Gardens grew luxurious in subaqueous silence; lilies, rushes, stinkweed.

Here, too, much of what did grow was stinging nettles and coarse thistle and stinkweed.

But due to a severe blight on our stinkweed crop, which as you know is our staple diet, our people are becoming severely malnourished.

They will refuse to give up their stinkweeds.

Also, they would no longer need to be living in an area that would help the stinkweeds grow.

And I'd bet that the stinkweeds would have made the soil over there ideal for our dietary staples!

It was really just their desire to grow more stinkweeds, and their incapability to do so in their soil.

"But," put in Hootsey, "the Stinkfoots can't live without their stinkweed.

"What if we forbade them from eating any more stinkweeds?"

"Of course," said the boy simply, taking a handful of the stinkweeds and eating it.

"Whether you remain whole enough to smoke that bag of stinkweed in your glove compartment rather depends on your answer-dude.

"So you think that, if the Stinkfoots were to grow carrots instead of stinkweeds for a year, they could go back to stinkweeds next year?"