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    Games
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    Games

    By William Ashman and Katherine MacLean

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Games - William Ashman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Games, by Katherine MacLean

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Games

      Author: Katherine MacLean

      Illustrator: William Ashman

      Release Date: March 27, 2010 [EBook #31798]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAMES ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Robert Cicconetti, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from the March 1953 issue of Galaxy. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      games

      By KATHERINE MacLEAN

      Illustrated by ASHMAN

      It is a tough assignment for a child to know where a daydream ends and impossibility begins!

      onny was playing by himself, which meant he was two tribes of Indians having a war.

      Bang, he muttered, firing an imaginary rifle. He decided that it was a time in history before the white people had sold the Indians any guns, and changed the rifle into a bow. "Wizzthunk," he substituted, mimicking from an Indian film on TV the graphic sound of an arrow striking flesh.

      Oof. He folded down onto the grass, moaning, Uhhhooh ... and relaxing into defeat and death.

      Want some chocolate milk, Ronny? asked his mother's voice from the kitchen.

      No, thanks, he called back, climbing to his feet to be another man. Wizzthunk, wizzthunk, he added to the flights of arrows as the best archer in the tribe. Last arrow. Wizzzz, he said, missing one enemy for realism. He addressed another battling brave. Who has more arrows? They are coming too close. No time—I'll have to use my knife. He drew the

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