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                        THE USELESS BUGBREEDERS

                           BY JAMES STAMERS

                  TO THE SPACE COUNCIL, ASTEROID 4722
                   WAS JUST ANOTHER ROADBLOCK IN THE
                  WAY OF INTERPLANETARY TRAFFIC. BUT
                TO THE USELESS BUGBREEDERS IT WAS HOME!

           [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.]


The previous case was a Weeper, and he lost. So the Space Zoning
Commissioners were damp and irritable before I opened pleadings for my
client. I tried not to squelch as I approached the bench.

"Not the Flammables again, Mr. Jones?" the fat Commissioner asked
nastily, sponging his suit with a sodden handkerchief.

"This was la