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tripods, Charlie Lewis climbed up the hill to the pig pen to dispatch the final hog, toting a gun that had seen almost as many years as he has. In his old black suit and brimmed hat, Lewis looked more like a preacher than an executioner. He scrambled over the fence into black mud that squished over his rubber boots, raising the gun to his shoulder as the hog backed away. The first shot hit squarely in the forehead but the animal just shook himself and grunted. “Too high,”

Lewis remarked as he pul in another shell. The second

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