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    The First Day of Spring
    The First Day of Spring
    The First Day of Spring
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    The First Day of Spring

    By Ed Emshwiller and Mari Wolf

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The First Day of Spring - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The First Day of Spring, by Mari Wolf

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

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      Title: The First Day of Spring

      Author: Mari Wolf

      Illustrator: Ed Emsh

      Release Date: June 9, 2010 [EBook #32760]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING ***

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      THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING

      By Mari Wolf

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction June 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Here is a love story of two young people who met under the magic of festival time. One was Trina, whose world was a gentle make-believe Earth. The other was Max, handsome spaceman, whose world was the infinite universe of space....

      The First Day of spring, the man at the weather tower had said, and certainly it felt like spring, with the cool breeze blowing lightly about her and a faint new clover smell borne in from the east. Spring—that meant they would make the days longer now, and the nights shorter, and they would warm the whole world until it was summer again.

      Trina laughed aloud at the thought of summer, with its picnics and languid swims in the refilled lakes, with its music and the heavy scent of flowers and the visitors in from space for the festival. She laughed, and urged her horse faster, out of its ambling walk into a trot, a canter, until the wind streamed about her, blowing back her hair, bringing tears to her eyes as she rode homeward toward the eastern horizon—the horizon that looked so far away but wasn't really.

      Trina!

      His voice was very close. And it was familiar, though for a moment she couldn't imagine who it might be.

      Where are you? She had reined the horse in abruptly and now looked around her, in all directions, toward the north and south and east and west, toward the farm houses of the neighboring village, toward the light tower and the sun tower. She saw no one. No one else rode this early in the day in the pasture part of the world.

      I'm up here, Trina.

      She looked up then and saw him, hovering some thirty feet off the ground in the ridiculous windmill-like craft he and his people used when they visited the world.

      Oh, hello, Max. No wonder she had known the voice. Max Cramer, down from space, down to the world, to see her. She knew, even before he dropped his craft onto the grass beside her, that he had come to see her. He couldn't have been on the world for more than the hour

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