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"I'm getting too old for the winters, and the canned foods in -the ruins are getting scarcer every year." - -Oluf looked at him in disbelief. "You're traveling alone?" - -"Aren't you?" The retort was sharp, with the keen edge of elderly pride. - -Something like a weary chuckle sounded deep in Oluf's throat. He spoke -with easy candor. "Yes, but--look, Bowron, I'm a hunter by choice. And -I'm big and in my prime. I can run half a day at top speed, and I'm not -too bad in a free-for-all. You're a teacher--wise, but not in the ways -of the wilds; your senses are dull and your reactions slow, like all -city folk." - -Bowron's eyes looked suddenly tired, older. He gazed out over the -placid water. "I could persuade no one to accompany me," he said -simply. "You made a good choice, Oluf, to terminate your education and -seek the freedom of the wilds--the natural life that I think all must -someday embrace." He sighed deeply. "Of course, there is the dream of -achievement that the city dwellers entertain. We've grown soft in -our dependence upon the buried food in the rubble--spending our time -in study of the books and other god-things, always hoping that we can -understand and duplicate the old civilization. But our best thinkers, -since they are the most eager searchers, stumble most often into the -hidden pockets of radioactivity that endure even yet; and they die, and -their knowledge dies with them, and our dreams and aspirations become -dimmer with each generation." - - * * * * * - -Oluf grunted, and Bowron went on as though to himself. "I've come -to believe that it's useless to follow in the footsteps of the -gods--that we must wait, and think, and work, each in his own way, -until we learn what is possible for us through our own trials and -the further development of our simple tools. We've learned much from -the god-things, slowly, over the years. But we also know that we're -mutants, changed by the radiation of the great war areas, breeding true -at last, and that we are different from the Wild Ones. True, we're -superior, but--we're not gods. Whether we can ever--" - -Oluf had sprung to his feet and was gone with incredible speed. Bowron -sat up tensely, listened to the crashing of brush, and, finally, to -a shrill squeal of departing life. He relaxed and waited until Oluf, -grinning, returned with a rabbit. - -"Our dinner, old-timer. Sorry I wasn't listening too closely to what -you were saying." - -Later, after they had eaten and were stretched comfortably on the -moon-drenched shore, Oluf grew reminiscent. "I remember your teachings, -Bowron. And I recall well our endless attempts to operate the -god-things--the machines and mechanisms. But all that always seemed -strange. Best of all I liked the tales of the old days--the stories of -our ancestors." - -Bowron nodded thoughtfully. "It was that way with most of my pupils. It -was more comfortable to dream of the past than to cope with the current -hardships. It seemed to arouse some dormant instinct in all of us--" He -broke off and sighed. "Would you like to hear another of the stories?" - -"Very much!" - -Bowron studied the bright moon. "Well--once in the far and long ago, -there was a man named Smith, who lived in a big city...." - -When the tale was done, Oluf seemed deeply moved. "I believe," he said -slowly, "that I'll go with you to the Southland. You might easily -perish on the way, and such words as yours must live to give others -comfort and hope--for we may yet find living gods in some remote corner -of the world. It must have been wonderful," he mused sleepily, "to -have lived in companionship with the gods--with men." 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SURVIVORS

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By Arthur Dekker Savage

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When man embarks upon the final atomic war his
-civilization may be destroyed; yet, there will
-be survivors. Would you want to be one of them?...

- -

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
-Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
-May 1952
-Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

- -
- -
- -

"Oluf!"

- -

"Bowron!"

- -

They recognized each other simultaneously, there in the thin fringe of -tangled brush skirting a hidden lake.

- -

"Oluf, it's good to see you again—I thought there was nothing but -mountains, wolves and Wild Ones between me and civilization!" They -picked their way slowly toward the shore together.

- -

Oluf dropped gratefully to the warm sand. The sunset highlighted his -reddish hair. "You're not far wrong—there was wolf spoor back on that -north ridge. But what in the name of the Moon are you doing so far from -New York?"

- -

"Heading south, to stay," Bowron said. He scanned the brush and trees -behind them cautiously, then stretched out beside his companion, -sighing. "I'm getting too old for the winters, and the canned foods in -the ruins are getting scarcer every year."

- -

Oluf looked at him in disbelief. "You're traveling alone?"

- -

"Aren't you?" The retort was sharp, with the keen edge of elderly pride.

- -

Something like a weary chuckle sounded deep in Oluf's throat. He spoke -with easy candor. "Yes, but—look, Bowron, I'm a hunter by choice. And -I'm big and in my prime. I can run half a day at top speed, and I'm not -too bad in a free-for-all. You're a teacher—wise, but not in the ways -of the wilds; your senses are dull and your reactions slow, like all -city folk."

- -

Bowron's eyes looked suddenly tired, older. He gazed out over the -placid water. "I could persuade no one to accompany me," he said -simply. "You made a good choice, Oluf, to terminate your education and -seek the freedom of the wilds—the natural life that I think all must -someday embrace." He sighed deeply. "Of course, there is the dream of -achievement that the city dwellers entertain. We've grown soft in -our dependence upon the buried food in the rubble—spending our time -in study of the books and other god-things, always hoping that we can -understand and duplicate the old civilization. But our best thinkers, -since they are the most eager searchers, stumble most often into the -hidden pockets of radioactivity that endure even yet; and they die, and -their knowledge dies with them, and our dreams and aspirations become -dimmer with each generation."

- -
- -

Oluf grunted, and Bowron went on as though to himself. "I've come -to believe that it's useless to follow in the footsteps of the -gods—that we must wait, and think, and work, each in his own way, -until we learn what is possible for us through our own trials and -the further development of our simple tools. We've learned much from -the god-things, slowly, over the years. But we also know that we're -mutants, changed by the radiation of the great war areas, breeding true -at last, and that we are different from the Wild Ones. True, we're -superior, but—we're not gods. Whether we can ever—"

- -

Oluf had sprung to his feet and was gone with incredible speed. Bowron -sat up tensely, listened to the crashing of brush, and, finally, to -a shrill squeal of departing life. He relaxed and waited until Oluf, -grinning, returned with a rabbit.

- -

"Our dinner, old-timer. Sorry I wasn't listening too closely to what -you were saying."

- -

Later, after they had eaten and were stretched comfortably on the -moon-drenched shore, Oluf grew reminiscent. "I remember your teachings, -Bowron. And I recall well our endless attempts to operate the -god-things—the machines and mechanisms. But all that always seemed -strange. Best of all I liked the tales of the old days—the stories of -our ancestors."

- -

Bowron nodded thoughtfully. "It was that way with most of my pupils. It -was more comfortable to dream of the past than to cope with the current -hardships. It seemed to arouse some dormant instinct in all of us—" He -broke off and sighed. "Would you like to hear another of the stories?"

- -

"Very much!"

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Bowron studied the bright moon. "Well—once in the far and long ago, -there was a man named Smith, who lived in a big city...."

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When the tale was done, Oluf seemed deeply moved. "I believe," he said -slowly, "that I'll go with you to the Southland. You might easily -perish on the way, and such words as yours must live to give others -comfort and hope—for we may yet find living gods in some remote corner -of the world. It must have been wonderful," he mused sleepily, "to -have lived in companionship with the gods—with men." He curled up -comfortably, paws tucked in, and laid his nose across his bushy tail.

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