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diff --git a/58995-0.txt b/58995-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81b8c35 --- /dev/null +++ b/58995-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,432 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58995 *** + + + + + + + + + + + + + SELLER OF THE SKY + + BY DAVE DRYFOOS + + _No one took Old Arch seriously; he was just an + ancient, broken-down wanderer who went about seeking + alms and spreading tales of the great Outside. But + sometimes children are curious and believing when + adults are cynical and doubting...._ + + [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from + Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1955. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that + the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] + + +There have always been the touched, the blessés, God's poor. Such a one +was Old Arch. Archer Jakes, the Wanderer of the Plains. + +They say he was born on Earth in 3042 and taken to Mazzeppa as a child. +That he learned pilotage and mining. But that he was injured in a +cave-in on Hurretni in 3068 or thereabouts, and then his wife died in a +landing accident and his child was taken from him and adopted by people +he never could find. + +Those things are too far distant in time and space to be verified now. +But it is a fact that by 4000, when my grandfather Hockington Hammer +was growing up in New Oshkosh, Old Arch was a familiar figure in all +the Domed Cities of the Plains. + +He looked ancient then, with his deformed back that people touched for +luck, and his wild hair and beard, and ragged castoff clothing. On his +back he carried a roll of cloth he called his bed, though it looked +like no bed any City man had ever seen. In his right hand he carried +a staff of wood, unless someone bought it from him and gave him a +plastic rod in its place. And in his left he carried what he called a +billy can, which was a food container with a loop of wire across the +top for a handle, and the bottom blackened by what he said was fire. + +It would have been like no fire any City man had ever seen. Even the +water in the can would be poison to a City man. When he came in the +airlocks the guards would make him throw it away. + +"Why the lock?" he'd demand, coming into a City. "Why the lock and why +the plastic bubble over all and why the guards? There's no pollution. +Am I not alive?" + +The guards would touch his hump and make circular motions at the sides +of their heads and raise their eyebrows as if to say, "Yes, you're +alive. But are you not crazy?" + +Still they would admit him, the only nonresident to walk between the +Domed Cities of the Plains and enter all of them; the only man to pass +unharmed through the camps of the Outsiders who lived in the open on +the Plains at the heart of the North American Continent of Earth. + +And Old Arch would go to the residence buildings and he'd knock on +someone's door--any door, chosen at random--and he'd say, "Have you +seen the sky and do you know it's blue? Have you felt the soft kiss of +the breezes? I can show you where to breathe fresh air." + +Maybe the people would say, "Phew! Does it smell like you, this fresh +air?" and slam the door in his face. + +Or maybe they'd say, "Come on around to the back, Old Man, and we'll +find you something to eat." + +Then Old Arch would shoulder his bed and pick up his billy can and his +staff and walk down the stairs and go around to the back and walk up +the stairs to the rear door. + +It might be an hour before he appeared there--it might be two. When he +did, the people would ask, "Why didn't you say something? You should +have known they wouldn't let you in the elevator! And twenty flights +down and twenty flights up again is too much for a man of your years." + +Then, the next time he came they would do the same thing again. + +In the kitchen he would refuse all the pills and potions and shots, and +insist on bulky foods. These he would eat neatly, holding aside the +long white hair around his mouth and brushing the crumbs from it often. +What he couldn't eat right away would go into his blackened billy can. + +The children would come before he finished--those of the household, +and neighbor kids too. First they'd stand shyly and watch him from a +doorway. Then they'd press closer. By the time he got through they'd +be fighting to sit on his lap. + +The winner would climb up and sit there proudly. One of the losers, +trying to prove he hadn't lost much, might wrinkle up his nose and say, +"What's that awful stink, Old Man?" + +And Arch would answer