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    The Mississippi Saucer
    The Mississippi Saucer
    The Mississippi Saucer
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    The Mississippi Saucer

    By Jon Arfstrom and Frank Belknap Long

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Mississippi Saucer - Jon Arfstrom

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mississippi Saucer, by Frank Belknap Long

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Mississippi Saucer

      Author: Frank Belknap Long

      Release Date: November 20, 2007 [EBook #23568]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This eBook was produced from Weird Tales, March 1951, pp. 26-36. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      p. 26

      Something of the wonder that must have come to men

      seeking magic in the sky in days long vanished.

      Heading by Jon Arfstrom

      p. 27

      Jimmy watched the Natchez Belle draw near, a shining eagerness in his stare. He stood on the deck of the shantyboat, his toes sticking out of his socks, his heart knocking against his ribs. Straight down the river the big packet boat came, purpling the water with its shadow, its smokestacks belching soot.

      Jimmy had a wild talent for collecting things. He knew exactly how to infuriate the captains without sticking out his neck. Up and down the Father of Waters, from the bayous of Louisiana to the Great Sandy other little shantyboat boys envied Jimmy and tried hard to imitate him.

      But Jimmy had a very special gift, a genius for pantomime. He'd wait until there was a glimmer of red flame on the river and small objects stood out with a startling clarity. Then he'd go into his act.

      Nothing upset the captains quite so much as Jimmy's habit of holding a big, croaking bullfrog up by its legs as the riverboats went steaming past. It was a surefire way of reminding the captains that men and frogs were brothers under the skin. The puffed-out throat of the frog told the captains exactly what Jimmy thought of their cheek.

      Jimmy refrained from making faces, or sticking out his tongue at the grinning roustabouts. It was the frog that did the trick.

      In the still dawn things came sailing Jimmy's way, hurled by captains with a twinkle of repressed merriment dancing in eyes that were kindlier and more tolerant than Jimmy dreamed.

      Just because shantyboat folk had no right to insult the riverboats Jimmy had collected forty empty tobacco tins, a down-at-heels shoe, a Sears

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