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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: When Whirlybirds Call - -Author: Frank Banta - -Release Date: February 6, 2020 [EBook #61334] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL</h1> - -<h2>by Frank Banta</h2> - -<p class="ph1">Five-Gun DeCrabbe was the terror of<br /> -every planet—especially to his friends!</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1963.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Those of the city of Featherton, on Grimes Planet, were with him to a -man. Feathertonians cheered and waved from their windows that morning, -not daring to come out for fear of the whirlybirds, and admiring -Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe all the more for riding down the main stem -of the town with the bubble of his convertible space coupe slid -back—ignoring the menace from the skies.</p> - -<p>Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe rode down the exact center of the street, -looking neither to right or left, not acknowledging the screams of -adulation that poured from the windows. His bare head was up, his -mouth was pressed into firm, haughty lines of self-confidence and even -his battle dress of dark green seemed to exude the aura of a competent -killer.</p> - -<p>Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe had come to clean up the town. Of whirlybirds.</p> - -<p>He stopped his space convertible in front of the white stone building -titled City Hall on its facade. The two men waiting to greet him stayed -safely under the bullet-shaped marquee as he alighted. He jumped over -the side, checked his two holstered needle pistols, slung his explosive -pellet rifle over one shoulder, his N-ray flashburn gun over the other -shoulder and picked up his rocket-powered stun-gas spray gun in his -hands. He strode over to the waiting men.</p> - -<p>"I'm Alson Prince, Mayor of Featherton," said the older man shaking -hands with the one DeCrabbe stuck out from under the spray gun. "And -you are Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe?"</p> - -<p>"Yes yes yes!" exclaimed DeCrabbe impatiently in his clipped speech.</p> - -<p>"I'm the mayor's son," introduced the younger man with admiration -shining in his eyes. "You sure look like you're ready to whip those -whirlybirds."</p> - -<p>"Yes yes yes!" exclaimed DeCrabbe haughtily. "Always dislike long -conversations you know. Supposing you tell me what you know so can -exterminate them without further delay. No doubt solution before dusk."</p> - -<p>"Before dusk?" asked the mayor, dumfounded. "Oh, no, not today, I'm -afraid. They've been around too many years to whip in one day."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps shall require two days then," said Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe -graciously. "But doubt it. Tell me what you know of them."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Very well," assented the older man. "Perhaps the best place to -begin is with their name. When we first occupied this planet, a -bare twenty years ago, we called them wolfhawk-whirlybirds and -tigerhawk-whirlybirds because they preyed on vicious animals. The -whirlybirds were our best friends in those days. The only trouble is -that they ran out of tigers and wolves to eat."</p> - -<p>"Presumed they are now called peoplehawk-whirlybirds?" DeCrabbe -frowningly asked in his clipped speech.</p> - -<p>"Exactly!" answered the older man. "Although that isn't their full -name. From the way they attack—"</p> - -<p>"Most important," interrupted Five-gun. "Give to me in detail."</p> - -<p>"They prefer to attack strollers, although they have attacked on city -streets when there is little traffic. They fly with amazing speed, -considering they are an untidy ball forty feet in diameter, and they -are on top of their victims before the unlucky ones are aware of the -menace. Blowing their victims down with a rush of air from their -feathers, they grab them up by the heels, carry them high aloft and -drop them on piles of rock outside of town."</p> - -<p>"They are <i>downdraft</i>-peoplehawk-whirlybirds then?" asked DeCrabbe.</p> - -<p>"That's almost it," agreed the mayor. "I have not yet told -you of their cries. As they rise in the air with the victim -dangling from their talons by his heels, they utter a pleased -'Coo! Coo!' like a gentle dove. That is why they are called -Coocoo-downdraft-peoplehawk-whirlybirds."