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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!"
The
six-shooter!
He
had
forgotten
it.
He
jerked
it
from
its
holster
and
pointed
it
at
the
red
throat,
emptied
all
the
chambers.
He
saw
the
flash
of
yellow
flame,
felt
the
recoil,
but
the
sound
of
the
discharges
was
drowned
in
the
Brobdignagian
tumult.
He
drew
back
his
arm
to
throw
the
useless
toy
from
him.
But
again
that
unexplainable,
senseless
"hunch"
restrained
him.
He
reloaded
the
gun
and
returned
it
to
its
holster.
"HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!
HOOM!"
A
thought
had
been
struggling
to
reach
his
consciousness
against
the
pressure
of
the
unbearable
noise.
The
fire
pellets!
Couldn't
they
be
used
in
some
way?
These
small
chemical
spheres,
no
larger
than
the
end
of
his
little
finger,
had
long
ago
supplanted
actual
fire
along
the
frontiers,
where
electricity
was
not
available
for
cooking.
In
contact
with
moisture
they
emitted
terrific
heat,
a
radiant
heat
which
penetrated
meat,
bone,
and
even
metal.
One
such
pellet
would
cook
a
meal
in
ten
minutes,
with
no
sign
of
scorching
or
burning.
And
they
had
several
hundred
in
one
of
the
standard
moisture-proof
containers.
As
fast
as
his
fingers
could
work
the
trigger
of
the
dispenser
Forepaugh
dropped
the
potent
little
pellets
down
the
bellowing
throat.
He
managed
to
release
about
thirty
before
the
bellowing
stopped.
A
veritable
tornado
of
energy
broke
loose
at
the
foot
of
the
tree.
The
giant
maw
was
closed,
and
the
shocking
silence
was
broken
only
by
the
thrashing
of
a
giant
body
in
its
death
agonies.
The
radiant
heat,
penetrating
through
and
through
the
beast's
body,
withered
nearby
vegetation
and
could
be
easily
felt
on
the
perch
up
the
tree.
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