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                                TYBALT

                            BY STEPHEN BARR

                Adolescence is a perilous time--whether
                    it is the adolescence of a man,
                     or of the whole race of Man!

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
               Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1962.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


The physics teacher, Howard Dax, dismissed the class. He picked up
a felt-covered block and erased the diagrams he had drawn on the
blackboard. He noticed with annoyance that the lines were shaky, and in
one place was an irregular star where the chalk had broken because of
his exasperation at his pupils--or more exactly, one particular pupil.

When the blackboard was clean to the corners--How