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"We doing OK, Ender Bender I Rose de Nose, Jewboy extraordinaire, and you ain't nothin but a pinheaded pinprick of a goy Don't you forget it"

Since the IF was foros of the military forces had always been a Jew There was a enerals didn't lose wars And so far it was still true It os, and conferred prestige on him from the start It also caused resentment Rat Army was often called the Kike Force, half in praise, half in parody of Mazer Rackham's Strike Force There werethe Second Invasion, even though an Aeos in overall command of IF defense, and a Russian Jeas Polemarch of the fleet, it was Mazer Rackham, a little-knoice-court-martialled, half-Maori New Zealander whose Strike Force broke up and finally destroyed the bugger fleet in the action around Saturn

If Mazer Rackham could save the world, then it didn't matter a bit whether you were a Jew or not, people said

But it did matter, and Rose the Nose knew it Hecomments of anti-semites--almost everyone he defeated in battle became, at least for a time, a Jew-hater--but he also made sure everyone knehat he was His ar for first

"I took you on, goy, because I didn't want people to think I only win because I got great soldiers I want them to know that even with a little puke of a soldier like you I can still win We only got three rules here Do what I tell you and don't piss in the bed"

Ender nodded He knew that Rose wanted him to ask what the third rule was So he did

"That was three rules We don't do too good in math, here"

The"Your practice sessions with half-assed little Launchies are over, Wiggin Done You're in a big boys' ar you in Dink Meeker's toon From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God"

"Then who are you?"

"The personnel officer who hired God" Rose grinned "And you are forbidden to use your desk again until you've frozen two enemy soldiers in the same battle This order is out of self-defense I hear you're a genius progra around with my desk"

Everybody erupted in laughter It took Ender a raer-than-lifesize picture of led back and forth as Rose held the desk on his naked lap This is just the sort of coht Ender How does a boy who spends his time like this win battles?

Ender found Dink Meeker in the gauy pointed you out," Ender said "I'in"

"I know," said Meeker

"I'm in your toon"

"I know," he said again