"Rather barbaric," said Olbu. "But then this is a barbaric planet."
"Uh? Oh, yes. Just joking, of course. Now we're about ready for our telecast with Cecil Burroughs, the greatest commentator in the business. You'll appear with one of our leading scientists."
"I hope he can understand the things I shall talk about."
"We may not know much about space flight, but we know a lot of things, my boy," said Rodkey.
"You say you don't travel in space as yet?"
"No, and you're the first visitor from space we've had. You see, no planets of this solar system are inhabited by intelligent forms of life."
"You can say that again," said Olbu.
"With the exception of the Earth, of course." Rodkey laughed. "We were very thrilled to have someone drop in on us."
"How strange!"
"In fact, many of our people figured that Man was unique. They thought he couldn't exist anywhere but here."