Near the forest edge stood three big military tents with scalloped air vents along their rooflines and bush pole supports tethered to big sharpened bush pegs.

Allied pilots feared and loathed these, because a hit from a flaming onion instantly turned an aeroplane into an inferno.

And Dwayne again carried on a wry talk with the Creator of the Universe, using a robot as an unfeeling conversation piece. A lot of people in Midland City put useless objects from Hawaii or Mexico or someplace like that on their coffee tables or their livingroom end tables or on what-not shelves—and such an object was called a conversation piece.

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