ailed and we are waiting. We have waited twenty years
and we can wait until the final day.

And tomorrow is the final day.

Tomorrow, at a signal, we will kill the teachers and the other Earthmen
among us before we go forth. They do not suspect, so it will be easy.

We have dissimulated for years now, and they do not know how we hate
them. They do not know how disgusting and hideous we find them, with
their ugly misshapen bodies, so narrow-shouldered and tiny-chested,
their weak sibilant voices that need amplification to carry in our
Martian air, and above all their white pasty hairless skins.

We shall kill them and then we shall go and smash the other dome so all
the Earthmen there will die too.

If more Earthmen ever come to punish us, we can live and hide in the
hills where they'll never find us. And if they try to build more domes
here we'll smash them. We want no more to do with Earth.

This is our planet and we want no aliens. Keep off!

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ March 1954. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on
this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical
errors have been corrected without note.

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