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Simak, Cliffard D - Over The River And Through The Woods

Title : Over the River and through the Woods

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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Over the River and through the Woods

Clifford D. Simak

The two children came trudging down the lane in applecanning time, when the

first goldenrods were blooming and the wild asters large in bud. They looked,

when she first saw them, out the kitchen window, like children who were coming

home from school, for each of them was carrying a bag in which might have been

their books. Like Charles and James, she thought, like Alice and Maggie - but

the time when those four had trudged the lane on their daily trips to school was

in the distant past. Now they had children of their own who made their way to

school.

She turned back to the stove to stir the cooking apples, for which the

wide-mouthed jars stood waiting on the table, then once more looked out the

kitchen window. The two of them were closer now and she could see that the boy

was the older of the two - ten, perhaps, and the girl no more than eight.

They might be going past, she thought, although that did not seem too

likely, for the lane led to this farm and to nowhere else.

The turned off the lane before they reached the barn and came sturdily

trudging up the path that led to the house. There was no hesitation in them;

they knew where they were going.

She stepped to the screen door of the kitchen as they came onto the porch

and they stopped before the door and stood looking up at her.

The boy said: 'You are our grandma. Papa said we were to say at once that

you were our grandma.'

'But that's not...,' she said, and stopped. She had been about to say that

it was impossible that she was not their grandma. And, looking down into the

sober, childish faces, she was glad that she had not said the words.

'I am Ellen,' said the girl, in a piping voice.

'Why, that is strange,' the woman said. 'That is my name, too.'

The boy said, 'My name is Paul.'

She pushed open the door for them and they came in, standing silently in the

kitchen, looking all about them as if they'd never seen a kitchen.

'It's just like Papa said,' said Ellen. 'There's the stove and the churn

and...'

The boy interrupted her. 'Our name is Forbes,' he said.

This time the woman couldn't stop herself. 'Why, that's impossible,' she

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