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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pioneer + +Author: William Hardy + +Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32457] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIONEER *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> +<p> </p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img class="img1" src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="584" alt="" title="" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>PIONEER</h1> +<p> </p> +<h2><i>By William Hardy</i></h2> +<p> </p> +<div class="blockquot"><p>If you could travel through time to a few years hence you'd +find a stone monument in honor and memory of a brave deed +you may shy away from!</p></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="16" height="40" /></div> + +<p> didn't much like the way Max—that's the guy who trained +me—fastened the broad leather straps over my body. There was a smell +of nervous excitement in the air and Max's hand trembled as he fumbled +with the buckles. Thinking back on it, the whole morning had been like +that. Nervous and excited.</p> + +<p>Right after breakfast, Max had given me a good bath and loaded me in +the car. I always like to ride in the car and this time Max even +allowed me to stick my head out the window. He doesn't usually let me +do that, but I was too engrossed in the exhilarating rush of air to +pay any attention to the change of routine. When we drew up in front +of a large brick building a multitude of strange and peculiar odors +assailed my nose, tantalizingly anonymous. Max's big hand caught me +before I got halfway through the window. That disgusted me, because I +wanted to investigate the funny smells, and I pouted all the way into +the building. As the events of the next hour progressed I got madder +and madder.</p> + +<p>First there was the doctor, poking around in my mouth, stabbing my +eyes with a blinding beam of light, and prodding and squeezing my +body. It reminded me of the day I came to live with Max and I was +tempted to take a hunk out of this doctor's hand like I did the other +one. But Max was there and that stopped me. I didn't want to see the +hurt look that would come to his eyes every time I did something +wrong.</p> + +<p>After the doctor finished Max led me into a gleaming white room where +I was surrounded by a gushing mob of women dressed in white uniforms. +Their "Ohs!" and "Ahs!" and "Isn't he beautiful!"—I'm not beautiful +and I detest the description—put the finishing touch to what had once +been a wonderful day. I flopped to the floor, trying to ignore them. +Then, indignities of indignities, one of the "girls" tried to pick up +my eighty pounds of blue-gray masculinity. That was the last straw!</p> + +<p>I let out a deep-throated growl, and sprang clear of her encircling +arms. Fangs bared, ears flat against my head, I must have presented a +terrifying appearance to the women, because they fled to all corners +of the room, squealing and bleating like a bunch of sheep.</p> + +<p>For the fun of it, I made a short dash at the one who had tried to +pick me up. With a high-pitched scream she slumped to the floor in a +dead faint. I could hardly keep from laughing as I turned to search +for a new victim. About this time Max came barging through the door +and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck, putting an end to my fun. He +wasn't mad, although he pretended to be, and I could detect the humor +in his voice while he scolded me.</p> + +<p>Back in the car again, Max roared with laughter while patting me on +the head and saying, "You old devil, you!" in that special way he has +when amused at something I've done. When he finally got control of +himself, he started the car and drove in the direction of the funny +smells. As the smells got stronger, I began to get uneasy. Looking at +Max, I sensed that he was uneasy too. "What was going on?" I wondered +as the car dipped down a ramp and entered a dimly lit cave where the +smells became overpowering.</p> + +<p>The cave was jammed with huge tank-trucks and that was where the +strange smells were coming from. I don't know what was in the trucks, +but Max said something about nitric acid and hydrozine fuel when he +noticed my interest in them. Leaving the car, we walked down a short +passage branching off the cave, climbed a couple flights of stairs and +emerged in the bright sunlight. I nearly yipped in surprise as I +caught sight of the over-grown thing beside me. It looked for all the +world like a giant cigar that had been cut in half and stood on end. +There were still three or four trucks around the base of the thing and +a kind of fear spread through my mind. The magic of the strange smells +was gone and here, at close quarters, the smell was raw and +uninviting.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_m.jpg" alt="M" width="42" height="40" /></div> +<p>ax led me to a group of men and they talked for a few minutes. I +didn't pay much attention to what they said until one of them, a big +man with a lot of stars on his shoulder, reached down and patted my +back. "Better get him loaded," said the Starman. "Only ten minutes +till blast-off."</p> + +<p>Max led me to a kind of open-air elevator and started up the side of +the gleaming monster. At the top Max put me into a padded cage inside +the cigar, fastened the straps, and patted me. Then he was gone and a +large door slid into place, leaving me in vile smelling, pitch +darkness. I lay there quietly, but the uneasy feeling kept getting +worse. A sudden hissing noise nearly scared me to death; then I +remembered my training. The hissing was only air, the same as had been +in the cage at home, and wouldn't hurt me. Even so, I struggled +against the straps, trying to reach them with my teeth. Nothing doing +and again I lay quiet—waiting.