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Take your stations and stand by to blast off." Spears, Coglin, and Duke jumped into the chairs and Tom walked around them eying them coldly. "Now, Misters," he said, "you are to blast off, make a complete circle of the Earth, and return to the Academy spaceport for a touchdown. Is that clearly understood?" "All clear," chorused the boys. "Stand by to raise ship!" bawled Tom.
Many natives, tall, powerful fellows, were seen, but they did not speak with them. After trying for water in the neighbourhood of Mount Daniel, they were compelled to return to Lindsay Creek, which they did not quit until February 9th, when they camped on another creek, which was named the Coglin, after P.B. Coglin, Esquire, M.L.A. From this place Mr.
You are a handsome man, you know." "Nonsense," he replied. "Your grandmother was a very handsome woman," said Mrs. Witherspoon. "She had jet-black hair, and her teeth were like pearls. Ellen, what did Mr. Coglin say when you gave him the slippers?" Mr. Coglin was a clergyman. "Oh, he thanked me, of course. He couldn't very well have said, 'Take them away."
On arriving at the Goyder found a little moisture at the bottom of the sand in the rocks not enough for the horses. Pushed on towards the Coglin, and at dark camped in the mulga scrub without water. Day most oppressively hot. Light wind from south-east. Friday, 14th November, Mulga Scrub. Started at six o'clock a.m.
Examined the different creeks in which I found water on my journey to the north but there was not a drop. At twelve miles reached the Coglin none there. Country all in the same dry state. Proceeded on to the Lindsay, where I am sure of water. At four o'clock arrived there and found plenty. Camped. Thanks be to God, I am once more within the boundary of South Australia!
"Answer the question!" barked Tom, finding it difficult to maintain his role of stern disciplinarian. "Y-y-yes, sir," finally came a mumbled reply. "What's your name? And don't say 'sir' to me!" roared Astro. "Coglin, sir," gulped the boy. "Don't say 'SIR'!" "Yes, sir er I mean, O.K.," stuttered Coglin. "And don't say O.K., either," Roger chimed in. "Yes ... all right ... fine."
"Give me the correction of thrust when you are underway in a forward motion and you receive orders from the control deck for immediate reversal." Coglin closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and the words poured from his lips. "To go forward is to overtake space, and to go sternward is to retake space already overtaken.
Quick!" he demanded. "Coglin, John." "Spears, Albert." "Duke, Phineas." "You call those names?" Roger snorted incredulously. "Which of you ground crawlers is radar officer?" "I am, very well," replied Spears. The blond-haired cadet stared at him in amazement. "Very well, what?" he demanded. "You said that's the correct form of address," replied Spears doggedly. Roger turned to Tom.
"Blast it, Astro, the next time you want to show off, go play with an elephant and leave me alone." Astro ignored him, turning to Coglin. "As much as I gas Roger," the giant cadet said seriously, "I'd rather ride a thrust bucket with him on the radar deck than Commander Walters. He's the best." Tom smiled. "That's what I mean, Duke. Astro believes in Roger, and Roger believes in Astro.
Tonight, Astro, Roger, and he would go to see the latest stereo, and tomorrow they would blast off in the Polaris for the weekly checkout of her equipment. He turned back to Spears, Coglin, and Duke. "The best part, of course, was the actual hunting of the tyrannosaurus," said Astro. "A tyrannosaurus?" exploded Spears, the youngest and most impressionable of the three Earthworms.
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