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Title: My Friend Bobby

Author: Alan Edward Nourse

Release Date: October 3, 2007 [EBook #22881]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _The Counterfeit Man More Science
Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse_ published in 1963. Extensive
research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on
this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical
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My
Friend
Bobby

My name is Jimmy and I am five years old, and my friend Bobby is five
years old too but he says he thinks he's really more than five years old
because he's already grown up and I'm just a little boy. We live out in
the country because that's where mommy and daddy live, and every morning
daddy takes the car out of the barn and rides into the city to work, and
every night he comes back to eat supper and to see mommy and Bobby and
me. One time I asked daddy why we don't live in the city like some
people do and he laughed and said you wouldn't really want to live in
the city would you? After all he said you couldn't have Bobby in the
city, so I guess it's better to live in the country after all.

Anyway daddy says that the city is no place to raise kids these days. I
asked Bobby if I am a kid and he said he guessed so but I don't think he
really knows because Bobby isn't very smart. But Bobby is my friend even
if he doesn't know much and I like him more than anybody else.

Mommy doesn't like Bobby very much and when I am bad she makes Bobby go
outdoors even when it's cold outside. Mommy says I shouldn't play with
Bobby so much because after all Bobby is only a dog but I like Bobby.
Everyone else is so big, and when mommy and daddy are home all I can see
is their legs unless I look way up high, and when I do something bad I'm
scared because they're so big and strong. Bobby is strong too but