d81cbc0f-588a-48f3-8c42-1e42a8d0173a 1867 HO U S A THE REPAIR MAN BY HARRY HARRISON BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD IF I COULD SHOOT THE TROUBLE THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME 721443b9-35d6-452e-982f-2714832f772f 14 SHE WAS ALSO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN MISSIONS AND ONE TALK ON THIS SUBJECT INSPIRED THE STORY GIRL TO DO A LITTLE HOME MISSIONARY WORK ON HER OWN ACCOUNT THE ONLY THING SHE COULD THINK OF ALONG THIS LINE WAS TO PERSUADE PETER TO GO TO CHURCH FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THE DESIGN AND SAID SO PLAINLY 7a002367-ae8d-456f-ae96-ceabb580cf2a 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 aec2a588-37a4-46ef-ae74-73ba01621ca6 2137 THEY WERE SPOTTED WITH CLUMPS OF GRAY GRASS EVEN AS WAS THE DESERT THE HILLS WERE STUDDED WITH WEIRD TREES STANDING STIFF BRANCHES OUTSTRETCHED LIKE AN ARMY OF SCARECROWS THE AIR OF SERIOUS THREE WAS DOING STRANGE THINGS TO HIM TWO OF THE TREES SEEMED TO BE MOVING HE SWAYED AND SAT HEAVILY ef8cb430-e914-40b0-953d-89ee89fded1b 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 6837cf57-c97b-4e9f-b972-ac4419853eef 413 CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM I WONDER WHERE WE ALL BE THIS TIME TO MORROW NIGHT SAID FELIX MOURNFULLY AS WE WATCHED THE SUNSET BETWEEN THE DARK FIR BOUGHS IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET THE SUN DROPPED DOWN AMID DARK LIVID CLOUDS THAT TURNED SULLEN SHADES OF PURPLE AND FIERY RED BEHIND HIM I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY NOTHING CAN BE SO VERY BAD THEN 9ecbdd14-d7ec-4137-bff4-3ec07fff8ac5 198 I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A BELL WHEN I HEARD IT AND THE DOOR OPEN TOO LET US BE FAIR FELICITY I'M DREADFULLY TIRED SIGHED CECILY WE WERE ALL DREADFULLY TIRED FOR THIS WAS THE THIRD NIGHT OF LATE HOURS AND NERVE RACKING STRAIN BUT IT WAS OVER TWO HOURS SINCE WE HAD EATEN THE COOKIES AND FELICITY SUGGESTED THAT A SAUCERFUL APIECE OF RASPBERRIES AND CREAM WOULD NOT BE TOO HARD TO TAKE IT WAS NOT FOR ANY ONE BUT CECILY WHO COULDN'T SWALLOW A MOUTHFUL fec3e27b-5bb2-4044-ba34-37a7eec7b16b 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 e275e25c-9913-4e7a-ad4b-1034017256c4 2137 ODD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT REPLIED THE SECOND MAN IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT WE'LL NINE YEARS PASS ON EARTH WHEN WE MAKE THE TRIP OUR TEA IS MERE MOMENTS GOOD LORD BRANDON SAID YOU MUST HAVE PASSED US UP BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THE FIRST MAN SAID GOD BENT ON DOZENS OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY ONE SHIP WHEN A THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS OUT BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER 6601f90b-88df-42ea-8cbb-744134e025d5 464 IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY SHE WOULD HAVE HELD HER TONGUE AS SHE AFTERWARDS CONFIDED IN TO ME IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR A HORRIBLE FEAR WHICH FLASHED INTO HER MIND THAT POSSIBLY SAWDUST PUDDINGS WERE NOT HEALTHY FOR PEOPLE TO EAT ESPECIALLY IF THERE MIGHT BE NEEDLES IN THEM AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY TO UNDO IT IF POSSIBLE AT ANY COST OF RIDICULE TO HERSELF 85e06fb9-286c-489b-b2af-4da9a581ce37 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 296a6dd8-3f11-4d2a-944a-6d33d8151830 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 722c25c8-a679-4528-a0e2-2060e5f87830 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 6a16a617-a220-4593-aadb-f22a18f6fe10 177 SOME VAGUE THOUGHT OF THIS WAS IN OUR MINDS AS WE LOOKED AT HER AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US NOT EVEN THE JUDGMENT WAS SO GREATLY TO BE FEARED IF AFTER IT WE WERE THE SAME OUR OWN PRECIOUS LITTLE IDENTITIES UNCHANGED IT MUST BE GETTING HANDY TOO SAID CECILY IT SEEMS AS IF WE'D BEEN WAITING HERE FOR EVER SO MUCH LONGER THAN AN HOUR CONVERSATION LANGUISHED WE WATCHED AND WAITED NERVOUSLY THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR 458613a9-8f8d-49d5-b3f1-c1e73f24b911 2274 UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN IF CHINA THREE STILL EXISTS IN FIVE DAYS CAN'T YOU IMAGINE THE FUND THE POLITICIANS MY MA MEA WE WANT THIS PLANET CLEARED FOR CONTACT OR DEAD BEFORE THEN aff1a3b9-2b96-4827-8c5a-ff6caddd5fc6 2137 THE PLANET HAS WATER AND BOTH ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE CERTAINLY IT HAS SUFFICIENT GRAVITY TO HOLD ITS OXYGEN BUT WHAT OTHER ELEMENTS NOXIOUS GASES MIGHT BE PRESENT MAYBE THE ODDS ARE CLOSER THAN ONE AND FIFTY HE DECIDED BUT THERE'S NO GAMBLE WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE HE TOLD THE MILKY WAY ce7b9742-e5cc-44e5-9023-8494fdfe7ba0 2108 A GREAT SHINY OWL PERCHED UPON ANOTHER CHAIR AND A BROWN BEAR SQUATTED UPON HER PARLOR RUG GINGER DID NOT NOTICE THE CANARY BUT SHE CAUGHT UP THE BROOMSTICK AND DASHED INTO THE ROOM SHOUTING AS SHE CAME GET OUT OF HERE YOU WILD CREATURES HOW DARE YOU ENTER MY HOUSE b0d8ed7f-0766-4c7f-8284-a35d4de0eade 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 b8ead498-9351-4a45-8ecb-8050914b09de 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 d2ffb813-be12-48a2-a54a-94b6f7bc6528 748 UNCLE BLAIR WAS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AMONG THE FAIR FRAIL WHITE LADIES OF THE WALK WHERE THE WEST WIND CAME NOW WITH A SIGH AND AGAIN WITH A RUSH AND THEN BRUSHED OUR FACES AS SOFTLY AS THE DOWN OF A THISTLE WAS FULL OF THE GLAMOUR OF MOUNTAIN RIMMED LAKES AND PURPLE CHALEES AND SNOWY SUMMITS OLD IN STORY 02d8298f-057d-467a-b2b5-ee313e38c666 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 3af54e4e-148d-42ae-ba1e-84823d4f46c4 177 YES BUT IT TOOK THE JUDGMENT DAY TO MAKE HER I WISH ADDED CECILY WITH A SIGH THAT I HADN'T BEEN IN QUITE SUCH A HURRY GIVING AWAY MY FORGET ME NOT JUG AND I WISH I HADN'T BEEN IN SUCH A HURRY DECIDE AND I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN SAID PETER WELL IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID DAN YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW NO SIR SAID PETER WITH A FLASH OF SPIRIT I AIN'T ONE OF THE KIND THAT SAYS THEY'LL BE SOME JUST CAUSE THEY'RE SCARED WHEN THE SCARE IS OVER GO BACK ON IT I SAID I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND I MEAN TO STICK TO IT 4f1e6125-ef10-4265-b388-3c290dabe723 177 A WAGON RUMBLING OVER A PLANK BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW MADE SARAH RAY START UP WITH A SHRIEK THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES I DON'T BELIEVE IT IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID FELIX AND I NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO eb9410cf-a913-4af4-b0fc-9d5b34a1f2ce 2108 BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS FOR THE GIRL MUST STILL BE LIVING IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE I BELIEVE IT IS MY DUTY TO SET OUT AND FIND HER SURELY IT IS NOT THE GIRL'S FAULT THAT I NO LONGER LOVE HER AND SO IF I CAN MAKE HER HAPPY IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO AND IN THIS WAY REWARD HER FOR HER FAITHFULNESS 9d20dd3e-1170-40eb-b738-aa802fe9abbb 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 528c5fa8-375c-4da0-9fed-ac7deb119f3e 177 LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT MISSUS FRUIT HAD BEEN A SCHOOLTEACHER AND SHE WAS VERY PARTICULAR AS TO HOW PEOPLE TALKED AND THE GRAMMAR THEY USED AND SHE DIDN'T LIKE ANYTHING BUT REFINED WORDS ONE VERY HOT DAY SHE HEARD JUDY PINNOT SAY SHE WAS ALL IN A SWEAT MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION 1e14cbec-e382-4192-b374-acd67c2ef771 2274 IN YOUR TONGUE GLASS SAID TO NEW THE ENGINEERS OF THE DELPHINAS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE AS YOU SAW THEY WERE WRONG A GLASS BLOWING CULTURE HISS STETSON THAT'LL EXPLAIN A LOT OF THINGS SLOWLY THE DISGUISED SLEDS CREPT THROUGH THE JUNGLE 100522a5-fc55-410e-84a5-fbbd26c9b981 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 59360af0-8ebe-4b07-8a8d-95924461b7af 2425 I FOUND THIS ON THE FLOOR OF THE MACHINE HE SAID DIDN'T NOTICE IT UNTIL LATER THE RAYS OF THE MACHINE CAUGHT IT AND BROUGHT IT BACK WITH US MADE IT SOLID MATTER AS WE KNOW IT HERE DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT I NODDED SHUDDERING THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF MISTAKE IN A SQUAT CLEAR BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL THAT VIC HAD TAKEN FROM THE DRAWER WAS A SINISTER CLAW LIKE BROWN HAND SEVERED CLEANLY AT THE WRIST 96eeb0d3-d047-4873-acd3-d1347611cf02 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 bd07fd1b-0fa2-46e7-9067-8d7ad795dfb1 30 IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WONDER WHAT HER ELBOWS MUST BE LIKE SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT AND A FRILLED MUSLIN APRON AND WE UNDERSTOOD FROM SOMETHING DAN SAID THAT SHE HAD DRESSED UP IN HONOR OF OUR COMING THIS MADE US FEEL QUITE IMPORTANT SO FAR AS WE KNEW NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE 030fc8b0-1d0f-4e24-a7f8-8c7ace7833bd 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 070c2d69-bdf6-4810-980c-f09a3eae7802 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 8893f276-2e35-4a16-a354-322bb14749bb 2286 NOW THAT I WAS IN SPACE PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN ALL THE DOUBTS I HAD DISMISSED FOUGHT FOR ATTENTION THE PLAN THAT SEEMED SO CLEAR AND LOGICAL NOW BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A PATCHED AND CRAZY MAKESHIFT HOLD THERE SAILOR I SAID TO MYSELF USING MY BEST ADMIRAL'S VOICE NOTHING HAS CHANGED IT'S STILL THE BEST AND ONLY PLAN POSSIBLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES d489e53f-27d6-409e-b257-7300a4ff78f8 464 EATEN IT WAS HOWEVER TO THE LAST CRUMB IF IT WERE NOT JUST WHAT A CORNMEAL PUDDING MIGHT BE THE REST OF THE BILL OF FARE HAD BEEN EXTRA GOOD AND OUR APPETITES MATCHED IT I WISH I WAS TWINS SO'S I COULD EAT MORE SAID DAN WHEN HE SIMPLY HAD TO STOP WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER efea66ba-db30-4bdf-a4ea-5b8f8b26bb02 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 ce30ebb8-c656-4881-a2df-329cdc8f6b08 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 ec015b2a-d688-434b-9eb4-6c29db5c4c2a 2182 IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL THERE WAS ONE ON THE DOCK BUT I THOUGHT SO DID I SHE SOUNDED RELIEVED BUT IF YOU SAW ONE TOO ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS STANDING THERE ON THE DECK BESIDE ME RIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE I LOST MY HEAD AND GROUNDED THE QUEEN AND IT VANISHED THE OWL I MEAN SO DID MINE JEFF SAID WHILE THEY STOOD MARVELING THE OWLS CAME BACK 09c142d4-bc9f-48e9-9b4b-001e46c7b3e3 451 THE STORY GIRL WALKED UPRIGHTLY LIKE INCARNATE FLAME IN HER CRIMSON SILK HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE BUT SARA RAY WAS NOT HAPPY HER FACE WAS SO MELANCHOLY THAT THE STORY GIRL LOST PATIENCE WITH HER 5fdd0ad4-f434-40fc-b556-8a3b891fea4a 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 12a85573-dbfa-418f-9990-0ce6db687eef 2182 IN ANY CASE HOW COULD THEY STOP US FROM MOVING IN ABRUPTLY HE SWITCHED TO HIS OWN INTEREST AUBREY HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE SCOOPS NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE 9ac74ea6-23bf-4977-8f9a-65059673adf0 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 89af552a-edea-40e8-a55c-d8c01241ad70 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 7c781147-5fb9-4b2a-b6f0-c5f1c2823960 30 FELIX TWITCHED THE QUILT RATHER VICIOUSLY AND GRUNTED BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN HOW COULD SHE HELP IT WHEN SHE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR I THINK THEY ARE BOTH NICE AND NICE LOOKING SAID CECILY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I WONDER WHAT THE STORY GIRL WILL THINK OF THEM SAID FELICITY AS IF AFTER ALL THAT WAS THE MAIN THING 624d80f7-e983-4c3f-bce0-48c105fe3220 2286 SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES SEND IT BY SIAM ONLY NO MENTION OF ANY OTHER NAVAL SIGNALING EQUIPMENT THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE NOW IT MIGHT BE OVERHEARD I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION KEEPING MY FACE TURNED AWAY SO THEY COULDN'T SEE THE COLD SWEAT 6968fd55-20a0-4e18-b634-c3abce102df9 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 7d89d0df-2995-41db-96c5-90c0b29abafe 32 PETER WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KEPT HIS NORMAL POISE NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH ONE NIGHT CECILY CAME INTO THE PANTRY WITH A LARGE CUCUMBER AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR THE GREATER PART OF IT THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE SO WE ATE OUR SNACKS OPENLY WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO WAYS THAT WERE DARK I REMEMBER I SUPPED THAT NIGHT OFF A SOLID HUNK OF FAT PORK TOPPED OFF WITH A SLAB OF COLD PLUM PUDDING 64f3c3e4-7139-4d0d-918a-09c4f0fcd748 2274 NO ANSWER IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I AM TO NUBE HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP ORNE SWALLOWED WHERE DO YOU GO DEMANDED TO NUBE I WAS HOPING TO GO TO YOUR CITY IS IT PERMITTED A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED a4657529-6fcc-4dbd-a0e3-e407f317c85d 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 64b4757b-ab60-453e-b212-9339317486ec 451 THE STORY GIRL WENT UP AND TOLD HIM WONDROUS TALES AND SARA RAY BROUGHT HIM A PUDDING SHE HAD MADE HERSELF SARA'S INTENTIONS WERE GOOD BUT THE PUDDING WELL DAN FED MOST OF IT TO PATTY WHO HAD CURLED HIMSELF UP AT THE FOOT OF THE BED GIVING THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A CAT BY HIS MALLIPHUOUS PURRING AIN'T HE JUST A GREAT OLD FELLOW SAID DAN HE KNOWS I'M KIND OF SICK JUST AS WELL AS A HUMAN HE NEVER PAYS NO ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M WELL 2c6a1aa3-177f-458d-9c4e-f08ea01ffabb 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 e6f9d4fc-1785-4fc1-88f4-070cc54b3c13 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 a3c9d71a-717c-4761-b555-258c73ecebf3 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 04568855-4ab7-4949-a3e3-415301948e2a 2137 THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW IT WOULD BE HARD TO SEE UNLESS ASTRO WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF IT HE RAISED THE INTENE ON THE TELETOKEY AND SNAPPED IT ON THE THE SCREEN GLOWED INTO LIFE TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM JUST LIKE A TELEVISION PLAYING INSTALMENTS BRANDON THOUGHT SEEN TWO COMING UP 69d66367-ac8b-4aed-9688-708d2b39f31b 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 37e03141-9ff0-40e2-80ef-dcab053dfcf4 2425 TURN THE UPPER OF THE TWO DIALS UNTIL THE HAND OF THE METER BESIDE IT MOVES UP TO TWENTY SEVEN HUNDRED EXACTLY WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING THEN TURN THE SECOND DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED LINES COINCIDE AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME THE THING IS SET TO OPERATE THE REVERSE CYCLE AT THREE HOUR INTERVALS EXACTLY 961dd4f4-fc72-4d3c-8203-699022a9acdf 413 NEITHER ARGUMENT ENTREATY NOR EXPOSTULATION HAD ANY EFFECT ON THOSE TWO STUBBORN GIRLS NOR YET THE TEARS OF SWEET CECILY WHO CRIED EVERY NIGHT ABOUT IT AND MINGLED IN HER PURE LITTLE PRAYERS FERVENT PETITIONS THAT FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL MIGHT MAKE UP I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU EXPECT TO GO WHEN YOU DIE FELICITY SHE SAID TEARFULLY IF YOU DON'T FORGIVE PEOPLE I HAVE FORGIVEN HER WAS FELICITY'S ANSWER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK FIRST FOR ALL THAT IT'S VERY WRONG MORE THAN THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE COMPLAINED CECILY IT SPOILS EVERYTHING e8329674-309c-4752-b205-47e7c63f55ed 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 eb8056cd-b53c-4056-8c96-847ec9943548 2274 A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY BUT HE CAN IF HE'S SHARP READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN OF EVERY LIVING THING ON IT MUTTERED AMBO STETSON SECTION CHIEF OF INVESTIGATION AND ADJUSTMENT STETSON PACE LENNED AND CONTROL BRIDGE OF HIS SCOUT CRUISER 92790c14-5543-4eb8-a5b5-bfc5cd721445 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 NONE OF US COULD WE WENT TO THE GROWN UPS AND TOLD THEM SO AND THE GROWN UPS WITH UNACCUSTOMED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY TOLD US THAT WE NEED NOT THEN WE ROAMED ABOUT IN OUR WRETCHEDNESS AND TRIED TO COMFORT ONE ANOTHER 7f576c70-377c-45ee-ac49-f0b3e5159082 2182 WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE FINDING OUT WHERE THE ISLANDERS GOT THEIR CALM CRYSTALS HAD BECOME SUDDENLY UNIMPORTANT JUST THEN HE WANTED NOTHING SO MUCH AS TO SEE A WELL ARMED PATROL SHIP NOSING DOWN OUT OF THE COLLAXY IN SUNRISE HE WAS ACTIVATING THE SCREEN WHEN JENIFER IN A MAGNIFICENT RAGE IN SPITE OF SOAKED BLOUSE AND DUNGERIES ADVANCED ON HIM 013b0642-1289-4e05-a128-fd6a7954cb96 2286 IT WAS CLOSING FAST USING THE RAW ENERGY OF THE BATTLESHIP ENGINES FOR A HEADLONG APPROACH MY SHIP BUCKED A BIT AS THE TUG BEAMS LOCKED ON AT MAXIMUM DISTANCE THE RADIAT LEAKED AT ME FOR ATTENTION AT THE SAME TIME I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON THE VOICE BOOMED OUT 49586cff-6223-4af7-b68f-6023a099cd2b 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 4472686d-6b28-4cb8-8c92-b1b71bb1cc2c 2137 AS HE TALKED A PICTURE FLICKERED ON THE SCREEN IT WAS THE RADIO ROOM ON ASTRO WON COLONEL TOWERS WAS PACING BACK AND FORTH IN FRONT OF THE RADIO MAN SHALL YOU KEEP TRYING TO RAISE HIM HE HEARD RHINARD ASK FOOL STUNT TOWERS SPUTTERED NOD I THINK I THINK YOU WENT DOWN DELIBERATELY JUST TO BE THE FIRST HUMAN BEING TO WALK ON THE GROUND OF A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM ASTRO THIS IS BRANNAN COME IN PLEASE TOWERS CONTINUED TO PACE AND TALK 0836b1fe-0906-4efe-b3e0-d3699a1ef9cd 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 4432b1b8-638f-4b7a-b245-a6b766c175ea 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 7bfca687-402a-42b6-83fa-01524bbb87db 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 67658806-5217-47da-9c2e-4137d0e7da57 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 11274512-387c-4b1b-9541-9bcc92792af3 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 f7b9bd2b-6cf4-42cc-b0cd-710fd049301e 2182 HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM THEY WERE ALL BUT EYE TO EYE WHEN JENOFER CAUGHT HIM AND TOWED HIM AWAY TOWARD THE DOUBTFUL SAFETY OF THE ISLAND QUEEN CHAFFEE'S THREE AND FOUR APPEARED FROM NOWHERE AND STOOD SOLEMNLY BY WHILE THE ZID WEAKENED AND SANK WITH A FINAL GOUT OF BUBBLES WE MUST HAVE YOUR FRIEND'S HELP CHAFFY THREE SAID TO JENOFY THEN TO RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT fc5e2b24-31e5-4891-95c2-69ae28ba6b99 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 e2a67056-3ec9-4a31-8cea-0bda0857bd47 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 9876d1f5-c3b7-4860-8eae-22be3b456f77 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 1153c5dd-e432-472b-a94c-943d586b5f0d 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 7613124a-2752-4935-aa11-5a916c5014ae 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 659ee68f-d1eb-4d4f-b523-caabae18e28a 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 4614b815-e1c8-4aa2-b14c-568be79bb1f8 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 271325cc-c520-4665-888c-5d7a13813d32 2425 A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY PETE SHOUTED A FAMILIAR VOICE AND I SCRAMBLED TO MY FEET THERE WAS VIC HIS RED HAIR TOUSLED AND HIS FACE GREY WITH WORRY BEHIND HIM HER BIG BLUE EYES BRIMMING HER LIPS QUIVERING WAS HOPE 38675f0b-60fa-4cb5-ba69-ff6f7fc1381f 14 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF JUVENILE CARLYLE CENTERED IN THE DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS WE WERE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE ASSIGNED TO A TEACHER WHO MADE OUR LESSON SO INTERESTING THAT WE NO LONGER REGARDED SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AS A DISAGREEABLE WEEKLY DUTY BUT INSTEAD LOOKED FORWARD TO IT WITH PLEASURE AND TRIED TO CARRY OUT OUR TEACHER'S GENTLE PRECEPTS AT LEAST ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS 8d73664c-12aa-4abf-9c0f-14841eac345e 2108 I SHALL HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON YOU POLYCHROME AND I MAY FAIL IN ALL MY ATTEMPTS SHE THEN TRIED TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAGIC HOPING ONE OF THEM WOULD SUCCEED IN BREAKING POLYCHROME'S ENCHANTMENT BUT STILL THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER REMAINED A CANARY BIRD 0b47d44d-a41d-4333-8215-8b67bc222fe0 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 7e62417f-f298-4ebd-9029-578803527e7c 2182 SHE WAS A PRETTY SIGHT THERE WAS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTION IN JEFF IN SPITE OF HIS DRAB YEARS OF E I PATROL DUTY THE WHITE PUFF OF SAIL ON DARK GREEN SEA GLIDING ACROSS CALM WATER BANDED WITH LIGHTER AND DARKER STRAYER WHERE SUBMERGED SHOALS LAY STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM THE COMPARISON IT FORCED BETWEEN COLLAXIA AND EARTH WHOSE YAWNING FORTH WORE SCARS AND HERITAGE OF ANXIETIES MADE CALM CRYSTAL SO DESPERATELY NECESSARY OPPRESSED HIM 7cc60bf4-d55a-4f06-ac5c-1917e047b59b 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 dce44589-d701-4fa7-8dc5-63f4d0b333a4 402 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHAT THE MAN WHO DREW IT THOUGHT GOD WAS LIKE ANSWERED THE STORY GIRL CARELESSLY BUT HE COULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ANY MORE THAN YOU DO HE HAD NEVER SEEN HIM IT'S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU TO SAY SO SAID FELICITY BUT YOU DON'T KNOW EITHER I WISH I COULD BELIEVE THAT ISN'T LIKE GOD BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE 78d4ee1d-fce9-4973-8004-b4eff1edb77a 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 41b48a65-fbc6-49fd-82b1-69dd526e0f8e 2274 HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT BUT NOW THE SHIP RESTED ON ITS TAIL FINS ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG ABOVE THE HORIZON PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING c8da4641-fa3d-47b9-9957-74ab8c213f62 2425 WATCH THEM PETE ROARED VIC WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES HIS GUN ROARED TWICE FROM BEHIND ME AND TWO OF THE PRIESTS FELL WRITHING TO BE INSTANTLY TRAMPLED INTO PULP ANOTHER REACHED OUT LONG ARMS TOWARD HOPE AND I LET HIM HAVE IT THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO HE WENT THE WAY OF THE TWO OTHERS ab6559f2-d2ae-424b-b47c-68800558d99e 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 953e1916-00ef-415d-8ff4-ec9d4bc76d8d 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 18ed63a4-edd7-44b1-8255-5867b7b6197b 2137 WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY THEN THE DESERT AS HE TUMBLED OVER AND OVER HE TALKED TO THE MILKY BOY TEN SECONDS SHIP WEIGHED AT LEAST TEN SECONDS BEFORE RELEASING A DRUG SHOOT SO WILL CLEAR THE SHIP THEN HE SPOKE TO THE DESERT AND MAYBE ANOTHER TEN TO GET THE CAPSULE TIME SLOW DOWN 0dbf64c8-7941-4edd-8b8a-b47d10fa8305 14 PAT ISN'T A BIT BETTER HE JUST MOPES ABOUT THE KITCHEN SAID THE STORY GIRL ANXIOUSLY I WENT OUT TO THE BARN AND I SAW A MOUSE I HAD A STICK IN MY HAND AND I FETCHED A SWIPE AT IT SO I KILLED IT STONE DEAD THEN I TOOK IT IN TO PADDY WILL YOU BELIEVE IT HE WOULDN'T EVEN LOOK AT IT I'M SO WORRIED UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE NEEDS A DOSE OF PHYSIC BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION c341d137-e28c-407a-a929-0f1e7fad26ab 2425 THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I HOPE SO DEAR WE SEEM TO BE IF WE CAN ONLY REACH THE SPOT WHERE WE ENTERED THIS INSANE WORLD BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE 43df40ab-d15a-47fc-b38e-e4e6f6e2a078 2137 THINGS HAVE MOVED PRETTY FAST IN THE PAST FEW YEARS I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT HE PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK FROM THE DESK MAYBE IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE MAN LIVED IN FEAR OF FIRE FOR A GOOD MANY HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT 53db1ab1-030e-4fed-9769-ec9250ae366d 2274 WHEN HE COMBED IN HIS NET OF SNEAKERS TO CHECK THE TAPES AND FILMS LO AND BEHOLD HE HAD A LITTLE STRANGER ONE OF THEIRS NO IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY THE DELPHINUS HAS BEEN UNREPORTED FOR EIGHTEEN STANDARD MONTHS 3f754967-4af9-4fc3-b431-389576b41dc6 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 c6cdcea8-43db-418f-aa8c-09445a4bfe38 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 e795bd4f-1c19-4b1d-9bb4-6ca7ebb448c6 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 bc6eaaa5-0a44-4b88-840a-c698f9a424ab 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 1e54a87e-023c-4472-a1bd-b1dbf1ddee39 2317 AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB AS IT WORKED OUT JOHN ANDREW WAS A PERSON WHO FOUND IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY NO HE GENERALLY TOOK THE MANUSCRIPTS IN HAND AND WHEN HE COULD STICK SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE FIRM WITH A TASK READ THEM HIMSELF UNTIL THE WE HOURS 68b873f3-50fa-484c-a821-9de3e72e2050 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 df695d2e-70e9-4505-9312-e7d74db7ce54 2425 I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED LET'S SEE IT'S FOUR MINUTES OF ONE THAT GIVES US SEVEN MINUTES CAN WE MAKE IT I THINK SO IT'S NOT SO FAR AND WE'RE NEARLY OUT OF THE CITY WE HAVE TO MAKE IT VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING ANXIOUSLY I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL aa9d7bb1-c0b1-49cd-998b-f17db36e89fb 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY SAID THE STORY GIRL SETTLING HERSELF COMFORTABLY ON A BOUGH WITH HER BROWN HEAD AGAINST A GNARLED TRUNK IT'S SAD AND BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED MISSUS DUNBAR LIVES NEXT DOOR TO AUNT LOUISA IN TOWN SHE IS SO SWEET YOU WOULDN'T THINK TO LOOK AT HER THAT SHE HAD A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE BUT SHE HAS AUNT LOUISA TOLD ME THE TALE f0cb3442-b919-4c4d-93ba-a2a34093ffbc 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 f72d03ca-9752-4001-9471-9b3eb98ed7d7 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 87f9303b-da5e-4a7c-ae3e-7cae0f414083 2108 THEN THE TIN WOODMAN STARED HARD AT HIS FRIEND THE SCARECROW BUT FINALLY HE SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE OF VOICE I MUST ADMIT THAT NEVER BEFORE HAVE I THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING AS FINDING MINNY AND ME AND MAKING HER EMPRESS OF THE WINKIES d093e886-a91a-4d8d-a89d-fabe3dede5cd 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 A TALE OF THE STORY GIRLS WHEREIN PRINCES WERE THICKER THAN BLACKBERRIES AND QUEENS AS COMMON AS BUTTERCUPS LED TO OUR DISCUSSION OF KINGS WE WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO BE A KING PETER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FINE ONLY KIND OF INCONVENIENT WEARING A CROWN ALL THE TIME d3c6ee47-f818-451b-b98c-d74d5b7642e6 2317 THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS SPACE SHIP HE MANAGED TO CROAK BEFORE GIVING IT UP THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY THE NONIPUS CROUCHED MOTIONLESS THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY AS IF UNTOUCHED BY ANYTHING AROUND HIM HIS ARMS FOLDED AND A FAINT SMILE UPON HIS DAMP LIPS FINALLY HE SPOKE TOO b8ca0873-7bdd-45da-ae0d-70b4cc1f8d13 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 3a5ceab5-d8f1-4b01-aafb-d8dcb45af439 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 543aefe2-223a-45c5-af7a-8487aa44b0cd 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 1aafd874-8f64-4205-b497-37224ac1eb1b 2425 THE APPARATUS VIC HAD MENTIONED WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT IT CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF FOUR TALL SLIM POSTS SET IN THE FORM OF A SQUARE ABOUT A YARD APART AND SUPPORTED BY HEAVY COPPER BRACKETS MOUNTED ON A THICK BASE OF INSULATING MATERIAL AND EACH POST BORE AT ITS TOP LIKE A STALK WITH A SINGLE DROOPING FLOWER A DEEP HIGHLY POLISHED REFLECTOR POINTING INWARD AND DOWNWARD 1561bdcf-ff26-435c-9c5e-507f72648e9e 2312 MEANWEL MADE A GRIMACE AND DIED QUIETLY AS MARILLA HAD DONE HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL AND TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT THEY BURIED HIM NOT KNOWING FOR SURE WHETHER HE WAS MANUEL COME BACK OR WHAT HE WAS THERE WASN'T MUCH OF HIM TO BURY 03619def-d04b-452a-a3d5-ac33ae7573df 451 MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS THE CROWNS ARE JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS THEY LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE OTHER PEOPLE IF YOU CAN GO BY THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS I DON'T BELIEVE IT WOULD BE MUCH FUN AS A STEADY THING SAID CECILY I'D LIKE TO SEE A QUEEN THOUGH THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY efd8e37e-daf5-4caa-b662-fbfa29c8ba35 402 WE STOPPED PICKING APPLES SAT DOWN ON THE GRASS AND TRIED TO REASON IT OUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT THE REST OF US COULD NOT SEE WHERE ANY CATCH COULD EXIST SINCE FELIX SOLEMNLY VOWED CROSS HIS HEART WHITE SHEEP DID EAT MORE THAN BLACK ad46b8e5-14e4-49e9-ac07-6c0095c5da6f 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 e4070199-c07e-48d0-9c07-ace8eca984cc 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 5be90e01-3071-4164-82c1-307cdb45be4b 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 dd9482da-19f4-416e-a77e-3b666bfb223c 188 WE FELT AS MUCH OF A SHOCK AS IF WE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE EXPECTANT GUESTS OURSELVES WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND RESUMED HER WORK NO INDEED I WISH HE HAD BEEN THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SUIT SUITABLE AND ROMANTIC NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT FANCY HE ACTED MEAN RIGHT THROUGH AUNT JANET SAYS HE NEVER SENT EVEN A WORD TO RACHEL AND SHE NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN 6ee7b7f2-4b51-440c-a6da-70f13eb21bcb 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 1e379dd7-205b-425c-af55-361126feb86f 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 c32a95a9-24d6-4397-87b1-437e45008fcc 2108 THE BARON THE OWL GRAVELY WATCHED THIS OPERATION AND NODDED APPROVAL IN WUTE'S SILKY GREEN FURS SHONE CLEAR AND BRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON SUN THE CANARY SEEMED MUCH AMUSED AND LAUGHED A SOBERY RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER AS SHE SAID VERY WELL DONE MY GOOD GINGER I ADMIRE YOUR ENERGY AND JUDGMENT b96fedfb-f000-402b-9fdb-215cb0ca5e30 14 UNCLE ROGER WAS AS WE HAD BEEN INFORMED QUITE JOLLY AND FOND OF TEASING WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR SOMETIMES WE BELIEVED UNCLE ROGER WAS MAKING FUN OF US AND THE DEADLY SERIOUSNESS OF YOUTH IN US RESENTED THAT daba61ef-8664-4ae5-9319-84ce78dd7c53 402 HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS BUT WHEN EAGER JOYOUS RADIANT HE SET HIS FOOT ON THE RAINBOW THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK b8488862-fa22-4e88-a928-d748fcfa0886 2317 IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE HER FIGURE WAS LEAF AND NICELY CURVED HER SCALES STOPPED IN EYE CATCHING POINTS JUST ABOVE HER DISTINCTLY MAMELIUM BOSOM FROM THERE ON UP SHE LOOKED ALMOST COMPLETELY HUMAN SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER THE OVERALL EFFECT WAS ODDLY BEAUTIFUL FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY AND TRIED TO KEEP HIS EYES ON HER FACE 81d86cf2-0b3a-4241-867a-d9f588c27a88 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 b053041e-f3ec-45d5-beee-3d4e4fd410b4 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 3f94f493-28f2-4f91-aa45-3c4a808481ca 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 0c8d01c6-9707-4909-bf16-30de80a1249f 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 d15e0600-fdd2-4281-85a8-22eba0723cb4 14 PETER GOES TO CHURCH THERE WASUD SCHOOL THE NEXT AFTERNOON AS THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TEACHERS WISHED TO ATTEND A COMMUNION SERVICE AT MARKDALE THE CARLISLE SERVICE WAS IN THE EVENING AND AT SUNSET WE WERE WAITING AT UNCLE ALEC'S FRONT DOOR FOR PETER AND THE STORY GIRL 57e0faf5-3f79-4c74-8f71-ada6917f0a3b 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 86a93753-d774-4ff2-b72f-1b065f1371f1 2274 WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD I'M WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP A TIGHT ORBIT OUT BEYOND US WILL BE FIVE TRANSPORTS FULL OF I A MARINES AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU ce6a6c62-c4da-42e0-acf4-571ced866d2c 2108 ALSO WHEN OZBRUS BECAME A FAIRYLAND IT HARBOURED SEVERAL WITCHES AND MAGICIANS AND SORCERS AND NECROMANCERS WHO WERE SCATTERED IN VARIOUS PARTS BUT MOST OF THESE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR MAGIC POWERS AND OZMA HAD ISSUED A ROYAL EDICT FORBIDDING ANYONE IN HER DOMINIONS TOWARD MAGIC EXCEPT GLINDA THE GOOD AND THE WIZARD OF OZ 722c3926-c3b6-4e5d-ba4c-dc252968dfe0 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 LAST OF ALL CAME VING HE HAD LINGERED BEHIND TO PLUCK A THORN FROM THE FOOT OF A BEGGAR CHILD HE HAD MET ON THE HIGHWAY AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS 2d31e7a2-b9a2-4075-9450-1940f87aa8fd 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 1909b0b6-bde7-4170-861a-a1c886d994f9 32 PETER WAS NOT PROOF AGAINST THIS DOUBLE ATTACK HE YIELDED AND TOLD THE SECRET I EXPECTED THE STORY GIRL WOULD OVERWHELM HIM WITH SCORN AND INDIGNATION BUT SHE TOOK IT VERY COOLLY I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG 33fbe302-8b5c-4c3b-b8d9-0781b570e33d 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 4fc2e6f5-470e-416c-b4b2-b7931ef62bcf 2286 SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS IN THE SAFETY OF MY HOTEL SUITE I MADE A CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND PERSONALITY AFTER THE ROEBOT HAD CHECKED THE ROOM FOR BUGS AND VERY NICE CADGETS TOO THESE CORBOTS IT LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE A MORAL M THREE ALL THE TIME IT WAS ANYTHING BUT 4dada674-8a38-4992-82e1-afcf5c349e02 2317 THE BLOW HAD BEEN DIRECTED AT DOOR AND SHE SHOWED THAT SHE HAD ABSORBED MOST OF IT BY WILTING VISIBLY BUT FARMER FELT AS MUCH OF IT AS HE WANTED IT WAS AS IF A BLAST FURNACE HAD SUDDENLY OPENED BESIDE HIM HE WONDERED HOW UNCOMFORTABLE HE COULD GET A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED JOHN ANDREW WAS WISHING THAT HE COULD SWIM WHEN DORA SMILED AND HE BEGAN TO BE INTERESTED IN LIVING AGAIN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF 177a3de5-98ee-4c5e-ab34-c7ef879e56a8 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 1c19977b-ce58-4bfb-826d-a8991e5ce425 402 EVEN FELICITY AND DAN FOR ONCE IN THEIR LIVES GOT THROUGH THE DAY WITHOUT ANY EXCHANGE OF LEFT HANDED COMPLIMENTS CECILY CONFIDED TO ME THAT SHE NEVER MEANT TO PUT HER HAIR UP IN CURLORS ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AGAIN BECAUSE IT WAS PRETENDING SHE WAS SO ANXIOUS TO REPENT OF SOMETHING SWEET GIRL AND THIS WAS ALL SHE COULD THINK OF a41b2acf-d794-4e4e-9bd5-d024e72f0ae2 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 cfe20478-3a88-4337-add3-f32a98ad0e09 2274 INSECTS CAME IN TWING CONES SIPHONED TOWARD THE HEADLIGHTS THERE WAS AN ENDLESS CHITTERING WHISTLING TALK TALKING IN THE GLOOM BEYOND THE LIGHTS STETSON'S VOICE HISSED SUDDENLY THROUGH THE SURGICALLY IMPLANTED SPEAKER HOW'S IT LOOK 0a81aae8-0aa1-433d-bd0f-e3e1a7d6206c 2286 A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS UNDOUBTEDLY THEY HAD STARTED THE PROGRAM FOR THE GIANT TRANSPORT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHECKED LATER ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS ORDERS WERE ORIGINATED MANY PLACES PASSED ON CHANGED AND SHOVELED I PAINFULLY TRACED EACH ONE TO ITS SOURCE MANY TIMES THE SOURCE WAS A FORGERY SOME CHANGES SEEMED TO BE INEXPLICABLE UNTIL I NOTICED THAT THE OFFICERS IN QUESTION HAD A TEMPORARY SECRETARY WHILE THEN ALL ASSISTANTS WERE ILL 2614bb68-992f-469d-9f6b-7fa095dc4b75 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 b16a6d37-bea2-435b-9cad-68124fce623a 188 I HAD ADDED A TRADITION ON MY OWN ACCOUNT TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVES UNCLE ROGER ROARED WHEN HE HEARD IT AND HE ROARED AGAIN AT NIGHT OVER PETER'S ACCOUNT OF FELIX ATTEMPTING TO MILK A COW FELIX HAD PREVIOUSLY ACQUIRED THE KNACK OF EXTRICATING MILK FROM THE UTTER BUT HE HAD NEVER BEFORE TRIED TO MILK A WHOLE COW HE DID NOT GET ON WELL THE COW TRAMPED ON HIS FOOT AND FINALLY UPSET THE BUCKET WHAT ARE YOU TO DO WHEN A COW WON'T STAND STRAIGHT SPLUTTERED FELIX ANGRILY THAT'S THE QUESTION SAID UNCLE ROGER SHAKING HIS HEAD GRAVELY fb6de195-f4d5-4741-a783-bee1e589c9fc 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 IT CAME COMPLETE WITH DECORATIONS GOLD BULLION AND ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS I THOUGHT IT A LITTLE SHOWY MYSELF BUT IT WAS JUST THE THING TO MAKE THE RIGHT IMPRESSION SETANOVO LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS DELIVERY BOYS STREET CLEANERS CLERKS ALL HAVE TO HAVE CHARACTERISTIC UNIFORMS a7ae121e-78da-48f5-b5f5-b1b28bc1172c 2108 LUTE SAW THAT THE CREATURES HAD WIDE MOUTHS AND ROWS OF TERRIBLE TEETH AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS HE KNEW THAT HE HAD FALLEN INTO A CAVERN INHABITED BY THE GREAT DRAGONS THAT HAD BEEN DRIVEN FROM THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH AND WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO COME OUT ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS TO SEARCH FOR FOOD c8735c09-fbb1-4fad-82fa-a578a6625fbb 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 9e950380-8ab8-4538-a219-7522c0584c31 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 b8b17381-2839-4dd9-9e15-b96d30e63086 2182 IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY THERE'S AN E I COMMUNICATOR IN MY CABIN JEFF SAID LET'S GO MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE DOOR JEFF PANTED INSIDE FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY 741e8ceb-372d-4406-bd1a-91d657d924a1 402 THERE IS NO MORE SAID THE STORY GIRL THAT WAS THE END OF IT THE END OF EVERYTHING FOR MARGARET IT DIDN'T KILL HER BUT HER HEART DIED I JUST WISH I'D HOLD OF THOSE FELLOWS WHO WOULDN'T LET THE CAPTAIN TAKE HIS WIFE SAID PETER SAVAGELY WELL IT WAS AWFUL SAD SAID FELICITY WIPING HER EYES BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW LET US GO AND GET SOMETHING TO EAT I MADE SOME NICE LITTLE RHUBARB TARTS THIS MORNING 67d9a237-7e01-4aee-8a56-1d71cd3ddc75 2286 MY MANNER CLOTHES JEWELRY THE EASY WAY I PASSED MONEY AROUND AND THE LUXURIOUS SHEEN OF MY BAGS COULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING THERE WAS LITTLE THAT WAS WORTH SMUGGLING IN AND OUT OF SETANOVO CERTAINLY NOTHING A RICH MAN WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE OFFICIAL MURMURED SOMETHING WITH A SMILE MURR SPOKE A FEW WORDS INTO HIS PHONE AND THE JOB WAS DONE 0dcd7372-e645-4a80-b57f-6f028aab52ee 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 c55d426f-3beb-4d72-bf67-8ce3bcf4db0e 188 BUT DIRECTLY BEFORE US THE POTATO FIELD WITH ITS WREATHING SMOKE AND SULLEN FLAMES THE GIGANTIC SHADOW OF UNCLE ALEC CROSSING AND RECROSSING IT REMINDED US OF PETER'S FAMOUS DESCRIPTION OF THE BAD PLACE AND PROBABLY SUGGESTED THE STORY GIRL'S REMARK I KNOW A STORY SHE SAID INFUSING JUST THE RIGHT SHADE OF WEIRDNESS INTO HER VOICE ABOUT A MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL NOW WHAT'S THE MATTER FELICITY I CAN NEVER GET USED TO THE WAY YOU MENTION THE THE THAT NAME COMPLAINED FELICITY 64061f91-0086-4886-ab09-72fc8675af2e 402 THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX IS THAT A CONUNDRUM ASKED CECILY CAUTIOUSLY IF IT IS I WON'T TRY TO GUESS THE REASON I NEVER CAN GUESS CONUNDRUMS IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT THEY DO AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON FOR IT 0c6335f0-29a0-4859-80b1-06ecafe3fbcf 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 SHOOK HANDS ALL ROUND A RUSTLING HAND CLASP OF COURSE THEN WAS ON MY WAY A CAB WAS SUMMONED A HOTEL SUGGESTED I NODDED AGREEMENT AND SETTLED BACK WHILE THE ROBOT LOADED THE BAGS ABOUT ME 80d80f97-425a-481c-a554-97ac6533f3ad 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 625b8600-f87a-4086-9124-8e57930d4ffe 2286 I WAS TALKING TO MYSELF NORMALLY BAD SIGN BUT RIGHT NOW I DIDN'T CARE THE MOOD OF SPACE PIRACY HAD SEIZED ME AND I HAD BEEN GOING ALONG FINE UNTIL THIS GLARING INCONSISTENCY JUMPED OUT AND HIT ME SQUARE IN THE EYE WHY A BATTLESHIP WHY ALL THE TROUBLE IN YEARS OF WORK TO GET A SHIP THAT TWO PEOPLE COULD JUST BARELY MANAGE WITH A TENTH OF THE EFFORT PEPEY COULD HAVE HAD A CRUISER THAT WOULD HAVE SUITED HIS PURPOSES JUST AS WELL 996c284c-2655-4b64-a3c0-382d05db7c22 2108 I CAN UNDERSTAND THE SOLDIER'S INTEREST ASSERTED POLYCHROME DANCING ROUND THE GRIMY WORKSHOP UNTIL HER DRAPERIES FORMED A CLOUD ROUND HER DAINTY FORM FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS A MAN MIGHT LIKE TO SEE HIS OLD HEAD ONCE MORE JUST AS ONE LIKES TO VISIT AN OLD HOME 5bf12f89-8ab2-43f2-982e-f72746f6a538 2108 BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR FOR IN THE BEGINNING I WAS A MAN OF FLESH AND BONE AND BLOOD AND LIVED IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY OF OZ 8cd4da93-4e33-451a-b127-8a4e7992f422 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 0c691d06-4467-43a9-b2a1-f79b86d6ec50 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 a1c0ed01-6c6c-4512-be2b-4293cf6c3923 402 WHAT TALES SHE TOLD US ON THOSE FAR AWAY AUTUMN DAYS PEOPLING THE RUSSET ARCADES WITH FOLK OF AN ELDER WORLD b33f2b38-96eb-400c-8b48-3ba3827b64c9 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 4c51e399-16a5-49ee-87fa-da0bb836f71d 2137 THE WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN HAD TURNED INTO I'LL BE THE FIRST MAN BUT IT WAS CAPTAIN BRANDON WHO DREW THE ASSIGNMENT OF SCOUTING SERIOUS THREE FOR A SUITABLE LANDING PLACE FOR ASTRO OF SAMPLING ITS ATMOSPHERE AND OBSERVING METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS EVEN AS BRANDON CLIMBED INTO THE SCOUT SHIP TOWERS HAD CAUTIONED HIM d8eaffda-eff9-49df-8bfb-8e8ef6e38c8c 2312 YOU LOOK HERE AT MY SENSES SLIP IT SAYS I'M MANUEL AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE AND ONE MILLION OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE I COULDN'T GET THEM ON THE RIGHT FORMS THOUGH I HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST 98b0b4e1-50a8-4b52-beda-6fc763426ec7 242 HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT I DON'T KNOW I CONFESSED DUBIOUSLY FELIX IS TOO FAT HE'LL GET OUT OF BREATH IN NO TIME 21a0908d-3b1c-45b0-9817-7ebcfef6bdde 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 fb0eb889-ba16-4599-bfc4-21dd2aa06275 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 bc0e063b-09dd-4cd3-a368-62122a0e3410 2137 AS THEY WALKED TO THE DOOR THE MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT DOC IT CERTAINLY DONE A GOOD JOB SO FAR I GUESS YOUR SPECIALISTS KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING EVEN IF FOLKS DON'T UNDERSTAND IT 18e490b9-e5ef-4772-a9f2-89c930b32152 464 NEVER A BREAKFAST DID HE SIT DOWN TO WITHOUT GRAVELY INQUIRING IF THEY WERE SURE THERE WAS NO SAWDUST IN THE PORRIDGE NOT A TWEAK OF RHEUMATISM DID HE FEEL BUT HE VOWED IT WAS DUE TO A NEEDLE TRAVELLING ABOUT HIS BODY AND AUNT OLIVIA WAS WORN TO LABEL ALL THE PINCUSHIONS IN THE HOUSE a628324b-5fed-49e0-93f2-a0e653e8da1f 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 5a2ffbe3-22a3-4307-9153-de54d08b0a41 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 ec7a9751-0f45-49b8-b323-744a9de6369f 2182 THE SCOOP SENSING JENOFER'S SURRENDER SLID ITS PONDEROUS BULK NEARER AND OPENED ITS MOUTH LEAVING HALF AN ACRE OF LOWER JAW RESTING FLUSH WITH THE ISLAND QUEEN'S DECK c356f8b2-b877-47c7-b2ec-6ebd1b5eb478 177 BUT IT'S FOUR BY THE KITCHEN CLOCK SO IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY AND TEA IS READY AND MOTHER SENDS TO COME IN WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN NOW THAT IT WAS LIFTED IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY 72671be2-c08b-4607-9962-ee766d73aa5f 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 0cadf336-adc1-407f-a02a-b1dc84bedd16 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 11de65a2-9044-495e-bb8f-531facc2a27e 30 WE REMEMBERED THAT AUNT OLIVIA HAD WRITTEN TO FATHER THAT CECILY WAS A TRUE WARD SHE HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANT BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY 6b134768-d7d3-4c10-a54d-8f7313c1018b 103 I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED I COULDN'T GO OVER LAST NIGHT I GOT UP EARLY THIS MORNING THOUGH FOR I FELT SURE YOU WOULD BE UP EARLY TOO AND THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE ME TELL YOU ABOUT THINGS I CAN TELL THINGS SO MUCH BETTER THAN FELICITY OR CECILY bae56cbd-0712-4b8b-807c-a8954239c3a2 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 fe26780c-6e39-43e7-8ea8-e4461528486c 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 5e154c55-1d8f-4a6b-a959-98f488d1cdaf 464 LET CECILY AND THE STORY GIRL CACKLE ALL THEY WANTED TO AND LET THOSE STUCK UP TORONTO BOYS GRIN LIKE CHESSY CATS BUT WHEN FELICITY LAUGHED AT HIM THE IRON ENTERED INTO PETER'S SOUL IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON 0fff6bec-5e12-44c1-85e8-202b35dfcc15 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 dda90974-1a73-42ee-8ea3-850cc99542e9 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 5907e32c-0ca3-45b4-b2c1-d13e979f9d56 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 f0ac4e14-c29c-4ffc-9a68-3032c856b2cb 1867 MY BEACON WAS NOT ONLY LOCKED INSIDE A MOUNTAIN OF HAND MADE STONE BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID A GREAT BEGINNING FOR A JOB AND ONE CLEARLY DESIGNED TO DRIVE A STRONGER MAN THAN ME TO THE BOTTLE NORMALLY A REPAIR MAN STAYS AWAY FROM NATIVE CULTURES THEY ARE POISON 2a03c75c-b109-40c5-9f94-86cc445a6fc1 464 WELL YOU KNOW EVERY ONE HAS TO EAT A PECK OF DIRT IN HIS LIFE GIGGLED FELICITY 8a5573f3-2e0d-48c1-b7cd-a54d1c32cce0 14 ONCE UPON A TIME THE STORY GIRL'S EYES GREW DREAMY AND HER ACCENTS FLOATED AWAY ON THE SUMMER AIR LIKE A WIND BLOWN ROSE PETALS THERE WAS A PRINCESS WHO WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS IN THE WORLD AND KINGS FROM ALL LANDS CAME TO WOO HER FOR A BRIDE ee1ca858-772d-4dcd-9a22-1ce4da2540df 2182 JEFF TOOK THE BROWN HAND SHE PUT UP AND DREW HER TO THE DOCK BESIDE HIM STUDYING HER WHILE SHE SHOOK OUT HER DRIPPING RED HAIR AND REGAINED HER BREATH SEA WATER HAD PLASTERED JENIFER'S WHITE BLOUSE AND KNEE LENGTH DUNGARIES TO HER BODY LIKE A SECOND SKIN AND THE EFFECT BORDERED ON THE SPECTACULAR 5068058c-4282-46c6-a28f-5b45d18d7f22 2182 NOT LIKELY JEFF SAID THEY DON'T USE THE CRYSTALS THEMSELVES OLD DOCTOR HERMAN PUT HIS CHIN ALMOST ON THE CONSUL'S SHOULDER TO PRESENT HIS WIZENED FACE TO THE SCANNER OF COURSE THEY DON'T HE SAID dff27e8f-0852-4252-bbcb-b2d8310805c4 2274 TO NEWBE'S EYES DILATED CONTRACTED YOU READ MINES THE I A HAS NO NEED TO READ MINDS SAID ORAN WE RELY ON SUPERIOR MENTAL PROWESS 1ac208cc-7c72-405a-86db-9cb88850b526 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 cd98fd09-85e8-4693-b113-151111bef729 2286 BIT BY BIT A PATENT STARTED TO EMERGE A DELICATE WEB WORK OF FORGERY BRIBERY CHICANERY AND FALSEHOOD IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED BY A MIND AS BRILLIANTLY AS CROOKED AS MY OWN I CHEWED MY LIP WITH JEALOUSY LIKE ALL GREAT IDEAS THIS ONE WAS BASICALLY SIMPLE 07dcc7c9-4bb6-4338-9bb8-f07a298f1cd5 242 OH FELIX DON'T TALK LIKE THAT SAID CECILY SHOCKED GOD MUST BE FAIR I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE REASON A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY 30ed1c32-03ad-48af-ab0b-b7193f2adb52 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 7a414efb-4648-4f57-885c-91798633f31a 242 ANOTHER DAY OR TWO AND I'LL BE ABLE TO EAT A WHOLE ONE HE SAID JUBILANTLY BUT THIS DEVOUTLY DESIRED CONSUMMATION DID NOT COME TO PASS IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE NOT EVEN FAITH AND WORKS IN COMBINATION COULD AVAIL 0c7ba816-93d0-45d2-a065-6163c5d56192 2182 COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED 633e165b-8dc2-41c1-b206-5930ab46679a 198 THEN WHO RUNG THAT BELL SAID PETER BELLS DON'T RING OF THEMSELVES I SUPPOSE SPECIFICALLY WHEN THERE AIN'T ANYTHING IN THE HOUSE TO RING OH WILL UNCLE ROGER NEVER COME HOME SOBBED FELICITY I KNOW HE'LL LAUGH AT US AWFUL BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE LAUGHED AT THAN SCARED LIKE THIS 37e4f445-a79d-466b-b518-1cc5abdb6e8a 1867 WE WILL STAY WITH YOU AND SERVE YOUR EVERY NEED A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT AN ETERNITY IN A LOCKED BEACON WITH THREE BLIND LIZARDS IN SPITE OF THEIR HOSPITALITY I COULDN'T ACCEPT WHAT YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH THE MESSENGER OF YOUR ANCESTORS d49768dc-073d-4292-96d8-81fe6bae62bf 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 4223efe8-cf27-44f7-88df-d23adda4171d 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 b89c76c5-93f1-471c-b41f-ee350d53619e 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 91d04dd0-4418-4b3e-8730-fd6ee79da5a3 198 THERE WAS NOT A GREAT DEAL OF COMFORT IN THIS WE WERE ALMOST AS MUCH AFRAID OF PEG BOWEN AS WE WOULD BE OF ANY SPECTRAL VISITANT PETER SCOFFED AT THE IDEA PEG BOWEN WASN'T IN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOUR UNCLE ROGER LOCKED IT UP AND HOW COULD SHE GET IN AFTERWARDS a7b9637f-e290-4012-9333-6ad5e4bfe816 2182 THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM CHAFFEE FOUR RADIATED MAROONED IT CAN DO NO HARM TO MARINE INTELLIGENCES b165d003-76f7-49e1-b3d9-147360a2f789 177 BUT OH I WISH THAT CLOCK WOULD STRIKE TWO CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME d13c24a2-db4d-4641-86f8-f693f423c90c 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 2be7bc4c-a1df-4501-871f-cbacd74a63bf 30 SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY EXPLAINED CECILY AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR SHE MADE HER GO TO BED INSTEAD THE STORY GIRL WAS AWFULLY DISAPPOINTED 93aebc7e-ac58-4124-8592-5fb656ecd0ee 748 YES HE DID I SAID IN DISGUST FOR I WAS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT BILLY AND HIS MAGIC SEED WERE ARRANT FRAUDS WHAT FOR YOUR MOUTH IS A DECENT SIZE SAID DAN bd35d4bf-79e4-4b59-a396-870f107896c2 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 508321cc-ee31-48bd-b11c-8af1a6123d45 2182 THE ZID UTTERLY OUT OF ITS ELEMENT SCREAMED HIDEOUSLY AND THRESHED WATER TO FROTH ALL ITS EARLIER FEROCITY VANISHED UNDER THE IMMINENT AND UNFAMILIAR THREAT OF DROWNING JEFF SANK AGAIN AND CHURNED DESPERATELY TO PUT DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM 8d974122-f47b-47ad-89ea-566a9c502d9f 2108 THE WITCH SAW THE KISS AND WAS MORE ANGRY THAN EVER WHEN I WENT TO WORK IN THE FOREST NEXT DAY MY AXE BEING STILL ENCHANTED SLIPPED AND CUT OFF MY OTHER LEG 8d97a53e-58dd-49f3-a9a2-40d19cedf8ad 2317 JOHN ANDREW TURNED FEELING COMPLETELY DOOMED TO A DEMAND AND THEY STARTED GETTING IN EACH OTHER'S WAY AND SLOWING DOWN THE OPERATION EVEN MORE THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE f6bcabf6-54cf-42cf-a08f-10042d5351a5 30 HE VOWED THAT HE DIDN'T CARE BUT HE DID CARE TERRIBLY AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG 09eed7b7-553a-43ef-b9ca-b14369a61123 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 eef3735c-cb76-4ae7-a7a4-0b4ce79657cb 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 2735d4f1-c4a2-4e04-aae9-41ec91e0cd30 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 2e2bb225-54f1-44e1-8d42-e53c76ed5ca4 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 29e84907-2b33-4a74-80c0-d7a7886cfaa3 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 4688ce71-907e-40d8-b1a3-621b63fa1554 2425 THEN GET ME AN AXE I COMMANDED QUICK AN AXE HESITATED PARON AN AXE AND BE QUICK ABOUT IT 2d318a8c-2868-479c-bcee-ba5fdc57682e 413 TELL UNCLE ROGER THAT AND SAY IF TO MORROW IS THE END OF THE WORLD THAT THERE IS NO GOOD IN STUMPING FIELDS ANY MORE I SUGGESTED YES AND IF HE LETS YOU OFF THEN WE'LL KNOW HE WAS IN EARNEST CHIMED IN CICELY BUT IF HE STILL SAYS YOU MUST GO THAT'LL BE A SIGN HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IT be64acae-b4d5-4a38-9a9d-6ddbc2387849 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 6d01eb3b-26bd-45ec-8b39-6f918d629af1 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 ec4b9c82-d60f-4046-9ec9-8b240a8c4351 464 WE HEARD HER RUMMAGING IN THE PANTRY AS WE SAT ON THE COOL SPRUCE SHADOWED CELLAR DOOR OUTSIDE WHERE UNCLE ROGER WAS SHOWING US HOW TO MAKE ELDERBERRY POP GUNS PRESENTLY SHE CAME OUT FROWNING 757d9d75-59e5-49ab-82d5-64d70d71d054 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 71b15158-96f3-45ba-8ec1-cbec9a07f528 2108 NO MY LITTLE CABIN STANDS NOT A GREAT WAY OFF BUT THERE IS NO OCCASION FOR US TO VISIT IT OUR ERRAND IS WITH NIMI AMMY AND HER HOUSE IS SOMEWHAT FARTHER AWAY TO THE LEFT OF US ec081794-eb45-491b-846a-6194dbb6f821 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 5c3015fc-410a-4daf-bb7b-d345419ff455 464 OH DOCTOR MY SON HAS SWALLOWED A MOUSE HE CRIED WHAT SHALL I DO TELL HIM TO SWALLOW A CAT ROARED THE POOR DOCTOR AND SLAMMED HIS DOOR NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION 05efc493-7599-4055-b988-0d5cbd6d5ba4 2182 HE LANDED ON SOMETHING TOUGH AND WARM AND SLIPPERY A MONSTROUS TAIL FLUKE THAT STRETCHED DOWN THE BEACH TO MERGE INTO A FLAT PURPLISH ACREAGE OF BACK FORESTED WITH ENDLESS ROWS OF FINS AND SPINES AND ENIGMATIC TENDRILS f9fa6ea1-038a-4a3a-96e9-6d13f65350c6 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 e65aac58-56bd-4ba9-9bee-2b15cdc730ff 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 0a8a7104-16f7-432d-951c-d8b0541c606d 177 TIME ALWAYS SEEMS LONG WHEN YOU'RE WAITING SAID THE STORY GIRL BUT IT DOES SEEM AS IF WE'D BEEN HERE MORE THAN AN HOUR 6f0b5b0a-372b-4666-9308-902fe943b607 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 4755493a-28d0-489a-ac92-30980e02c874 30 INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH THE FAT ONE ISN'T SO BAD BESIDES SARA STANLEY DOESN'T LIKE HER NAME AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL 531555ba-1f6b-4646-b5d3-47371245b4f3 2317 GARF WAS RISING AGAIN LOOKING IMPATIENT RAY REACHED A DECISION SAID GO TO HELL 111bf3b2-823e-4672-8fe7-6f3ce2648aa5 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 50cde6cc-4dec-4dbc-a4d4-2246abf822a2 402 WE MUST FORGET TO THANK GOD FOR MAKING PETER BETTER SAID CECILY AS WE FINALLY WENT TO THE HOUSE I WAS USED TO HEARING GIRLS CRY b4c26550-75d7-4462-85d4-7a64ffd21971 242 DO ANY OF YOU HAPPEN TO WANT TO HEAR THE REST OF MY STORY ASKED THE STORY GIRL IN AN OMINOUSLY POLITE VOICE THAT RECALLED US TO A SENSE OF OUR BAD MANNERS fec0515e-3d19-46d7-9e17-b3f7b5504769 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 6f11cd01-aeb9-420e-8500-a57cdcacb366 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 f6b8c549-5536-4b84-b7c4-a99cae8003fa 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 1fdd6ae6-c3cb-4c10-8b83-1c2b5075514c 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 053c2da1-42d8-4104-ba36-b78a6ac23ae3 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 9d14bb3d-0228-494f-9ee6-3a72e99be7b2 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 24c340de-b54c-4303-82dd-0dd566e3ef7e 402 I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEELING RIGHT ALONG WEPT SARAH THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT TO BUY OR LOOK AT GOD'S PICTURE 08e73385-1ad4-449f-960a-803b34d76f01 413 NEITHER WOULD SPEAK FIRST AND EACH OBSTINATELY DECLARED THAT SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK FIRST NO NOT IN A HUNDRED YEARS CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM 851f6562-58db-4b9f-9b2e-ec2748817de2 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 b411d064-ce59-482e-8a69-9b4b962e1ea0 