mildly, "It's only wood smoke, son." + +Then the children would ask, "What's wood, please? And what's smoke?" + +And he would tell them. + +He would tell of the wind and the rain and the snow; of the cattalo +herds that roamed to the west and the cities that lay to the east and +the stars and the Moon that they never had seen. He would claim to have +been in the endless forests and on the treeless plains and to have +tasted the salt ocean and drunk of the freshwater lakes and rivers. + +The children would have heard, in their lessons and from their elders, +enough to know what he was talking about. Sometimes they would tire of +it, and ask him to tell of the distant planets and their far-off suns. +But this he would not do. + +"You already hear too much about them," he'd say. "I want you to know +Earth. Your own country. The one planet on which these plastic-covered +cities are unnecessary, where you can actually go out and roll on the +grass." + +Then the children might ask, "What's grass?" + +But their fathers would pointedly say, "What about the radioactivity, +Old Man?" + +"I'm alive," he'd reply. "There's no radioactivity out there." + +But they'd say, "How can we be sure? There are individual differences +of susceptibility. Probably you are unhurt by dosages that would kill +any normal person." + +And the mothers would say, "Eat some more, Old Man. Eat--and go. Bring +our babies dreams, if you like, but don't try to tempt them Outside. +Even if it isn't radioactive there, you've admitted it gets hot and it +gets cold and the wind blows fiercely hard. Our babies were born under +shelter, and under shelter they must stay, like us and our parents +before us." + +So Old Arch would brush off his whiskers one last time and maybe put on +an old shirt the father dug up for him and then go out the back way. In +spite of what might have been said, he would have to walk the twenty +flights down to the ground because he wouldn't be invited to walk +through the apartment to the front hall where the elevator was. + +Sometimes people were hostile when he spoke to their children, and they +would have him arrested. He was then bathed and barbered in the jail, +and was given all new clothes. But they'd always burn his bed, and he'd +have trouble getting a new one. And sometimes a jailor might covet the +pocketknife he carried, or take away his billy can. On the whole I +think he preferred not to go to jail except perhaps in winter, when it +was cold outside the City. + +There were always those ready to talk of asylums, and the need to +put him away for his own good. But nobody was sure where his legal +residence was, so he wasn't really eligible for public hospitalization. + +He kept to his rounds. My grandfather remembers standing in his +mother's kitchen listening to Old Arch. It was like meeting one of +Joseph's brethren and being told exactly what the coat looked like. +Something exciting out of a dream from the remote past, when all the +worlds had on them those bright moist diamonds Arch described as +morning dew. + +My grandfather wanted to see the morning dew, though he knew better +than to say so. + +Old Arch understood. He tried to make the thing possible. But an +opportunity to see the morning dew was something he just couldn't give +to my grandfather or anybody else. + +So he decided to sell it. + +He persuaded a charitable lithographer to make him a batch of stock +certificates. They looked very authentic. Each said plainly it was good +for one share of blue sky, though the fat half-draped woman portrayed +in three colors stood outside a Domed City pointing not at the sky but +at a distant river with forested hills behind it. + +Arch sold his certificates for a stiff price; ten dollars apiece. He +could do it because by this time his wanderings followed a fairly +definite route. The people who hated or feared or despised him +were pretty well eliminated from it, and most of his calls were at +apartments where he was known and expected and even respected a little. + +My grandfather's was one of these--or rather, my great-grandfather's. +When Arch first brought his stock certificates my grandfather was a +little fellow everybody called Ham, maybe seven years old. He had a +sister named Annie who was five. He's given me a mental picture of the +two of them standing close together for reassurance, and from an open +doorway shyly watching the old man eat and listening to him talk. + +When my great-grandfather bought a ten dollar stock certificate in my +grandfather's name, my grandfather took it as a promise. And his little +sister Annie was so jealous that the next time