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We stood under the spruce.
He looked up at the jacket.
He looked at me.
He looked up at the jacket again.
Huh, he said.
That was it.
Huh.
He had me go back and get Bud.
I saw Lenny look up at the jacket again, and then at the sky, and then at Bud.
They came back over.
Climb up and get that, Lenny told me.
Me?
You're the lightest.
Just shinny up and knock it down.
I climbed.
Spruces are bad trees to climb.
The branches are brittle and the sap gets everywhere, and the needles scratch your face.
I got up about ten feet and reached the branch where the jacket was hanging.
The branch was a lower one.
An old dead limb about two inches thick that was angling down.