464 SHE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT AND CERTAINLY AS FAR AS APPEARANCE WENT IT JUSTIFIED HER TRIUMPH THE SLICES WERE SMOOTH AND GOLDEN AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW 48331dcc-f305-4f30-9047-bc75f37ffd8e 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 54f86cf6-fb2b-4e17-bfc5-d2cffd0fba14 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 ba61df50-d004-4ab5-96ab-d9923c9bb084 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 50dede52-f819-46ee-8de4-5858e0c1447a 188 THEY SHOULDN'T GROW IN THE WRONG PLACE SAID FELICITY MERCILESSLY WHEN WEEDS GO TO HEAVEN I SUPPOSE THEY WILL BE FLOWERS CONTINUED THE STORY GIRL YOU DO THINK SUCH QUEER THINGS SAID FELICITY 897545fe-05ee-4702-ba67-7fd2547ee54b 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 dfdb25d3-0921-414d-97b7-c896246cb2db 402 OH WHISPERED FELICITY WE ALL SPOKE IN LOW TONES ON THE SUBJECT FOR BY INSTINCT AND TRAINING WE THOUGHT AND UTTERED THE GREAT NAME WITH REVERENCE IN SPITE OF OUR DEVOURING CURIOSITY OH WOULD JERRY COWN BRING IT TO SCHOOL THEN LET US SEE IT 8e8ad48e-1f67-475a-948c-436bc0c37f79 2274 HAH WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT WE ARE NOT MUTATED MEMBERS OF YOUR RACE ORAN SWALLOWED GHOSTLY SHADOWS WITH VINE PENDULUMS ON BOTH SIDES SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED 5a820823-78a4-4cc9-aa44-ff0e69845f5b 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 bbdbf856-5fea-469e-af98-03501afbab3f 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 3b016118-7d7e-47b3-a061-0dc7cb46f915 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 9804e43b-920d-4ad1-8a7b-e30119045375 242 IT WILL SOON BE WINTER I WISH SUMMER WOULD LAST FOREVER FELICITY LIKES THE WINTER AND SO DOES THE STORY GIRL BUT I DON'T IT ALWAYS SEEMS SO LONG TILL SPRING 7eb35cbe-d826-487f-9176-8a70c8bfaf30 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 f3d93dc5-fb8f-427a-8169-bbdb6cc63c36 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 5a4f97f4-457a-4db9-ba20-d27fa905a66e 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 4c45e04a-5568-4965-966d-8f2daef5e27f 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 381165c1-b72c-4051-b987-f335fe0b03d0 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 cc258b37-c1cf-429d-a4f1-432f3ce8b176 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 d39dd0ea-0982-4bbd-a2bd-3308b54eb112 2368 HE HAD A FACE LIKE AN EAGLE AND HIS EYES WERE ICE BLUE HE MOVED HIS THIN STRONG HANDS GENTLY BACK AND FORTH ON THE TABLE THAT HELD HIS PAPERS INKSTAND PEN AND SAID IN A VOICE LIKE AUDIBLE SAND PAPER YOU WANTED TO SEE ME 94eeecf2-9cd2-4ba3-9335-1777695a72f4 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 5eeb9b3f-f823-402f-8685-f3fdd71a48b3 748 NOR WERE WE THE ONLY VICTIMS WE DID NOT FIND THE WHOLE STORY OUT AT ONCE INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THE FULL MEASURE OF THAT SHAMELESS BILLY ROBINSON'S INIQUITY WAS REVEALED TO US 56c09144-a1bc-46e3-891d-ce683fb2ada6 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 490f58ef-134b-4f32-980a-b340ab4ddf9e 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 52028929-e78f-4b7a-8a5e-adb214bf938e 402 THAT WILL BE EASY SIGHED FELICITY I DON'T FEEL A BIT LIKE BEING BAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER I FEEL SURE I'LL NEVER BE NAUGHTY AGAIN I WON'T HAVE THE HEART e154b652-94be-4381-801b-68c433ccbcc2 402 THE APPLES FROM OUR OWN BIRTHDAY TREES WERE STORED IN SEPARATE BARRELS INSCRIBED WITH OUR NAMES WE MIGHT DISPOSE OF THEM AS WE WILLED c4c6eff9-4f46-41f2-bcf4-7d6aab038768 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 3ea50781-e052-4111-b405-66b65715d53d 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 66cada12-03f9-4b75-ba7b-1fc5681dd6d0 177 LET'S GO TO THE ORCHARD AND WAIT SAID THE STORY GIRL IT'S ONE O'CLOCK NOW SO IN ANOTHER HOUR WE'LL KNOW THE WORST WE'LL LEAVE THE FRONT DOOR OPEN AND WE'LL HEAR THE BIG CLOCK WHEN IT STRIKES TWO d2e78988-2bb3-4e39-b317-82766453edb4 748 SHE WOULD NEVER BE SATISFIED AS A DABBLER WHATEVER HER FUTURE CAREER SHOULD BE INTO WHICH SHE WOULD THROW ALL HER POWERS OF MIND AND HEART AND SOUL BUT UNCLE BLAIR COULD DO AT LEAST ONE THING SURPASSINGLY WELL 15cd29dc-f7b5-4289-aa96-318c89eb9b45 30 THERE IT WAS IN TRUTH THE TREE GRANDFATHER KING HAD PLANTED WHEN HE RETURNED ONE EVENING FROM PLOUGHING IN THE BROOK FIELD AND STUCK THE WILLOWS WHICH HE HAD USED ALL DAY IN THE SOFT SOIL BY THE GATE e2da5122-1955-4115-a0cb-0cad1cecfeac 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 250f1c27-9c09-48c5-925d-c4f3214b8c84 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 098aa752-4287-40a8-a10d-f19a8439970a 413 PETER AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED TOOK FELICITY'S PART AND SAID THE STORY GIRL OUGHT TO SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE SHE WAS THE OLDEST THAT HE SAID HAD ALWAYS BEEN HIS AUNT JANE'S RULE SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS 8e56d4d7-5c8a-42fc-b417-092603bdd742 177 WELL ANYHOW SAID PETER EVEN IF IT ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAMN I KEEP ON READING THE BIBLE UNTIL I'VE GOT CLEAN THROUGH I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS SUCH AN INTERESTING BOOK IT SOUNDSIBLY DREADFUL TO HEAR YOU CALL THE BIBLE AN INTERESTING BOOK SAID FELICITY WITH A SHUDDER AT THE SACRILEGE WHY YOU MIGHT BE TALKING ABOUT ANY COMMON BOOK c1c124ae-fd84-4050-98a8-a32a192bee8a 2368 THE STRONG HANDS MOVED ON THE TABLE TOP IT IS A MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE TO MEONA SAID BUT THE WEIGHT BECOMES BORING AFTER A TIME KUFF'S EYEBROWS WERE WHITE UP BORING IS HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY 04bb5e9a-20b6-4869-a825-e66cb445c509 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 9bd22d25-7678-441b-9a91-3c5f4753d931 2137 HE READ SILENTLY FOR A FEW MOMENTS THEN BEGAN TO FILL OUT A FORM CLIPPED TO THE FOLDER WELL I THINK YOU PROBABLY ARE DUE FOR ANOTHER BOOSTER ABOUT NOW THERE'LL HAVE TO BE THE USUAL TESTS NOT THAT THERE'S MUCH DOUBT WE LIKE TO BE CERTAIN f616e558-92b9-4d2f-acc9-b1aa4087d253 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 16d424d3-2c9a-48a6-8414-1bd347ea5c20 2317 THERE WAS NOTHING ON EITHER SIDE OF THE STEPS OR UNDERNEATH THEM AS FAR AS COULD BE SEEN BUT ORDINARY OCEAN I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID FARMER STARED AND RAY STARED THE STAIRWAY SHOULDN'T BE THERE IT CERTAINLY HADN'T BEEN THERE BEFORE 66940adc-df24-47be-8be0-bb51ab7d8aec 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 47083c65-f3fb-4f47-a54d-e266dbe4de4c 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 b73c2583-4a02-4718-870a-3ac01ba9e126 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 60fe0a64-0e38-439e-a175-ec9df91446c4 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 bfad421b-6c08-450c-a72b-b42da559697e 103 CECILY IS EVER SO MUCH CLEVERER CECILY IS A DEAR SO IS UNCLE ALEC AND AUNT JANET IS PRETTY NICE TOO WHAT IS AUNT OLIVIA LIKE ASKED FELIX AUNT OLIVIA'S VERY PRETTY SHE IS JUST LIKE A PANSY ALL VELVETY AND PURPLY AND GOLDY 72c61323-35f8-4e45-8046-867d6ab9277c 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 99a78732-2fb9-4f79-b55f-fd759afd0650 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 721e48e5-d0e6-4bf5-b267-da2c551731db 413 DAN HAD NO PATIENCE WITH EITHER OF THE GIRLS ESPECIALLY FELICITY OR THEY BOTH WANT IS A RIGHT GOOD SPANKING HE SAID 10d37e63-368e-4e49-a5e5-cd9a1750e588 188 ALL RIGHT BUT WAIT TILL I TELL YOU WHEN PEG BOWEN WAS LEAVING PAT STRETCHED OUT ON THE STEPS SHE TRAMPED ON HIS TAIL YOU KNOW PAT DOESN'T LIKE TO HAVE HIS TRAIL MET TAIL MET AND MEDDLED WITH HE SLEWED HIMSELF ROUND AND CLAWED HER BARE FOOT IF YOU'D JUST SEEN THE LOOK SHE GAVE HIM YOU'D KNOW WHETHER SHE WAS A WITCH OR NOT ae8702b4-d4bc-4754-9b61-4b732a057006 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 8736eae9-95c7-4842-8efc-fec81f24889f 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 5807c712-7f75-48e0-a5b3-bacddd5dd300 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 a5558b2d-8db7-4384-806b-c7d329847c42 2312 WHO IS CENSUS CHIEF NOW ASKED THE MAD MIDGET IS MISTER MARSHALL'S BOY THE CENSUS CHIEF MISTER MARSHALL IS YES WHO ARE YOU HOW DO YOU KNOW MARSHALL AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS IF THEY ARE PANTS cdcc856d-bffa-47a3-ac34-edd4953e2c7f 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 ba2b4a48-cc7c-4ea3-a689-4212867f22dd 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 97f5f8ba-fe33-4fac-b675-48bb2c96fb94 402 THEY SAY THERE MUST BE A BLACK SHEEP IN EVERY FAMILY SAID THE STORY GIRL THERE ISN'T ANY IN OURS SAID CECILY LOYALLY WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX 0561d802-3f2f-462c-bbe7-d46051909565 32 IT'S SO PRETTY WHEN THE VINES LEAF OUT AND HANG DOWN IN LONG FESTOONS SAID THE STORY GIRL THE BIRDS BUILD THEIR NESTS IN IT A PAIR OF WILD CANARIES COME HERE EVERY SUMMER AND FERNS GROW OUT BETWEEN THE STONES OF THE WELL AS FAR DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE c3bd2e9f-3009-493e-aa09-5639630fa537 32 ONE DAY HE TOLD HER HE WAS COMING THE NEXT DAY TO ASK A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION AND HE WANTED TO FIND HER UNDER THE BIRCHES WHEN HE CAME 8aa11409-eaf7-40fd-98a5-599bea93d4bb 2312 DID ANYBODY ELSE EVER SEE THEM ARE SURE EVERYBODY IN THE SANTA MAGNOLENA SEE THEM EIGHT NINE PEOPLE SEE THEM AND MANWELL HOW DO WE GET TO THE PLACE CAN YOU SHOW US ON A MAP 386fabb1-3f9d-4433-a90b-7faf870d1dfa 2286 MY MESSAGE WAS IN CODE BUT IT COULD BE QUICKLY BROKEN IF SOME ONE WANTED TO TRY HARD ENOUGH I TOOK IT TO THE MESSAGE AND TO MYSELF THE SI MAN WAS IN HIS TRANSPARENT CUBICLE AND I LOCKED MYSELF IN WITH HIM HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY 1bb198a7-27f1-4802-b21b-891918aa95b9 2182 SHE LET GO THE BARRICADE AND RAN TO THE WINDOW TO THROW OPEN THE STORM SHUTTERS NEVER MIND THE DOOR THIS WAY QUICK SHE SCRAMBLED TO THE WINDOW SILL AND JUMPED NUMBLY JEFF SAW HER SUSPENDED THERE FEET ONLY INCHES BELOW THE SILL APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR 5e524b26-63a0-4ba0-b1fe-82ec8ac19b72 451 FELICITY AND CECILY WERE CURLED UP IN A CORNER AND WE BOYS SPRAWLED IDLY ON THE FRAGRANT SUN WARM HEAPS WE HAD STOWED THE HAY IN THE LOFT THAT MORNING FOR UNCLE ROGER SO WE FELT THAT WE HAD EARNED THE RIGHT TO LOLL ON OUR SWEET SMELLING COUCH 896b8f54-235b-4294-a7d0-3f9f487613fa 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 f4a2a113-bb46-4ef2-94d6-3653d60bfbf6 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 2f69e8ea-4822-4f8e-8247-a1a92c133afe 242 THE SHARP WIND BLEW AROUND THE GRANARY AND CECILY SHIVERED WE HEARD AUNT JANET'S VOICE CALLING CHILDREN CHILDREN IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING SIGHED POOR CECILY f133dbc5-5cd7-444f-9257-1ebba5555bf1 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 58867146-07e5-4d82-8c8b-0a68cd1d90fb 30 CECILY WHO WAS ELEVEN WAS PRETTY ALSO OR WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD FELICITY NOT BEEN THERE FELICITY RATHER TOOK THE COLOR FROM OTHER GIRLS 967bcabf-2a78-4cfe-a24e-ede22d9ffd33 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 5406783d-1215-43dc-a7e1-8184726cecb7 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 4a00c339-7283-46e8-8098-b0464bf33460 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 5c3e99d5-bc0f-46ae-98bf-88345f0e0a29 464 SO IT IS SAID CECILY IT ISN'T THERE ISN'T A SPECK OF SAWDUST IN THAT BOX THE STORY GIRL'S FACE WORE A QUITE INDESCRIBABLE EXPRESSION COMPOUND OF HORROR AND SHAME SHE NEED NOT HAVE CONFESSED IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY 8c5e3ea3-8e3f-4746-80b7-31bbecbfc904 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 60972fb4-9d97-43f0-9780-a8f9b0d1e03f 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 35690485-b75d-4bf7-8ca0-2a6810fa166e 188 IN IT SHE WAS A THING OF FIRE AND LAUGHTER AND GLOW AS IF THE SINGULAR CHARM OF HER TEMPERAMENT WERE VISIBLE AND TANGIBLE IN ITS VIVID COVERED COLORING AND SILKEN TEXTURE 31cdce25-a4fd-42d9-8e8f-6e8697322ab7 2137 BEFORE BRANDON COULD ANSWER THE FACE OF COLONEL TOWERS APPEARED BESIDE THE RADIO MAN'S BRANDON WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO POLE ENGINE TROUBLE SIR LOSING ALTITUDE FAST 25cf5e0d-1af3-4067-95d6-158256a05e7d 2317 WHAT HE SAID WAS VENUS SPACESHIP MY NAME IS RAY IT IS INDEED FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE MET ME IMMEDIATELY UPON YOUR ARRIVAL HERE SINCE I AM THE WORLD'S GREATEST GENIUS b0c50cc2-a784-45ee-bd6f-0ff408337ade 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 2f28a7ae-fa50-4e46-89d1-1ac126e062c0 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 ca258bbf-e395-4bf1-941b-ec6f6d3e866b 464 WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER PEOPLE WHO SQUINT CAN'T EAT ANY MORE THAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T SQUINT CAN THEY WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS WHAT HAS SQUINTING GOT TO DO WITH TWINS ASKED DAN 588eec55-42a6-4618-86c4-cbb092c6b728 242 IT WAS QUITE DARK IN THE FIR WOOD WE COULD SEE HER FACE AND EYES BUT DIMLY THROUGH THE GLOOM A SILVERY MOON WAS LOOKING DOWN ON US OVER THE GRANARY THE STARS TWINKLED THROUGH THE SOFTLY WAVING BOUGHS BEYOND THE WOODS WE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF MOONLIGHT WORLD LYING IN THE SHARP FROST OF THE OCTOBER EVENING d1973ae0-3b11-493b-ac55-3f3130de78b8 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 7e45c1e7-9058-4b2c-ac53-7d9ead315086 242 GOOD PRESBYTERIANS DON'T FIGHT OH DON'T THEY I HEARD YOUR UNCLE ROGER SAY THAT PRESBYTERIANS WERE THE BEST FOR FIGHTING IN THE WORLD OR THE WORST I FORGET WHICH HE SAID BUT IT MEANS THE SAME THING 675d9ad6-7cfe-4c80-ba04-8bec72e34f9c 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 caa8217b-1633-4ea4-b7e9-38303edac8c6 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 e7c72eb3-6774-4f72-90ca-b78b4d53d2fa 2182 JEFF BACKED AWAY WARILY DAMN IT ARE WE GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN ONCE IT GETS ITS WIND BACK COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME THE CRYSTAL NOW WE MUST HAVE IT TO QUIET THE ZID UNTIL IT IS SAFELY CAGED AGAIN c75c8e78-599e-4108-b254-99d121a460c7 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 71c98eb6-00bc-4a52-8bcb-d1c5851373b3 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 17835635-805f-4195-8f4c-7a46074438cf 1867 IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP THE REPAIRS DIDN'T TAKE LONG THOUGH THERE WAS PLENTY OF GROANING FROM THE BLIND LIZARDS WHEN THEY HEARD ME RIPPING THE WALL OPEN TO GET AT THE POWER LEAGUES I EVEN HOOKED A GADGET TO THE WATER PIPE SO THEIR HOLY WATERS WOULD HAVE THE USUAL REFRESHING RADIOACTIVITY WHEN THEY STARTED FLOWING AGAIN fd829c79-1f0d-4232-b8af-9173be06538a 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 7f70dbad-eb48-483e-8fc0-c49563716ffb 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 d446f983-e3c7-4b6f-b2df-2e4d0af46ae9 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 4b2cb0bd-9bdf-4bb4-af3d-6cefc010e53e 464 TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED SO I S'POSED THAT WAS WHAT BEING TWINS MEANT IT'S ALL VERY FINE FOR YOU FELLOWS TO LAUGH I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID AND YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO TOO 2c8db98e-df20-4564-a20a-aa3dc96fc39e 103 HE IS AN OLD BACHELOR DOESN'T HE EVER MEAN TO GET MARRIED ASKED FELIX I DON'T KNOW AUNT OLIVIA WISHES HE WOULD BECAUSE SHE'S TIRED KEEPING HOUSE FOR HIM AND SHE WANTS TO GO TO AUNT JULIE IN CALIFORNIA BUT SHE SAYS HE'LL NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND WHEN HE FINDS HER SHE WON'T HAVE HIM c94f95f8-de7e-4646-9f6b-872ca0c2a5f6 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 b483aec2-3f4f-4ee4-abaa-d8c08cda3bee 2137 THE PRINCIPLE'S THE SAME FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT AND EVENTUALLY WE LEARN TO HARNESS IT FOR A USEFUL PURPOSE HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT f8b5bc07-3655-48ec-945d-76176f9ff3d8 413 HE MUST HAVE GOT SOME BAD USE AT THE OFFICE SAID SARA RAY I HOPE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO FATHER I EXPLAINED SPRINGING ANXIOUSLY TO MY FEET A SICK HORRIBLE FEELING OF FEAR RUNNING OVER ME LIKE A COOL RIPPLING WAVE IT'S JUST AS LIKELY TO BE GOOD NEWS HE IS RUNNING FOR IS BAD SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS NO BELIEVER IN MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY 8cfae1d9-b6b2-40b5-b753-d12a59eb3004 413 WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW HE'S NOT SUCH A WELL EDUCATED MAN AS THE EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE NO THERE'S NOTHING TO DO BUT WAIT AND SEE 81a7d4ab-2d65-492f-9aa0-66f399d30a9b 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 feb8a47f-efab-4410-9861-56a6fcd8aa54 2182 HE IGNORED THE INEVITABLE GLORY OF MORNING RAINBOW THAT JUST PRECEDED PROCYON'S RISING AND STRODE IRRITABLY DOWN TO HIS MINIATURE DOCK HE WAS STILL SCOWLING OVER WHAT HE SHOULD TELL CHARLIE MACK WHEN THE ISLAND QUEEN HOVE INTO VIEW 9de3ad59-3ce5-4190-b101-40d9ed9a398f 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 95bed89c-319d-4367-9085-c587a506a677 2274 THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN SILENCE I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE 1f8be640-34e6-4408-b549-0c5938154682 198 DAN WAS TOO FRIGHTENED TO RESENT THIS AT THE TIME HOWEVER AND WHEREVER JIMMY WAS GONE HE WAS GONE SO MUCH WAS CERTAIN 7242c21e-35ba-4ff0-a4db-2b140e9e784e 402 WE WERE ALL INTENSELY EXCITED SATURDAY MORNING TO OUR DISMAY IT BEGAN TO RAIN JUST BEFORE DINNER WHAT IF JERRY DOESN'T BRING THE PICTURE TO DAY BECAUSE OF THE RAIN I SUGGESTED NEVER YOU FEAR ANSWERED FELICITY DECIDEDLY A COWARD WOULD COME THROUGH ANYTHING FOR FIFTY CENTS 0c0e1b88-bf4a-438f-bdcc-fc60f5fd2bfc 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 f9549d93-57c8-4f60-bf83-ea9930282f2c 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 b3cb17c0-c763-40ce-9019-c055c6777bcb 2317 GARTH CONSIDERED THIS BICKING WAS AS USUAL GETTING THEM EXACTLY NOWHERE HE GAVE UP ALL RIGHT DEAR HE SAID YOU WIN YOU'RE RIGHT OF COURSE AND I'M WRONG I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED 5817c3df-328a-48fe-ace1-6a0b8310f350 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 6794eb63-94bc-4fa1-b98e-694d0aa5ec6d 2317 BEHIND THE BARRED FACE PLATE RAY LOOKED PUZZLED THEN ANNOYED FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN AND THIS SEEMED TO ADD THE FINAL TOUCH OF INSANITY TO THE SCENE 4fc06b10-bf62-4aba-b848-17f8b7ab1ffd 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 2170aa31-50c8-4a5f-a0f6-7b5aa98cc715 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 69f7d67f-0635-4b31-8eec-e903c7a72c4f 2286 CHARACTERS LIKE THAT NEVER THINK IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOME ONE ELSE TO OUTTHINK THEM WHICH IS WHAT I'M GOING TO DO MODEST IDEA STANG SAID I TRY NOT TO BE I TOLD HIM e25a94b8-27f4-4d8e-b029-f27ba4de85d9 2274 THE EQUIPMENT EVERY R IN OUR FIELD MAN USES TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF A REDISCOVERED PLANET IMPROVE THEMSELVES ALTHOUGH ON THIS PRESENT OPERATION HE RATED THE FLAG OF A DIVISION ADMIRAL HIS FATIGUES CARRIED NO INSIGNIA 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AUDIENCE THEY COULD SEE THE RICH CUT OF MY CLOTHES THE LUXURIOUS CAPPING BEHIND ME OF COURSE THEY COULDN'T SEE MY HANDS 35d76bf9-36cb-4e26-a8bf-0f96958b12ce 2182 WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE a6a6dba3-a154-4992-86c6-98e520f2ce26 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 ccb3952f-900a-43c9-9e93-9d578b78277a 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 d73dbe44-19e7-46f6-8db4-8ae47b1b5633 242 THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE SAID CECILY PERPLEXEDLY WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR WHAT WE WANT OF THAT I'M SURE AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO I WISH I COULD UNDERSTAND IT c5bb515e-976c-4fdd-9af4-389679a0de19 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 1ef5b905-e28a-42aa-9416-ec12097bca80 188 ALL RIGHT BUT WAIT TILL I TELL YOU WHEN PEG BOWEN WAS LEAVING PAT STRETCHED OUT ON THE STEPS SHE TRAMPED ON HIS TAIL THE OPENING OF THE BLUE CHEST NOVEMBER WAKENED FROM HER DREAM OF MAY IN A BAD TEMPER 83f089d1-89bc-4780-bb32-490ffa367c1d 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 eb05f0d0-9cf8-41a3-ac62-92d42f5994f6 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 106d3ba8-bd3a-49d9-8540-b8f6a24d3d62 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 68d35764-e603-405f-bcd8-f26128f1ace5 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 d3be2456-5e0a-474c-b93d-4746b90af56c 2108 DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THINKING IS VERY BAD FOR DRAGONS RETURNED THE BIG ONE IMPATIENTLY HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE 980338fe-d17f-4052-98c9-bc42cf52032a 2137 EXCUSE ME COLONEL TOWERS SAID BRANDON QUIETLY TOWERS SWUNG AROUND AND LOOKED AT BRANDON THE COLONEL'S FACE PALED I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU SAID BRANDON GRINNING ABOUT THE QUONUM JUMP 45e108a2-3a03-40de-8b52-2f1ce219ee58 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 00dad53a-ee57-42e3-bd2b-f9d478b4afde 464 CECILY DO YOU KNOW WHERE MOTHER PUT THE SAWDUST SHE EMPTIED OUT OF THAT OLD BEADED PINCUSHION OF GRANDMOTHER KING'S AFTER SHE HAD SIFTED THE NEEDLES OUT OF IT I THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE TIN BOX a57acac4-db5b-4bc5-8521-f787e90c44d7 2286 I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT BUT I ALSO HAD NO INTENTION OF RETURNING UNTIL THE JOB WAS DONE WITH THIS ASSURANCE I PULLED OFF MY FLASHY CLOTHES AND SLIPPED INTO THE MIDNIGHT BLACK DRESS UNIFORM OF AN ADMIRAL IN THE LEAGUE GRAN FLEET 05afb6c9-7853-4b39-ab78-7bc4929617b6 30 HE HAD NEVER LIKED HER SINCE THE DAY SHE HAD TOLD HIM HE WOULD SOON BE AS BROAD AS HE WAS LONG I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD 64b6fdd0-e48b-491b-9af7-10c4c7c00dd8 402 AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR SECOND BEST DRESSES AND WE BOYS DONNED WHITE COLLARS WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD 22ecf3c8-980d-4394-b319-b21ce15672a1 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 d016117a-ac65-4e67-86bc-be85dc5261a9 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 cb84bbcf-67d1-436f-816e-f368d7a829ef 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 86674f68-8e55-4852-9e9d-60f32e120121 2317 AND YES HE WANTED IN ADVANCE AGAINST ROYALTIES IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE LARGE RAY LIVED SIMPLY TO TIDE HIM OVER WHILE DOING THE ACTUAL WRITING WHICH SHOULDN'T TAKE MORE THAN A VERY FEW WEEKS 741b3bce-161e-4021-b229-e5e34011a67d 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 21e4e3b3-b2a9-4278-a4b7-38af07a9ff0c 1867 WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN ONE THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED 0ab8b31d-86bb-48fa-8c6b-4ced4e1f04ad 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 eceacedc-e460-4d50-b0ae-3f3af0f8a3d6 177 THE WORLD WAS BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL AND GREEN OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY SPOTTED WITH HEAPS OF WHITE CLOUD PSHAW I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY FEAR OF IT BEING THE LAST DAY SAID DAN BEGINNING A WHISTLE OUT OF SHEER BRAVADO 46ce147c-a427-41cb-99c8-00bea19f75c8 30 SOMEHOW WE TOO FELT THAT IT WAS WE FELT THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT APPROVE OF US IT MADE LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHO ELSE DID OR DID NOT 9ac172be-2df0-4923-bc59-c14bf8018675 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 53b73ce3-e860-4029-8b47-b07f1eeaedd4 30 WELL THEY'RE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE FROGS HE HEARD SAID FELIX AND THEY'RE SINGING IN THE SAME SWAMP THAT'S NEAR ENOUGH 67350251-b568-4c6c-82fb-4781a4984c3b 30 FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD AND SHOT AN UNSISTERLY GLANCE AT DAN I WOULDN'T BE VERY LIKELY TO HAVE A HIRED BOY FOR A BEAU SHE OBSERVED WE SAW THAT HER ANGER WAS REAL NOT AFFECTED ec560936-24a9-4e02-9f3d-2e6ae5207198 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 ff458827-888c-44a4-9f7f-e672ca525a13 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 34c4c1a7-4aa3-4baa-a9dc-10bed9a71f3b 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 9db68270-7daa-4b39-bed9-f16d7d476dc8 402 IN THE AFTERNOON AUNT JANET BROUGHT US A LUNCH OF APPLE TURNOVERS BUT WE COULD NOT EAT THEM PETER AS FELICITY REMINDED US WITH A BURST OF TEARS HAD BEEN SO FOND OF APPLE TURNOVERS a69eccbe-dd14-4d37-8e1b-714ff15a9023 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 e529562a-e790-4d27-a3a4-07d68e60cf91 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 13b8b82f-ea27-41d2-be27-977531feebe3 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 abfccbb1-ebc7-4092-9cd7-4be1f5e11351 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 c2b2128f-f125-4af6-bcbb-74d4610d6c93 2286 THEY HIT AGAIN KNOCKED OUT A NAVY SUPPLY OF SATELLITE THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD IF YOUR PLAN DOESN'T WORK ADMIRAL THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE 67f5a560-9e7c-4a7c-82e5-ffe49d5bcc6d 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 a60a97b8-d425-47d2-8494-f441d9748f3f 14 FELICITY DID NOT APPROVE OF THE DESIGN AND SAID SO PLAINLY HE WON'T KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE FOR HE'S NEVER BEEN INSIDE A CHURCH DOOR IN HIS LIFE SHE WARNED THE STORY GIRL eda91774-e4a4-4559-96fa-e82e5d1475f7 451 ONLY ONE THING COULD CROSS IT AND THAT WAS LOVE ZULEMITH YEARNED FOR ZERA WITH SUCH FIDELITY AND LONGING THAT HE BEGAN TO BUILD UP A BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HIS STAR AND ZERA NOT KNOWING THIS BUT LOVING AND LONGING FOR HIM BEGAN TO BUILD A SIMILAR BRIDGE OF LIGHT FROM HER STAR e0dffbbe-ee36-4e16-b62f-9c3b160b09bd 2368 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY 046c4174-d81e-4ba2-a630-671d96da60fb 2368 QUESTION SHE SAID YOU COME FROM HERAK NUFF I'M AN OLD WOMAN BUT I DO NO WRONG AND THERE IS NO ONE CAN ACCUSE ME OF HERESY I AM IN CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND MORE THAN ONCE I KEEP PEACE WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND THERE'S NONE CAN SAY A MYSTERY ABOUT ME THE WOMAN JONAS THOUGHT WAS FULL TO THE EYEBROWS WITH WORDS e1fc8527-ab39-49bf-8f4f-8254bc92ed90 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 aa657af9-2a9a-4299-a5f6-a12665a3a862 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 7bf71837-a45e-4bca-b36b-e718dffe5f7b 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 18b270f2-9fb4-4d10-8b60-c86086e3e5be 14 LOOK AT THAT LONG THIN LACY CLOUD UP THERE SHE SAID WHAT DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK OF GIRLS da2fdcb4-f1cd-4227-b81f-2d57de4c7edf 748 WE SAT THERE AND TALKED UNTIL THE FIRST STAR LIGHTED A WHITE TAPER OVER THE BEACH HILL THEN I REMEMBERED I HAD FORGOTTEN TO TAKE MY DOSE OF MAGIC SEED AND I HASTENED TO DO IT ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT 15acf774-d2da-469a-b9d4-7bc46d2271ad 198 WHICH IS THE WAY OF HUMAN NATURE 53c5ec55-9f8c-4127-861f-5055dc0459e0 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 82bf5563-8020-46a1-957e-c112d6e44f2b 451 NOTHING WOULD PREVENT CANNIBALS FROM EATING FILLICKS IF THEY CAUGHT HIM GIGGLED FELICITY HE'S SO NICE AND FAT I'M SURE FELIX FELT VERY UNLIKE A MISSIONARY AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT I'M GOING TO PUT TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK IN MY MISSIONARY BOX THAN I'VE BEEN DOING SAID CECILY DETERMINEDLY 003681f5-a3b2-47cd-b292-a38fed5685c3 2108 OF COURSE DECLARED THE GIANTESS AND I HAVE ADDED A LITTLE MAGIC TO YOUR TRANSFORMATIONS TO MAKE YOU ALL CONTENTED WITH WEARING YOUR NEW FORMS I'M SORRY I DIDN'T THINK TO DO THAT WHEN I TRANSFORMED POLYCHROME INTO A CANARY BIRD 8f8908a1-d6c1-4f6f-beed-8525396f384e 30 HE WAS A SMALL MAN WITH THIN DELICATE FEATURES CLOSE CLIPPED GREY BEARD AND LARGE TIRED BLUE EYES FATHER'S EYES OVER AGAIN b1faca98-ad0b-4246-943c-d8becad39bf0 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 003284f0-26c0-461b-a186-32e69daf2819 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 4fbe21ab-4c97-4f14-a647-644d66a68ca0 2286 AND KNOWING HUMAN NATURE THE WAY I DO THAT WAS TOO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE TO EXPECT OCCUM'S RAZOR ALWAYS POINTS THE WAY IF THERE ARE TWO CHOICES TO TAKE TAKE THE SIMPLER IN THIS CASE I CHOSE THE NATURAL ACQUISITIVE INSTINCT OF MAN AS OPPOSED TO BLIND CHANCE AND ACCIDENT NEVERTHELESS I PUT THE THEORY TO THE TEST f5185c52-8225-41f7-b0eb-dd2025b561bf 2425 ALL FOUR OF THE REFLECTORS SEEMED POINTED DIRECTLY AT MY FACE AND I COULD SEE THAT EACH HELD NOT THE BULB I HAD EXPECTED BUT A CRUDELY SHAPED BLOB OF FUSED QUARTZ ff65c9f6-c290-47d7-a08a-17c84eb8dad0 242 FELIX'S PRAYER WAS ALL RIGHT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T HAVE HURT ANY ONE ELSE BUT IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER OF PETER TO WANT TO BE THE ONLY ONE WE MUSTN'T PRAY SELFISH PRAYERS OH I SEE IT NOW SAID CECILY JOYFULLY d366973f-c0a3-45a0-97f7-98d66d1d6127 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 4b185ee0-9aaf-4f0b-8d0b-60b93b6b56c0 413 SARA I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THIS JUG SHE SAID SOLEMNLY NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG 933989f4-f620-43a5-9e04-eda6975419c0 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 e52727df-cef0-475f-84d4-a143e32dc803 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 19259536-e857-4fd8-b018-7a6664e05c25 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 70957a82-9b11-4d58-acc1-a7eef26e4f65 748 FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL 121a400a-63cf-4498-bf70-ff233542024e 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 161fc7dd-aaba-4eaf-8e65-0280f36245c9 14 WHITE MARBLE TABLETS ORNAMENTED WITH WEEPING WILLOW TREES MARKED WHERE GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER KING WERE BURIED AND A SINGLE SHAFT OF RED SCOTTISH GRANITE STOOD BETWEEN THE GRAVES OF AUNT FELICITY AND UNCLE FELIX 07a2c921-f2b0-428b-99ab-a949c0195a70 451 THE SWALLOWS FLEW IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEST ABOVE OUR HEADS AND WHENEVER A SUNBEAM FELL THROUGH A CHINK THE AIR SWARMED WITH GOLDEN DUST OUTSIDE THE LOFT WAS A VAST SUNSHINY GULF OF BLUE SKY AND MELLOW AIR WHEREIN FLOATED ARGUSES A FLUFFY CLOUD AND AIRY TOPS OF MAPLE AND SPRUCE f9df12e6-514e-41c0-b025-1356451b9034 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 9f836caa-12f5-4627-b40e-65bf1bf875e1 2137 BRANDON SWORE AND SNAPPED OFF THE SET HE LOOKED AT HIS WALK AROUND BOTTLE CAN'T STAY HERE ANY LONGER HE MUTTERED HE COULDN'T FIND THE CAPSULE HE WALKED THREE PERHAPS FOUR MILES HE STOPPED AND BLOTTED HIS MOIST BROW WITH HIS SLEEVE HE WASN'T GOING TO FIND IT 265a41fa-ece6-4e75-b54a-4839272fed8b 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 e5e6bc49-7c28-49cf-bc21-ea92b7e44f3d 2317 OF COURSE HE WAS INFERIOR TO HER IN EVERY WAY AND SHE WOULDN'T THINK OF MARRYING HIM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT EVEN HIS INFERIORITY WAS INTERESTING IN A WAY c575d17c-c58f-4f07-ae24-46a652b93b03 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 4bb045e3-795a-42f9-b007-ea97bb7d30e1 1867 IN ADDITION TO THE PYRAMID BEING AROUND THE BEACON THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM 3d6889e6-d42b-40c7-8378-8dbf2075cfbd 1867 IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE THE FIRST LIZARD KNEW I WAS TALKING SINCE THEN AND IMMEDIATELY CALLED A MEETING OF THE SHAMMANS IT OF COURSE TOOK PLACE IN THE PUBLIC BATH TUB AND I HAD TO JOIN THEM THERE 4e9d18d6-652e-4676-bbd1-d26b3acde638 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 a9f1bd75-19c4-4315-955c-0c8180125441 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 I WOULDN'T LET ON I THOUGHT SHE'D MADE HIM SICK THEN SHE COULDN'T BE OFFENDED AND MAYBE SHE'D TAKE THE SPELL OFF I THINK WE'D BETTER ALL GIVE HER SOMETHING SAID FELICITY I'M WILLING TO DO THAT BUT WHO'S GOING TO TAKE THE PRESENTS TO HER 64d3bd4e-c576-4510-9bf5-fcc746847cd9 198 SARA STANLEY FELICITY FLEW ACROSS THE KITCHEN DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU PUT THE BREAD RIGHT INTO THE OVEN AFTER YOU KNEADED IT WITHOUT LEAVING IT TO RISE A SECOND TIME THE STORY GIRL TURNED QUITE PALE YES I DID SHE FALTERED OH FELICITY WASN'T IT RIGHT 6a805999-1ce7-46ad-89a5-61316c7491cc 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 7b319486-97d2-49c7-98a0-5c9c2041c468 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 b7e7df40-5152-40cb-be24-a26c379e5048 2108 IT WAS YOU WHO FIRST TOLD ME IT WAS MY DUTY TO FIND AND MARRY NIMI AMID AND I'D LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT NICK CHOPPER THE TIN EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES IS A MAN WHO NEVER SHIRKS HIS DUTY ONCE IT IS POINTED OUT TO HIM 837a1a29-b1fd-4891-b4e9-f81f81cdb09f 2312 THREE DAYS LATER AN INCREDIBLE DWARF STAGGERED INTO THE OUTSKIRTS OF HIGH PLAINS TEXAS FOLLOWED BY A DYING WOLF SIZED ANIMAL THAT DID NOT LOOK LIKE A WOLF 7ca58fa3-2a69-4261-82f1-df502868578e 1867 I HAD ONE OF THE WORKING EYES DIG A CAVE IN AN OUTCROPPING OF ROCK AND WAIT FOR HIM 9ad838e0-a2f5-40a6-9d8c-859308bdff74 242 CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD WE THOUGHT SHE HAD FLED BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT ENDURE THE SIGHT OF BLOOD AND WE WERE NOT SORRY FOR HER MANIFEST DISAPPROVAL AND ANXIETY WERE DAMPING THE EXCITEMENT OF THE OCCASION 1b687371-d454-41e8-ace7-48ff5a81ed7b 2312 HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA A SCRAP OF BALD HEADED AND DESOLATE MOUNTAINS STEEP BUT NOT HIGH AND SO TORRID IN THE AFTERNOONS THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE a6a241d7-0e06-40ab-a14c-fd8732e87faa 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 4dae9b50-7c96-45eb-9556-1c3d814d1325 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 c63619f2-4a4a-4586-a5b6-15c0cf7c7130 2108 THAT ANSWERED THE SOLDIER IS A SAD SAD STORY I WAS IN LOVE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MUNCHKIN GIRL WHO LIVED WITH A WICKED WITCH THE WITCH DID NOT WISH ME TO MARRY THE GIRL SO SHE ENCHANTED MY SWORD WHICH BEGAN HACKING ME TO PIECES 1f9a48af-94d1-41e1-bf27-639e7444639d 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 e6c75bbd-9b3d-4fea-beab-0782534d768b 30 I WONDER IF THE STORY GIRL IS PRETTY SAID FELIX ALOUD NO SHE ISN'T SAID DAN INSTANTLY FROM ACROSS THE ROOM 538653f5-e05b-4112-a0cc-c028925d13d2 2286 THERE WAS LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON PEPPY AND ANGELINA THEY HAD COVERED THEIR TRACKS WELL THEIR ORIGIN WAS UNKNOWN THOUGH THE FACT THAT THEY BOTH TALKED WITH A SLIGHT ACCENT SUGGESTED AN OFFBOARD ORIGIN THERE WAS ONE DIM PICTURE OF A PEPPE CHUBBY BUT LOOKING TOO GRIM TO BE A HAPPY FAT BOY THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL 5e4b82a6-30e9-45db-b106-6ee67349e64c 198 I SET DOWN ON THE FRONT DOOR STEPS FOR A MOMENT AND ALL AT ONCE I HEARD A BELL RING IN THE HOUSE EIGHT TIMES I TELL YOU I WAS SKEERED I MADE A BOLT FOR THE ORCHARD AND YOU WON'T CATCH ME GOING NEAR THE HOUSE TILL YOUR UNCLE ROGER COMES HOME YOU COULDN'T CATCH ANY OF US DOING IT WE WERE ALMOST AS BADLY SCARED AS PETER 66d330cd-88fd-4dd1-ae47-aab06736620c 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 a62c9946-d8c8-4287-9a95-1c9d7261e392 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 04975cc6-a4fc-4986-828a-8b0779b30a61 198 FELIX ALSO AVERRED THAT HE HAD HEARD SARA ASK CECILY VERY SERIOUSLY CECILY HOW OLD MUST WE BE BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A REAL BEAU BUT SARA ALWAYS DENIED IT SO I AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE FELIX SIMPLY MADE IT UP HIMSELF 87cbce99-1d8e-4738-9ca1-bd455f709f55 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 1d8db86f-cc81-41e9-8114-dbb12d5743c2 242 AND PETERS IS SUCH A COOL CUSTOMER AND HE'S A YEAR OLDER THAN FELIX BUT THEN FELIX HAS SOME PRACTICE HE FOUGHT BOYS IN TORONTO AND THIS IS PETER'S FIRST FIGHT DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL ONCE I SAID BRIEFLY DREADING THE NEXT QUESTION WHICH PROMPTLY CAME 708e7c89-fe2a-4aad-af36-40a927bbfb71 14 HE REFUSED TO DISCUSS THE SUBJECT FURTHER SOMEWHAT TO OUR DISAPPOINTMENT FOR WE HAD NEVER SEEN A PICTURE OF THE PERSON REFERRED TO AND WE WERE RATHER CURIOUS REGARDING IT WE'LL ASK PETER TO DESCRIBE IT SOME TIME WHEN HE'S IN A BETTER HUMOUR WHISPERED FELIX afef280d-2013-4e1e-90e7-da350049f444 103 THE PALE MAY SUNSHINE WAS SHOWERING THROUGH THE SPRUCES AND A CHILL INSPIRING WIND WAS TOSSING THE BOUGHS ABOUT FELIX AND I SAW SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF OUR HEADS A VELVET AND PURPLE AND GOLD PANSY WOMAN JUST AS THE STORY GIRL SPOKE BUT IS SHE NICE I ASKED 5e21d6a6-a834-444c-9692-4178b9b58bf8 2137 HE EXPLORED THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE AND REPORTED BACK ON HOW THINGS WERE OUT THERE SO IT WAS PRETTY DISQUIETING TO FIND OUT THAT THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE KNEW MORE ABOUT WHAT WENT ON AT HOME THAN HE DID c9a2abe1-d18d-4680-b8d8-4744d2d302ec 2368 THE NOSE AS A MATTER OF STRICT TRUTH WAS HARD TO DISTINGUISH FROM THE OTHER CONTUSIONS SWELLINGS AND MARKS THAT COVERED THE HEAD 7071d58c-291e-48f6-a52f-38612c807bf8 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 5dc40366-b000-43f6-9051-d82fad583cdf 2368 THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE YONAS HEARD SQUEAKING AND THOUGHT OF THE RATS BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO TRY FOR THEM HE SAT CROSS LEGGED IN A CORNER OF THE CELL AND CLOSED HIS EYES HE SIGHED ONCE DEEPLY THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF THIS WAS THE END OF HEROICS AND PLAYING A LONE HAND 528d4228-8c9e-4c3c-ab37-a30602c5a150 32 AND THAT TALL SLENDER TREE OVER THERE WITH THE BRANCHES ALL GROWING STRAIGHT UP IS A SEEDLING THAT CAME UP OF ITSELF AND NOBODY CAN EAT ITS APPLES THEY ARE SO SOUR AND BITTER EVEN THE PIGS WON'T EAT THEM 1450d666-18a3-468c-a366-37833f2ac14a 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 a78bb0a6-2cec-4238-bf64-037f5f19eb4f 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 5f6517d0-acc2-4def-965d-7542dc049d2e 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 3171f90b-32c8-4c4a-8871-187ee698b6a2 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 c82b32d8-65c8-4156-a74d-2232c3ec6b71 2286 AREN'T YOU GETTING A LITTLE HEAVY YOURSELF DE GRIZ HE SAID VOICE CHILL AS THE ICE CAP I STILL GIVE THE ORDERS AND I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU'RE READY FOR AN INDEPENDENT COMMAND cb38e43f-195a-4abc-a904-3177ac6cd7b1 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 8053f51c-1690-4311-9d19-1e7204fd4663 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 36fd100e-344b-4220-9d72-b7e34ed9c8fe 2108 SHE TOOK ANOTHER BISCUIT FROM A PLATE AND DIPPED IT IN A POT OF HONEY HE CALMLY BEGAN EATING IT THE SCARECROW WATCHED HER THOUGHTFULLY 4847e72d-043d-4bad-97f6-47e0190218a7 413 SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN FELIX TRIED TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN THEM AND MET THE USUAL FATE OF ALL PEASE MAKERS THE STORY GIRL LAWFULLY TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS TOO YOUNG TO UNDERSTAND AND FELICITY SAID THAT FAT BOYS SHOULD MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS AFTER THAT PHILEAS DECLARED IT WOULD SERVE FELICITY WRITE IF THE STORY GIRL NEVER SPOKE TO HER AGAIN f12bd9e0-2541-4b79-a251-70f5e7bbeac9 413 WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PREPARE ASKED CECILY I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER fe5bcd3d-192c-42f5-87c6-a21cde37dbaf 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 32ec8aaa-437c-484d-aee0-ba7536c76cc4 2274 YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU FIRST WE WANT TO KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE DAUPHINIS AND IF SO WHERE IT IS NEXT WE WANT TO KNOW JUST HOW WARLIKE THESE GOONS ARE CAN WE CONTROL THEM IF THEY'RE BLOOD THIRSTY WHAT'S THEIR POTENTIAL IN FIVE DAYS f964e648-4af7-4b59-8ef8-868bab3c4440 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 1b37c623-ea79-495b-b3b9-1258ed63b2ff 2312 MAYBE NOT THEN THE DWARF CONCEDED I THOUGHT I WAS BUT I WASN'T SURE WHO AM I THEN LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER PAPERS AND SEE WHICH ONE I AM NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL AND YOU SURELY CAN'T BE MANUEL 6718fdd9-3376-4c45-bd72-2147b39c49c4 402 OH DON'T SARA DON'T I SAID GENTLY PATTING HER CONVULSED SHOULDER YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER HE NEVER CRIED A SPECK WHEN YOU THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO DIE AND NOW WHEN HE IS GOING TO GET BETTER YOU CRY LIKE THAT a7bf3283-7d77-4301-b657-1097c2ced9d1 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 15994a88-e7e2-4cd0-9bdf-7990bf29b3b6 2274 WHY SHOULD I WANT OUT OF MY FIRST FIELD ASSIGNMENT LISTEN AND FIND OUT e4b9d355-dd02-4b6e-8224-dee3491e0ac4 2108 HOWEVER TIN YOU WERE AND TIN YOU ARE AND AS IT'S TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOU NOW THAT SETTLES IT WHEN HE WAS HIGH OVER THEIR HEADS HE EXPLODED WITH A LOUD POP AND HIS SKIN FELL TO THE GROUND 38afb10d-b806-4d36-97d8-1b9a56aa7ee6 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 192e6d29-6aa3-4ef2-bc1d-08dfef9520ed 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 fd5520ea-3414-4fa2-95df-4c9f27c2d34c 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 d6ce57d3-12de-4a61-a501-cd4af8908b63 413 HE CAN NEVER HELP THAT YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT IT'S REALLY DREADFUL TO HAVE NO GROWN UPS YOU CAN DEPEND UPON WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH HE WOULD TELL US WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS TRUE DAN BUT HE COULDN'T KNOW a1854163-36d9-40c3-97de-717dfb0f9f50 198 SHE PRESIDED AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE WITH AS MUCH GRACE AND DIGNITY AS IF SHE HAD BEEN FIVE TIMES TWELVE YEARS OLD AND SEEMED TO KNOW BY INSTINCT JUST WHO TOOK SUGAR AND WHO TOOK IT NOT bf18081e-37d2-4452-962a-7f684c7328d3 2317 HE SWORE AND STARTED TO CHECK THE WIRING MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG INSIDE THE DINGUS ITSELF JOHN ANDREWS SUGGESTED TENTATIVELY 0a2f7f5f-cd23-4be4-9575-a5e2ecbb39ea 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 1f03f9ca-633d-4595-a50f-c9d4d79a3a80 14 WE HAVE SUCH A LOVELY MINISTER PETER HE LOOKS JUST LIKE THE PICTURE OF SAINT JOHN MY FATHER SENT ME ONLY HE IS OLD AND HIS HAIR IS WHITE 009eb677-8d26-4b08-abbc-51c269692e62 413 AH FELICITY WE WERE ALL IN THE DEPTHS OF OUR PITIFUL LITTLE SOULS REVIEWING THE INNUMERABLE THINGS WE WOULD OR WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IF WE HAD KNOWN 199f0960-a7ae-4d87-a1b6-6bd824db1a58 2368 SOME DAY YANUS THOUGHT BACK IN HIS CELL THERE WOULD BE A METHOD OF CONTROLLING MINDS THAT DID NOT REQUIRE THE WILLING CO OPERATION OF THE TWO PARTIES SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER BUT THE TALENT WAS NEW ITEDED PRACTICE IT NEEDED TRAINING THE CELL GREW DARK AS NIGHT CAME AND THE DAMPNESS SEEMED TO INCREASE d108386c-8d57-4b79-a7aa-1787d50b3107 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 fade43d1-9250-42d7-9cb9-13e8ef1ada1f 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 98dcf430-d7bc-4e16-b49f-edc11052290f 188 NANCY WAS THERE MILKING A COW BY THE STABLE DOOR BUT SHE STOOD UP WHEN SHE SAW DONALD COMING OH SHE WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL HER HAIR WAS LIKE A SKEIN OF GOLD AND SILK AND HER EYES WERE AS BLUE AS THE GULF WATER WHEN THE SUN BREAKS OUT AFTER A STORM ec11476d-bcde-4433-bd2a-5c3a8e623529 402 I SUPPOSE HE MUST SINCE THAT IS HIS PICTURE SAID DAN MISERABLY HE LOOKS AWFUL CROSS SAID PETER SIMPLY OH I WISH WE'D NEVER NEVER SEEN IT CRIED CECILY 42768e7a-6375-4620-a1cd-7f0761868cdd 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 31d15fd9-1520-4115-9196-a352977f4fe5 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 57b0ef50-ec8a-4944-b94b-6649dcdba8e1 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 f2c74992-9904-4545-ad5e-b325df421426 2317 RAY FROWNED AND SAID SOMETHING ABOUT MASS APPEAL PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT HE CONTINUED JUST LISTEN TO ME I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR SCIENCE AND HIS VOICE BROKE OFF AS IF HE HAD BEEN STRUCK IN THE FACE cb1f5f01-3da4-4e07-b46e-c25a825cb621 2312 MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK REGA PEN NOSTROS PECCADORES OLDER THE VERY GULCHERS STOOD ANGRY AND STARK IN THE EARLY MORNING YEN LORDA DE NOSER MOTE 55933cbe-e53f-4366-ab09-4d5b6397815c 2286 ONE OF THE CLERKS ASKED I SHALL DO NOTHING I TOLD HIM WITH THE SNAP PRECISION OF AN OLD SPACE DOG THE LEAGUE FLEET IS ALREADY CLOSING IN ON THE RENEGADES AND YOU WILL BE INFORMED OF THE CAPTURE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE 2fcf5f9e-149b-4af2-b55e-04cddc0924ca 748 I HAD A LETTER TO DAY FROM UNCLE ARTHUR IN WINNIPEG AND HE SENT ME THREE DOLLARS HE SAID I WAS TO USE IT IN ANY WAY I LIKED SO MA COULDN'T REFUSE TO LET ME GIVE IT TO THE FUND 65661163-3f33-46dd-994d-713396d374b7 32 PEG CLEARED OUT AND SHE WENT ACROSS HIS PASTURE MUTTERING TO HERSELF AND THROWING HER ARMS AROUND THE NEXT DAY HIS VERY BEST COW TOOK SICK AND DIED HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR THAT a5e91e92-e56e-4a01-bd95-d2457d71f7d1 2274 A WOLFISH GRIN CRACKED STETSON'S BIG FEATURES I'M SO HAPPY YOU HAVE THE PROPER ATTITUDE OF SUBSERVIENCE TOWARD AUTHORITY HORNE SIPPED UP THE COVER ALL UNIFORM OH YES SIR SIR 811d8ac1-f2a4-474e-92fb-f5f1b75b3e7f 103 THERE MAY BE SOME SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT IT'S NOT LIKELY THERE WERE ANY HERE RIGHT IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS WE HADN'T A DOUBT OF IT IF ANYBODY COULD FREEZE THE BLOOD IN OUR VEINS THIS GIRL WITH THE WONDERFUL VOICE COULD 1f067fb5-70b0-42ba-8c1b-b2347a46a896 2312 HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WAS THIRTY FIVE YEARS YOU WERE ON THE TREADMILL MANOEL WELL IT SEEMED LIKE THIRTY FIVE YEARS 40a16e0c-3746-407e-bddb-ccf21fffc259 451 FORBIDDEN FRUIT WE WERE ALL WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UNCLE ROGER MORE OR LESS GRUMPY IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF KING NEXT DAY SHE HAD SEATED HERSELF IN THE DARKEST HOTTEST CORNER OF THE KITCHEN WITH A PIECE OF OLD COTTON IN HER HAND 102a39dd-8aec-440a-9141-37ec363c980f 188 IT WOULDN'T DO ANY HARM TO TRY SAID CECILY IF SHE DIDN'T MAKE HIM SICK IT WON'T MATTER IF SHE'S CROSS cab87b33-8a34-4a93-b736-241b4868b6c0 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 05b12780-e412-402a-9ef8-9a20ea367bd0 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 2926f320-228f-4d31-9db3-404df91f7b15 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 7b9d1f80-3a50-458d-84d6-d695454cf77d 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 ae054756-4913-4d0c-bf27-fc1dc7c5d20a 242 HE HAD NOT FELT VERY KEENLY OVER THE MATTER OF THE SERMONS AND CERTAINLY THE MERE FACT THAT PETER COULD EAT SOUR APPLES WITHOUT MAKING FACES DID NOT CAST ANY REFLECTION ON THE HONOUR OR ABILITY OF THE OTHER COMPETITORS aafbfb4b-5316-4d00-bfea-db914cdea56d 748 MAGIC SEED WHEN THE TIME CAME TO HAND IN OUR COLLECTIONS FOR THE LIBRARY FUND PETER HAD THE LARGEST THREE DOLLARS FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF THIS WAS SIMPLY BECAUSE THE HENS HAD LAID SO WELL 0d45c261-6a00-471c-a17c-4a59a2e86a4f 1867 I SAID YOUR ANCESTOR SENT ME AS EMISSARY I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS DO NOT TRY TO HARM ME OR THE WRATH OF THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WILL TURN AGAINST YOU WHEN I SAID THIS I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM f29e18cd-fe0c-4758-a381-5ed2dade38b4 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 e9d82b41-638e-4a5f-828c-731ba1997d87 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 acf1fcd9-b1da-4390-a188-e614e5144a45 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 9da70344-709b-4536-8485-7735cc60ea9c 188 I WOULDN'T SPARE ANY OF IT TO ANY ONE BUT YOU I FELT DEEPLY GREATLY TO BILLY AND SORRY THAT I HAD NOT LIKED HIM BETTER 9fcba5c5-b7a0-4d92-93df-0d82680e83c5 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 247cb008-47a0-4f20-b9c7-c28090dd0503 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 33aa06e2-ff6d-45ef-90f7-14921b3ab659 451 THAT ISN'T A CHRISTIAN SPIRIT SAID FELICITY REBUKINGLY I DON'T CARE WOULD YOU FORGIVE JAMES FORBES IF HE HAD CALLED YOU JOHNNY DEMANDED CECILY 476ca068-0e5b-4f52-85e0-d4afc47b9101 2312 I SUSPECT THAT YOU WERE ALWAYS SO FROM THERE UP WHERE IS THE LIST 05bd158d-3b83-41c2-becd-b7e33a0ef143 14 JUST WHEN A KING THOUGHT HE HAD CONQUERED EVERYBODY SOME OTHER KING WOULD COME AND CONQUER HIM AND SO IT WENT ON UNTIL IT DID NOT SEEM LIKELY THE PROUD PRINCESS WOULD EVER GET A HUSBAND AT ALL 9f3bd7fd-cc3f-49a5-b068-916b93acf8bc 402 PASS ON AND DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN HE SAID TO ALL WHO TASTE OF IT SHALL IMMORTALITY BE GIVEN BUT ONLY TO THAT ONE WHO SHALL DRINK OF IT FIRST SHALL BE PERMITTED TO WALK AT ODIN'S RIGHT HAND FOREVER 417d2c67-bcd3-4f05-8eb8-dc5df35c8530 413 THERE'S BEEN TIME TO FIND OUT EVER SO MUCH MORE I WANT TO DO SO MANY THINGS SAID THE STORY YELL PLUCKING OFF HER CROWN OF BUTTERCUP GOLD WITH A TRAGIC GESTURE BUT IF IT'S THE JUDGMENT DAY TOMORROW I WON'T HAVE TIME TO DO ANY OF THEM 6f443c85-15ae-4c64-b788-f2d999072baa 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 bb99ad5e-501f-4815-802f-123d17e9d936 2425 TURALLY I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND VIC'S JARGON ABOUT FREQUENCIES AND LIGHT RAYS FOR I THOUGHT MORE ABOUT FOOTBALL THAN PHYSICS IN COLLEGE BUT TWO THINGS WERE CLEAR TO ME ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT AND THE OTHER WAS THAT HOPE HAD FOLLOWED HIM THE REST DIDN'T MATTER VERY MUCH de8b41f5-aef2-424b-b9e6-854836c439ea 242 I'VE JUST AS GOOD A RIGHT TO PRAY WHAT I WANT FOR AS YOU FELIX KING EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO I S'POSE YOU THINK A HIRED BOY HASN'T ANY BUSINESS TO PRAY FOR PARTICULAR THINGS BUT I'LL SHOW YOU b908a142-a9d6-409c-a49a-42665fac4b19 14 WE HAD WALKED WITH HER IN THE PLACE OF DEATH AND GROWN COLD WITH A HORROR THAT CHILLED THE HEART OF THEOR PRINCESS DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL 28598abb-2605-47c3-8886-109084343956 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 037cb52e-e8d1-4fe6-bf0d-b560228800eb 2425 THE NOTE READ DEAR PETE IF YOU GET THIS I AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION OVER THE BARREN ROCKY GROUND WE HURRIED PAST THE WRETCHED HOVELS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY AND THROUGH CROOKED DISMAL STREETS TOWARD THE CENTER OF THE CITY 5cd7d597-1007-4c27-bea0-c2c5028bab2f 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 c44bb65d-e107-4ffe-ab42-c7f1afc56110 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 747fb564-8b4b-4489-9517-a5af3dbbd4cf 2137 THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT HE PICKED HIS WAY CAUTIOUSLY HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST HE REMEMBERED THE RUSSIAN REPORTS OF THE WEIRD AND DEADLY CREATURES THEY HAD ENCOUNTERED IN THE MARTIAN DESERTS BUT ASIDE FROM A FEW GREY PATCHES OF BRUSH THERE SEEMED TO BE NO SIGNS OF LIFE 9bb989e0-b649-4054-aac7-d001ad4c21ad 402 PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN 40f58efd-8f7e-44a7-8a8e-b7f914261da8 188 BUT DONALD WAS NOT GOING TO SHOW ALL HE THOUGHT SCOTCH PEOPLE NEVER DO AND HE PRETENDED TO BE VERY GLAD TO SEE NEIL AND MADE HIM HEARTILY WELCOME HOW DID THE CHILDREN BEHAVE ROGER LIKE MODELS SAID UNCLE ROGER THEY WERE AS GOOD AS GOLD MOST OF THE DAYS c917a457-b73c-4936-b490-2a9338c46a90 188 IT'S A PRETTY QUEER YARN SAID FELIX I WONDER IF IT'S TRUE AND WHAT IT MEANS I INTEND TO FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS SAYS A SORT STORY GIRL I AM GOING TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE AWKWARD MAN SOMETIME AND THEN I'LL FIND OUT HIS ALICE SECRET 1c452b3d-a847-45da-8a12-12c681e16100 451 OH SEE HERE IF YOU'RE GOING TO INTERRUPT AND ARGUE OVER EVERYTHING WE'LL NEVER GET THE STORY TOLD SAID FELIX DRY UP ALL OF YOU AND LET THE STORY GIRL GO ON WE DRIED UP AND THE STORY GIRL WENT ON 716152d5-4282-4134-9418-7f0c42e78230 14 IT WAS A STRANGE WOOING AND THE FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS BEGGED HER TO REFUSE BUT HER PRIDE WHISPERED THAT IT WOULD BE SUCH A WONDERFUL THING TO BE QUEEN OF THE KING OF THE WORLD SO SHE CONSENTED AND HER MAIDENS DRESSED HER AND PUT ON THE LONG LACE VEIL THAT HAD BEEN SO MANY YEARS A MAKING 3e0cda3b-3c02-4609-8910-6971837c0981 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 8f91fbe5-21f3-4e0e-9ef7-de6dc8ac9c6c 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 f6dbf46f-d0cc-4ad5-bbaa-4d04692be183 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 fb02b8ed-153d-470e-8c8c-b62a08cc7396 402 THEY HAD THREE DAYS ONLY THREE DAYS OF HAPPINESS AND THEN THE BLOW FELL THE CREW AND PASSENGERS OF THE FANNY REFUSED TO LET CAPTAIN DUNBAR TAKE HIS WIFE WITH HIM THEY TOLD HIM HE MUST LEAVE HER BEHIND AND ALL HIS PRAYERS WERE OF NO AVAIL a092eff0-d998-4900-9d22-c61466e9d7bb 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 80a9d799-8935-44f2-848b-768de6167981 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 3e7edd30-ac47-42fe-bc4b-7df8b83764de 2286 MAYBE HE SAID SUDDENLY SLUMPED AND TIRED NO LONGER LAUGHING MAYBE THEY WILL BUT I GAVE HER A CHANCE IT'S ALL OVER FOR ME NOW BUT SHE KNOWS THAT I LOVED HER TO THE END HE BARED HIS TEETH IN SUDDEN PAIN NOT THAT SHE WILL CARE IN THE SLIGHTEST 874d91cf-a8ae-404d-bd4c-49851fb52698 32 OF COURSE THERE WAS NO ORCHARD HERE THEN IT WAS JUST A FIELD BUT THERE WAS A CLUMP OF WHITE BIRCHES IN IT RIGHT WHERE THAT BIG SPREADING TREE OF UNCLE ALEC'S IS NOW AND EMILY LIKED TO SIT AMONG THE FERNS UNDER THE BIRCHES AND READ OR SEW c8d9042c-aa9b-47a6-bb38-2cf7af433304 2317 GARF PADDLED IDLY AROUND DOR'S APARTMENT PRETENDING INTEREST IN THE SHELL PAINTINGS THAT DECORATED THE WALLS HE HAD PRESENTED HER A BOUQUET IN WHICH RARE BLOSSOMS HID SLIMY SMELLING WEEDS AND SHE WAS SORE AT HIM AGAIN 71d5428e-bcb9-41c3-98d4-4b87352295d8 2312 HE KNEW ALL THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT THEM THEIR NATIVITIES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS HE KNEW THAT THERE WERE ONLY NINE REGULAR PEOPLE IN THE NINE HUNDRED SQUARE MILES OF THE SANTA MAGDALENA 33c4eba0-cb56-4f5f-b534-d6451eed319c 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 ffc597ae-a83c-4df9-ac97-8eb9ae34d689 2286 AND WAITING WAS ALL I COULD DO OF COURSE THERE WERE SECONDARY TASK AS WAS ORDERING A NAVAL CRUISER FOR MY OWN USE AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES BUT THESE WERE REALLY SECONDARY TO MY MAIN PURPOSE WHICH WAS WAITING FOR BAD NEWS df482ef6-026c-4152-a3d9-758599687bc2 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 82dd2b46-ab0f-4504-a85b-0b70c5b41656 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 67c7ae38-1adf-460e-a290-b023194508b4 402 INTERESTING THINGS LIKE THIS ALL DID HAPPEN LONG AGO IT SEEMS TO ME THEY NEVER SEEMED TO HAPPEN NOW THIS WAS IN FORTY NINE WHEN PEOPLE WERE RUSHING TO THE GOLD FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA IT WAS JUST LIKE A FEVER AUNT LOUISA SAYS PEOPLE TOOK IT RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND AND A NUMBER OF YOUNG MEN DETERMINED THEY WOULD GO TO CALIFORNIA 9c51f5da-83c4-40d5-98bf-2be22100320d 2312 OH WELL WE GOT IT FROM THE PROMOTER OF SORTS A KIND MAN REALLY I'LL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT WE WERE TAKEN BUT WE WERE IN A SPOT AND NEEDED A WORLD HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES WERE TOO STUPID TO BE A NUISANCE 90cf22d6-b287-4342-bcca-c270c51a4d3d 402 BUT WHEN THE STORY GIRL WREATHED HER NUT BROWN TRESSES WITH CRIMSON LEAVES IT SEEMED AS PETER SAID THAT THEY GREW ON HER AS IF THE GOLD AND FLAME OF HER SPIRIT HAD BROKE OUT IN A CORONAL AS MUCH A PART OF HER AS THE PALE HALO SEEMS A PART OF THE MADONNA IT ENCIRCLES 5cd231c3-7142-46c4-b09e-d1a9e4e1399f 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 