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One day we boys decided to play a mean trick on him. We wanted to see him get angry. "Let's fix 01' Hallelujah! " one of the boys said. "So he won't say 'Hallelujah' anymore!" It was Sunday morning and 01' Hallelujah was preaching away in the church, so we boys snuck out to his car. One of the boys had a pair of wire cutters and laughed, "Let's cut ~ (ll'!:I, I all of the wires in his mot?r - that'lI fix his"', I ;:'lli\ 11 IIII wagon!" We cut every Wire, even the I\\~ ignition wires that bring the electric current (I' : to make the sparks in the cylinders. We had just finished when people began i to come out of the church. As fast as we could, we ran to hide around the corner of the building. We had to wait a long time. 01' Hallelujah was always the last one to leave. We could hardly keep from laughing, becauseeveryone else was gone when the jolly old man came whistling his way acrossthe:liiiJ. yard. No one breathed as we ~ ~ listened to him getting into his car. We were sure that he would start cursing soon.
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