The Water lily Pond

The Water lily Pond
The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
The Three Ages of Woman
The Virgin and Child with St Anne
Downcast, Luke directed his words irritably to Threepio and the smallagricultural robot. He knew better than to argue with his uncle. "Follow me, you two." They started for the garage as Owen entered into pricenegotiations with the jawa. Other jawas were leading the three remaining machines back into thesandcrawler when something let out an almost pathetic beep. Luke turned to see aArtoo unit breaking formation and starting toward him. It was immediatelyrestrained by a jawa wielding a control device that activated the disk sealed on themachine's front plate. Luke studied the rebellious 'droid curiously. Threepio started to say something,considered the circumstances and thought better of it. Instead, he remained silent,staring straight ahead. A minute later, something pinged sharply nearby. Glancing down, Luke sawthat a head plate had popped off the top of the agricultural 'droid. A grinding noisewas coming from within. A second later the machine was throwing internalcomponents all over the sandy ground. Leaning close, Luke peered inside the expectorating mechanical. He called out,"Uncle Owen! The servomotor-central on this cultivator unit is shot. Look…"He reached in, tried to adjust the device, and pulled away hurriedly when it began awild sparking. The odor of crisped insulation and corroded circuitry filled the cleardesert air with a pungency redolent of mechanized death. Owen Lars glared down at the nervous jawa. "What kind of junk are you tryingto push on us?"