Authentic Science Fiction, December 1951 — page 81: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE MOON IS HEAVEN 79 returns the pressure. Then you are out on the Moon again. Even before you get out, your helmet is full of Clavier’s continental epithets, describing clearly and with emphasis a whole range of animals and-their habits. You guess he’s seen the damage done to his apparatus. And you find you are right. : “‘ The pig has bored a hole in the supply tube,’’ Clavier explains, almost with tears in ‘his eyes. ‘‘ Also, the viper. has done things to my generator. It will take hours and hours to repair. I will kill him!” “You'll probably find it difficult,’’ Atah says. ‘‘ No doubt he’s got his radio on and can hear every word we say. He won’t be back, I’m thinking.’ You’ve got your own ideas about that. If he. doesn’t come back, then he’s got even less time to live than you have, there’s less oxygen in his suit because of the time he spent working on the air-lock while you were all sleeping. But then you remember the spare bottles. He must have about a hundred and fifty hours’ supply in them. Even so, that’s still only a hundred and fifty hours. And Schnabel didn’t seem the kind of man who would go away and die so easily. _ You guess hell be back if he gets the chance. And you're half inclined to give him the chance, just so that you can get your hands on him. But there is no time for such thoughts. In fact, your time for any kind of thought is running out fast. That makes you think of Reina. And she makes you think of the generator. ‘“You’d better take command, Clavier,’’ Atah says. “ Just tell us what you want done. We’ll do whatever you say, only let’s be quick about it.’’ ‘That is kind,’’ the chemist returns. ‘‘ Well, suppose you and Reina work on the supply tube? ‘You can replace it with the pipe that Reina would have used for the line to the fuel tank. Zhat will have to wait; it will be quicker than trying to repair this hole. Mike and Leeson can. help me with the generator.’”” os comicbooks.com