Old Arch came around my +great-grandfather had to buy a share for her. + + * * * * * + +As they grew to be nine, ten, eleven, twelve, every winter when Old +Arch would come around, my grandfather and his sister Annie would ask, +"When are you going to take us to see the sky, Arch?" And he would say, +"When you're older. When your folks say you can go." And, "When it's +summer, and not too cold for these old bones." + +But when my grandfather was fourteen he followed Old Arch out and down +the stairs after the old man had paid his annual call, and he stopped +him on a landing to ask, "Arch, have you ever taken anyone Outside?" + +"No," Arch said, sighing. "People won't go." + +"I'll go," said my grandfather, "and so will my sister Annie." + +Arch looked at him and put a hand on him and said, "I don't want to +come between any boy and his parents." + +"Well," said my grandfather, "you sold them a share of sky for each of +us. Do you really want us to have that, or do you just want to talk +about it?" + +"Of course I want you to. But I can't take you Outside, boy." + +My grandfather was disgusted. "There isn't any sky," he said sadly. +"It's all talk. The certificates were just for begging." + +"No," said Arch. "It's not all talk and I'm not a beggar. I'm a guide. +But it's hard to see the sky right now because it's winter, and there +are clouds all over." + +"Let's see the clouds, then," my grandfather said stubbornly. "I've +never seen a cloud." + +The old man sat down on the stairs to consider the matter. + +"I can't do this thing to your parents," he said at last. + +"But you can do it to me and my sister," my grandfather charged wildly. +"You can come to the house year after year after year, and tell us +about the sky and the wind and the moon and the dew and the grass and +the sun. You can even take money for our share of them. But when it +comes time to produce--when we're old enough to go where these things +are supposed to be--you think of excuses. + +"I don't believe there are any such things," he shouted. "I think +you're a liar. I think you ought to be arrested for gypping my dad on +the stock deal, and I'm going to turn you in." + +"Don't do that, boy," Arch said mildly. + +"Then take us Outside--today!" + +"It's winter, my boy. We'd freeze." + +"You've said it's pretty in winter! You took the money for the +certificate." + +"I suppose you'll grow away from your parents soon anyhow; I suppose +you have to.... Get your warmest clothes and meet me at emergency exit +four." + +My grandfather talked it over with his sister Annie and of course they +didn't have any warm clothes, but they'd heard so often from Old Arch +about the cold that they put on two sets of tights apiece, and two +pairs of sox, and then they hunted for the emergency exit. + +They'd never been there before. They didn't know anyone who had. The +signs pointing to it were all worn and defaced. + +And it was a long way to go. After a while Annie began to hang back. + +"How do we know the exit will work?" she asked. "And how will we get +back in if we ever do get out?" + +"You don't have to come," my grandfather said. "But you'll have to find +your own way home from here." + +"I'll bet I could," she said. "But I'm not going to. I don't think Old +Arch will even be at the exit." + +But he was. + +He looked at them carefully to see how they were dressed. "You mean +trouble for me, girl," he told Annie. "They'll think I took you along +to make love to." + +She had just reached that betwixt and between stage where she was +beginning to look like a woman but didn't yet think like one. "Pooh!" +she said. "I can run faster and hit harder than you can, Arch. You +don't worry me a bit." + +Old Arch sighed and led them through the lock. They stepped out into a +raging snowstorm, which soon draped a cloak of invisibility over them. + +Neither my grandfather nor Annie had ever smelled fresh air before. It +threatened to make them drunk. Their nostrils tingled and their eyes +misted over and their breath steamed up like bathwater. For the first +time in their lives, they shivered. + +When the City was out of sight in the storm, they stopped for a moment +in the ankle-deep snow and just listened. They held their breaths and +heard silence for the first time in their lives. + +Old Arch reached down and picked up some soft snow and threw it at +them. They pelted him back, and then, because he was so old, attacked +each other instead, shouting and throwing snowballs and running +aimlessly. + +Old Arch soon checked them. "Don't get lost," he said. "We're walking +down hill. Don't forget that. We're going into a