（外文电子版资料）Simak, Clifford D - Small Deer.pdfVIP

file:///G|/rah/Clifford%20Simak%20-%20Small%20Deer.txt 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 Anticopyright 2000. All rights reversed. ====================================================================== 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 dont 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 doesnt 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. Im 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 arent 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 Ill admit right off that he is a strange one. He doesnt know from nothing about anything, but hes nuts on mathematics. People in town make fun of him because he is so strange and Ma