This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction November 1952. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

Obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.

Corrections made:

page 6
original: wind, and its damned serious."
replacement: wind, and it's damned serious."

page 16
original: first fence, and affair of steel posts
replacement: first fence, an affair of steel posts

page 31
original: When Baker as only part-way
replacement: When Baker was only part-way

page 34
original: handfulls of the unseasoned stuff,
replacement: handfuls of the unseasoned stuff,

Unchanged:

page 16
sculping a king sized Buddha after
sculping is an old useage of the word

page 55
Straight, Alaska. But this not
Straight is an old useage of the word