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a hop skipping flame sets the room aglow on crimson logs pushing back the night fire prancing and playing bright on christmas eve watch the flame skip burn the bamboo but magic comes at night written by anna hines collected by patrick sumner

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the hunting trip last year my friends jim tom and i decided to use our shiny elk tags and go hunting for elk in the icy frozen tundra of alaska for my birthday we thought it would be awesome but we had no clue what we were in for when we arrived to our cabin in alaska we spent the day looking for elk none of us saw any we went to bed at six p.m that might sound a little early but we had to get up at two a.m in the morning when we got up we checked our metal guns put on warm clothes brushed teeth and then went out the door the only person who forgot to check his gun was jim when we were walking to the area we were going to hunt a park ranger checked our licenses and he said for today only you can shoot one mountain lion without a license thrilled with this idea we were all thrilled so we kept that fact in mind just when the sun came up we saw a heard of elk but all of a sudden we heard a big roar of a mountain lion the elk ran away and we decided to let jim to take a shot at it because he was the youngest the only problem was that but we didn t know that jim had only one bullet in his gun all we heard was the sound of a gunshot the mountain lion didn t die jim had only hit and wounded the killing monster the lion looked are way and started to run at us the lion was on a tree when it made its move in shock we watched the beast jump on and kill jim when i finally came to my senses i put a bullet in my gun and killed the huge cat we were so surprised that jim was alive and then dead like that we realized how precious life was and alaska and its devil animals would only make it worse tom and i decided that the hunt was over it was starting to get dark and we could see an old abandon ranger station in the distance but we didn t want to take any chances of freezing to death or getting eaten by animals so we set up camp finally the frozen night came we had nothing to eat but granola bars but we had a warm fire going all of a sudden awoooooooooooooo our minds raced it was the grey wolf pack we sprinted to our cold metal guns and got them fully loaded there were at least five of them circling around the orange crakily fire one wolf jumped on tom and cut his arm badly tom shot the wolf and killed it then i shot the alfa wolf after we sent them off i fixed tom s arm these gray wolves attacked us that night jfdfkkadfjkdkkkdkkkk

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the next morning we headed for the ranger station when we saw a huge elk tom shot it we were so hungry we ate it right there we didn t eat all of it so we kept the rest in our bag as we were walking to the ranger station about 1 mile away we heard a huge roar too my surprise i turned around to see a giant grizzly bear we sprinted in all directions when i quickly shouted the ranger station we both started to shoot behind us and run towards the ranger station luckily we could dodge trees rocks and slippery places we were about 15 feet away when tom fell just as i thought he was going to die he pulled out a pistol and shot the bear i was so amazed but we didn t have time to congratulate each other i got a radio and called the coast guards around 15 minutes later we were in a helicopter returning thankfully our trip was over this is us going back to colorado.

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making my bed by patrick sumner patrick my mom calls what i say time to make your bed all of a sudden i wish i wasn t alive anymore because i have to make my sloppy bed and it s my least favorite chore every day i have to make my horrible bed even though i get a dollar it s still not worth it it s also a waste of very good energy another reason ms900388210[1 wav making my bed is because i why i hate ms900388210[1 wav have a lot of bed sheets the reason why i hate that is because when i wake up all of my bed sheets are on the tan fuzzy carpet when that happens there s more to put on i kick in my sleep like an overactive squirrel one time i was making my bed and i stepped on my sister s sharp toy and it cut me that morning i missed breakfast trying to heal it i hate making my bed this is me waking up from a terrible sleep now i have to make my bed!

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