073- Leiningen Versus the Ants -Tudor Owen

Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights, is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the air four weeks from tonight, on Thursday, September 1st. You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon jungle, and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you, swarming into each alive, a deadly black army

from which there is no escape. We offer you escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight we escape to the Amazon jungle and to a creeping, crawling terror, as Carl Stevenson told it in his famous story, Linen-jin versus the ants.

I first met Linen-jin while performing my duties as district commissioner. As my boat neared his plantation landing, I saw him upon the riverbank regarding me with mild interest. A great hulk of a man with bristling grey hair, bulky nose and pale eyes.

His entire appearance somehow suggested an aging and shabby eagle. He escorted me to the terrace and had a drink brought. I came quickly to the point of my visit and issued my warning. Line engine popped placidly at a huge cigars he listened and then said, Exactly what are you trying to tell me?

I'm trying to tell you that unless they alter their course and there's no reason why they sure they'll reach your plantation in two days at the latest. Well, Commissioner, it was decent of you paddling all this way just to give me the tip.

TIP! You're pulling my leg, of course, when you say I've got to get out. Now look, I assure you, I'm not commissioner. Even the herd of crocodiles couldn't drive me from this plantation of mine.