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                   _THE POLITE PEOPLE OF PUDIBUNDIA_

                           By R. A. LAFFERTY

                    _This was a world where minding
                    your manners was more than just
                   a full-time job--it was murder!_

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


"Well, you will soon see for yourself, Marlow. Yes, I know there are
peculiar stories about the place. There are about all places. The young
pilots who have been there tell some amusing tales about it."

"Yes. They say the people there are very polite."

"That is the honorable ancestor of all understatements. One of the
pilots, Conrad, told us that the inhabitants must always ca