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It was a hot sunny day in the town of Yetmish. A man named John, who was 200 pounds, black hair, and big boned, was doing his normal thing. He sold knives. He had been selling knives for over 25 years. Selling knives ran in the family. First it started with his great grandpa, then it went to his grandpa After them it went to his dad and now it's on to him. When he was just getting into the business his father told John that he needed to pass down the generation of knives. John’s family made the best knives in the town of Yetmish; it’s what he was known for.
One evening John was at his shop smelting and he made a new blade called the Dragon. The Dragon was a 13 inch blade, stainless steel. It was the newest hunting knife. It was one of the …show more content…

It snipped him in the right arm. John ran out of his house in fear. He ran to his shop about half a mile away and spent the night there.
The next morning John was terrified. He closed the shop for the day. Some people were walking by wondering why it was closed because it's always open. It's only closed when something bad happens. Over the next couple of weeks nothing happened. The shop was still closed. The shop reopened because he felt safe again. He was waiting in his shop for customers, when a man in a full black cloak walked in his store. John said, “Hello sir. How may I help you?” The man in the cloak said, “I know what happened come to your house. I can help you. I will save your life.” The man in the cloak gave John a card and John looked down to read it once. He lifted his head up to see the man had gone.
John was very curious of what this meant. He didn't know if this was the man that tried to kill him or if he was trying to help. Later that night john went home and got in his straw bed trying to sleep. John herd a huge bang down the ladder. John grabbed his knife and was ready at strike. He stood at the top the ladder waiting for anything. After about 15 minutes John could still hear some rattling. John finally got the courage to go down the ladder. He walked into the living room and saw nothing messed up. John went to go look outside and there was a huge mess. His straw roof was almost all torn up. When John climbed on top to see

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