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    Dumbwaiter

    By James Stamers

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    Antimony IX divers can’t be seen, of course ... but don’t have anything in mind when one of them is around you!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateMar 25, 2016
    ISBN9781515405344
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      Dumbwaiter - James Stamers

      Dumbwaiter

      By James Stamers

      2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / ktarrier

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0534-4

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      Dumbwaiter

      By James Stamers

      Antimony IX divers can’t be seen, of course ... but don’t have anything in mind when one of them is around you!

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      The man ahead of me had a dragon in his baggage. So the Lamavic boys confiscated it. Lamavic—Livestock, Animal, Mineral and Vegetable, International Customs—does not like to find dragons curled up in a thermos. And since this antipathy was a two-way exchange, the Lamavic inspectors at Philadelphia International were singed and heated all ways by the time they got to me. I knew them well.

      Mr. Sol Jones?

      That’s right, I said, watching the would-be dragon smuggler being marched away. A very amateur job. I could have told him. There are only two ways to smuggle a dragon nowadays.

      Any livestock to declare, Mr. Jones?

      I have no livestock on my person or in my baggage, nor am I accompanied by any material prohibited article, I said

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