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                             GAME PRESERVE

                            BY ROG PHILLIPS

                    _The hunters were necessary, of
                       course--but there was the
                    other side of the picture too._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, October 1957.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]



     _The first of the_ morons, _as they were popularly called,
     though they were totally lacking in intelligence, were born in
     1971, eleven years after the Mutual Retaliation phase of the
     big war-that-no-one-started, the majority of them near the big,
     bombed-out cities. By 1973, with the aid of the electron
     microscope, the scientists had learned all about it. Parents