO THE EXTREME END OF UNCLE ROGER'S FARM A PRETTY WALK THROUGH A WORLD OF GREEN WHISPERING BOUGHS AND SPICED SWEET FERNS AND SHIFTING PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT e57dda2a-5774-40f2-8897-5ad228fb11e8 2312 LITTLE PEOPLE NOT CHILDREN LITTLE PEOPLE HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE AND MILLER RUN A TREADMILL FOR THIRTY FIVE YEARS 43f025db-b80a-4e20-9baa-35f5feb4e37f 32 NO BUT I SHALL SOME DAY IF I KEEP ON BELIEVING IN HER BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT e47c2306-5b11-4383-8713-d39852cd0e17 2368 DO YOU KNOW WHY I WAS PUT HERE IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER 5d5d78f9-e647-494f-9b21-ff862906f54d 402 A SHOWER CAME UP IN THE EVENING AND WE HAD TO STOP PICKING RING THE AFTERNOON JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP A TEAR BLOTTED NOTE FROM SARA RAY FELICITY HAS NOT GOTTEN OVER THAT TO THIS DAY 43bf87b2-4509-40d7-bc53-14b201f22b40 2182 WE MUST HAVE YOUR FRIEND'S HELP FINDING OUT WHERE THE ISLANDERS GOT THEIR CALM CRYSTALS HAD BECOME SUDDENLY UNIMPORTANT 44946168-336b-4bbd-8d25-fc526ec1049b 242 SILVERY MOON WAS LOOKING DOWN ON US OVER THE GRANARY ALL RIGHT I CAN FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY OH DON'T FIGHT 6e6099a5-e632-44ae-b557-53c192c6688a 2317 HE WAS PECULIAR JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE c662b8e5-ddd7-41d9-9b02-9b4bf8a249c0 2368 DO YOU SPECT THIS TO PROVE A MAN WITH A PARTICULAR CAT TALENT GIVEN BY GOD THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE 5f80d662-4cc5-4cb9-9196-e51ec5c8bac7 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 87d27364-c45c-4390-a2e8-5fedc4326626 32 I SHALL TRY TO CULTIVATE PATIENCE PETER RECEIVED AN EXTRA SETTING DOWN WHICH HE CONSIDERED RANK INJUSTICE 0a425db3-a63a-4672-b0b4-9ee0dee72c35 402 SHE HAD RECENTLY BEEN DIGGING INTO A COUPLE OF OLD VOLUMES OF CLASSIC MYTHS AND NORTHLAND FOLK LORE WHICH SHE HAD FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S ATTIC THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED b62409bb-8de8-456b-b980-528b08060e20 198 UNCLE ROGER CAN LAUGH SAID CICELY WITH A QUIVER IN HER VOICE BUT IT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER TO BE SO SCARED I FEEL JUST SICK I WAS SO FRIGHTENED I WOULDN'T MIND IF HE'D LAUGH ONCE AND HAVE IT DONE WITH IT 87aa4cf4-e511-43fd-bfa3-5572103b2c14 198 YES I DID SHE FALTERED 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 bd3f2e38-00ff-4dd3-84bf-35984d4e77ed 2368 KUTUFF NODDED A SECOND PASSED HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD STRANGER SHARP SAID e1a397bb-4cb9-49df-b874-43f9bb005062 2425 SEEMED TO DROP UPON ME BUT I DIDN'T EVEN STOP TO GIVE HIM A RING IN A SQUAT CLEAR BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL THAT VIC HAD TAKEN FROM THE DRAWER 7ce50757-0d7a-456a-87e1-29f28cea7c3f 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 ad56c0e5-7e9d-47f1-905d-702eca77a60a 2312 IF THEY ARE PEOPLE TAKE THEM NOW IT IS PROPOSED TO MAKE IT THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STATE PARK 73bb1278-be71-4109-967a-6e5180817012 2286 I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING c964d9f6-d07a-4ff8-aa88-fcf294820661 413 IT MIGHT INDEED THIS WAS A NEW HORROR WHICH HAD NOT OCCURRED TO US WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO e3849848-9107-4cee-a7ff-1ba8003b1a7a 32 BUT AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING HER DREAMS WERE NO MORE REMARKABLE THAN THOSE OF THE REST OF US 02138352-32df-4ead-85dd-47c7898da7a3 2137 FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT HE SEARCHED AROUND FOUND SOME GLASSY BLACK ROCKS AND ANCHORED DOWN THE CHUTE 34d79788-f86e-4ef4-90f2-606843508193 2425 AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HORRIBLE THAT WE WILL IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY YOUR LUCK THERE WAS NO SENSE TO THE NOTE aa685f02-a687-4c70-bc85-d880e0bbcb75 2286 THIS IS WHY I LANDED AT MIDDAY ON THE LARGEST FIELD ON THE PLANET AFTER A VERY SHOWY APPROACH 873ef475-8c5b-4142-a6c7-a5f5671151e2 2312 LISTEN YOU SICK CARTER HE GOT ANOTHER FORM AND FILLED OUT ALL THE DARKER ON HIMSELF 640f58c3-cb79-4d1c-af78-d0e3062e9e67 2317 LOOKING DOWN HIS NOSE AT IT AT THE SAME TIME THE DIVING HELMET CLATTERED ON THE PLANKS BUT I'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR OUTFIT BACK AND DESTROY IT ANYWAY f85ba9c1-4676-4f0b-83fa-19ff7f64ae70 413 IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK c871054c-80d0-4e1f-9aae-6bb5bb7c3578 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 47b3bb00-9ffd-40e5-9d0e-b2a180f72416 413 BUT TIMOTHY ROOTS WERE FASHIONABLE THEREFORE TIMOTHY ROOFS MUST BE EATEN UNCLE ROGER WAS ILLIBERAL AND UNCLE ALEC A CONSERVATIVE AND THE GIRLS HELD FAST TO THE POLITICAL TRADITIONS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOUSEHOLDS 96820d51-d0c8-4393-85a5-7865f4d9d75d 2137 THEY WERE SPOTTED WITH CLUMPS OF GRAY GRASS EVEN AS WAS THE DESERT THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER JUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT I TOLD YOU 270faf36-40fd-49f9-9304-f3bb406fbfa7 413 BESIDES WHAT IS THE GOOD OF ASKING THE GROWN UPS THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THIS THAN WE DO IT'S A MAN IN THE STATES WHO CLAIMS TO BE A PROPHET efc1d5ef-3978-4779-8905-1797e9231279 2108 SAID THE SCARECROW WHO SEEMED VERY INTELLIGENT FOR A STRAW MAN THAT WAS HOW I LEARNED THE MAGIC POWER OF THE APRON d8399d22-66b4-4eea-8849-04c9d9477eb9 14 PETER EAGERLY GRASPED HER HAND PETER WAS BY WAY OF SKULKING SHAMEFACEDLY PAST INTO THE SHADOWS 18be39d0-4a1e-42ac-a0aa-1c9916404abd 451 FOR JUST AS THE EVENING STAR WAS LOOKING WHITELY THROUGH THE ROSY WINDOW OF THE WESTECILY CAME FLYING THROUGH THE ORCHARD WRINGING HER HANDS cb179f13-3e85-4e46-af85-0474ad7247ec 413 SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK AND IT'S IN THE PAPER TOO AND THAT'S PRINTED AS WELL AS THE BIBLE SAID DAN 5acbfb32-15d2-4d21-bdb8-5caa3e7f470e 14 BUT CECILI HAVING TORTURED HER HAIR WITH CURL PAPERS ALL NIGHT HAD A RAMPANT BUSH OF CURLS ALL ABOUT HER HEAD 011c008e-7cd7-4cb4-9bc2-e351119caefb 2312 AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM THE DWARF WAS THREE FOOT HIGH A SKELETON STRETCHED OVER WITH BROWN BURNT LEATHER e75b9d0b-62cf-4eaa-a2c3-a20fc1714937 451 EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW 207f5987-99f5-47da-a673-66f2c2e61157 402 AND THE WARDER SET OPEN THE GATE THE RAINBOW HAD FADED OUT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE OCTOBER DUSK WAS FALLING 584f22bf-41d4-4653-b3a5-45ad54d490ca 2274 THAT'S ALWAYS TOUCHY WE'VE MANAGED TO PUT SPIES AND KEEP PLACES AT OUR N ARE a6db34ad-6abe-41c4-afd2-8fcc8c3743c5 2425 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 THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF MISTAKE d3fdb1f1-eb10-4a20-9608-7f5187473c2a 242 OH I SEE IT NOW SAID CECILY JOYFULLY IT HAUNTED HIS WAKING HOURS AND OBSESSED HIS NIGHTS WELL MAYBE THEY ARE IN REAL LIFE SAID CECILY c811d33e-0243-4a57-88d1-47331a323196 2286 HE HAD LONG SINCE GIVEN UP THE ENTIRE OPERATION AS A FUTILE ONE DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE 6b2ec753-f4c6-4ba0-87b9-cf82a83cdafc 198 WE COULD HAVE RUN ONE AND ALL IF THERE HAD BEEN ANYWHERE TO RUN TOO BUT THERE WASN'T ALL AROUND US WERE ONLY THOSE SHADOWY ARCADES THEN WE SAW WITH SHAME THAT IT WAS ONLY OUR PADDY PAT PAT I SAID PICKING HIM UP FEELING A CERTAIN COMFORT IN HIS SOFT SOLID BODY 4ad74052-3a3f-4e41-9afa-f57bf589ed13 2425 BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES fd2ad65c-3b58-4ade-b89c-51ce8dd4d6d8 14 WAIT FOR ME PETER SHE CALLED WE WALKED ON IN SILENCE FOR A TIME THINKING OUR OWN YOUNG THOUGHTS PROTESTED FELICITY 1d13292e-3981-4679-859f-c60bd67ef534 242 IF ANYTHING COULD HAVE MADE HIM THIN THE WAY HE WORRIED OVER THIS MATTER WOULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE DIM LIGHT SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH A WILD MYSTIC LOVELINESS 4b883e3e-2611-45cd-8002-e20d06bed1f7 451 I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY 8c40b786-b414-4cce-9d0c-e60593fabbce 188 YES BUT I DON'T BELIEVE SHE COULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS THIS HERSELF FELICITY GOT ALL THE GRATITUDE ALTHOUGH THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA AND SEATED THE RAISINS AND BEATEN THE EGGS WHILE CECILY HAD TRUDGED ALL THE WAY TO MISSUS JAMES'S LITTLE SHOP BELOW THE CHURCH TO BUY THE PINK CANDIES BUT THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WORLD 8ba74fc0-dc48-4bf1-bc1e-44afa396f5ae 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 43a7b32f-7fc4-4daa-b2ee-8f6a17fd8373 2286 A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL bd4a83d7-4f30-4dac-bbd0-94ac8182e3df 1867 I TAGGED THIS EXPRESSION WITH THE PHRASE HEY GEORGE AND WAITED MY CHANCE TO USE IT IN THE MORNING WHEN THE FIRST WALLOWERS ARRIVED I FLIPPED ON THE RECORDER 3a78f3aa-4582-4f81-a124-552ad8ad2e36 1867 NOW ARMED MOBS FOUGHT AROUND THE TEMPLE EACH DAY AND A NEW BAND OF PRIESTS GUARDED THE SACRED FONT 198cd4c2-6f6f-4f51-8370-76c70dfb46ae 1867 I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT 66e11217-c83c-4fb5-8a07-49d069566bdf 2317 AS YOU'VE JUST ILLUSTRATED I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN e2ad16ad-21d7-4498-97af-51f6db361d7f 2312 A MAN OF DOMINATING PRESENCE AND ACID VOICE WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE AND SO TORRID IN THE AFTERNOONS 8f399712-bc85-430f-91b7-3956c7527221 2274 IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT WE DIVERT THE FILES bf07e7f3-9f40-46d1-992f-c42540a1cf3f 413 I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ANY ONE YOU CHERRY VARS ASKED FELICITY TRYING TO SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY bcd809ba-a407-448f-b249-e46b43a33f85 2108 MAKE HER TO MAKE HER HAPPY WOOT THE WANDERER THINKS I OUGHT TO REWARD HER FOR BEING FAITHFUL TO ME AFTER MY NEAT BODY WAS CHOPPED TO PIECES AND I BECAME TEN 7783000c-1c3c-4bb7-8e91-e4c9882a9a38 2182 AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY TELL HIM TO HURRY YET b7f57d74-be0a-4cae-aba4-e443d749d1a7 402 OH WHISPERED FELICITY SO THAT HE COULD SEE NOTHING I FORGET WHAT WE DID TO FELIX 68864eda-8aea-41ae-8eb8-abe7380d14e3 1867 PRACTICALLY CHARTELING HOW I WISH THAT WERE ALL IT TOOK I WOULD HAVE A FLEET OF PART SHIPS d55c4732-778e-4714-a796-e982c714d783 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 c931c763-1270-43ea-a143-a8f0c5e04b51 242 THEY'D HAVE BEEN BETTER FRIENDS BECAUSE OF THE PRAYING QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED AND I WON'T c45c80bb-acf7-46a0-8b87-3f7c95da52da 32 AND A SCANTY PAIR OF CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS ALMOST EVERY NIGHT BATTLE MURDER OR SUDDEN DEATH PLAYED SOME PART OF HER VISIONS d57ec860-541f-412d-a18a-525dfe221a79 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 f76706d3-0228-43f0-9847-f625129e1275 2286 I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN POLITICAL CORRUPTION HOWEVER REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL f39effb0-bba4-4fff-b28c-6135f5578296 242 AUNT OLIVIA HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM A FRIEND IN NOVA SCOTIA WHO LIVES IN SCHUBIN O KATY WHEN I SAID I THOUGHT IT WAS A FUNNY NAME SHE TOLD ME TO GO AND LOOK IN HER SCRAP BOOK AND I WOULD FIND A STORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME 001c5703-f931-421d-96c3-e584d6f08cff 2425 ON A SMALL ENAMELED TABLE BESIDE IT WAS A RATHER LARGE SHEET OF PAPER WEIGHTED DOWN WITH A CRACKED FLORENCE FLASK 91fc8787-aa73-44fc-92fc-9057ca22c849 14 THERE TOO SLEPT THE EMILY WHOSE FAITHFUL SPIRIT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAUNT THE ORCHARD WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS 3c3feeed-4b4b-4db3-b537-ca6768cc7436 2182 THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES SO DID MINE JEFF SAID 0720c8d0-ae50-4d02-ac88-09763be48540 2317 I THINK HE'S CUTE EXTENDED A TENTACLE OPENED A CLOTH AND NIPPED DOOR NEATLY ON THE BEHIND 5af61ed5-adb5-4ffd-a449-72601ac665d4 2368 I COULD ONLY SEE YOU BY HAVING MYSELF ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT HE SAID IN THAT WAY YOU WILL BE FORCED TO LISTEN TO ME YOU MAY LISTEN NOW OR LATER AT A FULL HEARING OF THE INQUISITORS COURT THIS TIME OF COURSE THE RISK WAS MORE THAN SLIGHT 627fae7b-fac9-492f-b83e-4f1c7b8ef8cf 2368 THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT 76d34e6d-373d-401d-8427-c761da2da535 413 A DREAMY SMILE HOVERED AROUND HER POPPY RED MOUTH I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY USE IN PRAYING THAT FELICITY WILL SPEAK FIRST CAUSE I'M SURE SHE WON'T 5d6be0cc-21f4-40c3-8a4a-986c2acf4383 2137 SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT 19d698af-6211-48d9-95d2-1e30ef7b4bf3 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 d0e6e611-8ccf-4426-bcef-e53db9b80cfc 2286 BUT THE SHIP THE SPACE YACHT WHERE IS IT THE MISSING SHIP COULD HAVE GONE IN ANY DIRECTION HOLD THERE SAILOR I SAID TO MYSELF USING MY BEST ADMIRAL'S VOICE NOTHING HAS CHANGED IT'S STILL THE BEST AND ONLY PLAN POSSIBLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES 81887f3f-3cfc-4706-8112-c7f78e531f33 2108 WHAT DO I CARE FOR A GIRL WHOM I HAVE NEVER SEEN AND WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ME ADDED THE SCARECROW 94d13161-a5dd-4c86-a788-05ed6697cc83 14 OH NO NO IT MAY BE ALL RIGHT TO PASS A YANKEE CENT ON A STOREKEEPER OR AN EGG PEDDLER BUT IT WOULD NEVER DO FOR CHURCH 522376f6-82bf-4c2d-bc13-f8dba08c8a87 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 17089ea2-f2af-4f32-a5ad-b4d6999b6062 2108 WILL YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON THIS ERRAND ASKED THE TIN EMPEROR AND HAD YOU NOT TRAVELLED TO THE EUBE VALLEY I WOULD STILL BE MISSUS EWPES'S PRISONER IT b8b659df-5f62-47c7-8a4e-b9ade3000bff 14 SUPPOSE CHILDREN CAN'T UNDERSTAND SUCH THINGS HIS FACE WAS ROSY HIS THICK BLACK CURLS WERE SMOOTHLY COMBED b2c7331e-e633-413d-b9be-40460355be95 402 OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY 90ac7713-08d4-4ec6-97be-8dc35cfe12c4 2108 THE YUKAHOO MAGIC IS ADMITTED TO BE VERY STRANGE IN ITS WORKINGS THE COAT WAS BUTTONED TIGHT TO KEEP THE PACKED STRAW FROM FALLING OUT 8ff3f189-d5af-4419-9c56-a67cd0a622e0 402 SOME OF THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED VERY CAREFULLY BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON EVEN SCEPTICAL DAN PRAYED 64ef03b7-75d2-494d-96ae-200d88782972 32 FROM THE ROUGH SIDE OF HER TONGUE EXCEPT WHEN I'M HUNGRY THEN I DO LIKE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE NICE LITTLE ROWS OF ONIONS AND BEETS 985e87f4-0e6e-4aa5-9f1d-510494393a3e 2368 HE WALKED TO THE DOOR OF THE ROOM AND OPENED IT AND THE BALD HEADED GUARD CAME IN THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE SHARP OPENED HIS MOUTH SHUT IT AGAIN AND THEN SHRUGGED 8808f894-e34f-4a6a-b47c-c30918d4f66c 2286 IDEALLY I SHOULD HAVE RUSHED OUT THE FLEET WITH GUNS BLAZING AND DRAGGED HIM TO JUSTICE VERY NICE 9600f96e-cd20-4f6a-9843-29a4cb8cc6c0 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 29550d9e-3067-4081-8634-aa0f3ada1928 2286 I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD f21bc3d3-122a-4166-a029-0050196e8a09 2274 YEA BUT YOU'VE GOT A DIFFERENT KIND OF MISSING LINK THE FRONT BY A MANY SNEAKER CAMERA STETSON'S VOICE SOUNDED TIRED 4a115d8e-de07-44d2-803e-30f9d51211de 413 IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME IF ONLY IT WASN'T PRINTED SAID DAN GLOOMILY NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY e9c2412d-2bf1-4f0c-bea6-cdea39367764 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 61edb833-39fc-497f-a7d6-f871f1007590 2312 MANOEL AND MILLER STOPPED AT NOON ON LOST SOUL CREEK YOU LOOK HERE AT MY SENSES SLIP IT SAYS I'M MANUEL THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A FOREST PRESERVE OUT OF THE PLACE e9008307-7bf0-44f9-86ff-a65ccc407aa1 2274 STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER BUT IT WAS EASY RAIDER CHIEF THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP 28d4b548-a349-4599-8fb5-099149f5b609 242 I DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP THE ORDEAL SAID FELIX I SAID THEY OUGHT TO NOT FIGHT FOR FUN OR FOR BAD TEMPER b5786737-722d-4029-a079-aae904a920cb 2312 I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP ef215db7-656f-44f9-b745-eab17fcb321b 1867 WHEN I SAW THAT SOMETHING CLICKED IN MY MIND 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 545093af-2d72-4e8a-970c-e158faf9a342 2137 THIS IS YOUR THIRD SET OF TEETH I BELIEVE YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT THE WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN HAD TURNED INTO 83c370ef-ae9a-4bf3-8a98-dbea431e851f 1867 THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM 6678bfd5-6786-45fe-b490-9c2cc8e5e792 242 NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE 5866c592-1b98-4e37-9bae-14451f37ee89 2317 RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING 983ac871-1e25-42e5-88cd-c69c21431db3 2274 AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS 705a652e-d19f-4fd2-9139-1767117893d3 32 DAN LIKE PETER WRITES LYING DOWN FLAT BUT WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS US 21a55130-0bac-4a4f-9b40-1efa12dab537 1867 IF A BEACON HAS TO GO ON A PLANET WITH A CULTURE IT IS USUALLY BUILT IN SOME INACCESSIBLE PLACE 734415b4-f924-49a6-8232-974fda531b0f 2317 STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD A QUESTION ABOUT GARF'S LAST WORDS BEHIND THE BARRED FACE PLATE ce5f3df2-0f02-4789-86a2-5d87d4794622 188 BUT I GUESS SHE WON'T BEWITCH ANYTHING ON ACCOUNT OF THE PICKLES AGLEYA WAS HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER SHE WAS SO SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL THAT GLAUCON FELL IN LOVE WITH HER THE VERY MOMENT HE FIRST SAW HER 45db637a-82bb-46c6-834b-ad454c2a0adf 402 MANY A PRINCESS RODE BY US ON HER PALFREY WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES CECILY AND FELIX WERE THE ONLY ONES WHO COULD DISTINGUISH THE DOUBLE STAR IN THE HANDLE OF THE BIG DIPPER fed476c1-5009-4d3d-90cc-bf9c60736c4f 1867 IN THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE DAWN THE HEAVY DUTY EYE DROPPED THE CRATE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND DARTED AWAY WITHOUT BEING SEEN 990bcd58-e34c-4063-bad5-b6b7035a05a2 188 AS SOON AS WE WERE UP THE NEXT MORNING WE RUSHED OFF TO UNCLE ROGER'S BUT WE MET PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IN THE LANE AND THEIR FACES WERE AS THE FACES OF THOSE WHO BRING GLAD TIDINGS UPON THE MORNING 9afd49f4-e971-48bd-9d13-8d0e419c668e 413 BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS HALF AS MUCH FRIGHTENED AS DISAPPOINTED THAT SHE HAD NO WHITE DRESS WE WOULD DEARLY HAVE LOVED TO LEAVE THE CANDLE BURNING BUT AUNT JANET'S DECREE REGARDING THIS WAS AS INEXORABLE AS ANY OF MEAD AND PERSIA 7f2596b0-b05a-4555-bb28-a7d4660a2eef 451 ISN'T TOO LATE HERE'S YOUR OWN GAIT SAYS CECILY IT WAS NOT A PLEASANT DAY AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE IT RAINED UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON e32bf95b-21f7-438e-bf7c-c0c881d01de8 413 HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW AUNT JANET'S THROATY GURGLE AND AUNT OLIVIA'S TRILLING MIRTH FLOATED OUT THROUGH THE OPEN WINDOW 171f2dfe-5949-4322-8d31-65264f211dd4 2274 BUT WE'VE SOMETHING ELSE ON OUR MINDS IT'S THE ONE ITEM THAT MAKES ME WANT TO BLOT OUT THIS PLACE AND THEN THE STRONG PREY UPON EACH OTHER ASKED THORN A NEVER BEFORE 4833649f-84a9-4c9b-b276-1b6c7d6e75a5 2368 IT'S ALL RIGHT HE SAID UNCOMFORTABLY CLARETON SAID AT LEAST I THINK IT WILL AND SOON THERE WILL BE OTHERS FROM WHEN THE CURSE STRIKES A FAMILY IT DOES NOT STOP WITH ONE MEMBER 1375e53c-b617-4b2e-abee-4e3d8f5cbd80 2317 FINALLY RAY SHUT OFF THE RACKETING ENGINE AND LET THE RUSTY ANCHOR THE OVERALL EFFECT WAS ODDLY BEAUTIFUL 4dafca74-f34c-45ae-8382-3ecd1484728c 188 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 CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES 3c9a8cde-74ca-492f-bce0-dffbb2877d13 2137 THE CABIN WAS FILLING THE FUMES HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT 7909063c-a2a6-43cc-b86c-1e0c8cbcbb53 2317 THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY AND HAD CERTAINLY NEVER THOUGHT HE'D LIKE A MERMAID BUT AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE 6b8faf2f-deab-448f-a998-749862a8ed86 14 NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS THE STORY GIRL MADE NO RESPONSE 440b0f25-b3bf-42ca-b4e9-734cacd544a9 402 AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR OH MASTER HE PRAYED TURNING BESEECHINGLY TO ODIN SUCH A DEAR OLD LADY WITH LOVELY SILVERY CURLS 93e18666-b0dd-4c74-9619-380d155da8ad 402 WILT THOU NOT KEEP THAT PROMISE 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 AND MARGARET FELT THAT SHE COULD NEVER LET HIM GO I 1426a724-b260-45f1-bb17-3dc56fe6a58d 2137 AND I GUESS YOU GUISE WERE ALMOST FORGOTTEN ON THE TELETOKEY SCREEN BRIHNHARD JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT 806fc9ef-5cd4-4386-92cc-232c0105ec51 402 HE STAGGERED TO ITS BRINK AND DRANK OF ITS CLEAR STREAM ODIN WAS THE GREAT GOD OF THE NORTHLAND YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE de069c43-2709-40f0-9b87-a595f724bb4e 2317 OR ANY OTHER WAY OUT AND GOT A SPLINTER IN A VITAL SPOT HE FROWNED CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN 3c2e5bac-2b6f-4453-b4d6-bfa1f3c0a3dc 2137 NOT AT ALL NOT AT ALL THE BULKHEAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND TOWERS POKED HIS HEAD THROUGH WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE IS BREATHABLE c7b5ed15-cdfe-4cb2-863d-7400ff73ddc3 2137 TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON BRANDON HAD A STRANGE DETACHED FEELING AS HE PUSHED THE EJECTION BUTTON TOO LATE I'M ON FIRE 597c4f51-d581-45d8-8582-21ef5b041670 2182 COLLAXY AND CALM CRYSTALS DID WHAT NO REFINEMENT OF TERRAN THERAPEUTICS HAD BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE 18212318-8d4b-4336-8b0c-662e88751aa8 402 AND GREAT CITIES SPRANG UP WHERE HE HAD TRODDEN AND EVERY LAND THROUGH WHICH HE PASSED WAS BLESSED BECAUSE ONE OF THE GODS HAD COME DOWN TO MEN e47bcf4c-f298-4d8b-a2dd-535800005033 2368 HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL 1a2b7867-c020-40b3-9185-2110f70dd4a6 188 I'LL GIVE HER A ROLL OF PEPPERMINT CANDY SAID FELIX WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING f2714440-2f14-41ad-8621-1beb093efa16 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 22ad441e-8913-4c0a-b6c2-608eeef49765 2137 ALONE IN THE RADIO ROOM WAS CALLING QUIETLY FOR BRAND IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG IT WAS SUBTLE e0862f82-ca92-4c53-b4df-9936f853e582 2108 SAID THE TWENTY LEGGED MAN AND OF DOROTHY AND JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND DOCTOR PIPT 88918d48-8992-45ab-9a92-16891412c3bc 2274 THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU HE HAD A LITTLE STRANGER I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH OUR COUNSEL HE STARED AT ORAN YOU I AS ARE TOO STRONG WE DID NOT KNOW c4dc66f2-77d5-4325-9a12-169abac1693d 2137 HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT cd33b96e-13b2-4803-82e1-68d3e6d6899c 2108 I AM SURE YOUR FAIRY POWER CAN GIVE IT TO MISSUS UGH A TIN WOODMAN HOW QUEER WAS GIVEN A COMFORTABLE BED TO SLEEP IN 4349f6b7-2987-47d8-b44b-7bcd7098fe12 2286 I DON'T WANT TO SAY FOR CERTAIN ALL THESE DETAILS AREN'T IN MY DEPARTMENT I'M JUST RESPONSIBLE FOR FINAL ASSEMBLY NOT UNIT WORK BUT THIS SURELY LOOKS LIKE THE THING THEY INSTALLED BIG THING LOTS OF POWERS IT WAS A BATTLESHIP ALL RIGHT NO DOUBT OF THAT NOW 0a03387c-bdd3-43e9-81db-4ae5f67479f4 2108 THEN THE DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND AFTER MISSUS EUP HAD PASSED OUT BUT HE SAID HE WAS SO SHORT ON HEARTS e43dd874-8147-4cf8-80e1-ae2e4402b776 2108 YOU ARE ALL HELPLESS AND IN MY POWER SO YOU MAY AS WELL MAKE UP YOUR MINDS TO ACCEPT YOUR FATE AND BE CONTENT fda0b78d-670d-4a48-8fcd-6d300cd20df5 2137 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU DELARMED YOURSELF THERE WAS A PAUSE AND BRANDON COULD ALMOST SEE COLONEL TOWERS DRAWING UP TO HIS FULL HEIGHT 838a3559-5017-4cfc-b1dd-051a7afc3576 2137 THE PHYSICIAN CAME AROUND THE DESK HE RAISED THE INTENE ON THE TELETOKEY AND SNAPPED IT ON THE THE COLONEL STOPPED PACING AND FACED THE RADIO MAN d735a661-a481-47a9-b3ea-d7ef3495828e 2274 WHY WHEN WE TEEMED UP WITH THE ILERONOIDS NOT TO MENTION THE SIPHONED TOWARD THE HEADLIGHTS 902a397f-6d04-4c06-be3c-4c957779c86e 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 4b51e942-feff-4ea4-a669-da3ec5d3d57b 451 WHEN THE DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN AWAY FROM HOME WHEN UNCLE ROGER REACHED MARKDALE CAME AT HALF PAST TEN HE FOUND HIS PATIENT VERY WEAK AND WHITE BUT FREE FROM PAIN 8a52fb6e-d905-4834-838b-19ff8b3e7236 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 e8123ebb-6626-45a2-a848-9696f9f170f0 1867 IT CAUSED MUTATIONS THAT BRED TRUE I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE d8e2d72b-73a6-421f-86e8-5d9262d12bcd 188 AND A CHINA FRUIT BASKET WITH AN APPLE AS A HANDLE WENT ON FELICITY MUCH RELIEVED AND YOU MUSTN'T CALL NAMES OR MAKE FACES 1d5399eb-05f6-452b-b39a-eb0d419c6a04 32 PETER AND THE STORY GIRL CERTAINLY HAD A SECRET BETWEEN THEM I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF b4e37480-0fa3-4613-8fe4-b64162f0e0ff 2274 ANY LONGER THAN THAT BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A A L I E N 805e014e-0fe0-48f9-8a0e-98c09a2d009b 2317 DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN d88a1dca-6f11-491d-8c19-7c4b45ea4834 2368 HERAKNUFF SHALL REMAIN FOR ALL THAT I CAN DO WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY 847658cd-96ba-46b9-a6b9-9b4a747a6835 2182 HE HAD AN INSTANT CONVICTION THAT THE BRUTE'S SECOND SPRING WOULD SEE HIM TORN TO BITS AND PROMPTS THEM TO BARTER THEIR STRENGTH FOR A TIME TO BE RID OF IT 60d8eb40-6fa5-4402-a445-0e369542a8b1 2368 THEN YOU ARE AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN THIS IS YOUR HOUSE cf67fd39-9e9b-48bb-95a5-6443c1be6d0b 2317 TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF 6063c7b8-d063-40e7-ae93-a05d21a9cfd1 2286 IF THE ENGINE ROOM SPECKS ARE CHANGED SLIGHTLY TO INCLUDE THIS CARGO HOLD THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THE BRUTES NEEDED e196fadd-cf33-44e1-949e-bb17cc6b0229 1867 I'D SWEAR HE WAS SMILING IF THIRTY TEETH PEEKING OUT OF WHAT LOOKED LIKE A CRACK IN AN OLD SUIT CASE COULD BE CALLED SMILING THIS IS FAIRLY EASY TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE A MACHINE MEMORY TO WORK WITH a30ee7c6-39b6-477b-b051-901f56f90c9e 2108 FOR WE ARE SEEKING A GIRL WHO FEARS HER FORMER LOVER HAS FORGOTTEN HER SO IN HIS FRIGHT HE LET GO OF POLYCHROME'S HAND ARE THEY RUBBER DO YOU THINK 6095848b-4c0d-45ef-bc43-c3ed10585dbf 2286 I SHOOK HANDS ALL ROUND A RUSTLING HAND CLASP OF COURSE THEN WAS ON MY WAY EXACTLY SEVENTY FOUR PER CENT OF ALL STATEMENTS HE MADE WERE FAKE e1bdc3a3-be43-41ae-8c3a-d48339b75a54 242 SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE ca0dde47-2ab0-4010-bf7e-6f8fe65dbebb 2368 SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED HERK NUFF SAID TAKE HIM BACK THE BALD ONE ADDED HERAKNUFF YOU ONA SAID ENTERING THE CONVERSATION WITH A LIGHT PLEASANT TONE 3cae6231-0c50-4191-aaec-f5985406449e 1867 THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON 123ab589-06e1-4372-bd6e-88bb1b72b464 242 THEY LOVED EACH OTHER EVER SINCE THEY WERE SMALL PAPOOSES AND THEY VOWED TO LOVE EACH OTHER AS LONG AS THE RIVER RAN d9d4909c-c130-4207-ac33-4a23f74f1a4c 188 BUT IF HE WAKES UP SOME DAY AND FINDS HE'S AN OLD BACHELOR BECAUSE HE CAN'T GET ANY ONE IT'LL HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT FLAVOR 012160ed-f0b9-4ae9-b2c3-7bc59f22d1e5 32 HE HAD NONE OF GRANDFATHER'S ABIDING LOVE FOR WOODS AND MEADOWS AND HE ILLUSTRATED IT BY DESCRIBING HIS OLD WELL AT THE HOMESTEAD 30810b8a-ca93-44c8-af28-ab86fe090fc7 1867 ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND AND WATCH AS HE STIRRED UP THE COALS PULLED OUT THE RUDDIEST IRON AND TURNED TOWARD ME 892cbac5-c30f-4a94-9749-e53f81200694 1867 MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE THEY FOUND THEM BURIED IN THE BACK OF THE OLDEST WAREHOUSE a41a3d55-e017-43cf-891d-8b8ed1994491 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 8bafdd2c-784e-4729-b2cc-42a2eae40587 2317 IN SPITE OF HER SCALES AND FINS AS IF UNTOUCHED BY ANYTHING AROUND HIM HIS ARMS FOLDED AND A FAINT SMILE UPON HIS DAMP LIPS 045a824f-6d0d-49c4-a018-4b18e30b4f23 188 NOW I LOVED UNCLE ALEC BUT I WANTED TO BE TALLER THAN HE WAS SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US a9e02348-b849-487e-82d1-e890ae34eecc 2182 UNAWARE IN THEIR CONSTERNATION THAT THEY COMMITTED THE BARBAROUS LAPSE OF VOCALIZING THEY TWITTERED ALOUD WHEN THEY REALIZED THE EXTENT OF THEIR ERROR 3bcae42e-d51c-49ab-ba56-cf4c3a8cad54 2425 STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE SQUARE OUTLINED BY THE FOUR UPRIGHTS OF THE DEVICE BESIDE WHICH THIS LITTLE TABLE STANDS 5c23f664-53c0-4770-bbcb-036dcc9d2247 2108 HOPING TO FIND A GOOD PLACE FOR WOOT THE WANDERER TO SLEEP SHE TRANSFORMED THE CANARY INTO A DOVE SO IT STANDS TO REASON YOU MUST BE PUNISHED 24206a07-ec13-455a-909f-898f25c50dc0 1867 THIS POWER IS TURNED INTO RADIATION THAT IS PUNCHED THROUGH INTO HYPER SPACE A CITY WAS BUILT AROUND THE TEMPLE AND THROUGH THE CENTURIES THE PYRAMID WAS PUT UP AROUND THE BEACON efc62363-b9f3-4eaa-9133-182ed1b7e92f 2182 THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM 3c322971-b469-4325-bfcb-389fcbd5e057 2368 THE OLD WOMAN PONDERED FOR A MINUTE SHE LEANED HER ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL GETTING THEM MUDDY BUT THAT JONAS THOUGHT DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO THIS CREATURE APPARENTLY f747f0d0-687b-48fd-aa47-5d049d7d3fd5 32 YES THE STORY GIRL WAS FASCINATING AND THAT WAS THE FINAL WORD TO BE SAID ON THE SUBJECT ee26e05d-59e2-4e08-80cb-30d40a2e23a2 14 GO AND BE A METHODIST OR A MOHAMMEDAN OR ANYTHING I AS FOR THAT POOR UNLUCKY PETER SOMETIMES WE BELIEVED UNCLE ROGER WAS MAKING FUN OF US b5c969b4-6bc7-4fff-94bc-b4e140a07818 2137 WHILE HIS PATIENT SCRAMBLED TO HIS FEET HASTILY PUTTING OUT HIS CIGARETTE HE THOUGHT OF THE SUN FIFTY TWO TRILLION MILES AWAY WE SOLUED FROM OUR OBSERVATION STATION OVER ON THE HILL 1f6eb5d1-5e4e-41b6-acd6-f9e7905fddcc 402 DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT fa71ee88-b19e-4f70-9c8d-d6369fd886c7 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 ae7fe65e-3f8d-4ad7-b392-2978d9c621bc 2274 THERE ARE POLAR OCEANS THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED f6c3b61d-7d65-4152-9806-4b75cbc3fde4 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE fd95479b-7ba8-4783-83ba-642afd902d75 2286 FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY b84cfeb6-24fc-4330-a410-43c98d795c10 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 a63e660e-6ee4-49f7-8fca-c07513ab26b7 32 FELICITY'S GOLDEN HEAD WOULD HAVE LIFTED ITSELF IN THE HAUGHTY INDIGNATION OF INSULTED WOMANHOOD 2787bac7-3d0b-48bf-9e41-574314078d5c 451 THEN RED WITH INDIGNATION BUT WITHOUT A WORD HE STALKED UP THE WALK PETER DID NOT THINK BLUEBERRY WINE WOULD DO ANY GOOD SHE ASKED MISERABLY 3069c7c9-46cd-4935-aa8c-04219acf5b95 2108 HE WORE A BLUE MUNCHKIN HAT WITH POINTED CROWN AND BROAD BRIM I MYSELF DO NOT EAT BEING MADE IN SUCH MANNER THAT I REQUIRE NO FOOD TO KEEP ME ALIVE 60b29db1-dfba-4128-987e-187e42de7a6c 242 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 55ed397e-9b35-4923-b57e-fc83505d6016 2368 HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY WHAT'S WANTED THE GUARD SAID SOURLY STARING THROUGH THE BARS e2a59e6c-3121-45d6-82cf-48416e9832e6 2317 BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM EXPLAIN THIS TO ME fa145c3a-32d5-432c-ba34-9dcd9a331f6c 413 BERTHA LAURANCE A CHARLOTTETOWN GIRL WHO HAD VISITED KITTY MARIN JUNE AND HAD GONE TO SCHOOL ONE DAY WITH HER HAD EATEN TIMOTHY ROOTS AFFECTING TO CONSIDER THEM GREAT DELICACIES 4c2391b0-00eb-45b8-ac72-8ce2b9fd7f64 2317 I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED bfd94b8a-cda3-4c90-8eec-c4eb9bec8078 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 cbdbfa9f-ad8d-42ef-873b-42c9ec4c37f7 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 12cfaa8c-c7b8-4450-9c8c-0370d97e7bcd 2317 HE DECIDED THAT GARF'S SUPERIOR ATTITUDE AND POWERS BODED NO GOOD BUT IF THE FISH MAN ONCE BECAME SLIGHTLY IRRITATED 3092f0c6-f563-426e-b61f-05424ceea93d 2317 AND FARMER WONDERED WHY BOTH ALIENS WERE SO INTERESTED IN A GADGET THAT DIDN'T WORK BUT HIS PROGRESS IN THE DIVING SUIT WAS WADDLING AND SLOW 31044794-9e6e-4834-9785-64518e0d9355 14 HE WAS AUNT JANET'S COUSIN AND OFTEN VISITED HER MY AUNT JANE WAS CLEVER HE WAS A BOY THREE YEARS OLDER THAN MYSELF 9c6c3d75-a90b-4ca4-b2b6-63f1b4f20f2b 2425 STROKING THE POLISHED CHEEKS WITH BESEECHING FINGERS BUT THAT'S OVER YOUR HEAD PETE OLD SON EACH OF THE LITTLE BLOBS OF QUARTZ WAS GLOWING 70fdda77-ff3a-4c96-b27c-1c47f034ee23 1867 I SMILED A LITTLE WEAKLY I'M AFRAID AS IF I HAD NEVER MEANT TO KEEP THAT ACCOUNT A SECRET I THREW THE SWITCH AND MY PLASTIC PTERODACTYL SAILED THROUGH THE DOOR 5be0c236-1449-4352-bddc-4f33e189d890 413 OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION I GUESS HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT IT AS A TORY WOULD RETORTED THE STORY GIRL OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS a17a205c-b563-4406-aa05-0a53529e3a50 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 16f836d0-a5c8-4e40-aa56-39724005bb36 1867 NINETY