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me, and once more I tumbled into greater safety, sprawling upon the floor of the
centrale.
Olson was looking up, and seeing what was poking about in the tower, ran for an
ax; nor did he hesitate a moment when he returned with one, but sprang up the
ladder and commenced chopping away at that hideous face. The thing didn't
have sufficient brainpan to entertain more than a single idea at once. Though
chopped and hacked, and with a bullethole between its eyes, it still persisted
madly in its attempt to get inside the tower and devour Olson, though its body
was many times the diameter of the hatch; nor did it cease its efforts until after
Olson had succeeded in decapitating it. Then the two men went on deck through
the main hatch, and while one kept watch, the other cut a hind quarter off
Plesiosaurus Olsoni, as Bradley dubbed the thing. Meantime Olson cut off the
long neck, saying that it would make fine soup. By the time we had cleared away
the blood and refuse in the tower, the cook had juicy steaks and a steaming broth
upon the electric stove, and the aroma arising from P. Olsoni filled us all with a
hitherto unfelt admiration for him and all his kind.
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