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As Buster and I continued to tuck
our pants into our boots, Butch started
to mock us.
“Oh, you two are a couple of big
sissies. Why, I wouldn’t be afraid of
no itty, bitty mouse. Besides, if you
were as fast on your feet as I am, no
mouse would have a chance to go up
your pant leg.”
He then went on to expound to us
how, when he was a boy growing up in
the mountains of West Virginia, he had
hunted mountain lions and all sorts of
really frightening creatures.
The truth was, Butch and Buster
had moved out here when they were
about eight and nine years old, and
though we were only about twelve, I
still doubted Butch had done half of the
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