PER CENT OF THE MACHINERY HAD NO MOVING PARTS AND HAD SUFFERED NO WERE WHATEVER I TRIED IT ON IN FRONT OF A FULL LENGTH MIRROR 29fcbcd6-c9a4-4c6d-8526-2eefe232295a 451 FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS ce077b3e-bec7-428c-b621-00192f9d965b 2274 AND WE EXCLUDED DATA ON THE NATIVES PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING AND NOBODY THE WISER HOLY MAZOO 505addb9-04bb-470f-b5fc-e5c5781b0c0a 242 WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE IT DOESN'T DO TO MEDDLE IN AN AFFAIR OF THIS KIND BETWEEN BOYS SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY 2836231c-4765-41be-b4fb-c14754d19f5e 2137 KNOW THAT MEANS REINART IT'S WASTE A ROCKET FUEL TOTALING AROUND IN THE ATMOSPHERE HE MUTTERED BELOW HIS C NINE B SCOUT SHIP 1d73132a-6d3f-463a-96e2-30655fd7d5c9 1867 THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT b7dd1750-7d7f-4b98-b908-49cd7e270edd 2108 NINNIE AMY STILL DECLARED SHE WOULD MARRY ME I WAS VERY CAREFUL TO AVOID THEM DURING MY JOURNEY SOUTH I KNOW AGREED THE HIPPOCRIF 40596622-d5ed-47f8-a3e6-f7ce5952ba31 1867 UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID DO NOT TRY TO HARM ME OR THE WRATH OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WILL TURN AGAINST YOU d9219a25-232b-400b-8575-61752d90acc2 2137 BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP 3869f1b2-e262-451f-811d-988beee5b5cf 2182 THE E I OPERATOR SHOOK HIS HEAD DOUBTFULLY THE SIMIANS CAUGHT HIS MENTAL IMAGE OF THE LANDING AND INTERVENED WHILE COMMON GROUND OFFERED 415f96f3-d1c5-45a6-b522-c05ea71a3741 2368 THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE HOWEVER CLARTON WENT ON THERE IS STILL A WAY OUT FOR YOU 588bb0f9-a5b5-4b86-a102-ee6090b627b5 14 BUT I HAVE NEVER FELT QUITE THE SAME TO UNCLE EDWARD SINCE MISTY BLUE AND FAINTLY SWEET ON HER MOTHER'S GRAVE AND HIS TIE WAS NEATLY BOWED 0a408967-38d4-4753-83da-3a5feee85eef 188 PETER NOW HE'LL HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT SHE WAS VERY HANDSOME WITH HAIR AS BROWN AS OCTOBER NUTS AND BLACK EYES AND CRIMSON CHEEKS AND SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN IN LOVE WITH NEIL CAMPBELL HERSELF 68dc9293-763d-4ee2-91b4-9807813d346e 2274 I SAW THAT CITY THEY BUILT STEAD THAT'S IMPORTANT IF YOU'RE MASQUERADING SHALL WE CONTINUE ON TO YOUR CITY ASKED HORN HE WET HIS LIPS WITH HIS TONGUE 433330a6-1156-4e6b-b238-3141c58e8ac4 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 IT TOOK ABOUT TEN MINUTES GET AN ANSWER abb12b05-fca7-4a0a-a759-b783683de4e1 14 YOU OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT POOR BOY IS GOING TO GET STARTED IN THE RIGHT WAY AT FIRST GLANCE THEY SEEMED WELL ENOUGH f655ec00-597c-4e3d-8a02-26b97ae618ff 451 I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY FOR COAXING SARA TO DISOBEY HER MOTHER SHE ANNOUNCED WITH CHASTENED TRIUMPH 7c457e86-933d-4004-9c88-c2fa302215cc 2274 I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY I'M THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE GOODY GOODY d5253bb0-0ab1-4dd2-ae52-248fee01ea42 242 HE SHOT A SNOW WHITE MOOSE AND TOOK OFF ITS SKIN AND WRAPPED IT AROUND HIM THE SKY ABOVE IT WAS CHILL AND ERETHRAL AND MYSTICAL 44792d99-ac7b-4650-8ad1-9c50ef772e80 2182 HE WAS ABOUT TO SEND OUT AN E I PATROL SHIP TO TAKE OVER HERE IN THE ISLANDS JEFF SAID JEFF DUCKED AND STRAINED HIS WEIGHT AGAINST THE BUNK 09a17733-072d-40c1-b3cc-f3eebac43890 242 PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT d5c38987-26a8-4b44-9a64-450ee58ca0b5 188 FOR I SUPPOSE SOMETHING DREADFUL WILL COME OF IT TOO TWILL BE A MATCH NOW DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF 44883ad0-7a5b-4f15-9b9d-d51e604167a6 2425 AND WHILE THEIR FLESH LOOKED MORE UNNATURAL AND UNREAL THAN EVER AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH c255fcad-801f-42eb-be19-a4c37209031c 2425 I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES SHE SIGHED A LONG SHUDDERING SIGH AND SNUGGLED INTO MY ARMS 1e196104-ea33-4a86-b3bf-e5f97c4b4760 402 AND NORTH OF US THE DIPPERS SWUNG UNTIRINGLY AROUND THE POLE STAR AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS ed958747-b83a-4f05-8bad-c2e6bf74c012 2368 WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SMUG HE TOLD YANAS 8d0a6f72-f472-4d2a-99cf-e7e2ae710910 32 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I HAD KNOWN HER I WANTED TO DRAW AWAY FROM THE STORY GIRL WRITING DOWN HIS DREAMS IN THE OLD KING ORCHARD ON THE HOMESTEAD HILL BLOWN OVER BY MUSKY WINDS e8d546c7-e3fa-4909-a32f-e42c6fa768e0 2137 A SERIES OF MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS ROCKED THE SHIP THERE WAS ENOUGH TO LAST THE NIGHT BUT NOT MUCH MORE IS THAT CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD 035f3369-d391-4995-ae47-5cdaaa1804f9 2368 THERE IS NO OTHER HELP WHILE THE INQUISITOR REMAINS AND OUR SONS BECOME SUSPECT TO HIS RAGES bce1571b-08a9-47aa-b645-a24ebc9e8a94 402 AND GREATLY DID THEY PLUME THEMSELVES THEREON MANY A STATELY LADY SILKEN CLAD WALKED IN THAT OPULENT ORCHARD 691943c4-d34d-40f5-826e-3a5827d4cee6 2286 WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL I LEANED OVER AND PUT MY LIPS CLOSE TO HIS EAR b5fcbdd4-ebc4-4472-ada5-a7b0646bdbae 2274 THEN HE SAID HE WAS A HIGH PATH CHIEF AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW bf9db9e1-2de3-4096-8b41-d09cc5319750 242 THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE 34b006f2-0688-4cd8-b998-d6b281e91880 2286 MEANING I AM IN THE HAND HOLDING COTERGHRIE I ASKED WITH AS MUCH SWEETNESS AS I COULD MANY THE ROEBOT SAID HE HAD THE BAIT NOW BUT WOULD HE GRAB THE HOOK d073532f-a0d5-4ec2-aa38-f909b3fd6592 242 IT WOULDN'T BE SO NICE IF THEY CAUGHT YOU AND TORTURED YOU AT THE STAKE SAID FELICITY 4aa815cd-bf8f-44a7-9bc3-f70ba9dba3eb 2317 HE TOO STARTED TO GET ANGRY AND BLAMED THE BOAT'S MOTION BENDING LEAVING A TRAIL OF BUBBLES AS HER HEAD WENT UNDER 1665db63-23a8-45a9-ad6c-dcffd8df24e9 2137 CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY THE COLONEL HAD SAID A THOUSAND TIMES SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY 915cab36-f2e7-42d1-bfb2-4fe0689d933d 188 OUR RELATIVES STARTED US WITH A QUARTER APIECE FOR THE REST WE KNEW WE MUST DEPEND ON OUR OWN EXERTIONS 804e3709-8438-4146-acb9-0d7771ee0242 402 THE NEXT DAY HE COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE AND SORE THROAT AND SEEMED TO PREFER LYING ON AUNT OLIVIA'S KITCHEN SOFA TO DOING ANY WORK e452c7e4-7759-4a0b-8452-83549305e529 14 WE WERE ALL GLAD TO HEAR THAT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY b8b76a12-49b7-4533-b130-2aa388279948 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 INSECTS CAME IN TWING CONES 9f60e107-e20c-42eb-989d-442c3c926c29 14 EVEN PETER HAD PLENTY OF SPARE TIME WHEN THE PLANTING WAS OVER DIDN'T KNOW CHURCH WAS LIKE THIS AND IF HE WAS A METHODIST HE'D TELL ME TO BE ONE TOO 9cb07727-3c55-46ff-bda0-8099fe637f28 2182 BUT THEIR DILEMMA REMAINED HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW 2ab3cf89-5c11-4f63-b2f0-f2660727e4dc 2137 HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR AS HE STARED AT THE SKY 6a0e0560-6a53-4e57-80c1-7add66eff74f 402 HE HAD BEEN LYING IN HIS LONELY AND HE ALSO GAVE UP PRAYING ABOUT IT SAYING IN BITTERNESS OF SPIRIT THAT THERE WAS NO USE IN PRAYING WHEN OTHER FELLOWS PRAYED AGAINST YOU OUT OF SPITE 3be8547d-e089-4aa9-9a92-9ff6b2514068 2108 PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE 5d5d9f03-36be-4db1-a8f2-0d978ca7e32b 1867 THE FIRST THING TO DO WAS MAKE CONTACT I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH IT WAS FLAT MARSHY BOTTOM LAND WITHOUT A BUMP 3e8f964d-5c62-4880-a2a8-b97e6307af65 2425 HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS eec359f0-7895-4c51-8ff2-ad9059050d75 2137 I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT 72ad36bb-ed3f-4a24-badc-602b0bd86f94 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 ae2b8b6c-b4ce-4ade-b7e8-bd2efb1a72be 2137 WORSE THAN ANY DESERT ON EARTH HE DRAGGED THE SURVIVAL KIT FROM BEHIND THE SEAT AND PULLED OUT SOME RATIONS A FIRST STAID KIT da376e84-1eaa-4e7d-b6dd-8386b88b67d2 2182 BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM DANGLING THE LIMP FORM OF THE ZID FROM ITS GREAT RUBBERY LIPS LIKE A DROWNED KITTEN 2f78c74d-4bca-45a0-a5c4-2cd38d9624f7 2182 THEY WORKED HURRIEDLY BETWEEN JUMPS FORE AND AFT THE ZID COULD ONLY SINK IN ALL SIX TALONED LIMBS AND HOLD FAST 141b8f47-fb67-4f4f-8fb3-af5ee3c6f599 2425 BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY cd543788-ce95-484f-ad47-c4dddcd362c2 2108 AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES YOU'RE A VERY HONEST AND CLEVER MAN EXCLAIMED THE HIPPOGIRA 11a8f7a5-093a-4615-af65-361f22ae4a8d 2274 STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER THERE WAS AN ENDLESS CHITTERING WHISTLING POLITICIANS 02664d63-594c-4536-8427-32415ead1260 2108 A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAPPENED TO BE IN A HOUSE WHEN IT WAS CARRIED BY A CYCLONE HIS FEATHERS RATTLING AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH A TINKLING SOUND AS HE MOVED 7eac1476-1769-46f3-adb8-6d3fd8046d80 188 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 SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY ac1c34fc-76f8-48cb-85c6-ef542115403d 14 AND THERE WAS PEACE OVER ALL THAT FRESH AND FLOWERY LAND THAT IS IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN WITH A DELICATE TANGLE OF ROSY CLOUD ABOVE THE ELMS 699f48f7-8331-40b9-b0d9-7d36ab9dc053 413 HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS YOU MUST STAY AND KEEP US CHEERED UP IMPLORED FELICITY I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW I'M EVER GOING TO PUT IN THE AFTERNOON SHE DID NOT HOWEVER FORGET TO CARRY THE FORGET ME NOT JUG WITH HER bc08004c-3842-445d-aa7d-538d212cb934 2182 CHAFFEE FOUR ON THE NEXT JUMP SCANNED THE SHIP'S CHARTS AND IDENTIFIED THE SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH THEY TRAVELED f3d31d46-d177-448d-acec-571bed8fa368 413 SUCH A CONSTANTLY TEARFUL DAMSEL WAS NOT A PLEASANT COMPANION NOR YET THE TEARS OF SWEET CECILY WHO CRIED EVERY NIGHT ABOUT IT AND MINGLED IN HER PURE LITTLE PRAYERS FERVENT PETITIONS THAT FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL MIGHT MAKE UP 5a1dcc73-59cd-4cda-935c-e8c05c051aa5 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 51fbb3f9-f67f-4540-b826-499462ad5fcb 413 I GUESS IT'LL BE AS MUCH USE TO ME AS TO ANY ONE ELSE SAID CECILY INDIGNANTLY DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM f16e079e-d395-4729-8339-4f1dc6f31a50 2274 THE PLACE IS BIG ENOUGH THAT IF YOU HOLD A COURSE ROUGHLY NORTHEAST AND THERE'D BE NO a5681747-ed8a-4690-9ec1-2b51efa82af5 402 STRONG NOBLE AND VALIANT HE SAID AND EVEN FELICITY AND CECILY AVAILED THEMSELVES OCCASIONALLY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF SEX 69d9cf55-fdb1-429a-8574-83125f922f13 2108 WHO THE WANDERER PUSHED FORWARD TO SEE WHAT WAS THE MATTER LUKE TRIED TO THINK HOW TO SAVE HER 49b5eabb-6b6d-4bb8-b65f-3ca3f7ffe441 32 I WON'T HAVE TO SAID FELICITY TRIUMPHANTLY MA NEVER LOOKS SO SHE SAID PLACIDLY e0a8f7e6-c584-4a02-8d1d-ceefe52246a9 1867 I REBUILT MY CAMERA FOR ABOUT THE TWENTIETH TIME AND JUST ABOUT FINISHED A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON NUCLEONICS AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM I HAD TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN f1fe80d2-8918-4689-a28c-b964c7a4f854 2317 JOHN ANDREW REACHED TWO DECISIONS THAT HE WAS SAFE AND THAT HE LIKED THE JUDGE HE WENT UNDER ONCE da8deb89-f31c-405e-8fc1-2a1fc3ae95b4 14 AND BESIDES HE ALLEGED HE HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST e5e66a38-ef7c-47b6-b953-290692ce1cc0 2368 IT WILL TAKE TIME CLARTON SAID THIS TIME HE HEARD REUBEN INSIDE THE HOUSE AND NODDED TO HIMSELF IN A SATISFIED FASHION 342f09af-29d9-4507-9bb9-04956a0d7d4b 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 1665d7f3-7187-45dc-bd0e-c007e740279d 1867 MARK THREE THE OLD MAN REPEATED I NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER UNTIL RECORDS DUG UP THE SPECKS JUST FORGET ABOUT IT AND BUILD A NEW ONE a9bc6324-292b-4a62-ac37-160f5bc7d1b5 14 SAID PETER RATHER WISTFULLY I OH FELICITY FELICITY YOU'LL BE THE DEATH OF YOUR DEAR UNCLE YET IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT 481d6f5a-b778-4598-955b-a1248c79e9ed 32 GRANDMOTHER KING HAD BEEN A WARD NO CONCEDED PETER RELUCTANTLY AND THERE'S THE WELL WITH THE CHINESE ROOF b38e418c-2c53-45da-be62-b987aa30ae02 2368 THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH BUT TAKE HIM AWAY AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY aa8301a0-af6f-4a95-b252-b3dbd9c476fa 2108 SO SHE WENT BACKWARD AND PUT IT AWAY IN THE CUPBOARD AND ALMOST AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN WOODMAN HIMSELF 10c7d62f-44e5-43a5-afab-b649279b9baa 413 YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT 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 dd5b6ca4-c953-4f40-b488-dc8dca1b0fd1 402 POSSIBLY NIGHT HAD BROUGHT COUNSEL TO JERRY COUN THE WARDER POINTED TO THE DARK FLOOD THAT ROLLED UNDER THE BRIDGE CLEAR WINDLESS FROSTY 312fde92-a88e-4268-8b58-9b77d4a53e92 2182 THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE WELL WHAT THE DEVIL HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE 037346dc-dee6-4b28-be8c-8dd8acc9cadc 2182 AND TO CHECK IT THEY MUST BREAK A PRIME RULE OF GALACTIC PROTOCOL IN ASKING THE HELP OF A NEW AND UNTESTED SPECIES A CLASS FIVE CULTURE 79ef93f6-c14e-490d-974e-19177eab8296 2286 BUCKLING THE FUR CAPE AROUND MY SHOULDERS WITH THE PLATINUM CLASP I STAMPED DOWN THE RAMP SIT UP PEPPY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE CRYING THERE ARE SOME NAVAL SHIPS ON THE WAY NOW THE AUTOMATIC ALARM WAS TRIGGERED A MINUTE AGO 3079b7c1-d926-463e-915a-cad9a4c66d23 1867 THE OLD MAN PRESSED THE BUTTON AGAIN AND ANOTHER CONTRACT SLID OUT ON HIS DESK MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH fcc1ccff-fade-411a-b565-d68ba1c379d3 2317 THE WORK OF GENIUS WHICH WILL ALLOW MANKIND AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER 57b11998-22ab-462f-a8c6-2ded0d969583 2425 INTO A LAND OF SHADOWS AND LOST SOULS IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME HANDS REACHED OUT TO GRASP ME TO GRASP ALL THREE OF US d0ae28ae-d952-46d9-b210-4abaea204184 2368 SHE WORE A BONNET THAT DID NOTHING WHATEVER TO ENHANCE HER DOUBTFUL WRINKLED CHARMS OR TO CONCEAL THEM THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING 04e8fdbe-4547-48a7-8d99-2333702229c5 14 THE CRAGS ARE JUST BURIED ANYWHERE THEY HAPPEN TO DIE CAUSE A CAT CAN'T STAND BEING MESSY ISN'T IT AWFUL NICE AND HOLY IN HERE d5799cb9-5c75-4e77-a2e2-c8f5f83af993 2108 AM NOT AT ALL WISE I BEG TO ASSURE YOUR MAJESTY NECK CHOPPER THERE I FINALLY GOT TOGETHER A VERY DECENT BODY ca8f327c-dcdc-459d-b9f9-7ea6f6235384 14 IT WAS THE STORY GIRLS STORIES MADE ME WANT TO LAUGH AND SO I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR FOR HER TO BE MAD AT ME 48aed009-faf9-45c8-8900-964188e9bf9e 2317 FINALLY HE TURNED TO RAY HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS 28cea84c-13a0-45db-947c-f1b752dda2e7 413 FELICITY COULD NOT SUCCEED I'M SO AFRAID HE'S GONE TO GROW UP JUST LIKE UNCLE ROBER WARD WHO NEVER GOES TO CHURCH AND DOESN'T BELIEVE MORE THAN HALF THE BIBLE IS TRUE fd3cbd4a-58f0-4ef4-ad22-3ef5e8afdc90 242 I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO 1fddf86c-c401-4161-a0c6-6884a33fa877 2368 HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER AND FOR THE MONEY YOU WILL BE WELCOME 0aee8484-b19a-485e-bcc7-a5b4b38bb95f 2286 THESE PEOPLE HAD IT DOWN TO A FINE SCIENCE NOT A RIVET FELL BUT THAT ITS FALL WAS NOTED INQUINTUPLICATE SO THERE BE NO CHANCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING AND I WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE THAT WAY EXCEPT WHERE WAS HE 34e2dea0-cc1b-4b9d-ade1-7961818b8fca 2182 HOW COULD THEY STOP US FROM MOVING IN WHEN JEFF AUBREY PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE PLANKING THE APPARITIONS WERE GONE 87efb116-df06-48f9-ab88-2e68ee95651f 14 UNCLE ROGER SAT DOWN ON THE DOORSTEP AND GAVE HIMSELF OVER TO ONE OF THE SILENT INWARD PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER WE ALL FOUND SO VERY AGGRAVATING f9cb9c38-317b-4b1c-80ae-a18b92d19bad 402 WE HAD LOST SOMETHING OF INFINITELY MORE VALUE THAN FIFTY CENTS ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT REALIZE IT JUST THEN NEITHER FELICITY NOR CECILY COULD HAVE WORN THEM f7ddbea9-fab4-49c7-9501-aae4eb5ceed5 2317 I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS 74c47d71-832d-4702-9da4-4cf876228b66 451 AFTER BREAKFAST SHE WASHED THE DISHES AND DID THE BEDROOM WORK A GRIM SILENCE WHATSOEVER IN MY UNIVERSE TRUE LOVE HAVE BUILT 864c260d-6a8a-4be1-b25c-e2542b0785c2 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE e3db6682-b267-4bad-82a6-474f326dfee2 402 THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES 1ad70a17-1070-4fc0-8881-8cb9fd50a813 2182 JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY SHE WAS NEVER LATE e501120c-86e7-4865-aca6-8e9fa451d4e9 413 EXCITEMENT HAD COME WITH A VENGEANCE AND AND UNDER ITS STRESS FELICITY HAD SPOKEN FIRST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE 9b52d24f-2fdf-4dcb-b475-ffeac816b12d 2182 I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY cc069806-4f6d-4959-a5c8-9bea9db56a25 2137 THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM 9af5e15d-424f-4026-91aa-a29c3dde98d8 242 DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX WHAT WOULD AUNT JANE SAY IF SHE KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO FIGHT CECILY DEMANDED OF PETER 50cecddb-667b-444b-b1ff-68bebd66ea3e 2274 FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS REASONABLY SO THAT LANGUAGE YOU WERE FORCED FED ON THE WAY OVER 73c78064-f85d-42a0-ba01-e6f65cfc97b3 2368 IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE THE JOB HE TOLD HIMSELF STERNLY CAME FIRST AND AFTERWARD YONES HAD MET THE TYPE BEFORE AND WAS UNINTERESTED IN GOING FURTHER 754d1b5c-c3cc-4c12-9f69-84ef57f56a46 413 I WANTED TO WAIT TILL I GOT OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE OUT WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM I'M NOT SURE THAT UNCLE ROGER MEANT WHAT HE SAID REMARKED THE STORY GIRL FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS e932f9c1-b7f8-470f-8f3d-dc5cbf938a98 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 114a3c14-16c1-467f-92ee-b952731f4564 451 SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO PROBABLY MADE THAT EXPLANATION UP ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT JUST TO PACIFY PETER THE STORY GIRL LOOKED PITEOUS ARE THERE ANY METHODISTS HEATHENS 61a1369c-f11f-48ba-b015-949e5ecc13a7 2425 I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY 48028f45-8894-468d-8c00-ff3b2fb340c8 2368 BUT TAKE HIM AWAY I TRIED TO KEEP TRACK OF ALL OUR MEN CLARETON THOUGHT THOUGH COME TO THINK OF IT THERE WOULDN'T BE AN AFTERWARD 92735c3e-aa1a-4517-bf6d-c6fe40c4399b 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 4236c25a-4f6b-40eb-9ee9-631f37f38402 2286 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 add54b77-753f-48e7-a198-beff1ac07d8b 2182 IT FOUND ROTS IN HIS DAILY RAMBLES OVER THE LITTLE ISLAND GRANTED HIM BY THE TOWNSHIP FOR THE PAINTING HE HAD BEGUN AS A BLIND TO HIS ASSIGNMENT 803a53cf-fc67-475b-bf86-36f813b93bae 2286 I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY BUT THERE WAS NO REAL REASON WHY THAT COULDN'T BE CHANGED TOO 428909e5-145a-4197-b746-5ca3430e86b1 2108 ASKED DOROTHY I HELPLESSLY BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE WHERE TO GO AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER e91bb1d1-f5f7-43cc-8867-2370b7bd56bc 2317 HE EXAMINED THE EVIDENCE WITH CARE SHE LOOKED OVER HER SHOULDER HE WOULD SICK THE NONIPUS ON RAY AND HIMSELF acad500f-6373-41c6-a81c-13c537535e50 14 HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED 19b919ba-767d-4605-9d2f-e9e9df871df3 2182 CHAFFY THREE CHOSE THAT MOMENT TO REAPPEAR NEARLY CAUSING JEFF TO LET GO OF THE BUNK AND ADMIT THE ZID 6825b183-aa65-4da5-9cbe-affe5df14bb6 451 AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA e21012da-f385-4b29-95f0-7082272ace8d 2274 I'VE GOT A MANY OVER THAT MOB STEAD THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT US IT PUT ME DOWN AND LEFT 14c672c2-4617-4761-a747-cd9df70a60ed 2425 I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM 7f1796db-06d5-47c1-91d1-00ce949a97b5 188 SO PETER RETALIATED BY CHOOSING NEVAKE AND NEZZER WHICH NO ONE COULD EVER UTTER THREE TIMES BEFORE PETER SHRIEKED IT AT ONCE 353b7566-6ae1-4edd-be59-9a17d2a74a6d 2317 IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE GARF DOOR SNAPPED AGAIN 93f28797-3447-4c9e-bc46-00ff0d04f681 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 05d88e92-5c12-4ae6-9794-8aff7d554747 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 a7fc334c-0b46-499e-b743-6d97cb78e000 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 67eaae9d-8c68-45cb-b88b-407743c7728e 14 FELICITY SHOOK HER HEAD VEHEMENTLY SAID THE STORY GIRL DREAMILY BUT ONE WAY MUST BE EASIER OR BETTER THAN THE OTHER OR ELSE THEY'D ALL BE ONE KIND ce34958f-8a9c-457e-83fb-c6ac5ac10972 2182 THE IRRITATION DISTRACTS THE SCOOPS FROM THEIR MEDITATIONS THE SCOOP HE SAW AND ONLY HALF BELIEVED IT f85ab4e1-9d9f-4e2c-adab-e11c83968b4c 32 A HUGE GRAY BOULDER AS HIGH AS A MAN'S HEAD IN THE SOUTH EASTERN CORNER AND SO SHE TIPTOED UP SO AND BENT OVER SO AND KISSED HIS CHEEK d8a85558-543c-473b-ad7c-53b39611035f 14 I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS e23e121d-b481-4703-a0c9-9b4f9dfb3041 2274 AND NODDING LIKE AN ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE IF CHINA THREE STILL EXISTS IN FIVE DAYS NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST a2bc3e8d-e095-423e-af2c-c19877c2d364 32 OUTSIDE OF THE ORCHARD THE GRASS WAS ONLY BEGINNING TO GROW GREEN THEY MIGHTN'T HAVE KEPT GOOD AS LONG AS THEY DID IF THEY HADN'T LIVED IN A GARDEN 8197213a-10ed-41ec-aa57-223b7996bde4 2108 NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED NO NO YELLED PANT I'M NOT BIG ENOUGH YET f3190283-458f-4f05-82e3-cdf700f4cd07 2425 RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN SOMEWHAT OF A JAM HUNGRILY NURSING THE BLACK AND BARREN SOIL AND GNARLED BRIEF ROOTS REACHING OUT TORTURED ARMS TOWARDS THE FORBIDDING SKY SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING 1fedbe38-4967-4b12-9cd2-31365ba102a2 402 HE DOESN'T HE COULDN'T HE IS WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL BUT WITH OTHERS IT DID NOT MATTER WE ALL STOOD AROUND 8d96c4f7-0542-4641-93c5-97c707da3f4f 2317 THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK c732a47f-e806-49b6-8483-8b9310e1a157 2108 WHICH ONE OF MY FRIENDS DID YOU MANAGE TO EAT THIS IS MY OWN MISFORTUNE AND I WOULD RATHER SUFFER IT 95a18b6b-4204-459d-a664-5cfc3bfd33b3 32 TO SEE HE MUST GO WE WERE NOW SUMMONED TO BREAKFAST IT'S ALL JUST AS FATHER DESCRIBED IT SAID FELIX WITH A BLISSFUL SIGH 58d632ed-525f-40e8-b6ab-3b9352a32b67 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 3b1e31bb-6768-41b0-a8e2-44547b050a01 2425 I REPLIED TRIUMPHANTLY I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT WANT OF US 31995594-f8ff-406b-845a-bfa39784fdcc 2274 TO BE ASSIGNED HERE WITH FULL EQUIPMENT YOU THINK I WAS BORN YESTERDAY SETTLED IN HIS CLOSE CROPPED RED HAIR b55e2c62-1eea-4a90-a699-f0ec50f219d0 188 GAZING DREAMILY AFAR AT THE TINTED SKY BETWEEN THE APPLE TREES AS IF SHE WERE LOOKING BACK TO THE MERRY DAYS OF THE WORLD'S GAY YOUTH 57d9f46a-2c6c-4554-935c-4d36a0d40161 2286 THERE WAS LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON PEPPY AND ANGELINA THEY HAD COVERED THEIR TRACKS WELL ANGELINA ROLLED HER EYES UP AND SLID SLOWLY TO THE FLOOR THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME 0b236a4d-13ad-4145-9051-936c329b0d23 2108 AND I LOST PARTS OF MY NEAT BODY BY DEGREES WHY THE COUNTRY WILL RUN ITSELF 932270f2-530b-4dcc-a55a-65f32211353c 2425 AND THREE OF THE PRIESTS MOVED TOWARD US FOLLOWED BY AN ELDERLY BEING WHO WORE THE SAME SYMBOL OF POWER OR AUTHORITY THAT I HAD ALREADY NOTED UPON THE CREATURE VIC CALLED E PAI 1d98c80a-fa4e-41e4-a432-186c683b732e 2317 SHOWING INTEREST IN THE LITTLE FELLOW'S CONDITION HE CATCHES ON FAST TO EVERYTHING I TELL HIM RAY TURNED ON HIM WITH A LOOK THAT WOULD HAVE SEARED THE SPHINX 77fdd069-eb66-49bf-8853-89e930979f6a 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 2bccd8f8-afe3-4359-b715-3a7d03db91b2 2368 HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HIS VOICE WAS THE SAME ROUGH RASP BUT IT SEEMED ALMOST MECHANICAL IN THE MAN'S BIG EYES BITTERNESS AND HOPELESSNESS GLITTERED 6e47de7a-72e3-4331-a9d1-a254520ab3d9 14 WHAT CAN HAVE INDUCED YOU TO TURN CHURCH GOER PETER WHEN ALL OLIVIA'S GENTLE PERSUASIONS WERE OF NO AVAIL 81b13df6-03b9-4747-9d1c-cdf776343f0a 2425 INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MISTER BUTLER LEAVES A LETTER FOR ME WHICH I'M TO MAIL EARLY THIS MORNING SPECIAL DELIVERY 24fab43e-d66f-40d6-a6b2-bd7624788e23 1867 I NEED MY EYES TO SEE AND MEND THE FOUNT OF HOLY WATERS I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN 87a7f72d-7c9f-4365-9ea0-70ffc048e348 1867 HE TOOK A GOOD THIRTY SECONDS TO THINK THIS OVER AND HAD TO AGREE WITH ME A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT a639758b-f3b1-4587-9828-7e3862704503 2182 THE CEREMIAN VANISHED APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR 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 5e2b2af8-da8d-4080-8fe3-ec3da8b2f2bb 2182 THEY WERE ALL BUT EYE TO EYE WHEN JENOFER CAUGHT HIM AND TOWED HIM AWAY TOWARD THE DOUBTFUL SAFETY OF THE ISLAND QUEEN THE SERIMIAN CROAKED b18cdde0-1f4d-4559-ade8-6e9df56ff007 2317 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WIRING ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE SHOUTING AND FARMER SEARCHED DAZEDLY FOR A WEAPON 0a33c50e-c60a-47f1-89b7-3f4bd206f171 402 THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK b9b69bc6-d3ae-463a-9b9d-7d950f2a0bc3 2182 FOR AND I ARE ARRANGING ESCAPE ON THAT PREMISE NOTHING IN CERIMIAN EXPERIENCE HAD PREPARED THEM FOR CREATURES INTELLIGENT BUT ILLOGICAL 4cb324a1-8fe4-4d02-9d01-f9f70412c0e0 2317 TRYING TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWAYS AS HE ROSE ROPY TENTACLES TWINED AROUND HIM LEARNED IT YEARS AGO BEFORE THE GATE TO THIS WORLD WAS CLOSED d739b72c-83ca-4ecf-8d05-96145e163bce 2182 E I MIGHT STILL DRAG THE SECRET OF THE CALM CRYSTAL SOURCE OUT OF THE ISLANDERS BOTH SLANTED RED EYES GLARED IN BRIEFLY THE CATALOGUE WAS WRONG 400527d7-c11c-422d-92ab-45d1fae9465a 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 c7b37b37-a289-4c6f-8cbf-cf42fa1ed722 2317 OUR COPS WOULD BE TOUGH WITH YOU IF THEY FOUND YOU OPERATING THE THING THE POLICEMAN EXPECTED NO FURTHER TROUBLE FROM THE HUMANS AFTER THE TREATMENT THEY HAD 5d2084a1-213d-4568-a94b-c4dae8076b7c 2137 BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER THE EARTH A SPECK OF DUST IN ORBIT 3a1186ca-66af-4f52-9533-d3f408854b11 14 BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR WHEN I HEARD THE STORY GIRL READ IT I MADE A SECRET COMPACT WITH MYSELF THAT I WOULD TRY TO DESERVE SUCH AN EPITAPH 9d74174a-c938-4919-9014-9d1b3f2243d6 2368 YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE 534c7384-2486-4910-9ead-7f44b87c9113 2182 IT WAS JENIFER CHARLIE'S NIECE KEPT DISMANTLED AND HIDDEN FROM SUSPICIOUS LOCAL LIES A SHIP LANDED INLAND A FEW MINUTES AGO HE SAID 984592bf-2d9e-4b34-bbc9-5dd6544070c0 2182 JENIFER SAID IN A SMALL VOICE CHAFFEE THREE CLOSED THE PORT THEY COULDN'T EVEN RUN afdb0574-81a2-45c8-876b-02a370c3cb15 451 AUNT JANET WAS IN A VERY GOOD HUMOR THAT MORNING SO SHE MERELY LAUGHED AND IF ANY OF YOU THINK OF ANYTHING I DON'T JUST MENTION IT TO ME ebba6f68-5805-449b-849a-f6e0a7a74e10 451 AIN'T HE JUST A GREAT OLD FELLOW SAID DAN I WONDER WHAT HE MEANT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING VERY CHRISTIAN ABOUT PLANTING A TREE I BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN de12ba98-4415-40fc-bb4e-f8c3dc30d547 2137 HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT 93bc6a6c-11c9-4863-92a4-ce818c6e7f47 451 IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH DAN WAS OWN MAN AGAIN IN THE MORNING THOUGH RATHER PALE AND WEAK 9d557e43-2491-4d12-85a3-ea54c718e655 2137 WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY THE REPORT WILL AID LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER c93c09e1-2bce-48f8-b9be-9931f90455de 402 INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME ALL FIRED WITH A DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST TO DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN AND WIN SO MARVELLOUS A BOON cc7637be-c00b-47e2-b260-e43fdea47b32 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 6455f3e4-ed9e-453a-8261-70d3c7e01386 2137 NINE LIGHT YEARS AWAY SHIP WEIGHED AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE RELEASING A DRUG SHOOT SO WILL CLEAR THE SHIP badb17d4-24bd-4a27-98dc-17a800f0a265 188 I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER WHY SHOULD HE INDEED 02dd8cbc-e887-4513-bd19-224c521b26b3 2425 NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM I THINK HIS NAME IS E PAY 7a587d02-d098-4b49-9bd4-20a7fb3cc4b8 14 BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT 0b3b6867-5b5b-4706-9d09-3e19ab8a7489 1867 HE WAS ALSO SIGNALING TO AN UNDER PRIEST WHO CARRIED A BRAZER OF CHARCOAL COMPLETE WITH RED HOT IRONS MARK THREE BEACON THERE WERE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THOUGH AND I MADE A LIST OF PARTS f14888dc-b8e8-4738-b600-19551d93c4ea 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 THE VALVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE USED ONLY FOR REPAIRS AFTER THE PILE WAS DAMPED 8383bd2b-42ca-4546-b781-141058d3a08c 402 THE WILD COLD SPRAY BEAT ON HIS EYES AND BLINDED HIM WHERE DID YOU GET THAT THING HE ASKED f40f3386-1d3e-4d25-80b7-b5a12cddbbe6 2425 AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES 507ddd2b-d8f5-4f5c-8932-1863e5dfa7e3 451 OF COURSE ADDED FELICITY HER HEART MELTING AT SIGHT OF THE MISERY IN THE STORY GIRL'S PITEOUS EYES 5af7a862-4a65-4c68-9f31-fd0b9a7d6a45 2274 IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB STETSON SHRUGGED WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER 38d21ff7-8dff-4e9b-b0ee-f64da247e39c 2317 WITH MORE THAN ENOUGH DIALS AND SWITCHES ADDED TO IT TO FURNISH THE DAY SPORTS OF SEVERAL ROLLS ROICES b25a20e8-7ad9-4e56-838e-39c0c888b6a4 2425 AND ACTUALLY DOES NOTHING UNTIL RELEASED IN SOME FORM OR OTHER INVERTED TREES WITH WIDE SPREADING BRANCHES 034516d7-ada7-4426-9011-c7805b574b43 32 WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE STORY GIRL BUT NO INDELICATE THOUGHT OR VULGAR WORD COULD HAVE BEEN SHAPED OR UTTERED IN THEIR PRESENCE 034be806-6ab9-40c0-8a36-e910141f9aef 188 IT'S MY BELIEF THAT THAT IS THE LEAST OF PEG BOWEN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS ANSWERED UNCLE ROGER BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE 90d05c4e-0d14-43a6-887e-2624f7cdd672 14 THE PULPIT WAS A WINE GLASS ONE AND WAS REACHED BY A STEEP NARROW FLIGHT OF STEPS feaac5db-bf64-4dd8-8a33-cd5282d6f3dd 2425 SO I WAS TO RECEIVE A CORDIAL WELCOME AFTER ALL ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAW US AND CRIED OUT SHRILLY TO HIS COMPANIONS WITH ONE ACCORD THEY CAME TOWARD US fed48956-f289-48c2-b491-de47078f3f4f 2137 ESPECIALLY WHEN ONE OF THEM WAS THE IMPERIOUS COLONEL TOWERS THE TURNED INTO A TORCH AND SANK BENEATH HIM BEYOND A RIDGE OF LOW HILLS 3e9e3dc9-2afc-47cb-8602-e2b26a9cfd80 2317 AND EVEN THE PARTS THAT SHOULD BE THERE SEEM WRONG SOMEHOW HE WAS WONDERING ALREADY IN FACT WHAT HAD MADE HIM GET SO ROUGH AT ALL f7384fa9-6203-4251-9603-b56e91e44d23 2274 ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS WHO CONTROLS THE BREEDING SIGHTS CONTROLS OUR WORLD SAID TO NEW 8a41b672-0bf9-4e40-9bb5-976a53a110e7 1867 IF I COULD SHOOT THE TROUBLE THE PIPE WALLS WERE AT LEAST THREE METERS THICK AND THE PIPE OPENING ITSELF NO BIGGER THAN MY HEAD fc3a67e2-2249-4647-9b4b-762dc81a5401 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 be7537fa-82de-4ae8-9b11-72e211dbb97b 2274 AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN YOU DARE INSULT ME GROWLED NUBE YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON 136f234d-e593-456c-9d69-62f0dc89caca 2274 WE HAVE MACHINES TO DO OUR WORK WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT IT'D BE ASHAMED TO HAVE TO BLAST THAT CITY INTO LITTLE PIECES c32af4ba-ae01-43e1-a51a-fd2ca8992ca5 2108 AND WOOT THE WANDERER THE OTHERS TURNED THEIR UNWIELDY BODIES IN HIS DIRECTION AND FOLLOWED 01d100a3-b766-4941-84a0-4f96976aaabd 2274 THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR b4a01dd3-ae64-4389-9250-f12d12d603ac 32 CECILY WAS ABLE TO BE OUT WITH US AGAIN THAT DAY SO PETER FELT THAT HE MIGHT VENTURE ON A GRUMBLE 77c6084c-355b-4eb6-bb5b-68da3f838a0d 2368 EXCERPT FROM A SHORT HISTORY THE MASQUERADE BY A HE REFLECTED FOR A MINUTE I COULD MAKE YOU INTO A BEADLE AND SQUASH YOU UNDERFOOT 18111074-c21c-4292-81f2-51d0db19f0ca 188 FOR ALL OUR DAYS ARE PASSED AWAY IN THY WRATH BUT WHEN HE WAS BAD HE WAS HORRID CECILY WAS TO ATTEND THE FIRE ef58cac6-c755-470a-9468-c14f135227a3 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 40da063f-87c4-4e42-a443-b6374811af79 451 OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED HAVE ANGELS NAMES SAME AS PEOPLE INTERRUPTED PETER aef8e5aa-b16d-4628-9edd-436207d18fee 2425 AFTER THAT HE LOCKS HIMSELF UP IN HIS WORK ROOM SO MISSUS PERWIN SAYS SHE BEING THE HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU KNOW SIR 950f062d-2481-4c43-a3b4-b215ffb4cfb5 32 AND THE MAGIC TIME TWIXT LIGHT AND DARK BROUGHT TRUCE OF CARE AND LABOR IS QUITE FAMOUS 3ca5cd72-d139-4268-8560-42762b10a4bc 402 THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY DO YOU MEAN SAID FELIX FINDING VOICE AT LENGTH 12f7886d-f5e7-47a1-8933-a43e0533941d 14 BUT I KNOW WHAT HE MUST EVER SEEM TO ME WE KNEW ELDER FREWIN QUITE WELL AND LIKE HIM AND CERTAIN HOME CHORES WERE ASSIGNED TO EACH OF US FOR THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF WHICH WE WERE HELD RESPONSIBLE aa13e0ac-c96c-4204-91b6-e2bb2a96a20e 2368 NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES f93a5d7a-1c0a-4aeb-bd29-601957fbeee8 188 WHAT ARE YOU TILLING THESE CHILDREN OUT STUFF FOR ASKED AUNT OLIVIA PASSING ON HER WAY TO THE WELL WHAT LAUGHTER AND QUESTIONING AND TELLING OF TALES FOLLOWED WHAT SMILES AND BRIGHT EYES AND GLAD VOICES 1093b56a-b2b9-45ee-92c0-2d0653dbc4a7 2137 THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM BEHIND SOME LOW HILLS HE COULD SEE A DULL RED GLOW HE SNAPPED THE VITIO SWITCH AND DEPRESSED THE MIKE BUTTON 6f2ffca3-90ab-42e8-8917-85226b972bc3 2137 MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST ff6f44f9-b30e-48aa-befb-1f27643a1bac 2425 I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER EYES SUCH ANGER AND HATRED AS BLAZED IN THE EYES OF THOSE STRANGE BEINGS 65ac3637-51ff-48de-8c10-63011acf8b4c 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 e3f05dd0-fef1-4301-8646-2788b0fb971c 2425 TELL HER ALL SCRAMBLE OUT SOMEHOW 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 580682f7-7319-483d-91d6-bafb6dc365db 14 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN HIS WEEK DAY JOLLITY AND THE UNEARTHLY SOLEMNITY OF HIS COUNTENANCE ON SUNDAYS ALWAYS STRUCK US AS VERY FUNNY 6658d3eb-4cc8-41ca-87af-de068db23174 32 SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO ef0cbb9e-2701-4966-960d-8424bab11d5f 1867 ANTHROPOLOGISTS MAY NOT MIND BEING DISSECTED FOR THEIR SCIENCE BUT A REPAIR MAN WANTS TO MAKE NO SACRIFICES OF ANY KIND FOR HIS JOB 4d6aa0e4-d95b-4df2-bd7e-3051ae71ef32 1867 AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY HE LEANED BACK WIPED HIS HANDS ON HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND GAVE ME LECTURE FORTY FOUR ON COMPANY DUTY AND MY TROUBLES 10b8fe7c-cce6-44df-af10-aee14dee74e4 2286 WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS AND THE BURNING VOICES OF THEIR SUPERIORS WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR 78185c67-76c2-453f-8399-74719622fb9c 2425 I HELD OUT BOTH HANDS TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE EMPTY TRYING TO EXPRESS MY WILLINGNESS TO BE FRIENDS BUT THEY WERE NOT HUMAN b6c6cdc2-421b-4620-9713-3e4e5be2f604 402 AND SUCH A WORKER SAID FELIX BUT ONLY TO THAT ONE WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT FIRST SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WALK AT ODIN'S RIGHT HAND FOREVER 34dfcd62-48e4-4244-b441-edc6a7a37b89 451 WHAT HAD BEEN DONE THEY FLEW IN FEAR AND ANGER TO GOD'S WHITE THRONE AND CRIED TO HIM SARA MUST NOT DO PENANCE IN THAT WAY 5ed1416b-ef27-4e12-8298-ac9d801dcd28 2182 JUST THEN HE WANTED NOTHING SO MUCH AS TO SEE A WELL ARMED PATROL SHIP NOSING DOWN OUT OF THE COLLAXY IN SUNRISE 7f38ca93-5508-486d-b338-46b3c594c624 188 I THINK HE OUGHT TO TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT THERE ARE FIVE DOLLARS FOR YOU HE SAID AND YOUR STORY WAS WELL WORTH IT 63c954a3-5838-4997-960c-73fa5df15e12 2182 THEY ARE A PHILOSOPHICAL SPECIES THOUGH NOTCHANICALLY PROGRESSIVE WHEN THE CANTHORIAN ZID BROKE OUT OF ITS CAGE IN THE SPECIMEN HOLD 89628ea7-a0aa-4d90-ba10-4df3fe8ba64c 2274 TWO CIVILIZATIONS THAT MATURED ALONG DIFFERENT LINES BUSTER IN FIVE DAYS THEY COULD BE DUG IN WITHIN SIX MONTHS e8449a27-91cf-473c-b3d6-2a02d1e1a2c2 2425 BEFORE US THEY THINNED INTO NOTHINGNESS AS WE APPROACHED ONLY TO SWARM INTO BEING IN SOME OTHER SPOT c86f8a16-8a6e-485b-a0c2-fc20c48a3ad2 2108 SUCH INCIDENTS HOWEVER WERE VERY UNUSUAL AND SO SELDOM WAS THERE ANYTHING TO WORRY OVER THAT THE OZ PEOPLE I SALUTE YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS MAJESTY AND OFFER YOU MY HUMBLE SERVICES 74607c5e-c522-4042-9cfa-53d2bf0cb2fe 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 be6070b4-58d9-4255-b09e-4b6d1b755276 451 THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN TELLING US TALE I SUPPOSE WE MADE IT HORRID OURSELVES SAID THE STORY GIRL CANDIDLY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER ab703c2f-4676-4a32-be51-8de0f10a71cf 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 3f4bde36-1e71-4545-a1e1-24c714c76c3b 14 THE STORY GIRL LINGERED TO LAY A BUNCH OF WILD VIOLETS VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND THEN SHE READ ALOUD THE VERSE ON THE STONE 2f57b9f7-0a56-482e-a9e6-5fe9ad304ad7 402 BUT ON SOMETHING DEEPER AND MORE ENDURING THAN MIND AN IMPRESSION HAD BEEN MADE THAT WAS NEVER TO BE REMOVED OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER 6311dbee-0b97-4fc6-b34c-18dd723c4f7c 2274 NOT WITHOUT THE HEADLIGHTS THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE BRIEFING YOU LOOKS LIKE THE MISSING LINK THEY'VE ALWAYS HUNTED FOR SAID HORN 1bfce2eb-0592-405e-9e44-287241fe7cd0 2108 OF THE TIN CASTLE WITH GLORIOUS SUNSET HUES AND NOT BECAUSE HE LOVES HER INTEND TO PLEASE MYSELF SHE DECLARED 116df078-9398-4255-b267-0f61456d11e1 451 IT ISN'T ANY GOOD THE BEAUTY OF PENANCE IS THAT IT MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE SO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU DO WHETHER IT'S USEFUL OR NOT SO LONG AS IT'S NASTY b7021e02-545a-47ca-bbcc-7b228acbad9f 14 SHE GOT IT FOR A PRIZE IN SCHOOL SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED 14af6649-d12a-4d49-8326-3c0f9b39e854 188 I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'LL EVER GET ACQUAINTED WITH HIM SAID FELICITY HE NEVER GOES ANYWHERE EXCEPT TO CHURCH DONALD KNEW THAT IF NEIL PROPOSED FIRST HE WOULD HAVE THE BEST CHANCE 08c14a8a-4837-4170-b8bf-0c8e4a0e5738 2368 HE SHIFTED HIS FEET BUT LET ME ESTABLISH ONE POINT AT A TIME IN THE MOST SCHOLASTIC MANNER IF YOU WILL PERMIT f2873e9c-c190-49d2-af7b-4d54e7f0fb7c 451 I THINK IT IS VERY VAIN TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING YOU HAVE YOURSELF BEING BEAUTIFUL SAID FELICITY WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET e57432f0-f080-42b5-ab11-09eca15b442a 2274 I GOT YOU INTO THE I A IF YOU PUSHED THE PANIC BUTTON ON THIS ONE WITHOUT CAUSE A RUIN WHY 9fa7e0c4-eb7b-4424-a07a-cc02a898ce3c 14 I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD AND WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT fd3c6d71-e635-4a0f-bdd3-22365075b056 2317 IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT JUST AT THE MOMENT OF COURSE YOU'RE AT A CROSSROAD FARMER BRACED HIMSELF FOR RETALIATION a7706950-dfe5-4c2f-8e63-ff148206309b 2137 THEN SWUNG HIS FEET OVER THE SIDE AND DROPPED TO THE GROUND BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY d05f068f-0607-4452-a5e4-85fd23510dd6 2286 AT LEAST I GAVE HER A CHANCE TO GET AWAY THOUGH I THOUGHT I WOULD EXPLODE WHEN SHE WENT INTO THAT INNOCENT'S ACT AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE f7eef82d-9847-41b9-923e-c29a68cb6129 2137 HE SAID GRINNING UNDER HIS OXYGEN MASK BUT NOT MANY LAY MEN REMEMBER LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER fa9698d0-fb24-49e9-ba35-c741e5ff8338 1867 SPEED AND MEASUREMENTS ARE A MATTER OF RELATIONSHIP NOT CONSTANT FACTS LIKE THE FIXED UNIVERSE 43a9acf1-b9f3-4816-8a5d-0747475bc6ab 451 OH LOOK AT THE MOONSHINE ON THE ROAD IN THAT GAP BETWEEN THE SPRUCES CECILY'S HEADACHE WAS BETTER AND THE STORY GIRL REFRESHED BY AN AFTERNOON SIESTA 60f4789b-848d-4fc2-a0aa-8d8eeb870f0c 2274 I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM SIR HE BEGAN CHANGING FROM THE I A BLUE TO THE YAR IN OUR WHITE 17dd843a-0f11-4bb0-9db9-6618e34361e3 188 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL EIGHT TIMES SEVEN WAS THE MOST TRAGIC AND FRIGHTFUL THING EVER HEARD OF b04d390f-b09f-408e-ba57-a63ad82554fd 2182 WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN SO THE NEGREOUS GLORY OF PROCYON'S RISING WAS JUST TINTING THE WINDOWS OF JEFF'S COTTAGE WHEN HE ALIGNED AND ACTIVATED HIS LITTLE COMMUNICATOR ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE e559ce8d-0f9c-4f24-8cee-7087755b0edf 2286 THAT WASN'T MY CONCERN NOW KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT THE NAVIGATOR AND I PLOTTED THEIR LOCATIONS IN HIS TANK cf48cd0f-3198-4d44-87f0-0d8e1ef12acf 2274 WE DON'T NEED SLAVES SAID ORAN THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB f0db7dfb-7559-478c-9947-8ab4ffaf0055 2108 WHILE DIRECTLY BETWEEN THEM LIES THE EMERALD CITY THANK YOU VERY MUCH HOWEVER I DON'T BELIEVE THE OWL COULD STEAL THE APRON OR EVEN THE BEAR 9ee01a17-378d-4343-93aa-4f73bf24b052 1867 AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS AND QUADRATURE OF THE BEACON WORKS FOR NAVIGATION WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS f8ac9fad-96c4-4f36-a100-2dcdf9b82365 2182 THEY SAID IN THE TOWNSHIP YOU ARE NO ARTIST BUT UNCLE CHARLEY AND I THE SERIMIAN CROAKED 6d4960a1-df04-4644-ac7c-388575984d68 2182 OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US IF THEY'RE REAL THEY CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE 837fcf8c-03ec-4103-a717-9b66203009ba 2137 ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON CERTAINLY IT HAS SUFFICIENT GRAVITY TO HOLD ITS OXYGEN cdc01d78-a421-4d06-8382-b8a4c59d81ce 1867 THE BEACON WAS STILL THERE WE CAN ATTACH THAT BANK ACCOUNT OF YOURS ON ALL GALL TOO LONG BEFORE YOU CAN DRAW THE MONEY OUT d9744ce9-6049-46a0-973a-01d706b90a0c 32 THIS VERY WELL AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY a17fc30d-d4a9-4ba0-b5b7-d21623fa6170 14 PILLOWING HER CHIN IN HER HANDS AND LOOKING AT THE SKY WHICH QUITE DESTROYED THE SWEET NUN LIKE EXPRESSION OF HER LITTLE FEATURES 065b8d04-6448-4dbd-9a45-5106a2238b15 188 OH WASN'T DONALD TAKEN ABACK O GOD PLEASE MAKE PAT BETTER BY THE MORNING PLEASE DO WE TOOK HEART OF GRACE 9d309835-27ef-4d8b-98dd-70fd084e38ca 2317 GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP AND FEDERATION SECURITY MEN WOULD BE EVEN TOUGHER f5002d4b-a6d0-4e86-80df-e14a8f7caa07 32 WELL MISS FELICITY YOU'RE PRETTY SMART SHELTERED BY THE SPRUCE HEDGES FROM UNCERTAIN WINDS AND SLOPING TO SOUTHERN SUNS 47c2c49f-87a7-4931-937d-13690846a158 2137 ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES TRY AN AIR START ON STRAIGHT ROCKET 9cb56994-b082-44d8-88d8-b799a1d66869 2108 LIKE OTHERS THAT I MEET DAY BY DAY I GET NEWLY STUFFED RIOT AWAY AND PUSHED HIM AWAY FROM THE PUMP 0cc27969-76a3-4b09-bfe4-fbac37200537 1867 AFTER FEEDING A COURSE INTO THE ROBOT PILOT I STRAPPED INTO THE ACCELERATOR TANK AND WENT TO SLEEP 5f931992-16b7-4799-99c0-981477700760 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 aeefada6-ba1c-44d7-bbc9-ff72ef2973fa 2108 BELIEVE THAT WE FIND MORE REAL ENJOYMENT IN YOUR OZBOOKS THAN IN ANY OTHER BOOKS HE IS NEITHER MADE OF TIN NOR STUFFED WITH STRAW NOR CAN HE FLY 65d823aa-cabc-4273-a565-df6f2d46830f 14 RECORDING HIS WHOLE HISTORY IN BRIEF AND FINISHING WITH EIGHT LINES OF ORIGINAL VERSE COMPOSED BY HIS WIDOW b6dc449a-a6ad-4eed-abab-b20da41d53cd 451 SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND ce5108db-c617-48f3-8aa5-ccafdad34e65 32 BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL 7a88ba09-f7aa-4bc0-b892-b30adf018b8f 2317 THE BOAT HEAVED WALLOWED AND SANK AND A CAUTION THAT WAS NOT TOO FAR FROM FEAR AFTER A LONG SILENCE HE KNELT 1f3ac64b-03de-4e04-863f-f06499747c58 1867 HE THREW THE MARK THREE FILE AT ME AND WENT BACK TO SCRATCHING IN HIS PAPERS THE OLD BOYS HAD BUILT WELL HIS SPIES WERE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT EVERY DAY 2aa94956-c6ec-499b-9de9-5775b42c94a3 2286 FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED I ASKED THROWING IT ACROSS THE TABLE TO HIM THIS WAS STILL THE JOB FOR THE CORPS 8e0d9e9e-79ed-449d-a723-184dc50d5bfe 402 DO YOU SUPPOSE PETER WOULD HAVE GOT BETTER ANYWAY AND THE GROWN UPS WITH UNACCUSTOMED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY TOLD US THAT WE NEED NOT 5787b6d6-c166-453d-821a-36c5dd3bc7b4 2368 AND SINCE THERE ARE NO WIZARDS AT LEAST 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 2c99471c-b372-4fc5-afb7-bfee467faea4 402 I CAN'T CRY SHE SAID DREARILY I HOW CAN YOU KNOW INTERRUPTED PETER SUDDENLY THEY JUST KIND OF COME INTO MY HEAD LIKE 74a3f4e0-21f7-4fca-b5de-0a766c393cb6 2368 TIME PASSED SOMEHOW WHEN MORNING DAWNED YONAS AWOKE TO FIND THE DOOR OF HIS CELL BEING UNLOCKED THE BALD MAN AND THE BLACK HAIRED MAN WERE BOTH THERE HE LOOKED UP WITH THEM WITH DISTASTE f3d6c4f2-ccc5-43e9-89a7-6bba1ef88ef8 14 MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD BUT PETER MUST HAVE A CENT I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU AND LOOK HERE df8e5173-c44e-405e-a0af-f2503d852ac4 2425 I HAD REMEMBERED THAT MUCH FROM MY PHYSICS CLASSES THERE WAS NOTHING AT ALL PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE PLACE IT WAS A RAMBLING LAZY LOOKING HOUSE BUILT LARGELY OF NATIVE STONE f3dc0c64-82f4-4af5-bb66-96ab6eb2b05b 188 WHO'LL GIVE THE PRIZES ASKED FELIX WAS THE STORY GIRL CRAZY OR UNCLE ALEC' MERELY TOLD US TO BE GOOD AND MIND WHAT UNCLE ROGER SAID 929131e5-b529-4169-92c2-7e6cf8b7ec9b 1867 THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY CALLED MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WHEN IT REALLY SHOULD BE CALLED TROUBLE SHOOTING a344317e-e13c-456c-98ee-e759d707fa37 402 CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY HOT REBELLION ROSE IN HIS HEART AND RUSHED OVER HIS PALE LIPS 6acb7c5c-d30d-45a8-a406-8d7869c20832 188 I PAID HIM THE TEN CENTS CHEERFULLY AND TOOK THE MAGIC SEAT AS DIRECTED MEASURING MYSELF CAREFULLY EVERY DAY BY A MARK ON THE HALL DOOR BUT MISTER CAMPBELL CHUCKLED AGAIN cf141c75-bbb0-4640-bc62-924bfd0c2ed0 2274 ORNE FOUGHT DOWN A SUDDEN PANIC NEXT WE WANT TO KNOW YOU WILL HEAD FOR IT AS SOON AS WE DROP YOU 9226c6d8-2db2-4577-a403-325fcf0746e3 32 AND HE HAS A DISMAL HABIT OF GROANING ALOUD WRITHING HIS WHOLE BODY AND DIGGING HIS TOES INTO THE GRASS WHEN HE CANNOT TURN A SENTENCE TO SUIT HIM 79b72bf8-d912-4ed6-bd7b-f74f0701e8e8 2425 MAYBE IT'S JUST THE TITLE SUCH GOINGS ON I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK THE SENSES OF SIGHT AND HEARING AND FEELING ALL LEFT ME af09b68e-3e34-4ef2-bbff-d67549f928e6 2137 BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN 914fffdf-ef6e-4cf9-9987-953078bbe886 2286 WHEN I THREW THE BIG SWITCH A CAREFULLY WORKED OUT SEQUENCE TOOK PLACE THAT YOU ARE UNDER THE GUNS OF A WARSHIP DON'T ATTEMPT TO RUN SIGNAL TAKE EVAH ACTION OR ANY OTHER WAY WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT THE DEVIL WHO WHAT 302c201e-106f-4a74-b56d-1541e08a938c 2368 THE MONEY IS NEEDED SHARP SAID IN A DOUR BASS VOICE STARING OFF PAST YONAS'S LEFT EAR AT THE DARKENING SKY 990b82ae-dfe9-40dd-af09-bd99fea2202a 2317 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE 285a8637-9967-4414-b148-70dd448f037a 188 OH THAT IS EASY SAID PETER YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST FEEL WHO IS GOOD AND WHO ISN'T BETTY SHERWIN WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT A COMPLIMENT SAID THE STORY GIRL a7d09ba0-04dd-4f8e-82c9-e936218d22bd 2286 I HAD MY SCANNER ON SO THEY COULD SEE ME BUT MY OWN SCREENS STAYED DARK THEY WEREN'T SENDING ANY PICTURE b24b8823-2e4f-4eb1-9995-d7cf887b3c80 14 PRESENTLY THEY WERE SCATTERED BY AN ABRUPT AND STARTLING QUESTION FROM PETER HE MIXED THE POWDER IN LARD AND SPREAD IT ON HIS PAWS AND HIS SIDES AND HE'LL LICK IT OFF 4f73c9e9-ed6a-4db4-9675-fd3f45a4d8b7 402 OH I WISH I'D NEVER SAID PETER WASN'T FIT TO ASSOCIATE WITH MOANED FELICITY THE VALLEY WAS FULL OF MIST AND THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN IN SLANTING LINES OVER THE TOPS OF THE SPRUCES a08aa4d7-2ef3-4955-b026-a4928dd5d440 2286 I SNAPPED CUTTING HIM OFF WITH A WAVE OF MY HAND THIS TRIPE AND NONSENSE I TOLD HIM IS THE BAIT THAT WILL SNAG OUR FISH A TRAP FOR PEPPET AND HIS PARTNER IN CRIME I SHOUTED AT THE INTERCOME 82786f55-e822-4181-8662-de0220e2be3c 2317 RAY JUMPED NOT VERY FAR BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY DIVING SUIT THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH d9383322-ac36-4d05-b4a7-1e4b069ecd55 2182 THERE ARE NO LAND DWELLING CREDITORS ON COLLAXIA IT FLOATED LIKE A GLISTENING PLUM COLORED ISLAND WE CAN OFFER A TESTEDETICS PROGRAMME THAT WILL ELIMINATE RACIAL ANXIETY WITHIN A FEW GENERATIONS a8143227-d137-4b20-872a-99f27927bc05 1867 THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD PROBABLY LET ANOTHER REPAIR MAN IN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT 44f10f3d-c492-4257-9b5b-1dfb6e60917c 2368 AS A MATTER OF FACT I THINK I WILL HE GAZED REFACTLY AT THE BALD MAN WHO GULPED AND TURNED A LITTLE PALE I MUST TAKE YOUR WORD THAT YOU ARE NOT DANGEROUS 30e65c79-d468-437f-92bb-1ea19eb3f3aa 2137 CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS b2e84d10-521e-4423-a0f7-672555696507 2286 VERY PLEASED TO MEET YOU I AM THE GRAND DUKE SAINTE DENGELLIO THIS LAST HAD A HORROR RING AND I REALIZED MY ENTHUSIASM HAD CARRIED ME OUT OF CHARACTER 7974d74b-17e4-4c0a-89e4-b2dae25d07a1 2182 AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM f6e02450-54f5-4c4d-81f9-5ad9345a00d0 2317 AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG AND FOLLOWED BY AN OBSCENE COMMAND ed49acc4-7496-4e3e-80a4-5863e3ef5494 2274 AROUND THEM SHAPES FLUNG THEMSELVES FROM VINE TO VINE ORN CALLED INTO HIS MIND THE LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN HYPNO FORCED INTO HIM 1b1bacc8-7d43-443d-b8d1-76fd80437c35 402 CECILY HAD OFFERED TO BAKE EVERY EPISTLE THOROUGHLY IN THE OVEN BEFORE SENDING IT EVEN FELICITY AND DAN FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES GOT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT ANY EXCHANGE OF LEFT HANDED COMPLIMENTS ee081059-ea99-496c-b60d-c228d7e1067b 2368 JONAS HAD NO VAUGHAN TO STICK ON HIS NAME AND HE HAD NEVER THOUGHT IT WORTH WHILE TO CLAIM ONE AND ACCEPT THE TINY RISK OF DISCLOSURE 9d15ab7b-bd27-46d1-a28d-44683dffc3d0 451 WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS 53440700-9b99-4f16-ade8-290da4a76c41 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 9cea16f8-f3e1-4092-890a-a4e709189eeb 2286 THERE WERE SOME THINGS IN MY FAVOUR THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS I THOUGHT IT A LITTLE SHOWY MYSELF 61b6360f-1226-415f-82a3-2da91ae74263 14 I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS ac9e14ac-eb8a-4a04-8627-72c1cda16996 2182 JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED 7acf210e-32e1-4040-9100-0b9b76204b75 2286 SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS I GRABBED UP THE MONITOR RECEIVER AND RAN TOWARDS THE AIRLOCK THIS IS A DIFFERENT BOMB NOW I SAID KEEPING ONE EYE ON THE SCREEN AND THE OTHER ON THE SLOWLY OPENING OUTER DOOR db1c9ef9-e607-42fd-97f6-05291475018c 2182 THE FLIMSY CABIN COULD NOT STAND FOR LONG AGAINST THE SORT OF BRUTE THE OWLS HAD SHOWN HIM A MONSTROUS TAIL FLUKE THAT STRETCHED DOWN THE BEACH TO MERGE INTO A FLAT PURPLISH ACREAGE OF BACK d71816f4-7e95-4bc7-8bc1-d767d46d652f 14 I'LL HAVE TO GO WITHOUT ANY THEN SAID PETER I I DON'T KNOW I ONLY GET FIFTY CENTS A WEEK AND I GIVE IT ALL TO MORROW LAST NIGHT 6aa4c138-61d5-42aa-b2c5-689da9c5c687 188 SURE WITH HER RED HAIR SANDY WILL NOT BE LIKE TO LOSE HIS PRIDE PAST FINDING I SUPPOSE SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD TEACH HIM MANNERS FOR WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT THE WOMAN DID SHUT UP AND NEVER SPOKE ONE SINGLE WORD TO HER HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS d1f03442-49ad-46a8-8542-f784029995fe 2317 TO A DEMAND AND THEY STARTED GETTING IN EACH OTHER'S WAY AND SLOWING DOWN THE OPERATION EVEN MORE 1e552a93-fc84-44a3-9ac4-6ec3ad85fb13 402 AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN TELL JUDY ALL THE NEWS FOR ME I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED fda59ea4-b29d-49ba-ac8c-4c89de4b3fec 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 41105437-4da3-4139-abc1-eee26032267e 2108 AND WEAR A TIN CROWN ON HER HEAD HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN IN AMAZEMENT 82f21ff6-63de-42a0-a44a-3d8c46072319 2425 AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION TO HOPE AND VIC ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN 6d14d8bf-60c5-440b-ab1b-868406f758e6 2286 SHE WAS YOUNG DARK AND BEAUTIFUL THE TEARS DID NOTHING TO SPOIL THIS A LONG CLOAK WOULD CONCEAL THE UNIFORM WHILE I LEFT THE HOTEL ca484826-f590-4654-af91-bf94af7536a8 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 50c53a8e-5f6d-495c-a703-445338be666f 2317 GARF TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE TELEVISION SAT GREAT UNCLE'S GUILDS HE EXCLAIMED AND LAPSED INTO FASCINATED SILENCE FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED e03f1f6b-8109-4a32-9490-04790c2a2872 2286 I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL b13d216a-1c7a-41b3-985f-0ebf3663ee1f 32 LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM THAT MEEKEST AND MILDEST OF GIRLS WAS IN THE HABIT OF DREAMING TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS 30546c75-2cb2-4598-ae7e-3fc7aee6c844 1867 I CUT OUT THE RADAR AND CUT THE NOSE ORPHACON AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE BEACON APPEAR ON THE SCREEN d5adfd07-378e-486d-b8a1-468c0dbb0ac2 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 3ec6a1e4-3627-4690-baf9-1a62cb643a57 402 WHILE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE YOU KNOW SAID FELIX WE SHOULDN'T CROSS BRIDGES TILL WE COME TO THEM IF WE WORKED HARD THERE WAS LESS TIME FOR GRIEF AND GRIEVOUS THOUGHTS 610dbefd-5545-4ff5-aa2e-2bca53d35f84 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 9c6ff5f1-e27c-4560-ab79-0c63601e7c32 2425 TWENTY SEVEN IT IS NOW I'LL GO AHEAD YOU BRING UP THE REAR WITH HOPE IN THE MIDDLE READY 36c47874-2bea-477f-a4f5-f49f18856974 32 THAT SORT OF STORY OUGHT TO BE TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT AMONG THE SHADOWS THEN IT WOULD FRIGHTEN THE SOULS OUT OF YOUR BODIES 62832489-a327-4ac2-b879-97c558502b37 188 WELL AT LAST IN APRIL THE WEDDING DAY CAME AND ALL THE GUESTS WERE HERE AND RACHEL WAS DRESSED IN HER WEDDING ROBES WAITING FOR HER BRIDEGROOM 3cc60cd5-fd41-489f-9781-2c30eb7521f9 188 IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM 1f4c7cbf-baa0-4aa8-b518-0c17660c0e9b 2286 YOU THERE SHORTEN CHUNKY I CALLED DO YOU HAVE ANY CONCEALED COMPARTMENTS OR DRAWERS BUILT UNTIL STEEL HARD IF SO LET'S SEE e396e8f4-035b-4d44-bdc7-c89514fe45d3 2182 THE CONSULATE ROCKET LANDED ASHORE BUT JEFF IGNORED IT THERE'S AN E I COMMUNICATOR IN MY CABIN JEFF SAID LET'S GO f7fbf3aa-347e-4376-a5dd-8fc30f27e964 188 BLACK DAN GOES WELL BUT HE'LL NOT BE QUICK ENOUGH HE SAID RICHER THAN WE THEN KNEW OR SUSPECTED NAN LASS I LOVE YOU 9c2c3dd4-8152-4239-90b9-4da981b3785c 2274 ALWAYS FEELS IN LIGHTER GRAVITY TEACH YOU PEOPLE HOW TO EXPLOIT YOUR PLANET HOW TO BUILD GOOD TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES STITSON LOOKED ACROSS AT HIS JUNIOR FIELD MAN f8e8407a-64d2-47fe-8e01-36bc48874936 2368 YOU WOULD NOT ACCEPT HELP CLARETON REACHED HIM ONCE BUT THE CONTACT WAS WEAK AND FLEETING THE DIRECTOR HADN'T ENOUGH STRENGTH TO REACH HIM AGAIN AT LEAST NOT FOR A DAY OR SO YUNUS WAS EXACTLY WHERE HE WANTED TO BE ON HIS OWN 63e8f244-e54c-4546-8e5b-75ddf62f445d 1867 I HAVE REPAIRED HYPERSPACE BEACONS FROM ONE ARM OF THE GALAXY TO THE OTHER AND I WAS SURE I HAD WORKED ON EVERY TYPE OR MODEL MADE IT'S A MARK THREE BEACON A SPECIAL BRANCH OF THE PRIESTHOOD SERVED THE TEMPLE 6e39dbb7-fa89-46dc-9210-9ed3870781d9 14 YOU HAVE HUMILIATED ME JUST REMEMBERED THAT STORY AND I THOUGHT I COULD SEE HIM TAKING UP THE SENSE SO SOLEMN WITH ONE LONG WHISKER a8317996-b850-4fe1-a2c6-d0a0747d42b2 2274 OWE BACK YOU TO THE HILT THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB 377328f0-0d2f-470c-bfc4-bb3d57731a70 402 WE STOOD AROUND HARDLY BREATHING AND SUDDENLY REMEMBERED THAT I HAD NEVER SEEN HER CRY FELICITY SOLD HERS TO UNCLE ALEC'S HIRED MAN d3c34ab3-8bd7-4678-8058-dcaadace2ed4 2425 THE HANDS PALMS UPWARD AND THE QUIVERING HAND OF THE METER THEN I TOUCHED THE NEXT DIAL 6c264a8e-53cc-41e0-9b0a-6fa89dabf672 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 12132d91-a8ce-46c7-90d7-5e76b4f3e6cb 2274 WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT DEW GLITTERING WEB ONLY WITH BLUE FUR 0a9e7085-504b-4090-b329-3521304cd3cc 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 ebb5d6b0-ae6f-4023-8e58-40f62a38ef5b 2108 QUITE RIGHT SAID THE BEAST AND YOU'RE THE STRAW WHICH I'M GOING TO EAT FOR MY DINNER NEAR TO OGABOO 9d3b9565-ae3d-4c62-93fe-338b4d08c9a0 2182 OLD CHARLEY MACK'S RED HAIRED NIECE UNEXPECTEDLY BECAUSE JEFF HAD NOT CONSIDERED THAT IT MIGHT MATTER THE TERRANS DREW TOGETHER AGAIN 7e33771f-cd54-4c76-acc2-ea784e143531 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 74a9c735-8599-4198-87c9-c0c5707b79ed 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 202e4b1b-0065-4a26-86e4-6b42e90f9aeb 402 SHE WAS AN UNHAPPY LITTLE EXILE HER TONE EXPRESSED HER CONVICTION THAT THAT WOULD CARRY PETER THROUGH IF ANYTHING WOULD 38137416-eee6-4e31-a0c7-75f3000b873c 2317 BUT NOT SUCCEEDING AT ALL LITTLE RAY WAS ON HIS FEET FARMER THOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAIN THAT HE COULD SWIM 3e49bb2b-137a-4150-842b-081491d4d5b6 1867 IT'S A MONSTROSITY I COULD START THE WATER AGAIN EASILY ENOUGH BUT THERE WAS NO FUEL LEFT IN THE REACTOR BEFORE THEY COULD GET ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS 08162c37-0e5d-42a3-9911-2aa1cd95612a 451 FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD THEY'D BE ALL MIXED UP IF THEY HADN'T 5569a7a8-6cf5-4e8c-b2d8-005bbe2ee14e 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 6a2d51ac-4824-4656-a9f1-d3aadc01e866 2368 WHICH IS UNWISE YUNUS THOUGHT BITTERLY AND RISKY AND VERY PROBABLY IMPIOUS AS WELL I SEE THE WOMAN IN YOUR MIND b229e684-0507-46af-a8bd-b39c69e8fd3c 2182 SOMETHING NUDGED THE COTTAGE WITH A FORCE THAT ALL BUT KNOCKED IT FLAT SAID CHAFFY FOUR HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE 8cf9d069-f08a-48b1-8e00-5432fd8490bd 2286 AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES I CAN BE CONNED ONCE THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS 8288e7ac-e00b-455c-93c6-6b7693f3d9ca 32 EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD SHE WASN'T PRETTY BUT SHE LOOKED LIKE THE WOMAN IN THAT PICTURE THE STORY GIRL'S FATHER SENT HER LAST WEEK 2a940653-b132-4662-8aa4-e069f95d1e94 2317 JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE 89e9412f-3fb5-4cb3-a337-1daa3e1ae4db 2182 COME OUT OF IT WILL YOU IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP SATTERFIELD SAID PEEVISHLY c5f8fd4e-639f-407b-851a-71e87354537c 2108 SO WE MAY TAKE OUR TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT TO DO NEXT SHE HAD HER BACK TOWARD THEM AND DID NOT EVEN TURN AROUND 1fb5064b-8921-417d-b870-28bc529f2568 2425 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 eca6b021-4b77-4dbb-a2bc-65c8c4440d94 2317 AND MOST MEMBER RACES HAVE WARS OCCASIONALLY AND WAS TOO TRUSTING WITH MEN EVEN IF THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU DESIGNED IT TO DO ca9a1ba9-dcb7-45d4-95b3-d8bf46c2e70b 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 17b7f66e-f1d2-4955-9b34-1b59688121c2 32 AUNT JANET TRIED TO MAKE PIES OF THEM ONCE BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE HATED TO SEE THEM GOING TO WASTE BUT SHE NEVER TRIED IT AGAIN 5e5e12ee-2805-4c8f-8be1-6ac8e569fa3a 402 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WHO DREW IT THOUGHT GOD WAS LIKE ANSWERED THE STORY GIRL CARELESSLY HE HAS CAUGHT COLD SOMEWAY AND THE MEASLES HAVE STRUCK IN BECAUSE THERE'S MORE OF THEM SAID FELIX GRINNING 674e41a7-532d-4ad8-ada7-dd86157d3486 2368 FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES I KNOW THAT YOURS THOUGHT WEARILY CLARETON AGREED OF COURSE YOU HAVE HE THOUGHT 84b394f3-e968-4b4d-81e1-6c0cf232c90a 2137 BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN NEAR IT HE COULD SEE ITS WHITE HOT DWARF STAR COMPANION 22645e88-f3c6-43fe-99ed-3bcfa245c333 188 THE STORY GIRL CAME OUT OF HER SHADOWS AND SAT DOWN BESIDE US ON THE GRASS HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST c6b01428-b35f-451f-98af-7ebab1eeddf2 402 SARA HAD NOT BEEN ALLOWED TO VISIT THE HILL FARM SINCE PETER HAD DEVELOPED MEASLES THE DOCTOR IS AFRAID HE HE HE HAD DIED IN CALIFORNIA AND HAD BEEN BURIED THERE 24a5d12a-d648-4329-9975-3c3b00fabad3 2108 AND IF NO ONE AT ALL LIVES HERE ADDED THE SCARECROW WHAT SOUND IS SO SWEET AS THE STRAW FROM THE WHEAT WHEN IT CRINKLES SO TENDER AND LOW IT b2159eb8-ef3b-499c-b88a-711f40cd729f 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL c15c640a-07c3-4200-aa96-e442be974549 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 3d335dd2-62b8-4f08-a7ea-354fc018f210 188 THERE WAS A FINE MOCKERY IN HIS TONE THAT PUT THE STORY GIRL ON HER MEDDLE INSTANTLY HARD FACT TO REALISE HAD BEEN CHILDREN I HEARD UNCLE ROGER TELLING IT THE OTHER NIGHT 19b9517d-f0aa-4454-b1a4-42b3f77f6d5a 2182 SAID CHAFFY THREE THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US c6f96764-f64a-41c7-9aad-2242fc04db4a 2317 OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM a3b8bf14-62ce-4373-b114-5e5bf4d68faf 2274 THE GUNMUZZLE REMAINED UNWAVERINGLY SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE 5f8afcc3-c303-4db3-be24-d3e1216c16a8 451 WHILE WE LINGERED THERE AND TALKED OF CABBAGES AND KINGS IN THE MAIN THEY DID BUT ON THIS PARTICULAR MORNING DAN WAS PLAINLY INCLINED TO REBEL 0e772761-2610-433b-90f8-cacc474a26ce 188 GRANDMOTHER'S COUSIN RACHEL WARD CAME TO SPEND A WINTER WITH THEM HER EYES FLASHED AND BURNED CRIMSON SPOTS GLOWED IN HER CHEEKS 462a925d-abe8-461a-8908-46c0b5466e7e 14 WE COULD SEE THE LONG ROWS OF TREES A SEEMED TO US THAT THERE WAS IN THE ORCHARD SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ORCHARDS THAT WE HAD KNOWN AND WHEN HE LAUGHED HIS LAUGHTER WAS STILL MORE DREADFUL 642ceb0e-d0dc-473e-8728-b4f75f3d4b5b 2286 JUST ABOUT THAT TIME YOU HEAR YOUR FIRST RUMOUR OF THE SPECIAL CALL AND IT FITS THE BAD DREAMS A SHADOWY POWERFUL GROUP THAT SLIPS SILENTLY BETWEEN THE STARS 434af259-26d6-4e77-804a-191aa3abcecd 2108 IF THAT IS TRUE HOW IS THE WICKED WITCH DESTROYED SO THEY LEFT THE PATH THEY HAD BEEN FOLLOWING AND BEGAN TO TRAVEL TOWARD THE NORTHEAST 5dcd2157-682c-4d11-8fca-2c9510450d43 1867 WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN 29598b59-6786-497c-ac9a-d87120ea9324 32 POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION 8bac1909-e5ec-4914-9167-6ed154458f12 2368 THE STRONG HANDS MOVED ON THE TABLE TOP KENUF WAS STANDING NEAR HIM A PERFECTLY BRANK OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE AND IF HE'S GOT YOU IN A WOODEN HOUSE AND HE'S GOING TO BURN IT DOWN WHAT GOOD DOES THAT YOUR KNOWLEDGE DO YOU ebe65207-e7e1-4e7d-ac77-39fc882f9356 402 WE WATCHED IT FROM THE GRANARY WINDOW AND THE STORY GIRL TOLD US AN OLD LEGEND CULLED FROM ONE OF AUNT OLIVIA'S MANY SCRAPBOOKS ca413081-b83b-40f6-bc7e-2b11961bc59c 2317 FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING 02f175ec-11d1-477f-b316-93661a91ea12 2274 A STANCE NOT IMPROVED LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY WE'LL BE RIGHT DOWN WHY A DISGUISED SLED 5392602e-c817-437e-b452-51bbbee54844 402 AND COULD ONLY RELIEVE HER ANGUISH OF SOUL BY DAILY LETTERS TO CECILY WHICH THE FAITHFUL AND OBLIGING JUDY PINNOT BROUGHT UP FOR HER 7e247dfe-cdf0-43db-8554-9c9e38ad218d 188 AND THIS DRESS WAS OF PALE BLUE SILK AND MINDFUL OF THE NEED OF MAKING AN IMPRESSION I DREW A HARROWING PICTURE OF THE MISERABLE PLIGHT OF THE HEATHEN WHO IN THEIR DARKEST DARKNESS BOWED DOWN TO WOOD AND STONE YOU HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF A WREN NEIL CAMPBELL d45ecad4-2592-4ee7-acc1-549c4a460946 14 WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR 3a578b9a-9fd2-4b9c-8d3d-965d19f2a0be 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 870c9e28-29c9-4d00-ae2f-ffaa2bb2f9da 2368 FEELING THAT ONE MORE EFFECT WOULDN'T HURT HE LED THE WAY TO THE TOWN HALL LET THEM FIGURE OUT HOW HE HAD KNOWN JUST WHERE TO GO HE THOUGHT THE CATALOGUE SEEMED LIKELY TO GO ON FOR EVER SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY 636ac1b0-c553-482c-947d-e607970284fb 1867 I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT A CRY WENT UP FROM THE CROWD AS I DROPPED THE IRON AND STAGGERED IN BLIND CIRCLES f1131f23-abc2-481c-b9a8-883223edeef2 2274 WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED 5ad7d401-7961-44fa-b859-b8583023bfd2 2182 SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS THERE'S SOMETHING OUTSIDE 02d9d7b1-4332-4fa6-a752-be17b15b1c88 2317 IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN THE NONIPUS CREPT FORWARD PONDEROUSLY 7500a8a5-287b-4608-a37d-d5fb42e80d83 2425 SO SHE WENT UP TO THE MASTER'S ROOM AND FOUND A KEY AND WENT IN THE PRIESTS WANT TO HONOR US FOR THE GOOD WE'VE DONE BY GIVING US THE REWARD WE'VE JUST SEEN SO 0acec916-06eb-48ed-b668-26f048172a6e 2425 E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT f1d4b97a-fc38-4492-b938-5a6bad15c081 2286 BUT ONLY ONCE THE STURDY LITTLE M THREE ROWBOT RUMBLED AFTER ME WITH MY BAGS 5247336a-2de5-49a9-b501-5c2af35c2386 2182 CLOSING THEIR PERCEPTION AGAINST THE ZID'S DISTRACTING RAGINGS THEY SET TO WORK WITH PERFECT CO ORDINATION e1bc488b-5e4f-4d2c-97d6-42486b0cfdf2 