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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Frogs of Mars - -Author: Roger Dee - -Release Date: September 13, 2021 [eBook #66287] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FROGS OF MARS *** - - - - - The little guy comes into the bar just as - the first Marscast is about to start. He scoffs - at scientific facts and keeps mumbling about-- - - THE FROGS OF MARS - - By Roger Dee - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy - April 1954 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -There was nothing special about the little man who came into Larry's -place, unless it might have been his air of vague familiarity and the -mixed expression on his face. He looked disgusted and defensive and at -the same time a little resentful, with a dash of something else thrown -in which none of us recognized until later. - -I'd have mistaken him for another reporter from the _Advertiser_ -across the street if the five newsmen already at the bar hadn't given -each other a blank look that meant only one thing: none of them knew -him. Neither did Larry, who was trying to bring in the first broadcast -from Mars on the television set bracketed to the wall over his whiskey -stock, and who wasn't pleased at having his little after-hours party -crashed. - -"The bar's closed," Larry said. His tone didn't invite argument. "City -ordinance. No customers after 1:00 a.m." - -The little man looked at the clock, which said 3:15, and then at the -front windows which were shuttered tight. Then he looked at the six of -us sitting at the bar with our drinks. - -"I'll have bourbon and water," he said. He sat down at the end of the -bar on the stool next to mine and looked at his reflection in the -mirror without approval. - -Larry got the look that bartenders get with troublesome customers. - -"The bar's closed," he said again. "It's a city--" - -"Water on the side," the little man said. "Don't mix it." - -Abe Marker, who does sports for the _Advertiser_, got up and checked -the front-door lock. The thumb-catch hadn't been thrown, so Abe put it -on and came back to the bar. - -"Nobody else will wander in," he said. "Make with the t-v, Larry. -You're holding up the show." - -Larry looked stubborn. - -"It's after 1:00 a.m.," he said. "And that door was supposed to be -locked. There's a city ordinance--" - -"You're breaking it already," the little man said, looking at us. He -didn't seem angry, just weary and disgusted. "Not that I give a damn. -All I want is a bourbon and water." - -"Better give it to him, Larry," Willard Saxton said from down the bar. -Willard is the _Advertiser's_ science editor and is an authority on the -planets, especially Mars. "He'll probably turn you in if you throw him -out." - -Larry muttered and looked mulish, but he rang up the little man's money -and gave him a bourbon and water. The little guy drank it and looked -at himself in the bar mirror with an expression that was just short -of being a sneer. Larry grunted and went back to fiddling with the -television set. - -Abe Marker came over and sat down on the stool to my left. - -"They're doing this all over town tonight," he said, explaining to the -little man across me. "The bars have to observe curfew as usual, but -most of them are letting a few regular customers stay late to see the -Marscast. Everybody is anxious to know what Colonel Sanderson and his -crew found up there, so--" - -"They're going to be disappointed," the little man said. He sounded -sour but positive. "Mars ain't what people think it is, not by a hell -of a sight. It stinks." - -We all looked up at that, and somebody snickered. - -"Have you been to Mars, sir?" - -The little man didn't seem to mind when we laughed. - -"Maybe," he said, and shoved his shot glass forward. "Another bourbon, -bartender." - - * * * * * - -The station announcer came on screen then and told us what we already -knew, that contact with Colonel Sanderson's party was delayed because -of transmission difficulties. The Sanderson expedition would leave Mars -for Earth in two more days, when the current opposition was completed, -but in the meantime the program sponsors appreciated the interest shown -by their public and would relay the broadcast to us as soon as contact -was established. - -A film cartoon featuring a lizard named Freddie came on next, and Larry -turned down the sound so he could hear orders for refills. The little -man drank his bourbon and water and sneered at his reflection in the -mirror; none of us paid him any further attention, but talk started up -again along the bar. - -Somebody at the other end asked how long it took a television signal -to travel across all that space, and choked on his drink when Willard -Saxton told him. - -"My God," he said when he stopped coughing. "You mean Mars is so far -away it takes three minutes just to _see_ it?" - -All of us laughed at that