Michael Malone - Weebly

Buggers? What is that, is that real?"
"Absolutely. Limus Barnum ordered one; he
showed it to me."
"A high-voltage hat pin?" He read, "'Afraid to go
out, afraid to stay home? Protect yourself and whatever
you own.' What is this?
Electrocute trespassers?"
"More like a cattle prod. Some teenager in Argyle
cleared over twenty-five thousand dollars last year on it.
Invented it and sold it door to door. Now he's got mail
orders."
Hayes sighed. "Now why can't my children show
some of that kind of Yankee ingenuity?"
Sniffell pointed at the page. "Alvis, come on. What's
this TEN BLOODIEST BATTLES IN AMERICAN
WARS? Listen, don't put in another one of those lists.
Nobody reads them." Hayes left with a shrug. Sniffell
always grumbled about the lists, but secretly he liked
them, believing that history should be showed up for the
roll call of casualties that it had always been. On the
other hand, this desperate, pitiful impulse of A.A. Hayes
to rank chaos, to find an order of one through ten in the