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At other are many many many small ones five to ten Guddu long." Shock on shock! Someone was building a tremendous fleet here! He must get that news to Corps headquarters as quickly as possible. If those ships were once finished, they would be able to dominate the system. For the Corps had only a nominal fleet. They had never needed a large one.

Him mind-tell all we to run far into forest. This crew us stop all they. Tell other Guddu how kind are you. How you get we 'oigm'-food. Tell how you's work to make all we free; make free all Guddu everywhere. Us say maybe so we's all get free now small time. But say come humans with shock-rod, hunt we, hurt we, make we work more hard, be more cruel to we.

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.

On this is placed the guddu, or pad, 6x5 feet and 9 inches thick, formed of stout sacking stuffed with dried grass. The whole is girthed with a long rope passed twice around the body, round the neck as a breast-strap, and under the tail as a crupper. The whole weighs 200 pounds. One is placed on each side of the elephant's spine, and retained there by two iron arches.

Two Guddu spoil much metal when jump in vat where metal be melt." "Oh, no!" Hanlon cried in shocked anguish. "That was wonderfully brave of them, but none of the others must ever do things like that! Tell them not to sacrifice their lives that way! I feel sure from all the reports it isn't needed.

"Ask if anyone is looking at one of those 'eggs' right now," he commanded Geck through the transformer. "Yes, An-yon, many Guddu right at edge of great place of making. Brother of me, Nock, him there." "Ask him, please, to describe what he sees. Maybe that will give me a good picture of what it is."