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good things."

"Josso shoddabag?" Little Fuzzy asked. "Josso shoppo-diggo?
Josso t'heet? Esteefee?"

"Yes. Give shoulder-bags and chopper-diggers and treats," he
said. "Give Extee-Three."

Friendly natives; distribution of presents to. Function of the
Com­missioner of Native Affairs. Little Fuzzy began a speech. This
was Pappy Jack, the greatest and wisest of all the Big Ones, the
Hagga, the friend of all the People, the Cashta, only the Big Ones
called the Gashta Fuzzies. He would give wonderful things.
Shoddabag, in which things could be carried, leaving the hands
free. He displayed his own. And weapons so hard that they never
wore out. He ran to the jumbled pile of bedding under the gunrack
and came back with a six-inch leaf-shaped blade on a twelve-inch
shaft. And Pappy Jack would give the Hoksu-Fusso, the Wonderful
Food, esteefee.

Rising, he went out to what had been his kitchen before it had been
crammed with supplies. There were plenty of chopper-diggers;
he'd had a couple of hundred made up before he left Mallorysport.
Shoulder-bags were in shorter supply. They were all either Navy
black or Marine Corps green, first-aid pouches and tool-kit
pouches and belt pouches for submachine gun and auto-rifle
magazines, all fitted with shoulder straps. He hung five of them
over his arm, then unlocked a cupboard and got out two
rectangular tins with blue la­bels marked EMERGENCY FIELD
RATION, EXTRATERRESTRIAL SERVICE TYPE THREE. All
Fuzzies were crazy about Extee-Three, which dem­onstrated that,
while sapient beings, they were definitely not human. Only a
completely starving human would eat the damn stuff.

When he returned, the five newcomers were squatting in a circle
inside the door with Little Fuzzy, examining his steel weapon and
comparing it with the paddle-shaped hardwood sticks they had
made for themselves. The word zatku was being frequently used.

It was an important word to Fuzzies, their name for a big
pseudo­crustacean Terrans called a land-prawn. Fuzzles hunted
zatku avidly, and, until they had tasted Extee-Three, preferred them
to any other food. If it hadn't been for the zatku, the Fuzzies would
have stayed in the unexplored country of northern Beta Continent,
and it would have been years before any Terran would have seen
one.

Quite a few Terrans, especially Victor Grego, the Zarathustra
Company manager-in-chief, were wishing the Fuzzies had stayed
per­manently undiscovered. Zarathustra had been listed as a