Operation Earthworm Part 3

_Interplanetary Press, Circa 2022, Junius XXIV--Professor Apsox Zalpha, eminent professor of cosmogony, and Exmud R. Zmorro, leading news a.n.a.lyst of seven worlds, have entered the Metropolita Neuropsychiatorium for a routine checkup. They emphatically denied that it was connected in any way with a lecture given recently by Septimus Spink, first man to explore inner s.p.a.ce, at the Celestial Cow Palace in San Francisco. Both men expect to remain for two weeks. "Of course there is nothing wrong with either of us," Professor Zalpha told your correspondent. "But if you see a beetle, please do not step on it. It could be somebody's mother."_