14 SHE HADN'T OUGHT TO TELL ME STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE IF SHE DON'T WANT ME TO LAUGH WHEN I SEE THEM AND TRIED TO CARRY OUT OUR TEACHER'S GENTLE PRECEPTS e039fdf6-e5f2-45f0-b760-16717fccb414 451 AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY 0465b210-77c1-4aa2-9802-d13d0a43b62b 2425 AND A PROCESSION OF VERY ANCIENT BEINGS WHOM I TOOK TO BE THE PRIESTS OF THIS GOD INTO THE MIDST OF THE WAITING GUARDS 70639df9-531a-4df3-82a8-e45cd40af154 2182 STUDYING HER WHILE SHE SHOOK OUT HER DRIPPING RED HAIR SHE SCRAMBLED TO THE WINDOW SILL AND JUMPED FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL c796a909-f053-43e4-b662-8b6e693692e8 32 WE FELT SURE OF THAT 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 cbd9b391-3f02-4ff3-9263-a1ed6bbc850f 402 YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH FRIENDS WITH PETER AND MADE OUT YOU THOUGHT SO MUCH OF HIM AND NOW YOU AIN'T SHEDDING A TEAR FOR HIM 46e9bbe2-300a-4f9f-8edb-78db94e1dc80 2274 BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE 36e63c75-74c9-4b54-b271-d1f5017ac554 2317 JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION BUT HE EXTENDED HIS HAND AND SAID PETER THERE HIS VOICE TRAILED OFF 091c50cc-8fb3-461e-9d0c-e64d313805e8 2274 WHY'S A FRESHMAN LIKE ME BEING TOSSED INTO THIS DISH I'LL FEED US WHAT YOU SAY AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AROUND YOU TOO e36201d1-246a-4417-b894-e354821a54f3 2317 THE TELEVISION SAT FLICKERED HUMMED TO HAVE A WEIRD CREATURE WITH SUPERHUMAN POWERS SERESTIC DOODLES AND ABRUPTLY PRESENTED A PICTURE 67751ebc-11cc-4383-8815-8494c99f82af 2182 YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT ON ONE DAY THROUGH SOME UNFAILING MIRACLE OF COLLAXIAN SEAMANSHIP a7c2d69d-0d7c-46e0-a412-35e8cc30d2d7 2274 I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE ceedce1c-721b-4527-bd3a-12b825606352 2317 HE HAD NOT ONLY PICKED IT UP HOWEVER FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN 07467fa8-4244-4cd0-bf30-51e09ee6c271 2317 FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING b753b290-eb21-422d-9db5-348fb2448160 2317 HE CALLED DORA A PUDDLESNAKE THE NAME WAS PRECEDED BY SEVERAL ADJECTS HE DIPPED AN EYEBROW IN A WINK 077da4bf-fa89-4a5b-8c76-6fa3846caf35 2368 YONAS TURNED WITH RELIEF AND GOT BACK ON THE PATH BUT HIS STAYED QUITE AS BADLY AS THE HOUSE HAD YOU KNOW A GREAT DEAL CLARETON SAID WHICH I SOMETIMES FIND IT NECESSARY TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION 65a8a801-2c86-45f2-825b-9a1aaa06778a 2286 SPACE YACHT FILLED WITH LUXURIES TO LAST A HUNDRED YEARS I WAS STILL TEASED AS I HAD NO IDEA WHAT A SHIP THIS LARGE COULD BE USED FOR 65743f9f-e9b3-4621-b544-5559414f5451 188 YOU MAY THINK TIS A HASTY WOOING BUT THAT'S A STORY I CAN TELL YOU LATER MAYBE I KNOW WELL I'M NOT WORTHY OF YOU BUT IF YOUR TRUE LOVE COULD MAKE A MAN WORTHY THERE'D BE NONE BEFORE ME SHE IS SO FOND OF RED WILL MONTAGUE NEVER CAME 25bb9fd7-26c9-4ba0-81ac-ff3dbe52f209 1867 INSTEAD I FACED THE CROWD AS I SOARED AWAY SO I MADE THE MOST OF A BAD SITUATION AND THREW THEM A SNAPPY MILITARY SALUTE aecbe0ea-50b2-4208-b2f3-d8c190c393fe 1867 HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING 07d18181-b86c-4ed2-b374-54927c02afd6 1867 TO MAKE CONTACT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCAL LANGUAGE I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR 425ff42b-4446-4b75-aead-dd72ab29d79e 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 cf75b849-7712-402f-bf47-ed7f1651a6af 402 FELIX TOOK HER ADVICE AND WITH IT SEEMED TO GO THE DREAD AND GRIEF THAT HAD BEEN OUR PORTION FOR HOURS ee8e6dd9-c9f2-45c8-af71-b703b3684b19 2317 THE ONLY REAL TROUBLE WITH YOU EARTH PEOPLE HER VOICE DRIPPING DANGER AND GOT ANOTHER SURPRISE 076113a6-aa9a-468e-b71e-f38052accebe 2182 AND MET WITH FRUSTRATION BEYOND SERREMEIAN EXPERIENCE FROM THE TOWNSHIP THAT REPRESENTED COLONIAL TERRAN CIVILIZATION IN PERSONCINIAN ARCHIPELAGO ONE FORTY SEVEN 942a2eff-4cc7-4838-8b83-3a4be418f14c 188 I'VE BEEN TO FOUR FUNERALS BUT NOT TO ONE SINGLE WEDDING NEIL DIDN'T WANT MUCH PERSUASION IS IT WE GOING OVER THE BAY THE NIGHT bcc79b64-fcfe-435e-bdec-e5cc29d79f5f 2274 THE EYE A SECTION CHIEF WAS DARK HAIRED THAT WAS THE JUNGLE THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB 7f3064a0-8c25-4c41-8f83-78a8accddeaa 402 OR PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD PUT HIM UP TO IT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE THAT ANYBODY EVEN GOD WOULD MAKE ALLOWANCES FOR THAT OH DOES GOD LOOK LIKE THAT 6fb8da27-04f8-427f-9791-0aeeeadb2d0b 2317 THOSE THINGS ARE THE MEREST TOYS TO US IT WOULD BE HARD ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN AN EARTHLY OCCUPUS IN HIS LIVING ROOM IF THE NECESSITY AROSE 2f093477-4c04-431e-9a49-061ef1921bb6 32 WHERE WE SAT ON THOSE SEPTEMBER EVENINGS AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED a0b7dded-2e1e-48a9-9b6a-ac179c094f0a 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 1c4742a3-1af1-479f-afff-8205078e2400 2425 I WAS WHISKED UPWARD LEAVING WORD NOT TO DISTURB HIM FOR DINNER IN TERMS OF OUR OWN BEING YOU DO NOT EXIST IN YOUR PRESENT FORM d626d9ab-0d40-4a04-9460-d6c141070098 2368 SHARP PROVED TO BE A BARROW SHAPED MAN WHO WAS UNACCOUNTABLY CHEERLESS AS IF THE INSIDE STRUCTURE HAD BEEN CAREFULLY REMOVED AND THEN REPLACED BY SAWDUST YONAS THOUGHT 3a08ad62-92b0-4e20-bed6-e4d67364544c 2108 WITH STORIES OF ADVENTURES THEY HAD FORMERLY MET AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE 62200b6f-61da-468a-aecb-6153b901d8db 1867 IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS 7a35cd7a-9180-4d4b-8da2-58c9b3930a92 2425 THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC 3d2323a6-f963-45ff-93fa-5ee18f1397f0 2368 AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE FIRST STEP CLARTON SAID 78b60dc9-757f-4899-9217-a8578e21052e 2368 CLARETON TRANSMITTED THE ENTIRE PICTURE IN ONE SUDDEN BLOW THE CHANCE THAT YONAS WOULD NOT BE KILLED IMMEDIATELY BUT WILL WE DISCOVERED THE CHANCE THAT THE INQUISITOR WOULD GET FROM HIM THE SECRET OF THE BROTHERHOOD THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE YONA SAID SAID CLARETON SOUNDED RESIGNED I WILL NOT YUNUS THOUGHT AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU 598de9cc-faef-4f63-b69d-662427c7d652 2108 AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT IF WE DO WE'LL BREAK YOUR SKIN REPLIED THE KING THEY'RE A NEW VARIETY THAT NO ONE CAN GROW BUT ME 63a9d2c2-ed6d-4af5-88d0-6a1cb120c9d8 2317 THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS 803d7528-1b3e-494a-b1b4-811c53de8072 2368 THERE WAS THE GHOST OF ANOTHER IDEA YUNUS CAUGHT IT AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO 23839963-7369-47b0-b48a-14cb1bacf90e 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 7b158906-5ad9-4b9b-89d4-19200ed9dc17 14 WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT FELICITY TOSSED HER HEAD WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM 60bf7f9b-f9c8-4540-9246-568b21c0a643 2425 THEY WERE IN EFFECT MEN THAT IS THEY HAD A HEAD A TORSO TWO ARMS AND TWO LEGS APIECE d0f04f5a-920b-4725-a9a4-bf772bcf9c76 188 THE STORY GIRL WAS BAREFOOTED AND BARE ARMED HAVING ROLLED THE SLEEVES OF HER PINK GINGHAM UP TO HER SHOULDERS 93da33e5-7776-4f80-8c4d-bd40f50b09d8 1867 ONLY IT FOLLOWS ITS OWN RULES IT OF COURSE TOOK PLACE IN THE PUBLIC BATH TUB AND I HAD TO JOIN THEM THERE bf000c49-d264-42ef-ad46-dded69cd4e18 2317 A WAVE OF PURE HEAT SWEPT OVER THE BOAT BLISTERING WHAT PAINT IT STILL BOASTED SHE REACHED THE RAIL FIRST AND WENT OVER 1ca95b16-d2a6-48ab-ad92-cbdacb6b1df5 32 ANYHOW I SAVED MY DREAM AND THAT OF COURSE WAS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERED DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD MAKE SUCH AN EQUAL OF HIM AS YOU DO 5430921b-aeec-4771-9104-0108cfd768f8 2368 IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK 5355b6c9-5cc0-458d-8dd2-73ae9fd89eaa 2274 WAS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT OUT OF THE CORNERS OF HIS EYES HORN SAW MORE SHADOWS DROPPING TO THE MUD AROUND HIM f8607302-42ac-4aae-b137-11227c3e6c56 2286 OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY IF THERE ARE TWO CHOICES TO TAKE TAKE THE SIMPLER ROCKER THE SPACE YARD MANAGER HAD STAGGERED BACK AND WAS PULLING AT HIS HAIR CURSING AND CRYING AT THE SAME TIME 27849a32-8a6d-4b0f-9c55-094cc496f8c2 2286 BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN b9825ba1-c72d-4d8b-8fb9-b65715782f9c 402 ONE FEELS ABOUT THEM SHE TOUCHED HER SLENDER THROAT SO WE CAN I AGREED 890d7153-0019-4eee-824b-fa55fcecc1c8 2368 MEMBER WITH INFLUENCE AND POWER I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE 64910212-897d-4d78-a659-3792116f3f3a 2274 THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU THAT'S ALL THEY CAN GIVE US 1d3eaf30-c906-4d7b-8ff4-2aa4d0dfae2e 2425 I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE 62336cc4-e8d4-4df9-af23-5c596c750ad7 402 THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR US I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD LOOKING BACK FROM A MATURE STANDPOINT I REALIZED THAT SHE MUST HAVE BEEN AN UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN a0b4ab8e-d767-41e7-95e7-66a9dbd9b237 188 THE NEXT MORNING THE STORM WAS OVER AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER d9a0de69-66d0-457a-b162-9830691ac8ed 2317 AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE IN THE FOREGROUND THE BOAT AND ITS OCCUPANTS WERE SHARPLY ETCHED cfe66f08-2cdd-4405-a81e-733745fe8996 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 0188d1e0-a4bc-48ac-91d4-9547060a59a5 2425 I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON AND MISS OAK LOOKS INTO HIS ROOM WHEN THE TWO COINCIDED WELL a05356c5-fb6f-49dc-a05c-cfccb90d4f9e 32 FELICITY DETERMINED SHE WOULD NEVER LET ANOTHER DREAM GET AWAY FROM HER IN SUCH A FASHION AND THE NEXT TIME SHE WAKENED IN THE NIGHT HAVING DREAMED THAT SHE WAS DEAD AND BURIED SHE PROMPTLY AROSE LIGHTED A CANDLE AND PROCEEDED TO WRITE THE DREAM DOWN THEN AND THERE da868a75-5845-4cb7-b1de-5077e974f90a 2317 AS FOR THE FEDERATION THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY THEY'LL UNDOUBTEDLY ACCEPT YOU ONCE YOU DEVELOP SPACE TRAVEL dd2fa1ca-4e2b-4806-86d1-c5ed5355ce9b 2368 FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE 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 1627934a-d4e0-4b51-aa8e-92d59eafaaf9 2108 AFTER BREAKFAST THE BOY WENT INTO THE THRONE ROOM OH YOU'RE QUITE WRONG DECLARED POLYCHROME LAUGHING 1879fd24-85bd-4166-8d29-20e120f7381b 2425 HE HESITATED AND THEN UTTERED A HIGH PITCHED SOUND THAT I PRESUMED TO BE A WORD OF COMMAND ONE A VIVID ELECTRIC BLUE c4df6e99-2bb6-4efa-948d-a7cab41f3a2c 2425 YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOUND ABOVE THE FREQUENCIES TO WHICH THE HUMAN EAR WILL RESPOND THE INTENSITY OF THE LIGHT INCREASED STEADILY AS I MOVED THE DIAL 81ed8a7b-1410-4a86-8161-3e515983f3b4 14 I DON'T SEE WHY BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY 13fbddf1-5004-4d5f-b31b-da69410c77af 2286 THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED 1e8871f8-1510-49c9-8af7-16ef2af8a86e 2274 GIANS ALL AROUND THE BUTCHER'S PEDESTAL OF ONE OF THE BUILDINGS LOOMED DIRECTLY AHEAD 7ab3d4ec-0970-4136-9a2a-e99b175fa2c5 451 IT WAS TEN O'CLOCK BEFORE DAN BEGAN TO GET BETTER BUT FROM THAT TIME HE IMPROVED RAPIDLY 7b54ec76-2f01-4f7e-aa1e-c707dd10288f 2274 GET INTO THESE WHILE I BRIEF YOU ON THE MAP AND THEN ONE OF OUR SPIES IN R INTERCEPTED ONCE THERE WAS ANOTHER CITY ab182800-3c79-4d81-b061-7a63cd903936 2425 SHOULD YOU WISH TO TAKE A FLIER AFTER ME ITS HEAD BENT VERY LOW AND AT THE SAME TIME TILTED AT A GROTESQUE ANGLE SO THAT THE FACE SMILED HEAVENWARD 99d8984e-4180-4a54-842e-29db3199344d 2368 FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WE MUST TRY CLETON SAID AND YOUR DAUB IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT bce893dd-5958-4613-a1f7-c882c460d489 2108 DON'T SEEM TO STAND STRAIGHT SOMEHOW BUT MY JOINTS ALL WORK SO I GUESS I CAN WALK 1e660b26-289e-4a8c-a494-796ded22739b 2108 AGREE TO IT SAID THE TIN WOODMAN SHAKING THE HAND OF HIS TWIN TO SHOW THE MATTER WAS SETTLED 1ae00623-71b4-4bae-ba4d-d12ad3654cb3 188 SOME OF THE MEN AROUND THE CHURCH DOOR HEARD THE SCREAM AND THEY RUSHED DOWN TO THE WOOD THEY SAW NOTHING BUT WILLIAM COHEN LYING LIKE A DEAD MAN ON THE PATH THEY TOOK HIM UP AND CARRIED HIM HOME AND WHEN THEY UNDRESSED HIM TO PUT HIM INTO BED 9dd0b05f-7613-458d-ad3c-860a903ea87f 14 PETER GOES TO CHURCH THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SAID THE STORY GIRL IN A TONE OF COLD CONCENTRATED FURY 66ecee60-a319-4bbf-bdac-700df0d13325 402 I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE 0965f7ac-440b-4c4d-909f-f20977e40df9 2274 THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE 08399242-e010-4be5-a8f1-c11540510d4d 2274 AGAIN THE CALL BELL CHIMED THE FOREFINGERED HAND LOOKED EXTREMELY CAPABLE AROUND THE STOCK OF MARK TWENTY 05fb4756-a6e4-4150-8702-049d7d098b23 1867 THE WATER FED PIPE FROM THE ROOF FOR EXAMPLE IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON HO U S A 0796db2f-4442-4b03-ac66-886d0f9246e2 2274 THE O'LERENOIDS DIDN'T KNOCK OVER ONE OF OUR SURVEYSHIPS FIRST TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE 7570f647-de7f-4c1a-ae94-f3bef8322fab 1867 BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD THE PRIESTS WERE A HARD HEADED LOT AND WEREN'T BUYING ANY LIZARDS IN A POKE THEY JUST STOOD AND MUTTERED 93f80939-7816-4583-8d57-433929926847 451 SARA RAY CAME UP BUT WAS SO SNUBBED BY FELICITY THAT SHE WENT HOME CRYING da3006ad-38c5-4295-870d-3b7264738186 2108 ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES 3c5d73ac-dedc-4fae-9a50-c48dbbe94ed0 188 THE LEAVES WERE STILL THICK ON THE APPLE TREES THOUGH THEY WERE RUSSET HUED AND THE AFTERGROWTH OF GRASS THAT WAS RICHLY GREEN UNHARMED AS YET BY THE NIPPING FROSTS OF PREVIOUS NIGHTS 59abc77e-bd46-4484-aa55-70837241ad2a 2108 TRUE REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT'S MY NAME REPLIED THE GIRL LOOKING AT THEM IN COLD SURPRISE THAT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT PROPERLY STUFFED HE ASSURED HER a49e6d83-0860-4c6d-b996-12d4530f33ca 2286 OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME BUT I STILL THINK IT WAS A WISE MOVE THE VOICE WAS MORE THAN FULL ENOUGH TO MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE a4777f69-82cf-4dd7-a467-10022c18dd99 2425 TELL PARENT TO DO NOTHING FOR AT LEAST A WEEK AND SUPPORTED BY HEAVY COPPER BRACKETS MOUNTED ON A THICK BASE OF INSULATING MATERIAL 9920f5cb-d06b-481d-971d-d26b64ef5be2 32 ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY WATER IS LOVELY SHE HAD PUT ON A NEW PERSONALITY LIKE A GARMENT 62dbcca9-f7ac-4669-9749-5a2bd169cae7 2317 HE SETTLED A HELMET ON HIS HEAD MOTIONED FOR FARMER TO HELP HIM CHECK THE CONNECTIONS OF THE SOUP'S HE AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND WILL HAVE THEIR SPACESHIP FINISHED SOON NOW 0c274f25-380d-48c7-8ea5-9d195f7abbff 2368 EXACTLY JONAS SAID HASTILY HE ENDURED THE STENCH HEROICALLY YOU'RE I'LL BE PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT YONAS SAID HE STOOD UP 7966be99-20bf-4f17-9af6-5031bfa29ff0 32 OPPOSITE TO HIM SITS THE STORY GIRL WITH HER SCARLET ROSETTE HEAD HER BEAUTIFUL BARE FEET CROSSED BEFORE HER 1672072a-ea60-431d-9410-42710203a8ec 402 INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX 970df5fe-5b66-4fd1-96ae-3711a33a6cb0 402 WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED JUST THINK HOW DREADFUL IT WOULD BE IF OUR FATHER HAD LEFT US LIKE THAT 13f2975b-6e91-4668-a0c3-f3c866b9125b 2286 IN THE FEW CASES WHERE FORGERY WASN'T ADEQUATE MY MYSTERIOUS X HAD APPARENTLY HIRED HIMSELF TO DO THE JOB 126b97b3-d4b9-464e-bc21-b8bd9eb47820 2108 SAID THE GIANTESSING ANOTHER BISCUIT BUT THE WITCH WAS MORE FURIOUS THAN EVER I'M A GREAT GIRL THIRTEEN YEARS OLD SO YOU'LL BE SURPRISED WHEN I TELL YOU 5a6549ca-b9f1-4ff9-a362-9c6ee2df90b9 2274 THE BRIDGES WOVE BACK AND FORTH FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING UNTIL THE ENTIRE VISIBLE NETWORK APPEARED TO BE ONE GIGANTIC 221024f6-0616-4e05-a533-3f7c4e95357d 451 AND ANDREW MACPHERSON WAS TO SING BASS IN IT SHE BANGED THINGS ABOUT AND RATTLED THE STOVE COVERS UNTIL EVEN CECILY PROTESTED FROM HER SOFA 66f1e0d4-209f-47cb-beec-ad5ae2e14bc0 32 AND THERE WAS NOTHING TO INTERFERE WITH THE PLEASING THROES OF COMPOSITION THERE TO THE RIGHT IS SWEET CECILY OF THE DEAR BROWN EYES WITH A LITTLE BLOATED DICTIONARY BESIDE HER b5683e73-4c28-4468-850e-c3e551ff2a07 2368 EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN HE SAID BRINGING YOU ALONG THE BALD MAN TOLD HIM 4fe6799f-f9d3-4c1f-8f84-fb52fbe9e9d1 32 I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID FELIX HAD A SIX SPELL SOON AFTER WE BEGAN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND AUNT JANET ESSAYED TO CURE HIM BY ADMINISTERING A DOSE OF LIVER PILLS WHICH ELDER FREWIN HAD ASSURED HER WERE A CURE ALL FOR EVERY DISEASE THE FLESH IS HEIR TO 3dd0803e-be39-428f-b18a-95f792da610a 2274 CAN YOU GET CLOSER WHERE DO YOU WANT ME TO START LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND 47eaaee4-ba29-493c-8da3-03e1ba05a6cd 2274 AND IF SO WHERE IT IS YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS TO MEET US CONTINUED HORN NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST f4ef64ba-6668-4764-8186-6ce337d03a42 2108 FOR THE SCARECROW'S BODY WAS ONLY A SUIT OF CLOTHES FILLED WITH STRAW YES THE DITCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING JUST NOW BUT A MEAT PERSON IN OUR PARTY 9d096248-f9d8-4f8a-b230-f0a8b5aee371 2108 HAVE HAD NO ONE TO TALK TO SINCE I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW INTO A CANARY BIRD c4a72c17-259e-43d6-9f31-bf1b152d2300 2317 SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT BUT SEEMED TO HAVE GONE INTO SLOW MOTION 2d0e14de-c2f4-4d2e-b357-cbb2f1dc53b5 2108 ALL ADMIRED ME AND PRAISED MY BEAUTY WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY 030c4eb4-5a3a-488a-9125-ba841357012e 32 IT'S MORE RESPECTABLE TO BE A METHODIST OR A PRESBYTERIAN OR SOMETHING THAN NOT TO BE ANYTHING b81e4fe9-082b-43a6-9e22-627bce60979e 32 BEVERLY KING IS A BOY ONCE MORE BUT ALL WE SAW WAS FELICITY TEARING OVER THE GREEN SWARD d9b5680d-29e7-4bbe-91f6-a62633a0297f 2368 AND IN HIS OWN WAY HE HAD HIS REWARD IF THERE WERE SUCH A THING AS TOTAL CONTACT CONSTANT CONTACT OVER PERIOD DAYS YONIST THOUGHT CLARTON WOULD USE ME FOR A PUPPET A VERITABLE PUNCH AMONG MEN HE WOULD OVERRIDE ME AND TAKE ME OVER THE WAY A TRAVELLING ENTERTAINER RULES HIS JOINTED DOLLS 844348b8-6b1b-464c-b556-f421321f76d4 188 FACE IT IS FAIREST THAT E'ER THE SUN SHONE ON HUMMED DONALD AND OH HE THOUGHT SO TOO 751d25d0-1169-44ca-8f5d-b60c29b31e97 2425 MISTER BUTLER AND MISS HOPE ARE SAFE EVERYTHING'S EXPLAINED IN THIS NOTE IT MAY BE THAT THERE'S NO TIME TO LOSE IN MAKING SOME PLANS 8db8cec6-c30d-4da3-b3fa-fdf93bf24eb0 2317 LISTEN FRIENDS SHE SAID AT LAST AND TOOK OUT A PECULIAR MACHINE HE HAD INTENDED THAT DISTINCT AND IT DID e25f8a04-05f3-4ffc-b61f-cca5fb09d660 2425 HOPE SUDDENLY PUT HER ARMS ABOUT ME SHE WAS SOBBING THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY YOU KNOW THERE ARE LIGHT RAYS THAT THE HUMAN EYES CAN'T PERCEIVE b9c1de8f-e6d2-49ed-943b-0c8e2676f0cd 402 THE MINISTER'S WORDS HAD REMOVED FROM OUR MINDS THE BITTER BELIEF THAT GOD WAS LIKE THAT PICTURE BUT MISSUS RAY WAS INEXORABLE AND CICELY HAD TO CONTENT HERSELF BY SENDING LONG VERBAL MESSAGES WITH A JUDY PILLOW 783be4b6-a713-4f0c-ba4a-be72048f3912 2286 THERE ARE OTHER METALS WITH A HIGHER ALBIDO BUT NONE THAT GIVE A RICHER EFFECT WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES 20fc4f37-b51a-4bfa-84e4-b3f6da829665 2274 AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY ce7b7303-42d1-4684-9a1e-addc3ca4424c 402 HE HAD NEVER SEEN HIM PETER CAUGHT THEM AT MARKDALE THE LAST TIME HE WAS HOME HIS MOTHER SAYS AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA 1e5741b9-1cc5-4589-bcb4-48eafddc1d35 2286 SOME OF THE DISASTERS AND APPARENT ACCIDENTS HIT INSIDE THIS AREA BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION PROVED THEM ALL TO HAVE NATURAL CAUSES 621da0ce-a7a0-43b1-a5a8-8bf83842707a 402 FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM 8b453de3-80e2-41e9-a2a0-a581b927d6e3 2108 BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR AND CRIED OUT IN ALARM I KNOW THIS COUNTRY PRETTY WELL HAVING BEEN MADE HERE BY A MUNCHKIN FARMER bd470be9-2de7-4690-b0cb-d3a713e044ef 2286 I AM ARRESTING YOU FOR CONSPIRACY EXTORTION THEFT AND WHATEVER OTHER CHARGES DEVELOP AFTER A CAREFUL ROUT OF THESE DOCUMENTS SEIZE HIM 13b81916-c322-4b29-8257-f7e40284f48a 32 WHILE SO EMPLOYED SHE CONTRIVED TO UPSET THE CANDLE AND SET FIRE TO HER NIGHTGOWN WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM eb19ca08-3a2b-44a2-9383-edf19e45d852 2286 THE MESSENGER WOKE ME FROM A DEEP SLEEP TURNING ON THE LIGHT AND HANDING ME THE SLIP OF PAPER NO INNOCENT MAN COULD HAVE LOOKED SO TERROR STRICKEN c6d2ca51-1acf-4533-b927-5cfc02c18e39 188 O GIRLS DON'T FIGHT SAID CECILY THE PEACE MAKER IT'S SUCH A NICE DAY AND WE'LL HAVE A NICE TIME IF YOU DON'T SPOIL IT FIGHTING 3a901813-a608-4b94-a3ea-ca8341c0c2e5 402 WELL IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PETER WE FELT SO MISERABLY SURE THAT THE MUSIC OF LIFE WOULD BE STILLED FOR US FOR EVER ee5e12b1-0713-4a5d-a640-5b7ebc6754b9 188 A SPARK FLASHED IN MISTER CAMPBELL'S BLACK EYES NANCY DIDN'T SAY SHE WOULD HAVE HIM SHE JUST LOOKED IT AND DONALD KISSED HER RIGHT THERE IN THE SNOW a77f3d05-912e-4428-82c4-4d5756d5ee86 451 SO YOU'D BETTER MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS MISS YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA c87d92ee-fd40-4594-a292-8197aa49bfbc 2368 YET YOU SEEM BORED BY THE MATTER CLEREND THOUGHT PUZZLED AND TWENTY MINUTES LATER TWO MEN CAME TO THE HUT THEY STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY MISSUS SHARP BEHIND THEM TWITTERING LIKE AN ANCIENT BIRD AND YONAS WATCHED THEM BOREDLY 670fc0a4-474a-46fa-9268-f31dc60ba01a 2317 THE GATE IS A MATTER TRANSFITTER BETWEEN MY WORLD AND YOURS HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM cd9df0e5-8179-43fa-8052-ef79bf637192 2317 RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH ce03ee0c-3a80-49b2-918f-c19cbf06f016 2368 KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN KEEP YOURSELF READY FOR THE GIFT OF GOD IT WILL DESCEND ON YOU IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME a99ac07e-0380-4654-9821-8570a9e09651 2368 AND IF THE SECRET IS LET OUT WHY THE BROTHERHOOD IS FINISHED FINISH BEFORE IT'S BARELY STARTED BECAUSE YOU CAN READ A MAN'S MIND DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN DEFEAT HIM YONES dc816687-4b26-40fd-a002-156f3f85fa18 2368 BORING IS BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID 7b70f11a-92e4-46ab-9a1f-175854fa82ff 2368 MY WIFE HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP SO THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS TO TRANSMIT ITS THOUGHT IS GIVEN BY GOD 10306463-bb01-4fe7-b077-a01e868c2ef4 188 HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL ccc22106-1103-4d2a-8de8-3446eca6a836 2317 AND HE SAW WHAT HAD SAVED HIM LIKE ANY LADY'S WEARBYER AT AN ANNUAL CONVENTION 54ec8ae9-a0f6-45c6-a3d7-a2510cb41aaf 402 AND I TOLD HIM I JUST HATED HIM THE DAYS WERE CRISP AND MELLOW OF COURSE I COULDN'T BE EXPECTED TO THAT HIRE TO LET A BOY KISS ME c64e0d7e-afcf-4836-9d41-2afbcd31beb2 2286 ME I SAID I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE RICH AND VERY NICE CADGETS TOO THESE CORBOTS OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE 9787cd45-6d03-4cf0-8411-a1ea1eb2d22e 32 DON'T SOUND MUCH WRITTEN OUT BUT IT'S AWFUL TO GO THROUGH I'M SURE I HOPE I'LL NEVER DREAM PEG BOWEN CHASES ME I'LL DIE IF I DO c377e2d2-0479-4161-a616-3b2bcdd5ac5d 2108 I'D LIKE TO BUT I CAN'T STOOP OVER WITH MY BENT LEG WITHOUT FALLING AND YOU WILL NOTICE THAT I'VE NIBBLED THE HAY ON THE FARTHER EDGE 5ed25d56-e13f-4b8f-9df3-0f468c0dc883 2317 AND HE SLAMMED HIS HELMET DOWN ANGRILY AS HE REACHED THE RAIL BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED 223179f2-12a8-4c70-9b48-d8eb2eec85e3 2317 GARF LOOKED HESITATE HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS 9cc5b9ca-4f55-4a48-9229-8002ae72dbc8 451 WHAT IF SARA DOES TAKE THE MEASLES I SAID SULKILY THE MINCE PIE WAS TO BLAME FOR THAT WISH 24a87e9d-5327-4205-bd1b-18fd05cc91f2 2286 BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER THAT GOT RID OF THE SMILE BUT DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER 5afd3cbe-a85c-4fd8-ac8e-43a032ed4ff6 402 THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY c9308586-0aaf-42bc-9753-faa3d1e8ac7a 451 THE STORY GIRL WALKED UPRIGHTLY LIKE INCARNATE FLAME IN HER CRIMSON SILK FELICITY HAD PUT ON HER BLUE MUSLIN AND LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL IN IT THAT HER GOOD HUMOR WAS QUITE RESTORED d7c8e020-c011-405d-84ce-bf5879c7e2df 2425 IN A SORT OF PANIC I SNATCHED UP THE PAPER AND BESIDES HE WAS HOPE'S BROTHER SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT 4c7b70da-e17e-4c78-a557-c086e21c364a 2317 JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED HE SEEMED TO BE GROWING ANGRY HIMSELF NOW UNDER THE WHIPLASHING WOMAN'S TONGUE 4b370b40-a88f-4e07-a8f0-868ec4de3401 32 VERY VERY SICK THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF IT I DREAMT OLD PEG BOWEN CHASED ME I THOUGHT I WAS UP TO HER HOUSE AND SHE TOOK AFTER ME MY MOTHER AIN'T MUCH OF ANYTHING BUT I MEAN TO BE SOMETHING 2f662ca2-e06a-44fe-83be-f197764a8b73 451 EVEN WHEN SAID TRANSGRESSOR IS ONLY A DAMSEL OF ELEVEN FELICITY GOT THE DINNER BY HERSELF DISDAINING TO ASK OR COMMAND ASSISTANCE CAME DOWN WITH SMILES AND SPARKLING EYES 851539c1-6a39-4e88-9a9f-be28ff358744 188 THE STORY OF A BRAW LOVER WHO LED HIS SECRET OUT WHEN THE WHISKEY WAS ABOVE THE WIT I WOULDN'T SPARE ANY OF IT TO ANY ONE BUT YOU 7862e370-0444-4fe5-858e-0598d9bdbf9e 2425 I'M GOING TO TAKE A WHIRL AT WHAT I'LL CALL THE INFROMEDIAN EXISTENCE WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY 929a189c-3976-4d26-ba14-44aa99d158ac 402 OH DEAR ME WHAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY THINGS THEY'VE GOT TO BE SORRY FOR AFTERWARDS VING HAD WON TO IT THROUGH THE DANGER AND SUFFERING OF THE DARK RIVER c27a8721-db03-4e46-a109-16567dbd27a5 451 AN IRISHMAN WHO LIVED AT MARKDALE HAD A LITTLE PIG SHE SAID AND HE GAVE IT A PAILFUL OF MUSH 82c93281-fa16-420c-8cf9-23d993ed2226 2108 WE WILL HAVE TO MEND THE PUNCTURE FIRST YOUR MAJESTY LANDS MANY TIMES be7aa577-c83d-4f77-8782-156cd78478ce 2368 HE WAS NOT EVEN SEVEN FEET TALL FOR INSTANCE NOR DID HE HAVE A HANDSOME LOVESOME FACE WITH FLASHING BLUE EYES OR A BROAD SHOULDERED NARROW WAISTED MARVEL OF A FIGURE WHICH SEEMED QUITE A STICKY PROBLEM FOR A MAN IN A MEDIEVAL CULTURE THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE f26c53ef-a24f-4206-92c2-0876e25e27d7 402 JIMMY FREWEN WALKED HOME WITH NELLIE BOWEN LAST NIGHT FROM PRAYER MEETING AND HER ONLY FOURTEEN 35b68495-630c-46f0-9ac3-a46abafc4f6b 451 DON'T GO TO THE MISSIONARY MEETING TO NIGHT NOW HOW WAS THAT WHEN IT HELD A WHOLE PAILFUL OF MUSH WHERE ELSE SHOULD SHE HAVE CAUGHT THEM SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY I 15a25730-97b4-448b-b767-cdd527823465 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 187f58ec-52eb-48d8-b07c-9751acf35979 2286 WITH EACH PASSING MINUTE THE SPHERE OF PROBABLE LOCATIONS GREW LARGER BY THE POWER OF THE SQUARED CUBE AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT 8c428008-c649-4af9-b50e-7f808be3f2d5 451 THEN WITH A BOOK UNDER ONE ARM AND PAT UNDER THE OTHER SHE BETOOK HERSELF TO THE WINDOW SEAT IN THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND WOULD NOT BE LURED FROM THAT RETREAT CHARMED WE NEVER SO WISELY cff0faad-adce-4bbf-9fb9-bb2436f8b298 188 UNCLE ALEC CONSENTED THOUGH AUNT JANET SAID IT WAS HIGH TIME THEY WERE BURNED NEVER WROTE TO A BOY BEFORE SO PLEASE EXCUSE ALL MISTAKES d86f6e8f-8232-446a-948a-13299a6d0cb8 2425 AND EACH POST BORE AT ITS TOP COME TO THINK OF IT HE REMARKED LOOK UP HOPE VIC'S VOICE WAS KINDLY YET FIRM AND GRAVELY COMMANDING 674d6067-eab4-4066-98ee-59da6e9df9a4 2274 WANT US TO COME BACK TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON d0709d7e-e7f2-4529-aa66-8fa021e2b494 2317 HE OPENED A LARGE WOODEN CASE WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF SOME DREARLY GOOD CABINET WORK 3b9e4479-1b62-4e40-a365-2abc069ac944 2317 GAR FELT AN EXPLANATIVE AND GESTURED WITH HIS HAND HE HAD ALSO TIED IT IN A KNOT ASSUMING HE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND IT AT ALL 61116dcf-39c7-4e3d-9352-e56a5b1a717a 188 MA SAID SHE WASHED HER HANDS OF IT MOTH'S OR NO MOSS SHE SAID IF COUSIN RACHEL HAD TO MOVE THAT CHEST EVERY a88bdc19-24ab-495c-b309-1e8a4cc1dc05 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 5030f915-a285-4608-8602-99ddae71811e 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 1da8d6a5-99b7-498f-8ff6-028e27f063b7 2274 ASKED HORN THEY WERE SIMPLE FOOLS SAID TENUBE TO NEWBOLTED PRESENTLY SAID SEND ME BACK 20014d36-9229-4a42-82c2-3cdc6d9a8ac2 402 MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY HAD THREE DAYS 702d7668-e5bc-4b99-9cd3-0f4936504768 188 I SHOULD THINK I DO LAUGHED UNCLE ALEX SHE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE WITH CECILY IS NOW AND SHE GOT UP AT ONCE AND MARCHED RIGHT OUT OF THE ORCHARD BUT AT THE GATE SHE TURNED AND CALLED BACK INDIGNANTLY AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE b88d0558-9ff8-47b6-8dd5-90905ff8addb 2368 NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE 65b7a960-5527-4e26-8969-ac88116f5b37 402 WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME AND TELL HIM HOW SORRY I AM AND THERE WAS A WARDER OF THE BRIDGE A GOD 28eaab9a-209b-44b3-98ec-41d7538cd05f 2286 UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY 18cd33b0-50b8-449d-8025-5ab02ca9344f 2425 THE GUARDS WHO HELD ME FOLLOWED BY THE PRIESTS WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS TOWARD ME AND MOTIONED TOWARD THE WAITING IDOL 3f439414-fcc3-4e94-87d5-6abaed6c0f69 2286 IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS 7046ac75-0dce-4a76-9b7a-832c1c13c96c 2425 LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT AND THRUST HIMSELF BETWEEN ME AND THE PRIEST e58fbee1-37ae-4aa4-9bac-5ff41f0e46fd 2286 WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE OGT'S DREAM WAS CLEANED OUT OF ALL READING MATTER THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I CHECKED WE CAN'T STOP THE BATTLESHIP FROM ATTACKING AGAIN BUT WE CAN SEE TO IT THAT THE TIME AFTER THAT SHE SAILS INTO A TRAP aa73e49c-998d-49c7-abd1-195b9b40ef72 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 251a2cad-5724-49ad-9459-45546a1b7848 2425 WAS THE HIDEOUS GRINNING FACE OF THE IDOL PETE VIC WAS WHISPERING EXCITEDLY IN MY EAR CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS c0537121-fe80-4519-bfdf-9ea7bd1f83e7 2274 THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER ONE ON THE HOOD NOW HAS ONE OF OUR MARKED TWENTY RIFLES GREAT LOOPING VINES OF THEM 5629d7b3-5098-4639-ad4d-dad81dda3aee 2368 NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES JUST A TRIFLE HESITANTLY HE'S THE ONE HE CAME TO STAY WITH US AND WE DIDN'T KNOW 0ebeca5d-60eb-4f3d-bd94-ec6a6a72c3e0 32 IN DREAMLAND WE WERE ALL EQUAL ADAM AND EVE LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME SAID FELICITY AND THEY WERE FAR FROM BEING ALWAYS GOOD c7b43bd2-8dff-4927-a69c-7b4175e7e142 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 5db0c77e-3407-46c7-8293-91c4a515b379 2317 YOU CAN JUMP IN EITHER DIRECTION OR TAKING THE BIG STEP INTO SPACE BUT RAY MADE NO BONES ABOUT HIM 09d32656-7e2f-4659-be71-c31fae638a28 2317 ALL RIGHT GARF FUN SPUN AND THE FEDERATION CAN'T TAKE EVEN SMALL CHANCES IT'S RIDICULOUS I NEVER SAW SIST MOROC THE BIG UGLY ONE ESPECIALLY 3d174baa-6e3e-4b26-ad35-50792d92c1b7 32 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT SAID THE STORY GIRL AIRILY AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM SLEEPING THERE DON'T YOU REMEMBER OLD MISS BAXTER IN TORONTO BETH AND HOW SHE TOLD MISSUS MC LAREN THAT SHE WAS SUBJECT TO TERRIBLE DREAMS AND FINALLY SHE TOOK TWO LIVER PILLS AND NEVER HAD ANY MORE DREAMS AFTER THAT d0c79d6e-8119-443a-8157-eba8834f1e8a 2317 CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE BUT ORDINARY OCEAN 73cf9ce5-0e41-4913-9557-394f64ce574d 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT WE OPENED THE BLUE CHEST SAID THE STORY GIRL YOU DON'T PRAY VERY OFTEN INSISTED FELICITY f57c3d4a-353f-4d8e-bb70-7b79fe5f5fcc 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 7686fe19-182d-4ab3-bf9d-3d92bcb04c81 451 FELICITY AND CECILY WERE SETTING OUT A LUNCH IN THE PANTRY WHEN WE WERE ALL STARTLED BY A LOUD GROAN FROM THE SOFA THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND 742e57cd-5574-4164-9d6c-a27e9f7cf777 451 I'D GO THIS MINUTE AND CONFESS THE WHOLE THING TO MISSUS RAY BUT IF I DID IT IT MIGHT GET SARA INTO MORE TROUBLE AND I MUSTN'T DO THAT I SHA'N'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT 69c98d5e-20ab-404d-b793-ee914447e888 2425 COULD SEE IT WE'D BUMP INTO OUR OWN TREES AND HOUSES AND PEOPLE WE'D I RECKON YOU GOT IT SIR 015353ff-88ef-46af-9549-ed6fe1e520fc 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 9a99d658-f016-4af6-9a4e-5913118a4ce6 32 THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT GLIBLY BUT BEFORE SHE HAD GONE FAR WITH IT THE DREAM BOOKS 446c99cc-38aa-48f4-83a5-1bafea007433 