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                                SHANDY

                            BY RON GOULART

                   _Shandy was a teddy bear, a lion,
                  an ape, a rival for Nancy Tanner's
                affections.... But what_ else _was he_?

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1958.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Holman came down out of the forest of giant orange-woods and trudged
across the plain toward the place where Nancy Tanner lived. It was late
afternoon and the woods beyond Nancy's home were already growing dark
and dim.

The door of the old spaceship was open and a dark flowered rug hung
over the rail of the gangway. Late sun glazed the round window
near the door, but Holman thought he ha