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2 stories matching axe
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- An Ordeal in the Quinault Wilderness
A father's desperate, eighteen-mile trek through the night to secure medical aid for his son.
- The Great Finley Hog Hunt
A routine butchering job turns into a chaotic, nine-shot ordeal that leaves a local hog and a broken axe head in its wake.