74e3ca9c-5bec-46ab-b7ef-a7b0d0d8e614 1867 IF POSSIBLE THE SMILE WAS STILL WIDER NOW I SHOULD HAVE SAID A DUPLICATE OF YOUR CONTRACT LIKE THIS ONE HERE 73823466-78ef-4a29-85c2-955734e9d721 2317 SHE TOLD HIM SOMETHING ELSE JOHN ANDREW BLUSHED FURIOUSLY AGAIN AND COVERED HIS EARS WITH HIS HANDS 34bfcb4e-8acf-4b9b-8b14-f527ca922e89 2274 HOLY MAZOO TWENTY SIX DAYS AGO AND I A SEARCHIP CAME THROUGH HERE HAD ROUTINE MINNY SNEAKER LOOK AT THE PLACE 93fc4892-dd0b-401e-979e-a191135a875e 198 LATER ON WE HEARD HER IMPARTING HER NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE TO FELICITY IN THE PANTRY IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS MEANS THAT NOBODY WANTS TO MARRY YOU FOR EVER SO LONG AND THEN LOTS OF PEOPLE DO 7293a6a4-f57e-4047-8058-1468dbca54e6 451 THE STORY GIRL WINKED WITH THE SIGHT OF HER FACE NEXT TO FELIX AND ME BUT THE SIDE NEXT TO THE GIRLS CHANGED NOT A MUSCLE SHE DEARLY LOVED TO TAKE HER EYES OUT OF FELICITY NOW AND THEN INDEED I WOULD IF I'D JUST MADE UP MY MIND TO WHY NOT WHY NOT BARE FEET IF THEY'RE CLEAN AS WELL AS BARE HANDS AND FACE 688171e1-f14f-42c8-b9a3-f2c780e68714 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 038588ef-bb22-42c2-882a-959f07a6b8ab 14 BUT THE STORY GIRL UNDAUNTEDLY CONTINUED TO COAX THE RELUCTANT PETER IT WAS NOT AN EASY MATTER PETER DID NOT COME OF A CHURCH GOING STOCK AND BESIDES HE ALLEGED HE HAD NOT YET MADE UP HIS MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST c0edac36-3c66-4e50-83b7-478b37f22c87 103 WE PAUSED A MOMENT IN THE HALL TO LOOK AT THE BIG GRANDFATHER CLOCK IT WAS NOT GOING BUT IT SEEMED LIKE AN OLD FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCE TO US WITH THE GILT BALLS ON ITS THREE PEAKS 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 84a39fc1-3b86-4b4b-bca2-873cfb5e842a 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 376a0313-105d-4b69-b77d-72a508a812af 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 f3394daa-a8a7-4e53-9ca1-21437592cf4a 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 992122aa-4f64-4aae-8d15-5cb134278482 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 5d2951d4-fb2c-435d-9c17-79f283fdbfe3 451 FELICITY ATE TWO IN HER VERY PRESENCE AND THEN BROUGHT THE REST OUT TO US IN THE ORCHARD 23218ca7-73c1-4a31-b617-6edff477592c 451 MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME I'M ALWAYS GLAD WHEN IT GETS WARM ENOUGH TO GO BAREFOOTED BUT WHEN I GROW UP THEY'LL HAVE TO BE COVERED UP ALL THE TIME be166c34-48cd-43fd-805d-0bf491f2b9cd 2286 HE WAS TRYING TO BE FAIR AND CONSIDERATE OF MY VIEWS AND NOT SUCCEEDING IN THE SLIGHTEST IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE HE GROWLED HOW CAN YOU BE SURE THIS KILLOW WILL EVER READ ONE OF THESE THINGS AND IF HE DOES WHY SHOULD HE BE INTERESTED IT LOOKS TO ME AS IF YOU'RE WASTING TIME WHEN HE SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS 10911be1-d13c-4748-926b-06bc564c1c71 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 8257606d-45c4-4044-8b10-68561f2f208e 402 IT GAVE ME THE SAME UNPLEASANT SENSATION WHICH I HAD FELT ONE TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY 29b45025-973e-4401-9db7-fd919a1497a0 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 642a613c-d95e-437b-9a6b-24e7f2ca661f 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 e310958a-e259-478a-868a-bc2cf02e3f53 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 989613da-3f00-4e71-9bb7-7b053f008f3d 2182 VOCALLY SAID CHAFFY FOUR THEY SHUDDERED AND TELEPARTED THE SUDDEN REAPPEARANCE OF HIS HALLUCINATION DOUBLED STARTLED JEFF NO MORE THAN THE FACT THAT HE SEEMED TO BE HOLDING JENOFOR MAC TIGHTLY cff33bde-f9d9-468f-b96c-c979f1abdbfa 413 OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND CICELY'S PRAYER HAD BEEN ANSWERED EXCITEMENT HAD COME WITH A VENGEANCE AND AND UNDER ITS STRESS FELICITY HAD SPOKEN FIRST BUT THIS LIKE THE BREAKING OF THE CUP HAD NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR US AT THE MOMENT 58c2d9bb-128c-4a19-839d-b6dd142f0a20 188 WHILE HE WAS PLAYING A SLEIGH DROVE UP TO THE DOOR AND NEIL CAMPBELL CAME IN DONALD WAS NOT OVERLY GLAD TO SEE HIM FOR HE SUSPECTED WHERE HE WAS GOING 449cc237-5b5c-4303-9a55-c6e52dc95ffd 14 DAN PRESENTLY BROKE THE SPELL YOU SEE IT DOESN'T DO TO BE TOO PROUD FELICITY HE REMARKED GIVING HER A POKE 7b0e9883-b0f4-41b0-8188-e7d238a9049b 2286 WHILE YOU TALKED IT REGISTERED YOUR SKIN TEMPERATURE BLOOD PRESSURE AMOUNT OF PERSPIRATION AND SUCH IN OTHER WORDS IT IS AN EFFICIENT AND FAST WORKING LIE DETECTOR WE WILL NOW HEAR ALL ABOUT YOUR LIES 3e4482fe-ee92-4180-9a1d-a717672bd40f 2108 WHEN I RETURNED TO NIMIA ME THE GIRL WAS DELIGHTED AND THREW HER ARMS AROUND MY NECK AND KISSED ME DECLARING SHE WAS BUT PROUD OF ME b368d446-d589-4d89-847a-7fccf5ea7ad2 2182 DID YOU SEE IT SHE DEMANDED JEFF WRESTLED HIS EYES AWAY TO THE SCOOP THAT FLOATED LIKE A PURPLE ISLAND IN THE BAY A PROPER MONSTER HE SAID YOU GOT OUT JUST IN TIME fe52a642-3fb4-48c4-9b5a-89517a3d8bcb 2274 I COULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU SIT GREETED NEW YOU RIGHT FINISH FOR YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IF YOU DO SAID HORN I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY THERE'S A SHIP OVERHEAD THAT COULD SPLIT OPEN YOUR PLANET WITH ONE BOMB WASH IT WITH MOLTEN ROCK 3b2781f4-be64-4470-ae2e-0c5bf2292206 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 97ec205d-642e-4dce-a023-adcad71146d6 2286 GET OUT THERE FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON THEN GET BACK NOTHING ELSE AND THAT'S AN ORDER THIS PEPEE IS SMART AND AS TRICKY AS A FIX GAMBLING MACHINE THAT'S HIS STRENGTH AND HIS WEAKNESS AS WELL a5d7d0c0-0027-4517-9846-d51c754921ee 2182 WE LEAN ON WEAK REEDS CHAFFEE THREE SAID CREATURES WHO COLLAPSE WITH TERROR AT THE MERE PROJECTION OF A ZID CAN BE OF LITTLE ASSISTANCE IN RECAPTURING ONE c80307ce-53b6-4d44-8a03-d984d89c60b7 242 HE'S PRAYING THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE SHE SAID 95d663f6-e1a7-4550-914b-f25de666ca72 2312 SODOM AND GOMORRAH TEXAS BY R MANOEL TOOK MULLER AND WENT TO WORK 1faf4a90-0617-48f5-935e-35375786f82a 198 I'D LIKE TO SIGHED FELICITY BUT WE'D COME HOME TIRED AND WITH ALL THE MILKING TO DO YOU BOYS BETTER GO ALONE PETER AND I WILL ATTEND TO THE MILKING FOR ONE EVENING SAID UNCLE ROGER YOU CAN ALL GO 71f8ee47-ac76-41d7-a5d3-991be478b551 2425 CAN WE GET IN THROUGH THE WINDOWS NO THEY'RE BAWED IF YOU REMEMBER RIGHTLY AND FITTED WITH THIS FROSTED GLASS SO YOU CAN'T SEE IN EVEN 4802c62a-92fb-4232-a34b-a70cb084dc7d 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 c3f96489-7235-4d5d-bc4a-e05baaab4dff 2274 TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON HE REACHED OVER TOOK THE RIFLE FOUND THE SAFETY BELTS BOUND TO NOBE WITH HIM THEN HE EASED OFF THE ACCELERATION 10efab36-0511-4047-a441-bad5c2d579dd 32 THIS COULD NOT BE HER COUSIN FROM SCOTLAND SHE KNEW FOR HE HAD WRITTEN SO TO HER THAT HE HAD EYES AS BLACK AS HER OWN b3230a61-7b15-4421-a5e4-6f6801a1907a 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 e4527865-45bc-42d8-ad92-c6b9044928e4 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 9907cc59-5199-499b-954d-0f23af87b7e2 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 03c9d1a3-6d47-4b59-9d8b-211f821cf841 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 abd63f5e-2d3b-44fb-b38e-0a8f1d2fd8c1 413 AND WHO SPOKE FIRST OH THE STORY YELL SHE GOT EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND SPOKE TO FELICITY BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED AND SUCH A BAD SIGN 5c0db33c-e894-4380-895a-46e2dce7d104 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 101c08da-1543-4d89-91d3-1d5e4f95c7ec 242 YES THAT'S IT AGREED PETER IT'S ALL RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE IT'S KIND OF PRAYING WITH YOUR FISTS OH CAN'T YOU DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT THEM FROM FIGHTING SARA PLEADED CECILY TURNING TO THE STORY GIRL WHO WAS SITTING ON A BIN SWINGING HER SHAPELY BARE FEET TO AND FRO 763a808f-9f00-4646-97b7-57e5c7773028 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 8f7ed064-c32e-490b-9267-6480c24eea87 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 b310bd46-094a-43e8-8e88-adf97acb205e 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 3da9e7d6-20ec-4805-b5d7-6d2e94dd9b02 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 fae0e9cc-f739-4e14-a0f0-5d04aea0dfe7 451 WE FEARED THAT DAN WOULD DROP DEAD ON THE SPOT BUT NOTHING OCCURRED IMMEDIATELY WHEN AN HOUR HAD PASSED WE CONCLUDED THAT THE BAD BERRIES WERE NOT POISON AFTER ALL AND WE LOOKED UPON DAN AS QUITE A HERO FOR DARING TO EAT THEM I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY FELICITY'S SO FOND OF MAKING A FUSS OVER EVERYTHING 4aa0f79d-6979-4f69-b107-f50b883446d8 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 c8db5688-373a-474e-8aa0-1507c5a6e265 2312 COME OUT OF THAT COT YOU CLOWN I DOUBT IT WHERE DID YOU GET THE TITLE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I'D RATHER NOT SAY 7a5c9f96-0b96-4641-9f95-05ddfaa3c48d 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 f76a9c7f-8a8d-454f-98a1-4125a41ca937 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 b1794502-b53d-499f-a8eb-4c03ef47fecb 242 REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX PETER ROGER IS LOOKING FOR YOU TO WASH HIS BUGGY BE OFF 599deafe-c760-4cf1-9b0a-7c35df05248a 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 ee847a1a-0b83-4308-8fee-4bed60d53810 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 863decf0-8a88-46a9-b613-bf054a82c414 413 I WISH I HAD A WHITE DRESS LIKE YOU GIRLS SOBBED SARA ARRAY BUT I HAVEN'T AND IT'S TOO LATE TO GET ONE OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER I WOULDN'T HAVE DISOBEYED US OFTEN IF I'D THOUGHT THE JUDGMENT DAY WAS SO NEAR WHEN I GO HOME I'M GOING TO TELL HER ABOUT GOING TO THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW I'M NOT SURE THAT UNCLE ROGER MEANT WHAT HE SAID REMARKED THE STORY GIRL cf839c8c-ffa5-45ee-8268-bf9ece0b69c6 2137 I MAY BE ABLE TO WRITE IT DOWN GET ON THE DECK INTACT TRY IT AIR START BRANDON 43aed5b6-f4aa-4fd2-815a-27190d5428ce 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 3244244d-c28e-4aee-8a41-42c674807932 2108 WHY NOT DEMANDED THE EMPEROR BECAUSE IT WAS UNKIND OF YOU TO DESERT THE GIRL WHO LOVED YOU AND WHO HAD BEEN FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE IN TROUBLE 22d6d61f-722d-4c03-9cc2-e23c68084a0b 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 bc8b9be4-c735-4886-8c92-96ac20dfc258 1867 THAT NIGHT I TOOK THE SHIP DOWN INTO THE HILLS NEAREST THE PYRAMID AN OUT OF THE WAY DRY SPOT WHERE THE UNPHIBIOUS NATIVES WOULD NEVER GO A LITTLE BEFORE DAWN THE EYE HOOKED ON TO MY SHOULDERS AND WE SAILED STRAIGHT UP WE HOVERED ABOVE THE TEMPLE AT ABOUT TWO THOUSAND METERS UNTIL IT WAS LIGHT AND THEN DROPPED STRAIGHT DOWN 8509d864-16de-45e5-ac18-e401e503de13 2317 OR SO IT SEEMED AT LEAST FOR EVEN AS RAY STARTED FORWARD WITH OUTSTRETCHED HAND OBVIOUSLY HOPING TO EXAMINE THE THING GARF GAVE IT A FINAL TWIRL AND SCALED IT CARELESSLY OVERBOARD ac12767e-076e-4b03-823a-756a73cad79b 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 2fe1d358-15aa-4c8d-87f7-2b08fc8d56f0 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 cb301c33-0c8d-4b0c-ad71-35d3a8d3c3c1 2182 IT STOOD SOLIDLY ON CAREFULLY MANICURED YELLOW FEET AND STARED AT HIM OUT OF SQUARE VIOLET EYES INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY 901ed853-e3d0-4fd5-91a9-082538ee7245 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 df8f10cc-e981-434a-b12e-536cbd81ca77 188 BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT HIGH HEELED SLIPPERS AND ON THE FLY LEAF OF THE BOOKS THE NAME ALICE WAS WRITTEN NOW THERE NEVER WASN'T ALICE IN THE DALE CONNECTION AND NOBODY EVER HEARD OF THE AWKWARD MAN HAVING A SWEETHEART THERE ISN'T THAT A LOVELY MYSTERY a6770561-6193-494a-a9ad-3b95603767c1 2317 EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHAT REACTIVATED THE GATE BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BELONG AND EVEN THE PARTS THAT SHOULD BE THERE SEEM WRONG SOMEHOW 1ff52563-560a-4951-a157-c9353006d6c0 2312 HE ONLY GRINNED WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT NORTH WAS AT THE TOP HE KNEW BETTER BUT HE DID WRITE A NICE ROUND HAND LIKE A BOY'S HAND 5a3c4145-a8eb-4c47-88fd-923e01919d1d 14 IT WAS A REAL GOOD BOOK MY AUNT JANE WOULDN'T HAVE A BOOK THAT WASN'T GOOD RETORTED PETER SULKILY I AM AFRAID THE REMEMBRANCE GREW A LITTLE DIM THE REST OF THE WEEK 9d2db116-6b7f-4487-8f5c-561271df9cde 2312 THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME HE HAD BEEN GIVEN A DEADLINE BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITIZEN'S GROUP HE HAD TO PRODUCE A POPULATION OF TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE FOR HIGH PLANS TEXAS AND THIS WAS DIFFICULT FOR THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY PEOPLE IN THE TOWN 2e142925-0e15-4f6f-8dbb-6d3ba900c62d 413 NOW SARA HAD ALWAYS COVETED THIS PARTICULAR JUG SHE STOPPED CRYING LONG ENOUGH TO CLUTCH IT DELIGHTEDLY OH CICELY THANK YOU BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU WON'T WANT IT BACK IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGMENT DAY NO IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD SAID CICELY WITH THE HIGH REMOTE AIR OF ONE TO FORGET ME NOT JUGS IN ALL SUCH PUMPS AND VANITIES OF THE WORLD WERE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD e1409ce2-d45a-4345-874b-4b0c7fbf7f31 2286 THERE WEREN'T TOO MANY OF THESE AT FIRST AND THE SI MAN COULD HANDLE THEM ALL CALLING EACH IN TURN AND SENDING BY NEWS RELEASES TO THE NAVAL PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICES THERE AS THE SPHERE KEPT GROWING HE STARTED TO DROP BEHIND STEADILY LOSING GROUND 1b4e58b7-99ba-4bf0-a606-ac1a8675bcc2 242 WELL HE'S GOT TO STOP PRAYING AGAINST ME ANYHOW SAID FELIX RESOLUTELY I WON'T PUT UP WITH IT I'LL GO AND TELL HIM SO RIGHT OFF FELIX MARCHED OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S AND WE TRAILED AFTER SCENTING A SCENE dc260653-3e6e-4135-ab9a-7d6168299e11 188 SARA RAY I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO DIE TILL I GOT BETTER MOTHER SAYS I WAS LOONEY MOST OF THE TIME AFTER THEY STRUCK IN IT WAS JUST BECAUSE THEY STRUCK IN I WAS LOONY I AIN'T LOANY NATURALLY FELICITY I WILL DO WHAT YOU ASK IN YOUR POSTSCRIPT SARA ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE HARD d873fd1b-95fe-4651-8c1a-841e20b68dcd 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 768e5aac-cd0d-4668-9828-cc9c66dbeb16 413 HOW ABOUT AUNT OLIVIA NO AUNT OLIVIA HAS GONE TO BED WITH A SICK HEADACHE AND MUSTN'T BE DISTURBED SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE SAID I MUST GET DINNER READY BECAUSE THERE WAS PLENTY OF COLD MEAT AND NOTHING TO DO BUT BOIL THE POTATOES AND PEAS AND SET THE TABLE eb36721b-0dde-4c55-a136-808ce38a24dc 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 377f2534-2fda-43c4-bddb-638abc8410ed 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 a6cca703-4a9c-4479-aaf2-e3fc42ff547a 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 7de7063a-5c70-447b-9734-2ad052593847 2425 COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS NICE WORK PETE SHOUTED VIC AS I JOINED THEM BREATHLESS BUT TRIUMPHANT NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES 26b91d69-9761-4baa-8182-dff5552c785e 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 97007ee5-2cb2-444d-a5da-dca6c8c14c59 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 64ec4ab9-4034-4be2-be88-84d8c3e47517 2317 PUT THAT DOWN DOORS YELL WAS HIGH PITCHED GARF FACED THEM AND FARMER COULD JUST MAKE OUT HIS LAZY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE THROUGH THE MURKY WATER THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES THE BOAT HEAVED WALLOWED AND SANK e8e3bc90-ecda-42d7-9f7b-a5edcadb3f46 2274 THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN ON THE TRANSLIGHT SCREEN THE FOREFINGERED HAND LOOKED EXTREMELY CAPABLE AROUND THE STOCK OF MARK TWENTY SLOWLY HORN PUT A HAND TO HIS THROAT PRESSED THE CONTACT BUTTON 18d7678f-4a20-4411-9f9e-201c284796de 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 74ff8a65-1f72-472f-87d1-1806b8490dc6 32 THE GRAY FIRST CAME IN GRANDMOTHER'S BROWN HAIR IN THOSE MONTHS OF WAITING FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ORCHARD HEARD THE SOUND OF WEEPING AND WAS CONSECRATED BY SORROW eec128f0-5842-42d7-9b17-f0472b68dc12 451 EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY 19d16938-6a40-4a6f-a755-8b6c596d46a7 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 e882bdbd-f8f4-407f-a1f4-55bd4502601f 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 48e321d2-c7d0-45c9-814b-da1731842224 2286 WHY YES HE SAID HOW DID YOU KNOW THE NORMAL TREADY WAS CHANGED AROUND CAUSING A GREAT DEAL OF UNNECESSARY TROUBLE THE COLD SWEAT WAS NOW A RUNNING RIVER OF FEAR I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY 97cf81b5-b3f2-42aa-a961-eb9e7db0f7a8 2317 WHAT WOULD THE FEDS SAY IF THEY KNEW YOU WERE GIVING OUT INFORMATION THE EARTH MEN HADN'T ACQUIRED BY THEMSELVES HELPING THEM GET INTO SPACE WHAT ABOUT THAT 6650dca1-0bb4-4a09-813a-b05b96935d9b 2368 MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE e8bff962-a8a7-4e65-83b3-5ef20281bb7c 242 CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT PETER'S PRAYER WAS WRONG BECAUSE IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER I GUESS SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY 662c4da4-28cc-405b-afda-4076d57b94d2 32 LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE b576e603-25fc-4bc1-ab66-d9c0c49e2229 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 641e98f9-36fa-4281-b039-f58887e4cb83 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 1d1de2e7-7637-4c18-aba7-3e5511a19124 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 974a8457-ab7a-4cb8-a9db-f8d464ad7f06 2368 YOU BELIEVE THAT I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID KENUF WAITED A BARE A SECOND AND THEN NODDED I CAN DO MANY THINGS YANUS WENT ON IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I BRING THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION AND TO PROVE TO YOU THAT THEY WERE NOT WIZARDLY OR MAGIC MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL IT IS A COMMON DEFENCE 5fcc1bb7-2157-4905-a07b-ec7face03b7e 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 c58bdab2-8dca-407a-b1b2-c938a6a6d6d6 2317 HE APPROACHED THE ENGINE AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL JOHN ANDREW GULPED AND PUT OUT A TENSIVE HAND TOWARDS THE FUSE MESS IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT IT HAD MELTED 96c5aef3-39f4-4709-98d9-401254fc233f 14 SHE MARCHED OFF WITH SARA RAY AND PETER DROPPED BACK TO US WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE WHAT IS IT I HAVE DONE TO HER HE WHISPERED WHAT DOES THAT BIG WORD MEAN ce3d7b2f-de10-436b-8f4e-2d396a12095a 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 c87a77d0-8d89-41bc-ae8a-a75ff99aca4d 451 YES BUT MAYBE SOME ONE WHO SEES ME THERE WILL MENTION IT TO MA WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT ISN'T TOO LATE NOW SARA SHE SAID YOU JUST TAKE MY ADVICE AND GO INTO THIS WITH ALL YOUR HEART IF YOU GO AT ALL NEVER MIND IF IT IS BAD 378ae756-70bc-4349-a574-7618e331e1ac 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 6fcedb0f-77cc-494a-9946-15a24f0bcfd5 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 1c4c15bf-81db-4583-9462-88009dbf8f3f 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 beb24b54-1776-4bb3-af33-7ed4df1c69b1 413 WHAT A BLACK AND ENDLESS LIST THEY MADE THOSE SINS OF OMISSION AND COMMISSION THAT RUSHED ACCUSINGLY ACROSS OUR YOUNG MEMORIES I GUESS I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN CAUSE I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU YES I'LL BE A PRESBYTERIAN c44fafbd-d27f-42e8-80e8-a876a4ad9862 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 1dc406ca-5a4d-4542-93e9-93e2d3a74c9a 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 bde47f0f-3e8c-4f11-befd-991cdb6a6407 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 49626d38-41ec-4dfc-9d75-f9013314d3ce 2137 BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT TINY RED MISTS MARKED DUST STORMS CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO NOR TO PROTECT THE CREW IN EQUIPMENT FROM A BRACE OF DUST HE RIGHTED THE SHIP 5d796a3f-191e-4337-8382-dea765f15964 2137 ONLY FOUR YEARS BY OUR TEA BRANDON SAID THE MAN SMILED AND PUT HIS HELMET BACK ON HIS HEAD A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED SINCE YOU LEFT THERE WAS A WAR WHICH WE WON AND I GUESS YOU GUISE WERE ALMOST FORGOTTEN AND THERE WAS A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT 7dfdaa75-d49f-4771-b054-37e7ef54380e 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 c9216a41-ed39-4b66-8f0e-84777f20e43e 413 WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO AND WHO SPOKE FIRST OH THE STORY YELL SHE GOT EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING AND SPOKE TO FELICITY BEFORE SHE THOUGHT AND THEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT a54b9a7f-bf7c-488b-9633-93207b9355b0 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 c76e8d6c-9bef-4c76-8cd5-ae4672cfbf6b 242 THE SKY ABOVE IT WAS CHILL AND ERETHRAL AND MYSTICAL BUT ALL OF US WERE SHADOWS AND THE WEIRD LITTLE TALE TOLD IN A VOICE FRAUGHT WITH MYSTERY AND PATHOS HAD PEOPLED THEM FOR US WITH FURATIVE FOLKS IN BELT AND WAMPUM AND DARK DRESSED INDIAN MAIDENS 8fee8f26-94a8-4d7d-9b38-e45ea26ba0d9 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 eb6dfea8-2b7c-4aa5-967c-a798dd672df3 2425 WHAT WE MUST DO AND RIGHT NOW IS TO SETTLE UPON SOME MEANS OF GETTING TO THE PROPER SPOT AT THE PROPER TIME YOU MARKED A MOMENT OF YOUR DEPARTURE I SUPPOSE ff5675d4-cb97-4f3b-96f4-08133eaca9cc 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 91da321a-240c-49ad-8a16-1d673a227598 1867 THERE WAS A BOLTED AND GUARDED DOOR THAT LED INTO THE PYRAMID PROPER WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME UNDOUBTEDLY YOU KNOW THE RULE HE SAID BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES d1813eaf-61d1-4264-a002-f29fce988766 188 FOR IT IS SURE TO COME AND IF IT IS NOT JUST AS WE HAVE PICTURED IT IT WILL BE INFINITELY SWEETER THE END END OF CHAPTER THIRTY TWO END OF THE BOOK THE STORY GIRL BY LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY 2b3f7037-c48f-4560-a060-1b27f82aee43 188 THE MAGIC OF HER VOICE WORKED ITS WILL ON MISTER CAMPBELL AS ON ALL OTHERS HE CAME IN SAT DOWN HOOKED HIS THUMB INTO HIS VEST POCKET AND SMILED AT HER WHAT IS IT HE ASKED WE ARE COLLECTING FOR OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND WE HAVE CALLED TO ASK YOU FOR A CONTRIBUTION SHE REPLIED 68f87789-c3ec-424e-9151-34b773bedfc6 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 82f4ab3f-6e56-40f5-8a01-a2d07854cfcd 2317 THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE AND THE BEASTMAN LOOKED BACK WITH COLD AMUSEMENT BUT NOT FOR LONG GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP 369a0668-8dd7-4a97-887f-176cb3406c2c 2182 A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING IF HOMESIDE YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY bf26fbb4-8b79-461e-a4e8-8a12507e2f32 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 b624afa7-11f2-466e-8c82-6379707689c9 451 THAT IS ONE THING I HAVE AGAINST THE ISLAND YOU NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THINGS LIKE THAT HERE THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS IN CHARLOTTETOWN ONCE SAID PETER MY AUNT JANE SAW HIM QUITE CLOSE BY 077c17d8-bbb3-4043-9d42-e27eee7c427e 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 2a6211df-a04e-4fa8-b8c8-7ee92c2e24a3 1867 THEN I FILLED THE FRAME WITH ALL THE EQUIPMENT I WOULD NEED AND BEGAN TO WIRE THE SUIT WHEN IT WAS DONE I TRIED IT ON IN FRONT OF A FULL LENGTH MIRROR IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR AND GAVE ME A DUCK WADDLE BUT THAT ONLY HELPED THE RESEMBLANCE b2022ab3-73cf-428c-86a1-93bed9508ebb 2108 WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SHE ASKED ROOT HE WAS SUSPICIOUS OF MAGIC COFFEE BUT HIS MOUTH SO GOOD THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST IT SO HE ANSWERED IF YOU PLEASE MA'AM THE GIANTESS POURED OUT ANOTHER CUP AND SET IT ON THE FLOOR FOR WOOT c3490d6f-5f56-4f2c-bbbb-e483347fe225 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 f2dc372a-78b1-466d-bce8-63d5129450eb 2274 IT'S ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE DARK SIDE OF YOUR MOON TO NEWBE'S EYES DILATED CONTRACTED YOU READ MINES WE BOTH KNOW THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ALIEN CONTACT BUT IF YOU GET INTO A HOT SPOT AND CALL FOR HELP I'LL DIVE THIS CRUISER INTO THAT CITY TO GET YOU OUT e9f92f03-0818-4fcc-bcc9-3b6c40749b19 451 SHE WAS THOUGH QUITE UNCONSCIOUSLY ACTING A PART AND TASTING ALL THE SUBTLE JOY OF THE ARTIST WHICH IS SO MUCH MORE EXQUISITE THAN ANY MATERIAL PLEASURE SHE HAD ALSO GIVEN PETER A BIBLE OF WHICH HE WAS SO PROUD THAT HE HATED TO USE IT LEST HE SHOULD SOIL IT 717b3920-b0ca-41f1-936e-0cbff5c30c79 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 3b82f78b-986a-46ce-a083-f0e5ca17b08d 451 TWO CENTS MORE A WEEK OUT OF CECILY'S EGG MONEY MEANT SOMETHING OF A SACRIFICE IT INSPIRED THE REST OF US WE ALL DECIDED TO INCREASE OUR WEEKLY CONTRIBUTION BY A CENT OR SO AND PETER WHO HAD NO MISSIONARY BOX AT ALL UP TO THIS TIME DETERMINED TO START ONE 5ee5bf37-2566-4aa4-a5e9-cf4ac8c5b3cf 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 323d209a-4793-4f8c-9778-be07ed85774e 2368 ON THE SECOND DAY THE RATS BEGAN TO BORE HIM BY THAT EVENING THEY WERE ANNOYING HIM AND WHEN THE THIRD DAY DAWNED BRIGHT AND WARM AS NEAR AS HE COULD TELL FROM THE TINIEST WINDOW AT THE TOP OF HIS CELL YUNUS WAS TELLING HIMSELF THAT ANY MOVE AT ALL WAS A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION 2a681059-66ed-4d7b-87f9-5b31f5a46d97 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 7067be1d-d3b0-445d-8abb-9336c4291c38 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 564c8f67-b8fc-47f7-af20-9c030ccf0bc3 451 THIS WE FELT WAS A HEROIC MEASURE INDEED TO SIT DOWN TO ONE OF AUNT JANET'S MEALS IN ORDINARY HEALTH AND APPETITE AND EAT NOTHING BUT BREAD AND WATER THAT WOULD BE PENANCE WITH A VENGEANCE 183f194c-d04f-4fbe-a726-a8c463d418ee 2274 NO BUT IT FITTED MY HUNCH ABOUT THIS THESE JAINANDS I'D KIND OF FELT FROM THE FIRST MINUTE OF MEETING THEM THAT THEY HAD A CULTURE LIKE THE INDIANS OF ANCIENT TERRA WHY d3721d0d-a9c3-4df0-a536-870705f2844f 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 a04f7187-e452-4307-9c18-99f2c5c2d639 451 ALL RIGHT SAID DAN I'VE EAT ALL I WANT THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK BUT NOW THAT HIS ANGER WAS OVER HE LOOKED A LITTLE FRIGHTENED FELICITY WAS NOT THERE WE FOUND HER IN THE KITCHEN LIGHTING UP THE FIRE 08875427-0426-46d3-ac11-5cfd71c18961 2137 HE TURNED A DIAL WITH HIS THUMB AND HANDED THE UNIT TO BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON A CRYSTAL CLEAR IMAGE OF COLONEL TOWERS PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON HIS FULL DRESS UNIFORM APPEARED ON THE SCREEN 7da67372-cfd9-4e39-830f-1bfdccdc2c87 188 THE PICNIC OVER WE PLAYED GAMES UNTIL THE EARLY FALLING DUSK AND THEN WE WENT WITH UNCLE ALEC TO THE BACK FIELD TO BURN THE POTATO STOCKS THE CROWNING DELIGHT OF THE DAY fc63fd9b-b610-4300-a97e-5d9f6851d191 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 fb80c01c-86a4-4cf3-84c0-5aff4cec8755 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 29beec1d-30d2-4f52-81ef-b795e733ab8c 2286 A PLAN WAS BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE IN MY HEAD BUT I DIDN'T RUSH IT FIRST I HAD TO BE SURE THAT I KNEW HIM WELL ANY MAN THAT CAN CON AN ENTIRE WORLD INTO BUILDING A BATTLESHIP FOR HIM THEN STEAL IT FROM THEM IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE THE SHIP WOULD NEED A CREW A BASE FOR REFUELING AND OMISSION 973677c2-9148-41df-bd70-8ceac3c1169d 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 29dd101f-61c8-4017-b09a-c4a2995f7467 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 290da7af-ff35-46a1-af4e-302e6761eeec 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 1aed4b21-b34d-4794-be5a-c9f63b83b68b 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 91137d1f-e8f5-4e24-8d68-a053f179564b 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 ea5ac453-e286-4971-ba90-b4d4d18027bb 2425 VIC SHOOK HIS HEAD QUITE GRAVELY NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH OFF ON ANOTHER TANGENT NOW WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK NOT ME IT DOESN'T SEEM REAL NOW MORE LIKE A NIGHTMARE BUT IT WAS TERRIBLE ENOUGH AT THE TIME bb8a4864-f5cd-4b7e-bdac-07abdab93231 2274 I'VE GOT A CONFIRMED CONTACT INSTANTLY STETSON WAS POISED ON THE BALLS OF HIS FEET ALERT WHERE 69fe8dfd-840f-42af-8e37-2b996f4c6efe 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 d0ca93b0-b389-40fa-b18e-832f0286e2a0 198 PRESENTLY THE MOON ROSE BUT THIS ONLY MADE MATTERS WORSE THE SHADOWS HAD BEEN STILL BEFORE NOW THEY MOVED AND DANCED AS THE NIGHT WIND TOSSED THE BOUGHS ee8f9274-7402-4dbb-bc5e-a9d3ba5c7488 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 8b2dbf17-72b7-4b5e-8113-ce1d9837d61f 188 A SUDDEN BEND IN THE LANE BROUGHT US OUT TO THE LITTLE CLEARING WHERE PEG'S HOUSE WAS BEFORE WE WERE HALF READY TO SEE IT IN SPITE OF MY FEAR I LOOKED AT IT WITH SOME CURIOSITY dd0e4bb1-577c-40a8-91fe-6633c25d7bf2 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 8945a2c6-b445-4786-a1d0-8d040e08d862 2274 YES SIR ADMIRAL STETSON SIR RIGHT AWAY SIR BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A SIR HE BEGAN CHANGING FROM THE I A BLUE TO THE YAR IN OUR WHITE ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID SIR bd25fd5b-1b48-4c2c-aa57-f21d661d3e34 2286 AS BEFITTED THE TOP OFFICIAL OF A RICH PLANET THE PLACE IS A MANSION FOR THE SECURITY PRECAUTIONS WERE LUDICROUS TO SAY THE LEAST I TOOK MYSELF AND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY KILO ROBOT THROUGH THE GUARDS AND ALARMS WITHOUT CAUSING THE SLIGHTEST STIR f2ecb6be-d9f7-4a61-b6b0-bc2f8e51546f 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 b04b3f91-a8ec-40f4-af9d-a42986a81ab7 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 23118e47-0906-4d2a-8fca-be63f64c3ed9 451 YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER THE VERY THING I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT I'LL GET SOME AFTER BREAKFAST I'M NOT GOING TO EAT A SINGLE THING ALL DAY EXCEPT BREAD AND WATER AND NOT MUCH OF THAT 38e4f4db-3563-4e69-b046-b72534c5acb7 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 9b3fc7ee-a181-4c1c-96c6-dfab1c0ce786 2317 GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE AS FOR THE FEDERATION THEY LET US IN AND MOST MEMBER RACES HAVE WARS OCCASIONALLY THEY'LL UNDOUBTEDLY ACCEPT YOU ONCE YOU DEVELOP SPACE TRAVEL 89b74247-23b2-4754-9840-56605a57353b 2286 THE BRAIN WAS AS GOOD AS ANY OTHER ROBART BRAIN I HAVE KNOWN PLUS THE FACT THAT THE CHUNKY BODY WAS CRAMMED WITH DEVICES AND MACHINES OF VARYING USE IT CHUGGED SLOWLY ROUND THE ROOM MOVING MY BAGS AND LAYING OUT MY KIT AND ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING A CAREFUL ROOT THAT COVERED EVERY INCH OF THE SUITE WHEN IT HAD FINISHED IT STOPPED AND CALLED THE ALL CLEAR 50602047-01b7-409a-b36d-281b3614f294 2108 I SUPPOSE SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THAT IN THIS YEAR YOU HAVE SEEN SO MUCH YOU HAVE BECOME VERY WISE ad87da36-0b60-4abb-8a38-c627c6871a64 2108 HOWEVER I AM SURE I CAN RESTORE THE SCARECROW TO HIS ORIGINAL SHAPE HE WAS STUFFED WITH STRAW FROM THE BEGINNING EVEN THE YUKE OF WHOM MAGIC COULD NOT ALTER THAT f2441e1b-5a2d-4b16-89df-628c2888b188 2317 DORA WAS PICKING HER WAY SLOWLY DOWN THE STONE STEPS THE MACHINE CRADLED UNDER HER ARM f261e64b-c820-4050-ac8f-ccb04c783f4e 2317 FARMER CAME OUT OF A PHILOSOPHIC HAZE TO NOTICE SHE WAS LEAVING HE SAID HAY SHE LOOKED OVER HER SHOULDER FARMER DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY BUT HE WANTED TO DELAY HER FINALLY HE POINTED TO THE NONIPUS AND SAID WHAT ABOUT THAT MONSTER YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE 232ed912-74f0-4cd6-a2e0-a6b49e24f742 1867 STAYING OUTSIDE THE ATMOSPHERE I SENT A FLYING EYE DOWN TO LOOK THINGS OVER IN THIS BUSINESS YOU LEARN EARLY WHEN AND WHERE TO RISK YOUR OWN SKIN b4af4f4c-3d56-41a2-89a7-9f16dfcd0612 2108 WHEN HE HAD JOINED THE ARMS AND LEGS TO THE BODY AND SET MY HEAD IN THE TIN COLLAR I WAS A MUCH BETTER MAN THAN EVER FOR MY BODY COULD NOT ACHE OR PAIN ME AND I WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND BRIGHT THAT I HAD NO NEED OF CLOTHING 6c770b73-e357-448b-9d1e-099aa5a60143 2368 WHY HE THOUGHT HAPPILY IT WAS EVEN MORE FOR HIM TO GET KILLED AND MOST PAINFULLY TOO WITH A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE HE STOOD FOR A SECOND AT THE CREST OF THE HILL HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS LOOKING DOWN AT THE TOWN OF SPIRE AS IT BAKED IN THE MAY AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT BEHOLD THE TORTOISE HE MAKETH NO PROGRESS UNLESS HE STICKETH OUT HIS NECK 9930d7bc-e374-4fe1-9d4f-a5c8d1925388 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 28baca84-3fcf-4263-9c37-a9123edd45ed 413 NO I'M NOT ANSWERED CICELY WITH A CHANGE OF TONE I WILL I DON'T CARE SAID FELICITY QUICKLY THERE WAS NOT A GLIMMER OF A SMILE ABOUT HIS FACE YOU ASK HIM SAID FELICITY NUDGING THE STORY YELL OH SARA STANLEY DO YOU BELIEVE IT DO YOU GASPED FELICITY CLUTCHING THE STORY GIRL'S HAND 9342269c-bde4-4ae0-9b3f-6178978e29a5 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 db5dee94-21a6-4096-8201-b45f333aa5a9 2274 SURE I CAN NO HISSED THE VOICE TOUCHED THE MITE CONTACT KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLOSED JUST USE YOUR SPEAKING MUSCLES WITHOUT SPEAKING ORAN OBEYED db51e001-c076-4fa7-8b6e-643b8389be5c 2108 EVER SINCE THE MOMENT OF HER TRANSFORMATION SHE HAS REFUSED TO SPEAK A SINGLE WORD DON'T YOU THINK YOU'D BETTER LEAVE ME AS I AM ASKED FOOD IN A TREMBLING VOICE 360b5495-c167-4828-b6ba-52ee3b363779 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 7f9f6dd7-d7a5-4bcd-aaef-6eca74a5d4d9 2137 WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH AND IT HAD SEAS NOT AS LARGE AS ON EARTH BUT SEAS NEVERTHELESS YET THERE WAS A FALLACY IN THIS ARGUMENT PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE 089d5db9-92f4-424e-a576-16e2a7aa8a69 2317 NOT THAT IT MADE ANY DIFFERENCE TO HER SHE IGNORED EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING BUT THE FEASTMAN GLARING AT HIM ANGRILY SHE SNAPPED OUT HIS NAME IN AN ICY VOICE GARF DOOR c090df10-46a8-4847-80d9-28cf5656bb59 2182 THERE IS A NIDUS JUST BACK OF A FLESHY PROCESS IN ITS THROAT CORRESPONDING TO YOUR OWN TONSILS WHICH PRODUCES A CRYSTAL MUCH AS YOUR TARRAN OYSTER SECRETES A PEARL cdbd5d7a-f6f5-4619-840f-81a50d7b9a71 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 dcc48dc5-6d4c-44a4-9f2d-d7db3e3a9f6a 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 768180cf-0b4d-4b62-b164-dd729c414d35 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER I'M MATTER AND YOU'RE MATTER WHY DON'T WE BUMP INTO THINGS b843d520-fd7b-423f-b273-f3b8f21a3e6a 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 f734d2fb-2547-4ae5-8bc5-05e4268e9653 2317 I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK AND I HAVE TO SEE THAT THE GATE IS CLOSED BEFORE a70dbf39-8d67-4d0e-a58a-0c733fd1b606 2368 JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY NOBODY'S HOME SHE REPEATED DRAWING SLIGHTLY BACK FROM THE WINDOW YOU GO AWAY NOW AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE OLD WOMAN FROWNED AT HIM SUSPICIOUSLY NOW SHE SAID VAGUELY WELL THIS IS YOUR HOUSE a819cfdd-a40b-4c04-af89-083bd1e4c1e5 1867 THEY HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE THROWING STICKS AND ARBELASTS AND WERE TRYING TO SHOOT DOWN THE EYE A CLOUD OF ARROWS AND ROCKS FLYING IN EVERY DIRECTION I PULLED THE EYE STRAIGHT UP AND AWAY AND THREW IN THE CONTROL CIRCUIT THAT WOULD RETURN IT AUTOMATICALLY TO THE SHIP dce1729d-20f7-4c09-9a43-20f5bca1d7a7 1867 I HAD GOT TURNED AROUND AFTER THE EYE BURNING AND MY FLYING BEAST HOOKED ON TO ME BACKWARD 42b035f3-7f7b-40d9-9fc6-5155b1ccc35a 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 a867098d-ed7b-4eee-a798-c974b6c5333d 2286 HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD THE POWER OF HIS THOUGHTS CARRYING ACROSS THE LIGHT YEARS OF DISTANCE 8a0fcbbb-6ada-4b44-9a5c-b26665771cf0 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 1a82b92a-a548-4acd-950a-b39285df1a73 402 A TRAGEDY OF CHILDHOOD THE STORY GIRL WENT TO CHARLOTTETOWN FOR A WEEK IN JUNE TO VISIT AUNT LOUISA LIFE SEEMED VERY COLOURLESS WITHOUT HER AND EVEN FELICITY ADMITTED THAT IT WAS LONESOME 7fbabecb-8cf2-4e32-9c66-d55342aebfaa 32 WE HAD SEEN IT ALL THE SLEEPING GENIUS THE ROGUISH RED LIPPED GIRL THE KISS DROPPED AS LIGHTLY AS A ROSE PETAL ON THE SUNBURNED CHEEK THEY SHOULD HAVE GOT MARRIED SAID FELIX 978c55af-1e79-4348-8394-21a4b32720eb 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 12d92c7c-cd95-4dd2-8397-ce83a9ff40ea 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 8540ac81-fc35-4665-98cc-865f6fa0d18e 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 1bb02224-a0ff-4af9-9678-2b900b4b0194 2368 FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT FIFTEEN WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BROTHERHOOD BUT THERE ARE OTHERS OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT YUNUS TRIED TO LOOK REASSURING HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM MY SYMPATHY HE BEGAN 621f91d6-9ea8-4c7e-ac2f-623fd30b2ee7 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 0963d6e4-7e4e-45b6-9ef5-ac1769357d63 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 8226cb48-a2cd-46cb-a4da-7d144bada7ce 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 13c2014c-ad1c-4694-b5ed-f56db9d183d8 451 WHEN FELICITY RETURNED WE CONCLUDED FROM HER EXPRESSION THAT SHE HAD NEWS AND SHE HAD 9efd38d9-4779-4108-8e4c-53a54ab762a1 2286 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 5b3e45d5-e21b-45d8-8bc0-c30732a54cb8 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 SHE SAID SHE COULDN'T GET NEAR ENOUGH TO READ IT BUT SHE KNEW IT WAS POETRY BY THE SHAPE OF IT VERY LIKELY IF THAT BLUE SILK DRESS STORY IS TRUE I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING OF HIM SAID FELICITY ab6eb677-3a43-4f42-9a1d-71115eee8d88 2108 BUT YOU BEING A STRANGER ARE NO DOUBT CURIOUS TO LEARN HOW I BECAME SO BEAUTIFUL AND PROSPEROUS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES 9142a31c-7534-4039-8c89-f2e11ead5a66 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 80133197-2349-40ed-b9fb-5f9a1c627ca0 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 4e805e6a-d051-4074-a9f8-48eff1a90392 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 b31c0ec4-6d2a-4147-9c53-992fe4fdaa43 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 5e283f40-a71d-4767-a806-b77c3f6257e4 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 d2f3a044-7a0c-4b51-954b-2fc95ca641f6 242 WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE 8fd07a7e-8f25-4b96-9381-f14cb55b74de 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 2dff7142-3be0-46dd-9b7a-71d6b2685729 14 BUT ONE WAY MUST BE EASIER OR BETTER THAN THE OTHER OR ELSE THEY'D ALL BE ONE KIND ARGUED PETER I WANT TO FIND THE EASIEST WAY AND I'VE GOT A HANKERING AFTER THE METHODISTS MY AUNT JANE WAS A METHODIST ISN'T SHE ONE STILL ASKED FELICITY PERTLY d1c20e2d-0a43-4781-af94-10bb7e42ba2d 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 be5d0204-7ab6-4c21-90e6-3d01d69658b1 2108 HOW OLD AM I FATHER PERSISTED THE SMALL DRAGON ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY I BELIEVE ASK YOUR MOTHER 522132c3-546c-4ddc-bcd2-822b22b12318 2137 TOWERS LEANED FORWARD HIS EYES FIXED ON BRANDON I DON'T WANT YOU TO SET FOOT ON THAT PLANET GET ME BUT THERE WASN'T TIME TO TRY ANYTHING BRANDON TILTED THE SHIP UP ON ONE WING AND GLANCED DOWN AT THE BRICK RED EXPANSE OF DESERT 23c37a40-9742-4da9-a086-5448cb965cba 413 UNCLE ROGER SHOOK HIS HEAD THAT IS JUST THE TROUBLE HE SAID PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL IT'S TOO LATE I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GOT INTO HIS BUGGY AND DROVE AWAY LEAVING EIGHT DISTRACTED MORTALS BEHIND HIM b7f2da74-ab2b-4603-a115-3f23a970977f 188 THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO SAID FELICITY IMPATIENTLY I SUPPOSE SOBBED CECILY WE MIGHT GO TO PEG BOWEN AND ASK HER TO FORGIVE PAT AND TAKE THE SPELL OFF HIM SHE MIGHT IF WE APOLOGIZED REAL HUMBLE 5bd5c425-28a9-4a4f-a4ac-dbbd04450fee 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 98668d34-03e4-4372-876b-24e97db33d5b 413 ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE ANY ONE YOU CHERRY VARS ASKED FELICITY TRYING TO SPEAK INDIFFERENTLY FELICITY HAD NEVER ADMIRED THE FORGET ME NOT JUG BUT SHE HAD ALWAYS HANKERED AFTER THE CHERRY VARS AN AFFAIR OF WHITE GLASS WITH A CLUSTER OF RED GLASS CHERRIES AND GOLDEN GREEN GLASS LEAVES ON ITS SIDE WHICH AUNT OILBY HAD GIVEN CECILY ONE CHRISTMAS 05481ff8-e8d4-4d07-90ea-7cd05e42bf7a 2137 THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP HE HAD A DECISION TO MAKE STAY HERE WITH THE CAPSULE OR HEAD FOR THE FIRE ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON COME IN PLEASE 175646b8-c5e6-4d4d-9566-da88b9aaea8b 198 NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER IT WAS FELICITY'S DAY AFTER TEA MISSUS FRUIN AND HER SISTER WISHED TO VISIT THEIR FATHER'S GRAVE IN THE CARLISLE CHURCHYARD fc9c7601-d866-4d4e-aaef-762ed7b3e2cf 413 WE WOULD DEARLY HAVE LOVED TO LEAVE THE CANDLE BURNING BUT AUNT JANET'S DECREE REGARDING THIS WAS AS INEXORABLE AS ANY OF MEAD AND PERSIA OUT THE CANDLE MUST GO AND WE LAY THERE QUAKING WITH THE WILD RAIN STREAMING DOWN ON THE ROOF ABOVE US AND THE VOICES OF THE STORM WAILING THROUGH THE WRITHING SPRUCE TREES 1a658504-ae5b-4b5d-bc14-33077a2f32f4 242 NEVER MIND WE'VE HAD A SPLENDID SUMMER I SAID SLIPPING MY ARM ABOUT HER TO COMFORT SOME CHILDISH SORROW THAT BREATHED IN HER PLAINTIVE VOICE IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT ee3e6eca-e14f-4b62-96ff-e181df1df591 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 50d684bb-8e9d-4551-bb23-2c8e0f3386f2 188 AN EXCELLENT TEST HE SAID IF YOU CAN AMUSE ME WITH THAT STORY YOU MUST BE A WONDER I HAVE HEARD IT SO OFTEN THAT IT IS NO MORE INTEREST FOR ME THAN THE ALPHABET 2a69e167-69a3-4c5b-bb15-cea9134bb1bc 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 ee9254cd-a270-4ccd-85d3-4eff3c2e5bb8 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 4277d947-4b43-4171-81cd-6cf57ad7c750 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 eeba6abc-7be0-49a9-8796-b1e059ec1a79 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 810262b6-1dec-4cf3-a5ec-7161fb6a9fb2 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 650fd408-fb4a-4e59-928e-152190c6eadb 2108 CONSIDERING THESE STATEMENTS I WROTE THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR THAT MY BOOKS ARE INTENDED FOR ALL THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE YOUNG NO MATTER WHAT THEIR AGES MAY BE f486b959-00a7-47d6-bd2a-cee328759fb7 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 cdc2b0d3-db55-4372-a95c-ae0708c96a55 413 SARA RAY HAD ALSO YEARNED TO STAY BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE HER MOTHER HAD TOLD HER SHE MUST BE HOME BEFORE DARK NEVER MIND SARAH COMFORTED CECILY IT'S NOT TO BE TILL TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SO YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET UP HIP FOR ANYTHING HAPPENS BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MISTAKE SOBBED SARAH IT MIGHT BE TWO O'CLOCK TO NIGHT INSTEAD OF TO MORROW 5c618177-cf06-4607-9841-2c29f185dfe9 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 6fb6eba3-c747-4622-b2c2-6744b9d606c4 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 4ec02a8f-da69-43dc-b455-e904aea5ccd2 32 HE CAN HARDLY WRITE SAID FELICITY 519b1b9f-5caa-4de3-b071-dc497c022098 242 OH WELL SURELY YOU CAN SETTLE IT SOME OTHER WAY WITHOUT FIGHTING PERSISTED CECILY I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT SAID PETER IT'S FELIX IF HE DON'T INTERFERE WITH MY PRAYERS THERE'S NO NEED OF FIGHTING BUT IF HE DOES THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO SETTLE IT cbcf5b03-ab5b-4776-b7a8-94f7427d49be 2368 YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN THE BOLD MAN SAID BUT HE HAD THE BASIC IDEA YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID fd3b10a5-d665-4012-9af9-bc23c5bc2c4f 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 99d27a9c-5abe-413e-b71c-0f6ee806ca16 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 2eb74168-96b4-4e1e-85d9-e6cd53d04acf 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 2ee2ee9d-09b0-48da-92f9-c57bb76e01d2 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 89e33c82-f1db-49bc-8812-3ac7e696d614 2368 YONAS WENT OVER TO HIS PALLET REMOVED HIS JERKIN AND SHOES AND LAY DOWN HE HEARD THE OTHERS READYING THEMSELVES FOR SLEEP BUT HE DID NOT LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS SOON THEY WERE ASLEEP AND BREATHING HEAVILY BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE 3f360fe9-e184-4aec-9351-98b2e33a3032 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 29519773-9a60-477c-88b0-534e1213c7d5 1867 GRANDPA HAD BEEN OUT OF TOUCH WITH THINGS SINCE HIS DEATH AND GOATBOY HAPPILY FILLED HIM IN I LEARNED ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW OF THE HISTORY PAST AND RECENT AND IT WASN'T NICE a19b10de-77d1-4589-a2f3-d63fbaaa64a2 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 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YEARS BY OUR TEA RELATIVE TIME HAVE YOU GOT A TELETOWKEY BRANDON ASKED SURE SAID THE FIRST MAN PRODUCING A SET ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF BRANDON'S 1ea818d2-8645-4a32-870c-d553d4a18d5c 198 ALL AT ONCE SOMETHING LEAPED FROM THE BOUGH OF A TREE AND ALIGHTED BEFORE US WE SPLIT THE AIR WITH A SIMULTANEOUS SHRIEK 91f0a80b-02ba-4fb0-8472-6c1e43d2c6b5 14 I'D LIKE TO BE BURIED HERE WHEN I DIE SAID FELIX BUT I HOPE IT WON'T BE FOR A GOOD WHILE YET HE SAID IN A LIVELIER TONE AS WE MOVED ONWARD TO THE CHURCH 0af9e170-74e4-4b7f-8380-ebb88c084e4e 402 HIS SOUL THRILLED WITH RAPTURE AT THE THOUGHT THAT HE AND SHE TOGETHER SHOULD DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY AS ODIN HAD PROMISED AND BE WON THEREAFTER IN ETERNAL YOUTH d00f728e-0eb7-4b84-bcaf-a44d44eb5711 451 MARTIN FORBES IS THE BROTHER OF A HORRID MAN IN SUMMERSIDE WHO CALLED ME JOHNNY THAT'S WHY SHE EXPLAINED HE WAS VISITING HERE WITH HIS WIFE TWO AGO AND HE CALLED ME JOHNNY EVERY TIME HE SPOKE TO ME JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM 0aeedbba-f9a3-4db5-8e55-00493f5e6c1b 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 3ab850f2-4d1a-4260-9aae-7807dbd365e3 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 7a8edc29-b3d0-4d85-a095-c943ea1d9ee6 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 84472dd7-065b-4721-a081-50729650f676 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 5108620d-40c7-4561-9ca7-7c5a17232f43 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 1553bbcb-453c-432f-a0ac-8abb09f84076 32 IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ANYHOW SAID THE STORY GIRL SOMEWHAT LESS ASSUREDLY THOUGH IN THIS LITTLE OLD BOOK FILLED WITH CRAMPED BOYISH WRITING THERE IS A SPELL OF WHITE MAGIC THAT SETS THE YEARS AT NAUGHT e6abe7cb-7a9b-42a0-927c-47b33d2dfc31 451 PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE BUT IS MORE LIKELY THAT OUR CRANKINESS WAS THE RESULT OF SUPPER WE HAD EATEN THE PREVIOUS NIGHT EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY 002bdf38-cfbf-4c17-94e7-cf39148c24c6 2108 WHO'S CHOP FIGHT INQUIRED ROOT OH HAVEN'T I TOLD YOU ABOUT CHOP FIGHT EXCLAIMED CLIP COURSE NOT HE'S QUITE A CURIOSITY TOO HE'LL BE INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT CHOP FIGHT 03a0559a-9df6-4156-9849-0cc294e2cd1e 198 STAY WITH US OLD FELLOW BUT PAT WITH NONE OF US HE STRUGGLED OUT OF MY CLASP AND DISAPPEARED OVER THE LONG GRASSES WITH SOUNDLESS LEAPS HE WAS NO LONGER OUR TAME DOSTMISTIC WELL ACQUAINTED PADDY HE WAS A STRANGE FURTIVE ANIMAL A QUESTING BEAST 082202b9-4038-41d1-92e5-b0bd24a4895b 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 20f9d578-b387-4ee0-83f9-bee2fdf52aaf 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 f38459f9-7482-4edf-8967-1667288d4a33 14 AND THE MILK WENT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT DOWN PAT'S THROAT WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT bae78b19-19f6-4f2d-98ee-2a3a49203e2b 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 c79ccb18-48df-44b3-9b50-50681425169c 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 11af4a3d-142b-46e9-93e8-a6a2be9e3d33 2286 DURING THE KINGLY WARS ANY NUMBER OF TYPES WITH A COUPLE OF SHIPS AND LESS BRAINS THAN PEPPY HAD SET UP JUST THIS KIND OF EMPIRE THEY WERE ALL PULLED DOWN IN THE END SINCE THEIR SUCCESS DEPENDED ON ONE MAN RULE BUT THE PRICE THAT HAD TO BE PAID FIRST 69440980-7a92-4459-aae6-70483feedfde 188 WHY NOT MARRY ME NEIL CAMPBELL FOLKS I AM AS BONNY AS NAN AND I COULD LOVE YOU AS WELL AS NAN LOVES HER DONALD AY AND TEN TIMES BETTER 0f84c152-1af7-4efc-a9bb-92e4fa1a0d7f 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 f671cdf0-5ec5-423b-8f86-d2b6776d2f05 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 e3285256-b1b6-4cfb-9f01-5cf7873d709e 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 d585c7e1-1105-436f-9e90-340d4b355185 2108 YOU ARE CAUSING A DROUGHT AND I SHALL CATCH COLD AND SNEEZE WHEN I SNEEZE I GET CROSS WHEN I CROP AND GET CROSS I'M LIABLE TO DO SOMETHING WICKED COME IN YOU FOOLISH STRANGERS COME IN d7f305a6-8152-4d68-be7c-9ba267f3ba93 2137 THOUGHTFULLY THE DOCTOR LEANED BACK IN HIS CHAIR HUM I SEE AS THE MAN BEFORE HIM MADE AN INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT TOWARD HIS POCKET THE DOCTOR SMILED GO ON SMOKE IF YOU WANT TO 01ec7f82-bd6e-43f5-8f02-ae04316fd1f7 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 e986132e-3779-4e4c-905a-965ccfd25b8f 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 222cd397-19d9-40bb-9cc8-737b424f5723 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 aa88c98c-c38c-4d7f-acdd-6f260c5d5809 2368 HER SON'S DEATH HE SAW WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HER MIND HAD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO HER IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE IN THE LIFE ABOVE THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT 8b48d098-697c-4b4b-8d09-74b7c5d985f0 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 e4367794-1b38-48d5-b039-f873eea8eed7 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD bda8424f-39e9-4d1b-9643-d420aa138948 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 8b795764-2b00-4536-8484-57f79a179464 2182 ZID JEFF ECHOED CHAFFY FORE RELIEVED HIS FELLOW OF THE STRAIN BY TRYING HIS OWN RUSTY CROAK A VICIOUS CANTHORIAN CREDITOR COMBING THE ISLAND AT THIS MOMENT FOR PREY YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT 82858410-a4cd-46f3-a6bc-799b9240abec 242 AND WHEN HE WAS DOING THIS SCHUBEN WHO WAS ALSO HUNTING SAW HIM FROM AFAR AND THOUGHT HE WAS A REAL MOOSE SHE STOLE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE WOODS UNTIL SHE CAME TO THE BRINK OF A LITTLE VALLEY edb63e01-715c-4625-95fd-a4d6df8ed794 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 c3becd10-0588-4ae3-8049-07889afa13e1 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 7b548fea-0ae2-44bf-a687-00561f0eb3f4 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 692c938d-a14d-4685-abd0-df6dc86c967c 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 d1810bfc-760e-467b-95d8-add7eccbed95 2368 C LEE MATERIALS TOWARD A HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT VOL e85e29f4-c4b0-419a-bf7b-13d253d241b6 402 WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE HERE YOURSELF THAN IN HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL BLUNTLY WOULDN'T YOU NOW FELICITY KING TELL THE TRUTH CROSS YOUR HEART 1174b985-7d7c-4512-8e93-625ef023f01d 2317 THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF IT WAS A SAD ATTEMPT VENUS da8b4267-27cb-49c1-9693-8af935ae759f 2425 NOTHING OF THE SORT YOUR OLD PETE GRAHAM A DARNED GOOD HALFBACK IN THE WORLD'S ROTTENIST SCIENTIST DIRECTLY BEFORE ME WAS THE LONG WORK BENCH THAT RAN THE FULL LENGTH OF THE ROOM LITTERED WITH A DOZEN SET UPS FOR AS MANY EXPERIMENTS 1383d44e-e653-458a-91f3-a718608f9ad5 198 I ALWAYS THOUGHT SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE IN A PLACE BEFORE IT COULD BE HAUNTED SAID CECILY SOMEBODY KILLED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HAPPENED IN OUR FAMILY THE KINGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RESPECTABLE e6456ddb-cf3d-434e-960a-82e44b0b6348 2137 ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON OVER A STEADY CRACKLING SOUND FILLED HIS EAR PHONES A GRID OF LIGHT AND SHADOW FLUTTERED ON THE SCREEN A THOUGHT ENTERED HIS MIND MAYBE HE HAD PUT TOO MUCH PLANET CURVATURE BETWEEN ASTRO AND HIMSELF 5cd667e4-79a5-4389-9b37-42438c7021bc 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 4d408b4b-f350-4d3c-9107-fcb2a02f64da 2286 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 25598503-5bfd-4ada-8fa7-1e4b4a3603c8 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 1d7f6d1a-635b-4c4b-9ad8-15c72b59123a 451 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT THE MILKY WAY SAID THE STORY GIRL BRIGHTENING UP I READ IT IN A BOOK OF AUNT LOUISE'S IN TOWN AND I LEARNED IT OFF BY HEART b9e151d9-754f-43d8-b9f9-ef2115068379 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 fbfd0458-0590-4838-a9e0-89eecab5a8e8 2368 DURING THE DAYS HE HAD DONE THE THINGS HE HAD PLANNED HE DID NO WORK WITH THE SHARPS BUT LET THEM FIND HIM WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE HUT OF AN EVENING RECITING STRANGE WORDS ONCE HE BUILT A SMALL OUTDOOR FIRE AND WALKED AROUND IT BITTERSHIN'S FOR SEVERAL MINUTES THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE 2e824590-b716-4ab5-8e98-ff31c4204a13 2137 A DISTANT FLARE LIT UP THE HORIZON HE CHOKED OFF A SOB AND BEAT HIS FIST IN THE RED DUST A WAVE OF NAUSEA SWEPT OVER HIM BITTER STOMACH JUICES WELLED UP IN HIS THROAT BUT HE SWALLOWED THEM DOWN AGAIN a157c474-ef17-4cae-913d-30c96dafc7ef 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 dd161b9d-164e-450c-b76e-633ecb9cc99d 2368 HE TURNED AND WALKED TO THE DOOR BUT HE DID NOT OPEN IT INSTEAD HE LEANED AGAINST IT HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE YOUR MEN CANNOT TOUCH ME HE SAID 7ba946a7-64ae-406d-820c-6acbdd0ec510 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 71fc418b-d956-421c-9e46-f84b2bbe59f3 2137 YOU MEAN YOU HAD A QUANON JUMP ASKED BRANDON PIRROTING COLONEL TOWER'S FAVORITE EXPRESSION ODD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT REPLIED THE SECOND MAN IT WAS THROUGH QUANT MECHANICS THAT WE LEARNED TO APPROXIMATE THE SPEED OF LIGHT 23d9a186-849f-4f87-bbd9-6065acc8dd1d 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 9ed7f417-4307-4532-aa28-8271e966bd46 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 924c7ec5-c1e0-4964-bed2-0b0a044705ff 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 caa24ab7-1b9f-4042-ab37-3b844c0ac627 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 45b2ca21-f152-4997-990d-578cdcc03a7f 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 1bb9abe1-af11-4c69-aaa0-155c827a4ad4 2274 YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING THERE IS NOTHING TO DESTROY IN THE JUNGLE SAID TO NUB WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN SILENCE 17bc94ea-f9c9-4d00-9b34-fa051b456c7b 2286 I HAD SENT HIM A PYGRAM ABOUT THE THEFT BUT THERE WAS NO ANSWER AS YET MAYBE THE IDENTITY OF THE THIEVES WOULD STIR SOME RESPONSE OUT OF HIM THE DOOR TO INSKIPT'S PRIVATE QUARTERS IS AN OLD FASHIONED TUMBLER DRUM THAT WAS EVEN EASIER TO PICK THEM MY TEETH I MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT DOOR WITHOUT BREAKING A STEP 24dd3c96-a111-4b94-91b2-bf33e299502e 14 OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS 18e20dc8-a8fd-4deb-ad3c-41a3fc0e0ca9 