‘I don’t know,’ said I. ‘Are you?’ ‘Yes,’ it replied. ‘I guess I’ve seen about all there is to see.’ ‘You don’t think of staying?’ ‘That’s all propaganda,’ it said. ‘Of course there never was any question of our staying. You can’t eat the fruit and you can’t drink the water and it takes you all your time to walk on the grass. A human being couldn’t live here. All that idea of staying is only an advertisement stunt.’ ‘Then why did you come?’
