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Show VIII "The Bauercrats cannot know how many spies be within the Network since the Governor hath no category for spies." Dr'Igor Grant Sheblem to a band of Yeofolk Rebels in the HighTartars The Exalted Board of Managers, the greatest of all the Bauercrats, were at that moment awaiting luncheon and were in number three-nine wights short of a quorum. But it was Conference, Convention, and Review time- arranged nicely to coincide with the chaos of the CivicPageant-and the rest of the Board were on trips of various degrees of unimportance throughout the length and breadth of the One Hundred and One Commendiums where there reigned a comparative peace. The stay-at-homes themselves were entertaining a visitor-Thor C. Householder, a short, elderly Earthski from Buildings and Grounds in Earth's own Network. He was traveling up and down the EarthColonySystem on a grant, seeing what was new in space management and floor allocation. And he was sitting at the luncheon table with the three, who were discussing the problem of agricultural pollution. " . . . a n d I therefore say to ye-sewage treatment, when it pertaineth to •the waste of EarthCattle and Sheep, be the responsibility in full of the BAA folk, but sewage treatment, when it pertaineth to the waste of feathered fowl, be the responsibility of the folk in the Bureau of Yards and Flocks." The speaker pulled a pipe from his tunic and began cleaning it out with his steak knife, smiling to himself the whilst. His reddish 59-61 |