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    The Talkative Tree
    The Talkative Tree
    The Talkative Tree
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    The Talkative Tree

    By Horace Brown Fyfe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Talkative Tree - Horace Brown Fyfe

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Talkative Tree, by Horace Brown Fyfe

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      Title: The Talkative Tree

      Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

      Release Date: December 8, 2007 [EBook #23767]

      Language: English

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      By H. B. Fyfe

      THE TALKATIVE

      TREE

      Dang vines! Beats all how some plants have no manners—but what do you expect, when they used to be men!

      All things considered—the obscure star, the undetermined damage to the stellar drive and the way the small planet's murky atmosphere defied precision scanners—the pilot made a reasonably good landing. Despite sour feelings for the space service of Haurtoz, steward Peter Kolin had to admit that casualties might have been far worse.

      Chief Steward Slichow led his little command, less two third-class ration keepers thought to have been trapped in the lower hold, to a point two hundred meters from the steaming hull of the Peace State. He lined them up as if on parade. Kolin made himself inconspicuous.

      Since the crew will be on emergency watches repairing the damage, announced the Chief in clipped, aggressive tones, I have volunteered my section for preliminary scouting, as is suitable. It may be useful to discover temporary sources in this area of natural foods.

      Volunteered HIS section! thought Kolin rebelliously.

      Like the Supreme Director of Haurtoz! Being conscripted into this idiotic space fleet that never fights is bad enough without a tin god on jets like Slichow!

      Prudently, he did not express this resentment overtly.

      His well-schooled

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