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Polaris, v. 2, issue 2, June 1941
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POLARIS 13 soon live together again." "I expect you're pretty angry with me because I took another woman into the house," said Ira sadly. "May the Almighty be as sure to forgive you as I am," said Sara as she wiped his brow. "He doesn't know what he's saying," said the woman, who was fidgeting about the room. "I'd better send for the priest." At last Ira was free to go, and outside the door stood an angel, waiting to take them both to Paradise. As before, the Almighty bade them welcome, and told them to look about them and decide what they would like to be. An angel took them about and showed them all the splendors that were to be seen; and when at last they went back, the Almighty said: "Well, Ira Gabrielson, what have you decided for yourself and your wife?" Ira, who now knew that he might be exactly what he most wished to be, answered a little hesitatingly: "If you had a little piece of land that we could begin on, as we did when we were newly married, it would be more than we have deserved." At this the Almighty laughed, and said to an angel: "Go with them to the great clearing, give them tools and timber for a cottage, and as much land as they want." And the angel took them to quite another part of Paradise, where Ira saw the finest land he had ever seen, and here the angel asked how much they wanted. Sara and Ira looked at one another. "Well," said Ira, "on earth we had three cows, but now we can do with two." The angel then gave them so much land that they would soon be able to feed two cows, and afterwards, he said, they could add as much new land as they liked. At this Sara and Ira looked at one another, and thought they had never been so well off. And then they began to work, as they had done when they were newly married. Ira dug, and Sara pulled up roots and made the ground even with the fork; and now and again they straightened their backs, wiped the perspiration from their brows, looked at one another, and laughed. As when they had first married, Ira was so industrious that he would not even have an afternoon nap; but Sara, as in their young days, would go out to him in the field, with his afternoon coffee in a little tin can. When they began to build the cottage, they decided that it should be exactly like their old homestead; that would be nice when their sons came. And when at last they had a roof over their heads, and lay once more in their comfortable wide bed, they both agreed that no one in all Paradise could be so happy as they. THE END ------------------------------------ [Image of a witch on a broom in profile before the moon.] WEIRDISTS! ATTEND THE DENVENTION
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POLARIS 13 soon live together again." "I expect you're pretty angry with me because I took another woman into the house," said Ira sadly. "May the Almighty be as sure to forgive you as I am," said Sara as she wiped his brow. "He doesn't know what he's saying," said the woman, who was fidgeting about the room. "I'd better send for the priest." At last Ira was free to go, and outside the door stood an angel, waiting to take them both to Paradise. As before, the Almighty bade them welcome, and told them to look about them and decide what they would like to be. An angel took them about and showed them all the splendors that were to be seen; and when at last they went back, the Almighty said: "Well, Ira Gabrielson, what have you decided for yourself and your wife?" Ira, who now knew that he might be exactly what he most wished to be, answered a little hesitatingly: "If you had a little piece of land that we could begin on, as we did when we were newly married, it would be more than we have deserved." At this the Almighty laughed, and said to an angel: "Go with them to the great clearing, give them tools and timber for a cottage, and as much land as they want." And the angel took them to quite another part of Paradise, where Ira saw the finest land he had ever seen, and here the angel asked how much they wanted. Sara and Ira looked at one another. "Well," said Ira, "on earth we had three cows, but now we can do with two." The angel then gave them so much land that they would soon be able to feed two cows, and afterwards, he said, they could add as much new land as they liked. At this Sara and Ira looked at one another, and thought they had never been so well off. And then they began to work, as they had done when they were newly married. Ira dug, and Sara pulled up roots and made the ground even with the fork; and now and again they straightened their backs, wiped the perspiration from their brows, looked at one another, and laughed. As when they had first married, Ira was so industrious that he would not even have an afternoon nap; but Sara, as in their young days, would go out to him in the field, with his afternoon coffee in a little tin can. When they began to build the cottage, they decided that it should be exactly like their old homestead; that would be nice when their sons came. And when at last they had a roof over their heads, and lay once more in their comfortable wide bed, they both agreed that no one in all Paradise could be so happy as they. THE END ------------------------------------ [Image of a witch on a broom in profile before the moon.] WEIRDISTS! ATTEND THE DENVENTION
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