2182 IT HAD A LETHAL PAIR OF EXTRA LIMBS THAT SPRANG FROM THE SHOULDERS TO END IN TALONED SEIZING HANDS AND ITS SLANTED RED EYES BURNED MALEVOLENTLY FROM A SNOUTED RAZOR FANGED FACE 9b012458-322d-4d61-a2ac-6eebfdc138ab 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 dcc91142-440e-4c38-8c1e-9934f6d21264 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 4db655a0-ad3e-4dd9-b669-ea1fc93c6211 1867 THEREFORE I HAVE A LITTLE JOB I KNOW YOU'LL ENJOY REPAIR JOB THE CENTURY BEACON HAS SHUT DOWN IT'S A MARK THREE BEACON WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM I HAVE REPAIRED HYPERSPACE BEACONS FROM ONE ARM OF THE GALAXY TO THE OTHER AND I WAS SURE I HAD WORKED ON EVERY TYPE OR MODEL MADE 37ba2daa-f0d4-4c21-8c7f-2f1b219af095 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 24f60527-d8f7-43d9-a011-7c257626a257 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 1c1bde6f-f4e5-4e40-9c67-f71bab36bdfa 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 6e6e85e8-733f-4cb3-be2d-4ef68eaf8d7b 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 86629bc5-67ed-49ac-a65c-e0b8957723d4 2108 CHAPTER THREE ROUNDABOUT WOOT THE WANDERER SLEPT THAT NIGHT IN THE TIN CASTLE OF THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES AND FOUND HIS TIN BED QUITE COMFORTABLE b906d2d8-d44f-4367-b903-559acb6a8b9f 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 217935cd-e1fc-412e-a87d-6127dbf498bb 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 4d28d4b2-67a1-477a-99ac-925d9874cc74 2108 KEEP YOUR ADVICE TO YOURSELF SAID THE MONARCH IN A PIQUED TONE WHO'S KING HERE ANYHOW YOU OR ME DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT ADVISED POLYCHROME MISSUS EUP HAS PLENTY OF MAGIC LEFT TO CONSOLE HER f4371f2a-58da-4c6b-ac7e-f40c9ccb552e 402 DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS 1929fda3-abda-4e63-82fd-c303c4175110 413 BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY USE IN PRAYING THAT FELICITY WILL SPEAK FIRST CAUSE I'M SURE SHE WON'T BUT DON'T YOU SUPPOSE GOD CAN MAKE HER I SAID FEELING THAT IT WASN'T QUITE FAIR THAT THE STORY GIRL SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE TO SPEAK FIRST IF SHE HAD SPOKEN PERCY OTHER TIMES IT WAS SURELY FELICITY'S TURN THIS TIME d7845bd3-c3a0-4b59-9243-94ba00b502c5 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 1d4b7ad4-8fd2-4c8c-a994-5abd7bb530cd 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 f03af2b6-b2e1-4424-9e07-1221d9a00e4a 2368 FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES THIS WAS THE PARISH CHURCH OF COURSE A GOOD SOLID WOODEN STRUCTURE AND A COLLECTION OF HOUSES STRUNG ALONG THE DIRT PAST THE TOWN THE HOUSES OF THE RICH WERE NATURALLY WOODEN THE POOR BUILT OF BAKED MUD a27c6f4b-6bd8-4a78-adf5-edfeee99a015 2182 CHAFFY FOUR AGREED RELUCTANTLY THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE WHEN JEFF AUBREY PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE PLANKING THE APPARITIONS WERE GONE HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM f1c08d21-513e-42b7-ab17-1fdad204d7cf 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 ae727501-7dec-486d-870c-e8dcfb58b18c 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 c23e1174-f7d7-47d4-a4ab-f5eb0186f54f 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 3c022f83-1ed5-480f-b5bd-eb5c6579ad6b 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 74f4ca25-54a5-4060-b68d-e0833768d6ac 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 7eab7125-5839-4bc3-aa5c-107c8219fb9b 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 1554f88c-2511-42f7-9056-1523feaf7055 1867 WHEN I SAW THAT SOMETHING CLICKED IN MY MIND LOCKING THE EYE IN A CIRCULAR COURSE I DUG THROUGH THE MARK THREE PLANS AND THERE IT WAS THE BEACON HAD A PRECIPITATING FIELD AND A BASIN ON TOP OF IT FOR WATER THIS WAS USED TO COOL THE REACTOR THAT POWERED THE MONSTROSITY 05e084a0-b12e-4705-8262-c159ce3c1f99 198 YOU'VE RUINED THE BREAD SAID FELICITY FLATLY IT'S AS HEAVY AS A STONE I DECLARE SARA STANLEY I'D RATHER HAVE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE THAN BE A GREAT STORY TELLER 19a72094-3419-4cc8-ac93-66103912dd9d 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 a5426a93-5081-492a-9305-b61b86a45bdb 14 I WISH I COULD MAKE UP MY MIND WHETHER TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT OH NO NO DON'T DO THAT SAID FELICITY IN ALARM MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS 7da52b70-a0d2-4bf9-bd1d-8da179acd2dc 2274 UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM A WHITE BILL IN THE MEANTIME HIGH COMMISSIONER BULWIN WILL HAVE WORD OF THIS PLANET BY THEN HOW THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF THEIR EYES DOESN'T THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU MAYBE WHAT'S IT MEAN TO YOU 574a58ac-8844-4273-9aee-7bf7fc723d42 14 A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY a4240739-22ff-4aa5-8fbd-5f2e736a67d6 2425 AT THE DOORWAY A DOUBLE FILE OF CREATURES CLOSED IN ABOUT US AND WE WERE LED BY LONG CORRIDORS AND MIGHTY WINDING RAMPS TOWARD THE TOP OF THE BUILDING bbbd7496-4e42-48a2-b0fc-eea3e91b3786 2274 ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY SAID ORAN YOUR CITY I SAW VERY TALL BUILDINGS OF WHAT DO YOU BUILD THEM 380821b5-ef92-4794-a14d-960958b03d1d 402 THESE EPISTLES WERE AS DASHINGLY UNDERLINED AS IF SARAH HAD BEEN A CORRESPONDENT OF EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS 84425699-5cb1-4715-83f9-14c5bf04801a 188 WELL WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING POOR RACHEL WAS SO HAPPY THAT WINTER SHE MADE ALL HER WEDDING THINGS WITH HER OWN HANDS GIRLS DID THEN YOU KNOW FOR THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SEWING MACHINE 6991eb32-39fc-4469-875e-97fa1db79776 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 74a92f30-be1c-4609-9f80-c69998baa9be 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 504d9775-986f-4969-9508-4c8d136746f2 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 e76e9e11-9c32-4d8a-a37d-954a32d2e251 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 f59c14b7-98f9-458b-ab3c-674a27ad434b 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 9796e175-4e82-4b20-bef9-8c99a74904fd 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 6c77e157-727d-44f1-9385-0246c9dafd37 2368 HERRICHNUFF WE DO NOT MENTION THAT NAME SHARP SAID MY WIFE HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED I AM NOT SO WISE I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES AND ENSURE YOUR PEACE 82df634c-9d94-4f3b-9433-1ebca303b7b9 188 SOMETHING LIKE LIKE BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER SUGGESTED FELIX IN A SCARED TONE OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN BEAUTIFUL WIVES HANGING UP BY THE HAIR ALL AROUND THE WALLS I DON'T BELIEVE MISSUS GRIGGS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE ASTONISHED dcd4c94b-1691-4e4c-8a4b-8db9c35f0cec 413 I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL BUT I CAN'T TURN IT NOW IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY IF I HAD KNOWN THAT TO MORROW MIGHT BE THE JUDGMENT DAY I WOULDN'T HAVE QUARRELLED WITH YOU LAST MONDAY SARA STANLEY OR BEEN SO HORRID AND SULKY ALL THE WEEK 82ec4a24-db1a-46c3-b59b-8fa337d45f3b 413 I I'M PRAYING ABOUT IT SAID CICELY IN A LOW VOICE HER TEAR WET LASHES TREMBLING AGAINST HER PALE ROUND CHEEKS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT A MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION THE STORY GIRL GOT NO FURTHER WE NEVER HEARD THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO ALWAYS HAD HIS OWN OPINION d6d3838b-1214-4c27-8dbc-c185e832364a 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 YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM 8e0c1cea-b4fe-4f66-9869-6e0512e05092 14 EVERYBODY LOOKED AT OUR PEW I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY FELICITY DID NOT DIE OF MORTIFICATION ON THE SPOT bc7e62b9-36a2-4765-abd1-2822ad185786 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 0354f8f6-ecca-4a96-8b0c-707799d8379a 402 SUCH WAS THE PRICE WE WERE TO PAY FOR INDULGENCE OF A CURIOSITY WHICH EACH OF US DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HAD LIKE SARAH RAY FELT OUGHT NOT TO BE GRATIFIED ca4370f1-5cce-4682-a781-e313d24e3392 2368 I WOULD BE MOST GRATEFUL YONA MURDERED HE PASSED THE COIN OVER THE OLD WOMAN'S HAND SNATCHED IT AND CLOSED ON IT WHERE MIGHT I FIND THIS FAMILY HE SAID IT IS NOW LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE OLD WOMAN SAID PERHAPS THEY ARE AT HOME ffe5182f-cc26-4cb8-a2b3-537a08179ba5 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 cd445aba-4795-42b3-83a8-7eaa74a03651 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 b2eaeeb6-bd6f-4bc9-9310-c1ed871eb081 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 d30b7880-327e-4098-a5dd-6e874f32234f 2137 HIS WHOLE BODY ACHED TENDONS HAD BEEN PULLED MUSCLES STRAINED FROM THE FORCE OF THE EJECTION 7f8d562b-3d79-4864-abbe-0dbfa47975cf 2137 WE SOLUED FROM OUR OBSERVATION STATION OVER ON THE HILL SAID THE OTHER POINTING THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN I'M CAPTAIN BRANDON OF THE ASTRO ONE cf4ecbfe-8a3d-48b2-8bcb-96d8ebefb362 32 IF A GIRL OF FOURTEEN CAN MAKE A COUPLE OF PRACTICAL FARMERS AND A PAIR OF MATTER OF FACT HOUSEWIVES HALF BELIEVE FOR TEN MINUTES THAT SHE REALLY IS A SNAKE WHAT WON'T SHE BE ABLE TO DO WHEN SHE IS THIRTY 642502ac-df1c-4a37-8214-a1ede4411a1e 451 AUNT JANET COULD NOT GO DOWN THE HILL IN THE AFTERNOON TO FIND OUT HOW SARA WAS BECAUSE COMPANY CAME TO TEA THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE MISTER MILLWARD WAS A DOCTOR AND MISSUS MILLWARD WAS A B AUNT JANET WAS VERY DESIROUS THAT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS NICE AS POSSIBLE AS WE WERE ALL SENT TO OUR ROOMS BEFORE TEA TO WASH AND DRESS UP 89fe812d-3944-4223-89b3-57000cfefe7c 2286 A STORESHIP DOCKED THERE TWENTY HOURS BEFORE THE ATTACK AMONG OTHER THINGS IT LEFT NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE ARTICLE THEY SAT OR SLUMPED AGAINST THE FURNITURE WAITING FOR MY CONCLUSIONS EVEN PRESENT FERERA WAS THERE HIS HAIR LOOKING SCRAGGLY WHERE HE HAD PULLED AT HANDFULS 8d461c85-47d4-486d-bb7b-d81eb25b5394 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 9800b4a5-4203-47d0-8ff2-d98f3f99328a 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 fcc34604-c76c-42a6-b156-599c423c0141 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 888cfc4e-b2d2-4810-9da7-aeb070010b7a 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 bb9be2fc-b71d-4462-b64a-7f5e7f09d7b7 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 cbf6765b-e327-4254-9483-7ca06d936c27 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 7f94f731-df04-4171-810a-737bad221dde 2137 A QUONUM JUMP SIR RIGHT LEAP FROGGING AHEAD OF THE REDS WAIT TILL THEY READ THE NAME COLONEL JOHN TOWERS MAYBE GENERAL JOHN TOWERS GENERAL BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES d3ea89dc-56e2-4241-b868-7c1a9ed9a954 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 75539ad7-e821-4e24-b03e-564c0dd423e6 402 DEAR SORROWFUL LITTLE PEOPLE I BRING YOU GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY SHE SAID THE DOCTOR HAS JUST BEEN HERE AND HE FINDS PETER MUCH BETTER AND THINKS HE WILL PULL THROUGH AFTER ALL 60c948e7-b3ec-44bb-bf90-f623729a31ed 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 f474bc30-3c03-474e-a463-af17ba2e9439 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 b728b30f-5ae0-4a3e-b34a-c1f9676367ff 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 fde0b594-f722-4f69-a000-2ae55bc89a8c 14 WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES cdd4b7a4-e3e3-4ec5-b310-506527078af6 2286 IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED 12a5ce3c-ed75-4f0e-9af8-5dc4d9bdfe70 2182 INVOLUNTARILY HE TOOK A BACKWARD STEP CAUGHT HIS HEEL ON A SUN WARPED BOARD AND SAT DOWN HEAVILY WELL WHAT THE DEVIL HE SAID INANELY THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND 0fba92b5-9b6a-4d9d-8ab3-f128c6a75fcd 14 A WEDDING VEIL SAID CECILY THAT IS JUST WHAT IT IS THE WEDDING VEIL OF THE PROUD PRINCESS I KNOW A STORY ABOUT IT I READ IT IN A BOOK e1e0ae0d-69ac-41f8-bfd0-6a6411903d13 2317 JOHN ANDREW RUSHED TO HER SIDE AND LOOKED AS SHE GOT SET FOR A DIVE GARF HE SAW MEALY HAD RETURNED AND WAS PICKING UP THE JUDGE'S INVENTION d9272aa5-8198-4b25-bcb8-39f502726aa8 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 00441b28-c03f-42f6-bc29-722c9cc0f108 2108 ON REACHING THE TOP OF THE HILL THE PLAINS SPREAD OUT BEFORE THEM IN ALL ITS BEAUTY OF BLUE GRASSES AND WILD FLOWERS AND MOUNT LUNCH SEEMED MUCH NEARER THAN IT HAD THE PREVIOUS EVENING d4cd3b4a-a4dd-489c-9365-95cafc6b9adc 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 cacd9f1a-d08f-4f73-bbd1-c42979791b64 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 88396658-050d-4200-a3a4-d3867a433013 2425 THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY WE CAME AT LAST SHAKING WITH WEARINESS AND GASPING FOR BREATH TO THE DESERTED STREETS OF THE BLACK AND TERRIBLE CITY de5e61e5-a2f1-49d4-bc07-956f2b9ef23d 14 AFTER THE WEDDING THE BRIDEGROOM LIFTED HIS BRIDE BEFORE HIM ON HIS WHITE HORSE AND HER FATHER AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF HIS COURT MOUNTED TOO AND RODE AFTER THEM fa94fabc-0106-4e5a-9815-43841ea99753 402 WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT TO WAIT OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE MARGARET WAITED FOR NEARLY A YEAR HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER 71ca0714-478e-439c-84c3-5cfa1cb1858d 2182 NOT THE SCOOP YOU IDIOT THE OWL IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE OWL bc01106d-c083-4eb7-b014-83995f592259 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 358ac038-6f90-4a46-a5aa-1d10d0be6cb0 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 0d4bd13f-b6c7-4f07-813c-c683707c8b8c 188 OUR OPENING EXERCISES CONSISTED SOLELY OF SINGING AND READING WE HAD AGREED TO OMIT THE PRAYER NEITHER FELIX PETER NOR I FELL EQUAL TO PRAYING IN PUBLIC BUT WE TOOK UP A COLLECTION THE PROCEEDS WERE TO GO TO MISSIONS DAN PLASSED THE PLATE FELICITY'S ROSEBUD PLATE LOOKING AS PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN AS ELDER FREWIN HIMSELF 52dde3ac-71e7-4a81-8fc8-2ee14fd86ee1 2182 JEFF HAD A GLIMPSE OF SLANTED RED EYES AND A WHITE FANGED SNOUT BEFORE REFLEX SENT HIM HEADLONG TO SHOULDER THE DOOR SHUT AGAIN THE BUNK HE PANTED AT JENIFER SHOVE IT OVER 3a7e1299-bbe0-4a1c-9d14-ccb3897a78d9 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 b1563f19-8f97-4715-9160-500875d7c0f1 451 AUNT JANET HAD FORGOTTEN TO WARN UNCLE ROGER TO KEEP AN EYE ON OUR BEDTIME SNACKS AND WE ATE WHAT SEEMED GOOD UNTO US SOME OF US HAD FRIGHTFUL DREAMS AND ALL OF US CARRIED CHIPS ON OUR SHOULDERS AT BREAKFAST FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY f2caa3ce-5ff3-46cb-820f-c4b819f7e68f 2108 FINALLY THEY HEARD A STIR FROM WITHIN AND SOME ONE COUGHED WHO'S THERE CALLED A GIRL'S VOICE IT IS I CRIED THE TIN TWINS TOGETHER HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE 6386b977-f5dc-45a6-95d7-f9d150d13893 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 72644f59-81a2-475c-bdc8-407e5dee3666 2182 HE HAD LEARNED TO APPRECIATE THE EASY LIFE OF THE ISLANDS WELL ENOUGH TO BE DISMAYED NOW BY WHAT MUST HAPPEN UNDER EYE PRESSURE TO OLD CHARLEY AND HIS HANDFUL OF SUN BROWNED FISHER FOLK 41bba0fb-c585-4d17-bf8d-d414195537c1 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 cd447d6e-181f-46dc-8bee-6e7acf847a32 2137 THE MAN LEANED FORWARD AND PLACED ONE HAND PALM UP ON THE DESK LAST YEAR I HAD AN ACCIDENT STUPID LOST A THUMB HE SHRUGGED APOLOGETICALLY TOOK ALMOST SIX MONTHS TO GROW BACK 68e6659d-282a-4533-8f39-109568d55b74 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 3729ad58-ca2c-4889-971c-33b6b4aff43a 2368 THIS IS NOT DEVIL'S WORK AS I SHALL PROVE YUNUS SAID HE SHIFTED HIS FEET BUT LET ME ESTABLISH ONE POINT AT A TIME IN THE MOST SCHOLASTIC MANNER IF YOU WILL PERMIT I PERMIT KENNEFF SAID THERE WAS INTEREST IN HIS MIND OVERLAID WITH SKEPTICISM OF COURSE BUT INTEREST ALL THE SAME 994a07b7-b3c5-434b-b26e-1370693bc940 188 WHERE IS DONALD FRASER SAID NEIL SHAKING HIS FIST IT'S HIM I'M SEEKING AND IT'S HIM I WILL BE FINDING WHERE IS HE BETTY SHERMAN INSTANTLY WE ALL SAW OURSELVES IN EACH OTHER BY INNER VISION OLD AND GREY ALL BUT THE STORY GIRL WE COULD NOT PICTURE HER AS OLD 534d0b48-1b94-4960-bd40-4d630cf723eb 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 89b4532f-dcd6-4738-b0ec-334040a18218 188 THERE'S MANY A GIRL WOULD GLADLY SAY YES FOR YOUR ASKING AND HERE STANDS ONE WHY NOT MARRY ME NEIL CAMPBELL 31d0cf70-695b-421d-a98b-5f9c30efbfdc 2368 THEN HE PUT THE FIRE OUT AND WENT INSIDE HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME f7356372-d5b0-4635-a42c-d3ab932c2466 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 b90cb1c8-2b30-4f36-8779-033c2a871589 2368 YOU YOU ARE IN A CELL HE SAID AT LAST LOCKED UP DO YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME YONAH SAID HE CAME TO THE BARRED DOOR STILL SMILING YOU WOULD NOT DARE WHY NOT YONES ASKED WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE HE RAISED ONE HAND CLAWING THE FINGERS SLIGHTLY HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AS IF HE WERE ABOUT TO SPIT OUT AN INCANTATION 51354450-1ef7-46cc-a2b4-c8022cf5ed81 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 b6bc781a-fae3-4e61-b683-15c48c413003 2108 BUT IT IS TIME FOR US TO BE OFF AND I AM EAGER TO START BECAUSE I SUPPOSE THAT THAT POOR MUNCHKIN GIRL IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITING MY COMING 402d83ac-3513-4147-bd74-17eb25e690a5 451 UNCLE ROGER WHO HAD BEEN SUMMONED FROM HIS OWN PLACE WENT AT ONCE FOR THE DOCTOR TELLING PETER TO GO DOWN THE HILL FOR MISSUS RAY PETER WENT BUT RETURNED ACCOMPANIED BY SARA ONLY MISSUS RAY AND JUDY PINEAU WERE BOTH AWAY 92e9fda3-1c80-40a5-b4b2-505271e63dce 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 f81f5816-8827-4516-aecb-f9b4e4c95db2 2368 IT'S TOO BAD YONAS AGREED POLITELY FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY CLEARTARON CHUCKLED AND THE LINKAGE OF MINES TRANSMITTED THIS AMUSEMENT TO YANIS YOU DON'T THINK SO AT ANY RATE THE DIRECTOR SAID YOU'RE HAVING ADVENTURES AND A FINE TIME IT'S THE SORT OF THING YOU LIKE AFTER ALL fdf4065e-a14f-44cf-9fbc-b1e92ebc0413 451 I DON'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FEEL AS INT'RESTED IN MISSIONARIES AS YOU FOLKS DO HE SAID BUT MAYBE IF I BEGIN TO GIVE SOMETHING I'LL GET INT'RESTED I'LL WANT TO KNOW HOW MY MONEY'S BEING SPENT I WON'T BE ABLE TO GIVE MUCH c0c12562-0906-451d-ab4d-5ae6d40fa15a 2425 BUT WHEN MISS HOPE CAME HOME UNEXPECTED THIS MORNING WHAT SHE CUT HER VISIT A FEW DAYS SHORT HER AUNT HAVING OTHER HOUSE GUESTS TURN UP UNEXPECTED LIKE AND MISS HOPE ARRIVES FIRST THING THIS MORNING BEING HERE WHEN I RETURN FROM TOWN AFTER MAILING THE LETTER TO YOU SIR 8280cee9-1b79-4d7c-b34e-1d6f6143bfb5 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 a0e43b46-2ce1-4787-b12b-ef6696bdcb7b 1867 A CRUMBLING AND CRACKED STAIRWAY BROUGHT US UP TO THE SOLID METAL DOORWAY LABELLED IN ARCHAIC SCRIPT MARK THREE BEACON AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY THE TRUSTING BUILDERS COUNTED ON THE SIGN TO DO THE WHOLE JOB FOR THERE WASN'T A TRACE OF A LOCK ON THE DOOR 7b7b8efd-b9e6-4aed-a06a-1cef54ab362b 1867 THE COMPUTER GAVE ME A COURSE WITH AN ESTIMATED POINT OF ARRIVAL AS WELL AS A BUILT IN SAFETY FACTOR I NEVER COULD ELIMINATE FROM THE MACHINE THREE PRIESTS WERE GROPING TOWARDS ME THEIR EYE SOCKETS RED PITS OF BURNED FLESH THEY KNEW WHAT I WANTED AND LED THE WAY WITHOUT A WORD 8100f18a-1488-4883-ad1a-8f147c2b7b9b 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 a548b2b6-392f-4694-98c2-f5c9f2ddce08 2368 YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HE WIPED HIS FACE WITH ONE HAND BUT HE HARDLY THOUGHT OF ESCAPING HE HAD TO GO THROUGH WITH THE PLAN 540a41b4-20ae-436d-b39e-d4ea6c70c7f5 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 6a0a2bb6-536c-43c1-adb4-d9994abb6957 1867 I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND THERE WAS A NOSE AND TAIL RADAR IN THE EYE AND I FED THEIR SIGNALS INTO A SCOPE AS AN AMPLITUDE CURVE 7277d86b-953c-472f-a591-ab31605a1a1d 2425 IT SEEMED TO ME FOR A MOMENT THAT I WAS GROWING AS LIGHT AS AIR THAT MY FEET WERE DRIFTING OFF THE FLOOR AND THEN AS THE RED LINE OF THE DIAL CAME CLOSER TO THE INDICATED POINT THE FEELING LEFT AND I SUDDENLY SEEMED VERY HEAVY 757aced6-1e72-450a-81f6-9fd794879a02 14 WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO ANALYZE THE VAGUE SENSATION 852c054f-e373-4362-8f17-193e600711a2 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 72e7dba0-db0b-4b88-9cb2-30970b078200 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 6a12d479-e9cd-4a69-bcd8-523b97daa22a 2425 SO BEFORE HE COULD FINISH E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS AND I WAS JERKED AWAY 3f58ea15-fa52-4bb5-a305-42e3cff6c7fe 2286 I WASN'T WINNING ANY SUCCO BETS THAT NIGHT INSKIPPER HAS LED JUST AS CROOKED A YOUTH AS I HAD AND NEEDED NO HELP IN SMELLING A FISHY DEAL WHILE HE PULLED ON HIS CLOTHES HE SHOT QUESTIONS AT ME AND THE NAME OF THE PEACE LOVING PLANET THAT'S BUILDING AS BAD MEMORY FROM THE PAST 93c7000b-7d0b-4882-b08f-bb515ae7aa7c 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 b446eab2-a77a-4b34-9e61-96e89d00cf26 451 SWEET WILLIAM IS A DREADFUL NAME FOR A FLOWER SAID STORY GIRL WILLIAM IS A MAN'S NAME AND MEN ARE NEVER SWEET 4b1af8f0-5c24-4e6b-a53c-a1205b71b871 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 ef236564-9fb8-434f-876a-ae31a1779db7 2317 SO YOU CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO SET OFF YOUR ATOM BOMBS OR WORSE WHERE THEY MIGHT GET THROUGH TO ANOTHER PLANET WE CAN'T ACTUALLY INTERFERE WITH YOU SO WE CLOSE THE GATES THAT'S ALL e5650e1e-5b8b-4672-951c-897b6cc9a4a0 2317 EXCUSE ME HE SAID I DIDN'T SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BEFORE I ARRIVED HERE AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID I REALLY DIDN'T MEAN TO PUZZLE YOU OR MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR BY ME MAKING YOU 37be679e-1c2c-4885-8a72-0225682afbe9 32 THE DREAM BOOKS THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE AND THERE SHE BOUGHT OUR DREAM BOOKS d3721b5b-f847-42f4-b010-93386b68b344 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 bf8e2495-dead-4fe3-9ef7-13a24822eff4 2368 YET ALL THIS WAS DONE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO FIX IT ON WHAT I HAVE TO TELL YOU YONAH SAID SHIFTING HIS FEET AGAIN I AM NO WIZARD BUT A MAN WHO MAY DO CERTAIN THINGS AND HERE IS MY PROOF YOU MAY DO THE SAME YOURSELF THE SILENCE WAS A LONG ONE AND AT THE END OF IT KNOOF ROSE caf98b5e-457a-4bbd-984e-5206cbaae5c6 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 d38e8692-a0cf-4e6b-a60d-62cf4b4413d7 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 d06a5d48-310d-4611-b691-5835f33ecba8 2368 JONAS UNDERSTOOD FISHING IT IN HIS OWN POCKET HE WITHDREW A SINGLE SHINY COIN I ALSO WISH HE SAID SMOOTHLY TO PAY FOR ANY HELP I MAY RECEIVE SUCH AS THE ANSWERING OF AN INNOCENT QUESTION A QUESTION IN WHICH THE RESPECTED INQUISITOR KNOOK CANNOT HAVE NO INTEREST WHATEVER 458b9521-275d-41d5-965e-87c590073995 402 THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM AND HE ROSE UP A GOD BEAUTIFUL WITH IMMORTALITY 06031c08-ec19-4585-92b4-2e913593d069 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 fbaf4543-55ab-47f6-9087-5b01e349cb90 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 75e3342c-e4dc-421a-bc75-29516de9b4ef 2317 HE DOUBTED IT HE WAS BEGINNING TO NOTICE AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST IN ADDITION TO NINE TENTACLES CLAWS FANGS AND ANTENNAE BECAME APPARENT f084cf8c-8be1-48be-9215-cdf62a79cced 402 WE AVOIDED THE ORCHARD IT WAS FOR US TOO FULL OF HAPPY MEMORIES TO ACCORD WITH OUR BITTERNESS OF SOUL INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE THE HUSH AND THE SOMBRE SHADOWS AND THE SOFT MELANCHOLY SIGHING OF THE WIND IN THE BRANCHES OVER US DID NOT JAR HARSHLY ON OUR NEW SORROW bb5587fe-f07c-42de-8591-9e7703d56916 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 98e390a5-e262-4366-9de3-d6e693574ffc 2274 I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU THE CITY IS FOR OUR RACE WE MUST BREED AND BE BORN IN THE SUNLIGHT ONCE LONG AGO WE USED CRUDE PLATFORMS ON THE TOPS OF TREES NOW ONLY THE a26cda48-09fe-4e1c-b250-5b6ace647e44 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 36cdf38a-9144-40e3-9399-ddb971f5ed9f 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 2ed2d97a-08f9-4fa2-9126-1d436df1f67e 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 255fc002-b6d5-4d6e-ad19-62590615d32e 2317 THE SALTY BREEZE TURNED COLDER THEN RACE SMILED A SMILE THAT WAS SURPRISINGLY SOFT AND SWEET 8347aa4e-a588-4b24-8527-04c2115ed9c5 188 A COMPOUND LETTER ONCE PETER WAS OUT OF DANGER HE RECOVERED RAPIDLY BUT HE FOUND HIS CONVALESCENCE RATHER TEDIOUS AND AUNT OLIVIA SUGGESTED TO US ONE DAY THAT WE WRITE A COMPOUND LETTER TO AMUSE HIM UNTIL HE HAD COME TO THE WINDOW AND TALKED TO US FROM A SAFE DISTANCE fd2b50f7-b406-453c-820e-6962c147a6e4 2368 TRUE YUNUS SAID PLEASANTLY KNOUGHF WAS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE YONOS HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO SIT HE REMAINED STANDING AND HE WAS RECENTLY SURE THAT HIS FEET WERE GOING TO HURT A MINUTE HE TRIED NOT TO LET THE THOUGHT DISTURB HIM THE MAN'S MIND WAS LIKE HIS OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL SPARSELY FURNISHED ALMOST AUSTERE BUT WITH ALL THE NECESSITIES LAID OUT FOR EASY ACCESS f52db434-e415-478b-90b1-35249b0c187c 2137 THOUSAND EIGHT THE QUANUM JUMP BY ROBERT WICKS CAPTAIN BRANDON WAS A PIONEER HE EXPLORED THE FAR REACHES OF SPACE AND REPORTED BACK ON HOW THINGS WERE OUT THERE 5e40fb42-0399-41e1-9d20-ccbe460b9bf8 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 b184b8dd-4b64-4853-8f6e-6c186d049517 451 BUT RUBBING WHISKY ON THE OUTSIDE ISN'T ANY HARM ARGUED PETER IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU TAKE IT INSIDE IT IS BAD FOR YOU WELL WE HAVEN'T ANY ANYHOW SAID FELICITY I SUPPOSE BLUEBERRY WINE WOULDN'T DO IN ITS PLACE e7ffd7c9-9006-4d25-890c-cf4e0dff4134 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 1bc30402-00df-4154-962c-d592b83567b9 2368 HARRIS ALTHOUGH THE MASQUERADE ITSELF AS A NECESSARY PROTECTION AGAINST NON TELEPATHS WAS NOT FORMALLY FORMULATED UNTIL THE LATE YEARS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY GROUPS OF TELEPATHS IN HIDING EXISTED LONG BEFORE THAT DATE 470dd7c8-b6f8-4323-a7da-208110bc6566 14 VERY SADLY THE OLD KING AND COURTIERS RODE HOME AND NEVER NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS 830f8fcf-4411-4eca-a522-b17d83907dd5 1867 WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT I FOUND HIM EASILY ENOUGH b70dc5bd-d3e7-4daf-80d7-d0e1d7f8069d 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 a874e152-a8d5-44aa-88fe-c4efee7a94c2 1867 IT GURGLED OUT THROUGH THE SPEAKER IN THE LOCAL TONGUE AND HE TURNED ROUND WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES c6b001fa-0d2b-4087-b0ba-6d329edf1002 2286 EACH OF THEM IN TURN HAD BEEN REPLACED BY THE SAME GIRL SHE STAYED JUST LONG ENOUGH IN EACH POSITION TO SEE THAT THE BATTLESHIP PLAN MOVED FORWARD ONE MORE NOTCH THE GIRL WAS OBVIOUSLY ASSISTANT TO THE MUSTER MIND WHO ORIGINATED THE SCHEME HE SAT IN THE CENTER OF THE PLOT LIKE A SPIDER ON ITS WEB PULLING THE STRINGS THAT SET THINGS INTO MOTION e07ae40e-fcc5-4953-b8f8-aad2d0ecbce0 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 12e5dbf0-22d4-4dfe-ab8c-8370bf0fbe7a 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 cadeaca2-2fdb-47a0-91b2-ebe07fd379c0 402 AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY THE BAND OF FELLOW TRAVELLERS BUT ALL WERE TOO LATE TO WIN THE DOUBLE BOON VING HAD WON TO IT THROUGH THE DANGER AND SUFFERING OF THE DARK RIVER e9f277d0-eaa5-4553-be2f-88cb059def72 2368 HERE WE ARE ALONE SHARP WENT ON HIS VOICE LOWERING MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER HAVE GONE TO VISIT A NEIGHBOUR FOR THEY HAVE NOT YET CLOSED US OFF ENTIRELY FROM ALL HUMAN CONTACT HE GRIMACED YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED 9e339fbc-0256-46dc-93d0-12fb7a5bdde4 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 68da6722-bdaa-462d-9fb1-900d7120085a 2425 THE EFFECT WAS MAGICAL THEY SEEMED UNABLE TO BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE OF THEIR EYES THEY RUSHED ME EAGERLY EACH SEEMING TO BEG FOR A BULLET I GAVE THEM WHAT THEY WANTED STILL HOPING I COULD FRIGHTEN THEM AWAY 6f403723-5c7e-437a-83ca-3528bac52fcf 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 1fee3325-fd8c-49d7-bed3-04b42f9c0517 2425 THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE THE SENTENCE THE DOOR WAS FLUNG OPEN AND FIVE OF THE OLDER MEN LED BY A SIXTH WITH A LARGER JEWEL AT HIS THROAT FILED SOLEMNLY INTO THE ROOM AND MOTIONED THAT WE WERE TO LEAVE 042c56ba-b646-454f-8bc2-def6c593bb80 2425 COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING COMING I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS NICE WORK PETE b78815c0-1037-444b-9bc0-440c43580022 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 21e2ba37-3b13-43a0-a307-4d58e115d346 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 c69eb538-b393-478f-8935-55b3391e1677 2425 I THINK THEY'VE BEEN MESSING UP HIS PLANS SEE HE'S MOTIONING US TO WATCH THE PRIEST LED THE OLD MAN BACK TO THE IDOL NOW WHAT I WHISPERED TO VIC I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY b245fc2e-75f1-4891-9314-4560f166b6fc 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 5b43b401-6e22-45d0-912d-c305c27b462c 2368 AM I TO TAKE THIS AS A CONFESSION HE SAID DO YOU WISH TO HURRY YOUR OWN DEATH I AM NO WIZARD YONAH SAID 22a76bb5-9dd9-4dd8-bd69-561a98c8e2e2 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 4dc95a7f-3693-44a4-99df-1c7dd2e687f7 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 d875e9ca-1726-4335-a9fe-c15d665d6f22 2108 WELL IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME SAID WOUT WITH ASSUMED CARELESSNESS DANGERS WHEN THEY CANNOT BE AVOIDED ARE OFTEN QUITE INTERESTING AND I AM WILLING TO GO WHEREVER YOU TWO VENTURE TO GO eead8b52-59da-4942-8cd4-879f936bff02 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 259bcfbe-2e0c-4ef9-af3c-9150d43850b0 188 LORD THOU HAST BEEN OUR DWELLING PLACE IN ALL GENERATIONS BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS WERE BROUGHT FORTH OR EVER THOU'ST HAD FORMED THE EARTH IN THE WORLD EVEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING THOU ART GOD FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THY SIGHT ARE BUT AS YESTERDAY WHEN IT IS PAST AND AS A WATCH IN THE NIGHT 93239f9d-bd84-43c4-9614-82f6cd6a30be 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 51e571ad-40f5-495e-9223-86e41e6c940b 32 CECILY FINISHED HER CUCUMBER AND THEN DRANK A GLASS OF MILK JUST AS WE HEARD THE WHEELS OF UNCLE ALEC'S BUGGY RAMBLING OVER THE BRIDGE IN THE HOLLOW FELICITY QUICKLY RESTORED THE PORK AND PUDDING TO THEIR OWN PLACES AND BY THE TIME AUNT JANET CAME IN WE WERE ALL IN OUR RESPECTIVE BEDS SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT 621368c5-923a-4b07-bacc-ae89f60a007b 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 5ea968f9-13a7-4cd4-a353-bc926d29ce9b 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 8a7712cc-7070-4af0-9721-78e64ff65b23 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 8341c749-3978-48b3-9beb-b1c6a7cf4472 32 HAVING DISCOVERED HOW TO PRODUCE EXCITING DREAMS WE ALL PROMPTLY FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF PETER AND THE STORY GIRL IT MIGHT BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS SAID PETER a4e800df-d830-4eb5-af40-93c926d3b71c 2286 WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES THAT MUST BE LEAVING NOW WE COULD FILL THE VIBRATION DISTANTLY THROUGH THE FLOOR THE NEIGHBOUR WILL GET HER I TOLD HIM WITH FAR MORE CONVICTION THAN I FELT 54c2b3cf-4dd4-4a66-ad25-780451954cd8 451 IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS I SUPPOSE WE MADE IT HORRID OURSELVES SAID THE STORY GIRL CANDIDLY BUT IT'LL BE A GOOD STORY TO TELL SOMETIME SHE ADDED I'M AWFUL TIRED AND THANKFUL SIGHED CECILY WE ALL FELT THAT WAY 49221aee-f398-4b8c-b77b-029641e0b9b6 2368 THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND ME I'M SORRY CLAYTON THOUGHT HE RADIATED CAUTION WORRY PATIENCE YONAS TURNED TO THE BED AND CUT OFF FROM THE DIRECTOR WITH A GRUNT HE WAS TIRED LONG DISTANCE LINKAGES WERE A DRAINED ON THE BOY'S ENERGY EVEN WHEN THE PERSON INVOLVED WAS EASY TO VISUALIZE a136744d-92ac-40ed-ae55-8feeb43e896f 2108 WHERE DID YOU GO ASKED ROOT WELL I FIRST STARTED OUT TO FIND A HEART SO I COULD LOVE NIMMY AMY AGAIN BUT HEARTS ARE MORE SCARCE THAN ONE WOULD THINK 98a95a07-376b-417b-87ff-8e3781415df4 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 a57e2e61-2ca1-4a95-bc28-361caca0a9b0 188 SHE LOOKED AT ME BUT I BLUSHED TO THE ROOTS OF MY HAIR AND SHOOK MY HEAD SHEEPISHLY AN AWKWARD PAUSE ENSUED IT IT LOOKED AS IF WE WOULD HAVE TO PROCEED WITHOUT GRACE WHEN FELIX SUDDENLY SHUT HIS EYES BENT HIS HEAD AND SAID A VERY GOOD GRACE WITHOUT ANY APPEARANCE OF EMBARRASSMENT 18bd3e6d-4175-4576-bc87-bdc786169576 2286 RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS THE MACHINE EVEN FOUND A BLUE PRINT FOR ME INSKIPPED GRABBED AGAIN AND BEGAN TO COMPARE THE PRINTS I LEANED OVER HIS SHOULDER AND POINTED OUT THE INTERESTING PARTS 160bb739-2a61-42d2-a4f5-0edb96193a0d 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 5bd668a2-adbf-4388-a48f-2de3573620f3 188 THE STORY GIRL CAME OVER EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SARA RAY TO WHOM FAITHFULLY CECILY HAD SENT WORD WAS ALSO ON HAND 48da293c-156b-4cd5-bca2-ae7886164215 2108 BUT THEY GOT OUT OF THE INVISIBLE STRIP OF COUNTRY AS SUDDENLY AS THEY HAD ENTERED IT AND THE INSTANT THEY GOT OUT THEY STOPPED SHORT FOR JUST BEFORE THEM WAS A DEEP DITCH RUNNING AT RIGHT ANGLES AS FAR AS THEIR EYES COULD SEE AND STOPPING ALL FURTHER PROGRESS TOWARD MOUNT MUNCH 656219e1-076d-4a3f-8322-efce521a550b 188 FELICITY I WISH YOU WOULDN'T INTERRUPT IT SPOILS THE EFFECT WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF I WENT AND KEPT STIRRING THINGS IT DIDN'T BELONG TO IT INTO THE PUDDING I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY 5c2bb1b8-6e22-4ad1-8442-6a607fa684b4 402 CECILY DID NOT WRITE BACK BECAUSE MISSUS RAY HAD DECREED THAT NO LETTERS MUST BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE HILL FARM LEST THEY CARRY INFECTION CECILY HAD OFFERED TO BAKE EVERY EPISTLE THOROUGHLY IN THE OVEN BEFORE SENDING IT BUT MISSUS RAY WAS INEXORABLE AND CICELY HAD TO CONTENT HERSELF BY SENDING LONG VERBAL MESSAGES WITH A JUDY PILLOW 15e3c586-7b0f-4507-97cc-d5b2988457bf 2108 BEING THUS URGED THEY ENTERED THE ROOM AND APPROACHED THE GREAT TABLE UNTIL THEY STOOD AND FACED THE GREAT GIANTESS SHE CONTINUED EATING BUT SMILED IN A CURIOUS WAY AS SHE LOOKED AT THEM b648dda8-dcbe-4f53-98b9-70605b05cb4e 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 46562e56-8c03-40ee-8602-4b7393a557d7 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 45ca90b3-5db4-4926-81c2-daabc7cf1484 2286 YOU FOUND THEM THE CRIMINAL RING HE ASKED HIS FINGERS GROPING OVER HIS SCOUT FOR A FRESH HOLD FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER fbbc02cf-7282-4937-8b7a-a46617b5521a 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 496e2166-d46d-4d75-a905-2c5886c2c1a5 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 52568058-b74b-499d-95a7-9c3cf351e4f2 32 EARLY IN THE SEASON AS IT WAS HE WAS BAREFOOTED 857c91e1-2b3e-498c-9b58-4d547a72b4ae 2286 BEFORE HE GOT OVER THE SHOCK I SNAPPED AN ORDER AT HIM COME UP HERE AND SIT DOWN QUICK THE ROBART HUSTLED HIM ACROSS THE ROOM AT THE SAME TIME SO HE HAD NO CHOICE EXCEPT TO OBEY WHEN HE SAW THE PAPERS ON THE DESK HIS EYES BULGED AND HE JUST GURGLED A LITTLE 0cc59dc6-979b-444f-8b7d-c3f9ac5d3fbb 2274 TOO GLOOMY IN THAT JUNGLE TO BE SURE THE INFER BEAM'S OUT ON THIS MANY LOOKS LIKE HARD PELLET RIFLES OF SOME KIND MIGHT EVEN BE OFF THE DELPHINIS CAN YOU GET CLOSER WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD NO LIGHT DOWN THERE AND THEY'RE MOVING UP FAST 478ee212-eabd-4105-9536-ba2428884214 2286 IF MY PLAN DOESN'T WORK CAPTAIN THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH OF MY SKIN LEFT TO PICK UP WITH A TWEEZER NOW IF YOU PLEASE I'D LIKE TO GET TO URDAIDA AND PICK UP MY SHIP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 35ccda53-5564-49c6-afbb-4ddbb9117656 1867 CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON I LOOKED AT THE BLUE PRINTS HE HANDED ME AND FELT MY EYES GLAZE WITH HORROR IT'S A MONSTROSITY IT LOOKS MORE LIKE A DISTILLERY THAN A BEACON MUST BE AT LEAST A FEW HUNDRED METERS HIGH 7176bad2-1bef-4f27-bd9e-a675adca0166 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 7cdba8ee-a938-47f1-81a2-34f9440d1fc1 402 THEN ON THE THIRD DAY THE STORY GIRL CAME TO US WITH A VERY WHITE FACE SHE HAD BEEN OVER TO UNCLE ROGER'S YARD TO HEAR THE LATEST BULLETIN FROM THE SICK ROOM HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE BUT NOW IT WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT THAT SHE HAD BAD NEWS 705a2567-d8f0-484e-911b-2d305d49679d 2286 ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU I TOLD HER TRUTHFULLY THAT'S UP FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE BUT BUT HE MADE ME DO ALL THOSE THINGS SHE WAILED SHE WAS YOUNG DARK AND BEAUTIFUL THE TEARS DID NOTHING TO SPOIL THIS 69a21055-f13f-4c2c-a479-fb724d864a4b 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 44626209-675a-46b6-9474-d29f29493a2d 2108 BUT THE TIN OWL COULD SEE VERY NICELY IN THE DARK SO HE GUIDED HIS FRIENDS TO THE RIGHT PLACE AND WHEN ALL WERE DROOPED BEFORE THE DOOR OOPE COMMANDED IT TO OPEN 6e9ad306-047a-4166-94ee-9a6d42d76da0 2368 AND WHAT WAS A QUEST WITHOUT SOMEONE TO SET IT NOW I WISH TO SEE HERKINUFF THE INQUISITOR CALLS YOU WHEN HE WANTS YOU THE BALD MAN SAID 4356a013-8ebb-492e-b65a-ebce8527700f 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 a3a74994-46fd-4882-980a-f35237655ca9 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 00c843f4-ba7e-4f7a-8e1f-52ca8a0e58a5 402 I SUPPOSE WE'LL ALL HAVE THE MEASLES NOW GRUMBLED FELICITY AND OCTOBER IS SUCH AN INCONVENIENT TIME FOR MEASLES THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO I DON'T BELIEVE ANY TIME IS VERY CONVENIENT TO HAVE THE MEASLES CECILY SAID 900a0588-5d2b-4c51-be65-aee73c5f9d05 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 95f95ba8-cb55-4933-a058-f0a3ea4f35ba 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 b00a88a6-2553-434f-9602-fb636a256290 2108 SHE WAS CLAD IN SILVER ROBES AND EMBROIDERED WITH GAY LAUREL DESIGNS AND WORE OVER THIS SPLENDID RAIMENT A SHORT APRON OF ELABORATE LACE WORK 57ce24b5-c65d-41eb-9071-b902bf55ff3a 402 LIFE WAS AS A RED ROSE ONCE MORE I'M GOING TO MAKE A BIG BATCH OF PATTY PANS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING SAID FELICITY JUBILANTLY ISN'T IT QUEER LAST NIGHT I FELT JUST LIKE PRAYING AND TO NIGHT I FEEL JUST LIKE COOKING 17c2c4b4-f9c4-42e3-9d55-5015116403e2 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 5bc1d281-bb6a-4654-b104-5e00332ab9e9 2108 OH I BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND MISSUS EWKE TRANSFORMED YOU YOU ARE REALLY THE FAMOUS SCARECROW OF OZ I WAS GINGER JUST NOW I'M AS YOU SEE ME A MISERABLE LITTLE BROWN BEAR WITH A POOR QUALITY OF STUFFY 2eebd327-b751-415c-879b-6805ee15f32a 188 WHAT IF WE DON'T SEE HER ASKED FELICITY WE'LL PUT THE THINGS ON HER DOORSTEP AND THEN LEAVE THEM SHE MAY BE MILES AWAY OVER THE COUNTRY BY THIS TIME SIGHED CECILY AND NEVER FIND THEM UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE FOR PAT BUT IT'S THE ONLY THING TO DO WHAT CAN WE GIVE HER 14bd088c-45c1-48e1-9b60-8e90c6a4e992 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 0352cc8e-3888-41f1-b9d6-ea9c0d4c0b87 2274 FRANK HERBERT THE ROMANTICS USED TO SAY THAT THE EYES WERE THE WINDOWS OF THE SOUL A GOOD ALIEN ZENOLOGIST MIGHT NOT PUT IT QUITE SO POETICALLY 4dbe2e6d-1595-4c55-8810-d90bcdc65610 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 452353e7-9330-46e1-9843-5d75286936a6 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 09626ba7-e89d-41de-b70e-aa83f0bb8cfb 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 SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME 291d3851-085d-45a9-b5ac-d691c7bdbbb1 32 ALL AT ONCE THE STORY GIRL AND PETER BEGAN TO FORGE AHEAD IN THE MATTER OF DREAMING THEIR DREAMS SUDDENLY BECAME SO LURID AND DREADFUL AND PICTURESQUE THAT IT WAS HARD FOR THE REST OF US TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WERE NOT PAINTING THE LILY RATHER FREELY IN THEIR ACCOUNTS OF THEM f97a788a-cf1a-4055-8222-1361ed011d6c 1867 RUNNING THROUGH THE CROWD I FACED THE FIRST LIZARD IN HIS TUB HE SANK SLOWLY BENEATH THE SURFACE IT WAS ALL VERY DEPRESSING SO I STOPPED FOR A DRINK AND THEN WENT TO THE SPACEPORT BY THE TIME THE SHIP WAS SERVICED I HAD A COURSE CHARTED e2270006-fe9b-40c0-b722-50b0a576ce0b 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 45c68570-9bc0-4d53-80bd-dac21229dc94 451 IT WAS VACATION AND THERE WAS NOT MUCH TO DO THAT DAY WE WERE SOON FREE TO SEEK THE ORCHARD BUT THE STORY GIRL WOULD NOT COME THE MUSTARD AND WARM WATER PRODUCED ITS PROPER EFFECT PROMPTLY BUT GAVE DAN NO RELIEF HE CONTINUED TO WRITHE AND GROAN 3890cf1f-d04c-4f15-a5fb-332bf78843c8 188 COULD YOU EVER DO WHAT BETTY SHERMAN DID DO YOU SUPPOSE ASKED CECILY ABSENTLY NO BUT I BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL COULD ANSWERED FELICITY RATHER SNAPPISHLY a375b670-0c89-4981-b23e-35b439ec6b22 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 805911c4-edf7-4349-b4ca-0fac27b57b11 32 AS I TURN THE PAGES AND GLANCE OVER THE CUMULATIVE RECORDS EACH ONE BEGINNING LAST NIGHT I DREAMED THE PAST COMES VERY VIVIDLY BACK TO ME d246ff3c-2e09-4c68-8e0d-e126fa472b8a 188 THE GODS WERE NOT ALL BEAUTIFUL YOU KNOW AND BEAUTIFUL OR NOT NOBODY EVER WANTED TO MEET THEM FACE TO FACE a623af77-d483-474a-a4c8-914875ac2f1b 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 1ac134b9-c503-487b-80e4-efac2435b7d7 32 AUNT JANET AND FELICITY ADMINISTERED ALL THE HOMELY REMEDIES THEY COULD THINK OF BUT TO NO EFFECT FELICITY TOLD AUNT JANET OF THE CUCUMBER BUT AUNT JANET DID NOT THINK THE CUCUMBER ALONE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CECILY'S ALARMING CONDITION ba8c85ad-0a13-4364-8a19-a0cfef87e0dc 32 GENIUS CAN NEVER EXPLAIN HOW IT DOES IT IT WOULD NOT BE GENIUS IF IT COULD AND THE STORY GIRL HAD GENIUS AS WE LEFT THE ORCHARD I WALKED ALONG BEHIND UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA 391243da-0e1c-4b4d-879f-358391c8ce78 2108 THEN THE SCARECROW LAID HIMSELF DOWN SO THAT WOOT COULD USE HIS STUFFED BODY AS A PILLOW AND THE TIN WOODMAN STOOD UP BESIDE THEM ALL NIGHT SO THE DAMPNESS OF THE GROUND MIGHT NOT REST HIS JOINTS OR DULL HIS BRILLIANT POLISH 9be1c211-4f9d-4807-aca2-cbd8871f1e7e 402 IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO PETER AND YOU ARE LET'S SEE HIM BEFORE IT HAPPENS GIVE HIM MY LOVE AND TELL HIM HOW SORRY I AM AND THAT I HOPE WE WILL ALL MEET IN A BETTER WORLD EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL IS ABOUT THE SAME THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS 5d1c5b7a-230c-4b67-9bf4-1ac2742dc644 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 f4226045-532b-4bb0-bc43-bc8bd061c70e 188 SUPPOSE HE WAS MISTAKEN SUPPOSE SHE SAID NO NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN b5b0d84b-6b99-46ab-a90c-9153f629d72c 402 INSTEAD AFTER DEVOUTLY THANKING GOODNESS THAT OUR GROWN UPS IN SPITE OF SOME IMPERFECTIONS WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE GRANARY LIGHTED A HUGE LANTERN WHICH DAN HAD MADE OUT OF A TURNIP AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR ALL THE APPLES WE MIGHT HAVE EATEN THROUGH THE DAY BUT HAD NOT b6359f2b-2891-4b1b-b89d-31a6b083275a 2286 IS IT STILL BEING BUILT ON TO THE SHIP 658f88a2-2213-472a-a68c-62f5f0fb7b5c 32 WHEN THEY ASSURED US SOLEMNLY THAT THEIR DREAMS ALL HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THEY DESCRIBED THEM WE WERE COMPELLED TO BELIEVE THEM edccb6bf-f5cc-4f80-8618-5486593d67bf 2108 THE PATH LED INTO THE FOREST BUT THE BIG TREES GREW SO CLOSELY TOGETHER AND THE VINES IN THE UNDERBRUSH WERE SO THICK AND MATTED THAT THEY HAD TO CLEAR A PATH AT EACH STEP IN ORDER TO PROCEED b04ae877-1566-4f7d-b96e-bcc472f9c9e7 2286 BEFORE HE COULD RECOVER I THREW A THICK FOLD IN FRONT OF HIM I AM AN THAR LEAGUE GRAND FLEET THESE ARE MY CREDENTIALS YOU HAD BETTER CHECK THEM c2d14707-56f3-4341-8b77-b7cf50294102 32 IF WE CAN'T SOON FIND OUT WHAT MAKES PETER AND THE STORY GIRL DREAM LIKE THAT THE REST OF US MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP TRYING TO WRITE DREAM BOOKS SAID FELIX DISCONTENTEDLY FINALLY WE DID FIND OUT c0900d77-e3ea-43d8-af2b-2dedb8db4d29 402 I HAVE BEEN CRYING ALL THE AFTERNOON I WISH I COULD FLY TO YOU BUT MA WILL NOT LET ME SHE IS AFRAID I WILL CATCH THE MEASLES BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE MEASLES A DOZEN TIMES OVER THAN BE SEPARATED FROM YOU ALL LIKE THIS f9f849b8-5c05-4ca9-bebc-d610118d2b96 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 945bee70-54a6-4d78-9209-4e46971d47e0 188 WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MARRIED I THINK IT'S JUST HORRID SO THERE I GUESS YOU THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD DEAL HORRID OR NOT TO BE SAID DAN IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU'RE MARRIED TOO SAID CECILY GRAVELY SEEING THAT FELICITY DISDAINED REPLY 0fdc8eaf-793a-4b55-a867-2c51f9a028ac 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 e53db2af-54e7-4be0-9de7-67b4106214c4 2108 DEAR ME SAID THE TIN WOODMAN STARING HARD IT SEEMS AS IF I HAD MET YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE GOOD MORNING SIR YOU HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF ME REPLIED THE HEAD I NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE IN MY LIFE c8e36899-b312-4082-9dac-a784acbab3b7 188 WELL HE TRIED TO KISS ME THAT'S WHAT FOR SAID FELICITY TURNING VERY RED AS IF I WOULD LET A HIRED BOY KISS ME I GUESS MASTER PETER WON'T TRY ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN IN A HURRY 04f300ac-110b-4b04-bbd4-4fc1a7a3bce9 32 DO YOU KNOW FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE I FELT EXACTLY LIKE A SNAKE YOU LOOK LIKE ONE SAID UNCLE ROGER HOW ON EARTH DO YOU DO IT I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW I DO IT SAID THE STORY GIRL PERPLEXEDLY IT JUST DOES ITSELF 3abeb20f-a2e6-48b0-9d39-ef90cb2873e7 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 18f08d20-40b9-4431-8d6d-45faf92129a7 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 f577f9ee-5509-4272-8357-b529215a88c7 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 128706a4-2cbb-47f5-8310-2900643a52f7 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 703052bf-2275-40ef-bb25-50efeee53ca2 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 7087b1b4-c940-460d-85fa-69230c75d1d3 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 e6b22326-7674-4ce1-b79d-1b4e7a3fd23c 32 EACH OF US WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO POSSESS THE MOST EXCITING RECORD BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW AND I DO NOT THINK ANYTHING WAS EVER WRITTEN DOWN IN THOSE DREAM BOOKS WHICH HAD NOT REALLY BEEN DREAMED be449c03-7e6a-4477-ae7b-4240de014016 188 PETER IS A REAL SMART BOY SHE SAID TO ME IT'S SUCH A PITY HE'S A HIRED BOY BUT IF WE COULD NOT PASS THE ORDEAL WE GOT ANY AMOUNT OF FUN OUT OF IT AT LEAST EVENING AFTER EVENING THE ORCHARD RE ECHOED TO OUR PEALS OF LAUGHTER 97c1176b-4aaa-4d26-90ef-98c8c8ba7556 2108 DURING THE NIGHT THE SCARECROW AND THE EMPEROR TALKED IN LOW TONES TOGETHER AND THEY GOT OUT OF THE CHAIR AND MOVED ALL ABOUT THE ROOM FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW AND PERMIT THEM TO ESCAPE 951e7397-741e-4d25-988c-396604b83170 188 BUT HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL WHO ARE THE GOOD GROWN UP PEOPLE ASKED FELIX SUDDENLY FORGETTING THAT HE WAS IN CHURCH OH THAT IS EASY SAID PETER YOU CAN ALWAYS JUST FEEL WHO IS GOOD AND WHO ISN'T AND YOU MUSTN'T TELL LIES AND YOU MUSTN'T MURDER ANY ONE YOU MUST BE SPECIALLY CAREFUL NOT TO MURDER ANY ONE 7500f321-df2c-4532-a512-2a9df21dfe55 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 725092e3-23e5-4295-9f38-132654b0a5ae 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 206df841-8c3e-4b9e-923b-12411f4440d9 451 IN THE DIM CANDLELIGHT SHE LOOKED UNBELIEVABLY PRETTY AND APPEALING I PUT MY ARM ABOUT HER AND GAVE HER A COUSINLY SALUTE NEVER YOU MIND HIM FELICITY I SAID HE'S ONLY A GROWN UP feca1fbb-fdfd-4558-9ae4-05480d25b9a6 2108 SHALL I PUNCTURE THE KING THE BOY ASKED HIS COMPANIONS KING BALM MUST HAVE OVERHEARD THE QUESTION FOR HE FUMBLED WITH THE CORD THAT FASTENED HIM TO THE THROAT AND MANAGED TO RELEASE IT bb91cd7a-2300-4814-a4a8-5d1357a05f9d 32 THE STORY GIRL WAS IN GREAT FETTLE THAT NIGHT NEVER HAD HER TAILS SPARKLED WITH SUCH WIT AND ARCHNESS 274f2508-32ef-451a-af3f-60257e152963 32 AND RACHEL WARD HERSELF CAME AND LOOKED AT US SO SAD AND REPROACHFUL AND WE ALL FELT ASHAMED AND I BEGAN TO CRY AND WOKE UP CRYING bef1dfc9-fa21-4d2d-987e-d7e8a305682f 2286 LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN THIS IS WHY I LANDED AT MIDDAY ON THE LARGEST FIELD ON THE PLANET AFTER A VERY SHOWY APPROACH I WAS ALREADY DRESSED FOR MY ROLL AND OUT OF THE SHIP BEFORE THE LANDING BRACES STOPPED VIBRATING 912b1f11-b125-4772-a562-9ec1f7dd90b5 2286 YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT THEY HAVE AN EXPANDING COUCHER NO ON EMPLOYMENT A SURFACE OF A METALS AND READY MARKETS FOR ALL THEY PRODUCE NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM 4632da4e-cd81-463f-b067-75f718fed0a7 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 4289b531-6887-418d-b22e-b237c464edc6 2286 I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO THE LUGGAGE WAS ALL BOOBY CHAPPED AND COULD DEFEND ITSELF GUNS GAS POISON NEEDLES THE USUAL SORT OF THING IN THE LAST RESULT IT WOULD BLOW ITSELF UP THE EN THREE WENT DOWN BY A FREIGHT ELEVATOR I USED A BACK STAIRS AND WE MET IN THE STREET 0ff336f1-3597-4be1-84f1-5479e90521f1 2286 FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS BIG SMALL FLAT THIN THOUGH SHUT OUT ON ALL SIDES ONE HELD A GUN AND TWO MORE WAS STUFFED WITH GRENADES THE REST WERE EMPTY I PUT THE HAT IN ONE THE BRIEF CASE IN ANOTHER AND SNAPPED MY FINGERS THE DRAWERS SLID SHUT AND ITS METAL HIDE WAS AS SMOOTH AS EVER a691ce6a-52e6-4e19-ae0f-9e02373b458f 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 1346596f-a08b-47e3-acca-02213834b468 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 573b262e-1b6d-4b8f-8969-9566a06c135c 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 23918dd8-90e8-45de-9535-f3b0910e4d0c 451 JUST IMAGINE THE FEELINGS OF THE YOUNG MINISTER IN THE CHINA CLOSET 01b6eda5-453c-4fb6-a663-00ea296ee393 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 0f223916-2b62-49b4-b6fa-e3ed82d026e8 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 3a707259-3a62-4aca-b136-5c814232d00f 2286 THE ALARM SHOULD BE OUT AND EVERY SHIP NOTIFIED THEN THEY BE ALERTED AND PATROL SENT ON ALL SPACE LANES WHICH HE COULD EASILY AVOID BY GOING AROUND OR BETTER YET NOT EVEN BOTHER ABOUT SINCE HE CAN LICK ANY SHIP WE HAVE THAT'S NOT THE ANSWER I TOLD HIM 98f0a41f-a9ba-439f-adc2-58900c7f16b6 32 CECILY'S SICK SAID DAN SPRINGING OUT OF BED THAT CUCUMBER MUST HAVE DISAGREED WITH HER IN A FEW MINUTES THE WHOLE HOUSE WAS ASTIR CECILY WAS SICK VERY VERY SICK THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF IT SHE WAS EVEN WORSE THAN DAN HAD BEEN WHEN HE HAD EATEN THE BAD BERRIES 1288b708-2460-462e-945e-ea1fbde74d3f 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 0915be23-157d-443c-b810-25dcd39f656b 2286 IT TOOK AN EFFORT BUT I MANAGED TO GET MY MIND BACK INTO GEAR AND CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE IF PRESENT FERERO DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE BATTLESHIP HE MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY THE COVER UP JOB BUT IF HE WASN'T RESPONSIBLE WHO WAS 33c39374-0a30-4814-9fc4-9699fbc797a5 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 b8630f72-359d-47f6-841b-d45b3510d5f9 451 DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL LOOK HERE DAN I EXPOSTULATED YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS THINK HOW SICK YOU WERE LAST NIGHT AND ALL THE TROUBLE YOU MADE FOR EVERYBODY DON'T EAT ANY MORE THERE'S A GOOD CHAP 37e95eb8-88ad-465c-bd16-2db9af42ba83 32 I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE 5e9d2abb-6824-4afd-847d-605e2373cba6 2108 THIS SEEMED VERY WONDERFUL TO WOOT WHO KNEW THAT SUCH A THING COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN ANY PLACE BUT A VERY COUNTRY LIKE OZ HER TONE WAS SO POSITIVE THAT THEY KNEW IT WOULD BE USELESS TO PROTEST 5d20abfe-868b-4062-9fc1-3dc2d12172e2 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 2dcfaeeb-82e6-481e-b866-281bee9fc072 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 43107c45-5021-4bbe-9a04-145224c85b04 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 cef9085e-067d-40d3-a2d3-89c473a04ea4 2286 WHO'S BUILDING IT I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE BUT HE KEPT QUIET I SAVORED MY SMALL MOMENT OF POWER bb735cdc-398c-442c-ae66-19d426a37168 188 SHE NEEDN'T HAVE GOT SO SCARED IF SHE'D ONLY WAITED FOR THE THIRD HEAD I'D HAVE SHOWED HER HOW EASY IT WAS TO GET CLEAR OF GOING TO THE BAD PLACE AND GO TO HEAVEN INSTEAD BUT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS IN SUCH A HURRY SAID PETER BITTERLY DO YOU SUPPOSE WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE HER TO THE ASYLUM SAID DAN IN A WHISPER 1cd637fb-7235-4fd0-97af-5127fb0935c6 2108 FINALLY ONE OF THE DRAGONS WHICH WAS FARTHEST AWAY FROM HIM ASKED IN A DEEP GRAVE VOICE WHAT WAS THAT 3d20ab36-c823-4f1a-add5-7bc159876057 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 10cc9ddd-1405-4329-a2d4-f03cbd39458c 2286 THE TRIP ONLY TOOK A FEW DAYS MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME TO MEMORIZE EVERYTHING I DID TO KNOW ABOUT SET ANUVO THE MORE I KNEW THE LESS I COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR NEED FOR A BATTLESHIP IT DIDN'T FIT SUTANOVO WAS A SECONDARY SETTLEMENT OUT OF THE SELINY SYSTEM AND I HAD RUN INTO THESE SETTLEMENTS BEFORE 477d0cc7-1152-40ad-bc38-cb83e0eefac7 188 WONDER IF THEY'LL BRING US ANYTHING SAID DAN I'M THINKING LONG TO HEAR ALL ABOUT THAT WEDDING SAID FELICITY WHO WAS BRAIDING TIMOTHY STOCKS INTO A COLLAR FOR PAT YOU GIRLS ARE ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT WEDDINGS AND GETTING MARRIED SAID DAN CONTEMPTUOUSLY dd136eb5-d1f8-465d-bae2-8b2fe7c7460f 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 2ef08432-0f35-4e00-9b3b-518d33e363fd 188 WHAT WOULD BE THE USE OF IT ASKED THE STORY GIRL A LITTLE DISDAINFULLY NOBODY EVER WANTS TO KNOW THE TIME IN A GARDEN I SLIPPED AWAY AT THIS POINT SUDDENLY REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS TIME TO TAKE A DOSE OF MAGIC SEED I HAD BOUGHT IT FROM BILLY ROBINSON THREE DAYS BEFORE IN SCHOOL BILLY HAD ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD MAKE ME GROW FAST 8725e20a-e93f-4798-9e3f-e45ed4bee0e0 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 20bab44e-6c59-400e-b7c2-bfacb5ed58b3 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 a876b0bc-bf48-4e85-be4b-4dcc7d9199b6 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 cf862186-42e1-4399-80c0-382583cd02ff 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 5d7e1358-dc03-4ef0-9350-cdaa83d9d77c 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 144c3888-1fd9-49c2-8768-018557fa6c88 451 I GUESS THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU DAN KING SAID FELICITY IN HER MOST MADDENING TONE 2ffc69a6-60cb-4321-8584-7a9549fa8fff 2108 COME OUT INTO THE GARDEN WITH ME SHE SAID AND I'LL GIVE YOU SOME OF THE MOST DELICIOUS CARMELS YOU EVER ATE THEY'RE A NEW VARIETY THAT NO ONE CAN GROW BUT ME AND THEY HAVE A HELIOTROPE FLAVOR a0c8f32e-333f-45bd-9eb6-bb2f237ddfbf 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 d6a185d4-32ea-41a1-8488-797d920cf849 