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Sight Gag, by Laurence Mark Janifer
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Title: Sight Gag
Author: Laurence Mark Janifer
Illustrator: Schoenherr
Release Date: October 19, 2009 [EBook #30288]
Language: English
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SIGHT GAG
BY LARRY M. HARRIS
Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!
ILLUSTRATED BY SCHOENHERR
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Downstairs, the hotel register told Fredericks that Mr. John P. Jones was occupying Room 1014. But Fredericks didn't believe the register. He knew better than that. Wherever his man was, he wasn't in Room 1014. And whoever he was, his real name certainly wasn't John P. Jones. "P for Paul," Fredericks muttered to himself. "Oh, the helpful superman, the man who knows better, the man who does better."
Fredericks had first known