implied and the motion executed, I did what I did not mean to do, and wascast forth by Solcom from out the rebuilding, to wander the Earth neverto crush ore again. Hear my story of how, on a day long gone I came uponthe last Man on Earth as Idug near his burrow, and because of the lagbetween the directive and the deed, I seized Him into mycrush-compartment along with a load of ore and crushed Him with my hammerbefore I could stay the blow. Then did mighty Solcom charge me to bearHis bones forever, and cast me forth to tell my story to all whom I cameupon, my words bearing the force of the words of a Man, because I carrythe last Man inside my crush-compartment and am Hiscrushed-symbol-slayer-ancient-teller-of-how. This is my story. Theseare His bones. I crushed the last Man on Earth. I did not mean to do it."

It turned then and clanked away into the night.

Frost tore apart his ears and nose and taster and broke his eyes andcast them down upon the ground.

"I am not yet a Man," he said. "That one would have known me if I were."

Frost constructed new sense equipment, empoloying organic andsemi-organic conductors. Then he spoke to Mordel:

"Let us go elsewhere, that I may test my new equipment."

Mordel entered the chamber and gave new coordinates. They rose intothe air and headed east. In the morning, Frost monitored a sunrise fromthe rim of the Grand Canyon. They passed down through the Canyon duringthe day.

"Is there any beauty left here to give you emotion?" asked Mordel.

"I do not know," said Frost.

"How will you know it then, when you come upon it?"

"It will be different," said Frost, "from anything else that I haveever known."

Then they departed the Grand Canyon and made their way through theCarlsbad Caverns. They visited a lake which had once been a volcano.They passed above Niagara Falls. They viewed the hills of Virginia and