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                  The Flying Tuskers Of K'niik-K'naak

                            BY JACK SHARKEY

                   _Handsome, athletic, debonair, a
                man of powerful charm as well as solid
                worth, I'd give anything to conquer my
                  one real fault--my darned modesty!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1961.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


I have trod many tangled jungles, explored the floors of innumerable
oceans and braved death in so many forms that a man less magnificent
than myself would have died of fright. But if there is one event that
stands out in my perfect memory that can still raise a goosebump or two
on my broad tanned shoulders, the event is 