Show I THE MESSAGE By MARGARET RUSSELL RUSSELLA I A certain boy in this town T I whose name I have sworn never to reveal has confessed to me that he is in secret Flash Crowbar Crowbar Crowbar Crow Crow- bar himself i I 1 have worked so hard to doj deI developing de do- j I certain muscles and achieving the proper degrees of mental concentration he explained explained explained ex ex- that I can now save animals people and even cities if so called upon And you are I asked called called called call ed upon Oh frequently But this leads to problems Such as Well for example last night I was called to the phone A huge dam was cracking and might at any time inundate a city of about people with water I promised to hurry right over and hung up the phone Then I told my wife wife wife- Wife Wifel I yelped But youre you're only a high school student That s just a up cover-up identity identity identity iden iden- he said coldly Then I told my wife that I would have to be gone for a few minutes and she was furious She told vi it me that every night I told her I Iwas Iwas was leaving for a few minutes and then was gone for hours and she was sick and tired of it She said No more and shoved me Flash Crowbar into a chair chairl And all this time I contributed contributed contributed contrib contrib- fascinated the dam was cracking and cracking I What a aspot aspot aspot spot What did you do Well I told her that she didn't understand and then I shed a few tears all to no avail Then I asked her if shed she'd ever noticed that I was a little different from the ordinary run of people She said youre telling me mel So I Idid Idid Idid did the only thing I could do I asked her if I 1 could go out in inthe inthe inthe the kitchen and fix a bread and jelly sandwich This was allowed and then of course I slipped out the back door Wonderful You do have remarkable remarkable remarkable re re- degrees of mental con con- What did she say when you came back Well since I had been gone four and a half hours this posed a bit of a problem but I solved it by fixing her a sandwich too Egad what thinking But what will you do next time Ill manage somehow He sighed Life is full of little problems but nothing nothing in inthis inthis inthis this world is too much for Flash Crowbar |