excerps from a book

during 1954 a group of ten boys....five on oneside of a street and five on the other side of the street positioned theirselfs so that when a car camedown the street, they were at the ready. The sun was low in the sky, dusk when it was hard to see. at that moment all would pull back suddenly on an imaginary wire. the car would come to a sceeching halt in order to miss the wire. boy did people get mad at that Tom Foolery.......