</p> - -<p>"Approve of adequate names," nodded Five-gun, unbending a trifle. -"First step toward efficiency. Only one thing haven't made clear. -Presumably have shotguns and rifles. Why unable drive off these -predators yourselves?"</p> - -<p>The mayor laughed bitterly. "It would be easy to tell you'd just -arrived on this planet—although the birds are not well known in the -other cities either; they are all concentrated in this area. Yes, our -sportsmen tried to shoot down the whirlybirds. No luck, of course. -Imagine the problems you have when one of these forty-foot balls of -commotion comes at you: You try to aim but you can't hold your arm -still because of the swirling wind they raise; and then the dust clouds -thicken and you're firing wildly, and you can't begin to tell which is -body and which is feathers anyway."</p> - -<p>"Very well," accepted Charles DeCrabbe mercifully. "You've made -attempt. My first step therefore the attachment of high explosives to -boobytrapped mannequins. Brought these with me."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Great winds of catastrophe. I'm glad you mentioned it before you did -it!" exclaimed the mayor. "We tried that once. The city was six weeks -digging out from under the feathers—and it didn't kill the whirlybird!"</p> - -<p>"Aren't you exaggerating difficulties encountered in picking up few -feathers?" loftily inquired DeCrabbe.</p> - -<p>"How do you think we got the name of Featherton? Before the deluge we -were called West Applebury!"</p> - -<p>"Then why haven't you attempted lure them into boobytraps outside town? -Could detonate them there without even slight inconvenience of picking -up feathers."</p> - -<p>"Believe me, if there were only a <i>few</i> feathers," insisted Mayor -Prince, "few enough for you to pick up by yourself, we wouldn't mind -you blowing up a whirlybird."</p> - -<p>"Wasn't considering picking up <i>any</i> feathers," replied Five-gun with -dignity. "Had supposed a menial or two could be supplied for that."</p> - -<p>The mayor shook his head. "It would take everybody in town to clean -up. And as for blowing one up outside the city, one of our orchardists -tried it. He blew it to bits all right, but eighty acres of his apple -trees were smothered under the debris!"</p> - -<p>"Now anticipate that the extermination of the whirlybirds will almost -certainly take me up to two days," conceded Five-gun DeCrabbe calmly. -"However will be all the more interesting to defeat them without -recourse large explosives."</p> - -<p>"Gee, what a man!" admired the mayor's son. "Only two days!"</p> - -<p>"If you will now lead me to your city park will begin campaign of -extermination at once."</p> - -<p>"It's down that way," said the mayor, pointing. Plainly he had no -intention of leaving the shelter of the marquee. "You can't miss it."</p> - -<p>As Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe leaped back into his craft and started -off, the mayor's son called after him, "Aren't you scared, going out -exposed like that?"</p> - -<p>DeCrabbe turned. "Am armed, young man," he retorted severely.</p> - -<p>"Yeah, but those whirlybirds don't pay any attention to guns."</p> - -<p>"Soon will," DeCrabbe replied, unruffled.</p> - -<p>Slowly he drove down the center of the empty street, receiving more -cheers from heads thrust out of windows. He arrived at the city park -and turned in. He unloaded most of his equipment under the roof of the -bandstand.</p> - -<p>A few minutes later one of his robot mannequins moved slowly around -the clearing before the bandstand, its control set for slow walking to -conserve its atomic battery. The predator hunter unlimbered all his -guns as he sat under the bandstand roof waiting.</p> - -<p>It was an hour before the first whirlybird attacked.</p> - -<p>His first warning was the rising wind. His gaze moved around the sky -until he found the rapidly growing black spot. A few seconds later -it became a universe-engulfing blackness as it spotted the mannequin -and came down for it. As soon as the wind-screaming blackness reached -the mannequin, the needle guns in his hands emptied their hundreds of -anesthetizing needles into the turbulence. But it was as the mayor had -said. Where did the bird's body end and the feathers begin? When the -needle pistols were empty he dropped them and snatched up the rocket -powered stun-gas weapon; its immense flare poured into the blackness -without visible result. He dropped it and grabbed the N-ray flashburn -gun. The forty-foot ball of fury was beginning to rise high with its -prey now, as the gun stuttered fifty bolts of burning lethal radiation -into it. He smelled feathers that time. Finally as the giant bird, -without faltering, rose above the range of the N-ray gun, he took to -the explosive pellet rifle. It had only ten shots; all of these went -into the center of the blackness well before the whirlybird had flown -beyond range. And as it neared the horizon with its mannequin prey, he -heard its sweet song:</p> - -<p>"Coo! Coo!"