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"Yes, but men aren't exactly eager. It takes some emotion like patriotism to work 'em to the point of dying for their country; these things do it all in the day's work." He paused. "Well, we took some pictures of the dream-beast and the barrel-creatures, and then we started along.
Then Leroy had to catch a sample of the walking grass, and we were ready to leave when a parade of the barrel-creatures rushed by with their push-carts. They hadn't forgotten me, either; they all drummed out, 'We are v-r-r-iends ouch! just as they had before. Leroy wanted to shoot one and cut it up, but I remembered the battle Tweel and I had had with them, and vetoed the idea.
"It was a big cousin of the biopods," continued Jarvis. "Leroy was quite excited; he figures that all Martian life is of that sort neither plant nor animal. Life here never differentiated, he says; everything has both natures in it, even the barrel-creatures even Tweel! I think he's right, especially when I recall how Tweel rested, sticking his beak in the ground and staying that way all night.
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