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This story takes place in the backyard of a boy named Johnny. His house abuts a national forest. Johnny is an imaginative lad who invents a game where he is on a quest. Johnny is stalking the shadow of an immense bear while armed with a popgun. During his adventure, the lad encounters a talking spider that tells Johnny his young mind cannot be trusted regarding what is real and what is not real.

A 10-year-old American boy named Jack, who loves airplanes and knows a great deal about them, finds himself in a world that has just emerged from World War II. Jack's favorite military plane is the Navy Corsair. Since the need for warplanes no longer existed, they were taken by flatbed railcars to a salvage depot called a boneyard where the planes were stacked one upon the other, resulting in a mountain of aluminum. Those aircrafts would eventually be recycled. A boneyard was conveniently located adjacent to an air base near Jack's home.