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                               car pool

                         By ROSEL GEORGE BROWN

                    _Certainly alien children ought
                   to be fed ... but to human kids?_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
               Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1959.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


"Happy birthday to _you_," we all sang, except Gail, of course, who was
still screaming, though not as loud.

"Well, now," I said jovially, glancing nervously about at the other air
traffic, "what else can we all sing?" The singing seemed to be working
nicely. They had stopped swatting each other with their lunch boxes and
my experienced ear told me Gail was by this time forcing herself to
scream. This should be the prelude to giving up and 