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    Big Stupe

    By Charles V. deVet

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    Smart man, Bruckner—he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateFeb 13, 2015
    ISBN9781633559103
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      Big Stupe - Charles V. deVet

      Big Stupe

      By CHARLES V. DE VET

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

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      ISBN 978-1-63355-910-3

      Smart man, Bruckner--he knew how to handle natives ... but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!

      Bruckner was a man deeply imbued with a sense of his own worth. Now as he rested his broad beam on the joined arms of Sweets and Majesky, he winked to include them in a this is necessary, but you and I see the humor of the thing understanding. Like most thoroughly disliked men, he considered himself quite popular with the boys.

      The conceited ham's enjoying this, Sweets thought, as he staggered down the aisle under the big man's weight. At the ship's entrance, he glanced out across the red-sand plain to where the natives waited.

      They wore little clothing, Sweets noted, except the chief. He sat on his dais--carried on the shoulders of eight of his followers--dressed in long streamers of multi-colored ribbons. Other ribbons, rolled into a rope, formed a diadem on his head.

      The only man more impressively dressed was Bruckner. He wore all the ceremonial trappings of a second century Gallic king, complete with jewel-studded gold crown.

      As Sweets and Majesky grunted with their burden across the ten yards separating the ship from the thronelike chair that had been brought out earlier, their feet kicked up a cloud of red dust that coated their clothing and clogged their nostrils.

      The dust had originally been red ferric sand. But the action of winds and storms had milled it together, grain against grain, through the ages, until it had become a

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