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                        THE NIGHT OF HOGGY DARN

                           BY R. M. McKENNA

            _The talented author of "The Fishdollar Affair"
          returns with another compelling story of a frontier
           world--grim New Cornwall of the Black Learning._

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


Red-haired Flinter Cole sipped his black coffee and looked around the
chrome and white tile galley of Space Freighter _Gorbals_, in which he
was riding down the last joint of a dogleg journey to the hermit planet
of New Cornwall.

"Nothing's been published about the planet for the last five hundred
years," he said in a nervous, jerky voice. "You people on _Go