I'll sign off.--L. Sloan, Box 101, Onset, Mass.

_Just Imagine!_

Dear Editor:

To begin, I am a mechanic more or less skilled in the
handling of tools. Now, while I have seen many builders with
tools who were dubbed "spineless," "poor fish," etc., it was
not because they remotely resembled the piscatorial or
Crustacea families.

It seems to me that when an author endows reptiles,
cuttlefish, etc., with superhuman intelligence, and paints a
few pictures of them as master-mechanics in the use of
tools, then I want to take the magazine I am reading, that
allows such silly slush in its pages, and feed it to my
billy-goat; he may be able to digest such silliness, but I
can't!

However, there is a redeeming feature of this sort of story:
although not written as comedy, they have a comic effect,
when one uses his imagination. Imagine, for instance, a
giant sea crab as a traffic cop! He could direct four
streams of traffic at once while making a date with the
sweet young thing whom he had held up for a traffic
violation! Then think what a great, intelligent reptile,
crocodile, or what have you, could do in our Prohibition
Enforcement Service! He could place his armored body across
the road, and when rum runners bumped into him he could take
his handy disintegrator and turn their load of white
lightning back into the original corn patch! And suppose a
giant, humanly-intelligent centipede should make too much
whoopee some night, and endeavor to slip upstairs without
waking the wife. Even if he succeeded in getting off his
thousand pairs of shoes, which is doubtful, he would have a
sweet time keeping his myriad of legs under control after
partaking of some of the tangle-foot dispensed nowadays!

I hope your Authors will read and heed the delicate sarcasm
contained in the letter of Robert R. Young in your April
issue.--Carl F. Morgan, 427 E. Columbia Ave., College Park,
Ga.

"_Craves Excitement_"

Dear Editor:

I have been a silent Reader of your magazine for quite a
long while, but have finally decided to come forth with my
own little contribution to "The Readers' Corner." So far I
have seen only two other women Readers' letters. I suppose
most women are interested in love stories, though I fail to