Runners

Usage examples of lopers.

We lost three mules and six goats to lopers, but the lopers got the news and started giving us a wide berth.

Like most older houses, the Harper place had no ground-floor windows and but a single door that fit tightly and opened outward-a design for a time when lopers and dragons were ubiquitous.

The dogs trotted under the wagons, or ranged aside, warning of lopers or other hazards.

The mules running free had no duties other than to keep eyes out for lopers, save that Buck was at all times grand marshal of the parade, picking the footing, bossing the other mules, carrying out Smith's orders.

Not risk death by thirst, or by lopers, or the treacheries of mountains, or whatever.

But it is foolish to bury a mule when lopers and weather will soon take care of his carcass.

Then I drove the first wagon three or four hundred meters away, unharnessed the mules, and told Beulah to keep them together-and told Ken to help her, and left Fritz to help her, too, and took Lady MacBeth with me to watch for lopers or whatever.

But unlike lopers, they were too stupid to stay away when they were losing.

When wind and weather and rot and lopers and insects have done their worst on a dead dragon, what is left is almost indestructible.

Like most older houses, the Harper place had no ground-floor windows and but a single door that fit tightly and opened outward—a design for a time when lopers and dragons were ubiquitous.

The mules running free had no duties other than to keep eyes out for lopers, save that Buck was at all times grand marshal of the parade, picking the footing, bossing the other mules, carrying out Smith’s orders.

Then I drove the first wagon three or four hundred meters away, unharnessed the mules, and told Beulah to keep them together—and told Ken to help her, and left Fritz to help her, too, and took Lady MacBeth with me to watch for lopers or whatever.

The pressure here on Jupiter couldn’t be duplicated outside of Jupiter and at Earth pressure and temperature the Lopers would simply have disappeared in a puff of gas.

The evident intelligence of the Lopers, he knew, had been one factor in that determination.

Perhaps the Lopers were so alien there was no common ground for human knowledge and the Jovian conception of existence to meet and work together.