Okay, so they DO take humans? I was right?

Antti Markus wrote:

> Peter Houston wrote:
>
> > Comments, suggestions.....
>
> Some quotes from the book:
>
> "Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible,
> glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) swinging
>  and rattling about its strange body.  It picked its road as it went
> striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro
> with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about.  Behind the main
> body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket,
> and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as
> the monster swept by me."
>
> "He [martian tripod] used no Heat-Ray to destroy them, but picked them
> [humans] up one by one.  Apparently he tossed them into the great
> metallic carrier which projected behind him, much as a workman's basket
> hangs over his shoulder."
>
> Antti

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"Yub-Yub!" Lt. Kettch

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