Killin Chickens

[mike crabtree]

>> >>> "Late again," the third-grade teacher said to little Sammy.
>>
>> >>> "It ain't my fault, Miss Crabtree. You can blame this on my
>> >>> Daddy. The reason I'm three hours late is Daddy sleeps naked!"
>> >>>
Now, Miss Crabtree had taught grammar school for thirty-some-odd years.
So she asked little Sammy what he meant by that, despite her
>> >>> mounting fears.
>>
>> >>>
>>
>> >>> Full of grins and mischief, and in the flower of his youth, little
>> >>> Sammy and trouble were old friends, but he always told the truth.
>> >>>
>> >>> "You see, Miss Crabtree, at the ranch we got this here lowdown
>> >>> coyote. The last few nights he done eat six hens and killed Ma's best
>>milk
>> >>> goat. And last night, when Daddy heard a noise out in the chicken
>> >>> pen, he grabbed his gun and said to Ma, 'That coyote's back again, 'n
>>
>> >>> I'm a gonna git him!'
>> >>>
>> >>> 'Stay back!' he yelled to all us kids. He was naked as a jaybird,
>>
>> >>> no boots, no pants, no shirt! To the hen house he crawled, just
>>
>> >>> like an Injun on the snoop. Then he stuck that double barrel through
>>
>> >>> the window of the coop. As he stared into the darkness, with coyotes
>>
>> >>> on his mind, our old beagle dog Reject had done woke up and come
>>
>> >>> a sneakin' up behind Daddy.
>> >>> As we all looked on plumb helpless old Reject stuck that cold
>> >>> nose of his in Daddy's crack and, Miss Crabtree, we been
>>
>> >>> cleanin' chickens since three o'clock this mornin'!!!"
>>
>

[beaglehandler]

Now that's funny. Only thing that surprised me was that Emery didn't post it.

[denny606]

That sounds like it coulda happened at my house when I was growin 'up LMBO

[Emery]

Emery was on vacation all last week, so I haven't even been on the board.

[JUDE]

That was a good laugh




Buddy