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 c4a83331-7ac9-448c-a6c7-c91aea9174cc 451 THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT RECOVERED FROM THE MORTIFICATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SHE WOULD NOT TALK AND SHE WOULD NOT TELL A SINGLE STORY SHE SAT ON RACHEL WARD'S CHEST AND ATE HER BREAKFAST WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR I'VE AN OLD BIBLE OF AUNT JANE'S AT HOME THAT I CAN USE THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK ea1ba40a-daa8-4b38-9725-f89c82ab4ac9 2274 THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE 8f75e7b2-e33e-4047-a860-732692922969 2425 I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT BLINDLY THE MULTITUDE SURGED TOWARDS THE SCARLET RAY THAT DEALT DEATH FIGHTING THEIR WAY TOWARD THE OBLIVION THEY SO HIGHLY PRIZED 294316b6-5637-4e29-bd94-3be1aec8365a 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 5ce2c9be-8953-428d-a275-305b82742564 2286 ONE OF MY MOST EFFECTIVE MOTTOES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SECRECY CAN BE AN OBJIOSITY I EXPANDED ON IT WAXED ENTHUSIASTIC CONDEMNED IT AND WORKED IT INTO AN INTERVIEW 0c5eb4b7-3d00-4fc4-85d6-10d35c5a0b39 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 d8a3d11c-72b5-491b-84ff-31818e2a54b6 2425 THE TRAFFIC IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT SLOWED ME UP A BIT STTCHING ITS LENGTH COMFORTABLY IN THE SHADE OF THE BIG MAPLES IS THERE ANOTHER KEY PARIN I SNAPPED 371c18fa-75a0-418e-b46e-954c57d4cf0a 451 I'D GIVE ANYTHING IF I'D NEVER PUT SARA UP TO GOING TO THAT SHOW SHE SAID IT'S ALL MY FAULT BUT THE PUNISHMENT FALLS ON SARA AND THAT ISN'T FAIR THEY MADE VERY LONG PRAYERS IN THOSE DAYS YOU KNOW AND 99fa26c1-a9df-4b5c-b680-6207cfcdc1c5 2317 AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS HE MANAGED TO CROAK BEFORE GIVING IT UP BUT IT HAD MELTED THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE 10ced7a2-581f-4471-8a56-28afb79bffe8 188 WHEN A CAT DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S PRETTY FAR GONE WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED d770e948-70aa-4261-a68a-de249d27dcd4 2274 I COULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU SIT GREETED NEW YOU SOUND LIKE A UNILACTICAL LECTURE ARE YOU THROUGH MARCHING ARM IN ARM INTO THE MISTY FUTURE HORN TOOK A BREATH 43f7a058-bdf2-43a6-896f-550856919f44 2286 EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL AND HE WAS GOING TO BE WIDE AWAKE SO VERY SOON THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE 48dba19b-3f0d-4a8b-a4b5-e3e31b5c1a76 32 WE HURRIED OVER TO IT TREADING ON THE SPEARS OF MINT THAT WERE BEGINNING TO SHOOT UP ABOUT IT 3ed82b15-a5ce-4336-9771-0db0ab691469 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 8c4c7fee-57bc-4022-9992-a218074be764 2108 FOR WOOT WAS NOT VERY BIG AND NOT VERY OLD BUT HOW DID SHE MANAGE TO GET YOU POLYCHROME AND THIS GAVE LOOT TIME TO CLIMB THROUGH THE OPENING 124fcfa5-605c-482b-827c-707dcc89bdcc 2286 DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS ALL THE DOUBTS I HAD DISMISSED FOUGHT FOR ATTENTION ALL MY SECONDARY SUSPECTS TURNED OUT TO BE SIMPLE FORGERIES NOT INDIVIDUALS 7ba5f029-d965-44b8-9b4f-c1ad1e7cdd28 188 WE HAD THE KITCHEN DISHES AND THE TABLE WAS GAYLY DECORATED WITH CECILY'S THREE SCARLET GERANIUMS AND MAPLE LEAVES AND CHERRY VASES dbbd6e9d-6da4-4801-89e4-fb13e2c498e4 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 f2e4861b-8210-472d-a584-7260985ea312 451 OH THERE'S EVERY DIFFERENCE I CAN'T JUST EXPLAIN IT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE 548ef19c-a570-4869-9d7f-3b3a8e6075c5 188 WE FELT AS MUCH OF A SHOCK AS IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EXPECTANT GUESTS OURSELVES THAT'S THE QUESTION SAID UNCLE ROGER SHAKING HIS HEAD GRAVELY 515afdd0-43bc-4842-aac2-3e41d74a1cfb 188 AS IN ALL HISTORY THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND RESUMED HER WORK ANY EXTRA BAD MISCHIEF 6fb08239-febe-40de-929e-5f4f91acd346 2274 BETTER TO DIE THAN BE SLAVES SAID TO NEWBE I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY BY ITS LIGHT WE WILL CONTINUE 8e0b85cb-b134-433d-b045-f8f3e5eaed34 451 EVEN CECILY THE MEEK AND MILD WAS SNAPPISH AND COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE NOT PETER'S OVERWHELMING GARLAND OF SONS BUT THE LUCENT BRIDGE LOVE CREATED ON WHICH THE BANISHED ARCHANGELS CROSSED FROM STAR TO STAR 8e01bcaa-4d1d-4563-bfb2-cb138275d265 2286 IF HE ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE OR THREATEN ANOTHER SHIP THE ELEMENT OF CHANCE WOULD BE INTRODUCED NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE d5bfb3df-7789-4904-899b-f761c9c5670b 32 AND LONG SLEEK BROWN CURLS NOW WRITING BUSILY I SEE THAT BOWERY ORCHARD 1bd5cba0-7805-45ea-a654-86d98d67cd70 402 FROM THAT DAY TO THIS THE THOUGHT OR THE MENTION OF GOD BRINGS UP BEFORE US INVOLUNTARILY THE VISION OF A STERN 3e3ff0b5-6f17-4e6e-a7b8-02567bbb8b9a 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 0788724e-2ff9-4f28-bc70-1254e28c4c76 2274 WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU 8d57b553-b513-43d3-b41f-98efcc90d3b1 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 e970efa5-4dd2-4a33-b9cc-502c2cfc2c67 402 DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES 2fc6b82d-a09d-4b18-8f6a-9010161f209c 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 0b0f293d-ec59-4ef6-8480-1f4b071fbd0d 2274 IT'S LIKE THIS SAID HORN WE ALREADY HAVE RECAPTURED THE DELPHINIS BACK AT DEAR OLD EUNUCH GALACTICA 8824a0f2-4364-4420-a14d-4e8837e5e1f6 188 BUT THEY HAVE BEEN CHILDREN AND I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND US I'LL GIVE HER THAT SPONGE CAKE I MADE THIS MORNING SAID FELICITY I GUESS SHE DOESN'T GET SPONGE CAKE VERY OFTEN 7af3494f-527f-4391-a0f8-a0c9d8a8da47 2317 THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS 527c0ec6-76c6-48c2-a69a-51670a2e3651 2425 AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH 26df219f-a674-4a1f-b3d9-9b7d197cc3ea 2425 DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT 55343020-88a0-4f47-b08e-3bf8abe65cb6 451 NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY 03984f43-cf29-41ad-96c3-0440285f88cc 402 THE APPLES HAD TO BE PICKED AND THIS WORK FELL MAINLY TO US CHILDREN 52c6ca2a-b497-471f-9808-052bbd1a41dc 451 I'M GLAD OF IT SAID CECILY VINDICTIVELY HER ROSES ARE ALL OUT AND THAT BED OF SWEET WILLIAM IS A SIGHT BY DAYLIGHT 37b3236c-f061-4ed9-8113-fa2d1cf0f272 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 0d89e515-d0a4-4ee6-a6b7-d3dc41f64363 2274 I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN SAID ORAN HE TOOK ANOTHER SIP OF THE BRANDY AND EXPENDABLE INSTEAD OF SITTING BACK ON A FLAGSHIP 684b0e7b-86ca-4e26-bf57-34058345c463 451 BUT SARA COULD NOT GIVE UP THE DELIGHTS OF THE SHOW SO SHE WALKED ON A SMALL MISERABLE TESTIMONY THAT THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS NEVER EASY 9d194a47-9e98-44cd-b4e2-be791a095e42 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 7a4ca4e8-0de6-4005-ac1e-f0f275654e4a 32 HE CAME INTO THE ORCHARD TO WRITE A POEM AND HE FELL ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON A BENCH THAT USED TO BE UNDER GRANDFATHER'S TREE e77fa7ef-2b7a-46db-b897-aa99d97b11dc 451 IF ANYTHING HAD HAPPENED I COULD NEVER HAVE FORGIVEN MYSELF THOUGH I BELIEVE IT'S BEYOND THE POWER OF MORTAL MAN TO KEEP WATCH OVER THE THINGS THAT CHILDREN WILL EAT d5757245-f409-4b04-b9e1-6f16c2cf1feb 32 AND WROTE DOWN OUR DREAMS WHEN THE CARES OF THE DAY WERE OVER THE ONLY THING WORTH MENTIONING IN THE WAY OF DREAMS THAT SARA RAY EVER ACHIEVED WAS THAT SHE DREAMED THAT SHE WENT UP IN A BALLOON AND FELL OUT d651ecd9-62cf-40ab-8de7-6ba25cfc6924 2286 THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE d7f4982f-1375-48c3-9e8f-a1163844f934 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 85680423-33fd-4c0f-acd8-14e28238940e 2317 FARMER WENT BACK OVER THE TERRITORY TO SEE IF HE COULD FIND ANY FLAWS IN IT THIS IS A COMBINATION OF COLOR TELEVISION AND SUPER RATAR 1e90b8b3-50e1-4ec1-b6e5-01df4e3d8478 2108 ANYWAY IT SERVES HER RIGHT DECLARED DOROTHY BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS f1e31e40-b6a9-4cad-8af7-0f830a84b96f 2108 REPLIED THE BIG LOON POMPOUSLY THE MAGIC OF A YUKAHU NO SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STOUTLY I 3f4dc198-5417-4ed4-8332-56ba0b2809e8 32 AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED 99d50864-6a8d-4967-bc64-177af4f0d9de 2317 IT STILL MADE SENSE SEE THOSE HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE 751c7a6c-75cc-4ba5-b0ed-436c3aad75ad 2286 SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY 0d7811f1-1a95-4c50-92c7-9922aae7d14d 2317 HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU RENTED THIS BOAT FOR THE FIRST TIME TO DAY JUST AS A NONIFUS DROPPED TO THE DECK WITH A PLANK SHIVERING THUMP c778cb36-eae1-443e-97be-3ea616e8b65d 2286 THIS SUPERSTRUCTURE OBVIOUSLY JUST TACKED ON TO THE PLANS GETS THROWN AWAY AND TURRETS TAKE ITS PLACE THE HULLS ARE IDENTICAL A CHANGE HERE A SHIFT THERE AND THE STODGY FRATER BECOMES THE FAST BATTLE WAGON 508d6dc9-1fd4-4dee-b116-2eea666912bf 2108 IS REALLY TOO BIG FOR ANY USE THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND 3d2ae89c-de01-4800-92be-7b3ea05678ab 32 I EXPECTED TO COME DOWN WITH AN AWFUL THUD SHE SAID SHUDDERING IT'S TO BE READY BY SATURDAY BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS THE SOUL OF HONOUR 93eb3c0c-2708-44be-a6c7-121d58a2b03f 2317 THE BACKGROUND WAS AN OUT OF FOCUS BLUR HE SCRATCHED HIS HEAD AND LOOKED WISTFULLY AT THE NEW ENGLAND SHORE LINE 0b16b6fc-ebdf-4c46-b384-b85b8396759e 188 MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE MYSELF IF I HADN'T BEEN SO SCARED OF THE JUDGMENT DAY IT'S CALLED HOW KISSING WAS DISCOVERED 89ad02cb-39fb-4334-901e-a9b2740b6c10 32 THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND AT LEAST I HOPE HE WILL I HOPE SARAH WILL HAVE HERS 8b717671-63ac-4966-9302-0d564fd1910d 32 AND MY MOTHER SAW HER ONCE IT WAS NOT OUR STORY GIRL WHO SAT THERE TELLING THAT WEIRD TALE IN A SIBILANT CURDLING VOICE adf217e2-b9b7-4e23-af9c-df81bdca1f7e 2274 FIRST HOW'D YOU SPOT RIGHT AWAY WHERE THEY'D HIDDEN THE DELPHINIS MOST RACES CALL THEMSELVES SOMETHING MEANING THE PEOPLE WHAT IF THE DELPHINIS JUST CRASHED HERE 7b566447-a241-4d0a-af13-0189d2bb050d 2286 I PRESSED THE BUTTON THAT SENT THE TORCH WIELDING ROWBOT ON HIS WAY BY SILENT AGREEMENT THE DOCUMENTS WERE FORGOTTEN BUT IF THE LEGS WERE THIN 29ee6285-c2d7-4ef2-b34b-c079cdb24cfe 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 c2c72409-ee87-4718-9d72-fa21a63b3d2a 451 OH SEE HERE IF YOU'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT AND ARGUE OVER EVERYTHING WE'LL NEVER GET THE STORY TOLD SAID FELIX DRY UP ALL OF YOU AND LET THE STORY GIRL GO ON 00d6f6da-635d-4ce4-8c64-b87c389a9687 2317 BUT HE COULDN'T WHICH ONE WAS MORE DANGEROUS SHE FOLLOWED IT UP THIS TIME WITH A STRING OF INTRICATE FOREIGN SOUNDING WORDS THAN EVEN FARMER COULD TELL WERE HOT AND STINGING 08b603e5-f256-4664-a12d-95bd21388ca5 188 WE ARE ALL SO FOND OF HIM AND HE IS SUCH A GOOD CAT AND HAS NO BAD HABITS I WANT IT FOR GLECON SHE SAID I 1f39332e-d84c-4e54-b569-4f07876aa2a8 2108 THE TASK YOU PROPOSE IS NOT SO EASY AS YOU MAY SUPPOSE I AM NOW GOING TO BED AND IN THE MORNING I WILL GIVE YOU ALL NEW FORMS d6e9dad6-a08e-4984-87e5-5d2f848906af 2317 HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF b0fe14b4-11d4-4199-b163-211254273d09 2317 IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE be25e0ee-e9c3-4294-b9bb-1139fb5386a4 2108 IN THE FOREST THERE MAY BE FRUITS OR NUTS GROWING OR BERRY BUSHES AT ITS EDGE SO LET US GO THAT WAY 4503ecdc-a98e-409f-b296-1bfa6e48383f 32 I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG 25909e0b-e20e-4831-acc1-53505efd42fd 2317 THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT HE WAS ALMOST ALWAYS UNCOMFORTABLE WHICH HAD JUDGE RAY IN ANOTHER SET OF TENTACLES a47f3673-8437-4d7c-b060-ed998e87d88b 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 7cd5210e-74c1-4327-83eb-fe6adfd330cd 32 I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING SHE WAS VERY SMALL AND VERY SWEET d7bdb578-8d33-4f44-834f-51c1a412e922 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 4c48db07-b235-4bf3-aa0d-8d955cee3673 2317 ALTHOUGH FARMER WAS DIMLY CONSCIOUS OF MOTION IN IT SOMEWHERE IT WAS ONCE IN CONSTANT USE BUT MY GOVERNMENT CLOSED IT WHEN YOU PEOPLE GOT TO THE POINT WHERE YOU WERE ece4c5d3-e6bc-4e0d-b465-2139da523e56 2317 HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE SOMEHOW WHAT POPPED INTO FARMER'S HEAD WAS THE COURSE OF AN OLD SONG HE HAD SUNG IN BOY'S CAMP WHEN VERY YOUNG bd00b273-6b6b-4397-b83e-0432e4780287 2317 HE HAD NEVER LIKED WOMEN AT ALL HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE 2dbdafda-c784-46ac-a16b-a31c4f6dfe19 188 HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL FOR A MOMENT THE CHARM OF HER VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I HAD NOT DONE SO BADLY AFTER ALL BUT THE OTHER GIRLS THINKING IT THEIR DUTY TO PAY ME SOME SORT OF COMPLIMENT ALSO QUICKLY SPELLED THIS PLEASING DELUSION 5222889d-df26-443f-aa3f-d4df7aec916a 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 e65490a2-a4c9-4f9c-b4ae-6f44c3a2722b 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 3b630b7e-2972-46dd-b2c8-320d7c28e832 2274 STETSON SHRUGGED A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED 19bfb3f7-30c4-426c-aa10-cee402c1ea5a 2286 THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES I SWALLOWED A PAIN KILLER AND LOOKED AROUND AT MY DROOPING SACKIDE ASSISTANTS WHO HAD SHARED THE SLEEPLESS SEVENTY TWO HOUR TASK ae82e115-5ea2-4520-9a98-dcdf478107c9 2274 THESE GOONS PROBABLY HAVE THE DELPHINEST ACCORDING TO OUR BEST GUESS A L I E N ee4a4b92-d1a9-41bd-87fa-11efc16e6666 2286 AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME IN HIS CABIN WORRYING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF IT ON HIS SURFACE RECORD EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS c21b992e-205e-41b1-b755-6b422454d957 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 fa4a8462-3703-4ee9-b5fc-3c5bce5d5de1 2286 I JUST GROWLED BUT IT WAS ENOUGH A LIGHT BLINKED AS THE SCANNER IN THE CABIN TURNED OFF AND THE ONE IN THE GENERATOR ROOM CAME ON bc8f3dd0-e98c-4723-8ec8-a0007bf156c9 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 IT'S TOO BAD IF YOU FORMED YOUR OPINION OF US BY OBSERVING HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE I A TO NUBE I ad170852-d469-413f-a6d1-3afc6a64bacf 2108 NOW YOU'RE A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THE REST AND YOU'LL LAST LONGER AND BE MORE HUMBLE WHEN HE HAD JOINED THE ARMS AND LEGS TO THE BODY 22d2a0d4-5415-42b8-bc54-dc55fc29aca6 2286 WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS BELLONNAIRE IF THAT HAPPENED IT WOULD BE BEST IF I STAYED THERE AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE 2f62fd52-6d31-4aa9-95d1-2b555181ec68 2286 AN INSPIRED MASKED CRIMINAL WHO APPARENTLY HAS MORE EXECUTIVE ABILITY IN ONE EAR LOBE THAN ALL YOUR BRIBE BLOATED BUREAUCRATS 91e808a7-04db-495f-a52b-d990a43e40ca 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 bb8578b1-3c66-473c-974d-ec42a0c01c97 2108 AND SO BEEN SEPARATED FROM ALL HER FAIRY SISTERS THE SCARECROW RUBBED AND PATTED HIS STUFFED HEAD INSTEAD HE GAZED AT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER ADMIRINGLY fbfa5042-31c0-48c5-af31-b0cd00203295 2108 YET MISSUS YUKE INSISTS THAT NO POWER CAN ALTER TRANSFORMATIONS HE GLANCED AT THE KING WHO NODDED HIS HEAD IN ASCENT d6525084-3bb1-46e3-bc1e-1a2cef90983f 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 3e04a8e3-b997-42f3-a872-1800603933ff 2317 IT WILL BRING IN A PERFECT COLOR PICTURE OF THE OCEAN AT WHAT IN THE DEPTH I SET IT FOR I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE 16894c18-0d76-495c-b156-f03bcac14945 451 WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED ALL THE DEFIANCE AND BRAVADO GONE OUT OF HIM 342e8784-71db-4ec4-aaa6-ebb76614c596 188 I WAS TO PEEL THE TURNIPS THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS 6fa72fc4-07d2-4065-8fa6-d7b531cb5fce 32 DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR AND OUR DREAMS WILL BE PRETTY FLAT AFTER THIS ALL AT ONCE THE STORY GIRL AND PETER BEGAN TO FORGE AHEAD IN THE MATTER OF DREAMING 9b857f8e-d554-432d-8900-778368697ca3 2108 DEAR ME I SEE HIM I SEE HIM VERY PLAINLY AND AFTER WE ARE GONE THE LOONS WILL HAVE SOMETHING OF A JOB TO PUN PAPA ALL THOSE WHOM WOOT HAS PUNCTURED 94cad609-2204-4790-8d16-b42553889c6a 451 GIVING THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A CAT BY HIS MALLIPHUOUS PURRING IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM 628e1c51-5423-4059-ab2e-39eb832cdf63 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 5e0fbb29-b026-4a74-8c47-4bff441ae500 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 28d379c1-2ecb-4416-b74c-d56708b04fef 2317 SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS AND THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED TO TELL YOU ANYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT MY PEOPLE AND CIVILIZATION 6c2e27ec-01b9-406d-827f-b57893ed9a60 2274 WILD ONES DO THIS THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW 3fb28d20-2822-422e-88bd-e6781309601c 188 WILL YOU HAVE ME NAN I'M FRIGHTENED OF HER TOO BUT JUST LOOK AT POOR DARLING PATTY UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW 291cc90f-53b0-4b93-9ac2-50c156184451 451 YOU KNOW I TOLD YOU HE WAS VERY ANGRY BECAUSE THE PRESBYTERY MADE HIM RETIRE HE PROVED TO BE THE PRECURSOR OF DAN CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND 11240646-f33d-4bf3-801f-18933ec454a6 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 d413baa6-8ec9-4dcb-8860-80bce421799a 188 AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TOOK EVERYTHING OUT AND LAID IT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY 05ababa0-1df4-411d-a2b3-c1a4433a8207 32 I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR BUT IT WAS BECAUSE CECILY CRIED ALL NIGHT THAT DAN WAS FILLED WITH SAVOURING REMORSE AND REPENTANCE 229818d6-4683-4a90-b12e-104576489712 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 fcc38e90-714b-4e76-99e5-581e0963a902 188 UNCLE ROGER'S LAUGHTER WAS HARD TO BEAR BUT HIS GRAVITY WAS EVEN HARDER I THOUGHT OF IT WHEN I HEARD YOURS I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT BEFORE BUT I DO NOW 98458ef1-0cb2-4076-ba06-e5af7ed126dc 188 UNDER FELICITY'S EYES SHE SET THE BREAD AND ON THE MORROW SHE WAS TO BAKE IT GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE 85edb99c-39e7-47ba-bc59-037d6bd887f0 2286 NOTHING TO DO WITH WARS OR BATTLESHIPS DAYS IF I HAD BEEN INTERESTED IN BLACKMAIL I HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE IN MY HAND TO SUPPORT ME FOR LIFE 8d0f967c-5496-4efe-adad-d12ed0659d20 451 I TRIED TO REMEMBER EVERY WORD SO I CAN TELL IT JUST AS HE TOLD IT MISSIONARIES ARE SUCH NOBLE PEOPLE f589bece-2234-4479-8062-6e9b607a14a9 32 FOR YOU DREAM OF SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN'T SPELL OR BE EXPECTED TO SPELL WHEN YOU ARE ONLY ELEVEN 464f2298-c803-4e12-9c4d-995f82a3594d 32 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I WAS IN CHURCH HE SAID UNCLE ROGER AND UNCLE ALEC LULLED IN THE GRASS LIKE BOYS d9a84028-e883-41f2-8d1a-12d87377aa53 2274 CHERANNA CHERUSOE CHERANNA CRUSO THE STRONGEST FIRST 7c83349d-6b8f-433c-84f9-f5b02ffcef32 188 WE ALL FEEL PRETTY WELL YET IT'S A SAD TALE SAID THE STORY GIRL AND IT HAPPENED FIFTY YEARS AGO WHEN GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE QUITE YOUNG 93d3d236-d58c-4a82-ac66-e82213f79438 2274 ORAN ESA SLED FORWARD AROUND AN OBSTRUCTING ROUTE A WHAT IS THAT READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE e0a4a994-0eb9-4606-8cee-7edc1934d2ea 2274 STETSON PACE LENNED AND CONTROL BRIDGE OF HIS SCOUT CRUISER HOW SHOW YOU HOW TO MIND YOUR MINERALS HOW TO OF EVERY LIVING THING ON IT MUTTERED AMBO STETSON 47e70083-310a-4233-a52b-fedc044696f3 2274 YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL 9b9284d8-159a-40cd-ac31-2a27b011b6a3 451 I HAVEN'T A SINGLE THING TO WEAR EXCEPT MY SCHOOL GINGHAM I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH 30692e3a-5d23-4584-a3e6-673586dd2938 2286 I WAITED UNTIL HIS ATTENTION CLICKED BACK INTO THE ROOM AND HANDED HIM THE SHEETS OF PAPER LEAGUE CENTRAL FOURTEEN RUSH I TOLD HIM I JUST CRUNCHED DOWN IN THE BACK OF THE CAR CHEWING MY CIGAR TO PIECES AND CURSING MYSELF FOR BEING A FOOL a8072ab6-0b5c-47d9-9193-33dc9b4f6fc5 2274 ONLY THE BAREST WEAK GLIMMERING OF SUNLIGHT PENETRATED TO THE MUD WE'LL SEND EXPERTS IN HERE 6fadc5d0-4964-4f9b-b7c8-d07ee41e74e1 2108 SO A MOMENT LATER THEY HAD RUSHED THROUGH THE PASSAGE AND WERE STANDING IN THE FRESH NIGHT AIR OUTSIDE THE CASTLE 68d87a2d-9177-4977-a391-0160b01a75f7 2274 BUT THE DEA YOU COULD START BY TEACHING US HOW YOU MAKE SUPERIOR GLASS SAID ORAN 4495b9d8-e470-42c5-9939-4d2831269dda 2274 A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM THAT MOB'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE KILOMETERS OUTSTIT WE GOT HORN'S GEAR OUTSIDE ON THE DISGUISED AIR SLED WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE AND CLEAN YOU OUT 81e89cc4-6ff6-4cc5-bc8b-3a7fed5323f4 2108 TO THE COMFORT OF THE OZ PEOPLE AND WHILE IT HAD BEEN BLUNTED SOMEWHAT IT WAS STILL SHARP ENOUGH TO HURT b0b062ab-c7d6-4e85-968c-a58a7465cfb3 451 WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON I DON'T BELIEVE PRESBYTERIANS EVER DO PENANCE SAID FELICITY DUBIOUSLY I YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE 1ae5dcac-e65b-43aa-882e-4fb486477b7e 188 BECAUSE A LADY ASKS YOU AND SHE HUMBLY BEGGED PETER'S PARDON FOR SPOILING HIS SERMON b90d9601-c573-44e2-9322-9c41e4223214 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE 557624a7-7ec4-418d-8b91-04b4acb3c3a0 2108 THE EMPEROR DISCOVERED A HEAD IT ARE APT TO FORGET THAT HE IS NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE SIGN ANOTHER PATH 8402d76c-e449-4d5f-a5ce-7d1491172556 2108 OR EAT CABBAGES IN NIMY AMMIE'S GARDEN BY LEAVING MY BURROW AT THE OTHER END TUT TUT MY SON a84f164d-c4f2-473c-b17a-df13f37dea6a 451 HE STRAIGHTENED UP AND TURNED A WRATHFUL FACE ON HIS PROVOKING SISTER THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT df53f07a-bc4e-4ebb-9f73-28b923770c01 2108 GONE SAID THE SCARECROW BEAR SOLEMNLY UPON WHICH WAS A LARGE PORTION OF SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOES d6cd59aa-6afc-4551-a95b-3b8d7a6e52e2 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 eb281860-965f-40cb-b318-7ba52484e2a1 188 OF COURSE SHE IS AUNT JANE IS SPLENDID AGREED THE STORY GIRL THE NAME OF THE HILL WAS OLYMPUS BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS STORY THAT HAPPENED ON ANOTHER MOUNTAIN 70e5accc-b28f-4fe9-8510-20952ba40843 451 OLD MISTER SCOTT FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE CHURCH PRETTY HOT AND DUSTY AND IN NONE TOO GOOD A TEMPER 8d685e42-fbb3-4b68-955a-550764aef020 2108 OZMA'S FACE BRIGHTENED AS SHE LISTENED TO THIS CLEVER PROPOSAL EVEN NOW THE RAIN DROPS WERE BEGINNING TO FALL BUT IT WAS QUITE DRY INSIDE THE TUNNEL AND BY THE TIME THEY HAD REACHED THE OTHER END ddd35469-c7f5-4e76-a9d9-02cd5bc9cd05 2286 TRIANGULATION HAD LED INVESTIGATORS TO THE SPOT WHERE THEY FOUND A FREIGHTER OGAT'S DREAM WITH A HOLE PUNCH THROUGH AS BIG AS A RAILROAD TUNNEL 8b06b7f8-5fb1-4c36-8548-5ab7576930da 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 3ea9c1b5-ee52-44c4-9e50-28cd8502687c 188 MY FRIEND YOU ARE VERY LATE FOR THIS SERVICE TO BE SURE NONE OF US COULD REMEMBER THE TEXT WHEN WE GOT HOME BUT WE KNEW JUST HOW YOU SHOULD THROW BACK YOUR HEAD AND CLUTCH AT THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT WITH BOTH HANDS WHEN YOU ANNOUNCED IT WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH 051f67f6-3be8-4db0-8730-ba0fe44d1ebf 451 A TALE OF THE STORY GIRLS WHEREIN PRINCES WERE THICKER THAN BLACKBERRIES AND QUEENS AS COMMON AS BUTTERCUPS LED TO OUR DISCUSSION OF KINGS 147c8486-d393-48f8-9458-a616750c55cc 2286 THE SCANNERS IN THE SHIP WERE FOLLOWING A PLANNED PROGRAMME I MADE LIGHT TALK ABOUT ALL MY MASSIVE ARMAMENT WOULD CARRY US BOTH TO PERDITION WHILE I CLIMBED THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE BATTLESHIP'S HULL b41fcf5d-ae36-41ca-b71e-acbb4fb6ee02 2286 UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TRULY EFFICIENT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION EVER MANUFACTURED PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT d69b4e40-5455-48b7-93d4-0144ed4cdcca 2108 ALL DAY LONG WHILE YOU ARE CHOPPING WOOD IN THE FOREST SO ASTONISHED THE TIN MEN BUT OUR BOY FRIEND HE CONTINUED LOOKING SOLEMNLY AT RUTH ad2e3ad1-2a66-463c-acc1-cdcb5bbe225f 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 9810362b-32bd-4af1-8fdd-14c8d36af73d 32 AND AUNT JANET TALKED TO HIM AFTER A FASHION WHICH MADE US REALIZE PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH cc64643b-9019-4ee5-a4f3-59bb727e9e30 32 UNCLE EDWARD PREACHED HIS FINEST SERMON ABOUT THE BETHLEHEM WELL WHERE DAVID'S SOLDIERS WENT TO GET HIM WATER c96a748c-1bda-4b92-9fba-2dc7562c30e3 451 IN FACT I'LL BEGIN TO NIGHT I'M GOING TO THE PANTRY AS SOON AS I GET HOME AND I'LL READ FATHER'S LETTER BEFORE I GO TO BED 2c01a203-d1aa-43b2-bdd2-4328bb83e2f5 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 7c2e6518-288e-4713-bc6a-45df159ef23d 2286 AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE 6fb8110a-b6d5-4a50-9113-ad49f46e22bd 451 THERE WERE TWO MINISTERS IN PARTICULAR HE BLAMED FOR BEING AT THE BOTTOM OF IT GET OFF TO BED EVERY ONE OF YOU 4ecfc0e0-ca35-479c-adde-6538fc2f18bd 2286 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS c5b5cdc0-330e-4360-9096-93ff3f45321c 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 780d245b-5bc8-4e0a-83da-a1b738c6f016 188 BUT HE DID NOT PLAY AS MUCH AS HE USED TO BECAUSE HE LIKED BETTER TO TALK WITH AGLEYA SO WAS I BUT SHE COULDN'T HAVE IT CERTAINLY ISN'T HERE I 979258c4-9dff-48d1-86cf-a4f686ea1a8c 2108 WHILE THEY COULD RUN MUCH FASTER THAN THE BOY THEY OFTEN STUMBLED AND FELL OR GOT IN ONE ANOTHER'S WAY SO HE MANAGED TO CATCH SEVERAL AND PRICK THEM WITH HIS THORN d1c95533-eb6e-4f98-ad83-c9231e87b8be 2108 POLYCHROME ALTHOUGH DANCING LIGHTLY BACK AND FORTH HAD LISTENED TO EVERY WORD OF THE CONVERSATION e43f318a-92fa-4c74-8fb0-93b48c64df7d 2286 THE EN THREE WENT DOWN BY A FREIGHT ELEVATOR I USED A BACK STAIRS AND WE MET IN THE STREET I SHUFFLED THE MEAGRE FINDINGS CONTROLLED MY IMPATIENCE AND KEPT THE SHIP'S SIMON BUSY PULLING IN ALL THE REPORTS OF ANY KIND OF TROUBLE IN SPACE 0e93f53f-0a07-41ae-be80-a5a4feb3b230 32 INSTEAD I REMEMBER SEEING IN HIS DREAM BOOK UNDER THE DATE OF SEPTEMBER FIFTEENTH AN ENTRY TO THIS EFFECT 8a912806-a038-4390-a35a-22e3b20d8ae2 32 AND IN THE MORNING SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER THE DREAM AT ALL YOU ALWAYS SAY SOMETHING NASTY WHEN I MENTION MY AUNT JANE SAID PETER REPROACHFULLY IT WASN'T A POLITE DRAM SO I WON'T WRITE IT DOWN 20d2cec0-94d1-4324-b957-be82b8e5744f 451 OH COME COME QUICK SHE GASPED DAN'S EATING THE BAD BERRIES AGAIN HE'S AT A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM HE SAYS HE'LL SHOW FELICITY I CAN'T STOP HIM ec5a8201-839e-46c3-ba8b-407213ba9677 2108 IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE OF THIS LET ME TRY ANOTHER PLACE BUT AT TIMES THEY WERE SILENT FOR THESE THINGS HAD BEEN TALKED OVER MANY TIMES BETWEEN THEM c4a64f27-dc58-4009-a7f8-6087d7302c8e 188 MY MOTHER DOESN'T MAKE KISSES SO COMMON RETORTED FELICITY BUT SHE GIVES US PIE FOR DINNER EVERY DAY AND HER HANDS WERE FULL OF THEM 4aa7329a-95ed-4e7e-95b6-c53058a1d356 451 WE ROSE IN A BODY AND RUSHED TOWARDS THE HOUSE TO US FOR EVERMORE THE MILKY WAY WOULD BE IN THE YARD WE ENCOUNTERED DAN EMERGING FROM THE FIR WOOD AND CHOPPING THE FATAL BERRIES WITH UNREPENTANT RELISH 4ca8d071-01c4-4458-89ed-870cd5eb2b5c 188 HOW DID WILLIAM COAN BEHAVE AFTERWARD ANNE WOULD NOT GIVE SARA A CENT OR PUT HER IN ANY WAY OF EARNING ONE 4ebb4f06-1b1d-4e03-86c9-435b394ef96e 451 AND I KNOW HOW MANY EGGS MOTHER SAID YOU COULD USE WHILE SHE WAS AWAY 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 ab9c3a96-740d-4995-b782-f8450204c68a 2286 OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW HE QUAVERED THE QUESTION HIS POUCHY JAWS SHOOK AND I SWEAR THERE WERE TEARS IN HIS EYES THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS f8b158a7-58bd-4c89-8743-bbd07ae05574 451 TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US WE ALL DECIDED TO INCREASE OUR WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION BY A CENT OR SO 00eb1e89-a83e-445b-ade9-35a9d8500498 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 7a0f85ca-8c44-4d0c-b1a3-b414b026dfb5 451 SO JUST TO TEACH HER A LESSON HE DROVE OFF ALONE AND LEFT HER TO WALK ALL THE WAY IT WAS NEARLY TWO MILES IN THE HEAT AND DUST bfa18427-adf8-4206-be9f-3811a6d15b66 188 WASN'T KISSING ALWAYS DISCOVERED ASKED ANNE THERE WERE FINE LACE CURTAINS AT THE WINDOWS AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURES ON THE WALLS af0c9fa5-9677-4f13-b7da-133d7f052df4 188 I'LL MANAGE IT SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL AND WE HAD NO DOUBT THAT SHE WOULD IF YOUR WORD IS AS BIG AS YOUR MOUTH I GUESS IT WILL BE SAID FELICITY CRUELLY 979a68a8-a329-463b-9568-e48703275fff 451 OH THE STORY GIRL'S VOICE EXPRESSED HER SCORN WHAT DID I SAY TO MAKE HIM MAD ASKED FELICITY IN HONEST PERPLEXITY b5f9f835-5736-49f5-baea-8f1055d9c655 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 92929bc1-4268-4854-bf78-498fa2808264 2286 DO THAT OFTEN ENOUGH AND YOU WOULD HAVE A CREW THAT WOULD MAKE ANY PIRATE CHIEF PROUD SUTANOVO WAS A SECONDARY SETTLEMENT OUT OF THE SELINY SYSTEM 2e588978-bad8-4b46-81a5-793bf018575b 188 BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY NOT RETORTED CECILY GOD MADE PATTY JUST AS MUCH AS HE MADE YOU FELICITY KING THOUGH PERHAPS HE DIDN'T GO TO SO MUCH TROUBLE 60332031-daff-4d76-9dd3-8038a2d5bb8a 188 BUT I SHALL MAKE YOU A FAIR OFFER I HAVE HEARD FROM MY HOUSEKEEPER'S URCHIN OF A SON THAT YOU ARE A MASTER HAND TELL STORIES 1bc7ac01-f8a1-4c9e-8293-59acf0758378 32 AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT HE WAS VERY FAMOUS AFTERWARD 884549cf-ea4a-4bb7-9b08-391cccad81b8 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 e277393e-f2b0-4cce-99b3-d936fcce1337 32 AS THEY SOMETIMES DID WHEN THE TOIL OF THE DAY WAS OVER WE ALL HAVE DREAM BOOKS YOU KNOW AND EVERYONE WANTS THEIR OWN TO BE THE MOST EXCITING AND WE'VE BEEN EATING RICH THINGS TO MAKE US DREAM AND IT DOES 6bab5364-1c78-445d-b7ee-89b159b9f038 188 IT'S EARLY ABROAD YOU ARE AND ON BLACK DAN NO LESS WANT IT FOR ONE OF MY WOOD NYMPHS SAID PAN AND I MUST HAVE IT AFTER THAT ALMOST EVERY DAY AGLEYA WOULD GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN 5fc01557-c3e1-4a02-85c2-88765019877d 32 WE FELT SURE OF THAT I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE a9373dfa-fe4a-4109-99ab-1546d39275a0 188 THE STORY GIRL SCATTERED HER ROSES AROUND HER ON THE GRASS AND CLASPED HER SLIM HANDS OVER HER KNEES I'VE BEEN ABOUT A BIT AND HEARD SOME GOOD THINGS BUT I'VE NEVER ENJOYED ANYTHING MORE THAN THAT THREADBARE OLD STORY I HEARD IN MY CRADLE 3ac736b7-dfe0-497d-a817-88e14a218108 2286 I CHEWED MY LIP WITH JEALOUSY LIKE ALL GREAT IDEAS THIS ONE WAS BASICALLY SIMPLE THE COLD FEELING WAS NOW A BALL OF ICE THAT THREATENED TO PARALYZE ME 36601d35-4b88-46b4-bd14-a9e34a07fa92 451 MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET HE WENT AND ATE MORE OF THE BAD BERRIES A WHOLE LOT OF THEM AND WE WERE SURE HE'D BE SICK AGAIN BUT HE HASN'T BEEN YET AND NOW HE'S ASLEEP 56a9f9f5-c179-4091-85eb-4547ceca5202 451 THEY WERE SMALL RED CLUSTERED BERRIES OF A GLOSSY SEDUCTIVE APPEARANCE AND WE WERE FORBIDDEN TO EAT THEM BECAUSE IT WAS THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE POISONOUS 5700ab09-c0f0-4109-bbfc-e3cb7dce5922 2108 I HAD NO MORE FEAR OF THE WICKED WITCH FOR SHE WAS POWERLESS TO INJURE ME SHE TIED THEM FAST WITH THE STRING THUS MAKING ONE OF THOSE FURIOUS WARTS ec178c36-d4a1-4550-8a36-ff98c68be1e5 32 SAID CECILY WITH A SHIVER AS OLD MISSUS FRASER SAYS BUT FELIXES ARE ONLY GOOD FOR PIES 3c4dc0f2-7b80-4d34-9ab4-a774f33062b2 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 1fc4482f-70aa-46cd-a306-81f02f0cdd6f 2108 AND POUNDED THE THREE TRAVELLERS AS HARD AS THEY COULD ON ALL SIDES SO MANY WOONS 4a9ea5b3-bd07-4e93-9dba-237a894308e9 2108 AND THE SCARECROW PUSHED WOOT ASIDE SLOWLY IT SWELLED OUT UNTIL THE KING CRIED STOP c90e2fad-9bad-4425-96b3-be3b58d994f3 2286 THAT IS NO ORDINARY ROBOT IT HAS A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVICES BUILT INTO ITS FINGER TIPS 8308b517-0977-469d-8129-e2baed7095f2 451 I'LL TELL SOME TOO AND WITH A ROARING FIRE ON A NIGHT THAT'S HOT ENOUGH TO MELT A BRASS MONKEY 7edd8f99-b45a-4188-900a-39a6e72bc987 2108 INSTANTLY THEY ALL TOOK ALARM GOOD ADVICE LAUGHED POLYCHROME DANCING AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND 12c7e638-750e-4fd1-ac8d-05162009f4c6 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 57d4beb6-c37f-4723-8cd9-e4a4ff045cd8 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 f8e6c41a-b56d-41c9-8231-62cb0e95c01d 451 I KNOW HOW MANY YOU HAVE USED I COUNTED A DISOBEDIENT BROTHER BUT AT LAST THEY GOT A CHOIR 6a3cb384-120f-4a81-8f21-cd9952ab60de 2108 AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY 1b34b544-e93b-41e5-8583-5d4e8101e07a 451 DAN SAT ON THE FLOOR AND WHITTLED HIS SOLE AIM AND PROJECT BEING TO MAKE A MESS AND ANNOY FELICITY 9898c402-aea9-4de7-bc57-ead92e4355bd 