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Orb, v. 2, issue 1, 1950
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He had one tiny weapon left, / a flit gun filled with Ammo-zest. / He sought a vital spot to find / but where to look? O, never mind! This Soalamutch, his eyes were many, / at the ends of his antennae; / but where the brain was, if he's any, / Derek would have given a penny. To know. So Derek, on a hunch, / sprayed Ammo-zest where Soala's lunch / should be, and with a fearsome cry, / did Soalamutch lie down and die. Thus, with a flit gun, Derek Deems / rescued the maiden of his dreams. / So they were wed on Venus fair / and lived happily ever after there. Agatha G. Southern IMPOSSIBLE ANIMALS #1 The Cactus Cat (Cactifelinus inebrius) The cactus cat, as its name signifies, lives in the great cactus districts, and is particularly abundant between Prescott and Tuscon. It has been reported, also, from the valley of the lower Yaqui, in Old Mexico, and the cholla-covered hills of Yucatan. The cactus cat has thorny hair, the thorns being especially long and rigid on its ears. Its tail is branched and upon the forearms above its front feet are sharp, knifelike blades of bone. With these blades it slashes the base of the sahuaro, and other giant cacti, causing the sap to exude. This is done systematically, many trees being slashed in the course of several nights as the cat makes a big circuit. By the time it is back to the place of beginning the sap of the first cactus has fermented into a kind of mescal, sweet and very intoxicating. The Cactus cat, by now being intensely thirsty, laps up the liquid greedily, and soon becomes fiddling drunk, and goes waltzing off in the moonlight, waving its bushy tail ecstatically and screaming with delight.
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He had one tiny weapon left, / a flit gun filled with Ammo-zest. / He sought a vital spot to find / but where to look? O, never mind! This Soalamutch, his eyes were many, / at the ends of his antennae; / but where the brain was, if he's any, / Derek would have given a penny. To know. So Derek, on a hunch, / sprayed Ammo-zest where Soala's lunch / should be, and with a fearsome cry, / did Soalamutch lie down and die. Thus, with a flit gun, Derek Deems / rescued the maiden of his dreams. / So they were wed on Venus fair / and lived happily ever after there. Agatha G. Southern IMPOSSIBLE ANIMALS #1 The Cactus Cat (Cactifelinus inebrius) The cactus cat, as its name signifies, lives in the great cactus districts, and is particularly abundant between Prescott and Tuscon. It has been reported, also, from the valley of the lower Yaqui, in Old Mexico, and the cholla-covered hills of Yucatan. The cactus cat has thorny hair, the thorns being especially long and rigid on its ears. Its tail is branched and upon the forearms above its front feet are sharp, knifelike blades of bone. With these blades it slashes the base of the sahuaro, and other giant cacti, causing the sap to exude. This is done systematically, many trees being slashed in the course of several nights as the cat makes a big circuit. By the time it is back to the place of beginning the sap of the first cactus has fermented into a kind of mescal, sweet and very intoxicating. The Cactus cat, by now being intensely thirsty, laps up the liquid greedily, and soon becomes fiddling drunk, and goes waltzing off in the moonlight, waving its bushy tail ecstatically and screaming with delight.
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