Experiments -- Fiction; High school teachers -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
"Maybe if Mr. Tedder would duplicate that apparatus of his, and...."
Miss MacIntire paused uncertainly. The arcana of physics were as
unknown to her as was the Greek ablative to Mr. Tedder. "Well, do the
same thing that you did before. Maybe he'll come back."
"No." Mr. Tedder was glum. "It won't be back. When you think that
all objects are constantly changing in space and time, you see how
wonderful it is that anything ever gets anywhere. The Extra-Galactic
Polymorph won't be back. Its appearance was an accident; a huge,
incredible, once-in-all-history coincidence."
* * * * *
_On the twenty-third planet of a sun of a galaxy that lay beyond the
ken of even the two-hundred-inch mirror of Palomar and the giant
refractors of Luna; a planet the name of which cannot be expressed in
human phonetics, a Young Being in the early stages of pre-maturity
chortled with its Id. Its teacher was back! Swiftly, the youngster
threw aside the messy slice of pimento-loaf that was draped across the
silver cube and commanded, "Zzzrf me a Klompfr!" A Klompfr appeared,
and the Young Being spilled its delight out into the minds of its
elders._
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