Chicken Excuse
Name: Jerry & Alice, WI
"Late again," the third-grade teacher said to little Sammy.
"It ain't my fault, Miss Crabtree. You can blame this on my dad. The reason I'm
three hours late? Dad sleeps nights in the raw!"
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.
Now 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 et six hens and killed Ma's best milk goat. And last
night, when Dad heard a noise out in the chicken pen, he grabbed his gun and said
to Ma, 'That coyote's back again, I'm a gonna kill him!'"
"'Stay back, he yelled to all us kids, I wouldn't want ya hurt!' He was naked as a
jaybird, no boots, no pants, no shirt! To the henhouse 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 hound dog Zeke
had done woke up and come asneakin' up behind Dad. Then we all looked on, plumb
helpless as Dad was cold-nosed without warnin'."
"Miss Crabtree, we been cleanin' chickens since three o'clock this mornin'!"
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