（外文电子版资料）Simak, Clifford D - Shotgun Cure.pdfVIP

file:///G|/rah/Clifford%20Simak%20-%20Shotgun%20Cure.txt Title : Shotgun Cure Author : Clifford D. Simak Original copyright year: 1960 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 Anticopyright 2000. All rights reversed. ====================================================================== Shotgun Cure Clifford D. Simak The clinics were set up and in the morning theyd start on Operation Kelly - and that was something, wasnt it, that they should call it Kelly! He sat in the battered rocking chair on the sagging porch and said it once again and rolled it on his tongue, but the taste of it was not so sharp nor sweet as it once had been, when that great London doctor had risen in the United Nations to suggest it could be called nothing else but Kelly. Although, when one came to think of it, there was a deal of happenstance. It neednt have been Kelly. It could have been just anyone at all with an M.D. to his name. It could as well have been Cohen or Johnson or Radzonovich or any other of them - any one of all the doctors in the world. He rocked gently in the creaking chair while the floor boards of the porch groaned in sympathy, and in the gathering dusk were the sounds, as well, of children at the days-end play, treasuring those last seconds before they had to go inside and soon thereafter to bed. There was the scent of lilacs in the coolness of the air and at the corner of the garden he could faintly see the white flush of an early-blooming bridal wreath - the one that Martha Anderson had given him and Janet so many years ago, when they first had come to live in this very house. A neighbor came tramping down the walk and