《Hercules Muscles In》作者： - Henry Kuttner 【EPUB】

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HERCULES MUSCLES IN By KELVIN KENT Author of "Knight Must Fall', "A Comedy of Eras," etc. When the Strong Man of Peloponnesos Finds Himself in a Labor Daze, Year-Leaper Pete Proves That a Brain and Brawn Trust Is Mightier Than Zeus! A Complete Pete Manx Novelet CHAPTER I Back to 700 B.C. PETE MANX rubbed his bullet head reflectively, put the derby back upon it, and glanced at his companion in the taxicab. "You just don't understand, Biggie," he said wearily. "Lots of guys have the same trouble." Mr. Bigpig Callahan, one-time bronco-wrangler and currently a wrestler both owned and managed by Pete, looked glum. Or, at least, one supposed he did. It is difficult to detect emotion in a face like a slab of beef, slashed by a lipless gap, dotted by two tiny, glittering eyes, and fringed with bristling red hair and a couple of scalloped objects that were probably ears. Bigpig's face had not always been thus. Raised in New York's East Side, he had brawled his way from Jersey to Montana, remaining in the latter place for six years learning how to punch cattle. Pete had a well-founded idea that a cow had once stepped on Big-pig's uncomely face, a process scarcely calculated to improve on nature. At any rate, it was neither a thing of beauty nor a joy forever. "Flors," said Mr.