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    Toy Shop
    Toy Shop
    Toy Shop
    Ebook28 pages18 minutes

    Toy Shop

    By Charles Brey and Harry Harrison

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
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      A military officer buys a cheap tin toy rocket ship ... and finds it isn't what it seems.

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    Toy Shop - Charles Brey

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Toy Shop, by Henry Maxwell Dempsey

    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

    re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

    with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

    Title: Toy Shop

    Author: Henry Maxwell Dempsey

    Illustrator: Brey

    Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22966]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOY SHOP ***

    Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

    Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

    The gadget was strictly,

    beyond any question, a toy.

    Not a real, workable device.

    Except for the way it could work

    under a man's mental skin....

    BY HARRY HARRISON

    Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel Biff Hawton stood over six feet tall, he could see every detail of the demonstration. The children—and most of the parents—gaped in wide-eyed wonder. Biff Hawton was too sophisticated to be awed. He stayed on because he wanted to find out what the trick was that made the gadget work.

    It's all explained right here in your instruction book, the demonstrator said, holding up a garishly printed booklet opened to a four-color diagram. "You all know how magnets pick up things and I bet you

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