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he says on 322:
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"I know'd you'd be hid out," the boy called.
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He [now "the man"] pushed back the blanket and rolled onto his stomach
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and cocked the pistol and leveled it at the sky where the clustered stars
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were burning for eternity.
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He centered the foresight in the milled groove of the frame strap and
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holding the piece so he swung it through the dark of the trees with
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both hands to the darker shape of the visitor.
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"I'm right here," he said.
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The boy swung with the rifle and fired.
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"You wouldn't have lived anyway," the man said.
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And they come up, the boy's family or his companions