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List at least five of the nine events that the Tucks revealed as support for their incredible story in Tuck Everlasting.The answer is in the book Tuck Everlasting.

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The events the Tucks revealed can be found in Chapter 7.  They are:1. When Jesse Tuck fell out of a tree and landed on his head, "it didn't hurt him a bit".2. When the Tuck's horse was accidentally shot, the bullet passed right through him and "didn't hardly even leave a mark".3.  Mrs. Tuck cut herself slicing bread, and didn't receive a wound.4. Mrs. Tuck had two children, but, eighty-seven years later, she still looked like she was twenty-two.5. When the Tucks returned to the tree into which Mr. Tuck had carved a "T" twenty years before, they found that the tree had not grown and the carving was as fresh as if it had just been done.6. The Tuck's cat, who did not drink the magic waters, lived a normal life and eventually died, but the Tucks themselves did not age.7. Just to prove to himself that there were magic powers at work, Mr. Tuck shot himself on purpose with a shotgun but was not injured.

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The Tuck family explains their "incredible story" to Winnie Foster in chapter 7. The story is hardly believable, and it is clear that the Tucks have never tried to explain their particular situation before. However, they do provide evidence of the fact that they are now immortal because of drinking from the spring.
The first piece of evidence involves Jesse Tuck. He should have been killed by from his fall from a tree, but he walks away completely unscathed.

"That was the first time we figured there was something peculiar," said Mae. "Jesse fell out of a tree. . . ."
"I was way up in the middle," Jesse interrupted, "trying to saw off some of the big branches before we cut her down. I lost my balance and I fell. . . ."
"He landed plum on his head," said Mae with a shudder. "We thought for sure he'd broke his neck. But come to find out, it didn't hurt him a bit!"

The second piece of evidence is that the Tuck family horse was shot by some hunters who thought it was a deer. The horse suffered a bullet wound that "didn't hardly even leave a mark."
The next three pieces of evidence come quite quickly with zero explanation.

"Then Pa got snake bite. . . ."
"And Jesse ate the poison toadstools. . . ."
"And I cut myself," said Mae. "Remember? Slicing bread."

Readers are meant to infer that each of those injuries or accidents should have been deadly. The snake was likely poisonous, but the poison had no effect. The mushroom is stated as being poisonous, but it has no effect on Jesse. The cut must have been quite a cut to clue the Tucks in on possibly being immortal.
The next piece of evidence that the Tucks give Winnie is the one that worried them most. The Tucks simply stopped aging. Decades had passed, but they did not look any different.

"I was more'n forty by then," said Miles sadly. "I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two."

The Tucks then tell Winnie that they returned to the spring, and they noticed that it had not changed at all.

"We went on into what was left of the wood to make a camp, and when we got to the clearing and the tree and the spring, we remembered it from before."
"It hadn't changed, no more'n we had," said Miles.

The spring and the tree by the spring had not changed at all, and the best evidence that the Tuck family has is that the "T" that Angus Tuck carved into the tree looked exactly the same.

"And the T he'd carved was as fresh as if it'd just been put there."

The Tucks then remember that they had all taken a drink from the spring. They remember that the horse had taken a drink too. However, the cat did not take a drink, and the cat died a normal death.

The cat had lived a long and happy life on the farm but had died some ten years before. So they decided at last that the source of their changelessness was the spring.

As a final test of the spring's power and their immortality, Angus Tuck decided to give their "gift" a final test. He shot himself with the shotgun, and it "scarcely even left a mark."

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