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Weather Story

When Moses Shorty was 21 he went out hunting for minks and otters. He had warm clothes because it was cold and at night. The moon was shining on the ice. While he was looking around for mink and otters his snowmachine broke down at Cuilngug. He tried to fix it and he couldn't so he had to walk a long ways to get to his fish camp. For his food he only had dry fish and he had to melt ice for water. He saved his dry fish skins and whenever he got hungry he ate the skins. He walked about 20 miles and it took him three nights and three days.

Moses had a rifle and he wanted to shoot a ptarmigan but he thought a rifle would blow the ptarmigan into little pieces so he didn't shoot one. Moses was very tired when he finally got to his fish camp.

By Andrea Shorty

6th grade

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