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Excerpt from Wings in the West
The 'plane Swept down from the wintry west, touched its skis delicately to the ?at expanse of snow-covered lake and coasted to a stop by the Air Base. Air Base was perhaps too impressive a name for the wharf, tar-papered Shack and collection of steel gas drums on the outskirts of the mining town that sprawled in the lee of raw, treeless hills, but the rugged individua lists of Broderick were prone to dignify their works and buildings with high-sounding names.
Out of the door the pilot's stocky figure tumbled, and he peered about for the watchman. Instead, he saw a man in a too-long overcoat and too-large felt hat shambling towards him. At closer range this derelict disclosed a week's whiskers, watery eyes, and an aroma of gin. AS he slouched along he licked at a dejected cigarette.
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