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By Jack Joseph Smith
Marie's eyes had for that instant become the
gray blue of survival; as if some clash with
suffering had cast a perminant badly formed
picture on her brain long before the question-
was asked.
It was unusual to Animal's watching, for her
reply had seemed as a warm family joke his own
life had missed.
"Civilization Marie; maybe we are weighing
your own part in civilization?"
"Guilts, fears, drudgery and wonder," she
replied to her counterpart quietly.
To Animal, Joe and Jaqueline let the air hang
hoping it to the possibility of mischief.
Montreal extended his hand and flipped it
open saying, "here at least is guilt, fear,
and drudgery. Now how can they be wonder, as
they rest upon the largest bones of your per-
sonality?"
"My hip bone is the largest bone of my per-
sonality;" Marie stated.
"Well, we can't put it there. So let us consaintrate
on wonder. Do you see or feel now more of what is
in your shoulders?"
"Wonder is wonderful," but certainly I will see
what I feel no matter how much this sensation for-