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    Sonny
    Sonny
    Sonny
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    Sonny

    By John Schoenherr and Rick Raphael

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Sonny - John Schoenherr

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sonny, by Rick Raphael

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Sonny

      Author: Rick Raphael

      Illustrator: John Schoenherr

      Release Date: December 29, 2009 [EBook #30798]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNY ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction April 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      SONNY

      Of course, no one actually knows the power of a thought. That is, the milli—or megawatts type of power ...

      by RICK RAPHAEL

      ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN SCHOENHERR

      Private Jediah Cromwell was homesick for the first time since his induction into the Army. If he had gotten homesick on any of at least a dozen other occasions during his first two weeks in the service, he might never have gotten beyond the induction center. But the wonders and delights of his first venture beyond the almost inaccessible West Virginia hills of his birth had kept him too awed and interested to think about home.

      When Cletus Miller headed up the trail to Bluebird Gulch, Ma felt him coming around the bend below the waterfall a mile across the gorge. She laid down her skinning knife and wiped her hands clean of the blood of the rabbits Jed had brought in earlier in the morning.

      Sonny, she called to Jed, trouble's acoming.

      Jediah crossed the corn patch to her side. What kinda trouble, Ma?

      Cletus Miller's comin', Ma Cromwell said. He ain't been up here since the week afore your Pa died. I don't know what it is but it's bound to be trouble.

      A few minutes later Miller hallooed from the bottom of the garden patch, then trudged up to the cabin.

      Set and rest, Cletus, Ma said. Sonny, fetch Cletus a coolin' dip. Jed ambled down to the spring sluice and dippered out a pint of clear, mountain water.

      Got mail fer you, Cletus said, waving an envelope. Guvermint mail. Fer Sonny.

      Two weeks later, Jediah swung down the mountain to Owl Creek, carrying a small sack with his good clothes and shoes in it. The draft notice was stuffed into his overall pockets along

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