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Mirabile
by Janet Kagan
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in
this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events
is purely coincidental.
Copyright ┬й 1991 by Janet Kagan
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or
portions thereof, in any form.
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
West 24th Street
New York, N.Y.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kagan, Janet.
Mirabile / Janet Kagan.
p. cm.
тАЬA Tom Doherty Associates book.тАЭ ISBN 0-312-85220-7 I. Title.
PS3561.A363M57 1991 . 813тАШ. 54тАФdc
-19691 CIP
Printed in the United States of America First edition: October


For MARY MEGSON,
who read me sf before I was old enough to read,
for FRED MEGSON,
who let me tell every other chapter of the bedtime cliff-hanger,
for SUSAN CASPER,
who knows why this particular book got written,
and for RICKY,
of course and as alwaysтАж
May they never stop scandalizing the kids!


CONTENTS
тАв The Loch Moose Monster
 тАв The Return of the Kangaroo Rex
тАв The Flowering Inferno
тАв Getting the Bugs Out
тАв Raising Cane
тАв Frankenswine
тАв AuthorтАЩs Note


The Loch Moose Monster
^┬╗
This year the RibeiroтАЩs daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now,
ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its placeтАФbut these suckers bit. That
didnтАЩt sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I
wasnтАЩt betting on that either.
As usual, we were shorthandedтАФmost of the team was up-country trying to