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    Show Business
    Show Business
    Show Business
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    Show Business

    By Mel Hunter and Boyd Ellanby

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Show Business - Mel Hunter

      Project Gutenberg's Show Business, by William C. Boyd and Lyle G. Boyd

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Show Business

      Author: William C. Boyd

      Lyle G. Boyd

      Illustrator: Mel Hunter

      Release Date: October 6, 2009 [EBook #30189]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHOW BUSINESS ***

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      Here's the behind-the-scenes lowdown on Luna City life and a promoter of Martian dancing girls, vaudeville, and—other things. But remember: stop us if you've heard this one!

      SHOW BUSINESS

      By Boyd Ellanby

      Illustrated by Mel Hunter

      Except for old Dworken, Kotha's bar was deserted when I dropped in shortly after midnight. The ship from Earth was still two days away, and the Martian flagship would get in next morning, with seven hundred passengers for Earth on it. Dworken must have been waiting in Luna City a whole week—at six thousand credits a day. That's as steep to me as it is to you, but money never seemed to worry Dworken.

      He raised the heavy green lids from his protruding brown eyes as I came in. He waved his tail.

      Sit down and join me, he invited, in his guttural voice. It is not good for a man to drink alone. But I haf no combany in dis by-de-gods-deserted hole. A man must somet'ing be doing, what?

      I sat

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