draw where there are +some trees." + +He coughed and drew his rags about him. "The city is up hill," he said. +"If you keep walking around it you'll find a way in." + +His tone was frightening. Annie clung to my grandfather and made him +walk close to the old man. It was clear the old man didn't have enough +clothes on. He staggered and leaned hard on my grandfather. + +They kept moving down the slight grade. They saw no sky and little of +anything else. The snow was like a miniature of the City's Dome, except +that this dome floated over them as they walked. Its edges were only +about fifty yards off. + +"Where are the Outsiders?" my grandfather asked. "Aren't there people +here?" + +"They're miles away," Arch told him. "And indoors. Only fools and +youngsters are out in this blizzard." + +"Fools is right," Annie said tartly. "There was supposed to be sky. And +there isn't." + +Old Arch staggered again. To my grandfather he said, "Could--could you +carry my pack?" + +My grandfather took it and they went on, stumbling blindly through +knee-deep drifts, getting more and more chilled and less and less +comfortable, 'til they came to a small clump of trees with a solidly +frozen creek running through it. + +Here Old Arch made a lean-to shelter of windfallen limbs. Annie and my +grandfather helped as soon as they understood the design. Arch spread +part of his bed over the lean-to, breaking the force of the wind, and +put the rest inside. Just outside, on a place scraped bare of snow, he +built the first wood fire my grandfather and Annie had ever seen. + +He chipped ice from the creek and put it in his billy can and hung the +can by its bail over the fire, and in due course they had a little hot +tea. + +The youngsters felt cold but happy. The old man shivered and coughed. + +He'd kept moving till the tea was made. He sat still to drink it, and +couldn't get up. + +"Go to bed," Annie told him. "Ham will get on one side of you and I'll +get on the other. We'll keep you warm." + +Old Arch tried to protest but was almost beyond speech. The youngsters +didn't know enough to brush the snow off him or themselves. They helped +him roll up in his bedding and crawled under the lean-to after him. +There they all lay in a heap, getting colder and damper and more +miserable, till finally my grandfather couldn't stand it any more. + +He got up and looked around. The inverted cup of visibility was +smaller. Darkness fell like a dye-stuff, turning the white snow to +gray, to black. + +It was a bitter night. The first he'd ever had outdoors. It was the +first Annie'd ever had. The first either had ever spent at the futile +task of holding off death. + +They knew Old Arch was dying. As the night wore on he sank into +semi-consciousness. They hugged him and rubbed his lean old limbs. + +Just before morning the snow stopped. The old man roused a little, +became gradually aware of his surroundings. + +"Go look at the sun," he murmured. "Go see the sunrise." + +They went out to look. Neither had ever seen a sunrise before. It was +mauve first, then red, then gold, then blue. Venus led the way, and the +sun followed. The moon, deep in the west, was like a tombstone to the +dead night. + +A bird chirruped. A clot of snow fell from a tree with a soft ruffle of +cottony drums. + +My grandfather held his sister's hand and looked and sniffed at the +great Earth from which he'd been separated by the fear-inspired plastic +over his City, so near, now, in the clear morning light. He climbed +with Annie up the side of the draw and looked out over snow-covered +plains stretching to a horizon farther away than the longest distance +he'd ever imagined. + +He went back and took Old Arch's head up on his knees and said, "Is it +like this every day?" + +And the old man said, "No, each day is different." + +And my grandfather said, "Well, I've seen one, anyhow." + +"That's what I've lived for," said Old Arch. And he smiled and stopped +living. + +Annie and my grandfather left him there and went back to the City and +told the guards and their family. A burial party was sent out; guards, +in their helmeted spacesuits. + +People heard about it and followed. Everyone was curious because +they'd all seen Old Arch and wondered about him. + +Hundreds of people went out the gate--so many, the guards couldn't stop +them. They saw the lean-to and the open fire and the woods and the snow +and the frozen creek. They smelled the air and the smoke. They heard a +bird. They tossed snowballs. + +And then they went back and flung rocks through their City's Dome. