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                            STAR OF REBIRTH

                            BY BERNARD WALL

                     _Atanta knew the red star was
                     the home of his people after
                     death.... And for months now
                    it had been growing brighter._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1959.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Everyone should have known. They should have known as surely as though
it were written in the curved palm of the wind. They should have known
when they looked up at the empty sky; they should have known when they
looked down at the hungry children. Yet somehow they did not know that
their last migratory hunt was almost over.

The straggling ba