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The Venusian fingered several, then pulled out a slip of paper. He opened it and read aloud. "Number two! I go!" He turned and grinned at the others. Connel offered his cap to Alfie. Alfie dipped in two fingers and pulled out a slip. "Number four! I go!" he squealed. Roger and Shinny drew numbers one and three. Tom looked at the major. "Go ahead, Corbett," said Connel. "After you, sir," said Tom.
What a man wants to bring with him down here, he brings. What he don't bring, don't exist!" Roger smiled and stuck out his hand. "All right, Mr. Shinny! I want a set of papers space papers! Made out in any name, so that I can get out into space again. I don't care where I go or on what, or how long I'm gone. I just gotta blast off!"
"What kind of a deal?" asked Shinny. "Hot-shot Manning for the satellite!" "He hasn't told you everything, Mr. Shinny," said Roger in his casual drawl. "They are the ones who caused the crash of the Annie Jones and the deaths of Jardine and Bangs. They framed me!" "Then," mused Shinny, "you're cleared?" "Yeah," growled Mason, "he's cleared!
Come on, the quicker we get moving the better." With that Maurice turned on his heel and started off. "I don't want him to get the notion in his head we're scared about it," he muttered; "but all the same I think we'd better shinny on our own side, and move along."
"You need a new car like Chuck's mom. She rides around in a shinny big red van and not like this stinky old thing." "That ostentatious woman again. Well, I'm delighted for her. I guess if her van is not stinky she must have a son who is neat and doesn't smash chocolate and peanut butter things into the vinyl." "What is stinkiness?" "What is stinkiness?
Connel, with Tom piloting the jet boat, finished setting up their units at points one, two, and three and headed back to the Polaris. "How much time, sir?" asked Tom as he slowed the small craft for a landing. "Less than a half hour, Corbett," said Connel nervously. "I'd better check on Shinny and Alfie." He called into the audiophone. "Major Connel to Shinny and Higgins, come in Shinny Higgins!"
Father was always willing to release us from labor at times when the ice was fine, and at night we were free to explore the whole country round about, finding new places for our games. Sometimes the girls joined us, and we built fires on the edges of the swales and played "gool" and a kind of "shinny" till hunger drove us home.
They sank back into their chairs. "It's simple," said Mason fearfully. "Loring wants to steal a spaceship." "A pirate job!" said Shinny. He drew in his breath sharply. "You must be outta your mind!" "You've called yourself in on this," Loring reminded him. "And you're staying in." "Oh, no!" Shinny's voice dropped to a husky, frightened whisper. "Deal's off.
Shinny followed him, a curious gleam in his eyes. Up on the control deck, Loring was twisting the dials in front of the teleceiver screen. "Space Devil to Polaris Space Devil to Polaris come in, Polaris." He twisted another dial and watched the darkened screen anxiously. After a moment the screen blurred, and Tom's face gradually came into sharp focus. "Loring!" gasped Tom. "Where's Roger?"
Hennessy, "an' it ain't like shinny, an' it ain't like lawn-teenis, an' it ain't like forty-fives, an' it ain't" "Like canvas-back duck or anny other game ye know," said Mr. Dooley. "Thin what is it like?" said Mr. Hennessy. "I see be th' pa-aper that Hobart What-d'ye-call-him is wan iv th' best at it.
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