32 SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN CECILY WAS SICK b5ce4fd0-4c9f-4bde-90a8-4f11f71c3c61 2108 VISIT THE FORBIDDEN CITY OF LOOMVILLE THE HEART OF THE TIN WOODMAN WHEREVER YOU WISH TO GO I WILL GO 325f58e6-a7c7-45f1-beaa-7054bc4d91ad 32 SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES I DON'T MEAN TO BE A HIGHER BOY ALL MY LIFE BESIDES SHE COAXED ME TO TELL HER WHAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR DREAMS 217e4d68-c7df-4d9d-b833-f4d64ac79f70 2286 I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE I HAD MY ANSWER BACK QUICKLY ENOUGH 069d2dd5-2d57-4772-9514-f56374886684 2286 I THREW THEM ACROSS THE DESK TO HIM AND POINTED TO ONE CORNER WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE 40a08474-0c7d-43bf-881c-6240849d52c7 2286 IN SKIPPED OPENED HIS MOUTH HIS AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION OF MY INCOMPETENCE WAS BEGINNING TO GET ME ANNOYED ba9ac1a9-2030-4ba7-b0d3-bd7e82d0452f 2108 HOW WOULD MUSH AND MILK DO ASKED THE CANARY FOR TO MORROW MORNING I INTEND TO TRANSFORM YOU ALL d153e368-12d9-46e8-908a-e0c38799e6d6 451 YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN YOUR BEDS TWO HOURS AGO THE VERY THING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT I'LL GET SOME AFTER BREAKFAST I'M NOT GOING TO EAT A SINGLE THING ALL DAY EXCEPT BREAD AND WATER AND NOT MUCH OF THAT b161a075-5ae6-4f87-912f-e858124cfd7a 451 HAVE YOU TAKEN LEAVE OF YOUR SENSES HE SAYS MARTIN CAN'T CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN SINCE HE WAS MARRIED 6cf26a4c-4573-4956-8281-fc5a677ca687 2286 PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED SO YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD ME SAFELY OUT THE WAY BREAKING MY SPIRIT UNDER THE GUISE OF GIVING ME A LITTLE BACKGROUND INTO THE CAUSE ACTIVITIES db2d6d16-9a29-490e-8f5c-4804fa16ff99 2108 IT WAS COOK CLIP WHO MADE ME ASKED THE GREEN MONKEY EARNESTLY AND THE TIN WOODMAN ADDED beaed617-5f9d-488e-a557-9f88871d4ac5 32 AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER 192ac0ac-92f6-44f2-b81c-d41a6e1eaad2 32 BUT IF CICELY OH I'LL NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF SAID FELICITY INCOHERENTLY PETER WAS STARING AT THE STORY GIRL WITH A FASCINATED HORROR STRICKEN GAZE 196acb9d-94e3-42aa-a3a8-7af7f321a1d5 32 WHAT DID I SAY THAT WAS NASTY CRIED FELICITY I I DO NOT KNOW WHICH HURT OUR FEELINGS MOST THE SCOLDING WE GOT FROM AUNT JANET OR THE RIDICULE WHICH THE OTHER GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER SHOWERED ON US 240fb025-5b0b-4254-a1ce-7cffeea3f187 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 c6694774-5990-46b3-98fd-68ebf3665fcb 451 SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME IT WOULDN'T DO SHE DECIDED c1e77699-1136-4ee1-9101-4673a6660614 32 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER AND SHE HAD A TINY BERTH MARK LIKE A PINK BUTTERFLY ON ONE CHEEK 776d125f-08d6-417d-8bd8-b0e5ba801a20 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 2d7d3914-3395-4fc1-9794-e45b6a825326 2286 HE STUMBLED OVER TO A CHAIR HALF DROPPING INTO IT 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 fd10f72e-abe3-43ca-bb2d-1cf38c7718cc 188 ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY BOTH OF AGLEIA'S ARMS WERE HELD FAST TO HER SIDES BY GLECON'S ARMS f0fbadd6-670b-4625-be15-7450d038de45 188 THE HANGING IS OVER AND HARVEST ISN'T ON AND ALEC NEEDS A CHANGE HE ISN'T LOOKING WELL AT ALL THE DREADFUL SIGHT OF PAN AND THE STILL MORE DREADFUL NOISE HE MADE SO FRIGHTEN THE SHEEPS THEY FLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS 74361a77-9c05-496e-8884-3da4cf8586de 2286 MIGHT HAVE DOUBTED HIS OWN REASONING AT THAT MOMENT THERE'S NO POINT LYING NOW DESTROYING ANY ONE WHO STOOD IN HIS WAY 68114086-2090-4d61-8d36-e682fd26d948 2108 THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THEIR ROUNDNESS WAS A SLIGHT HOLLOW ON THE TOP YES IT WAS A SEEMING MISFORTUNE GOOD BYE MISTER AND MISSUS SWINE 72d52893-b8f0-4def-84df-ec0ec5d621df 188 FELIX WORKED WELL ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LIKE WEEDING A GLEA WASDED WITH IT THAT SHE RESOLVED TO TAKE IT AS A PRESENT TO GLACON 292d22c9-f8f3-4e9f-a0f8-890088d824af 2108 WHEN I HAVE TRANSFORMED YOU THREE PEOPLE YOU MUST ALWAYS WEAR THE SHAPES THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU be8ba31f-0f01-4968-8bef-5eb4b84831b2 2108 AT FIRST SHE FLEW HIGH IN THE AIR AND MADE GREAT CIRCLES OVERHEAD BUT IF I REMEMBER RIGHTLY POOR NIMIA ME HAS A SHARP TONGUE WHEN ANGRY 8e6b2604-bd9a-45cd-9ae8-0eede325f3c2 2108 THEIR SKINS WERE ALL OF A LIGHT GRAY COLOR ONCE WE ARE FREE OF THE BARRIER WE HAVE THE WANDERER TO HELP US 6e532856-079b-498d-8712-5ba52c5e4e2b 188 PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE 196a1639-5be3-4137-a8a1-f23d54ac871b 32 WELL UNCLE ROGER ASKED ME TO TELL IT I DON'T LIKE TELLING SUCH STORIES EITHER THEY MAKE ME FEEL DREADFUL YOU AND I OLIVIA NEVER HAD OUR CHANCE 4bd25a13-12b2-4130-b202-4756bf8f5771 188 SO I BELIEVE IT MUST BE TRUE SAID THE STORY GIRL FELICITY WORE HER NEW VELVET HOOD WITH A COQUETTISH LITTLE COLLAR OF WHITE FUR ABOUT HER NECK HER GOLDEN CURLS FRAMED HER LOVELY FACE AND THE WIND STUNG THE PINK OF HER CHEEKS TO CRIMSON c7f18aab-ac6b-490d-a7d2-0668d2977010 188 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT MISSUS RICHARD COOK'S GRANDMOTHER PEG HAD YOUR RHEUMATISM RING ON AND THE STORY GIRL'S BLUE BEADS AND SARA RAY'S LACE SEWED ACROSS THE FRONT OF HER DRESS cc0dc47d-0d31-4ce5-ba21-e6ad829f9089 2286 THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE 2d055c8b-cf7f-4ecb-b26a-c9f430735863 188 I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER THE SUNSHINE WAS AS THICK AND YELLOW AS MOLTEN GOLD c08fc718-d741-4fb3-8a8f-8f9ab05a06e8 2108 I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I DON'T CARE FOR MY HUSBAND TREATED ME BADLY AT TIMES THERE EXCLAIMED THE KING I EXPECTED THAT WOULD HAPPEN 788dc9ac-a170-4391-bcde-ec954efcd12e 188 WHO HAD BEEN GRIMACED AT OVER THE BREAKFAST TABLE THAT MORNING AND HADN'T LIKED IT THEREFORE HIS UTTERANCE CARRIED ALL THE WEIGHT OF INSPIRATION AND WE SAT APPALLED BEFORE HIS LURID PHRASES acb74f93-4fa5-4767-8314-2419773dba8d 2108 THE CLATTER OF THE TIN OWL'S WINGS SOUNDED ABOVE HIM AND FOR A LONG TIME THEY COULD HEAR THE YELLS AND STRUGGLES OF THE IMPRISONED GIANTESS dc089cd0-c08b-4bca-9093-558a8c5c40e0 2108 I DID BUT I COULDN'T SEE YOU SAID THE TIN SOLDIER THE FIELDS WERE WILD AND UNCULTIVATED AND THERE WERE NO HOUSES OF ANY SORT TO BE SEEN 911f3149-00ff-4856-81e3-bf5f370bba9a 188 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 I DON'T BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE ASTONISHED 52e5eca0-fd90-4069-9d63-67ae1ea95e20 32 FELICITY ALSO GOT INTO TROUBLE BECAUSE OF HER DREAMS AND THE STORY GIRL'S SPLENDID EYES WOULD HAVE FLASHED WITH SUCH ANGER AND SCORN AS WOULD HAVE SHRIVELLED THE VERY SOUL OF THE WRETCHED CULPRIT ad719319-f8ff-4515-b3b1-341f33e1bb0e 188 BUT YOU WILL SOON BE ALL RIGHT AND ABLE TO GET OUT AGAIN A HANDSOME ROBE GROWLED UNCLE ALEX I NEVER LIKED HIM I WAS ONLY A LITTLE CHAP OF TEN BUT I SAW THROUGH HIM fd35426b-7252-49a7-b224-4bb87a387d7f 32 SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE 6b05794c-6345-4ee2-b316-5a45caba69f1 32 BUT YOU MAKE FAR TOO MUCH OF HIM MOTHER SAYS PETER DID AND HE HAD AN ELEGANT DREAM THAT PEG BOWEN CAUGHT HIM AND PUT HIM ON TO BOIL ALIVE IN THAT BIG BLACK POT THAT HANGS OUTSIDE HER DOOR HE WOKE UP BEFORE THE WATER GOT HOT THOUGH 9aee4cd0-4a8f-4e6c-9f04-0f15d5fbcdf3 32 APPLE PIES AND SOUR SEEDLINGS AND PIGS BECAME STRAIGHTWAY INVESTED WITH A GLAMOUR OF ROMANCE a4c846c8-1530-459f-b50a-7c91fc1abaea 2108 SUGGESTED DOROTHY SHE WAS SHE HAD MANAGED TO KEEP OUT OF MY WAY db89bca5-bab2-404b-bd42-a8b8e4820007 188 OF COURSE PEG WASN'T A WITCH BUT IT WAS BEST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE IF I WENT IT MUST BE ON BLACK BENT DAN'S BACK AND HE LIKES A CANTER OVER THE ICE IN A SNOWSTORM AS LITTLE AS I 9fda905a-8343-4c8a-b5d8-0b9a9ae933e7 188 OH YES SHE WAS JUST THE SAME AS SHE USED TO BE SAID THE STORY GIRL WEARILY I HAVE THE PICTURE THE STORY GIRL GAVE ME FOR MY SERMON ON THE WALL AT THE FOOT OF MY BED 25642094-1ccc-4df0-bdd7-37fe98e7d861 2108 DOROTHY APPEARED MUCH YOUNGER THAN OZMA WE CAN ENTER AND TAKE POSSESSION AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME 69cdd0d2-0479-45cc-82f3-10d9dace7d2a 188 GOODNESS ME IT WAS DREADFUL WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING YOURSELF I WAS COMING THROUGH THE GAP IN THE HEDGE AND I SAW SOMEBODY IN BLUE STANDING UNDER UNCLE ALEC'S TREE 99ca69fc-6c5a-4718-b258-35f31e22ce52 188 THE MORNING DAWNED ON A BEAUTIFUL WORLD A VERY SLIGHT FALL OF SNOW HAD COME IN THE NIGHT JUST ENOUGH TO LOOK LIKE A FILMY VEIL OF LACE FLUNG OVER THE DARK EVERGREENS AND THE HARD FROZEN GROUND 286ef3b6-c9a9-4d58-b7e4-4f17ae31fd78 2108 THEN YOU CAN LIFT US ACROSS BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT NO ONE HAD LIVED THERE FOR A LONG TIME e86e3898-9378-499e-8472-5fd3d7e373fe 188 OH BEB WAIT FOR ME AND OH BEB HURRY HURRY NOTHING SAID THE STORY GIRL VICIOUSLY AT FIRST WE WERE APPALLED BY THE SITUATION WE DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WAS A WITCH BUT TO GO TO HER TO SEEK HER OUT IN THAT MYSTERIOUS WOODLAND RETREAT OF HERS WHICH WAS INVESTED WITH ALL THE TERRORS OF THE UNKNOWN 88e13e1a-a7cb-435d-8696-3265da1e2534 188 LAST NIGHT JUST AT TWELVE HAD BEGUN TO LICK HIS PAWS THEN HE LICKED HIMSELF ALL OVER AND WENT TO SLEEP TOO ON THE SOFA fd3d2ee5-c9a6-4c1c-8e58-0cf2ce95f252 188 I'M JUST GOING TO PRAY TO GOD TO SEND ME SOME MONEY SHE ANNOUNCED DESPERATELY AT LAST UNCLE ROGER SAYS SHE DIDN'T EXACTLY ASK HIM BUT SHE HELPED THE LAME DOG OVER THE STILE SO SLICK THAT RICHARD WAS ENGAGED TO HER BEFORE HE KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO HIM SAID THE STORY GIRL 85243089-8929-48fb-a003-49db6171dd8b 2108 LIKE VINES DRIED AND TOUGH THAT LOOKED LIKE STRINGS BUILT OF PURPLE STONE 71e6d813-9e03-4faf-895d-fb0af6ac4ab3 188 SHE DID TOO HE RETORTED MY AUNT JANE WAS A REAL LADY EVEN IF SHE WAS ONLY A CRAIG HE HAD VISITED NEW YORK AND BOSTON TORONTO AND MONTREAL 19f24edc-9aed-47da-b7bf-27bd3e9a73fe 188 IT WAS LIKE A BEDROOM AND A SITTING ROOM COMBINED ANYHOW I'M GOING TO PRAY FOR PAT WITH ALL MY MIGHT AND MAIN AND I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY TO STOP ME CECILY AND FELICITY SPRANG UP AND CAUGHT HOLD OF HER 87563408-8f93-4325-a3f5-1fbc08daf2f7 188 WE WENT DOWN THROUGH THE BROOK FIELD AND OVER THE LITTLE PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW HALF LOST IN ITS SURROUNDING SEA OF FAREWELL SUMMERS 32ad6471-1752-4e04-9346-5ac12d5271b6 188 FELIX HAD PREVIOUSLY ACQUIRED THE KNACK OF EXTRICATING MILK FROM THE UTTER BUT HE HAD NEVER BEFORE TRIED TO MILK A WHOLE COW HE DID NOT GET ON WELL THE COW TRAMPED ON HIS FOOT AND FINALLY UPSET THE BUCKET 79a84e6f-c217-4175-b887-8fbbc258eed4 2108 THERE I STOOD UNABLE TO MOVE HAND OR FOOT I NEVER HAVE FRIENDS SHE SAID IN A MATTER OF FACT TONE I CAN'T TELL FOR THE PARTS HAD NO TAGS ON THEM 5ea7fcbe-4a47-4dff-9d41-7f14fed9c112 2108 THEREFORE THIS CASTLE IS LIKELY TO BE EMPTY ONE OF THE LOONS RAN TO THE FOREST'S EDGE AND QUICKLY RETURNED WITH A LONG SHARP THORN a4387b79-af84-4c67-9417-c546b56ca757 188 GIVE THAT STONE TO ME SAID PAN HOLDING OUT HIS HAND WE'RE NOT FIGHTING SAID FELICITY AND I LIKE AUNT OLIVIA BUT MY MOTHER IS JUST AS GOOD AS AUNT OLIVIA THERE NOW SHE TURNED UPON US A FACE ILLUMINATED WITH A SUDDEN INSPIRATION f44eb59e-5e0d-49cb-965f-1173cff61b59 188 WE'LL SEE WHO'LL HAVE THE MOST INTERESTING COLLECTION MY AUNT JANE USED TO SAY IT WASN'T POLITE TO CHEW GUM ANYWHERE SAID PETER RATHER RUEFULLY I efc07803-a19e-4ea5-981e-74ad7613295f 188 OH SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE WHEN UNCLE ROGER HAD PASSED BY UNCLE ROGER SWORE OH THEN HE PLUNGED IN WITHOUT FURTHER ADO SPEAKING IN HIS ORDINARY CONVERSATIONAL TONE ANOTHER UNORTHODOX THING 91c7d0ad-dff3-41a7-a5b0-8b510a4399dd 2108 SHE THEN TRIED TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAGIC I SUPPOSE SO REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN 7f871490-a05a-4dc6-80c9-f03a5aa409d3 2108 I MUST ADMIT HOWEVER THAT EWPE HAD A BAD TEMPER BUT AFTER HIS APPETITE WAS SOMEWHAT SATISFI HE SAID EXCEPT GLINDA THE GOOD AND THE WIZARD OF OZ 4412183d-a6f5-4086-8173-6e5aa6cbacb5 2108 AM GLAD OUR FRIEND HAS ESCAPED YOU BUT AS IT IS NATURAL FOR A HUNGRY BEAST TO WISH HIS BREAKFAST TRAILED FAR BEHIND THEM WHEN HE WAS ANGRY 22611f8e-569f-4958-8b7e-8309b7a7efde 188 IT WAS AN AWFUL DREAM BUT IT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING TOO IT IS ALWAYS SAFE TO DREAM OF SPRING FOR IT IS SURE TO COME AND IF IT IS NOT JUST AS WE HAVE PICTURED IT IT WILL BE INFINITELY SWEETER dd491a69-ade6-4ed0-aa74-3ddbf112d9fa 188 WHEN HE WENT AWAY HE SAID I HOPE I SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU AGAIN JUST AS SERIOUSLY AND POLITELY AS IF I WAS A GROWN UP YOUNG LADY 538fcb00-2606-4748-99cf-f833c925e4e2 188 AND IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED MUCH IF IT HADN'T EVER BEEN DISCOVERED THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AGAIN SHE LOVED EXPRESSIVE WORDS AND TREASURED THEM AS SOME GIRLS MIGHT HAVE TREASURED JEWELS 0e8bc901-a45c-407e-adbe-4873162fe2d0 2108 FOR WHILE HE COULD RUN FAST HE COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THE SPEED OF THE WONDERFUL SAW 44f0c3b9-d9cd-4be6-9f47-5a6d864d5935 2108 SOME OF THE LOONS HAD WHEELED A BIG MACHINE IN FRONT OF THE THRONE AND NOW PUT TOOK PANTA'S SKIN AND BEGAN TO PUMP AIR INTO IT WITHOUT THINKING WHAT I WAS DOING I SAID ALOUD f9e4d61a-81fd-4cc0-a17c-24ae4aa813ab 188 POOR SARA DID NOT HAVE TO BE SHE WAS EVENTUALLY QUIETED DOWN NED WENT ON PRAYING AND NEVER LET ON HE HEARD HER BUT AT THE END OF HIS PRAYER HE WOUND UP WITH f6081123-5789-4298-950d-96299c213901 188 THEY SAY MISSUS RICHARD COOK ASKED HER HUSBAND TO MARRY HER SAID DAN HE HAD MADE AN IMPRESSION 74143820-8d83-418c-9b74-3ac914b7596e 2108 AND THEN HE SPRANG NOISELESSLY UPON THE SEAT FOR SINCE YOU ARE SO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR 227b57ac-4682-43a6-ad23-bd1503310e96 188 PATTY SAT ON THE PULPISTONE AND WATCHED US WITH GREAT YELLOW EYES KNOWING THAT TIDWITS WOULD COME HIS WAY LATER ON MANY WITTY THINGS WERE SAID OR AT LEAST WE THOUGHT THEM WITTY AND UPROARIOUS WAS THE LAUGHTER e8a2721a-6efa-4b9f-abb5-5d8c66e3d4d2 2108 WISHED TO SEE HER FRIENDS BUT SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN BUT HE WAS STILL TIN 4d9e7ae8-807b-4533-8072-0b5dd27a530d 2108 EVEN THOUGH IN THE END I WAS ALL TIN AND NO MEAT YES YES SAID THE TIN EMPEROR NODDING BESIDE HIM IN A CHAIR OF WOVEN STRAW SAT HIS BEST FRIEND THE SCARECROW OF OZ 62bd8e0d-cd0e-4016-96d5-0b7c8d0d5759 188 SHE WAS ONE OF THEM WOMEN WHO WERE ALWAYS SAYING I TOLD YOU SO THE ASTERS LETTERED HER RETREATING FOOTSTEPS IN A PURPLE SCRIPT AND OVER THE HILLS AND VALLEYS HUNG A FAINT BLUE SMOKE AS IF NATURE WERE WORSHIPPING AT HER WOODLAND ALTAR 2d148466-120b-419c-a822-49016c9518fb 188 IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING IT WAS TALL AND BLACK AND HAIRY SAID THE STORY GIRL HER EYES GLOWING WITH UNCANNY INTENSITY IN THE RED GLARE OF THE FIRES 6e9cfb3f-b14e-4554-8e46-38c929f25fff 188 IF SHE'D ONLY WAITED FOR THE THIRD HEAD I'D HAVE SHOWED HER HOW EASY IT WAS TO GET CLEAR OF GOING TO THE BAD PLACE AND GO TO HEAVEN INSTEAD 5733770c-e302-447f-accd-855812db7f28 2108 MERCY NO SHE ANSWERED THAT WOULD BE A LOT OF BOTHER I THE TABLE AT WHICH SHE SAT WAS SPREAD WITH A WHITE CLOTH ec6fc5f4-f263-4708-810f-adeeff3d812a 188 IT WAS AN AWFUL DREAM BUT IT WAS KIND OF INTERESTING TOO WE ADJOURNED TO THE GRANARY TO INDITE THE IMPORTANT DOCUMENT WHICH THE STORY GIRL WAS TO COMPOSE HOW SHALL I BEGIN IT SHE ASKED IN PERPLEXITY IT WOULD NEVER DO TO SAY DEAR PEG AND DEAR MISS BOWEN SOUNDS TOO RIDICULOUS 8f0df2f6-ee01-4c95-bacc-ff4e2a24a859 188 WHY DON'T YOU WRITE HIM DOWN SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL I DISTINCTLY HEARD FELIX WHO ALWAYS SAID HIS PRAYERS IN A LOUD WHISPER OWING TO SOME LASTING CONVICTION OF EARLY LIFE THAT GOD COULD NOT HEAR HIM IF HE DID NOT PRAY AUDIBLY 5f31fd60-77eb-4585-b526-f5f4ed36551a 2108 IF OZMA KNEW THAT YOU DARED TO WORK MAGIC WITHOUT HER CONSENT SHE WOULD PUNISH YOU SEVERELY 6cebec19-357b-465f-9f26-2d201004d8c4 2108 THE BEST THING ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU'RE ALIVE FOR I SHALL BE ABLE TO MAKE OF YOU SOME SORT OF LIVE CREATURE dbd8ec28-e691-4f5b-92ee-626ce61d4e22 188 FELICITY WAS IN AN ILL HUMOR IT WAS DECIDED THAT I SHOULD LEAD OFF AND I LAY AWAKE FOR AN EXTRA HOUR THAT NIGHT THINKING WHAT TEXT I SHOULD TAKE FOR THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY 5412bfc1-0644-407f-aea1-2e16a7a1ecfa 2108 ALL LINED WITH ORNAMENTAL TIN ON ONE ERRAND OR ANOTHER HE IS VERY FAMOUS IN HIS OWN FAMILY a510d354-1e52-41d8-ab88-03fc2a55c210 188 I HAVE COAXED UNCLE ALEX NOT TO BURN HISTATO STOCKS TILL YOU GET WELL AND THEN FELL ASLEEP WHILE HIS RIVAL WAS AWAY TO WOO AND WIN HIS LASS 4aee10a7-66ea-4f12-86fa-ed6f158cb364 188 SOON AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED SHE AND HER HUSBAND QUARRELLED ABOUT AN APPLE TREE THEY HAD PLANTED IN THEIR ORCHARD 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 0edd94ac-87b1-4a90-b300-ce8cc90eb1ab 188 OH MOTHER PLEASE LET ME HOLD IT FOR A MINUTE I'LL BE AS CAREFUL AS CAREFUL I PITY THE MAN THAT GETS YOU FELICITY KING THAT'S ALL RETORTED DAN NOW DON'T FIGHT IMPLORED CECILY 3a156143-baf5-47b8-8e39-b18af77be700 188 SOMETIMES THEY ARE SO STILL YOU WOULD THINK THEM ASLEEP THEN THEY GO LAUGHING AND SKIPPING YOU'VE MISSED MY WHOLE FIRST HEAD SARA HE SAID 7178ee33-7b5f-4382-94b0-095cb4bda8bb 188 WE WERE SITTING IN A CIRCLE BEFORE THE PULPIT STONE EACH WRITING DILIGENTLY IN AN EXERCISE BOOK AND EATING THE REVEREND MISTER SCOTT'S PLUMS WHICH ALWAYS REACHED THEIR PRIME OF JUICY GOLDEN GREEN FLESH AND BLOOMY BLUESKIN IN SEPTEMBER b271a044-f4e2-4e0c-96e4-5f0ca5ef1265 188 SHE IS AN OLD WOMAN NOW AND NEARLY SEVENTY FIVE OH SAID FELICITY IN A SHOCKED TONE WHEN UNCLE ROGER HAD PASSED BY UNCLE ROGER SWORE OH 23f551d3-7c37-4907-86da-fcb42416de5d 2108 NO I'M JUST A HIPPOCRIFT OR DO YOU INTEND TO BE OUR ENEMY AND THAT IS THE MOST DREADFUL DEED OF ALL a8c571e7-14ab-430c-9835-aaf8afc0bf80 2108 DECLARED THE SCARECROW AND FORESTS OF THE QUADLING COUNTRY THIS WAS PROBABLY THE HOME OF MISTER UKE 81cccf5c-4eb0-4f4d-8ba9-e042ebe056c5 2108 AND WE MAY USE IT IN ANY WAY WE PLEASE THE WOMAN WAS NOT UNPLEASANT TO LOOK AT HER FACE WAS NOT CEL 09a5e0d1-6a81-48c1-933d-a6469bd7fb9a 2108 IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE WEATHER WHAT ARE YOUR FURTHER PLANS MISTER EMPEROR MISSUS EWPE THE GIANTESS a6a82887-5560-4382-8fda-e8e59ee161fe 188 NO NOT A WORD I MUST CANDIDLY SAY THAT HER TONES SAVOURED STRONGLY OF A LAST RESORT BUT THIS WAS OWING MORE TO EARLY TRAINING THAN ANY LACK OF FAITH ON CECILY'S PART 415ed930-8f59-453a-b341-98abfef58f22 2108 WHILE THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOODMAN HAD SEEN A GREAT DEAL OF MANY SORTS IN THEIR LIVES 56a4fd68-e70e-4f64-acf2-7fc39571af46 2108 FOR MY BODY COULD NOT ACHE OR PAIN ME AND FROM THERE TO THE BACK OF THE CHAIR AND FELT OF HIS DOUBLE ARM 65089126-3e39-410c-b43e-9769628cebd1 188 IF YOU'RE A KING YOU SING WAS A CARLISLE PROVERB IN THOSE DAYS I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE RIGHT TO PRAY ABOUT A CAT 7ddf1cfe-bdf2-4b13-a3a7-5e03510707aa 2108 WICKED TRANSFORMATIONS AND THIS CAUSED THE BODY TO STRETCH OUT AND LIE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION SO THAT ALL THE LEGS COULD TOUCH THE GROUND AND STAND FIRM 2969b062-bd89-42cf-bf79-f799d83ddf2f 188 WE DID NOT THINK IT NECESSARY TO INFORM THE GROWN UPS OF WHAT WAS IN THE WIND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RESULT WILL BE TO THAT NERVOUS DELICATE CHILD SHE IS SHRIEKING IN THERE AND NOTHING WILL QUIET HER 0dc0face-dea1-4433-a86f-c8bcfefc90ea 2108 AND TO SAY IN A RESPECTFUL VOICE SO HEAVY WAS THE TREAD OF THE GIANTESS THAT EVEN THE WALLS OF THE BIG STONE CASTLE TREMBLED AS SHE STEPPED da0879d8-b613-4f0c-b405-1647d2e51b6d 188 HER BROWN FACE WAS SEAMED WITH A HUNDRED WRINKLES AND HER TANGLED GRIZZLED HAIR FELL UNKEMPTLY OVER HER SHOULDERS A COMPOUND LETTER CAN PEG PORTHON 604ad9e1-524e-4182-855f-b53b2f568f58 2108 SO THEY ALL WENT OUTSIDE WHERE THEY FOUND POLYCHROME DANCING ABOUT AMONG THE TREES AND TALKING WITH THE BIRDS GENTLY MY DEAR MONKEY GENTLY YOU'RE NOT ANGRY YOU'RE HAPPY AS CAN BE 9977d276-936e-4c8c-9dd6-a5ae568447b9 188 I SAID I LIKED POETRY AND OFTEN FELT LIKE WRITING IT AND THEN I SAID DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE THAT MISTER DALE 42088ef6-05c6-4985-8667-a10c26b6b8f9 2108 CHAPTER NINE THE QUARRELSOME DRAGONS WITH YELLS OF FEAR THEY BOUNDED AWAY IN ALL DIRECTIONS SCATTERING ABOUT THE CLEARING e647b5f9-03a4-41ad-b0ca-71589401c3de 2108 ARE WE TO CONSIDER YOU OUR FRIEND MISSUS UKE BUT I MUST ADMIT THE MAGIC BREAKFAST HAS FILLED MY STOMACH FULL 10eee761-ae3a-464b-a1ff-055c5290bc50 2108 DURING THE NIGHT THE SCARECROW AND THE EMPEROR TALKED IN LOW TONES TOGETHER DON'T WORRY ABOUT HER ADVISED DOROTHY 495ef4d6-70d4-4cc9-9c00-28f8931baf60 2108 BUT I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY NOT YET ANYHOW AND THE REAR AND THE INTERIOR OF THE COTTAGE WAS THICK WITH DUST bd8fe2a2-38c6-4290-914c-fb67fe8a2468 2108 AND SHE AGREED TO DO SO NOW DOUBLY DEAR TO HIM THEY FOUND BEFORE THEM NOTHING IN THE VALLEY BELOW IT EXCEPT GRASS OR WEEDS OR STONES 67c4e33b-934d-4196-8ff3-1904faf796c5 2108 AND I THEREFORE CAN SUFFER NO PAIN AND CARRIED HIM AWAY INTO A CAGE SOMEWHERE IN THE MOUNTAINS d840433f-d1bf-4c76-a4b5-f4de661113b7 2108 BUT AT THE SOUND OF STRANGE VOICES WHICH ECHOED RATHER LOUDLY THROUGH THE CLEARING ce4a70a5-a520-4134-8afc-b48c8b3d140f 188 THAT IS GOOD GROWN UP PEOPLE MY BOYISH PRAYER I THOUGHT OF OUR LITTLE FAIRY COMRADE IN HIS EXTERN EXTREMITY AND PRAYED AS REVERENTLY AS I KNEW HOW FOR HIS HEALING 32325a70-c0b8-4f76-9a32-d8c40962389f 2108 I MUST SAY THAT IT WAS WOOT THE WANDERER WHO PUT THE NOTION INTO MY HEAD HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THIS CUPBOARD ASKED THE EMPEROR I bda47c5f-9ccd-4dcb-8897-5f4ceeeae6d3 188 MORE PETITIONS AND CECILY'S WERE OFFERED UP THAT NIGHT ON BEHALF OF PATTY YOUR AUNT OLIVIA GAVE HER A LUNCH A GOOD ONE YOU MAY LAUGH AT THE NOTION OF PEG BEING A WITCH BUT I NOTICE YOUR FOLKS ARE ALWAYS AWFUL GOOD TO HER WHEN SHE COMES AND AWFUL CAREFUL NEVER TO OFFEND HER d7bb7c33-3ff2-4451-8b84-a5534cbe10eb 188 I THINK WE'D BETTER ALL GIVE HER SOMETHING SAID FELICITY I'M WILLING TO DO THAT BUT WHO'S GOING TO TAKE THE PRESENTS TO HER 4ea2885a-8d5c-4560-a720-06b071608247 2108 I'M YOUR OLD SWEETHEART CAPTAIN FIGHTER NINNIE AMMY SMILED AT THEM BOTH 6f206e49-57bd-4842-989a-dc27b643ccc9 2108 QUIT THIS CHATTER AND LET ME GET TO SLEEP PROTESTED ANOTHER DRAGON YAWNING IN A FEARFUL MANNER 919fff98-c937-41e6-ba1e-c661b44db10a 188 I HAD ADDED A TRADITION ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVES THEN IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH PATTY TELL US COMMANDED THE STORY GIRL STANDING UP 3ee2d9d2-9963-42f8-a126-d055394a800b 2108 AND WHEN I LEFT THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ AT FIRST HE WAS TEMPTED TO LEAVE POLYCHROME AND ESCAPE WITH HIS OTHER FRIENDS a3891c95-06f0-4bec-a0d7-cb3f1d0c7aeb 2108 ONCE IT IS POINTED OUT TO HIM BUT HE WAS TOO LATE AND ONLY GOT A BUMP ON HIS NOSE AS THE DOOR SLAM SHUT f7f89f58-6cb6-4d5c-a4c0-f5272447246d 2108 AND SCARCELY HAD HE SPOKEN WHEN HE FELT SOMETHING PRESS AGAINST HIS LEGS INTEREST IN THE CONVERSATION 325b84ea-b782-439a-9ce6-b7f45dd704cd 188 I'LL TELL YOU WHY SAID PETER THURSDAY AFTERNOON WHEN YOU FELLOWS WERE ALL IN SCHOOL PEG BOWEN CAME HERE 26909741-2e5f-476d-859a-66ce7e4e7b64 2108 I HAVE A MAP OF OZ IN MY POCKET PERSISTED THE BOY THE GIANTESS POURED OUT ANOTHER CUP AND SET IT ON THE FLOOR FOR WOOT b4716faf-0929-4509-95d6-810d17cc8d3a 2108 THE GIANTESS LAUGHED HEARTILY WHEN THE BOY RELATED THEIR ADVENTURES AT LOONVILLE THAT'S ALL I DON'T LIKE BEING A MONKEY fa56491c-3bd6-4ef5-a0ae-65577deb3285 2108 ESPECIALLY IF ONE IS MADE OF MEAT AND BONE BUT FINALLY THE PARTY HALTED BEFORE A RAISED PLATFORM THEN THE NEXT TWO AND THE NEXT 6f76a985-ec6d-4d31-a6ed-d61c2e20ce7b 188 NEITHER FELIX PETER NOR I FELL EQUAL TO PRAYING IN PUBLIC BUT WE TOOK UP A COLLECTION 67c1a4d3-968b-4da0-b3e7-6104499282df 2108 BUT OZMA IS A FAIRY SAID THE TIN WOODMAN AND THEREFORE SHE IS VERY POWERFUL 6149e82f-84b4-45a6-ae4d-1350dbbead7d 2108 NINNIE AMY CAME INTO THE FOREST AND FOUND ME WANDERING AROUND BUT OZMA WILL SOON FIX YOU UP AGAIN 04f80c88-d47d-4faf-be18-90812f7a35bf 188 WE WANT TO ASK A VERY GREAT FAVOR OF YOU AND WE HOPE YOU WILL KINDLY GRANT IT IF YOU CAN OUR FAVOURITE CAT PATTY IS VERY SICK AND WE ARE AFRAID HE'S GOING TO DIE DO YOU THINK YOU COULD CURE HIM 145e2356-b224-4436-9ae7-581dcb6c501e 2108 THAT FOR YOUR OZMA EXCLAIMED THE GIANTESS SNAPPING HERS IN DERISION BECAUSE HE WAS A MIXTURE OF BOTH OF YOUR CAST OFF PARTS 9786db18-d281-4ec0-9c55-ee45e85e86d1 2108 AND THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER AS BEFORE DANCED AHEAD OF THEM SHE CLOSED THE DOOR OF HER BEDROOM BEHIND HER AND THEN SUDDENLY THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND THE THREE PRISONERS FOUND THEMSELVES IN TOTAL DARKNESS 48bd6b01-6b24-4024-a182-47a28655ecd7 188 YOU COULD SEE HER FEEL HER HEAR HER SHE TIPTOED SOFTLY FROM TREE TO TREE EVER DRAWING NEARER a8f457e1-d682-4a73-9bfc-dfd625c33087 188 OH BUT AUNT OLIVIA WILL NEVER BE MARRIED NOW SAID FELICITY WHY SHE'LL BE TWENTY NINE NEXT JANUARY 90079b1a-57f1-4bf9-907d-e74784f3080b 2108 I SUPPOSE SAID THE TIN OWL BLINKING AT HIM YOU CAN TRAVEL VERY FAST WITH THOSE TWENTY LEGS 5a4f96a2-43ee-4b95-95e7-313c0337da36 188 ONE DAY WHEN OLD MISTER FRUIN WAS A YOUNG MAN OF EIGHTEEN HIS FATHER CAME HOME AND SAID SANDY I BOUGHT A PIANO AT SIMON WARD'S SALE TO DAY 311e37f7-a911-406b-950a-575804cae09f 188 SHE NEVER CAME BACK TO THE ISLAND AGAIN I SUPPOSE SHE COULDN'T BEAR TO IT WAS A SMALL SHAKY BUILDING WITH A SAGGING ROOF SET AMID PERFECT JUNGLE OF WEEDS e8562bbc-ee4f-405d-b1b4-5e43b8caab85 2108 HOPING ONE OF THEM WOULD SUCCEED IN BREAKING POLYCHROME'S ENCHANTMENT OUR PROPER FORMS AWAY FROM US AND GIVE US OTHERS WE DO NOT CARE FOR 2160e82b-e3c9-482f-9e7c-e014c98d6f2f 188 THE ONLY DOOR WAS IN THE UPPER STORY AND WAS REACHED BY A FLIGHT OF RICKETY STEPS WE HAD EVEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT MISTER CAMPBELL 9267211d-ebae-4cb6-87f0-73eddab2d6b3 188 BESIDES NOBODY KNOWS WHETHER SHE IS MISS BOWEN OR NOT SAID FELICITY THIS OLD BLUE CHEST HOLDS A TRAGEDY EXPLAINED THE STORY GIRL I KNOW A STORY ABOUT IT 46727fb8-7304-4892-9c3d-e720acad8d3e 2108 I'M AFRAID THE GREEN MONKEY WILL STARVE FOR MISSY ZOOP USED TO GET HER FOOD BY MAGIC BUT THIS DID NOT SEEM TO PLEASE EITHER OF HIS COMPANIONS AND SO HAVE REVENGE ON HER 98fb589b-a188-45ed-a543-37a181f1cd84 2108 BUT SHE RAISED HER HAND AND SAID WE CAN ENTER AND TAKE POSSESSION AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME 855ed191-8c99-44e4-a01d-caf16bd6a97e 2108 VERY GOOD SAID THE GIANTESS LET US ALL BECOME FRIENDS AND HAPPY TOGETHER HE WAS SUSPICIOUS OF MAGIC COFFEE BUT HIS MOUTH SO GOOD THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST IT 138ad58e-b716-4651-81ba-e51bf7b383bc 188 AND THEN THE LOOK OF HIM UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE IS LONG LANK LEAN NARROW AND CONTRACTED b62e38f0-8b74-490b-9b48-d02c92849570 2108 TO BE FOLLOWED BY A ROUND OF PARTIES AND FESTIVITIES WHEN THE EMPEROR IM NOT EXPECTING TO SATISFY YOU BUT 3084fc69-321c-4a6b-954e-cdbb01568383 2108 AND THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH MOONLIGHT SHOWING THROUGH THE WINDOW TO ENABLE HIM TO SEE WHERE THE CAGE HUNG AND MY PLEASURE IS TO GIVE YOU NEW SHAPES BUT AFTER A PERIOD OF THOUGHTFULNESS SHE SAID 7549b175-b569-466d-907c-a81eed5d5e9b 2108 THAT STRUCK THEM ALL AS BEING A GOOD SUGGESTION OZMA OFFERED TO TAKE THEM ALL IN THE RED WAGON TO A PLACE AS NEAR TO THE GREAT MUNCHKIN FOREST AS A WAGON COULD GET f353176e-bddb-45fb-8c8a-0f807cb57c4c 188 IF A THING REALLY WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION SHE MERELY LAUGHED AND REFUSED TO DISCUSS IT AT ALL I MADE THEM GO TO THE SPRUCE WOOD TO HEAR IT 56b608af-ade0-4e53-85c5-3499e1047219 2108 I WAS ASLEEP AND SHE TOOK UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF ME ANSWERED THE BIRD SADLY THEY HAD REACHED THE END OF THE PASSAGE AND BEFORE THEM WAS ANOTHER HUGE DOOR 52f70693-805c-4d03-b6b4-5db8a48583e5 2108 WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SHE ASKED ROOT I THINK NOT WAS THE REPLY WE ARE ENGAGED UPON A RATHER DELICATE ADVENTURE f77691da-c29d-4d2e-aa44-5b41bfa9a640 2108 IF YOU PLEASE MA'AM IN THE CENTRE OF WHICH STOOD AN ENORMOUS CASTLE 12aa6647-0e4c-4b78-8723-b1b6cfa8b030 188 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 fddff74f-e236-4c2c-8da9-03ccafb32de9 188 WHAT WERE YOU CRYING FOR THEN I SAID HURRAH SHOUTED DAN EVERYBODY HEERED AT UNCLE ALEC IS ALWAYS KIND TO HER a26a8708-72a4-4d1b-b384-8ea8188eb97d 188 I SLIPPED AWAY AT THIS POINT SUDDENLY REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS TIME TO TAKE A DOSE OF MAGIC SEED I BELIEVE YOU WERE CRYING BECAUSE PAT IS SO SICK I SAID FIRMLY 3868af54-133b-4e91-b5fb-891fceb5cfcb 188 UNCLE ALEC BROUGHT IN THE AXE AND PRIED OFF THE COVER OF THE OLD BLUE CHEST WHILE EVERYBODY STOOD AROUND IN SILENCE 13bb2e8c-c099-4720-8b02-33477ce92ab9 2108 PERHAPS WE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ESCAPE THERE IS NO USE IN YOUR LUGGING MY CAGE ANY FARTHER DECLARED THE CANARY LET ME OUT AND THROW THE CAGE AWAY THEN I CAN FLY WITH YOU AND FIND MY OWN BREAKFAST OF SEEDS 65c142cb-5acd-44d0-869d-994841609049 2108 AND HE WAS MADE OF SHINING TIN FROM TOP TO TOE IN THE LAND OF OZ NO PART OF INCLUDING THE WINKIES 0b50d721-886d-470d-974d-e3a92adba03a 188 ALTHOUGH I HAD TO PAD THE SUBJECT MATTER NOT A LITTLE WITH VERSES OF QUOTABLE HYMNS MUTTER PLEADINGLY AFTER THE IMPORTANT PART OF HIS DEVOTIONS WERE OVER fb87e39e-f72f-4fdb-93a3-ca7d44cffc4c 2108 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE THE EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES ASKED THE TIN WOODMAN AND FELT OF HIS DOUBLE ARM 982c74f2-6cec-4f99-a427-aa93508b36aa 2108 AS HE SPOKE HE TOOK HOLD OF THE STRING AND BEGAN TO PULL AS HARD AS HE COULD WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER WOO THE WANDERER d0743f58-fdce-404b-aed3-3cce5fa5595f 2108 HOLDING THE BUNDLE OF THE SCARECROW'S RAIMENT IN HER HAND IF YOU CAN WORK MAGIC WHY DON'T YOU BREAK THE ENCHANTMENT YOU ARE UNDER IN RETURN TO YOUR PROPER FORM 5dc03fb4-01a3-464e-a88e-e4dfa726c93f 188 IF I THOUGHT SHE REALLY MADE PAT SICK AND COULD MAKE HIM BETTER I'D TRY TO PACIFY HER SOMEHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL DECIDEDLY BUT I THINK CONCLUDED CECILY THAT I WOULD FEEL JUST LIKE COUSIN RACHEL IN HER PLACE 4bfc019a-1b4c-4376-acec-d537515a44d4 188 WE LOOKED AT PATTY WHO CONTINUED TO STARE FIXEDLY BEFORE HIM WITH UNWINKING EYES CECILY BEHIND ME KEPT GASPING OUT THE CONTRADICTORY SENTENCES aa0c2825-42f1-4e59-b1f5-fa49b7f61e37 188 THE PARTICULAR MATTER IN OR OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT OPENING DAY OF AUGUST WAS A PROJECT WHICH UNCLE EDWARD HAD RECENTLY MOOTED fc6ed3e1-998e-4ece-a887-f33bb3dff02f 2108 WHILE SPEAKING HE WENT NEARER TO ONE OF THE GREAT DOORS YOU MAY BE ALL RIGHT IN YOUR CLASS BUT YOUR CLASS ISN'T MY CLASS 9cde8bac-4b2e-42ec-bb6e-1b2f23523ffc 2108 DON'T ASK ME REPLIED THE HEAD THE STORY SEEMED TO AMUSE THE BIG WOMAN WHO THEN BEGAN TO ASK SCARECROW QUESTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE 2c78ef6c-2e3a-4bdc-832a-c0ed0d4d768b 188 I SHALL DIVIDE MY SERMON INTO THREE HEADS PURSUED PETER FELIX I THOUGHT WOULD BE HARD PUT TO IT TO BEAT IT BUT YOU AIN'T A METHODIST 43783162-f547-480e-aff3-afac7f7888e6 2108 SHE ASKED FROWNING FOR IN THE LAND OF OZ MUCH WISDOM IN MANY THINGS MAY BE LEARNED 1f50501a-7265-42bf-8996-6556d373ff81 188 FELIX'S FACE NEVER BLUSHED BUT HIS EARS ALWAYS GAVE HIM AWAY PAT JUST GOT SICK AND GOT BETTER AGAIN OF HIS OWN ACCORD 0e159c69-89a0-4a18-98df-a53e5f8b0967 2108 SO I WILL TRY TO GET YOU A BREAKFAST IN HALF AN HOUR THE RED WAGON STOOD BEFORE THE GRAND ENTRANCE OF THE PALACE d7ca0e39-a19e-417a-b404-159eb118f6c2 188 THUS FAITH SUPERSTITION AND INCREDULITY STROVE TOGETHER AMONGST US BUT TALKING OF KISSING MAKES ME THINK OF A STORY I FOUND IN AUNT OLIVIA'S SCRAPHOOK THE OTHER DAY c54847fa-e5de-4023-b4c2-ba3ee7176e73 188 IT LOOKS LIKE SOLID GOLD HE PROCEEDED TO DESCRIBE THE BAD PLACE I'LL GIVE HER ONE OF THE LITTLE JARS OF CHERRY PRESERVES I MADE SAID CECILY 08ba661f-6296-4eb6-9ae8-68a55729ded2 188 WE WOULD DEARLY HAVE LIKED TO GET A PEEP INTO THE LETTERS TOO BUT AUNT OLIVIA WOULD NOT ALLOW THAT BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D HAD DREADFUL LUCK IN EVERYTHING WE'VE TRIED LATELY 4ba28f8e-55f4-445e-a23f-fd36520c52bb 2108 AND NO PLEADINGS WOULD ALTER HER WICKED PURPOSE BUT THE GIANTESS POURED SOME WATER INTO HER COFFEE POT PATTED IT ONCE OR TWICE WITH HER HAND AND THEN POURED OUT A CUPFUL OF STEAMING HOT COFFEE c979bd5e-67bd-4593-8514-6de7590603d3 2108 I AM NOW GOING OUT FOR MY MORNING WALK OF COURSE DECLARED THE GIANTESS THEY MADE NO REPLY TO THIS SPEECH FOR A WHILE 24fa7a5d-5768-4f80-a0e9-a94176013454 188 WHEN I WOKE PAT WAS WASHING HIS FACE AND HE HAD TAKEN A WHOLE SAUCERFUL OF MILK OH ISN'T IT SPLENDID d72c47dc-2de5-4d34-8f3c-4e2f6397e0f3 2108 AND GLINDA MAY BE ABLE TO RESTORE US TO OUR PROPER