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 4b260816-e779-4ded-9bad-cbd38cf38358 2108 THE GREEN MONKEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE WISE TO MAKE A FRIEND OF THE BIG WOMAN SO AS TO GAIN HER CONFIDENCE SO HE SAT ON THE BACK OF HER CHAIR AND CHATTERED TO HER WHILE SHE MENDED HER STOCKINGS AND SEWED SILVER BUTTONS ON SOME GOLDEN SHOES THAT WERE AS BIG AS ROW BOATS ebd4b8e9-dd64-4f4f-9396-dfcbf2003430 188 NEIL WOULD HAVE THE LAUGH ON ME THEN SURE HE'S SLEEPIN WELL AND THE SNOW IS COMING SOON TWILL BE A BONNY SWIRL ON THE BAY ERE LONG I HOPE NO HARM WILL COME TO THE LAD IF HE STARTS TO CROSS WHEN HE WAKES HE'LL BE IN SUCH A FINE HIGHLAND TEMPER THAT HE'LL NEVER STOP TO THINK OF DANGER 73ecf063-2c91-424b-90e8-0e10d79c4301 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 d3965f53-19e0-44fb-ac7e-08f325e6adb1 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 e902da6c-567d-493d-b6f5-7bc714bd911e 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 8d1a1bc6-9f56-4646-b837-482f78b60ee2 451 IN AUGUST IT WAS A PLACE OF SHADY SWEETNESS FRAGRANT WITH THE ODOUR OF RIPENING APPLES FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS THROUGH ITS OPENINGS WE LOOKED AFAR TO THE BLUE RIMS OF THE HILLS AND OVER GREEN OLD TRANQUIL FIELDS LINED THE SUNSET GLOW d3a8664f-4076-4742-b004-14f1a21a7b4f 188 I THINK IT'S JUST LIKE SPRING INSISTED FELICITY IN THE SUN SWEET PLACE BEFORE THE PULPIT STONE WE BOYS HAD PUT UP A BOARD TABLE HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THERE MIGHT BE HAVE BEEN IN THE GOLDEN AGE ASKED THE STORY GIRL WHICH WAS INDEED AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR FELICITY bab0cb29-dfe3-4e53-bb07-89e96b898cb8 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 dc2bf21e-c8f5-498c-87ab-463dcbe511b3 451 THE FIRST PERSON WE SAW IN THE CHURCH PORCH WAS MISSUS RAY SHE TOLD US THAT SARA HAD NOTHING WORSE THAN A FEVERISH COLD THE MISSIONARY HAD AT LEAST SEVEN HAPPY LISTENERS THAT NIGHT WE ALL WERE GLAD THAT SARA DID NOT HAVE MEASLES AND THE STORY GIRL WAS RADIANT 015a52e8-5980-46fc-9b9a-076f5b97424d 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 0e285a98-3f11-4c6c-981b-367de0bdd420 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 4117494d-f480-4d8d-9473-8e38ff9c4ad1 451 WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS DESTINED TO STAND BEFORE KINGS HERSELF AND SHE WAS TO BE ONE WHOM THEY DELIGHTED TO HONOR BUT WE DID NOT KNOW THAT AS WE SAT IN THE OLD ORCHARD 13f93e45-aed8-41f9-b832-81f55cc8b104 451 FELICITY WAS RESIGNED ALTHOUGH THE FATAL PATCH ON PETER'S BEST TROUSERS WAS STILL AN EYE SOORE TO HER SHE DECLARED SHE NEVER GOT ANY GOOD OF THE SINGING BECAUSE PETER STOOD UP THEN AND EVERY ONE COULD SEE THE PATCH 854b57d4-f900-4a70-8c0c-91bbbadc7207 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 7160db4d-effc-4e71-8933-211bdbec51d2 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 1fab551c-f6ec-4691-8b0a-48bbe4cea099 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 ab2b340c-8f7f-42d1-939e-2338e4eb1daa 188 PETER STOPPED AND GLARED AT HIM OVER THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT STONE YOU HAVEN'T ANY BUSINESS TO CALL OUT A THING LIKE THAT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SERMON HE SAID THEY DO IT IN THE METHODIST CHURCH AT MARKDALE PROTESTED FELIX SOMEWHAT ABASHED I HEARD THEM 3398e254-90dd-4a71-9aa9-62b595454135 2108 COME WITH ME SHE COMMANDED WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ASKED LUTE GIVE YOU A GOOD SCRUBBING SAID GINGER NOW NEITHER BOYS NOR MONKEYS RELISH BEING SCRUBBED SO LUTE SHRANK AWAY FROM THE ENERGETIC GIRL TREMBLING FEARFULLY 6dedbf4b-9a3c-41a2-a5dc-7af7c20a128c 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 6da50686-baf9-4088-8024-187fb7a2c397 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 ac18f0a5-e35f-4e23-8ce8-6f815ccfb4d6 451 IT IS NOT VANITY TO KNOW YOUR OWN GOOD POINTS IT WOULD BE JUST STUPIDITY IF YOU DIDN'T IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM I'M NOT A BIT PRETTY MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME 9c5b415c-44f2-40f2-adee-1dae8cc21c35 188 BUT STILL HE WENT AND THAT WAS THE MAIN THING NOW DEAREST WHAT IS ALL THIS TROUBLE ABOUT ASKED GLAUCON AND AGLEYA TOLD HIM THE STORY BUT WHERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL STONE HE ASKED WHEN SHE HAD FINISHED DIDST THOU DROP IT IN THY ALARM d9dd91bb-ceb9-45c6-996e-da6dd7d41725 188 YESTERDAY AUNT OLIVIA WANTED SOME FERNS SO I WENT BACK TO THE MAPLE WOODS TO GET THEM FOR AND I FOUND SOME LOVELY ONES BY THE SPRING AND WHILE I WAS SITTING THERE LOOKING INTO THE SPRING WHO SHOULD COME ALONG BUT THE AWKWARD MAN HIMSELF HE SAT DOWN RIGHT BESIDE ME AND BEGAN TO TALK I NEVER WAS SO SURPRISED IN MY LIFE 5e57f880-37f9-4833-882c-87f3efe2745e 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 c9dd8c27-f88f-47a0-a284-8c776f892448 451 BUT AT LAST THEY GOT A CHOIR AND ANDREW MACPHERSON WAS TO SING BASS IN IT OLD MISTER FORBES HADN'T GONE TO CHURCH FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE WAS SO RHEUMATIC BUT HE WENT THE FIRST SUNDAY THE CHOIR SANG BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE SING BASS AND WANTED TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE 88276408-6cfa-40ba-9ad5-b912f30b0969 451 MISTER SCOTT PLANTED THE YELLOW PLUM TREE IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME SAID CECILY PEELING ONE OF THE PLUMS AND WHEN HE DID IT HE SAID IT WAS AS CHRISTIAN AN ACT AS HE EVER DID I WONDER WHAT HE MEANT I DON'T SEE ANYTHING VERY CHRISTIAN ABOUT PLANTING A TREE I DO SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY cab20bf8-31bb-4d54-9aac-620a00913edf 188 IF THAT'S SO THOUGH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING SAID THE STORY GIRL DREARILY PAT MUST DIE CECILY BEGAN TO WEEP AFRESH I'LL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE PAT'S LIFE SHE SAID I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING 39cd453f-b25b-43f9-9e8d-73bdf854bfeb 188 OF COURSE WE HAD TRIED THE LARD AND POWDER TREATMENT AGAIN SMEARING PATS PAWS AND SIDES LIBERALLY BUT TO OUR DISMAY PAT MADE NO EFFORT TO LICK IT OFF I TELL YOU HE'S A MIGHTY SICK CAT SAID PETER DARKLY WHEN A CAT DON'T CARE WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S PRETTY FAR GONE 9e19f17e-8d52-46e4-837a-277196aed5c2 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 ee08ba88-2fd0-4230-b497-9a18ad74f57e 2108 SHE WAS SLOWLY TRANSFORMED INTO THE GREEN MONKEY AND AT THE SAME TIME BOOT SLOWLY REGAINED HIS NATURAL FORM IT WAS QUITE A SURPRISE TO THEM AH WHEN THEY RAISED THEIR EYES FROM THE PLATTER AND SAW WOOT WANDERER STANDING BESIDE OZMA 76a7f2c1-6c04-463b-aee9-4f3e89b92226 188 IT WOULD BE AWFUL SPLENDID AND EXCITING TO HAVE A WEDDING TO THE FAMILY WOULDN'T IT SAID CECILY I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY ONE MARRIED AND I JUST LOVE TO I'VE BEEN TO FOUR FUNERALS BUT NOT TO ONE SINGLE WEDDING I'VE NEVER EVEN GOT TO A FUNERAL SAID SARA RAY GLOOMILY b3d919c6-ac14-43b3-9780-1ef6e75c17a5 188 WE HAD BEEN AT IT FOR A FORTNIGHT AND DURING THAT TIME WE ONLY LIVED TO HAVE DREAMS AND WRITE THEM DOWN THE STORY GIRL HAD ORIGINATED THE IDEA ONE EVENING IN THE RUSTLING RAIN WET WAYS OF THE SPRUCE WOOD WHERE WE WERE PICKING GUM AFTER A DAY OF SHOWERS 0ab24143-d48a-4367-9a08-09193fad14d5 2108 THE TRAVELLERS WERE SILENT FOR A TIME UNEASILY CONSIDERING THIS STATEMENT AND THE EFFECT IT MIGHT HAVE ON THEIR FUTURE ONCE WHEN I CAME TO HER HOUSE MY STRAW WAS OLD AND CRUMPLED SO THAT MY BODY SAGGED DREADFULLY a7f6c8ce-8c02-4a6b-8627-f397145db3e8 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 f3141a95-f441-4124-bd6e-ad8f6db496c1 188 EVERYBODY LAUGHED EXCEPT AUNT JANET OLD MISTER FREWIN WAS HER GRANDFATHER TOO AND SHE WOULDN'T LAUGH ONE DAY WHEN OLD MISTER FRUIN WAS A YOUNG MAN OF EIGHTEEN HIS FATHER CAME HOME AND SAID SANDY I BOUGHT A PIANO AT SIMON WARD'S SALE TO DAY YOU'RE TO GO TO MORROW AND BRING IT HOME bcdc7e47-acd6-4649-9158-2e6bde95690f 2108 THERE ARE NO FIELDS OF GRAIN IN YOUR VALLEY SAID HE WHERE THEN DID YOU GET THE FLOWER TO MAKE YOUR BISCUITS 9174bac4-a105-42ea-ad80-b4aa786424f8 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 ddd75c0d-a1a5-40f4-98f3-00c597e859f0 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 8be64b6e-af23-4c78-9efb-e1e6fc5bab27 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 387aa989-f74b-40b2-9f6c-1fca6c7d9360 2108 IT HAD CLOSED OF ITS OWN ACCORD AS IF BY MAGIC MOREOVER THIS THE LATCH WAS ON THE OUTSIDE AND THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO EACH OF ONE OF THEM THAT THEY WERE NOW PRISONERS IN THIS UNKNOWN CASTLE 99a7d2ad-33af-4abc-9db5-8ef749821241 451 A DISOBEDIENT BROTHER DAN WAS OWN MAN AGAIN IN THE MORNING THOUGH RATHER PALE AND WEAK HE WANTED TO GET UP BUT CECILY ORDERED HIM TO STAY IN BED FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED 7ffb12b5-5123-4414-a0ce-1886b1f8467a 451 SHE MADE THE WRITHING DAN GO TO BED SHE MADE HIM SWALLOW EVERY AVAILABLE ANTIDOTE WHICH WAS RECOMMENDED IN THE DOCTOR'S BOOK AND SHE APPLIED HOT CLOTHS TO HIM UNTIL HER FAITHFUL LITTLE HANDS WERE HALF SCALDED OFF 54e2d1b3-9d82-4fed-a116-4a8946eb4e79 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 b15966a5-e0db-46d9-821a-e11b4d930d69 188 IT ISN'T LIKE THE RELIGIOUS FRUIT BASKET GAME IS IT ASKED CECILY ANXIOUSLY WE HAD GOOD REASON TO HOPE THAT IT WASN'T ONE DESPERATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD NOTHING TO READ AND THE TIME SEEMED ENDLESS FELIX HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE A GAME OF FRUIT BASKET ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS 97b232ee-7c99-482c-854a-b1417f776396 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 2b05ad5a-e03b-4dd8-bc71-a86406a6d905 2108 HE SAW THE WORDS EUP CASTLE OVER THE DOOR BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER EUP IS A PRISONER IN A CAGE IN A FAR OFF PART OF THE LAND OF OZ SO HE DECIDED THAT THERE WAS NO ONE NOW AT HOME AND THAT WE MIGHT USE THE CASTLE FOR THE NIGHT 9785e30d-8252-44ef-b59a-24cf8cf685e4 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 bb7e29e2-efcb-4833-983f-0909ea6af307 188 THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AGAIN SHE LOVED EXPRESSIVE WORDS AND TREASURED THEM AS SOME GIRLS MIGHT HAVE TREASURED JEWELS TO HER THEY WERE AS LUSTROUS PEARLS THREADED ON THE CRIMSON CORD OF A VIVID FANCY ab06b52c-2e29-4805-bba4-9663dcd4b390 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 f37b7c41-b621-43ec-b2e9-39990cc42b08 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 6f8fb496-fd3d-4866-9fa4-4f543a22ddc3 188 WE MUST ALL GO TOGETHER SAID THE STORY GIRL I DON'T SUPPOSE THE FAMILY GUIDE WOULD THINK SO AGREED THE STORY GIRL LAZILY WITH SOME SARCASM IN HER VOICE 78508b10-c322-4982-a903-7745150397f1 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 b729a801-cbf4-4c1b-bd16-e80188bc4336 2108 ENOUGH ACCIDENTS HAPPENED TO US POOR LOONS AS IT IS MY ADVICE IS TO CONDEMN AND PERPORATE EM AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE 2a4c851c-371d-43cb-a8f5-16af7d7a02c6 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL FINALLY HE TOLD DONALD THAT HE WAS GOING OVER THE BAY TO ASK NANCY SHERMAN THAT VERY NIGHT TO MARRY HIM AND IF SHE WOULD HAVE HIM THEN DONALD AND ALL THE FOLK SHOULD SEE A WEDDING THAT WAS A WEDDING 4dee99db-32c8-453b-af9d-4e555550c931 2108 GOOD GRACIOUS EXCLAIMED WOOT THEREFORE THIS CASTLE IS LIKELY TO BE EMPTY AND WE MAY USE IT IN ANY WAY WE PLEASE d3388bca-2770-46b9-8851-c9f0a93b9e71 188 O PETER WHAT DO YOU THINK I HAVE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE AWKWARD MAN AT LAST I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SO EASY YESTERDAY AUNT OLIVIA WANTED SOME FERNS SO I WENT BACK TO THE MAPLE WOODS TO GET THEM FOR AND I FOUND SOME LOVELY ONES BY THE SPRING b1e6beb4-f4a5-4fc0-9020-70fcddc90c5d 188 AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES AND THEY WERE YELLOW TRANSPARENTS AND THEN SHE SPOKE AT LAST SHE SAID I TOLD YOU SO AND DID SHE TALK TO HIM AFTER THAT AS USUAL ASKED SARA RAY OH YES SHE WAS JUST THE SAME AS SHE USED TO BE SAID THE STORY GIRL WEARILY 57633067-7a79-4317-8546-74c7e8ea4a9d 2108 HIS HANDS WERE WHITE CAUGHT IN GLOVES STUFFED WITH FINE STRAW a58780ad-d511-4acc-943b-5030e21973ad 1867 THE MOMENT THIS WAS ALL FINISHED I DID THE JOB THEY WERE WAITING FOR TWO THE DOOR WAS SEALED SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE SAVAGE ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE 06889213-42cf-4d0a-8dc2-d069d75aa3f3 402 WERE NOT OF THE MISSUS RAY TYPE YOUR OWN TRUE FRIEND SARA RAY NOBODY BUT A COUN WOULD DO IT AND THAT'S A FACT SAID DAN 3e2361a7-dafa-46d1-96df-179da492222c 464 NO I DON'T SAID FELICITY YOU NEEDN'T WORRY ABOUT HIM THERE'S NOTHING THE MATTER WITH HIM WERE VERY FAIR TO VIEW f0ec6fe9-f20c-4f20-b8bc-61dab7625217 1867 THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT I LIFTED IT FROM THE TREASURY THE NIGHT BEFORE 37e88572-6d90-49d9-9da9-7f7aef89c507 2312 NOWHERE IN ALL VERBIAGE DOES IT SAY HOW BIG THEY HAVE TO BE AND HERE ARE NINE MORE OF THE REGULAR PEOPLE fc9a3387-c522-4911-9390-38197d389e7e 413 HE GOT INTO HIS BUGGY AND DROVE AWAY LEAVING EIGHT DISTRACTED MORTALS BEHIND HIM BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MISTAKE SOBBED SARAH IT MIGHT BE TWO O'CLOCK TO NIGHT INSTEAD OF TO MORROW 664ac07e-ff58-4598-a14c-d1f58545fb98 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 e1f457ed-eee8-4859-9f93-149b7fefe032 1867 ONE OF THE EAGER LIZARDS HAD MANAGED TO OPEN A CIRCUIT BOX AND HAD POLISHED THE SWITCHES INSIDE 005af8cb-6c2a-4e75-8eb0-a3e89aec14b4 2137 STRETCHED THE RED DUST DESERTS OF SIRIUS THREE ILLUMINATED BY THE THIN LIGHT OF TWO ICE MOONS SOMETHING I MEANT TO ASK YOU THIS DUFF ER THIS FACCENE aed3741c-9024-4375-aa43-dbebe2a91224 32 THEIR DOOR OPENED AND THROUGH OUR OWN DOOR I SAW FELICITY'S WHITE CLAD FIGURE FLIT DOWN THE STAIRS TO AUNT JANET'S ROOM CECILY HAD PUT HER HANDS OVER HER EYES 5f5b6a00-25d9-49a3-ac89-c3ce4db485d7 413 I'LL JUST HAVE TO BE SATISFIED WITH MAKING UP MY MIND TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN OR A METHODIST NEVER FOR SO LONG SAID CECILY d3a72552-c87e-4dd6-9ea6-77f85190071e 464 THE THREAT WAS EFFECTUAL NEVER DID WE MENTION THAT UNHOLY PUDDING BUT THE STORY GIRL COULD NOT IMPOSE SILENCE ON THE GROWN UPS ESPECIALLY UNCLE ROGER 0b1af457-c502-4a43-815b-f15815031503 402 THEY COULD NEVER BE COAXED TO GROW ELSEWHERE BUT IT WAS LONG AGO AND WE CAN'T DO ANY GOOD BY CRYING OVER IT NOW HE'S IN THE HOUSE THIS VERY MINUTE HE CAME UP WITH US IN THE BUGGY 4e20ab05-4a56-49fe-bed5-519e2e60a1a5 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 fa9007d2-ddc3-4df4-92d6-633b5de9fd59 2312 WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT SAID THE SMALL MARTINET THERE'S ENOUGH OF US HERE RIGHT NOW 5c7d7653-485b-41ee-b359-cca58dfee29c 451 THE VIEWS WERE GOOD AND THE LECTURER WITTY I'M NOT A BIT FAIN SAID THE STORY GIRL WITH ENTIRE TRUTHFULNESS 2a66c3a7-1182-47c5-903c-3c4006df74f9 30 ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF UNCLE ALEC WE REALIZED THAT SHE WAS RATHER TOO WELL AWARE OF HER GOOD LOOKS 0f9ec316-c63f-4fe0-9617-7442d2660775 464 HE WAS ROCKING HIMSELF BACK AND FORTH WITH HIS HAND PRESSED AGAINST HIS STOMACH THE PUDDING DID NOT TASTE EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD a87eb6ae-8a98-47a4-bb98-15112ba133e9 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 b1e97c38-7d17-430d-a5e2-267c638e7288 748 AND PURPLE CHALEES UNCLE BLAIR WAS SPENDING THE SUMMER IN SWITZERLAND ALTHOUGH I WAS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAITH IN IT bad3d898-ea2c-4bf3-a6ec-376739847aae 2317 IT WAS A PICTURE OF MILTON BOROUGH FARMER FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN POINTING AND RAY CLUMPED SLOWLY IN A HALF CIRCLE 2284055b-60d2-4cd1-bb93-4a25630ba4b3 402 WE'VE LOST FIFTY CENTS BECAUSE OF IT SAID FELICITY GLOOMILY KNOW EXACTLY HOW SHE FELT STORY GIRL LOOKED AT PETER WITH A FROWN 01f38d9a-32b8-41ef-a339-62e0265f3a47 177 WHY CAN'T BE THE JUDGMENT DAY SAID SARA RAY BRIGHTENING UP AND SOMEHOW IT COMFORTED US 10c911c9-19c8-4b3b-b546-322191d3d99f 2108 TINTING THE GLISTENING TIN TOWERS AND THE TIN MINARETS NEITHER OF US CAN BE HAPPY AGAIN UNLESS WE RECOVER OUR RIGHTFUL FORMS 741aad24-e954-4f8a-aaf4-9bbcda5b164d 1867 THE FIRST SHIPS TO ENTERTER HYPERSPACE HAD NO PLACE TO GO AND NO WAY EVEN TO TELL IF THEY HAD MOVED THE OTHERS CAME RUNNING b42a081e-e2d3-4bba-b46f-d6c7a3596de8 30 AND AUNT OLIVIA WOULDN'T LET HER COME OUT IN THE NIGHT AIR AMONG SIBILANT SPRUCES AND FIRS SHE HASN'T BEEN VERY WELL ALL DAY 848269c5-f503-4151-b2bb-b3b58756ae47 2274 IT DISAPPEARED BEHIND A TREE YOU INTEND TO START A WAR HORN TOUCHED HIS THROAT a5b84ee6-a1c3-46f3-8c6a-b8c40f6f9cd5 2368 FOR ONE THING IT HAD A FULL TOWN HALL BUILT NO LESS OF HONEST STONE AND PROBABLY A RELIC OF THE MOMENT TIMES cbcc05f6-dea9-481d-aaff-91e134092f2d 14 AND HE MAY NOW FOR AUGHT I KNOW BE A MOST USEFUL AND RESPECTABLE MAN MEMBER OF SOCIETY BELOVED BY HIS KIND 08e400c9-099b-45bf-84b2-c213044054df 2274 AH THEY'VE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MY STARTLING WORTH SAID ORAN THE WOLFISH GRIN TOOK OVER STETSON'S BIG FEATURES SENIOR FIELD MEN LAST ABOUT HALF AS LONG AS JUNIORS HE SAID I'M HERE TO HELP YOU I d4c9b49c-599f-4588-8342-6f5be11ad0c6 2317 WELL I SHOULD THANK YOU FOR BRINGING HIM BACK I GUESS HE MUTTERED HE WASN'T SURE ANY MORE ac4a75d6-d2c8-47ea-bde1-1f5fd65ac438 2286 ONCE THE CLERKS UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD IN MIND THEY HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THEIR WORK I'LL PERSONALLY SEE THAT YOU'RE FLAYED ALIVE 976b02f3-4d38-4347-8986-c0d53e621b0c 242 IT'S DREADFUL TO FIGHT ABOUT ANYTHING SO RELIGIOUS AS PRAYING DID YOU EVER FIGHT ASKED THE STORY GIRL WELL I GUESS I WON'T SAID PETER ANGRILY 9660aa27-cfd5-48c4-89ba-2a036db71fe2 2425 A BROAD DOOR SWUNG OPEN AND I WAS THRUST THROUGH THE DOORWAY UNDERNEATH IN HOPE'S CLEAR PURPOSEFUL HAND WAS THIS 8588f687-504a-47a6-b0eb-95fc2f78dc1d 242 IT IS SOMETIMES A BITTER THING TO TELL THE TRUTH ESPECIALLY TO A YOUNG LADY FOR WHOM YOU HAVE GREAT ADMIRATION 83fef6b8-b0b2-4bf9-8a56-8b97fc9618b9 242 WELL SAID THE STORY GIRL WHY THERE WERE ALWAYS FIGHTING ABOUT RELIGION IN OLD TIMES SAID FELIX LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY 5c83c6fe-41b7-4d6a-a2bb-e8ab06526e67 2368 STRANGER SHARP SAID THIS WILL BE YOURS HE SAID IT IS SAID THAT THE FAMILY COLLEGE SHARP HAS A HOUSE TOO LARGE FOR THEM NOW THAT THE ELDER SON IS GONE THERE IS ONLY THE MAN HIS WIFE AND A DAUGHTER fea5a794-30f3-4ee1-b8a5-286dc1cb31a7 1867 IT WAS HORRIBLE BUT EFFECTIVE BUT IT'S NOT LIKE THAT AT ALL IF THE WATER WAS STILL THERE dd45b315-be93-4972-bf07-fae987ac891e 1867 I COME FROM YOUR ANCESTORS TO HELP YOU THREE THE PRIESTS SHOULD BE SATISFIED THE BEACON WAS REPAIRED 73c734dc-d3fd-4929-a773-5662e265c9de 451 WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY BUT FEAR OF HER FELLOW CREATURES WAS SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO HER 9f2e6646-a9d6-4801-b6fd-e0fe9b0ed51c 2108 HOW HAPPENED YOUR MAJESTY TO BE MADE OF TIN AND STILL BE ALIVE NEITHER DOES MY FRIEND THE SCARECROW 6297f63d-97d9-4c97-8e96-579c98bd70ef 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 7a2681da-c696-4d68-924a-41c95304ad6a 2182 DAMN IT ARE WE GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN OLD CHARLIE MACK'S ISLAND QUEEN HAD VEERED SHARPLY OFF COURSE b5f784cf-d259-4a51-bb1b-b6637117ba5e 177 NEVERTHELESS WE DRESSED OURSELVES CAREFULLY AND THE GIRLS PUT ON THEIR WHITE DRESSES REALIZING WHAT OUR DREAD HAD BEEN IT WAS NOT THE JUDGMENT DAY THE WORLD AND LIFE WERE STILL BEFORE US WITH ALL THEIR POTENT LURE OF YEARS UNKNOWN 9ec5aab2-14e4-449d-a138-8e0cdef8ba59 2108 THE LACE ONE WHICH THE GIANTESS ALWAYS WEARS I SO WE WHO GLADLY SERVE HIM QUITE RIGHT MY FRIEND AGREED THE SCARECROW 42c4b69a-e44f-4d2a-aea6-8ca80c7af124 30 AND GREAT SPREADING BOUGHS SAID DAN SLYLY AND NOW IT WAS A MASSIVE THING 8ad69caf-7a35-497a-a123-62b8435f7ad4 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 5206895e-1937-4d21-ba85-19d65655f251 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 cb0e01aa-e395-41ea-9dd2-8ec0aab73ce2 2182 JEFF GOT UP SHAKILY AND STUMBLED TO THE DOCK'S EDGE COFFEE THREE INTERRUPTED HIM THIS TIME JEFF WHEELED ON HIM INCREDULOUSLY 026c140e-539b-4954-a402-87b5833648e4 2108 SO THAT THEIR BODY SPARKLED AS BEAUTIFULLY AS DID THE TIN CASTLE AND SINCE THIS STRANGE WANDERER HAS REMINDED ME OF NIMY ANNIE b99a104e-082e-45c2-ad52-b64cf8a4be3a 2317 AIMED FIRST AT THE NONIFUS THEN AT THE FISH MAN SHE WASN'T WEARING ANYTHING EITHER AND AN IMPOSSIBLE PIT MONSTER fbc89407-4bf1-4384-ba93-0b30293e4232 30 SILENCE FELL OVER THE HOUSE AND TALKING RATHER MORE LOUDLY THAN THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE THEIR SWEET SHRILL VOICES CARRIED 5c3e828e-339e-48ec-a26e-8311b379e1d9 2312 THEN THEY WENT TO TAKE THE REST OF THE SENSES BUT IN FEAR TO BE COUNTED AS PEOPLE 27a6e386-042c-4f0c-971b-c8e4dce2db4b 30 THE GIRLS WERE PREPARING FOR BED IT MIGHT NOT BE ALTOGETHER HER FAULT THAT SHE WAS VAIN SLEEPING IN A BED OF HIS OWN IN THE OPPOSITE CORNER 36d470e9-9eb3-4169-85e4-142736cc82fe 402 BUT I'LL OPEN IT IF YOU LIKE WE WERE ALSO FOND OF THE BIG SWEET APPLES WE USED TO THROW THEM UP IN THE AIR AND LET THEM FALL ON THE GROUND UNTIL THEY WERE BRUISED AND BATTERED TO THE BURSTING POINT e855b872-dc2d-4b6f-ad52-df58262a6d88 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 391147a0-d52f-4a19-896e-d753f5705492 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 a42d4776-5ad1-4089-9b70-0999a0dae08a 2425 I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE EXPLORING VIC WELL DON'T PETER SHE WHISPERED 79d375b1-c7d3-43a0-acae-a26eaac98435 413 WE WERE SITTING ON THE CELL HATCH WATCHING WHAT MIGHT BE OUR LAST SUNSET OVER THE DARK HILLS OF TIME ANDREMA SAID A SIMPLY DREADFUL THING ABOUT THE OTHER PLACE ONE NIGHT LAST FALL WHEN FELICITY AND I WERE DOWN TO SEE KITTY AND THEY WERE BURNING THE POTATO STALKS 57aeccb0-8076-418e-9385-60e58fe828c0 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 42add43d-d0d0-45f9-8b29-b30a235a1c7e 748 FOR I WAS BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT BILLY AND HIS MAGIC SEED WERE ARRANT FRAUDS c743ff76-2227-4494-b421-05ebfe48d3a7 103 THESE TREES WERE NO LONGER LIVING BUT THEY HAD BEEN WHEN FATHER WAS A BOY AND EVERY SPRING BEDECKED THEMSELVES IN BLOSSOM AS DELICATELY TINTED AS ELIZABETH KING'S FACE WHEN SHE WALKED THROUGH THE OLD SOUTH MEADOW IN THE MORN OF HER LIFE AND LOVE I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT DO YOU 528099da-47fa-47db-b41f-04ee305ac0d9 464 UNCLE ROGER HOBBLED OFF TO THE BARN STILL HOLDING ON TO HIS STOMACH IF SHE HAD BUT HELD HER TONGUE THE MYSTERY OF THE SAWDUST'S DISAPPEARANCE MIGHT HAVE FOREVER REMAINED A MYSTERY ae9627d0-a067-4105-a2fe-9fead1a080c8 188 IT WAS AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE FELICITY MADE A SIMILAR BARGAIN WITH HER MOTHER AND WHITE LEGHORN HAT ENCIRCLED BY FLAME RED POPPIES c2c2f943-d126-41de-b165-edfc340758db 2368 A SINGLE ONE AGAINST THE LEFT SHARP WENT TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE NEAR THE SINGLE BED INSIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE LARGE ROOM eac90135-d493-4f43-971f-34b5f73be492 2108 WHERE DID THEY COME FROM OZMA WILL HELP YOU I'M SURE SAID DOROTHY AND FROM TALES HE HAD HEARD OF SUCH BEINGS c59a0069-4233-4f79-806d-d14c4cfbfa37 2182 AS IT WAS THEY HAD BARELY TIME TO TELEPPORT THEMSELVES TO THE AFTER HOLD AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM IMMEDIATE DANGER c0d2f741-1459-475f-8ea3-08a311fe2c5d 2368 IT IS SAID THAT THE MAN IS IN NEED OF MONEY THE OLD WOMAN'S EYES WENT TO THE COIN AND STAYED THERE MY SON IS GONE 2750b38f-acf5-4c40-83ed-3a34877cdaf9 464 OH FELICITY SHE SAID HER VOICE EXPRESSING A VERY ANGUISH OF HUMILIATION I I AND THAT IF ANY MISCHIEF HAD BEEN DONE IN THAT DIRECTION IT WAS HER DUTY e46d5472-d70b-4865-8a9c-18cfd56a6ee3 188 NOW DON'T MEDDLE WITH THE MAN CRIED BETTY WHAT A STATE TO BE IN BECAUSE ONE GOOD LOOKING LASS LIKE STAND SANDY HAIR AND GREY EYES BETTER THAN HIGHLAND BLACK AND BLUE O PETER SHADOWS ARE SUCH PRETTY THINGS 0bb62b00-913a-42b0-bab9-4eb9ee525008 2368 ORDINARILY HE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN IT A THOUGHT BEYOND A PASSING SIGH FOR THE WAYS OF THE WORLD HE HAD OTHER BUSINESS BUT NOW 24de9ba5-277f-40aa-89d1-a195507f552f 402 OWING TO THE RAIN WE COULD NOT FOREGATHER IN THE ORCHARD WHERE WE HAD MEANT TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS WITH JERRY I'M AFRAID I DID VERY WRONG TO COME AGAINST MAR'S WILL SHE SAID MISERABLY BUT I COULDN'T WAIT 9251e48a-fb23-4674-9f2a-f463ce9ce29a 2317 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MACHINE HE SAID FARMER REFLECTED FOR THE TENTH TIME IN APPEARANCE SHE COULD EASILY HAVE BEEN GAR'S SISTER OR HIS WIFE 362af4a9-7de4-4795-9804-9a5ff9b1c08c 2182 IF THE ISLANDERS WOULD TELL US THEIR SOURCE AND LET US HELP DEVELOP IT FASTEN THE HURRICANE BOLT HURRY THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM 7061ddcd-a773-4c49-b8d9-260712e9cb0a 2317 AS INSTANTANEOUSLY AS IT HAD COME THE PAIN LEFT HIM AND HE REGAINED CONTROL OF IT QUICKLY THEN 15596723-cb6a-4a20-a600-c2a7f0d4c5a7 242 SHE WANTED ME NOT TO TELL YOU BUT I WOULDN'T PROMISE BECAUSE I THINK IT'S FAIR FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON 27cd282a-01b9-43ba-8e3c-02107a676b5f 2137 MAYBE IT'S NOT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND SEEMS TO ME I HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT WAY BACK BEFORE YOU FELLOWS GOT IT TAMED IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE AT THE DOOR HE PAUSED AND HALF TURNED TO THE DOCTOR acf0b86f-519e-43e4-aa8e-07615cb426b1 2317 JOHN ANDREW HAD LIVED THIS LONG WITHOUT GOING TO THE AID OF A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS FARMER HUNCHED HIS SHOULDERS TRYING TO BREAK LOOSE AND THEN HE SAW WHAT RAY WAS STARING AT d0f15498-b678-441a-807f-5744ba12dc20 2317 CALLING TO FARMER TO BE READY TO TAKE HER BURDEN ABOARD I THINK YOU'LL TURN OUT O K BUT NOT EVERYBODY AGREES 770b15d5-c25d-4ca5-9dc1-058d044aab2e 2274 JUST MADE CONTACT WITH THE MOB A THIN BLACK INSECT WITH SHELL LIKE WINGS FLEW IN ORAN'S PORT 954bae6e-3560-4613-a53e-24277925bcc9 198 PATTY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY CATCHING A RAT AND BEING INTOLERABLY CONCEITED ABOUT IT UNTIL SARA RAY CURED HIM BY CALLING HIM A DEAR SWEET CAT AND KISSING HIM BETWEEN THE EARS THEN PAT SNEAKED ABJECTLY OFF HIS TAIL DROOPING HE RESENTED BEING CALLED A SWEET CAT NEVER MIND I SAID CONSOLINGLY YOU CAN TELL SPLENDID STORIES 699a3430-715d-40b4-a7b2-2603eba79d1b 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 7555f00f-5518-4b09-8f86-dba39135c97c 402 THAT WASN'T TRUE BUT I SUPPOSE I'LL DIE THINKING IT IS HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER IT ISN'T A CONUNDRUM SAID FELIX IT'S A FACT b17f0541-7f19-4ad6-bc18-47039f9c7808 413 BUT SARAH DEPARTED WEEPING IS AS NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE JUDGMENT DAY IS TO COME NOT EVEN THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN 7410cc99-0b7e-4c75-aefa-f47b12d533d8 198 THAT'S ONLY MY OLD APRON SAID FELICITY I HUNG IT THERE TO DAY WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT WHITE HEN'S NEST OH WHAT SHALL WE DO 8f928333-c5ec-44b0-b1e6-ae73f14fc20f 242 WHEN WE ARRIVED BEHIND THE GRANARY THE OTHERS WERE ALL THERE YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE A PRESBYTERIAN PERSISTED CECILY f4d80e56-7198-4d57-a51a-dff8e3434119 464 TO BE LAUGHED AT BEFORE FELICITY TO BE LAUGHED AT BY FELICITY WAS SOMETHING HE COULD NOT ENDURE ESPECIALLY IF THERE MIGHT BE NEEDLES IN THEM 3f276b57-48b6-41e9-a846-470db152f00b 1867 I HAVE DEDUCTED THIRTEEN CREDITS FROM YOUR SALARY FOR THE COST OF THE DUPLICATE BUT THAT WOULD COME IN TIME 5cf345c3-c3e2-4353-ba1e-691eae493d51 2312 I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT NO TROUBLE MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL HIS SECTRE WAS THE SANTA MAGDALENA 35c2e8e9-be65-4e04-b001-bc7469138553 188 THE STORY GIRL WAS TO PREPARE THE POTATOES TIN PATTY PANS AREN'T VERY ROMANTIC SAID THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY SHE DOESN'T EITHER FELICITY KING 4373894f-d0e3-47da-9151-acc51e75d4f9 2274 STETSON SHOT AN ANGRY GLANCE AT IT I AM LOUIS HORN OF REDISCOVERY AND REEDUCATION 1f24f042-41ae-4886-806b-5ec8a5c607df 402 HE'S JUST LAZY THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH HIM HE SAID AND TENDER AND KIND THAN ANYTHING WE CAN IMAGINE OF HIM 9faf8efd-1ec4-44b1-b4f9-4f650f2729cc 2274 I'M AFRAID THEY'RE SLIM IT WAS A FRAGILE APPEARING LACERY OF BRIDGES STETSON GLARED AT THE GRID 2aea34d3-e293-4354-8378-9ab301420a75 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 ec3dcda1-1683-4086-9603-27730407ae87 2182 DO YOU WANT THAT DEVIL TEARING THE CABIN DOWN AROUND US BUT IT WASN'T CHARLIE THEY CAN'T BE DANGEROUS HE SAID b51ca226-7e80-4814-93c4-dff7e613fc2a 413 I'M GOING STRAIGHT TO MARKDALE TO PAY A MAN THERE SOME MONEY I OWE HIM AND AFTER DINNER I'M GOING TO SUMMERSIDE TO BUY ME A NEW SUIT MY OLD ONE'S TOO SHABBY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY WELL THAT'S KIND OF COMFORTING SAID PETER SHE CAN'T BE ANY FAITH IN IT OR SHE'D BE MORE WORKED UP 0d4b9c38-5632-4b87-9b55-ea92af73fc0b 30 WE HAD ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD EAGERLY TO THE PROMISED STAY WHEN FATHER WOULD TAKE US DOWN HOME TO 98017a43-24d4-4e96-b33e-4a23d7897cd2 177 THE REST OF US DID NOT SEE HOW SHE COULD DO IT NO SIR SAID PETER WITH A FLASH OF SPIRIT I AIN'T ONE OF THE KIND THAT SAYS THEY'LL BE SOME JUST CAUSE THEY'RE SCARED WHEN THE SCARE IS OVER GO BACK ON IT I SAID I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN AND I MEAN TO STICK TO IT 158b49fd-abdb-4ca0-8901-57843533d5d6 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 24e83344-6540-4ab4-a841-e12018f6d9a6 2312 AS WILD A REGION AS YOU WILL EVER FIND AM NO PIG SANDWICH AND I DO NOT COMMONLY CALL ON FOOLS GET ON YOUR FEET YOU CLOD 1cb9689e-b840-41a7-99d6-1ed951ff86d5 188 NO IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HORRID HE HAD TO RUN AWAY FOR DEBT PETER WAS HANDICAPPED AT THE BEGINNING BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO FAMILY FRIEND TO FINANCE HIM 59493155-816b-418a-90c9-84ce1f14ddb1 14 HE SHOOK HIS BIG BLONDE HEAD IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO PAT FELIX AND I FELT THAT IT WOULD REALLY BE WORTH WHILE TO OFFEND HER 96d38744-31d8-4e2a-889e-ec6374fd5bbe 188 WE AIN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY I SHOULDN'T THINK YOU'D PUT ON YOUR BEST CLOTHES TO GO BEGGING FOR THE LIBRARY IN SAID FELICITY CUTTINGLY 8d5f5d71-2724-4b6b-87b5-d746bc4cb818 2312 WHICH YOU AREN'T BUT TELL US THE STUNTED TREES WERE LOWER THAN THE GIANT BUSHES AND YUKA 914b389a-83f3-4d25-b865-309eb3f8ae48 177 AND WE WENT IN TO TEA WITH ROYAL APPETITES IF WE HAD EATEN LITTLE AT BREAKFAST WE COULD EAT STILL LESS AT DINNER IF IT IS THE JUDGMENT DAY HE GROWLED AS WE WENT IN TO DINNER I WISH IT'D HURRY UP AND HAVE IT OVER b11291c5-d397-4544-9601-6b1e96b9d7b7 748 LOOK HOW AUNT OLIVIA'S HENS LAID TOO FROM KING AND WARD IT DON'T SEEM FAIR TO ME 7c9b70ce-1c22-47d3-b8e2-d38b9e2eff53 2137 CURSE THIS TULLIT HUCKY THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW AMUSEMENT FLICKERED ACROSS THE DOCTOR'S FACE THEN TURNED SMOOTHLY INTO A REASSURING HALF SMILE e93ed56a-2cdb-4564-b7a0-03aa0e5583a9 30 THERE IT WAS IN TRUTH AND BOTH FELIX AND I FELT THAT WE WERE GOING TO LIKE DAN 7ebecbfa-23e5-43cd-9261-8f5b7c750ccd 464 I DIDN'T CHEW THE PUDDING GROANED UNCLE ROGER IT WAS TOO TOUGH I JUST SWALLOWED THE CHUNKS WHOLE TO UNDO IT IF POSSIBLE AT ANY COST OF RIDICULE TO HERSELF e1cd46bc-1e84-49bb-b344-51a55b59399d 402 AND SHE WENT BACK HOME TO WAIT WHY DO WHITE SHEEP EAT MORE THAN BLACK ASKED FELIX BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND THAT IS WHY I'M BOTHERING YOU PLEASE EXCUSE US AND TELL ME babd2755-c549-4ca5-a669-515bc0f74e5c 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 IF YOU DECIDE TO TRY IT f60a34f3-fdf8-4cba-bfdd-03a2244f6cad 32 I THINK I COULD BE ALWAYS GOOD IF I LIVED IN A GARDEN ALL THE TIME AS SHADOW WAVES GO OVER RIPE WHEAT BEFORE A WIND b954d7c7-0dfa-4f15-acfd-c1af439dae55 413 WERE THEY EVER LIKE THIS BEFORE I ASKED CECILY AS WE TALKED THE MATTER OVER PRIVATELY IN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK THAT IS JUST THE TROUBLE HE SAID fe091aab-f226-4e8f-87f1-3183ae02fee9 2137 CIUS ROSE WITH A BRASSY GLARE THEY HELPED BRANDON TO HIS FEET AND GAVE HIM A SWIG OF COOL SWEET WATER FROM A CANTEEN af8be913-f4ef-41a9-b0f9-eca05214f651 30 BUT HE'S GOT HIS SHARE OF MISCHIEF THAT SAME LAD IN THE VERY ROOM BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS NOT EXACTLY COMPLIMENTARY 1b82c356-5d21-4aca-adc6-1f9dbea12956 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 ff604b4d-709b-45b7-99ef-f643e48ff601 748 NOW HE WAS A PERSONALITY IT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD EVER GO THERE ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US b4bea1a7-23a5-4503-bf49-c9d329cf52f9 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 18c2ac31-72de-4949-b4f6-69ead163fee7 14 SHE WAS BAREHEADED AS USUAL AND HER SCARLET RIBBON WAS BOUND FILLET WISE ABOUT HER HEAD SERMONS ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN I THOUGHT AND I LIKE THE SINGING 3491db8f-c226-4e04-b421-71fae2b68ffd 2312 HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THOSE MAPS AT ALL THAT IT WAS SAID THAT THE OLD LAVA SOMETIMES BEGAN TO WRITHE AND FLOW AGAIN FROM THE SUN'S HEAT ALONE BUT WE CAN'T OBLITERATE YOU IN AN INSTANT 1505bf58-92d3-49ae-94cd-0ffadbf88c06 14 THE FRAGRANCE OF THE ORCHARD STRUCK US IN THE FACE LIKE A WAVE RETORTED PETER SULKILY AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF BLOODSHED AND MISERY 79f5a101-85f0-4948-bc2d-6315c27c2e15 2286 WHEN THE SIREN SCREAMED THE CREW SECURED SHIP AND BLASTED OFF BEFORE I HAD FINISHED READING REPORT A PLAN WAS BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE IN MY HEAD 234cf318-fc3c-4ad8-8a82-a0827b5e9b6a 2108 THEY SEEM TO BE COVERED WITH WARTS I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU INTRUDERS THAT THE PROFESSOR IS A DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL 2274d9cd-e4a2-4b49-b500-bcc083ef92d4 748 WE KNEW THAT THE STORY GIRL WAS THOUGHT TO RESEMBLE HIM STRONGLY IN APPEARANCE AND TEMPERAMENT AS MUCH LIKE A MIRACLE AS ANYTHING YOU COULD IMAGINE ce7f5941-14f2-4f1b-be5e-13cd3ae0e61e 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 cbecb902-cb45-48e6-b379-a67854638316 177 CAN'T YOU TELL A STORY TO PASS THE TIME I PETER TRUE TO HIS WORD GOT OUT HIS BIBLE AND BEGAN TO READ FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER IN GENESIS 70336e6b-ec02-4074-a3aa-e93198641d47 188 BUT WE CARRIED SUMMER AND SUNSHINE IN OUR HEARTS AND THE BLEAK UNLOVELINESS OF THE OUTER WORLD ONLY INTENSIFIED OUR INNER RADIANCE YOU SAID ONCE YOU KNEW A STORY ABOUT THE AWKWARD MAN SAID FELIX YOU MIGHT TELL IT TO US 8126e55e-7709-4883-beda-bad8bfa0a96d 451 CECILY HAD A VERY SWEET VOICE AND I LISTENED IN DELIGHT BUT THE STORY GIRL SIGHED AND AT LAST THEY MET AND SPRANG INTO EACH OTHER'S ARMS 0a521e4e-dbcb-4c7d-a62a-c2a00ded8166 2137 HE PICKED HIS WAY CAUTIOUSLY WHILE FARTHER AWAY IT SHOULD HAVE APPROXIMATELY THE SAME CONDITIONS AS DID THE EARTH 248e6432-6f85-4616-87be-5e418990a438 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 4f652b17-c36f-45e1-8aae-c9a1ccbeac03 198 BUT IT'S BETTER TO BE USEFUL THAN JUST INTERESTING SAID THE STORY GIRL BITTERLY UNCLE ROGER WANTED BREAKFAST AT SIX 241485a7-befb-42b6-a0e5-0c1256146592 2108 TRAVELLED WITH THEM TO THE EMERALD CITY IN SEARCH OF A HEART THAT COULD LOVE OF EACH HEAD MAKING IT SAUCER SHAPED INSTEAD OF DOME SHAPED 559331b2-86a5-4a72-abb5-671b44a71714 413 NO IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD SAID CICELY WITH THE HIGH REMOTE AIR OF ONE TO FORGET ME NOT JUGS IN ALL SUCH PUMPS AND VANITIES OF THE WORLD WERE AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD HE LOOKED AS WE SAW WITH SINKING HEARTS UNUSUALLY GRAVE AND PREOCCUPIED 6366c485-ee72-49ff-89e5-a45d01b886bd 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 a924c6aa-a46d-4864-bf07-2d5f074a34b3 14 WELL THAT'S BETTER THAN A HOLE I'VE THOUGHT OF THE WAY MY AUNT JANE USED TO GIVE MEDICINE TO A CAT AND PUT ON THE LONG LACE VEIL THAT HAD BEEN SO MANY YEARS A MAKING a6c20a7c-1c27-4bc0-b438-62056568ed94 413 THAT WE SHOULD MAKE UNCLE ROGER A COURT OF LAST RESORT INDICATED ALL TOO CLEARLY THE STATE OF OUR MINDS BUT I'M AFRAID IT ISN'T GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THIS TIME DON'T YOU NOTICE HOW CAREFUL THE STORY GIRL IS NOT TO GET EXCITED df4913cf-1815-4048-8eb9-1acd474079a9 2312 NOT BELONG ON THE WORLD AND HE REMEMBERED WHO HAD BEEN WITH WHOM A HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE 7891c6aa-0825-4490-b259-d08a2205a453 2312 IT LOOKS LIKE MICHAEL FILM THE WRITING IS SO SMALL ASKED THE MAD MIDGET TWO FEET TALL AND WITH A BEARD AND HORNS d9f4e102-85c6-4196-9282-69919aab98a4 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 de6205a8-29e6-49d3-9dfd-9cbe45079955 2286 THERE WAS A TAPE IN THE AUTOMATIC NAVIGATOR THAT WOULD PUT ME ON THE COURSE MENTIONED IN ALL THE ARTICLES JUST AT PRESS OF THE BOTTOM AND I WOULD BE ON MY WAY I'M GOING TO CATCH THIS THUG AND I'LL TELL YOU HOW I'M GOING TO DO IT a13ee315-3f6e-4ba0-a528-f198d087b257 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 bfbd1e67-69df-4b3e-a281-99d8502f3a70 2108 ALL I NEED TO DO WHEN I WISH TO EAT IS TO TAKE SOMETHING I DON'T CARE TO EAT WHICH WAS QUITE TRUE 45a7abad-d4bf-46e9-8ea6-f11bcf6ad8b8 32 UNCLE EDWARD HAD PREACHED HIS FIRST SERMON AT THE AGE OF EIGHT FROM THAT OLD GRAY BOULDER fb659110-b4f6-46d7-8a80-b66feee0263f 2286 ALL THE FITTINGS INSIDE AND OUT WERE EITHER MACHINE TURNED OR PLAITED WE BLASTED SCREAMING WHOLE THROUGH THE NIGHT RIGHT TO THE SPACE YARD AND THROUGH THE GATE IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE WE WERE STILL TOO LATE MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT A GANG WAS INVOLVED PROVED WRONG 003dd138-a005-417f-b602-d64a47634402 748 SHE PRAYED FOR IT YOU KNOW SAID FELIX AFTER SARA HAD GONE HOME FINALLY THE STORY GIRL TOLD US THE TALE OF THE PRISONER OF CHILI df8659ca-739d-4e3a-81f7-d7eccb169046 451 NOT EVEN THE ALMIGHTY CAN DESTROY THE BRIDGE MUST STAND FOREVER I SHALL BE SATISFIED JUST TO BE A PLAIN ANGEL SAID FELICITY MODESTLY d60ef1d2-659d-4584-bede-339768c62737 198 DON'T TELL UNCLE ROGER SHE IMPLORED HUMBLY AND THAT IS THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE SHE HAD BEEN BAKING ALL THE AFTERNOON AND WITH THE PANTRY WELL STOCKED WITH BISCUITS COOKIES CAKES AND PIES SHE CARED NOT IF ALL CARLYLE CAME TO TEA 7db12482-01d3-49b0-a0e5-77661f553c27 2368 THAT'S RIGHT JONAS SAID EQUABLY THE NEXT MOVE IS COMING SOON DO NOTHING TO HURRY IT YOU CAN ONLY UPSET THE NATURAL COURSE OF EVENTS e6ce3cd3-397c-4a4e-9ae1-f4860f70d82a 242 BUT IN STORIES IT'S JUST AS EASY TO MAKE THEM AS HANDSOME AS NOT AFTER THAT NO MORAL FORCE ON EARTH COULD HAVE PREVENTED FELIX FROM FIGHTING 86083572-0501-4f7a-abdc-525cd7e934f5 2312 DO YOU KNOW THE PLACE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT IS CALLED SODOM MISTER MARSHALL IS YES WHO ARE YOU YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT bf0c1976-6aba-4fc7-8040-86c3fb258a42 2368 HE SHRUGGED AGAIN MOVING OUT TOWARD THE DOOR OF THE HUT EVEN THE OFFER OF SEVEN CRONA FOR A SINGLE WEEK'S STAY FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DELIRIOUS JOY YANUS HAD EXPECTED ed1b9b2e-6131-4fe7-b489-f5e17408dc95 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 9f64191e-785e-40e8-aa51-8a69ee979efc 2425 PARIN CAME HURRYING UP WITH THE AXE AND I MOTIONED THEM ASIDE PROVIDED MY WATCH WAS CORRECT AND THE EQUIPMENT WORKED ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE aed008b2-0c25-4ddb-8814-e2a9862704d7 1867 I LOCATED A LIZARD TOWN ABOUT A THOUSAND KILOMETERS FROM THE PYRAMID AND DROPPED THE E EYE 8f905405-2fd8-4526-aa30-8f3233e714d8 30 AND HE GLOWERED AT MISSUS MC LAREN IN A MOST UNDUTIFUL FASHION I HAD NEVER HEARD OF ANY PETER HE 38e1c75f-7646-46cd-97cc-34570b87cf58 2317 THE FARMER LOOKED AT GARF AGAIN WITH FEAR AND AWE BUT TO THE EDITOR'S UNTECHNICAL EYE IT LOOKED LIKE A FAIRLY ORDINARY RADIO SET e9e16406-7805-4614-b40a-94ee6a91cde7 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 76b0a6ca-04fe-4dec-81e6-010158e83f48 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 68a64641-da31-4e8b-ae2f-615c79401c67 748 YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SO MUCH SAW THE HUNG FRAU SOARING INTO CLOUDLAND THE LETTERS WE HAD RECEIVED FROM HIM SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO daf7f007-3436-44b0-ad05-c29e947f66be 2317 OH YES SHE SAID RAY CLIMBED UP ON THE RAIL PAUSED THERE FOR A SECOND WHICH SHOWED EVIDENCE OF UNARGUABLY EXCELLENT MACHINE 2d9aa7d5-306e-46d2-a74e-90f6c40f4089 748 ALL COMBINED TO MAKE HIM VERY REAL TO US I DIDN'T SAID FELICITY INDIGNANTLY WE LOOKED AT HER WITH A SLIGHTLY INCREDULOUS AWE e0d38f8d-8af5-4f42-ad73-27e4409ec71f 2108 THANK YOU SAID WHUT THE WANDERER STILL EATING DURING THESE LAST FEW MOMENTS NONE HAD PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PRISONERS RUSHED UP AND SEIZED THE AXE AND CHOPPED MY BODY 88942158-34de-49a1-834d-41cf5dde3569 464 IF THE STORY GIRL LAUGHED AT PETER THE MILLS OF THE GODS GROUND OUT HIS REVENGE FOR HIM IN MID AFTERNOON 961d484f-bbd6-41b6-8449-13720d833b4b 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 ff152d10-3cad-41b8-8ae8-29b975b143ed 242 FELIX WAS VERY INDIGNANT AND AGGRIEVED AS WELL AND I DID NOT SYMPATHIZE OVER AND ABOVE WITH MY BROTHER I'LL GO AND TELL HIM SO RIGHT OFF 822a06bc-af84-413f-9422-b8b5925c8e03 242 I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GET WHIPPED OR NOT SO LONG AS YOU FIGHT A GOOD SQUARE FIGHT f972f8de-79ae-48e8-a843-b71703715142 2108 HIS IDEA WAS TO SEIZE HER CHAIR AND PULL IT OUT BY THE ROOTS THE TINSMITH MADE ME TIN ARM AND I WAS NOT MUCH WORRIED BECAUSE NIMMY AMY DECLARED SHE STILL LOVED ME fa10b1e8-922b-4b39-aca4-56971ea9044b 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 1a5544d7-300c-4770-bb4b-9992095c5756 748 AND THE LETTER THE STORY GIRL READ TO US AND SHE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN CARLISLE ON THIS VERY FARM NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS I SAID DEFIANTLY 6404ea40-a492-4bad-8ff4-c5910a168a8f 103 AROUND HER LONG WHITE FACE RATHER TOO LONG AND TOO WHITE FELL SLEEK DARK BROWN CURLS TIED ABOVE EITHER EAR WITH ROSETTES OF SCARLET RIBBON BUT WE DID NOT THINK HER PRETTY a1b59f9d-aa9f-46a8-905e-3825d499735d 464 THOUGHT THAT STUFF IN THE BOX WAS CORN MEAL AND USED IT TO MAKE THE PUDDING WE ALL LAUGHED BUT FELICITY SOON GREW SOBER 0806ad53-43d3-470a-bf50-60473c15d367 1867 THE METERS AND INDICATORS LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE IF ANYTHING UNEXPECTEDLY BRIGHT FROM CONSTANT POLISHING 980c299d-9ba2-488a-bd77-5a86882819dd 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 68376f76-5552-4ea4-a6c3-21eea89a00ad 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 e3010d1b-0cda-4491-8197-a7bf2f3d55d5 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 571cf4cd-0ed2-48e5-8ed1-505a1839bc0b 464 WHAT GOOD WOULD BEING TWINS DO YOU ASKED PETER AND SMOTHERED IN THE LUSCIOUS MAPLE SUGAR SAUCE WHICH CECILY HAD COMPOUNDED 7ed35134-2540-4d1f-8681-85563f59ea5b 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 23ce4365-42b9-4e6e-8660-2bdce75c532b 2274 THE OPEN PORTS OF THE BRIDGE LOOKED OUT ON THE JUNGLE ROOF OF CHINA THREE SOME ONE HUNDRED FIFTY METERS BELOW 31beaf6c-b4c8-4a1f-98ec-b641c1652f8a 2137 HE STOPPED AND BLOTTED HIS MOIST BROW WITH HIS SLEEVE ALTHOUGH QUITE AS UNJUSTIFIED I ASSURE YOU AND THERE WAS A LOT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT e6eeae30-b594-4c30-bc13-0c928ffa2134 2108 I'M AFRAID SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN IT WILL BE RATHER HARD FOR ME YOU MUST ADMIT WHEN I CONFESS TO NINNIE AND ME THAT I HAVE COME TO MARRY HER BECAUSE IT IS MY DUTY TO DO SO 713171e2-7df8-4665-9a31-255cb5ec451d 242 THE MORE RELIGIOUS ANYTHING WAS THE MORE FIGHTING THERE WAS ABOUT IT THEY TELL ME THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING RIGHT ALONG THAT I COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE NOW I TELL YOU I b7c89dbb-765f-49db-bd89-80fd37f67c8a 2286 FIRST I'LL REPEAT YOUR OWN WARNING OBEY ORDERS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE I'LL SHOW YOU WHY EXAMINING THE PICK OF THE BATTLESHIP UNDER THE LIGHT 0607b5dc-b9c8-4c9d-88db-3df3b1148ff6 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 d1499a0f-3dc8-4a6e-8b4f-09f0fb52babe 402 IF WE COULD EACH GIVE ABOUT SEVEN CENTS WE WOULD HAVE THE AMOUNT WHEN EVENING CAME WE WENT TO OUR SEATS UNDER THE WHISPERING SIGHING FIR TREES YOU AIN'T OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A BEAU HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE a56eeced-7340-4764-a990-8a626e0f250d 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 2142c2b9-bbbd-4890-8d67-edaf2770b7c3 2368 YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WILL PAY WELL YET YOU DO NOT APPEAR RICH ANOTHER DAY DRAGGED BY YUNUS PUT IN HIS TIME ALTERNATELY GOING OVER THE NEW PLAN AND FEELING MORE FRIGHTENED THAN HE HAD EVER BELIEVED POSSIBLE 8e584b4f-a737-49ac-b5b6-f1114fbd14a6 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 af632bfe-05ca-499b-b351-11bd8d36aff5 451 FORTUNATELY FELICITY FORGOT TO REPEAT THE COMMAND SO DAN DID STAY IN BED WE SAT STILL AND COUNTED THE HUNDRED THERE'S NOBODY HOME BUT JUDY PANOW AND ME 81fb7106-b904-4c7f-bf69-93c6b16de094 242 NEVER MENTIONED YOUR NAME I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD aa1c1978-adc5-43ac-ab19-25f4ddbf0a56 103 NO SHE WAS NOT PRETTY HER LARGE CURVING MOUTH WAS AS RED AS A POPPY AND SHE HAD BRILLIANT ALMOND SHAPED HAZEL EYES a22bf42c-6246-45fa-b95d-7f75529fdc06 2137 AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT SATISFACTION TAKE FIRE FOR EXAMPLE AND RIGHTLY SO BECAUSE HE HADN'T LEARNED TO CONTROL IT 54359ad5-032a-42e3-8dc1-ad684b85705e 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 c652c55f-4f65-47a2-8770-5edbfedaba57 2137 REASSURED THE PATIENT THOUGHT AND BECAME CONFIDENTIAL THE IDEAL WAY TO DEAL WITH THE PEST YOU KNOW THE NATURE OF THE TROUBLE 14b7aca8-d5a6-484d-868e-de95cdffa293 748 IF YOU'D HAD TO PAY FATHER FOR ALL THE EXTRA HANDFULS OF WHEAT YOU FED TO THOSE HENS MISS FELICITY e7709ba9-e7a5-4a03-9f9b-42225fddb70c 30 HAD DIED ON THE SAME DAY WE CALL HER THE STORY GIRL PARTLY BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A HAND TO TELL STORIES f1ba1b18-30a0-405b-9ca1-e586dbf60905 464 WE COULD NOT SEE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN PETER'S TWO QUESTIONS PEOPLE WHO SQUINT CAN'T EAT ANY MORE THAN PEOPLE WHO DON'T SQUINT CAN THEY 029371a6-8020-4d49-89e7-5f5f84348488 30 WE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN FELICITY AND CECILY AND DAN IN THE OLD CARLISLE GRAVEYARD 08841232-bd6b-49d9-b31c-24270914912c 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 bcaadd15-0eee-48cb-baed-d882914a19bb 30 AND SHE CRIED OVER US AND WISHED US WELL HE WAS MY AGE THIRTEEN AND THE FAMOUS KING ORCHARD BEFORE IT 6153e1c5-70a2-4f94-9ff2-c588cbb7957e 2274 WITH ITS GRAVITY OF ONLY SEVEN EIGHTHS TERRAN STANDARD IN THE JUNGLE THE STRONG SLAY THE WEAK UNTIL ONLY THE STRONG REMAIN SAID TENUB e9d776c1-42f1-4297-bd72-bb8622b981d6 413 DO THINK IT'S TRUE WITH THE GATHERING SHADES OF NIGHT OUR PLIGHT BECAME PITIFUL IN THE DAYLIGHT SURROUNDED BY HOMELY FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS IT WAS NOT SO DIFFICULT TO FORTIFY OUR SOULS WITH A CHEERING INCREDULITY 22445b13-e430-4485-8f2a-f010e74c8613 2182 INSTEAD OF DOLING OUT A HANDFUL OF CRYSTALS EVERY TEN DAY THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY NEED OF ACTION NO HE SAID 98085e34-5e53-47be-9719-c946d154d992 2182 OLD CHARLEY HAD ABANDONED HIS BOAT AND WAS SWIMMING IN TO ESCAPE THE SCOOP THE ZID DOES NOT SWIM b5813320-fc82-4071-b629-4fe27b1b71ec 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 e128ec8b-4c8c-4265-a667-3a7df461c0d6 2137 RELAX TAKE IT EASY THE DOCTOR'S PEN PAUSED OVER THE CHART ON HIS DESK WHEN BRANDON OPENED HIS EYES HE WAS STARING AT THE SILVERY DISKS OF THE TWIN MOONS 0ecbea83-002f-40f0-bb72-9708e614003d 451 I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THINKING OF GOING BAREFOOTED HE TALKED VERY NICELY AND READ AND PRAYED JUST YOU FANCY I'LL NEVER FORGIVE HIM 2ae079d4-7af6-4e0a-9b03-590348feb959 2182 IT WAS JEFF'S TURN TO STARE SHE SOUNDED RELIEVED THERE GOES ANOTHER SCOOP d95da3ae-68ba-4a6f-aa01-642aacac4f16 2108 NIMI AMMY WAS OBLIGED TO WORK FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT FOR THE OLD WITCH OF THE EAST ba86ca52-5099-4f94-9e4c-09fea0e9e916 188 A RICH MAN IN TORONTO HAD A FLORAL CLOCK IN HIS GARDEN I SAID SHE SAYS SHE HE KEEPS IT VERY NEAT OH I WISH WE HAD ONE HERE EXCLAIMED CECILY 2f49e5fd-a5d6-4b3a-a2e8-1df085d417bc 464 AND IF EVER ONE OF YOU MENTION SAWDUST PUDDING TO ME I'LL NEVER TELL YOU ANOTHER STORY AS LONG AS I LIVE f1af7ba3-2548-4312-91b4-ffa9b10a64d3 2368 I PRAY THAT THERE IS AN END TO IT SHE WAS ABOUT SEVENTEEN AND HER MIND WAS AS FRESH AND CLEAN AND PRETTY AS HER FACE AND FIGURE 884f3b63-cdd9-4f20-ad90-97a247d34dde 2312 DON'T GAPE GET IT SUFFERING SADDLE SAWS HAD TO STEAL THEIR LIST a5731d61-4274-4971-9013-5bc23c30dad5 2137 HE COUNTED THEM PULLED THE CHUTE RELEASE HIS BREATHING WAS SHORT STRAINED BRANDON WAS LOOKING AT THE MILKY WAY 5e64f105-c3b8-40af-b405-baa3931cc4ad 242 I'VE GONE TO CHURCH IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ALL MY LIFE AND PETER NEVER WENT TILL THIS SUMMER A KATY WAS ALL THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE MENTIONED c50773cc-9ddd-4a4f-9d61-793d02592d40 464 HE TORMENTED HER FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER NOW IF UNCLE ROGER HAD SWALLOWED ANY NEEDLES MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE IT ALL RIGHT IF HE SWALLOWED A PINCUSHION 4291c1b6-e532-42a4-ad6d-0882f1cbe3f4 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 24839987-5dc6-4168-9c86-efe732357b21 402 SOUTH OF US FLAMED FOMALHAUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DAN WHO DECLARED HE KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH SOMEWHERE AND HE WASN'T GOING TO BE CAUGHT YOU ARE A QUEER GIRL SAID FELICITY 8b4815b6-f0bc-4e0b-af23-b7c9c1362d90 402 AS WE STOOD THERE WRETCHEDLY WE HEARD FLYING FEET BELOW AND A BLITHE VOICE CALLING WHERE ARE YOU CHILDREN a5398e12-87d1-4107-b591-ca729cd6461e 2425 OUR OLD WORLD IS MATTER TRUE ENOUGH BUT FOR THE REST YOU'RE WRONG PETE OLD SON YOU'RE NOT MATTER ANY MORE 213ef802-a0dc-4637-8f39-57a6b7478014 2274 STETSON CROSSED OVER TO A TILT LOCKER BEHIND THE BIG TRANSLENT MAP HIGH PATH CHIEF OF THE GRATSY SAID THE NATIVE 4bf63350-c3ae-4f10-80b7-50075f3b585f 1867 APPARENTLY THE LOCAL LIZARDS HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE SWAMPS WHEN THE BEACON WAS BUILT BUT THE BUILDERS DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THEM 98d51e10-b935-42a3-ae4c-50911d1d2992 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 a44d40c3-789c-42ce-ace9-8fe58f31c892 2368 AH JONAS SAID PLEASANTLY BUT YOU'RE HOME AREN'T YOU THE STATE OF COMPLETE AND UTTER QUIET WAS BOTH FOREIGN AND SLIGHTLY REPUGNANT TO HIM 0c8d5c84-4f6b-4cf1-ba70-01e7fcbb44f3 2317 THE DEVELOPMENT TOOK FARMER COMPLETELY UNAWARES IT'S A GOOD THING I NOTICED THE GATE WAS OPEN IT WAS JUDGE GREY WHO HAD DISARMED HIM 50136273-c191-48db-83c6-d14091624f51 2368 NEVER SAW YOU BEFORE THE OLD WOMAN SAID WAIT THE INQUISITOR SAID HEAVILY SOME DAY THE MAN WHO READS MINES WOULD BE MORE THAN A PASSIVE ONLOOKER 0c494fce-2931-4470-9487-91409bc80ca3 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 0bbf47fc-1a2b-483d-a57d-833722f9b97e 30 BUT I BEGAN TO THINK I WOULD LIKE FELICITY FELICITY TOSSED HER GOLDEN HEAD HIS NAME IS PETER CRAIG 18aa8d05-1fde-465c-a26a-7fbfa52fce54 188 THIS LETTER IS FROM JAMES WARD'S WIFE AND MONTREAL SAID AUNT JANET SOLEMNLY OH NO NO NOTHING LIKE THAT COULD HAPPEN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 7427b3a0-daf9-4577-a8cc-a4ef4f57a7c2 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 b7d99212-a2b2-429b-804f-023eaf64856b 2312 MIGHT AS WELL TAKE THEM ALL THERE MUST BE A MILLION NAMES HERE AND WHAT IS THAT WHICH YOU ARE PULLING OUT OF YOUR PANTS cca0384b-8def-46e7-aa6f-efe22885edf0 2182 NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE ISLANDERS DON'T TALK ABOUT THEM JEFF SAID THE DOOR HE ESTIMATED MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HOLD FOR TWO MINUTES MORE 1701b11c-16b2-4590-ba33-7c80d8add10d 103 FOR WE KNEW THAT THIS MUST BE THE STORY GIRL AND IN THAT GAY AND GRACEFUL GESTURE WAS AN ALLUREMENT NOT TO BE GAINSAID OR DENIED SHE LIFTED HER HAND AND BECKONED BLITHELY TO US 8618065f-8154-41db-9b39-82f7431921d8 748 OR BY THE SCARCELY LESS DISAGREEABLE METHOD OF BEGGING BUT AUNT JULIA HAD GONE f2d2707b-04e2-4e94-b3fb-9a48ba916cbd 198 FELICITY TRIED AND HAD THE MOST GRATIFYING LUCK WITH MY ONLY HOPE WAS TO LEARN THIS WEEK BUT I SUPPOSE FELICITY IS SO DISGUSTED WITH ME NOW THAT SHE WON'T GIVE ME ANY MORE LESSONS 39468dea-16ee-4feb-91e9-778ea98d2264 2425 AND A BODY WHAT'S THAT E PAY SPOKE UP IN SHARP PROTEST NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED adffaad2-8035-4a7b-9154-58d89915e249 2274 A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED JUST LOOK AT THAT BLASTED JUNGLE BARKED STETSON 8f7bf36d-27b4-45ba-98be-fa61997a632b 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 01e6a8ac-ed48-421b-b6ca-c78fc81a7fbd 2368 IT IS NOT FOR MYSELF I AM AFRAID HE SAID THAT'S RIGHT YONA SAID SMILING AGAIN I'M A WIZARD A WARLUCK dd5c6bbe-faac-4d2e-8c54-0f744f5e3498 103 THIS ISN'T TOPSY IS IT I ASKED I KNEW AT ONCE THAT THE QUESTION WAS A FOOLISH ONE IT WAS NOW NEARLY SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT HAD HAD ITS BEGINNING WHEN GRANDFATHER KING BROUGHT HIS BRIDE HOME 92be5765-c968-4a45-a1c8-50264da4e0db 2274 HERE'S THAT CITY WE FLEW OVER ON OUR WAY DOWN WILD ONES ASKED THORN YOU ARE THE SAME AS THE OTHERS b561a732-8545-42f2-8cd6-c2db8c837d3b 451 MISTER SCOTT PLANTED THE YELLOW PLUM TREE IN GRANDFATHER'S TIME SAID CECILY PEELING ONE OF THE PLUMS 16e98b3a-83d8-47b3-91b1-7714e0615eed 748 SO IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT THE STORY GIRL MIGHT GO TOO BUT AS FELIX SAID HE COULDN'T WRITE WORTH A CENT THAT'S TOO EASY A WAY OF EARNING MONEY GRUMBLED PETER RESENTFULLY 949f80a7-b5f5-4ab6-a411-e0aea0e73705 2274 THE GREEN BAGE TABLE SET WITH A DECANTER OF HOKAR BRANDY AND TWO GLASSES HOERN LIFTED HIS GLASS SIPPED THE LIQUOR YOU ARE A WEAK FOOL LIKE THE OTHERS GRITTED TO NEWBE 4a00aeb1-572a-4afd-bb5f-4be2e6802f0f 103 FELIX WAKE UP I WHISPERED SHAKING HIM I MIGHT SAY IT WAS CLEAR I MIGHT SAY IT WAS SWEET THE LITTLE DIAL IN POINTER WHICH WOULD INDICATE THE CHANGES OF THE MOON AND THE VERY DENT IN ITS WOODEN DOOR WHICH FATHER HAD MADE WHEN HE WAS A BOY BY KICKING IT IN A FIT OF NAUGHTINESS 7bc3c57d-5535-4c35-ab15-81eabf3207ee 2368 HE FORCED HIS VOICE INTO THE PATTERNS OF CALMNESS AND EASE MADAM HE BEGAN POLITELY YOU ARE NOT THE MOST CAREFUL OF MEN AND GREAT CARE IS NEEDED THE BROTHERHOOD MUST GROW 71c66cd7-c339-4db4-9805-20d0a9e808e8 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 5864de76-4204-4d03-8b5d-e314aa9f4953 1867 I JAMMED THE IRON HARD INTO MY PHONY EYE SOCKETS AND THE PLASTI GAVE OFF AN AUTHENTIC ODOR I HAD MEANT TO SAIL OUT BRAVELY BLIND EYES FACING INTO THE SUNSET 689f8fba-98b6-4ffc-b31f-5972600e4f13 402 WE GAZED UP AT HER IN SILENCE FOR A FEW MOMENTS MUTTERED VING SULLENLY NO MORTAL COULD CROSS THAT FLOOD THE STORY GIRL LOOKED fd392ec4-1c76-45b4-8cd1-c5242cb8a4b8 748 HOW MUCH YOU SUPPOSE WE'D HAVE INDEED THE SUMMER WAS ALMOST OVER BEFORE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER 4df79204-7f5f-48d1-a4b4-73c30b56feb2 14 ELDER FREWIN A TALL PALE MAN WITH LONG SANDY SIDE WHISKERS APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF OUR PEW WITH THE COLLECTION PLATE WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT ME HERE ce9d2a57-856b-47e2-858f-60c3168ecd1c 198 YOU'D UNDERSTAND WHY IF YOU EVER SAW HIM AT A PARTY OR A PICNIC SAID FELICITY TRYING TO PASS PLATES AND DROPPING THEM WHENEVER A WOMAN LOOKED AT HIM OH FELICITY WASN'T IT RIGHT f813dcb5-35a5-424e-9f14-8d6a3b167dad 32 BUT I WANT YOU TO LIKE ME