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                          A Pride of Islands

                            By C. C. MacAPP

                    _Of course a planet has a right
                     to be strange--but so strange
                     that it makes fleas of men?_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
                Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Alyarsmit clung to the top of a tall swaying hair and squinted toward
the ponderous caterpillar-shaped beast way off in the very far
distance.

"It's coming this way, all right," he called down to Brusmit, who was
leaning against the base of the hair. "It's moved half a length since
we first saw it."

"Do you think it sees us yet?" Bru asked uneasily. From up here, six
man-lengths above the s