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They rounded up all their bad gremlins and put them in little wooden boxes with holes on top and sent them down to the Gremlin Training School in care of their squadron Intelligence Officer. The school grew bigger and bigger and more and more famous.

Just after Christmas Gus came out of the hospital and returned to his squadron. But it was not the same Gus as before. He walked with a slight limp, and the medicos had dashed his fondest hope by saying that he would never be able to fly again. To a pilot, being alive but earthbound is worse than not being alive at all.

The weeks went by, and before anyone knew it spring had come.

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