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    Stopover Planet
    Stopover Planet
    Stopover Planet
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    Stopover Planet

    By W. E. Terry and Robert E. Gilbert

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Stopover Planet - W. E. Terry

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      Title: Stopover Planet

      Author: Robert E. Gilbert

      Illustrator: W. E. Terry

      Release Date: September 17, 2009 [EBook #30015]

      Language: English

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      STOPOVER PLANET

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      Robert E. Gilbert

      Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service. But on this particular morning the service was reversed!

      At 2:34 a.m., Patrolman Louis Whedbee left the Zip Cab station. With arch supports squeaking and night stick swinging, Whedbee walked east to the call box at the corner of Sullivan and Cherokee. The traffic signal suspended above the intersection blinked a cautionary amber. Not a car moved on the silent streets.

      Whedbee reached for the box. Then he swore softly and stepped off the curb. Pardon me, he said, for he believed that a policeman should be courteous at all times, even when arresting a school zone speedster. This, however, was not a speedster. It seemed to be a huge man standing on top of a truck and cutting down the stop light. What's going on here? Whedbee asked.

      HONEYCHILE BAKERY was advertised on the side of the truck. Instinctively, Whedbee jammed his whistle in his mouth when he realized that the man on the truck wore something like a suit of

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