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