but Larry and the little man at the end of -the bar. - -"What I'm wondering," somebody else said, "Is how the colonel and his -boys feel after breathing nothing but canned air for a year." - -"Maybe the air up there is better than our scientists think," Abe -Marker said. He winked at us and looked at the little man on my right. -"How about it, friend? Is the air good on Mars?" - -"Breathable, but not good," the little guy said. "It smells like dead -fish." - -Silence fell along the bar while we waited for a straight man to raise -his head. - -Willard Saxton took the bait. "And why should it smell so, may I ask?" - -"Because Mars is lousy with fish," the little man said. "And because -when fish die, they stink." - -Larry did a brisk business for a few minutes while we sized the little -guy up again. He definitely wasn't drunk, but the task of deciding -whether he was being dead-pan-comic or just nasty was a sort of -challenge that called for thought. - -"But you'd need extensive oceans to support so many fish," Willard -Saxton argued, still taking it seriously. "And if Mars had oceans we'd -have seen them long ago. They reflect light." - -"Mars is too level for oceans," the little man said. "The water spreads -out thin to make one big marsh, and you can't see it because the weeds -that grow up from the bottom camouflage it." - -Somebody down the bar said, "This gets curiouser and curiouser," and -everybody laughed again but Willard and Larry and the little comic. -Somebody else asked if he was a professional and what show was he on, -but he didn't answer. He just pushed his shot glass forward instead. - -"Another bourbon," he said. - -The announcer came on screen again when the lizard cartoon went off -and said that the Mars party's signal was beginning to come through -and that as soon as it cleared up they would put it on the cable. Then -he told us about a new kind of pretzel prepared with a special salt -guaranteed not to give us hardening of the arteries, and after that we -had another film cartoon. This one was about two crows at a circus, but -nobody could follow it because Larry turned down the sound again. - -Between his third and fourth stingers Willard Saxton--who had a -reputation to uphold, being science editor of the _Advertiser_--had -made up his mind by now to put the little man in his place. It burned -him brown to see this character drinking bourbon and sneering at -himself in the mirror and not caring a damn what we thought, and it put -Willard under a sort of obligation to show him up. - -"Reliable tests have conclusively proved," Willard said, "that the -atmosphere of Mars contains only minute traces of water vapor, and that -its oxygen content is less than one-hundredth the density necessary to -sustain human life. Spectroanalysis findings--" - -"A spectroanalysis of Earth from Mars," the little man said, "shows -nothing beyond our Heaviside layer, and proves that we can't live here -because nothing can breathe pure ozone." - - * * * * * - -He finished his bourbon and made chains of wet rings on the bartop with -his glass. The mixed look on his face was so strong that for a moment I -almost thought of the name for it. - -Willard stalled for time by ordering another stinger--a double, this -time--and Abe Marker took over. - -"How about those pictures of Martian dust storms the boys at Palomar -make?" Abe asked. "You can't have dust storms on a marshy planet, can -you?" - -"Those aren't dust storms," the little man said. "They're clouds of -gnats." - -"_Gnats?_" we all said at once, and somebody down the bar, -quicker-witted than the rest of us, added: "Gnats to you too, Charlie!" - -"A fact," the little man said, but not as if he cared. "They travel in -swarms thousands of miles wide, and they bite like hell." - -We sat and watched the two voiceless crows flap through the television -cartoon for a while. Nobody spoke until the film was over and the -screen went blank, when the little man caught Larry's eye and held up -one finger. - -"Bourbon," he said. - -We heard a confused muttering of voices in the background and waited -expectantly for Colonel Sanderson to speak to us from Mars, but -apparently the network people were still having trouble with their -transmission beam. The screen stayed blank. - -"You left out the interesting part, Charlie," somebody called from down -the bar. "The Martian natives. How about them?" - -"There aren't any--as you'd know them," the little man said. He seemed -to grow thoughtful for a moment. "But they are intelligent. They do -things you couldn't do." - -"Such as what?" somebody asked. - -The little man shrugged. "Teleport. They're good at it too." - -Saxton let out a laugh. "That would make them more intelligent than -us!" he said. "What do these Martians look like?" - -The little man screwed up his face distastefully. "Frogs." - -The reporter who had asked about natives got choked on his drink and -had