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'To Kill A Mockingbird': A Short Story
An amazing experiment happened when I was eleven years old, I was at the farm accompanying my uncle to fumigate, but I stayed in an uninhabited house and my uncle was fumigating outside, so I was sitting and suddenly began to appear tarantulas, Then my uncle had seen that the tarantulas approached me then began to fumigate and I was able to go out to the door and I go to a tree where I had not noticed that there was a honeycomb of sheep then I walked away.
Then I decided to accompany to spray the field, so we went down the hill and there was an estuary already on the edge of the estuary my uncle had dropped a lid of a bottle he had, he told me to pick it up but to me I was afraid to pick it up on the shore, because I thought that a snake would

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