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file:///G|/rah/Clifford%20Simak%20-%20Galactic%20Chest.txt Title : Galactic Chest Author : Clifford D. Simak Original copyright year: 1956 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 13, 2000 Prepared by : Anada Sucka Anticopyright 2000. All rights reversed. ====================================================================== Galactic Chest Clifford D. Simak I had just finished writing the daily Community Chest story, and each day I wrote that story I was sore about it; there were plenty of punks in the office who could have ground out that kind of copy. Even the copy boys could have written it and no one would have known the difference; no one ever read it - except maybe some of the drive chairmen, and Im not even sure about them reading it. I had protested to Barnacle Bill about my handling the Community Chest for another year. I had protested loud. I had said: Now, you know, Barnacle, I been writing that thing for three or four years. I write it with my eyes shut. You ought to get some new blood into it. Give one of the cubs a chance; they can breathe some life into it. Me, Im all written out on it. But it didnt do a bit of good. The Barnacle had me down on the assignment book for the Community Chest, and he never changed a thing once he put it in the book. I wish I knew the real reason for that name of his. Ive heard a lot of stories about how it was hung on him, but I dont think theres any truth in them. I think he got it simply from the way he can hang on to a bar. I had just finished writing the Community Chest story and was sitting there, killing time and hating myself, when along came Jo Ann. Jo Ann was the sob sister on the paper; she got some lo