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young fellow who will someday, I sincerely hope, be a full partner
in the organization, such a young fellow has to live in style,"
explained his cousin. "Therefore we ruzzle wuzzle rumz bumz."
With a shake of his head, Joshua began again to pound at his chest.
"I want Phix and Maresca at our Talker Plant fired no later than
Monday next." A thin, dead-white woman was standing in the far
doorway. "This continual muzzling-wuzzling is enough to set myтАФ"
"Phix is a competent man, Cornelia," said Joshua, his talking
mechanism back to functioning properly. "Tad, this is your Cousin
Cornelia. Are you feeling better, dear?"
"No worse," replied Tad's gaunt fifty-one-year-old cousin while
very slowly advancing in his direction. "All the noise of this young
man's tardy arrival, coupled with that squawking and bawling
coming out of your talker . . . it adds up to very little peace in my
sickbed. I won't touch you, Thadeus. I'm suffering through a terrible
bout of snerg flu."
"A snerg is a very unpleasant little animal," amplified Joshua.
"Snerg flu is named after it."
"Seems appropriate." Tad put a hand over his mouth in time to mask
a yawn.
"Can this be a sample of your flippancy, Thadeus?" asked the white-
clad Cornelia. "We were considerably upset to come upon a rather
thick section in your dossier which detailed your career of sarcasm
and wisecracking in school and elsewhere. I trust you'll outgrow the

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habit after you've spent some time at Foghill."
"Sounds likely," said Tad, yawning. "Is Foghill where I'm going to
live?"
"Haven't you ever explained things to the boy, Joshua?"
"I was in the process, Cornelia, I was in the process when my talker
began acting up."
"You reallyтАФif you ever paid the least attention to me at allтАФought
to go into our Skyport factory for a good thorough overhaul. Have a
new talker installed, a new arm which won't make noises like a
stuck quilp every time youтАФ"
"A quilp is a chubby little beast huntsmen on Esmeralda are fond of
hunting with spears," Cousin Joshua informed Tad. "Though the last
time I stuck one it certainly didn'tтАФ"
"I'd have them do something with your eye, too."
"My eye?"
"It's been growing increasingly unbelievable, Josh," his sister told
him, with a quick, sad shake of her head. "Now, then, Thadeus,
you'd best venture out to the air platform. They'll be wondering
about you at Foghill."
"Who'll be wondering?" asked Tad. "Will I be living with servants
at Foghill or what?"