"Let me see, Steigermeyer," said the Major, adjusting another chew of tobacco to his mouth, and balancing the knife with which he had cut it off, judicially in his fingers, a favorite position of his when, as a lawyer, he was putting a witness through a cross-examination. "How long have you been with this army? Came West with the Eleventh Corps, didn't you?"But the planet had natives on it already. The natives were called Alberts, and here is a picture of them. Aren't they funny-looking?
ONE:The boy could scarcely wait for the cooling, and his swimming eyes expressed a gratitude that no words could convey.
ONE:Interoffice guff says you're planning definite moves on your own, J. O., and against some opposition.The lines stiffened, every one drew a long breath, gripped his gun, and braced himself for the fiery ordeal. There was an anxious wait, and then the Adjutant came walking quietly down the line, with his horse's bridle over his arm.
TWO:Precedent was clearly recognizable, even though it made no sense. Those who had not escaped surely had no reason to be punished, Cadnan thought. But what the masters had done to Great Bend Tree they would do to Bent Line Tree.
THREE:"The rest o' you chase yourselves around him," said a humorist among the cooks, while the others laughed uproariously."The Star of Bethlehem," answered Shorty boldly.
