Judgment Day

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Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 2004: THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND - XXII. — A VISION OF JUDGMENT.

By H. G. Wells

I. — Bru-a-a-a.

I listened, not understanding.

"Good Lord!" said I, still only half awake. "What an infernal shindy!"

Ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra Ta-ra-rra-ra.

"It's enough," said I, "to wake——" and stopped short. Where was I. — Ta-rra-rara—louder and louder.

"It's either some new invention——"

Toora-toora-toora! Deafening!

"No," said I, speaking loud in order to hear myself. "That's the Last Trump."

II. — The last note jerked me out of my grave like a hooked minnow.

I saw my monument (rather a mean little affair, and I wished I knew who'd...

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