HANG HEAD, VANDAL!
By MARK CLIFTON
Illustrated by FINLAY
Arrogantly, they set out to destroy a planet for
the good of Man—Man who is stuffed with straw
where his heart and mind and soul should be.
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Amazing Stories April 1962
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
On our abandoned Martian landing field there hangs a man's discarded spacesuit, suspended from the desensitized prongs of a Come-to-me tower. It is stuffed with straw filched, no doubt, from packing cases which brought out so many more delicate, sensitive, precision instruments than we take back.