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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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Various
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One
of
the
armed
frog-men
approached
and
inspected
them,
and
then
croaked
an
order
in
a
deep
voice.
Then,
still
holding
the
two
tightly,
the
party
of
monsters
began
to
move
along
the
slope,
skirting
the
sea's
edge.
In
a
few
minutes
they
reached
two
curious
objects
resting
on
the
slope.
They
seemed
long
black
metal
boats,
slender
and
with
sharp
prow
and
stern.
A
compact
mechanism
and
control-board
filled
the
prow,
while
at
the
stern
and
sides
were
long
tubes
mounted
on
swivels
like
machine-guns.
The
frog-men
motioned
Norman
and
Hackett
into
one,
fastening
the
two
prisoners
and
themselves
into
their
seats
with
metal
straps
provided
for
the
purpose.
Four
had
entered
the
one
boat,
the
others
that
of
the
captives.
One
at
the
prow
moved
his
paws
over
the
control-board
and
with
a
purring
of
power
the
boat,
followed
by
the
other,
rose
smoothly
into
the
air.
It
headed
out
over
the
gray-green
sea,
land
dropping
quickly
from
sight
behind,
the
horizons
water-bounded
on
all
sides.
From
their
nearness
Norman
guessed
that
this
second
satellite
of
Earth's
was
small
indeed
beside
its
mother
planet.
He
had
to
look
up
to
earth's
great
gray
sphere
overhead
to
attain
a
sense
of
reality.
Hackett
was
whispering
beside
him,
the
frog-men
watchful.
"Norman,
it's
not
real--it
can't
be
real!
These
things--these
boats--intelligent
like
men--"
The
other
sought
to
steady
him.
"It's
a
different
world,
Hackett.
Gravitation
different,
light
different,
everything
different,
and
evolution
here
has
had
a
different
course.
On
Earth
men
evolved
to
be
the
most
intelligent
life-forms,
but
here
the
frog-races,
it
seems."
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