On sudden impulse, Jerry strode across his office. There stood a large
and brilliantly colored object, jarring oddly with the other furniture.
Sometimes at a loss to spend his newly acquired wealth, Jerry had
yielded, a month or so before, to a desire conceived in childhood to
own a real honest-to-goodness juke box.
Jerry fished in his pocket for a nickel, deposited it in the slot,
pushed button seven. Loud, tinny, and offensively blatant, the strains
of "I Don't Wanna Leave the Congo" filled the office, effectively
drowning out any further remarks the Ambassador from Outer Space might
have wished to make.
"If you'll pardon me," Jerry shouted over the din, "I have some arrow
heads to chip--and a potential extraterrestrial mate to woo with a
quaint tribal ritual we call dating on Earth."
End of Project Gutenberg's The Pilot and the Bushman, by Sylvia Jacobs
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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