TOO AS WELL AS YOU LIKE FELICITY AND CECILY NOT BETTER 5a898865-c4d5-4201-a25e-3c45b893d990 30 SHE WAS VERY NICELY DRESSED IN A PINK PRINT TOO TIRED TO GO OUT AND EXPLORE OUR ANCESTRAL DOMAINS 4fffb36e-1fb1-44e1-b557-fe63577e377d 402 LONG TO HIM SEEMED THAT BITTER AND PERILOUS PASSAGE BUT AT LAST HE WON THROUGH TO THE FURTHEST SIDE SHE UNFOLDED IT AND HELD IT UP 3960e6a9-c4e2-42ad-b624-cb55be196b5c 2108 IS AT THE WEST OF OZ IN THE MUNCHKIN COUNTRY AT THE EAST SHE DID BUT SHE DOESN'T WAS THE REPLY b36601dc-2713-4867-894e-d7f58e1fa9e6 2317 OR WILL SET ITSELF AUTOMATICALLY TO PRESENT A VIEW OF THE OCEAN FLOOR I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I ac4ba65a-ca48-47d3-97ac-0d322b5ad244 30 NO FEMININE CREATURES HAD EVER GONE TO THE PAINS OF DRESSING UP ON OUR ACCOUNT BEFORE LOOKING OUT EASTWARD INTO THE SPRUCE GROVE 5c9c2431-d097-4512-a0f8-2e39a8278640 177 NOT LONG AFTERWARDS JUDY WAS SCRUBBING THE KITCHEN FLOOR ONE MORNING AND WHEN MISSUS FRUIN CAME IN JUDY LOOKED UP AND SAT QUITE PROUD OVER USING THE RIGHT WORD A FEW MINUTES PASSED OR A FEW YEARS WE COULD NOT HAVE TOLD WHICH cd7e973e-3f7b-4d95-b881-d15143f7688c 2286 I STROLLED OUT SLOWLY IN COMMAND OF THE SITUATION THOUGH PIRACY WAS OF COURSE TOO MEAN AN AMBITION TO ASCRIBE TO THIS BOY 8396c202-3bc4-43ed-b449-ec36ba472c2d 177 OVERHEAD WAS A DAZZLING BLUE SKY CONVERSATION LANGUISHED THE MOMENTS DRAGGED BY EACH SEEMING AN HOUR 973396b5-9f00-4350-ba9f-2e48366504b8 242 A COOL AUTUMNAL WIND WAS WHISTLING AMONG THE DARK BOUGHS AND SCATTERING BLOOD RED LEAVES FROM THE MAPLE AT THE END OF THE GRANARY I WISH I COULD UNDERSTAND IT 0f2101b0-9bf1-4300-9c5a-9fe50d8a13d7 103 THEY USED TO BE VERY PLENTY LONG AGO I KNOW SOME SPLENDID WITCH STORIES I'LL TELL YOU SOME DAY THEY'LL JUST MAKE YOUR BLOOD FREEZE IN YOUR VEINS LET'S GET UP AND GO DOWN AND OUT I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MINUTE TO SEE THE PLACE HIS FATHER TOLD US OF 338cc754-3eaf-4558-8894-3db0a6dd5895 402 IT WAS FOLDED UP IN A NEWSPAPER PACKET ON TOP OF THE DRIED HERRING WITH WHICH THE BASKET WAS FILLED THE AROMER OF GRASSES STEEPING IN THE SUNSHINE fb15573d-617d-4e65-bcab-8ce138e7512a 2108 AND NEVER GREW UP AND SHE HAD ALSO PLACED HER LEFT HAND FIRMLY UPON THE SHOULDER OF THE GREEN MONKEY 832e2707-6e97-4753-863c-183210b8a464 242 MISS MARWOOD WAS FELIX'S SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE WAS VERY FOND OF HER BUT THIS TIME FELIX WAS QUITE RECKLESS 18d30bc0-bc02-4a8c-a4f5-8425b1155331 198 WELL THE STORY GIRL WAS RIGHT THERE IS SUCH A PLACE AS FAIRYLAND BUT ONLY CHILDREN CAN FIND THE WAY TO IT NOBODY TOOK ANY NOTICE OF HER c3393bfc-cff8-494c-b717-2111d93bedbe 30 AND SHE'D RATHER BE CALLED THE STORY GIRL IS YOUR UNCCLE ROGER'S HANDY BOY DEAR LITTLE SOUL I cec154ec-18fc-4d5c-925f-fa6bcbc047ec 2317 JOHN ANDREW FIGURED LATER I'VE GOT TO GO QUICKLY SHE TOLD HIM HE STUDIED THE PROCEEDINGS CAREFULLY 0dcb1244-3991-49f7-bd6c-a3310a9edeab 413 OF COURSE I CAN'T HELP FEELING SORRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TO GO TO THE OTHER PLACE SAID CICELY COMPASSIONATELY BUT I SUPPOSE THEY WOULDN'T BE VERY COMFORTABLE IN HEAVEN EITHER THEY WOULDN'T FEEL AT HOME 4af7e744-103c-41a6-b8fe-3e8470b20ac0 402 PRESENTLY THE STORY GIRL WHO HAD BEEN STANDING UP LEANING AGAINST A TALL FIR AND HE HAD TO LEAVE MARGARET BEHIND 44ee44d3-60b0-4698-b0fd-394f1c2b0f7e 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 b1bb4e3a-c8c6-4bf9-a3de-8b44e67387ba 30 IN THAT CRADLE OF OUR FAMILY HE WANTS TO BE FELICITY'S BEAU LIKE A FLOOD OF LIVING SWEETNESS AND TENDERNESS 2dd7b482-af65-4357-8a8e-c443c46b6cfb 103 THEY SAY SHE IS CRAZY PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO FRIGHTEN US CHILDREN INTO GOOD BEHAVIOR BY TELLING US THAT PEG BOWEN WOULD CATCH US IF WE DIDN'T BEHAVE THERE WAS A RARE BREEZE FROM THE SOUTH BLOWING TO MEET US cda9d709-6cb6-4914-b934-a143ed11f06b 2274 ALMOST AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT HE SAID IN THE BUCKET SEAT OF THE SLEDGE CAB A CALL BELL TINKLED ON THE BRIDGE CONTROL CONSOLE 05de97fb-caf3-457e-af73-2bc124b9eb98 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 9ab1463a-2528-4ecc-904e-5a1ec14133b5 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 1654d56f-31ea-46fe-965a-460da6fc4ed7 2368 HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE I YOU WOULD NOT DARE WHY NOT YONES ASKED WHAT HAVE I GOT TO LOSE 9ac77075-f593-4e42-b150-aac4b9b44d15 242 CECILY HAD BUT ONE MORE SHOT IN HER LOCKER THEY'RE ALWAYS SO TALL AND SLENDER WOULDN'T IT BE AWFUL IF ANYONE WROTE A STORY ABOUT A FAT HERO OR ONE WITH TOO BIG A MOUTH NEVER AN ARROW OF HIS THAT DID NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE MARK 7682bda2-a913-4ead-b156-1eac990aa90a 2108 AND I AM RESOLVED NEVER TO SPEAK AGAIN WITHOUT TAKING TIME TO THINK CAREFULLY FEELING FOR SOME HIDDEN SPRING THAT MIGHT OPEN A DOOR OR WINDOW d42d99d0-e340-4eff-9d55-697d2cda50bd 451 THEY WERE SLENDER AND SHAPELY AND SATIN SMOOTH WITH ARCHED IN STEPS THE DAINTIEST OF TOES AND NAILS LIKE PINK SHELLS THEY DO SEEM DREADFULLY SCARCE NOW 523d9c68-68eb-4fe9-abbb-9723853be28d 748 I GOT IT FROM MY MOUTH SAID DAN WITH A SHAMED FACED GRIN AS I DID SO DAN'S VOICE RANG OUT BEHIND ME 707102ae-c9d4-4455-807e-abccc2db6116 188 SHE HAD WANTED TO WEAR HER SECOND BEST DRESS BUT AUNT JANET HAD DECREED THAT HER SCHOOL CLOTHES WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO TRAIPSING ABOUT IN THE DUST OVER WHICH LITTLE GREEN LEAVES WERE SCATTERED 14233032-8c6e-40be-867f-c2f2a53b177e 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 74486ac4-07d8-4057-8c88-615a9c6f9b05 1867 I RECOGNIZED THIS DEATHLESS LINE AS THE CURTAIN SPEECH AND CRAWLED TO MY FEET WHILE IT WAS BEING OPENED THE FIRST LIZARD TURNED TO ME 0af18073-febe-49f3-a71c-c15bdc67283d 14 ONLY HE IS OLD AND HIS HAIR IS WHITE THE WEIRD SPELL THE COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE LAND WHERE SHE LIVED SAY 3b1c584e-2421-4bd4-8248-badd2ac14842 198 HE ISN'T IN THE KITCHEN SAID FELICITY RUSHING ABOUT WILDLY AND HE COULDN'T GET INTO THE OTHER PART OF THE HOUSE FOR I SHUT THE HALL DOOR TIGHT AND NO BABY COULD OPEN IT AND IT'S SHUT TIGHT YET 3153c5fc-6c6f-48c1-ac8b-784b8995759d 32 AUNT OLIVIA KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT OF COURSE BUT THEY WOULDN'T EVEN CARRY THEM HOME IT APPEARED THAT IT WAS FELICITY'S MOURNING TO HELP PREPARE BREAKFAST 0984597b-e3f5-4144-addc-82465ba2f4ed 413 AT THAT VERY MOMENT AUNT OLIVIA WHO HAD RECOVERED FROM HER HEADACHE AND AUNT JANET WERE LAUGHING IN THE KITCHEN OVER THE STATE THE CHILDREN WERE IN BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID THE END OF THE WORLD WAS CLOSE AT HAND fbaf01e1-d146-4d10-96bd-3d57e723e8bc 2368 AND TURNED AGAIN TOWARD THE DOOR I CAN DO MANY THINGS YANUS WENT ON IT WAS NECESSARY THAT I BRING THESE TO YOUR ATTENTION c4d7aa34-2c03-4bc9-a402-0b3ee83c5741 2312 AND MILLER AND I STOLE THE LISTS OF NAMES AND RAN AWAY MEANWHILE PRAYED OUT LOUD AS THEY CLIMBED THE PURGATORIAL SCARP ABOVE LOST SOLCE CREEK e8af9546-5933-4bea-b89c-cd4ca874b5f6 32 THIS WAS OUR FIRST INKLING OF WHAT I WAS TO UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY IN LATER YEARS NOW NEVER MIND QUARRELLING SAID CECILY 2f5335c5-5e68-4838-a0a2-4186a60bf7a7 402 THE PATH OF THE RAINBOW IS NOT FOR THEE HE SAID OH IT IS SO DREADFUL JUST TO WAIT AND TO DO NOTHING ELSE FELIX AND I SPOKE NOT 22f7fdba-cc50-4e86-8a9d-21ea155b6277 748 SAID DAN SPITEFULLY PEG BOWEN HAD HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT AND SARA'S HAD AS GOOD AS DESCENDED UPON HER OUT OF THE SKIES 815b06c4-8b82-405b-938f-a9c73ee857db 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 44da64f6-dc23-46c1-bf31-5d120022db4a 2425 A GREAT CROWD FORMED AROUND ME I HAD A HOT PROSPECT LINED UP FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT MORNING AS MY EYES FELL UPON THE SHUTTER BEHIND THE THICK GRINNING LIPS 8c29f9d3-e716-4969-845f-b11bdfdfe9db 2317 IT COULD ALSO FLY HE DISCOVERED RAY'S FINGERS IN THE DRIVING GLOVE DIGGING INTO HIS FLESH IN AN AMAZINGLY POWERFUL GRIP HAVING DECIDED ALL THIS 60ae88ca-6fa9-462e-b1b7-9fc61f62058e 748 HIS LETTERS TO THE STORY GIRL WE THOUGHT THAT LEE SAID WAS SOONEST MENDED IN SUCH A MATTER 076100a6-6d46-4242-9d8e-717f7a74998c 2274 FORMING THE FAMILIAR WORDS IF THEY DO HAVE THE DELPHINUS IS THAT THE NATIVE SPEAKING 0413ae9b-0353-41ac-b159-fb616f732d5e 188 IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE FACE OF A CLOCK AND THERE ARE FLOWERS IN IT THAT OPENS AT EVERY HOUR SO YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THE TIME WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM WAS HE KILLED TOO ASKED FELIX IT WAS MISTER SCOTT WHO DID IT SAID THE STORY GIRL 7b7787c5-464a-4f55-a415-d76c5bc976b8 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 14f0efc5-152b-4b56-8ee3-5d425fed668e 464 BUT PETER WAS NOT TO BE CONCILIATED AND TOOK HIMSELF OFF IN HIGH DUDGEON THEN WE LAUGHED UNTIL PETER GOT SULKY b87197fe-8d30-4384-af12-d967da512fdc 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 9319d629-420d-46ab-b335-6696aa429646 413 VERY LIKELY I ASSURED HER REMEMBER SARA RAY AND THE MONEY BACK CAME FROM PRAYING THE STORY GIRL WAS SITTING ON THE MINT BESIDE THE WELL HOUSE WEAVING HERSELF A WREATH OF BUTTERCUPS af19ef86-2f94-49ae-a3ef-71821d15d9fe 242 OH BUT UNCLE ALEC IT WAS THIS WAY BEGAN FELIX EAGERLY FOR A TIME HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THIS f000812a-0baa-4161-982a-a3b469bbc9b9 2368 THEY WERE GIANTS FOR THIS PART OF THE WORLD ALMOST SIX FEET TALL WITH GREAT HANDS AND JAWS IT WAS FAR FROM A WARM WELCOME BUT YONAS WAS SATISFIED WITH IT 20c45027-c469-4ac9-bb1b-330af81d7c58 451 YES AND THAT IS WHY I PUT IT ON AUNT JANET BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS LETTING MYSELF IN FOR THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WAS A SPLENDID ONE ef0f2d72-7bd0-46f5-b8aa-e6e8ed95b2aa 103 TOPSY THE CAT OF WHICH FATHER HAD TALKED HAD FLOURISHED THIRTY YEARS BEFORE AND ALL HER NINE LIVES COULD SCARCELY HAVE LASTED SO LONG e5cc039d-9f15-4034-8a23-f9fa537e3d53 2108 SCRUBBING AND SWEEPING HER HUT AND COOKING HER MEALS SO HE SHUT THEM TIGHT AND PERCHED UPON THE BACK 56b83dd1-f564-4713-85b2-8de4d453231a 2274 IT MAKES ME NERVOUS HORRENT STARED UPWARD IN AWE STETSON SMILED WITHOUT HUMOR ddf7c2f1-1876-4194-b8aa-df873c729904 464 IT'S ALL VERY FINE FOR YOU FELLOWS TO LAUGH I NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL HALF AS MUCH AS YOU DID TOMMY AND ADAM COWAN OVER AT MARKDALE ARE TWINS AND THEY'RE BOTH CROSS EYED 3a01ae14-4fb5-4e25-ae27-41e811c89ac8 2274 CONGO EXPECTS TO BLAST THE PLANET ANYWAY ON ORAN'S MIDDLE THE NATIVE'S MOUTH OPEN REVEALING LONG CANINES d4b75aa5-079a-4c9a-8266-7557da00afad 2317 NONNIPUS FOR THE FIRST TIME AN ANONIPUS THAT BECAME APPARENT WAS NOT ONLY A WATER CREATURE HE DECIDED HE'D HAVE TO DO SOMETHING HIMSELF 1ae80951-c334-486e-8d65-424f305c4bd3 242 DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING ABOUT CECILY GAVE A SHRIEK AND RAN OUT OF THE WOOD I HEARD HIM TALKING IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT IT 28281e72-ba6d-44f4-83c1-47fdf087ad9d 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 921ff960-a12d-4bad-97f0-f275b58061d9 2286 NINETY EIGHT PER CENT OF THEIR OUTPUT IS NOW FEEDING INTO COALS THAT MAKE AN ELECTROMAGNET OF THIS SHIP'S HULL d2e5852f-7fb7-4d39-a812-ebefead34d1d 2182 THE PLANET WAS A WATER WORLD BARE OF CONTINENTS AND ONLY SPARSELY SPRINKLED WITH MINOR ARCHIPELAGOES STRUCK SOMETHING RESPONSIVE IN HIM 034b7a60-de31-4a51-8f18-8222419f5baa 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 42415e99-6878-4023-890a-eefed09dc5f2 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 836643d7-edba-43f1-8bbe-451825d89c20 2368 I DIDN'T WANT TO BUT THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE AND WE CAN'T AFFORD ANY SUSPICION AND HIS CONTROL SLIPPED THE TWO GUARDS CAME TOWARDS HIM 8019e489-9315-43d3-911d-ea74304d5f5d 748 WE WENT VERY SOFTLY INDEED AND WALKED AMONG THE GLOOMY PILLARS OF BONIVARD'S PRISON 50e056e1-7f8c-4432-8b2d-ed844b128724 413 BUT FOR ONCE HER VOICE FAILED TO CARRY CONVICTION OR RATHER IT'S NOT TO BE TILL TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW SO YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO GET UP HIP FOR ANYTHING HAPPENS 59b82c80-6a6d-40b9-812a-8a5fd0251153 2108 SHE TRANSFORMED HIM INTO AND SANG SONGS THAT SOUNDED LIKE THE NOTES OF TIN WHISTLES ff7c3d52-f244-4e30-9508-68f0c6fcdbc0 30 WE DRIFTED INTO THE LAND OF SLEEP OUR FATHER AND OUR UNCLES AND AUNTS HAD PLAYED IN ITS SHADOW INDEED SHE SAID AS MUCH 3528cc74-9251-4064-aa82-b792eba6d12f 402 MANY A SWAGGERING GALLANT RUFFLED IT BRAVELY IN VELVET AND PLUME ADOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK a4e76fb1-4ef3-4d6a-a823-96ac1e63804f 402 BUT IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT MATTER THEN YOU'LL HAVE A LOT OF GROWN UPS AROUND YOU IN THE HOUSE THE MINISTER LOOKED AT THE PICTURE 12907c1d-a8ed-4310-870f-ef3f8b6ee3a6 2137 THE NEXT MILE BROUGHT HIM TO A GREAT SHEET OF ANCIENT LAVA LAID BARE BY THE ELEMENTS I THINK YOU WENT DOWN DELIBERATELY be436b1d-b8ef-4b9f-9645-6270ef7a3285 2368 YONAS WAS NOT AT ALL SURE WHETHER THE BLACK HAIRED MAN UNDERSTOOD LANGUAGE THERE WAS LITTLE TRACE OF IT IN HIS MIND AND VIRTUALLY NOTHING THAT MIGHT BE CALLED INTELLIGENCE THIS IS YOUR HOUSE HE SAID THE HOUSE WHERE YOU LIVE 3439ef69-f545-4903-82e1-de0d35e7a924 2182 TURNED THE CHANNEL OF HIS THOUGHT THE THING WAS TOWING YOU CAN YOU FISH AND SAIL JEFF AUBREY 75fb59d4-0686-44a3-b4e6-12c2d3ebc32e 2286 I HAD MY VICTORY ALL RIGHT I HAD CAPTURED MY BATTLESHIP AND THE RAIDS WERE OVER YET WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT WHEN THEY HAVE IT BUILT 7189e952-e46b-4abf-a300-6722db839bca 198 I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY IF I PUT IT OFF ANY LONGER IT WILL BE TOO LATE I'M GROWING SO FAST AUNT OLIVIA SAYS I'LL HAVE TO WEAR ANKLE SKIRTS NEXT SUMMER IF I BEGIN TO LOOK GROWN UP HE'LL GET FRIGHTENED OF ME AND THEN I'LL NEVER FIND OUT THE GOLDEN MILESTONE MYSTERY 696f7c27-0c89-4b0c-89b5-1781d6d72028 2317 THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND GESTURED IMPERATIVELY TO JUDGE RAY STUMBLED ON ODDLY TWISTED LEGS AND COLLAPSED ON THE DECK 3229e72e-b376-40b0-9095-601d79bfeeb2 2182 THERE WAS AN ARTIST'S PERCEPTION IN JEFF IN SPITE OF HIS DRAB YEARS OF E I PATROL DUTY COMPRISING IN THIS CASE A FIERCELY WHITE SUN e865a646-06f8-48c7-a859-c2e89d4027af 30 OUR DOOR WAS OPEN AND IN THEIR ROOM ACROSS THE NARROW HALL THE KING COMPLEXION WE TRIED TO STARE AT THEM WHEN THEY WERE EATING 8eba007b-63e7-4339-8581-6dbf663306b0 2425 ARE WE FREE WHISPERED HOPE HOLDING TIGHTLY TO MY ARM ARE WE REALLY FREE I AND MISS HOPE ARRIVES FIRST THING THIS MORNING AND MY SENSES RETURNED 540ac548-bad2-4fb6-a0b2-a9ac3f7a3dc0 451 OVERHEAD THE LACING LEAVES MADE A GREEN MURMUROUS ROOF SHE STROKED THE PURRING PADDY AND WE READ STEADILY ON WITH MADDENING INDIFFERENCE TO ALL OF OUR PLEADINGS 89a929dc-d1fe-4b65-8cbd-d031862a5bb5 2317 GET OVER THAT AND YOU'LL ELIMINATE MOST OF YOUR TROUBLE HE SHIFTED UNEASILY ON THE BUILT IN SEAT HE WAS CLIMBING OVER THE RAIL AT THE STERN 85f02186-a862-439d-a0bb-831be42489a8 2368 I SHALL WORK TO DO YOU GOOD HE SAID AND NOT EVIL I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME f39f55e3-23c7-456e-b37f-b2b96ac2f240 177 THAT I HADN'T BEEN IN QUITE SUCH A HURRY GIVING AWAY MY FORGET ME NOT JUG AND I WISH I HADN'T BEEN IN SUCH A HURRY DECIDE AND I'D BE A PRESBYTERIAN SAID PETER WELL IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR THAT SAID DAN YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU YOUNG ONES HAVE EVER ALL GOT UP WITHOUT BEING CALLED THAT'S A FACT 6843ff70-889e-4c0d-9001-65ecbe2cd6ff 2312 CERTAINLY BETTER THAN ANY MAP MAKER THEY SAID HIGH PLANES HAD NOWHERE NEAR THAT MANY PEOPLE AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A MISCOUNT f42d0715-49b4-4155-ba1b-eefda0b3d391 32 AND AUNT JULIA WHOSE VOICE WAS TO DELIGHT THOUSANDS SANG HER EARLIEST MAGICALS THERE 5d1f30eb-401c-4203-a8fd-cfe442f359c4 14 WHAT WILL YOU FEEL LIKE IF HE GOES TO CHURCH WITH THE SKIN OF HIS LEGS SHOWING THROUGH THE HOLES MISS STORY GIRL 1bfcf140-8e3f-4ea9-a018-8763e87fb8dd 2317 A DEADLY SILENCE DESCENDED AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE FARMER FROZE AND GULPED WORDLESSLY 1e6ceb06-8558-4a06-9eac-cef7aa867d15 413 AT TWO O'CLOCK IN IN THE AFTERNOON WE HAD NOT PASSED A VERY PLEASANT WEEK SARA RAY CRIED UNTIL I WONDERED HOW ONE SMALL HEAD COULD CONTAIN ALL THE TEARS SHE SHED 0d6b67bd-69f2-4855-8e07-474f61a0a67c 14 WE LOOKED AT HIM IN SUCH HORROR THAT DAN HASTENED TO APOLOGIZE BUT THEY'RE FAR AWAY AND WE DON'T HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WITH THEM f952ef76-db88-42d6-a5ba-90940851686f 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 bd43b830-9b07-428d-afa5-b86d48fb7266 1867 THERE WERE SPYSAILS ON MY SHIP ALL OF WHICH I HADN'T FOUND THAT WOULD CHEERFULLY RAT ON ME WHEN I GOT BACK NORMALLY A REPAIR MAN STAYS AWAY FROM NATIVE CULTURES a8106403-97c0-42da-976a-e93eff527de2 177 LONG AGO WHEN JUDY PINNAULT WAS YOUNG SAID THE STORY GIRL SHE WAS HIRED WITH MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE FIRST MISSUS ELDER FRUIT THE SLAMMING OF A BARN DOOR OVER AT UNCLE ROGER'S CAUSED THE COLD PERSPIRATION TO BREAK OUT IN OUR FACES e384283e-b9dc-49af-9836-c73a232c9cda 2286 MY MESSAGE WAS IN CODE BUT IT COULD BE QUICKLY BROKEN IF SOME ONE WANTED TO TRY HARD ENOUGH AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS ed5c894d-f792-46d0-96eb-cc0b26d04aae 413 WELL WHAT DOES SHE SAY ASKED CICELY TREMULOUSLY I'M GLAD YOU THINK SO SAID CECILY TREMULOUSLY OUR GROWN UPS INSTEAD CONSIDERED OUR TERROR IN EXQUISITE JEST d932d16b-df06-4997-a1de-cc9434a4095e 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 55332555-ce84-4bde-82df-35e4cd13396e 2137 HE GESTURED TOWARDS THE MAN'S CIGARETTE I SUPPOSE IT TAKES PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL REACTIONS A WHILE TO CATCH UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS THAT LOGICALLY WE ACCEPT AS A MATTER OF FACT A SMOKING CYLINDER OF FUSED METAL LAY IN A GULLY 2fce2426-fff2-420d-b4f9-02acd77be48e 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 1c36cfa9-f143-44b9-9231-774cff459629 2274 WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING YOUR THROAT DEMANDED TO NEW YOU RIGHT FINISH FOR YOUR ENTIRE PLANET IF YOU DO SAID HORN 7f6b6a9a-21c6-4ce4-b7bf-e363fb2e2ae3 2312 NOR THE DENAY THEY GOT MARSHALL THERE HE WAS VERY BUSY BUT HE CAME IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BIG THEY ARE 38f762ca-dc00-4b95-8545-25a9aa4c7616 30 WE HAD A VAGUE FEELING THAT WE AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO DO DESPITE THE DARK WHOM WE LOVED FROM THE MOMENT WE SAW HIM 254e010c-754f-41bf-b966-1ac422d95f25 2182 WHY SHOULDN'T IT HELP THEM NOW WILL HOMESIDE DENY THEIR INDEPENDENCE OLD CHARLIE MACK SAILED DOWN IN HIS ANCIENT ISLAND QUEEN deb17e93-9d37-43f2-a151-b67751e95dca 2286 THIRTY FOUR MEN DEAD BOREDOM OR CURIOSITY HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT AND HE WAS READING ONE OF MY RELEASES WITH HORROR 371505f8-0c46-430a-8130-d5fa9aac1a08 2286 ALL THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED BY OUR COURT AT THE PROPER TIME THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION I WANT AN ANSWER TO NOW THE CAPTAIN WHISPERED HOARSELY IN MY EAR MIGHT MAKE PEOPLE SUSPICIOUS YOU KNOW b08d28f8-f165-4f3d-91f4-c4d4b914125e 2286 WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS THE PLAN THAT SEEMED SO CLEAR AND LOGICAL NOW BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A PATCHED AND CRAZY MAKESHIFT d9a33f9d-86f5-49de-a1b9-54368afd5ffc 1867 WHY THIS BEACON WAS BUILT WITHIN REACH OF THE LOCAL CLAUSE THAT IS WHERE I AND THE OTHER TROUBLE SHOOTERS COME IN ONLY ONE MAN TO A SHIP BECAUSE THAT IS ALL IT TAKES TO OPERATE THE OVERLY EFFICIENT REPAIR MACHINERY c320d0c3-1832-4b64-ae39-ec4e789fd631 177 MISSUS FRUN WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AND SAID JUDY YOU SHOULDN'T SAY THAT IT'S HORSES THAT SWEAT YOU SHOULD SAY YOU WERE IN A PERSPIRATION 01948cc6-e529-4d56-906c-8341f5cc263a 2368 I PERMIT KENNEFF SAID UNHAPPINESS SHE TOLD HERSELF WAS HER PORTION IN THIS LIFE HE GRIMACED IN THE DARKNESS e9f7f1c3-530e-443f-b053-1a06cb0cd29a 1867 THE FIRST ONE THAT SPOTTED ME SCREAMED AND DROPPED OVER ON HIS BACK WAMPUM TYPE SHELLS AND DON'T GET ME FANCY IDEAS ABOUT JUMPING YOUR CONTRACT dd100a6c-644c-4a85-b0c2-88b2871462c8 2317 FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE AND I'M LEARNING HE'S PRETTY INTELLIGENT TOO 55f45019-1895-4861-9109-681c08f92ae0 14 AND HER MAIDENS DRESSED HER AH NEVER MIND ISN'T SHE ONE STILL ASKED FELICITY PERTLY 11ffaf11-8bc1-4312-94e8-b812945aa73e 451 WELL I WON'T JUST TO OBLIGE YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL WHO WOULD HAVE DIED THE DEATH BEFORE SHE WOULD HAVE GONE TO THE PUBLIC MEETING BAREFOOTED SHE HAD PUT AWAY IN THE PANTRY SPECIALLY FOR HIM 2ba0a161-f4ed-4c64-92d2-a815a685cc42 2137 WITH ANY OF THESE THINGS THE PATTERN IS PROTECTION THEN CONTROL THEN CAUTIOUSLY SKIRTED THE BRUSH TINY RED MISTS MARKED DUST STORMS 65b54def-9934-473f-8f99-27839c4294c3 32 EDITH RAN AWAY AND HID AND OF COURSE SHE FELT STILL WORSE WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A FAMOUS POET 8e14857c-f72e-4812-b266-01114e41b553 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 WHAT IS IT IS IS IT PAST TWO 9379ed8b-3996-443d-bb08-1972e1564b3c 14 IT ISN'T MY FAULT THAT HE'S GOING TO CHURCH BELOW US WAS THE CARLISLE VALLEY WITH ITS ORCHARD EMBOWERED HOMESTEADS AND FERTILE MEADOWS dde1aa6e-1bb4-42f8-b697-a2b58dd0705f 103 SARA'S A NICE GIRL SHE'S ONLY ELEVEN AND HER MOTHER IS DREADFULLY STRICT SHE NEVER ALLOWS SARA TO READ A SINGLE STORY JUST YOU FANCY JUST DOWN THE HILL YOU CAN'T SEE THE HOUSE FOR THE SPRUCE BUSH 69ff546e-2707-42b9-b736-4fe3c12bcbe5 748 BUT HE HAD A SMALL FORTUNE OF HIS OWN IN LACKING THE SPUR OF NECESSITY FELICITY WAS A GOOD SECOND WITH TWO AND A HALF d9fc4665-f0c1-4273-bf07-de4ee39792a5 748 AS GOOD A COOK AS FELICITY I THRUST THE BOX HASTILY INTO MY TRUNK AND CONFRONTED DAN DAN WAS TOO MUCH IN EARNEST TO RESENT MY BLUNT SPEECH 91790a2f-e38e-4d3a-bef4-fc51fdd1a6e8 402 OF COURSE HE'S FAR TOO SICK TO BE TAKEN HOME SO HIS MOTHER IS COME TO WAIT ON HIM AND I'M TO LIVE OVER HERE UNTIL HE IS BETTER I DON'T WANT TO CATCH THE MEASLES FROM PETER SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY af29b5a7-f583-40c2-b5ad-30747a60be1a 32 AND THE FRUIT BASKET WITH THE APPLE ON IT AND THE WEDDING DRESS AND THE EMBROIDERED PETTICOAT efe9528f-e9b0-40cf-8c96-17f99b1542ae 2182 MEMORY LENT JONAPHER A SUDDEN VITALITY THAT NEARLY LEFT JEFF BEHIND IN THEIR DASH FOR THE COTTAGE UP THE BEACH THE ISLAND SUITED THE CHAFFEE'S PURPOSE ADMIRABLY 5a7dc2b4-de6c-4b7a-911b-6fe68e2bb5f8 748 BUT I SHALL ANTICIPATE THE SUCCESSIVE RELATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER WE WERE NOT SURPRISED TO FIND THAT BILLY ROBINSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY FUND a0e023c2-bdf7-40f5-98b0-cbfd6f8d4705 413 BUT ANYHOW I'M GOING TO KEEP ON PRAYING THAT SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN TO EXCITE THE STORY GIRL I'M SURE I WON'T SLEEP A WINK TO NIGHT SAID FELIX b9a90fae-75f4-4cf2-a732-e62c275f0aa6 242 AND PETER WANTED TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD PASS THE ORDEAL IT THE STARS TWINKLED THROUGH THE SOFTLY WAVING BOUGHS AND I DID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR IT 3e85aadd-57db-4896-86d0-81f0b518a9e5 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 a323028a-e171-423d-9e91-c566138418d5 2108 CRIED THE EMPEROR OF THE WINKIES HOW CARELESS OF ME NOT TO REMEMBER THAT WANDERERS ARE USUALLY HUNGRY HORSEBOOT AND LIEU TIN WOODMAN NOW LISTEN b8c53302-2c5a-44ad-8ec4-01d0920295da 103 WE SLIPPED OUT OF BED AND DRESSED WITHOUT AROUSING DAN WHO WAS STILL SLUMBERING SOUNDLY HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND HIS BEDCLOTHES KICKED OFF ON THE FLOOR da0b2931-c731-4e70-ad4e-b5136473c303 103 SHE DOESN'T BOTHER ME MUCH AUNT JANET SAYS THAT I'D HAVE NO BRINGING UP AT ALL IF IT WASN'T FOR HER BUT IT WAS OUR EXPERIENCE THAT GROWN UPS HAD A HABIT OF SAYING THINGS HARD TO UNDERSTAND 9f8f30c9-09f2-47a8-a8f3-e68209d09078 2368 IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU RATIFY YOUR CONFESSION COME WITH US THAT THOUGHT PLEASED HIM GREATLY YOUR SYMPATHY MAY ENDANGER YOU SHARP SAID 50bfdad4-9f44-4f1e-8ba1-e1503eda29c2 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 198c3ab9-fc8e-4647-954f-3dc17e2346db 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 f7f71168-7cad-46f0-9cd8-00bc1dc92fc9 2368 QUESTION SHE SAID YOU COME FROM HERAK NUFF UNDERSTANDING OF COURSE THAT THE WAYFARER WOULD INSIST ON PAYING PAYING WELL HE ADDED 9d2b61f0-98ca-4cb7-885b-5fb8b559e183 2137 WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT ON A PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM fca8bf2d-a05c-4cc3-a6f1-df1cac0e75b1 14 THERE WAS GREAT GRANDFATHER KING'S FLAT TOMBSTONE OF ROUGH ISLAND SANDSTONE IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS 71f26e97-90ba-4163-a714-aad09ab9da05 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 000ee27d-4d40-4150-ae33-ffc753b4496c 413 BETOKENED THE SENTENCE WHICH SOON CAME AT ANY OTHER TIME WE SHOULD ALL HAVE BEEN AGHAST OVER SUCH A CATASTROPHE BUT IT PASSED UNNOTICED NOW DAN DOES SAY SUCH QUEER THINGS 86c8c254-e322-4abf-9d65-a0a86e57aad2 103 SHE WAS TALL FOR HER FOURTEEN YEARS BUT SHE SAYS HE'LL NEVER GET MARRIED BECAUSE HE IS LOOKING FOR PERFECTION AND WHEN HE FINDS HER SHE WON'T HAVE HIM 230d738a-e9c0-4519-8997-f4fee722e9f3 1867 THE OLD BOYS HAD ENOUGH BRAINS TO CHOOSE A TRACEABLE SITE FOR THE BEACON EQUIDISTANT ON A LINE BETWEEN TWO OF THE MOST PROMINENT MOUNTAIN PEAKS THE EYE WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRELIMINARY SURVEY I WAS REALLY GLAD THEY HAD TAILS 0424dfd6-d727-40f3-8f83-be3b41fd97c5 32 AND HE LOVED HER THE SAME BUT HE WROTE ONE OF HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL POEMS ON IT AFTERWARDS AND SENT IT TO HER 5bd3fcab-beef-4ffe-b92f-608bb48bcf02 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 3ea1db3a-fa5b-41bd-8bd5-95c0bdf008d8 2108 THE BOY SPRANG TO HIS FEET AND SUDDENLY RUSHED UPON THE GROUN WHILE A KIND HUSBAND IS SURE TO MAKE ANY GIRL CONTENT a1aadc85-2a6a-4f6b-a0b0-d4ab62b6deb1 2108 AND IN THIS MANNER THEY TRAVELLED IN GOOD SPIRITS ACROSS THE VALLEY AND INTO THE NEXT ONE TO THE EAST OF IT HERE'S ANOTHER LETTER IT IS PROPER THAT I SHOULD DO SO 7ff57637-1f60-46ca-a074-08d7fff9eedf 2286 ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SUGGEST A LINE OF SEARCH AND THE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WOULD BEGIN APPEARING AT ONCE SORRY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS YOUR BRAINS BOYS WILL PICK MY SKULL TO PIECES AND FIND THE TRUTH OUT b1943bb2-1d23-49b3-9d9f-143fc8149639 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING 7949b4bf-0e41-41db-bb9b-58e83ecf03a3 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 4144b581-a002-43ba-96b6-f945fc61e71c 402 HOW LONG IT MUST HAVE SEEMED TO HER AT ALL EVENTS HE ANNOUNCED TO US THAT HE COULDN'T BRING THE RED COVERED HISTORY TO SCHOOL BUT IF WE WANTED TO BUY THE PICTURE OUTRIGHT HE WOULD TEAR IT OUT OF THE BOOK AND SELL IT TO US FOR FIFTY CENTS 234e4c4b-8b54-494d-a6b5-a4be646a650b 242 JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN CECILY CAUGHT IT AFTER UNCLE ALEC HAD GONE IT ISN'T FAIR a3a9ed61-16ed-4b1e-8f65-0b7cf3e692de 2286 HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS BUT DIDN'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS IT IS HARD TO CURL YOUR LIPS WITH CONTEMPT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME BUT I SUCCEEDED 3b8e1e0e-812a-41c2-a5cf-159b993f35cb 2274 IN PROWESS OF THE MIND ALL FOUR HUNDRED GLISTENING RED AND BLACK METERS OF IT 01390bd6-2679-4fa1-9ec9-3ba0193f52cb 1867 I AM NOT ONE OF YOUR ANCESTORS I MUST ADMIT IT WENT OFF PRETTY WELL THE TEMPLE WAS A SMALL ONE BUILT AGAINST THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID 7a11f077-f51d-4243-96b8-e5a487d69b80 242 HE WAS NOT ANGRY IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE 9ab8b2d8-1ea4-4d33-ac89-da85ed343fdc 188 SHE WAS VERY SHY AND MODEST BUT YOU KNOW A GIRL CAN LET A MAN SEE SHE LIKES HIM WITHOUT GOING OUT OF HER WAY HAVE YOU ANY IDEA WHERE YOUR FATHER IS ASKED ANN aeba13fc-e7ab-4952-8e69-a67cc14a3556 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 60d78349-9727-479e-8929-98f79f8a120b 2274 AND THEY WANT YOU JUST LONG ENOUGH TO GET YOUR EQUIPMENT AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW A BUTTER YELLOW SUN HUNG 4fa50e61-515e-4f06-821c-1177f16de26e 30 BUT THE ONLY SAFE WAY TO TRAVEL WITH THOSE YOUNG ONES WOULD BE TO HAVE EM BOTH TIED TO YOU WITH A SHORT ROPE THIS WAS HOME c2d9464a-85b2-4357-9e58-5b016ff05d4c 177 THE STORY GIRL HAD BEEN AMONG THE LATTER AND SHE LOOKED VERY PALE AND WAN WITH BLACK SHADOWS UNDER HER DEEP SET EYES 1e5e0240-d3eb-4b07-973f-7be1f615cbf9 402 THE MASTER IS AWFUL CROSS BY SPELLS WE WAITED AND WATCHED AT THE WINDOW AND HE HAD NOT HEARD THE WARDER'S WORDS a0a13e15-3d21-4201-8a49-0203c2e9133e 14 BUT IT WAS HIS LEGS WHICH WE SCRUTINIZED MOST ANXIOUSLY WE'LL ASK PETER TO DESCRIBE IT SOME TIME WHEN HE'S IN A BETTER HUMOUR WHISPERED FELIX 90b56426-62f1-4d6a-95fa-74f3a5c3caa7 1867 THEY BOUGHT THIS TENTATIVELY AND WE ALL HEAVED OUT OF THE TUB AND TRICKLED MUDDY PATHS ACROSS THE FLOOR 040ba62d-5541-44d2-ad60-1d64dfeaa9bf 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 c392238a-511a-4d17-a806-91c4c57e99c0 14 I AM SURPRISED AT YOU FELICITY KING SAID CECILIA SEVERELY AT LEAST ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS 9d726e13-c732-4db7-b6b6-55aff2d04cce 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 f9b20426-8e82-4168-9a29-8111cf5975d7 2312 SAY SIR WHEN YOU REPLY TO ME I HER PATERNAL GRANDFATHER HAD BEEN A GOAT OR CAUSED BY ONE ee960b04-8279-41ae-8150-0b38a65bb24b 2108 AND IF THEY ARE STILL IN THOSE BARRELS SO I WILL RECITE FOR YOUR BENEFIT MY STRANGE ADVENTURES 2d17adb3-afb2-4cdd-845d-9aeecd8568ff 188 YOU CAN GO HOME IF YOU LIKE SAID THE STORY GIRL SCORNFULLY BUT I'M GOING TO GO SEE MISTER CAMPBELL I KNOW I CAN MANAGE HIM BUT IF I HAVE TO GO ALONE AND HE GIVES ME ANYTHING I'LL KEEP IT ALL FOR MY OWN COLLECTION MIND YOU I CAUGHT BROOK TROUT IN THE WESTERLING VALLEY OF SPRUCES AND SOLD THEM FOR A CENT APIECE a72718ee-47b1-4157-9bdb-d3e3e5aa74dd 2182 THE OWL WINCED AND DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A SOUND JEFF FORCED STUMBLING WORDS INTO LINE HE MEANS THE SCOOP JENOFER SAID 941c725b-d230-4f91-8201-b08c28d6c78d 14 WE WERE OUT IN UNCLE ROGER'S HILL PASTURE SITTING ON SOME SMOOTH ROUND STONES UNDER A CLUMP OF BIRCHES UNCLE ALEC'S PEW WAS AT THE TOP OF THE CHURCH QUITE NEAR THE PULPIT d49707e4-025d-4a2a-a4ec-3bfff7fbedb8 2368 HE HAS TRIED TO TEMPT ME TO PACKT WITH SATAN THE QUINT INQUISITOR SAID THIS IS AN ACCURSED FAMILY THERE IS NO GOOD TO BE DONE TO ME OR MY WIFE OR CHILD 317c0b1d-552a-4178-91df-494c7f4778ee 1867 BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES 6f4f3bb1-861d-4854-b567-5ebc383b02e1 198 I DON'T CARE SAID FELIX I LIKE YOU BETTER THAN FELICITY EVEN IF YOU CAN'T COOK THERE'S LOTS OF FOLKS CAN MAKE BREAD BUT THERE ISN'T MANY WHO CAN TELL A STORY LIKE YOU YOU OUGHT TO BE BRAVER THAN GIRLS 8d65433f-3fc0-4f4b-8222-ca6c1ffb012c 2368 HE THOUGHT OF SEVERAL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE SUNNYSIDE OF LIFE AND DECIDED ON NONE OF THEM BUT IT SEEMED SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR FOUR THREE PALLETS LAY AGAINST THE FAR WHITE WALL 93828dc6-ea0f-4f1e-b9ef-d28622b2a5a8 1867 BUT I HAD MANAGED TO IRRITATE THE THINGS WHO HAD BUILT THE PYRAMID I LOCATED THE PEAKS EASILY ENOUGH AND STARTED THE EYE OUT FROM THE FIRST PEAK AND KEPT IT ON A COURSE DIRECTLY TOWARDS THE SECOND a2d00211-f1c6-4d56-b9ec-72f09a5ebc07 2312 A KIND MAN REALLY WE CAN SHOW WRITTEN TITLE TO THE WORLD CAN YOU 27d5cd74-61e5-4168-80a3-4c988185babf 2425 THEY LOVE LIFE LIKE A MAN OF OUR EARTH BE SURE YOUR WEAPON I DO YOU RECOGNIZE IT 2477b7a8-c88f-490a-9376-37327ff69472 451 OH I'M SICK I'M AWFUL SICK SAID DAN ABJECTLY OH OH OH WAILED CECILY ON THE SOFA d728a1bc-0b3e-4da7-9840-8f116076d0d9 451 IN THE MIDST OF OUR LAUGHTER PAT CAME DOWN THE WALK HIS STATELY TAIL WAVING OVER THE GRASSES a0d7c232-b5e0-4bb1-bf99-f1c580c58221 14 SHE DREW HERSELF HAUGHTILY UP BUT SHE PERSEVERED AND ONE DAY SHE CAME TO US WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PETER HAD YIELDED 768a21d8-05d1-49ea-b737-cc38e08d8e56 451 HE HAD A RETENTIVE MEMORY AND THE BRIDGE THEY HAD BUILT SPANNED THE GULF BETWEEN THEIR STARS OF EXILE 5b5f0d9f-eac5-4336-9e23-52d6baa517c3 2286 FIRST I HAD TO BE SURE THAT I KNEW HIM WELL JUST AS WHEN I BUMPED INTO A MARK I KNEW HOW MUCH IT COULD BE TAKEN FOR AND JUST HOW TO DO IT 050be507-d96f-4ceb-bba2-00a32f225508 30 WITH A HUGE GIRTH OF TRUNK THE KINGS WERE NOTED FOR THEIR NOSES AND COMPLEXION DAN SHARED IT WITH US 361462bd-3d43-46a6-98c7-808125d0c4a4 2182 WHILE SHE SECURED THE FLIMSY DOOR HE RIPPED THROUGH HIS BELONGINGS ALIGNING HIS E I COMMUNICATOR AGAIN ON HIS BREAKFAST TABLE 1d985564-53da-4fbd-bb79-f6df2aef69d6 32 EVERYBODY DOES SAID THE STORY GIRL COOLLY I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE WAY I TALK NOTHING COULD UPSET THAT BOY'S STOMACH 39c3ca33-fb4d-4e98-af82-86b065811316 451 IT'S BECAUSE OF DAN EXPLAINED FELICITY WEARILY THE FEW BOOKS LEFT TO HIM BY HIS OFT REFERRED TO AUNT JANE HAD STOCKED HIS MIND WITH MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION WHICH SOMETIMES MADE FELIX AND ME DOUBT IF WE KNEW AS MUCH AS PETER AFTER ALL 09b09b2b-01fa-4a84-af18-f53b4c75905c 1867 I WATCHED THE PRIESTS THROUGH THE PRY EYE WHILE THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT BUT STILL THE HOLY WATERS WOULD NOT FLOW 52d986c2-37a1-47cb-8fc0-3cd9030ae6ac 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 a0a8e206-ee36-44ce-ad05-1b090f206287 2108 SO I'M MUCH OBLIGED FOR THE KINDNESS LITTLE FAIRY INQUIRED THE SCARECROW WHO LOOKED UPON THE TIN MAN AS THE LEADER OF THE PARTY 99e8ae46-2256-4df7-bb23-aa55e60e5745 2137 MELT AS YOU COMPRESS YOUR BLADES THIS IS A HISTORIC OCCASION COLONEL TOWERS WAS ANNOUNCING TO HIS CREW 7db341e0-817a-4187-8070-23bc21521cbe 2312 FOR THE SECTOR THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO HIM HE WOULD NOT NEED A MAP I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A GOAT THERE WOULD BE NO TRAVEL IN THE HOT AFTERNOON 69f7a3d6-9b83-42ef-883b-902993987826 2108 SAID THE TIN WOODMAN THEY CAN'T HELP IT SO I AM POSITIVE THAT SHE WILL MANAGE TO FIND A WAY OUT OF HER PRISON NO REPLIED WOOD THOUGHTFULLY I ada9d4de-92a5-4309-9f5d-8c0dc347b99a 242 WE FOUND PETER SHELLING BEANS IN THE GRANARY AND WHISTLING CHEERILY AS WITH A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE TOWARDS ALL MEN I REALIZED HOW DEEPLY HE FELT ON THE SUBJECT AND HOPED HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL b05dbc62-473d-4a49-b5f8-935b63f4b5f1 30 SARAH STANLEY AND INDEED WERE BUT BARELY AWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PERSON AS THE STORY GIRL 25c25537-1aa4-4adf-a7db-77cdfbb08077 2425 IF THE LAW STARTED EXPERIMENTING ON THIS EQUIPMENT AND WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY WANT US TO DO NOW BEFORE I COULD FREE THE GUN AGAIN THE CREATURES HAD ME 455bd00c-eb0b-47c4-875a-0a9a9a62d23b 2317 JUST DROPPING A FEW HINTS OF THE MOST ELEMENTARY SORT THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF THINGS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BELONG c70e2db5-23be-4e33-b2ca-7b4146b9b8e5 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 3fa7178b-b568-464f-9e70-dc28e4a5f1f3 30 IF THE STORY GIRL WOULD LIKE US WAS LIVING DOWN ON THE ISLAND WITH UNCLE ROGER AND AUNT OLIVIA KING 7331d6ab-dad7-42a0-9e99-f54a65818821 2182 HE CAME UP AGAIN NEARLY STRANGLED TO FIND THAT EITHER HE OR THE ZID HAD THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM 8b2b35e5-8666-46e0-a873-17894f2a6657 2286 USING THEIR DISCLOSURE AS A PROD I COULD HAVE MADE HIM JUMP THROUGH HOOPS IT WASN'T NECESSARY I WAS UNDER PRESSURE NOW TO ACT AND A GREATER PRESSURE NOT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKES 56213ee6-f89a-4f1f-8870-4f1d216918cb 32 NO BUT I SHALL SOME DAY IF I KEEP ON BELIEVING IN HER BUT THEY HAD NEVER SPOKEN ABOUT IT ebc66104-1d83-456f-9538-1654fc9c4a33 413 THAT THE ENTERPRISE PARAGRAPH WAS NOT SAVE THE IDLE REPORT OF A DELUDED FANATIC CECILY AND FELICITY AND THE STORY GIRL DID NOT CRY THEY WERE MADE OF FINER FIRMER STUFF cdcd4bb3-4428-4c19-ab76-501e8dcd4865 188 PROBABLY IN SPITE OF CECILY'S EFFORTS A BITTER SPAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED BETWEEN DAN AND FELICITY HAD NOT A DIVERSION BEEN EFFECTED AT THATMENT BY THE STORY GIRL WHO CAME SLOWLY DOWN UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK WE WILL SING THE WHOLE HYMN OMITTING THE FOURTH STANZA 46341569-7b38-42b2-bbbe-67d293d36456 242 AT ALL EVENTS FELICITY RESENTED THE IMPUTATION THAT SHE HAD MORE INFLUENCE WITH PETER THAN ANY ONE ELSE EVEN IF YOU WAS BROUGHT UP IN TORONTO 8c683dad-6d7b-4d26-bf99-974e698ed4a8 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 3ac89ce0-14ca-4c94-b53f-ee00dc45eb31 2108 OF COURSE HE HAD NEVER SEEN DRAGONS BEFORE AND LOOKED AT HIM SO YOU WILL NOT GET ANGRY WITH ME 5fd541d9-0469-4056-8b04-bc981efeab18 2286 I HAD BEEN QUITE SURPRISED TO FIND THEY REALLY EXISTED I HAD MY NAIL FAR OUT AND WAS TOUCHING UP A CUTICLE HOLDING IT OUT FOR INSPECTION BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING 046de45f-1eea-4e80-88dc-17bb3b681495 2425 THE OTHERS SEEM TO CALL HIM THAT MY VOICE TRAILED OFF AND THE HEAD OF THE WEAPON CRASHED AGAINST THE LOCK 8c294592-9015-4913-8d1f-6d7e4ff4c1d3 188 THEN THEY WERE REALLY GONE WE WERE ALL LEFT TO KEEP HOUSE HE HAD LARGE HANDS AND FEET AND WALKED WITH A SLIGHT STOOP WERE I YOU I WOULD SHOW DONALD FRAGER THAT I COULD WOO AND WIN A LASS AS SPEEDILY AS ANY LOWLANDER OF THEM ALL THAT I WOULD 8099d87e-e14a-44b9-8902-4c45237b84eb 2312 NO YOU CAN'T BE ANY OF THEM EITHER MANUEL BUT WHERE DID YOU REALLY GET THIS LIST OF SO MANY NAMES WRITTEN SO SMALL IT WAS CAUSED BY A LARGE METEOR e4b528ca-ed40-4c08-8657-18c58a678507 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 1d122b93-b658-4ace-a530-7efd3f884b96 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 I WOULDN'T GO NEAR HER AGAIN FOR A BUSHEL OF MAGIC SEED 95c21999-de04-44b2-af83-0efed4129ac7 2274 IT'S FIVE DAYS FOR SURE THEN HARD RADIATION CHERANNA CRUSO ea90869e-04f2-488d-b86b-42ad7b981588 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 d21451d5-4a83-49b9-96a1-4563cedd6dbe 2317 RAY'S GLANCE TOOK ON A TOUCH OF ICY FURY AS HE DID SO THE ENGINE MELTED INTO A SOLID IRREGULAR LUMP OF METAL cb25e6b3-e3ea-4d2c-bd32-e1b24f65f62c 2108 BUT IT IS SURELY NOT TOO LATE EVEN NOW TO DO THIS SINCE I WAS A YOUNG GIRL I'VE NEVER MISSED GETTING A BOMBOOK FOR CHRISTMAS d8e36754-87a8-4492-aa9c-176fbd2b78b5 451 HER PRETTY FEET WERE HIDDEN IN THE TAN COLORED BUTTONED PARIS BOOTS WHICH WERE THE SECRET ENVY OF EVERY SCHOOLGIRL IN CARLISLE THE STORY GIRL CARRIED OUT HER SELF IMPOSED PENANCE FULLY 77c89c70-fa53-4ddc-a746-ec4a98dd3e12 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 8a270c3b-b122-4b1c-b0ec-fbd4417ea5b5 30 FOR IT WAS AN UNDENIABLY UGLY ONE SAUCY WOMAN WITH FULL BLOWN PEONY CHEEKS 3bf2d33e-26e0-4bff-a765-993de6691a4f 2368 YOU COME TO TURN ME OUT SHE DEMANDED HER EYEBROWS WHICH WERE ALMOST AS BIG AND BLACK AS HER ANCIENT MOUSTACHE CAME DOWN OVER GLITTERING LITTLE EYES NOW HE SAID QUIETLY AND BESIDES JONAS KNEW PERFECTLY WELL THAT HE HAD NO NEED OF A SWORD d50a9d90-10aa-4597-9ca1-fb53f0fd1464 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 59955be1-4373-435b-b208-856e43b2e394 2274 WHERE DO YOU GO DEMANDED TO NUBE BARKED IN ORDER TO THE JUNGLE GLOOM THEN CLIMBED IN BEHIND ORAN 32383114-90f4-47fe-b243-c63195e7f992 2368 HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER OR NOT ANY ONE WAS WATCHING HIM THAT TIME NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE HE SAID IF I AM A WIZARD YONA SAID I HAVE POWERS STRANGE POWERS 9c95afbe-6138-481d-96b5-3a3dad993c38 2368 YOU YOU ARE IN A CELL HE SAID AT LAST LOCKED UP AND THAT WAS THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION FOR NO WIZARD COULD USE THE NAME OF GOD 51a50cb9-fabf-42b7-8d83-fe6e335a7102 2108 THAT WAS HOW I LEARNED THE MAGIC POWER OF THE APRON SAID THE SCARECROW WHO SEEMED VERY INTELLIGENT FOR A STRAW MAN 1dbaf4c0-a908-4d75-bc42-8665ffa34aaf 188 WELL I DON'T KNOW SAID THE STORY GIRL THOUGHTFULLY I THINK THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRUE THINGS TRUE THINGS THAT ARE AND TRUE THINGS THAT ARE NOT BUT MIGHT BE I WE THOUGHT HIM HANDSOME FOR AN OLD MAN 8f84ab6a-9ef2-4caa-a652-c0d5e119db60 2317 IT WAS AS IF A BLAST FURNACE HAD SUDDENLY OPENED BESIDE HIM HE WOULD NOT ALLOW FARMER EVEN CLOSE TO THE LATTER c5337567-5053-416d-8a66-c0b786f27716 2286 WILL THEY DO ANYTHING TO ME DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS IT HAD BEEN INTERESTING AT FIRST PARTICULARLY SINCE UP TO THE TIME I WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SPECIAL CORPS I WASN'T EVEN CERTAIN IT REALLY EXISTED 3cf077fe-ddac-4763-a624-943a8d429296 242 DON'T YOU DRAG MY AUNT JANE INTO THIS AFFAIR SAID PETER DARKLY ONE TWILIGHT WHEN A KATY WAS OUT HUNTING IN THE WOODS 0f8fcd4b-7b99-4aaa-abb8-3995aaca0ac5 1867 IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER TO INSTALL A NEW POWER PLANT I THREW THE SWITCH THAT STARTED THE WATER FLOWING AGAIN THERE WAS A NICE LITTLE RELIGIOUS WAR GOING ON AROUND THE PYRAMID 92157004-3452-4df9-88d0-16f23ce80e5e 413 PECKS OF THEM MUST HAVE BEEN DEVOURED IN CARLISLE THAT SUMMER DRY EYED WITH SUCH COURAGE AS THEY MIGHT THEY FACED WHATEVER MIGHT BE IN STORE FOR THEM 15e54102-2486-4fe9-93aa-6c1af05ea792 198 I NEVER HEARD THAT KIND OF STRIKE BEFORE PROTESTED PETER IT A NEW AND COMPLICATED CAKE RECIPE A GORGEOUS COMPOUND OF A PLUMMINESS TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER f95a54a9-9ad6-4c6c-a74c-bf73259ee966 2368 MANY HAVE TOLD ME KNUFF MUTTERED THAT THEIR FEATS WERE NATURAL THIS NEW SENSE IS OF GREAT VALUE PERHAPS WE CAN LEARN TO TEACH IT TO OTHERS IN TIME THOUGH WE HAVE HAD LITTLE SUCCESS WITH THAT fdf0c91c-439f-4cea-b9cf-2097f4e39420 451 I MUST HEAR THAT MISSIONARY SPEAK THEY SAID HE WAS ALL BUT EATEN BY CANNIBALS ONCE ONLY ONE THING COULD CROSS IT AND THAT WAS LOVE 8312bd2a-66ee-46ce-bf12-2c797bd8afbc 1867 WE HAVE SHIPS MAKING FIFTEEN LIGHT YEAR DETOURS NOW THE WATER WAS RUNNING AGAIN MY EYES HAD BEEN DULY BURNED OUT 3f6c3ffa-b423-482a-9193-b20cbdf3a35f 2312 THERE WERE SOME SAWHEADS IN HOUSTON WHO SAID THAT IT WASN'T POSSIBLE AFTER I COUNTED THE REGULAR PEOPLE I WENT TO COUNT THE LITTLE PEOPLE 5aaed2dd-19ca-4c54-aed0-f658d6d632e2 2368 IT SMELLED BUT JONAS WENT UP TO THE DOOR BRAVELY AND KNOCKED THERE WAS NO ANSWER DO YOU KNOW WHY I WAS PUT HERE f4e20a38-7b66-44d6-896e-c81095755eaa 30 THAT HAD NEVER WANED IN ALL HIS YEARS OF EXILE AND HE IS A REAL SMART LITTLE CHAP e46a99e9-0c2e-4c92-8889-110ded8cb301 402 IT IS EASY TO GO TO CALIFORNIA NOW WE ALL HAD THE UNUTTERED FEELING THAT WE MUST DO SUCH HONOUR TO THAT PICTURE AS WE COULD 6f899952-e7b2-4b69-9541-57f2ecbe5358 413 OUR MORNING CHORES WERE DONE AND THE DAY WAS BEFORE US OH I WISH I HAD MINDED WHAT MAR SAID BETTER IT WAS BORNE IN UPON OUR MISERABLE MINDS THAT IF THE STORY GIRL DID NOT ALTOGETHER BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE 4ab1bc75-c583-4b97-b833-c12f2833266e 2182 IRONICALLY THEIR PROBLEM WAS MORE PRESSING NOW THAN BEFORE A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THEY MIGHT LET ME INTO THE TOWNSHIP WHERE I CAN LEARN SOMETHING 170bf866-8aa7-4207-9fdf-99513ffeb8f4 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 94ad31a8-c688-4e7c-9d60-fde610f1e7d6 2425 AND INSTANTLY THE DARK EYES FLASHED ANGRILY THEN OUR NEXT CHANCE TO GET BACK WILL BE AT THREE MINUTES AFTER ONE NODDED VIC I WONDER IF THERE IS ANY CHANCE OF AND KEEP IT CLOSED AT LEAST A WEEK f0ff050f-3f04-4f14-a698-89a5f34893d0 2368 I'VE DONE ALL RIGHT YONETS THOUGHT SULLENLY YOU HAVE CONFESSED THE BALD ONE SAID I SEE HE SAID AT LAST abe561ef-4dec-4bbd-9afb-7ca334dd7418 30 WAS THRILLING IN OUR HEARTS THAT MORNING AND HANDED US OVER TO THE KEEPING OF UNCLE ALEC AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE BEEN ANXIOUS TO CLAIM IT 6d289b8a-d06f-479c-a010-5914b6744b56 30 NINETY YEARS AGO THAT FEELING SWEPT INTO OUR BOYISH HEARTS AND SOULS 856e99b2-9d58-49c3-b1e5-8a95c61f4c84 2312 IT COULD HAVE ONLY BEEN ABOUT THREE DAYS TO BE A NUISANCE HE SAID THAT THE LARGER BEFOCATES b73c60a2-2793-4726-8fef-c01c4de218b0 2182 TELL HIM TO HURRY YET AND TO CONSIDER THE ISSUE WHILE THE ZID LUNGED ABOUT THE SHIP IN SEARCH OF THEM WITH MALIGNANT CRIES AND A GREAT SHRIEKING OF CLAWS ON METAL HOMESIDE WON'T WAIT LONGER AUBREY 88409ebc-5d58-45cf-8829-33843ccdb4bd 2368 YONAS TOOK A DEEP BREATH THERE WAS NO WAY TO BACK OUT NOW YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE 8af280c1-073f-4597-b301-3b5b247ff679 2286 ANGELINA ASKED HER EYES WERE OPEN NOW ALL HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SHIP WERE TRUE 06006dca-65af-4643-ae11-db91ce0e884b 1867 THEY FOUND OUT I WAS THERE ONLY TO HELP THEM RESTORE THE FLOW OF THE WATERS CONSIDERING ITS LOCATION ON ONE OF THE PROXIMA CENTIARY PLANETS IT MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST BEACON IT WASN'T GOING TO BE ENDED BY JUST REVERSING THE WATER VALVE SWITCH 08ca9897-e907-44a8-8993-7723269addad 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 I'VE GOT AN AWFUL PAIN HERE IF 3ba72750-7610-4258-a8e9-edc191b8e13e 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 6a8ec658-b37d-441f-9507-cb68081ab1fb 2425 JEWEL LIKE EMBLEM AROUND THEIR THROATS DESPERATELY I QUICKLY TURNED THE DIAL UNTIL THE TWO RED MARKS COINCIDED 84b27cfa-7013-433b-98d7-e657b2f76ff3 2312 MANUEL WENT WITH MULA A ROUND EASY MAN AND A SPAR SCORNED MULE AND SUCH ODD NAMES ON IT TOO af0e55da-de7f-4aec-8bfc-b3b84578f528 413 AND I'VE GOT TO GO AND STUMP ELDERBERRY SAID PETER IT WAS FELICITY WHO DEMANDED IMPATIENTLY OF MY SHAKING VOICE AS BROTHER WELL I SUPPOSE THAT SETTLES IT SAID PETER IN A DESPAIRING TONE 8910218a-d36a-440f-b791-741053eca822 2274 SEEMS A DIRTY SHAME WE MAY GO NOW HE SAID PAUSE YES 356fa0c0-cc15-4b14-9530-f24fa647f332 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 daf45627-b4e2-4fdd-aa34-97919c3653a5 402 AND TO HIM ODIN GAVE COMMAND THAT HE SHOULD OPEN THE GATE AND ALLOW HIS FOLLOWERS TO CROSS THE RAINBOW BRIDGE 4eeba051-b519-4082-98df-86c9b4d1f74a 413 WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY COMFORTABLE AND HAPPY BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT WE WERE NOT PARTICULARLY SO IT MIGHT INDEED THIS WAS A NEW HORROR WHICH HAD NOT OCCURRED TO US 661ab527-b191-4c50-86a4-ed05e9a1300d 2368 THE NAME OF GOD I CAN SAY THAT NAME YUNUS TOLD THE INQUISITOR NO WIZARD MAY SAY IT ef33f871-411c-4967-9183-edde38105c31 242 BEYOND THE WOODS WE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OF MOONLIGHT WORLD LYING IN THE SHARP FROST OF THE OCTOBER EVENING e525913b-eca1-45bc-8751-c07e18d8b245 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 02029b9c-f7ac-4280-a97a-b9e3a3505262 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 8f638d06-64fe-4b20-b6a0-44443f09070e 188 PHARAOH WAS ARRAYED IN YELLOW THE PLATE HAD A SCALLOP BORDER WITH A WREATH OF GREEN LEAVES AROUND IT MISSUS GRIGGS MAKES HIS BREAD FOR HIM AND SHE CLEANS UP HIS HOUSE NOW AND THEN 76e8b9fa-bce2-4a3a-8c80-3d57323b0084 451 DIDN'T SEE HER OF COURSE MISSUS RAY MET ME AT THE DOOR AND TOLD ME NOT TO COME IN BUT MISSUS RAY SAYS THE MEASLES GO AWFUL HARD WITH THE RAYS IF THEY DON'T DIE COMPLETELY OF THEM IT LEAVES THEM DEAF OR BLIND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IT'S ONLY VANITY WHEN YOU GET PUFFED UP ABOUT THEM THERE ISN'T ANY I USED THE LAST IN THE SOUP YESTERDAY 51c5302b-13d8-47d8-9dab-eadfcc8c8068 2312 THEN HOW COME I'M SO OLD HOW ABOUT LITTLE PEOPLE I'LL TAKE YOU AND YOU WILL NOT YOU WILL NOTICE THAT YOU ARE PARALYZED FROM NECK DOWN f2976a3b-0e04-42aa-8adb-1f7c00cc6c7a 402 THAT IS NOTHING BUT THE PICTURE OF A CROSS OLD MAN ONLY THREE DAYS THEN THE COMPANY PASSED THROUGH IT IN GREAT HASTE d2061264-68e6-4202-b770-0bffa4866f30 2274 ALL BET'S OFF WE'RE COMING IN AFTER YOU THAT MARK TWENTY IS OF FINAL STRAW IT MEANS THEY HAVE THE DELPHINAS FOR SURE YOU'D STILL BE ON THE DEL FINEST MASTERLESS AS AN ARNAR FIELD MAN 3080c013-95cd-4a8d-81a7-7a91459d2a67 2425 AT THE ENTRANCE OF ONE OF THE HUGE MISSHAPEN BLACK BUILDINGS THE CREATURE WITH THE BRILLIANT STONE AT HIS THROAT APPEARED AS SUDDENLY AS A LIGHT FLASHES UP IN THE DARKNESS WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO BACK 510abced-bc89-4eb6-b14a-8f28bda76c13 2286 IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SHIP AND THE DOCK YARD HAD BEEN LAVISH WITH HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL FROM BOW TO REAR TUBE SHE WAS PLAITED IN PURE GOLD PEPPO DROPPED HIS FACE INTO HIS HANDS AND HIS SHOULDERS SHOOK THE SHIP WAS COMPLETELY CLEAN a3c79aa8-e8c7-41e0-8966-581aecffb996 198 I WOULDN'T HAVE SAID THE STORY GIRL HONESTLY WE TOILED ABOUT THE HOUSE AND YARD LIKE MANIACS WE LOOKED INTO EVERY LIKELY AND UNLIKELY PLACE BUT JIMMY WE COULD NOT FIND ANY MORE THAN IF HE HAD INDEED MELTED INTO AIR MISSUS PATERSON CAME AND WE HAD NOT FOUND HIM THINGS WERE GETTING SERIOUS 900dbc46-08f8-4bc1-aaa2-3c1fbc5b50f4 2137 A MOMENT LATER BUNDLES OF METAL RIBBONS FLOATED OUT AND BILLOWED INTO A GIANT UMBRELLA THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A GLOW TO IT NOW LUMINOUS NEEDLES DANCED AND A SECOND RED LIGHT FLASHED ON eb681661-759e-4fe3-b1ac-604c53255228 14 ANSWERED PETER EASILY BECAUSE MA HADN'T TIME TO DARN THEN THIS WEEK SO I PUT ON TWO PAIRS 60fb8cd9-33fa-4c5c-9d2b-461c5ff6518c 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 46ef8dde-d96a-41bf-83be-8adee43cec17 2137 HE SEARCHED AROUND FOUND SOME GLASSY BLACK ROCKS AND ANCHORED DOWN THE CHUTE FIRST YOU LEARN TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM A THING THEN CONTROL IT a7eec7a2-1ae6-4b2a-bd30-8347bae68322 1867 I'LL GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT I TURNED TO JAB A CLAW AT THE OTHER PRIESTS BOLD ATTACK BEING THE BEST DEFENSE AND SO FORTH d0864f98-b037-456f-920a-34a8add4c3ff 451 MAYBE THEY USED TO ONCE BUT NOW THEY WEAR HATS OH THE STORY GIRL WAS MUCH DISAPPOINTED WE WERE ALL GOING PETER INCLUDED 2f7c9d9a-5b14-432d-9004-a6ca707238a3 2317 HE STARTED TO CHARGE ACROSS THE DECK AT GARF BUT HIS OWN FEET WENT OUT FROM UNDER HIM AND HE LANDED FLAT ON HIS NOSE a41a424d-1d9a-4674-8e3d-32dff049e3ef 1867 JUST WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE THIRTEENTH SIN ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE BUT THAT ONLY HELPED THE RESEMBLANCE 8ed890d7-c5e6-4a52-9ccb-fb2af0d8c112 242 I DON'T BELIEVE GOD CARES WHETHER ANYBODY CAN EAT A BITTER APPLE WITHOUT MAKING A FACE IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE f91479ba-9328-404d-ae31-079852453de3 2425 IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO A GLARE OF LIGHT IN MY EYES 9afe9a2d-1dec-443e-a479-5cd21b83d7b8 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 693d26d3-7946-4289-b793-688d8323d338 2286 DID HE WANT TO RULE A WHOLE PLANET OR MAYBE AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OR MORE I HAVE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM 80a329c8-e297-4ec9-881e-50eb959d3e77 1867 WHICH ADDED UP TO THEN I WENT TO THE GALLEY FOR A LONG STRONG DRINK AND FOR THAT I HAD LONG BEFORE WORKED OUT A SYSTEM THAT WAS FULL PROOF 3d38f319-00dd-4f7c-9251-2494a130edf1 242 BUT IT WAS A SELFISH PRAYER OF PETER TO WANT TO BE THE ONLY ONE WE MUSTN'T PRAY SELFISH PRAYERS LOOK HERE PETER SAID FELIX OMINOUSLY e4122f06-9283-4113-929d-2fff95891516 2108 AND HAD YOU NOT TRAVELLED TO THE EUBE VALLEY I WOULD STILL BE MISSUS EWPES'S PRISONER IT WILL YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON THIS ERRAND ASKED THE TIN EMPEROR 1e5c341b-5fc6-4ae0-a7c3-60e7158992df 451 MA'S GONE TO TOWN PA AND HER WENT THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY'RE NOT COMING BACK TILL TO MORROW EVEN CHILDREN CANNOT DEVOUR MINCE PIE 834cae29-4ce1-42ce-a52d-34fb70da3c4a 14 NEVER AGAIN DID HUMAN EYE BEHOLD THE PROUD PRINCESS THE STORY GIRL MADE NO RESPONSE 453dd057-22d4-4883-a4ba-9e2f00fc229b 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 293b3826-a1ea-4505-a4d4-cb5ebad908b9 2182 I'VE GOTTEN MAD HE SAID ALOUD HER PEOPLE WITHOUT NEED OF THE CALM CRYSTALS THEY TRADED JENOFER REMINDED HIM bdd578e1-af2c-43cf-88c0-22141e952b7a 2274 WE DIVERT THE FILES HIS FOOTSTEPS GRATED ON A FLOOR THAT WAS THE REAR WALL OF THE BRIDGE DURING FLIGHT IN THE WARDROOM OF STETSON'S SCOUT CRUISER THE LIGHTS WERE LOW f7b0d4c3-64bf-4ebe-ac84-cd725fb74996 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 2d221100-a9d5-4860-8ed0-8d83cd25e408 2286 BEAUTIFUL PLANET YOU HAVE HERE DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE IDEAL SPOT FOR A COUNTRY HOME FRIENDLY PEOPLE ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP STRANGERS AND ALL THAT I IMAGINE THAT'S WHAT I LIKE MAKES ME FEEL GRATEFUL THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES 5c44bebc-4f34-4457-af67-66660a5588e1 2286 A PARTY OR PARTIES UNKNOWN HAD NEATLY WALKED THE SHIP CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM TO THEIR OWN ENDS THERE WAS NO PICTURE OF THE GIRL d8bb4d40-d863-45c9-81b0-063b0f9336fa 14 SAID FELICITY RELUCTANTLY I AND THEN CELIA GAVE IN AND TOOK HIM BECAUSE SHE SAW THERE WASN'T NO HOPE OF HIM EVER GIVING IN I 2c8aa7a3-5748-4294-87b9-88cb516ac7fc 2108 IN THE PLACE OF THIS CREATURE CHOP FIGHT TWISTING HIS STUFFED HEAD AROUND IN MISSUS UBES'S DIRECTION 3a71b244-50bc-4ca9-bf30-01d6d43dfed1 14 IT WAS THIS WAY DON'T YOU EVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN THE STORY GIRL FINISHED HER TURN OVER AND STRETCHED HERSELF OUT ON THE GRASSES 8199ff75-ab4d-48be-b632-f6dbd717bc35 402 THAT I HOPE WE WILL ALL MEET IN A BETTER WORLD BETTER WAIT UNTIL MISTER MILWOOD LEAVES AND CATCH HIM IN THE LANE ADVISED THE STORY GIRL c67532ef-980b-4b63-98d6-60af6eb43477 2108 AND I BELIEVE IT SENSIBLE TO KEEP OUT OF DANGER WHENEVER WE CAN CAN'T YOU HELP US BEING A FAIRY 6ab93d7e-2239-493d-98df-483516e3b5dd 2286 ALL EIGHTEEN MEN ABOARD HAD BEEN KILLED INSTANTLY THE THIEVES WERE NOW MURDERERS THEN HOW COULD I FIND IT AND HAVING FOUND IT CATCH IT 3cef39b5-2c11-4215-8d5c-27a7eabe7682 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 f06aea28-9e96-4dca-9752-2e68f2c9a891 2286 REAL FATE I DIDN'T CARE I KEPT THE GUN ON PEPPET'S PUDGY FORM WHILE HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO AN ACCELERATION COUCH AGAINST THE WALL I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER THAN POLITICAL CORRUPTION HOWEVER 7344c9e6-331e-44c6-91b8-97f3aecd8702 14 RETORTED FELICITY IN A TONE WHICH IMPLIED THAT WHAT THE CARLISLE PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS FAR MORE IMPORTANT 75548c36-7ffa-4f4e-99aa-d2aff4e33030 451 PETER WENT EVERYWHERE WITH US NOW HE WAS A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL WHERE HIS BEHAVIOR WAS AS IRREPROACHABLE AS IF HE HAD BEEN RAISED IN THE CASE OF VERE DE VERE 4c8dd85b-39a6-4510-b3d4-0aac0fefe7a4 1867 THE BEACONS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM AND OPENED THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THEN A ROAR CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE PYRAMID THAT MUST HAVE SHAKEN ITS STONE WALLS IT WAS RESTING INSIDE THE BEACON DOOR WHEN I WOKE UP aec61bf6-a6b6-454c-b34a-be8e2e55fadd 2286 JUST BECAUSE I HAD THE SPECIAL CALL DOESN'T MEAN I AM THE SPECIAL CALL HE SAID MADE A CHOKING NOISE AND ENCLOSED IT 8f0ca2ed-b127-4495-8368-613af5bb3d6a 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 93bd0629-2122-4757-953d-8fd2ab2668dd 1867 WHAT KIND OF BEACON I ASK HIM THE BLIND LIZARDS WERE WAITING FOR ME BY THE DOOR AND LOOKED EVEN UNHAPPIER THAN USUAL e3085ecf-78d7-49ad-aed0-8ae9eb3cbdff 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 a182207d-b64d-48da-9823-f7a12d7236ec 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 c32397a7-2936-4545-8f28-84d50a4541e4 1867 IN THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE DAWN THE HEAVY DUTY EYE DROPPED THE CRATE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE AND DARTED AWAY WITHOUT BEING SEEN 82684244-79fc-4165-a3f6-2300bce89549 402 BUT I NEEDN'T HAVE BEEN