to be pounded on the back. On my left, Abe Marker leaned against -the bar to look past me at the little guy. - -"Frogs we got now," he said admiringly. "By the billions?" - -"There are more frogs on Mars," the little man said, "than there are -gnats and fish together, and they never stop croaking. You'd have to -hear it to believe it." - -The television screen lit up suddenly, chopping off conversation, and -we were watching the first Marscast in history. - - * * * * * - -Colonel Sanderson himself was talking. He looked the way Stanley must -have looked when he found Livingstone, gaunt and bearded and jumpy; and -his crew, lined up behind him before the ship's pickup camera, were in -no better shape. The lot of them stared hungrily out at us as if they -had just found a peephole into Heaven and couldn't wait to see if -there was a gate farther along the fence. - -"... established conceptions of Martian areography are completely -erroneous," the colonel was saying. "There are no drifting deserts -of sand or howling typhoons of ferrous dust. We can show you actual -conditions better by camera, I think, than they could be detailed in -words." - -The view jumped to another camera aimed from an outside port, and we -saw Mars. Colonel Sanderson's voice kept up a running commentary behind -the scene, but we only half heard him. - -The ship rested in about two feet of water. Around it the whole world -curved up to the horizon in a shallow concave sweep like the inside of -a great rusty bowl, lined with knee-high reeds that grew as far as the -eye could see out of a knee-deep marsh. A fist-sized sun hung low in -the sky, its glare dulled to a muddy crimson by a shimmering cloud of -gnats that whirled and danced to infinity. There was a sort of vast, -featureless roaring in the background that sounded like Niagara at two -hundred yards, not deafening but loud enough to force Colonel Sanderson -to raise his voice. - -"The frog noise is worst," he was saying. "It drives us to the point -of insanity at times.... One member of our party has succumbed to it -already, a machinist named Willkins who disappeared two weeks ago. -Apparently the poor fellow drowned himself in the marsh, since no trace -of him has been found since." - -That was when I realized why the little man on the stool beside me -looked so familiar--because I had seen his pictures in the papers, -along with the rest of Sanderson's crew, a thousand times during the -past year. The mixed expression on his face made sense now, too; he -wasn't only disgusted and defensive, he was _guilty_. - -"So that's how you knew what it was like," I said. "You couldn't stick -it out with the others, so you jumped ship. You deserted!" - -He gave me a hangdog look. "It's not deserting unless the country is at -war," he said. "It's just going over the hill, A.W.O.L." - -The television roar got louder, and when I looked up the ship's -cameraman was doing a close-up for our benefit. He panned the shot -downward until we seemed to be standing ten feet above the marsh, and -at that distance I could see plainly what it was that caused the uproar. - -The water between the reddish-brown reeds was thick with huge frogs, -all blinking and croaking like mad. - -I remember thinking then that you couldn't really blame a man for -jumping ship in a hole like that. It was bad enough to be stuck -thirty-odd million miles from home, so far that light itself needed -three minutes to-- - -"Hey, wait up!" I said to the little guy, who was sneering at himself -in the mirror again. "If you went A.W.O.L. up there, then how the hell -did you get back _here_?" - -I didn't find out. - -The guy was gone. He had been standing there so close I could have -touched him, but now he was gone. I looked around quick. Nobody else -seemed to have noticed. All eyes were on the TV screen. - -Then I saw it. On the floor. Two wet marks--right where the guy should -have been, where he _was_. Two wet marks that had a funny shape to -them--web-like. - -I felt my throat tighten at the thought. I shook my head. What was -going through it was fantastic, impossible and downright lunacy. There -was an intelligent life-form on Mars--beings that looked like frogs -and could teleport. Could they also mimic human shape temporarily? -Especially if they got hold of one for a model--say a missing -crewman.... - -"Hey! Where are you going? Don't you want to see the Marscast?" - -I was walking to the door. I looked back at the barkeep. "I've seen -enough, Larry, I got things to do." - -He shrugged. "Yeh, what?" - -"Like hunting frogs," I told him as I shoved the door open. "I got a -hunch we'll be doing a lot of that before very long...." - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FROGS OF MARS *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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He scoffs<br /> -at scientific facts and keeps mumbling about—</p> - -<h1>THE FROGS OF MARS</h1> - -<h2>By Roger Dee</h2> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy<br /> -April 1954<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>There was nothing special about the little man who came into Larry's -place, unless it might have been his air of vague familiarity and the -mixed expression on his face. He looked disgusted and defensive and at -the same time a little resentful, with a dash of something else thrown -in which none of us recognized until later.