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Terry’s having fun with a familiar saying that originated with Robert Frost’s poem Mending a Wall:

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours’.

And since people keep pointing it out to me I suppose it might as well be mentioned here that ‘fence’ is also the English word for a dealer in stolen goods.

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