FORMS THIS TIME HE LANDED ON THE PAW OF THE GREAT CHIEF DRAGON WHO ANGRILY RAISED HIS OTHER PAW AND STRUCK THE GREEN MONKEY WITH A FIERCE BLOW 6488cde8-714c-49f8-84cc-e58cb66a241c 2108 AS MOST WITCHES DO THAT WAS TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH AND THEY GOT OUT OF THE CHAIR AND MOVED ALL ABOUT THE ROOM afc4cf18-df07-4f83-b536-79ae2f82446a 2108 AS WOOF SPRANG UP AND THE PRISONERS HAD NO DESIRE TO HURRY HER DELICIOUS STRAW THEN FINDS HE CAN'T HAVE IT f6f8b513-c7f8-4dad-bf8d-12ea1ffbc1e8 188 THE RED SEPTEMBER SUN HUNG LOW BETWEEN THE TALL SPRUCES TO THE WEST IT DID NOT LOOK TO ME JUST RIGHT FOR A SON IN FACT EVERYTHING LOOKED UNCANNY 3ac1110c-01ba-43b3-a5b8-e26dc92e0eb0 188 THERE WAS NO SIGN OF LIFE ABOUT THE PLACE EXCEPT SIGHT OF ILL OMEN A LARGE BLACK CAT SITTING ON THE TOPMOST STEP d2b26b6d-b5ef-4810-a2e3-7cb8f98e44eb 2108 HE WAS A TIN OWL WITH TIN LEGS AND BEACON ISAB FEATHERS WITHOUT A HEART NO ONE CAN LOVE EVEN IN THE LAND OF OZ WHERE CURIOUS CREATURES ABOUND a8ad3163-dbc0-485c-8173-f5202c953671 2108 HE LOOKED DOWN AT HIS LIMBS AND BODY DON'T EAT THANK YOU SAID THE SCARECROW HEARD OF OZMA OF OZ 3d10330d-9de1-48c8-8b2d-fbb8bbca3ea7 188 THE GROWN UPS ROSE RELUCTANTLY AND STROLLED AWAY BUT WE CHILDREN LINGERED FOR A MOMENT TO TALK OVER AN IDEA THE STORY GIRL BROOCH A GOOD IDEA WE THOUGHT ENTHUSIASTICALLY c232c748-7eed-4080-af7e-bc827a67ac88 2108 WAS SET DOWN AND THE OTHERS HAD ALL GATHERED AROUND IT WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER WOO THE WANDERER PROMISE TO MARRY HER b55d3548-0c79-41e4-aaaa-2b092bd81937 188 YOU KNOW PAT DOESN'T LIKE TO HAVE HIS TRAIL MET TAIL MET AND MEDDLED WITH AND WHEN HE WAS NOT PLAYING HIS FLUTE ON THE MOUNTAIN HE WAS THINKING ABOUT AGLE ALL RIGHT BUT WAIT TILL I TELL YOU 55a4bf69-6660-49f9-a3b0-0230957258a0 2108 SEEMS TO ME SAID THE TIN WOODMAN REFLECTIVELY POLYCHROME SAID THE GIANTESS PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE YOU d8eaff7e-307b-4320-a91a-8a9cc08b5d2a 188 MY DEAR SARA WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A WOMAN WHO CAN TURN YOUR SET HERSELF INTO A BLACK CAT WHENEVER SHE LIKES aa4eff46-a1b6-4b73-89f2-b91338857353 2108 NOTHING I TRANSFORM EVER GETS BACK INTO ITS FORMER SHAPE AGAIN AND LOVED TO REPEAT THEM WHENEVER ANYBODY WOULD LISTEN TO HIM 04e3262c-fcb5-44df-9af2-8c994cdb7043 188 BUT ALL THE SAME I THINK IT'S MEAN OF UNCLE ALEC TO BE SO CROSS THE BEWITCHMENT OF PAT 86325a30-d367-4524-934a-ed63318a283c 2108 AND THERE THE TWO TIN MEN STOOD SIDE BY SIDE WHILE BOTH KNOCKED UPON THE DOOR b3ea4ff3-0c0b-4837-bc98-f775ba15c786 2108 THEY SMELT SO GOOD THAT HE TASTED THEM AND THEY TASTED SO GOOD THAT HE ATE THE STRANGE MEAL IN A HURRY PROVING HE HAD BEEN REALLY HUNGRY e810fd90-b64c-476e-ac5f-cc901a6a3910 188 NO I'LL DO NOTHING OF THE SORT WAS AUNT JANET'S PITEOUS DECREE I WANT TO GET THE WORK OUT OF THE WAY FIRST AND ROGER AND OLIVIA WILL WANT TO BE HERE TOO WE'LL SAY TEN O'CLOCK TO MORROW FORENOON 51f8df92-d96e-44af-9fda-d54c61e60a5b 188 HIGH HEELED SLIPPERS I'M GOING TO MAKE SOME NICE THINGS FOR YOU AND SEND THEM OVER NOW THAT THE DOCTOR SAYS YOU CAN EAT THEM 7b7c723c-f219-4be5-9250-a2ada03563cc 188 ALL OF US ASSISTING AT THE RIGHT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO NOW EXCEPT PRAY TO GOD TO MAKE PAT BETTER SAID CECILY da07b027-9dab-48d6-a45a-d897a3f7d20a 188 AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES THE STORY GIRL WAS IN FRONT OF ME AND I CAN RECALL THE TREMENDOUS LEAP SHE MADE OVER FALLEN LOGS AND LITTLE SPRUCE BUSHES WITH HER LONG BROWN CURLS STREAMING OUT BEHIND HER FROM THEIR SCARLET FILLET 477ed806-7f96-49fa-ab31-20bd820958ce 2108 BUT HER WORDS SHOWED THAT SHE POSSESSED A MERCILESS HEART AT SUCH AS WILL BE MORE INTERESTING TO ME THAN THE ONES bbd4b5d5-cfa3-41e8-b60f-b7d42bc1e8be 188 HE WAS DRESSED IN HIS NEW SUIT UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW e901c7e1-b59d-4b78-83b5-78e7a0408428 188 I'VE THOUGHT OF A SPLENDID PLAN SHE SAID IT JUST FLASHED INTO MY MIND WHEN THE UNCLES WERE TALKING ABOUT UNCLE EDWARD AND THE BEAUTY OF IT IS WE CAN PLAY IT ON SUNDAYS AND YOU KNOW THERE ARE SO FEW THINGS IT IS PROPER TO PLAY ON SUNDAYS c41cbea5-e394-4a3f-ba71-bc4378ca4188 2108 I'M NOT WOBBLY THE TIN SOLDIER ASSURED HIM THE OWL AND THE CANARY FOUND THAT THEY COULD CONVERSE TOGETHER IN FOR THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER COULD NOT KEEP STILL FOR LONG d770c56e-8326-4d98-94fe-223692ae67fd 188 THE ACCOMPANYING SMALL OFFERINGS ARE A TESTIMONIAL OF OUR RESPECT AND GRATITUDE AND WE ENTREAT YOU TO HONOR US BY ACCEPTING THEM VERY RESPECTFULLY YOURS SARA STANLEY c7e52409-963c-452e-aad1-9623c4b4d4fd 2108 SO WOOT FINDING HIS LEGS FREE CREPT OVER TO THE TIN WOODMAN BUT PERHAPS THE MONKEY COULD HIDE IN HER ROOM AT NIGHT AND GET THE APRON WHILE SHE IS ASLEEP 54cb56ea-e5cd-4a80-ad9b-83564c649e18 2108 THE POOR EMPEROR FELT SO BEWILDERED THAT FOR A TIME HE COULD ONLY STARE AT HIS OLD HEAD IN SILENCE 51ae5076-f90d-4020-8825-306046ff04e6 188 WE ALL LAUGHED INDEED ESPECIALLY OVER ANOTHER TALE IN WHICH UNCLE EDWARD LEANING TOO FAR OVER THE PULPIT IN HIS EARNESTNESS LOST HIS BALANCE ALTOGETHER AND TUMBLED INGLORIOUSLY INTO THE GRASS BELOW AT LAST NEIL'S HEAD FELL FORWARD ON HIS BREAST AND HE WAS SOUND ASLEEP 9ea85172-3b6f-4ada-ae84-5896560906d5 188 I HAVEN'T MUCH LEFT BUT I GUESS I'VE ENOUGH TO DO ME TILL I'M AS TALL AS I WANT TO BE IT'S BETTER TO KNOW THAN TO IMAGINE SAID FELICITY 36987528-a305-4607-87cb-2a71222a9926 188 I BEGAN TO THINK THAT AFTER ALL PETER MIGHT BE A FOEMAN WORTHY OF MY STEEL IT WAS TOO MUCH LIKE A REGULAR SERMON TO BE INTERESTING SAID DAN FRANKLY 60f6eb8d-ed76-4080-af47-9c7a982b78aa 2108 GIVE HIM SOME SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOAST POLLY SUGGESTED THE BEAR SCARECROW SO THEN SHE PUT ON THE LACE APRON AND THE DOOR OBEYED HER f777ceb9-8eda-4d37-9a6b-b976cdce5f49 188 IN THE AFTERNOON WE ALL REPAIRED TO THE ORCHARD BIBLES AND HYMN BOOKS IN HAND SHE LOOKED AT ME BUT I BLUSHED TO THE ROOTS OF MY HAIR AND SHOOK MY HEAD SHEEPISHLY AN b3eb908b-bd9d-45fa-81fa-bfe028ddadc9 2108 I TOO HAVE WONDERED WHAT BECAME OF HER BUT UNTIL WOOT THE WANDERER INTERESTED HIMSELF IN THE MATTER THE TIN WOODMAN KNEW NO MORE THAN WE DID 1ba6bd05-b162-4d64-953c-f7d58a230c62 2108 I SMELL STRAW CRIED A HOARSE HARSH VOICE FOR HIS MONKEY FORM ENABLED HIM TO JUMP HIGHER THAN HE COULD DO AS A BOY 9c205e73-9882-4378-a73a-d57da5a912dc 188 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'D DO SAID PETER I'D TAKE A PRESENT FOR PEG AND ASK HER TO MAKE PAT WELL EVERY WORD OF IT WAS TRUE SAID CECILY HER TONE UNCONSCIOUSLY IMPLYING THAT THIS WAS ITS SOLE MERIT dccae954-b74f-4036-a6fb-6a920ba5349e 188 UNCLE ROGER NODDED HIS HEAD AS IF RESIGNING HIMSELF AND PAT TO THE WORST PATTY STOOD THE TEST FAIRLY WELL AT LEAST HE MADE AN ADORABLE LISTENER SAVE AS SUCH TIMES AS IMAGINARY RATS DISTRACTED HIS ATTENTION 72ea0b34-67de-4492-bbc8-3446731c2e24 2108 AND A BOY SUCH AS I WAS FROM THE DIRECTIONS OUR FRIENDS ARE TAKING HE'S GONE CRIED THE BEAST WITH A LONG DRAWN SIGH OF DISAPPOINTMENT 6a11bb57-9e6a-43cc-b94c-daca4286ae22 2108 IN THE FORM OF A BIRD POLYCHROME IS A POWERFUL FAIRY YOU MUST WATCH FOR A CHANCE AND SLIP IN WHEN MISSUS EWKE ISN'T LOOKING 2c8ae47d-ef94-444f-b40f-d5530fb0431b 188 AND LET THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD OUR GOD BE UPON US AND ESTABLISH THOU THE WORK OF OUR HANDS UPON US YEA THE WORK OF OUR HANDS ESTABLISH THOU IT 470b44fc-2ad7-41a1-ad2a-f4a7bc0e2f88 188 I WOULDN'T LET ON I THOUGHT SHE'D MADE HIM SICK BUT THEY HAVE BEEN CHILDREN AND I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND US 173d83d4-0c26-4c0e-a6f1-4356c068e7bf 188 RIGHT BUT FELICITY HAD ALREADY WHISKED THE TURNIPS OUT AND WAS SLICING THEM WHILE ALL THE OTHERS WERE LAUGHING AT ME I 07206411-5183-4940-acb1-756b92f15c0c 2108 BEING NOW COMPLETELY FORMED OF TIN I WOULDN'T BECOME A GREEN MONKEY FOR ANYTHING IF YOU ARE BUTCHERS YOU'D BETTER RUN AWAY AND AVOID TROUBLE 216a4162-14dc-40db-9efa-51fcc21ec19b 2108 YOU WITH HER AXE AND I WITH MY SWORD UNTIL HE HEARD THE GIANTESS SNORING WHICH HE AT ONCE TIED AROUND HIS OWN WAIST 6e030473-325f-42b4-ae58-16bdcbf76868 188 HIS BLACK EYES SHONE AND HIS BLACK CURLS WERE BRUSHED UP IN QUITE A MINISTERIAL POMPADOUR BUT THREATENED TO TUMBLE OVER AT THE TOP IN GRACELESS RINGLETS c45f106e-cac5-4b9f-927d-99f436960547 188 SHE WANTED SOME TOBACCO AND SOME PICKLES AUNT JULIA HAD BEEN THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK IN THAT RESPECT AND HAD TO BECOME A NOTED CONCERT SINGER I HAD BOUGHT IT FROM BILLY ROBINSON THREE DAYS BEFORE IN SCHOOL 0dbe46f4-cdff-4bca-81e6-4269e22b818b 2108 SILENTLY AND MOTIONLESS BUT IT WAS THE BEST THEY COULD DO AND WHEN THE HEAD WAS FASTENED ON TO THE BODY b257e226-dfc6-4241-b507-5d2371c0e0a9 2108 THE WICKED GIANTESS WAS WELL AWARE WHEN SHE GAVE YOU THE FORM OF A GREEN MONKEY THAT THE GREEN MONKEY MUST EXIST 95b52278-16c6-4096-b86f-a541019d1ae5 188 FELICITY MAKES ENOUGH FACES WHEN THERE'S NOTHING TO MAKE FACES AT SAID FELIX WE THOUGHT HIM A REGULAR WONDER WE LOVED TO HEAR HIM PREACH BUT WE DIDN'T LIKE TO HEAR HIM PRAY BECAUSE HE ALWAYS INSISTED ON PRAYING FOR EACH OF US BY NAME e62ae438-7ec8-46b1-905f-f91ed63086b8 188 ALEC DO YOU REMEMBER HOW FURIOUS JULIA WAS BECAUSE EDWARD PRAYED ONE DAY THAT SHE MIGHT BE PRESERVED FROM VANITY AND CONCEIT OVER HER SINGING SSING WAS DISCOVERED 27231aca-87f1-4b44-84f2-ac8bdd5414b1 188 MY AUNT JANE HAD BEEN LIVING SHE'D HAVE GIVEN ME SOMETHING HE REMARKED O GOD I PRAY TO YOU TO KEEP AN EYE ON ALL OF US AND I PRAY YOU TO PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO MY SISTER JULIA FOR I THINK SHE NEEDS IT EVEN MORE THAN THE REST OF US WORLD WITHOUT END AMEN 68ddd755-b81d-4e55-b567-0712bdb345aa 188 FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL WERE REALLY QUITE FOND OF EACH OTHER UNDER THE QUEER CIRCUS FRICTION THAT COMMONLY RESULTED FROM THEIR INTERCOURSE d866cde2-eed4-46c4-b040-735a2a0bbf65 188 BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH OR EVER THOU'ST HAD FORMED THE EARTH IN THE WORLD I GUESS YOU WILL LIKE EM 347aeec4-396c-4def-9639-9fb2e2f79b3e 2108 THEY SAT AROUND THE CAGE BROODING OVER THE PROBLEM UNTIL THE MONKEY FELL ASLEEP eff10807-04ee-4fde-bf0c-1578b4988be7 188 WE SPEND OUR YEARS AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD RACHEL WASN'T PRETTY SAID UNCLE ALEC BUT SHE HAD A LOVELY COLOR AND A BEAUTIFUL SMILE SHE LOOKS FAR TOO SOBER IN THAT PICTURE aeeff03c-5437-488d-8e58-af00d0b33fc4 188 ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT AND DARK WELL MAYBE YOU COULD RETORTED DAN SARCASTICALLY YOU'D BE SO AFRAID OF SPOILING YOUR LOOKS THAT YOU'D RATHER DIE THAN MAKE A FACE I SUPPOSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU ATE be7ae945-f308-4264-9010-532be7f986e3 2108 BUT WHERE IS THE MONKEY BOY WELL CAPTAIN IF YOU ARE AGREEABLE LET US NOW GO TO NIMI AMMY'S HOUSE ca455b6f-2255-4bc6-873c-7bc9a672eb38 2108 THE EARTH HAS SWALLOWED HIM UP LOVE MONKEYS THEY'RE SO CUTE AND I THINK A GREEN MONKEY WILL BE LOTS OF FUN 1c59220e-d13f-4391-b708-d40f9a9361b6 2108 I SHALL ENJOY YOUR SOCIETY THE MORE ON THAT ACCOUNT THEN TUMBLED SWIFTLY THROUGH SPACE LANDING ON A ROCKY FLOOR WITH A THUMP 3165f768-053b-4972-97b4-64cd512aa1ae 188 AND THE MILD DELIGHTSOME MELANCHOLY OF THE LATE OCTOBER'S DAY ENFOLDING SO PETER RETALIATED BY CHOOSING NEVAKE AND NEZZER WHICH NO ONE COULD EVER UTTER THREE TIMES BEFORE PETER SHRIEKED IT AT ONCE 16d12945-8d86-4f01-a451-458610d11944 188 GOOD MORNING MISTER CAMPBELL SHE SAID WITH A TOSS OF HER HEAD FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL AND I WALKED DOWN TO THE POST OFFICE FOR THE MAIL ALONG A ROAD WHERE FALLEN LEAVES WERE EDDYING FITFULLY UP AND DOWN BEFORE US IN WEIRD UNCANNY DANCES OF THEIR OWN f1ac0917-8e59-47be-a16b-5099a9fec9c8 188 PATTY WAS SMEARED WITH MEDICATED LARD THE NEXT DAY WE HAD GOOD REASON TO HOPE THAT IT WASN'T AND AS FOR THE WAKING TWILL BE BETWIXT YOU AND ME 5260af0a-7f3d-43cd-8084-1bbbae7b0fc6 188 HERE ARE A DOZEN HANDKERCHIEFS SAID AUNT JANET LOOK AT THE INITIAL IN THE CORNER OF EACH RACHEL LEARNED THAT STITCH FROM A NUN IN MONTREAL IT LOOKS AS IF IT WAS WOVEN INTO THE MATERIAL ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS ca76cc8c-bdbd-4615-b134-737f81405f23 188 WE CHILDREN WERE NOT GREATLY INTERESTED IN THE SHEETS AND TABLECLOTHS AND PILLOW CASES WHICH NOW CAME OUT OF THE CAPACIOUS DEPTHS OF THE OLD BLUE CHEST 7ccc5461-5fce-40d3-9509-f193ad20003e 188 I GUESS YOU'D BETTER WAIT TILL YOU'VE PRAYED THE CONCEIT OUT OF YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN ON ME NED KING BUT WHO'S TO BE THE JUDGE I SAID AND WHAT KIND OF A SERMON WOULD YOU CALL THE BEST 835b5000-e74d-4c11-8a6b-829866a9f351 188 I THINK THE BITTER APPLES WOULD BE REAL GOOD FOR FELIX SAID FELICITY THE SUNSHINE IS SO THICK AND YELLOW AND LAZY AND THE CRICKETS SING ALL DAY LONG ba006e94-036c-4c24-803f-1027c3435fcd 188 SHE SAID SHE COULDN'T GET NEAR ENOUGH TO READ IT BUT SHE KNEW IT WAS POETRY BY THE SHAPE OF IT OF COURSE I KNOW I WOULDN'T HAVE GOT THE PRIZE FOR I COULDN'T HAVE MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION AS PETER HE SAID TO US MOURNFULLY 100aadaa-482d-4a82-b62b-da892d152b33 188 I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE MA HAS A LETTER OF SCHOOL TRUSTEE ONCE WRIT TO AUNT JANE AND THAT'S HOW IT BEGINS THE PROCEEDS WERE TO GO TO MISSIONS 44d21c6c-539d-4379-a226-3931ac4bfcab 188 ALL THE MORE DEFIANTLY THAT I FELT I SHOULD HAVE HAD HEADS IN MY SERMON THE OLD CHEST FILLED UP THE CORNER BETWEEN THE TABLE AND THE WALL NEITHER FELIX NOR I HAD EVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT PARTICULARLY 3fe3191e-f417-4cfb-b3cd-20d62ea7dc2d 2108 ONE DAY AFTER THE WITCH HAD BEEN DESTROYED AND NIMMY AMY HAD GONE TO LIVE WITH HER FRIENDS ON MOUNT MUNCH AND OZMA OF OZ HAD TRIUMPHED OVER THE WICKED GIANTESS 7ee63af2-50ed-4024-805a-93fe3a8fc149 2108 THE WITCH WITH THE SILVER SHOES HATED ME FOR HAVING DEFIED HER I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU ONE 62544208-1d25-4c4c-af33-482f5cfa45cf 188 A DRESS OF SOFT CRIMSON SILK FROM PILE TO PILE WE RAN SHRIEKING WITH DELIGHT TO POKE EACH ONE UP WITH A LONG STICK AND WATCH THE GUSH OF ROSE RED SPARK STREAM OFF INTO THE NIGHT a3685a32-03e4-4da3-86fc-63a700569e71 188 AND THEY MUST ALL BE BURNED SINCE THEY HAVE CUT SO BADLY ONE DESPERATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD NOTHING TO READ AND THE TIME SEEMED ENDLESS FELIX HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE A GAME OF FRUIT BASKET 5ba5c2ca-4237-4190-b01f-4097cb620a2e 188 OH WON'T SHE BE INSULTED EXCLAIMED FELIX RATHER HORRIFIED THUS HE ARGUED WOULD MAKE IT QUITE LAWFUL AND PROPER TO PLAY ON SUNDAY 838f5660-afdc-451c-b40e-739f87367851 188 SUDDENLY THE DOOR ABOVE US OPENED AND PEG BOWEN HERSELF APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD I THINK THIS IS ALL MY NEWS EXCEPT THAT I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH WE ALL THINK OF YOU PETER 5ce86370-88eb-4e19-a183-6fb37d9f9681 2108 AND WOULD BE GLAD TO BREAK MISSUS EWPE'S ENCHANTMENT VERY WELL DONE MY GOOD GINGER I ADMIRE YOUR ENERGY AND JUDGMENT 40c2aaa4-357f-4b8b-9689-85b079553464 2108 SHE WOULD GRANT ME JUST ONE WISH WHATEVER THE WISH HAPPENED TO BE THEY DID NOT DISCOVER THIS PLACE UNTIL THEY CAME CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF IT BECAUSE THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT THE SIGHT THAT GREETED THEM BECAUSE THEY HAD IMAGINED THAT THIS THIS PART OF THE PLAIN HAD NO INHABITANTS 0c499a19-61af-4c7a-a7f8-10c56ab732fb 2108 BE EVEN MORE CRUEL THAN HER WICKED HUSBAND HAD BEEN ONE WAS LIKE WAS NICK CHOPPERS AND ONE WAS KEPT IN FIGHTER'S c1786db4-2bf5-4006-aa65-bba7478f04d4 188 POOR SARA DID NOT HAVE TO BE SHE WAS EVENTUALLY QUIETED DOWN AS A SAID PICTURE WAS AN EXCELLENT COPY OF ONE OF LANDSEER'S STAGS FELIX AND I WERE WELL PLEASED BUT PETER AVERRED THAT HE WOULD RATHER HAVE THEM A DAUGHTER THAT LOOKED LIKE HIS AUNT JANE AND THE STORY GIRL AGREED THAT IF HIS SERMON WAS THE BEST SHE WOULD GIVE HIM THAT c71400bd-969e-4126-bf62-b550dd85e0d6 2108 AND OFTEN THE TIN MAN HAD TO PUSH ASIDE IF YOU ARE TO BE TRANSFORMED AT ALL a21d9404-8588-4150-8641-7cfc58ad1988 2108 SWEET FRESH GOLDEN STRAW THERE IS SURELY NO FLAW b95eeb54-de86-49a7-ab97-918ed38e72f2 188 SHE TOOK THE WEDDING DRESS AND VEIL THE PICTURE CASE AND THE LETTERS AWAY WITH HER LET'S GO AND GET THE BITTER APPLES SAID CECILY HASTILY SEEING THAT FELIX FELICITY AND DAN WERE ON THE VERGE OF A QUARREL MORE BITTER THAN THE APPLES d3858461-6eaa-4dd6-9e23-cb429018f517 2108 FOR MISSUS YUKE THE GIANTESS WHO TRANSFORMED ME HOWEVER SHE COULD NOT DEPRIVE ME OF MY OWN FAIRY KNOWLEDGE WHO WERE SCATTERED IN VARIOUS PARTS 631e151f-02c1-4243-b9dd-8dfc0111cd55 2108 SO AT TIMES THEY TWITTERED AWAY TO EACH OTHER AND PASSED THE LONG DREARY WAY THEY QUITE CHEERFULLY a3dd01e5-ea70-4cc6-acc2-47645e4cb14d 188 BUT IF YOU WERE A MAN IT DID NOT OFFER THEM A TASTE OF WHISKY YOU WERE THOUGHT EITHER VERY MEAN OR VERY IGNORANT HE AND HE ALONE PASSED THE ORDEAL 6f52d9f6-39da-4410-9557-936801e23a57 188 BAFFLED DESCRIPTION IN MY LONELY HOURS I READ MY DREAM BOOK IN CECILY'S OLD LETTERS AND THEY ARE SUCH A COMFORT TO ME I 664221d7-62b2-47ed-8947-f1e5741db0db 2108 AND BROUGHT ME COMFORT FOR IN THE BEGINNING I WAS A MAN OF FLESH AND BONE a93ed383-84af-44ac-89fc-b6693b2d23bb 188 THEY SAY SOUR THINGS MAKE PEOPLE THIN AND HE WAS BY NOW ALMOST THROUGH IT IN THE END SHE DECIDED TO GO cd8fb0a0-2501-4294-9eac-3df41e841e19 2108 SITTING UPON THE GROUND THE BOY ASKED HIS BODY SANK DOWNWARD THE EARTH CLOSING OVER IT AGAIN YES I DREAMED IT ALL OUT WHILE I WAS ASLEEP 03d33928-ed77-4816-bdbf-7769c3ee8105 188 WELL IT'S NOT A VERY NICE WORD ANYHOW SAID FELICITY UNCLE ALEC CAME STRIDING DOWN THE ORCHARD WE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN UNCLE ALEC ANGRY 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HUSBAND FOR FIVE YEARS 425b18aa-447e-4584-bd88-203517fd0c89 188 SARA RAY WAS REALLY IN A BAD FIT OF HYSTERICS ALTHOUGH THE STORY GIRL WAS HIGH PRIESTESS WE ALL PREACHER INCLUDED LOOKED AT HER AGHAST b1346ee0-f424-4fde-9817-918c768a5944 188 AND SHE WAS SMART IF FATHER UD HALF HER GET UP AND GIT I WOULDN'T BE A HIRED BOY TO DAY SHE SHRIEKED CRIED LAUGHED AND FLUNG HERSELF ABOUT 28394bf4-c4f8-4913-947b-5d941e63f168 188 RECITE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE FOR ME SAID MISTER CAMPBELL LATER ON WE DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD FOUND HIS MATERIAL IN AN ILLUSTRATED TRANSLATION OF DANTE'S INFERNO WHICH HAD ONCE BEEN GIVEN TO HIS AUNT JANE AS A SCHOOL PRIZE 51349b1a-b6ea-484a-9ab2-4d738136090f 188 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUIT SUITABLE AND ROMANTIC IT'S NO WONDER WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE GROWN UP SAID THE STORY GIRL INDIGNANTLY BECAUSE WE'VE NEVER BEEN GROWN UP OURSELVES 367ee42d-9324-42ec-8123-a73177d10fc2 188 OF COURSE PERHAPS WE SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE CONTEST ON SUNDAYS OH ALL RIGHT SAID PETER BUT I'D ADVISE PAT NOT TO SCRATCH PEG BOWEN AGAIN THAT'S ALL a58291d1-5b75-47b4-8649-8311c2bd6c92 188 SECRETLY I BELIEVED I COULD CUT QUITE A FINE FIGURE PREACHING A SERMON THERE'S A GREAT MANY THINGS YOU MUST NOT DO AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE 0bb5b626-bee7-40b6-b15b-a2fa6716dbb6 188 AND ADDED PETER DELIBERATELY TAKING HIS GUM FROM HIS MOUTH TO MAKE HIS STATEMENT MORE IMPRESSIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU MUSTN'T EVER FORGET TO MIND WHAT GROWN UP PEOPLE TELL YOU 6b61ebc4-d616-4672-9e8a-f5f322c6a3e5 2108 I SHALL TAKE HER TO THE EMERALD CITY AND INTRODUCE HER TO OZMA AND DOROTHY FOR MISSUS EWKE DAREST NOT GO OUTSIDE OF HER OWN VALLEY FOR FEAR OF BEING CAPTURED BY HER ENEMIES a2919bb3-7f10-4bd7-9e76-49477a46564e 2108 SHE ASKED OZMA ABOUT IT BUT OZMA DID NOT KNOW NOT REALLY UNGRACEFUL BUT FEAR DOES NOT MAKE ONE A COWARD RETURNED ROOT d1d754d4-f383-4142-ab36-f672b37d2a3b 2108 I'M PRETTY GOOD AT CLIMBING TREES MYSELF THEY WERE TRAVELING QUIETLY ALONG UNDER THE SHADE OF TREES 2976f4c6-467e-4257-90dd-b4a6e4c7402d 2108 AND I'M AS GOOD AS MY WORD YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ NO SAID RUPE CHOP BITE IS A REGULAR GROUCH 59cb600d-0b67-47df-98c5-3e06a2967719 188 WHAT THE BAD PLACE IS LIKE AND THE THIRD HEAD IS HOW TO ESCAPE GOING THERE PETER LOOKED AT HER REPROACHFULLY 6cdb6101-39e9-456d-ad6f-2aa993c0df64 188 HAVE ANOTHER TASTE MAN HAVE ANOTHER TASTE BUT I'D LIKE TO HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO SHOW WHAT I COULD DO OUR OPENING EXERCISES CONSISTED SOLELY OF SINGING AND READING WE HAD AGREED TO OMIT THE PRAYER 28cafa9d-7908-4b89-9209-3d0e243b20d9 188 CECILY WAS JUST AS SCARED AS SARA RAY BUT SHE'D MORE SENSE THAN TO SHOW IT LIKE THAT HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN 037f8a66-7528-43da-b1d6-767e193b92af 2108 IN A NEIGHBORING TREE WELL FINALLY REMARKED THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR WHICH SHE ATE FOR WITH GOOD APPETITE ca75bfff-0bba-41d7-8e41-eb59fd0b003c 2108 CHAPTER TWELVE IT WILL ENABLE ME TO REMAIN HIGHLY POLISHED SAID THE TIN WOODMAN ababd6c9-2720-4c18-a198-5c29dce60bdb 188 MISTER MARWOOD HIMSELF COULD NOT HAVE BETTERED THE WAY IN WHICH PETER SAID BUT TILL LAST FALL THERE WAS ONE ROOM SHE NEVER SAW 3cfc1733-7bcd-4051-92ac-d6e2a85e1700 188 ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY I SO UNWRINKLED WAS HIS HIGH WHITE FOREHEAD SO CLEAR AND LUSTROUS HIS LARGE DARK BLUE EYES 5fae178e-c5ea-453b-bd10-eb64bc6023ed 2108 RATHER THAN GO OUT AND FACE THE COMING STORM THEN WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU EXPECT ME TO EAT SAID THE JAGUAR IN A SCORNFUL TONE PURE SORCERY IT WAS fd4bd047-a305-49f5-b8f8-0bfd87210feb 2108 ADVENTURES TO ME ARE GOOD FUN ONLY I NEVER LIKE TO STAY TOO LONG ON EARTH YOU'RE IN NO HURRY ARE YOU 0cdf5383-5e40-4e10-8800-009ed67f8333 2108 AND PUNISH ME WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN A HUNDRED YEARS OR SO SHE PLUNGED HIM INTO A TUB OF COLD WATER NO INDEED CRIED WOOT TAKE YOUR TIME 5c3e6b8e-3871-40b3-95b8-07a9ad7ca733 188 AN ELECTRIC SHOCK SEEMED TO RUN THROUGH THE AUDIENCE PETER HAD IN ONE SENTENCE DONE WHAT MY WHOLE SERMON HAD FAILED TO DO I GOT IT FROM PEG BOWEN SHE'S A WITCH YOU KNOW a1ec47a7-507e-4a97-b5c8-c08b7fc96bd7 188 SHE NEEDN'T HAVE GOT SO SCARED HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER NANCY CARED FOR HIM OR NOT HE JUST WENT ON LIVING AND FLOURISHING HE PATCHED UP MATTERS WITH HIS CREDITORS AFTER A WHILE AND CAME BACK TO THE ISLAND AND IN THE END HE MARRIED A REAL NICE GIRL WITH MONEY WAS VERY HAPPY DID YOU EVER HEAR OF ANYTHING SO UNJUST 77e053dc-b995-40b4-aadf-b042392a3118 188 BUT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS IN SUCH A HURRY SAID PETER BITTERLY PETER MADE QUITE A HANDSOME LITTLE MINISTER IN HIS NAVY BLUE COAT WHITE COLLAR AND NEATLY BOWED TIE THAT HE AVERED WAS TOO HARD WORK f656226a-691b-4340-b81b-5494111fd0fc 188 SO THE STORY GIRL'S SUGGESTION CAME PAT TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT PRESENTLY HE ARRIVED AND MOUNTED THE GRANITE BOULDER AS IF TO THE MANNER BORN 3e8720e4-bbde-4518-a994-2fffe2199869 188 RECITE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE FOR ME SAID MISTER CAMPBELL AND I PERCEIVING THIS FELT THAT HE HAD THE ADVANTAGE OF ME I REMEMBER THAT I STRUTTED ALONG QUITE INSUFFERABLY FOR WE MET SEVERAL OF THE CARLISLE BOYS AND I FELT THAT I WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY LUCKY FELLOW TO HAVE SUCH BEAUTY ON ONE SIDE AND SUCH CHARM ON THE OTHER 1688bd01-7de0-4603-8252-8cfc60c2af56 2108 WHILE THE OTHERS REALIZING THAT AN IMPORTANT CEREMONY OF MAGIC WAS ABOUT TO BE PERFORMED 4fb382ef-4bee-4731-824e-48bbce8e4625 2108 WELL WE HAVE ESCAPED THE BIG WOMAN TO BE SURE AND THE TINSMITH ALSO REPLACED THAT MEMBER WITH TIN CHAPTER FIFTEEN 7c3631c0-9bb8-4bf7-9426-35b4a3554bf6 2108 I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE HERE AND I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO FALL IN AND I'LL NOW LEAVE YOU IN PEACE ff2230a3-aba1-4757-924b-47c18d46da71 2108 AND YOU HAVE CARELESSLY WAKENED OUR ENTIRE TRIBE ELEVEN YEARS IS NOTHING REMARKED ANOTHER DRAGON ALL BRIGHT AND GLITTERING 2c41c3a7-f075-48e2-809e-1f54ba671b1b 188 HE HAD BIG BLACK EYES WITH MANY WRINKLES AROUND THEM AND A THIN FIRM LONG LIPPED MOUTH 7b4156c0-f140-491a-bb2e-7a2d6ef3e86a 188 HE DID NOT WRITE HIS SERMON OUT WHEN WE GOT AWAY WE COMPARED NOTES AND FOUND THAT WE ALL LIKED HIM AND THIS ALTHOUGH HE HAD SAID LITTLE AND HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT GLAD TO GET RID OF US d9ed5175-9e06-4b67-b553-097a7a2733c4 2108 THE DRAGONS PAUSED ASTONISHED AT THE MAGIC AND BLINKING AT THE SUNLIGHT HAPPY WHAT'S THAT 229b742f-de3f-4152-bf92-1974d25d4958 2108 WHEN THE HEAD WAS DRAWN DOWN TOWARD THE BEAST'S INCLUDING THESE FINELY JOINTED HANDS THAT YOU SEE ME USING bef5a3cf-ecbd-4932-8583-d59a4cf0a01e 2108 WHOSE MIXED BRAINS HAD BEEN WORKING STEADILY ASKED THE WOMAN YOU ARE PERFECTLY SAFE SO FAR AS I AM CONCERNED AND HAD TO DO HER BIDDING DAY AND NIGHT be1ee03b-e608-41ec-bb10-6287821cc740 188 SCHOOL OPENED AND WE SMALL DENIZENS THE HILL FARMS LIVED HAPPY DAYS OF HARMLESS WORK AND NECESSARY PLAY CLOSING IN THE NIGHTS OF PEACEFUL UNDISTURBED SLUMBER UNDER A ROOF WATCHED OVER BY AUTUMNAL STARS VERY WELL THEN YOU'VE GOT TO DO THINGS THE PRESBYTERIAN WAY a8c7ca11-2e75-4efa-b2d4-8b3adb479d2b 188 MISTER SCOTT STOPPED UNTIL HE HAD TAKEN HIS SEAT FELICITY VOICED THIS CONVICTION WHEN SHE SAID I HOPE YOU WON'T BE LATE FOR HEAVEN c220308f-7073-4987-bc14-7a4e8cd314f2 188 SHE HAD NO RELATIVES IN CARLISLE EXCEPT HER MOTHER I WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK IN YOUR POSTSCRIPT SARA ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE HARD DESIGNING TO CRUSH PETER WITH A BIG WORD BORROWED FROM THE FAMILY GUIDE ba125431-6a05-4a05-a9fd-dfe5b08b2de6 188 IT WOULD HAVE DOUBTLESS HAVE MADE A MUCH DEEPER IMPRESSION THAT WHOLE SCENE COMES OUT CLEARLY FOR ME IN MEMORY THE ARC OF PRIMROSE SKY OVER THE TREES BEHIND THE OLD HOUSE 6c22cc38-bb56-4a43-add6-a46fc0e6d08e 2108 THEY WERE NOT MOONS HOWEVER AS WE DISCOVERED WHEN HE EXAMINED EVEN THE SCARECROW WAS MUCH HEAVIER THAN THE PUFFY LOONS 4d2f08b9-e083-48dd-adcf-7337fc488c94 188 I DON'T QUARREL WITH MY SISTER ANY OFTENER THAN SHE QUARRELS WITH ME YOU CAN JUST LEAVE ME ALONE WHAT'S SEWING SHE SAID LOOK JANET YOU'D ALMOST NEED A MAGNIFYING GLASS TO SEE THE STITCHES e65b702c-33ea-4bd4-a9f7-ea552e71becf 2108 OF HIS FRIENDS MIGHT NOT CAUSE HIM TO WEEP OZMA REMAINED THOUGHTFUL FOR A WHILE PONDERING UPON WHAT SHE HAD HEARD 5e200a64-4bc2-47cb-8a81-c8c5b29aebd1 2108 ONCE WHEN I CAME TO HER HOUSE MY STRAW WAS OLD AND CRUMPLED IT WAS FACING THE TIN WOODMAN e50ccfbd-4607-4336-869e-dfa80d9dbd75 188 AND SHE WAS VERY STUBBORN YOU'VE MISSED MY WHOLE FIRST HEAD SARA HE SAID BUT THAT'S ALL ABOUT THE FIRST HEAD OF MY SERMON 4ea33e5a-45f7-4546-8bf4-86c64288d064 2108 THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES WHO IS A FAMOUS TIN WOODMAN OF OZ NO ONE ELSE THAT I EVER HEARD OF HAD THIS MAGIC GLUE 276dcee8-596e-420d-a9e3-b061df40fd31 2108 HAD I BEEN AWAKE I COULD EASILY HAVE PROTECTED MYSELF HOW OLD ARE YOU ASKED FU FORGETTING HIS OWN DANGEROUS POSITION HIS 91e872d4-262c-4296-a985-225e2c9a2134 2108 HOW OLD AM I FATHER ASKED THE LITTLE DRAGON WELL I MAKE A RATHER PRETTY BIRD I THINK RETURNED POLYCHROME 3a0631c5-513f-4e81-8385-1dfb5e2bdd77 2108 WAS A LONG DISTANCE MOSTLY UPHILL SO WHOOPED WITH AN AGILITY BORN OF FEAR CLIMBED FROM ROCK TO ROCK UNTIL HE FOUND HIMSELF CROUCHED AGAINST THE CAVERN ROOF 40ef7200-2a99-4656-8a44-3c7555624488 2108 SO THAT THIS POOR BOY COULD BE RESTORED TO HIS OWN SHAPE BUT I LOVE A MANLY FIGURE SUCH AS ONLY STRAW STUFFING CAN CREATE dcf17552-0b2d-4989-aef9-dc6846bc75cd 188 NOT EVEN IF HE CLIMBS ON YOUR BACK THEY DO IT IN THE METHODIST CHURCH AT MARKDALE PROTESTED FELIX SOMEWHAT ABASHED I HEARD THEM HE GAVE US THE MONEY LIKE A GENTLEMAN SAID THE STORY GIRL 4f1eec58-1bba-4593-b35d-316fe1c8e2a7 2108 SO THE LOON STOPPED PUMPING AIR INTO PANTA AND SPRANG FORWARD WITH A GREAT BOUND THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY ANNOYS ME IS FINDING MY HEAD UPON CHOP FIGHT'S BODY 7f4a703c-ecd6-4003-9421-cc53e80ff455 188 THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE FINE ELUSIVE AIR THAT RECALLED BEAUTIFUL FORGOTTEN THINGS AND SUGGESTED DELICATE FUTURE HOPES fb805e26-ba22-43ff-bb8c-f9ba4697a433 2108 YET ALL THREE WERE GREATLY IMPRESSED BY MISSUS EWKES'S POWERS HE KNEW THAT HE HAD FALLEN INTO A CAVERN 59a89aaf-df33-46e3-a0b0-0d43004978d2 2108 NOR WAS THE GIANTESS OLD AND UGLY OR DISAGREEABLE IN FACE OR MANNER FROM THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH AND WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO COME OUT 33f69d07-7598-4fd8-9fe0-b241a721eb5c 2108 WELL NOT EXACTLY A WITCH SEARCH SHE REPLIED HE SAW THE WORDS EUP I HOPE SO TOO SAID THE SCARECROW 30d8e0c4-3431-4af2-afd9-cb2eea7e8ca8 188 OH I DO HOPE POOR SARA WON'TT HAVE TO BE TAKEN TO THE ASYLUM AND WAS AS WELL AS USUAL THE NEXT DAY THE FAREWELL SUMMER NODDED TO US IN THE FRIENDLY BREEZES d897e76f-eaaf-4dde-9265-77e9d837bc23 2108 WHILE TO BE UNLIKE OTHERS IS A MARK OF DISTINCTION SURELY IT IS NOT THE GIRL'S FAULT THAT I NO LONGER LOVE HER 7091f025-0496-4d29-8d04-496ad3fd606e 2108 OR A WITCH OR SOMETHING OF THE SORT ONE OR TWO RAN AWAY AND PRESENTLY RETURNED FOLLOWED BY A LADY LOOM WEARING HUGE PUFFED UP RUBBER SKIRTS cbd16bba-4d21-45f7-bd56-a9933dd1b717 2108 I KNOW SAID THE CANARY I'M ONLY REMOVING WITH MY MAGIC THE CORNS FROM YOUR LAST TEN TOES TO CARRY SOME MAGIC MEDICINE TO ANOTHER OLD WOMAN DOROTHY WAS ALMOST READY TO CRY WITH PITY 4b380164-3719-4d28-8ff6-4072de855f73 188 SHE WAS BROKEN HEARTED OF COURSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED SHE TOOK ALL HER WEDDING THINGS AND HER SUPPLY OF LINEN AND SOME PRESENTS THAT WERE GIVEN HER AND PACKED THEM ALL AWAY IN THIS OLD BLUE CHEST I'LL TELL YOU THESE STORIES WHEN YOU GET WELL I CAN TELL THEM EVER SO MUCH BETTER THAN I CAN WRITE THEM bfe64b14-f48d-4f35-9bcd-3316e975946f 188 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 OF COURSE SAID THE DELIGHTED STORY GIRL ae9bc217-d3bd-4950-91b7-477459bd6948 188 I NOTICE THAT YOU ARE AS FOND AS ANY ONE OF WHAT IS BAKED IN THEM SAID AUNT JANET THE STORY GIRL GOT THE BLUE CANDLESTICK AND FELICITY AND CECILY EACH GOT A PINK AND GOLD VASE 51f32cd3-ca46-47c5-bb98-2eb135d994a4 188 S DON'T LET FELICITY SEE THIS LETTER S R WAS A HORRID MEAN PRAYER I DIDN'T KNOW IT THEN BUT AFTER THE MEASLES STRUCK IN I FOUND OUT IT WAS I AM GOING TO CALL THE SOUTHERN WOOD A 9a163c35-52db-406e-a616-d1183db64df1 2108 SHE DID NOT AFFECT ANY MYSTERIOUS AIRS OR INDULGENT CHANCE OR MYSTIC RITES e476b46d-7076-487f-87d6-cdabe8cd9364 188 NONSENSE SAID THE STORY GIRL AGAIN ALL RIGHT SAID PETER YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE ME THE BIRDS ARE NEARLY ALL GONE AND MOST OF THE MAPLE LEAVES HAVE FALLEN 54aee222-09a8-47af-8f5b-9b344863a2d6 2108 AND MY LEGS BEGAN TO GROW WEARY SHE SAID A TIN MAN APPEALED TO HER ARTISTIC INSTINCTS MORE THAN AN ORDINARY MEAT MAN AS I WAS THEN 2b36fa60-c1b0-4a5c-a50a-b9256751abc1 2108 DEAR ME I WISH I HAD TWENTY LEGS WATCHED GINGER AT OZMA'S COMMAND BUILD A FIRE AND PUT A KETTLE OF WATER OVER TO BOIL aac47fcd-666b-4306-93c5-3eeea3909001 188 ONLY WHEN THE STORY GIRL CARESSED HIM TO GIVE ONE PLAINTIVE LITTLE MEW AS IF TO ASK PITEOUSLY WHY SHE COULD NOT DO SOMETHING FOR HIM 3e4909d3-b8c9-4ff5-b75b-58012fbac695 188 I WISH YOU'D BEEN THERE TO HEAR IT TOO BUT WHEN YOU'RE WELL I WILL TELL IT OVER AGAIN FOR YOU OVER US WAS A DAINTY SKY OF SHELL PINK PLACID CLOUDS WERE PLEASURE PASTURING AROUND US 4574cc1a-4d5b-4f7a-a0f8-639ab8b3bea3 2108 AND PATHS OF BLUE GROUND WE MISS SUFFERING FROM HUNGER WHEN FOOD CANNOT BE HAD abb3d6a7-261a-41ea-ac20-562fa59936c9 2108 I WOULD INDEED WAS THE EARNEST REPLY AND THAT'S NOT A FULL MEAL AT ALL GRUMBLED THE YOUNG ONE IS TO ENCOUNTER DANGERS AND HARDSHIPS afb9bae7-d575-4f07-9423-4dce892e367a 188 YOUR TRUE FRIEND CECILY KING UNCLE ALEC AND AUNTS LEFT ON MONDAY MORNING POOR AUNT JANET WAS FULL OF DISMAL FOREBODINGS AND GAVE US SO MANY CHARGES AND WARNINGS THAT WE DID NOT TRY TO REMEMBER ANY OF EM 3c903e73-afbf-43e4-a067-28bb8166c7e2 188 SO WHEN BILLY CONFIDED TO ME UNDER SOLEMN PROMISE OF SECRECY THAT HE HAD SOME MAGIC SEED WHICH WOULD MAKE BOYS GROW AND WOULD SELL ME A BOX OF IT FOR JUST TEN CENTS SARAY'S MOTHER HAS NO TASTE 97f3a122-d472-4121-9f08-461726700f48 2108 AND HE BLINKED HIS EYES AND FLUTTERED HIS TIN WINGS MOURNFULLY HE SEEMED TO BE IN A BIG UNDERGROUND CAVE WHICH WAS DIMLY LIGHTED BY DOZENS OF BIG ROUND DISKS THAT LOOKED LIKE MOONS fe89af6b-13a6-40c4-ad86-722b9cba464c 188 YOU COULD NEVER TELL WHAT KINK A GROWN UP WOULD TAKE IS SHE A WITCH OR IS SHE NOT I LEAVE IT TO YOU THE ORCHARD IS FULL OF THEM THIS VERY MINUTE 7a45225d-509f-4f6b-91ec-ecf0f09f528e 2108 SHE FELT THAT THE TWO TIN MEN MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE TOGETHER IN HARMONY STOP STOP LEAVE ME TWO OF MY LEGS OR I SHALL BE WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE d9e68ede-70eb-4169-a5e1-6b9657fa7bca 2108 AXE AND CAPTAIN FIGHTER CUT HIMSELF TO PIECES WITH HIS ON WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY TO A GREEN MONKEY WHICH USED TO BE A BOY CALLED BOOT THE WANDERER 3e01d130-4c20-4f94-907f-df6e41651104 2108 AND AFTER I HAVE DELIVERED THE NOTE I SHALL RUN ERRANDS AGAIN FOR ANY ONE WHO NEEDS MY SERVICES 881f080b-c870-4b5a-8985-e88703af3bdb 2108 SAYING IN HER EAR JUST NOW THE WEATHER IS DELIGHTFUL THE GRASS IS BEAUTIFULLY BLUE 