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    Police Operation
    Police Operation
    Police Operation
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    Police Operation

    By H. Beam Piper

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    Release dateDec 1, 2006

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    Police Operation - H. Beam Piper

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Police Operation, by H. Beam Piper

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    Title: Police Operation

    Author: H. Beam Piper

    Illustrator: Cartier

    Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19067]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POLICE OPERATION ***

    Produced by Greg Weeks, William Woods, and the Online

    Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

    Transcriber's note:

    This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, July 1948. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.

    POLICE OPERATION

    BY H. BEAM PIPER

    Hunting down the beast, under the best of circumstances,

    was dangerous. But in this little police operation, the

    conditions required the use of inadequate means!

    Illustrated by Cartier

    "... there may be something in the nature of an occult police force, which operates to divert human suspicions, and to supply explanations that are good enough for whatever, somewhat in the nature of minds, human beings have—or that, if there be occult mischief makers and occult ravagers, they may be of a world also of other beings that are acting to check them, and to explain them, not benevolently, but to divert suspicion from themselves, because they, too, may be exploiting life upon this earth, but in ways more subtle, and in orderly, or organised, fashion."

    Charles Fort: LO!

    John Strawmyer stood, an irate figure in faded overalls and sweat-whitened black shirt, apart from the others, his back to the weathered farm-buildings and the line of yellowing woods and the cirrus-streaked blue October sky. He thrust out a work-gnarled hand accusingly.

    That there heifer was worth two hund'rd, two hund'rd an' fifty dollars! he clamored. "An' that there dog was just like one uh the fam'ly; An' now look at'm! I don't like t' use profane language, but you'ns gotta do some'n about this!"

    Steve Parker, the district game protector, aimed his Leica at the carcass of the dog and snapped the shutter. We're doing something about it, he said shortly. Then he stepped ten feet to the left and edged around the mangled heifer, choosing an angle for his camera shot.

    The two men in the gray whipcords of the State police, seeing that Parker was through with the dog, moved in and squatted to examine it. The one with the triple chevrons on his sleeves took it by both forefeet and flipped it over on its back. It had been a big brute, of nondescript breed, with a rough black-and-brown coat. Something had clawed it deeply about the head, its throat was slashed transversely several times, and it had been disemboweled by a single slash that had opened its belly from breastbone to tail. They looked at it carefully, and then went to stand beside Parker while he photographed the dead heifer. Like the dog, it had been talon-raked on either side of the head, and its throat had been slashed deeply several times. In addition, flesh had been torn from one flank in great strips.

    I can't kill a bear outa season, no! Strawmyer continued his plaint. But a bear comes an' kills my stock an' my dog; that there's all right! That's the kinda deal a farmer always gits, in this state! I don't like t' use profane language—

    Then don't! Parker barked at him, impatiently. Don't use any kind of language. Just put in your claim and shut up! He turned to the men in whipcords and gray Stetsons. You boys seen everything? he asked. Then let's go.

    They walked briskly back to the barnyard, Strawmyer following them, still vociferating about the wrongs of the farmer at the hands of a cynical and corrupt State government. They climbed into the State police car, the sergeant and the private in front and Parker into the rear, laying his camera on the seat beside a Winchester carbine.

    Weren't you pretty short with that fellow, back there, Steve? the sergeant asked as the private started the car.

    Not too short. 'I don't like t' use profane language', Parker mimicked the bereaved heifer owner, and then he went on to specify: I'm morally certain that he's shot at least four illegal deer in the last year. When and if I ever get anything on him, he's going to be sorrier for himself then he is now.

    "They're the characters

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