Make Mine Homogenized
From Astounding ScienceFiction, April, 1960MAKE MINE HOMOGENIZEDBy RICK RAPHAELAnyone looking for guaranteed sound science will have to lookelsewhere. But if it's fun you want ... try the world's most potenteggnog!"Shoo," Hetty Thompson cried, waving her battered old felt hat at theclucking cluster of hens eddying around her legs as she plowed throughthe flock towards the chicken house. "Scat. You, Solomon," she calledout, directing her words at the bobbing comb of the big roosterstrutting at the edge of the mob. "Don't just stand there like asatisfied cowhand after a night in Reno. Get these noisy females outtamy way." She batted at the hens and they scattered with angry squawksof protest.Hetty paused in the doorway of the chicken house to allow her eyes tobecome accustomed to the cool gloom after the bright glare of the ranchyard. She could feel the first trickles of sweat forming under theman's shirt she was wearing as the hot, early morning Nevada sun beatdown on her back in the do
...orway.Moving carefully but quickly through the nests, she reached and gropedfor the eggs she knew would be found in the scattered straw. As sheplaced each find carefully in the bucket she carried, her lips moved ina soundless count. When she had finished, she straightened up and leftthe chicken house, her face reflecting minor irritation.Again the hens swirled about her, hoping for the handfuls of crackedcorn she usually tossed to them. On the other side of the yard Solomonstepped majestically along the edge of the vegetable garden, nevercrossing the hoed line separating garden from yard... --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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