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 | | Thornton Creek, in the 1930s, rose somewhere near Meridian Avenue, meandered through some very fl, boggy wetland, thence along or maybe under, what is now the South parking lot of Northgate Mall, and ran its sparkling way eastward until it emptied into Lake Washington. |
 | | Later, after school, Charley would skin whatever he'd caught, clean off the flesh, and put the turned-inside-out pelts onto home-made, roughly triangular-shaped wooden stretch boards, where they would dry for about a week. |
 | | Then they would be turned right-side-out, and carefully brushed, at which time they were ready to sell. |
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