</p> - -<p>I'd have mistaken him for another reporter from the <i>Advertiser</i> -across the street if the five newsmen already at the bar hadn't given -each other a blank look that meant only one thing: none of them knew -him. Neither did Larry, who was trying to bring in the first broadcast -from Mars on the television set bracketed to the wall over his whiskey -stock, and who wasn't pleased at having his little after-hours party -crashed.</p> - -<p>"The bar's closed," Larry said. His tone didn't invite argument. "City -ordinance. No customers after 1:00 a.m."</p> - -<p>The little man looked at the clock, which said 3:15, and then at the -front windows which were shuttered tight. Then he looked at the six of -us sitting at the bar with our drinks.</p> - -<p>"I'll have bourbon and water," he said. He sat down at the end of the -bar on the stool next to mine and looked at his reflection in the -mirror without approval.</p> - -<p>Larry got the look that bartenders get with troublesome customers.</p> - -<p>"The bar's closed," he said again. "It's a city—"</p> - -<p>"Water on the side," the little man said. "Don't mix it."</p> - -<p>Abe Marker, who does sports for the <i>Advertiser</i>, got up and checked -the front-door lock. The thumb-catch hadn't been thrown, so Abe put it -on and came back to the bar.</p> - -<p>"Nobody else will wander in," he said. "Make with the t-v, Larry. -You're holding up the show."</p> - -<p>Larry looked stubborn.</p> - -<p>"It's after 1:00 a.m.," he said. "And that door was supposed to be -locked. There's a city ordinance—"</p> - -<p>"You're breaking it already," the little man said, looking at us. He -didn't seem angry, just weary and disgusted. "Not that I give a damn. -All I want is a bourbon and water."</p> - -<p>"Better give it to him, Larry," Willard Saxton said from down the bar. -Willard is the <i>Advertiser's</i> science editor and is an authority on the -planets, especially Mars. "He'll probably turn you in if you throw him -out."</p> - -<p>Larry muttered and looked mulish, but he rang up the little man's money -and gave him a bourbon and water. The little guy drank it and looked -at himself in the bar mirror with an expression that was just short -of being a sneer. Larry grunted and went back to fiddling with the -television set.</p> - -<p>Abe Marker came over and sat down on the stool to my left.</p> - -<p>"They're doing this all over town tonight," he said, explaining to the -little man across me. "The bars have to observe curfew as usual, but -most of them are letting a few regular customers stay late to see the -Marscast. Everybody is anxious to know what Colonel Sanderson and his -crew found up there, so—"</p> - -<p>"They're going to be disappointed," the little man said. He sounded -sour but positive. "Mars ain't what people think it is, not by a hell -of a sight. It stinks."</p> - -<p>We all looked up at that, and somebody snickered.</p> - -<p>"Have you been to Mars, sir?"</p> - -<p>The little man didn't seem to mind when we laughed.</p> - -<p>"Maybe," he said, and shoved his shot glass forward. "Another bourbon, -bartender."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The station announcer came on screen then and told us what we already -knew, that contact with Colonel Sanderson's party was delayed because -of transmission difficulties. The Sanderson expedition would leave Mars -for Earth in two more days, when the current opposition was completed, -but in the meantime the program sponsors appreciated the interest shown -by their public and would relay the broadcast to us as soon as contact -was established.</p> - -<p>A film cartoon featuring a lizard named Freddie came on next, and Larry -turned down the sound so he could hear orders for refills. The little -man drank his bourbon and water and sneered at his reflection in the -mirror; none of us paid him any further attention, but talk started up -again along the bar.</p> - -<p>Somebody at the other end asked how long it took a television signal -to travel across all that space, and choked on his drink when Willard -Saxton told him.</p> - -<p>"My God," he said when he stopped coughing. "You mean Mars is so far -away it takes three minutes just to <i>see</i> it?"</p> - -<p>All of us laughed at that but Larry and the little man at the end of -the bar.</p> - -<p>"What I'm wondering," somebody else said, "Is how the colonel and his -boys feel after breathing nothing but canned air for a year."