Consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree.
1To himself, he wished he had not told Birken about the spaceship.
2I think that is a good message either way, said Birken.
3Would Birken listen if he tried reasoning, he asked himself.
4Meanwhile, Birken seemed eager to learn all Kinton could tell him about the planet, Tepokt.
5As they passed the man below, Birken looked up.
6Birken showed no more change of expression than if the other had commented on the weather.
7Long before the buildings of Kinton's institute came into view, they received a radio message about Birken.
8By the time his passengers had alighted, however, Birken had drawn level with them, about fifty feet away.
9In other words, he thought, he was responsible for Birken, who was a Terran, one of his own kind.
12However, Birken said (for statistical reasons) she would only expect to see that in a larger group of children.
13Kinton, without exactly seeing each, was aware of the general lines of flight diverging gradually to bracket the figure of Birken.
14Kinton had stepped forward six or eight paces, irritated despite his anxiety at the way Birken persisted in drifting before him.
15"Ya might say I was explorin'," Birken replied at last.
16The sights steadied on Birken as the latter approached the foot of the ladder leading to the entrance port of the spaceship.