</p> - -<p>"How <i>dare</i> it coo after all I did to it?" muttered DeCrabbe grimly. -"Shall not coo next time!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Half an hour later a new mannequin stood out in front of the bandstand. -Its arms waved ceaselessly but it stood still. Nestled against its -back was a ten gallon drum of gas, which would be exploded—blanketing -most of the park in fumes—as soon as the mannequin was moved. Charles -DeCrabbe waited, his mask ready, his potent weapons all reloaded.</p> - -<p>Ninety minutes later the huge black menace arrived—either the first -whirlybird or another forty-foot wind-screaming fury. Slipping his -gas mask on, the man waited for the right moment to begin firing. The -whirlybird swooped down, the tank exploded in a fog, and the giant -wobbled!</p> - -<p>DeCrabbe emptied all his weapons again. The bird arose, wobbling, its -speed greatly impaired, but making its getaway despite all he could do.</p> - -<p>"Damn well didn't coo that time," he said when the monster had reached -the horizon. "Next time won't fly either."</p> - -<p>But just then the monstrous bird mocked him in the distance with a -loud, sweet, "Coo! Coo!"</p> - -<p>Shortly after lunch he had it all set up. A new mannequin stood out in -front of the bandstand, its arms waving and a pair of slim, gleaming, -ten-gallon drums of stun gas nearby.</p> - -<p>It was one o'clock before the third whirlybird struck.</p> - -<p>Down it sank until it became a huge, ebony blot in the afternoon sky. -Underneath the bandstand roof DeCrabbe got ready for his supreme -effort. He slipped on his gas mask and made sure his N-ray flashburn -gun was ready for instant action, its safety off. He was determined -that if he got the bird prostrate he would climb aboard and fire N-ray -bolts into it until something <i>gave</i>!</p> - -<p>The huge black, wind-screaming monster plummeted the last few yards -down and grabbed the mannequin. Both tanks of stun gas exploded. The -giant whirlybird slumped unconscious—and DeCrabbe scrambled aboard!</p> - -<p>The feverishly hurrying hunter was not long discovering why he had -not—and never would—penetrate the bird's feathers with any of his -weapons: He burrowed down into the feathers the length of his arm and -there were yet more feathers beyond! A feather pillow would stop a -rifle bullet, he knew, and this monster had the probable equivalent of -a thousand feather pillows protecting it, invulnerable as a battleship.</p> - -<p>And just then the maneater awoke, wobbled into the air, and flew away -before DeCrabbe could get off!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The following afternoon, as Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe made his farewell -of the city of Featherton, he once more drove down the center of the -street with the bubble of his space convertible slid back.</p> - -<p>Yet there was a difference this time. The mayor and his son rode beside -him on the seat, and all of the people were now out of doors standing -along the curb, cheering their deliverer wildly as he passed.</p> - -<p>"I can't tell you how much I personally appreciate what you've done for -us," said the mayor humbly.</p> - -<p>"Quite quite quite!" returned Five-gun haughtily in his clipped speech, -hoping to shut off the man's tendency toward windyness.</p> - -<p>With awe in his voice the mayor's son admired, "So instead of being -scared to death you were all ready for action when you and the -whirlybird landed at their rocky, mountain lair?"</p> - -<p>"Yes yes yes! Slid off its back, hid between two boulders, waited -for the appropriate moment. After bagging that one, waited for other -monsters as they landed, one by one. Bagged them."</p> - -<p>"Just like that!" said the youngster. "You just get up close enough for -those peoplehawks to grab you and then you bagged them."</p> - -<p>"Only possible way is my way," clipped DeCrabbe immovably.</p> - -<p>"Its eyes couldn't be buried deeply in feathers if they were to be of -use."</p> - -<p>"So?"</p> - -<p>"So eye is proximate to beak—and brain," said the hunter with dignity. -"Where one of its <i>coo-coos</i> came out, one of my N-ray bolts went in, -and that was that!"