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Blind Man's Lantern, by Allen Kim Lang
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Title: Blind Man's Lantern
Author: Allen Kim Lang
Illustrator: Schelling
Release Date: February 10, 2008 [EBook #24567]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Analog December 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
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Blind Man's Lantern
by
Allen Kim Lang
Successful colonies among the stars require interstellar ships--but they require, also, a very special kind of man. A kind you might not think to look for....
Illustrated by Schelling
[Illustration]
Walking home in the dark from an evening spent in mischief, a young man spied coming toward him down the road a person with a lamp. When the wayfarers drew abreast, the play-boy saw that the other traveler was the Blind Man from his village. "Blind Man," the youngster shouted across the road, "what a fool you be! Why, old No-Eyes, do you bear a lantern, you whose midnight is no darker than his noonday?" The Blind Man lifted his lamp. "It is not