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    The narrator sits in a tree at dusk with a gun, waiting for jungle hogs that have been damaging his crops to emerge from the bamboo fence. After a long wait under the stars, he hears sounds and sees shadows approaching. Instead of just one hog, a mother sow emerges with her litter of squealing piglets. The narrator spares the family and lets them pass, deciding to focus on repairing his fences in the morning instead of shooting.

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    The narrator sits in a tree at dusk with a gun, waiting for jungle hogs that have been damaging his crops to emerge from the bamboo fence. After a long wait under the stars, he hears sounds and sees shadows approaching. Instead of just one hog, a mother sow emerges with her litter of squealing piglets. The narrator spares the family and lets them pass, deciding to focus on repairing his fences in the morning instead of shooting.

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    The narrator sits in a tree at dusk with a gun, waiting for jungle hogs that have been damaging his crops to emerge from the bamboo fence. After a long wait under the stars, he hears sounds and sees shadows approaching. Instead of just one hog, a mother sow emerges with her litter of squealing piglets. The narrator spares the family and lets them pass, deciding to focus on repairing his fences in the morning instead of shooting.

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    The narrator sits in a tree at dusk with a gun, waiting for jungle hogs that have been damaging his crops to emerge from the bamboo fence. After a long wait under the stars, he hears sounds and sees shadows approaching. Instead of just one hog, a mother sow emerges with her litter of squealing piglets. The narrator spares the family and lets them pass, deciding to focus on repairing his fences in the morning instead of shooting.

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    Ambush

    by Maximo D. Ramos

    And so in falling dusk, I sat with gun


    In tree commanding well, a frequent run

    Of jungle hog that from good evidence


    Came out of nights stole through the bamboo fence.

    And injury n longer to be borne


    Went rooting up my coconut and corn
    The tree was well to leward of the spot
    Where half-hid, run, emerge. I was not

    To be detected by suspicious smell


    Nor seen for leafy boughs concealed me well

    The wait was long and starry night


    Each whining insect had to have a bite
    But soon from jungle rim
    was heard a sound and darkened shadow
    formed on trodden ground.

    I raised the shotgun, said this would end

    All molestation from my porcine friend


    But trotting with a hog behind before

    Came squeaking things. First two, then three, then four.


    I held my aim, let sow and litter go;
    In the morning, I repaired my fences though.

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