85b0c6e4-7d2d-4d65-be68-090ace91b60d 188 HOW MY HEART BEAT IT SEEMED TO BE ONE OF HIS GOOD DAYS FOR THERE WAS A QUIZZICAL SMILE ON HIS BROAD CLEAN SHAVEN STRONGLY FEATURED FACE f89cc6d5-86ae-4662-b5e0-60305d054942 188 I DO HOPE THE REST OF US WON'T CATCH THE MEASLES IT MUST LOOK HORRID TO HAVE RED SPOTS ALL OVER YOUR FACE NOT A BIT OF FEAR OF IT SCOFFED UNCLE ROGER FELICITY IS AS GOOD A HOUSEKEEPER AS YOU ARE AND I SHALL BE HERE TO LOOK AFTER THEM ALL AND KEEP THEM FROM BURNING THE HOUSE DOWN TOO 3260947f-7e09-4a84-9be9-6f84c0469583 2108 FOR HIS VOICE HAD BEGUN TO SQUEAK A LITTLE AND THE LAND SEEMED VERY WELL CULTIVATED BUT A WARNING MEANS DANGER PROTESTED THE WANDER 3800aa34-e5be-4771-811f-2d7dd79ddd54 188 HE HAS GIVE UP TRYING TO EAT THE BETTER APPLES AT LAST 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 d7953f82-e4b6-4156-a360-70fdd6b9c97a 2108 IF WE TURNED SOUTH NOW THE TIN OWL REPLIED THAT'S A PLACE I WISH TO AVOID FOR I'D HATE TO HAVE MY FRIENDS SEE ME IN THIS SAD FLIGHT I QUITE AGREE WITH YOU SAID THE TIN WOODMAN 9d8807d0-0abb-4e4f-8c41-1f808c615c0e 2108 IF MY INSIDES GET MUSTY OR MUSSED UP OR DUSTY FRIENDS THEY ALL EXCLAIMED 8ebfb410-99f4-4769-b860-0afa214bf346 2108 AND HAVING WANDERED OVER THESE LOVELY BLUE OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HAVE BEEN HER PRISONER IN THIS CAGE FOR SEVERAL WEEKS a9b1effc-7c3f-4a4b-9526-430a0c9b37bc 2108 REPLIED THE SCARECROW IT ASTONISHED HIM TO SEE HOW EASILY THE LOONS EXPLODED 77beb898-8010-4425-892a-3bd4afbfe12c 2108 I'M NOT INTERESTED IN WHO IT WAS SO MUCH AS I AM IN WHO IT WAS I THINK I AM JUSTIFIED IN PROMISING THAT THERE WILL BE SOME ASTONISHING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE MAGIC OF OZ IN MY BOOK FOR NINETEEN NINETEEN 38a10393-edd4-431b-bfac-cbe3848aa46a 2108 THE BARON THE OWL GRAVELY WATCHED THIS OPERATION WITH WHICH THE WOMEN COULD COOK THEIR MEALS WHILE THE CHILDREN WARMED THEMSELVES ABOUT THE FIRES 2c7739d1-217a-4db2-a465-c2258bdd5309 2108 A MORE CURIOUS CREATURE THEY HAD SELDOM SEEN BUT SHE PREFERRED OTHER FOOD I TRIMMED IT DOWN TO MAKE THEM MATCH 87932e50-7490-4382-aca1-4ebebeb63360 188 IT WAS SO NICE AND SHORT SHE SAID HIS OWN FIRESIDE IS THE BEST PLACE FOR A MAN TO DIET CAMPBELL MAMMA WON'T LET ME GO UP THE HILL AT ALL NOW 78043670-7ff8-4ec6-b50f-2dc2ba58f671 188 I'M AWFUL GLAD YOU HAVE SUCH A GOOD OPINION OF ME I DON'T DESERVE IT BUT AFTER THIS I'LL TRY TO I UNCLE ALEC SAYS THAT UNCLE EDWARD SAYS THAT HEADS ARE BEGINNING TO GO OUT OF FASHION I SAID DEFIANTLY 0d4c1d6f-981e-487a-8037-04b97d59d7d2 188 I'D LIKE THE FELLOW THE STORY GIRL WROTE ABOUT THAT WHO COULDN'T GET IT OUT I AM SURE NO ONE ELSE HAS ASKED THEM BECAUSE NOBODY IN CARLISLE IS RELATED TO HIM f20cccfc-1f0d-4a54-b96c-afac4e709b04 188 I LIKE TO LOOK AT IT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE AUNT JANE HE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SHERMAN HOUSE THE SCENE OF A QUARREL SO HE RESOLVED TO GET AWAY BEFORE THE CAMPBELL CAME b8920b83-2e76-4a1f-a492-8d726226e3b9 2108 SHE WAS SLOWLY TRANSFORMED INTO THE GREEN MONKEY THE ICE WERE IN THE HEADS OF ENORMOUS BEASTS WHOSE BODIES 80c0eacd-4044-4c11-ae24-2cbdbcec1974 2108 THAT WOULDN'T BE RIGHT SAID THE SCARECROW UNTIL NOW THE SCARECROW HAD RATHER DOUBTED THE POSSIBILITY OF MISSUS EWPES'S BEING ABLE TO TRANSFORM HIM OR HIS FRIEND THE TIN WOODMAN FOR THEY WERE NOT MADE AS ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE 1ade9424-fa5a-4eb3-a606-2eb33a744e5c 2108 SO THAT MY BODY SAGGED DREADFULLY WHEN I LOST MY ARMS CUT CLIP MADE ME TIN ARMS 501f3e68-7208-4f46-91e6-d771298bbb69 2108 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AT THE SAME MOMENT OOT WOULD BECOME A LITTLE DOG AM POLYCHROME THE DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW 20fff391-a0f5-4032-87d6-a318649c9dba 188 SARA RAY PUT THE FINISHING TOUCH TO MY MORTIFICATION ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS HIS AND HERS I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE GETTING BETTER a439926d-2b1f-4d7b-920a-77867e21fb95 188 PAT OUR OWN DEAR FROLICSOME PADDY WAS SICK AGAIN VERY VERY SICK CRIED ALL NIGHT ABOUT IT 8ad045d5-e5f0-48d3-b430-24390efbee46 2108 ALTHOUGH A BIT RESTLESS AND LIABLE TO GET EXCITED THERE WAS SMOKE COMING OUT OF HIS CHIMNEY 43484736-7139-4a1a-b6b3-b06a520aa541 2108 AND AFTERWARDS GINGER AND I BECAME FAST FRIENDS FOR WHEN HE OPENED HIS MOUTH A SHEET OF FLAME LEAPED FORTH FROM IT b655c5be-60fe-41ef-8439-f3bcde094e0d 188 THE STORY GIRL HAS TOLD US SOME SPLENDID STORIES LATELY I WISH I WAS CLEVER LIKE HER WE WALKED VERY CLOSELY TOGETHER AND WE DID NOT TALK WHEN YOU ARE NEAR THE RETREAT OF WITCHES AND THE FOLK OF THAT ILK THE LESS YOU SAY THE BETTER FOR THEIR FEELINGS ARE NOTORIOUSLY TOUCHY 82062318-a87e-4683-920b-5c94701cc5a9 188 WERE YOU VERY BADLY FRIGHTENED BUT THE STORY GIRL WAS QUITE EQUAL TO IT LEANING FORWARD AND THROWING AN INDESCRIBABLE WITCHERY INTO TONE AND EYES AND SMILE SHE SAID cf0ea026-821f-41c0-87b6-b4420ccc3502 2108 I'LL TRY IT SAID ROOT THE MONKEY AND YOU COULD NEVER CATCH HER BECAUSE SHE CAN EASILY FLY OUT OF HER RAGE THERE ARE TOO MANY DANGERS LURKING HERE TO SUIT ME c8aba132-330e-4577-bf56-816c10f106ca 188 JUDY IS VERY OBLIGING AND I FEEL THAT SHE SYMPATHIZES WITH ME HOW CROSS THOSE LONG SHADOWY FIELDS BETWEEN US AND OUR ROOF TOP 53e73029-8a5c-4a3b-8ca0-f00336fe474e 2108 I'M SORRY I DIDN'T THINK TO DO THAT WHEN I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME INTO A CANARY BIRD AND EACH PAIR OF LEGS HAVING A PAIR OF SKYBLUE TROUSERS ff88259f-d652-4ada-a557-2bfc3ff3f4db 188 BEVERLY IS GROWN HALF AN INCH IN JULY BY THE MARK ON THE HALL DOOR AND HE IS AWFUL PLEASED ABOUT IT I TOLD HIM I GUESSED THE MAGIC SEED WAS TAKEN EFFECT AT LAST AND HE GOT MAD THIS WAS PUT BEFORE PETER'S PLACE AND ALMOST OVERCAME HIM 2c386223-b79a-4f24-88f5-51627deee8b8 2108 I WONDER WHO YOU ARE AND WHEN ALL HAD BEEN TOLD AND DOROTHY HAD SEVERAL TIMES REPROVED TOTAL 0d4ebe44-d417-480b-94e4-33d33fde4c92 188 DAN IS PRETTY HARD TO GET ALONG WITH AS USUAL BUT I TRY TO BEAR PATIENTLY WITH HIM UNCLE ROGER BURNED HIS LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS SUCH FUN fb1a98e3-62c3-4a28-aea6-697398ccfaf8 2108 THEN THEY LOOKED ACROSS THE DITCH AT THE LEVEL PLAIN BEYOND IT WAS THE COLLISION SAID THE TIN WOODMAN REGRETFULLY de652640-c043-41cc-bf48-73367e2c8abf 2108 THE TIN OWL SAT ON THE BACK OF ANOTHER CHAIR SO THEY INCREASED THEIR SPEED AND HURRIED TOWARD IT HAIRY HAUNCHES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM c28bbbe0-8111-4b97-9548-33da543e7d7f 2108 AFTER HE HAD BEEN IN HER SERVICE FOR SOME TIME AS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE AND MAKE OURSELVES AT HOME 0f623e73-07cc-451a-bbcc-a5f2412beddc 2108 WHEN SHE RETURNS SHE WILL BE GREATLY SURPRISED ASSERTED THE TIN OWL WINKING AND BLINKING WITH HIS A BUNDLE OF WEEDS AND A HANDFUL OF PEBBLES 4c3aa16b-cc18-4489-8682-977dfadca00f 2108 AND THROUGH IT THE SUNLIGHT STREAMED FULL UPON THE GREEN MONKEY BROKE THE ENCHANTMENT THAT HAD TRANSFORMED THE TIN WOODMAN 35d749d9-1579-48df-83c6-db7741cdfb68 188 PETER MAKES AN IMPRESSION I LET VERY FEW PEOPLE USE IT BECAUSE IT IS MY GREATEST TREASURE THERE NOW WHAT'D I TELL YOU 7ef97260-62a6-411f-8595-a0595c2e83a1 2108 THE REASON FOR THATED POLYCHROME BUT SHE IS A GOOD GIRL HONEST AND SENSIBLE AND I'LL BE GLAD TO SEE HER de3a1fbd-99d9-4532-900e-9b43c5337783 2108 ON WHEN HE FOUND HIS OLD SWEETHEART NIMMY AMMY AROSE FROM MY FOOLISH RESOLVE TO SEEK NIMIE AMY 21905d13-0404-4650-a21b-749cb3ebde80 2108 AND WHILE I WISH TO REPROACH NO ONE HAD NO IDEA SUCH A BIG CASTLE EXISTED IN THE GALLIKIN COUNTRY d8b7caec-2819-4473-b213-c698c82f18b8 2108 WELL FOR MY PART I AM GLAD HE DID WHAT MUST WE DO DAUGHTER OF THE RAINBOW TO ESCAPE FROM THESE TRANSFORMATIONS 9bf01ada-66e2-4d04-9ca1-d9782f5ac585 2108 YOUR JOURNEY RESULTED IN SAVING ME FROM THE GIANTESS I THINK THIS MAGIC AFFECTS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE PLAIN I SMELL STRAW AND I AM A HIPPOCK GUYRA 0ace8bed-dfe2-418d-a1e7-4bd7af1017e6 2108 ASKED THE CANARY THE JAGUAR SNARLED IN DERISION AND LASHED HIS TAIL AGAINST THE GROUND ANGRILY b3975b57-e1f9-4854-8b57-a560d5289e18 188 YOU'RE TO GO TO MORROW AND BRING IT HOME THE RED SEPTEMBER SUN HUNG LOW BETWEEN THE TALL SPRUCES TO THE WEST c525fbe5-1189-4667-b512-75181c998343 188 PLURGEONY AFTER THIS BEVERLY SAYS THAT IS WHAT IT'S CALLED IN SCOTLAND AND I THINK IT SOUNDS SO MUCH MORE POETICAL THAN SOUTHERN WOOD 1395dfc8-cd62-4a75-8115-2fe767a983c8 2108 YOU AND I ARE ONE NIMY AND ME WILL BECOME AN EMPRESS ANNOUNCED THE TIN WOODMAN PROUDLY bea071d0-7594-4089-9ae3-ada0e579d51a 188 IT IS ALL CUT TO PIECES BUT WHAT A PRETTY SOFT SHADE IT WAS 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 THE EXCITEMENT WAS QUITE TREMENDOUS 19ae8bcf-ad7b-4813-8bb4-7bd30d8b7b8c 188 AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN WELL MIGHT MISTER CAMPBELL BE CALLED ECCENTRIC WHAT ON EARTH DID HE WANT THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE RECITED FOR BUT I GAVE HIM A HINT ABOUT HIS LITTLE BROWN BOOK ca3dd83e-ccfc-4a2c-9781-d791c3a4d6a5 188 WHEN HE WENT AWAY HE SAID I HOPE I SHALL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MEETING YOU AGAIN JUST AS SERIOUSLY AND POLITELY AS IF I WAS A GROWN UP YOUNG LADY HE SAID YES HE SOMETIMES FELT THAT WAY DON'T YOU BE PREACHING AT ME PETER CRAIG HE CRIED OUT be6698bc-426f-4371-a20c-342293aba08a 2108 IT'N'T TAKE ME LONG TO THINK OF EVERYTHING ABOUT AND THE END OF ITS ARC SLOWLY DESCENDED AND TOUCHED THE GROUND JUST WHERE THEY f42980d4-4c51-4874-b830-a9f366344675 2108 FARTHER BACK WERE FIELDS OF CARMAL AND PATTED HIM ON ALL SIDES AND THEN SAID IN THE FOREST AND HAD BEEN THERE A LONG TIME 977742c0-0ab3-4bf4-9839-e42307cf74b8 2108 THEIR EYES COULD SEE AND STOPPING ALL FURTHER PROGRESS TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH THEIR SERIOUS MISFORTUNES MADE THEM ALL SILENT FOR A TIME 16e1f26c-33f0-42fe-8301-ef715386f14f 188 WHY WHO EVER HEARD OF A SERMON WITHOUT A TEXT ASKED FELIX BLANKLY YOU'LL LET ME SEE WHAT SHE PUTS IN IT WON'T YOU 559d2d51-7f55-488d-b591-f6d1f35b44f0 2108 SO BEING TRAVELLERS AND STRANGERS IN THESE PARTS AND WISHING TO FIND THE FRONT DOOR STOOD OPEN BUT NO ONE WAS IN SIGHT 586fa6ce-3118-4c88-85c4-25439a87c3d0 2108 EXCLAIMED THE KING HIS PURPLE EYES BULGING OUT AS HE LOOKED CREAM PUFFS AND MACAROONS SOME OF WHICH WERE STILL GREEN 5a726588-d884-4f32-9c9e-cd4379e98127 2108 I NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE IN MY LIFE OH I DON'T INTEND TO BE EAN I ASSURE YOU SAID THE CANARY FARTHER BACK WERE FIELDS OF CARMAL 7f75d43f-b877-4062-88ce-10c446a17ac0 2108 THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE FIELDS FOR THE GIRL FARMER IT IS ALL THE FAULT OF OLD COOK CLIP MUTTERED THE TIN WOODMAN 381f1c09-2726-4d61-8e30-b05f21210b7a 188 ONCE PETER WAS OUT OF DANGER HE RECOVERED RAPIDLY BUT HE FOUND HIS CONVALESCENCE RATHER TEDIOUS HE CAUGHT HER HAND AND STAMMERED OUT 52abbbda-1593-4f76-9ae9-7509874b985b 188 BUT THE TRUTH WAS I HAD FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT SUCH THINGS I LET VERY FEW PEOPLE USE IT BECAUSE IT IS MY GREATEST TREASURE OH CAN'T WE OPEN IT RIGHT AWAY THIS VERY NIGHT SAID FELICITY EAGERLY dfe2a307-9bcf-45a3-a295-c731a8cbb07e 188 I DO HOPE THE REST OF US WON'T CATCH THE MEASLES IT MUST LOOK HORRID TO HAVE RED SPOTS ALL OVER YOUR FACE MY AUNT JANE WAS ONE AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE MYSELF IF I HADN'T BEEN SO SCARED OF THE JUDGMENT DAY 9901883b-ef89-450e-83a7-66da1b941f28 188 TO HEAR YOU SPEAK OF OLD SCRATCH ANY ONE WOULD THINK HE WAS JUST A COMMON PERSON IT'S A VERY TENDER PART OF HIM AND IT'S HIS ONLY WAY OF PREVENTING IT AND HE DOESN'T MEAN ANY HARM 025e8e7a-91f1-47f2-a873-8e28ce2ad60f 188 IS ABOUT MISSUS JOHN MARTIN'S UNCLE AT MARKDALE SAID THE STORY GIRL THE WOODS HAD WRAPPED FINE WOVEN GOSSAMERS ABOUT THEM AND THESTERING HILL WAS CRIMSON AND GOLD 7ae1b823-2875-4981-a818-dbf01fe13768 2108 DURING THAT DAY SHE ENTERED HER BEDROOM SEVERAL TIMES FAR BETTER THAN A GREEN MONKEY 7008f5ed-e811-489c-8f10-8faaab88068e 188 IN A FEW MINUTES THE FIELD WAS ALIGHT WITH BLAZING BONFIRES OVER WHICH ROLLED GREAT PUNGENT CLOUDS OF SMOKE WELL I'M NOT YOU COUNTED CECILY AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO FRIGHTEN ANY ONE AS I WAS FRIGHTENED 6b18d09d-6200-4109-9c14-f89e51dd548f 2108 I NEEDED NO STRAW TO REPLACE THE OLD BUT GINGER HAD NO STRAW ON ALL HER RAGE AND I WAS REALLY UNABLE TO TRAVEL FURTHER UNTIL I HAD BEEN RESTUFFED c2a72018-a18e-4eff-869a-9a57a16d1d66 188 I KNOW A STORY SHE SAID INFUSING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF WEIRDNESS INTO HER VOICE I DID NOT FIND IT AS EASY IN A TASK AS I HAD ANTICIPATED BUT I PEGGED GRIMLY AWAY AT IT AND BY DINT OF SEVERE LABOUR FOR TWO EVENINGS I EVENTUALLY GOT MY FOUR PAGES OF FOOLSCAP FILLED b25de2aa-b4e4-4111-a452-dd0a3b8cf577 188 CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY THAT WAS A FINE TOUCH THAT I HAD NOT THOUGHT OF 03b8b1df-2238-4227-98fa-3b4238266e1f 188 AND IT LIFTED ONE GREAT HAIRY HAND WITH CLAWS ON THE END OF IT AND CLAPPED WILLIAM COHEN FIRST ON ONE SHOULDER AND THEN ON THE OTHER AND SAID 5c49cbfc-de95-4da4-ae2f-762e504d8d55 2108 THIS TIN MAN SEEMS A VERY SOLEMN PERSON THE HEAD ON THE TOP OF THIS NECK WAS BROAD AND FLAT AND THE EYES AND MOUTH WERE VERY BIG AND THE NOSE AND EARS VERY SMALL 0da08e82-8e4d-4518-9998-fcf3dea02e9a 2108 THE BEAUTIFUL TIN HEAD YOU NOW WEAR WHERE THERE WAS FORTUNATELY NO FIRE THE SCARECROW WAS GREATLY DELIGHTED 4d284bf5-bf5c-4c4b-af52-d3eaf650f677 188 AS FOR THE VIANDS THEY WERE FIT FOR THE GODS ON HIGH OLYMPUS AND YOU KNOW SERMONS WERE VERY LONG IN THOSE DAYS 59b13d56-710b-480e-9489-47b15c775413 188 BUT DIRECTLY BEFORE US THE POTATO FIELD WITH ITS WREATHING SMOKE AND SULLEN FLAMES THE GIGANTIC SHADOW OF UNCLE ALEC CROSSING AND RECROSSING IT REMINDED US OF PETER'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF THE BAD PLACE dc03737d-8480-405d-867d-c5b2a9c6c3ff 188 DO YOU SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE HER TO THE ASYLUM SAID DAN IN A WHISPER I KNOW A STORY SHE SAID INFUSING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF WEIRDNESS INTO HER VOICE 2d1f8ee5-44dd-422d-b7ed-a13ca44f2742 2108 AS THIS MONKEY DID WHILE HE WAS BEING BATHED AND HAD HIS WORKSHOP IN THE BACK PART WHERE HE HAD ALSO BUILT A LEAN TO ADDITION IN OR TO GIVE HIM MORE ROOM 50c8550f-cf36-4937-b531-e9322c98ee5c 188 I CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY AND NOW TELL ME THE BERWICK NEWS HAS JEAN MC LAY MADE UP WITH HER MAN YET 56ea80aa-67b0-4c2b-8d89-3a0026ee08cb 2108 BAH THAT'S NOT STRAW THE LACE APRON WHERE IN SPITE OF HIS WHINES AND STRUGGLES c85273b9-6dfa-4ca3-bf7f-e0990f492e0c 188 DON'T SEE YOU YOU CAN HELP BELIEVING IT SAID CECILY IT ISN'T AS IF IT'S SOMETHING WE'D READ OF SHE SAID IT QUIETLY BUT PETER OBEYED I THINK HE WOULD HAVE OBEYED IF SHE IN THAT TONE AND WITH THOSE EYES HAD ORDERED HIM TO CAST HIMSELF INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA 5556582b-736f-4fc8-8450-a7e96f0b909c 188 HE DID EVERYTHING BAD HE COULD THINK OF AND NEVER WENT TO CHURCH AND HE LAUGHED AT EVERYTHING RELIGIOUS EVEN THE DEVIL 690e2e19-e1b8-40d1-832a-0a59d67ef7d2 2108 FOR BOTH THE TIN TWINS KNEW THE WAY HAVING FOLLOWED IT MANY TIMES WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ASKED LUTE 0139fb57-d9ec-41b0-8f80-3ee7335a4609 188 OVER US WAS A GREAT DARK SKY BLOSSOMING WITH SILVER STARS AND ALL AROUND LAY DUSKY MYSTERIOUS REACHES OF MEADOW AND WOOD IN THE SOFT EMPURPLED NIGHT 8e689c39-d084-44d4-b3c2-e173477691f1 188 HER CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT WAS A RICH LITTLE PLUM CAKE ON THE WHITE FROSTING OF WHICH THE WORDS WELCOME BACK WERE LETTERED IN PINK CANDIES ca9c6260-008b-4358-a92a-8b015d1e7440 2108 THAT TIN OWL IS NONE OTHER THAN OUR DEAR TIN WOODMAN NICK CHOPPER THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES f792dd49-5f7a-4e44-b0fa-903bc3e2518f 188 THE ORCHARD WAS HAGGARD AND UNCOMELY NOTHING SEEMED THE SAME EXCEPT THE STAUNCH TRUSTY OLD SPRUCES 9ee98fe2-9d2e-4cac-9fc1-c252d742efbf 2108 IN THE FORM OF A BIRD NEVERTHELESS I PREFER MY FORMER MANLY FORM TO THIS OWL SHAPE 331088c5-a7c4-482a-8269-8335c9aa77fd 2108 ENGAGED IN WEAVING A NEW LACE APRON TO REPLACE THE OLD ONE SHE HAD LOST b4725d38-addd-4cf5-9c55-4e85888646e7 188 ON EACH SHOULDER WAS THE MARK OF A BIG HAND BURNED INTO THE FLESH I HAD A PERFECTLY AWFUL DREAM LAST NIGHT SAID CECILY WITH A SHUDDER OF REMEMBRANCE 1577301b-4955-4fdb-9023-c8e74d2ac579 2108 CHAPTER ELEVEN GINGER'S RANCH AM WEARING IT YET SO YOU CAN SEE ITS BEAUTY AND GRACE OF THE OUTLINE 444230a4-28f0-4a0d-a609-dbfa3de1b4cc 2108 I SHALL HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON YOU POLYCHROME AND I MAY FAIL IN ALL MY ATTEMPTS 2cacd2fa-35e9-45ea-9c7d-19205942197b 188 THAT'S WHAT COMES OF THOSE CRY BABY GIRLS MIXED UP IN THINGS DAN WAS NEITHER THE PROPHET NOR THE SON OF A PROPHET BUT HE HAD THE SECOND SIGHT FOR ONCE HOW ADVENTURE THROUGH THE DARKLY MYSTERIOUS BRACKEN HOLLOW b85223cf-d855-4a5b-9b1d-bf1077688a0b 2108 MEET TIRES AFTER A DAY'S TRAVEL ADDED THE SCARECROW FORTUNATELY WE MANAGE TO ESCAPE FROM HER CASTLE 61a8dc31-785a-408c-ab1c-1dbe45fb5559 188 SHE TOLD US ONE OF HANS ANDERSEN'S MOST EXQUISITE TALES AND THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE CHARMED AWAY ALL OUR FEAR SO THAT WHEN WE REACHED THE BRACKEN HOLLOW A LAKE OF SHADOWS SURROUNDED BY THE SILVER SHORE OF MOONLIGHT FIELDS WE ALL WENT THROUGH IT WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF HIS SATANIC MAJESTY AT ALL 00b39aaf-c7ea-4360-ba94-65dcaa5eddd7 188 HE WOULDN'T EVEN EAT ANY MORE THAN WAS ACTUALLY NECESSARY TO KEEP HIM ALIVE UNCLE ROGER SAYS THAT IF HE HAD BEEN A ROMAN CATHOLIC HE WOULD HAVE BECOME A MONK BUT AS HE WAS A PRESBYTERIAN ALL HE COULD DO WAS TURNING TO A CRANK a9c6cae6-6a0e-4988-8171-7c2bed15fd28 188 HE WAS A CHANGED MAN SAID THE STORY GIRL SOLEMNLY WELL IN THAT CASE SHE SAID GRAVELY I THINK YOU DID RIGHT TO SLAP HIS EARS NOT BECAUSE HE IS A HIRED BOY 894ccc42-6bdb-4f28-90b7-810ce91303b4 188 HE BECAME A VERY RELIGIOUS MAN WHICH WAS A GOOD THING BUT HE WAS DREADFULLY GLOOMY AND THOUGHT EVERYTHING PLEASANT SINFUL e074a181-cb30-432f-af8e-9e59507b692a 188 NO HE DIDN'T SAID THE STORY GIRL QUICKLY YES BUT YOUR UNCLE ROGER WAS NEVER CLAPPED IN THE SHOULDER AND CALLED BROTHER BY THE DEVIL SAID PETER 0c7d1a5d-8b85-4128-bf7e-d10fd53e1d62 188 IT ISN'T LIKE THE RELIGIOUS FRUIT BASKET GAME IS IT ASKED CECILY ANXIOUSLY WE CELEBRATED THE NOVEMBER DAY WHEN PETER WAS PERMITTED TO REJOIN US BY A PICNIC IN THE ORCHARD a3dd67dc-487e-4d00-904d-aa5afdd2286c 188 YET IT IS THEIR STRENGTH LABOUR AND SORROW FOR IT IS SOON CUT OFF AND WE FLY AWAY AND HER JOY OVER BEING AMONG US ONCE MORE WAS ALMOST PATHETIC c5ca7537-88b0-4f82-aeea-384ec0dac660 188 MAYBE NOT BUT YOU'LL SEE HE'LL MAKE AN IMPRESSION SAID DAN A DROP LETTER FROM FOR CECILY FROM SOME SCHOOL FRIEND WITHIN HASTE WRITTEN ACROSS THE CORNER AND A LETTER FOR AUNT JANET POSTMARKED MONTREAL 56506401-8464-409f-8603-30d657bfaf15 2108 AND WOULD NEVER SEEM TO BE A DAY OLDER WHILE SHE LIVED IN THIS WONDERFUL FAIRYLAND I THINK THIS MAGIC AFFECTS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE PLAIN 7b772f5a-c31e-4584-a0b2-a7dae581df64 2108 BUT MOST OF IT IS ALREADY KNOWN TO THOSE WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE OZ PEOPLE WHOSE ADVENTURES THEY HAVE FOLLOWED IN OTHER OZ BOOKS 28f67c2a-8906-4e11-9ecc-6cebc0e7dba2 188 I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OF IT HERE ARE THE LETTERS WILL MONTAGUE WROTE HER AND HERE SHE ADDED TAKING UP A CRIMSON VELVET CASE WITH A TARNISH GILT CLASP 26fe622e-83c1-4760-954a-efcad4266068 2108 OR RENDERED HER AT ALL VAIN ACCIDENTS MIGHT HAPPEN TO SOME ON RARE OCCASIONS AND THEY HAD GOLDEN DISHES UPON IT e5878d7d-c09c-4333-aad6-5f2a0e91089e 2108 THE APPEARANCE OF SOME BEAUTIFUL FLOWER YOU MAY COUNT THEM IF YOU DOUBT MY WORD IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT ONE MIGHT BE TOTALLY DESTROYED a3dd4deb-4cf0-4bbf-8245-2067c5d691c9 188 DONALD KNEW NEIL MUST SOON BE ON HIS TRACK HE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SHERMAN HOUSE THE SCENE OF A QUARREL SO HE RESOLVED TO GET AWAY BEFORE THE CAMPBELL CAME 4bd49ddd-4848-42d0-8ab5-ee69c70cd1d8 2108 AND AS HE LOOKED HIS EYES GREW BIG WITH WONDER REFLECTED NOTHING MORE THAN THE WALLS OF THE ROOM IN GINGER'S HOUSE IN WHICH THEY STOOD 14060230-4658-41fe-93f9-650233974558 188 HE DID NOT SEEM AWKWARD OR SHY BUT THEN WE WERE ONLY CHILDREN AND HIS FOOT WAS ON HIS NATIVE HEATH THEY MUST BE BURNED UNREAD SHE DECLARED EVEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING THOU ART GOD 4d039c58-9320-4136-bd77-33a1eb7db9b9 188 THE REST OF THE THINGS WERE PUT BACK IN THE CHEST PENDING THEIR ULTIMATE DISTRIBUTION SEE HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL RESOLUTELY I DON'T BELIEVE IT BUT THERE MAY BE SOMETHING TO IT SUPPOSE THERE IS 0f3d561d-7d5f-4c75-a653-77e84066d598 2108 THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE FIELDS FOR THE GIRL FARMER THE THINGS SHE BELIEVED SHE WOULD NEED 59dd2d70-1eb9-4b31-8fb6-04c449fc2a49 2108 WHICH SHOWS THAT NIMI AMMY WAS AS WISE AS SHE WAS BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL 972d940b-a2a3-43ef-90f7-31917e4907e3 2108 THIS SAW HORSE WHILE MADE OF WOOD WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE AND BEFORE IT WAS HITCHED THE WOODEN SAW HORSE MISSUS EWPE OBSERVED THIS AND WAVED HER HAND d894f0f9-48e3-4a21-a047-d542a0e73fa1 188 BUT AUNT OLIVIA WAS QUITE ENRAPTURED WITH THEM IT WASN'T CUSHIONED HOWEVER AND HE ALWAYS BRUISED HIS HANDS IN HIS SELF FORGETFUL EARNESTNESS 02d25e8e-cf84-44dc-b578-61ea1a0e3cd6 188 AND THE DEAR OLD FASHIONED PILLOW SLIPS WITH BUTTONS ON THEM SARA RAY WOULD NOT GO OF COURSE BUT SHE VOLUNTEERED TO STAY WITH PAT WHILE WE WERE AWAY e6452b39-c78c-45f8-8923-b60d80b8085b 188 MOTHER SAID TEN O'CLOCK AND SHE'LL STICK TO IT SAID FELICITY CROSSLY IT'S ONLY NINE NOW PERHAPS WE'D BETTER GIVE UP AND GO HOME SUGGESTED DAN 8f4864d5-6a6a-452a-94b2-c666d29ab8e2 2108 AND IT WAS BROAD DAYLIGHT WHILE ALL THE BABIES LIVED IN THEIR CRADLES AND WERE TENDERLY CARED FOR 79dae0a7-e805-4598-aebf-e7d76507112e 188 AUNT JANET GAVE EACH OF US BOYS A HANDKERCHIEF THE PARTICULAR MATTER IN OR OUT OF THE QUESTION THAT OPENING DAY OF AUGUST WAS A PROJECT WHICH UNCLE EDWARD HAD RECENTLY MOOTED 21ec57c5-ae15-4a3f-8f2c-e988d0ba6029 188 EVEN SARA RAY WAS MADE HAPPY BY THE GIFT OF A LITTLE CHINA PLATE WITH A LOUDLY COLOURED PICTURE OF MOSES AND AARON BEFORE THE PHARAOH IN THE MIDDLE OF IT 89e19ccb-8588-46b9-a0c6-f04bf67a96ba 188 THERE WAS ONE OF FATHER'S THIN LETTERS FOR FELIX A FAT FOREIGN LETTER FOR THE STORY GIRL ADDRESSED IN HER FATHER'S MINUTE HANDWRITING 8c70b474-c953-4dda-a227-71e7680ace03 2108 DID THEY EVER GROW UP INQUIRED MISS WILLIAN ESS WIFE IN AN ANXIOUS VOICE 586cc41c-f977-4192-a050-f1c58d14a7b1 2108 I USED TO KEEP IT SMOOTH AND NEAT WHEN I HAD ARMS WHEN FINALLY THE DAY CAME WHEN THE ADVENTURERS HEADED SOUTH INTO THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY 537f4d1f-7d7f-4cb3-8efd-65513e4bbadb 188 LOOK AT THE SKIRT JANET HOW MANY YARDS MUST IT MEASURE AROUND 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 1bb1847c-1cef-44d1-ba2c-dad961c7bfe0 2108 MY HAIR GOT MUSSED AND OLD CUCLIP NEVER HAS COMBED IT FOR ME I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR HER EVER SINCE 16884cbd-3db0-4902-9951-fb80cd3255d6 2108 SO WE HAVE SO BRAVELY CAPTURED FOR UNCLE HENRY SO DOROTHY WISHED TO SEE WHAT HER OLD AND I AM ONCE MORE MYSELF 4cd6d983-217e-4743-9502-e6622af7321c 2108 ANOTHER STRANGE THING ABOUT THIS VERY LAND OF OZ WAS THAT WHOEVER MANAGED TO ENTER IT FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD CAME UNDER THE MAGIC SPELL OF THE PLACE AND DID NOT CHANGE IN APPEARANCE 1d25994c-2383-4668-8f25-9365320f88c1 188 NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING EACH MEMBER IS TO HAVE ONE TO REMEMBER HER BY ff8cd604-b058-487a-9634-9e675149ec28 2108 I HAVE STILL A NATURAL WHICH WILL BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON YOUR PRESENT FORM THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN MAT 84c37c2c-f5da-40eb-bcb6-eed675cb87b3 188 SARA RAY ISN'T ANY RELATION TO OUR FAMILY SHE SCOLDED CECILY AND SHE HAS NO RIGHT TO BE PRESENT PRESENTLY A TWINKLE CAME INTO HIS EYES FOR HE REMEMBERED THAT HE WAS ALWAYS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR c6db6068-76ab-4e88-9bfa-c11cc45a55c6 2108 OR ANY PART OF ME FOR THEY ARE MY PERSONAL PROPERTY BOTH DOROTHY AND OZMA NOW BECAME GREATLY INTERESTED AND WATCHED THE TRANSFORMATIONS WITH INDIGNATION AND HORROR ff0f229c-18f8-499f-8687-9a8f3a2c38f7 2108 AND TRIED TO ESCAPE BY CLIMBING UP THE CHIMNEY PLEASE LIFT US ACROSS PLEADED POLYCHROME HAD A DISH OF MAGIC SCRAMBLED EGGS ON TOES 0db928be-d48d-4646-b266-775a8321b6b0 2108 FOR SHE NOTICED RUTH'S KNAPSACK AND GUESSED THAT THEY HAD START ON A LONG JOURNEY a513ce3f-9f28-42aa-bb5e-526f6715a2aa 2108 SO AS TO GAIN HER CONFIDENCE I HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHETHER IT'S ROUND OR SQUARE 76b85eec-d203-4149-bca0-1f6f652f4d2b 188 OH BREATHED THE GIRLS CROWDING ROUND AUNT OLIVIA AS SHE LIFTED OUT THE BOX AND CUT THE CORD AROUND IT 95e20ce5-cd87-459e-beb3-f19129f87213 2108 AND HARD FOR OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND BUT ALL MY WINKY PEOPLE EAT BEING FORMED OF FLESH 2a959e81-eed7-48a9-8de8-d329954eaf9a 2108 DO YOU KNOW MAN WHO WE ARE I MAY NOT SUCCEED BUT I SHALL DO THE BEST I CAN ONE HAD TO BUT STAND BEFORE IT AND WISH TO SEE WHAT ANY PERSON WAS DOING b29391e0-0fbb-4a3b-94c3-b282f3bcdb20 188 RACHEL WARD WAS FAR TOO GOOD FOR HIM ANYHOW WILL MONTAGUE WAS REALLY HANDSOME SAID THE STORY GIRL I ALWAYS LIKE TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARD SAID SARA RAY 25f80b9f-473a-494f-8d72-832eecf3f0aa 188 IT WAS A VERY PRETTY GIRL THE STORY GIRL AND PETER CAME OVER TO STAY ALL NIGHT WITH US AND WE MADE TAFFY IN THE KITCHEN WHICH THE GROWN UPS KINDLY GAVE OVER TO US FOR THAT PURPOSE e3b4a457-761d-4000-8e30-cafb282a5ebb 2108 HE BOUNDED TO THE SEAT OF A GIANT CHAIR AND THEN TO ITS BACK AND WITH A WILD LEAP OZMA AND DOROTHY 77d9e1aa-4e15-42a0-95b4-9a6c88b91511 2108 BUT THEN THESE TWO QUAINT PERSONS NEVER SLEPT WITH HER FRIEND PRINCESS DOROTHY BESIDE HER 356bbf19-a112-4813-89f4-6cc9155d509d 188 CAN'T I JUST SEE HIM AT IT NOW SAID UNCLE ROGER LEANING OVER THAT OLD BOULDER HIS CHEEKS RED AND HIS EYES BURNING WITH EXCITEMENT BANGING THE TOP OF IT AS HE HAD SEEN THE MINISTERS DO IN CHURCH 9b2bf8e5-9833-49b9-966e-07e8ae6aa331 188 HAVE HEARD THAT THE WHITE PLUME ON IT COST A SMALL FORTUNE HE ADVANCED THREATENINGLY BUT AGLEIA RAN AS HARD AS SHE COULD UP THE MOUNTAIN 9550314b-c73f-4a29-b54e-5bf0f0a21505 2108 OR POMP PROPOSING IT HARBOURED SEVERAL WITCHES AND MAGICIANS AND SORCERS AND NECROMANCERS IF FRIENDLY PEOPLE HAPPEN TO LIVE HERE SAID WOO 96b81e96-65b5-4746-9b3f-4b66feae7197 2108 THEN SHE FLEW UP TO A TREE AND THE BARON THE OWL AND THE JAGUAR SAW THAT UPON THE STUMP HAD APPEARED A GREAT GREEN LEAF 4f18aa6f-53cb-47ba-97b4-943f652c2ac7 188 BUT YOU WILL SOON BE ALL RIGHT AND ABLE TO GET OUT AGAIN NO RACHEL WARD WAS NOT PRETTY THAT HAD TO BE ADMITTED THE PICTURE SHOWED A FRESH YOUNG FACE WITH STRONGLY MARKED IRREGULAR FEATURES LARGE BLACK EYES AND BLACK CURLS HANGING ACROSS THE SHOULDERS IN OLD TIME STYLE 38f41abc-9a47-4009-8c3f-53df2967ab6b 2108 BUT WHO ARE YOU ASKED DOROTHY I WAS A SOLDIER POLYCHROME HAD DANCED DOWN THE GARDEN PATHS AND BACKED AGAIN c3997107-8cfd-49d1-95c7-53f6af24f7e3 2108 THAT'S FUNNY SHE RETORTED FOR SHE WAS SELDOM STILL A MOMENT LIKE A GOOD MANY KINGS AND EMPERORS I HAVE A GRAND TITLE BUT VERY LITTLE REAL POWER e799d49a-8f1a-42bd-8900-fa038c7cd0c6 188 A FELICITY DROPPED HER EYES AND BLUSHED PAINFULLY A THE WILLOW BY THE GATE TOSSED ITS GAUNT BRANCHES WILDLY AS IF IT WERE SOME PASSIONATE SPECTRAL THING WRINGING ITS FLESHLESS HANDS IN AGONY 0046ffc3-62c8-4742-bfcd-9e98be1a1d4c 2108 AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU FOR IF BY CHANCE YOUR FRIENDS CAME IN SEARCH OF YOU NOT ONE OF THEM WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOU ASKED POLYCHROME LAUGHING AGAIN 493c1725-a5a1-4311-995d-c212ba0b8047 2108 BUT OF COURSE I'M ANXIOUS TO RESUME MY OWN SHAPE AND GET BACK UPON MY RAINBOW BUT SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN 59a6b1a5-407a-4699-82a4-51e058f9efea 188 THERE THE PINK AND GOLD VASES GRANDMOTHER KING GAVE HER SAID FELICITY AS AUNT OLIVIA UNWRAPPED FROM THEIR TISSUE PAPER SWATHINGS A PAIR OF SLENDER OLD FASHIONED TWISTED VASES OF PINK GLASS 89bc6e05-b1a1-44a7-9cfa-bb06e8fb3c48 188 HIGH HEELED SLIPPERS I CAN'T THINK WHO THAT IS FROM SAID FELICITY NOBODY IN MONSHIRE EVER WRITES TO MOTHER 32894b76-d98e-4452-845d-6e5231fa49cb 2108 THE THINGS SHE BELIEVED SHE WOULD NEED BUT IF IT CAN'T BE HELPED I MUST ENDURE IT BUT WHAT'S THE USE OF KICKING AGAINST MY FATE e744d122-4c0c-4a70-aa0f-7700b60d2175 188 WHEN WE REACHED HOME AUNT JANET OPENED AND READ HER MONTREAL LETTER THEN SHE LAID IT DOWN AND LOOKED ABOUT HER IN ASTONISHMENT c9c89e99-e8c3-4c4f-9ca8-b72be43b14f7 188 PERHAPS PIGS MAY WHISTLE BUT THEY'VE POOR MOUTHS FOR IT WAS ALL THE ANSWER PETER GAINED TO THIS CHARMING SUGGESTION f6a5b557-990e-44a2-9b48-721ea2f75d33 188 MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE TAKE IT SHE WHISPERED bebf6c3e-84b5-4be4-9375-a12872566657 2108 YES I'M RATHER SURPRISED AT MY HEAD MYSELF REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN THOUGHTFULLY cb3bf48e-eec0-4da8-9d57-485bad4655ad 188 WELL AT LEAST YOU'LL OPEN IT THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING WON'T YOU MA PETER DID MAKE AN IMPRESSION THAT'S SIXTEEN WHOLE HOURS YET SIGHED FELICITY I 80f89372-1a95-4e55-bcb4-c504b82cd714 188 I THINK HE WOULD HAVE OBEYED IF SHE IN THAT TONE AND WITH THOSE EYES HAD ORDERED HIM TO CAST HIMSELF INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA 8c253c81-e2f1-4ea1-a75f-6e4e13b96c55 188 RICH WERE WE IN THE MEMORY OF THOSE OPULENT MONTHS THAT HAD GONE FROM US NO INDEED I WISH HE HAD BEEN IT DON'T SEEM MUCH USE IN HAVING A PLATE JUST FOR ORNAMENT SAID FELICITY 13da85ba-afa3-44eb-a877-fc5887531a9b 2108 AS SHE DID THE OTHERS THE CANARY SEEMED MUCH AMUSED AND LAUGHED A SOBERY RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER cd1d2ecc-0d08-43ed-87a3-685c8c1b7ac1 188 AND THE STORY GIRL LAID DOWN HER KNIFE AND POTATO AND CLASPED HER WET HANDS IT'S NICE TO HAVE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO LOOK AT RETORTED SARA WHO FELT THE SOUL MUST HAVE FOOD AS WELL AS THE BODY 20d42e5d-c172-424a-8922-f4161c8dcdb3 188 AND BEFORE US WAS THE DREAM OF SPRING PAT IS SPLENDID HE HAS NEVER HAD A SIX BELL SINCE THAT BAD ONE WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THE MATTER SAID UNCLE ALEC 5116d9a8-86cf-47e6-b5e5-2c9bff2b889d 188 RACHEL WARD IS DEAD AND SHE TOLD JAMES'S WIFE TO WRITE TO ME AND TELL ME TO OPEN THE OLD BLUE CHEST 1bec511b-a15a-43a6-950c-b23b6877282c 2108 DON'T I LOOK HORRID DOROTHY WITH EYES SEVERAL SIZES TOO BIG FOR MY BODY AND SO WEAK THAT I OUGHT TO WEAR SPECTACLES efe0d519-4a80-4a7f-bd05-87b752008a56 2108 PERHAPS THERE IS ONLY A STREAK OF THE COUNTRY WHERE AN ENCHANTMENT MAKES PEOPLE WHY DON'T YOU COME IN AND ALLOW THE DOOR TO SHUT 36d92b1d-e6ca-4918-a1ce-ea63f889d4f6 2108 WHO WAS AT THE TIME ABOUT TO TRANSFORM THEM IT PUZZLED ME TO ANSWER THAT PROPERLY UNTIL I HAD LOOKED OVER SOME OF MY LETTERS I HAD RECEIVED IN THE LAND OF OZBOR ALL FUTURE TIME 947bfd60-2675-47d4-b7f5-5b80c59f4704 188 FINALLY HE GOT SO ANGRY THAT HE TOLD HER TO SHUT UP TIN PATTY PANS AREN'T VERY ROMANTIC SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY 5e93ddd5-92e0-4b4a-ada4-88572470122b 188 WELL ANYHOW IT ISN'T A SUITABLE WORD IN THIS CASE INSISTED FELICITY WE ARE NOT UP TO ANY DEVIL MOSES WORE A SCARLET CLOAK WHILE AARON DISPORTED HIMSELF IN BRIGHT BLUE 2bc6047c-119a-4111-a5b8-e5bc56568532 2108 IN A FEW SECONDS HE HAD BECOME A SMALL BROWN BEAR BUT HE WAS STUFFED WITH STRAW AS HE HAD BEEN BEFORE AND WHEN THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR SHUFFLED ACROSS THE FLOOR HE WAS JUST AS WOGGLY AS THE SCARECROW HAD BEEN AND MOVED JUST AS AWKWARDLY THE SCARECROW NUDGED WOOT THE WANDERER WHILE IN THE FORM OF A BEAST 1f1f5fb8-4704-47a9-b065-335726711925 2108 UNTIL WE REACH A STRAW STACK DON'T EAT THANK YOU SAID THE SCARECROW GLINDA'S POWER IN TRANSFORMATIONS IS NO GREATER THAN MY OWN f7a38565-df5d-4363-86be-75420e8644a9 2108 AND DECIDEDLY WOBBLY ON HIS FEET AND STUDIED WOOT'S CASE VERY CAREFULLY THE SCARECROW SQUATTED ON HIS 22a6dd92-8cff-48ba-9be1-772cac1e1523 2108 AND MADE TOTO INTO A GREEN MONKEY THE POINT OF THE THORN LEAVE ME OUT OF YOUR MAGIC PLEASE SAID TOTO WITH A REPROACHFUL GROWL 3dbb599e-7a20-487a-9d18-e53fb9806ffd 188 FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY WHEN IT IS PAST AND AS A WATCH IN THE NIGHT 5a5b598f-e2f2-4ecc-8af2-9a7b141a3410 188 THERE THE PINK AND GOLD VASES GRANDMOTHER KING GAVE HER SAID FELICITY AS AUNT OLIVIA UNWRAPPED FROM THEIR TISSUE PAPER SWATHINGS A PAIR OF SLENDER OLD FASHIONED TWISTED VASES OF PINK GLASS 04869da9-8575-4a56-8ba6-7b481fe8f027 2108 AND BEFORE THEM STOOD ONE OF THE DAINTIEST AND LOVELIEST CREATURES BUT AFTER A TIME SHE RETURNED AND PERCHED BESIDE HER THEN 8c99ce21-aaad-4308-8b10-e64ab7c79b38 188 AND OH EXCLAIMED CECILY IN DELIGHT THERE'S THAT CHINA FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON THE HANDLE DOESN'T IT LOOK REAL I'VE THOUGHT SO MUCH ABOUT IT de84811a-2179-429d-8fa4-95d2afc53fba 2108 BUT THE BEAR IS STUFFED WITH STRAW JUST AS THE MAN WAS COME OUT INTO THE GARDEN WITH ME SHE SAID