| Clifford D.Simak. All the traps of Earth --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
© Copyright 1960 Clifford D.Simak
Prepared by: Anada Sucka, August 12, 1999
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE INVENTORY list was long. On its many pages, in his small and
precise script, he had listed furniture, paintings, china, silverware and
all the rest of it - all the personal belongings that had been accumulated
by the Barringtons through a long family history.
And now that he had reached the end of it, he noted down himself, the
last item of them all:
One domestic robot, Richard Daniel, antiquated but in good repair.
He laid the pen aside and shuffled all the inventory sheets together
and stacked them in good order, putting a paper weight upon them - the
little exquisitely carved ivory paper weight that aunt Hortense had picked
up that last visit she had made to Peking.
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