</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of When Whirlybirds Call, by Frank Banta - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL *** - -***** This file should be named 61334-h.htm or 61334-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/3/3/61334/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: When Whirlybirds Call - -Author: Frank Banta - -Release Date: February 6, 2020 [EBook #61334] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL - - by Frank Banta - - Five-Gun DeCrabbe was the terror of - every planet--especially to his friends! - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1963. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Those of the city of Featherton, on Grimes Planet, were with him to a -man. Feathertonians cheered and waved from their windows that morning, -not daring to come out for fear of the whirlybirds, and admiring -Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe all the more for riding down the main stem -of the town with the bubble of his convertible space coupe slid -back--ignoring the menace from the skies. - -Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe rode down the exact center of the street, -looking neither to right or left, not acknowledging the screams of -adulation that poured from the windows. His bare head was up, his -mouth was pressed into firm, haughty lines of self-confidence and even -his battle dress of dark green seemed to exude the aura of a competent -killer. - -Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe had come to clean up the town. Of whirlybirds. - -He stopped his space convertible in front of the white stone building -titled City Hall on its facade. The two men waiting to greet him stayed -safely under the bullet-shaped marquee as he alighted. He jumped over -the side, checked his two holstered needle pistols, slung his explosive -pellet rifle over one shoulder, his N-ray flashburn gun over the other -shoulder and picked up his rocket-powered stun-gas spray gun in his -hands. He strode over to the waiting men. - -"I'm Alson Prince, Mayor of Featherton," said the older man shaking -hands with the one DeCrabbe stuck out from under the spray gun. "And -you are Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe?" - -"Yes yes yes!" exclaimed DeCrabbe impatiently in his clipped speech. - -"I'm the mayor's son," introduced the younger man with admiration -shining in his eyes. "You sure look like you're ready to whip those -whirlybirds." - -"Yes yes yes!" exclaimed DeCrabbe haughtily. "Always dislike long -conversations you know. Supposing you tell me what you know so can -exterminate them without further delay. No doubt solution before dusk." - -"Before dusk?" asked the mayor, dumfounded. "Oh, no, not today, I'm -afraid. They've been around too many years to whip in one day." - -"Perhaps shall require two days then," said Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe -graciously. "But doubt it. Tell me what you know of them." - - * * * * * - -"Very well," assented the older man. "Perhaps the best place to -begin is with their name. When we first occupied this planet, a -bare twenty years ago, we called them wolfhawk-whirlybirds and -tigerhawk-whirlybirds because they preyed on vicious animals. The -whirlybirds were our best friends in those days. The only trouble is -that they ran out of tigers and wolves to eat." - -"Presumed they are now called peoplehawk-whirlybirds?" DeCrabbe -frowningly asked in his clipped speech. - -"Exactly!" answered the older man. "Although that isn't their full -name. From the way they attack--" - -"Most important," interrupted Five-gun. "Give to me in detail." - -"They prefer to attack strollers, although they have attacked on city -streets when there is little traffic. They fly with amazing speed, -considering they are an untidy ball forty feet in diameter, and they -are on top of their victims before the unlucky ones are aware of the -menace. Blowing their victims down with a rush of air from their -feathers, they grab them up by the heels, carry them high aloft and -drop them on piles of rock outside of town." - -"They are _downdraft_-peoplehawk-whirlybirds then?" asked DeCrabbe. - -"That's almost it," agreed the mayor. "I have not yet told -you of their cries. As they rise in the air with the victim -dangling from their talons by his heels, they utter a pleased -'Coo! Coo!' like a gentle dove. That is why they are called -Coocoo-downdraft-peoplehawk-whirlybirds." - -"Approve of adequate names," nodded Five-gun, unbending a