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    Vital Ingredient
    Vital Ingredient
    Vital Ingredient
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    Vital Ingredient

    By Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet and Bob Martin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Vital Ingredient - Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vital Ingredient, by Charles V. De Vet

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      Title: Vital Ingredient

      Author: Charles V. De Vet

      Illustrator: Bob Martin

      Release Date: November 17, 2009 [EBook #30491]

      Language: English

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      It is man's most precious possession—no living thing can exist without it. But when they gave it to Orville, it killed him. For the answer, read 1/M.

      Vital

      Ingredient

      By Charles V. De Vet

      Now watch, Remm said, indicating the native. Macker had been absent, exploring the countryside in the immediate vicinity of their landing place, and had not witnessed the capture of the native, or the tests his two companions made on it.

      Macker followed Remm's gaze to where the biped native sat hunched. The creature was bent into an ungainly position, its body crooked at incongruous angles, in such a way as to allow most of its weight to rest on a packing-box at the base of a middle angle. Its stubby feet, on the ends of thin, pipelike legs, rested against the floor of the space ship. Its body was covered, almost entirely, with an artificial skin material of various colors. Some of the colors hurt Macker's eyes. In the few places where the flesh showed through the skin was an unhealthy, pallid white.

      Slowly the creature's head swiveled on its short neck until it faced them.

      "Those orifices in the upper portion of its skull are

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