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Title: The Amazing Mrs. Mimms

Author: David C. Knight

Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31585]

Language: English

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This etext was produced from Fantastic Universe August 1958. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this
publication was renewed.

[_"Long may the good lady serve us poor folks in the dim
past," writes the author, who will be remembered for his_ THE LOVE
OF FRANK NINETEEN _(Dec. 1957) and who feels that much of SF
"misses" because it lacks the human angle. "I believe you can have
gimmicks and human interest too," he writes._]

the amazing mrs. mimms

_by ... David C. Knight_

Tea had a wonderful effect on her. Sipping it slowly, she
felt the strength returning to her tired system.

* * * * *

There was a muffled rushing noise and the faintly acrid smell of ion
electrodes as the Time Translator deposited Mrs. Mimms back into the
year 1958. Being used to such journeys, she looked calmly about with
quick gray eyes, making little flicking gestures with her hands as if
brushing the stray minutes and seconds from her plain brown coat.

The scene of Mrs. Mimms' arrival in the past was the rear of a large
supermarket, more specifically between two packing cases which had
once contained breakfast foods. The excursion through time had
evidently been a smooth one for the smile had not once left Mrs.
Mimms' rotund countenance during the intervening centuries.

Two heavy black suitcases appeared to be the lady's only luggage
accompanying her from the future. These she picked up with a sharp
gasp and made her way to the front of the shopping center around which
slick new apartment buildings formed a horseshoe.

Mrs. Mimms was, as usual, on a