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Thereafter he eschews trapping at least you will not find his number-three trap at the foot of Keeonekh's slide any more, to turn the shy creature's happiness into tragedy and he sends a hearty good-luck after his fellow-fisherman, whether he meet him on the wilderness lakes or in the quiet places on the home streams where nobody ever comes.
"Say, what are you two guys talking about?" asked Roger. "Saving a ship, Roger," said Tom. "Dumping the whole assembly of the number-three rocket!" "Ah you're space happy!" "Maybe," said Tom, "but I think it's worth trying. How about it, Astro?" "O.K. by me, Tom," replied Astro. "Good. You get the cutting torches rigged, Astro. Roger, you give him a hand and keep your eye on the counter.
"Yes, sir," he thought, "if we can surprise 'em, we can get away with it." He dug out a piece of chewing tobacco, took a bite, eyed the remaining piece, and then shoved the whole thing in his mouth. His cheek bulged. He went to the intercom and flipped it on. "Hey, Loring," he yelled. "I've got to check the timer on number-three rocket. She's not acting just right. It'll take me about a minute."
Snakes are frequently met with in the woods betwixt the sea-coast and the rock Saba, chiefly near the creeks and on the banks of the river. They are large, beautiful and formidable. The rattlesnake seems partial to a tract of ground known by the name of Canal Number-three: there the effects of his poison will be long remembered.
"Yeah," said Roger, "then we'll send him one big flash to mean we failed! Bon voyage!" Fifteen minutes later, as the Lady Venus drifted in her silent but deadly orbit, Tom, Roger and Astro still worked feverishly as the Geiger counter ticked off the increasing radioactivity of the wildcatting reaction mass in number-three rocket tube.
Now the mass in number-three rocket is building and wildcatting itself. If it gets any higher, it'll explode." "Why didn't your power-deck man dump the mass?" asked Strong. "We didn't know it was wildcatting until after he had tried to repair it. And he didn't tighten the bolts enough to keep it from leaking radiation." The young skipper paused. "He lived long enough to warn us, though."
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