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"Boy, ht of so"

They crossed the river, and in crossing they thought of the Sun Dole rain A yellow house, round and bright as the sun A house fifteen feet high by one hundred feet in diameter, in which armth and quiet and hot food and freedom from rain And in the center of the Sun Dolobe of yellow fire, drifting in space at the top of the building where you could look at it fro your hot chocolate croith marshmallow dollops There it would be, the yellow sun, just the size of the Earth sun, and it arotten as long as they stayed in that house and idled their time

The lieutenant turned and looked back at the threetheir teeth They were as white asaway in a few htreen with no sun, with always rain falling and always dusk? The white, white jungle with the pale cheese-colored leaves, and the earth carved of wet Came black and white And how often could you see the soil itself? Wasn't it mostly a creek, a stream, a puddle, a pool, a lake, a river, and then, at last the sea?

"Here we are!"

They leaped out on the farthest shore, splashing and sending up showers The boat was deflated and stored in a cig

arette packet Then, standing on the rainy shore, they tried to light up a few smokes for the, they worked the inverted lighter and, cupping their hands, arettes that all too quickly were limp and beaten away from their lips by a sudden slap of rain

They walked on

"Wait just aahead"

"The Sun Dome?"

"I'ain

Sian to run "The Sun Dome!"

"Come back, Simmons!"

"The Sun Dome!"

Simmons vanished in the rain The others ran after him

They found hi, and they stopped and looked at him and what he had discovered