Anthologies - SEP by Fantasy & Science Fiction 01

Author:Fantasy & Science Fiction 01 [Fantasy & 01, Science Fiction]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-09-06T19:46:18+00:00

THE ETERNAL DUFFER

fcy Willard Temple

When the late Barnaby Jessup arrived in heaven, he looked the place over and promptly reached this decision: He would much rather carry golf clubs than a harp.

' | 'HE funeral was mighty impressive. It was bound to be in the case of a man like Barnaby Jessup. Most of the town had turned out, and after it was all over, one of the pallbearers looked up at the sky and murmered, "Be a nice afternoon for golf."

That remark might be considered to bear on the sacrilegious, in view of the occasion, but none of the other pallbearers objected, and they were all old friends of Barnaby Jessup, men in their sixties or higher, all but one of them, and Barnaby Jessup had been seventy-six when they laid him to rest.

The six pallbearers walked back across the gravel path to the car to take them back to town, and on the sidelines their names were spoken in hushed tones. For one of them, some years before, had been a candidate for president of the United States, one was a great surgeon in the land, a third, the young man of the lot, was a lean and tanned golf professional, winner of the Open, and it was he who had made the remark about golf.

The men got into the car and, as was natural, they talked about Barnaby Jessup on the ride back to town. But they did not reminisce about the time back in the 20's- that Jessup had made a million in the stock market, nor about the way he had juggled railroads; it was of quite different matters that they talked.

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