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Sling-Shots & Flit-Guns. Desperately, the P.G.C. examined the main highway to the north. It turned out to be an ancient caravan route which showed no signs of having been repaired since King Darius officially declared it open, some years before he lost the Battle of Marathon...
...P.G.C. set their teeth and went ahead. Within a few months they had lined up 50,000 Iranian workers -as well as 2,000 small boys who raced enthusiastically through mosquito-ravaged villages spraying angry oldsters and babies with flit-guns...
...save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John in the forest, flaunting their sensuous beauty, mocking his effort to escape the fetters of Hell and assume human form...
...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
Listen to the handy Flit Gun (whistle...