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This coming New Year was going to be a good one for us. We had a new daughter-in-law and she was going to have a new Baby in another month. We were really excited about the new grandchild coming. It would be our first new grandchild and we just couldn't wait for the event to happen. We wanted to protect our new grandchild, but we also wanted to have some fun. So we decided that we would take her snipe hunting in real time.
It was New Year's Day and the day itself had been great. We had a good dinner complete with two chickens, potatoes, and sweet potato pie to be had later on. We had been jumping on the trampoline, and having a great old time out in the country where we lived. We lived on about three acres of the country west of Johnston city. We had a youth building, a church and our home here and we were in good spirits for the day.
Shirley was more than just a little naive though. And we were ready for fun and adventure.
Shirley weighed about 100 pounds and was only about 4 feet tall. She was also nine months pregnant and her stomach didn't even look like she was pregnant at all.
We had a little creek that ran by our little big house and we loved it. The water did not run too high and when it was low, The creek it was low. It was a nice creek, and many times at night we would see some eyes looking at us from the creek bed. But we were going to look for some snipes that night. And no matter where they were we would probably find them sooner or later. Snipes should be easy to find out on the creek bank where we were. We found everything else out there. Why not go and look for some snipes.
Snipes, we told Shirley were supposedly abundant out where we were. We had lots of places in which to look for them. So, I had told Shirley we would be going snipe hunting that evening. We asked Shirley if she had ever seen any of the snipes that we had. Shirley said that she'd never even seen one snipe, much less more than one. She asked us what kind of bird they were. We knew that we just had to educate her. She had never heard of a snipe much less seeing one would be just what we wanted to do.
We knew we had a taker, and we were ready to go right then into snipe hunting. So we put our coats on and bundled up really good. It was cold outside. And we started out the back door of the house. For some legitimate snipe hunting. A fun event for some people and, not so fun for others who did not know the truth of the matter. For snipes did not exist. No one had ever seen one, but they did know of them. Snipe hunting was done by anyone who wanted to have some real fun.
Shirley was really top notch in her abilities to spot a ruse when she saw one and we were not sure that she was ready to see a snipe at all. She had never seen a snipe, and she had never been snipe hunting. We just had to take her out and so that could be a real Southern Illinois person. We couldn't let her be ignorant no longer. Shirley was ready to go snipe hunting but I still had some preparation to do because I could not stop giggling. It was unmerciful to be giggling as much as I truly was. I had to stop at just about every tree because I couldn't stop giggling at all.
We had gathered up some sticks to pat together and call out while we were looking for the snipes and calling to the Snipes. "here snipe" here snipe" We were laughing so hard because we could barely say the words because we were giggling so much. It was just unbearable. We would hit the sticks together, and say "here snipe, snipe," and we were gathering ourselves for a big attack of snipes. We didn't know from where they might come in yet, but we were ready for them.
We had just thought we had heard some snipes in front of us when Ronnie Lynn fell over a log. He was giggling to beat the band but I was ready. I called out quickly "don't let the snipes get away from you Ronnie." and everyone dashed for cover. That's when we saw it; huge red eyes were looking at us from below the creek bottom. We couldn't see anything but those big red eyes glowing at us in the dark. The eyes blinked back open and we moved our hides for the back door of the house.
All of us gave a big yell and we took off for home ground. We weren't going to be taking stragglers from this snipe hunting. We were just ready for anything but snipe hunting. We were not looking for wolves or anything else bigger and more real. We were sure happy to get inside the house and we put away our snipe tools. We would hunt our snipes another day. Won't you come back and go hunting with us the next time.
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