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seller of the Sky, by Dave Dryfoos + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 58995 *** diff --git a/58995-8.txt b/58995-8.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 093fc62..0000000 --- a/58995-8.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,815 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Seller of the Sky, by Dave Dryfoos - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Seller of the Sky - -Author: Dave Dryfoos - -Release Date: March 1, 2019 [EBook #58995] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELLER OF THE SKY *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - SELLER OF THE SKY - - BY DAVE DRYFOOS - - _No one took Old Arch seriously; he was just an - ancient, broken-down wanderer who went about seeking - alms and spreading tales of the great Outside. But - sometimes children are curious and believing when - adults are cynical and doubting...._ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -There have always been the touched, the blessés, God's poor. Such a one -was Old Arch. Archer Jakes, the Wanderer of the Plains. - -They say he was born on Earth in 3042 and taken to Mazzeppa as a child. -That he learned pilotage and mining. But that he was injured in a -cave-in on Hurretni in 3068 or thereabouts, and then his wife died in a -landing accident and his child was taken from him and adopted by people -he never could find. - -Those things are too far distant in time and space to be verified now. -But it is a fact that by 4000, when my grandfather Hockington Hammer -was growing up in New Oshkosh, Old Arch was a familiar figure in all -the Domed Cities of the Plains. - -He looked ancient then, with his deformed back that people touched for -luck, and his wild hair and beard, and ragged castoff clothing. On his -back he carried a roll of cloth he called his bed, though it looked -like no bed any City man had ever seen. In his right hand he carried -a staff of wood, unless someone bought it from him and gave him a -plastic rod in its place. And in his left he carried what he called a -billy can, which was a food container with a loop of wire across the -top for a handle, and the bottom blackened by what he said was fire. - -It would have been like no fire any City man had ever seen. Even the -water in the can would be poison to a City man. When he came in the -airlocks the guards would make him throw it away. - -"Why the lock?" he'd demand, coming into a City. "Why the lock and why -the plastic bubble over all and why the guards? There's no pollution. -Am I not alive?" - -The guards would touch his hump and make circular motions at the sides -of their heads and raise their eyebrows as if to say, "Yes, you're -alive. But are you not crazy?" - -Still they would admit him, the only nonresident to walk between the -Domed Cities of the Plains and enter all of them; the only man to pass -unharmed through the camps of the Outsiders who lived in the open on -the Plains at the heart of the North American Continent of Earth. - -And Old Arch would go to the residence buildings and he'd knock on -someone's door--any door, chosen at random--and he'd say, "Have you -seen the sky and do you know it's blue? Have you felt the soft kiss of -the breezes? I can show you where to breathe fresh air." - -Maybe the people would say, "Phew! Does it smell like you, this fresh -air?" and slam the door in his face. - -Or maybe they'd say, "Come on around to the back, Old Man, and we'll -find you something to eat." - -Then Old Arch would shoulder his bed and pick up his billy can and his -staff and walk down the stairs and go around to the back and walk up -the stairs to the rear door. - -It might be an hour before he appeared there--it might be two. When he -did, the people would ask, "Why didn't you say something? You should -have known they wouldn't let you in the elevator! And twenty flights -down and twenty flights up again is too much for a man of your years." - -Then, the next time he came they would do the same thing again. - -In the kitchen he would refuse all the pills and potions and shots, and -insist on bulky foods. These he would eat neatly, holding aside the -long white hair around his mouth and brushing the crumbs from it often. -What he couldn't eat right away would go into his blackened billy can. - -The children would come before he finished--those of the household, -and neighbor kids too. First they'd stand shyly and watch him from a -doorway. Then they'd press closer. By the time he got through they'd -be fighting to sit on his lap. - -The winner would climb up and sit there proudly. One of the losers, -trying to prove he hadn't