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    PRoblem
    PRoblem
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    PRoblem

    By Alan Edward Nourse

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      PRoblem - Alan Edward Nourse

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of PRoblem, by Alan Edward Nourse

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      Title: PRoblem

      Author: Alan Edward Nourse

      Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24290]

      Language: English

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      PRoblem

      by Alan E. Nourse

      The letter came down the slot too early that morning to be the regular mail run. Pete Greenwood eyed the New Philly photocancel with a dreadful premonition. The letter said:

      Peter:

      Can you come East chop-chop, urgent?

      Grdznth problem getting to be a PRoblem, need

      expert icebox salesman to get gators out of hair fast.

      Yes? Math boys hot on this, citizens not so hot.

      Please come.

      Tommy

      Pete tossed the letter down the gulper with a sigh. He had lost a bet to himself because it had come three days later than he expected, but it had come all the same, just as it always did when Tommy Heinz got himself into a hole.

      Not that he didn't like Tommy. Tommy was a good PR-man, as PR-men go. He just didn't know his own depth. PRoblem in a beady Grdznth eye! What Tommy needed right now was a Bazooka Battalion, not a PR-man. Pete settled back in the Eastbound Rocketjet with a sigh of resignation.

      He was just dozing off when the fat lady up the aisle let out a scream. A huge reptilian head had materialized out of nowhere and was hanging in air, peering about uncertainly. A scaly green body followed, four feet away, complete with long razor talons, heavy hind legs, and a whiplash tail with a needle at the end. For a moment the creature floated upside down, legs thrashing. Then the head and body joined, executed a horizontal pirouette, and settled gently to the floor like an eight-foot circus balloon.

      Two rows down a small boy let out a muffled howl and tried to bury himself in his mother's coat collar. An indignant wail arose from the fat lady. Someone behind Pete groaned aloud and quickly

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