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Title : Small Deer

Author : Clifford D. Simak

Original copyright year: 1965

Genre : science fiction

Comments : to my knowledge, this is the only available e-text of this book

Source : scanned and OCR-read from a paperback edition with Xerox TextBridge Pro 9.0,

proofread in MS Word 2000.

Date of e-text : February 14, 2000

Prepared by : Anada Sucka

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Small Deer

Clifford D. Simak

Willow Bend, Wisconsin June 23, 1966

Dr. Wyman Jackson, Wyalusing College. Muscoda, Wisconsin

My dear Dr. Jackson:

I am writing to you because I don't know who else to write to and there is something I have to

tell someone who can understand. I know your name because I read your book, 'Cretaceous

Dinosaurs,' not once, but many times. I tried to get Dennis to read it, too, but I guess he never

did. All Dennis was interested in were the mathematics of his time concept - not the time machine

itself. Besides, Dennis doesn't read too well. It is a chore for him.

Maybe I should tell you, to start with, that my name is Alton James. I live with my widowed

mother and I run a fix-it shop. I fix bicycles and lawn mowers and radios and television sets - I

fix anything that is brought to me. I'm not much good at anything else, but I do seem to have the

knack of seeing how things go together and understanding how they work and seeing what is wrong

with them when they aren't working. I never had no training of any sort, but I just seem to have a

natural bent for getting along with mechanical contraptions.

Dennis is my friend and I'll admit right off that he is a strange one. He doesn't know from

nothing about anything, but he's nuts on mathematics. People in town make fun of him because he is

so strange and Ma gives me hell at times for having anything to do with him. She says he's the

next best thing to a village idiot. I guess a lot of people think the way that Ma does, but it's

not entirely true, for he does know his math.

I don't know how he knows it. He didn't learn it at school and that's for sure. When he got to

be 17 and hadn't got no farther than eighth grade, the school just sort of dropped him. He didn't

really get to eighth grade honest: the teachers after a while got tired of seeing him on one grade

and passed him to the next. There was talk, off and on, of sending him to some special school, but

it never got nowhere.

And don't ask me what kind of mathematics he knew. I tried to read up on math once because I

had the feeling, after seeing some of the funny marks that Dennis put on paper, that maybe he knew

more about it than anyone else in the world. And I still think that he does - or that maybe he's

invented an entirely new kind of math. For in the books I looked through I never did find any of

the symbols that Dennis put on paper. Maybe Dennis used symbols he made up, inventing them as he

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