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Eyes and the Daily Grind, by Milton Lesser
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Title: Black Eyes and the Daily Grind
Author: Milton Lesser
Release Date: October 25, 2009 [EBook #30329]
Language: English
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[Illustration: When Black Eyes needed a nap--everybody slept!]
BLACK EYES and the DAILY GRIND
By MILTON LESSER
The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.
He liked the flat cracking sound of the gun. He liked the way it slapped back against his shoulder when he fired. Somehow it did not seem a part of the dank, steaming Venusian jungle. Probably, he realized with a smile, it was the only old-fashioned recoil rifle on the entire planet. As if anyone else would want to use one of those old bone-cracking relics today! But they all failed to realize it made sport much more interesting.
"I haven't seen anything for a while," his wife said. She had a young, pretty face and a strong young body. If you have money these days, you could really keep a thirty-five-year-old woman looking trim.
Not on Venus, of course. Venus was an outpost, a frontier