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Show the great Auswanderung. 'Twas the dream-seest thou?-of BauerWorlde, a bonny chance of a new beginning, entire. Therefore, they regressed with all haste to that period they loved while still in the JupiterSpaceLab, and as soon as they touched the blessed soil of BauerWorlde they fought like Saracens to keep the bane of technology off this dear planet, the pearl of the FourthQuadrant. "Nevertheless, forced they were indeed to capitulate when the FifthSleeper appeared twenty TwelveMonths later with the Techs and the Techs-Isaac and Ida keep them in their prayers!-found naught for to keep themselves occupied!" At that point their food arrived and Ivan paused while roast YellowBison in brownbutter sauce with chiven, baked BauerSpuds, wrapped in Terriapen leaves, mixed native greens, and pepper rolls and honey were laid on. He began cutting up his meat and continued his story, talking around his luncheon with well-practiced ease. "So the whole body of Techs wended thither to the good Ida and Isaac Needlesmith," he went on, "the blessed leaders of the Colony, for truly the Techs be genetically screened for to be Techs-in a full-flowered technology. See'st thou the problem? Doctors study the planet, as 'tis programmed into the Governor," he instructed the Visitor. "Yeofolk till the soil and do gather wood and stone to erect keeps, castles, battlements, cottages, and such like. Merchants deal in commerce and give life and being to the economy. Managers. . .they be the good shepherds. Aye," he nodded his bullet head, "they be the good shepherds. Therefore they shepherded these newest souls on BauerWorlde, the Techs, to place their plaint before the Council of the reverend Doctors." 66 |