What “mischief” does the speaker do?

In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” the speaker challenges the need to rebuild the wall, asking what it keeps in or out when there are no cows and the two neighbors’ trees do not cross the boundary. His “mischief” is questioning the tradition of wall-mending, so the answer is “He questions the tradition of wall-mending.”

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