Jacob Larkins Research Paper

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Jacob larkins

He tied his boat off and started to climb the cliffs. He had to climb and climb but then his foot slipped. He slid halfway down where he was from. It looked like he slide like 40 feet. Then he started to think SOS so maybe someone would come and save him. So the first thing he thought of was a fire for smoke and so he can stay warm. But nobody came for 3 weeks because his boat had no gas he ran out. Then one afternoon he heard a helicopter then he threw leaves on the fire to make big smoke clouds then the helicopter came and saved him. THE END :)

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