"C M Kornbluth - I Never Ast No Favours" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

Up comes a flatfoot who I later learn is the entire manpower of Chiunga Forks' lousiest; he says to the
big woman: "Now, Ella" a few times, and she finally stops booting the little character and lets him go.
"What do you want, Henry?" she growls at the flatfoot and he asks weakly: "Silver Bell dropped her calf
yet?"



The little character is limping away rubbing himself. The big broad watches him regretfully and says to
the flatfoot: "Yesterday, Henry. Now if you'll excuse me I have to look for my new hired boy from the
city. I guess that's him over there."



She strolls over to us and yanks open the Buick's door, almost taking it off the hinges. "I'm Mrs. Ella
Parry," she says to me, sticking out her hand. "You must be the Cornaro boy the Probation Association
people wired me about."



I shake hands and say, "Yes, ma'am."



The officer turns me over grinning like a skunk eating beans.



I figure Mrs. Parry lives in one of the wood houses in



Chiunga Forks, but no. We climb into a this-year Willys truck and take off for the hills. I do not have
much to say to this lady wrestler but wish I had somebody smuggle me a rod to kind of even things a little
between her and me. With that built she could break me in half by accident. I try to get in good with her
by offering to customize her truck. "I could strip off the bumpers and put on a couple of foglights, maybe
new fenders with a little trim to them," I say, "and it wouldn't cost you a dime. Even out here there has got
to be some parts place where a person can heist what he needs."



"Quiet, Bub," she says all of a sudden, and shields her eyes peering down a side road where a car is
standing in front of a shack. "I swear," she says, "that looks like Dud Wingle's Ford in front of Mi/'
Sigafoos' place." She keeps her neck twisting around to study it until it is out of sight. And she looks
worried.



I figure it is not a good time to talk and anyway maybe she has notions about customizing and does not