Once there was a tree…840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2NGuCducC
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And she hated a little boy.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayRbTcVe31
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And every day the boy would come and he would rake her leaves and scoop them into piles and then dive into them and laugh.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9p0LzGNlGT
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He would shimmy up the trunk and swing from her branches until they cracked. She wished he would fall and break his leg. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwRuRLlvooN
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And eat her apples until his belly hurt. She hoped they made him sick. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGVZfEHW9Bo
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And he and his brother would play hide-and-go-seek and hide behind her. She would glare at them and curse under her breath.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjvWFDLICex
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And on sunny days he would sleep in her shade. Her branches weren't able to move or she would have speared him with one. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdv3ueglaac
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And the boy was creeped out by the tree.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcFOxla4bJ
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Very much.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLjdjGFv7a4
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And the tree was full of hate.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCMZ0NfO8O
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As time went by the tree grew more spiteful.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq36ujgnV6E
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And the malevolent tree was often alone.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxWUSaeszD
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One day the boy came to the tree and the tree said, “Come, Boy. Come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and fall off and break your neck.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qXscuuvaf
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“I don't want to climb up and break my neck,” said the boy. “I'm just thinking of a way to make some money. Do you know how I could make some money?”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrlzCWRhyB
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“I do,” said the black hearted tree. “Climb up into my branches, Boy. Climb up and pick my apples and sell them. Then you can make some money. Then you will be happy.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHBCqayT38
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So the boy climbed up to pick her apples, but the tree shook her branches and the boy fell out and broke his arm. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0Ltkxq0Zp
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And the tree was happy.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9O6XFnlZx0
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But the boy stayed away for a long time and the tree glared at him and his family through their windows while they were sleeping and thought of ways to do them harm. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsHzdB3Vvn
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And then one day the boy came back and the tree shook with fury and she said, “Come, Boy, climb up my trunk and fall down and break your arm again and be miserable.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzqBwuwt5Sm
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“I learned my lesson last time I climbed you,” said the boy. “I'm just trying to think of a way to build a fort for my child. You wouldn't know of a way for me to build a fort would you?”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaaVV8qPVz
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“I have no fort,” said the tree. “The forest is my fort. But you may cut off my branches and build a fort for your child. Then you will be happy.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR55ZaEk3xU
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And so the boy got a ladder and a saw and cut off a branch, but the branch fell wrong and hit the ladder and made it fall and the boy broke his leg. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PztyS9Ttg
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And the tree was happy.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdVKiVN74I
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But the boy stayed away for a long time. And when he came back the tree was so angry she could hardly speak. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZbZXQeZtX
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“Come, Boy,” she whispered, “tie a noose around one of my branches and hang yourself from it.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqA5LWrVZQ
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“I'm too old to climb up and hang a noose,” said the boy. “I brought some gasoline and matches with me and I'm going to burn you to the ground and rid the world of your wickedness.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5N04NxRjSr
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“Come soak me in gasoline and light me on fire,” said the tree. “Then you can burn me to ash and be happy.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsggkUoY7br
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And so the boy doused the bottom of the tree in gasoline and lit a match and threw it onto the tree. But the tree’s roots had wrapped around his feet and the fire burned the boy’s legs. The fire quickly burnt itself out and the boy left swearing vengeance. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbik7mjbzeS
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And the tree was happy. But not really. She wouldn't be happy until the boy was dead and gone.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6lcUVRe0B
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And after a long time the boy came back again. Holding and axe.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUgSeMSeSK
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“I am sorry, Boy,” said the tree, “but you have only one thing left that I want.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCgpUwLLCI
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“I'm not here to give you anything,” said the boy. “This time I'm here to take.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpAK8gvFO1y
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“Like I took your arm?”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnPiWMNAMj
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“It's never been the same since you threw me out,” said the boy. “Now it's your turn to fall.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8IGFaB5o2o
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“Like you did when you cut my branch? When you broke your leg?” asked the tree.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy3ghptRQo1
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“Not a mistake I will make again,” said the boy. “I didn't bring a ladder to climb. I brought an axe to cut.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBl6DPw9K0w
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“You are not going to try and burn me like I burned you?” the tree asked in her hideous voice.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvuHiq2PKTb
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“No,” said the boy. “No more foolish talk. I'm here to take your black heart and extinguish your evil forever.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0K6xS7aoP
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“I'm sorry, Boy,” said the vile tree. “But I will not be giving today. I will be taking.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKB2TYKqvRd
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So the boy came forward and began to swing his axe. With every swing he cut into the old, foul flesh of the tree. With every stroke of the axe the depraved tree howled in pain and cursed at the boy. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaWkc3MwQtw
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Finally the tree came toppling down, but as it fell it used all of it’s strength to lunge one last time. It threw it’s weight towards the boy and the hate filled tree toppled down and smashed atop the boy breaking his body once and for all.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRmrElnY1t
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The boy struggled under the weight of the wood that pinned him to the ground. Finally he was able to free himself and inch his way out from under it. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVTc2moZcx
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“There,” the boy said in barely a whisper as his life force was fleeing from his body. “Now the world will never bear witness to your degenerate spirit again.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFhu0NMcek
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“You may have ended me, but I told you I would be taking today, Boy,” the tree said. “Now I'm just an old stump. But an old stump is good for laying up against as you die. Come, Boy, come lay up against me and let us watch each other die.”840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmxYISjJPw
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And the boy did. 840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDs5co12mNk
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And the tree was happy.840Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdYXDAFuGJ
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