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file:///C|/3278%20Sci-Fi%20and%20Fantasy%20E-books/Kage%20Bak...-%20How%20They%20Tried%20To%20Talk%20Indian%20Tony%20Down.txt ====================== How They Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down by Kage Baker ====================== Copyright (c)2000 by Kage Baker Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from F then you are in violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visit to purchase a legal copy. F offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks. This happened about ten years ago, out at Tobin Farm. Back in the sixties, somebody bought Tobin Farm for the purposes of holding a renaissance fair there during the summers. Offseasons it became a kind of commune for the people involved in putting on the fair. They lived modestly in sheds and trailers scattered on a hundred acres of oak wilderness back of the farm, collecting unemployment between fairs. They had their own communal security force, in case of problems. Twenty-five years on, though, most of the members of the commune were arthritic and bespectacled and never got up to much in the way of trouble, except for domestic disputes or the occasional DUI. Abby and Martha Caldecott lived at the foot of a hill, some distance from the center of the little community. Abby was into Wicca and Martha wrote romance novels, and during fair the sisters ran a beer booth. Remote as their trailer was, it was cozily domestic. There were bright geraniums in coffee cans. There was a small lawn and lawn chairs. There were plastic party lights strung from the awning, bright tropical fish. The lights shone out cheerily in the shadow of the hill. It was a dark cold shadow, because the hill was thought to be haunted. On the night it happened, Abby was washing dishes af