“Venetians tend to have friendly feelings toward Earthlings, so they're unlikely to do that sort of thing. Nearly all the aliens living together with humans are Martians. They're notorious for loving practical jokes. Take the mysterious field circles in Britain, or the cattle mutilation in the United States, where cows and calves were slaughtered in the fields and some of their meat carried off. Martians did all that. I'd say the case of the stolen schoolgirl slippers was probably their doing, too. It's not unthinkable.”
