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doctor. "What are you going to study?"

Jim said, "Well, I don't know. I'm interested in aero-
graphy*, but I like biology, too. Maybe I'll be a planetary
economist, like my old man."

"That's a big subject. Ought to keep you busy a long time.
You, Prank?"

Francis looked slightly embarrassed. "Well, uhтАФshucks, I
still think I'd like to be a rocket pilot."

"I thought you had outgrown that." Doctor MacRae looked
almost shocked.

"Why not?" Francis answered doggedly. "I might make it."

"That's just what I'd be afraid of. See here, Frank, do you
really want to live a life bound around with rules and regula-
tions and discipline?"

"Mmmm... I want to be a pilot. I know that."

"On your own head be it. Me, I left Earth to get away from
all that nonsense. Earth has gotten so musclebound with laws
that a man can't breathe. So far, there's still a certain amount
of freedom on Mars. When that changesтАФ"

" 'When that changes' what. Doc?"

"Why, I'll go find another planet that hasn't been spoiled,
naturally. Speaking of such things, you younkers go to school
before the colony migrates, don't you?" Since Earth-humans
do not hibernate, it was necessary that the colony migrate
twice each Martian year. The southern summer was spent at
Charax, only thirty degrees from the southern pole; the colony
was now about to move to Copals in Utopia, almost as far to
the north, there to remain half a Martian year, or almost a full
Earth year.

There were year-around establishments near the equatorтАФ
New Shanghai, Marsport, Syrtis Minor, othersтАФbut they
were not truly colonies, being maimed mainly by employees
of the Mars Company. By contract and by charter the Com-
pany was required to provide advanced terrestrial education on

*Aerography: equivalent to "geography" for Earth. From "Ares" Greek for
Mais.

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