[A Honeymoon in Space by George Griffith]@TWC D-Link bookA Honeymoon in Space CHAPTER VII 5/16
By the way, don't forget your cameras.
It's quite possible we may find something worth taking pictures of, and you needn't trouble much about the weight.
You know, you and I and all that we carry will only weigh about a sixth of what we did on the earth." "Very well, then, I'll take the whole-plate apparatus as well as the kodak and the panorama camera.
When I'm ready, Murgatroyd will tell you to come down." "But isn't he coming with us too ?" "My dear girl, if I were to ask Murgatroyd to leave the _Astronef_ there'd be a mutiny on board--a mutiny of one against one.
No, he's left his native world; but he says he's done it in a ship that's made with British steel out of English iron mines, smelted, forged and fashioned in English works, and so to him it's a bit of England, however far away from Mother Earth it may be; and if you ever see Andrew Murgatroyd's big head and good, ungainly body outside the _Astronef_ in any of the worlds, dead or alive, that we're going to visit--well, when we get back to Mother Earth you may ask me----" "I don't think I'll have to ask you for anything, Lenox.
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