</p> + +<p>I must have dozed off because the next thing I knew my cage was +trembling violently and a powerful roaring dinned in my ears. This +lasted only a second, then something crushed my body flat in the cage. +My legs grew heavy and a racking, tearing pain ripped at my muscles. A +black film blotted out the lighter blackness of my cage.</p> + +<p>I don't know what happened in the interval, but when I came to the +roar was gone and my body felt like it was floating in the air. My +head felt swollen and I experienced some difficulty in swallowing. I +couldn't hear a thing except the hiss of air and I was suddenly +overcome by the feeling that I was a long way from home.</p> + +<p>Slowly I became aware that my body was regaining its weight. The cage +was becoming quite warm now and I licked my nose, wishing for a cold +drink of water. Suddenly I was jerked against the straps and I forgot +all about my other troubles. The jerks didn't hurt me as much as they +scared me. I had experienced somewhat the same thing when Max hit the +car brakes hard, but he wasn't here to pat me reassuringly.</p> + +<p>The cage was getting real hot now and the jerks were coming with +increasing frequency. The air had stopped too and I desperately wanted +a drink. The last thing I remember before the crash was wishing that +Max would open the door and let me out like he always had at home.</p> + +<p>Max's gentle voice sounded a long way off. "Good boy!" he kept +repeating. "Good boy!" I couldn't find the strength to open my eyes so +I just lay quietly and listened to the talk, thankful that the smell, +that had penetrated the entire day, was gone now.</p> + +<p>"I was afraid that those parachutes wouldn't cut the speed enough to +get him down alive," said the Starman who had patted my back earlier.</p> + +<p>"No sign of radiation," said a strange voice. "His blood count is +normal and he isn't hurt physically unless there are internal +injuries."</p> + +<p>"What about his weakness?" asked Max, patting me.</p> + +<p>"You'd be weak too, if you had been through the ordeal he has," said +Strange-voice. "He'll get over that soon and live to father a good +many space-puppies."</p> + +<p>Strange-voice was absolutely right in his forecast and it's with +pardonable fatherly pride that I lead each new family to the great +stone monument which reads: "<i>In honor of Rex, a German Shepherd dog, +who pioneered man's first flight into outer space.</i>"</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pioneer, by William Hardy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIONEER *** + +***** This file should be named 32457-h.htm or 32457-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/4/5/32457/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Pioneer + +Author: William Hardy + +Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32457] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIONEER *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and + Fantasy February 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence + that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + PIONEER + + + _By William Hardy_ + + + If you could travel through time to a few years hence you'd + find a stone monument in honor and memory of a brave deed + you may shy away from! + + * * * * * + + + + +I didn't much like the way Max--that's the guy who trained +me--fastened the broad leather straps over my body. There was a smell +of nervous excitement in the air and Max's hand trembled as he fumbled +with the buckles. Thinking back on it, the whole morning had been like +that. Nervous and excited. + +Right after breakfast, Max had given me a good bath and loaded me in +the car. I always like to ride in the car and this time Max even +allowed me to stick my head out the window. He doesn't usually let me +do that, but I was too engrossed in the exhilarating rush of air to +pay any attention to the change of routine. When we drew up in front +of a large brick building a multitude of strange and peculiar odors +assailed my nose, tantalizingly anonymous. Max's big hand caught me +before I got halfway through the window. That disgusted me, because I +wanted to investigate the funny smells, and I pouted all the way into +the building. As the events of the next hour progressed I got madder +and madder. + +First there was the doctor, poking around in my mouth, stabbing my +eyes with a blinding beam of light, and prodding and squeezing my +body. It reminded me of the day I came to live with Max and I was +tempted to take a hunk out of this doctor's hand like I did the other +one. But Max was there and that stopped me. I didn't want to see the +hurt look that would come to his eyes every time I did something +wrong. + +After the doctor finished Max led me into a gleaming white room where +I was surrounded by a gushing mob of women dressed in white uniforms. +Their "Ohs!" and "Ahs!" and "Isn't he beautiful!"