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

"I sort of made a mistake hi this gadget, Maw," I said. "That's why it's so quiet down hi Piperville."

"Aye, by my troth," Grandpaw said, still laughing. "Saunk had best seek cover. Twenty-three skiddoo,
kid."

"You done something you shouldn't, Saunk?" Maw said.
"Blabber, blabber, blabber!" Yancey yelled. "I want my rights! I want to know what it was Saunk done
that made everybody in the world hit me over the haid! He must of done something. I never had no tune
toтАФ"

"Now you leave the boy alone, Mr. Yancey," Maw said. "We done what we promised, and that's
enough. You git outa here and simmer down afore you say something you regret."

Paw winked at Uncle Les, and before Yancey could yell back at Maw the table sort of bent its legs
down like they had knees hi 'em and snuck up behind Yancey real quiet. Then Paw said to Uncle Les,
"All together now, let 'er go," and the table straightened up its legs and give Yancey a terrible bunt that
sent him flying out the door.

The last we heard of Yancey was the whoops he kept letting out whenever he hit the ground all the way
down the hill. He rolled half the way to Piperville, I found out later. And when he got there he started
hitting people over the haid with his monkey wrench.

I guess he figgered he might as well make a start the hard way.

They put him hi jail for a spell to cool off, and I guess he did, 'cause afterward he went back to that little
shack of his'n. I hear he don't do nothing but set around with his lips moving, trying to figger a way to git
even with the hull world. I don't calc'late he'll ever hit on it, though.

At that tune, I wasn't paying him much mind. I had my own troubles. As soon as Paw and Uncle Les got
the table back hi place, Maw lit into me again.

Tell me what happened, Saunk," she said. "I'm a-feared you done something wrong when you was hi that
gadget. Remember you're a Hogben, son. You got to behave right when the whole world's looking at
you. You didn't go and disgrace us hi front of the entire human race, did you, Saunk?"

Grandpaw laughed agin. "Not yet, he hasn't," he said.

Then down in the basement I heard the baby give a kind of gurgle and I knowed he could see it too.
That's surprising, kinda, We never know for sure about the baby. I guess he really kin see a little bit into
the future too.

"I just made a little mistake, Maw," I said. "Could happen to anybody. It seems the way I fixed that
gadget up, it split me into a lot of Saunks, all right, but it sent me ahead into next week too. That's why
there ain't no ruckus yet down in PipervUle."

"My land!" Maw said. "Child, you do things so careless!"

"I'm sorry, Maw," I said. "Trouble is, too many people in Kperville know me. I'd better light out for the
woods and pick me a nice holler tree. I'll be needing it, come next week."