Free The Unwelcome Guest Plus Nin and Nan by Eckhard Gerdes

do."
"Do we have a spade?"
"Yes."
"Do we have a wheelbarrow?"
"Yes."
"Okay, so let's go find the road's horizons."
On one end, the road came over a hill and was lined by huge willows on both sides. At the other, the road vanished into a valley between two hills dotted with enormous granite boulders. The road's sacrilegious alpha and omega had been easier to define than Nin had anticipated. Very good, thought Nin.
They began mauling and shoveling the road into the wheelbarrow. Load after load they carted off over the horizon and buried in a field. Many days, weeks and months were spent by Nin and Nan in this pursuit. They were vigilant and successfully avoided detection by all occasionally passing cars.
Nan figured they had moved enough wheelbarrow loads and carried them far enough that, if the moved material were laid lengthwise in a one-inch wide strip, it could from where they were reach Point Barrow, Alaska.
Nin said, one day, "Every time we finish a strip, the road seems just as wide as before."
Nan replied, "Remember St. Cyril of Jerusalem's famous Parable of the Holy Trinity."
Nin asked, "No—what was that?"
Nan said, "In the 4 th century, St. Cyril wrote that St. Augustine was walking along the beach one day and met a child who had dug a hole in the sand and who kept carrying water from the ocean to the hole, only to see the water disappear. When Augustine asked the child what he was doing, the child said he was trying to put the entire ocean into the little hole. Augustine said to the child that it was impossible to fit the ocean into that little hole. The child replied that he'd be able to fit the ocean into the hole before St. Augustine would be able to explain the mystery of the Holy Trinity."
Other days saw Nin encouraging Nan not to despair. By bucking each other up, they finally saw the day come when they could see their progress. It was a day of joy, and that night they celebrated. They feasted and drank wine. The road was certainly more narrow than it had been!
They ordered a couple of "Road Narrows" signs for the horizons and placed them just beyond where they could see. This would avert the passing drivers' suspicions. Even the occasional trooper would suspect little more than an incompetent DMV. These signs would suffice until the road became too narrow for two-lane traffic. At that point, the "Road Narrows" signs were replaced with "One Lane Road Ahead" signs. When the road had narrowed to within that proportion, the signs were replaced with signs stating, "Road Closed for Repair," and a week later, with railings and "Road Ends" signs. Exhausted but satisfied, Nin and Nan collapsed into their hill and slept for the better part of a week.
Chapter Three: A Visitor
    Nin's and Nan's surprise was not altogether unsuspected when one day they saw a Range Rover churning up dust along the former road.
"What do you think he's up to, Nan?"
     
"I don't know, but we just finished seeding the ground.
    That meanie is undoing our work."
"Do you think it might be a revenuer?"
"Oh. You mean like Daddy used to shoot?"
"Yes."
"What do you think he wants?"
"Only two things the government ever wants, Nan:
    money or land."
"Heck, we don't have any money, Nin."
"Then I guess he's coming for our land."
"But this isn't even our land. It's God's land." "I think he'd say that the domain is eminent ." "What's that mean?"
"That means no one's allowed to own any land except
    the government."
"Even God?"
"Especially God."
"But God made all this."
"Sure, but the government wants what's God's." "Aren't we supposed to render unto Caesar what is
    Caesar's and unto God what is God's?"
"Yes."
"So we've got to stop this revenuer, Nin."
"Yes, we do. Let's go out and meet him by the road." "The garden, you mean."
"Of course. Sorry. The garden."
"Okay, Nin."
Nan felt angry that this revenuer was destroying the
    newly planted beds of melon, squash carrots, cabbage, lettuce, and radishes. Nin and Nan had worked hard on these after recovering from