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Rh He began to manufacture Super-Robots. Regular giants they were. He tried to make them twelve feet tall. But you wouldn't believe what a failure they were.

A failure?

Yes. For no reason at all their limbs used to keep snapping off. Evidently our planet is too small for giants. Now we only make Robots of normal size and of very high class human finish.

I saw the first Robots at home. The town counsel bought them for—I mean engaged them for work.

Bought them, dear Miss Glory. Robots are bought and sold.

These were employed as street sweepers. I saw them sweeping. They were so strange and quiet.