trifle. -"First step toward efficiency. Only one thing haven't made clear. -Presumably have shotguns and rifles. Why unable drive off these -predators yourselves?" - -The mayor laughed bitterly. "It would be easy to tell you'd just -arrived on this planet--although the birds are not well known in the -other cities either; they are all concentrated in this area. Yes, our -sportsmen tried to shoot down the whirlybirds. No luck, of course. -Imagine the problems you have when one of these forty-foot balls of -commotion comes at you: You try to aim but you can't hold your arm -still because of the swirling wind they raise; and then the dust clouds -thicken and you're firing wildly, and you can't begin to tell which is -body and which is feathers anyway." - -"Very well," accepted Charles DeCrabbe mercifully. "You've made -attempt. My first step therefore the attachment of high explosives to -boobytrapped mannequins. Brought these with me." - - * * * * * - -"Great winds of catastrophe. I'm glad you mentioned it before you did -it!" exclaimed the mayor. "We tried that once. The city was six weeks -digging out from under the feathers--and it didn't kill the whirlybird!" - -"Aren't you exaggerating difficulties encountered in picking up few -feathers?" loftily inquired DeCrabbe. - -"How do you think we got the name of Featherton? Before the deluge we -were called West Applebury!" - -"Then why haven't you attempted lure them into boobytraps outside town? -Could detonate them there without even slight inconvenience of picking -up feathers." - -"Believe me, if there were only a _few_ feathers," insisted Mayor -Prince, "few enough for you to pick up by yourself, we wouldn't mind -you blowing up a whirlybird." - -"Wasn't considering picking up _any_ feathers," replied Five-gun with -dignity. "Had supposed a menial or two could be supplied for that." - -The mayor shook his head. "It would take everybody in town to clean -up. And as for blowing one up outside the city, one of our orchardists -tried it. He blew it to bits all right, but eighty acres of his apple -trees were smothered under the debris!" - -"Now anticipate that the extermination of the whirlybirds will almost -certainly take me up to two days," conceded Five-gun DeCrabbe calmly. -"However will be all the more interesting to defeat them without -recourse large explosives." - -"Gee, what a man!" admired the mayor's son. "Only two days!" - -"If you will now lead me to your city park will begin campaign of -extermination at once." - -"It's down that way," said the mayor, pointing. Plainly he had no -intention of leaving the shelter of the marquee. "You can't miss it." - -As Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe leaped back into his craft and started -off, the mayor's son called after him, "Aren't you scared, going out -exposed like that?" - -DeCrabbe turned. "Am armed, young man," he retorted severely. - -"Yeah, but those whirlybirds don't pay any attention to guns." - -"Soon will," DeCrabbe replied, unruffled. - -Slowly he drove down the center of the empty street, receiving more -cheers from heads thrust out of windows. He arrived at the city park -and turned in. He unloaded most of his equipment under the roof of the -bandstand. - -A few minutes later one of his robot mannequins moved slowly around -the clearing before the bandstand, its control set for slow walking to -conserve its atomic battery. The predator hunter unlimbered all his -guns as he sat under the bandstand roof waiting. - -It was an hour before the first whirlybird attacked. - -His first warning was the rising wind. His gaze moved around the sky -until he found the rapidly growing black spot. A few seconds later -it became a universe-engulfing blackness as it spotted the mannequin -and came down for it. As soon as the wind-screaming blackness reached -the mannequin, the needle guns in his hands emptied their hundreds of -anesthetizing needles into the turbulence. But it was as the mayor had -said. Where did the bird's body end and the feathers begin? When the -needle pistols were empty he dropped them and snatched up the rocket -powered stun-gas weapon; its immense flare poured into the blackness -without visible result. He dropped it and grabbed the N-ray flashburn -gun. The forty-foot ball of fury was beginning to rise high with its -prey now, as the gun stuttered fifty bolts of burning lethal radiation -into it. He smelled feathers that time. Finally as the giant bird, -without faltering, rose above the range of the N-ray gun, he took to -the explosive pellet rifle. It had