SO CROSS ABOUT IT I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DIGNIFIED ACCORDINGLY WE WENT AND HOLLERED WITH A RIGHT GOOD WILL 66675d4a-babf-42d1-8204-cc398bd267ea 2182 I TOOK IT FOR AN E I CONSULATE CRAFT BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THIS ONE HAS PRODUCED A CRYSTAL 6f4e9f65-38b3-4389-80e1-d742a1565369 402 AND WAS BADLY CHEATED TO BOOT FOR HE LEVANTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS TAKING THE APPLES WITH HIM HAVING PAID HER ONLY HALF HER RIGHTFUL DUE BUT WE WERE VERY QUIET NOW 5ded041c-ec18-405a-bbdb-2fe539e9fb1d 2368 BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THAT DATE THAT THEY ACHIEVED A SIGNAL TRIUMPH THE MINUTES TICKED BY ENDLESSLY 95c75632-827c-4a26-b005-85bab6a8d81a 2317 A SMALL WAVE ALMOST MADE HIM SET DOWN ON THE DECK BEFORE HE GOT BOTH FEET PLANTED AGAIN AND I HAD TO LEARN IT AND BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO ITS USE THROUGH ANALYZING WHAT YOU JUST SAID 66731571-1c52-4159-8cae-115701b40bca 2108 SAID THE TWENTY LEGGED MAN AND OF DOROTHY AND JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND DOCTOR PIPT 3d7a6f73-aac2-45d6-b27b-190fc63e6b4a 32 DAN LIKE PETER WRITES LYING DOWN FLAT BUT WITH HIS BACK TOWARDS US a2896672-3a52-4900-858c-9ef300cb6f93 2182 THE QUEEN WILL HAVE TO TACK WITH THE WIND FOR A WHILE UNTIL ANOTHER ONE SHOWS UP ALSO ON MONDAY'S NECESSARILY BEFORE CHARLEY MACK'S VISIT 1c3064e4-638c-4480-b601-2af140d76b3e 2286 COMPARING THE POSITIONS RELATION TO THE GLOWING SPHERE THAT ENCLOSED ALL THE POSSIBLE LOCATIONS OF THE STOLEN SHIP I HAD LEFT STANDING ORDERS THAT ALL REPORTS FALLING INSIDE THE DANGER AIR TO BE BROUGHT TO ME AT ANY TIME 601f4a73-5d34-43b6-ad72-91173d6dcef9 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 71988a71-7d0d-4657-bd14-b2f5d0767fdf 188 THE LAST WE HEARD OF HIM HE WAS IN THE MAIN LUMBER WOODS BUT THAT WAS THREE YEARS AGO IT WAS ON HIS ACCOUNT I PUT ON MY RED SILK 8cbc800c-6683-40ee-bba1-cacf8fa16418 451 THE STORY GIRL COULD SEE US THROUGH THE WINDOW CAROUSING WITHOUT STINT ON RAISIN PIES AND UNCLE EDWARD'S CHERRIES I'LL MORTIFY YOU IF I CATCH YOU SHOWING YOURSELF TO THE MILLWARDS LIKE THAT MY GIRL 2201c772-17a1-4281-a7da-2142b5dca87d 2425 I OBSERVED THEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE WATCH MY CLOTHING THERE WAS VIC HIS RED HAIR TOUSLED AND HIS FACE GREY WITH WORRY 9c1dad1e-cd7f-4b52-9863-e4cc24dce530 2286 ANY MAN THAT CAN CON AN ENTIRE WORLD INTO BUILDING A BATTLESHIP FOR HIM THEN STEAL IT FROM THEM IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE f11fda38-d343-4f84-abf7-b7b46d1dfc5f 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 c3832cc7-0cd5-48c1-a8dc-62cd0da34ca4 413 FELIX HELD OUT THE NEWSPAPER IT WAS A CHARLOTTETOWN DAILY ENTERPRISE UNDER A SENSATIONAL HEADLINE THE LAST TRUMP WILL SOUND AT TWO O'CLOCK TO MORROW WAS A PARAGRAPH TO THE EFFECT THAT THE LEADER OF A CERTAIN NOTED SECT IN THE UNITED STATES HAD PREDICTED THAT AUGUST TWELFTH WOULD BE THE JUDGMENT DAY AND THAT ALL HIS NUMEROUS FOLLOWERS WERE PREPARING FOR THE DREAD EVENT BY PRAYER FASTING AND THE MAKING OF APPROPRIATE WHITE GARMENTS FOR ASCENSION ROBES c00154e0-2f6d-4003-9534-d40d7bbe0aea 2286 THE NEXT TIME WE MET THINGS WERE GOING TO BE VERY DIFFERENT EVEN BEFORE I HAD ALL THE ANSWERS I BEGAN TO GET THE DRIFT OF THINGS 064e0d25-a413-4883-9856-74220272cba8 1867 ONCE ON THE GROUND IT WOULD NEVER BE NOTICED THOUGH IT WAS A LITTLE DISCONCERTING TO SEE IT FLOAT BY 1f3b6a9b-b469-4604-ba64-ea2ecb068afe 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 410888bc-9ffb-4e12-9cab-c2858dd437ac 451 I'D LIKE A DRESS OF MOONSHINE WITH STARS FOR BUTTONS AND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS FULL OF DEAR DELICATE SHADOWS 59e66cc2-d71d-445a-a373-094cc6c3c4dc 2312 US DIONES SORROS EVEN PEOPLE A SCRAP OF BALD HEADED AND DESOLATE MOUNTAINS BUT MANOEL HAD A JOB TO DO AND HE DID IT 9c20a652-15d5-4abe-a3a2-6d07cb9bfbd3 2108 I WAS VERY CAREFUL TO AVOID THEM DURING MY JOURNEY SOUTH I KNOW AGREED THE HIPPOCRIF NINNIE AMY STILL DECLARED SHE WOULD MARRY ME 27a10bfe-2389-4eb1-bebf-881b7fb3c6a7 2274 THE NATIVE CLIMBED DOWN TO THE CAB SIDE STEP STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER BUT IT WAS EASY RAIDER CHIEF e1bc2ceb-41f4-4963-ac62-89a1bc661abb 2286 AND HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT I WOULD FIND AND ALSO PUT YOURSELF OUT IN THE HALL AND SEE ME TO MORROW DURING WORKING HOURS NEVERTHELESS I PUT THE THEORY TO THE TEST e071c041-fee7-481e-ba75-c5205375a111 451 BEFORE THAT THEY'RE JUST PLAIN HEATHEN DOCTOR GREYOR PATTED CECILY ON THE HEAD TOLD HER SHE WAS A LITTLE BRICK AND HAD DONE JUST THE RIGHT THING EXAMINED SOME OF THE FATAL BERRIES AND GAVE IT AS HIS OPINION THAT THEY WERE PROBABLY POISONOUS ADMINISTERED SOME POWDERS TO DAN AND ADVISED HIM NOT TO TAMPER WITH FORBIDDEN FRUIT IN THE FUTURE AND WENT AWAY 151daf90-c5bf-4d7e-bb3b-b67d266e9c21 413 I GUESS HE KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT IT AS A TORY WOULD RETORTED THE STORY GIRL OF MANY A SELFISH AND UNKIND WORD AND THOUGHT AND ACTION OF PINCHING FELIX TO MAKING CROWD AT FAMILY PRAYERS 346d2181-b9a7-4afc-835c-089c5a457b7c 2317 FARMER HOLD HIMSELF UPRIGHT HOPING TO APPROACH RAY AND CAME UP CHOKING AND SPUTTERING RAY WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND 9d5f13fb-9ee0-43e6-a04f-94ca49cb0709 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 0ef0e85f-f65d-46e5-ad18-638dbbb954fd 32 THAT CUP HAS BEEN HERE FOR FORTY YEARS AS IF ELFIN DENIZENS OF UPPER AIR WERE SHARING IN OUR MIRTH I SAY MY PRAYERS SOMETIMES 2784c16e-2e72-480e-9764-a051c5b57e78 2286 THERMO COUPLES GALVANOMATORS I MIGHT BE WRONG ON SOME OF THE MINOR DETAILS THEY WEREN'T IMPORTANT AND AS FIERCE A SCOW AS I COULD RAISE SMEARED ACROSS MY FACE ab66a9b6-89fc-4709-901a-2c98ae46fb45 2425 IF I'M IN A JAM IT'S MY OWN DOING AND DUE TO MY BULLHEADEDNESS OF WHICH YOU HAVE SO OFTEN REMINDED ME LIFE OF SOME KIND HOWEVER FOR MY EXPERIMENTS PROVE THAT 7b62b803-743c-49f9-9ad2-59226a5e1020 451 I'M GOING TO DO PENANCE ALL DAY FOR COAXING SARA TO DISOBEY HER MOTHER SHE ANNOUNCED WITH CHASTENED TRIUMPH 329ba22e-8eb1-4502-827e-da633c9fd40a 2274 AND A CLASS NINE MONITOR WITH ONE PLANET BUSTER GRAY MUD FLOOR AND GLOOMY AISLES BETWEEN MONSTROUS BLUISH TREE TRUNKS c4879c37-e56f-4752-97d9-75f494c184c4 413 IT WAS A HUGE COMFORT TO HER THAT AUNT JANET ALWAYS SAID YES AND OF COURSE AS IF THERE COULD BE NO QUESTION ABOUT IT I HOPE WE'LL BE ALL TOGETHER WHEREVER WE ARE SAID CECILY GENTLY 7d4e858a-8f2d-4bd8-ae99-b99b47a40b9d 2286 NO ON EMPLOYMENT A SURFACE OF A METALS AND READY MARKETS FOR ALL THEY PRODUCE IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT PEPPE WAS A MONOMANIAC AN EGOMANIAC AND A SARCOTIC AS A SORTED COMPUTER f623ba89-7278-4063-8159-72131cd82c7a 2425 BE KNOCKED DOWN BY AUTOMOBILES AND TWO BODIES CANNOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME 69b98c1d-8d8e-4c3a-a734-9c1f50deeb45 2108 GENTLY GENTLY CAUTIONED THE SCARECROW DON'T BE RUDE TO STRANGERS CAPTAIN d8639df8-7a8b-486e-85d1-87615221e76f 1867 THE ONLY THING IN A TEN MILE CIRCLE WAS THIS PYRAMID AND THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T MY BEACON d7645484-2200-4d80-b38d-e99736d3b73b 451 WHEN NOT HELD IN THE CHURCH WITH BARE FEET AND NO PARTICULAR DISGRACE ATTACHED TO IT cc8b11b4-e678-456c-92f1-2421f0a9c377 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 9d467a9f-9aaa-4bb7-8263-627e7b7cb245 2286 RELATING TO THE SHIP'S TRANSMITTER THE SCENE IN THE MONITOR RECEIVER CHANGED YOU ARE NOW LOOKING AT A HYDROGEN BOMB THAT IS PRIMED AND AWARE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD HOLDING OUR SHIPS TOGETHER IT WILL OF COURSE GO OFF IF YOU TRY TO PULL AWAY FROM THE CORNER OF MY EYE I COULD SEE HIM GETTING PURPLE ABOUT THE FACE 5869bda6-1ea6-4991-95ee-ca80f46e7603 242 I NEVER PRAYED THAT YOU COULDN'T EAT A BITTER APPLE I JUST PRAYED THAT I'D BE THE ONLY ONE THAT COULD JUST THEN AS THEY HAD COME TO GRIPS AGAIN REMEMBER MY COMMANDS FELIX 53dc91ba-b5f9-4ee5-8287-8d079ff76f6e 1867 IT BLEW A NICE HOLE IN THE FLOOR WITH A GREAT SHOW OF NOISE AND SMOKE I FOLDED MY ARMS IN A REGAL DANCE b7a74749-07b4-43af-a332-f01a0ae2a1a0 32 WOULD IT BE PROPER TO TELL A DREAM LIKE THAT BEFORE THE GIRLS SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO d3e6aa54-7454-4042-8b68-644acd37f323 2182 THE WHITE PUFF OF SAIL ON DARK GREEN SEA GLIDING ACROSS CALM WATER BANDED WITH LIGHTER AND DARKER STRAYER WHERE SUBMERGED SHOALS LAY TO RECOVER OUR INVESTMENT 436fe7c4-8eec-4fd6-bdee-a3cecfe1cda3 2108 DO NOT KNOW YOUR NIMMY AMY AND SO I CANNOT TELL WHAT SHE NEEDS TO MAKE HER HAPPY BUT I REFUSE TO DO IT UNLESS a3c3a368-1f5a-407d-a338-e1e63f585563 1867 BECAUSE THE OLD PRIEST DID PRY AND PEER IT WAS RULED HENCEFORTH THAT ONLY THE BLIND COULD ENTER THE HOLY OF HOLIES 7fa75b74-0eb7-40c7-b795-43942374e74e 2368 HERK NUFF SAID TAKE HIM BACK THE BALD ONE ADDED HERAKNUFF YOU ONA SAID ENTERING THE CONVERSATION WITH A LIGHT PLEASANT TONE SO LONG AS IT WORKS YUNUS SAID I WILL BE SATISFIED d9e95b81-f744-4403-ad01-6d87f67c22a2 2274 ASKED TO NEWBE VERY MANY WE GAINED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES ALONE 685d5a29-f6b6-404d-a639-3b255c27d47c 413 IT'S THERE HE GASPED LOOK READ I'LL THEY HAD NOT SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER SINCE I KNOW A STORY ABOUT JUDY PENU AND THE WORD PRESBYTERIAN SAID THE STORY YELL 603116f4-f7f8-49ca-889b-414e05ca8b7d 451 I'VE THOUGHT OF A GREAT PENANCE SAID CECILY EAGERLY BUT FELICITY WOULD NOT WALK WITH A BAREFOOTED COMPANION 703df6b6-ff35-4abf-8617-48dc75b8766b 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 f635e8ba-026b-4be2-b90f-e9c63dbcf334 402 MY STORY IS ABOUT MISSUS DUNBAR AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE FANNY OF COURSE PETER WILL GO TO HEAVEN SAID THE STORY GIRL HE'S NOT GROWN UP ENOUGH TO GO ANYWHERE ELSE 6e02b6b5-378a-48d9-8151-229f67175f3e 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 5302664c-f67c-4ca3-b58c-fab71938e761 2108 PRIVILEGE FEW WIVES ENJOY THERE IS NO TEMPER IN YOUR NEW HEAD HOW DID YOU GET THERE ASKED THE VOICE FOR HE CREPT INTO THE BACKGROUND AND SAID NOTHING MORE 30ce66c1-c772-404b-afbb-9759a7a332ed 32 HOW COULD WE EVER HAVE GOT BACK TO THE HOUSE THROUGH THE SHADOWS AND SWAYING BRANCHES OF A DARKENING ORCHARD 9e3d93cf-1655-4c1f-8ce2-8aa051857a70 242 BUT TO FELIX EVERYTHING SUDDENLY BECAME FLAT STALE AND UNPROFITABLE SHE AND A KATY WERE VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER 01155568-c933-4743-88ef-371d6e3db697 2286 I BRUSHED AGAINST IT AND IT IS NOW UNSERVICEABLE AND HIS FEMALE SISTANT THEY PULLED THE ENTIRE JOB BY THEMSELVES THE SUIT WAS ON AND I KEPT THE RUNNING CHATTER UP THROUGH THE MIKE IN THE HELMET 42a7d209-e372-41d2-800c-8a50e851542f 14 BUT WE UNDERSTOOD HE THOUGHT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF FELICITY WE WERE ALL GLAD TO HEAR THAT PETER WAS GOING TO CHURCH b3c79c3e-20a7-4b2e-af23-0b3f3b2e2304 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 ed785eb7-8ec0-4b9e-a4d5-0f3ccb25b173 451 MY AUNT JANET WAS FOND OF MISSIONS OH I DON'T KNOW MILLIONS OF YEARS LIKELY AND EVEN THEN I 4c9f731d-bbe7-4453-98bf-3bda6869fe3e 413 WE COULD DEPEND ON FATHER IF HE WAS HERE SAID DAN STOUTLY HE'D TELL US THE TRUTH WE HAVE JUST GOT TO THINK OF SOME FOOL EXCITER THAT'S ALL I SAID I IT WAS AN OMINOUS SUNSET a9a928f3-988d-4430-85bc-518f4f3f4a99 2108 BUT FINALLY HE SAID IN A SERIOUS TONE OF VOICE NONE COULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION AND THEY FOLLOWED IT FOR SOME TIME 6dda8b4a-66d9-4570-8cff-b7090e458b89 1867 THE OLD MAN HAD THAT LOOK OF INTENSE GLEE ON HIS FACE THAT MEANT SOME ONE WAS IN FOR A VERY ROUGH TIME 38e6bf50-ac9f-4d18-bc7e-c4b31683ed37 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 977f6d65-6b69-4cd7-952b-eb9b5e7720ab 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 9f162c09-ec5a-4ae9-abc9-78d119f1b6bb 451 THE WINDOW WAS OPEN AN IT WAS MORE'N I COULD STAND TO HEAR YOU FELLOWS LAUGHIN DOWN HERE AN ME MISSING IT ALL 26efab71-f88d-4cb7-b804-72ef96c4d592 188 NOW I LOVED UNCLE ALEC BUT I WANTED TO BE TALLER THAN HE WAS SARA RAY WAS THE ONLY UNHAPPY ONE AMONG US cd3c5c70-ce43-4fa1-8313-34e598b26df6 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 c423b183-8084-4d1a-834d-6c76b71e6aa5 32 SHE BLUSHED AS RED AS A ROSE FOR SHE KNEW SHE HAD DONE A DREADFUL THING SOON THE HOUSE WAS DARK AND SILENT ff039b34-b83e-43d1-ac8e-6edcea4216f0 2182 JEFF AS THREE AND FOUR WERE HORRIBLY SHAKEN BY THE INITIAL ATTEMPT AT COMMUNICATION WITH THE NATIVES 916c04ec-0610-4144-b0ab-299904bfff56 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 7dd8f4b9-9bbe-46c4-ad04-14160dce9dfa 242 IN SPITE OF PRAYERS AND HEROIC ATTEMPTS FELIX COULD NEVER GET BEYOND THAT LAST BITE d10366f0-2e82-431b-98a7-35637ed21356 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 67d1fd8d-bfd2-4f6c-b5f7-9795687445ba 188 FIRST DONALD DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HE FELT SURE DEEP DOWN IN HIS HEART THAT NANCY LIKED HIM I FEEL JUST THE SAME WAY d1bbeef6-2563-427f-a843-9162fb924da9 2425 SHE SIGHED A LONG SHUDDERING SIGH AND SNUGGLED INTO MY ARMS I DIDN'T LIKE THEIR SMILES 9f57eb1d-9e63-494d-8542-594f8f346a42 2137 TOWERS WAS STEPPING THROUGH THE BULKHEAD DOOR INTO THE RADIO ROOM HIS BOOTS CHURNING UP CLOUDS OF POWDERY DUST THE FIRST MILE WAS ACROSS FLAT DESERT f5fe5934-28c8-4b9d-9e49-98bd405c1f59 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 609168d9-ce9c-4266-987d-fe8d5022c55c 242 I WISHED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SERMON CONTEST AND FELT SORE WHENEVER I THOUGHT OF MY FAILURE 654a3af3-13b3-46b4-8f5c-932ece0ef7df 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 586c0f6d-f63a-4610-b9b0-6bf9b9705c5a 2274 A STEADY DRIP OF CONDENSATION SPATTERED THE WINDSHIEL STETSON'S VOICE HISSED IN ORNE'S EARS d933cc2c-7dda-481d-a175-f29c888c8624 2274 BUT I THOUGHT I WAS THROUGH WITH THE OLD REDISCOVERING RE EDUCATION WHEN YOU DRAFTED ME OFF THE HAMMEL INTO THE I A A L I E N ANY LONGER THAN THAT 00c5736b-4279-4a73-9936-cd6cec8d64a8 242 HER POTENT VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS QUITE A HERO AFTER ALL AND THE STING WENT OUT OF MY RECOLLECTION OF THAT OLD FIGHT SEEMS AS IF HE MUST BE RIGHT AND YET IT DOESN'T SEEM SO bf87ab05-e806-4b08-85a9-f52c75d582e4 188 AND WILL YOU PLEASE TRY THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE UNCLE EDWARD'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER WAS TO BE MARRIED AND UNCLE EDWARD HAD WRITTEN OVER URGING UNCLE ALEC AUNT JANET AND AUNT OLIVIA TO GO DOWN TO HALIFAX FOR THE WEDDING AND SPEND A WEEK THERE 1bc65ece-930e-4d54-8dd2-9d357c62d31b 2108 IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE OTHERS FOR TIN DOES NOT TIRE OR REQUIRE SLEEP HOWEVER HE FOUND HER 48dcff5c-823c-49fc-bcc1-d9b3f536d59e 2368 AND THE BROTHERHOOD HAS GAINED A NEW MEMBER CLTON SAID A I PROMISE YOU YONA SAID EARNESTLY THAT YOU WILL BE IN NO DANGER FOR ME 89401200-fb64-4c40-949f-10a64b26500d 402 THE REST OF US REMAINED IN THE BACKGROUND BUT WITHIN HEARING OCTOBER WAS A BUSY MONTH ON THE HILL FARMS OF OUR MERRY LITTLE BAND c8b7f478-2911-4553-a529-a596993eb4d3 451 THEY ARE GREAT AT MANY THINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT SWEET AND SHOULDN'T BE I THOUGHT IT OUT LAST NIGHT 2ae4abd8-2256-4636-afa6-819317195043 402 AFTER DINNER WE ALL WITHOUT ANY VERBAL DECISION ABOUT IT WASHED OUR FACES AND COMBED OUR HAIR SUCH A DEAR OLD LADY WITH LOVELY SILVERY CURLS OH MASTER HE PRAYED TURNING BESEECHINGLY TO ODIN b718473a-8df1-4269-9b3d-835bb2b9697f 2286 MY MANNER CLOTHES JEWELRY THE EASY WAY I PASSED MONEY AROUND AND THE LUXURIOUS SHEEN OF MY BAGS COULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING IT IS A LATE EMPIRE BATTLESHIP OF THE WAR LORD CLASS 28cbfa74-d01a-4279-aec9-ff71a1155783 242 I THOUGHT YOU SAID IN YOUR SERMON MASTER PETER THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T FIGHT PETER AND FELIX WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY WORSE FRIENDS AFTER IT 40c71bc5-346a-449e-a7d5-7c09f04185d4 402 AND MARGARET FELT THAT SHE COULD NEVER LET HIM GO I LONG LONG AGO IN THE GOLDEN AGE WHEN THE GODS USED TO VISIT THE EARTH SO OFTEN THAT IT WAS NOTHING UNCOMMON TO SEE THEM WILT THOU NOT KEEP THAT PROMISE d2714242-77a7-45f2-a997-d93968586fb9 413 DAN SAID IT WAS NO USE FOR ME TO BOTHER PRAYING ABOUT IT HE SAID IF THEY COULDN'T SPEAK GOD MIGHT DO SOMETHING BUT WHEN THEY JUST WOULDN'T IT WASN'T LIKELY HE WOULD INTERFERE YOU KNOW HE WOULD THINK IT A GREAT JOKE TO FRIGHTEN US LIKE THAT 8a924490-4366-44af-a622-d6fe6362f9b8 1867 ONLY NATIVE LIFE FORMS WERE QUITE WELL PROTECTED ONE LIZARD MERELY TURNED THE HANDLE AND WE WERE INSIDE THE BEACON 7a76c2af-a500-4752-9ad5-df27e0a22282 2425 I GLANCED DOWN AT MY WATCH FEARFUL FOR A MOMENT THAT IT HAD BEEN BROKEN OR LOST IN THE MALAY BUT WHAT DOES THE WORK WHAT KILLED HIM I ASKED BREATHLESSLY c5776029-97de-4036-8af4-2ad4d4487012 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 030ca2f0-d77a-42c5-8383-6c28d1f42aab 2108 MOREOVER THE OLD WOMAN GRABBED UP MY SEVERED HEAD FOR THE THREE WHOLE DAYS 3345a130-f2ba-42d9-854e-9b8d45a32f7f 2182 DANGLING THE LIMP FORM OF THE ZID FROM ITS GREAT RUBBERY LIPS LIKE A DROWNED KITTEN BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM c933ec9f-4ddb-439a-89ec-6dbf91388097 2274 FORCING ORAN TO USE THE WIPERS IF YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH THEN WE SHALL DIE BRAVELY SAID TO NUB cd61508a-7e1c-4d5e-b772-8546507e0677 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 6c2068dc-a9c7-4ea9-ae5d-194df28976a4 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 32c2c64f-8ce7-4109-8345-53fb67d1fdc7 2425 THEY CONTROL IT WITH THAT SHUDDER BEHIND THE LIPS OF THE IMAGE DID YOU NOTICE IT PETE YELLED VIC COMING BOY HE WAS WAITING FOR ME STAVING OFF AS BEST HE COULD THE RUSH OF BODIES AROUND HIM 005946e4-9d98-4b09-94ab-12d2d39093b6 188 OUR RELATIVES STARTED US WITH A QUARTER APIECE FOR THE REST WE KNEW WE MUST DEPEND ON OUR OWN EXERTIONS acd0b583-b3b7-4d4a-9b74-db50cc14a3d5 2317 TO THE EDITOR BOTH WERE ALIEN THEN WAVED THE TWO TO THE RAIL WITH HIM BLOWING YOURSELF UP 81aa237d-261c-4900-a112-d241ef5828dd 2137 SEVERING ALL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE SHIP AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE APPROXIMATELY SIX HUNDRED MILES FROM YOU THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND 273496fe-0cfd-4bc9-b323-186167dfafbb 242 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SHE SAID IT OUT OF MALICE OF PREPENSE THAT'S FAIR ENOUGH IF I'M LICKED I WON'T PRAY FOR THAT PARTICULAR THING ANY MORE 17fd74e4-11c8-4337-9be6-09a8baeca6fb 2425 I RETREATED TWO OR THREE SWIFT STEPS JERKING THE REVOLVER FROM MY POCKET NOW FOR A BREAK GUN LOADED f5264be7-4adc-4e9d-bc09-ab18ae05b5a1 413 SARA RAY THOUGHT FELICITY SHOULD SPEAK FIRST BECAUSE THE STORY GIRL WAS HALF AN ORPHAN IF TO MORROW ISN'T THE JUDGEMENT DAY I'LL TELL IT MONDAY c687c15d-58ec-4649-83bd-41883b397c05 2317 DON'T SPEAK TO ME SHE SAID AND HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE ENEMY WHO HAD DONE HIM IN de64ff15-d78c-475f-9526-049e75649538 2274 THE SURGICAL SCARS ON HIS NECK WHERE THE MICRO COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT HAD BEEN INSERTED THERE ARE POLAR OCEANS 6eedafbd-b052-435b-b484-73a5c50eafe1 2317 THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF TURNED A BEAMING SMILE ON FARMER AND RAY e5461fb8-37b5-4e0d-9b51-968ff30028c1 14 THEY WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES SHUT HIS EYES AND MURMURED HAVE YOU GOT A CENT FOR COLLECTION 3bbc8e0c-e6ed-4630-b487-5ad1baf78b5a 2274 IT'S NOT COMPLETE THEN WE LOOK INTO THEM WITH BRIGHT BOYS LIKE YOU DISGUISED AS OUR N OUR FIELD MEN 5dd6199e-522d-4c9b-92d5-69c17cc11b8e 2108 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE WALKED WHERE I WAS STANDING YOUR FAIRY MAGIC MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH ALL THINGS SWEET POLYCHROME 8e783761-aec0-4810-8754-10577502b414 2108 HELPLESSLY BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE WHERE TO GO AND THROUGH THE DOORWAY THEY OBSERVED A BIG CHAMBER ASKED DOROTHY I 661bcaee-2be3-459e-aae4-c7c191889081 2368 THE MAN'S MIND WAS LIKE HIS OFFICE IN THE TOWN HALL SPARSELY FURNISHED ALMOST AUSTERE BUT WITH ALL THE NECESSITIES LAID OUT FOR EASY ACCESS YONAS CHECKED THAT IN HIS MIND VERY WELL HE SAID 73165957-8c54-43a2-b567-4d6bd0d0614b 2108 BEFORE YOU EXPLODED YOU WERE BIGGER THAN THE REST OF US AND THAT CAUSED YOU TO BE PROUD AND OVERBEARING a8dbb09b-2159-45b6-8dbf-9c235a764660 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 99cac4bb-d43b-42f9-827d-7ab581c46f49 32 HAD WOOED WILD DREAMS TO THEIR PILLOWS BY THE SIMPLE DEVICE OF EATING RICH THEN GREAT AUNT EDITH CAME INTO THE ORCHARD 518e8600-68cd-43b9-a4bd-c32a000fe2bc 188 SO HE SAID TO NEIL OH SO PERSUASIVELY I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'LL DO ANY GOOD SAID DAN HE GIVES LOTS OF THINGS BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE MONEY BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN EARN THAT FOR THEMSELVES 9cabdd20-0b9f-4e73-aef3-18c094c661d8 2182 HIS KNEES SHOOK AND PERSPIRATION CRAWLED COLD ON HIS FACE THEN WE MUST SEEK AID ELSEWHERE WELL WHAT THE DEVIL f35e3d46-64e2-44b2-ab21-c061c41f7893 2137 THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE TO SPOT THE PARACHUTE AND SEARCH FOR ME A FRINGE OF BLUE FLAME CREPT ALONG BETWEEN THE FLOOR AND THE BOTTOM OF THE PILOT'S CAPSULE 01188d5e-ade7-46ef-9932-aba0897839d1 2108 NO ANSWERED THE SCARECROW WE TRIED TO ESCAPE BUT FAILED NO NO YELLED PANT I'M NOT BIG ENOUGH YET 7d3ecd47-67bb-4c30-ae1e-48586d6b1bef 14 THERE MUST BE A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE OF COURSE IF WE ONLY KNEW WHAT IT WAS I WANT TO BE LIKE THE REST OF YOU 1ae01359-1e0c-4f90-b19f-992521fdac5e 2108 THIS IS MY OWN MISFORTUNE AND I WOULD RATHER SUFFER IT WHICH ONE OF MY FRIENDS DID YOU MANAGE TO EAT 5ad080ba-e1b7-470d-a7a1-beb1beecb8b1 2368 AND BESIDES IT WAS DIRTY THE GUARDS OPENED IT AND DRAGGED HIM THROUGH BUT TAKE HIM AWAY 462afcb3-e15f-4873-ae4a-2b9ba655373d 2317 AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE NONIPUS WAS MORE FEARSOME THAN IT HAD SEEMED AT FIRST BEINGS THAT LIVE ON A WORLD WITH ALMOST AS MUCH WATER AS OURS WHO CAN'T USE THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES ANY MORE THAN THAT 4b31256a-6a3f-4d59-8016-6a0081675ff7 32 BUT ALL THINGS CONSIDERED WE LIKED THE PROSPECT OF OUR SUMMER VERY MUCH RETORTED FELICITY UNCRUSHED a53e08e2-ed67-42df-b04e-ed60f4937bfa 402 AS IF THE GOLD AND FLAME OF HER SPIRIT HAD BROKE OUT IN A CORONAL AS MUCH A PART OF HER AS THE PALE HALO SEEMS A PART OF THE MADONNA IT ENCIRCLES I NEVER CAN GUESS CONUNDRUMS TOO BUSY TO TELL TALES OR LISTEN TO THEM 7684ba76-d9bd-448d-9847-e61e3138acf4 2368 THEIR MINDS WERE VERY VERY BORING AND QUITE BLANK HYRCUFF YUNUS REFLECTED MIGHT BE A DEFINITE RELIEF THAT OF COURSE MADE MATTERS SIMPLER 109e95c9-0acd-4773-b192-5ff61c5a8c4a 32 LONG LONG AGO BEGAN THE STORY GIRL HER VOICE GIVING US AN IMPRESSION OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY EACH WITH OPEN DREAM BOOKS AND PENCIL IN HAND fa82d37f-77c5-42ed-bbd2-e88bed72def0 2274 AND WE EXCLUDED DATA ON THE NATIVES AND NOBODY THE WISER HOLY MAZOO PERHAPS AN HOUR FROM SETTING 7de79e23-70d7-4ff6-bd16-a7f3cc8f4b87 2137 CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR NEARLY A YEAR THEN TURNED HIS HEAD BACK TOWARD THE REMAINS OF THE SHIP cf4affe3-ef92-414a-9d57-0e59a2b77d30 32 LAUGHTER RIPPLED OVER THE STORY GIRL'S FACE THEY SAY SHE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF MISCHIEF SHE CAN PUT ILL LUCK ON YOU JUST BY LOOKING AT YOU AND SHE WILL IF YOU OFFEND HER d8a30bd9-0027-4ae5-92a0-ac7633ad18ad 2368 KENUF WAITED A BARE A SECOND AND THEN NODDED FISHING IT IN HIS OWN POCKET HE WITHDREW A SINGLE SHINY COIN THE WORDS HUNG IN THE AIR OF THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME 575746be-be5e-47d1-ae37-056a2d9e1797 402 AND THIS WAS OUR PUNISHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE BEYOND DARK AND STERN AND SORROWFUL b2d5f3d1-c60c-4b2f-a62c-53c91679762a 2425 I POUNDED AS HARD AS I COULD SHOUTING THEIR NAMES IF YOU CAN CALL THEM THAT WANT OF US I REPLIED TRIUMPHANTLY e1e16e0a-1cfb-47ac-af8e-6efc4539c6cb 2317 IT HAD ALL STARTED WITH JUDGE RAY CONNECTING IT TO THE BOAT'S ELECTRICAL GENERATOR YOU THE INTELLIGENT ONE HE SAID c52508f3-822b-44ff-9a7d-ea1c9eb9458e 2317 EXPLAIN THIS TO ME IT WAS NOT PARTICULARLY WARM BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB 2c24772b-9a08-49fd-a32d-cf9b50a4157f 2137 FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS HE SHOVED THE POWER SETTING TO NINETY PER CENT HIS HAND REACHING FOR HIS HYDROSTATIC SHOCK PISTOL 1c44cbde-be90-4d35-96e4-f3bf44756054 2137 WAS LEANING TIP DOWN AGAINST THE EDGE OF ANOTHER LAVA SHEET SOME DISTANCE AWAY INSTANTLY BRANDON'S EYES WERE ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL af306357-2af6-4731-a2b8-8e6603c0b000 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE e5672722-bce1-43ca-9cc2-951bc9df795e 2137 SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED HE PAUSED AND ASKED DEFENSIVELY THE COLONEL HAD SAID A THOUSAND TIMES CIRIUS WAS TURNING THE SKY TO GREY d2e3a229-8fa2-4e3b-8d09-37f12e557f68 2286 IN ONE FORM OR OTHER I WANTED THE BASIC INFORMATION IN EVERY MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL INSIDE THAT EXPANDING SPHERE 147ce694-9ca0-4e5c-9830-01b745aac203 2317 I ONLY HOPE YOU DON'T BOTHER SO MUCH WITH TALKING TO THAT EARTH SLUG ON THE RADIO AFTER WE'RE MARRIED 4a6a4b1c-68be-4180-a322-e6448b1070d0 2286 WHEN HE MANAGED TO SPEAK THE WORDS WERE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY HE HAD ALREADY REGISTERED EVERY EVIDENCE OF INJURED INNOCENCE THERE WAS ONE DIM PICTURE OF A PEPPE CHUBBY BUT LOOKING TOO GRIM TO BE A HAPPY FAT BOY cc1b1467-bfcb-488b-becc-02c020d4f952 2182 JONIFER DID NOT RESPOND AND HE SLAPPED HER UNTIL HER EYES FLUTTER ANGRILY SHE WAS NEVER LATE 6ed48de1-5a26-43a9-b8b0-be835c9115be 2274 VERY INFERIOR CERAMICS IN THOSE TUBES WE WANT THIS PLANET CLEARED FOR CONTACT OR DEAD BEFORE THEN 8e7187e2-9aea-4e86-92f4-a4dbaa01652a 32 OH I NEVER LIKE THE VEGETABLE GARDEN SAID THE STORY GIRL RATHER SHAKILY AND THE STORY GIRL OUR OWN DEAR STORY GIRL ONCE MORE AND NO SERPENT WOMAN SAID PROTESTINGLY a7ab8c56-bab7-4f14-87c3-2e16d1c0af6b 2182 I'VE SEEN PERHAPS A DOZEN OFF SHORE DURING THE SEVEN CYCLES I'VE BEEN HERE THEY NEED THOSE CALM CRYSTALS TOO BADLY 547cedae-dcc1-4a2b-8564-83471d598bf9 2108 BUT THAT WAS A FINE DINNER SAID THE HIPPO THAT IS ALTOGETHER TOO TEDIOUS A PROCESS FOR A YUKABOO bbdd1430-1bf9-45d6-a80f-5670abeeb91e 2108 THE SCARECROW MERELY SMILED AND SAID NOTHING FOR THE THORN DIDN'T HURT HIM AT ALL HE HAD LEARNED A GREAT MANY POEMS FROM PROFESSOR WOGGLE BUG dc5c3979-ba77-43fc-91aa-2b5dabe16624 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 5859ccfc-ece2-4e28-96ed-327ebbf91308 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 d60208ea-d190-49b4-997d-c94112b123eb 2274 TALK TALKING IN THE GLOOM BEYOND THE LIGHTS TENUBE'S WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE WAS GRATZIE 5b86e3c6-5c0a-4e82-9bac-befce5b285ad 2274 STETSON'S FACE HARDENED WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM I DECIDE WHO IS TO HELP 1c3ac4e8-f53b-41f4-a27e-482d807f4dd4 1867 I HAD TO TAKE THE OFFENSIVE AGAIN I REBUILT MY CAMERA FOR ABOUT THE TWENTIETH TIME AND JUST ABOUT FINISHED A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE ON NUCLEONICS AND JUNIOR MECHANICS TO INSTALL THEM 17c76dd1-7f4e-40ff-89b6-87e8f0da2c87 402 AND GREATLY DID THEY PLUME THEMSELVES THEREON MANY A STATELY LADY SILKEN CLAD WALKED IN THAT OPULENT ORCHARD d7a91964-f010-4bc3-8110-955815c72e56 2425 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON MISTER BUTLER LEAVES A LETTER FOR ME WHICH I'M TO MAIL EARLY THIS MORNING SPECIAL DELIVERY INSTINCTIVELY HE GLANCED AT HOPE a972a6ef-4938-4212-883c-4b6e44cfa89d 14 BUT HER MAIDENS WHISPERED THAT A MAN HAD DIED AND A WOMAN'S HEART HAD BROKEN FOR EVERY STITCH SET IN IT affb753a-9753-4542-91fd-b71ba4499448 2137 A FAINT VOICE SPUTTERED IN HIS EAR AS HE STARED AT THE SKY HIS WELL WORN EXPRESSION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH QUANUM MECHANICS d05bc961-1c9e-45fa-afa5-bab23be9ae7b 2108 THE OTHERS TURNED THEIR UNWIELDY BODIES IN HIS DIRECTION AND FOLLOWED AND WOOT THE WANDERER 6e6bcc21-8800-4d31-acca-5d6fb084d68e 1867 JUST FORGET ABOUT IT AND BUILD A NEW ONE I NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER UNTIL RECORDS DUG UP THE SPECKS MARK THREE THE OLD MAN REPEATED 1bd81819-fe90-4c2d-9f35-bc45bc11a475 2317 FARMER WAS UNCOMFORTABLE AT LEAST THAT HAD BEEN THE THEORY WHEN THEY GAVE FARMER THE JOB SAID GOOD BY AND HEADED FOR THE RAIL 08dccbe6-d3a9-4779-9390-59e23dd76363 2108 BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN ASKED TO MEND TIN LIKES WITH IT SO I'M NOT SURE I CAN HELP YOU ASKED THE HIPPOCRIFT IN A DISAPPOINTED VOICE 83803ff7-856d-4151-ab72-75b742b2bdbf 2368 WHY IF HE HAD IT TO DO OVER AGAIN HE WOULD YOU WOULD DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING CLARETON'S VOICE SAID THIS WAS WHAT A HERO CAME TO AND TOLD HIMSELF 9276b601-a652-4c50-8fa7-3ea7ce8233b9 2425 I THINK HIS NAME IS E PAY NO SIR NONE THAT I KNOW OF THE MASTER IS MIGHTY FUSSY ABOUT HIS WORKROOM 866af065-5fd7-4719-85bb-ad6bfbfa3515 1867 THIS WAS THE EARLIEST TYPE OF BEACON EVER BUILT BY EARTH NO LESS THE TAIL DRAGGED ME DOWN IN THE REAR 88557bdc-9079-457d-98e9-fa153692edd8 2108 SHE USED TO LIVE WITH AN OLD WITCH WHO WAS SUDDENLY DESTROYED SO HE SAT ON THE BACK OF HER CHAIR AND CHATTERED TO HER WHILE SHE MENDED HER STOCKINGS c46aff08-7948-4b24-ad4a-ad402c63dc2a 2317 HE SHOT OUT A BIG PAW AND GRABBED HER BY THE WRIST DORA HESITATED HER HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER THEN BACK AT THE LAUNCH AND FARMER f5dbe7e3-f326-438e-a077-3a8c76eb8976 2182 THE ZID'S TALONS RIPPED THROUGH THE DOOR LEAVING PARALLEL ROWS OF SPLINTERED BRAKES YOU'VE HAD SEVEN TEN DAYS SATTERFIELD SAID 195cfef0-0cac-477c-9fb5-4c9a3e55be9b 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 3b1f5fd8-4332-4c8a-83ad-d2f605f0c2e0 2368 JONAS SMILED AT HER IT WAS AN EFFORT IN ONE CORNER THE RACK ITSELF STOOD AND THERE WERE OTHER TOOLS OF THE TRADE SCATTERED AROUND THE ROOM c671ac2e-6400-484c-80c2-7b5aeb98d1cc 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 bc2a0e4b-a4e1-41b3-ba2a-17c4dc9c4758 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 3b0b457d-54f7-4ea7-934e-9968cc608e8c 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 APPARENTLY ON EMPTY AIR THE CEREMIAN VANISHED fe66bfa6-7438-497e-b007-59da444bda78 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 8283853c-5a0c-41f5-b7cd-07a296976a19 2317 STARTING ABRUPTLY JUST BELOW THE WATER LEVEL AND LEADING DOWNWARD THAT THIS WAS HIS NORMAL STATE OF EXISTENCE 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ddd7658c-70d3-40fb-9c33-70d97e9b6857 2274 THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF HIS EYES EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED TO NUBES'S EYES WENT INSTINCTIVELY SKYWARD ae3e4ff1-87bd-4813-8c3f-ec1ab1dc00de 2368 YONAS KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT RATIFICATION OF A FREE CONFESSION TOOK PLACE IN A TORTURE HARDLY THE WORD OTHERS WOULD USE d231d173-8603-452b-bc4e-eb0eea7b4cc8 2368 HE WISHED FOR CLARETON SUDDENLY BUT THERE WAS NO WAY TO REACH HIM SAFELY HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MOVE ALONE BUT YONAS STAYED AWAKE FOR A WHILE 7ec1eca1-ca29-435c-b616-aef9ad4c7c3a 2286 IT LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE A MORAL M THREE ALL THE TIME FOLLOWING MY ORDERS THE NAVIGATOR AGAIN CONSTRUCTED A SPHERE OF SPECULATION IN HIS TANK befca833-cc2a-463d-9aa2-6356ef5c5e68 2368 I CAN TELL YOU WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND HE SAID TRUE YUNUS SAID PLEASANTLY KNOUGHF WAS SITTING BEHIND THE TABLE YONOS HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO SIT HE REMAINED STANDING AND HE WAS RECENTLY SURE THAT HIS FEET WERE GOING TO HURT A MINUTE 2072ad35-dc3e-4109-931a-8165aec7fadc 32 ITS YELLOWED PAGES INSCRIBED WITH THE VISIONS THAT HAUNTED MY CHILDISH SLUMBERS ON THOSE NIGHTS OF LONG AGO SAID FELICITY DISAGREEABLY aca38b85-f9e4-40b6-981c-b15970c1a38c 2108 I SALUTE YOUR ILLUSTRIOUS MAJESTY AND OFFER YOU MY HUMBLE SERVICES SUCH INCIDENTS HOWEVER WERE VERY UNUSUAL AND SO SELDOM WAS THERE ANYTHING TO WORRY OVER THAT THE OZ PEOPLE 5888dca7-d117-41ca-ad1f-20184143502e 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 e0ffd755-2437-4d28-b189-084a181c4f52 32 AUNT JANET AND UNCLE ALEC CAME STROLLING THROUGH THE ORCHARD AND JOINED OUR CIRCLE HE IS ONLY A HIRED BOY AND HE HASN'T BEEN WELL BROUGHT UP AND HASN'T MUCH EDUCATION I 58fbaab4-0849-427a-aa26-6b73d7364ac2 188 WHY SHOULD HE INDEED I WONDER IF UNCLE ROGER WILL ALWAYS STAY A BACHELOR SAID CECILY HE SEEMS REAL HAPPY OBSERVED PETER 34e3800c-2729-427a-9258-22a7d149d552 2274 I WILL PERSONALLY FLAY YOU ALIVE MOSTLY JUNGLE ONE LOW MOUNTAIN CHAIN FOLLOWS THE EQUATORIAL BELT ABOUT TWO THIRDS ROUND THE PLANET 657d7f59-7811-4ea3-940a-293f0f0e4a84 2137 WE'LL BE THE FIRST MEN TO SET FOOT ON THE PLANET OF ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION AND THE PILOT'S CAPSULE SHOT UP LIKE A WET BAR OF SILK SQUEEZED OUT OF A GIANT'S HAND 9acbd0d0-cb0b-4435-8b0b-038eee393d5a 2317 THE LAUNCH ROCKED GENTLY IN THE SWELL OF A LONG SILENT MINUTE HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THING DOESN'T LEAK acc80685-2d1d-41a9-9cf0-c1222bd33c56 188 AND THAT SLY DONALD SAT THERE WITH A SOBER FACE BUT LAUGHING EYES AND COAXED HIM ON AND THIS CHEST HAS NEVER BEEN OPENED SINCE 0df5af47-89a0-4cf6-91d0-46a3b1807af8 1867 BEFORE IT COULD FALL I HAD MY SOLAR OUT AND WITH A WIDE ANGLE SHOT BURNED THE CONTRACT TO ASHES LIZARDS DON'T WEAR CLOTHES AND I WANTED TO TAKE ALONG A LOT OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT 7b797dc6-402e-4955-8aba-8c5c140bc27d 402 BUT YONDER WAY IS OPEN THE STORY GIRL GENERALLY HAD HER HEAD GARLANDED WITH THEIR LEAVES AUNT OLIVIA REPORTED THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BROKEN HEARTED b1ba6376-2823-4391-b298-1e7b3c3701a7 2108 FOR BREAKFAST THE WANDERER ATE CRISP LETTUCE AND RADISHES AND THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER WHO HAD NOW RETURNED TO HER FRIENDS 7bc784bb-f110-4a31-8ae1-0a70ddb9cada 2317 I TAKE IT YOU COME FROM ATLANTIS WAS HE ALONE IN A SPOT LIKE THIS WITH A MADMAN I CAN SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE TOO YOU KNOW I 3db171fd-6f15-43c5-8e4a-8c7eeb26613e 188 UNCLE ROGER SAYS HE WOULDN'T WANT A WIFE HE COULD NEVER QUARREL WITH REMARKED ANNE HE SAYS IT WOULD BE TOO TAME A LIFE FOR HIM b68e2f1b-c71d-4223-9044-92c08857770b 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 76dd9fc9-f13d-41a5-982d-972667120a4c 1867 I SPUN THE EYE CONTROLS AND DIVED THE THING DOWN I NEED MY EYES TO SEE AND MEND THE FOUNT OF HOLY WATERS f226766b-002e-4476-8e24-30bf171ee502 32 AND ALL THE THINGS WERE THERE SAID CECILY MOURNFULLY THIS VERY WELL f497967b-6953-4d91-9338-53dc5079de34 2368 NOW YONAH SAID WHEN HE WANTS I BELIEVE YOU IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT I BELIEVE YOU HE RAISED ONE HAND CLAWING THE FINGERS SLIGHTLY 1f8b4aab-b729-44d2-8df5-ccf610392845 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 ffc74e18-e4da-494d-b033-71ec04b35453 2137 BY THE TIME THEY COME BACK CIVILIZATION ON EARTH WILL BE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLDER THE EARTH A SPECK OF DUST IN ORBIT 51c3eaaa-fdfa-492c-abf1-07f39f07f9c4 2137 EVEN SO MAN STILL INSTINCTIVELY FEARS FIRE EVEN WHILE HE USES IT HE SNAPPED OPEN THE BACK OF THE UNIT AND STUDIED A MAZE OF TRANSISTORS RESISTERS AND CAPACITORS a8120edd-e72a-4a0a-8fd5-818a3ec7e931 2137 LIKE A BURNED OUT RESISTER OR A SHORTED CONDENSER WHEN HE OPENED THEM HE WAS STARING AT THE MILKY WAY AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY THE REPORT WILL AID ed4154f7-fa30-497e-b805-b81140fe1b84 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 FELICITY'S SO FOND OF MAKING A FUSS OVER EVERYTHING ac291035-be6f-4bea-a8e8-43b9182c4d1c 32 BUT I GUESS I OVERDID IT BECAUSE I GOT REAL SICK AND COULDN'T SLEEP AT ALL BUT I'D JUST AS SOON PEG BOWEN DIDN'T LOOK AT MY COWS 09befe78-5348-42cc-a6bc-1aaec2b85474 451 THE MILLWARDS FROM MARKDALE THEIR TOIL AND LONELINESS AND SUFFERING WERE ALL OVER AND FORGOTTEN 18b229d2-ae03-4f0b-be63-384a43fc8a16 14 WAS IN A BOOK MY AUNT JANE HAD I WOULD LIKE TO BELIEVE IT NOW BUT I CAN'T AND WERE ACUTELY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT 4d3462c4-d0fd-4b37-ac01-231332814358 2425 WE'LL HAVE TIME TO TALK OVER DETAILS WHEN WE GET BACK THERE WAS SOMETHING SOLID BENEATH MY FEET THEY WERE NOT HUMAN BEINGS THEY WERE IMAGES OF DESPAIR 0a1e51a4-8ea5-4bfe-8427-0bb16d36b48b 14 RECORDING HIS WHOLE HISTORY IN BRIEF AND FINISHING WITH EIGHT LINES OF ORIGINAL VERSE COMPOSED BY HIS WIDOW d41e2826-e773-4632-a56c-3e37fcfcdf01 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 8219f720-e079-4f86-8406-56d1190a7665 2368 NO MORE THAT I WILL HELP YOU OUT OF YOUR DIFFICULTIES NOT MANY ASKED TO SEE ME KUNUF SAID IN THE SAME VOICE 43bc4bbb-c0db-4213-893b-ae97191163f7 2425 A GREAT CROWD OF CREATURES SIMILAR TO MY CAPTORS HEMMED US IN THE SHUDDER WHICH RELEASED THE LETHAL FORCE cdcac98d-c921-4ef7-97ea-0587aa9e77a5 2108 LESS WHAT ALLOWED POLYCHROME AS A MATTER OF FACT MY PEOPLE DO NOT NEED AN EMPEROR FOR OZMA OF OZ WATCHES OVER THE WELFARE OF ALL HER SUBJECTS ad68a744-9ac0-4441-a1f4-9cc2086303f6 2368 SO I HAVE HEARD YONA SAID EASILY BUT I SHALL PROVE WHAT I SAY I KUFF'S EYEBROWS WERE WHITE UP ba028705-d072-44c3-9d5e-ee5f94bb73a8 2425 AN UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCE THAT MADE ME QUESTION MY SANITY THE CARVEN IMAGE WAS PERHAPS THIRTY FEET IN HEIGHT AND REPRESENTED A FIGURE CROUCHED UPON ITS KNEES 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2182 JOENIFY REAPPEARED WITH A WALNUT SIZED CRYSTAL IN HER HAND AND VAULTED ACROSS THE RAIL BOTH AN ALARMING MAJORITY IN THE SHATTERING AFTERMATH OF THE FOURTH WAR 5349fec2-d3ca-4154-8dba-db440bb2cff6 2182 TOGETHER THEY RELAXED THEIR PERCEPTION SHIELDS IN RELIEF JUST AHEAD OF HIM JONIFER CAUGHT AN ERECT FIN SPINE AND CLUNG WITH BOTH ARMS SHE SAID RESIGNEDLY b8050b73-ae4e-4594-988d-c890c72fe270 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 b9687485-2b7d-45cd-86de-95fd9c200400 2274 SLOWLY THE DISGUISED SLEDS CREPT THROUGH THE JUNGLE WHAT THE JUMPED UP MAZOO ARE WE DOING HERE STEAT f82568f3-9494-45d3-a1da-2afc269719c8 2274 IT CALLS FOR ONE PLANET BUSTER BOMB STETSON SHRUGGED WE ARE SMALLER THUS THEY THOUGHT US WEAKER 29e33b5e-4a19-4064-bd0a-ba3d16be5a1c 2317 BUT HE MAY TAKE A NOTION TO COME BACK WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY MATTER THE FEAST RAN BACKED AWAY 0f24ec01-586e-49c8-88aa-814032faa461 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 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SCARED YOU'D BETTER NOT GO IT dfb1c079-cdf8-41df-80fa-4df0065a42ed 32 SPRAWLED FLAT ON HIS STOMACH AMONG THE GRASSES HE VOWED NEXT DAY TO CECILY THAT HE WOULD NEVER SWEAR AGAIN c1d96c75-6b03-4039-8596-353c96df8c1d 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 b01b6035-33b7-4044-88f4-1ee83d7c36f3 451 WHEN CECILY FINISHED SHE GOT UP AND WENT IN SEARCH OF DAN RESOLVED TO SOOTHE HIS WOUNDED FEELINGS d5261b55-610a-44f2-be23-ac802aa8c5ca 2274 AND WHAT DO WE DO IN RETURN YOU DARE INSULT ME GROWLED NUBE YOU BETTER GET A MOVE ON ec22910c-34d9-4c9c-9bd4-c445869f46bd 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 WE HAVE MACHINES TO DO OUR WORK 91a351fb-fa6f-4877-b063-44528d718492 14 SHE SAID SNAPPISHLY IF PATTY ISN'T ANY BETTER TOMORROW WE'LL DO THAT THE PROUD PRINCESS HELD HERSELF MORE PROUDLY THAN EVER 50bccab7-3f13-4380-a8be-66adbdedbbd9 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 8755c56e-f796-46ca-947f-f37e6b05027a 32 THAT MEEKEST AND MILDEST OF GIRLS WAS IN THE HABIT OF DREAMING TRULY TERRIBLE THINGS LETTING ALL KINDS OF CATS OUT OF THE BAG IN HER EXCITEMENT AND ALARM 371dda3b-d9da-438c-ae5e-05f803c765b1 2108 AND POLYCHROME FIRST OILED THE STRANGER'S TIN JAWS ALL THIS TROUBLE WAS CAUSED BY THE WICKEDNESS OF MISSUS UPE THE GIANTESS e18adee9-9c2b-4c10-9812-e2accb28b810 1867 A TOUCH ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE DROPPED A STEEL PLATE OVER MY EYES I CHECKED THE READINGS CAREFULLY AND FOUND JUST WHAT I SUSPECTED 1eabc784-77d7-412a-99d5-9c0dbd3fd22c 14 I SUPPOSE I MIGHT ASK THE MINISTERS ABOUT IT MINISTERS WOULDN'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED WITH SUCH QUESTIONS BUT HOW IS HE TO BE MADE TO TAKE IT THAT'S THE QUESTION a030cb22-3b52-4147-979f-ae500ddd1b36 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 b0d731e5-46b2-4fc5-9d68-0cb25789c49c 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 b451fef9-cd2a-4a60-9cd5-e9eb08d1f47c 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 SOME OF IT QUITE LETHAL AND EXPLOSIVE AND VERY EMBARRASSING IF IT WAS DISCOVERED IN MY BAGS 0408434a-fcdf-4115-9541-2a8e87965614 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 THERE WAS INTEREST IN HIS MIND OVERLAID WITH SKEPTICISM LET IT BE SHARP SAID QUIETLY 42097897-c50a-4dad-9819-144fb2a76419 2274 THERE'S A PASSENGER SEAT RIGHT BEHIND ME A ROUTINE REQUEST FOR AN AGENT INSTRUCTOR THAT'S TRUE SAID HORN bfbacf6f-390a-4319-96fa-d54de460128c 2368 AND AS A MAID IS WON BY FAITH FIGURE AND DARING AND A WIFE BY RICHES POSITION OR PROSPECTS THERE WAS A NOTABLY PAUCITY OF LICEN LADIES IN JONAS'S CAREER AND SINCE THERE ARE NO WIZARDS AT LEAST e4a9b4a6-543c-443e-b6b2-f9ec727ede35 2425 AND I WATCHED THEM WARILY SUSPECTING A TRICK THE PRIESTS BOWED A SECOND TIME THE ONLY VESTIGE OF COMFORT LEFT ME f899a534-c8f1-4b97-9c8e-8e980afe5b81 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 7aab3e18-00bf-48a3-bf45-430088ee8bcc 2137 ANOTHER THOUGHT RAN THROUGH HIS MIND INDICATING THAT THE SESSION WAS ENDING I STILL FEEL KIND OF CREEPY ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS 01ecb30c-270b-4fea-90cb-40e311a7d60e 2274 IT GREW BRIGHTER AS THE SLED CREPT THROUGH THE LAST OF THE JUNGLE EMERGED IN CLEARED LAND AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY 242bbd69-1bd6-41f9-85f0-895911193da2 2425 ONE WAS A RICH AMBER ONE A PALE GREEN AM IN A JAM THAT PROMISES SOME ACTION TO HOPE AND VIC 09378abe-03e0-41ec-a2d3-507bb1334cc7 2425 TOLD YOU TO BRING IT AT THE HAND MOVED SLOWLY LIKE THE HAND OF AN OIL GAUGE IN WHICH THE PRESSURE IS GRADUALLY BUILT UP a0cf14c3-14c5-4f87-a7d6-c89f7ec808c8 2137 WELL I SUPPOSE IT'S GONE OF SILLY BUT I DON'T MUCH LIKE SHOTS HE SLID THE CANOPY OPEN AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE RED SOIL OF SERIOUS THREE SERIOUS I MEAN COMES UP d379917c-6944-41d2-bbea-f9321bd94446 2286 BUT I DO KNOW SOME FACTS AS WELL I HAD NEVER EXPLORED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PSEUDO M THREE ROBOT ad479157-f0f9-4752-a6fa-b790dc328a80 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 6b6c5de2-73d8-4fba-8c08-b83094f4e895 2317 DORA WASTED NO TIME EXPLAIN THIS TO ME BUT WHOEVER MADE IT DID A SCREW BALL JOB 88a02d24-f334-4ebb-a2a3-de69e00c15ef 2286 THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS AND DIGGING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE THIEVES I CAN BE CONNED ONCE e7250bdc-0497-48f1-a4d4-aa6ef71ff3f0 2182 OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US IF THEY'RE REAL THEY CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE 6bed7c5e-e3fe-476f-9995-5019c832193d 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 1aad9982-288e-4bc7-84ff-f07f30db9dd8 188 NEVER FLINCH BECAUSE A SLIP OF THE LASS LOOKS SCORNFUL AT YOU OUT OF THE BONNIEST DARK BLUE EYES ON EARTH d58b2d78-d646-4163-90d1-3556d40f60ab 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 783e6afa-12d6-4a39-b153-5727502f366c 402 THE BIG WILLOW BY THE GATE WAS A SPLENDID GOLDEN DOME AND THE MAPLES THAT WERE SCATTERED THROUGH THE SPRUCE GROVE WAVED BLOOD RED BANNERS OVER THE SOMBRE CONE BEARERS MINGLED WITH THE WOODSY ODOURS OF THE WITHERING GRASSES THERE IN THE GREEN BOWER OF UNCLE STEPHEN'S WALK 9d23a6f9-a727-4625-a101-ad3993df96da 402 BREATHLESS AND REELING HIS VESTURE TORN HIS GREAT WOUNDS BLEEDING HE FOUND HIMSELF ON THE SHORE WHERE THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY SPRANG UP IT MAKES YOU THINK OF CATHEDRALS AND CHIMES DOESN'T IT 3a949083-e3b9-43b4-bdd1-a227f79929b5 2368 YONAH SHRUGGED HIS FEET WERE BEGINNING TO HURT HE REALISED HE SIGHED BRIEFLY BUT THERE WAS NO TIME OR ATTENTION TO SPARE FOR THEM IT WAS DAMP AND THE AIR WAS NOT TOO GOOD BUT THERE WERE COMPENSATIONS RATS FOR INSTANCE 4bc8741b-9f6b-4159-8087-cc931e80eabc 2286 WAS THERE REALLY ANYTHING THAT COULD STOP A PLAN LIKE THIS ONCE IT GOT ROLLING LET PEOPLE VERY OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO SEE AND THEY'LL NEVER NOTICE WHAT IS HIDDEN 541f346f-3fba-4e0d-bbbf-7b7e7d8c0974 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 b6b4f1fc-27f2-4812-ba1f-d667e7f1f560 2286 THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE I WAS ALREADY DRESSED FOR MY ROLL AND OUT OF THE SHIP BEFORE THE LANDING BRACES STOPPED VIBRATING 5ff9fd82-8480-41c3-83b2-69da5f3fa89e 2182 BUT HE MANAGED TO HAUL JENIFER UP WITH HIM AND ITS GREAT FILMY EYES ALL BUT CLOSED AGAINST THE SLANTING GLARE OF MORNING SUN ef584d20-8eb2-4385-911d-1537f0f70585 188 RESPECTED MADAM WROTE THE STORY GIRL AND IS IT TRUE THAT SANDY MC QUERIE IS TO MARRY BUT KATE FERGUSON 35beae09-145e-4b76-aae4-4ab6c65f68cb 402 THE STERN SORROWFUL WARDER TOOK HIM BY THE ARM AND DREW HIM BACK THEN ALL PAIN AND WEARINESS FELL AWAY FROM HIM THEY FADED SOON AFTER THEY WERE PLUCKED d4b24ed6-a24e-4a85-b205-4ec8acf50ffe 402 THE REST OF US COULD NOT SEE WHERE ANY CATCH COULD EXIST SINCE FELIX SOLEMNLY VOWED CROSS HIS HEART AND THE RAINBOW WAS A GREAT BRIDGE BUILT OF LIVING COLORS b87a0180-520a-496e-8617-a46aa229ae4b 14 WHEN WE REACHED OUR LANE AND PASSED UNDER GRANDFATHER KING'S BIG WILLOW AND THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER e79e5f93-d72e-4d83-95eb-7192d1d446cb 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 b5b64e15-b940-4370-867c-abe715b1830f 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 33a581af-2d00-4c7d-b923-ae4ae368d413 2286 SOUNDS LIKE TEEVI DRAMA STUFF AFTER A FEW HAPPY YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL CRIME YOU BEGIN TO WONDER HOW LONG IT WILL LAST e70bc9f3-4cf8-4514-9296-685934ec8632 14 WE COULD SEE THE LONG ROWS OF TREES A AND WHEN HE LAUGHED HIS LAUGHTER WAS STILL MORE DREADFUL SEEMED TO US THAT THERE WAS IN THE ORCHARD SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ORCHARDS THAT WE HAD KNOWN 33e2d480-87d9-4e59-bd2f-684e1910cc41 14 I SAID CROSSLY FOR I FELT THAT PETER HAD DISGRACED US SUCH AS SHOULD BE AT A WEDDING AND EVERY ONE LOOKED AT EVERY ONE ELSE WITH FEAR IN HIS EYES JUST TO BE FORGIVEN IN SUCH AN ADORABLE VOICE 082817b5-9d25-4ec0-bc62-583e32bfe611 188 AS FOR FELICITY SHE DID NOT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT OUT OF MALICE PREPENSE BUT IN SPITE OF HIS BOLD WORDS DONALD'S HEART WAS THUMPING AS HE DROVE INTO THE SHERMAN YARD 90b225ec-4925-4a2b-8b43-65c979330ff4 2425 GOOD LORD LESS THAN AN HOUR SINCE I STOOD THERE IN YOUR LABORATORY THERE WAS NO TRACE OF HIM ANYWHERE 9b98aa50-0018-49a5-83a5-1911a8002740 32 I'VE SEEN AUNT JANE LOOK AT ME JUST LIKE THAT WOMAN LOOKS AT HER BABY WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE MORE AGREEABLE NOT TO HAVE THE SOULS FRIGHTENED OUT OF OUR BODIES AND WE VOTED FOR THE FAMILY GHOST d8a760cc-6055-4a70-8d7d-08ed44480a95 188 FAT BOYS NEVER DO FELICITY INFORMED HIM IS THIS A SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPUTATION HE INQUIRED RATHER IRONICALLY f09eb94b-8d5f-4404-8649-2cd82367cc4e 2182 COLLAXIA WAS WHOLLY UNSCARED JEFF MUST ASSEMBLE HIS SMUGGLED COMMUNICATOR AND REPORT TO EARTH INTEREST CONSOLATE HIS PROGRESS DURING THE CYCLE JUST ENDED e9fc691b-42f9-4be3-acd6-84d93d50aa0b 2274 THE SLEDGE SHIFTED AS SOMEONE CLIMBED ONTO THE LOAD BEHIND THE CAB WE DON'T NEED SLAVES SAID ORAN 17536c7e-ead0-4c13-a243-230da323a652 2368 YONAS REALIZED SLOWLY THAT SHE WAS CRYING AS SHE LOOKED AT HIM YONAS HEARD SQUEAKING AND THOUGHT OF THE RATS BUT HE COULDN'T EVEN SUMMON UP ENOUGH ENERGY TO TRY FOR THEM caa9a7f8-3984-4e07-b668-28d3399586c0 14 WE LIKED HIM BUT WE HAD AN UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING THAT THE MEANING OF HIS REMARKS WAS NOT ALWAYS THAT WHICH MET THE EAR WELL I DIDN'T MEAN TO AND I WANTED TO LAUGH TWICE BEFORE THAT AND DIDN'T 1f65dee2-21dd-45fa-989d-540e37444505 2137 HE DROPPED THE TELE TALKING BEHIND THE SEAT AND EXAMINED THE GAUGE ON HIS OXYGEN MASK ANOTHER FLARE FLASHED IN THE SKY BEHIND HIM SILHOUETTING A ROW OF GROTESQUE TREES f0b36ec7-9ae5-4eeb-80aa-0b1efd945a47 2137 ASTRO ONE THIS IS BRANDON BRANDON DEPRESSED THE TOP BUTTON CERTAINLY IT HAS SUFFICIENT GRAVITY TO HOLD ITS OXYGEN 605230f9-3a4f-4f43-b728-7d54a3ac2bc2 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 adc8cfc3-48da-48e8-8520-974c10fea634 2274 HE DROPPED HIS HAND SAID I TAKE IT THERE'S BEEN A HEAVY MUTATIONAL VARIATION ORAN TOUCHED HIS THROAT NO 39df2079-46df-4b4e-b410-23ba84d6d67d 451 IT'S BEEN A HORRID DAY ALL THROUGH SAID FELICITY DREARILY AS WE CLIMBED THE STAIRS I WISH MY HEAD WOULD STOP ACHING I WISH MA HAD NEVER GONE AWAY I WISH YOU'D LEAVE FELICITY ALONE DAN ea2614f3-6be5-4481-8f7b-601195268bcc 2182 IF A THING LIKE THAT IS LOOSE ON THE ISLAND WE'VE GOT TO GET HELP AND STOOD SOLEMNLY BY WHILE THE ZID WEAKENED AND SANK WITH A FINAL GOUT OF BUBBLES 5a1989d5-e73b-47cd-bfdd-18fa94a1203a 2137 THE MAN SMILED AND PUT HIS HELMET BACK ON HIS HEAD OPEN THE HATCH AND REYNARD A WING UNTOUCHED BY THE FIRE b12b672c-809e-4446-93f8-51645bbf60d5 2425 E PAY WAS THRUST ASIDE BY A GROUP OF ANGRY GUARDS ONE WAS THAT VIC HAD PLUNGED INTO SOME SORT OF WILD EXPERIMENT 4541c964-05fe-4794-b4cc-7a77af492cbc 1867 AS SOON AS THE M T COULD GIVE A RUNNING TRANSLATION OF ANY CONVERSATION I HEARD I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO MAKE CONTACT THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD PROBABLY LET ANOTHER REPAIR MAN IN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS 12c879e4-aa6c-4c7b-ac67-c1021593f5b9 32 AS PETER SAID THEY WERE LADIES IN THE BEST AND TRUEST SENSE OF THAT MUCH ABUSED APPELLATION POOR MA IS TOO BUSY WASHING 1afdf714-2d6e-4a87-9a78-41eebc2e00be 2182 HOMESIDE FEELS THEY'RE JUST LETTING US HAVE SOME OF THE SURPLUS JEFF PANTED INSIDE AUBREY HAVE YOU LEARNED ANYTHING NEW ABOUT THE SCOOPS 0735d1d9-b936-4f50-b471-ae91d8dfb173 451 THAT WAS BEFORE WE WERE BORN AND SUCH A THING WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN UNTIL AFTER WE'RE DEAD SAID CECILY WITH VERY UNUSUAL PESSIMISM HE SAID IT WAS AS CHRISTIAN AN ACT AS HE EVER DID 60e63014-c6e3-448f-ba17-3749d0c5d8b6 2317 NOW LET US KISS AND MAKE UP NOT ONLY OUR OWN COPSE BUT THE GALACTIC FEDERATION WOULD BE ON OUR NECKS IF THEY KNEW FARMER BLUSHED HOTLY ee59e247-28de-4085-a9b3-913b7343eb2a 2108 WITH STORIES OF ADVENTURES THEY HAD FORMERLY MET AND FLEW STRAIGHT UP TO A BRANCH OF A TALL TREE 004778c1-b95f-490c-96e6-44829fe77b3b 451 IT WOULDN'T DO SAID FELICITY DECIDEDLY YOU COULD SEE THROUGH IT DO SAID THE STORY GIRL SAGELY c4b99bc0-593c-4ba1-8e28-a6b3a78ed511 2286 WHAT CONNECTION DOES THIS TRIPE HAVE WITH CATCHING THOSE MURDERERS SHE PULLED ME INTO IT PLAYED ME LIKE AN ACCORDION I HAD THE ALTERNATIVE CHOICE OF INSTANT DEATH cdb2daeb-b5cd-4687-a2a7-4e97d833c01c 2368 AFTER IT HAD BEEN EATEN AND THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE GREW TO FULL NIGHT IT WAS TIME TO RETIRE IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE 7eddfb6f-d9aa-4c0b-8ef7-6050eae5e53d 2368 HE TRIED NOT TO LET THE THOUGHT DISTURB HIM SHE WAS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY UGLY HE THOUGHT IT WAS ONE MORE UNHAPPY EVENT IN A LIFETIME IN WHICH SHE HAD EXPECTED NOTHING ELSE 280d5890-fa07-4150-acbe-41c411b317e1 188 HE HAD EVEN BEEN AS FAR AS THE PACIFIC COAST THE STORY GIRL CAME OUT OF HER SHADOWS AND SAT DOWN BESIDE US ON THE GRASS a022503f-1775-44bd-aaaf-57624ac682dc 188 NEIL TALKED ON AND ON AND OF COURSE HE SOON BEGAN TO TELL THINGS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WISER NOT TO TELL 7aaf6254-8326-4d92-94b7-69d5a7f46f4c 1867 THE PRIESTHOOD ARRIVED WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH REFERENCE PHRASES LIKE THIS IN THE MEMORY BANK THE M T BRAIN TAKES OVER AND STARTS FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES WHEN THE TWO PEAKS COINCIDED 2796f5dc-943f-4f68-ab7f-5ce27f82b783 188 I HEARD UNCLE ROGER TELLING IT THE OTHER NIGHT HARD FACT TO REALISE HAD BEEN CHILDREN THERE WAS A FINE MOCKERY IN HIS TONE THAT PUT THE STORY GIRL ON HER MEDDLE INSTANTLY 429c6ed6-71a0-4ff8-8db2-604ab088dabc 2317 AND FEDERATION SECURITY MEN WOULD BE EVEN TOUGHER GARF TURNED TO THE JUDGE'S INVENTION AND STARTED TO SHOW SOME GENUINE INTEREST FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HE HAD SHOWED UP e0c6bf5a-bdf6-4a13-a8d5-b778148e1999 32 SHE DREW A PICTURE OF THE GRIMACING OTTOMAN ON THE MARGIN OF HER DREAM BOOK WHICH SO SCARED SARA RAY WHEN SHE BEHELD IT THAT SHE CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME AND INSISTED ON SLEEPING THAT NIGHT WITH JUDY PINNOT LEST THE FURNITURE TAKE TO PURSUING HER ALSO WE FELT SURE OF THAT 72e20f87-24e9-4896-b09e-badcf4b0b840 2137 HEADING ONE EIGHT ZERO HT BEYOND PANDORA BY ROBERT J MARTIN 6e2634a8-733b-46ca-b608-e3bc9675ddd7 2286 RIGHT AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EMPIRE EXPANSION THE GIANT WAR LORD BATTLESHIPS I KNEW THE GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE IDEA 47f54cb1-3f10-49f7-9c7e-2d863b3430a0 2425 VIC LED THE WAY HOPE AND I FOLLOWING PETE SHOUTED A FAMILIAR VOICE AND I SCRAMBLED TO MY FEET 1e0d85db-a13e-43a0-a1fb-04bd44fc2df9 451 AND COLD FRIED PORK HAM AND FRUIT CAKE BEFORE GOING TO BED WITH ENTIRE IMPUNITY 583e3e8a-c889-40d3-97a4-163e2472466c 14 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT HIS QUOTATIONS MEANT FELICITY TOSSED HER HEAD ccaebc6b-7ec5-4a4b-a7ac-cd0b359364e4 2317 FINALLY HE PLACED HIS FINGERS ON THE LARGEST OF THE CONTROL SWITCHES FARMER SAW INSULTED AND ANGER 4262ea80-bea0-405d-87ce-bde3d99b64fb 402 THE SOUND OF HER CRYING DIED AWAY UNDER THE FIRS DO YOU MEAN SAID FELIX FINDING VOICE AT LENGTH AND AS HE DID THERE CAME RUSHING OVER THE RAINBOW BRIDGE A GREAT COMPANY ba72e10a-cf16-4f1b-aeb0-d882c65b7a1b 402 WHEN SHE TOLD US SAD TALES IN A VOICE LADEN WITH ALL THE TEARS THAT HAD EVER BEEN SHED a932b8e6-206a-48fe-a526-c48091fc9e3f 2286 SEND A GENERAL ORDER TO SPEND ALL FUTURE ACTIVITY WITH THE PLANTED POLICES WHICH IS OF COURSE WHERE HE IS A CAPTAIN AND I AM AN ADMIRAL c6826efc-dc5e-4cbf-888b-aca4771eab5a 2286 THE SURFACE OF THE SPHERE CONTACTED ALL THE STAR SYSTEMS A DAY'S FLIGHT AHEAD OF THE MAXIMUM FLIGHT OF THE STOLEN BATTLESHIP WHAT ABOUT THE LEAGUE THOUGH DON'T THEY TAKE ANY INTEREST IN CRIME e9f4f18c-5fae-4eed-91d4-1627d865c231 451 FELICITY AND DAN BEGAN A BICKERING WHICH THEY KEPT UP THE ENTIRE DAY NOW LOOK HERE SAID THE STORY GIRL 899c3133-b0c8-4d3f-8e19-e62993bc407a 2368 YOND PEERED INTO THE MIND AGAIN VERY GENTLY BUT THE MAD ROLLING OF PAIN AND MEMORY THERE WAS TOO STRONG FOR HIM AND HE RETURNED DO YOU THINK THAT WILL STOP ME YONAH SAID 4b8532ca-c42d-4db8-b69e-423578a87c0d 2425 IT WAS NOT FAR AS VIC HAD SAID BUT WE WERE WEARY FROM OUR BATTLE WITH THE CRAZED MOB AND THE BEST WE COULD FORCE FROM OUR LEGS WAS A SORT OF DOG TROT I TURNED TO MISSUS PARIN WHO HAD COME UP TO DETERMINE THE RESULT OF MY SHOUTING 3747f483-d579-4d7e-8046-3efffa1c1dcb 32 THE DREAM WHICH WE ALL COUNTED HIS MASTERPIECE WAS THE ONE IN WHICH A MENAGERIE WAS CAMPED IN THE ORCHARD AND THE RHINOCEROS CHASED AUNT JANET AROUND AND ROUND THE PULPIT STONE BUT TURNED INTO AN INOFFENSIVE PIG WHEN IT WAS ON THE POINT OF CATCHING HER I GUESS I'D BETTER NOT RISK IT 4b91d5ad-693e-400c-a5e9-570271a72390 2137 ALTITUDE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET I'M GOING TO BRING US DOWN TO FORTY THOUSAND FEET AND SEARCH THE AREA WHERE HE WENT DOWN THEN HE LOOKED AT THE ORANGE GLOW THAT MARKED THE FUNERAL PYRE OF THE SHIP 9d0b5c8f-d7a8-45f7-b050-33a130bed552 2286 BY THIS TIME I HAD A GENERAL RELEASE PREPARED ALONG WITH DIRECTIONS FOR USE AND FOLLOW UP WHICH HE SENT TO CENTRAL FOURTEEN d3106bee-00f8-4ff5-9de6-a1106e2b8b9e 2425 AND THE RABBLE WAS SENT FLYING BY A NUMBER OF MEN WHO SEEMED TO HOLD SOME OFFICE DISTINGUISHED BY A WHATEVER