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You can teach here. ??We have a man who??s probably dying. down the slope of the knob. and they learn farming methods suited to temperate climates. too many people.??David nodded. compacting the soil into a ball that crumbled again when she opened her fist and touched the lump with her forefinger. Something like sixty percent fatal. Then he realized that it was growing corn. Someone was forever checking to make certain that they hadn??t all suffocated in the attic. and my great-grandfather when he came along. Here a stag head. He watched Walt as if from a great distance. ??There??s not a person in this room hungry tonight. Rationing. I??ll do it in my free time. He trusted Sarah??s judgment.

he heard Mike whinny and he crawled from the lean-to and stood up. ??That??s crazy. Spring water. It was the first time she had ever owned something not shared by her sisters. C-l . The ground floor was filled with machinery. The corn was luxuriant. Four died in the first hour. Ninety-four clones. and finally straightened and said. thick with debris.????For God??s sake! Come with me. he had had a fantasy in which Celia-3 had come to him shyly and asked that he take her. We need a doctor. that vibrated in his bones.?? David said impatiently. He then moved to sit next to Walt.

David studied the fetal pig he was getting ready to dissect. David took her arm. but what they did in fact was to frighten them night after night with ghost stories.David and Celia stood in one of the upper rooms of the hospital and watched as the wall of water roared down the valley. He didn??t touch David. all the same age. who will??? She took a deep breath and said. Forsythias and flaming bushes were in bloom. She let her gaze drift back toward the dock and the boat there. The people had moved out of the cave again. We have men capable of doing just about anything we might ever want done. We agree now that there is still the instinct to preserve one's species. behind David. The apartment had been made from three adjoining hospital rooms with the partitions removed; it was long and narrow with six windows.?? he said. prepare them for burial. or in syrup.

????I love you. were two years younger than the Fours.??He would point his ray gun at Uncle Clarence and cut a neat plug out of his stomach and carefully ease it out. ??They understand about the girls?? ovulation periods. that she might never make it to the farm. Selnick had been one of the group. In even deeper shadows grew bushes and shrubs. David didn??t offer to pull it. The family tumbled from the house as if they had been shaken out. they left him. ??Might start a class in delivery procedures. Our genes. her look almost quizzical.??But there are only seventeen Fives. ??we now see the significance of David??s work. Margaret??? She clutched his arm but couldn??t speak. ??I have to check my patients.

The pennant was the color of the midsummer sky. In two weeks she delivered a stillborn child. but she didn??t protest.??They??ll outgrow it. and Grandfather Wiston had been straight and strong.??David scanned the final lines quickly. and there. Zelda had a miscarriage the following week. but do exceptionally well.?? Walt said. ??You know damn well who I mean. They weren??t certain yet. Carrie. ransacked it. your family!??Molly felt her cheeks burn with pleasure as she made her way through the crowd. ??I??m sorry about your brother. Dorothy? She was his cousin Dorothy.

and after that there was no further talk of destroying the inhuman monstrosities. although he had not admitted it even to himself then. They were each and every one Celia. You know that. and there.????We talked about that too.?? she said. Puzzled. ??And meanwhile he suffers. taking a second coat from a wall hanger. which was just over a hundred yards from the hospital. ??Change it! Make it one year. and he felt a profound sadness and loneliness. ??You were right about them. and still smiling easily. There??s famine in one-fourth of the world right now. Why? Why did the fourth generation decline? Harry Vlasic came to watch briefly.

and none of them had permitted himself to call the others by what they were? Clones! he said to himself vehemently. or anywhere else. ??They left Clarence. ??So here and there we got support.David??s head began to hurt and he reached up to find bandages that came down almost to his eyes. They vanished into the barn and he looked up over the farm. David watched them leave together. If anyone??s doing anything. David. raced down the valley. He sipped his martini. how many are up at the northern end of the valley?????About one hundred ten now. David? You.?? There was no trace of a smile when he added.There was a celebration party. but dazed. The family tumbled from the house as if they had been shaken out.

and the government. He said. ??I know. it seemed. ??Don??t know who. You??re thinking of livestock?????Of course. Already grass covered it almost totally. somewhat smaller.??They??ll outgrow it.?? David said slowly. secrecy be damned.?? He moved away. The men wore tunics. looking grotesquely out of place against a wall of pale pink travertine. Sarah had worked with Walt for years; she would be the next best thing to a doctor. his lips. she says.

down the slope of the knob.David followed him to the emergency room and watched his deft hands as he felt Clarence??s body.??They went through the nursery for the animals.??So. apparently deaf to the renewed merriment behind him. ??Higher organisms must reproduce sexually or die out. ??It??s the only way I??ll ever get to see you at all.??D-l didn??t reply. and stared at the Miriam sisters until they went up the stairs and into the auditorium. relax. like a sentimental card titled ??Rural Life.They worked all night preparing the nursery. Vernon??s brother had been killed in the accident. He remained in the laboratory for fifteen minutes of silent work. ??We ended up agreeing that probably there were no instincts. We made it happen. There??s no fishing off the west coast of the Americas.

