Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-17

| quainted with his kind, may say that that
| single cursory examination of this awful
travesty of nature would have proved quite
| sufficient to my desires had been a free
| agent
The fastest flier of the Heliumetic navy
| could not quickly enough have carried me
| far from this hideous creature,
| Its hairless body was of Il strange and
| ghoulsh blue, except for a broad band
| of white which encrcled its protruding,
| single eye an eye that was all dead white
pupil, iris and ball
Its nose was a ragged, infamed, circular
| hole in the centre of its blank face; a
| hole that resembled more closely nothing
that l could think of other than a fresh
bullet wound which has not yet commenced
to bleed.
Below this repulsive Orifice the face was
quite blank to the chin. for the thing had
no mouth that / could discover.
The head, with the exception of the
face, was covered by a tangled mass OF
jet black hair some or 10 inches in
length. Each hair was about the bigness
OF a large angleworm, and as the thing
moved the muscles of its scalp this awful
head-covering seemed to writhe and wriggle
and crawl about the fearsOme face as
though indeed each separate hair was en-
dowed with independent life.
The body and legs were as symmetrically
human as nature could have fashioned
them, and the feet too were human In
shape but of monstrous proportions. From
heel TO toe they were fully three feet long.
and very fiat and very broad.
AS II came quite close to me discovered
that its strange movements. running its
odd hands over the surface of the turf,
were the result of it's peculiar method of
feeding. which consists in cropping off the
tender vegetation with its Tazorlike talons
and sucking 1t up from it's two mouths,
rnFata lie In fha aIFFn Of oh ha
through Its armlike throats
In addition TO the features which / have
already described. the beast was equipped
with a massive tall about six feet in length,
quite round where it Joined the body, but
tapering 10 a nat, thin blade toward the
end, which trailed at right angles to the
ground
BY far the most remarkable feature Of
this most remarkable creature, however.
were the two tiny repiicas of il, each about
six inches in length. which dangled, one on
either side from its armpits They were
suspended by small stem, which seemed
to grow from the exact tops of their heads
to where it connected them with the body
OF the adult
Whether they were the young, or merely
portions Of composite creature, l did not
know
AS l had been scrutinlzlng this weird
monstrosity the balance OF the herd had
fed quite close to me. and | now saw that
HnllG many nhu the smaller SpECin6Hg
dangling from them, not all were thus
equipped and I further noted that the lit
tie enes varied In size from what appeared
TO be but tiny unopened buds an inch in
diameter through various stages OF de-
yelopment 10 the full-hedged and perfectly
formed creature OF 10 10 12 Inches IN length
Feeding with the herd were many Of the
little fellows not much larger than those
which remained attached 70 their parents,
and from the young Of that size the herd
graded up TO this immense adults.
Fearsome looking as they we're. I did not
know whether . fear them or not for they
ald not seem 70 be particularly well equipped
for fighting.
I WAS N fact on the point OF Stepping
from my hiding place and revealing rnyself
70 taem e note the effect upon them Of H.
sight .ef 3 man. when my rash resolve was.
fortunately for me, nipped IN the bud b. 4
strange shFleklnz vail Hhich seemed 1
come froIa the diFeetion OF the bluna Il NJ
right
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