《Girl Saturday 》作者：- Robert F. Young【EPUB】

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NOVELETTE Having mastered the Sea of Time and a kings daughter he faced an even greater challenge GIRLSATURDAY ROBERT F. YOUNG HIS first name was Robinson his last should have been Crusoe. It wasnt though—it was Feeney.His friends called him Robin for short. When the chronocane came barreling out of the pea-soup mists of the sea of time he was hangingfrom the fantail of the Long Long Ago in a magnetic bosns seat overhauling the excursionships auxiliary drive. The minute he saw what he was in for he jammed the fountain pen-sizedenergizer he had just removed into his jacket pocket—an instant later he was lifted from hisperch and borne away on a tumultuous tide of bluenesses and blurs and cinnamon-coloredconvolutions. Meanwhile the Long Long Ago by that strange quirk of fate for which time-storms are noted sailed on unscathed. Confronted with what appeared to be imminent death Robin sought to soften it by thinking ofhow dirt-poor he was how dirt-poor he had always been and how dirt-poor he probably alwayswould have been. But the countermeasure proved to be unnecessary for the chronocane turned outto have a heart as well as an eye and after whisking him this when and that deposited himunharmed upon the shore of an ISLE. Or to break down the acronym an Integrated Superficial Lenticular Ephemeron. Robin deducedthe nature of his new surroundings even before he glanced up at the sky and saw that the sunoccupied a dozen different positions at once each only slightly removed from the others hutcombining with them to give an overall effect of a much larger body. The phenomenon resultedas Robin well knew from the orbital variations of