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"Isn't this shoonderful?" cried Mildred

"Wonderful!"

On one wall a woe juice si, insanely In the other walls an X ray of the sa beverage on its way to her delighted stoht into the clouds; it plunged into a lireen sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish A minute later, three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other's lihter Two minutes more and the roo an arena, bashing and backing up and bashing each other again Montag saw a number of bodies fly in the air

"Millie, did you see that?"

"I saw it, I saw it!"

Montag reached inside the parlor wall and pulled the es drained away, as if the water had been let froantic crystal bowl of hysterical fish

The three women turned slowly and looked with unconcealed irritation and then dislike at Montag

"When do you suppose the ill start?" he said "I notice your husbands aren't here tonight"

"Oh, they coain Finnegan, the Army called Pete yesterday He'll be back next week The Arht hours they said, and everyone home That's what the Army said Quick war Pete was called yesterday and they said he'd be back next week Quick"

The three woeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-colored walls

"I'm not worried," said Mrs Phelps "I'll let Pete do all the worrying" She giggled "I'll let old Pete do all the worrying Not me I'm not worried"

"It's always someone else's husband dies, they say"

"I've heard that, too I've never known any dead s, yes, like Gloria's husband last week, but from wars? No"

"Not from wars," said Mrs Phelps "Anyway, Pete and I always said, no tears, nothing like that It's our third e each and we're independent Be independent, ays said He said, if I get killed off, you just go right ahead and don't cry, but get ain, and don't think of me"

"That reminds me," said Mildred "Did you see that Clara Dove five-ht in your wall? Well, it was all about this woman who--"