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4g kinds ef things en my way out the back doors Den't ge through the neighbors lawn, my mother called as I was runing toward eur back fence-and geting ready te cut threugh and up to Daniels, I didn't say anything and jyst changed my direction and keep going around eur heme-and up to the street at the top ef the hill and over to Danialss Gee-it was great to be free and off and runing in the merning fer Danials house to captuge all the thoughts in my inmagination; : Through the merning we’went areund to all the beys and girls we daeided we ceuld trust, mest ef them pretty close te our own ages and told them to be ready to go apple hunting on Mister Metzea farm in the afternoen, We told everybedy that they wouldn't have te be afraid of ghests er anything like that because-they would be driven away by the sun, but we had''te be on the leekeut, because Mister Metzes-had a-guns Beniat<and I were the two seoutsy who had risked oyr lives under fire; but with their help we were 2 sure that wewould be able to capture the apples | Later in the morning I went home and asked my mother if I could eat lunch i at Danialsy and she said that I could, but not to come home teglate in the : afternoon, Tq late in the afternoon, I thoughts No special time and my mind went clear and happys I was eff again and after lunch we pisnee enetier eur band ef apple hunters and headed fer Metezed fields The dey was het and the dust wae rising out of the weeds as we ran through } them, The sweat came evenly out of my pure body and I felt geed and tight ! moving with precision threugh the bushes and hilly grass, Danial and I led our scattered line ef followers up the far side-of Metzed! hill and than i began making our military way across the peak of zne field that lecked ever