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    The Hand
    The Hand
    The Hand
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    The Hand

    By Gerald Allan Sohl

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Hand - Gerald Allan Sohl

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      Title: The Hand

      Author: Gerald Allan Sohl

      Release Date: April 19, 2010 [EBook #32055]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE HAND

      by

      Jerry Sohl

      Alice knew that Dobie was a good dog, even if he did have an alarming habit of hunting down rabbits and gophers. But one day he brought her—

      lice McNearby was washing breakfast dishes and looking out the kitchen window at the November sky when she first spied Dobie. The way he was sneaking up to the house she knew he had killed something.

      She dried her hands on her apron and tried to put down the suspicion that gnawed at the edge of her mind as she went to the door. During the past month Dobie had killed a cat, a pheasant, two rabbits and a field mouse and it seemed it would be only a question of time until he got one of the chickens or even one of the suckling pigs. That would be all Mac would need to throw one of his wild spells and he'd probably take a gun to Dobie as he had threatened to do. To make it worse, Dobie seemed to know how Mac felt and often growled at him. Mac didn't growl back but the look in her husband's eyes was enough to convince her Dobie's continued existence was in doubt.

      It was a wonder to Alice that Mac hadn't done away with him already, judging from

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