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touched it across the two poles of the charger.

The hay lit up like a Fourth-of-July sparkler."
"Won't he miss it if we steal it?" Butch
asked.

"We ain't going to steal it," Lenny said.
"We're just going to borrow it for the night, and it
won't even leave his property. We'll just string

wire quietly around the wood fence by his house.
Then, when it's all set, we'll make lots of noise.

When he comes running out, he'll run right into it,
and we'll get a good laugh when the jolt knocks
him on his backside. The fun part will be that it's
his own fencing material."

Lenny knew he couldn't nail the insulators
onto the posts or his uncle would hear, so he had

to figure out how he could attach them quietly.
He decided he could put a wrap of electrical tape
around the wire on top of the posts and then tape it

down. Besides, it only had to last long enough for
his uncle to touch it.
Halloween night finally came, and the three

boys, dressed in black and carrying rolls of
electric tape, made their way stealthily across
Lenny's uncle's yard. They were almost to the

barn door when Lenny, who was leading the way,
slipped and fell.

"Confounded ice!" Lenny said in a loud
whisper. "I don't remember there ever being ice

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