--I'm not beautiful +and I detest the description--put the finishing touch to what had once +been a wonderful day. I flopped to the floor, trying to ignore them. +Then, indignities of indignities, one of the "girls" tried to pick up +my eighty pounds of blue-gray masculinity. That was the last straw! + +I let out a deep-throated growl, and sprang clear of her encircling +arms. Fangs bared, ears flat against my head, I must have presented a +terrifying appearance to the women, because they fled to all corners +of the room, squealing and bleating like a bunch of sheep. + +For the fun of it, I made a short dash at the one who had tried to +pick me up. With a high-pitched scream she slumped to the floor in a +dead faint. I could hardly keep from laughing as I turned to search +for a new victim. About this time Max came barging through the door +and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck, putting an end to my fun. He +wasn't mad, although he pretended to be, and I could detect the humor +in his voice while he scolded me. + +Back in the car again, Max roared with laughter while patting me on +the head and saying, "You old devil, you!" in that special way he has +when amused at something I've done. When he finally got control of +himself, he started the car and drove in the direction of the funny +smells. As the smells got stronger, I began to get uneasy. Looking at +Max, I sensed that he was uneasy too. "What was going on?" I wondered +as the car dipped down a ramp and entered a dimly lit cave where the +smells became overpowering. + +The cave was jammed with huge tank-trucks and that was where the +strange smells were coming from. I don't know what was in the trucks, +but Max said something about nitric acid and hydrozine fuel when he +noticed my interest in them. Leaving the car, we walked down a short +passage branching off the cave, climbed a couple flights of stairs and +emerged in the bright sunlight. I nearly yipped in surprise as I +caught sight of the over-grown thing beside me. It looked for all the +world like a giant cigar that had been cut in half and stood on end. +There were still three or four trucks around the base of the thing and +a kind of fear spread through my mind. The magic of the strange smells +was gone and here, at close quarters, the smell was raw and +uninviting. + + * * * * * + +Max led me to a group of men and they talked for a few minutes. I +didn't pay much attention to what they said until one of them, a big +man with a lot of stars on his shoulder, reached down and patted my +back. "Better get him loaded," said the Starman. "Only ten minutes +till blast-off." + +Max led me to a kind of open-air elevator and started up the side of +the gleaming monster. At the top Max put me into a padded cage inside +the cigar, fastened the straps, and patted me. Then he was gone and a +large door slid into place, leaving me in vile smelling, pitch +darkness. I lay there quietly, but the uneasy feeling kept getting +worse. A sudden hissing noise nearly scared me to death; then I +remembered my training. The hissing was only air, the same as had been +in the cage at home, and wouldn't hurt me. Even so, I struggled +against the straps, trying to reach them with my teeth. Nothing doing +and again I lay quiet--waiting. + +I must have dozed off because the next thing I knew my cage was +trembling violently and a powerful roaring dinned in my ears. This +lasted only a second, then something crushed my body flat in the cage. +My legs grew heavy and a racking, tearing pain ripped at my muscles. A +black film blotted out the lighter blackness of my cage. + +I don't know what happened in the interval, but when I came to the +roar was gone and my body felt like it was floating in the air. My +head felt swollen and I experienced some difficulty in swallowing. I +couldn't hear a thing except the hiss of air and I was suddenly +overcome by the feeling that I was a long way from home. + +Slowly I became aware that my body was regaining its weight. The cage +was becoming quite warm now and I licked my nose, wishing for a cold +drink of water. Suddenly I was jerked against the straps and I forgot +all about my other troubles. The jerks didn't hurt me as much as they +scared me. I had experienced somewhat the same thing when Max hit the +car brakes hard, but he wasn't here to pat me reassuringly. + +The cage was getting real hot now and the jerks were coming with +increasing frequency. The air had stopped too and I desperately wanted +a drink. The last thing I remember before the crash was wishing that +Max would open the door and let me out like he always had at home. + +Max's gentle voice sounded a long way off. "Good boy!" he kept +repeating. "Good boy!" I couldn't find the strength to open my eyes so +I just lay quietly and listened to the talk, thankful that the smell, +that had penetrated the entire day, was gone now. + +"I was afraid that those parachutes wouldn't cut the speed enough to +get him down alive," said the Starman who had patted my back earlier. + +"No sign of radiation," said a strange voice. "His blood count is +normal and he isn't hurt physically unless there are internal +injuries." + +"What about his weakness?" asked Max, patting me. + +"You'd be weak too, if you had been through the ordeal he has," said +Strange-voice. "He'll get over that soon and live to father a good +many space-puppies." + +Strange-voice was absolutely right in his forecast and it's with +pardonable fatherly pride that I lead each new family to the great +stone monument which reads: "_In honor of Rex, a German Shepherd dog, +who pioneered man's first flight into outer space._" + + * * * * * + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pioneer, by William Hardy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIONEER *** + +***** This file should be named 32457.txt or 32457.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/4/5/32457/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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