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Mountain Climbing

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I was scoutmaster to eighteen

boys. They tried to challenge me at

different times, and they had always

come out the losers. Once, fourteen

of them tried to throw me in a lake,

and I got twelve of them in before the

other two ran off. They didn’t give

up easily, though, and were

determined to get me.

But then they learned I had a

major weakness. I had promised the

boys that I would do anything they

wanted to do as long as it was safe