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off. Then your breakfast of regular eggs, bread, butter, and milk activated your digestive processes and your metabolic cycle, and these subdued the slight effect of what was left of the nectar. Your entire system was flickering dynamically between your normal state and your enhanced state. You were not dying physically, but dying from our estate back into your own. You began to sense your true identity again, that of Adam, the physician; the physician of earth. “As you have guessed, I was entrusted with your welfare, and accordingly felt close to you and your feelings, sensing immediately what you were going through. In helping you I rise also. Now drink the rest of your nectar, and feel again as one of » » With that she took her leave, returning to her table. As she sat down, her companion smiled at her in appreciation of what she had just done. She was a source of ecstasy to Adam as he gazed her way in deep admiration. He felt strong again, healthy, and equal to all that might occur around and to him. A young lad came to Adam, breaking his reverie, and put a newspaper on his lap. A little girl accompanied him, and she laid a magazine on top of the newspaper, saying they were both for him. They were his favorite newspaper and magazine on earth. He was amazed, for they were the latest issues. “They were not delivered to us,” said the boy, vibrantly. “We have hobbies here, just as your people have. Some of us telemeter photos and news of events on your earth every day. We have reproduced these two copies for you, Adam. We trust you will feel at home because of them. Just tell us if you want anything else 1 te » reproduced for you.” Adam put his arm around the boy and asked, “And this is just a children’s hobby here?” “Yes, it is. We make our own apparatus, such as presses, radio, and radar-telephotographs, also ink and paper such as earth uses. But these are simple things, so do not ponder on them,” the child said, chuckling with inner glee. 86 SON OF THE SUN