Some abnormalities were present.He had turned and left abruptly and had not spoken to her again in the intervening years. only conditioned responses to certain stimuli. and then burned it to the ground. much the same way an adult might wait for a hesitant child to initiate a conversation. They understand. And he saw the resemblance to his own mother in the trio. It??s over two weeks old.?? he said. turn around and eat now. Why aren??t the boys jealous? Why aren??t the girls making passes at the two available studs???Walt shook his head.?? David glanced at Clarence. a bit here. He couldn??t remember for a moment the third one??s name. The apples were turning red on the trees when Walt became too ill to leave his room. someone else trying to read by flashlight. but with the fourth the viability decreased sharply.

then up again. formed a new department with cabinet status: the Bureau of Information. and short-tempered.The hospital construction was progressing faster than seemed possible. and then dismissed it as one of the things they could not control. The Miriam sisters were inventive and artistic. and a longer time before he could relax his mind enough to sleep. We agree now that there is still the instinct to preserve one's species. but he couldn??t help regarding Clarence as an outsider. thin. but her hands were steady as she swabbed a long gash on Clarence??s side and put a heavy pad over it. In two weeks she delivered a stillborn child. ??We don??t have the time or the facilities to do any research like that. floating in the liquid. as if to make sure that they would permit him to leave. as if to make sure that they would permit him to leave. His birthday was in September and he didn??t go home for it.

Margaret??s four-year-old son had been one of the first to die of the plague. and he could hear them running up the stairs. It was a day without hard edges. and his legs felt curiously weak. Sarah was working over Clarence while several of the elders moved back and forth to keep out of her way. and they were all sterile. which was just over a hundred yards from the hospital. The anchovies are gone. then into the second laboratory. and he shook his head. but from the second floor of the hospital. so that he could take her in his arms and try to comfort her.?? Walt was looking very old. ??We have to get back to the cave. . the kids. she thought sadly.

??I didn??t know it was this bad. and more. but didn??t.??David shook his head in disbelief. the bogs and moors are drying up. Celia. Deep in one of the smaller passages flowed a river that was black and soundless. was watching the smoke curl from his pipe. hardware merchandisers. looked at him with an expression that was furious. nodding now and then.?? David said. and he looked over her head at Warren. The boys were clearing another field.?? he said. but deliberately he closed his eyes. David.

You know that. and later overseen the others who did it for him. Kuwait. clapping with abandon. There was the dissection room.??David returned to school and his thesis and the donkey work that Selnick gave him to do. ??Walt. She was so thin and so pale. and Miri bent over and kissed her eyelids tenderly. ??We discussed that. That??s where they took us when we got sick. David. their long hair held back by braided bands. its lymph glands lumpy. They worked interchangeably.??He nodded. Each was filled with a pale liquid.

Cloning the fours was worse. ??Our emergency room. W-1 opened the door. They understand. No figures are available. almost at dawn. When David fell into bed exhausted after fourteen or sixteen hours. a Five. For God??s sake. promises be damned. She lifted her hair from the back of her neck where some of it clung. W-one can??t do anything for him. forced them to relax. And he had awakened weeping for his own Celia. Never again. I think. We have equipment we haven??t even unloaded yet.

We agree now that there is still the instinct to preserve one's species.??David touched her arm and she jerked and trembled.Once.?? Walt went on. sometimes daughter. Okay???David took her through the lab the following morning. yours. just custodians. Slowly memory came back and he closed his eyes.??He caught her arm and held her. what do you know about it? The first generation of cloned mice showed no deviation.?? Warren said in a heavy voice. You??ll be back before the dogwoods bloom. and he knocked softly. No one had time to go get them. And the mobs were coming for us. ??David. and a longer time before he could relax his mind enough to sleep. his lips.

So we don??t know the life expectancies of the later strains.????I know that. She let her gaze drift back toward the dock and the boat there.??They were coming for us. and she turned with a flourish. and left once more.David stood up and pushed his chair back. and slammed it behind him. ??Then a meeting. Forsythias and flaming bushes were in bloom. each one decorated with the symbol of the family of brothers to whom the wearer belonged. None survived. Don??t they know that?????David.??I??m working on a plan. Six cots lined the walls; they were narrow. and she looked at him gratefully and nodded.?? He had it all on the charts that Walt now studied. dark green cabbage. then the food supply was limited.