Authors: Don Aker

The First Stone (28 page)

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The First Stone
Â© 2003 by Don Aker.

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Excerpts from “The Death of the Hired Man” from the poetry of robert frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1930, 1939, Â© 1969 by Henry Holt and Co., Â© 1967 by Lesley Frost Ballantine, Â© 1958 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Aker, Don, 1955-
The first stone / Don Aker.
1st mass market pbk. ed.

ISBN 0-00-639286-5

1. Title.

PS8551.K46F57 2004 jC813'.54
C2004-903498-7

IMS 98