lost much, might wrinkle up his nose and say, -"What's that awful stink, Old Man?" - -And Arch would answer mildly, "It's only wood smoke, son." - -Then the children would ask, "What's wood, please? And what's smoke?" - -And he would tell them. - -He would tell of the wind and the rain and the snow; of the cattalo -herds that roamed to the west and the cities that lay to the east and -the stars and the Moon that they never had seen. He would claim to have -been in the endless forests and on the treeless plains and to have -tasted the salt ocean and drunk of the freshwater lakes and rivers. - -The children would have heard, in their lessons and from their elders, -enough to know what he was talking about. Sometimes they would tire of -it, and ask him to tell of the distant planets and their far-off suns. -But this he would not do. - -"You already hear too much about them," he'd say. "I want you to know -Earth. Your own country. The one planet on which these plastic-covered -cities are unnecessary, where you can actually go out and roll on the -grass." - -Then the children might ask, "What's grass?" - -But their fathers would pointedly say, "What about the radioactivity, -Old Man?" - -"I'm alive," he'd reply. "There's no radioactivity out there." - -But they'd say, "How can we be sure? There are individual differences -of susceptibility. Probably you are unhurt by dosages that would kill -any normal person." - -And the mothers would say, "Eat some more, Old Man. Eat--and go. Bring -our babies dreams, if you like, but don't try to tempt them Outside. -Even if it isn't radioactive there, you've admitted it gets hot and it -gets cold and the wind blows fiercely hard. Our babies were born under -shelter, and under shelter they must stay, like us and our parents -before us." - -So Old Arch would brush off his whiskers one last time and maybe put on -an old shirt the father dug up for him and then go out the back way. In -spite of what might have been said, he would have to walk the twenty -flights down to the ground because he wouldn't be invited to walk -through the apartment to the front hall where the elevator was. - -Sometimes people were hostile when he spoke to their children, and they -would have him arrested. He was then bathed and barbered in the jail, -and was given all new clothes. But they'd always burn his bed, and he'd -have trouble getting a new one. And sometimes a jailor might covet the -pocketknife he carried, or take away his billy can. On the whole I -think he preferred not to go to jail except perhaps in winter, when it -was cold outside the City. - -There were always those ready to talk of asylums, and the need to -put him away for his own good. But nobody was sure where his legal -residence was, so he wasn't really eligible for public hospitalization. - -He kept to his rounds. My grandfather remembers standing in his -mother's kitchen listening to Old Arch. It was like meeting one of -Joseph's brethren and being told exactly what the coat looked like. -Something exciting out of a dream from the remote past, when all the -worlds had on them those bright moist diamonds Arch described as -morning dew. - -My grandfather wanted to see the morning dew, though he knew better -than to say so. - -Old Arch understood. He tried to make the thing possible. But an -opportunity to see the morning dew was something he just couldn't give -to my grandfather or anybody else. - -So he decided to sell it. - -He persuaded a charitable lithographer to make him a batch of stock -certificates. They looked very authentic. Each said plainly it was good -for one share of blue sky, though the fat half-draped woman portrayed -in three colors stood outside a Domed City pointing not at the sky but -at a distant river with forested hills behind it. - -Arch sold his certificates for a stiff price; ten dollars apiece. He -could do it because by this time his wanderings followed a fairly -definite route. The people who hated or feared or despised him -were pretty well eliminated from it, and most of his calls were at -apartments where he was known and expected and even respected a little. - -My grandfather's was one of these--or rather, my great-grandfather's. -When Arch first brought his stock certificates my grandfather was a -little fellow everybody called Ham, maybe seven years old. He had a -sister named Annie who was five. He's given me a mental picture of the -two of them standing close together for reassurance, and from an open -doorway shyly watching the old man eat and listening to him talk. - -When my great-grandfather bought a ten dollar stock certificate in my -grandfather's