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    Pipe of Peace
    Pipe of Peace
    Pipe of Peace
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    Pipe of Peace

    By James McKimmey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Pipe of Peace - James McKimmey

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      Title: Pipe of Peace

      Author: James McKimmey

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      There's a song that says it's later than you think and it is perhaps lamentable that someone didn't sing it for Henry that beautiful morning....

      Pipe of Peace

      By James McKimmey, Jr.

      The farmer refused to work. His wife, a short thin woman with worried eyes, watched him while he sat before the kitchen table. He was thin, too, like his wife, but tall and tough-skinned. His face, with its leather look was immobile.

      Why? asked his wife.

      Good reasons, the farmer said.

      He poured yellow cream into a cup of coffee. He let the cup sit on the table.

      Henry? said the woman, as though she were really speaking

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