</p> - -<p>"Maybe the air up there is better than our scientists think," Abe -Marker said. He winked at us and looked at the little man on my right. -"How about it, friend? Is the air good on Mars?"</p> - -<p>"Breathable, but not good," the little guy said. "It smells like dead -fish."</p> - -<p>Silence fell along the bar while we waited for a straight man to raise -his head.</p> - -<p>Willard Saxton took the bait. "And why should it smell so, may I ask?"</p> - -<p>"Because Mars is lousy with fish," the little man said. "And because -when fish die, they stink."</p> - -<p>Larry did a brisk business for a few minutes while we sized the little -guy up again. He definitely wasn't drunk, but the task of deciding -whether he was being dead-pan-comic or just nasty was a sort of -challenge that called for thought.</p> - -<p>"But you'd need extensive oceans to support so many fish," Willard -Saxton argued, still taking it seriously. "And if Mars had oceans we'd -have seen them long ago. They reflect light."</p> - -<p>"Mars is too level for oceans," the little man said. "The water spreads -out thin to make one big marsh, and you can't see it because the weeds -that grow up from the bottom camouflage it."</p> - -<p>Somebody down the bar said, "This gets curiouser and curiouser," and -everybody laughed again but Willard and Larry and the little comic. -Somebody else asked if he was a professional and what show was he on, -but he didn't answer. He just pushed his shot glass forward instead.</p> - -<p>"Another bourbon," he said.</p> - -<p>The announcer came on screen again when the lizard cartoon went off -and said that the Mars party's signal was beginning to come through -and that as soon as it cleared up they would put it on the cable. Then -he told us about a new kind of pretzel prepared with a special salt -guaranteed not to give us hardening of the arteries, and after that we -had another film cartoon. This one was about two crows at a circus, but -nobody could follow it because Larry turned down the sound again.</p> - -<p>Between his third and fourth stingers Willard Saxton—who had a -reputation to uphold, being science editor of the <i>Advertiser</i>—had -made up his mind by now to put the little man in his place. It burned -him brown to see this character drinking bourbon and sneering at -himself in the mirror and not caring a damn what we thought, and it put -Willard under a sort of obligation to show him up.</p> - -<p>"Reliable tests have conclusively proved," Willard said, "that the -atmosphere of Mars contains only minute traces of water vapor, and that -its oxygen content is less than one-hundredth the density necessary to -sustain human life. Spectroanalysis findings—"</p> - -<p>"A spectroanalysis of Earth from Mars," the little man said, "shows -nothing beyond our Heaviside layer, and proves that we can't live here -because nothing can breathe pure ozone."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He finished his bourbon and made chains of wet rings on the bartop with -his glass. The mixed look on his face was so strong that for a moment I -almost thought of the name for it.</p> - -<p>Willard stalled for time by ordering another stinger—a double, this -time—and Abe Marker took over.</p> - -<p>"How about those pictures of Martian dust storms the boys at Palomar -make?" Abe asked. "You can't have dust storms on a marshy planet, can -you?"</p> - -<p>"Those aren't dust storms," the little man said. "They're clouds of -gnats."</p> - -<p>"<i>Gnats?</i>" we all said at once, and somebody down the bar, -quicker-witted than the rest of us, added: "Gnats to you too, Charlie!"</p> - -<p>"A fact," the little man said, but not as if he cared. "They travel in -swarms thousands of miles wide, and they bite like hell."</p> - -<p>We sat and watched the two voiceless crows flap through the television -cartoon for a while. Nobody spoke until the film was over and the -screen went blank, when the little man caught Larry's eye and held up -one finger.</p> - -<p>"Bourbon," he said.</p> - -<p>We heard a confused muttering of voices in the background and waited -expectantly for Colonel Sanderson to speak to us from Mars, but -apparently the network people were still having trouble with their -transmission beam. The screen stayed blank.</p> - -<p>"You left out the interesting part, Charlie," somebody called from down -the bar. "The Martian natives. How about them?"</p> - -<p>"There aren't any—as you'd know them," the little man said. He seemed -to grow thoughtful for a moment. "But they are intelligent. They do -things you couldn't do."</p> - -<p>"Such as what?" somebody asked.</p> - -<p>The little man shrugged. "Teleport. They're good at it too."</p> - -<p>Saxton let out a laugh. "That would make them more intelligent than -us!" he said. "What do these Martians look like?"</p> - -<p>The little man screwed up his face distastefully. "Frogs."