Impossible Things: Four Classic Tales by Clifford D. Simak

Author:Clifford D. Simak [Simak, Clifford D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories
ISBN: 9781434417138
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

He nodded his head. “I do not know if I shall find them, but we wander westward and I ask along the

way. My people cried out against our going, for they thought it a foolish quest. Death along the trail, they

said, was all that we would find. But once they saw that we were set upon the going, they urged us to

accept an escort, a body of horsemen who, they said, would not interfere but would only accompany us

at a distance to afford protection in case there should be danger. But we begged off from the escort.

People of good heart can travel widely and no danger comes to them.”

“Your people?” Meg asked.

“A tribe,” said Ezra, “that lives in the prairies east of here, in a kinder land than this one. When we left,

they offered horses and great stores of supplies, but we took none of them. We have a better chance of

finding what we seek if we travel naked of all convenience. We carry nothing but a flint and steel with

which to make a fire.”

Cushing asked, “How do you manage to eat?”

“With great apology to our friends and neighbors, we subsist on roots and fruits we find along the

way. I am sure our plant friends understand our need and harbor no resentment. I have tried to explain to

them, and though they may not entirely understand, there has been no censure of us, no shrinking away in

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