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Was it imagination? or was the small man huddled in the corner of the rear seat Hotchkiss? As the car rolled on I found myself smiling. The alert little man was for all the world like a terrier, ever on the scent, and scouring about in every direction. I found McKnight at the Incubator, with his coat off, working with enthusiasm and a manicure file over the horn of his auto.
"Oh, I like her well enough; and, anyway, I think a heap more of her now, since she wrote me such an affectionate letter. Now, Uncle, if you'll believe it, this next one is from the chickens! Would you have believed that little bits of yellow chickens, in an incubator, could write a nice, clear letter like this? I do think it's wonderful! Just listen to it: "DEAR MOPSY: Why Are you away?
Third, the Chinese incubator, much on the principle of the Egyptian hatchery, but run in the room of an ordinary house, heated with charcoal braziers and used only for duck eggs. I have no accurate information on the results of the Chinese method, and as it is not used for hen eggs, we will confine our attention to the first two processes only.
"He was gone for four years, and when he returned all had been over for three; for about a year after his departure, and shortly before the time for the return of an expedition which had gone forth to fetch the fruits of a community incubator, the egg had hatched.
While we were at dinner that day the creature effected its liberation, and entered on the staggering and stuffing phase of its career. All these birds, and many others, had been nursed into life through a hot-air and warm blanket incubator, by the amiable lady of the house, and were destined to spend the early part of their lives under the care of some Hottentot stepmother.
A careful record of the different eggs was made, so they could keep the chicks separate after they were hatched. Before the eggs arrived, the incubator was cleaned and tested. "Won't you let me help you with the eggs, Bob?" asked Edith, as he was getting ready to place the eggs in the incubator.
I have made a great many hatches with incubators of different makes and my experience has been that we must watch an incubator almost constantly to have success with it. With an incubator there is always a temptation to attempt to raise more chickens than we can care for properly. Overcrowding causes more trouble than any other one thing.
Phillip tossed his hat in the closet, opened the incubator on his culture tubes, trying to look busy. He slammed the door after one whiff and gripped the edge of the work table with whitening knuckles. "Why?" "Oh, nothing. Thought you looked a little peaked, was all." They stared at each other in silence. Then, as though by signal, their eyes turned to the office at the end of the lab.
"Do you know, Benny, somehow I'd rather have it in writing. Suppose we say one third to you and two thirds to me. After all, I need the money, you see, and you don't." "Aren't we counting our chickens a good while before they have emerged from the incubator?" the other suggested. "Very likely," Wilkinson readily agreed.
Did the Martian reach the pump room? Did the vitalizing air reach the people of that distant planet in time to save them? Was my Dejah Thoris alive, or did her beautiful body lie cold in death beside the tiny golden incubator in the sunken garden of the inner courtyard of the palace of Tardos Mors, the jeddak of Helium? For ten years I have waited and prayed for an answer to my questions.
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