</p> - -<p>The reporter who had asked about natives got choked on his drink and -had to be pounded on the back. On my left, Abe Marker leaned against -the bar to look past me at the little guy.</p> - -<p>"Frogs we got now," he said admiringly. "By the billions?"</p> - -<p>"There are more frogs on Mars," the little man said, "than there are -gnats and fish together, and they never stop croaking. You'd have to -hear it to believe it."</p> - -<p>The television screen lit up suddenly, chopping off conversation, and -we were watching the first Marscast in history.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Colonel Sanderson himself was talking. He looked the way Stanley must -have looked when he found Livingstone, gaunt and bearded and jumpy; and -his crew, lined up behind him before the ship's pickup camera, were in -no better shape. The lot of them stared hungrily out at us as if they -had just found a peephole into Heaven and couldn't wait to see if -there was a gate farther along the fence.</p> - -<p>"... established conceptions of Martian areography are completely -erroneous," the colonel was saying. "There are no drifting deserts -of sand or howling typhoons of ferrous dust. We can show you actual -conditions better by camera, I think, than they could be detailed in -words."</p> - -<p>The view jumped to another camera aimed from an outside port, and we -saw Mars. Colonel Sanderson's voice kept up a running commentary behind -the scene, but we only half heard him.</p> - -<p>The ship rested in about two feet of water. Around it the whole world -curved up to the horizon in a shallow concave sweep like the inside of -a great rusty bowl, lined with knee-high reeds that grew as far as the -eye could see out of a knee-deep marsh. A fist-sized sun hung low in -the sky, its glare dulled to a muddy crimson by a shimmering cloud of -gnats that whirled and danced to infinity. There was a sort of vast, -featureless roaring in the background that sounded like Niagara at two -hundred yards, not deafening but loud enough to force Colonel Sanderson -to raise his voice.</p> - -<p>"The frog noise is worst," he was saying. "It drives us to the point -of insanity at times.... One member of our party has succumbed to it -already, a machinist named Willkins who disappeared two weeks ago. -Apparently the poor fellow drowned himself in the marsh, since no trace -of him has been found since."</p> - -<p>That was when I realized why the little man on the stool beside me -looked so familiar—because I had seen his pictures in the papers, -along with the rest of Sanderson's crew, a thousand times during the -past year. The mixed expression on his face made sense now, too; he -wasn't only disgusted and defensive, he was <i>guilty</i>.</p> - -<p>"So that's how you knew what it was like," I said. "You couldn't stick -it out with the others, so you jumped ship. You deserted!"</p> - -<p>He gave me a hangdog look. "It's not deserting unless the country is at -war," he said. "It's just going over the hill, A.W.O.L."</p> - -<p>The television roar got louder, and when I looked up the ship's -cameraman was doing a close-up for our benefit. He panned the shot -downward until we seemed to be standing ten feet above the marsh, and -at that distance I could see plainly what it was that caused the uproar.</p> - -<p>The water between the reddish-brown reeds was thick with huge frogs, -all blinking and croaking like mad.</p> - -<p>I remember thinking then that you couldn't really blame a man for -jumping ship in a hole like that. It was bad enough to be stuck -thirty-odd million miles from home, so far that light itself needed -three minutes to—</p> - -<p>"Hey, wait up!" I said to the little guy, who was sneering at himself -in the mirror again. "If you went A.W.O.L. up there, then how the hell -did you get back <i>here</i>?"</p> - -<p>I didn't find out.</p> - -<p>The guy was gone. He had been standing there so close I could have -touched him, but now he was gone. I looked around quick. Nobody else -seemed to have noticed. All eyes were on the TV screen.</p> - -<p>Then I saw it. On the floor. Two wet marks—right where the guy should -have been, where he <i>was</i>. Two wet marks that had a funny shape to -them—web-like.</p> - -<p>I felt my throat tighten at the thought. I shook my head. What was -going through it was fantastic, impossible and downright lunacy. There -was an intelligent life-form on Mars—beings that looked like frogs -and could teleport. Could they also mimic human shape temporarily? -Especially if they got hold of one for a model—say a missing -crewman....</p> - -<p>"Hey! Where are you going? Don't you want to see the Marscast?"</p> - -<p>I was walking to the door. I looked back at the barkeep. "I've seen -enough, Larry, I got things to do."</p> - -<p>He shrugged. "Yeh, what?"</p> - -<p>"Like hunting frogs," I told him as I shoved the door open. 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