Article October 23, 1971 Issue

Just a Harmless Prank

JULIA ANN WALKER

That year in our town there weren't any teen-agers standing around on street corners or hanging around drive-in hamburger stands with nothing to do. On evenings when a group of kids didn't have anything else to do, they would go "roll" somebody's yard—you know, decorate a yard or garden with long streamers of bathroom tissue. A whole roil of paper could cover a wide area, and yards with trees and shrubs were especially challenging.

When a person's yard was rolled—if he found out who did it— he retaliated. Almost everyone at school looked on rolling as a harmless prank, but the local police and most adults frowned on the activity.

Donna's yard had never been rolled, and she had never rolled anyone else's. She had never thought much about this prank—to condemn it or condone it—for she was busy at school and at home.

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