7/14/2023 0 Comments Whack the creeps mr and mrs smith![]() The two-story farmhouse, curtains drawn, waited at the top of the driveway. Tom took his arm and helped him along the gravel path. He was holding his forehead and trying to get up. ![]() He scrambled down and found Sam kneeling in the ivy pile. When he peered through the branches his brother's ladder stood empty. The grain truck was caked with dust, and yellow heads of tansy ragwort ran rampant through the wheat fields.īy afternoon, up near the top rung of his ladder, Tom felt the air rush out of his canopy of leaves. He was ten and his brother Sam was twelve and they were the only ones on the farm still trying. Tom Hogue had been up in the oak all morning, ripping ivy from the strangled branches.
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