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    Pet Farm
    Pet Farm
    Pet Farm
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    Pet Farm

    By Dick Francis and Roger D. Aycock

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Pet Farm - Dick Francis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pet Farm, by Roger Dee

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Pet Farm

      Author: Roger Dee

      Illustrator: Dick Francis

      Release Date: May 12, 2010 [EBook #32344]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PET FARM ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online

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      Pet Farm

      By ROGER DEE

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction February 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The next worst thing to hell is being shanghaied into the Paradise of an alien planet!

      They had fled almost to the sheer ambient face of the crater wall when the Falakian girl touched Farrell's arm and pointed back through the scented, pearly mists.

      Someone, she said. Her voice stumbled over the almost forgotten Terran word, but its sound was music.

      No matter, Farrell answered. They're too late now.

      He pushed on, happily certain in his warm euphoric glow of mounting expectancy that what he had done to the ship made him—and his new-found paradise with him—secure.

      He had almost forgotten who they were; the pale half-memories that drifted through his mind touched his consciousness lightly and without urgency, arousing neither alarm nor interest.

      The dusk grew steadily deeper, but the dimming of vision did not matter.

      Nothing mattered but the fulfillment to come.

      Far above him, the lacy network of bridging, at one time so baffling, arched and vanished in airy grace into the colored mists. To right and left, other arms of the aerial maze reached out, throwing vague traceries from cliff to cliff across the valley floor. Behind him on the plain he could hear the eternally young people playing about their little blue lake, flitting like gay shadows through the tamarisks and calling to each other in clear elfin voices while they frolicked after the fluttering swarms of great, bright-hued moths.

      The crater wall halted him and he stood with the Falakian girl beside him, looking back through the mists and savoring the sweet, quiet mystery of the valley. Motion stirred there; the pair of them laughed like anticipant children when two wide-winged moths swam into sight and floated toward them, eyes glowing like veiled emeralds.

      Footsteps followed, disembodied in the dusk.

      It is only Xavier, a voice said. Its mellow uninflection

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