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Flashlight Story (Lumbee child, elementary school age)


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One time we was watching the game on TV, and we heard this knock on the door, so the man come in-it was a man that we never had seen him before. He come in and he says, "Can I use your telephone? Can I use your telephone?" And he had his shirt tied in a knot, and he had something back there. And it was sticking up. He'd bend over on the table like this, and it would stick up in his back pocket. So my brother Ronnie, he asked him what was that in his back pocket, and he said, "That's my flashlight." And then he went in the woods, in the woods beside our house, and uh, he got down in the woods, like on his knees, and we got this BB gun, and there was this dog that come to our house, and Ronnie Allen tried to shoot him with the BB gun, but he missed the dog. But that man jumped up a-runnin'. And then, the man's hand was a-bleedin'. So Ronnie come back in the house, and he says, "Good night, I believe I shot that man in the hand!" And then the next day we went outside. He had went in our truck and in our car, and the flashlight he was talking about, it come out of our car. He stole it out of our car.


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