Pruning Trees
Beginning of paper
It’s six in the morning when we pull into the tree field. The sun is rising and the fog is lifting, leaving the trees white with dew. There’s about twenty of us. The riders, who’ve been sleeping the whole way, rub their eyes and wonder what’s going on and the drivers lay their heads back ....
Middle of paper
.... plan to get Mat. He’s the one nobody likes because he’s sort of a stuck up prettyboy. Once in a while we get into a serious controversial issue and argue all day about it. There’s always some trash talking from someone. Who can beat whom at a video game or at grubbing? Grubbing is a pruner’s term for wrestling; it’s what we do when we have a dispute instead of really fighting. Once in a while someone will be arguing about something and throw down their knives and go at it, in w ....
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Word count: 659
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
