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moment. Then she looked up at me. “I know. Go in
the garage and drag out that big bear trap that’s in
there.”

I looked into her face to see if she was kidding me
or not. I may have been young, but I knew very well
that a bear trap could cut a man’s leg clean off. Her
face betrayed no emotion, but mine must have, because
she finally gave a deep sigh. “I’m teasing, of course,”
she said.

I was still not sure she
was. But she was
determined there had to be
some way to catch those
“stinkin’ little vandals.”

As I was heading back
to my work, I pulled at a
branch that was in a pile of debris in the alley. I liked
to carry sticks around to whack at things and to run
them along the board fences to hear the rat-a-tat sound

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