I know I post this every year. In
fact, I think I've posted this every year since I started writing
these, which was almost 18 years ago, and I read it on the air every
November 14th for a few years before that. But if you
post something every year on a certain day for 18 years, it kind of
becomes a tradition, doesn't it? And since this is the time of the
year for traditions, it wouldn't be very nice if we broke it, would
it?
Would it?
8-)
Good luck to everyone heading out.
Those of us who aren't heading out will try and keep the lights on
for you!
“’Twas the Night Before Deer Camp”,
by Jimmy Koski, grade 3.
TWAS THE NIGHT
BEFORE DEER SEASON
AND ALL THROUGH
THE CAMP
HUNTERS WERE
UNLOADED BEER CRATES
AND LIGHTING UP
LAMPS
THE RIFLES THEY
HUNG
IN THE PICKUP
WITH CARE
IN HOPES THAT A
10-POINTER
SOON WOULD BE
THERE
I IN MY ORANGE
MY BUDDY IN
GREEN
SAT DOWN TO A
CRIBBAGE GAME
THE BIGGEST EVER
SEEN
WE PLAYED
THROUGH THE NIGHT
AND EMPTIED
THOSE CRATES
BUT MORNING SOON
CAME
WE DIDN’T WANT
TO BE LATE
WE SET OUT AT
SUNRISE
AT DAWN’S
EARLY LIGHT
PUT DOWN A BIG
BAIT PILE
IN HOPES THAT
BAMBI WOULD BITE
WE SAT AND WE
WAITED
AND WAITED SOME
MORE
I KEPT MY EYES
OPEN
MY BUDDY STARTED
TO SNORE
WHEN TO MY
SURPRISE
STANDING RIGHT
BY A TREE
WAS A BIG
12-POINT BUCK
MY PANTS I
DID...WELL, NEVER MIND ABOUT THAT
I BROUGHT UP MY
RIFLE
I LINED UP THE
DEER
THEN MY BUDDY
WOKE UP AND YELLED
“HEY--WHERE’S
THE BEER?”
THE BUCK RAN
AWAY
I LOWERED MY GUN
MY BUDDY JUST
LAUGHED
SAID “LET’S
HAVE SOME FUN”
WE WENT BACK TO
DEER CAMP
AND HAD US A
BALL
SO LET ME SAY
THIS--
GOOD LUCK DEER HUNTING TO ALL...
(copyright 1999)
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