"Henry Kuttner - See You Later" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kuttner Henry)

standing right beside all of 'em. You give your word to help me do that. Don't you try to wiggle out of it."

"I ain't wiggling," I said. "Only we better git it clear, so's you'll be satisfied and won't have no kick
coming. One thing, though. You got to be the same size as everybody you visit."
"Hey?"

"I kin fix it easy. When you step on this here gadget, there'll be two billion, two hunnerd fifty million, nine
hunnered and fifty-nine thousand, nine hunnered and twenty Yanceys all over the world. S'posin', now,
one of these here Yanceys finds himself standing next to a big feller seven feet tall.┬лThat wouldn't be so
good, would it?"

"I want to be eight feet high," Yancey said.

"No, sir. The Yancey who goes to visit a feller that high is a-gonna be just that high hisself, exactly. And
the one who visits a baby only two feet high is a-gonna be only two feet high hisself. What's fair's fair.
You agree to that, or it's all off. Only other thing, you'll be just exactly as strong as the feller you're up
again'."

I guess he seen I was firm. He hefted the monkey wrench.

"How'111 git back?" he asked.

"We'll take care of that," I said. "I'll give you five seconds. That's long enough to swing a monkey
wrench, ain't it?"

"It ain't very long."

"If'n you stay longer, somebody might hit back."

"So they might," he said, turning pale under the dirt. "Five seconds is plenty."

"Then if'n we do just that, you'll be satisfied? You won't have no kick coming?"

He swung the monkey wrench and laughed.

"Suits me fine and dandy," he said. "I'll bust their haids good. Heh, heh, heh." "Then you step right on
here," I said, showing him.

"Wait a mite, though. I better try it fust, to make sure it works right."

I picked up a stick of firewood from the box by the stone and winked at Yancey. "You git set," I said.
"The minute I git back, you step right on here."

Maw started to say something, but all of a sudden Grandpaw started laughing in the attic. I guess he was
looking into the future again.

I stepped on the gadget, and it worked slick as anything. Afore I could blink, I was split up into two
billion, two hunnerd and fifty million, nine hunnerd and fifty-nine thousand, nine hunnerd and nineteen
Saunk Hog-bens.