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with a stress-gauge on, for Volume Nine. I show you the readings. . ."
"Right there, sir," I said, shaking my head at the invitation; "that kind of thing, and the night-glass and all. . ." My point, which I tried to make tactfully, was that if he believed passèdness to be the sort of rationality that WESCAC (at least in pre-"noctic" terms) exemplified, then he was by no means a Graduate, or even a Candidate, so long as he indulged even vicariously such Croakerish appetites as I had seen signs of. Nor could Croaker, on the other hand, be said to be passed by the standards ofhis Certification, it seemed to me: what beast of the woods would so obligingly fetch and carry, not to mention taking scientific measurements?
"He always gets them wrong," Dr. Eierkopf said hopefully.
"But hegets them. And he cleans up messes --"
"His own."
"What beast of the woods does that? Not even a goat can cook pablum, or chew designs on a stick, or focus lenses. . ."
Eierkopf sniffed. "He busts as many as he focuses."
The point was, I insisted, that neither of them met strictly the terms of their
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