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Updated: May 26, 2025
To serve under Barris, to have his own men in a regular squadron platoon, to have Flip Villa in the same outfit, and to be assigned to exploration duty dirtiest but most exciting of all Planeteer jobs was just too much. He couldn't say anything. He could only grin. Maj. Joe Barris looked at Rip's shiny head and chuckled. "From what I hear of Callisto, we're in for a rough time.
Peter Cribb, my lad " "Yes." "We're getting old fellow-servants, though you're only young. Peter, my lad, I'm beginning to tremble for my fruit." "Eh?" "Yes; that I am, my lad," said Dan'l in a whisper. "Just as I expected I was watching of him that rip's took up with bad company, Poacher Dimsted's boy; and that means evil. They was talking together, and then young Dimsted see me, and run away."
Soon after the Grammar School boys came out on the road. "See that group 'way ahead there?" asked Tom, pointing down the road. "Yes," nodded Dick. "That's Rip's crowd, so we know they didn't get hurt." "Then the only one who did get hurt," Tom added, "was the man who was very soon able to take mighty good care of himself." "So we don't need to bother about the matter any more," Greg hinted.
And his wife, whose athletic arm and agile tongue had half disposed him to linger in the mountains how happened it that she was not awaiting him at the gate? But gate there was none in the familiar place: an unfenced yard of weeds and ruined foundation wall were there. Rip's home was gone.
They were close enough to the sun that the prominences, great flaming tongues of hydrogen that sped many thousands of miles into space, gave them light and enough heat to register on Rip's instruments. Mercury was left far behind, and Earth could not be seen because of the sun.
"Nobody hurrying out with an aid and comfort kit," Rip's voice sounded in Dane's earphones. "A little slack aren't they?" Slack or was it that the Eysies had recognized the Queen and was preparing the sort of welcome the remnant of her crew could not withstand?
So we let her persuade us, an' she teks Rip's measure theer an' then, an' sent to Hamilton's to order a silver collar again t' time when he was to be her awn, which was to be t' day she set off for Munsooree Pahar. "Sitha, Mulvaney," says I, when we was outside, "you're niver goin' to let her hev Rip!" "An' would ye disappoint a poor old woman?" says he; "she shall have a Rip."
An' he went to work a-practisin' 'air-dyes the very next day, beginnin' on some white rabbits he had, an' then he drored all Rip's markin's on t' back of a white Commissariat bullock, so as to get his 'and in an' be sure of his colours; shadin' off brown into black as nateral as life.
A charge hit the boat aft and blew its stern tubes off completely. And at the same moment, a Connie gunner got a perfect bead on the snapper-boat. Space blew up in Rip's face. The snapper-boat slewed wildly as the Connie shot took effect. Rip worked his controls frantically, trying to straighten the rocket out more by instinct than anything else.
Jim Bloxam, though, is one of my intimates. He is a great friend of both mine and the 'Rip's, and we see a good deal of him when he is in London; and, indeed," she continued, laughing, "for the matter of that, when he is not; for he has a way of turning up at all places generally when there is anything going on. Indeed, we have half promised to lunch at their regimental tent at Ascot.
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