name, my grandfather took it as a promise. And his little -sister Annie was so jealous that the next time Old Arch came around my -great-grandfather had to buy a share for her. - - * * * * * - -As they grew to be nine, ten, eleven, twelve, every winter when Old -Arch would come around, my grandfather and his sister Annie would ask, -"When are you going to take us to see the sky, Arch?" And he would say, -"When you're older. When your folks say you can go." And, "When it's -summer, and not too cold for these old bones." - -But when my grandfather was fourteen he followed Old Arch out and down -the stairs after the old man had paid his annual call, and he stopped -him on a landing to ask, "Arch, have you ever taken anyone Outside?" - -"No," Arch said, sighing. "People won't go." - -"I'll go," said my grandfather, "and so will my sister Annie." - -Arch looked at him and put a hand on him and said, "I don't want to -come between any boy and his parents." - -"Well," said my grandfather, "you sold them a share of sky for each of -us. Do you really want us to have that, or do you just want to talk -about it?" - -"Of course I want you to. But I can't take you Outside, boy." - -My grandfather was disgusted. "There isn't any sky," he said sadly. -"It's all talk. The certificates were just for begging." - -"No," said Arch. "It's not all talk and I'm not a beggar. I'm a guide. -But it's hard to see the sky right now because it's winter, and there -are clouds all over." - -"Let's see the clouds, then," my grandfather said stubbornly. "I've -never seen a cloud." - -The old man sat down on the stairs to consider the matter. - -"I can't do this thing to your parents," he said at last. - -"But you can do it to me and my sister," my grandfather charged wildly. -"You can come to the house year after year after year, and tell us -about the sky and the wind and the moon and the dew and the grass and -the sun. You can even take money for our share of them. But when it -comes time to produce--when we're old enough to go where these things -are supposed to be--you think of excuses. - -"I don't believe there are any such things," he shouted. "I think -you're a liar. I think you ought to be arrested for gypping my dad on -the stock deal, and I'm going to turn you in." - -"Don't do that, boy," Arch said mildly. - -"Then take us Outside--today!" - -"It's winter, my boy. We'd freeze." - -"You've said it's pretty in winter! You took the money for the -certificate." - -"I suppose you'll grow away from your parents soon anyhow; I suppose -you have to.... Get your warmest clothes and meet me at emergency exit -four." - -My grandfather talked it over with his sister Annie and of course they -didn't have any warm clothes, but they'd heard so often from Old Arch -about the cold that they put on two sets of tights apiece, and two -pairs of sox, and then they hunted for the emergency exit. - -They'd never been there before. They didn't know anyone who had. The -signs pointing to it were all worn and defaced. - -And it was a long way to go. After a while Annie began to hang back. - -"How do we know the exit will work?" she asked. "And how will we get -back in if we ever do get out?" - -"You don't have to come," my grandfather said. "But you'll have to find -your own way home from here." - -"I'll bet I could," she said. "But I'm not going to. I don't think Old -Arch will even be at the exit." - -But he was. - -He looked at them carefully to see how they were dressed. "You mean -trouble for me, girl," he told Annie. "They'll think I took you along -to make love to." - -She had just reached that betwixt and between stage where she was -beginning to look like a woman but didn't yet think like one. "Pooh!" -she said. "I can run faster and hit harder than you can, Arch. You -don't worry me a bit." - -Old Arch sighed and led them through the lock. They stepped out into a -raging snowstorm, which soon draped a cloak of invisibility over them. - -Neither my grandfather nor Annie had ever smelled fresh air before. It -threatened to make them drunk. Their nostrils tingled and their eyes -misted over and their breath steamed up like bathwater. For the first -time in their lives, they shivered. - -When the City was out of sight in the storm, they stopped for a moment -in the ankle-deep snow and just listened. They held their breaths and -heard silence for the first time in their lives. - -Old Arch reached down and picked up some soft snow and threw it at -them. They pelted him back, and then, because he was so old, attacked -each other instead, shouting and throwing snowballs and running -aimlessly. - -Old Arch soon