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Personal Narrative: Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A few hours later we arrive at the cabin but when we got there it was late, so we went to bed. The next day we woke up early to go fishing we got all our things together got in the car and drove a few miles from the cabin. We got there in a few minutes but are fishing spot is far back in the woods so we started walking, the deal was we were going to eat fish for lunch but we couldn´t catch anything so we had to go back with no fish to eat and so we walk back to the car got in and drove back to the cabin. It was a few minutes back to the cabin, when we got there we went inside and ate some sandwiches for lunch and then went to shoot guns. It took us awhile to get to the land where we were to go to shoot guns but on our way there we saw a rattlesnake
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