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    Here Lies
    Here Lies
    Here Lies
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    Here Lies

    By H.W. Guernsey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Here Lies - H.W. Guernsey

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Here Lies, by H.W. Guernsey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Here Lies

      Author: H.W. Guernsey

      Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32469]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HERE LIES ***

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      Here Lies

      By H. W. GUERNSEY

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales October 1937. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      An ironic little story about a practical communist who taught his friend when to take him seriously

      Chauncey knocked the dottle out of his corncob and briefly startled Old Shep by inquiring unemotionally, Will you never finish that blasted stick?

      Which in Old Chauncey was tantamount to fury. Words being precious things, both old boys hoarded every syllable; Shep tightened his leathery lips and with the scalpel-point of the knife flicked away a mote of pine. Each link of the chain he was whittling from that interminable stick of soft pine resembled

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