checked them. "Don't get lost," he said. "We're walking -down hill. Don't forget that. We're going into a draw where there are -some trees." - -He coughed and drew his rags about him. "The city is up hill," he said. -"If you keep walking around it you'll find a way in." - -His tone was frightening. Annie clung to my grandfather and made him -walk close to the old man. It was clear the old man didn't have enough -clothes on. He staggered and leaned hard on my grandfather. - -They kept moving down the slight grade. They saw no sky and little of -anything else. The snow was like a miniature of the City's Dome, except -that this dome floated over them as they walked. Its edges were only -about fifty yards off. - -"Where are the Outsiders?" my grandfather asked. "Aren't there people -here?" - -"They're miles away," Arch told him. "And indoors. Only fools and -youngsters are out in this blizzard." - -"Fools is right," Annie said tartly. "There was supposed to be sky. And -there isn't." - -Old Arch staggered again. To my grandfather he said, "Could--could you -carry my pack?" - -My grandfather took it and they went on, stumbling blindly through -knee-deep drifts, getting more and more chilled and less and less -comfortable, 'til they came to a small clump of trees with a solidly -frozen creek running through it. - -Here Old Arch made a lean-to shelter of windfallen limbs. Annie and my -grandfather helped as soon as they understood the design. Arch spread -part of his bed over the lean-to, breaking the force of the wind, and -put the rest inside. Just outside, on a place scraped bare of snow, he -built the first wood fire my grandfather and Annie had ever seen. - -He chipped ice from the creek and put it in his billy can and hung the -can by its bail over the fire, and in due course they had a little hot -tea. - -The youngsters felt cold but happy. The old man shivered and coughed. - -He'd kept moving till the tea was made. He sat still to drink it, and -couldn't get up. - -"Go to bed," Annie told him. "Ham will get on one side of you and I'll -get on the other. We'll keep you warm." - -Old Arch tried to protest but was almost beyond speech. The youngsters -didn't know enough to brush the snow off him or themselves. They helped -him roll up in his bedding and crawled under the lean-to after him. -There they all lay in a heap, getting colder and damper and more -miserable, till finally my grandfather couldn't stand it any more. - -He got up and looked around. The inverted cup of visibility was -smaller. Darkness fell like a dye-stuff, turning the white snow to -gray, to black. - -It was a bitter night. The first he'd ever had outdoors. It was the -first Annie'd ever had. The first either had ever spent at the futile -task of holding off death. - -They knew Old Arch was dying. As the night wore on he sank into -semi-consciousness. They hugged him and rubbed his lean old limbs. - -Just before morning the snow stopped. The old man roused a little, -became gradually aware of his surroundings. - -"Go look at the sun," he murmured. "Go see the sunrise." - -They went out to look. Neither had ever seen a sunrise before. It was -mauve first, then red, then gold, then blue. Venus led the way, and the -sun followed. The moon, deep in the west, was like a tombstone to the -dead night. - -A bird chirruped. A clot of snow fell from a tree with a soft ruffle of -cottony drums. - -My grandfather held his sister's hand and looked and sniffed at the -great Earth from which he'd been separated by the fear-inspired plastic -over his City, so near, now, in the clear morning light. He climbed -with Annie up the side of the draw and looked out over snow-covered -plains stretching to a horizon farther away than the longest distance -he'd ever imagined. - -He went back and took Old Arch's head up on his knees and said, "Is it -like this every day?" - -And the old man said, "No, each day is different." - -And my grandfather said, "Well, I've seen one, anyhow." - -"That's what I've lived for," said Old Arch. And he smiled and stopped -living. - -Annie and my grandfather left him there and went back to the City and -told the guards and their family. A burial party was sent out; guards, -in their helmeted spacesuits. - -People heard about it and followed. Everyone was curious because -they'd all seen Old Arch and wondered about him. - -Hundreds of people went out the gate--so many, the guards couldn't stop -them. They saw the lean-to and the open fire and the woods and the snow -and the frozen creek. They smelled the air and the smoke. They heard a -bird. 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