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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
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Title: Toy Shop
Author: Henry Maxwell Dempsey
Illustrator: Brey
Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22966]
Language: English
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TOYThe 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
SHOPBecause 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
