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    Big Stupe
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    Big Stupe

    By Sanford Kossin and Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Big Stupe - Sanford Kossin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Big Stupe, by Charles V. De Vet

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      Title: Big Stupe

      Author: Charles V. De Vet

      Illustrator: KOSSIN

      Release Date: May 27, 2010 [EBook #32551]

      Language: English

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      Big Stupe

      By CHARLES V. DE VET

      Illustrated by KOSSIN

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction March 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Smart man, Bruckner—he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!

      Bruckner was a man deeply imbued with a sense of his own worth. Now as he rested his broad beam on the joined arms of Sweets and Majesky, he winked to include them in a this is necessary, but you and I see the humor of the thing understanding. Like most thoroughly disliked men, he considered himself quite popular with the boys.

      The conceited ham's enjoying this, Sweets thought, as he staggered down the aisle under the big man's weight. At the ship's entrance, he glanced out across the red-sand plain to where the natives waited.

      They wore little clothing, Sweets noted, except the chief. He sat on his dais—carried on the shoulders of eight of his followers—dressed in long streamers of multi-colored ribbons. Other ribbons, rolled into a rope, formed a diadem on his head.

      The only man more impressively dressed was Bruckner. He wore all the ceremonial trappings of a second century Gallic king, complete with jewel-studded gold crown.

      As Sweets and Majesky grunted with their

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