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One fall I did not have much to do, the fall was nice and still warm, I decided to clean out the dead trees. I piled them up in a low place.
In the spring there was water all around the pile of dead trees, I said to myself now is the time to burn the trees, so I went and got a gallon of gas and poured it on the trees. Then I lit a rag and threw it on the trees. Sure enough there was a rat in the trees, the rat caught on fire and it ran out and towards the haystack that was beside the barn. I chased the rat with a shovel and got it about twenty feet away from the stack, if I hadn't caught the rat, the hay and the barn would have been in flames and burned.
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