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Half an hour before the neat fabric of his life was to be shattered forever, Dale Kesley was thinking desperately, _This will be a good day for the planting._
He stood at the end of a freshly-turned furrow, one brown hand gripping the sharebeam, the other patting the scaly gray flank of his mutant plough-horse. The animal neighed, a long croaking wheeze of a sound. Kesley looked down at the fertile soil of the furrow.