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    The Water Eater
    The Water Eater
    The Water Eater
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    The Water Eater

    By Balbalis and Winston K. Marks

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
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      The Water Eater - Balbalis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Water Eater, by Win Marks

      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.net

      Title: The Water Eater

      Author: Win Marks

      Illustrator: Balbalis

      Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31841]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WATER EATER ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

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

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction June 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      the water eater

      By WIN MARKS

      Illustrated by BALBALIS

      Most experiments were dropped because they failed—and some because they worked too well!

        just lost a weekend. I ain't too anxious to find it. Instead, I sure wish I had gone fishing with McCarthy and the boys like I'd planned.

      I drive a beer truck for a living, but here it is almost noon Monday and I haven't turned a wheel. Sure, I get beer wholesale, and I have been known to take some advantage of my discount. But that wasn't what happened to this weekend.

      Instead of fishing or bowling or poker or taking the kids down to the amusement park over Saturday and Sunday, I've been losing sleep over an experiment.

      Down at the Elks' Club, the boys say that for a working stiff I have a very inquiring mind. I guess that's because they always see me reading Popular Science and Scientific American and such, instead of heading for the stack of Esquires that are piled a foot deep in the middle of the big table in the reading room, like the rest of them do.

      Well, it was my inquiring mind that lost me my wife, the skin of my right hand, a lot of fun and sleep—yeah, not a wink of sleep for two

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