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    Clean Break
    Clean Break
    Clean Break
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    Clean Break

    By Roger D. Aycock and Connell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Clean Break - Roger D. Aycock

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Clean Break, by Roger Dee

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      Title: Clean Break

      Author: Roger Dee

      Illustrator: Connell

      Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32212]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      CLEAN BREAK

      By ROGER DEE

      Illustrated by CONNELL

      A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed—but Watts had to help any sick animal....

      othing more exciting ever happened to Oliver Watts than being rejected by his draft board for a punctured eardrum until, deferring as usual to the superior judgment of his Aunt Katisha and of Glenna—his elder and militantly spinster sister—he put away his lifelong dream and took up, at the age of twenty-five, the practice of veterinary medicine.

      The relinquished dream was Oliver's ambition, cherished since childhood, to become some day a hunter and trainer of jungle animals. It had been discouraged firmly and at length by his Aunt Katisha, who maintained that the skin of the last male Watts was not to be risked in a pursuit so perilous; and his Aunt Katisha won. He would do far better, Oliver realized finally, to resign himself to the quiet suburban life of Landsdale, Florida, and to perpetuate the Watts line by marrying some worthy and practical local girl. The quiet life, it developed, was that of a D. V. M.; the worthy and practical girl, Miss Orella Simms of Tampa, to whom he was now engaged.

      To put it plainly, Oliver was until the moment of his Great Opportunity a good-humored stooge with a cowlick and a sense of responsibility, whose invariable cue was family obligation and whose crowning virtue was docility. He was maneuvered into becoming a D. V. M. (though to tell the truth the profession suited him well enough, being the nearest possible approach to realizing his ambition) solely because the veterinary college in Tampa was near enough to Landsdale for commuting and because his later practice could be carried on under the guiding aegis

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