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                    _It isn't much of a secret, but
                 it's the only one. The trick is ..._

                         Don't Think About It

                         By WILLIAM W. STUART

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, November 1960.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Tommy wasn't really a timid child. Sometimes he didn't understand
things and was puzzled. More often, grown-ups couldn't or wouldn't
understand things that were perfectly clear to him and he was more
puzzled. Occasionally such things worried and even upset him a little.
Then Momma and sometimes Daddy would translate bafflement into silly
adult terms and think that he was afraid.

It was that way about the hole in the closet when Tomm