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It would take about two years for it to attain its maturity, Geck informed him. Hanlon asked, and Geck said it could take care of itself alone in the forest, so Hanlon managed to sneak it out into the woods, where it would be free. Geck told him that about four years previous a great "egg" had landed here on Guddu, which was their name for the planet.
The cathedral is not finished even yet. The present scenes in which Cologne shines are many for instance, its lively market on the Neumarkt, and the country costumes one sees there each week as the stalls and carts, easily drawn by dogs and donkeys, are set up in the square; the parade of the old guard, called the "Sparks of Cologne" from their scarlet uniforms; and the Carnival, a high opportunity for fun and display, and specially seized upon to reproduce historic figures and incidents, such as the half-comic Gecker-Berndchen, a typical figure in red and white, the colors of the town, with a shield in one hand and a wooden sabre in the other, shouting the traditional warning cry, "Geck los Geck elans!" the antique procession of burgher youths and maidens, the latter with large white caps and aprons, and the former in three-cornered hats, black breeches and stockings and thick low shoes.
They were such a simple, almost childlike race, that such an ability was farthest from his thoughts. "If you can talk with your minds?" he asked Geck in wonder, "why do you bother to speak with the voice to each other?" "Because mind-talk more tiring to we," came the simple explanation. "It take much of we's forces. Us grow weak after much of them."
She had raised a fine storm of argument, but Nature had laughed. So had the Literary Man from London. She had a salutary vision of herself as the common geck and gull of the queerly assorted pair. She recognized that in order to work out any problem of life one must accept life's postulates and axioms.
Der Kenner sagt ihm fiei heraus, Dass ihm das Bild nicht ganz gefallen wollte, Und dass es, um recht schon zu sein, Weit minder Kunst verrathen sollte. Der Maler wandte vieles ein; Der Kenner stritt mit ihm aus Grunden, Und konnt ihn doch nicht uberwinden. Gleich trat ein junger Geck herein, Und nahm das Bild in Augenschein.
He would certainly so recommend to the Secret Service High Command after this mess was cleaned up. The next days Hanlon spent almost his entire shift-time underground talking earnestly to Geck. "I want to impress on the minds of you and all the natives here that I'll be working my hardest for them every minute I'm gone," he said impressively.
To the best of his knowledge the Corps had only thirty-one first-line battleships, much smaller than these. The Fleet also had fifty heavy cruisers, a hundred and fifty light cruisers, and a thousand scouts running from one-man up to twelve-man size. "Please find out if any of those ships they are building have ever left the ground." "Some little ones only," Geck reported after awhile.
"Sure, that's a good idea," and they went on to the compound that housed Hanlon's special crew. Inside, while Hanlon apparently chose at random, it was actually Geck to whom he beckoned. When the native approached, feigning fear and reluctance Hanlon hid a sudden grin at Geck's unexpected acting brilliance the young man opened the sack and poured out a little of the nitrate.
Even so, he was surprised at how quickly Geck was picking up his own language. Hanlon found that these people, while they had no scientific or mechanical knowledge or training of their own, did have highly developed ethical principles which governed all their individual and collective actions. They were a simple, natural people, with a native dignity Hanlon almost envied.
"Almost us ingest too many last dark," Geck gave what Hanlon knew was a shamefaced laugh. "It such very good eat us become ..." he hesitated. "Drunk, you mean?" Hanlon laughed. "I can see it might do that to you. You'll have to warn the others about that." They chatted away for some minutes, about how much the Guddus appreciated Hanlon's thoughtfulness.
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