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make sure that you don’t walk

across the manure pit.”

“What’s a manure pit?” Butch

asked.

“It’s where the wet manure

flows out of the barn,” I replied.

“Usually it’s wet, but it’s frozen

over.”

I left to get the ax, and when I

returned, I was shocked to find both

of them standing a few feet from

each other over the center of the

manure pit. Of course, when I say I

was shocked, I mean I would have

been if it had been anyone besides

Butch and Buster.

“What are you doing out there?”

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