only ten shots; all of these went -into the center of the blackness well before the whirlybird had flown -beyond range. And as it neared the horizon with its mannequin prey, he -heard its sweet song: - -"Coo! Coo!" - -"How _dare_ it coo after all I did to it?" muttered DeCrabbe grimly. -"Shall not coo next time!" - - * * * * * - -Half an hour later a new mannequin stood out in front of the bandstand. -Its arms waved ceaselessly but it stood still. Nestled against its -back was a ten gallon drum of gas, which would be exploded--blanketing -most of the park in fumes--as soon as the mannequin was moved. Charles -DeCrabbe waited, his mask ready, his potent weapons all reloaded. - -Ninety minutes later the huge black menace arrived--either the first -whirlybird or another forty-foot wind-screaming fury. Slipping his -gas mask on, the man waited for the right moment to begin firing. The -whirlybird swooped down, the tank exploded in a fog, and the giant -wobbled! - -DeCrabbe emptied all his weapons again. The bird arose, wobbling, its -speed greatly impaired, but making its getaway despite all he could do. - -"Damn well didn't coo that time," he said when the monster had reached -the horizon. "Next time won't fly either." - -But just then the monstrous bird mocked him in the distance with a -loud, sweet, "Coo! Coo!" - -Shortly after lunch he had it all set up. A new mannequin stood out in -front of the bandstand, its arms waving and a pair of slim, gleaming, -ten-gallon drums of stun gas nearby. - -It was one o'clock before the third whirlybird struck. - -Down it sank until it became a huge, ebony blot in the afternoon sky. -Underneath the bandstand roof DeCrabbe got ready for his supreme -effort. He slipped on his gas mask and made sure his N-ray flashburn -gun was ready for instant action, its safety off. He was determined -that if he got the bird prostrate he would climb aboard and fire N-ray -bolts into it until something _gave_! - -The huge black, wind-screaming monster plummeted the last few yards -down and grabbed the mannequin. Both tanks of stun gas exploded. The -giant whirlybird slumped unconscious--and DeCrabbe scrambled aboard! - -The feverishly hurrying hunter was not long discovering why he had -not--and never would--penetrate the bird's feathers with any of his -weapons: He burrowed down into the feathers the length of his arm and -there were yet more feathers beyond! A feather pillow would stop a -rifle bullet, he knew, and this monster had the probable equivalent of -a thousand feather pillows protecting it, invulnerable as a battleship. - -And just then the maneater awoke, wobbled into the air, and flew away -before DeCrabbe could get off! - - * * * * * - -The following afternoon, as Five-gun Charles DeCrabbe made his farewell -of the city of Featherton, he once more drove down the center of the -street with the bubble of his space convertible slid back. - -Yet there was a difference this time. The mayor and his son rode beside -him on the seat, and all of the people were now out of doors standing -along the curb, cheering their deliverer wildly as he passed. - -"I can't tell you how much I personally appreciate what you've done for -us," said the mayor humbly. - -"Quite quite quite!" returned Five-gun haughtily in his clipped speech, -hoping to shut off the man's tendency toward windyness. - -With awe in his voice the mayor's son admired, "So instead of being -scared to death you were all ready for action when you and the -whirlybird landed at their rocky, mountain lair?" - -"Yes yes yes! Slid off its back, hid between two boulders, waited -for the appropriate moment. After bagging that one, waited for other -monsters as they landed, one by one. Bagged them." - -"Just like that!" said the youngster. "You just get up close enough for -those peoplehawks to grab you and then you bagged them." - -"Only possible way is my way," clipped DeCrabbe immovably. - -"Its eyes couldn't be buried deeply in feathers if they were to be of -use." - -"So?" - -"So eye is proximate to beak--and brain," said the hunter with dignity. -"Where one of its _coo-coos_ came out, one of my N-ray bolts went in, -and that was that!" - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of When Whirlybirds Call, by Frank Banta - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHEN WHIRLYBIRDS CALL *** - -***** This file should be named 61334.txt or 61334.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/3/3/61334/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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