A história é "Tio Fremmis" , publicada inicialmente em Sturgeon Is Alive e Bem em 1971 e mais recentemente em As Histórias Completas de Theodore Sturgeon em 1994.
Aqui Fremmis explica o jeito dele ;
"Well, I made things work. I mean like that old lawnmower of Artie Backer's, with the kerosene motor. I used to go over to Artie's every six weeks during the warm weather and kick it. Wasn't nobody but me that knew where where to kick it or how hard but me, and for me it worked."
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And it all came back in a flood--Wertenbaker's tractor and Samuel's windmill pump and the church clock and dozens, scores, hundreds of other things, big and little, and Uncle Fremmis, drifting around town, knowing everybody and what everybody had that didn't work right, and making it go.