First printing, May 1960
Second printing, December 1962
This book is fiction. No resemblance is intended between any character
herein and any person, living or dead; any such resemblance is purely
coincidental.
Copyright, © 1960 by Judith Merril
All Rights Reserved
_Printed in the United States of America_
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