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The Man in the Forest

We started running back and saw that Scatter’s

foot was stuck in a big crab hole and judging from
how he was screaming in pain, it was probably

fractured or broken. The man was right over him

and in the moonlight we could see that his face

was wizened and pale with a huge bulbous,

bumpy nose and blood shot eyes.

“What are you doing here?” he asked. His voices

creaked like dry branches.

He had his cutlass at his side and I thought that

he was surely going to slaughter Scatter. He lifted

his cutlass and we all screamed out, “No!” Scatter
was screaming hysterically at this point.

The man’s cutlass came down and I closed my

eyes because I knew Scatter was dead. All of a

sudden, I heard digging. I opened my eyes and

saw that instead of chopping Scatter to bits, the
man was actually digging around the crab hole to

get his foot free.

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