hen, please?"
"Certainly, Mrs. Smith. Thatll be 100,000 euros please"
"100,000 euros!" shouted Mrs. Smith. "Thats very expensive, isnt it?"
"Mr. Smith has been reconditioned!"
Mr. Smith got his own body back, and Mrs. Smith flew him back home in the aircar.
"Im myself again!" he shouted.
"Not exactly," said Mrs. Smith. "You have been reconditioned. "
"What does reconditioned mean?"
"Well," said Mrs. Smith. "I think it means that you have a new brain!"
"I think that will be very useful," said Mr. Smith.
"I think so too, dear" said Mrs. Smith.
THE END
The Christmas Presents
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. Every day, when she went to the shops, she spent very little money. She bought the cheapest meat, the cheapest vegetables. And when she was tired, she still walked round and round the shops to find the cheapest food. She saved every cent possible.
Delia counted the money again. There was no mistake. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And the next day was Christmas.
She couldnt do anything about it. She could only sit down and cry. So she sat there, in the poor little room, and she cried.
Delia lived in this poor little room, in New York, with her husband, James Dillingham Young. They also had a bedroom, and a kitchen and a bathroom - all poor little rooms. James Dillingham Young was lucky, because he had a job, but it was not a good job. These rooms took most of his money. Delia tried to find work, but times were bad, and there was no work for her. But when Mr James Dillingham Young came home to his rooms, Mrs James Dillingham Young cal
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