Though this was published (by the Sidecar Preservation Society) in both hardcover and saddle-stapled editions, it's actually a short story which I drafted in 1967 but didn't bother to type into submission form. (My webmaster typed it for this edition, and I gave it a title--something else I hadn't bothered with in 1967.)

I didn't edit the story for publication (except to guess at the meaning of illegible words). The result is a slice of what I was when I began writing for publication.

--Dave Drake