IT IS IT CERTAINLY DOES THE WORK fb825f26-568d-4f94-90b3-d000c13f1793 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 841b9188-3e9f-4ac9-8abc-fda113a73d1a 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 5aafd9fa-0ec6-4ae6-b85a-4a3c3579330d 402 IT'S TOO LATE TO BE SAYING ALL THESE NICE THINGS ABOUT HIM NOW SAID THE STORY GIRL IT MIGHT BE OVER A YEAR BEFORE YOUR PEOPLE AT HOME HEARD A WORD ABOUT YOU AND FANCY WHAT THEIR FEELINGS WOULD BE eeff314b-4321-4075-a015-3c324caa3043 2317 FARMER BENT ANXIOUSLY OVER THE JUDGE LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF LIFE THAT AND A SUDDEN IDEA OF HIS OWN FORCED HIM TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF 6d052a8f-bc96-4028-92a6-e8eafb42ba1e 2182 THEN YOU DAMN WEEL BETTER HURRY OUR ZID ESCAPED ITS CAGE AND DESTROYED TWO OF US SAID CHAFFY THREE 04efb657-c395-476c-be38-930c76ae7af0 402 HE SAID HE MIGHT BUT HE COULDN'T PROMISE FOR HE'D HAVE TO ASK HIS MOTHER IF HE COULD BRING THE BOOK TO SCHOOL MORE TOLERANTLY THAN USUAL HOWEVER a994b214-2474-43dd-97c0-bec34fe5ca8c 2368 AFTER ALL HE WAS A HERO THOUGH OF HIS OWN UNIQUE KIND THERE WAS NO DENYING THAT IT'S A SENSE CLARETON SAID WORK FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DO NOTHING FOR ME 4f408556-72cc-4501-af58-662d85d2c97d 2368 HE TOOK ONE HAND OFF HIS HIP TO SCRATCH AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD SPIRES SEEMED A LOT BETTER AT FIRST GLANCE THAN SOME OF THE OTHER PLACES JONAS HAD VISITED YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN INN SHE SAID AN INN IN THIS TOWN dd6ed9a3-8c13-4a62-95bf-5997fcb3925b 2286 BY THE WAY HE SAID IT I KNEW THAT HE THOUGHT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANCE OF IT HAPPENING THAT WAY SINCE MY FIRST INDUCTION TO THE CORPS SIX MONTHS EARLIER I HAD BEEN STUCK ON THIS SUPERSECRET PLANETOID THAT WAS ITS HEADQUARTERS AND MAIN BASE 84473209-cf59-4f09-918d-805fbde53497 2286 I HAVE TO SLEEP SOME TIME MY SCREEN IS ONLY OPEN FOR EMERGENCY CALLS NOT FOR EVERY AGENT WHO NEEDS HIS HAND HELD 926dbe3d-0c43-41e9-8f3f-61de4eb24b0f 2425 HOW MUCH TIME HAVE WE INTERRUPTED VIC THE PRIESTS WERE COMING TOWARD US SMILING THEY WERE MEANT TO BE BENIGN BUT THERE WAS A CRUEL AND VINDICTIVE TWIST TO THEIR LIPS WHICH CHILLED ME THROUGH AND THROUGH db08635a-6921-4373-926e-44b6a8384ad0 14 AND I WANTED TO LAUGH AND THEN MISTER FRUUEN COME AND I THOUGHT OF HER STORY ABOUT HIS SIDE WHISKERS HOW WHEN HIS FIRST WIFE DIED OF INFORMATION OF THE LUNGS HE WENT COURTING CELIA WARD AND CELIA TOLD HIM SHE WOULDN'T MARRY HIM UNLESS HE SHAVED THEM WHISKERS OFF IT WAS FURNISHED WITH SQUARE BOX PEWS 61f55c71-94d4-4f76-85b3-4f2888f56707 2368 THE POSSIBILITIES PRAYED BEFORE HIM ON ONE HAND SUCCESS ON THE OTHER THERE WAS THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF THE INQUISITION 343f860e-1f28-4d87-b1ae-f3be1a6833e4 2286 PUT YOURSELF IN ANY CATEGORY YOU PLEASE HE GRUMBLED AS HE SLUMPED DOWN INTO THE BED THEN ONCE MORE CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING 94472cdc-109f-41ca-a27d-2df8cba8ca33 2137 THE TWO TREES CAME CLOSER CERTAINLY THIS WAS NO PLACE TO SET DOWN THE FULL WEIGHT OF ASTRO FAR ON THE HORIZON WAS A BANK OF ATMOSPHERIC CLOUDS 7b05db4f-ad3c-43cd-a9ff-9f411c02ca89 2108 DON'T SEEM TO STAND STRAIGHT SOMEHOW BUT MY JOINTS ALL WORK SO I GUESS I CAN WALK 736cac77-b6e2-4bce-8920-2122ac48f360 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 32f60e48-cad9-4205-9d76-6f0f84211b04 2425 THE BEING WHICH HAD UTTERED THE COMMAND DISAPPEARED AND MY CAPTORS LED ME STRUGGLING AND PROTESTING TOWARD THE BLACK UGLY TOWERS OF THE CITY d55f277c-41ea-49a6-b992-02f231210561 1867 WHILE DOING THIS HE HAD THROWN ONE OF THE SWITCHES AND THAT HAD CAUSED THE TROUBLE I WASN'T STOPPED SO IT LOOKED ALL RIGHT b5ed4ee2-7831-4857-9cd4-dc51968d7337 188 I HAD THOUGHT OF IT HE OWNED BUT IT LOOKS A WEE LIKE A STORM AND MY SLEIGH IS AT THE BLACKSMITH'S TO BE SHOD I JUMPED AT THE OFFER f5effa1f-5c60-4ac7-9cd7-c33946bcaa4f 2274 DEW GLITTERING WEB WINKING DOTS OF LIGHT ONLY WITH BLUE FUR 0fc86eed-4a78-4d42-a55e-7e7d2d358d4e 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 2d268dbf-7496-4c9b-a59c-6922c3b25577 2137 PRESUMABLY ALL THE STARS IN THE OUTER ARMS OF THE MILKY WAY AND THEIR PLANETS WERE ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS HE WATCHED THROUGH A HAZE OF RED DUST WHIPPED UP BY THE MORNING BREEZE 294d141e-b7a9-4a4a-afbc-74bcafe8db72 451 I WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING RETORTED AUNT JANET I'D SIMPLY TURN YOU OVER MY KNEE AND GIVE YOU A SOUND SOLID SPANKING MISS SARA YOU'D FIND THAT PENANCE ENOUGH c56b494c-adf1-4089-9d93-1d1abb56b0fa 2108 AND ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS THE MAGIC APRON PROVED TO WANDER FROM ONE'S HOME REMARKED THE SCARECROW 9900c11a-237f-49e4-bfee-1045042334de 2274 SOMETHING BANGED DOWN HEAVILY ON TO THE HOOD OF THE SLED ORAN BRAKED TO A CREAKING STOP THAT SHIFTED THE LOAD BEHIND HIM I'M NERVOUS SAID ORAN GUNS ALWAYS MAKE ME NERVOUS 81659f13-37b2-44e4-b85a-31c2ab819527 2108 ONE SAYS I'M A LITTLE BY FIVE YEARS OLD AND I JUST LOVE YOUR OZ STORIES b4c1b542-a7f7-4897-ac87-5f87c7a66b8e 2108 THAT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT PROPERLY STUFFED HE ASSURED HER TRUE REPLIED THE TIN WOODMAN THAT'S MY NAME REPLIED THE GIRL LOOKING AT THEM IN COLD SURPRISE 41cd575b-7220-478a-a1ac-f956722577dc 2425 A HIGH PITCHED SIBILANT CHANT AROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE I DON'T KNOW THAT CHAP WITH THE BIG STONE AT HIS THROAT SEEMS TO BE THE HEADMAN OF THE CITY 591360fa-2481-41cd-80f3-13a2661839e4 32 SO PETER NEVER TOLD THAT DREAM NOR DID HE WRITE IT DOWN NOW STARING FIXEDLY INTO SPACE IN SEARCH OF SOME ELUSIVE WORD OR PHRASE WHICH MIGHT BEST DESCRIBE THE INDESCRIBABLE f20528dd-cddd-4bcb-9e2f-d051be18e670 188 AND THE SHERMANS WERE POOR AND OLD ELIA SHERMAN WOULD HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE MATTER THE NEXT MORNING THE STORM WAS OVER 3e3cfcb0-d844-4d4d-9824-2d2f378a3bb9 2182 ON ONE DAY THROUGH SOME UNFAILING MIRACLE OF COLLAXIAN SEAMANSHIP YOU MUST HELP US TO RECAPTURE IT db8b979f-5ac6-42d0-8d7f-c96ffc765bd0 2274 SPAT INTO THE FIRE BLACKENED CIRCLE THAT THE CRUISER'S JETS HAD BURNED FROM THE JUNGLE THE GUNMUZZLE REMAINED UNWAVERINGLY 111dc485-4db5-4061-b201-0c2abef78530 402 HOT REBELLION ROSE IN HIS HEART AND RUSHED OVER HIS PALE LIPS CREEP BACK HUMBLY TO THE GOD WE HAVE VAINLY DREAMED WE COULD DO WITHOUT THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN DO SAID CECILY GENTLY b69ed67b-6be8-4eaa-aa0a-ae71820d1b2d 2317 THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA THERE'S A LOG IN THE HOLE JOHN ANDREW BEGAN TO FEEL QUICK FROZEN AGAIN 5d0bfd8f-c062-46be-953e-8c1e6262ec98 2182 THE HUNDRED ODD YARDS FROM CABIN TO BEACH PASSED IN A BLUR OF SPEED THE SIMIAN SHIP WAS PASSING IN HYPERDRIVE THROUGH A CLASSIC THREE BODY SYSTEM 0ce76e6b-62cf-4fbf-ad49-486cc9299031 32 ASKED DAN SCEPTICALLY SHE HAD PUT ON A NEW PERSONALITY LIKE A GARMENT WATER IS LOVELY 114fe151-0904-41c1-be03-12bc2640cce9 451 HE WENT INTO THE PULF PIT LEANED OVER IT AND LOOKED AT HIS WIFE SITTING CALMLY IN HER PEW AT THE SIDE THAT'S WHERE MY STOMACH IS MOANED DAN 2a5fe0c8-c0e2-4e55-8e53-0b34e9bffe7c 2425 AND BUST INTO THE LAB CAME IN SINGLE FILE FROM BEHIND THE BLACK GOD DIRECTING THE CHANTING WITH MOVEMENTS OF THEIR ARMS 2a8fbfb1-4b44-4c51-84bf-9689964c770a 2425 I LEANED FORWARD BUTTING WITH MY HEAD BOTH DOUBLED FISTS WORKING LIKE PISTONS TO CLEAR MY WAY TO MY COMPANIONS YOU UNDERSTAND THE ORDERS ANYWAY THAT'S ALL IT'S NECESSARY f3cdf877-a0f7-466d-8a4e-2f0e702e3995 2317 OF COURSE THE AREA EFFECTED IS ENLARGED IT INCLUDES THOSE STEPS AND A LOT OF WATER AROUND THEM 614a77e1-4f5b-408a-b888-4c80f8a1597e 451 PERHAPS OUR NERVES HAD BEEN UPSET BY THE EXCITEMENT ATTENDANT ON JIMMY PATTERSON'S DISAPPEARANCE THROUGH THE SILENT SOUNDS OF THE VOICE OF ALMIGHTY ce6ef6eb-ad3e-4446-ab05-b6a1685e7522 2137 AFTER FOUR YEARS I HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE STORE OF PHOTOPHLASH FLARES BUT EVEN FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO BE SHUT UP IN ASTRO ONE WITH FIVE OTHER MEN 9cb91a18-3234-4a43-b22d-67050da54b5d 2274 LOOK SAID ORAN THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY A STANCE NOT IMPROVED WE'LL BE RIGHT DOWN WHY A DISGUISED SLED 2aa47c97-4f02-48a3-bce2-bf3de0ed6133 2274 THERE WAS A CHITTERING COMMOTION FROM THE NATIVES IN THE TREES AROUND THE SLED O K SAID STETSON YOU COME IN LOUD AND CLEAR WE OUGHTA SCRAPE THIS PLANET CLEAN d5899b83-a9b5-40c4-b4fb-0d0302936987 2182 HE HAD NOT VOCALIZED SINCE FLEDGLING DAYS AND HIS VOICE HAD A JARRING CROAK OF DISUSE e9d0d807-d7db-4dae-acdd-56a797973601 2368 CLARETON'S THOUGHT CARRIED A WRY ECHO BUT AT LEAST WE CAN MAINTAIN ON NUMBERS PASS THE GIFT ON TO OUR CHILDREN 5a2a291f-a8fe-4b5f-8eec-29339695b634 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 e4783442-2b24-4e7c-b03a-8a6e6cdfa600 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 BETTER OUT OF YOUR WITS THAN DEAD CLARTON THOUGHT aa2d86b4-301d-48cf-bc8d-ac51a95e8367 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 2d469b11-a25b-45f6-8314-e0b598c35b4a 2317 TO BE ACRID IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CALLED A NONIPUS FLAPPING HIS ARMS BOWED SLIGHTLY ON THE TOP STEP THEN SLID FORWARD DOWN SEVERAL MORE STEPS ON HIS FACE PLATE IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS HE WAS SAYING 5baafb5e-e5f2-4e67-a414-54d39dfb1bde 2317 STRADDLING A RAIL BEHIND IT AND SIMILARLY DRIPPING WAS A THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED THOUGH 8cd6e245-e862-4be8-b2b5-a117943c265a 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 b8cc02db-21ad-4129-8d5c-6eeeda38f2eb 1867 USING THE MOTION TO COVER MY FLICKING A COIN GRENADE TOWARD THEM HE MADE A QUICK NOTE ON HIS SECRETARY PLATE AS WELL AS A ONE HUNDRED CREDIT FINE FOR FIRING A SOLAR INSIDE A BUILDING 7101c663-34ed-494a-a17e-1b76b9e9cc02 188 SHE REPEATED IT SIMPLY BUT HER VOICE CHANGED FROM ONE TONE TO ANOTHER AS EACH IN SUCCESSION GREW TIRED VERY LIKELY IF THAT BLUE SILK DRESS STORY IS TRUE I'D BELIEVE ANYTHING OF HIM SAID FELICITY 72e9f23a-39cf-4913-93a7-4288b9fa998b 2274 ITCHED MADDENINGLY ARE THERE MANY PLANETS TO TEACH DO YOU TOO KNOW MANY THINGS ORN 87317b06-d600-4d7e-93af-f9a06f7c30ad 32 FELIX HAD A SIX SPELL SOON AFTER WE BEGAN OUR DREAM BOOKS AND AUNT JANET ESSAYED TO CURE HIM BY ADMINISTERING A DOSE OF LIVER PILLS WHICH ELDER FREWIN HAD ASSURED HER WERE A CURE ALL FOR EVERY DISEASE THE FLESH IS HEIR TO I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER I'D BE AFRAID 58ebc05e-1917-4d6d-9cd0-3380dcdd8ff9 2317 HIS VOICE TRAILED OFF BUT HE EXTENDED HIS HAND AND SAID PETER THERE JOHN ANDREW FELT A TOUCH OF JEALOUSY AT THE LITTLE MAN'S CAPABILITY IN ASSUMING CONTROL OF THE SITUATION 1c4eaf49-a3fe-4439-bc19-3626c25b19f1 2425 BELOW ME HEMMING ME IN WERE THE GUARDS A TRIPLE RING OF THEM THROUGH WHICH I KNEW I COULD NOT ESCAPE EXTENDED INVITINGLY JUST BELOW THE CHIN NOR WERE THEIR SLITTED SUNKEN MOUTHS 5b4431fc-ddd5-41eb-a2cb-a264b98d76f1 2368 BUT SOON AND LATER IT STILL HAD TO HAPPEN AS ANY WIZARD MIGHT DO WHO HAD THE HELP OF HIS LORD THE DEVIL KUTUFF MUTTERED 35701042-ff2e-4fe8-8366-8633835e747d 2108 WHICH PROVES SAID HE THAT WE ARE SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO PEOPLE MADE IN THE COMMON WAY ALL ADMIRED ME AND PRAISED MY BEAUTY 4e9af9af-9b48-4a5f-b66a-c28f9707796f 402 I DO LOVE TO TELL STORIES THAT I KNOW REALLY HAPPENED AND IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO CALIFORNIA YOU HAD TO GO IN A SAILING VESSEL ALL THE WAY AROUND CAPE HORN TELL JUDY ALL THE NEWS FOR ME 34cc11d8-689d-4622-be86-c31e9c9389cf 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 7e0d8197-d245-4265-8283-803d2108a6fb 2108 AS I HAVE FORGOTTEN YOU THE STRAW MAN WAS AWKWARD IN HIS MOVEMENTS ROUND THE WORKSHOP 8e56d171-95f7-400e-a5cb-5830ff2715a1 1867 I UNSIPPED THE FRONT OF MY CAMELFLAGE SUIT AND PULLED OUT THE BLUE PRINTS IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE LAND BRIDGE d128910f-d96a-42cd-8f11-129f88c70f50 402 I'M GOING TO MAKE A BIG BATCH OF PATTY PANS FIRST THING IN THE MORNING SAID FELICITY JUBILANTLY WE PAID HIM HIS MONEY BUT WE WOULD NOT OPEN THE PACKET UNTIL HE HAD GONE 973116b9-7d14-4509-9dc3-2810756b072b 2317 FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE FARMER COULD SEE MILTON BURL STILL CAVORTING SILENTLY ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN HE HAD NOT ONLY PICKED IT UP HOWEVER 4e607c3d-fda1-4116-b71f-4a879cb97210 2286 HIS EYES WERE UNFOCUSED AS HE SPOKE SOFTLY INTO A MIKE PULLING IN A MESSAGE FROM SOMEWHERE ACROSS THE GALAXY c716c614-f781-44e0-9fa0-68c43b0880f4 2108 AND SHE HANGS MY CAGE IN HER BEDROOM EVERY NIGHT SO SHE CAN KEEP HER EYE ON ME UNLESS THEY CAN HELP US WE MUST REMAIN FOREVER AS WE ARE dfae50b0-2e3c-4f71-9b77-dbb4d5809cf9 451 WE DISCUSSED THE PROBLEM AS WE ROAMED THE WOOD AND DAN AND PETER ALMOST QUARRELLED OVER IT DAN MAINTAINING THAT THE THING WAS IMPOSSIBLE AND PETER BEING OF OPINION THAT THE MUSH WAS SOMEHOW MADE THICKER IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EATEN AND SO TOOK UP LESS ROOM 4a6d506a-a87a-48d6-a3f3-64396696118b 2108 I KNOW THIS COUNTRY PRETTY WELL HAVING BEEN MADE HERE BY A MUNCHKIN FARMER AND CRIED OUT IN ALARM BUT TELL ME PLEASE WHAT IS A TIN OWL GOOD FOR 3b74c9e6-b4ff-4f83-99eb-d197abe811b8 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 c04cebba-49de-4d15-97a3-13c7905614e6 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 e0113416-bbba-4be0-ac3d-a56407de8e5c 188 OH SAID THE STORY GIRL LOOKING AT CECILY HALF REPROACHFULLY HE HAD MANY RIVALS BUT HE KNEW THAT IF SHE WOULD NOT COME TO BE THE MISTRESS OF HIS NEW HOUSE NO ONE ELSE EVER SHOULD c574cc70-29fc-446d-a530-db29c7e0daf8 2108 HAD ALREADY MENDED HIM I WAS NOT ALWAYS MADE OF TIN BEGAN THE EMPEROR THIS IS STRANGE MUSED THE SCARECROW I 3a973b16-aba6-468f-a9f1-2b29dce13ee6 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 45d2c6d3-beb8-4420-a476-c1ea1f9b8ae4 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 7b68b237-cb95-4462-b138-462170eaaa27 1867 THEY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY SWEATING THE HEAVY BOX UP THROUGH THE NARROW TEMPLE STAIRS AND I ENJOYED A GOOD SLEEP 741484eb-3f13-4816-856c-462ad439ef20 2108 A DOZEN TIMES THEN I'M SURE SHE COULDN'T LIVE IN THAT LITTLE HOUSE SAID WOUT 4f008d22-ff72-4608-ac6b-40156ac60407 32 I HATE TO DREAM OF BEING CHASTE BECAUSE I CAN NEVER RUN SAID SARA RAY WITH A SHIVER I SAID FELICITY PRIMLY d33b823c-918d-4705-91cc-7dbb24b18aa5 188 NO WE HAVE COME TO ASK A FAVOR OF YOU SAID THE STORY GIRL HE PERSUADED NANCY TO GO WITH HIM TO VISIT SOME FRIENDS AT ANOTHER SETTLEMENT f112221b-1890-4e12-8cd0-13578d265ee5 2274 SILENCE WHILE THEY CRAWLED AHEAD I ADMIRED YOUR CITY FROM THE AIR SAID ORAN IT IS VERY BEAUTIFUL BELIEVER THAT UD GIVE US FOR a816072a-1c1f-499e-ac75-c1f2cfcf10fb 2425 THEIR ROUND DARK EYES DEEPLY RECESSED WERE CAVERNS OF DESPAIR WAS THE HOPE THAT THEY WERE TAKING ME de28f40f-34fc-49e8-acb3-58e411ca174a 32 SHE DECLARED TO ME AFTERWARDS THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN THE STORY GIRL TOLD THE STORY IT ALWAYS SEEMED AS NEW AND EXCITING AS IF YOU HAD JUST HEARD IT FOR THE FIRST TIME 2cdc0ab0-0ebd-406d-aad2-5c0a9b5f73c8 32 AS IF YOU HAD ANY COWS GIGGLED FELICITY THE NEXT DAY THE STORY GIRL COAXED UNCLE ROGER TO TAKE HER TO MARKDALE 1eb66a49-af4b-423b-af5c-bc1203e7db00 402 WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH HIM THERE WHEN HE'S SO GOOD AND POLITE AND HONEST AND KIND UNCLE ROGER SAYS PETER'S FATHER WASN'T EXACTLY LAZY SAID THE STORY GIRL 01720992-19b7-4ed3-9325-ea7d4b9c84da 2108 HE HAD WORRIED MORE OVER WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO LUKE THAN TO HIMSELF I SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO COOK FOR YOU d2f14abb-0bd4-4a78-b06a-a318019ab024 188 IF THE CAMPBELL WAKES TOO SOON BLACK DAN COULD SHOW YOU A PAIR OF CLEAN HEELS FOR ALL YOUR GOOD START HAVE SOME MORE MEN HAVE SOME MORE 272611d3-c25f-4a01-9316-428e52d4dfad 2286 ANY PLANS ELABORATE AS HIS CERTAINLY INCLUDED WARNING OF APPROACHING DANGER ONCE THE PROGRAMME WAS UNDER WAY IT HAD BEEN GUIDED WITH A SKILL THAT BORDERED ON GENIUS 8ccc9ee1-0d0e-4ce5-91a8-a0678c57c453 451 I'VE AN OLD BIBLE OF AUNT JANE'S AT HOME THAT I CAN USE THEY TASTE FINE I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THEM THAT MADE ME SICK THE STORY GIRL HAD NOT RECOVERED FROM THE MORTIFICATIONS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SHE WOULD NOT TALK AND SHE WOULD NOT TELL A SINGLE STORY SHE SAT ON RACHEL WARD'S CHEST AND ATE HER BREAKFAST WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR 97412cf1-6031-46b5-86f0-0a130e3eef7c 2317 BUT HOW IN THE NAME OF NEPHEWN COULD HE EVER EXPLAIN THIS THE FEAST MAN STOOD FIRMLY a1ccc69d-4ca0-47d3-a128-d86a36d044c3 2425 I PLUNGED ON HOPE'S FINGERS GRIPPING MY BELT I SNAPPED OPEN THE ACTION AND DROPPED IN SIX CARTRIDGES IF WE AREN'T ALL BACK HERE BEFORE THAT TIME 9795c1d8-ff8b-44b2-a371-22be20157a6b 1867 THE PRIESTS WERE A HARD HEADED LOT AND WEREN'T BUYING ANY LIZARDS IN A POKE THEY JUST STOOD AND MUTTERED BEING AN INTERSTELLAR TROUBLE SHOOTER WOULDN'T BE SO BAD 52d39db2-cb33-4dea-939c-cd86134c28c2 2274 ABOVE THE HORIZON THE DISGUISE SLED ITS PARAGRAPH UNITS TURNED OFF 8640e7c9-ed20-40e3-859f-3b8917897b22 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 872975fb-c5fb-48dd-9c52-a54bff9e59c4 2108 OVER THE DOOR BUT WE KNEW THAT MISTER EUP IS A PRISONER IN A CAGE IN A FAR OFF I SHALL BE ABLE TO AMUSE MYSELF IN MY OWN WAY A 9a7f632d-8d52-4139-bd23-520eb373c0b0 2286 I'M GUESSING AN INFORMED GUESS IT SEEMED TO ME THIS THING WAS JUST A BIT TOO BIG FOR THE USE INTENDED 321755b3-cf53-4811-9f86-1d03676df820 2274 FACES HAIRLESS PINK SKINNED STETSON SNAPPED A SWITCH THE TRANSLATE MAP BECAME A SCREEN WITH A FIGURE FROZEN ON IT LIKE THAT 4a048f2a-62be-4964-9e4d-ef2f653899be 1867 I QUIT DON'T BOTHER TELLING ME WHAT A DIRTY JOB YOU HAVE COOKED UP BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT AND YOU DON'T WANT TO REVEAL COMPANY'S SECRETS TO ME 2c96864b-3c11-4b18-a4ac-5a54a9fd6f47 2108 THE FLAME WAS BRIGHT BUT NOT VERY HOT YET LUKE SCREAMED WITH TERROR I SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH YOUR WEDDING HER f16faa02-bf57-4c5e-9792-a1178ae498c7 2368 BELIEVE ME JONAS BEGAN I BORING IS AM NOT LIKE OTHERS YONAH SAID d323c03c-8422-45cf-a862-49c58f12f779 2425 IT CONSISTED PRIMARILY OF FOUR TALL SLIM POSTS SET IN THE FORM OF A SQUARE ABOUT A YARD APART 7663d1fd-95a7-45fa-96db-1bde983a0ac9 2108 IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR THE BOY IS MADE OF MEAT WHICH NEITHER RESTS NOR GETS SOGGY OR MOULDY 3cff1261-8cf4-431e-bb55-3771699112bf 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 c961fddb-11b1-4631-a59d-f1600548a294 2425 THIS WORLD DOES NOT EXIST SHIELDING HOPE FROM THE SAVAGE JOSTLING THE PRIESTS STOPPED BEFORE US AND THEIR LEADER BEGAN A LONG HARANGUE IN A SCREECHY VOICE c3a2872f-56d7-4044-9f82-ddca0402fc6d 2368 FIFTEEN OF US HAVE DEVELOPED IT THE GUARDS BROUGHT HIM TO THE CENTRE OF THE ROOM THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR YOUR DISCLOSURE 3963c271-6b52-415b-9050-db95157c634c 32 DESPITE THE PLEADINGS AND TEARS OF A RELUCTANT MOTHER SHE ILLUSTRATED HER DREAMS WITH SKETCHES THAT CERTAINLY CAUGHT THE SPIRIT OF THEM WHATEVER MIGHT BE SAID OF THEIR TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE 11e5c0a5-8b93-4653-ad74-2cf41317f2fc 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 64e33f5f-a1ad-4916-8224-a52443452804 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 64494038-c96d-408e-9531-517830441911 2368 OF COURSE YONDS THOUGHT IMPATIENTLY I KNOW ALL THAT LIKE ANY OTHER SENSE BUT IT ISN'T MAGIC ANY MORE THAN YOUR EYES ARE MAGIC THEY'RE GIVEN BY GOD IF YOU LIKE THEY GROW THEY DEVELOP f4062b00-5f44-44c9-8584-e9b39d034177 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 afe3fbc7-4935-4132-bb8b-f85f8d97f7e2 2425 I RECKON YOU GOT IT SIR COULD SEE IT WE'D BUMP INTO OUR OWN TREES AND HOUSES AND PEOPLE WE'D b96012ca-2ade-422d-b19e-63a8decc5822 188 AND THEN IN FIVE YEARS TIME THE TREE BORE APPLES I SHOULD THINK I DO LAUGHED UNCLE ALEX SHE WAS SITTING RIGHT THERE WITH CECILY IS NOW AND SHE GOT UP AT ONCE AND MARCHED RIGHT OUT OF THE ORCHARD BUT AT THE GATE SHE TURNED AND CALLED BACK INDIGNANTLY I CALL IT THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN MILESTONE 335bdfaa-3a5b-4323-8384-a8336f1e62ed 32 A BRAND NEW ONE TRIMMED WITH ANY QUANTITY OF CROCHET LACE BUT WE WERE AN HONOURABLE LITTLE CREW 4ee78730-629c-40a2-ba65-ab059ad2058d 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 add5e76b-128f-409c-b013-4b8ce0af2965 451 OH THERE'S EVERY DIFFERENCE I CAN'T JUST EXPLAIN IT BUT EVERYONE KNOWS THERE'S A DIFFERENCE 7717ea4d-9900-4555-a05c-ac1ccfd2c4dd 2425 IT WAS STILL RUNNING APPARENTLY UNDAMAGED SOFT AND ENVELOPING BEHIND ME FOR I WAS FACING THE MULTITUDE 7d683d28-939a-4dbb-bb12-35528be52c04 2286 I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO X HIMSELF HAD THE PERMANENT JOB OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERING DESIGNER THE WAR LORD CLASS BATTLESHIP THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AT THE CENT ORANTOLA SPACE YARDS dc73f0ff-ff48-4fe3-bd08-572fb72cd1d6 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 6167a3de-e8b5-43b3-b68e-aaac9924c94a 2425 I WATCHED THE MINUTE HAND OF THE WATCH SLIDE TOWARD THE SEVEN OF THE DIAL THEN HURRYING DOWN RAMP AFTER RAMP CORRIDOR AFTER CORRIDOR FIGHTING THE RUSHING MOB ALL THE WAY f0036bc0-8b48-4b6c-92a3-5190e20b235f 2274 THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING IN TO FIND OUT ORNE FEWER EACH YEAR SAID TO NEWBE THE NATIVE APPEARED THE TWIN OF THE ONE HORN HAD SEEN 5e30ff8a-2e96-4292-96f8-16e56205ac76 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 266cd7d4-be75-4e0b-becb-ac5058ee2014 2425 LIKE A STALK WITH A SINGLE DROOPING FLOWER I FOUND THIS ON THE FLOOR OF THE MACHINE HE SAID GOES PETE GRAHAM IN SEARCH OF HIS HAPLESS FRIENDS a0db519e-9bda-42a7-9f83-7dc7c74b04ce 2108 AND DID NIMI AMMY RETURN YOUR LOVE WHICH WAS OZMA'S FAVOURITE STEED AND WISHED HIM GOOD LUCK ON HIS JOURNEY 4ef567b7-c752-44ee-befd-dee08d583069 2286 WE'LL SEARCH THE SHIP SHE CAN'T HIDE FOR LONG SHE WON'T HAVE TO PIPPY SAID THERE'S A FAR SCOUT WE PICKED UP STOWED IN ONE OF THE HOLES THAT MUST BE LEAVING NOW IT CAME COMPLETE WITH DECORATIONS GOLD BULLION AND ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS 6617af42-71a4-46a4-bd85-1546ddc94fa3 2317 RAY POLISHED OFF THE SOMEWHAT RABBIT FROM HATTIE ROUTINE AND WAS STROLLING AROUND THE LAUNCH AS IF HE HAD JUST BOUGHT IT 3139ac0d-27b9-4625-8d53-baaff1c7fbc0 451 NOT IF YOU DON'T GO TOO FAR WITH YOUR NONSENSE SHE SAID TOLERANTLY I KNEW THEY WOULDN'T HURT ME SAID LOFTILY ed8d3ed0-70a5-4b5c-b20c-16d1e988d7fd 2425 WHAT I'LL FIND THERE I DON'T KNOW I HAD REALLY COME OUT TO SEE HOPE OF COURSE BUT SHE WAS STILL UPSTAIRS PUTTING ON THE FINISHING TOUCHES I'M LEAVING ANOTHER NOTE THERE FOR YOU OLD SON c43d55a5-3d44-4826-8fab-9030656f43b6 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 577bbda8-e6e5-48ec-b836-881ed3bc3e8d 2425 BRING A GAT ALONG AND PLENTY OF AMO WAIT A MOMENT UNTIL YOU'RE SURE YOU HAVE THE EXACT READING SHE JUST GOT THE KEY AND WENT IN 378eae28-934b-4219-aa0d-14c6a66cadbe 2425 NO OLD SON I'VE HAD ENOUGH TAKE ANY ACTION YOU SEE FIT UNDERSTAND AND AS YOU DO SO MARK THE TIME e220f27d-8bc6-4560-8370-9101810aee7b 2108 WELL SAID THE GIANTESS WHAT EXCUSE HAVE YOU TO OFFER YOU DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE LIVED HERE MADAM OF COURSE ANSWERED THE LITTLE GIRL I WOULDN'T MISS IT FOR ANYTHING be3c2cc3-44f8-43d5-8878-64f196c93f0e 32 ECILY INDEED SEEMED TO HAVE THE MOST DECIDED TALENT FOR DRAMATIC DREAMS THE BLUE CHINA CANDLESTICK ONLY IT WAS BRASS IN THE DREAM 9c52d1a3-c9d6-4bdd-a268-60611f6fe55b 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 d304a411-1f24-499a-81ca-7c0e0ad56f2a 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 f196d3d7-048f-4c42-8da6-10b91da05a1a 32 THE STORY GIRL BEGAN IT GLIBLY BUT BEFORE SHE HAD GONE FAR WITH IT THE DREAM BOOKS 5610f14b-7d7b-4c6d-b489-b9a29ac7fe4d 2317 JOHN ANDREW TURNED FEELING COMPLETELY DOOMED JOHN ANDREW WAS STRAIGHTENING UP FROM DOING THIS WHEN HE SAW THE 4846a082-5ec3-482c-b08d-5c8e4972d8d8 402 HITHERTO THEY HAD BEEN OF A NON COMMITTAL NATURE I WONDER SAID DAN MEDITATIVELY AS WE WENT AWAY FROM THAT REDOLENT SPOT 8bc06354-8827-44f0-b9d1-ce26761e1d4e 2317 FOR A LONG MOMENT NEITHER OF THEM ADVANCED AND HE WONDERED IF THEY COULD REALLY BE FRIGHTENED OF HIS PUNY WEAPON 28abf6b5-a3b8-4b57-9b9e-4446acb38e14 32 AUNT OLIVIA SAYS THE STORY GIRL IS FASCINATING SAID CECILY THE VERY ADJECTIVE I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WITH THE PIE AND PICKLES AND LEFT THE TARTS ALONE d5ae62ce-9c21-495d-85e8-4dc526c61cfe 2108 WITH EACH BLUE TINTED STOCKINGS AND BLUE LEATHER SHOES TURNED UP AT THE POINTED TOES 20d8eda5-2c49-44d3-809c-339270aa7885 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 210e4236-81ef-42eb-bcc0-f26da2464ad1 2317 I THINK GARF WILL BE ALL RIGHT NOW HOLDING HIS JAW AND SHAKING HIS HEAD MUZZILY THERE WERE WAVES OF FIRE CHASING EACH OTHER AROUND HIS BODY 78e290f3-2a15-436a-a83d-5555d647f9e7 402 I ASKED HIM THAT SOON AS EVER HE TOLD ME SAID FELIX INSTEAD WE RESORTED TO THE SPRUCE WOOD LET'S ALL GO DOWN TO THE RAY GATE AND HOLLER TO JUDY PIANO UNTIL SHE COMES OUT SUGGESTED FELIX 1be30565-7ce2-44d8-9bd1-9757952f422d 402 GROWN UP PEOPLE DIED JUST THINK HOW DREADFUL IT WOULD BE IF OUR FATHER HAD LEFT US LIKE THAT WE FELT THAT IT WAS AN INSULT TO OUR WRETCHEDNESS cae23a79-5dc0-43e9-9a49-38d42d30709a 402 HE WAS DREADFULLY SICK ALL NIGHT AND UNCLE ROGER HAD TO GO FOR THE DOCTOR HE WAS QUITE LIGHT HEADED AND DIDN'T KNOW ANY ONE d08c4336-4f23-4adf-aa39-a2bbe25ff9f9 188 IT WAS ALL ARRANGED THAT THEY WERE TO BE MARRIED FROM HERE IN THE SPRING CECILY'S LETTER IS FROM M FREWIN SHE ALWAYS PUTS IN HASTE ON HER LETTERS NO MATTER WHAT'S IN THEM 38575818-124c-478d-94e4-a55443eacae7 2317 AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY SERIOUS THE MACHINE HISSED SNAPPED AND CRACKLED FOR VARIOUS REASONS e7d44b1c-7e07-4408-9d88-6141a70956fe 402 BUT I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY GIRL CRY LIKE THIS CECILY DID NOT WRITE BACK BECAUSE MISSUS RAY HAD DECREED THAT NO LETTERS MUST BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE HILL FARM LEST THEY CARRY INFECTION I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE STORY GIRL BUT OF COURSE THE MINISTER KNOWS 48f95289-576f-480e-950b-874f55b6e1fc 451 WE WERE ALL RATHER EXCITED OVER THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW WHICH AN ITINERANT LECTURER WAS TO GIVE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE THAT EVENING WHO'S TALKING TO YOU SAID FELICITY MY ONLY GOOD POINTS ARE MY HAIR AND EYES AND FEET 57a49325-4507-41ca-8833-917fa98a19c9 2286 THE OFFICE DOORS WERE OPEN WHEN WE GOT THERE THE SHIP ON THE WAYS STILL RESEMBLED A WARSHIP TO SIX PLACES b73c6b59-61d8-42d9-a229-ee07ed7e6523 402 FANCY CATCHING THEM FROM A HIRED BOY WHILE MARGARET HAD BEEN THINKING OF HIM AND LONGING FOR HIM SLIPPED DOWN TO THE GROUND IN A HUDDLED FASHION AND BROKE INTO A VERY PASSION OF WEEPING bb6dd8b2-0ca3-4792-94ae-2b2b59b3dbde 402 RAINBOW BRIDGE IS NOT FOR THEE THIS WAS IN FORTY NINE WHEN PEOPLE WERE RUSHING TO THE GOLD FIELDS IN CALIFORNIA LIFE WAS AS A RED ROSE ONCE MORE f9a01337-49ae-4d90-9fcd-4526100aa81a 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 6d854013-4887-4b95-bf0b-730fcc3afacf 402 DON'T YOU THINK IT HORRID BEGINNING SO YOUNG LAST NIGHT I FELT JUST LIKE PRAYING AND TO NIGHT I FEEL JUST LIKE COOKING 9ddb84bb-9ea8-4962-8283-1bdbcea83efc 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 474a04db-59ae-4da0-bffb-71c04e13a564 2317 RUNNING AROUND IN SUBMARINES USING DEPTH BOMBS AND JUST NOTICING OUR AIR CRAFT TOO MUCH 77605e49-f171-4fee-918c-aa973ea95f5a 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 9986f0c4-73c2-446d-9742-430bf9621959 2286 I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU I TOLD HER TRUTHFULLY THAT'S UP FOR THE COURTS TO DECIDE BUT BUT HE MADE ME DO ALL THOSE THINGS SHE WAILED I PULLED ON A FANCY SPORTS CAP BUCKLED THE CAP UP TIGHT AND WAS READY TO GO 7d05a187-7f81-4a9c-87ac-f22a4136d386 2274 THE GUN INTO NUBES'S HAND WAS SLAMMED INTO HIS LAP HE STRUGGLED TO RAISE IT A MOB YOU WANT I SHOULD COUNT THEM 335f9670-b4ec-45d4-8fb2-e41af95ea605 188 UNCLE ROGER'S HOUSE WAS TO BE CLOSED AND HE AND PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WOULD TAKE UP THEIR ABODE WITH US d6bc78c4-cfa1-4b99-a079-b4d018d1662a 451 BUT SHE WORKED ON AT HER BUTTONHOLES SHE WOULD NOT LOOK AT THE EXCITING SERIAL IN THE NEW MAGAZINE DAN BROUGHT HOME FROM THE POST OFFICE NEITHER WOULD SHE OPEN A LETTER FROM HER FATHER IT'S A THANKFUL MAN I'LL BE WHEN YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER COME HOME 901529c1-fdfa-4f56-89d3-9395cff78437 2286 TALK BLESS YOU DECORES TALK HE ROARED WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE ABOUT A BARRESHIP WHO'S BUILDING IT 71ef134c-a033-4cbe-b953-b20f8eb7a971 402 THE WORLD BEYOND THE ORCHARD WAS IN A ROYAL MAGNIFICENCE OF COLORING UNDER THE VIVID BLUE AUTUMN SKY d2a775eb-b0a4-4329-a24a-5d41dfab1fcb 451 AND IF YOU BEGIN TELLING TALES FELICITY KING YOU MIGHT PUT PEAS IN YOUR SHOES YOU KNOW SUGGESTED PETER NOBODY WILL EVER CATCH ME DOING IT AGAIN c3b43f51-1736-4a38-b735-e86cc08d5555 2108 THE BIRD LANGUAGE WHICH NEITHER THE GIANTESS NOR THE BEAR NOR THE MONKEY COULD UNDERSTAND IS REALLY TOO BIG FOR ANY USE ead7ef88-bbaf-408d-9878-39be408ac520 32 AND THERE WERE PURPLE PENTLLED WHITE VIOLETS AT THE BASE OF THE PULPIT STONE AUNT OLIVIA WAS PALE AND TROUBLED 6f310ab9-8ffa-4a94-87af-57410bb24a27 2274 HOW LONG BEFORE A TOOL USING RACE COULD BE A THREAT TO THE GALAXY AND TO NUBES AND HIMSELF THAT THE DELPHINEUS WAS HIDDEN 5dbccdcf-9495-4ba8-9c12-7126cb6f42d2 2274 ORAN PULLED THE INSECT GENTLY FROM HIS HAIR RELEASED IT THERE'D BE A HIGH PLACE 36252b61-4843-47ab-a57d-b272b97825a9 32 SHE PERMITTED THEM ONLY A PLAIN WHOLESOME LUNCH AT BEDTIME AND THE RESULT WAS THESE VISIONS WHICH HAD BEEN OUR DESPAIR CECILY NOW JOINED US b776ff18-a9d8-4599-8900-9c74690c527a 188 WE DID NOT GO INTO THE HOUSE HOWEVER WE MET THE AWKWARD MAN IN HIS YARD AND HE GAVE US A QUARTER APIECE FOR OUR LIBRARY 6edebfd2-8e94-4aec-bdf3-cb913cde1e42 402 YOU AND ME WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT TILL WE WERE GROWN UP WOULD WE IT WAS A LONG AND DANGEROUS JOURNEY AND SOMETIMES IT TOOK OVER SIXNTHS af356b4e-629e-49f3-a114-6c5a426867cf 2274 I SAID WHY DO YOU YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU HIS MOUTH REMAINED CLOSED BUT THERE WAS A SURF HISSING VOICE IN ORNE'S EARS 648df8aa-2d5b-4521-af3c-0042a94b29bb 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 b4c88ada-ab75-4153-bacf-cc2eeed38678 402 WELL WHAT IS THE REASON ASKED FELICITY SHOULD DIE WAS UNBELIEVABLE MY OWN DEAREST CECILY RAN SARA'S LETTER 70eae481-e0a6-4854-885b-0d707831da2d 402 CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS THEY HAD THREE DAYS MARGARET'S FATHER AND MOTHER FORGAVE HER 7ca46b88-a23d-44c9-8eba-3513c83ea011 451 HE WAS VISITING HERE WITH HIS WIFE TWO AGO AND HE CALLED ME JOHNNY EVERY TIME HE SPOKE TO ME c69591ca-191f-47e6-9c4c-a0f9af72d803 2274 INSTANTLY THE SLEDGE SHOT SKYWARD HEAVY GEES PRESSING THEM DOWN INTO THE SEATS 234c9741-d7b9-4ccc-bb44-17e0cb178d3d 2274 TO ORAN THE WEIGHT WAS STILL ONLY ABOUT TWICE THAT OF HIS HOME PLANET OF CHARGE ON WANT US TO COME BACK 4f73a0df-d187-44db-8a5c-f763e88935e4 402 IF HE EVER GETS BETTER I'LL NEVER SAY SUCH A THING AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK IT EVERYTHING IN SCHOOL IS ABOUT THE SAME 57e76291-26fa-4eb6-92e0-c123934422cc 32 I KNEW FELICITY WOULD GET IT OUT OF HIM SOMETIME SHE SAID I THINK HE HAS DONE WELL TO HOLD OUT THIS LONG d69c4223-17fe-4178-8bcf-35a520142780 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 44f8583d-ff33-4941-b55d-70e26744544c 2108 THE SCARECROW RUBBED AND PATTED HIS STUFFED HEAD AND SO BEEN SEPARATED FROM ALL HER FAIRY SISTERS INSTEAD HE GAZED AT THE RAINBOW'S DAUGHTER ADMIRINGLY 70e441dc-9e5b-4998-91d3-c64ffa7dad49 188 SHE IS GOING TO WRITE YOU A LETTER TOO ONE DESPERATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD NOTHING TO READ AND THE TIME SEEMED ENDLESS FELIX HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE A GAME OF FRUIT BASKET I SHOULD THINK THE MORE LIKE A REGULAR SERMON IT WAS THE BETTER I SAID 08f89d19-a4df-404e-a2f4-a32c3f104b61 402 WE SHOULD NOT EVEN TRY TO THINK WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE WE BETOOK OURSELVES TO THE GRANARY LIGHTED A HUGE LANTERN WHICH DAN HAD MADE OUT OF A TURNIP AND PROCEEDED TO DEVOUR ALL THE APPLES WE MIGHT HAVE EATEN THROUGH THE DAY BUT HAD NOT 66bfed35-df7b-4c4d-8158-220fa49fb8a5 2108 LET HIM ALONE SUGGESTED THE SCARECROW MARRIED CHOP FIGHT A LONG TIME AGO BECAUSE MY OTHER TWO SWEETHEARTS a85b89a7-7c53-42ab-9e1a-147fe4821a42 2317 BUT ORDINARY OCEAN CALM HIM AND GET HIM TO FIGURE A WAY OUT OF THIS MADHOUSE 9eb8d232-0be5-4d69-8c0d-622d7639de82 2286 I SWALLOWED A PAIN KILLER AND LOOKED AROUND AT MY DROOPING SACKIDE ASSISTANTS WHO HAD SHARED THE SLEEPLESS SEVENTY TWO HOUR TASK THE CAPTAIN'S FACE GREW RED AS HE FLIPPED THROUGH THE STACK OF NOTES 30e0bf24-727c-485c-8a31-801fd5ae03f9 32 AND THEN SHE TRIED GIVING THEM AWAY TO THE FRENCH HIRED MEN AND A LOT OF PICKLES AND TWO GRAPE JELLY TARTS PETER AND THE STORY GIRL SO IT APPEARED e404c910-9401-4aff-b7db-d0cd586dd8f2 402 JERRY COWAN TOLD ME AT RECESS THIS AFTERNOON THAT HE HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD I MUST STOP FOR MAR SAYS I WASTE FAR TOO MUCH TIME WRITING LETTERS 9a1c610f-895e-4bad-923e-480a8dc6a6d5 2274 GREAT LOOPING VINES OF THEM ONE ON THE HOOD NOW HAS ONE OF OUR MARKED TWENTY RIFLES THE SURFACING OF STETSON'S VOICE CAME THROUGH THE HIDDEN SPEAKER 6d48b557-1187-4dbe-b2ba-a807cb048e85 451 THE STORY GIRL WINKED WITH THE SIGHT OF HER FACE NEXT TO FELIX AND ME BUT THE SIDE NEXT TO THE GIRLS CHANGED NOT A MUSCLE DAN FED MOST OF IT TO PATTY 2365d499-9aed-4755-b726-d1ad013addb7 402 HIS SCEPTICISM FALLING AWAY FROM HIM LIKE A DISCARDED GARMENT IN THIS VALLEY OF THE SHADOW WHICH SIFTS OUT HEARTS AND TRIES SOULS I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE CRY SO WITH DREADFUL RENDING SONGS 6089448a-fb1e-4352-9b29-f9e95cb236de 2286 SINCE I WAS ONLY CHASING MY TAIL WITH THIS LINE OF THOUGHT ALL THIS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE THE TIME ALLOTTED THE NAVY MUST HAVE ADAPTED A LUXURY UP TO MY NEEDS d15a0356-470d-4b6f-9e52-e760ca427734 2274 HE PAUSED IN HIS ROUND OF THE BRIDGE THINK OF ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE'D APPROACH THE SAME PROBLEMS OTHERWISE YOU WOULDN'T BE CARRYING THAT RIFLE OFF THE DELPHINIS 4b168709-59aa-4574-942d-f1309ad72e17 32 EVEN HER PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS HAD UNTOLD CHARM HINTING AT MYSTERY AND LAUGHTER AND MAGIC BOUND UP IN EVERYTHING SHE MENTIONED SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS b65a8d92-d0c0-448c-8d9b-a6a22ba11fd4 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 db76a59b-9da0-4f4b-bd24-203d14d02a82 2108 AT THE EAST IN THE DIRECTION WE WERE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCED THE CANARY THERE IS A FINE FOREST WITH A BROOK TREADING THROUGH IT AND THEN CLIMBED OUT OF REACH OF THE DREADED THORN 82dcd93b-a56b-44ab-9676-b2ab4e2de15e 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 d28062e1-8bb0-4d69-b58f-28d221d2dd2d 188 FOR A MOMENT THE CHARM OF HER VOICE MADE ME FEEL THAT I HAD NOT DONE SO BADLY AFTER ALL BUT THE OTHER GIRLS THINKING IT THEIR DUTY TO PAY ME SOME SORT OF COMPLIMENT ALSO QUICKLY SPELLED THIS PLEASING DELUSION HAPPIER EVEN THAN DONALD AND NANCY SO ALL WAS WELL BECAUSE IT ENDED WELL 418db65d-f970-49ab-b9c0-abdd6e8ba9b1 2274 BETTER TO DIE THAN BE SLAVES SAID TO NEWBE BY ITS LIGHT WE WILL CONTINUE I'M NOT ALONE THERE ARE OTHERS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD WE SAY 320ea495-c58c-4266-88c0-01906c1b56be 451 I HAD TO SAID DAN MARTIN FORBES IS THE BROTHER OF A HORRID MAN IN SUMMERSIDE WHO CALLED ME JOHNNY THAT'S WHY 4a6af2b8-60f8-4fb6-80dd-b29dafea204c 2317 THE HELMET SWUNG BACK AND RAY PROMPTLY SHOVED FARMER ASIDE HE LOOKED ALMOST LIKE A MAN f2a2d4d2-eae8-468c-8447-0963497a4319 2274 IT GAVE HIM AN UNHAPPY STOMACH OR UNSWALLOWED THANKS STEAD BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF VINE LANES THROUGH THE JUNGLES d0c6ca9e-80ee-4adf-ad85-6dc27910a6a3 2317 AND THEN HE THOUGHT WILDLY OF THE JUDGE WHO HADN'T REGAINED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS THE DETAILS RESOLVED AS FARMER STARED AT HIM cd945a40-d36e-439f-a118-3a7a20a45b7d 32 SHE SAID IT WAS BETTER TO WASTE APPLES ALONE THAN APPLES AND SUGAR TOO UNCLE ALEC WHIPPED HIM FOR IT ad69a3ed-e653-4ee0-a085-e97b4b84088d 2108 AND WHILE IT HAD BEEN BLUNTED SOMEWHAT IT WAS STILL SHARP ENOUGH TO HURT TO THE COMFORT OF THE OZ PEOPLE 8a355029-cb70-4896-bc5e-f2e8993ed7cf 2108 THE EMPEROR DISCOVERED A HEAD IT ARE APT TO FORGET THAT HE IS NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE SIGN ANOTHER PATH 755625ab-1ee9-48f8-86be-c44190b314e6 188 WHY JUST THE THING HE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE HE TOOK BETTY AT HER WORD ON THE SPOT AND THERE WAS A DOUBLE WEDDING SOON AFTER AND IT IS SAID THAT NEIL AND BETTY WERE THE HAPPIEST COUPLE IN THE WORLD f6455f61-02e8-4181-acf0-7d7f2c10e03b 2274 YOU'RE CALLING THE SHOTS GOD HELP YOU IT WAS A MINNY OFF THE DELPHINIS REDISCOVERY WE'RE JUST ONE JUMP AHEAD OF CATASTROPHE a03fd298-7833-4632-8b07-fe2ff16eb609 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 85aa0093-e603-4402-a5d9-f11d564f25b0 32 BUT IT WAS BECAUSE CECILY CRIED ALL NIGHT THAT DAN WAS FILLED WITH SAVOURING REMORSE AND REPENTANCE I DREAMED LAST NIGHT THAT I HAD REALLY TRULY CURLY HAIR 0f9c69ee-ed3c-483a-a136-4bf7d5480450 2286 BILLIONAIRE TO FOUND HOME WILD BUT ONLY ONCE DOES YOUR NEW GEAR LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS bf6faa94-75d1-45b1-afca-3198e40634cf 2286 HE RUBBED HIS JAW WHILE HE LOOKED IT WELL HE SAID HESITATINGLY I WAITED AS LONG AS I DARED AND THEN FLIPPED IT ON I WAS MENTALLY REACHING AROUND TO PAT MYSELF ON THE BACK WHEN THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS SANK IN cb44fa77-9c14-4958-a0e6-ba991d1efe99 2317 SOMETHING ELSE BREAKING THE SURFACE OF THE WATER AS IT EMERGED THOUGH IT RARELY EVER OCCURRED TO HIM AS HE CONSIDERED EACH INDIVIDUAL IRRITANT NOW FARMER WASN'T MUCH OF AN EDITOR EVEN AS EDITORS GO 648a5a83-b496-4f15-acb8-4dc6f6992178 2274 CYERANNA CRUSOE RISES YOUR CARD POPPED OUT IF YOU'RE NOT OUT IN FIVE DAYS WE BLAST a9bc583d-418c-4790-942e-8332dbdff778 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 f0a5dc4f-98ca-4cab-b973-1c91af6587bd 451 DAN HAD PICKED OUT A SOFT SPOT IN THE GRASS FOR HIMSELF I'M SURE FELIX FELT VERY UNLIKE A MISSIONARY AT THAT PRECISE MOMENT c2ee9288-2609-4d97-9ce6-b31784304e07 402 AND WITH IT ALL A BREATH OF WILD SWEETNESS FROM FAR HILL PASTURES DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS WE WERE VERY BUSY 9656662e-c09a-4d4f-be53-df5a6d066931 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 5196b608-9191-48b6-9513-643e526b0339 402 WILLIE FRASER LOOKS SO LONESOME IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS WHEN WE HAD HEARD THE NEWS OF PATTY'S RECOVERY WE HAD BEEN NOISY AND JUBILANT fbfb90a8-831d-4b8f-a3da-f606fe72f6a9 2274 THE SPEAKER SAID YES WE CAN CONTINUE AS SOON AS YES SAID TO NEW WHY DID YOU LAND SO FAR FROM IT WE DIDN'T WANT TO COME DOWN WHERE WE MIGHT DESTROY ANYTHING e7017899-ef9d-4d7f-9ae1-555e99701f7a 2286 THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS THE FACT I HAD FORCED HIM TO MAKE HIS PLAY BEFORE HE WAS ABSOLUTELY READY HE READ THE CODE WORDS CAREFULLY SHAPING THEM WITH HIS MOUTH BUT NOT SPEAKING ALOUD b7bb3857-8a3a-4ba2-a6b5-df1e6227d1f3 402 FOR BY INSTINCT AND TRAINING WE THOUGHT AND UTTERED THE GREAT NAME WITH REVERENCE IN SPITE OF OUR DEVOURING CURIOSITY WELL FELIX WHAT IS IT ASKED MISTER MIREWOOD KINDLY WE HAD BEEN TOO NEAR SOMETHING DARK AND TERRIBLE AND MENACING f868fb1b-b063-4df5-9af7-4a90dcae6fcf 32 NOT ONE BLESSED STITCH AS UNCONCERNED AS A PIG ON ICE DIDN'T SAY A SINGLE THING f3dc128c-c55a-416e-bba6-2f7fc299605d 32 THEY'RE NO RELATION TO ME AND THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE LAST NIGHT I ATE A PIECE OF MINCE PIE SHE SAID WHAT IS BOTHERING ME IS THIS b8af037d-3faa-40aa-90ae-3e8328293d60 2274 WHY A DISGUISED SLED WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH A BIG CITY ASKED THORN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY CAPABLE 10a4ba96-6cfc-46d5-867d-37c91d4a5363 2274 A LONG PAUSE WHILE THE VERTICAL SLIP PUPILS OF TONUBES'S EYES EXPANDED STETSON SHRUGGED 57564c27-cbf4-4ed7-8cc1-09e7ea566bc9 188 I KNOW THEY DO THAT'S THE METHODIST WAY AND IT IS ALL RIGHT FOR THEM I SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID OF ANYBODY 80958ceb-1fb7-4606-9f08-7245a51a260a 188 MISTER MARWOOD HAD AT LEAST THREE ABSORBED LISTENERS THE NEXT SUNDAY MORNING FELIX PETER AND I WERE ALL AMONG THE CHEELS WHO WERE TAKING MENTAL NOTES ON THE ART OF PREACHING A SERMON BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT 01410694-311e-43d4-ac9c-ff1601106a2e 2274 EASY BOY HISS STUTSON DON'T PICK A FIGHT WITH HIM NOW REMEMBER THIS RACE IS ARBOREAL HE'S PROBABLY STRONG AS AN APE 57996063-d9ae-49f5-8a86-925de66c6108 2286 DON'T YOU CATCH IT YET THE STORY SHE TOLD YOU WAS TRUE EXCEPT SHE TWISTED IT AROUND A BIT THE WHOLE PLAN BUILDING THE BATTLESHIP THEN STEALING IT WAS HERS AFTER ALL THERE AREN'T THAT MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A BATTLESHIP 1ec28fd5-8e49-4be8-a397-8e8dda18a0dc 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 HE DISAPPEARED UNDER WATER WITH SCARCELY A RIPPLE 085c9bbf-9521-44a0-b739-df084c00c80c 188 BUT THE MOST AMAZING THING OF ALL WAS THAT A WOMAN'S DRESS WAS HANGING OVER A CHAIR BY THE TABLE ad4a7d47-cc6b-4eb3-8fa9-c206cf9e6206 2317 HE ASKED THEY LOOKED AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE A FLIGHT OF STEPS CARVED FROM STONE HE HAD NEVER LIKED WOMEN AT ALL ec47cba1-931f-499f-aaa9-3d95642bd46f 32 IT WAS DREADFUL TO WAKE UP AND FIND IT AS STRAIGHT AS EVER BUT HOW WILL YOU LIKE TO WALK TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WITH A BOY WHO WEARS PATCHED TROUSERS 2e12d932-8892-41d8-b63e-71b10279ee65 2274 THERE'LL BE A RELAYSHIP OVER YOU ALL THE TIME SAID STETSON NOW WILD ONES DO THIS a7ba4c8c-b700-4404-9dae-f88be935baef 2317 I CAME UP THOSE GAR SAID THE FEAST MAN RAISED HIS ARM IN ONE OF THE NOW FAMILIAR GESTURES CRADLING HIM IN HER ARMS SHE STARTED BACK UP AGAIN 547cbbf4-4e85-451a-b9dc-7a7607883020 2286 PUFFING ON IT STARING AT THE SMOOTH BULKHEAD RELAXED ME A BIT UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TRULY EFFICIENT ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION EVER MANUFACTURED 9520a3a1-8ebe-496d-bce7-181e1c605aae 2317 IT WAS RAY WHO FIRST STARTED STUMBLING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BOAT HOOK BUT JOHN ANDREW IN A SUDDEN FIT OF BRAVERY e5c3e649-e947-4eb0-8542-7bca7791f72c 2108 SAID THE SOLDIER AND HE TOLD ME THEY WOULD DO NICELY FOR BRAINS WHEN THE AIR WAS LET OUT OF THEM THEY WERE QUITE HELPLESS 5f0a198b-58a8-4a71-a692-13f823a51a22 2108 I SHOULD HAVE MORE STUFFING AND I'M SURE HER WITS WILL SHOW HER HOW TO GET PLENTY TO EAT de14ac21-39c3-49a9-99e2-078f4a8b224a 188 MY FRIEND YOU ARE VERY LATE FOR THIS SERVICE WHAT A YARN SAID DAN DRAWING A LONG BREATH TO BE SURE NONE OF US COULD REMEMBER THE TEXT WHEN WE GOT HOME BUT WE KNEW JUST HOW YOU SHOULD THROW BACK YOUR HEAD AND CLUTCH AT THE EDGE OF THE PULPIT WITH BOTH HANDS WHEN YOU ANNOUNCED IT 4d6b542d-0b58-4ef6-b0c7-178675eeb1f1 188 PETER HAD BEEN READING THE BIBLE STEADILY EVER SINCE WHAT WE ALWAYS REFERRED TO AS THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY ONLY INSTEAD OF TAKING THE NAMES OF FRUITS WE WERE TO TAKE THE NAMES OF BIBLE CHARACTERS 198bd953-2c62-44c7-ac61-ca518c87bd9f 2286 AND LATER FOLLOWED UP WITH A MEMORY RIVET WASTED QUERY ROCK HAD CAUGHT THE IDEA FROM MY EXPRESSION AND GRABBED THE CARPHONE BUT WHY A BATTLESHIP 2df2ae63-73f8-42aa-9e4e-81c5ab791a6a 2108 REMINDED ONE OF DRIFTING CLOUDS IN THE SUMMER SKY INTO SEVERAL SMALL PIECES a48dd690-a26a-455a-95c6-bedcbb8eb2c3 451 IT WAS CLEVERLY DONE HE SAID RIGHT OUT LOUD BUT DINNA TRY IT AGAIN 2cdf8b29-164d-4121-8393-547297ecc28b 188 MA THINKS IT WAS HER WEDDING DRESS BUT FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES IT WAS MIL WILL MONTAGUE'S PICTURE SAID FELICITY OF COURSE WE KNOW IT WASN'T REALLY TRUE SAID FELICITY dd4bf686-ef97-4c87-8806-011ae2f78b91 2274 ORAN ESA SLED FORWARD AROUND AN OBSTRUCTING ROUTE READ A LOT IN THE LOOK OF AN EYE A WHAT IS THAT f0c6a7ca-e949-4707-82a4-aa51ad4209d1 2108 THEY OILED MY JOINTS AND SET ME FREE WHEN THEY HAD REACHED THE END OF THE PATH WHERE THEY HAD FIRST SEEN THE WARNING SIGN cc2b1cac-99a3-4d3c-94a9-a6b8efc177e5 32 HE WAS VERY FAMOUS AFTERWARD AND HAD NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO STRAY FROM IT AUNT OLIVIA AND UNCLE ROGER 4b5051eb-4ecf-4b40-92a2-900f4c683623 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 233656ce-05db-47ff-bc03-59f780fdf0ff 2274 BUT IN HIS TONGUE THAT'S O'CERIL YOU ARE IGNORANT OF OUR WAYS SAID TO NUB THEREFORE I FORGIVE YOU 331890be-c5ef-416b-9092-349662759c79 2286 ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SNIFFED THEM OUT I DIDN'T TRY TO LOOK FOR FIRST CAUSES THIS WOULD HAVE TAKEN TOO LONG FERERO PULLED AWAY FROM THE ROBART'S HAND AS IF IT HAD BEEN A POISONOUS SNAKE 84e50f0e-6e82-49fd-8656-b9f7e3ee4af1 2274 I STARTED WORKING ON IT THE MOST LIKELY ANSWER WAS THAT IT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE IT DOESN'T REALLY MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OF COURSE SAID ORAN 6bef736c-840d-40b1-b7b6-4789df94ca64 2317 HOW ABOUT EXPLAINING SOME OF THIS dfe4144e-8cdc-4695-8b2f-ad17e4aa2c16 32 THERE THERE NOW AND THE KINDLY WAYS OF THE WARM RED EARTH WHICH THEY KEPT FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT fa8b8e30-6612-46b9-8627-addd32e1bca2 32 SAID CECILY WITH A SHIVER BUT FELIXES ARE ONLY GOOD FOR PIES AS OLD MISSUS FRASER SAYS 2d353f9e-cfe6-49f7-9734-828204668799 2286 TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION I LATCHED MY ROTORIZED LIE DETECTIVE ON TO HIM AND BEGAN SNAPPING THE QUESTIONS c9e9e0ca-509c-4cc4-a830-17b994132b62 188 MIND YOU I AIN'T SAYING GOD COULDN'T CURE PAT BUT NOTHING AND NOBODY CAN'T EVER MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT PEG BOWEN WASN'T AT THE BOTTOM OF IT ALL 5ae9292b-3177-4369-a859-1dee22c117b7 32 A PAIR OF WILD CANARIES COME HERE EVERY SUMMER OUR LAUGHTER ECHOED BACK FROM THE BARNS AND THE SPRUCE GROVE WE WENT AND STRAIGHTWAY DRANK THE WATERS OF FORGETFULNESS 0f132cb0-28ac-4248-abeb-e259aa23e27c 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 c2a1bc23-726c-45ee-83b4-173ab2f2ab04 2286 YOU'RE JUST GUESSING YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THIS THEY HAVE AN EXPANDING COUCHER NO HEIREDITARY ENEMIES FEUDS OR THE LIKE IF IT WASN'T FOR THIS BATTLESHIP THING I WOULD CALL THEM AN IDEAL LEAGUE PLANET 483c3518-a157-4838-aee7-4154eb2cad4b 2286 WHEN IN REALITY THE VENGEFUL FLEET WAS JUST AS IMAGINARY AS MY ADMIRAL'S WRITING SHE SHRUNK AWAY AS SHE SPOKE STUMBLING ALONG THE WALL LIKE MANY OTHER PLANETS THIS ONE WAS UNIFORM CONSCIOUS b8a2d363-851e-4fe1-9bcc-630c61fd4ed6 451 OLD MISTER FORBES HADN'T GONE TO CHURCH FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE WAS SO RHEUMATIC BUT HE WENT THE FIRST SUNDAY THE CHOIR SANG BECAUSE HE HAD NEVER HEARD ANY ONE SING BASS AND WANTED TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS LIKE 699b8526-5adc-4160-8285-d14d76e7ec00 32 SO WE ATE OUR SNACKS OPENLY WITHOUT ANY RECOURSE TO WAYS THAT WERE DARK BUT SHE WENT TO SLEEP AGAIN 8c329d45-643a-4bbe-bc3e-fa7ecd99ffcd 32 SAID THE STORY GIRL CECILY'S SICK SAID DAN SPRINGING OUT OF BED THAT CUCUMBER MUST HAVE DISAGREED WITH HER da92fc31-1cca-45ba-9897-0e89bc996277 32 CECILY WAS SICK SHE HAD A KNACK OF KEEPING SECRETS ANYHOW TWAS THEN WE LIKED OUR GROWN UPS BEST FOR THEN THEY SEEMED HALF CHILDREN AGAIN a7e4a643-7cae-47ba-b507-c34a1478249a 2286 WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW HE QUAVERED THE QUESTION HIS POUCHY JAWS SHOOK AND I SWEAR THERE WERE TEARS IN HIS EYES THE THING HAD MORE DRAWERS IN IT THAN A BATTERY OF CASH REGISTERS OF COURSE THERE WAS A LITTLE PRESSURE AT THE TIME 3aef4c3e-87fe-4b09-ae6d-75162f1b9985 2108 FEW THINGS CAN INJURE TIN AND MY AXE IS A POWERFUL WEAPON TO USE AGAINST A FOE THE INHABITANTS MAY BE PEOPLE OF SOME SORT OR THEY MAY BE ANIMALS BUT WHATEVER THEY PROVE TO BE WE WILL HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY CHARLEY TO DOROTHY AND OZMA ON OUR RETURN 543d7226-51c3-4df5-9217-7d9010f65a2b 188 I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY NOT RETORTED CECILY GOD MADE PATTY JUST AS MUCH AS HE MADE YOU FELICITY KING THOUGH PERHAPS HE DIDN'T GO TO SO MUCH TROUBLE BESIDES THAT THERE WERE A PAIR OF BLUE SATIN SLIPPERS ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT 8a6841af-ee2e-4c14-9b37-efd2d498d65c 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 b4c0091a-2530-49c8-9d98-c6ab3b8ec817 2286 WHILE IN THIS SENSE YOUR PLAN FAILED SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED INSTEAD I FLICKED THE GUN HIS WAY AND SNAPPED AT HIM 84e57696-87f8-40e1-850f-9619cb6b11f2 32 SHE HAD SOFT BROWN EYES THAT WERE TOO TIMID TO LOOK STRAIGHT AT ANYBODY THERE WAS NO FINDING IT OUT FROM THE STORY GIRL 7bf14f7c-93a1-4d99-ba8d-c4366a30497e 2286 NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING I SNAPPED INTO THE MIKE WORKING AWAY THE WORRIED BILLIONAIRE EXPRESSION I'M SURE THEY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE THE MAN WHO AS THEY HAD AN ENTIRE BATTERY OF SIAM FOR THEIR COMMUNICATIONS dc62fd9d-3956-4ff7-980d-1fbf40cf4cb3 32 AND MOREOVER ALL THAT FORTNIGHT SHE WAS STRANGELY CRANKY AND PETULANT AND WE FOUND IT WAS NOT WISE TO TEASE HER 23c8be13-7128-4d98-9206-bd67849768bc 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 c820cf4a-22c7-455d-8cd1-e52fe2f4e221 2286 I FELL IN LOVE WITH HER HATING MYSELF AND HAPPY ALL AT THE SAME TIME WELL I'M GLAD IT'S OVER KNOCKED OUT A NAVY SUPPLY OF SATELLITE 0633ed91-fc1e-4198-bd51-cb27d39e3d52 451 FUDGE I AIN'T GOING TO BE SICK SAID DAN PAT CAME OVER BUT HIS MOST SEDUCTIVE PURRS WON NO NOTICE FROM HIS MISTRESS WHO REFUSED HERSELF THE PLEASURE OF EVEN PATTING HIM 21c317e9-2bbc-4c51-8f8e-283fdb6bf927 2286 FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE ROBOD HAD EXPLODED IMPOSSIBLE SAID THE ROBART WITH MECHANICAL SURETY WE AGREED THAT THE NEXT LOGICAL STEP WOULD BE TO SEND ENTERROLA SPACE YARDS 446227c8-743f-46f1-911e-4778aa7944b2 32 ONE IS SO APT TO WAKE UP JUST AS THINGS GET INTERESTING REMARKED THE STORY GIRL DISCONTENTEDLY 32ad8a40-2a9e-4b23-9828-8006353526ad 188 WELL LET'S HEAR ABOUT IT SAID FELIX ALTHOUGH I THINK KISSING'S AWFUL SILLY EVERYBODY TALKED AND LAUGHED AT ONCE AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL WE WERE ALL SEATED ABOUT THE SUPPER TABLE THAT CONVERSATION GREW COHERENT 8adecfbe-ebb5-458f-8ea5-afa821c727b1 32 BUT THEY'RE YOUR OWN RELATIONS SAID PETER AND SHE HAD A TINY BERTH MARK LIKE A PINK BUTTERFLY ON ONE CHEEK 516b1ace-41a9-49ca-b890-706494612052 2108 YES IT WAS A SEEMING MISFORTUNE GOOD BYE MISTER AND MISSUS SWINE THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THEIR ROUNDNESS WAS A SLIGHT HOLLOW ON THE TOP b355d9fd-60a9-47e1-afe2-6e932775295c 2286 THE COLD SWEAT WAS NOW A RUNNING RIVER OF FEAR I WAS BEGINNING TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAD BEEN MISSING THE BOAT ALL ALONG THE LINE THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATED DATE OF THE COMPLETION WAS NEARLY A YEAR AWAY 0cdbb0f6-a801-4d41-a503-da0a0fbe669b 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 033e32c6-f6ef-4b3b-9470-6e29131eb7d0 2108 THEIR SKINS WERE ALL OF A LIGHT GRAY COLOR ONCE WE ARE FREE OF THE BARRIER WE HAVE THE WANDERER TO HELP US 3cbacce4-1747-4fd8-8bdd-9097d687d8f5 2286 THAT'S THE SHIP'S GENERATORS YOU'RE LOOKING AT I SAID IT RUMBLED FORWARD AND LOCKED ITS HAND ROUND FERERO'S WRIST HANDCUSSEL HE BARELY NOTICED aa9a4a0a-8dcb-46cc-8ee0-ff7ea95c0d3d 188 WILL MONTAGUE FELL IN LOVE WITH RACHEL WARD AND SHE WAS WITH HIM AND AND SIT BESIDE GLAUCON AS HE WATCHED THE FLOCKS AND PLAYED ON HIS FLUTE ee1ab1c9-d1a3-4e0c-8855-532d9950cd07 188 AND IN THE EVENING THEY WOULD LEAD THE SHEEP HOME TOGETHER AND THROUGH IT ALL THE BLISSFUL PURRS OF PATTY WHO SAT ON THE WINDOW SILL BEHIND THE STORY GIRL RESOUNDED THROUGH THE DIN LIKE ANDREW MACPHERSON'S BASS JUST A BURROW OF THE HALE TIME HER VOICE WOULD HAVE MADE THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE CHARMING a3c3d4d7-c42b-40a0-af80-4cf9df99010f 188 DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY ONE BUT THE ONE KIND OF TRUENESS SAID FELICITY ANYWAY THIS STORY COULDN'T BE TRUE YOU KNOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD PAN WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY DEMANDED MISTER CAMPBELL d610bc31-f5aa-4000-ba11-1e143a9c0e58 2108 BUT WHY SHOULD YOU WISH TO ESCAPE I SHALL GIVE YOU NEW FORMS THAT ARE MUCH BETTER THAN THE ONES 92678373-ed89-40c9-93c9-8db55fb16c16 2108 I EXPECTED SHE'D SING AND TALK AND WE'D HAVE GOOD TIMES TOGETHER BUT THE BODY WAS VERY LONG FOR IT HAD TWENTY LEGS bf8c9da6-ca53-47bb-9848-a8c3a287d2cb 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 589286de-4c4c-4290-a544-24ee32f123d4 2108 THERE EXCLAIMED THE KING I EXPECTED THAT WOULD HAPPEN I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I DON'T CARE FOR MY HUSBAND TREATED ME BADLY AT TIMES 74859eec-e5dd-4dff-b40f-7dae622cf5dc 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 440f9023-8d9b-4520-a6b7-352460ab53a9 451 YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS PETER AND THE STORY GIRL WERE TO STAY AT UNCLE ALEC'S DURING THEIR ABSENCE 32ac0169-868b-4f7f-816e-56d8016b0f41 32 SO OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY DREAMS THE GROWN UPS WERE AWAY THAT EVENING ATTENDING A LECTURE AT MARKDALE ffdad674-d8b5-42ef-85e5-0929decfeba2 188 DONALD AND NEIL NANCY AND BETTY WERE THERE IN THE ROOM WITH US BUT NOW THAT YOU ARE OUT OF DANGER WILL YOU TELL ME WHAT IT REALLY FEELS LIKE TO THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DIE 30d409dd-c7ef-4f22-bcac-39995852d130 451 IT WOULDN'T DO SHE DECIDED SO I THINK IT'S REAL MEAN THAT ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE COVERED UP MOST OF THE TIME 610623e0-5a80-47ba-8df2-0b4f0f733378 2286 I NOSED THROUGH THOSE FILES AND FOUND THEM MOST INTERESTING THE LUGGAGE WAS ALL BOOBY CHAPPED AND COULD DEFEND ITSELF GUNS GAS POISON NEEDLES THE USUAL SORT OF THING 279229f6-7417-404d-9e7d-5141493f97c1 2108 AND I TRUST THE FEAST WILL BEAT TO YOUR LIKING BOOT LEANED FORWARD AND PICKED UP THE THORN AND WHILE THE LOONS WERE BUSILY WATCHING THE PUMP 613bd8cd-da1c-44f2-ba03-7fe931c8523b 451 DAN KING DO YOU WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE DEMANDED THE STORY GIRL 49a77c6e-b8a4-4639-9852-639191fa736c 2286 HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE MAGAZINES AND PAPERS HE CAN FIND PARTLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGO BUT MOSTLY TO KEEP TRACK OF THINGS HE'S INTERESTED IN HE STUMBLED OVER TO A CHAIR HALF DROPPING INTO IT e1c5ea3b-d966-4773-9f6a-846d469acabb 188 BUT SHE BEGAN PROMPTLY WITH TWICE ONE AND WENT THROUGH IT TO TWELVE TIMES TWELVE PAN FOLLOWED HER CLATTERING AND BELLOWING TERRIBLY BUT IN A FEW MINUTES SHE RUSHED INTO GLAUCON'S ARMS 26ce0425-3ac0-4d81-bca3-990ef24c242c 2108 THE RAINBOW WON'T APPEAR UNTIL AFTER THE STORM AND I CAN MAKE YOU BATHE IN A JIFFY BEFORE I JOIN MY SISTERS ON OUR BOAT ALL RIGHT SAID WOUT JUMPING UP GIVE ME YOUR HAND POLYCHROME WHERE ARE YOU 56200874-0019-4a12-8279-19f2dd533551 2108 I NAMED HIM CHOP BY USING IN THIS VALLEY NO ONE EVER DIES IT IS TRUE RESPONDED THE SCARECROW 52f41db5-ae49-466a-a805-0b746f0d2552 2286 THE CORPS SUPPOSEDLY MADE GOOD USE OF MEN LIKE MYSELF TO GET RID OF THE MORE ANTISOCIAL TYPES THAT INFEST THE UNIVERSE 1bab8d6a-9e6e-4df9-8fa5-c7ab13b38e8f 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 41878319-88ba-4a68-9f6e-0801d58ec396 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 2e839673-eb10-48fd-ab0b-9f0f42f87627 2108 BUILT OF PURPLE STONE LIKE VINES DRIED AND TOUGH THAT LOOKED LIKE STRINGS