for ola Hans,” I told him, “I want to bring him a New- оше didn’t say anything his face, but you could powder. last he said: “All right, bring the tree, and get it on board.* Louie,” said 1. you know

for ola Hans,” I told him, “I want to bring him a New-
оше didn’t say anything
his face, but you could
powder.
last he said:
“All right, bring the tree, and get it on board.*
Louie,” said 1. you know how many days
stay on Earth?”
“Nine,” answered he, “and don’t forget the medicals
3 I looked at him quickly. He was putting another layer of
jowder on his face and didn’t pay attention to me. But why
Ве’а 4 he remind me of medicals? We had it after every trip
Of he knew that I couldn’t forget it.
I had many friends in town, and it was only two days before
trip; he start that I thought of the New-Year tree for Hans.
a went to our office and the clerk there told me that
buy a tree at the Cliff’s Nurseries about fifty miles out
of town.
I went onto the roof, took a gyro there and was in the Nur-
series in less than ten minutes.
he It was beautiful there: white snow everywhere, green-blue
fir-trees and many glass-houses around. And 1 suddenly
thought that it was more than ten years since been outside
“You the town.
Cliff himself met me on the landing. He was a little
1 ‘round man and he greeted me with a smile.
“Major Davies, happy to see you here. Not so many
A spacemen come here, you know. I would like to show you
3 my roses.”
He was very friendly, and I was not in a hurry to back
к. to town. So we went to see the roses.
The glass-house was full of roses.
in “Гуе forgotten that they smell like that,” 1 said.
Cliff was very proud of his roses.
1 medicals медкомиссия,
2 Gliff's Nurseries питомник Клиффа
8 glass-house теплица, оранжерея
4 would Мне бы
и