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Updated: August 17, 2024
Then the water came, and the pump settled down to a steady thugg-thugg, thugg-thugg. The Svants seemed to like the new sound; they grimaced in pleasure and moved closer; within forty or fifty feet, they all squatted on the ground and sat entranced. Others came in from the fields, drawn by the sound. They, too, came up and squatted, until there was a semicircle of them.
As it circled low, a new sound, the steady thugg-thugg, thugg-thugg of the pump, began. The yelling and twittering and the blaring of the peace-horn died out almost at once.
"That'll give us a sanction over them," Gofredo observed. "Extra thugg-thugg if they're very good; shut it off on them if they act nasty. And find out what Lillian has in her voice that the rest of us don't have, and make a good loud recording of that, and stash it away along with the rest of the heavy-weapons ammunition.
"We keep a snooper over the village; fit it with a loud-speaker and a timer; it can give them their thugg-thugg, on schedule, automatically." "We might give the Lord Mayor a recording and a player and let him decide when the people ought to listen if that's the word to it," Dorver said. "Then it would be something of their own." "No!" He spoke so vehemently that the others started.
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