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                             BRAMBLE BUSH

                           BY ALAN E. NOURSE

    _There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise;
    He jumped into a bramble bush and scratched out both his eyes.
    And when he saw what he had done, with all his might and main
    He jumped into another bush and scratched them in again._

                                                MOTHER GOOSE

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1957.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Dr. David Lessing found Jack Dorffman and the boy waiting in his office
when he arrived at the Hoffman Center that morning. Dorffman looked as
though he'd been running all night. There were dark pouches under his
eyes; his heavy uns