is heart. Leave it to a woman to think of a
school--the symbol of civilization, marching now across the void. John
Endlich thought of the trouble at the mining camp, which his first load
of fresh vegetables, picked up by a small space boat, had perhaps helped
to end. He thought of the relics in this strange land. Things that were
like legends of a lost pastoral beauty. Things that could come back. The
second family of homesteaders was almost here. Endlich was reconciled to
domesticity. He felt at home; he felt proud.

Bees buzzed near him. A tay-tay bug from a perished era, hummed and
scraped out a mournful sound.

"I wonder if the Harper kids'll call you Mr. Pun'kins, Pop," Bubs
remarked. "Like the miners still do."

John Endlich laughed. But somehow he was prouder than ever. Maybe the
name would be a legend, too.

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