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                     IT WAS A DULL, ROUTINE LITTLE
                     WORLD. IT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A
                      CITY. EVERYTHING IT HAD WAS

                             IN THE GARDEN

                           BY R. A. LAFFERTY

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


The protozoic recorder chirped like a bird. Not only would there be
life traces on that little moon, but it would be a lively place. So
they skipped several steps in the procedure.

The chordata discerner read _Positive_ over most of the surface. There
was spinal fluid on that orb, rivers of it. So again they omitted
several tests and went to the cognition scanner. Would it show Thought
on the 