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    Tree, Spare that Woodman
    Tree, Spare that Woodman
    Tree, Spare that Woodman
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    Tree, Spare that Woodman

    By Dave Dryfoos

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Tree, Spare that Woodman - Dave Dryfoos

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      Title: Tree, Spare that Woodman

      Author: Dave Dryfoos

      Illustrator: Fries

      Release Date: August 24, 2009 [EBook #29794]

      Language: English

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      Tree,

      Spare That Woodman

      By DAVE DRYFOOS

      The single thing to fear was fear—ghastly, walking fear!

      Stiff with shock, Naomi Heckscher stood just inside the door to Cappy's one-room cabin, where she'd happened to be when her husband discovered the old man's body.

      Her nearest neighbor—old Cappy—dead. After all his wire-pulling to get into the First Group, and his slaving to make a farm on this alien planet, dead in bed!

      Naomi's mind circled frantically, contrasting her happy anticipations with this shocking actuality. She'd come to call on a friend, she reminded herself, a beloved friend—round, white-haired, rosy-cheeked; lonely because he'd recently become a widower. To her little boy, Cappy was a combination Grandpa and Santa Claus; to herself, a sort of newly met Old Beau.

      Her mouth had been set for a sip of his home brew, her eyes had pictured the delight he'd take in and give to her little boy.

      She'd walked over with son and husband, expecting nothing more shocking than an ostentatiously stolen kiss. She'd found a corpse. And to have let Cappy die alone, in this strange world ...

      She and Ted could at least

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