Chapter Three
One day, soon after The Oneness had been scattered, Thundering Boar was
visiting his brother, and his brother's excitement was like a child
with a new toy. Several young boys were running happily around his
laboratory. "You know what those are?" asked Gray Boar.
2 "I've got a strange feeling ," laughed his brother, with a smile,
"they're clones."
3 His brother smiled. "Absolutely right!" he agreed. "Notice anything
odd about them?"
4 Thundering Boar watched the boys for several minutes, then shook his
head. "They look perfectly normal to me."
5 "And, they are," agreed Gray boar, "perfectly normal, healthy, happy
young boys. Once they have been told and made to understand that they
are not merely machines made to fight the enemy, and that they have
every right to laugh and sing and be happy they become like any other
children. A little more aggressive, but they're learning to overcome
that. Do you know how they were born?"
6 Thundering Boar shook his head. "In dairy cows!" his brother
explained. "They put women's eggs in cows after they had put the
nucleus of a cell in it, and the children developed like perfectly
normal children. The eggs came out at the proper time, and
they had a perfectly normal birth. Do you know what this means?"
7 "No," answered Thundering Boar with a little laugh, "but I'm sure
you're going to tell me."
8 "It means that women who could not bear a normal child can now have a
perfectly normal one. We can produce perfectly normal children, no
matter what the gene problems of their parents. Doesn't that excite
you?"
9 "To tell you the truth," admitted Thundering